Family values

Evolutionary Genetics (2nd edn) by J. Maynard Smith, Oxford University Press, 1998. £50.00 hbk, £19.95 pbk (368 pages) ISBN 0 19 850232 X/0 19 850231 1Selection in Natural Populations by J.B. Mitton, Oxford University Press, 1998. £50.00 hbk (252 pages) ISBN 0 19 506352 XProgress and Prospects in Evolutionary Biology edited by J.R. Powell, Oxford University Press, 1997. £49.50 hbk (576 pages) ISBN 0 19 507691 5Evolution on Islands edited by P.R. Grant, Oxford University Press, 1997. £24.99 pbk (348 pages) ISBN 0 19 850 1714     

A century of Golgi

The Golgi Apparatus

edited by E. G. Berger and J. Roth, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1997. £64.00 (306 pages) ISBN 3 7643 5692 8     

The Oompa-Loompas of the genome factories

Automation Technologies for Genome Characterization

edited by Tony J. Beugelsdijk, John Wiley and Sons, 1997. UK£55.00 hbk (xvi +306 pages) ISBN 0 471 12806 6     

Book Reviews

Biological Effects of Magnetic and Electromagnetic Fields Shoogo Ueno, ed. Plenum Press, New York, 1996, ISBN: 0-306-45292, x + 243 pp., $79.50.

The Melatonin Hypothesis, Breast Cancer and Use of Electric Power R. Stevens, B. Wilson, and L. Anderson, eds. Battelle Press, Columbus, OH, 1997, ISBN: 1-57477-020-9, xiv + 760 pp., $87.50.

Systemic Cancer-Multistep-Therapy(in German), by Manfred von Ardenne P. G. Reitnauer, ed., Hippokrates V., Stuttgart, 1997, ISBN: 3 7773 1297-5, 304 pp., DM98.

Charge Transfer Complexes in Biological Systems F. Gutman, C. Johnson, H. Keyzer, and J. Molnar, eds. Marcel Dekker, New York, 1997, ISBN: 0-8247-9986-0, xviii + 543 pp., $195.

Chemistry and Chemical Technique-Special Dictionary: English-German Technical University Dresden, ed. Langenscheidt, Berlin, 1997, ISBN: 3-86117-079-5, 807 pp., DM 198.     

La Spécificité Parasitaire et ses Incidences sur l'Étiologie et l'Épidémologie des Parasitoses Humaines d'Origine Zoonotique

by J. Euzeby, Fondation Mérieux, 1997. 250.00FFr (153 pages) ISBN 2 84039 053 1     

Book review

THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF PLANTS, by Karl J. Niklas. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. ISBN 0–226–58082–2; price $65.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–226–58083–0; price $19.95 (Paper).     

A lively bustle

Host-Parasite Evolution: General Principles and Avian Models edited by D.H. Clayton and J. Moore Oxford University Press, 1997. ￡25.00 hbk (xiii +473 pages) ISBN 0 198 54892 3.     

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.-.     

Host-parasite evolution: general principles and avian models

edited by D.H. Clayton and J. Moore, Oxford University Press, 1997. pound60.00 (hbk)/ pound25.00 (pbk) (xi+473 pages) ISBN 0 19 854893 1/0 19 854892/3.     

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.-.     

Ichthyological enthusiasm

Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean including the Red Sea by E. Lieske and R. Myers Princeton University Press, 1996. $35.00 hbk (400 pages) ISBN 0 691 02659 9 Air-Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation by J.B. Graham Academic Press, 1997. $79.95 hbk (xi+299 pages) ISBN 0 12 294860 2 The Diversity of Fishes by G.S. Helfman, B.B. Collette and D.E. Facey Blackwell, 1997. ￡55.00 hbk (xii+528 pages) ISBN 0 86542 256 7.     

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     

La Spécificité Parasitaire et ses Incidences sur l'Etiologie et l'Epidémologie des Parasitoses Humaines d'Origine Zoonotique

by J. Euzeby, Fondation Mérieux, 1997. 250.00FFr (153 pages) ISBN 2 84039 053 1.     

