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Volume 69; Issue 4

American Scientist

Volume 69; Issue 4

1

Energy Regulation in Hummingbirds: The study of caloric costs and benefits indicates how hummingbirds control energy resources

F. Reed Hainsworth

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.39 MB

english, 1981

2

Exotic Atoms '79: Fundamental Interactions and the Structure of Matter. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, Physical Sciences, 4by Kenneth Crowe; Jean Duclos; Giovanni Fiorentini

Review by: C. S. Wu

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 335 KB

english, 1981

3

Views: Women in Science: Despite many recent advances, women are still less likely than men to be promoted to high academic rank, and few have full citizenship in the informal scientific community

Jonathan R. Cole

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.36 MB

english, 1981

4

Strategies for Public Health: Promoting Health and Preventing Diseaseby Lorenz K. Y. Ng; Devra Lee Davis

Review by: Bernard S. Bloom

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

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english

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PDF, 339 KB

english, 1981

5

Books Received for Review

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

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english

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english, 1981

6

Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment. Century Psychology Seriesby Richard Nisbett; Lee Ross;Social Cognition, Inference, and Attributionby Robert S. Wyer; Donal E. Carlston

Review by: Reid Hastie

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 354 KB

english, 1981

7

Orthosilicates. Reviews in Mineralogy, 5by Paul H. Ribbe

Review by: Eric Dowty

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 585 KB

english, 1981

8

Principles of Genetics, 3rd ed.by James W. Fristrom; Philip T. Spieth

Review by: Robert B. Helling

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 558 KB

english, 1981

9

Mathematics for Biomedical Applicationsby Stanton A. Glantz

Review by: Mohamed el Lozy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 366 KB

english, 1981

10

Neurobiology of Cerebrospinal Fluid 1by James H. Wood

Review by: John P. Allen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 366 KB

english, 1981

11

Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy: Man-made systems now make it possible to extract heat from rocks in areas where natural fluids are insufficient for the development of hydrothermal energy

Grant Heiken, Hugh Murphy, Gregory Nunz, Robert Potter and Charles Grigsby

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.73 MB

english, 1981

12

The World of the Tent-Makers: A Natural History of the Eastern Tent Caterpillarby Vincent G. Dethier

Review by: Ashley B. Gurney

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 364 KB

english, 1981

13

The Enhancement of Soil Fertility by Plant Roots: Some plants, often with the help of microorganisms, can chemically modify the soil close to their roots in ways that increase or decrease the absorption of crucial ions

Ralph A. Olsen, Ralph B. Clark and Jesse H. Bennett

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.01 MB

english, 1981

14

Letters to the Editors

Avraham Berkovits, Eric S. Cheney, Ronald H. Pine and Richard Embs

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

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english

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PDF, 708 KB

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15

Historical Curiosities of Science

Review by: Bert Hansen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

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english

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PDF, 373 KB

english, 1981

16

Trans-Pecos Region: Southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. New Mexico Geological Society 31st Field Conferenceby Patricia W. Dickerson; Jerry M. Hoffer; Jonathan F. Callender

Review by: Russell E. Clemons

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 363 KB

english, 1981

17

The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural Historyby Michael Goulding

Review by: Thomas Lovejoy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 364 KB

english, 1981

18

Adler's Physiology of the Eye: Clinical Application, 7th ed.by Robert A. Moses

Review by: I. Willard Abrahams

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 366 KB

english, 1981

19

Energy and Combustion Science: Student Edition 1by N. A. Chigier

Review by: Daniel E. Rosner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 367 KB

english, 1981

20

Global Signposts to the 21st Centuryby John A. Loraine

Review by: Robert S. Livingston

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 625 KB

english, 1981

21

Spectra of Graphs: Theory and Application. Pure and Applied Mathematicsby Dragos M. Cyetković; Michael Doob; Horst Sachs

