Book review

THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF DINOSAURS, edited by Kevin Padian. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986, 378 pp. ISBN 0–521–30328–1.     

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     

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology

By Arthur C. Aufderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, with a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen. New York and Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 478 pp. ISBN 0–521–55203–6. $100.00 (cloth).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Majer, J. D. (ed.) Animals in primary succession: The role of Fauna in Reclaimed Lands . 1989. xii + 547 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0–521–33400–4. Price: GBP 60.-.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Rundel, P.W., Smith, A.P. & Meinzer, F.C. (eds.) 1994. Tropical Alpine Environments. Plant form and function. xi + 376 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0–521–42089-X. Price: GBP 65.-.     

In defence of Vladimir Ilyich Hobson

Lance Davies and Robert Huttenback, MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860–1920, abridged edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, £9.95 paperback.     

Parasites are GO

The Malaria Genome Sequencing Consortium Meeting was held on 5–6 June 2001 in Cambridge, UK, and was followed by a workshop discussing the generation of new parasite-specific gene ontology (GO) terms. Present at the meeting, which focused primarily on malaria, were representatives from the research community, the sequencing centres, including the Sanger Centre (Cambridge, UK) and The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR; Rockville, MD, USA), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI; Cambridge, UK), Plasmo DB and the GO consortium (Cambridge, UK).     

Book review

This Brand of Faith: This Faith of Brand

Faith, Reason, and Earth History: a paradigm of Earth and biological origins by intelligent design, Leonard Brand, 1997, ISBN, 1–883925–6915, USD $34.99, Andrews University Press, 332p. (213 Information Services Building, Berrien Springs, Missouri, 49104–1700, aupress@andrews.edu).

The eternal trail: a tracker looks at evolution

The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks at Evolution by Martin Lockley, September 1999. Perseus Books, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. xvii+334p., US$26–00.     

Complex societies and anthropology: A perspective from 1979*

The Transition to Statehood in the New World, edited by G. D. Jones and R. R. Kautz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. ix + 254 pp.

The Inca and Aztec States 1400–1800: Anthropology and History, edited by G. A. Collier, R. I. Rosaldo and J. D. Wirth. New York: Academic Press, 1982. xx + 475 pp.

Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms. Frank Salomon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii + 274 pp.

The Origins and Development of the Andean State, edited by J. Haas, S. Pozorski and T. Pozorski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. vi+ 188 pp.

Peruvian Prehistory; An Overview of pre‐lnca and Inca Society, edited by R. W. Keatinge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xvii + 364 pp.     

The last days of American colonial slavery

Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman (eds), BRITISH CAPITALISM AND CARIBBEAN SLAVERY, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 345 pp., £25.00.

Robin Blackburn, THE OVERTHROW OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1776–1848, London: Verso, 1988, 560 pp., £12.95 (paper).

J. R. Ward, BRITISH WEST INDIAN SLAVERY, 1750–1834. THE PROCESS OF AMELIORATION, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, 320 pp., £30.00.     

Newsmaker: Constellation Pharmaceuticals

Replete with investor funds, the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based epigenetics firm is taking aim at methylases anddemethylases linked to disease.     

Book reviews

Walter A. Jackson, GUNNAR MYRDAL AND AMERICA'S CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL ENGINEERING AND RACIAL LIBERALISM, 1938–1987, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990, xxi + 447pp., $38.45.

Sissela Bok, ALVA MYRDAL: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR, Reading, MA: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Co., 1991, xvi + 375pp., $22.00 and $12.95 (paper).

David W. Southern, GUNNAR MYRDAL AND BLACK WHITE RELATIONS: THE USE AND ABUSE OF AN AMERICAN DILEMMA 1944–1969, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1987, xviii + 338pp., $37.50.

Elazar Barkan, THE RETREAT FROM SCIENTIFIC RACISM: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF RACE IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xxii + 508pp., £37.50.

Dorothy Ross, THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xxii + 508pp., £35.00 and £16.95 (paper).     

Life on the bio-pharm: therapeutic proteins from transgenic organisms

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Transgenic Production of Human Therapeutics³Waltham, MA, USA, 29–30 June 1998     

Therapeutic approaches for sticky situations

IBC Conference on Integrins: Applying Multidisciplinary Approaches for Targeted Therapies², Cambridge, MA, USA, 29–30 January 1998     

Isolierung und Untersuchung von Phytophthora fragariae Hickman in Ägypten: (Kurze Mitteilung)

Hornby, D.: Take‐ All Disease of Cereals: a Regional Perspective. C A B International Oxon. New York. 1998. 384 S. 43 schwarz‐weiße und 19 Farbfotos, 74 Grafiken, 76 Tabellen. Preis 120 USD. ISBN 0 85199 1246

Holliday, P.: A Dictionary of Plant Pathology. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 1998, 536 Seiten. Preis 85t (150 USD). ISBN 0521594588

Marks, R. J., Brodie, B. B.: Potato cyst nematodes: biology, distribution, and control. CAB INTERNATIONAL Oxon. 1998. 408 S., 77 Abb., 57 Tab., Preis: 120 USD, ISBN: 0–85199274–9     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this issue. Lambers, H., Cambridge, M. L., Konigs, H. & Pons, T. L. (eds.) 1989. Causes and Consequences of Variation in Growth Rate and Productivity of Higher Plants , x + 354 pp. SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague. ISBN 90–5103–033–9. Price: USD 90.00.     

