Art in the Making

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Jan Adkins, Letterbox: The Art and History of Letters, Walker: New York, 1981, 48 pages, $10.95.

Michael Kehoe, The Puzzle of Books, Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 1982, unpaged, $6.95.

Linda Bourke, Handmade Abc: A Manual Alphabet, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1981, unpaged, $6.95.

Linda Bourke, Signs of a Friend, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1982, unpaged, $2.95 (paper).

Philip Newth, Roly Goes Exploring, Philomel Books: New York, 1981, unpaged, $12.95 (spiral bound).

Tomas Gonzales (text by J. R. Kesselman and F. Peterson), I CAN USE TOOLS, Elsevier/Nelson: New York, 1981, unpaged, $6.25 (boards).

Harvey Weiss, Hammer and Saw, Crowell: New York, 1981, 80 pages, $9.00.

Gail Gibbons, Tool Book, Holiday House: New York, 1982, unpaged, n.p.i.

Harvey Weiss, Model Building: And How to Make Them, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1979, 96 pages, $7.95.

Paul Berman, Make-Believe Empire: A How-to Book, Atheneum: New York, 1982, 88 pages, $8.95.

Evaline Ness, Four Rooms From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Scribners: New York, 1977, unpaged, $6.95.

Alan Rose, Build Your Own Taj Mahal, Perigee: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95.

Les Walker, Housebuilding for Children, The Overlook Press: New York, 1977, 175 pages, $10.00.

Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey (story by Natalie S. Carlson), Marie Louise and Christopher at The Carnival, Scribners: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95

Beverley Gooding (Kenneth Grahame), Wayfarers All from The Wind in the Willows, Scribners: New York, 1981, 32 pages, $11.95.

Shawn Rice (text by Paul Rice and Peter Mayle), AS DEAD AS A DODO, Godine: Boston, 1981, unpaged, $10.95.     

Art in the Making

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There's Pigs and Pigs: Erik Blegvad, The Three Little Pigs, Atheneum: New York, 1980, 32 pages, $8.95.

There's Pigs and Pigs: Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Little Pigs (illust. by Lorinda B. Cauley), Putnam: New York, 1980, unpaged, $8.95.

There's Pigs and Pigs: Margaret Wise Brown (illust. by Ann Strugnell), Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1980, 64 pages, $10.95.

There's Pigs and Pigs: Miska Miles (illust. by Leslie Morrill), This Little Pig, Dutton: New York, 1980, unpaged, $6.95.

Picture Books: William Steig, Gorky Rising, Farrar, Strauss &; Giroux: New York, 1980, unpaged, $10.95.

Picture Books: Charles Keeping, Willie's Fire-Engine, Oxford University: New York, 1980, unpaged, $10.95 (boards).

Picture Books: Lydia Pender (illust. by Judith Cowell), The Useless Donkeys, Warne: New York, 1979, unpaged, $9.95.

Picture Books: Lillie D. Chaffin (illust. by Lloyd Bloom), We Be Warm Till Springtime Comes, Macmillan: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95.

Picture Books: Kate Canning, A Painted Tale, Barrons: Woodbury, N.Y.: 1979, unpaged, $6.95 (boards).

Historical Explorations: Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Joan of Arc, Viking: New York, 1980, 55 pages, $12.95.

Historical Explorations: Mitsumasa, Anno, Anno's Medieval World, Philomel Books: New York, 1980, 48 pages, $9.99.

Historical Explorations: Peter Spier, People, Doubleday: New York, 1980, unpaged, $10.00.

Historical Explorations: John S. Goodall, An Edwardian Season, Atheneum: New York, 1980, unpaged, $7.95.

Historical Explorations: Miriam Schlein (illust. by Erik Hilgert), I, Tut, Four Winds Press: New York, 1979, unpaged, $7.95.     