Review by: Ronald L. Graham

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 595 KB

english, 1981

22

Optical Mineralogy: The Nonopaque Mineralsby W. Revell Phillips; Dana T. Griffen

Review by: R. V. Dietrich

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 356 KB

english, 1981

23

Chemistry and Biogeochemistry of Estuariesby Eric Olausson; Ingemar Cato

Review by: Richard A. Lutz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 459 KB

english, 1981

24

The Molecular Genetics of Developmentby Terrance Leighton; William F. Loomis

Review by: Elliot Meyerowitz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 323 KB

english, 1981

25

Wind Engineering, Vols. 1 & 2by J. E. Cermak

Review by: W. J. Cunningham

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 606 KB

english, 1981

26

DNA Repair and Mutagenesis in Eukaryotes. Basic Life Sciences, 15by W. M. Generoso; M. D. Shelby; F. J. de Serres

Review by: W. Dean Rupp

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 366 KB

english, 1981

27

Probing Hadrons with Leptons. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, Physical Sciences, 5by Giuliano Preparata; Jean-Jacques Aubert

Review by: K. Berkelman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 597 KB

english, 1981

28

Ecology and Behavior of the Manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Florida. ASM Special Publications, 5by Daniel S. Hartman

Review by: Daniel K. Odell

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 364 KB

english, 1981

29

Ideas of Space: Euclidean, Non-Euclidean, and Relativisticby Jeremy Gray

Review by: J. R. Vanstone

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 355 KB

english, 1981

30

Basic Hemodynamics and Its Role in Disease Processesby Dali F. Patel; Ramesh N. Vaishnav

Review by: Geert W. Schmid-Schoenbein

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 604 KB

english, 1981

31

Nocturnal Malagasy Primates. Communication and Behaviorby P. Charles-Dominique; H. M. Cooper; A. Hladik; C. M. Hladik; E. Pages; G. F. Pariente; A. Petter-Rousseaux; J. J. Petter; A. Schilling

Review by: Ian Tattersall

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 556 KB

english, 1981

32

Principles of Gene Manipulation: An Introduction to Genetic Engineering. Studies in Microbiology, 2by R. W. Old; S. B. Primrose

Review by: Gail Lauer

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 366 KB

english, 1981

33

Richard Brauer: Collected Papers. Mathematicians of Our Time, 17–19. Vol. 1: Theory of Algebras and Finite Groups. Vol. 2: Finite Groups. Vol. 3: Finite Groups, Lie Groups, Number Theory, Polynomials and Equations; Geometry, and Biographyby Paul Fong; Warren J. Wong

Review by: Walter Feit

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 1981

34

The Decision Problem: Solvable Classes of Quantification Formulasby Burton Dreben; Warren D. Goldfarb

Review by: M. R. Krom

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 355 KB

english, 1981

35

Weeds, 2nd ed.by Walter Conrad Muenscher

Review by: Lauren Brown

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 364 KB

english, 1981

36

The Psychobiology of Consciousnessby Julian M. Davidson; Richard J. Davidson

Review by: Daniel N. Robinson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

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english

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PDF, 583 KB

english, 1981

37

Front Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

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english

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english, 1981

38

Cultural Materialismby Marvin Harris

Review by: Henry Selby

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 368 KB

english, 1981

39

Applied Climatology: A Study of Atmospheric Resources Studies in Physical Geographyby John E. Hobbs

Review by: Donald A. Wilhite

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 363 KB

english, 1981

40

A Natural Legacy: Ecology in Australiaby Harry F. Recher; Daniel Lunney; Irina Dunn

Review by: Pamela Parker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 590 KB

english, 1981

41

Future Coal Supply for the World Energy Balance. IIASA Proceedings Series, 6by Michel Grenon

Review by: B. J. Skinner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 363 KB

english, 1981

42

Giant Multipole Resonances. Nuclear Science Research Conference Series, 1by Fred E. Bertrand

Review by: Frank W. K. Firk

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 1981

43

Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua. International Series in Pure and Applied Physicsby Alexander L. Fetter; John Dirk Walecka

Review by: Thomas Appelquist

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 361 KB

english, 1981

44

Theory and Applications of Electron Spin Resonance. Techniques of Chemistry, 15by Walter Gordy

