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Volume 75; Issue 1

American Scientist

Volume 75; Issue 1

1

The Effects of Pollen Competition

David L. Mulcahy and Gabriella Bergamini Mulcahy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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2

Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use. Convergence Seriesby Noam Chomsky

Review by: Gilbert Harman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 320 KB

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3

A Handbook of Computational Chemistry: A Practical Guide to Chemical Structure and Energy Calculationsby Tim Clark

Review by: Kenneth B. Wiberg

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 494 KB

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4

A Genetic Switch: Gene Control and Phage λby Mark Ptashne

Review by: Daniel DiMaio

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 504 KB

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5

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport, Vol. 24: Membrane Protein Biosynthesis and Turnoverby Philip A. Knauf; John S. Cook

Review by: Arthur L. Horwich

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 307 KB

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6

Optical Activity: Biot's Bequest

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American Scientist

Year:

1987

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english

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7

Back Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

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english

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8

Genome Multiplication in Growth and Development: Biology of Polyploid and Polytene Cells. Developmental and Cell Biology Series, No. 15by V. Ya. Brodsky; I. V. Uryvaeva; P. W. Barlow

Review by: G. L. Stebbins

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 312 KB

english, 1987

9

Multiphoton Ionization of Atomsby S. L. Chin; P. Lambropoulos

Review by: Munir H. Nayfeh

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 316 KB

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10

The Human Preference for Excess Salt

Gary K. Beauchamp

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.79 MB

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11

Natural Convection: Fundamentals and Applications. NATO Advanced Study Instituteby S. Kakaç; W. Aung; R. Viskanta

Review by: James A. Fay

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 335 KB

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12

Hazards: Technology and Fairness. Series on Technology and Social PrioritiesNational Academy of Engineering

Review by: Joseph J. Levitzky

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 549 KB

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13

Letters to the Editors

John r. Fanchi, J. Selwyn Crawford, Freda Rebelsky and Ellis L. Yochelson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 279 KB

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14

Martingales and Stochastic Integralsby P. E. Kopp

Review by: S. R. S. Varadhan

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 323 KB

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15

Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-ray Binaries. Proceedings of the Seventh North American Workshop on Cataclysmic Variables, Cambridge, MA, 1983. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 113by Donald Q. Lamb; Joseph Patterson

Review by: J. Craig Wheeler

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 318 KB

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16

Artificial Intelligence and Psychiatry. The Scientific Basis of Psychiatry, 1by D. J. Hand

Review by: Stephen Slade

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 313 KB

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17

The Geology of Ore Depositsby John M. Guilbert; Charles F. Park

Review by: Geoffrey P. Feiss

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 372 KB

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18

The Beginnings of Birds: Proceedings of the International Archaeopteryx Conference Eichstätt 1984by M. K. Hecht; J. H. Ostrom; G. Viohl; P. Wellnhofer

Review by: Storrs L. Olson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 701 KB

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19

The X-ray Universe. Harvard Books on Astronomyby Wallace Tucker; Riccardo Glacconi

Review by: Anne P. Cowley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 302 KB

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20

The Socialization of Emotions. Genesis of Behavior, 5by Michael Lewis; Carolyn Saarni

Review by: Michael E. Lamb

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 541 KB

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21

Atmospheric Electrodynamics. Physics and Chemistry in Space, 11by Hans Volland

Review by: E. G. Fontheim

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

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PDF, 350 KB

1987

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Atmospheric Electrodynamics. Physics and Chemistry in Space, 11by Hans Volland

Review by: E. G. Fontheim

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1987

23

Deep Space Telecommunications Systems Engineering. Applications of Communications Theoryby Joseph H. Yuen

Review by: Warner Miller

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 346 KB

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24

Progress or Catastrophe: The Nature of Biological Science and Its Impact on Human Societyby Bentley Glass

