Book review

Efferent Control of Visual Sensitivity in Arthropod Eyes: With Emphasis on Circadian Rhythms, by Prof. Dr. Günter Fleissner, Zoologisches Institut der Universität Frankfurt and Dr. Gerta Fleissner, Institut für Biologie‐Didaktik der Universität Frankfurt. 1988. 67 pp., 20 fig., soft cover DM 34.— or DFL 40.—Information Processing in Animals ISSN 0724–1313. Volume 5 ISBN 3–437–30567–0 US‐ISBN 0–89574–253–5. Published by Akademie der Wissenschaften u.d. Literatur, Mainz.     

Untersuchungen zur Parasitierung und Prädation von Puparien der Brachfliege (Delia coarctata (Fall.))

Weidner, H.: Bestimmungstabellen der Vorratsschädlinge und des Hausungeziefers Mitteleuropas (mit einem Beitrag von Dr. Gisela Rack), 5., überarb. u. erw. Aufl., 328 S., 220 Abb., Stuttgart, New York, Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1993, 88.‐DM

Landolt, Z. Unsere Alpenflora. Gustav‐Fischer Verlag. Stuttgart‐Jena, 6. vollst. neu bearb. Aufl. 1992, 318 S., mit zahlr. Zeichnungen sowie 480 Farbabb. auf 120 Bildtafeln, 12 × 18 cm, geb. 48,‐DM, ISBN 3–437–20488–2     

Memorial

Taxonomy and palaeoecology of flysch trace fossils: The marnoso‐arenacea formation and associated facies (Miocene, northern Apennines, Italy)

Taxonomy and palaeoecology of flysch trace fossils: The Marnoso‐arenacea Formation and associated facies (Miocene, Northern Apennines, Italy), Alfred Uchman, 1995. Beringeria, Würzburger geo‐wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen, 15, 115 p., 16 pl., 58 DM [Orders and other information available from Fruende der Würtzburg Geo‐wissenschaften e. V., Pleicherwall 1, 97070 Würtzburg, Germany].

Track attack

Dinossaurios e a batalha de Cantique by Antonio M. Galopim de Carvalho, 1994. Editorial Noticias, Lisboa, 291 p.

Annotated Atlas of South America tetrapod footprints (Devonian to Holocene) by Giuseppe Leonardi, 1994. Publication of the Com‐panhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasilia, 248 p., 35 pls.     

The evolutionary problem of genetic disease

Overpopulation and Family Planning: Report of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, October 24–29, 1955. Tokyo, Japan. Editor, Dr. L. N. Jackson. English and Japanese editions published by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, 69 Eccleston Square, London, S. W. I., England. Price: Sterling £1.1s.; Indian Rs. 7/‐; U.S. $3.00.

The Hazards to Man of Nuclear and Allied Radiations: Medical Research Council, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1956, 128 pp., price 5s. 6d.

Mental Disorders in Later Life (Second Edition) : Oscar J. Kaplan (ed.), Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1956, 508 pp., $7.50.

Zwillingstuberkulose III —Nachuntersuchung nach 20 Jahren an der Serie tuberkuloser Zwillinge: Helmut Mitsch‐rich, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1956, 78 pp.

Land of the Moon‐Children—The Primitive San Blas Culture in Flux: Clyde E. Keeler (Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville, Ga.) University of Georgia Press, 1956, 207 pp., $4.50.

Warbasse History—A Study in the Sociology of Heredity: James Peter Warbasse, Kendall Press, Falmouth, Mass., 1954, 226 pp. $8.00.     

Book review

Chronopharmacology. Cellular and Biochemical Interactions (Cellular Clocks Series/3), by Prof. Dr. Björn Lemmer, Center of Pharmacology, J.W. Goethe‐University, Frankfurt am Main, FRG. 1989. 744 pp., $150.00 (US and Canada), $180.00 (All other countries). ISBN 0–8247–8103–1 Published by Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, USA.

Chronobiology and chronomedicine. Basic research and applications. Proceedings of the IVth Annual Meeting of the European Society for Chronobiology, Birmingham, July 1988, by E. Morgan. 1990, 407 pp., soft cover sFr. 79.‐ISBN 3–631–42301–2 Published by Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M., Bern, New York, Paris.

