Forthcoming Books

AGRICULTURE The Transformation of International Agricultural Research and Development. J. Lin Compton, ed. Westview: October, 260 pp, $19.85. Assesses the influence of experiment stations on agricultural research and development and the effectiveness of their research. Includes discussions of the role of women in research and development, the role of research and extension services and the linking of traditional and modern agricultural knowledge. ANTHROPOLOGY Almost Human: A Journey Into the World of Baboons. Shirley C. Strum. Random House: November 9,384 pp, $22.50. A chronicle of the author’s 14 years of study in Kenya of the African baboon, discussing all aspects of their behavior and her new theory of how their social organization works, and how this then applies to human social organization. Explorer. Douchan Gersi. St. Martin’s Press: November, 288 pp, $17.95. Discusses the nature of ancient, traditional peoples by looking at their various beliefs and customs. BIOLOGY The Biology of the Honey Bee. Mark Winston. Harvard University Press: October 21, 288 pp, $29.95. Reviews aspects of honey bee biology including their social behavior, physiology and genetics. In addition looks at major controversies in current research, such as the role of dance language. The Retina: An Approachable Part of the Brain. John E. Dowling. Harvard University Press: November 2, 368 pp’ $37.50. Presents an overview of the function and organization of the eye. Also discusses the past, present and future of retinal physiology that can be understood by students and researchers alike. COMPUTERS Logic Programming: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Jean-Louis Lassez, ed. MIT Press: October, 1096 pp, $47.50. Discusses all aspects of logic programming, from the theory and foundations, architectures, programmmg languages and methodologies to databases and expert systems. Visual Reconstruction. Andrew Blake and Andrew Zisserman. MIT Press: October, 188 pp, $25. Discusses the treatment of continuity in vision by looking at two new concepts—weak continuity oonstraint and graduated nonconvexity algorithms. Multicomputer Networks: Message-Based Parallel Processing. Daniel A. Reed and Richard M. Fujimoto. MIT Press: October, 400 pp, $40. Provides information on many aspects of the design and use of multicomputer networks. Covers communication, hardware, operating systems, algorithms and theselection of network topologies. EARTH SCIENCE Monsoon Meteorology. C.P. Chang and T.N. Krishnamurti, eds. Oxford University Press: October 2, 560 pp, $85. A synthesis of recent findings and previously established knowledge about monsoon meteorology, both summer and winter, in Asia, including India, China and Japan. HEALTH POLICY The Health of Nations: True Causes of Sickness and Well-Being. Leonard A. Sagan. Basic Books: October 30, 240 pp, $19.95. A synthesis of historical, epidemiological and sociological studies that cover health policy from the beginning of modernization of health care to the present. HISTORY OF SCIENCE The Probabilistic Revolution. Volume 1: Ideas in History. Lorenz Krüger, Lorraine J. Daston and Michael Heidelberger, eds. Volume2: ideas in the Sciences. Lorenz Krüger, Gerd Gigerenzer and Mary S. Morgan, eds. MIT Press: October, (Vol 1) 1472 pp, (Vol 2) 480 pp $32.50 each, $60 set. Collection of essays from scientists, historians and philosophers from eight countries that trace the rise, transformation and diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. Merritt Roe Smith, ed. MIT Press: October, 408 pp, $9.95 P.B. A study by nine historians on the effects of the military on technological development, the fostering of new management and organizational techniques and shaping of new fields of study in American history. Provides a series of case studies. The Microwave Debate. Nicholas H. Steneck. MIT Press: October, 304 pp, $9.95 PB. Traces the debate over microwave radiation, from such sources as power lines, color TVs, radar and the RF sealers used in many industries, back to the 1930s when scientific research looked more closely at therapeutic and thermal aspects of radio-frequency radiation. Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist’s Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva. Herbert F. York. Basic Books: November 23,392 pp, $22.95. The memoirs of Herbert York, the first director of Defense Research and Engineering during the Eisenhower administration, giving insights into arms race decisions made at the highest levels, from his work on the first atomic bomb to his post as chief negotiator at the Comprehensive Test Ban talks. PHYSICS Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers in Quantum Mechanics. John S. Bell. Cambridge University Press: November, 108 pp, $44.50. The entire collection of published and unpublished papers by John Bell on the conceptual and philosophical problems of quantum mechanics. REFERENCE Statistics In Research: Basic Concepts and Techniques for Research Workers, Fourth Edition. Bernard Ostle, Linda C. Malone, eds. Iowa State University Press: October, 688 pp, $44.95. Explains the general role and specific applications of statistics in various types of research, takes into account the ever greater use of computers in this field. Needs Assessment: Theory and Methods. Donald E. Johnson, Larry R. Meiller, Lorna ClancyMiller and Gene F. Summers, eds. Iowa State University Press: October, 328 pp, $18.95. Twenty-three sociologists and social scientists have contributed chapters that look at the theory and method of needs assessment for all socioeconomic groups in America. Also discusses the responsibilities of the needs assessors. GENERAL INTEREST Dinosaurs Past and Present: volume 1. Sylvia J. Czerkas and Everett C. Olson, eds. University of Washington Press: October 15,164 pp, $35. Explores different lines of evidence that enable scientists to reconstruct the world of the dinosaurs. Also looks at the subsequent interaction between science and art that has developed as a way of illustrating that world. Fair Science: Women In the Scientific Community. Jonathan R. Cole. Columbia University Press: November, 352 pp, $16 PB. Examines the position of women scientists in America. Discusses methodological and practical problems women scientists face in the scientific community.

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