One for the neuroscientist

Molecular Biology of the Neuron (1997). R.W. Davis and B.J. Morris (Eds). Oxford University Press, 416 pp. hardback; ISBN 1 859962 40 8 (£45)     

Tropical ecology in miniature

The Butterflies of Costa Rica and their Natural History. Volume II: Riodinidae. by P.J. DeVries Princeton University Press, 1997. $90.00/￡70.00 hbk, $29.95/￡23.95 pbk (xxvii+288 pages) ISBN 0 691 02890 7 / 0 691 02889 3.     

A method for determining the maximal steady state of blood lactate concentration from two levels of submaximal exercise

The aim of this study was to estimate the characteristic exercise intensity _CL which produces the maximal steady state of blood lactate concentration (MLSS) from submaximal intensities of 20 min carried out on the same day and separated by 40 min. Ten fit male adults [maximal oxygen uptake _max 62 (SD 7) ml · min^–1 · kg^–1] exercisOed for two 30-min periods on a cycle ergometer at 67% (test 1.1) and 82% of _max (test 1.2) separated by 40 min. They exercised 4 days later for 30 min at 82% of _max without prior exercise (test 2). Blood lactate was collected for determination of lactic acid concentration every 5 min and heart rate and O₂ uptake were measured every 30 s. There were no significant differences at the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, or 30th min between , lactacidaemia, and heart rate during tests 1.2 and 2. Moreover, we compared the exercise intensities _CL which produced the MLSS obtained during tests 1.1 and 1.2 or during tests 1.1 and 2 calculated from differential values of lactic acid blood concentration ([1a^–]_b) between the 30th and the 5th min or between the 20th and the 5th min. There was no significant difference between the different values of _CL [68 (SD 9), 71 (SD 7), 73 (SD 6),71 (SD 11) % of _max (ANOVA test,P<0.05). Four subjects ran for 60 min at their _CL determined from periods performed on the same day (test 1.1 and 1.2) and the difference between the [la^–]_b at 5 min and at 20 min ( ([la^–]_b)) was computed. The [la^–]_b remained constant during exercise and ranged from 2.2 to 6.7 mmol · l^–1 [mean value equal to 3.9 (SD 1) mmol · l^–1]. These data suggest that the _CL protocol did not overestimate the exercise intensity corresponding to the maximal fractional utilization of _max at MLSS. For half of the subjects the _CL was very close to the higher stage (82% of _max where an accumulation of lactate in the blood with time was observed. It can be hypothesized that _CL was very close to the real MLSS considering the level of accuracy of [la^–]_b measurement. This study showed that exercise at only two intensities, performed at 65% and 80% of _max and separated by 40 min of complete rest, can be used to determine the intensity yielding a steady state of [la^–1]_b near the real MLSS workload value.     

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     

Vital connections

Biodiversity and Human Health edited by F. Grifo and J. Rosenthal Island Press, 1997. $29.95 pbk (xviii+379 pages) ISBN 1 55963 501 9.     

Making the grade in human evolution

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution By WW Howells (1997). Washington: Compass Press. 266 pp. $19.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-929590-16-3. $36.95 (paper) ISBN 0-929590-17-1. From Lucy to Language By DC Johanson and B Edgar. Principal Photography by David Brill (1996). New York: Simon and Schuster, 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-684-81023-9. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis By GC Conroy (1997). New York: WW. Norton.xii + 557 pp. $43.13 (paper) ISBN 0-393-97042-6. Humans Before Humanity By R Foley (1997) Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.vii + 248 pp. $21.95 paper ISBN 0-631-20528-4. Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution By E Meickle, FC Howell and N Jablonski (1996) Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology. Nina G. Jablonski, Series Editor. California Academy of Sciences Memoir 21. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences.viii+193pp $35.00 cloth ISBN 0-940228-45-9. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.