Art Work Shops for Children Where they Create Real Toys

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Legends Revisited: Brothers Grimm (illust. by Lisbeth Zwerger), Hansel and Gretel, Morrow. New York, 1979, unpaged, $7.95

Legends Revisited: Errol le Cain (story by James Riordan), The Three Magic Gifts, Oxford University Press: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95 (boards)

Legends Revisited: Harold Berson, Charles And Claudine, Macmillan: New York, 1980, unpaged, $8.95

Legends Revisited: Walter D. Myers (illust. by Alice and Martin Provensen), The Golden Serpent, Viking: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95

Legends Revisited: Gerald McDermott, Sun Flight, Four Winds Press: New York, 1980, unpaged, $10.95

Legends Revisited: P. L. Travers (illust. by Leo and Diane Dillon), Two Pairs of Shoes, Viking: New York, 1980, unpaged, $10.95

Legends Revisited: Airdrie Amtmann (retold by Joseph Jacobs), The Stars In the Sky, Farrar, Strauss &; Giroux: New York, 1979, 25 pages, $6.95

Legends Revisited: Lee Lorenz, Scornful Simkin, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1980, unpaged, $8.95

Assorted Cats &; Friends: Ronald Himler (story by Douglas F. Davis), The Lion's Tail, Atheneum: New York, 1980, unpaged, $8.95

Assorted Cats &; Friends: Evaline Ness, Fierce: The Lion, Holiday House: New York, 1980, unpaged, $8.95

Assorted Cats &; Friends: Nadja Maril (paintings by Herman Maril), Runaway Molly Midnight, The Artist's Cat, Stemmer House: Owings Mills, Md., 1980, 25 pages, $5.95 (paper)

Assorted Cats &; Friends: Colin McNaughton, Soccer Crazy, Atheneum: New York, 1981, unpaged, $8.95 (boards)     

Books and the Child

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Jindra Capek (story by Max Bolliger), The Most Beautiful Song, Little, Brown: Boston, 1980, unpaged, $8.95 (boards)

Maurice Sendak, Outside Over There, Harper &; Row: New York, 1981, unpaged, $12.95

Chris van Allsburg, Jumanji, Houghton Mifflin: Boston, Mass., 1981, unpaged, $9.95

Anita Lobel (words by Arnold Lobel), On Market Street, Greenwillow: New York, 1981, unpaged, $8.95

Stephen Gammell (story by Olaf Baker), Where The Buffaloes Begin, Warne: New York, 1981, unpaged, $8.95

Nicola Bayley and William Mayne, The Patchwork Cat, Knopf: New York, 1981, unpaged, $8.95 (boards)

Jan Brett, Fritz and the Beautiful Horses, Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1981, 32 pages, $8.95

Guy Billout, Thunderbolt and Rainbow: A Look at Greek Mythology, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1981, unpaged, $9.95 (boards)

Michael Foreman, Trick a Tracker, Philomel Books: New York, 1981, unpaged, $9.99

Monika Beisner (text by Alison Lurie), Fabulous Beasts, Farrar, Straus &; Giroux: New York, 1981, unpaged, $9.95

Leonard Baskin (words by the Baskin family), Hosie's Zoo, Viking: New York, 1981, unpaged, $10.95     

Darkroom Magic

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S. D. Schindler (story by Phyllis Krasilovsky), THE FIRST TULIPS IN HOLLAND, Doubleday: New York, 1982, unpaged, $12.95 (boards)

Tomie de Paola, Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi, Holiday House: New York, 1982, unpaged, $14.95

Piero Ventura (story by Gian P. Ceserani), Marco Polo, Putnam: New York, 1982, unpaged, $9.95 (boards)

Demi, The Adventures of Marco Polo, Holt, Rinehart &; Winston: New York, 1982, unpaged, $6.95 (boards)

Bernice Loewenstein (text by Dan Beekman), Forest, Village, Town, City, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1982, 40 pages, $9.50

Huck Scarry, Life on a Barge, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1982, 70 pages, $9.95, (boards)

Douglas Florian, The City, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1982, unpaged, $8.95

Byron Barton, Airport, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1982, unpaged, $9.95

Gail Gibbons, Trucks, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1981, unpaged, n.p. i

Robert Quackenbush, City Trucks, Albert Whitman: Chicago, 1981, unpaged, n.p.i. (boards)

John Lim, Merchants of the Mysterious East, Tundra: Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1981, 32 pages, $12.95

Sandra J. Russell, A Farmer's Dozen, Harper: New York, 1982, unpaged, $8.95

Mary Azarian, A Farmer's Alphabet, David Godine: Boston, Mass., 1981, 62 pages, $6.95

