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.‐.     

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G. Ricciardelli d'Albore: Textbook of Melissopalynology, Apimondia Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania. ISBN 973–605–023–8. Ordering address: Apimondia, corso Vittorio Emanuele n. 101, Rome, Italy, Tel:/fax: + +39 6 685 22 86. Price: USD 25.     

Ecological Communities Plant Mediation in indirect interaction Webs

Takayuki Ohgushi, Timothy P. Craig and Peter W. Price (Eds)Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521850391 £80.00 458pp Reviewed by Patricia Sang

Oxford University PressKing, Stansfield, Mulligan ISBN: 9780195307610 £19.99 596pp Reviewed by Ian Carter

Pallgrave Macmillan Anthony J.F. Griffiths, Susan R. Wessler,Richard C. Lewontin, and Sean B. Carroll ISBN: 9780716799023 £44.99 838pp Reviewed by Olivier Sparagano

British Psychological Society/Blackwell Publishing Julia C. Berryman, Elizabeth Ockleford, Kevin Howells, David J. Hargreaves, and Diane J. Wildbur ISBN: 9781405126984 £18.99 272pp Reviewed by N Souter

Lafferty & Panella Pearson: Benjamin-Cummings ISBN: 9780805395747 £12.12 206pp + CDROM Reviewed by J Mynett     

The Tommotian goes international

Rozanov, A. Yu. et al . (Raaben, M. E., ed.) 1981: The Tommotian Stuge and the Cambrian Loner Boundary Problem . 359 pp. (Tranalated from Russian by S. Guha.) Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, Price $US 35.00.     

Books

Climbing Mount Improbable R. Dawkins. 308 pp. London: Viking (Penguin Books), 1996. £20.00. ISBN 0 670 85018 7. Reviewed by J. R. Downie

The beauty of the beastly N. Angier. 278 pp. London: Abacus (Little, Brown & Co), 1996. £8.99. ISBN 0 349 10769 6. Reviewed by Stephen Webster

The strange case of the spotted mice and other classic essays on science P. Medawar. 236 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £7.99. ISBN 0 19 286193 X. Reviewed by H. V. Wyatt

Privileged hands: a scientific life G. Vermeij. 297 pp. Oxford: W. H. Freeman, 1997. £18.95. ISBN 0 7167 2954 7. Reviewed by Paul F. Brain

Spotlight Science 7: SEN Learning support pack/Extra help sheets K. Johnson, S. Adamson, and G. Williams. Cheltenham, Glos.: Stanley Thornes, 1996. £55.00/£45.00. ISBNs 0 7478 2758 2/2466 4. Reviewed by Julie Lloyd

Longman Science 11–14: Biology Pupil's Book 3rd edn. M. Roberts and P. Mawby. 298 pp. Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1996. £9.99. ISBN 0582 29420 7. Reviewed by Caroline Poole

Longman Homework Handbooks Key Stage 3: Science C. Millican et al. 188 pp. Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. £7.99. ISBN 0 582 29327 8. Reviewed by Loretta Platts

Heinenrann Co-ordinated Science Higher Biology: Pupil book; Assessment and resource pack R. Fosbery and J. McLean/M. Sheehan and C. Woodward. 184/156 pp. Oxford: Heinemann, 1996. £9.99/£39.95. ISBNs 0 435 58000 0/58016 7. Reviewed by Ann Dolan

Biology for you: National Curriculum Edition for GCSE (student's book) G. Williams. 352 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £12.99. ISBN 0 7487 2366 8. Reviewed by Jean Campbell

Human physiology & health M. Jenkins. 246 pp. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. £11.99. ISBN 0 340 658525. Reviewed by Arabella Stuart

Social Biology Topics: Human reproduction L. M. Baggott. 112 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. £.8.95. ISBN 0 521 46914 7. Reviewed by Ann-Marie Skinner

Advanced biology principles and applications: study guide C. J. Clegg, D. C. Mackean, P. H. Openshaw, and R. C. Reynolds. 450 pp. London: John Murray, 1996. £17.99. ISBN 0 7195 5358 X. Reviewed by Carolyn Ann Mulley

GNVQ Intermediate Science Cambridge Training and Development Ltd. 210 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £12.00. ISBN 0 19 832800 1. Reviewed by P. Bunyan

Further studies for social care C. Holden et al. 330 pp. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. £12.99. ISBN 0 340 65526 7. Reviewed by Phil Bunyan

