This book reconsiders the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of the current economic and political climate. With contributions from leading international scholars, this volume brings together the latest research on explanations for China's revolution and its legacy.

This book is about continuity and change in early nineteenth-century Britain. Against the background of an emerging industrial state, the popularization of liberal "laissez-faire" principles, and the rise of a class-based society, it examines the revival of traditional paternal ideals and considers their influence upon the development of social policy. Poor laws, social distress, child labor, and factory reform provide a focus for the analysis. The implications of the revival for the emergence of the collective or welfare state is an important theme.

The growth of new drugs entering the practice of ophthalmology requires both the resident and established ophthalmologist to understand and accurately prescribe the new pharmacologic armamentarium. This excellent handbook a ~Drugs in Ophthalmologya (TM) contains drug information compiled by experts from the United States (Kaiser Permanente and Jules Stein Eye Institute/ UCLA) and Europe (University of Vienna). It is concise, well-structured and easy to use. With separate sections for antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, anesthetics and immunosuppressants, it provides following subsections for each drug: Class of the drug, Indications, Dosage, Contraindications, Warnings, Adverse reactions, Drug interactions. Practitioners may want to have multiple copies of the book for easy reference.

This book reconsiders the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of the current economic and political climate. With contributions from leading international scholars this volume brings together the latest research on explanations for China's revolution and its legacy.

Human Myoblast Genome Therapy (HMGT) is a platform technology of cell transplantation, nuclear transfer, and tissue engineering. Myoblasts are differentiated, immature cells destined to become muscles. Myoblasts cultured from muscle biopsy survive, develop and function to revitalise degenerative muscles upon transplantation. Transplant injury activates regeneration of host myofibers that fuse with the injected myoblasts, sharing their nuclei in a common gene pool of the syncytium. Thus, through nuclear transfer and complementation, human genome can be transferred into muscles of genetically-ill patients to achieve phenotype repair. Myoblasts are safe and efficient universal gene transfer vehicles endogenous to muscles that constitute 50% of the body. Myoblasts fuse among themselves to form new myofibres. Patients take only 2-month cyclosporine to immunosuppress allograft rejection because myofibres do not express MHC-1 antigens. The first correction of human gene defect was published in the Lancet on July 14, 1990 when the therapeutic protein dystrophin was found in the myoblast-injected muscle of a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patient. Results over 280 HMGT procedures on MD subjects in the past 15 years demonstrated absolute safety. Myoblast-injected DMD muscles showed improved histology. Strength increase at 18 months post-operatively averaged 123%. FDA-approved clinical trials progressed unto Phase III in USA with direct cost recovery. Heart muscle degeneration is the leading cause of human debilitation and death.

This graduate-level text incorporates these advances in a comprehensive treatment of the fundamental principles of combustion physics. The presentation emphasises analytical proficiency and physical insight, with the former achieved through complete, though abbreviated, derivations at different levels of rigor, and the latter through physical interpretations of analytical solutions, experimental observations, and computational simulations. Exercises are mostly derivative in nature in order to further strengthen the student's mastery of the theory. Implications of the fundamental knowledge gained herein on practical phenomena are discussed whenever appropriate. These distinguishing features provide a solid foundation for an academic program in combustion science and engineering.