Film Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Todos Santos: The Survivors . 1989. A film by Olivia Carrescia.
Oigame! Oigame! 1991. A video by Tanya L. Coen, John Payne , and Michael L. Higgins.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
COASTAL FISHES OF OMAN. By J. E. Randall.
GENE EXPRESSION AND MANIPULATION IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS. Edited by S. J. Ennion and G. Goldspink.
DATABASE OF FISH CHROMOSOMES. By Manfred Klinkhardt, Michael Tesche and Hartmut Greven.     

Book Review

Book reviewed in this article:
Benzodiazepines Divided. A Multidisciplinary Review edited by Michael R. Trimble.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Prehispanic Settlement Dynamics in Central Oaxaca, Mexico: A View from the Miahuatlan Valley . Charles M. Markman .
Excavations at Santo Domingo Tomaltepec: Evolution of a Formative Community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico . Michael E. Whalen .     

Rethinking in African Studies

Book reviewed in this article:
Living under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa . Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts, eds.
African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach . Elliot Fratkin, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Eric Abella Roth, eds.
Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa . Roy Richard Grinker.     

Reviews of publications

Book reviewed in this article:
Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms , by Sybil P. Parker
The Natterjack Toad , by Trevor J. C. Beebee
Seals of the World , by Judith E. King.
British Hoverflies , by A. E. Stubbs and S. J. Falk.
Handbook of Microscopy , by Marcel Locquin and Maurice Langeron.
Global Marine Pollution Bibliography. Ocean Dumping of Municipal and Industrial Wastes , by Michael A. Champ and P. Kilho Park.
Animal Language , by M. Bright.
Modelling Fluctuating Populations , by R. M. Nisbet and W. S. C. Gurney.
Plant-Atmosphere Relationships , by J. Grace.
Wetland Ecology , by J. R. Etherington
The Role of Fire in Northern Circumpolar Ecosystems (SCOPE 18), edited by R. W. Wein and D. A. Maclean. John Wiley and Sons     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article:
Ethics and Biotechnology , edited by Anthony Dyson and John Harris. Routledge
Human In Vitro Fertilisation- A Case Study in the Regulation of Medical Innovation by Jennifer Gunning and Veronica English.
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification , edited by John Z. Sadfer, Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael A. Schwartz
Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies , by John A. Robertson.
Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics , edited by Paul F. Camenisch.
Moral Matters: Ethical Issues in Medicine and the Life Sciences , by Arthur Caplan.
Wo lfgang Wagner(ed.). Arzneimittel und Verantwortung. Grundlagen und Methoden der Pharmaethik prugs and Responsibility — The Foundations and Methods of pharmaethics].
GenEthics. Technological Intervetion in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem by Kurt Bayertz.
The Virtue in Medical Ethics , by Edmund D. Pellegrho and David C. Thomasma     

Book notices

A TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE GENUS PHLEBOTOMUS (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE). By D. J. Lewis.
THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTHERN EUROPE. BY Björn Dal, edited by Michael Morris. 128pp. Croom Helm London,
CATALOGUE OF THE ORTHOPTERA OF SPAIN. By L. Herrera. ( Series Entomologica , 22.) Pp. viii + 162. W. Junk. the Hague,     

Book Review

Books reviewed in this article:
The Significance and Regulation of Soil Biodiversity . Harold P. Collins, G. Philip Robertson, and Michael J. Klug, editors     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Haug, G. and H. Hoffmann(managing editors) :Chemistry of Plant Protection
Vada, Michael E. and William D. Park (eds.) , The Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Patato
Harris, K. F. , Advances in Disease Vector Research     

I Shop, Therefore I Am

The Shopping Experience. Pasi Folk and Colin Campbell eds. London: Sage, 1997. 212 pp.
. Theory of Shopping. Daniel Miller. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 180 pp.
Shopping, Place and Identity. Daniel Miller. Peter Jackson. Nigel Thrift. Beverly Holbrook. and Michael Rowlands. London: Routledge, 1998. 214 pp.     

The Dictionary of Anthropology.; Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life.; A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.

The Dictionary of Anthropology. Thomas Barfield. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1997. 626 pp.
Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture, and Social Life. Tim Ingold. ed. New York: Routledge, 1997. 1128 pp.
. Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory. Michael Payne. ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 1996. 644 pp.     

