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In December 2013 David Warr visited Coffee co-operatives in Peru and Bolivia. What he saw moved him to put into print his daily Blog and pictures of the extraordinary scenes. As a coffee roaster David was interested to see what was happening first hand to help improve the livelihoods of those who grow our coffee in light of the huge volatility in world commodity markets. He discovered Cafe Femenino in Peru, a ground breaking approach to social change. In Bolivia David saw the huge effort being made to develop Fairtrade and Organic coffee. This book is both informative and philosophical and...

This volume discusses recent advances in research regarding the evolution of specific and nonspecific defense responses in a taxonomically diverse array of species. Topics regarding invertebrates include the protective mechanisms (cellular and molecular) employed by insects, the protective roles of lectins, and the self-nonself discrimination revealed by tissue incompatibility reactions. With vertebrates, the evolution of the immunoglobulin-related superfamily of recognition molecules (including immunoglobulins and the major histocompatibility complex molecules) is examined over several...