Biological rhythms in clinical practice by J. Ahrendt, J.M. Waterhouse and D.S. Minors 1989. 299 pp.m, hard cover £ 48.‐ISBN 0–7236–0961–6     

Vergleichende Betrachtungen der Aminosäurenresorption bei verschiedenen Tierarten

Abstract

Handbuch der Tierernährung Band 2: Leistungen und Ernährung — Herausgegeben von W. Lenkeit und K. Breirem. Erschienen im Verlag Paul Parey Hamburg und Berlin (West) 1972. 784 Seiten mit 96 Abbildungen und 341 Tabellen, Ganzleinen, Format 10,4 × 24,8 cm. Preis: DM 324,— (bei gleichzeitiger Abnahme von Band 1 und Band 2 Vorzugspreis: 560,—DM statt 592,—DM). Reviewed by H. Bergner.

Schiemann, R., Hoffmann, L., Platikanov, N., Cesmedziev, B., Zlatarev, G., Kanev, M., Pana'otov, P., Palamaru, E., Sirbu, M., Constantinescu, E., Berbeci, C., Jentsch, W., Wittenburg, H., Dmitrocenko, A. P., Sandev, S., Dardzonov, T., Nehring, K., Skulmowski, J., Hoffmann, B., Zwierz. P., Szentmihalyi, A., Tascenco, V.: Das Problem der Futterbewertung und der Futterwertmessung (XI). Sitzungsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften zu Berlin, Band XIX, Heft 4 1970, 122 Seiten mit 2 Abbildungen, Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1972, Preis: 8.— M. Reviewed by A.Päschner.

F. Ender, I. W. Dishington, R. Madsen and A. Helgebostad: Irondeficiency anemia in mink, fed raw marine fish-A five year study (Eisenmangelanämie beim Nerz nach Verfütterung von rohen Meeresfischen). Heft 2 der, ?Fortschritte in der Tierphysiologie und Tierernährung — Advances in Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition“ (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Tierphysiologie, Tierernährung und Futtermittelkunde — Supplements to Journal of Animal Physiology, Animal Nutrition and the Science of Feedingstuffs) — Erschienen im Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg und Westberlin, 48 Seiten mit 7 Abbildungen und 28 Tabellen, Text in Englisch, Gr. 8[ddot], kartoniert, Preis: 26,—DM (für Bezieher der Zeitschrift: 23,40 DM). Reviewed by A.Päschner.     

Buchbesprechungen

Abstract

Schenk/Kolb: Grundriß der physiologischen Chemie, 6. überarbeitete Auflage. Erschienen im VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena, 1971. Mit 116 Abb. und 237 Tab., Ganzleinen, Format 10,5 × 24,5 cm. Preis: 30,—M. Reviewed by H. Bergner.

H. Bergner: Energie — Leben — Leistung — Nahrung. Erschienen im Urania-Verlag Leipzig-Jena-Berlin 1971, 144 Seiten, mit 49 Abb. und 25 Tab., Ganzleinen, Format 14,5 × 21,5 cm, Preis: 9,80 M. Reviewed by H. Haenel.

G. Dirksen, W. Kaufmann und E. Pfeffer: Untersuchungen zur Verdauungs physiologie der Milchkuh mit der Umleitungstechnik am Duodenum. Erschienen im Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg und Berlin 1972. 43 Seiten mit 10 Abb. und 22 Tab., kart., Format 16,5 × 25 cm, Preis: 22,00 DM (als Beiheft zur Z. Tierphys. Tierernähr. Futtermittelkd., für Bezicher der Zeitschrift 20,35 DM). Reviewed by H. Bergner.     

Comparison of end-point continuum-solvation methods for the calculation of protein-ligand binding free energies

We have compared the predictions of ligand‐binding affinities from several methods based on end‐point molecular dynamics simulations and continuum solvation, that is, methods related to MM/PBSA (molecular mechanics combined with Poisson–Boltzmann and surface area solvation). Two continuum‐solvation models were considered, viz., the Poisson–Boltzmann (PB) and generalised Born (GB) approaches. The nonelectrostatic energies were also obtained in two different ways, viz., either from the sum of the bonded, van der Waals, nonpolar solvation energies, and entropy terms (as in MM/PBSA), or from the scaled protein–ligand van der Waals interaction energy (as in the linear interaction energy approach, LIE). Three different approaches to calculate electrostatic energies were tested, viz., the sum of electrostatic interaction energies and polar solvation energies, obtained either from a single simulation of the complex or from three independent simulations of the complex, the free protein, and the free ligand, or the linear‐response approximation (LRA). Moreover, we investigated the effect of scaling the electrostatic interactions by an effective internal dielectric constant of the protein (?_int). All these methods were tested on the binding of seven biotin analogues to avidin and nine 3‐amidinobenzyl‐1H‐indole‐2‐carboxamide inhibitors to factor Xa. For avidin, the best results were obtained with a combination of the LIE nonelectrostatic energies with the MM+GB electrostatic energies from a single simulation, using ?_int = 4. For fXa, standard MM/GBSA, based on one simulation and using ?_int = 4–10 gave the best result. The optimum internal dielectric constant seems to be slightly higher with PB than with GB solvation. © Proteins 2012; © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Book reviews