Victoria Chess, Alfred's Alphabet Walk, Greenwillow: New York, 1979, unpaged, $7.95

Jack Kent (“story” by M. Elting and M. Folson), Q IS FOR DUCK, Clarion Books: New York, 1980, unpaged, $8.95 ($3.95 paper)

Borje Svensson (paper engineering by James Diaz), BLOCK BOOKS (LETTERS, NUMBERS, COLORS, ANIMALS), Viking: New York, 1981, unpaged, $2.50 each     

Shearwater Pottery

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Joseph Low, Mice Twice, Atheneum: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95

Tony Ross (text by Bernard Stone and Alice Low), The Charge of the Mouse Brigade, Pantheon: New York, 1980, unpaged, $4.95 (boards). $4.95 (boards)

Stephen Gammell (3 stories by Malcolm Hall), And Then The Mouse, Four Winds Press: New York, 1980, 64 pages, $7.95

John Cameron, If Mice Could Fly, Atheneum: New York, 1979, unpaged, $8.95

Yutaka Sugita, The Mouse's Feast, Barron's: Woodbury, N.Y., 1980, unpaged, $6.95

Lillian Hoban (story by Marjorie W. Sharmat), Say Hello, Vanessa, Holiday House: New York, 1979, unpaged, $5.95

Len Norris (story by Jack Richards), Johann's Gift To Christmas, Scholastic: Ontario, Canada, 1980, 48 pages, n.p.i., (paper)

John Goodall's Theater, The Sleeping Beauty, Atheneum: New York, 1980, unpaged, $3.95 (paper)

And Other Friends: Richard Egieloki (story by Arthur Yorinks), Louis The Fish, Farrar, Strauss &; Giroux: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95

And Other Friends: Margot Tomes (story by Beatrice S. de Regniers), Everyone Is Good For Something, Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1980, unpaged, $8.95

And Other Friends: Ann Blades (story by Betty Waterton), A Salmon For Simon, Atheneum: New York, 1980, unpaged, $7.95

And Other Friends: Ann Toulmin-Rothe (story by lanthe Thomas), Willie Blows A Mean Horn, Harper: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95

And Other Friends: Anatoly Ivanov (retold by Barbara Cohen), Lovely Vassilisa, Antheneum: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95

And Other Friends: Demi, Liang And The Magic Paintbrush, Holt, Rinehart &; Winston: New York, 1980, unpaged, $9.95     

Books and the Child

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Jutta Ash (from a Crimm tale), RAPUNZEL, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: New York, 1982, unpaged, $10.95

Lorinda B. Cauley, THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN COINS, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95 ($5.95 paper). Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Graham Percy (adapted from Perrault), SLEEPING BEAUTY, Knopf: New York, 1980, unpaged, $1.75 (boards). Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

George Overlie (story by Pamela Espeland), THE STORY OF BAUCIS AND PHILOMON, Carolrhoda Books: Minneapolis, 1981, unpaged, n.p.i. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Michael Hague (retold by K. & M. Hague), THE MAN WHO KEPT HOUSE, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Donald Carrick, HARALD AND THE GIANT KNIGHT, Clarion Books: New York, 1982, unpaged, $10.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Annie Gusman (written by Arthur Crowley), THE WAGON MAN, Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1981, unpaged, $8.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Diane Good (story by Louise Moeri), THE UNICORN AND THE PLOW, Dutton: New York, 1982, unpaged, $8.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Victoria Chess (story by Larry Bograd), LOST IN THE STORE, Macmillan: New York, 1981, unpaged, $8.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Edward Gorey (story by Florence P. Heide), TREEHORN'S TREASURE, Holiday House: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.

Ernest Goldstein, EDWARD HICKS: THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM and WINSLOW HOMER: THE GULF STREAM, Garrard Publishers: Champaign, Illinois, 1982, 48 pages, $8.95 (each) from the “Let's Get Lost in a Painting” series. Reviewed by Kenneth Marantz.     

