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.