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I have been asked to write a brief foreword to this volume honoring
Hisako Ikeda, providing a review of the accomplishments in our
field over the past four decades, when Hisako was an active
participant. This I am delighted to do. It has been a most exciting
time in vision research and Hisako has been right in the middle of
much of the excitement, publishing on a wide variety of topics and
providing much new data and many new insights. Hisako's research
career can be divided by decades into four quite distinct areas of
inquiry. In the 1950s, as a student in Japan, her research
interests were psychophysical in nature, and she was concerned with
visual illusions, figural aftereffects, and motion detec tion. In
the 1960s, after her move to London, she began electrophysiological
studies. Much of her work in the 1960s was concerned with the
electroretinogram (ERG), its components, and the use of this
electrical response for evaluating spectral sensitivities of the
eye and retinal degenerations. This work represented the beginning
of her electrodiagnostic clinical work, which continued until her
retirement."
Flamboyant, cultured and refined, aristocracy is often seen as a
national treasure. Lords of Misrule takes a different view and
considers the role of an aristocracy behaving badly. This is a book
about the political, social and moral failings of aristocracy and
the ways in which they have featured in political rhetoric. Drawing
on the views of critics of aristocracy, it explores the dark side
of power without responsibility. Less 'patrician paragons' than
dissolute and debauched debtors, the aristocrats featured here
undermined, rather than augmented, the fabric of national life. For
the first time, Lords of Misrule recaptures the views of those
radicals and reformers who were prepared to contemplate a Britain
without aristocrats.
I have been asked to write a brief foreword to this volume honoring
Hisako Ikeda, providing a review of the accomplishments in our
field over the past four decades, when Hisako was an active
participant. This I am delighted to do. It has been a most exciting
time in vision research and Hisako has been right in the middle of
much of the excitement, publishing on a wide variety of topics and
providing much new data and many new insights. Hisako's research
career can be divided by decades into four quite distinct areas of
inquiry. In the 1950s, as a student in Japan, her research
interests were psychophysical in nature, and she was concerned with
visual illusions, figural aftereffects, and motion detec tion. In
the 1960s, after her move to London, she began electrophysiological
studies. Much of her work in the 1960s was concerned with the
electroretinogram (ERG), its components, and the use of this
electrical response for evaluating spectral sensitivities of the
eye and retinal degenerations. This work represented the beginning
of her electrodiagnostic clinical work, which continued until her
retirement."
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Operation Hannibal
Anthony Taylor; Bob Taylor
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R502
Discovery Miles 5 020
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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What happens when all heaven breaks loose? The idyllic setting of a
university town on the Mid-Wales coast. New arrivals from various
parts of Britain, exhilarated and apprehensive at the prospect of
grappling with the unfamiliar, in learning, ideas - and life. Four
boys, extrovert, loner, poetry lover, aspiring intellectual. A
malapropistic landlady. Three girls, one worldly, one demurely
innocent, one full of adolescent ardour. A lecturer and would-be
writer romantically inclined towards his students. And ever-present
in all its moods, watching the human drama unfold, inspirer and
tempter, lovely and sinister, the sea. The situation is ripe for a
series of adventures, by turns comic, traumatic, poignant and, for
one of the characters, ultimately tragic.
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