On Your Mark,Get Set…

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Eric Hill, My Pets, The Park, at Home and Up There, (Baby Bear Books), Random House: New York, 1983, unpaged, $1.95 each (board pages)

Dayar Kaur Khalsa, The Baabee Books, Tundra: Montreal, Canada, set of 4, $12.95., (board pages)

Kay Charo, Kate's Car (Box, Quilt and Snowman), Dutton: New York, 1982, unpaged, $3.95 each (boards)

Colin McNaughton, At Playschool, Philomel: New York, 1982, unpaged, $3.95 (boards)

E. H. Shepard (words by A. A. Milne), Pooh's Counting Book, Dutton: New York, 1982, unpaged, $4.95 (board cover)

Arthur Dorros, Alligator Shoes, Dutton: New York, 1982, unpaged, $3.95 (boards)

Tana Hoben, Round & Round & Round, Greenwillow: New York, 1983, unpaged, $9.50

Nicole Rubel, Me and My Kitty, Macmillan: New York, 1983, unpaged, $7.95     

Book Reviews

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Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 178 pages, $3.50, paper.

Beginning Jewelry by James F. Warwick, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 96 pages, $7.95, paper.

Glass, Mosaics and Plastics, edited by Eric Shults, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 136 pages, $8.95.

Spiders' GAMES—A Book for Beginning Weavers by Phylis Morrison, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 128 pages, $14.95.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Stitchery by Mildred Graves Ryan, Doubleday, New York, 689 pages, $14.50.     

Report of the Seventh International Art Congress

Creative Collage with Shells and Dried Flowers Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., New York List Price $5.50. Reviewed by Elizabeth Russell.

An Introduction to Lettering The Viking Press, Inc. List Price $5.95. Reviewed by Alan and Rita Greer.

Designing in Stitching and Applique Davis Publications, Inc. List Price $10.95. Reviewed by Nancy Belfer.

Design is Where you Find it Iowa State University Press List Price $6.95. Reviewed by Orville Chatt.

All Kinds of Papercrafts Viking Press List Price $8.95. Reviewed by john Portchmouth.

Crafting with Nature's Materials Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York List Price $2.95. Reviewed by Chester Jay Alkema.

Cathedral Architecture Russak &; Company, Inc. List Price $1 2.50. Reviewed by Hugh Braun Crane.

Victorian Ornamental Design St. Martin's Press, New York List Price $10.00 cloth $4.95 paperback. Reviewed by Stuart Durant.     

Notes

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Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies: American Renaissance: Our Life at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 400 pages. $19.95 hardback.

Richard Grenier: Capturing the Culture: Film, Art, and Politics. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991. 392 pages. $24.95 hardback.

Thomas P. Hughes: American Genesis: A Century of Innovation and Technological Enthusiasm. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 529 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Anson Rabinbach: The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. New York: Basic Books, 1990. 402 pages. $34.95 hardback.

Jeremy Rifkin: Time Wars.: New York: Touchstone Books, Simon &; Schuster, 1989. 302 pp. $9.95 paperback.     

A Portrait in Water Color

Bread Sculpture, The Edible Art by Ann Wiseman11 101 Productions San Francisco 94103 $6.95 cloth, $2.95 paper.

Professor Hammerfinger's Indestructible TOYS by Steve Ross Oliver Press Willits, Calif. 94590 $3.95.

Street Art by Robert Sommer Links Books New York City 10023 $7.95.

Your Homemade Greenhouse by Jack Kramer Walker and Company New York City 1019 $7.95.

Creating With Paper by Pauline Johnson University of Washington Press Seattle 98105 $10.95 cloth, $5.95 paper.     

Metaphoric Mirrors on the Wall

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Bary Moser, ALICE's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), University of Calif. Press, 1982, 148 pgs., $24.95.

Richard Floethe, Pinnochio (Carlo Collodi), Philomel Books: New York, 1982, 239 pgs., $3.95, (paper).

Gerald McDermott, Carlo Collodi's Pinnochio, (translated and adapted by Marianne Mayer), Four Winds Press: N. Y., 1981, 122 pgs., $14.95.

Michael Hague, The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum), Holt, Rinehart & Winston: New York, 1982, 219 pgs., $18.95.

Allen Atkinson, The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories by Beatrix Potter, Knopf: New York, 1982, 141 pgs., $16.95.

Mercer Mayer, Favorite Tales from Grimm (retelling by Nancy Gardner), Four Winds: New York, 1982, 224 pgs., $15.95.     

