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The article reviews the book ``Health care reform and globalisation: The US, China and Europe in comparative perspective,'' edited by Peggy Watson.

The article reviews the book "The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe," edited by B. J. Weiner, M. D. Rogers, J. K. Hammitt and P. H. Sand.

All art is imitation. The average American play, for instance, is art because it imitates some other play that has made a hit. Foreigners say that the United States is prejudiced against what is traditional and what is old. But however true this may be of the political methods, the social standards, and certain phases of the business morality, the charges will not hold against the native drama. Effete, immobile, drowsy Europe sends theatrical sensations from season to season. Pushing, adventurous, novelty-loving America goes on weaving plots after the manner of grandfathers.

Presents a list of essays included in the book "Kazaam! Splat! Ploof! The American Impact on European Popular Culture Since 1945," edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Gordana P. Crnkovic.

Presents information related to painters and the paintings printed by national business magazines in the U.S. with reference to reproduction of these art work. Number of pictures painted by French painter Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in the U.S.; Reproduction of art works contributed by painter Frederic Remington; Acquisition of a European mid-western mansion full of Old-master-type paintings from the Flemish 15th century to the French 18th with plenty of Italian in between; Existence of metaphysical and financial aspect in development of fakes and forgeries in art.

The article reviews the electronic resource "Witchcraft in Europe and America," available at http://gale.cengage.co.uk/unbound.

Reviews the book "Allies: The U.S., Britain, Europe, and the War in Iraq," by William Shawcross.