BOOK NOTES
| Published date | 01 June 1957 |
| Date | 01 June 1957 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1957.tb01197.x |
BOOK
NOTES
The New Atomic
Age
United Nations, H.M.S.O., 1956. Pp.
A
DESCRIPTION
in non-technical language
of
the principles
of
harnessing atomic
cnergy
;
of the uses to which it is being put
in industry, medicine and agriculture
;
and
of the arrangements being devised for
international co-operation
“
to ensure the
benefits and prevent the possible ills of
this new technology.” The readability of
the booklet is enhanced by diagrams and
other simple illustrations.
40.
IS.
9d.
Metal Equipment
for
Ofice and
Works
Steel Ofice Furniture
Ancillary Machines and Equipment
for
Shops,
Ofices and Works
Mail
Room
Equipment
THESE
are Parts 18-21
of
the compre-
hensive
Manual
of
Modern
Business
Equip-
ment
which Macdonald and Evans Ltd.
are publishing
for
the Office Appliance and
Business Equipment Trades Association.
Definitions
of
Value
Collected and annotated by
H. HOWARD
KARSW.
Rating and Valuation
Asso-
ciation, 1957. Pp. 161. 25s.
IN
this compilation are containcd the
statutory definitions of value relating to the
ownership or occupation of land. Succeed-
ing parts deal with the statutes relating to
compulsory purchases, requisitioned land,
estate duty, taxation, rating, landlord and
tenant, agricultural holdings, and licensed
prenlises. Where necessary the language
of the Acts
is
elucidated by introductory
notes and additional comments.
Socialist
Digest
Published monthly by the Labour
Parry.
1s. per issue.
THE
January, 1957, issue of this periodical
includes, in the section on
“
Public Enter-
prise,”
a
brief review of the progress of the
electricity supply industry since nationalisa-
tion.
208
Medical Negligence
By
LORD
NATHAN
with the collaboration
of
ANTHONY
R.
BARROWCLOUGH.
Butter-
worth, 1957. Pp. xxxii7218.
35s.
(postage
1s.
3d. extra).
THIS
book gives an account
of
the law of
negligence in relation to the medical pro-
fession and hospitals. It is intended both
for legal practitioners, for members
of
the
medical and nursing professions, and for
hospital administrators. The importance
of the subject has been emphasised by the
great increase since 1948 in legal actions
against hospitals. Since this is a recent
development in this country, however, it
has proved nccessary to supplement
the
reports of English cases by references to
decisions of the courts in the Dominions
and the United States.
Sexual Offences
Edited by L.
RADZINOWICZ.
Macmillan,
1957. Pp. xxvk55. 63s.
THE
Cambridge Department
of
Criminal
Science has embodied in this report the
results of its five-year enquiry
into
sexual
offences. This enquiry was based
on
about
a
quarter of
the
known
crimes occurring in
fourteen police areas covering
the
London
area, large industrial cities, seaports,
suburbs, and country districts.
The
main
section of the report is devoted to pro-
viding the factual background to 2,000
cases of conviction. There follows a
comprehensive survey of the relevant
substantive law and law of evidence, and
a
critical review
of
the major proposals for
amendment of thc existing provisions. In
conclusion, memoranda from Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Belgium and the
United States provide valuable comparative
material.
Counterattack against Subtopia
Edited by
IAN
NAIRN.
Architectural
Press, 1957. I’p.
84.
12s. 6d.
THIS
reprint from the December, 1956,
special issue of the
Architectural
Rairw
forms a sequel
LO
Outruge.
While the
latter concentrated on exposing the way in
which the land
of
Britain is being s:eadily
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