Silver

Paper Dreams: Universe Books New York City 10016 $6.95 paper $11.95 cloth. Reviewed by Lorraine Bodger

String Art Encyclopedia Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York City 10016 $8.95. Reviewed by Lorraine Bodger

Card Weaving: New York City 10001 $12.95. Reviewed by Ruth J. Katz Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.

Images in Sand: University Press of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506 $12.95. Reviewed by Janis Sternbergs

The Ups and Downs of Needlepoint: A.S. Barnes and Co. Cranbury, NJ 08512 $17.50. Reviewed by Fannie Hillsmith

Anyone Can Paint-I Promise: David McKay Co., Inc. New York City 10017 $10.95. Reviewed by Robert H. Garden

Designing in Batik &; Tie Dye: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 $6.95. Reviewed by Nancy Belfer     

Classroom Aids

Tekulsky, Mathew. The Butterfly Garden: Turning Your Garden, Window Box or Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Butterflies. Illustrated by Susanah Brown. Introduction by Robert Michael Pyle. Boston: The Harvard Common Press, 1985–144 pp., plus field notes. $8.95, paper. Reviewed by John W. McClure.

Lauber, Patricia. Dinosaurs Walked Here, and Other Stories Fossils Tell Us. New York: Bradbury Press. 56 pp., $15–95 cloth. Reviewed by Joseph Patrick Kennedy.

Kathlyn Gay. The Greenhouse Effect. Franklin Watts/A Science Impact Book, 1986. 87 pp. $10.90 hardcover. Reviewed by Arthur H. Doerr.

de la Cotardiere, Philippe, ed. Astronomy. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987. 326 pp. $35.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Alan R. Newman.

Ehrlich, Anne H. and Paul R. Ehrlich. Earth. New York: Franklin Watts, 1987. 285 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Elisa Malcohn.

Branley, Franklin M. Star Guide. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987. 51 pp. $11.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Joseph S. Tenn.

Ontario Science Centre. Foodworks: Over 100 Science Activities and Fascinating Facts That Explore the Magic of Food. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1987. 90 pp. $7.95 paper. Reviewed by Mary S. Duru.

Danks, Hugh. The Bug Book and the Bug Bottle , illustrated by Joe Weissman. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1987. 64 pp. and bottle, $7.95 paper. Reviewed by Arnold E. S. Gussin.

Bruno, Leonard C. The Tradition of Science: Landmarks of Western Science in the Collection of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1987, xi and 351 pp. $30.00 paper. Reviewed by G. F. Kohlbach.

Davis, Phillip J. and Reuben Hersh. Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. xviii and 321 pp. 812.95 paper. Reviewed by Edwin Halfar.

Barash, David P. The Hare and the Tortoise. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. 351 pp. $7.95 paper. Reviewed by Robert W. Boenig.

Terres, John K. How Birds Fly. New York: Perennial library (Harper &; Row), 1987. 177 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by C. Bruce Hunter.

Dorros, Arthur. Ant Cities , a This Is a Let's-Read-and-Find-Out-Science Book. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987. 32 pp. $12.70 hardcover. Reviewed by John W. McClure.     

Book Notes

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All-Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 306 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education New York: Harper & Row, 1990. 204 pages. $18.95 hardcover.     

Plexiglas Sculpture

Silhouettes: Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, MA $7.95. Reviewed by Jack Kramer

Art From Clutter: and Norman Berman Richards Rosen Press New York, NY $9.66. Reviewed by Andrew Pinto

Suspended Elegance: House Palo Alto, CA $2.95. Reviewed by Kristi Carlson Joy Hidden

Design Yourself!: Larry Belliston and Dave Edwards William Kaufmann, Inc. Los Altos, CA $5.95. Reviewed by Kurt Hanks

Crafting With Newspaper: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY $3.75. Reviewed by Vivienne Eisner and William Shisler

Victorian Do-It-Yourself: North Pomfret, VT $10.95. Reviewed by E. J. Wiseman David &; Charles

Cane &; Rush Seating: Larousse &; Co., Inc. New York, NY $8.95. Reviewed by Margery Brown     

A New Meaning to “Partnerships”

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Michael Straight. Nancy Hanks. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. 429 pages. $22.50 hardback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Business Committee for the Arts Arts Education: A Resource Guide New York: Business Committee for the Arts, 1989 Packet format, 32 pages. $15.00 Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Livingston Biddle. Our Government and the Arts. New York: ACA Books, 1988. 539 pages. $16.95 paperback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Benjamin Ginsberg. The Captive Public: How Mass Opinion Promotes State Power. New York: Basic Books, 1986. 272 pages. $8.95 paperback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Miklos Haraszti. The Velvet Prison: Artists under State Socialism. New York: Basic Books, 1987. 164 pages. $14.95 hardback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.     