Health and social care for intermediate level Ed. S. Benson. 248 pp. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. £10.99. ISBN 0 340 620579. Reviewed by Phil Bunyan

Life chemistry and molecular biology E. J. Wood, C. A. Smith, and W. R. Pickering. 230 pp. London: Portland Press, 1997. £16.00. ISBN 1 85578 064 X. Reviewed by T. M. Harrison

Immunobiology: the immune system in health and disease 2nd edn. C. A. Janeway, Jr. and P. Travers. London: Current Biology and USA: Garland Publishing, 1996. Available from Churchill Livingstone, Robert Stevenson House, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, Scotland EH 1 3AF (tel: 0131-556-2424; fax. 0131-558-1278). £24.95/$19.95. ISBN 0-8153-2044-2. Reviewed by Paul F. Brain

Investigations by order: policy, curriculum and science teachers' work under the Education Reform Act J. Donnelly et al. Driffield, E. Yorkshire: Studies in Education, 1996. £14.95. ISBN 0 905484 57 6. Reviewed by Paul Denley

Environment and the law: an introduction for environmental scientists and lawyers J. F. and S. McEldowney. 327 pp. Horlow, Essex: Longman, 1996. £22.99. ISBN 0 582 22712 7. Reviewed by John Feltwell

Collins Gem: Mushrooms and toadstools photoguide P. Harding and A. Outen. 256 pp. London: HarperCollins, 1996. £3.99. ISBN 0 00 470934 9. Reviewed by Julia Milligan

Naturalists' Handbooks 25: Thrips W. D. J. Kirk. 70 pp. Slough, Berkshire: The Richmond Publishing Co., 1996. £8.95. ISBN 0 85546 3074. Reviewed by Ian Lancaster

Naturalists' Handbooks 22: Animals under logs and stones with wallcard C. Philip Wheater and H. J. Read. 90 pp. Slough, Berkshire: Richmond Publishing Co., 1996. £15.00/£8.95. Wallcard - £1.75. ISBNs 0 85546 302 3/301 5. Reviewed by Robin Sutton

Naturalists' Handbooks 23: Blowflies Z. Erzinclioglu. 72 pp. Slough, Berkshire: The Richmond Publishing Co., 1996. £8.95. ISBN 0 85546 303 1. Reviewed by Ian Lancaster

Resource packs Poultry Biology A resource booklet written by N. Gregory and available from the Poultry Association of New Zealand, 1 st Floor, 106 Carlton Gore Road, Auckland, New Zealand. (Tel. 10) 9 309 2417; fax. 0 (9) 307 3831; e-mail, bobd@pianz.org.nz) free of charge. Reviewed by Roger Lock

Wader migration game A set of 52 A4 sheets produced and available from RSPB Education, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds SG19 2DL. {Tel. 01767 680551; fax. 01767 692365.) Price £5.00 incl. p&p. Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie

Slides Invertebrate conservation slide packs: Heathland and grassland, Woodland and wetland Produced by R. Key of English Nature in conjunction with the Amateur Entomologists' Society. Available from Martin Harvey, Amateur Entomologists' Society, PO Box 8774, London SW7 5ZC. Price £25.00 plus £2.00 p&p. Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie

Software How animals move A CD-ROM produced by Moris Multimedia in consultation with Professor R. McNeill Alexander. Suitable for IBM and compatibles (486SX spec, or higher) and Macintosh (Proforma, Centris, and Quadea families). Available from Maris Multimedia, 99 Mansell Street, London E1 8AX. (Tel. 0171 488 1566; fax. 0171 702 5034.) Price £19.99 (incl. VAT plus £1.50 p&p). Reviewed by Mike Tribe

Videotapes Knowledge now in experimental biology — Yeast as a model organism: identifying genes that control cell division; Arabidopsis as a model organism: homeotic genes and development in a plant Two in a series of six videos produced by Cogilo Learning Media and available from Oxford University Press, Saxon Way West, Corby NN18 9ES. (Tel. 01536 741519; fax. 01536 746337; e-mail. http://www.cogitomedia.com 1-800-93- THINK.) Price £59.95 each plus VAT. Reviewed by Julian Thomas     

Book reviews

THE PALEOGENE OF ASIA: MAMMALS AND STRATIGRAPHY, by Donald E. Russell and Zhai Ren‐jie. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Sciences de la Terre. Tome 52. 1987. 469 pp. and 232 figs. Price: 300 F. (about 50 US$).