Review by: Charles P. Scholes

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 368 KB

english, 1981

45

Body and Mind: Past, Present, and Futureby R. W. Rieber;Man Adapting, Silliman Lectures and 1978 Esselstyn Lecture, with a new chapter by the authorby René Dubos

Review by: Darcy B. Kelley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 619 KB

english, 1981

46

Electron and Pion Interactions with Nuclei at Intermediate Energies. Studies in High Energy Physics, 2by William Bertozzi; Sergio Costa; Carlo Schaerf

Review by: Peter Axel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 368 KB

english, 1981

47

Introduction to Global Analysis. Pure and Applied Mathematicsby Donald W. Kahn

Review by: Paul R. Chernoff

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 1981

48

Ion Implantation. Treatise on Materials Science and Technology, 18by J. K. Hirvonen

Review by: B. R. Appleton

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 370 KB

english, 1981

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Energy Options: Real Economics and the Solar-Hydrogen Systemby J. O'M. Bockris

Review by: C. E. Bamberger

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 367 KB

english, 1981

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World Atlas of Geology and Mineral Depositsby Duncan R. Derry

Review by: Frederick J. Sawkins

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 440 KB

english, 1981

51

Western Reserve's Experiment in Medical Education and Its Outcomeby Greer Williams

Review by: Chester R. Burns

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 383 KB

english, 1981

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The Causes of Cancer: While some cancers are genetically fated to appear, most have now been traced to environmental factors

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.24 MB

english, 1981

53

Reclaiming Lost Land

Review by: C. R. Twidale

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 711 KB

english, 1981

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Electromagnetic Radiationby F. H. Read

Review by: J. V. Maher

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 598 KB

english, 1981

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The Caledonides in the U.S.A.: Geological Excursions in the Northeast Appalachiansby James W. Skehan; Philip H. Osberg

Review by: Robert Tracy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 363 KB

english, 1981

56

Erratum: Tooth and Claw: Defensive Strategies in the Animal World

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 367 KB

english, 1981

57

New Light on Andean Tiwanaku: A detailed reconstruction of Tiwanaku's early commercial and religious empire illuminates the processes by which states evolve

David L. Browman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 3.31 MB

english, 1981

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The Physics-Astronomy Frontierby Fred Hoyle; Jayant Narlikar

Review by: William H. Press

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 689 KB

english, 1981

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Basic Principles of Membrane Transport. IUPAB Biophysics Series, 2by Stanley G. Schultz

Review by: Barry D. Lindley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 366 KB

english, 1981

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Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 61by Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Review by: Paul Tibbetts

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 383 KB

english, 1981

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Pentacoordinated Phosphorus. Vol. 1: Structure and Spectroscopy. Vol. 2: Reaction Mechanisms. ACS Monographs, 175 and 176by Robert R. Holmes

Review by: Edgar Howard Jr

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 440 KB

english, 1981

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Joseph Nicollet and His Mapby Martha Lodeman Bray

Review by: Audrey B. Davis

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 404 KB

english, 1981

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Introduction to Queueing Theory, 2nd ed.by Robert B. Cooper

Review by: Carl M. Harris

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 390 KB

english, 1981

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Entomologyby Cedric Gillott

Review by: C. K. Starr

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 376 KB

english, 1981

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Indian New England before the Mayflowerby Howard S. Russell

Review by: Christian F. Feest

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 633 KB

english, 1981

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Biophysical Ecologyby David M. Gates

Review by: Park S. Nobel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 339 KB

english, 1981

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Energy for the Year 2000by Richard Wilson

Review by: Robert S. Livingston

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 387 KB

english, 1981

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Back Matter

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American Scientist

Year:

1981

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Back Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.33 MB

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The Action of Interferon at the Molecular Level: The unique antiviral defense mechanism of interferon, a substance produced in the body in response to infection, is being studied closely for possible therapeutic applications

Corrado Baglioni and Timothy W. Nilsen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1981

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.91 MB

english, 1981

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