Hugh Honour, THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART, IV FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO WORLD WAR I, Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1989; part i, 379 pp., 196 ill., part ii, 306 pp., 183 ill., £34.95 each volume.

Deborah Willis‐Thomas, AN ILLUSTRATED BIO‐BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1940–1988, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989, 483 pp., $85.00.

John Hutchinson, THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL NATIONALISM: THE GAELIC REVIVAL AND THE CREATION OF THE IRISH NATION STATE, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987, viii + 343 pp., £38.00.

Arthur Aughey, UNDER SIEGE: ULSTER UNIONISM AND THE ANGLO‐IRISH AGREEMENT, London: Hurst & Co, 1989, xv + 214 pp., £18.50.

Richard Jenkins (ed.), NORTHERN IRELAND: STUDIES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE, London: Avebury, 1989, xii + 197 pp., £23.50.

J. I. Little, NATIONALISM, CAPITALISM, AND COLONIZATION IN NINETEENTH‐CENTURY QUEBEC: THE UPPER ST. FRANCIS DISTRICT, Kingston, Montreal, London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1989, 336 pp., £31.45.

Basdeo Mangru, BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY: INDIAN GOVERNMENT POLICY AND LABOUR MIGRATION TO BRITISH GUIANA 1854–1884, London: Hansib, 1987, 267 pp., £12.95.

Carole Marks, FAREWELL ‐ WE'RE GOOD AND GONE: THE GREAT BLACK MIGRATION, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, x + 209 pp., $37.50 and $12.95 (paper).

James R. Grossman, LAND OF HOPE: CHICAGO, BLACK SOUTHERNERS, AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, 384 pp., £23.95.

Robert M. Jiobu, ETHNICITY AND ASSIMILATION: BLACKS, CHINESE, FILIPINOS, JAPANESE, KOREANS, MEXICANS, VIETNAMESE AND WHITES, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988, np.

John M. MacKenzie (ed.), IMPERIALISM AND POPULAR CULTURE, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989, 264 pp., (illus.), £10.95 (paper).

Anne Phillips, THE ENIGMA OF COLONIALISM: BRITISH POLICY IN WEST AFRICA, James Currey and Indiana University Press, vii + 184 pp., £25.00 and £8.95 (paper).

John Darwin, BRITAIN AND DECOLONISATION: THE RETREAT FROM EMPIRE IN THE POST‐WAR WORLD, London: Macmillan, 1988, xiii + 383 pp., £33.00, and £9.95 (paper).

Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn (eds), TRADITIONS OF INTOLERANCE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FASCISM AND RACE DISCOURSE IN BRITAIN, Manchester University Press, 1989, 245 pp., £29.95.     

Book reviews

Wildbeuter in Ostafrika. Die Tindiga, ein Jäger und Sammlervolk. Ludwig Kohl‐Larsen. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1958. 165 S., 119 Photos und 77 Zeichnungen.

Das Elefantenspiel. Mythen, Riesen‐ und Stammessagen. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Kohl‐Larsen. Erich Röth‐Verlag, Kassel, 1956. 233 pp.

Die Tierverkleidung der afrikanischen Naturvölker. Helmut Straube. Studien zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 13. Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden, 1955. 233 pp., 1 map. DM 23.80.

Själavandringsföreställningar bos Nordamerikas Indianer. Arvid Wachtmeister. 195 pp. Stockholm 1957.

Altmexikanische Kulturen. Walter Krickeberg. Safari‐Verlag, Berlin, 1956. 616 pp., 6 colour pls., 120 pls., 309 figs., 1 map. Cloth. DM 29.80.

