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Volume 78; Issue 1

American Scientist

Volume 78; Issue 1

1

Signals, Species, and Sexual Selection

Michael J. Ryan

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.80 MB

english, 1990

2

Biological Applications of Raman Spectroscopy. Vol. 3: Resonance Raman Spectra of Heme and Metalloproteinsby Thomas G. Spiro

Review by: Jonathan B. Chaires

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 324 KB

english, 1990

3

Plant Flavonoids in Biology and Medicine II: Biochemical, Cellular, and Medicinal Properties. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, Vol. 280by Vivian Cody; Elliott Middleton; Jeffrey B. Harborne; Alain Beretz

Review by: Helen A. Stafford

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 324 KB

english, 1990

4

Processes in Karst Systems: Physics, Chemistry, and Geology. Series in Physical Environment, 4by Wolfgang Dreybrodt

Review by: William B. White

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 320 KB

english, 1990

5

Fifty Million Years Ago

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

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PDF, 5.22 MB

english, 1990

6

Crop Loss Assessment and Pest Managementby P. S. Teng

Review by: Paul E. Waggoner

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 323 KB

english, 1990

7

Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies. NATO Advanced Science Institutes, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 229by A. C. Fabian

Review by: Joseph Silk

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 334 KB

english, 1990

8

Quantum Probability. Probability and Mathematical Statistics Seriesby Stanley P. Gudder

Review by: David J. Foulis

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 299 KB

english, 1990

9

New Horizons in Sperm Cell Research. Symposium, Fujiyoshida, Japan, 1986by Hideo Mohri

Review by: Alan C. Menge

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 334 KB

english, 1990

10

The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysisby Thomas J. R. Hughes

Review by: Robert J. Dexter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 502 KB

english, 1990

11

The Noise in Natural Phenomena

Bruce J. West and Michael Shlesinger

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.53 MB

english, 1990

12

Plant Cold Hardiness. Plant Biology, 5by Paul H. Li

Review by: Vacob Levitt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 331 KB

english, 1990

13

The Biochemistry of Plants, A Comprehensive Treatise, Vol. 13: Methodologyby David D. Davies

Review by: J. B. Harborne

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1990

14

Plant Resins

Jean H. Langenheim

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.55 MB

english, 1990

15

Back Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.38 MB

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16

Sigma Xi National Lecturers, 1990-91

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.74 MB

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17

Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology

Review by: Donald R. Griffin

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 661 KB

english, 1990

18

Exergy Analysis of Thermal, Chemical, and Metallurgical Processesby J. Szargut; David R. Morris; Frank R. Steward

Review by: Garry W. Warren

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 296 KB

english, 1990

19

Science and Objectivity: Episodes in the History of Astronomyby Norriss S. Hetherington;Planets and Perception: Telescopic Views and Interpretations, 1609—1909by William Sheehan

Review by: Marc Rothenberg

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 1990

20

Sigma Xi News

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 317 KB

english, 1990

21

Conformal Field Theory and Solvable Lattice Models. Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, 16by M. Jimbo; T. Miwa; A. Tsuchiya

Review by: John L. Cardy

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 326 KB

english, 1990

22

Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Batsby Thomas H. Kunz

Review by: Merlin D. Tuttle

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1990

23

In Vitro Culture of Higher Plants, 3rd edby R. L. M. Pierik

Review by: Trevor A. Thorpe

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 696 KB

english, 1990

24

Supernovae. Astrophysics and Space Physics Reviews. Vol. 6, Pt. 3by R. A. Syunyaev

Review by: Virginia Trimble

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

english, 1990

25

Computer Models of Mind: Computational Approaches in Theoretical Psychologyby Margaret A. Boden

Review by: Earl Hunt

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 351 KB

english, 1990

26

Excavations on Oronsay: Prehistoric Human Ecology on a Small Islandby Paul Mellars

Review by: Michael A. Jochim

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 641 KB

english, 1990

27

Surfactant Science and Technologyby Drew Myers

Review by: Sydney Ross

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 365 KB

english, 1990

28

Dynamical Systems III. Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 3by V. I. Arnold

Review by: Zbigniew Nitecki

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 326 KB

english, 1990

29

Circumstellar Matter. International Astronomical Union, Symposium No. 122by I. Appenzeller; C. Jordan

Review by: Robert E. Stencel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 568 KB

english, 1990

30

Directions in Chaos, Vol. 2. Directions in Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 4by Hao Bai-lin

Review by: Alan Wolf

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 520 KB

english, 1990

31

Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nucleiby Donald E. Osterbrock

Review by: John Mathis

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 333 KB

english, 1990

32

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemiaby Aaron Polliack; Daniel Catovsky

Review by: Richard A. Binder

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 581 KB

english, 1990

33

Population Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker. Monographs in Population Biology, 24by Walter D. Koenig; Ronald L. Mumme

Review by: Robert L. Curry

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1990

34

Front Matter

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

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PDF, 3.52 MB

english, 1990

35

Astrophotography. Proceedings of the IAU Workshop, Jena, April 1987by S. Marx

Review by: G. de Vaucouleurs

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

english, 1990

36

Animal Liberators

Review by: Kim Stallwood

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 1990

37

Colorado Flora: Western Slopeby William A. Weber

Review by: Garland R. Upchurch Jr.

