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Volume 66; Issue 4

American Scientist

Volume 66; Issue 4

1

The Uses of Duckweed: The rapid growth, nutritional value, and high biomass productivity of these floating plants suggest their use in water treatment, as feed crops, and in energy-efficient farming

William S. Hillman and Dudley D. Culley Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.39 MB

english, 1978

2

Chemical Communication in Pine Bark Beetles: The interactions among pine bark beetles, their host trees, microorganisms, and associated insects form a system superbly suited for studying the subtlety and diversity of olfactory communication

Martin C. Birch

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.25 MB

english, 1978

3

Ecosystem Modeling in Theory and Practice: An Introduction with Case Historiesby Charles A. S. Hall; John W. Day

Review by: Joel E. Cohen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 322 KB

english, 1978

4

Transonic Flow Problems in Turbo-machinery. A Project Squid Workshopby T. C. Adamson; M. F. Platzer

Review by: Sigmar Wittig

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 319 KB

english, 1978

5

Hydraulic Behaviour of Estuaries. Civil Engineering Hydraulics Seriesby D. M. McDowell; B. A. O'Connor

Review by: Robert B. Gordon

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 318 KB

english, 1978

6

The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproductionby Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Review by: George B. Schaller

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 328 KB

english, 1978

7

The Physical Chemistry and Mineralogy of Soils, Vol. 2: Soils in Placeby C. Edmund Marshall

Review by: Garth K. Voigt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 558 KB

english, 1978

8

Foundations of Mathematical Geneticsby A. W. F. Edwards

Review by: Hans J. Bremermann

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 526 KB

english, 1978

9

Television and the Preschool Child: A Psychological Theory of Instruction and Curriculum Development. Educational Psychology Seriesby Harvey Lesser

Review by: Aimee Dorr

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 331 KB

english, 1978

10

Set Theory and Metric Spacesby Irving Kaplansky

Review by: Lawrence Corwin

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 337 KB

english, 1978

11

Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growthby Herman E. Daly

Review by: William N. Parker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 276 KB

english, 1978

12

Celestial Masers. Cambridge Monographs on Physicsby A. H. Cook

Review by: Moshe Elitzur

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 323 KB

english, 1978

13

X-Ray Optics: Optical systems for forming x-ray images, once thought to be impossible to construct, are now finding application in areas as diverse as astrophysics and the quest for thermonuclear energy

James H. Underwood

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 3.29 MB

english, 1978

14

Handbook of the Biology of Agingby Caleb E. Finch; Leonard Hayflick

Review by: Ralph L. Cooper

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 335 KB

english, 1978

15

Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy. Vol. 1. Vol. 2. Les Houches, École d'Été de Physique Théorique, Session 27, 1975by Roger Balian; Serge Haroche; Sylvain Liberman

Review by: M. A. Duguay

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 458 KB

english, 1978

16

Fundamentals of Age-Group Systemsby Frank Henderson Stewart

Review by: Ward H. Goodenough

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 345 KB

english, 1978

17

Amerinds and Their Paleoenvironments. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 228by Walter S. Newman; Bert Salwen

Review by: Peter L. Storck

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 345 KB

english, 1978

18

Anisotropy Effects in Superconductorsby Harald W. Weber

Review by: Daniel E. Prober

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 469 KB

english, 1978

19

Heat and Mass Transfer Sourcebook. 5th All-Union Conference, Minsk, 1976by Mikhail A. Styrikovick

Review by: J. R. Moszynski

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 368 KB

english, 1978

20

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 2nd ed.by William F. Ames

Review by: Gilbert Strang

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 1978

21

The Causes of Glaciation: Major glaciations have been caused not by dramatic changes in the earth's climate, but by the conjunction of several discrete factors at times when the continents were located at high latitudes

Chester B. Beaty

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.91 MB

english, 1978

22

Computer Data-Base Organization, 2nd ed.by James Martin

Review by: Narain Gehani

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 579 KB

english, 1978

23

Wittgenstein and Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Perspectiveby Derek L. Phillips

Review by: Lee C. Archie

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1978

24

Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Biosynthesis. Molecular Biology Seriesby Herbert Weissbach; Sidney Pestka

Review by: Paul Farrell

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 580 KB

english, 1978

25

Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization: An International Review Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1by Brian R. Pamplin

Review by: J. W. Nielsen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 469 KB

english, 1978

26

Architecture and Social Behavior: Psychological Studies of Social Density. Complex Human Behavior Seriesby Andrew Baum; Stuart Valins

Review by: Susan Saegert

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 595 KB

english, 1978

27

Wild Mammals of New Englandby Alfred J. Godin

Review by: Wayne H. Davis

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 357 KB

english, 1978

28

Views: The Sociology of the Nobel Prize: Further Notes and Queries: How successful are the Prizes in recognizing scientific excellence?