Cortés in Mexiko. H. D. Disselhoff. Janus‐Bücher, Bd. 2. Verlag R. Oldenbourg, München, 1957. 93 pp., 1 map. DM 3.20.

Wahrsagerei, Himmelskunde und Kalender der alten Azteken. Gliederung des alt‐aztekischen Volks in Familie, Stand und Beruf. Aus dem aztekischen Urtext Bernardino Sahaguns übersetzt und erläutert von Leonhard Schultze Jena. Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas, aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen, IV—V. Herausgegeben von der Lateinamerikanischen Bibliothek, Berlin. W. Kohlhammer Verlag. Stuttgart 1950, 1952. XIII + 400 pp., 4 pls., resp. X + 338 pp.

Tibetisches Kunsthandwerk in Metall. Siegbert Hummel. Otto Harrasso‐witz, Leipzig, 1954. 27 pp., 18 full‐page ill.

Geschichte der tibetischen Kunst. Siegbert Hummel. Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1953. 123 PP., 124 full‐page ill.

Among the Savages of the South Seas. Memoirs of Micronesia 1862–1868. A. Tetens. Translated from the German by Florence Mann Spoehr. Stanford University Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 107 pp., 13 figs., 1 map.

Die primitiven Seelenvorstellungen der nordeurasischen Völker. Eine religionsethnographische und religionsphänomenologische Untersuchung. Ivar Paulson. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Monograph Series, Publication No. 5. Stockholm 1958. 407 S.

The Collecting of Folk Music and other Ethnomusicological Material. A manual for field workers. Ed. by Maud Karpeles. London 1958. 40 pp. (Issued by the International Folk Music Council and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.)

Göttinger völkerkundliche Studien, Band II. Herausgegeben von Hans Plischke. Institut für Völkerkunde an der Georg‐August‐Universität zu Göttingen. Droste‐Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1957. 119 S.     

The changing criteria of social networks in a Cajun Community

The Zhi Mä Funeral Ceremony of the Na‐Khi of Southwest China. Joseph F. Rock. Studia Instituti Anthropos, Vol. 9. St. Gabriel's Mission Press, Vienna‐Mödling, 1955. 228 pp., 10 pls.

Mythen und Mysterien. Magie und Religian der Tibeter. M. Hermanns. Verlag Balduin Pick, Köln, 1956. 400 pp., 49 figs., 1 map.

Oracles and Demons of Tibet. René de Nebesky‐Wojkowitz. Mouton &; Co., ‘s‐Gravenhage, 1956. 666 pp., 10 pls., 25 figs.

Die Lamaistische Kunst in der Umwelt von Tibet. Siegbert Hummel. Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1955. 149 pp., 134 figs., 1 map.

El Monte. Igbo Finda, Ewe Orisha, Vititinfinda. Notas sobre la religión, la magía, las supersticiones y el folklore de los negros criollos y del pueblo de Cuba. Lydia Cabrera. Ediciones C. R., Habana 1954. 564 pp., 25 pls.

Die Hieroglyphen der Maya‐Handschriften. Günter Zimmermann. Universität Hamburg, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde, Band 62, Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen, Band 34. Verlag Cram, de Gruyter &; Co., Hamburg, 1956. 174 pp., 8 pls., ca. 2000 text ill.

Das Indianerbuch. Geb. F. A. Brockhaus Verlag. Leipzig 1956. Eva Lips. 443 PP., 32 pls., 11 text ill., 6 maps. Cloth bound DM 10.80.

Das doppelte Geschlecht. Ethnologische Studien zur Bisexualität in Ritus und Mythos. Hermann Baumann. Berlin 1955. 420 pp., 5 maps.

Von Fremden Völkern und Kulturen. Beiträge zur Völkerkunde. Hans Plischke zum 65. Geburtstage gewidmet von seinen Kollegen und Freunden, Schülern und Mitarbeitern. Herausgegeben von W. Lang, W. Nippold und G. Spannaus. Droste‐Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1955. 284 pp., 30 figs., 2 maps.

Die Wiener Schule der Völkerkunde — The Vienna School of Ethnology. Festschrift anlässlich des 25‐jährigen Bestandes des Institutes für Völkerkunde der Universität Wien (1929–1954). Herausgeber J. Haekel, A. Hohenwart‐Gerlachstein und A. Slawik, Wien 1956. VIII+ 568 S., 11 Taf., 21 Textill, und 2 Karten. $ 8.60.

