The Catholic Church in Australia: A short history, 1788-1967

O'Farrell, Patrick James

Chapman

In the second century, Galen recognized that nerve and muscle were functionally inseparable since contraction of muscle occurred only if the nerves supplying that muscle were intact. He therefore concluded that the shortening of a muscle was controlled by the central nervous sytem while the extension of a muscle could occur in the absence of innervation. Nerves, he thought, were the means of transport for animal spirits to the muscles; the way in which animal spirits may bring about contraction dominated the study of muscle physiology from that time until the historical discovery of Galvani that muscle could be stimulated electrically and that nerve and muscle were themselves a source of electrical energy. It is now well known that nerves conduct electrically and that transmission from nerve to striated muscle is mediated by the chemical which is liberated from nerve terminals onto the muscle membrane. In vertebrates this chemical is acetylcholine (ACh). Thus the concept of spirits that are released from nerves and control muscle contraction directly, is no longer tenable. Nevertheless the concept of 'substances' transported down nerv~s which directly control many aspects of muscle has not been abandoned, and has in fact been frequently reinvoked to account for the long-term regula­ tion of many characteristics of muscle (see review by Gutmann, 1976) and for the maintenance of its structural integrity.

Nerve-Muscle Interaction

Science & Math

Vrbova, Gerta, Tessa Gordon and Rosemary Jones

Mathematics

The Gangan Fuit (Chapman New Writing Series)

Literature & Fiction

McDonald, Ellie

Poetry

Gold of Kildonan / Songs of the Grey Coast

Gunn, George

Dramas & Plays

<p>Michael Forsyth finally decrees that the Stone of Destiny will return to Scotland! John Ritchie and Robert Brydon provide a humorous but critical view of this relocation . Aonghas Macneacail s poem lia fil and an update by John Hamilton of the Wee Magic Stane song also celebrate the Stane. Brent Hodgson and Hamish Wallochie s daft Scots poems contrast with Donald Murray s stories about Scottish life as seen by Gorbachov and J Edgar Hoover! New work by George Bruce, W N Herbert, Yvonne Claire, Jenni Daiches, Peter McCarey etc.</p>

Stoned Alive! - 85 (Chapman Magazine)

History & Criticism

Ronald Stevenson - 89-90 (Chapman Magazine) (Chapman New Writing)

Gerda Stevenson

Kenneth White

malcolm-macdonald

Peter France

Angus Dunn

Eddie McGuire

Jamie Reid Baxter

Ruzena Wood

John Purser

Alexander Moffat

John Bellany

Wilson McLeod

Aonghas MacNeacail

Robert Dawson Scott

A collection of favorite recipes from the 102nd Congress, Governors, and prominent Republicans of the United States of America.

What's Cookin' With The Republicans

"IF YE ARE NOT ONE YE ARE NOT MINE": A Proven Recipe for a Successful Marriage

Steven R. Chapman

<p>Why do some pregnant American women eat clay? Why do Cornish women blush at the mention of skate? What is the secret of a healthy diet in Papua New Guinea? Consuming Culture is about why we eat what we eat - and what our eating habits say about us. Original, witty, and provocative, this world tour of food cultures shows how food relates to sex, to the culinary snakes and ladders of meat versus vegetables, and to the often baffling rules of eating etiquette. The first book to investigate the human fascination with food, Consuming Culture explains how food makes friends or enemies of us all and why many societies, including our own, are obsessed with eating what is bad for them. "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are," French gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared. To the Aboriginals of Australia it is fried witchetty grubs; to the Bameka of Cameroon it is spiced cat stew. As this pioneering work demonstrates, the use of food in different cultures a round the world is by turns perverse, fascinating, disquieting, and, above all, deeply revealing. From the psychology of supermarkets to the cuisine of trench warfare, from the diet industry to cannibalism, Consuming Culture gives valuable - and often hilarious - insight into the importance of food in our society. It will be an essential source of reference for life in the 1990s.</p>

Consuming culture

Politics & Social Sciences

MacClancy, Jeremy

Social Sciences

Clan MacHine (Chapman New Writing Series)

McDonough, Ian

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