Book reviews

Dinosaurs from China

DONG ZHIMING. China Ocean Press, Hong Kong, 1987. vi + 114 pp. ISBN 7–5027–0116–8. Hardcover ed., approximately $34.00; softcover ed., approximately $24.00 [This is the first English edition.]

DONG ZHIMING, with text by Angela C. Milner. China Ocean Press, Hong Kong, and the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1988. vi +114 pp. ISBN 0565–01073–5. Softcover ed., £9.95 at the Natural History Museum bookstore. [A hardcover edition probably exists, but I have not seen it.]

TRACE FOSSILS: BIOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY, by Richard G. Bromley, Unwin Hyman, London 1990. 280 pp. ISBNO 04 4453035. £40 hardback, £17.95 softback.

EXTINCTION EVENTS IN EARTH HISTORY, Editors E.G. Kauffman and O.H. Walliser. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin 1990. 431 pp. ISBN 0–387–52605–6. Price DM 75.

PHYLOGENY AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF FOSSIL AND RECENT ORGANISMS, edited by Norbert Schmidt‐Kittler and Rainer Willmann. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, N.P. 28, Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg & Berlin ISBN 3–490–14496–1.     

Making the grade in human evolution

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution By WW Howells (1997). Washington: Compass Press. 266 pp. $19.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-929590-16-3. $36.95 (paper) ISBN 0-929590-17-1. From Lucy to Language By DC Johanson and B Edgar. Principal Photography by David Brill (1996). New York: Simon and Schuster, 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-684-81023-9. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis By GC Conroy (1997). New York: WW. Norton.xii + 557 pp. $43.13 (paper) ISBN 0-393-97042-6. Humans Before Humanity By R Foley (1997) Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.vii + 248 pp. $21.95 paper ISBN 0-631-20528-4. Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution By E Meickle, FC Howell and N Jablonski (1996) Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology. Nina G. Jablonski, Series Editor. California Academy of Sciences Memoir 21. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences.viii+193pp $35.00 cloth ISBN 0-940228-45-9. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Book reviews

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY IN HONOR OF ROUSSEAU H. FLOWER. Memoir 44. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, xiv + 415 pp.

THE DINOSAUR HERESIES: A REVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF DINOSAURS By R.T. Bakker Published by Longman Scientific and Technical, 1987.482 pages. ISBN 0–582–00420–9

DINOSAURS PAST AND PRESENT. Edited by S.J. Czerkas and E.C. Olson. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1987. Vol. 1, 163 pp., ISBN 0–938644–24–6 (softcover) or 0–295–96541‐X (hardcover); vol. 2, 150 pp., ISBN 0–938644–23–8 (softcover) or 0–295–96570–3 (hardcover).

MESSEL — EIN SCHAUFENSTER IN DIE GESCHICHTE DER ERDE UND DES LEBENS, edited by Stephan Schaal and Willi Ziegler. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1988 (Senckenberg‐Buch, 64), 315 pp. ISBN 3–7829–1111–3. 68.‐DM.

EXTINCTION AND SURVIVAL IN THE FOSSIL RECORD, edited by G.P. Larwood. The Systematics Association, Special Volume No. 34. Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), Oxford, 1988, 365pp. 45.     

The natural history of the doucs and snub-nosed monkeys

The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-Nosed Monkeys. Edited by Nina G. Jablonski. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific. 1998. 382 pp. ISBN 981-02-3131-8. $64.00 (cloth).     

Effects of Climate Change on Birds

2010, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK

344 pages, hardcover or paperback, 75 black-and-white illustrations, and a four-page color plate section

ISBN 978-0-19-956974-8 (hardcover), 978-0-19-956975-5 (softcover). Price R575     

Book Reviews

The Monthly Sky Guide, Fifth Edition. Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 64 pp. $16.95 (paperback). ISBN: 0-521-66771-2.

The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Planet Earth. Martin Redfern. New York: Kingfisher Publications. 1999. 96 pp. $19.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 0-7534-5180-8.

The Talking Tree. Rita McKenzie. Champaign, Ill.: International Society of Arborculture. 28 pp. ISBN: 1-88195-622-9.

The Inventive Mind in Science: Creative Thinking Activities. Christine Ebert and Edward S. Ebert II. Engle-wood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press. 1998. 241 pp. (paperback). ISBN: 1-56308-387-6.

Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots. Sharon Lovejoy. New York: Workman Publishing. 1999. 159 pp. $13.95 (paperback). ISBN: 0-7611-1056-9.     