FOURTH SYMPOSIUM ON MESOZOIC TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, DRUMHELLER, ALBERTA, CANADA. AUGUST 10–14, 1987. SHORT PAPERS, edited by P. J. Currie and E. H. Koster (1987). Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, No. 3: 239pp. (ISBN 0–7732–0047–9).

GENETICS, PALEONTOLOGY AND MACROEVOLUTION by Jeffrey Levinton. Cambridge University Press, 637pp. ISBN‐0–521 24933 3 Price £27.50. Published Spring 1988.     

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Abstract. van der Maarel, E. (ed.) 2005. Vegetation ecology. 395 pp. Blackwell Publishing, Maiden, Oxford & Carlton. ISBN 0‐632‐05761‐0 (paperback). Price: GBP 34.99.     

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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.     

A critique of the methodology of Robert Redfield: ‘Folk culture’ and other concepts

The Raw and the Cooked. Claude Levi‐Strauss. Jonathan Cape 1970. 387 pp., ill., bibl. Price £3.5.0.

Folktales of Israel. Ed. by Dov Noy with the assistance of Dan Ben Amos. Transi, by Gene Baharav. The University of Chicago Press. Folktales of the World. Chicago 1963. 221 S. $ 4.00.

Politics of Social Research. An inquiry into the ethics and responsibilities of social scientists. Ralph L. Beals. Aldine Publishing Company. Chicago 1969. 228 pp.

African Stone Sculpture. Philip Allison. Percy Lund, Humphries &; Co., Ltd. London 1968. 71 pp. 99 pls. 3 maps. Price 56 s.

The Elementary Structures of Kinship. (Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté). Claude Lévy‐Strauss. Rev. ed. translated from the French by James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer and Rodney Needham, Editor. Beacon Press, Boston; Eyre &; Spottiswoode Ltd., London. 1969. 541 pp., 87 figs. Price $ 15.00.

Contes sous la Croix du Sud. Giselle de Goustine. (Les littératures populaires de toutes les nations. N.S., T. XIII). Editions G.‐P. Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris 1967. 208 pp.

La divination malgache par le sikidy. Raymond Decary avec la collaboration de Marcelle Urbain‐Faublée. Publications du centre Universitaire des Langues Orientales Vivantes, 6e série, vol. IX. Paul Geuthner, Paris 1970. 111 pp.

Über Lebensraum und Lebensformen des Frühsemiten. Joseph Henninger. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein‐Westfalen. Geisteswissenschaften, Heft G 151. Westdeutscher Verlag. Köln und Opladen 1968. 61 Seiten. Kart. DM 6.60.

Indianer von gestern, heute und morgen. Beobachtungen zum Kulturwandel in den Anden Boliviens. Hermann Trimborn. Kulturgeschichtliche Forschungen; 12. Band. Albert Limbach Verlag, Braunschweig 1968. 96 S., 104 Abb., 1 Karte. Preis DM 38:—.

Der Wandel ökonomischer Rollen bei den westlichen Dan in Liberia. Eberhard Fischer. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band XXI. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 1967. 481 S. 4 Taf. 7 Abb. DM 66:—.

An Anthropological Bibliography of South Asia. Together with a Directory of Anthropological Field Research. Vol. III. 1960–64. Compiled by

Elizabeth von Fürer‐Haimendorf and Helen Kanitkar. Le Monde d'Outre‐Mer Passé et Présent, Quatrième Série. Bibliographies VIII. Editions Mounton &; Cie, Paris 1970. 562 pp. Price 193 F.

Man‐apes or Ape‐men? The Story of Discoveries in Africa. Sir Wilfrid E. Le Gros Clark. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York 1967. 150 pp., 33 fig., bibliography, index. Price $3.95.     

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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.     

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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).     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Bohn, U. & Neuhäusl, R. (eds.) 1990. Vegetation and Flora of Temperate Zones . viii+81 pp. SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague. ISBN 90–5103–034–7. Price: USD 16.-.     

