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Dinosaur data book D. Lambert. 320 pp. Oxford: Facts on File, 7992 in association with the British Museum (Natural History). £8.95. ISBN 0 8160 2431 6 Reviewed by Sue Hull
The rise and fall of the ...third chimpanzee J. Diamond. 360 pp. London: Vintage, 1992. £6.99. ISBN 0 09 991380 1 Reviewed by Ian Carter
How animals behave: animal defences J. Cherfas. 32 pp. London, Cassell Publishers, 1991. £6.99. ISBN 0 304 31972 4 Reviewed by Sharon Lane
How animals behave: animal societies J. Cherfas. 32 pp. London: Cassell Publishers, 1991. £6.99. ISBN 0 304 31974 0 Reviewed by Jacob Low
Issues for the nineties. Vol. 3: animal rights C Donnellan. 40 pp. Cambridge: Independence Educational Publishers, 1990. £4.95. ISBN 1 872995 01 2 Reviewed by Roger Lock
Issues: a resource book for A-level general studies and 16-19 Entitlement Curriculum; animal experiments M. Balls, J. Fenlem and E Joint. 15 pp. Cambridge: Hobsons Publishing, 1992. £3.75. ISBN 1 85324 580 1 Reviewed by Ralph Heywood
The butterflies and moths of Radipole School/The birds of Radipole School N. Arnold. 29/31 pp. Weymouth, Dorset: Radipole County Primary School, 1992/1989. £1.50 each (inc. p & p) Reviewed by Nigel Collins
An introduction to snails and snail farming A. Gardner. 23 pp. Worcester: New Dawn Products, 1992. £3.75. ISBN 0 9519104 OX. (Available from A. Gardner, 24 Grove Crescent, St Johns, Worcester WR2 5HH.) Reviewed by Nigel Collins
Issues for the nineties, Vol. lO: AIDS C. Donnellan. 40 pp. Cambridge: Independence Educational Publishers, 1991. £4.95. ISBN 1 872995 10 1 Reviewed by Michael Reiss
Why does my heart beat?: questions about the human body answered by the Natural History Museum P. Whitfield and R. Whitfield. London: Natural History Museum Publications, 1988. £7.95. ISBN 0 565 01076 X Reviewed by Myra Brown
Issues for the nineties, Vol. 11 : medicine, magic or miracle? C. Donnellan. 40 pp. Cambridge: Independence Educational Publishers, 1991. £4.95. ISBN 1 87299509 8 Reviewed by Michael Reiss
Wetlands Eds. M. Finlayson and M. Moser. 224 pp. Oxford: Facts on File and IWRB, 1991. £ 19.95. ISBN 0 8160 2556 8 Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie
Water: its global nature M. Allaby. 208 pp. Oxford: Facts on File, 1992. £18.95/$35.00. ISBN 0 8160 2526 6 Reviewed by Tessa Carrick
An ABC of teaching acid rain: a handbook for primary school teachers (with accompanying worksheets for pupils) S. Hare and J. Longhurst. 47pp. Manchester: Atmospheric Research and Information Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1992. £7.00. Reviewed by Sue Herring
Learning from the land Eds. J. Bostock, D. Gotland, J. Tirrell, and J. Whelan. 27pp. London: Food and Farming Information Service, 1992. Available free (send s.a.e.) from Food and Farming Information Service, European Business Centre, 460 Fulham Road, London SW6 1 BY. Tel: 071-610 0402 Catherine Mowat
An introduction to the principles of crop experimentation 3rd edn. A. C. Clewer and D. H. Scarisbrick. 146 pp. London: BASF, 1991. £12.00. ISBN 0 86266 190 0 Reviewed by N. Clipson
The action plant: movement and nervous behaviour in plants P. Simons. 323 pp. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. £25.00. ISBN 0 631 13899 4 Reviewed by Liz Sheffield
Introduction to the principles of plant taxonomy 2nd edn. V. V. Sivarajan and N. K. B. Robson. 306 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. £40.00/£ 15.95. $79.50/$29.95. ISBNs 0 521 35587 7/35679 2 Reviewed by Charles S. Stirton
Plants across the curriculum: a Kew INSET pack K. Fry and G. Bromley. Richmond, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, in association with the Dept. of INSET, Brighton Polytechnic, 1992. £6.50. ISBN 0 947643 23 0 Reviewed by Anne Heaton
Flowers in the grass: creating and managing grasslands with wild flowers H. J. Ash, R. Bennett, and R. Scott. 68 pp. Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: English Nature, 1992. £10.00. ISBN 1 85716 039 8 Reviewed by Catherine Mowat
Ecology for the National Curriculum: investigations in the school environment G. M. Williams and W. H. Dowdeswell. 89 pp. London: Collins Educational, 1990 (1992 with corrections). £31.00. ISBN 0 00 322 321 3 Reviewed by John A. Barker
Focus on Biology: habitats and the environment P. Freeland. 119 pp. Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. £8.99. ISBN 0 340 53267 X Reviewed by Brian Kemplay
The professional development of the science teacher: establishing a climate for target setting and appraisal Ed. H. Johnson. Hatfield, Hertfordshire: Association for Science Education, 1989. £20.00. ISBN 0 86357 105 0 Reviewed by Angela Dixon
Work out human biology GCSE 2nd edn. R. Soper. 267pp. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1992. £5.99. ISBN 0 333 56862 1 Reviewed by Jean Potter
The world of the microscope: a practical introduction with projects and activities C. Stockley and C. Oxlade. 48 pp. London: Usborne, 1989. £3.50. ISBN 0746002890 Reviewed by Neil Wride