Review by: Jane Oppenheimer

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 363 KB

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25

Population Biology and Evolution of Clonal Organismsby Jeremy B. C. Jackson; Leo W. Buss; Robert E. Cook

Review by: J. T. Bonner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 733 KB

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26

Ada: A Life and a Legacyby Dorothy Stein

Review by: Mary Louise Gleason

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 581 KB

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27

The Structure of Surfaces. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces, Berkeley, 1984. Springer Series in Surface Sciences, 2by M. A. Van Hove; S. Y. Tong

Review by: A. B. Anderson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 305 KB

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28

George Boole: His Life and Work. Profiles of Genius Series, 2by Desmond MacHale

Review by: Carolyn Eisele

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 349 KB

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29

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matterby Richard P. Feynman

Review by: Toichiro Kinoshita

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 553 KB

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30

The Heavy Metal-Tolerant Flora of Southcentral Africa: A Multidisciplinary Approachby R. R. Brooks; F. Malaisse

Review by: Susan J. Mazer

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 544 KB

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31

Mineral Impurities in Coal Combustion: Behavior, Problems, and Remedial Measuresby Erich Raask

Review by: John P. Longwell

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 561 KB

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The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskayaby R. Cooke

Review by: Lars Gårding

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 500 KB

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33

Immunology of Rheumatic Diseasesby Sudhir Gupta; Norman Talal

Review by: Anthony Hayward

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 341 KB

english, 1987

34

The Epigenetic Nature of Early Chordate Development: Inductive Interaction and Competenceby Pieter D. Nieuwkoop; A. G. Johnen; B. Albers

Review by: J. Gerhart

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 358 KB

english, 1987

35

Statistical Analysis of Measurement Errorsby John L. Jaech

Review by: Edward J. Dudewicz

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 290 KB

english, 1987

36

Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolutionby James W. Valentine

Review by: Antoni Hoffman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 618 KB

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37

Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of Historyby Laura L. Betzig

Review by: Henry Harpending

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 342 KB

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38

Spacefarers of the '80s and '90s: The Next Thousand People in Spaceby Alcestis R. Oberg

Review by: Karl G. Henize

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 350 KB

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39

The Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogasterby José A. Campos-Ortega; Volker Hartenstein

Review by: Anthony P. Mahowald

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 340 KB

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40

Sigma Xi News

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

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english

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41

Conservation Strategy for Migratory Species

J. P. Myers, R. I. G. Morrison, Paolo Z. Antas, Brain A. Harrington, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Michel Sallaberry, Stanley E. Senner and Arturo Tarak

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.46 MB

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42

A Passion for Physics: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Chewby Carleton DeTar; J. Finkelstein; Chung-I. Tan

Review by: Ramamutri Shankar

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 345 KB

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43

Sigma Xi National Lecturers, 1987–88

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

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english

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Linear Models in Biology. Mathematics and Its Applicationsby M. R. Cullen

Review by: Saul I. Gass

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 352 KB

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45

A New Agenda for Science: Big Three, Little Four

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 353 KB

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46

Recent Advances in Aerospace Sciences: In Honor of Luigi Crocco on His Seventy-fifth Birthdayby Corrado Casci

Review by: Richard Seebass

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 341 KB

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All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Centuryby Marie Boas Hall

Review by: Lynn S. Joy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 474 KB

english, 1987

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Trophic Interactions within Aquatic Ecosystems. AAAS Selected Symposium, 85by Dewey G. Meyers; J. Rudi Strickler

Review by: John E. Havel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 567 KB

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Celestial Mechanics: A Computational Guide for the Practitionerby Laurence G. Taff

Review by: P. K. Seidelmann

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 340 KB

english, 1987

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Gamma Ray Astronomy. Oxford Studies in Physicsby Rodney Hillier

Review by: David J. Thompson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 344 KB

english, 1987

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Free-Electron Lasers

Andrew M. Sessler and Douglas Vaughan

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.04 MB

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Interacting Binary Stars. Cambridge Astrophysics Seriesby J. E. Pringle; R. A. Wade