Harriet Zuckerman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.15 MB

english, 1978

29

Qualitative Analysis of Large Scale Dynamical Systems. Mathematics in Science and Engineering; 134by Anthony N. Michel; Richard K. Miller

Review by: J. P. LaSalle

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 1978

30

Shell Form and the Evolution of Gastropods: Snail shells coil in many ways, reflecting varied patterns of adaptation to the problems of internal and external water flow

Robert M. Linsley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 3.00 MB

english, 1978

31

Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solidsby Alexander O. E. Animalu

Review by: Timothy J. Sluckin

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 489 KB

english, 1978

32

Horizons in Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 3by E. Quagliariello; F. Palmieri; Thomas P. Singer

Review by: Ernest Pollard

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 367 KB

english, 1978

33

Letters to the Editors

Sheldon Novick, John Connell, Don Doumakes, A. J. Angelino, Wallace E. Howell, Jean Warren-Curry, E. R. Harrison, H. B. G. Casimir and R. B. Ashman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.49 MB

english, 1978

34

Salt-Water Purification, 2nd ed.by K. S. Spiegler

Review by: Ronald F. Probstein

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 582 KB

english, 1978

35

An Illustrated History of Herbalsby Frank J. Anderson

Review by: Karen Meier Reeds

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1978

36

Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835–1975by Mary Roth Walsh;The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionalsby Gena Corea

Review by: Elizabeth C. Patterson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 367 KB

english, 1978

37

The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation: A Global Approach. Mathematics in Science and Engineering; 131by Stanley H. Benton

Review by: Wendell H. Fleming

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 1978

38

Biology and Geology of Coral Reefs, Vol. 4: Geology 2by O. A. Jones; R. Endean

Review by: Richard E. Dodge

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 1978

39

Lectures on Selected Topics in Statistical Mechanics. Internat. Series in Natural Philosophy; 92by D. ter Haar

Review by: Alexander L. Fetter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 272 KB

english, 1978

40

The Fluvial Systemby Stanley A. Schumm

Review by: Donald F. Eschman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 1978

41

Errata: 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

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 460 KB

english, 1978

42

A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophyby Jacob Bronowski

Review by: G. S. Rousseau

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1978

43

The Various Language: An Inquiry Approach to the Physical Sciencesby Arnold Arons

Review by: George Holland

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 1978

44

A Species of Eternityby Joseph Kastner

Review by: Alexandra Oleson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 591 KB

english, 1978

45

Social Influence and Social Change. European Monographs in Social Psychology; 10by Serge Moscovici

Review by: Harold B. Gerard

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 369 KB

english, 1978

46

An Anatomy of Risk: Wiley Series on Systems Engineering and Analysisby William D. Rowe

Review by: Jan A. J. Stolwijk

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 592 KB

english, 1978

47

Futures Research: New Directionsby Harold A. Linstone; W. H. Clive Simmonds

Review by: Hedvah L. Shuchman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 362 KB

english, 1978

48

Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Villageby Thomas Gregor

Review by: Kenneth M. Kensinger

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 348 KB

english, 1978

49

The Space Telescope: A new range of astronomical studies will be made possible by NASA's 96-inch orbital telescope, scheduled for launch on the space shuttle in 1983

Lyman Spitzer Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.63 MB

english, 1978

50

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Food, Agriculture, and Nutritionby Daniel N. Lapedes

Review by: P. R. Day

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 1978

51

Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems: An Introductory Guidebookby Harvey J. Gold

Review by: Hans J. Bremermann

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 368 KB

english, 1978

52

The Environment of Amchitka Island, Alaskaby Melvin L. Merritt; R. Glen Fuller

Review by: Nathaniel T. Wheelwright

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 349 KB

english, 1978

53

Geometrie der Berührungstransformationen, 2nd rev. ed.by Sophus Lie

Review by: S. S. Chern

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 1978

54

Errata: Effects of Trace Metals in the Aquatic Ecosystem: The diatom community, base of the aquatic food chain, undergoes significant changes in the presence of trace metals and other alterations in water chemistry

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 460 KB

english, 1978

55

A Manual of Underwater Photographyby T. Glover; G. E. Harwood; J. N. Lythgoe

Review by: William K. Sacco

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 1978

56

Handbook of Solid Waste Managementby David Gordon Wilson

Review by: Charles A. Walker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1978

57

Progress in Acetabularia Researchby C. L. F. Woodcock

Review by: Jeremy Pickett-Heaps

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 1978

58

Urban Transportation Planning: Current Themes and Future Prospectsby Peter Bonsall; Quasim Dalvi; Peter J. Hills