Bioview A 3-D database and teacher's guide. Available for RM Nimbus and IBM PC computers. Published by and available from Educational Computing Unit, Centre for Educational Studies, King's College, Waterloo Road, London SEI 8TX. (Tel. 071-872 3126; fax. 071-872 3172.) Price £60-single user licence; £80-site licence Reviewed by Chris Atkinson
Flora: the computerised key A software package comprising a 5¼ or 3½ inch disc for IBM-PC or compatible computers. The program will also run on RM Nimbus machines in full IBM mode and on Acorn A3000 under PC emulation. Available from Dr Eirene Williams, The Flora Project, Seale Hayne Faculty, University of Plymouth, Newton Abbot, Devon TO 12 6BR. (Tel. 0626-325667; fax 0626-325605.) Educational price for a single copy £68 (plus VAT); site licences are between £180 (6 users) and £320 (more than 36 users) Reviewed by Andrew Powell
MVSP Plus Multivariate statistical package (version 2.0) written by W. L Kovach. Available on 5¼ and 3½ inch discs for IBM-PC or compatible computer from Dr. W. L. Kovach, Institute of Earth Studies, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales SY23 3DB. Prices MVSP Shareware: £5.00/$10.00; MVSP Plus: £40.00/$75.00 Reviewed by John Breen
At the cutting edge-new molecules A 28-minute video produced by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Video Education Australasia. The video is accompanied by teacher's notes. Available from Boulton-Hawker Films Ltd., Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 5BC. (Tel. 0473-822235; fax. 0473-824519.) Price £35.00 plus VAT Reviewed by Mary R. Jones
Focus on vision A 30-minute video (VHS-PAL), 11-page teacher's notes, 7 activity sheets and a poster (50 cm x 35 cm). Produced by and available free of charge from Orbis International, 13a Highgate Street, London W8 7SP. (Tel. 071-243 1100; fax. 071-792 9737.) Reviewed by Heather Murray
Farming and the environment in the United Kingdom A chart (70 x 100 cm) with a 4-page A4 set of teacher's notes. Produced by and available from Pictorial Charts Educational Trust, 27 Kirchen Road, West Ealing, London W13 OUD. (Tel. 081-567 9206/5343.) Ref. T83. Price £6.00 plus VAT Reviewed by Sarah McKenzie
Medicines, health and you A series of five posters and accompanying notes distributed free of charge to all UK secondary schools, Colleges of further education, Teachers' centres, Science advisors and SATROs. Further sets of posters can be obtained from Miss Kerry Sainsbury, ABPI, 12 Whitehall, London SWIA 2DY. (Tel. 071-930 3477; fax. 071-930 3290.) Price £15.00 (inc. VAT, p & p) Reviewed by Bob Stephenson
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Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665: Reconstruction and Defeat by David Goodman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 305, maps, tables and illustrations. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN ...0-521-58063-3.
Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire 1688-1775 by H.V. Bowen. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.xiii + 257. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-333-62208-1; 0-312-15876-9.
William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire edited by Stewart J. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 276. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57083-2.
A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660-1800 by Philip Lawson. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997. Pp.xiv + 298. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-86078-636-6.
Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India by Pamela G. Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996. Pp.xvii + 220. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-55247-8.
Questioning Slavery by James Walvin. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.xi + 202. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-415-15356-5; 0-415-15357-3.
God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica by Shirley C. Gordon. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp.xiv + 159, map. £33.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-25330-52-1.
West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan edited by Roderick A. McDonald. Kingston: University Press of the West Indies, 1996. Pp.xvi + 388. No price indicated. ISBN 976-640-02-9.
Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography by Brian Jenkins. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, distributed by Liverpool University Press. Pp.xii + 440. £32.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-85323-641-0; 0-85323-651-8.
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule by Anthony J. Barker. Basingstoke: Macmillan, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 225. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-333-66048-X.
Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 339, maps, figures and table. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-44131-5.
Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 by C.A. Bayly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 412, maps. £40.00/$64.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57085-9.
Mission and Tamil Society: Social and Religious Change in South India (1840-1900) by Henriette Bugge. Richmond: Curzon, 1996. Pp.223. No price indicated (pb). ISBN 0-7007-0292-X.
One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in Nineteenth Century North India by Christopher R. King. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.232. £14.99 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-563565-5.
Return to Empire: Punjab under the Sikhs and British in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Andrew J. Major. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. Pp.xii + 247. Rs. 400 (hardback). ISBN 81-207-1806-2.
Punjab, Volume 180: world Bibliographical Series, compiled by Darshan Singh Tatla and Ian Talbot. Oxford: Clio Press, 1995. Pp.xxxvii + 325, maps. £56.75 (hardback). ISBN 1-85109-232-3.
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire by Stephen Arata. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 235. £30 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-56352-6.
Writings on Writing by Rudyard Kipling edited by Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xxviii + 213, illustrations. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-44527-2.
Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain by H.L. Malchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 335, illustrations. £35 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 08047-2664-7; 08047-2793-7.
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996. Pp.xi + 336, illustrations. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-904180-44-1.
Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 by H.L. Wesseling. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Westport, Connecticut, and London: Praeger, 1996. Pp.xvi + 446. £20.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-275-95138-3.
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump by Mordechai Tamarkin. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1996. Pp.x + 339. £35.00 (hardback); £16.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-7146-4627-X; 0-7146-4627-3.
Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion by Robert Aldrich. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xvi + 369, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-56739-0; 0-333-56740-4.
Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns and the Making of Modern Siam: Diaries and Letters of King Chulalongkorn's General Adviser by W.E.J. Tips. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1996, with foreword by Baron Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns. Pp.xxvi + 477, 28 plates + 14 text illus. $35.00 (paperback). ISBN 974-8496-59-9.
The History of the Caribbean Telegraphs before the First World War by Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1996. Pp.215, maps. FIM 140 (paperback). ISBN 951-41-0804-3.
The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I by Hermann Joseph Hiery. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1995. Pp.xvii + 387, maps, tables, illus. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-8248-1668-4.
The North Atlantic Triangle in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1902-1956 edited by B.J.C. McKercher and Lawrence Aronsen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp.298. £35.75 (hardback); £13.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-8020-0520-9; 0-8020-6957-6.
Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategies edited by Keith Neilson and Elizabeth Jane Errington. Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 1995. Pp.238. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-275-94898-6.
Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman by Jason Tomes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.x + 323. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521 -58118-4.
Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Divided Island by David Harkness. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.x + 190, map. £9.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-56796-X.
The Guthrie Flagship: United Sua Betong by C.N. Parkinson, edited and abridged by J.M. Gullick. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1996. Pp. x + 142, map, illustrations. No price given; obtainable in Britain from John Randall, bookseller. ISBN 967-9948-07-2.
British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence 1930-1957 by Simon C. Smith. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.x +234, plates. £16.99 (hardback). ISBN 967-65-3089-1.
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 by Ian Copland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 302. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57179-0.
Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1948-53 by Peter Lowe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 288, maps. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7190-2508-7.
Seretse Khama 1921-80 by Thomas Tlou, Neil Parsons, and Willie Henderson. Braamfontein: Macmillan Boleswa/South Africa, 1995. Pp.xxiii + 467, maps, illustrations. No price indicated. ISBN 0-7978-0580-X.
Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad 1935-1947 by Marika Sherwood. Legon, Ghana: Freedom Publications, 1996. (Distributed by the African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU.) Pp.202, illustrations. £9.50/$17.00 (paperback). ISBN 9988-7716-0-6.
Industrialisation and the British Colonial State: West Africa 1939-1951 by L.J. Butler. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.x + 310, diagram. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-7146-4703-9.
Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945-1954 by Michael J. Cohen. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xv + 349, maps. £37.50 (hardback); £18.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-7146-4720-9; 0-7146-4269-X.
Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958 by Paul W.T. Kingston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xi + 191. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-56346-1.
The Colonial Wars Source Book by Philip J. Haythornthwaite. Pp.384, illustrations, maps. London: Arms and Armour, Cassell, 1995. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-85409-196-4.
The British Empire: An Encyclopedia of the Crown's Holdings, 1493 through 1995 compiled by John Stewart. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland, 1996, distributed in Britain by Shelwing, Folkestone. Pp.xiv + 370. £58.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-7864-0177-X.
Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth by Alan Palmer. London: John Murray, 1996. Pp. xviii + 395. £25.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-7195-5650-3; 0-7195-5657-0.
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