General readers hoping to understand the recent census and upcoming Congressional redistricting battles will find the book a serviceable guide. Even a quick browse through the maps and graphics is wonderfully informative. Killer Algae recounts its swift spread from the sea off Nice into the Adriatic. A riveting read. Schulten . . .
Every page quarries new veins of wit, ribaldry and pathos. . . .
The author begins this work with the premise that the jester is a universal creature, as happy in the courts of the Chinese emperor as in Renaissance England. I wasn't convinced, but now I am. Richard von Krafft-Ebing was a key figure in the establishment of sexology, yet he is dismissed in fashionable social constructionist analyses of sexuality as an originator of the medicalisation of sexual identities. . . . Oosterhuis changes our view of the man, and challenges the anti-psychiatry movement. As with a conjuring trick, one is hardly aware that the transition has occurred. . . .