Volume 86 | Number 1 | January-February 1998
Marshall Specter
A review of Boundaries and Barriers: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge, edited by John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist.
Tom Tietenberg
A review of Acid Rain and Environmental Degradation: The Economics of Emission Trading, by Ger Klaassen.
Y. Ng
A review of The Inflationary Universe: The Quest For a New Theory of Cosmic Origins, by Alan Guth.
Douglas Crawford-Brown
A review of The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis, by William A. Wallace.
David Butler
A review of A Quest for Life: An Autobiography, by Ian L. McHarg.
Peter Robinson
A review of Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, by Charlotte Klonk.
John Hren
A review of Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science, by David B. Williams and C. Barry Carter.
Earl Dowell
A review of Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, by Philip Holmes, John L. Lumley and Gal Berkooz.
Philippe R. Di Francesco
A review of Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena, by Martin H. Krieger.
Total Records : 27
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