Das Problem des Völkertodes. Eine Studie zur historischen Bevölkerungsbiologie. Ilse Schwidetzky. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1954. 165 pp. This and the following review have been held over from former times, when these contributions were apt to prove rather exhaustive. Reviews are now heavily cut down irrespective of the significance of the work presented.     

Methode und Gerät zur Untersuchung des Wanderungsvermögens von Fritfliegenlarven

Schwantes, H.O.: Biologie der Pilze. Eine Einführung in die angewandte Mykologie. 478 S., 60 Abb., 29 Tab. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 1996, UNI‐Taschenbücher 1871, 42,80 DM. ISBN 3–8252–1871–6

Westhoff, P.; Jeske, H.; Jürgens, G.; Kloppstock, K.; Link, G.: Molekulare Entwicklungsbiologie. Vom Gen zur Pflanze. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart, New York; 1996; 112 Abb., 19 Tab. ISBN 3–13–102021–0

McNamara, K.J. (Herausgeber): Evolutionary Change and Heterochrony. John Wiley &; Sons; Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapur (1995), ISBN 0–471–95837–9

Sobral, B.W.S. (Herausgeber): The Impact of Plant Molecular Genetics. Birkhäuser Verlag AG Basel (1996), ISBN 3–7643–3802–4

McIntosh, R.A.; Wellings, C.R.; Park, R.F.: Wheat rusts ‐ An atlas of resistance genes. 200 S., 119 Bildseiten, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 1995, 125,00 Dfl., ISBN 0–7923–3430–2

Friedrich, G.; Rode, H. (Hsg.): Pflanzenschutz im integrierten Obstbau. Verlag Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart. 1996. 494 S., 128 Farbfotos, 94 Zeichnungen, 41 Tab., 3. völlig neubearbeitete Auflage. Preis 88,‐DM; ISBN 3–8001–5541–9

Nultsch, W.: Allgemeine Botanik. 10. neubearbeitete erweiterte Auflage. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart New York. 1996, 602 Seiten, 234 Abb. in 525 Einzeldarstellungen, 19 Boxen. Glossarium mit 752 Stichworten. Preis 44,‐DM; ISBN 3–13–383310–3

Berndt, J.: Umweltbiochemie. Uni‐Taschenbücher 1838. Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart Jena. 1995; 278 S., 101 Abb., 33 Tab., Preis 34.80 DM. UTB‐ISBN 3–8252–1838–4

Kalusche, D.: Ökologie in Zahlen. Eine Datensammlung in Tabellen mit über 10.000 Einzelwerten. Gustav Fischer Verlag. Stuttgart, Jena, New York. 1996. 415 S. Preis 54, ‐DM; ISBN 3–437–20521–8     

Buchbesprechungen

Karl Esser: Kryptogamen 1. Cyanobacterien, Algen, Pilze, Flechten. Praktikum und Lehrbuch. Dritte, wesentlich überarbeitete Auflage. 585 S., 300 Abb., Springer‐Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg 2000. Preis: 129.00 DM, ISBN 3–540–66451–3

Jain, S. M., Gupta, R. J., Newton, R. J. (Eds.): Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants. Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht 1999, Vol. 2, 547 S

Vanneste, J. L. (Ed.): FIRE Blight: The Disease and its Causative Agent, Erwinia amylovora. CABI Publishing, CAB International, Oxon, UK, 2000, 370 p., 16 color plates, 38 figures, 25 tables, 6 boxes, Price US$120.00, ISBN 0 85199 294 3

Heitefuss, R. Pflanzenschutz. Grundlagen der praktischen Phytomedi‐zin. 3., neubearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart. 2000, 399 S., 94 Abb., 22 Tab., Preis 49.90 DM, ISBN 313 5133036/650

L. Benzing, Der sachkundige Vorratsschützer. Sachkunde für Anwender und Abgebende von Vorratsschutzmitteln. Agrimedia Spithal, 2000, 158 S., 32 farbige Abb., 14 schwarz ‐ weiße Abb., 23 Tab.. Preis: 78 DM, ISBN 3–86037–115–0     

Book reviews

Stephen Cornell, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE: AMERICAN INDIAN POLITICAL RESURGENCE, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, 278 pp., $29.95.

Jack D. Forbes, BLACK AFRICANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS: COLOR, RACE AND CASTE IN THE EVOLUTION OF RED‐BLACK PEOPLES, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 334 pp., £35.00.

