RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 60

February 2008



PART IX:
Science & History of Science, Natural History,
Medicine, Mathematics, Nautical Science


See also items 58, 59, 60 & 63.
78. BARBOSA, José Novais, José Marques dos Santos, Pedro Ramalho, et al. FEUP: o projecto e a obra. / FEUP: From design to construction. Porto: Editora da Universidade do Porto, 2007. Lge. slightly oblong 4° (26.2 x 28.6 cm.), publ. prtd. bds. with d.j. 28, (3, 1 blank) pp., (1 folding leaf), 4 folding plans, printed on both sides and numbered pp. 35-42, (67 pp. color illus., 1 p. colophon). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-8025-40-8. $75.00
About the new premises of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.


79. BARROSO, Eduardo. Coragem, Eduardo! Crónicas publicadas no suplemento DNA do Diário de Notícias entre setembro de 1998 e outubro de 1999. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2000. Crónicas. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 227 pp. ISBN: 972–46–1084–5. $27.00
Fifty-seven essays on medical subjects directed at the general public, such as the pride of being a doctor, surgery in hospitals, good sense, Christmas in the hospital, the author's experience in England (he had studied at Cambridge), euthanasia, etc. The author (b. Lisbon, 1949), a physician, was Director of Surgery II at the Hospital Fernando Fonseca when this book appeared. Originally published in book form late 1999.


80. CASTEL-BRANCO, Cristina. Félix de Avelar Brotero: botânico português (1744-1828). Preface for this edition by Helena Freitas. Preface to the French edition (2004) by Érik Orsenna. Translated from the French by Catherine Rey. Translation of old texts by Margarida Alvino. Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, and Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 205 pp., (1 l.), numerous excellent color illus. in text, endnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-24-1430-2; 978-989-8074-07-2. $60.00
Originally published in French, Paris: Centre Culturel, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004.