Investigators, teachers, and practitioners in the biomedical sciences are keenly aware of the current crisis in scientific communications. With well over a thousand biomedical journals producing new issues each month, and with approximately five hundred new technical books in biomedicine being 1 published each year, not to mention the proliferation of information-ex change meetings, it is all too clear that we are in danger of being inundated by a flood of tables, figures, and hypotheses. The problem is particularly acute in immunology, as the rate of information production is increasing geometrically, and immunological approaches have been extended into other biological and medical fields to further diversify the research over a vast literature. Abstracting and information-retrieval services do much to improve the investigator's lot, but do not offer solutions for one particularly distressing aspect of the crisis. In the midst of our informational overabundance, one often finds that interrelationships between an investigator's collective findings are becoming blurred, or that the relation of his total work to the field are not clear. Although review articles are indispensable in fixing the status of a given problem, they do not provide the detailed attention to a single author's work that is needed."

Gottfried Benn, born in 1886 and died in 1956, is regarded as one of the most significant poets of Expressionism, that epoch which with its vigorous rejection of traditional forms and themes stands on the threshold of literary modernism - as well as being one of the greatest 20th century German lyric poets. In time to mark the 'Double Benn Anniversary' in 2006 (50th anniversary of his death and 120th of his birth) de Gruyter is publishing Christian M. Hanna's "Benn-Bibliographie", which provides the first comprehensive survey of international secondary literature on Benn from 1957 to 2003, and contains more than 2500 entries. For many years, Benn scholars have felt a keen lack of an authoritative bibliography, and the gap has now been filled by this clearly structured and user-friendly work, the first personal bibliography for well-nigh 50 years, and the only one to register the extensive literature published on Benn and his work since his death. It includes publications not only in German, but also in other Germanic languages (incl. Norwegian, Danish and Dutch) and Romance languages (incl. Italian, French and Spanish) and from the whole English-speaking world. Swift and efficient searching is facilitated by a tripartite index - a detailed index by titles of works, containing over 470 headwords and references to Gottfried Benn's works, an equally detailed index of names and subjects with 515 lemmas, and an index of periodicals. These features make the "Benn-Bibliographie" an indispensable tool for everybody interested in Gottfried Benn, be they literary scholars, students at school and university or Benn enthusiasts among the reading public.

Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the scope and scale of U.S. public ownership, debunking frequent misconceptions about the alleged inefficiency and underperformance of public ownership and arguing that it offers powerful, flexible solutions to current problems of inequality, instability, and unsustainability- explaining why after decades of privatization it is making a comeback, including in the agenda of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain. Hanna offers a vision of deploying new forms of democratized public ownership broadly, across multiple sectors, as a key ingredient of any next system beyond corporate capitalism. This book is a valuable, extensively researched resource that sets out the past record and future possibilities of public ownership at a time when ever more people are searching for answers. -- .