Review by: Bohdan Paczynski

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 547 KB

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The Anthropic Cosmological Principleby John D. Barrow; Frank J. Tipler

Review by: Edward Harrison

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 699 KB

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Energy Technologies and Conversion Systemsby Merlin H. Kleinbach; Carlton E. Salvagin

Review by: J. F. Louis

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 341 KB

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Advances in Heat Transfer, Vol. 17by James F. Hartnett; Thomas F. Irvine

Review by: F. G. Hammitt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 555 KB

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The Science of Computing: Security of Data in Networks

Peter J. Denning

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 599 KB

english, 1987

57

Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia. Oxford Geological Science Seriesby J. J. Veevers

Review by: Warren Hamilton

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 626 KB

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The Rhythm of Being: A Study of Temporalityby Howard Trivers

Review by: Lee C. Archie

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 349 KB

english, 1987

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Museum Collections: Their Roles and Future in Biological Research. Occasional Papers of the British Columbia Provincial Museum 25by E. H. Miller

Review by: Colin Patterson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 256 KB

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The Physics of Submicron Structures. Proceedings of a Workshop on the Physics of Submicron Structures, June, 1982, Urbana-Champaignby H. L. Grubin; K. Hess; G. J. Iafrate; D. K. Ferry

Review by: Daniel E. Prober

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 507 KB

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The Moon's Acceleration and Its Physical Origins, Vol. 2: As Deduced from General Lunar Observationsby Robert R. Newton

Review by: Alan D. Fiala

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 333 KB

english, 1987

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Vegetation of the Earth and Ecological Systems of the Geo-biosphere, 3rd ed.by Heinrich Walter; Owen Muise

Review by: Vera Komarkova

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 341 KB

english, 1987

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Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life: Thoughts of Minds and Moleculesby Harold J. Morowitz

Review by: Harold G. Cassidy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 363 KB

english, 1987

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Electromagnetic Theoryby Daniel R. Frankl

Review by: Robert D. Nevels

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 346 KB

english, 1987

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The Herbicide Glyphosateby E. Grossbard; D. Atkinson

Review by: Donald Penner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 358 KB

english, 1987

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The Enigma of the Fetal Graft

John C. Rodger and Belinda L. Drake

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.45 MB

english, 1987

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Habitat Selection in Birds. Physiology Ecologyby Martin L. Cody

Review by: Gordon H. Orian

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 324 KB

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Immunological Methods, Vol. 3by Ivan Lefkovits; Benvenuto Pernis

Review by: Frank W. Fitch

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 358 KB

english, 1987

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Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statisticsby Vaclav Fabian; James Hannan

Review by: David Pollard

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

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Data Analysis in Astronomy. Proceedings of an International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy, Italy, 1984. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, Physical Sciences, 24by V. Di Gesù; L. Scarsi; P. Crane; J. H. Friedman; S. Levialdi

Review by: Peter B. Stetson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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Marginalia: How to Sit on a Horse

Keith Stewart Thomson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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Front Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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The Magic of Minerals: 110 Color Photographs by Olaf Medenbachby Harry Wilk; John Sampson White

Review by: R. V. Dietrich

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 419 KB

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Mathematical Essays on Growth and the Emergence of Formby Peter L. Antonelli

Review by: Robert Rosen

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 540 KB

english, 1987

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Radio Stars: Proceedings of a Workshop on Stellar Continuum Radio Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 116by Robert M. Hjellming; David M. Gibson

Review by: Harold Zirin

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 359 KB

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Multichannel Integrations of Nonverbal Behaviorby Aron W. Siegman; Stanley Feldstein

Review by: Donald W. Fiske

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 590 KB

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Fundamentals of Insect Physiologyby Murray S. Blum

Review by: Ian Orchard

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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PDF, 567 KB

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Books Received

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1987

Language:

english

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