Reviews

Balanced science 1 G. Jones, M. Jones, and P. Marchington. 286 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £7.95. ISBN 0 521 35689 X Reviewed by Nigel Collins

The living world Nelson Balanced Science. M. Roberts. 260 pp. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: Nelson, 1991. £8.50. ISBNO 17 438407 6 Reviewed by Ann Dolan

The physical world Nelson Balanced Science. Ken Dobson. 268 pp. Walton-on-Thames: Nelson, 1991. £8.75. ISBN 0 17 438409 2 Reviewed by Bob Fairbrother

Educating the inquiring mind: the challenge for school science G. Claxton. 154 pp. Hemel Hempstead, Herts: Prentice-Hall (for Harvester Wheatsheaf), 1991. £9.95. ISBNO 7450 0980 8 Reviewed by Angela Dixon

Key science 4: Book 1 E. Ramsden, J. Breithaupt, and D. Applin. 428 pp. Cheltenham, Glos: Stanley Thornes, 1991. £12.50. ISBNO 7487 0492 2 Reviewed by John Woodcock

Miracle or menace? Biotechnology and the Third World R. Walgate. 199 pp. London: The Panos Institute, 1990. £6.95. ISBN 1 870670 18 3 Reviewed by Sheila Turner

Genetic engineering N. Hawkes. 32 pp. London: Franklin Watts, 1991. £7.99. ISBN 0 7496 0411 5 Reviewed by Carolyn A. Mulley

Gene structure and expression 2nd edn. J. D. Hawkins. 216 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £35.00/£13.95. %64.50/%21.95. ISBNs 0 521 39230 6/39855 X Reviewed by C. D. Knight

Handling laboratory microorganisms C. Perm. 160 pp. Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: Open University Press, 1990. £30.00/111.99. ISBNs 0 335 09204 7/09203 9 Reviewed by David Necklen

Molecular and cell biochemistry: biological molecules C. A. Smith and E. J. Wood. 205 pp. London: Chapman & Hall, 1991. £13.95. ISBN 0 412 40780 9 Reviewed by Janet Bennett

Principles of genetics 8th edn. E. J. Gardner, M. J. Simmons, and D. P. Snustad. 649 pp. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley, 1991. £21.50. ISBN 0 471 53397 1 Reviewed by E. T. Hitchen

Understanding the biochemistry of respiration D. C. James and G. S. Matthews. 90 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £5.75/111.95. ISBN 0 521 39993 9 Reviewed by Jan Dick

Focus on biology: micro-organisms in action P. Freeland. Ill pp. Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. £6.95. ISBN 0 340 53268 8 Reviewed by A. E. Flaherty

The practical ornithologist J. Gooders. 159 pp. Oxford: Facts on File, 1990. £12.95. ISBN 0 8160 2363 8 Reviewed by Chris Atkinson

British sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta): a key to the adults of genera occurring in Britain A. Wright. 64 pp. Montford Bridge, Shrewsbury: Field Studies Council (AIDGAP), 1990. Reprinted from Field Studies, 7, 531-593. £4.25. ISBN 1 85153 203 X Reviewed by David Harding

Insects, plants and microclimate Naturalists' Handbooks 15. D. M. Unwin and S. A. Corbet. 68pp. Slough, Berkshire: Richmond Publishing Company, 1991. £13.00j£7.95. ISBNs 0 85546 280 9/279 5 Reviewed by David Harding

Mosquitoes Naturalists' Handbooks 14. K. R. Snow. 66 pp. Slough, Berkshire: Richmond Publishing Company, 1990. £13.00/£7.95. ISBNs 0 85546 276 0/275 2 Reviewed by David Harding

The illustrated field guide to ferns and allied plants of the British Isles C. Jermy and J. Camus. 208 pp. London: Natural History Museum Publications, 1991. £7.95. ISBN 0 565 01172 3 Reviewed by Pat Hill-Cottingham

Grassland education pack: a practical guide for teachers W. H. Dowdeswell. Devizes, Wiltshire: Wiltshire Trust for Nature Conservation, 1991. £5.50. Reviewed by John A. Barker

Soils in the urban environment Ed. P. Bullock and P. J. Gregory, for British Society of Soil Science/Nature Conservancy Council. 175 pp. Oxford: Blackwetl Scientific, 1991, £35.00. ISBN 0 632 02988 9 Reviewed by Monica Hale

Soil types: a field identification guide S. Trudgill. 26 pp. Montford Bridge, Shrewsbury: Field Studies Council (AIDGAP), 1989. Reprinted from Field Studies, 1(2). £2.95. ISBN 1 85153 196 3 Reviewed by Mike Fullen

Tree disease concepts 2nd edn. P. D. Manion. 402 pp. Hemel Hempstead, Herts: Prentice-Hall, 1991. £51.35. ISBN 0 13 929423 6 Reviewed by James B. Heale