Review by: Norbert Oppenheim

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1978

59

Sociobiology and Behaviorby David P. Barash

Review by: Francisco J. Ayala

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 587 KB

english, 1978

60

Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weatherby Reid A. Bryson; Thomas J. Murray

Review by: T. M. L. Wigley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 1978

61

Introduction to Nervous Systemsby Theodore Holmes Bullock; Richard Orkand; Alan Grinnell

Review by: Marcus Jacobson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 367 KB

english, 1978

62

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomyby Simon Mitton

Review by: D. A. Bromley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 1978

63

Immunology in Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Immunologyby E. J. Holborow; W. G. Reeves

Review by: Joel Lundy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 366 KB

english, 1978

64

Behavior Patterns, Stress, and Coronary Disease. Complex Human Behaviorby David C. Glass

Review by: Gary E. Schwartz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 362 KB

english, 1978

65

Biology of Earthworms, 2nd ed.by C. A. Edwards; J. R. Lofty

Review by: Charlotte Mangum

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 1978

66

Food Production and Its Consequencesby Philip E. L. Smith

Review by: Margaret Dittemore

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 574 KB

english, 1978

67

Using Digital and Analog Integrated Circuitsby L. W. Shacklette; H. A. Ashworth

Review by: Peter J. Kindlmann

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1978

68

An Introduction to Regge Theory and High Energy Physics. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; 4by P. D. B. Collins

Review by: Charles B. Chiu

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 688 KB

english, 1978

69

Physics and Technology of Low-Temperature Plasmasby S. V. Dresvin; T. Cheron

Review by: Sanborn C. Brown

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 1978

70

Scale Effects in Animal Locomotionby T. J. Pedley

Review by: Roderick A. Suthers

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 577 KB

english, 1978

71

Introduction to Group Theory with Applications. Materials Science and Technologyby Gerald Burns

Review by: Berndt Müller

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 469 KB

english, 1978

72

Psychobiology and Human Diseaseby Herbert Weiner

Review by: Mary E. Swigar

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 366 KB

english, 1978

73

Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcityby Frances Moore Lappé; Joseph Collins

Review by: Bruce L. Zellers

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1978

74

Front Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.39 MB

english, 1978

75

Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources. Tulsa, OK: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1976by Michel T. Halbouty; John C. Maher; Harold M. Lian

Review by: Pow-foong Fan

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 573 KB

english, 1978

76

The Origin of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, 2nd ed. Sedimentary Petrology; 3by Wolf von Engelhardt; William D. Johns

Review by: Albert V. Carozzi

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 1978

77

Alcoholic Beverages. Economic Microbiology; 1by A. H. Rose

Review by: S. R. Palamand

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 583 KB

english, 1978

78

Progress in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 4by J. H. Sanders; S. Stenholm

Review by: M. D. Levenson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 575 KB

english, 1978

79

Primate Social Behavior in a Changing World: Human alteration of the environment may be pushing the gray langur monkey of India beyond the limits of its adaptability

Richard Curtin and Phyllis Dolhinow

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.05 MB

english, 1978

80

Chromatin and Chromosomal Protein Research, Vol. 1. Methods in Cell Biology; 16by Gary Stein; Janet Stein; Lewis J. Kleinsmith

Review by: Peter M. M. Rae

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 599 KB

english, 1978

81

Sigma Xi News

T.T.H. and Edward J. Pozlomek

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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english, 1978

82

Back Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.10 MB

english, 1978

83

Man: The Fallen Apeby Branko Bokun

Review by: Alvin Novick

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 367 KB

english, 1978

84

Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plantsby Kenneth V. Thimann

Review by: Peter J. Davies

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 591 KB

english, 1978

85

The Spontaneous Generation Controversy from Descartes to Oparinby John Farley

Review by: Neal C. Gillespie

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 585 KB

english, 1978

86

Maturity and Competence: A Transcultural Viewby Douglas H. Heath

Review by: George E. Vaillant

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 389 KB

english, 1978

87

Clinical Atlas of Human Chromosomesby Jean de Grouchy; Catherine Turleau

Review by: Ira K. Brandt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 386 KB

english, 1978

88

Elements of Ecology and Field Biologyby Robert Leo Smith

Review by: Michael A. Rex

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 387 KB

english, 1978

89

Books Received for Review

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.64 MB

english, 1978

90

Future Strategies for Energy Development: A Question of Scaleby Irene Kiefer; Jeannette Lindsay

Review by: E. A. C. Crouch

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 374 KB

english, 1978

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Progress in Ape Researchby Geoffrey H. Bourne

Review by: Prassede Calabi

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1978

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 380 KB

english, 1978

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