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"Catherine Caufield has written an important book on an important topic: the history behind the safety standards limiting the effects of high energyradiation on human beings. . . . Provides an immense amount of informationin a very readable form." W. Alan Runciman, "Prometheus" "From fallout and radon to radioactive smoke detectors and dental X-rays, Caufield traces the proliferation of the uses of radiation in medicine, industry and the military, and in generating energy. An intelligent, non-alarmist history." "Publishers Weekly""

In the Rainforest takes us to Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, revealing a colorful and bizarre world where fish live on fruit, spiders prey on birds, and violets grow to the size of apple trees. I recommend In the Rainforest as scientific journalism at its best, and [Caufield's] book as the one to read to become informed about the tropical crisis. Caufield traveled the world, went to the difficult places, sometimes beautiful and often dispiriting, mastered the important ideas, and talked to an impressive number of people on all sides of the issues. . . . There are villains in abundance: corrupt government agents who aid in the destruction of native tribes, greedy caballero landowners, and even the governmental planners who with the best of intentions rush heedlessly toward the environmental degradation of their own countries.--E. O. Wilson, ScienceThe whole book is filled with amazing facts. . . . Moving and informative.--Ellen W. Chu, New York Times Book Review

Until he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI. Lord Monboddo believed that babies are born with tails, and was a careful observer at the births of his own children - but in each case the midwife outwitted him and managed to destroy the evidence. The Comtesse de Noailles was a keen believer in the benefits of fresh air and methane gas, keeping cows tethered near her open windows so that she could enjoy both ... These are just a few of the eccentrics who enliven the pages of this delightful survey of British loopiness through the ages, a celebration of true originals whose strength of character stands out now more than ever in our age of mass-market conformity. As John Stuart Mill warned as long ago as the 1850s: 'That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.' Catherine Caufield's classic book is an immensely browsable compendium of inspired and inspiring lunacy, beautifully illustrated by Peter Till.

SHMIOT FUGUE: NEOMYSTICISM IN THE VOICES OF THREE JEWISH-MEXICAN WOMEN WRITERS integrates extensive research, teaching and publication in the fields of both religious studies and literary theory to produce an interdisciplinary monograph which considers a selection of Jewish-Mexican narrative fiction. The range of thought and experience creatively expressed through these novels and short stories has drawn, in significant ways, on medieval legends and texts to develop themes of contemporary-thus neo-mysticism. Close readings of works by Angelina Mu iz-Huberman, Esther Seligson, and Sabina Berman provide rich material, inviting us to listen closely to the variations that deepen our understanding of the subject of neomysticism.