Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV: 4 (Japan Library Biographical Portraits)

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The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published to over one hundred.
The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori Arinori to Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick to Lasenby Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W. E. Ayrton to Henry Spencer Palmer), scholars and writers (from Sir Edwin Arnold to Ivan Morris), as well as journalists, judo masters and the aviator Lord Semphill. In all, there are a total of 34 contributions.

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This is the fourth volume in a series. I contributed two chapters to this volume, so you might say I have a vested (but certainly not a financial!) interest. Anyway, this is a hugely important series on the history of Anglo-Japanese relations. At the time of writing this review (December 2004) Volume Five has just appeared, even bigger and (arguably) better! Anybody with an interest in the relations between these two island nations will enjoy and gain much from this book and the whole series.
The fifth volume is being officially launched by the Japan Society in London on January 18, 2005. On that date Sir Hugh Cortazzi is to lecture about the Japan Society's contribution to Japanese studies.

Ian Ruxton, co-author of Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, also available on amazon.com as a hardcover.

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Buddhism in Canada (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

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Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing constituency of Euro-Canadian Buddhists seriously interested in the faith. This� insightful study� analyzes the phenomenon of Buddhism in Canada from a regional perspective. The work provides an important examination of the place of Buddhism in a developed western country associated with a traditional Judeo-Christian culture, but undergoing profound sociological transformation due to large-scale immigration and religio-cultural pluralism. � It is a valuable text for students of religion, Buddhism and North American Studies.

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This important volume, which is part of the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series, contains nine studies focusing, as the title suggests, on the presence of Buddhism in Canada. As Paul Bramadat states in his foreword (p. xiv), this book "functions first and foremost as a kind of national Buddhist `map.'" But the individual contributions also address the present-day circumstances and challenges of various Buddhist traditions and organizations.

To be sure, the subject is a complex one and undoubtedly will attract further scholarly attention in the years to come. Part of the complexity is the fact that Buddhism in Canada comprises a large contingent of "ethnic" Buddhists associated with immigrant Asians and a small but growing group of Euro-Canadian Buddhists.

It is regrettable that the essay on "Buddhism in Saskatchewan and Manitoba" does not even mention the contribution by the late Herbert V. Guenther to the dissemination of Buddhist teachings in Canada.

The present anthology is bound to make the task of future researchers a great deal easier.

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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This book is replete with information, making it a very good read. The author goes into much detail here, giving coherent and plenary information on canopic jars, etc. It may prove a bit dry for the neophyte, but even an avid amateur will enjoy the descriptions.

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Carbon Monoxide and Cardiovascular Functions

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Akin to nitric oxide, carbon monoxide (CO) was initially viewed as a pure toxic gas, yet it has been recently demonstrated to be an important endogenous molecule of gas that has profound physiological and pathophysiological effects on the cardiovascular system. In spite of the growing understanding achieved in this field, until now a comprehensive book summarizing the extraordinary advances in the research of the cardiovascular effects of CO has not been available.

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This book is an academic treatise containing multiple chapters by different authors, primarily focused on the effects of endogenous carbon monoxide, or that produced by the body itself. The authors discuss multiple mechanism of the production of CO in the body and its role in maintaining various internal functions. There are some chapters relevant to exogenous carbon monoxide, or that inhaled from outside and potentially poisonous when inahled in sufficient quantity or over sufficient time. Chapter on effects of CO on the fetus is most interesting.

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Cell Surface Receptors: A Short Course on Theory and Methods

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Cell Surface Receptors: A Short Course on Theory and Methods, Second Edition is a primer for the study of cell surface receptors. The simplified discussion of methods and their underlying principles removes the usual intimidation caused by the specialized vocabulary or sophisticated mathematics that characterize many of the primary papers in this field. In this way, the basic concepts become emphasized. This volume is a starting point: a textbook as well as a manual to which the investigator can return for a refresher course, when needed.

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Cellular Aspects of HIV Infection (Cytometric Cellular Analysis)

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Cellular Aspects of HIV Infection provides a highly readable, detailed overview of the state of the art in modern HIV research at the cellular level. This volume brings together renowned experts who have provided concise, synthetic treatments of the biology of HIV infection. It presents these descriptions and analyses with particular attention to the techniques of flow cytometry that have allowed us to not only observe the course of HIV infection and the immune system's response to it, but have also increased our ability to treat patients and understand their response to therapy.

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