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Volume 66; Issue 3

American Scientist

Volume 66; Issue 3

1

Niche Shifts and the Rediscovery of Interspecific Competition: Why did field biologists so long overlook the widespread evidence for interspecific competition that had already impressed Darwin?

Jared M. Diamond

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

2

Presbyornis and the Evolution of Ducks and Flamingos: The discovery of associated skeletons of the avian fossil Presbyornis has permitted reevaluation of the relationships of shorebirds, ducks, and flamingos

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

3

Decimal Time: Unlike the metric system of measurements, decimal time did not survive the French Revolution. But is dividing the day by tens a possibility for the future?

Richard A. Carrigan Jr.

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

4

Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundationsby David F. McCarthy

Review by: Robert F. Legget

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

5

Free Energy Transduction in Biology: The Steady-State Kinetic and Thermodynamic Formalismby Terrell L. Hill

Review by: Walter B. Goad

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 466 KB

english, 1978

6

Environmental Effects on Crop Physiology. 5th Long Ashton Symp., University of Bristol, 1975by J. J. Landsberg; C. V. Cutting

Review by: W. G. Duncan

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

7

Manual of Neotropical Birds, Vol. 1: Spheniscidae (Penguins) to Laridae (Gulls and Allies)by Emmet R. Blake

Review by: Philip S. Humphrey

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 292 KB

english, 1978

8

Meteorite Craters. Benchmark Papers in Geology; 32by G. J. H. McCall

Review by: Bevan M. French

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

9

Sigma Xi News

T.T.H. and Edward J. Poziomek

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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10

The Historical Supernovaeby David H. Clark; F. Richard Stephenson

Review by: Asger Aaboe

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 297 KB

english, 1978

11

Chemical Signals in Vertebratesby Dietland Müller-Schwarze; Maxwell M. Mozell

Review by: Alvin Novick

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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english, 1978

12

For Theory Building in Archaeology: Essays on Faunal Remains, Aquatic Resources, Spatial Analysis, and Systemic Modelingby Lewis R. Binford

Review by: John Parkington

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 477 KB

english, 1978

13

Helicopter Dynamicsby A. R. S. Bramwell

Review by: Peretz P. Friedmann

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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14

Nonlinear Diffusion. Research Notes in Mathematics; 14by W. E. Fitzgibbon; H. F. Walker

Review by: Hirsch Cohen

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

15

Current Trends in Psychology: Readings from American Scientistby Irving L. Janis

Review by: Gregory A. Kimble

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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16

Letters to the Editors

Aaron Antonovsky, D. T. Hopkins, James H. Meyer, Frederick C. Strong III, B. I. Hayman and Melvin L. Tobias

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American Scientist

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1978

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english

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english, 1978

17

Elements of Differential Geometryby Richard S. Millman; George D. Parker

Review by: Clint McCrory

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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18

Books Received for Review

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American Scientist

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1978

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english

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19

Handbook of Teratology, Vol. 1: General Principles and Etiologyby James G. Wilson; F. Clarke Fraser

Review by: Raymond D. Harbison

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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20

Cardiovascular Pharmacologyby Michael J. Antonaccio

Review by: Martin M. Winbury

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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1978

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Cardiovascular Pharmacologyby Michael J. Antonaccio

Review by: Martin M. Winbury

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 510 KB

english, 1978

22

Vistas in Astronomy, Vol. 19by Arthur Beer; Peter Beer

Review by: James R. Ipser

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 306 KB

english, 1978

23

The Shaping of America's Heartland: The Landscape of the Middle West. The Naturalist's America Seriesby Betty Flanders Thomson

Review by: H. E. Wright Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

24

Behavioral Plasticity in the Flash Communication Systems of Fireflies: Although insect behavior has generally been considered stereotyped, recent research indicates that fireflies can alter their flash patterns according to the behavioral context

Albert D. Carlson and Jonathan Copeland

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 1.75 MB

english, 1978

25

Psychopharmacology: A Biochemical and Behavioral Approachby Lewis S. Seiden; Linda A. Dykstra

Review by: A. Horita

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

26

Olfactory Imprinting and Homing in Salmon: Recent experiments in which salmon have been artificially imprinted to a synthetic chemical verify the olfactory hypothesis for salmon homing

Arthur D. Hasler, Allan T. Scholz and Ross M. Horrall

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 1.93 MB

english, 1978

27

Hydraulic Analysis of Unsteady Flow in Pipe Networksby J. A. Fox

Review by: Mason P. Wilson

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

28

The Warm Desert Environment. Topics in Geography Seriesby Andrew Goudie; John Wilkinson

Review by: Charles B. Hunt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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29

Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, rev. ed.by Jacob Cohen

Review by: Victoria Seitz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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30

Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological, 2nd rev. ed. Texts and Monographs in Physicsby Wolfgang Rindler

Review by: Robert Wald

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

31

Improving Life at Work: Behavioral Science Approaches to Organizational Changeby J. Richard Hackman; J. Lloyd Suttle

