Short reviews of Nordic publications

Rydin, H., Snoeijs, P. & Diekmann, M. (eds.) 1999. Swedish plant geography ‐ Dedicated to Eddy van der Maarel on his 65th birthday. 233 pp. Opulus Press, Uppsala. ISBN 91–7210–084–2 (paperback), 91–7210–484–8 (cloth). Price: USD 56.‐ (paperback); xx USD (cloth). Joost: graag even checken     

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.-.     

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.     

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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.     

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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.     

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.     

A classic compilation

Kurtén, B. 1988: On Evolution and Fossil Mammals . XVII + 301 pp. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0–231–05868–3. Price: USD40.00 (bound).     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Collins, M. (ed.) 1990. The Last Rainforests: A World Conservation Atlas . 200 pp. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0–19–520836–6. Price: USD 29.95.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Thompson, Ken, Bakker, Jan & Bekker, Renée 1997. The soil seed banks of North West Europe: methodology, density and longevity. 276 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-49519-9 (hardcover). Price: USD 120.-.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Vandermeer, J. 1989. The Ecology of Intercropping . 237 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U. K. ISBN 0–521–34592–8. Price: USD 59.50.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Barbour, M.G., Keeler‐Wolf, T. & Schoenherr, A.A. (eds.) 2007. Terrestrial Vegetation of California . Third Edition. xvii + 712 pp. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA. ISBN 9780520249554. Price US: USD 75.00; UK: GBP 44.95.     

Book reviews

William T. Burke. The New International Law of Fisheries: UNCLOS 1982 and Beyond. 1994. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. 382 pp. ISBN 0–19–825251‐X (cloth), $105.00.

Jon M. Van Dyke, Durwood Zealke, and Grant Hewison, eds. Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century: Ocean Governance and Environmental Harmony. 1993. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 504 pp. ISBN 1–55963–241–0 (cloth), $55.00. ISBN 1–55963–242–9 (paper), $27.50.     

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     

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).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Seeliger, U. (ed.). 1992. Coastal Plant Communities of Latin America. xx + 392 pp. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-12 634550-3. Price: USD 75.-. Short reviews R. Pott (ed.). 1989. Rintelner Symposium I. Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft 1 , 165 pp. Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft, Institut für Geobotanik, Nienburger Str. 17, D-3000 Hannover, Germany. ISBN 3-88452-775-4. Price: not indicated. R. Pott (ed.). 1991. Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft 3 , 291 pp. ISBN 3-88452-776-2. Price: DEM 55.-. Hügin, Gerhard & Henrichfeise, Alfons. 1992. Naturschutzbewertung der badischen Oberrheinaue. Vegetation und Wasserhaushalt des rheinnahen Waldes. 48 pp + maps. Schriftenreihe für Vegetationskunde 24. Bundesforschungsanstalt für Naturschutz und Landschaftsökologie, Bonn-Bad Godesberg. ISBN 3-7843-2072-4. Preis DEM 10.-. Duhme, F., Lenz, R. & Spandau, L. (eds). 1992. 25 Jahre Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsökologie in Weihenstephan mit Prof Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Haber. Landschaftsökologie Weihenstephan 6. Freunde der Landschaftsökologie Weihenstephan, Ziegelgasse 19, D-8050 Freising, Germany. ISBN 3-922318-06-1. Price: not indicated.     

Book Reviews

Anthropology Explored: The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. Edited by Ruth Osterweis Selig. Marilyn R. London; illustrated by Robert L. Humphrey. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1998. 348 pp. (hardcover) $35. ISBN: 1-56098-763-4; (paperback) $17.95. ISBN: 1-56098-790-1.

Art in Chemistry: Chemistry in Art. Barbara R. Greenberg and Dianna Patterson. Englewood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press. 1998. 259 pp. (paperback) $26.50. ISBN: 1-56308-487-2.

Teacher's Weather Sourcebook. Tom Konvicka. Englewood, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press. 1999. 321 pp. (paperback) $25. ISBN: 1-56308-488-0.

Transforming Middle School Science Education. Paul de Hart Hurd. New York: Teachers College. 2000. $19.95. ISBN: 0-8077-3922-7.

Plays of Exploration and Discovery for Grades 4-6. L. E. McCullough. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus. 1999. 157 pp. (paperback) $14.95. ISBN: 1-575-25113-2.     

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     

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.-.     

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.     

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.