Islamic faith as a cultural dimension to ethnic relations

Ralph Grillo, 2015 Muslim Families, Politics and the Law. A Legal Industry in Multicultural Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, xvi + 337 pp. £75 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4724-5121-7

John R Bowen, 2010 Can Islam Be French? Pluralism And Pragmatism in a Secularist State, Princeton: Princeton University Press, xi + 230 pp. $23.95 (paperback) ISBN978-0691-13283-9

John R Bowen, 2012 Blaming Islam. Cambridge: MIT Press, 144 pp. $15.95 (paperback) ISBN 978262017589     

The international legal regime for navigation

Thomas A. Clingan. The Law of the Sea: Ocean Law and Policy. 1994. San Francisco: Austin and Winfield. 638 pp. ISBN 1–880921–37–5 (hardcover), $89.95. ISBN 1–880921–28–6 (softcover), $69.95     

Book Reviews

Unearthing Garden Mysteries: Experiments For Kids. Ellen Talmage. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing. 2000. 90 pp. $17.95 (paperback). ISBN: 1-55591-993-6.

Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats For Learning. Tim Grant and Gail Littlejohn (eds.). Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. 2001. 136 pp. $16.95 (paperback). ISBN: 0-86571-436-3.

Science Projects About Sound. Robert Gardner. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow. 2000. 112 pp. $19.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 0-7660-1166-6.

The Science of Sound and Music. Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone. New York: Sterling Publishing. 2000. 80 pp. $19.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 0-8069-7183-5.

Elephants and Their Young. Great Explorations in Mathematics and Science (GEMS). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Lawrence Hall of Science. 2001. 100 pp. $18 (paperback). ISBN: 0-924886-55-2.

Mia2: Romaine's New Hat. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Kotoka Kids Interactive. ($19.99 from Amazon.com).

System Requirements: PC. O/S: Windows 95 or better, CPU: Pentium 166MMX, RAM: 32 MB (64MB recommended), Video: 640 × 480 (256 colors), Sound: 16-bit Sound Blaster or 100% compatible, CD-ROM: 6X, 40 MB of hard drive disk space.

Macintosh: O/S: Systems 8.1 or better (System 9 requires 64 MB of Ram), CPU: PowerPC 275mhz, G3 233mhz, iMac, RAM: 32 MB (64 MB recommended), Video: 640 × 480 (256 colors), Sound: Standard Macintosh, CD-ROM: 6X, 40 MB of hard drive disk space.     

Water,Water, Everywhere

Abstract

Math and Science Across Culture: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium. Maurice Bazin, Modesto, and the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. New York: The New Press, 2002. 176 pp. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-56584-541-2

History Beneath the Sea—Nautical Archaeology in the Classroom. K. C. Smith and Amy Douglass (Editors). Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology, 2001. 28 pp. $5.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-932839-17-7.     

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.‐.     

Dinosaurs

Wild Cactus. Photos by George H. H. Huey, text by Rose Houk. New York: Artisan, 1996. $25. ISBN 1-885183-20-8. Reviewed by John W. McLure.

Exploring with the Microscope. Werner Nactigall. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1995. 160 pp. $19.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8069-0066-1. Reviewed by Robert G. Hoehn.

The Encyclopedia of Snakes. Chris Mattison. New York: Facts On File, 1995. 256 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8160-3072-3. Reviewed by Carl Gans.

The Friendly Guide to the Universe. Nancy Hathaway. New York: Penguin, 1995. 462 pp. $13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-14-015381-0. Reviewed by Lawrence A. Marschall.

One Small Square: Woods. Donald M. Silver, illustrations by Patricia J. Wynne. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1995. 48 pp. $14.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-7167-6610-8. Reviewed by Frances B. Spuler.

Naturalists, Conservationists, and Environmentalists. Eileen Lucas. New York: Facts On File, 1996. 150 pp. $16.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8160-2919-0. Reviewed by Clarence J. Murphy.

Astronomy for All Ages. Philip Harrington and Edward Pascuzzi. Old Saybrook, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 1994. 210 pp. $17.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-56440-388-2. Reviewed by Kristine Larsen.

Intermediate Science through Children's Literature. Carol M. Butzow and John W. Butzow. Englewood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press, 1994. 194 pp. ISBN 0-87287-946-1. Reviewed by Jacqueline V. Mallinson.     

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).     

News Notes

Abstract

Wyatt, John The Shining Levels: The Story of a Man Who Went Back to Nature Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1974 209 pp., $6.95, Reviewed by Gilbert Wright

Banfield, A.F.W. The Mammals of Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. 438 pp., $19.95, Reviewed by Paul F. Connor.