Maryon McDonald, ’WE ARE NOT FRENCH!’: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN BRITTANY, London: Routledge, 1989, 384 pp., £40.00.

Ronald Grigor Suny, THE MAKING OF THE GEORGIAN NATION, London: I. B. Taurus and Co. Ltd., 1989, ix‐395 pp., £29.50.

Shlomo Deshen, THE MELLAH SOCIETY: JEWISH COMMUNITY LIFE IN SHERIFIAN MOROCCO, translated and revised from the Hebrew by the author. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, xii + 152 pp., £23.95 and £9.50 (paper).

Roger Waldinger, Howard Aldrich, Robin Ward and Associates, ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURS: IMMIGRANT BUSINESS IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations, vol. 1., Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990, 226 pp., £29.25 and £13.95 (paper).

Saul Dubow, RACIAL SEGREGATION AND THE ORIGINS OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1919–36, St Antony's and Macmillan, London, 1989, xi and 250 pp., £35.00.

Mark Duffield, BLACK RADICALISM AND THE POLITICS OF DE‐INDUSTRIALISATION: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF INDIAN FOUNDRY WORKERS, Avebury, 1988, 226 pp., £24.50.

John Eade, THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY: THE BANGLADESHI COMMUNITY IN EAST LONDON, Avebury, 1989, 213 pp., £24.00.

Nicole Hahn Rafter (ed.), WHITE TRASH: THE EUGENICS FAMILY STUDIES 1877–1919, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988, 382 pp., £36.00.

Neil R. McMillen, DARK JOURNEY ‐ BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW, Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 1989, N.P.L.     

The heritability of life history strategy: The k‐factor,covitality, and personality

Abstract

Archival data from the MIDUS survey (Brim et al., 2000), a nationally representative sample, on 309 MZ and 333 DZ twin pairs aged 25–74 years were used to test the psychometrics and behavioral genetics of life history strategy. We organized 253 of the originally administered 2,000 questions into 30 scales measuring life history traits (e.g., quality of family relationships and altruism towards kin), medical symptoms (e.g., thyroid problems), personality traits (e.g., neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness), and social background (e.g., financial security). A single higher‐order factor, indicating a general life history strategy, composed of three lower‐order factors, was replicated. Factor analyses were then performed on the genetic variance‐covariance matrices. We found that (a) a single higher‐order factor explained the preponderance of the genetic correlations among the scales and (b) this higher‐order factor was itself 68 percent heritable and accounted for 82 percent of the genetic variance among the three component lower‐order factors.     

Buchbeseprechung

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Biochemical Aspects of Biomineralization. GOTTFRIED KRAMPITZ and WILTRUD WITT, Abt. Bio. chem., Inst. Anatomic, Physiol. und Hygiene der Haustiere, Univ. Bonn, 144 S., 643 Lit., 13 Abb., Format: 21 × 14,5 cm, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1979. Reviewed by A. Hennig.     

Biochemical studies in schizophrenia: A review

CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT ON OVERPOPULATION: Anthony Zimmerman, S.V.D. Hanover House, New York, 1961, 214 pp., $3.50.

MANKIND EVOLVING: Theodosius Dobzhansky. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1962, xiii + 381 pp., $7.50.

THE SEARCH FOR A COMMON LEARNING: General Education, 1800–1960: Russell Thomas. McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1962, 324 pp., $6.95.

THE WORLD ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITIES: Edward W. Weidner. McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1962, 366 pp., $3.65.

RESEARCH IN FAMILY PLANNING: C. V. Kiser, ed. Princeton University Press, 1962, Princeton, pp. 662, $12.50.     

Chairman's opening statement

Evolution. By Theodosius Dobzhansky, Francisco Ayala, James W. Valentine, and G. Ledyard Stebbins. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1977. 572 pp. $15.95.

Family Formation Patterns and Health: An International Collaborative Study in India, Iran, Lebanon, Philippines, and Turkey. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1976. ISBN‐92–4‐156053–3. Available from WHO Publications Centre USA, 9 Sheridan Avenue, Albany, New York 12210. $62 pp. $20.00.     

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Butin, H.: Krankheiten der Wald- und Parkbäume. 172 S., 100 Abb., Stuttgart, Georg Thieme, 1983. Reviewed by S. Prien.