Forthcoming Books

This list of forthcoming books has been compiled from the latest information available from publishers. Dates of publication, prices and numbers of pages are tentative, however, and are subject to change. ASTRONOMY Flyby: The lnterplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2. Joel Davis. Atheneum: June, 256 pp, $17.95. Recounts the frustrations and achievements of project scientists involved with Voyager 2's encounter with Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. A Catalogue of Southem Peculiar Galaxies and Associatlons (2-volume set). Halton C. Arp and Barry F. Madore. Cambridge University Press: May, $125. Volume 1 presents information on more than 6,000 disturbed galaxies; the second volume reproduces the most spectacular photographs in such categories as galaxies with loops and tails, M51-types with companions on arms, and peculiar spiral galaxies. Mercury: The Eluslve Planet. Robert G. Strom. Smithsonian Institution Press: May, 160 pp, $19.95. A history of man's observations of Mercury, including information revealed by the Mariner 10 mission. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE Methods for Dlagnosis of Bacterlal Dlseases of Plants. R.A. Lelliott and D.E. Stead. Blackwell Scientific: May, 224 pp, $26. Describes diagnostic methods used by the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and by the National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. Dynamics of Protelns and Nucleic Acids. J.A. McCammon and S.C. Harvey. Cambridge University Press: May, 220 pp, $39.50. An introduction to the theory of atomic motion in proteins and nucleic ac-ids, describing detailed methods likely to be useful in computer-aided design ofdrugs, enzymes and other molecules. Blue Light Responses: Phenomena and Occurrence in Plants (2-volume set). Horst Senger, ed. CRC Press: May, $185. Reports on recently developed techniques and discusses uv light effects on organisms ranging from lower fungi to algae to higher plants. Cellular Chemllumlnescence (3-vol-ume set). Knox Van Dyke and Vincent Castranova, eds. CRC Press: June, $425. Provides a detailed re view of the instrumentation and applications of cellular chemilu-minescence, including an extensive assessment of data, theories and models for stimulus-secretion coupling in phagocytic cells. CHEMISTRY Advances in Organic Coatings Science and Technology (Volume 9). Angelos V. Patsis, ed. Technomic: June 1, 215 pp, $89. Contains technical reports on such topics as waterborne coatings, block and graft polymers and macromolecular biocides--all were presented at the 11th International Conference on Organic Coatings Science and Technology. CRC Handbook of Bimolecular and Termolecular Gas Reactions: Volume ll (2-volume set). Alistair Kerr and R.M. Drew. CRC Press: May, $375. A compendium of tables on topics including atom and radical reactions, ratios of rate constants of termolecular reactions, and group transfer reactions. ECOLOGY Frog Mountain Blues. Charles Bowden; photographs by Jack Dykinga. University of Arizona Press: May 22, $19.95. Depicts the natural history of the Santa Catalina Mountains, at the northern edge of Tucson, as the city pushes toward the wilderness. Handbook of Mammals of the North-Central States. J. Knox Jones Jr. and Elmer C. Bimey, eds. University of Minnesota Press: May, 308 pp, $29.50 HB, $15.95 PB. An introduction and guide to 99 native and five introduced species in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio; includes information on past and present distribution, morphology and natural history. Freshwater Marshes: Ecology and Wlldllfe Management (2nd edition). Milton W. Weller. University of Minnesota Press: May, 176 pp, $25 HB, $12.95 PB. Emphasizes the dynamics of inland freshwater marshes and their wildlife. Pollutant Transport and Fate in Ecosystems. P.J. Coughtrey, M.H. Martin and M.H. Unsworth. Blackwell Scientific: May, 420 pp, $70. A selection of papers presented at a meeting of the Industrial Ecology Group of the British Ecological Society on topics including acid deposition, heavy metals and radioactivity. European Handbook of Plant Diseases. I.M. Smith, S.A. Archer, J. Dunez, R. Lelliott and D.H. Phillips, eds. Blackwell Scientific: June, 600 pp, $55. Covers nearly 1,000 pathogens, including 600 fungi, 100 bacteria and 300 viruses and similar organisms. Populatlons of Plant Pathogens: Their Dynamics and Genetics. M.S. Wolfe and C.E. Caten, eds. Blackwell Scientific: June, 288 pp, $80. Assembles different concepts and ideas on the population biology of plant pathogens as discussed at a meeting of the British Society for Plant Pathology in Leeds. GENERAL AUDIENCE The Nemesls Affair: The Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science (PB edition of a 1986 release). David M. Raup. Norton: May, $6.95. Outlines the Nemesis theory of dinosaur extinction and the surrounding controversy within the scientific community. HISTORY OF SCIENCE Hlstory of the Theories of Aether and Electricity (2-volume set). Edmund Whittaker. American Institute of Physics/Tomash Publishers: May, $48.50. Volume 1 offers an expanded and revised presentation of the author's 1910 book on classical theories of aether through the l9th century; the second volume describes developments in the field since 1900, including the origins of relativity and quantum theory. Essays on the Hlstory of Organlc Chemistry. James G. Traynham, ed. Louisiana State University Press: May, 208 pp, $25. A look at some of the major issues in the development of organic chemistry in the l9th and 2Oth centuries. YelIow Fever in the North: The Methods of Epldemlology. William Coleman. University of Wisconsin Press: May, 202 pp, $45 HB, $19.95 PB. Traces the development of epidemiological inquiry in the 1820s and 1860s, focusing on yellow fever epidemics in Gibraltar, Swansea, and the French port of Saint-Nazaire. PSYCHOLOGY The Measurement of Moral Judgement (2-volume set). Anne Colby and Lawrence Kohlberg. Cambridge University Press: May, $165. A definitive presentation of Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development, including a guide to conducting and scoring the Standard Moral Judgement Interview and a discussion of its reliability and validity.

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