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.     

Book reviews. Short reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Balick, Michael J., Elisabetsky, Elaine & Laird, Sarah A. (eds.) 1996. Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest: Biodiversity and Its Importance . XIV + 440 pp. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0–231–10170–8 (cloth). Price USD 75.-. (cloth), USD 35.-. (paper). Gregory J. Anderson^{1 1}Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA. Menz, Gunter. 1996. Niederschlagund Biomass in den wechselfeuchten Tropen Ostafrikas . 208 pp + 15 colour photographs, 27 coloured maps. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. ISBN 3–515–06487–7. Price DEM 188.-. Wielgorskaya, T.1995. Dictionary of generic names of seed plants . 570 pp. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0–231–07892–7. Price USD 80.-(USA), USD 85.- (international). Frey, Hans-Ulrich. 1995. Waldgesellschaften und Waldstandorte im St. Galler Berggebiet . Veröffent-lichungen des Geobotanischen Institutes der Eidgenos-sichen Technischen Hochschule, Stiftung Rübel, in Zurich, Heft 126a, b. ISSN 0524–9433. 280 pp + separate tables and maps. Price: CHF 85.-. Schaminée, J.H.J., Stortelder, A.H.F. & Weeda, E.J. 1996. De Vegetatie van Nederland. 3. Graslanden. zomen- droge heiden . 356 pp. 109 colour photographs. ISBN 91–8871–605–8. Price: NLG 110.-.     

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.     

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.     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Ne'eman, G. & Trabaud, L. Ecology, Biogeography and Management of Pinus halepensis and P. brutia Forest Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin . xii + 412 pp. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. ISBN 90–5782‐055‐2 (hardcover). Price: USD 120.00 Jonsell, B. (ed.) 2000. Flora Nordica , Vol. 1. Lycopodiaceae to Polygonaceae. xxii + 344 pp. The Bergius Foundation and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. ISBN 91 7190 033 0 (hardcover). Price: 50 USD     

BOOK REVIEWS

Bailey, Robert G. 1998. Ecoregions: the ecosystem geography of the oceans and continents. ix + 176 pp. Springer‐Verlag, New York. ISBN 0–387–98311–2 (softcover), 0–387–98305–8 (hardcover). Price: USD 39.95 (soft cover); USD 79.95 (hard cover).     

Book reviews

CHADWICK, A. C. & S. L. SUTTON eds. (1984): Tropical Rain‐Forest ‐ The Leeds Symposium. Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Ltd. Central Museum, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3AA, U.K. 335 pp. with many figures and tables, cloth. Price 34.50 £ (+ 9.00 £ for overseas air mail shipping).

DIAMOND, A. W. & LOVEJOY eds. (1985): Conservation of Tropical Forest Birds ICBP Techn. Publ. No. 4 International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, England. 318 pp, many figures and tables, paperback. Price £ 18.50.     

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

PALAEOBIOLOGY: A SYNTHESIS, Editors: D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 1990.608 pp. ISBN 0 632 025255. £89.50.

EVOLUTION AND THE FOSSIL RECORD, by K. Allen and D. Briggs (Eds). 265 pp. Belhaven Press, London 1989. £25.

THE EMERGENCE OF ANIMALS: THE CAMBRIAN BREAKTHROUGH, by M.A.S. McMenamin and D.L.S. McMenamin, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0–231–06646–5‐ISBN 0–231–06647–3 (paperback). $35 Hardback, $17 paperback.

ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF THE ANTARCTIC BIOTA, by JA. Crame (Ed.), Geological Soc. special publication n° 47, 322 pp. London. Price: £58.     

Mambu phone home

Mambu: A Melanesian millennium, by Kenelm Burridge. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1995 [reprinting of original 1960 edition with new preface]. 296pp., appendices, index. ISBN 0–691–00166–9 (paperback).     

Cargo cults everywhere?

Cargo cult: Strange stories of desire from Melanesia and beyond, by Lamont Lindstrom. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1993. xiv, 247pp., references, index, maps and photos. ISBN 0–8248–1563–7 (paperback).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Vera, F.W.M. 2000. Grazing Ecology and Forest History. xix + 506 pp. CABI Publishing, Wallingford & New York. ISBN 0–85199–442–3 (hardcover). Price: USD 100.‐.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Delcourt, H.R. 2002. Forests in Peril: Tracking Deciduous Trees from Ice‐Age Refugia into the Greenhouse World. vii + 234 pp. The MacDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, VA. ISBN 0–939923–89–0 (paper). Price: USD 22.95.     

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.     

The operational strategies of theoretical morphology

THEORETICAL MORPHOLOGY: THE CONCEPT AND ITS APPLICATIONS, by George R. McGhee, 1999. Columbia University Press, New York, 316 p. ISBN 0–231–10616–5 (hardback), $60.00; ISBN 0–231–10617–3 (paperback), $26.50     

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 issue. Packham, J. R., Harding, D. J. L., Hilton, G. M. & Stuttard, R. A. 1992. Functional Ecology of Woodlands & Forests . xii + 408 pp. Chapman & Hall, London. Cloth ISBN 0–412–44390–2. Price: USD 95.-. Paper ISBN 0–412–43950–6. Price: USD 35.-.     

Primate locomotion: Recent advances.

Edited by Elizabeth Strasser, John Fleagle, Alfred Rosenberger, and Henry McHenry. New York: Plenum Press. 1998. 482 pp. ISBN 0–306–46022-X. $110.00 (cloth).