Pesticides and food Ed. P. Robinson. 23 pp. Cambridge: Hobsons, 1991. £7.95. ISBN 1 85324 473 2 Reviewed by John A. Barker

Deep-sea biology: a natural history of organisms at the deep-sea floor J. D. Gage and P. A. Tyler. 504 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £80.00/$135.00. ISBN 0 521 33431 4 Reviewed by Stewart M. Evans

BP statistical review of World energy BP Corporate Communications Services. 37 pp. London: BP, 1991. One copy per school free; for multiple copies contact BP Educational Service (tel: 0420 22638). Discounted charge to UK schools £4. Orders to BP Education, PO Box 30, Blacknest Rd, Alton, GU34 4PX Reviewed by Jonathan Cowie

The biology of bacteria An 18-minute colour video (VHS) produced by Biomedia Associates. Available from Viewtech Film & Video, 161 Winchester Road, Brislington, Bristol BS24 3NJ. (Tel. 0272-773422/717030; fax. 0272-724292.) Purchase price £49.00 plus VAT and p & p; 2-day hire charge £16.50 Reviewed by Alan Morris

The biology of fungi A 17-minute colour video (VHS) produced by Biomedia Associates. Available from Viewtech Film & Video, 161 Winchester Road, Brislington, Bristol BS24 3NJ. (Tel. 0272-773422/717030; fax. 0272-724292.) Purchase price £49.00 plus VAT and p & p. 2-day hire charge £16.50 Reviewed by Adrian Twiner

Food manufacturing—£40 billion on a plate A 23-minute video and an accompanying 100-page A4 booklet. Available from the Food and Drink Federation, 6 Catherine Street, London WC2B 5JJ. (Tel. 071-836 2460; fax. 071-836 0580.) Prices: video only £20.00; video and teacher's notes £35.00 (prices inclusive of VAT and p & p) Reviewed by Paula Williams

Caring for your new puppy A 39-minute video and a 16-page handbook. Produced by and available from The Royal Veterinary College, Royal College Street, London NW1 OTV. (Tel. 071-387 2898; fax. 071-388 2342.) Price £19.90 inc. p & p Reviewed by Heather Murray

Saving the seas 60 plastic-mounted slides with teacher's notes. Produced by the International Centre for Conservation Education in partnership with the Marine Conservation Society. Available from ICCE, Greenfield House, Guiting Power, Cheltenham, Glos GL54 5TZ. (Tel. 0451-850777; fax. 0451 850705.) Price £15.95 plus VAT and p & p Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie

The human body-the skeleton A chart, 70 cm x 100 cm. Produced by and available from Pictorial Charts Educational Trust, 27 Kirchen Road, London W13 OUD. (Tel. 081-567 9206/5343.) Ref. T49. Price £6.00 plus VAT Reviewed by Dave Dennis

The human body-blood circulation A chart, 76 cm x 100 cm. Produced by and available from Pictorial Charts Educational Trust, 27 Kirchen Road, London W13 OUD. (Tel. 081-567 9206/5343.) Ref. T51. Price £6.00 plus VAT Reviewed by Dave Dennis

The human body Habitats Two packs of charts, each consisting of six A2-size full-colour posters with a 12-page teacher's booklet. Available from Scholastic Publications, Westfield Road, Southam, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV33 OJH. (Tel. 0926 813910.) Price per pack £7.95 inc. p & p Reviewed by Heather Murray

Blood—an interactive computer simulation of the laboratory determination of red blood cell indices and blood groups A computer-assisted learning program written by David Dewhurst and Alan Williams. Available from Sheffield BioScience Programs, II Robinson Drive, H arrogate HG2 9DJ. (Tel. 0423-520495.) Prices: BBC BjMaster (40 or 80 track disk) £50 (multi-user), £20.70 (single user; backup copies £7.00); Nimbus PC 186 £29.95 (single user), £49.95 (multi-user) Reviewed by Barry Meatyard

Nemesis desktop molecular modelling program Program supplied on two 3½″ 800K disks for Apple Macintosh computers. Minimum configuration for running Nemesis: Macintosh LC, 4Mb RAM, 12″ monochrome display, hard disk, maths coprocessor (MC68882 FPU adaptor card) and system 6.0 O/S (or above). Recommended configuration: Macintosh Ilci, 4Mb RAM, 13″ RGB colour display, hard disk and system 6.0 O/S (or above). Produced by and available from Oxford Molecular Ltd, Terrapin House, South Parks Road, Oxford OXl 3UB. (Tel. 0865-272940.) Price £250 plus VAT Reviewed by Andrew Powell