Science Activities and the Retarded Child

Cobb, Vicki Lots of Rot New York; J. B. Lippincott, 1981 35 pp. $9.95 trade, $9.89 library. Reviewed by Frances B. Spuler.

Sheaffer, Robert The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981 242 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by R. F. Trimble.

Taylor, Ron The Story of Evolution New York: Warwick Press, 1981 80 pp. $9.90. Reviewed by A. Gilbert Wright.

D'Ignazio, Fred Small Computers: Exploring Their Technology and Future New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 146 pp. $8.90. Reviewed by Judith A. Douville.

Stwertka, Eve, and Albert Stwertka Industrial Pollution: Poisoning Our World (Impact Books) New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 96 pp. $7.45. Reviewed by Robert H. Bell.

Claypool, Jane Alcohol and You (Impact Books) New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 96 pp., $ 7.45. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde, Jr., M.D.

The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy, 2d ed. Leon Schlossberg, illustrator George D. Zuidema, editor Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980 115 pp. $17.50 hardcover, $10.95 paperback. Reviewed by Carl Gans.

Harper &; Row's Complete Field Guide to North American Wildlife, western edition (Assembled by Jay Ellis Ransom) New York: Harper &; Row, 1981 809 pp. $12.95 vinyl, $17.50 cloth. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash.

Houdini Miracle Mongers and their Methods: A Complete Exposé Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981 240 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by R. F. Trimble.

Rublowsky, John Born in Fire: A Geological History of Hawaii New York: Harper &; Row, Publishers, 1981 84 pp. $9.95 ($9.89 library ed.). Reviewed by M. Grant Gross.

Lampton, Christopher Meteorology: An Introduction (Impact Books) New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 96 pp. $7.45. Reviewed by Ira W. Geer.

Fields, Alice Satellites New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1981 48 pp. $6.90. Reviewed by Frances B. Spuler.     

Exploring the Insect World

Scheffer, Victor B. A Natural History of Marine Mammals New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1976 176 pp., $7.95. Reviewed by William B. Nutting

Sargent, Theodore D. Legion of Night: The Underwing Moths Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976 222 pp., $15.00. Reviewed by N.N. Raghuvir

Thiessen, Del, and Yahr, Pauline The Gerbil in Behavioral Investigations: Mechanisms of Territoriality and Olfactory Communication Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1977 224 pp., $20.00. Reviewed by Donald J. Nash

Bullard, Fred M Volcanoes of the Earth Austin and London: The University of Texas Press, 1976 579 pp., $26.95. Reviewed by James W. Skehan

Edwards, Peter Seaweeds and Sea Grasses (in the Vicinity of Port Aransas, Texas) Austin: University of Texas, 1976 128 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Herbert H. Grossman

Schreider, Herman How Scientists Find Out about Matter, Space, Time, Energy New York: McGraw Hill Book Co, 1976 133 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by Joseph H. Gillen

C.R. Austin and R.V. Short, eds. The Evolution of Reproduction Series: Reproduction in Mammals (Book 6) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 189 pp., $15.95 hardcover, $4.95 paperback. Reviewed by Austin T. Hyde

Simon, Seymour Tropical Saltwater Aquariums: How to Set Them Up and Keep Them Going New York: The Viking Press, 1976 90 pp., $6.95. Reviewed by John Lyman

Brown, Vinson Sea Mammals and Reptiles of the Pacific Coast Riverside, N.J.: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976 265 pp., $10.95. Reviewed by Albert C. Jensen

Behrens, June What I Hear Chicago: Childrens Press, 1976 40 pp., $4.95. Reviewed by Sue Hall