The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons

The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons. Pearl Katz. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. xii. 251 pp.     

The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire

The Law of the Lifegivers: The Domestication of Desire. René Devisch and Claude Brodeur. Langhorne, PA: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. 268 pp.     

The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold

The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold. Roderick J. Mclntosh. Williston, VT: Blackwell, 1998. 346 pp.     

The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools

The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools. George W. Noblit and Van O. Dempsey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 225 pp.     

The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States

The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. Betsy Hunter Bradley. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999.348 pp.     

The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet

The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Rebecca Redwood French. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.404 pp.     

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan.

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 266 pp.     

The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Herte and Its Legacy

The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Herte and Its Legacy, Robert Parkin. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. 226 pp.     

The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990

The Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. Gail K. Sheffield. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. 223 pp.     

The Heritage of Hindmarsh Island

Book reviewed in this article: Margaret Simons. The Meeting of the Waters: The Hindmarsh Island Affair.     

The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia

The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Joanna Overing and Alan Passes. eds. London: Routledge, 2000. 305 pp.     

The Face of Social Suffering: The Life History of a Street Drug Addict

The Face of Social Suffering: The Life History of. Street Drug Addict . Merrill Singer. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2006 (paper). viii + 176 pp.     

The Food Intake of Plants

Schank, Roger C. with Peter C. Childers The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1984 268 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Gerald R. Rising.

Brown, Vinson Building Your Own Nature Museum for Study and Pleasure, 2d ed. New York: Arco Pub., 1984 161 pp. $12.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper. Reviewed by A. Gilbert Wright.

Heppenheimer, T. A. The Man-Made Sun: The Quest for Fusion Power Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Co., 1984 347 pp., $19.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Laurence A. Marschall.

Stiebing, William H., Jr. Ancient Astronauts, Cosmic Collisions, and Other Popular Theories About Man's Past Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984 217 pp. $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper. Reviewed by Joseph S. Tenn.

Finucane, R. C. Appearances of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984 232 pp. $18.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Russell F. Trimble.

De Carlo, Nicola Alberto Psychological Games New York: Facts on File, 1984 184 pp. $22.95 hardcover, $12.95 paper. Reviewed by Barry Guinagh.     

The Evolution of Morality

Here, in textbook style, is a concise biological account of the evolution of morality. It addresses morality on three levels: moral outcomes (behavioral genetics), moral motivation or intent (psychology and neurology), and moral systems (sociality). The rationale for teaching this material is addressed in Allchin (2009). Classroom resources (including accompanying images and video links) and a discussion of teaching strategies are provided online at: http://EvolutionOfMorality.net.     

The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults.

The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults. Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. 342 pp.     

The Art of Inquiry Oriented Teaching

Action for Children's Television; Kim Hays, ed. TV, Science, and Kids: Teaching Our Children to Question Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1984 210 pp. $17.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Manfred Kroger.

Vogl, Sonia Wolff and Robert L. Teaching Nature in Cities and Towns: Urban Outdoor Biology and Ecology Danville, Ill.: The Interstate Printers and Pub., 1985 101 pp. $8.75 less educational discounts. Reviewed by George G. Mallinson.

Bilstein, Roger E. Flight in America, 1900–1983 Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984 356 pp. $32.50 hardcover. Reviewed by C. Bruce Hunter.

Bolt, Brian The Amazing Mathematical Amusement Arcade New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984 130 pp. $7.95 paper. Reviewed by Edwin Halfar.

Jensen, Albert C. The Cod: A Saga of the Sea, 2d ed. Inglis, Florida: Deep Sea Press, 1984 $7.95 paperback. Reviewed by Robert W. Boenig.

James, Robert, and Ray Kurtz, eds. Science and Mathematics Education for the Year 2000 and Beyond Bowling Green, Ohio: School Science and Mathematics Assn., 1985 120 pp., $6 paper.

Kronick, David A. The Literature of the Life Sciences: Reading, Writing, and Research Philadelphia, Pa.: ISI Press, 1985 219 pp. $29.95 hardcover.     

The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity

The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity. Camille C. O'Reilly. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.213 pp.     

The Sun's Path

Keith, Lawrence H., ed. Identification and Analysis of Organic Pollutants in Water Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Inc., 1976 707 pp., $27.50. Reviewed by E. Lawrence Bahn

Baldry, Peter The Battle against Bacteria: A Fresh Look New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 172 pp., $9.95. Reviewed by Donald F. Logsdon

Palmer, Ralph S., ed. Handbook of North American Birds, Volume 2: Waterfowl (Part 1), Volume 3: Waterfowl (Part 2) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976 521 and 560 pp., $30 each, $60 set. Reviewed by Karl L. Trever

Hurlbut, Cornelius Jr., ed. The Planet We Live On: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth Sciences New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976 488 pp., $37.50. Reviewed by Joaquin Rodriguez

MacGillavry, Caroline H. Fantasy and Symmetry: The Periodic Drawings of M. C Escher New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976 84 pp., $15.00 Reviewed by John G. Harvey

Perrins, Dr. Christopher Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976 157 pp., $19.85. Reviewed by J. P. Kennedy

Hoyt, William Graves Lowell and Mars Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1976 376 pp., $8.50 paper, $13.95 cloth. Reviewed by Van E. Neie

Dagg, Anne Innis, and Foster, J. Bristol The Giraffe: Its Biology, Behavior, and Ecology New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1976 115 pp., $13.95. Reviewed by Theodore W. Munch     

The Settlement of the Americas

The Settlement of the Americas:. New Prehistory. Tom D. Dillehay. New York: Basic Books, 2000. 371 pp.     

The Etruscans: The physical anthropology of an ancient population

The Etruscans: The physical anthropology of an ancient population