The Connecting Sea: History, Anthropology, and the Mediterranean

The Corrupting Sea:. Study of Mediterranean History. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 761 pp.
Mediterranean:. Cultural Landscape. Predrag Matvejević. Michael Henry Heim. trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 218 pp.
. Mediterranean Society. An Abridgment in One Volume. Shlomo D. Goitein. Jacob Lassner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 503 pp.     

Crystal ball

The physiological challenge
Heribert Cypionka, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg
Will we ever harness microbes to supply energy and essential elements?
Paul Falkowski, Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, and Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University
Where are all the species?
Tom Fenchel, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen
Between a rock and a hard place: geomicrobial electron transfer
Jim K. Fredrickson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
The shape of microbial diversity
Steve Giovannoni, Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University
The roots of the 'species' concept must be quantified
J. Gijs Kuenen, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology
The second coming of physics into (micro)biology
Víctor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid
In silico biology meets in situ phenomenology
Derek R. Lovley, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Getting a better picture of evolution
William Martin, University of Düsseldorf
With oceans of new data, to sink or to swim?
Karin A. Remington, The J. Craig Venter Institute
The viriosphere: the greatest biological diversity on Earth and driver of global processes
Curtis Suttle, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, and Botany, University of British Columbia
Systems biology: in the broadest sense of the word
David W. Ussery, Ulrik de Lichtenberg, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark
Lars Juhl Jensen, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
The community level: physiology and interactions of prokaryotes in the wilderness
Michael Wagner, Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna     

Hydrolase-catalyzed Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to α,β-unsaturated compounds in organic solvent

A novel strategy to perform Michael additions between 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds and α,β-unsaturated compounds was developed by the catalysis of hydrolase. We found that 11 hydrolase could catalyze the enzymatic Michael addition reaction to form the carbon–carbon bond. In 2-methyl-2-butanol d-aminoacylase showed high Michael addition activity. The influence of substrate and Michael acceptor structure on Michael addition was evaluated systematically. Some control experiments demonstrated that the active site of d-aminoacylase was responsible for the enzymatic Michael addition reaction. This novel Michael addition activity of hydrolase is of practical significance in expanding the application of enzymes and in the evolution of new biocatalysts.     

Reviews of Publications

Book reviewed in this article:
Flowers of the Himalaya , by Oleg Polunin and Adam Stainton.
A Guide to the Vegetation of Britain and Europe , by Oleg Polunin and Martin Walters.
The Experimental Biology of Bryophytes, edited by A. F. Dyer & J. G. Duckett.
A Birdwatcher's Miscellany, edited by Rob Hume.
The Moths and Butterjlies of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 10, Noctuidae (Part II) and Agaristidae, edited by J. Heath.
Atlas of Butterjlies in Britain and Ireland, by J. Heath, E. Pollard & J. A. Thomas.
Colour Identification Guide to Butterjlies of the British Isles, revised edition by T. G. Howarth.
The World of Butterjlies, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia, by V. Sbordoni & S.Forestiero.
Colour Identijcation Guide to Moths of the British Isles, by Bernard Skinner.
The Biology of Buttegies, edited by R. I. Vane-Wright & P. R. Ackery.
Australian Grasses, by Nancy T. Burbidge, revised by Surrey W. L. Jacobs.
Collins Guide to Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns, by R. Fitter & A. Fitter. Collins.
Grasses of the Soviet Union, by N. N. Tsvelev, edited by A. A. Fedorov.
The European Garden Flora, Volume 2, Monocotyledons (Part ZZ), edited by S. M Walters et al.
Grasses, 3rd edition, by C. E. Hubbard, revised by J. C. E. Hubbard.     

