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Science and Medicine
REFERENCE WORKS
BERT HÖLLDOBLER, EDWARD O. WILSON "This magnificent and long-awaited volume is the definitive work on [ants]...Every imaginable area of interest to a biologist, a sociologist, even a curious citizen, is covered...At once remarkably exhaustive and parsimonious, the book does not stint on exhaustive detail wherever such detail is required." --Scientific American
HELMUT BLUME This color atlas describes the manifold landforms of the earth's surface and explains how they evolved. The author has selected photos from all over the world in order to achieve a rather complete and systematic survey. In general as well as in explaining photos, the text is both concise and easily readable even for the general reader looking for information on landforms, morphodynamic processes, and also for explanation of geomorphic terms. Text, figures, and photos are arranged in a most didactic way so that the color atlas may serve as an introduction to the subject of geomorphology.
KLAUS IMMELMANN, COLIN BEER
JOHN A. LONG In this first comprehensive account of Mesozoic vertebrates from New Zealand and Australia, John Long shows that, while the fossil record from the region can be sparse and fragmentary, finds from such sites as Dinosaur Cove, Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge, and the fossil trackways at Broome offer new and occasionally startling evidence that has the potential to challenge current views and reshape the debates around some of paleontology's most hotly contested questions.
KAREN J. CARLSON M.D., STEPHANIE A. EISENSTAT M.D., TERRA ZIPORYN With the publication of The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, women will have access to the combined expertise of physicians from three of the world's most prestigious medical institutions: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. For complete information on women's health concerns, physical and psychological, this A to Z reference book will be the definitive resource.
Third Edition EDITED BY ARMAND M. NICHOLI JR., M.D. Four years in the making, this entirely revised edition of a classic text provides a lucid and erudite review of the state of psychiatry today. Since the publication of the last edition in 1988, remarkable advances have been made in laboratory and clinical psychiatric research; the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) has been published; managed care has radically altered the provision of all medical care; and the profession of psychiatry has come to a sophisticated new understanding of the interplay between psychiatric knowledge and issues in the larger society. All these changes are reflected in the new text.
BARRY BOLTON
EDITED BY EVELYN FOX KELLER, ELISABETH LLOYD
BARRY BOLTON Organized by family group, genus group, and species group, this meticulously detailed but easily used volume is the ultimate resource for myrmecology. Along with Bolton's Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World, it will be the essential reference for anyone, expert or amateur, with an interest in ants.
A Guide for Scientists, Regulators, and Physicians, Fourth Edition JACOB SHAPIRO This highly successful manual has served for nearly three decades as the definitive guide to the safe use of radioactive materials. Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition presents a new dimension by adding coverage of nonionizing radiation, and is thus concerned with the entire field of radiation protection.
Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology, Sixth Edition ROBERT A. NOVELLINE, M.D. The development of new imaging technologies that make possible faster and more accurate diagnoses has significantly improved the imaging of disease and injury. This new edition describes and illustrates these new techniques to prepare medical students and other radiology learners to provide the most optimal and up-to-date imaging management for their patients. Hundreds of new diagnostic images have been included to illustrate the radiological characteristics of common diseases with state-of-the-art computed radiography, ultrasound, multidetector computed tomography, and magnetic-resonance images.
KAREN J. CARLSON M.D., STEPHANIE A. EISENSTAT M.D., TERRA ZIPORYN Here, in one volume, is what the experts know about preventing, recognizing, and treating the psychological disturbances and disorders that women experience uniquely. From the complexities of schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder to the delicate practicalities of sexual response, this guide offers all that a woman might want to know about protecting her psychological health.
KAREN J. CARLSON M.D., STEPHANIE A. EISENSTAT M.D., TERRA ZIPORYN This book brings the risks and realities of cardiovascular disease for women into clear focus. It considers questions of cholesterol and diabetes, stress and depression, diet and smoking, as well as diagnostic procedures and surgeries. Helpfully illustrated, this book is clear and comprehensive on every heart problem and related symptom and behavior. COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
GILBERT WALDBAUER Gilbert Waldbauer, a veteran entomologist and an accomplished birdwatcher, presents an excellent introduction to the intricate interplay of insects and birds, with a beguiling blend of anecdote, ornithology, and entomology. Profusely illustrated with drawings and color photographs, this book offers a cornucopia of facts about the life history and behavior of insects and birds.
