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Editors: Alexander Jones and Liba Taub Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 642 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This volume is part of the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series consisting of eight volumes – the first four arranged chronologically from antiquity through the eighteenth century, and the next four volumes were organized thematically covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Volume 1 – Ancient Science Volume 2 – Medieval Science Volume 3 – Early Modern Science Volume 4 – Eighteenth-Century Science Volume 5 – Modern Physical and Mathematical Science Volume 6 – Modern Biological and Earth Sciences Volume...

Authors: Peter Sell and Gina Murrell Illustrators: Sarah Holme, Alan Leslie, and Gina Murrell Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 787 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Books on flora entail a lot of research and cross-checking of updated facts and names to make them accurate and reliable. They also require a lot of prior knowledge of the subject which sometimes comes not from research but from experience and insight. The two editors of this book certainly had many decades of experience working in the herbarium of the plant sciences department of Cambridge University. The two coauthors of this excellent,...

Editors: LouisCaplan, MD and Jose Biller, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 644 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This third edition of Uncommon Causes of Stroke has a history going back to about a quarter of a century. The material covered in this book is extensive and the subjects and topics discussed and illustrated in it are exhaustive and wide ranging. This book is also authoritative with experts on particular aspects of strokes located all over the globe having specialized training, experience, insight and understating that are the hallmarks of successful physicians. One hundred twenty-seven specialists in various...

(Part of the Series of Cambridge Bibles) Editors: Bruce M. Metzger (Head) and the Committee of Translators Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 262 pages, plus other sections (see Contents) Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The committee of translators writes that this book is “yet another step in the long, continual process of making the Bible available in the form of the English language that is most wildly current in our day. to summarize in a single sentence: the New Standard Revised Version is an authorized revision of the Revised Standard Version published in 1952, which was a revision of...