Reviews of Publications

book reviewed in this article:
Macroevolution. Pattern and Process , by S. M. Stanley.
A World List of Mammadian Species , by G. B. Corbet & J. E. Hill.
Indole and Biogenetically Related Alkaloids , edited by J. D. Phillipson & M. H. Zenk.
Comparative Ecology , by Y. Itô (edited and translated by J. Kikkawa).
The I.B.P. Survey of Conservation Sites: an Experimental Study , edited by A. R.
Man, the Promising Primate , by Peter J. Wilson.
The Pleistocene Mammals of North America , by Bjorn Kurten & Elaine Anderson.
British Gardeners , by Miles Hadfield, Robert Harling & Leonie Highton.
The Functioning of Freshwater Ecosystms , by E. D. LeCren & R. H. Lowe-McConnell.
I Fiori della Alpi by F. Rasetti.
The Oligocene Rodents of North America , by Albert E. Wood.
The Fossil Hunters in Search of Ancient Plants , by Henry N. Andrews.
Anatomy of the Dicotyledons, Vol. I , by C. R. Metcalfe & L. Chalk.     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article:
Speciation in Tropical Environments . Ed. by R. H. L owe -M c C onnell .
Determination of Angiosperm Families by means of a Punched-Card System . By B. H ansen and K. R ahn.
Numerical Taxonomy . Ed. by A. J. C ole.
Flowers of Europe—a Field Guide . By O. P olunin.
Spring Flora of Minnesota, including Common Cultivated Plants . By T homas M orley.
The Early Development of Irish Society: the Evidence of Aerial Photography . By E. R. N orman and J. K. S. S t J oseph.
Plant Pathology . By G. N. A grios.
Mycological Studies honoring John N. Couch . Ed. by W. J. K ock.
Common Edible Mushrooms . By C lyde M. C hristensen .
Fungal Parasitism . By B rian J. D everall.
The Algae—A Review . By G. W. P rescott .
An Introduction to the Principles of Plant Physiology , By W. S tiles and E. C. C ocking .
Perspectives in Phytochemistry . Ed. by J. B. H arborne and T. S wain .
Introduction to Plant Physiology . By J acob L evitt .
Root Growth . Ed. by W. J. W hittington .
Statistics and Experimental Design . By G eoffrey M. C larke .
Ecological Aspects of the Mineral Nutrition of Plants . Ed. by I. H. R orison et al.
Evolution and Phylogeny of Flowering Plants . By J. H utchinson .     

Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Botanical Microtechnique and Cytochemistry. By G. P. Berlyn and J. P. Miksche.
Annual Review of Plant Physiology. Ed. by W. R. Briggs.
Mechanical Design in Organisms. By S. A. Wainwright, W. D. Biggs, J. D. Currey & J. M. Gosline.
Uptake of Ions by Plant Roots. By D. J. F. Bowling.
Phytochrome and Photomorphogenesis. By Harry Smith.
Water and Plants. By Hans Meidner and D. W. Sheriff.
Physiological Aspects of Dryland Farming. Edited by U. S. Gupta.
Pollen: Biology, Biochemistry, Management. By R. G. Stanley and H. F. Linskens.
The Evolutionary Significance of the Exine. Ed. by I. K. Ferguson and J. Muller.
Cell Division in Higher Plants. Ed. by M. M. Yeoman.
Intercellular Communication in Plants: Studies on Plasmodesmata Ed. by B. E. S. Gunning & A. W. Robards.
Methods in Plant Ecology. Ed. by S. B. Chapman
Ökologie DER Pflazen By Walter Larcher.
Progress in Botany. Vol. 37. Ed. by H. Ellenberg, K. Esser, H. Merxmüller, E. Schnepf & H. Ziegler.
British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800. By Blanche Henrey.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Rabbit . By HARRY V. THOMPSON and ALASTAIR N. WORDEN.
The Distribution and Abundance of Animals . By H. F. ANDREWARTHA and L. C. BIRCH.
Biology of the Laboratory Mouse . Edited by GEORGE D. SNELL.
Features of Evolution in the Flowering Plants . By RONALD GOOD.
Tobacco Diseases with Special Reference to Africa . By J. C. F. HOPKINS.
Bibliographie der Pflanzenschutz-Literatur 1950. Edited by J. BÄRNER.
Principles of Fungicidal Action . By JAMES G. HORSFALL.
Progress in Nuclear Energy . Series VI. Biological Sciences . Vol. 1. Edited by J. C. BUGHER, J. COURSAGET and J. F. LOUTIT.
Bacterial Diseases of Plants . By C. STAPP.
The Biology of the Heteroptera . By N. C. E. MILLER.
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth . Edited by W. L. THOMAS.