This little book is a scientific work, introducing to the medical profession a new part of anatomy which is involved in the construction of our skeleton. It is incomplete, and will need others, much younger and stronger than the author, to carry on where he left off.

The Book. It has gone through many editions. Conceived in Africa, nurtured for many years in America, it has been safely delivered by AuthorHouse UK. It tells of the authors’ many journies, one of which took him to Africa, where he married Pauline. In Rhodesia, he found some important clues which revealed parts of the foetal circulation. Back in England, by examining stillborn lambs, he was able to understand the foetal circulation completely.

The Book. It has gone through many editions. Conceived in Africa, nurtured for many years in America, it has been safely delivered by AuthorHouse UK. It tells of the authors’ many journies, one of which took him to Africa, where he married Pauline. In Rhodesia, he found some important clues which revealed parts of the foetal circulation. Back in England, by examining stillborn lambs, he was able to understand the foetal circulation completely.

The Book. It is in two sections, the first describing the author's experiences as a government medical officer in southern Africa in the middle of the last century, which led to his finding the long-hidden secrets of the foetal circulation. The second describes how he uncovered the secrets, and gives an account of each part which completely demolishes the long-held orthodox accounts. The foetal heart sounds are described which may be heard with a Doppler foetal heart monitor. The birth cha...

Not only was the author fortunate in receiving this skeleton legally from a relative of the deceased, but how the inspection with his microscopes revealed such unusual, unique features, the intimate involvement of little rings in the construction of bone, which had never been seen before.

The author’s father was the manager of a biscuit factory in an industrial area of north west London. He had served in the Great War, and after the war his first wife died in the 1919 flu pandemic, leaving him with a young daughter. He remarried and had another four children, Alan being the second. With scant formal education themselves, he and his wife were able to offer all the children a good education, and to Alan a medical one as well. It was during a biology class in his first year in...

How the human visual system determines the lightness of a surface, that is, its whiteness, blackness, or grayness, remains--like vision in general--a mystery. In fact, we have not even been able to create a machine that can determine, through an artificial vision system, whether an object is white, black, or gray. Although the photoreceptors in the eye are driven by light, the light reflected by a surface does not reveal its shade of gray. Depending upon the level of illumination, a surfac...

It is in 3 parts, with generous illustrations throughout. The first part gives a brief account of the authors discovery of a foetal heart in 1965, which is followed by descriptions of his dissections of foetal lambs and the valuable information they give. The second part covers the authors comprehensive account of the human foetal circulation, which he divides into three sections: for the upper body, lower body and placenta. The structure and function of the lung are compared with those of...

The Foetal Circulation is the culmination of many years of interest on the part of the author in the foetal circulation. Information is presented in three parts, all generously illustrated with drawings and diagrams made by the author. The first part describes the events which led up to his discovery of a foetal heart in the mortuary, a discovery that inspired years of work and research. The second takes the reader around the plan of the circulation and analyses its sections. The last disc...

A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered.

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such...

This volume deals with the visual perception of lightness, brightness, and transparency of surfaces, both under minimal laboratory conditions and in complex images typical of everyday life. Each chapter analyzes the challenging problem of how a pattern of light intensities on the retina is transformed into the visual experience of varying shades of grey, transparent surfaces, and light and shadow. One important theme which unifies the group of contributions is the recognition that the perc...