Responding to a renewed interest in the growing problem of iodine deficiency worldwide, Drs. Charles Oxnard and Peter Obendorf, along with experienced translator and anatomist John Dennison, take a fresh look at the classic text, Der endemische Kretinismus, published in 1936 by Springer. Translated here for the first time into English, this landmark text will be a welcome resource for researchers confronting the problem of iodine deficiency. Oxnard and Obendorf point out that there is very little detailed knowledge or numerical data on cretinism available in the English-speaking world. In...

The first full poetry collection from popular New Zealand poet and Anglican chaplain John Dennison, "Otherwise" explores Christian themes and the transformative elements of daily life. Ideas of transcendence, the soul, spiritualism, and reflection on life's moments reverberate in this debut.

Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first study of the development of Heaney's thought and its central theme. Eschewing the tendency of Heaney critics to endorse or expand on the poet's...

This 514-page book describes, in very great detail, the German findings on the Sepik River during their pioneering excursions. It was published in 1913 and appears in translation, with the original images, 102 years later. It is the third volume of the Deutsche Sudsee Expedition that I have translated and published."