The controversy continues

Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations Begun, DG, Ward, CV, Rose, MD eds. (1997). New York: Plenum Press. xii + 424 pp. ISBN 0-306-45457-2. $120.00 (cloth). The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas Bernor, RL, Fahlbusch, V, Mittman, H (eds). (1996). New York: Columbia University Press. ix + 487 pp. ISBN 0-231-08246-0. $92.00 (cloth). © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Stonehouse, B. 1989. Polar Ecology , viii + 222 pp. Chapman and Hall, New York, NY. ISBN 0–412–01701–6 (cloth). Price: USD 89.50. ISBN 0412–01711–3 (paper). Price: USD 35.00.     

A classic compilation

Kurtén, B. 1988: On Evolution and Fossil Mammals . XVII + 301 pp. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0–231–05868–3. Price: USD40.00 (bound).     

Short reviews of Nordic publications

Rydin, H., Snoeijs, P. & Diekmann, M. (eds.) 1999. Swedish plant geography ‐ Dedicated to Eddy van der Maarel on his 65th birthday. 233 pp. Opulus Press, Uppsala. ISBN 91–7210–084–2 (paperback), 91–7210–484–8 (cloth). Price: USD 56.‐ (paperback); xx USD (cloth). Joost: graag even checken     

Other short reviews

Wiedemann, A.M., Dennis, L.R.J. & Smith, F.H. 1999. Plants of the Oregon coastal dunes. (New edition). 120 pp. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR. ISBN 0–87071–457–0. (paperback) Price: USD 12.95.     

Toward better scientific presentation

Day, Robert A. 1979: How to Write and Publish a Scientific-Paper. 160 pp. ISI Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0 894950088 (cloth), ISBN 0894950061 (paperback). Price USD 15.00 and 8.95, respectively.
Cremmins, Edward T. 1982: The Art of Abstracting. 145 pp. ISI Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0894950150. Price USD 13.95 (paperback).
Barnes, Gregory A. 1982: Communication Skills for the Foreign-Born Professional. ISI Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0894950134 (cloth). ISBN 0894950142 (paperback). Price USD 18.95 and 13.95, respectively.     

Human biology in Papua New Guinea: The small cosmos. People of the great ocean: Aspects of human biology of the early pacific.

Edited by Robert D. Attenborough and Michael P. Alpers. 1993. New York: Oxford University Press. 427 pp. ISBN 0-19-857514-9. $105.00 (cloth). By Philip Houghton. 1996. New York: Cambridge University Press. 292 pp. ISBN 0-521-47166-4. $64.95 (cloth).     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Dreyer, Glenn D. & Niering, William A. 1995. Tidal marshes of Long Island Sound: Ecology, history and restoration. 72 pp. Connecticut College Arboretum Bulletin No. 34. Published by the Connecticut College Arboretum, Box 5201 Connecticut College, 270 Michigan Avenue, New London, CT 06320–4196, USA. ISBN 1–878899–05–8 (paper). Price USD 5.-. Jerry M. Baskin ^{1 1} School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0225, USA.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Abstract. Canham, C.D., Cole, J.J. & Lauenroth, W.K. 2003. Models in ecosystem science. 476 pp. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN 0‐691‐09289‐3 (paperback). Price: USD $35.00.     

Book reviews

Andrea de Guttry and Natalino Ronzitti, eds. The Iran‐Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Law of Naval Warfare. 1993. Cambridge, England: Grotius Publications. 573 pp. ISBN 1–857010–13–2. (Available from Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, and New York, NY, ISBN 0–521–463025, $190)

David L. Larson. Security Issues and the Law of the Sea. 1993. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 382 pp. ISBN 0–8191–9089–6. $47.50     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Collins, M. (ed.) 1990. The Last Rainforests: A World Conservation Atlas . 200 pp. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0–19–520836–6. Price: USD 29.95.     

Book reviews

Bowden, C. (1986): Blue Desert. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 180 pp. cloth. $ 16.95.

ZWINGER, A. (1983): A Desert Country Near the Sea. A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 399 pp. with many black‐and‐white photos and figures, paperback. $ 12.95.

SCOTT, J.A. (1986): The Butterflies of North America. A Natural History and Field Guide. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA. 584 pp, 64 color plates, many distribution maps and line drawings in the text. Cloth $ 49.50 net.

JACKSON, M.H. (1985): Galapagos ‐ A Natural History Guide. The University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 283 pp. including over 100 black‐and‐white photos and illustrations and 16 pp full color insert. Paperback $ 17.50 net.

MOONEY, H.A. & J.A. DRAKE (eds.) (1986): Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii. Ecological Studies vol. 58. Springer Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg. 321 pp. with many figs, tables. Cloth DM 148.00.

ZEIL, W. (1986): Südamerika. Geologie der Erde, Band 1. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart. 160 pp. with 54 figs, 4 colour plates and 3 tables, paperback. DM 24.80.