THOMAS EISNER Enter an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of such minute explorations, For Love of Insects celebrates the small creatures that have emerged triumphant on the planet, the beneficiaries of extraordinary evolutionary inventiveness and unparalleled reproductive capacity.
Man and Wound in the Ancient World GUIDO MAJNO
BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT AND ISABELLE STENGERS The authors of this history of chemistry--respected, prolific scholars in history and philosophy of science--have distilled their knowledge into an accessible work, free of jargon. They have written a book deeply enthusiastic about the conceptual, experimental, and technological complexities and challenges with which chemists have grappled over many centuries.
MICHEL MORANGE This book offers a concise account for a general readership of the history of molecular biology. Michel Morange, himself a molecular biologist, takes us from the turn-of-the-century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene splicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s.
STEVEN LLOYD
A Comprehensive Handbook EDITED BY LAWRENCE E. LIFSON M.D. AND ROBERT L. SIMON, M.D. A unique and practical guide to clinical risk management, this book combines the expertise of mental health professionals, judges, attorneys, and insurance industry experts, to help the clinician provide effective treatment while reducing the risk of legal liability. Wide-ranging, clinically based, and up to date, it will be a welcome guide for medical and surgical practitioners as well.
A Celebration of People and Trees SHEILA CONNOR Taking us back to the birth of New England's forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the Archaic Indians who crafted canoes from white birch and snowshoes from ash, to the colonists who built ships of oak and pine, to the industrialists who laid railroad tracks on chestnut timber, to the tanners who used hemlock bark to treat the leather required to shoe the Union army. Lavishly illustrated.
The Discovery of Exotic Plants and Their Introduction into North American and European Landscapes STEPHEN SPONGBERG Stephen Spongberg's vividly written and lavishly illustrated "travel story" of trees and shrubs tells of intrepid explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealth of exotic plant species.
The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition EDWARD O. WILSON When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time, Sociobiology is probably more widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars who opposed its claim that human social behavior, indeed human nature, has a biological foundation. The controversy surrounding the publication of the book reverberates to the present day.
The Science of the Living World ERNST MAYR An eyewitness to this century's relentless biological advance and the originator of some of its most important concepts, Ernst Mayr is uniquely qualified to offer a vision of science that places biology firmly at the center, and a vision of biology that restores the primacy of holistic, evolutionary thinking. Both as an overview of the life sciences and as the culmination of a remarkable life in science, This Is Biology will richly reward professionals and general readers alike.
EDITED BY MIRKO D. GRMEK A landmark work, this history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine. Editor Mirko Grmek and his contributors adopt a synthetic, cross-disciplinary approach, with attention to cultural, social, and economic forces as they have affected the historical flow of knowledge and the practice of medicine.
Insects in the Web of Life GILBERT WALDBAUER "Persuasive, rollicking, and informative...[Waldbauer] may not get you to hug your termites, but you will see them in a whole new light...On the surface, bugs seem so alien to us. But in anecdote after anecdote, Waldbauer gives us plenty with which we can identify...[and] shows us that bugs are vitally important to our planet. They help plant life grow. They are great cleanup crews, removing waste material...They till and aerate soil. They provide food for all kinds of animals, including fish and birds and some mammals...Clearly, bugs are good." --Vicki Croke, Boston Globe PRIMARY SOURCES
Volumes I and II: Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logic Volumes III and IV: Exact Logic (Published Papers) and The Simplest Mathematics Volumes V and VI: Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics Volumes VII and VIII: Science and Philosophy and Reviews, Correspondence and Bibliography CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
5 Volumes Count Rumford
JOHN CAREY Plotting the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory, John Carey chooses accounts by scientists themselves that are both elegant and arrestingly written. The classic science-writers are here: Darwin, Huxley, Fabre. So, too, are the luminaries of the late-twentieth-century genre of popular science-writing which, Carey argues, challenges contemporary poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.
FRUED'S LETTERS
EDITED BY ALAN WALKER, RICHARD LEAKEY On the slopes of the Nariokotome sand river in Kenya, sifting through sediments more than a million years old, Kamoya Kimeu uncovered a small piece of a skull. Piece followed piece--facial bones, teeth, vertebrae--and little by little paleontologists put together the most complete early hominid ever discovered, a Homo erectus skeleton christened the Nariokotome boy. This phenomenal find, a milestone in the history of paleoanthropology, is fully documented in this remarkable book.
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