Donald Low, an expert on Robert Burns' songs, has brought together all Burns' known songs, both polite and bawdy. In this edition, Low compiles, in chronological sequence, the words and tunes of all songs at present known, and provides a full critical introduction and detailed notes. An appendix by Peter Davidson discusses arrangements of the songs. The book contains more than 300 songs and music, from his first known composition O, once I lov'd a bonnie lass, through the songs supplied for James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, and George Thompson's Select Collection, to Burns' bawdy songs...

Since the introduction of ciprofloxacin in 1987, fluoroquinolones have expanded far beyond their early role in the treatment of urinary tract infections. Clinical applications beyond genitourinary tract infections include upper and lower respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections, gynecologic infec- tions, sexually transmitted diseases, and some skin and soft tissue infections. Their ease of administration, favorable pharmacokinetic properties, excellent tolerability, and efficacy give them enormous potential for use and misuse alike. Quinolones have few common adverse effects, most...

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a degree of political consensus that ordinary democratic arrangements cannot produce, and that the country s success requires a competitive meritocracy accompanied by relatively little income or wealth...