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1990

38

Between Quantum and Cosmos

Review by: William H. Press

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.28 MB

english, 1990

39

Real Analysisby William O. Ray

Review by: R. B. Burckel

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

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PDF, 588 KB

english, 1990

40

Marginalia: Creation and Discovery

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

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PDF, 451 KB

english, 1990

41

Elastic Mechanisms in Animal Movementby R. McNeill Alexander

Review by: Andrew A. Biewener

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 591 KB

english, 1990

42

Neuroimmunomodulationby J. Regino Perez-Polo; Karen Bulloch; Ruth Hogue Angeletti; George A. Hashim; Jean de Vellis

Review by: T. Ming Chu

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 708 KB

english, 1990

43

Radioactive Waste Disposal and Geology. Topics in the Earth Sciences, Vol. 1by Konrad B. Krauskopf

Review by: Richard M. Foose

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 577 KB

english, 1990

44

Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Ecological Studies, Vol. 66by Wayne T. Swank; D. A. Crossley

Review by: Paul K. Barten

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 359 KB

english, 1990

45

The Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicineby William Coleman; Frederic L. Holmes

Review by: W. Bruce Fye

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 333 KB

english, 1990

46

Orchids of the Western Great Lakes Region, revised editionby Frederick W. Case

Review by: C. J. Sheviak

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 579 KB

english, 1990

47

Conservation of Marine Archaeological Objects. Series in Conservation and Museologyby Colin Pearson

Review by: D. L. Hamilton

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 420 KB

english, 1990

48

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Authorby Clifford Geertz

Review by: Paul Shankman

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 420 KB

english, 1990

49

The Complex Analytic Theory of Teichmüller Spaces. Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advanced Textsby Subhashis Nag

Review by: Irwin Kra

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 365 KB

english, 1990

50

Fundamental Process Controlby David M. Prett; Carlos E. García

Review by: Hsueh-Chia Chang

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 1990

51

The Science of Computing: Stopping Computer Crimes

Peter J. Denning

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 614 KB

english, 1990

52

Interferon Treatment of Neurologic Disordersby Richard Alan Smith

Review by: Bill Garoutte

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 351 KB

english, 1990

53

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Interactions with the Immune System. Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis seriesby Mauro Bendinelli; Herman Freeman

Review by: Alva H. Johnson

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 1990

54

The Few Body Problem. Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 96, Turku, Finland, June 1987. Vol. 140by M. J. Valtonen

Review by: Martin D. Weinberg

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

english, 1990

55

Plant Vacuoles: Their Importance in Solute Compartmentation in Cells and Their Applications in Plant Biotechnology. NATO Advanced Science Institute Series A: Life Sciences, 134by B. Marin

Review by: Eduardo Blumwald

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 567 KB

english, 1990

56

An Introduction to the Theory of Real Functionsby Stanislaw Lojasiewicz; G. H. Lawden

Review by: Stuart Jay Sidney

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 354 KB

english, 1990

57

Normal and Neoplastic Blood Cells: From Genes to Therapy. Proceedings, Rome, 1988. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 511by Cesare Peschle

Review by: Giorgio Trinchieri

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 1990

58

Satellite Astronomy: The Principles and Practice of Astronomy from Space. Series in Astronomyby John K. Davies

Review by: Stephen P. Maran

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 582 KB

english, 1990

59

A Primate Radiation

Review by: Don J. Melnick

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 920 KB

english, 1990

60

Extragalactic Astronomyby B. A. Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov

Review by: John P. Huchra

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 346 KB

english, 1990

61

Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems: A Data Source Book. Tasks for Vegetation Science, 19by R. L. Specht

Review by: Jon E. Keeley

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 1990

62

Soilborne Plant Pathogensby George W. Bruehl

Review by: Ralph Baker

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 567 KB

english, 1990

63

Numerical Modeling in Science and Engineeringby Myron B. Allen; Ismael Herrera; George F. Pinder

Review by: Donald Greenspan

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 365 KB

english, 1990

64

Letters to the Editors

Nancy Knowlton, Julian Kane, Anu Chadha, Edwin Eames, H. Thomas Sklebar and David R. Hershey

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.20 MB

english, 1990

65

Nervous Systems in Invertebrates

Review by: G. O. Mackie and D. H. Paul

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 445 KB

english, 1990

66

The Eukaryote Genome in Development and Evolutionby Bernard John; George L. Gabor Miklos

Review by: Thomas H. Eickbush

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 361 KB

english, 1990

67

The Geometry and Dynamics of Magnetic Monopoles. M. B. Porter Lecturesby Michael Atiyah; Nigel Hitchin

Review by: Claude LeBrun

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 550 KB

english, 1990

68

The Sei Whale: Population Biology, Ecology and Managementby Joseph Horwood

Review by: Sally A. Mizroch

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

File:

PDF, 619 KB

1990

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The Sei Whale: Population Biology, Ecology and Managementby Joseph Horwood

Review by: Sally A. Mizroch

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 619 KB

english, 1990

70

Community and Evolutionary Ecology of North American Stream Fishesby William J. Matthews; David C. Heins

Review by: Irv Kornfield

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 379 KB

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Books Received

Journal:

American Scientist

Year:

1990

Language:

english

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PDF, 1.62 MB

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