Desktop molecular modeller schools version Program written by M. J. C. Crabbe and J. R. Appleyard. Supplied on one 3½″ 720K or two 5¼″ 360K disks for IBM-compatible MS-DOS PC with 512K RAM minimum; DOS version 2.0 or higher: single or twin floppy disk drive, or hard disk; almost any graphics adaptor (including IBM CGA, EGA, VGA or Hercules Graphics card). The program will also run on RM Nimbus machines in full IBM mode and on Acorn Achimedes A3000 under PC emulation. Price £100 plus VAT (this includes the use of the program within a single school on multiple machines). Available from Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 Reviewed by Andrew Powell     

Maya and Altaic

Evolution and Human Behavior. Alexander Alland. Social Science Paperbacks. No. 49. Tavistock Publications. London 1969. 243 pp. 37 figs. Price 18/‐.

The Two Worlds of the Washo. An indian Tribe of California &; Nevada. (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.) James F. Downs, Holt, Rine‐hart and Winston, Inc., New York 1966. 113 pages, 1 map, 1 pl.

West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. with an Introduction by Daryll Forde and P. M. Kaberry. Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press. Oxford 1967. 289 pp. Price 50 s.net.

Francisco de Avila. Hermann Trimborn und Antje Kelm. Quellenwerke zur Alten Geschichte Amerikas aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben vom Ibero‐Amerikanischen Institut Berlin der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Band VIII. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1967. 308 pp. Price DM 105: ‐ (I, "Francisco de Avila” by Hermann Trimborn, pp. 1–198; II, "Götter und Kulte in Huarochirí” by Antje Kelm, pp. 199–307).

The Individual and Culture. Mary Ellen Goodman. The Dorsey Press. Homewood, Illinois 1967. 265 pp. Price $ 4.95.

Mythologie du Masque en Nouvelle‐Calédonie. Jean Guiart. Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No. 18. Paris 1966. 150 pp., 22 pls., 1 map.

Goldgewichte aus Ghana. Brigitte Menzel. Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde, Berlin. Neue Folge 12, Abteilung Afrika III, Berlin 1968. 242 S. Reich illustriert.

La division du temps et le calendrier rituel des peuples lagunaires de Côte d'Ivoire. Georges Niangoran‐Bouah. Université de Paris. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie. LXVIII. Paris 1964. 164 S., 12 Abbildungen.

Boum‐le‐Grand, village d'Iro: Claude Pairault. Université de Paris. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie. LXXIII. Paris 1966. 470 S., 225 Abb.

The Social Organization of the Western Apache. Grenville Goodwin. With a Preface by Keith H. Basso. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1969 (2nd edition), xxii+701 pp. Price $ 10.

The Gurage. A People of the Ensete Culture. William A. Shack. Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, London 1966. 222 pp. Ill. Price 50 s.net.

Die Erde in Vorstellungswelt und Kulturpraktiken der sudanischen Völker. Jürgen Zwernemann. (Habilitationsschrift.) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1968. 545 S., 1 Karte. DM 80: ‐, broschiert.

The Medicine Man, Swifa Ya Nguvumali. Hasani Bin Ismail. Edited and translated by Peter Lienhardt. Oxford Library of African Literature. Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Oxford 1968. 208 pp. Price 42 s.

Das Rind in den Felsbilddarstellungen Nordafrikas. Walther F. E. Resch. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band 20. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1967. 105 S., 24 Tafeln und 4 Abbildungen. Broschiert DM 20:‐.

Social Anthropology. Godfrey Lienhardt. 2nd edition. Oxford Paperbacks University Series Opus 15. London 1966. 177 pp. Price 7/6 net.

Churches at the Grass‐Roots. A Study in Congo/Brazzaville. Efraim Andersson. World Studies of Churches in Mission. Lutherworth Press. London 1968. 296 pp. Price 30/‐.

Os Macomdes de Moçambique. Vol. I‐II. Junta de Investigates do Ultramar. Centro de Estudos de Antropología Cultural. Lisboa 1964.

I. Aspectos históricos e económicos. Jorge Dias. 180 S., 109 Abb., 17 Zeichnungen, 7 Karten.

II. Cultura material. 192 S., 261 Abb., 74 Zeichnungen. Jorge Dias e Margot Dias.     

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.     

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

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.     

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

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.     

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.-.