Review by: David A. Nadler

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

32

Applications of Bifurcation Theory. Proc. Advanced Seminar. Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, 1976by Paul H. Rabinowitz

Review by: Werner C. Rheinboldt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

33

Physiological Responses of Marine Biota to Pollutantsby F. John Vernberg; Anthony Calabrese; Frederick P. Thurberg; Winona B. Vernberg

Review by: Joseph S. Ramus

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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34

Sigma Xi International Chapter

Linton E. Grinter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 457 KB

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35

The Secret History of the Atomic Bombby Anthony Cave Brown; Charles B. MacDonald

Review by: Robert F. Bacher

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

36

Morphogenetics of Karst Regions: Variants of Karst Evolutionby László Jakucs

Review by: Wilson D. Michell

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

37

Global Chemical Cycles and Their Alternation by Man. Physical and Chemical Sciences Research Report; 2by Werner Stumm

Review by: Robert A. Berner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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38

Life: Cells, Organisms, Populationsby Edward O. Wilson;Study GuideP. S. Associates ;Instructor's ManualP. S. Associates

Review by: A. I. Aronson

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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39

Advances in Enzyme Regulation, Vol. 15. Proc. 15th Symp., Regulation of Enzyme Activity and Synthesis in Normal and Neoplastic Tissues, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, 1976by George Weber

Review by: Roy L. Kisliuk

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

40

Interpretations of Metallographic Structures, 2nd ed.by William Rostoker; James R. Dvorak

Review by: William D. Forgeng Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 518 KB

english, 1978

41

The Race Bomb: Skin Color, Prejudice, and Intelligenceby Paul R. Ehrlich; S. Shirley Feldman

Review by: Leon J. Kamin

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

42

Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind. Internat. Library of Philosophy and Scientific Methodby Kenneth M. Sayre

Review by: Paul Tibbetts

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

43

Physics and the Sound of Musicby John S. Rigden;Problems for Musical Acousticsby William R. Savage

Review by: Robert T. Beyer

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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44

Elements of Group Theory for Physicists, 2nd ed.by A. W. Joshi

Review by: Francesco Iachello

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 300 KB

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45

Society and History: Essays by Sylvia L. Thruppby Raymond Grew; Nicholas H. Steneck

Review by: Eleanor Searle

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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46

Plant Biochemistry II. Internat. Review of Biochemistry; 13by D. H. Northcote

Review by: E. Uribe

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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47

Point Mapping Stabilityby Jacques Bernussou

Review by: David Chillingworth

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

48

Energy Handbookby Douglas M. Considine

Review by: Samuel E. Beall Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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49

Neurosurgical Treatment in Psychiatry, Pain, and Epilepsy. Proc. 4th World Congress Psychiatric Surgery, Madrid, 1975by William H. Sweet; Sixto Obrador; José G. Martin-Rodriguez

Review by: William F. Collins Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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50

Thought into Speech: Linguistic rules and psychological limitations in processing information determine how we put our ideas into words

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

51

Regulatory Mechanisms Affecting Gonadal Hormone Action. Advances in Sex Hormone Research; 3by J. A. Thomas; R. L. Singhal

Review by: Wendell W. Weber

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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english, 1978

52

The Riddle of the Windsby W. S. Kals

Review by: James E. Mann Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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53

The Riddle of Cosmic Deuterium: Measurements of interstellar deuterium suggest that the present density of matter in the universe is low enough to imply an open, ever-expanding universe

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 1.70 MB

english, 1978

54

The Unfinished Agenda: The Citizen's Policy Guide to Environmental Issues. Task Force Report sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fundby Gerald O. Barney

Review by: Dan W. Lufkin

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American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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Back Matter

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American Scientist

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1978

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english

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Front Matter

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American Scientist

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1978

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english

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57

Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 1, No. 1by M. M. R. Williams; R. Sher

Review by: Sidney Siegel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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58

Guidebook of San Juan Basin III: Northwestern New Mexico. 28th Field Conf., New Mexico Geological Society, 1977by J. E. Fassett; H. L. James

Review by: Frank E. Kottlowski

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 326 KB

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59

General Circulation Models of the Atmosphere. Methods in Computational Physics; 17by Julius Chang

Review by: Eugenia Kalnay-Rivas

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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60

Symmetry and Quantum Systems. Modern University Physics Seriesby Anthony B. Wolbarst

Review by: Francesco Iachello

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 324 KB

english, 1978

61

North American Bird Songs: A World of Musicby Poul Bondesen

Review by: Peter L. Ames

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 513 KB

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62

The Biochemistry of Smooth Muscleby Newman L. Stephens

Review by: John Gergely

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 325 KB

english, 1978

63

Mechanisms and Control of Cell Divisionby Thomas L. Rost; Ernest M. Gifford

Review by: Robert A. Bloodgood

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 504 KB

english, 1978

64

Biological Machines: A Cybernetic Approach to Life. Special Topics in Biology Seriesby Peter Calow

Review by: Harold J. Morowitz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 326 KB

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65

The Evolution of North America: rev. ed.by Philip B. King

Review by: G. H. Eisbacher

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 548 KB

english, 1978

66

The Genetic Basis of Epidemics in Agriculture. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 287by Peter R. Day

