Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Thursday, 9 April 2015

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 40. 1 (March 2015)

The Future of Reading

Stan Ruecker
pp: 1-2.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000100?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

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The Interface Implications of Understanding Readers
The Inke Research Team
pp: 3-16.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000101?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

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Noses in Books: Orientation, Immersion, and Paratext
Cynthia Northcutt Malone
pp: 17-28.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000102?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

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Mobile Media as New Forms of Spatialization
Luciano Frizzera
pp: 29-43.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000103?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

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Discovering the Language of Data: Personal Pattern Languages and the Social Construction of Meaning from Big Data
Kim Erwin, Maggee Bond and Aashika Jain
pp: 44-60.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000104?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

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A Fragmentizing Interface to a Large Corpus of Digitized Text: (Post)humanism and Non-consumptive Reading via Features
Sayan Bhattacharyya, Peter Organisciak and J. Stephen Downie
pp: 61-77.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000105?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

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Remediating the Editor
Susan Brown
pp: 78-94.
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0308018814Z.000000000106?ai=xq&ui=1yg&af=T

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Interdisciplinary thoughts 1976-1996

Last week I learned that an almost complete print run of ISR (from

its first issue in 1976 up to the present) was in need of a new home.

I was more than happy to provide that home and, thanks to Mark

Hull of Maney publishing, the consignment reached me today. I've

had access to the digitised archive of ISR for a while and it is, of

course, a great boon. Still, when given the option I prefer to read

on paper. I've had only the briefest chance to peruse the collection.

Something of interest that immediately jumped out at me is the

volume called Interdisciplinary Thoughts 1976-1996 by Anthony

R Michaelis. It is noted that it was 'Published in a limited edition to

mark his retirement as Editor of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews,

July 1996'. The brief foreword offers it as '... a small token of our

gratitude to present him with this volume of his own writings in ISR.

May he enjoy reading them half as much as we all did'. When I've a

bit more time I'll post again about it. In the meantime, here

is the picture of Michaelis himself that it contains.

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: a comparative history

Now available for review: Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: a comparative history by Klaus Hentschel (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Paul Bohan-Broderick (paul.bohanbroderick@gmail.com), directly if you are interested in reviewing this book and have relevant expertise.

Monday, 9 March 2015

The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy Reconsidered

Now available for review: The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy Reconsidered by Martin S. Lindauer, The College at Brockport, State University of New York (John Benjamins Publishing, 2015).

Please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Paul Bohan-Broderick (paul.bohanbroderick@gmail.com), directly if you are interested in reviewing this book and have relevant expertise.