Mai, W. F., with H. H. Lyon, Photographer Pictorial Key to Genera of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates (a division of Cornell University Press), 1975, 4th ed., rev., 219 pp., $12.50 softcover, Reviewed by Victor H. Dropkin.

Bridges, William Gathering of Animals: An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society New York: Harper and Row, 1974 518 pp., $12.50, Reviewed by Robert Deitchman.

Palmer, E. Laurence, Revised by H. Seymour Fowler Fieldbook of Natural History, 2d rev. ed. New York: McCraw-Hill Book Company, 1975 779 pp., $14.95, Reviewed by J. P. Kennedy.

Cohen, Daniel Animal Nature: The Biology of Human Behavior New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975 144 pp., $5.72, Reviewed by Julie Ann Miller.

Muus, Bent J., Illustrated by Preben Dahlstrom; Translated by Gwynne Vevers Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of Britain and North-Western Europe St. James's Place, London: Collins, 1975. 244 pp., $10.00, Reviewed by Robert W. Boenig.

Barbour, Roger W., and Wayne H. Davis Mammals of Kentucky (Kentucky Nature Studies: 5) Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1974 322 pp., $14.95, Reviewed by Theodore W. Munch.

Brandwein, Paul F., et. al. Concepts in Science (Newton Edition) New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 376 pp., Reviewed by Malcolm F. Farmer.     

Book Reviews

Natural Antioxidants in Human Health and Disease Edited by Balz Frei Academic Press, San Diego

In Vitro Toxicology Edited by: Shayne Cox Gad Raven Press Ltd.: New York, 290pp ISBN: 0-88167-974-7

Active Oxygen, Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidants Edited by Kunio Yagi Japan Scientific Society Press: Tokyo ISBN 4-7622-6738-4, 1993 CRC Press: Boca Raton ISBN 0-8493-7769-2, 1993 x +372 pages Y 13, 000

Free Radicals, Cardiovascular Dysfunction and Protection Strategies R C Kukreja and M L Hess R G Landes Company: Austin, Texas, USA, 1994

Oxygen and Environmental Stress in Plants (Special issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 102 1994) eds R M M Crawford, G A F Hendry and B A Goodman

Mitochondria: DNA, Proteins and Disease Eds. V. Darley Usmar and A.H.V. Schapira Portland Press Research Monograph V, London, 1994

Human Medicinal Agents From Plants Edited by A. Douglas Kinghorn and Manuel F. Balandrin ACS Symposium Series 534 American Chemical Society: Washington DC, 1993, pp. xii + 356. ISBN 08412 2705 5. $89.95.     

Tropical ecology in miniature

The Butterflies of Costa Rica and their Natural History. Volume II: Riodinidae. by P.J. DeVries Princeton University Press, 1997. $90.00/￡70.00 hbk, $29.95/￡23.95 pbk (xxvii+288 pages) ISBN 0 691 02890 7 / 0 691 02889 3.     

Book Reviews

Technology Projects for the Classroom. Allan Kaufman and Jim Flowers. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Prakken Publications. 1996. 136 pp. (paperback) $14.95. ISBN: 0-911168-92-3.

More Virtual Field Trips. Gail Cooper and Garry Cooper. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, Inc. 1999. 200 pp. (paperback) $23.50. ISBN: 1-56308-770-7.

While You're Waiting for the Food to Come. Eric Muller. New York: Orchard Books. 1999. 96 pp. (paperback) $8.95. ISBN: 0-531-077144-8.

Science in Seconds at the Beach. Jean Potter. New York: Wiley and Sons. 1998. 122 pp. (paperback [7 × 9]) $12.95. ISBN: 0-471-17899-3.

Science in Seconds with Toys. Jean Potter. New York: Wiley and Sons. 1998. 122 pp. (paperback [7 × 9]) $12.95. ISBN: 0-471-17000-0.

Bite-Sized Science. John H. Falk and Kristi S. Rosenberg. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 1999. 109 pp. (paperback [7 × 9]) $12.95. ISBN: 1-55652-348-3.

Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits. Michelle O'Brien-Palmer. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 1999. 146 pp. (paperback [7 × 9]) $12.95. ISBN: 1-55652-351-9.

Science Projects: About Physics in the Home. Robert Gardner. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers. 1999. 112 pp. (hardcover) $19.95. ISBN: 0-89490-948-7.

How the Future Began: Communications. Anthony Wilson. New York: Kingfisher Publications. 1999. 64 pp. (hardcover) $15.95. ISBN: 0-7534-5179-4.     

Why so few?

Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their struggles and momentous discoveries (1998). S. Bertsch McGrayne. Carol Publishing Group, 448 pp. $19.95 paper ISBN 0806520256.     

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).     

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.