Review by: Yigal Koltin

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 331 KB

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67

Dimensions of Ecologyby Jonathan L. Richardson

Review by: Ted J. Case

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 507 KB

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68

The UFO Enigma: The Definitive Explanation of the UFO Phenomenonby Donald H. Menzel; Ernest H. Taves

Review by: R. Bruce Lindsay

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 323 KB

english, 1978

69

Studies in the Scottish Lateglacial Environmentby J. M. Gray; J. J. Lowe

Review by: Harold A. Winters

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 515 KB

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The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, rev. ed.by Richard A. Epstein

Review by: Edward O. Thorp

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 320 KB

english, 1978

71

Lymphocyte Differentiation, Recognition, and Regulationby David H. Katz

Review by: Jeffrey R. Dawson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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72

Hypertension: Physiopathology and Treatmentby Jacques Genest; Erich Koiw; Otto Kuchel

Review by: Aram V. Chobanian

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 324 KB

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73

An Introduction to Trapped-Particle Instability in Tokamaksby Wallace M. Manheimer

Review by: David W. Ross

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 331 KB

english, 1978

74

Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part B: Reactions and Synthesisby Francis A. Carey; Richard J. Sundberg

Review by: Edwin C. Friedrich

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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PDF, 321 KB

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75

Pulsars. Series of Books in Astronomy and Astrophysicsby Richard N. Manchester; Joseph H. Taylor

Review by: William H. Press

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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76

Chemical and Biochemical Applications of Lasers, Vol. 2by Bradley C. Moore

Review by: M. A. Duguay

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 508 KB

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77

Operant-Pavlovian Interactionsby Hank Davis; Harry M. B. Hurwitz

Review by: Hardy C. Wilcoxon

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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78

The Double Face of Janus: And Other Essays in the History ofby Owsei Temkin

Review by: Lois Magner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 329 KB

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79

Gene Expression, Vol. 3: Plasmids and Phagesby Benjamin Lewin

Review by: J. E. Dahlberg

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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80

Innovation Processes. Scripta Series in Mathematicsby Yuriy A. Rozanov; A. V. Balakrishnan

Review by: H. Salehi

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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Treatise on Materials Science and Technology, Vol. 10: Properties of Solid Polymeric Materials, Part Aby J. M. Schultz;Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology: Plastics, Resins, Rubbers, Fibers, Supplement Vol. 1: Acrylonitrile Polymers, Degradation to Vinyl Chlorideby Herman F. Mark; Norbert M. Bikales

Review by: Pierre Bataille

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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Food: The Gift of Osiris. Vol. 1. Vol. 2by William J. Darby; Paul Ghalioungui; Louis Grivetti

Review by: William Kelly Simpson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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Urn Models and Their Applications: An Approach to Modern Discrete Probability Theoryby Norman L. Johnson; Samuel Kotz

Review by: Harold B. Sackrowitz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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84

Culture and Practical Reasonby Marshall Sahlins

Review by: Keith Hart

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

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english

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85

Cotton versus Polyester: Surprising facts on energy requirements for the production and maintenance of clothing made of these two kinds of fibers suggest priorities for the utilization of energy and land

T. Leo van Winkle, John Edeleanu, Elizabeth Ann Prosser and Charles A. Walker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.31 MB

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Course Book in General Botanyby John D. Dodd

Review by: James E. Rodman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 340 KB

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The Development of Newtonian Optics in Englandby Henry John Steffens

Review by: Alan E. Shapiro

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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Concepts and Methods of Biostratigraphyby Erle G. Kauffman; Joseph H. Hazel

Review by: Steven M. Stanley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 550 KB

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Juvenile Hypertension. Kroc Foundation Series; 8by Maria I. New; Lenore S. Levine

Review by: Sidney Friedman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 345 KB

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Advances in Nuclear Physics, Vol. 9by Michel Baranger; Erich Vogt

Review by: Ernest Seglie

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 340 KB

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Knowledge and Development, Vol. 1: Advances in Research and Theoryby Willis F. Overton; Jeanette McCarthy Gallagher

Review by: Elaine Sofer

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 552 KB

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Music, Speech, and High Fidelity: A Descriptive Acoustics Worktextby William J. Strong; George R. Plitnik

Review by: Robert E. Apfel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 349 KB

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Biology of Nematodesby Neil A. Croll; Bernard E. Matthews

Review by: D. L. Riddle

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 341 KB

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Biological Amplification Systems in Immunology. Comprehensive Immunology; 2by Noorbibi K. Day; Robert A. Good

Review by: Charles A. Janeway Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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Sea Water: Cycles of the Major Elements. Benchmark Papers in Geology; 45by James I. Drever

Review by: J. Kirk Cochran

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 347 KB

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Recent Observations of Pulsars: Study of pulsars has not put us into contact with any Little Green Men, but it has led to fascinating new insights in astronomy and physics

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.91 MB

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Synergetics: An Introduction: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biologyby Hermann Haken

Review by: René Thom

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

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