Systemic fungicides in the control of strawberry wilt (Verticillium dahliae)

In a series of experiments between 1970 and 1973 the application of benomyl or thiophanate methyl to field-grown strawberries, planted on Verticillium-mtested land, gave control of wilt for up to 5 months, the duration of control being related to the amount of fungicide applied in the spring. Treatment of inoculated plants grown on in chloropicrin-fumigated soil was effective for at least two seasons. An autumn-planted multi-factorial experiment in heavily-infested soil showed that, to achieve maximum wilt control, it was advantageous to grow cv. Gorella rather than cv. Cambridge Vigour; to drench the runners at planting rather than to dip them in the fungicide suspension; and to use a high concentration (0–075 % a-i-) and large volume (600 ml per plant) for a supplementary treatment in May rather than a lower concentration (0.025 %) ^or smaller volume (400 ml). There were small but significant advantages in applying benomyl rather than thiophanate methyl, and in using 0–2% a.i. suspension at planting rather than 0–05%. No advantage was gained by dividing the spring application into two equal doses applied 2 wk apart. Extrapolation from the logarithmic relation between wilt index and total dose of fungicide applied in the spring suggested that I.I g/plant would have given almost complete control until October; such control had been achieved in an earlier experiment in which 1–2 g/plant was applied. Crop yield in the second year was determined by the treatment applied in the first year, but although these treatments had given significantly better control of wilt in Gorella than in Cambridge Vigour, the greater growth and yield potentials of the latter cultivar had an over-riding effect on crop production; Cambridge Vigour yielded more than Gorella under all chemical treatments, but in the absence of treatment Gorella gave a larger crop than Cambridge Vigour. A proposed regime, entailing spring and autumn applications, is aimed at minimizing the colonization of the plant throughout the year, thus reducing the production of new inoculum and, by limiting the quantity of the pathogen in contact with the systemic chemicals, minimizing the probability of selecting fungicide-resistant variants of V. dahliae.     

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1.; The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 1. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 571 pp.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 455 pp.     

Book reviews

Shigeru Oda, International Control of Sea Resources vol. 12, 2d ed. (reprint with a new introduction). (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1989), Publications on Ocean Development, 1989). 215 pp. Index. ISBN 90–247–3800–8. $75.00.

Prosper Weil, The Law of Delimitation: Reflections. Translated from the French by Maureen MacGlashan. (Cambridge: Grotius Publications, 1989). xv, 327 pp. ISBN 09–490–0940–7. $98.00, £55.00.     

Cultural diversity and schooling

Ashley H. Robins, BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN PIGMENTATION, (Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology, 7), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiii + 253 pp., £37.50.

Ulfried Geuter, THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF PSYCHOLOGY IN NAZI GERMANY. Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, v‐xxi + 335 pp., npl.

Clare Midgley, WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY. THE BRITISH CAMPAIGNS, 1780–1870, London: Routledge, 1992, xii + 281 pp., £37.50.

Maryinez Lyons, THE COLONIAL DISEASE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SLEEPING SICKNESS IN NORTHERN ZAIRE, 1900–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi + 335 pp., £50.00.

Wim van Binsbergen, TEARS OF RAIN: ETHNICITY AND HISTORY IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992, 495 pp., £45.00.

Albert B. Robillard (ed.) SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, London: Kegan Paul International, 1992, xvi + 507 pp., £45.

Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) ‘VIVA’: WOMEN AND POPULAR PROTEST IN LATIN AMERICA, London: Routledge, 1993, 270 pp., £12.99 pb; £40.00 hb.

Cindi Katz and Janice Monk (eds) FULL CIRCLES: GEOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN OVER THE LIFECOURSE, London: Routledge, 1993, 317 pp., £12.99 pb; £40 hb.

Hans van Amersfoort and Hans Knippenberg (eds), STATES AND NATIONS. THE REBIRTH OF THE ‘NATIONALITIES QUESTION’ IN EUROPE, Netherlands Geographical Studies 137, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1991, 189 pp., Dfl. 29.50.

Elizabeth D. Huttman, Wim Blauw and Juliet Saltman (eds), URBAN HOUSING SEGREGATION OF MINORITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, xiii + 431 pp., npl.

Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano (eds) JAPANESE AMERICANS: FROM RELOCATION TO REDRESS, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992, 264 pp., $17.95 US (paper only).

David J. O'Brien and Stephen S. Fugita, THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991, 178 pp., £8.99 (paper).

Paul James Rutledge, THE VIETNAMESE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, 173 pp., npl.