REGÖS, J. (1987): Die grüne Hölle ‐ ein bedrohtes Paradies. Verlag P. Parey, Hamburg und Berlin, W. Germany. 130 pp. many colour photos, cloth, DM 39.80.     

SHORT REVIEWS AND NOTICES

A CONCISE GUIDE TO THE FLOWERS OF BRITAIN and Europe. Oleg Polunin. xix + 107 pp., 192 plates of colour photographs. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. 1987.
FLOWERS OF GREECE AND THE BALKANS, A field guide. Oleg Polunin. xv + 592 pp., 82 plates of colour photographs, several pages of line drawings. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. 1987.
the englishman's flora. Geoffrey Grigson. 478 pp., 44 black and white woodcuts. Phoenix House, London. 1987.
bee orchids. Stephen Blackmore. ISBN 0 85263 745 4.
buttercups. Stephen Blackmore. ISBN 0 85263 763 2.
willows of the British isles. Theresa Brendall. ISBN 0 85263 765 9.
All 24 pp., illustrated in colour and black and white. Shire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough. 1985.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Vandermeer, J. 1989. The Ecology of Intercropping . 237 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U. K. ISBN 0–521–34592–8. Price: USD 59.50.     

Book reviews

THE ORIGINS OF ANGIOSPERMS AND THEIR BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES by E. M. Friis, W. G. Chaloner and P. R. Crane (Eds). Cambridge University Press. Paperback Version 1989. ISBN 0 521 31173X. Price £15.

ARGUMENTS ON EVOLUTION. A PALEONTOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE by Antoni Hoffman. Oxford University Press. 1989. 274 pages.

HETEROCHRONY IN EVOLUTION: A MULTDDISCIPLINARY APPROACH. Editon M.L. McKinney. Plenum Press, New York. 1988. 348 pp. ISBN 0–306–42947–0. $95.40 £79.50     

Book reviews

Patterns of thought in Africa and the West: Essays on magic, religion and science , by Robin Horton. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. xi, 471pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–521–36926–6 (paperback).

Women's experiences with HIV/AIDS: An international perspective , edited by Lynellyn D. Long and E. Maxine Ankrah. Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. x, 426pp., tables, references, notes on contributors, index. ISBN 0–231–10605‐X (paperback).

A healing place: Indigenous visions for personal empowerment and community recovery , by Kayleen M. Hazelhurst. Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 1996. xiii, 274pp., notes, illustrations, references. ISBN 0–908140–87–8 (paperback).

Reading the skin: Adornment, display and society among the Wahgi , by Michael O'Hanlon. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, 1989. 139pp., map, photographs, orthography and kinship terms, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 1–86333–003–8 (hardback).

Paradise: Portraying the New Guinea Highlands , by Michael O'Hanlon. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, 1993. 99pp., maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 1–86333–078‐X (paperback).

To sing with pigs is human: The concept of person in Papua New Guinea , by Jane C. Goodale. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1995. xvi, 269pp., map, tables, figure, musical scores, photographs, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–295–94736–2 (paperback).

Resplendent sites, discordant voices: Sri Lankans and international tourism , by Malcolm Crick. Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur, 1994. x, 237pp., maps, tables, photographs, bibliography, index. ISBN 3–7186–5564–0 (hardback).

Impasse of the angels: Scenes from a Moroccan space of memory , by Stefania Pandolfo. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. xi, 389pp., photograph, notes, index. ISBN 0–226–64532–0 (paperback).

Mal'uocchiu: Ambiguity, evil eye, and the language of distress , by Sam Migliore. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997. xiv, 159pp., tables, figures, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–8020–7922–9 (paperback).

Satmar: Two generations of an urban island: The life, thought and culture of an Hasidic Jewish community in America , by Israel Rubin. Peter Lang, New York, 1997. xii, 341pp., tables, figures, notes, index. ISBN 0–8204–0759–3 (hardback).

UFO crash at Roswell: The genesis of a modern myth , by Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler and Charles B. Moore. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1997. xii, 198pp., maps, tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 1–56098–751–0 (hardback).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Glenn-Lewin, D.C., Peet, R.K. & Veblen, T.T. (eds.) 1992. Plant Succession: Theory and Prediction. ix + 352 pp. Chapman and Hall, New York, NY. ISBN 0-412-26900-7. Price: USD 59.95.     

Dental anthropology.

By Simon Hillson. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. 373 pp. ISBN 0-521-45194-9. $74.95 (cloth). © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this issue. Barbour, M.G., Keeler‐Wolf, T. & Schoenherr, A.A. (eds.) 2007. Terrestrial Vegetation of California . Third Edition. xvii + 712 pp. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA. ISBN 9780520249554. Price US: USD 75.00; UK: GBP 44.95.