At this personal page from a US scholar you can find short reviews of ethnomathematical books like Marcia Ascher's book Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas. Quote from the review: "She has no intention of claiming that the mathematics developed in the cultures she discusses had any influence on developments elsewhere. Her main goal is simply to show that mathematical ideas, even if not developed by those called mathematicians, can be found in many societies if one only knows where to look."

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Further this project is interesting also because of its progressive use of technology: "The Centre's Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM) and Web Academic Resource Publisher (WARP) will be adapted to provide historians with a cheap and relatively easy way of creating web-based editions of historical documents that conform to emerging international standards for XML text markup and content description. The ultimate goal of the project is to create a "distributed" version of the tools in open source programming that will help facilitate collaborative production of historical information resources by researchers regardless of their location."

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The swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes about matrimonial ads in newspapers of india. While it's still mainly the duty of the parents and relatives, to get someone married, the traditional way of contacting other parents face to face is decreasing, more and more Indians are searching with some special ads in newspapers, the author writes. If you are interested in this, you may take a look at the very popular indian matrimonial site shaadi.com. Totally uncommon for europeans is of course that you can browse the database by a huge variety of religions and castes. Via Hirnverbrannt

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The University Library of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich offers as a special service an online-library of dissertations. The University Library offes a tool for publishing dissertations online. Technical questions are to be addressed to Mr. Volker Schallehn, Tel 089 2180-2144 / e-mail: volker.schallehn@ub.uni-muenchen.de. Access through as Munich University Library dissertations online.

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