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ISR INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 1991 Volume 16 Editor Dr Anthony R. Michaelis Published by The Institute of Metals CONTRIBUTIONS NUMBER 1 Editorial The Breakdown of the Car Culture Dr Anthony R. Michaelis Comment Science and Technology in China Professor Zhang Zhongliang Comment The International Decade for Natural Commodore C. J. Littleton Disaster Reduction: an Australian Point of View Comment Global Warming Demands Dr David G. Stephenson Interplanetary Engineering Comment Project Simon: a Computer Database of |Dy an @i(ehur- me@i itices| Scientific-Instrument Makers People and Nature HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, OM, FRS Climatology and Society Emeritus Professor Stanley Gregory The Handbook of Man Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS Dam Technology: Reflections on its Transfer Waik Ter-Minassian Molecular Electronics: a New Interdisciplinary Dr Eliana Tapuhi Field of Research Early Consumer Protection Legislation: a 17th Professor Josef Eisinger Century Law Prohibiting Lead Adulteration of Wines Minds and Brains: Then and Now Professor M. A. Jeeves, FRSE The Shifting Centres of Science Professor Shigeru Nakayama Book reviews ‘The science of art: optical themes in Western art Professor Richard L. Gregory from Brunelleschi to Seurat’ ‘Gaps and verges’ Professor Phillips Salman ‘Poisons of the past: molds, epidemics, and history’ Lord Ashby, FRS ‘New religious movements, a practical introduction’ The Reverend Adam Ford, MA ‘Harrap’s book of scientific anecdotes’ Dr Basil Bard, CBE ‘Cantor’s dilemma’ Professor Arthur J. Birch, AC, CMG, FRS, FAA and Dr Michael J. Birch NBC90: ‘The directory of nuclear, chemical and Dr Anthony R. Michaelis biological arms and disarmament’ The Skeptic Denys Parsons ‘The historical development of quantum theory’ Sir William McCrea, FRS NUMBER 2 Editorial Environmental Warfare Dr Anthony R. Michaelis 97 Comment Scholarship in Museums Christopher Hill Comment Retirement, the Penultimate Barrier and Dr Basil Bard its Interdisciplinary Implications Comment The Culture of Eating Professor Dr Trude Ehlert, MA Comment Historical Development of Technology Maureen McKelvey and Society: Surplus of Labour and of Production Comment Education for Peace Christopher Meredith Comment Science in Spain Denys Parsons, MSc Comment You Won’t Be Able to Read This, Professor Charles E. Engel But... Comment Braving the New Biology Professor Bruce Ganem Lucretius: Atoms and Opinions Professor Alan L. Mackay, FRS Education for Life by Science The Reverend Adam Ford, MA Simulation: Training for Industry and the Military Peter F. Littlewood Services Consciousness and Individuality Dr J. M. Rendel, FAA Languages, Science and the Search for Extra- Professor Carl L. DeVito terrestrial Intelligence Natural/Unnatural Professor Roald Hoffmann The Potential and the Limits of Socially Professor James M. Buchanan Organised Humankind Doubts and Assumptions in Dinosaur Mechanics Professor R. McNeill Alexander, FRS Correspondence Book reviews ‘Sex determination in mouse and man’ Professor S. A. Barnett ‘Liftoff: the story of America’s adventure in space’ Adrian Berry *X-ray crystallography and computer graphics Professor Alan L. Mackay, FRS bring new approaches to the fight against viral diseases, cancer, and other ills’ ‘Chambers concise dictionary of scientists’ Dr Trevor I. Williams ‘Current research in Britain’ Dr Anthony R. Michaelis ‘The great age of the microscope. The collection of Di waVicem jeailias the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years’ ‘Handwritten letters of great scientists and Professor Dr G. A. von Harnack doctors’ ‘The world in their minds: information processing, I. P. Khosla cognition, and perception in foreign policy decision-making’ *‘Tomorrow’s materials’ Professor J. E. Harris, MBE, FRS, FEng NUMBER 3 Editorial Disaster Relief — Again, Too Little Too Dr Anthony R. Michaelis 193 Late Comment Bruges and Bathing Beaches Lord Ashby, FRS 198 Comment Astronomy: The International Science Sir Francis Graham-Smith, FRS 200 Comment Global Environmental Change: Science Professor M. G. K. Menon, FRS 202 and Democracy Comment Interdisciplinary Research in The W. Hutter 205 Netherlands Comment Global Warming and Climatic Change: Dr P. S. Low and Dr P. M. Kelly 207 African Perspectives The International Federation of Associations for Dr Peter Briggs 211 the Advancement of Science and Technology The Morphogenetic Toolkit Dr Jonathan Bard Securities Markets — Global and Perpetual: a Dr Vary T. Coates Study of Technological Change and Institutional Response Modelling the Ocean Circulation and its Dr David T. Anderson Interaction with the Atmosphere Spanish—American Silver: an Interdisciplinary Jocelyn Houseman and Bonanza Dr David A. Johnson A Philosopher looks at Astrology Professor Dr Bernulf Kanitscheider Biological Corrosion Dr Robert G. J. Edyvean and Dr Hector A. Videla Book reviews ‘What futurists believe’ Dr Roger F. Molina ‘Future work’ Dr Basil Bard, CBE ‘Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S. — an autobiography’ Erasmus Darwin ‘Evolution and extinction’ Professor S. A. Barnett ‘The Cambridge encyclopaedia of space’ James Hagler ‘The pencil: a history of design and circumstance’ Joseph F. Coates NUMBER 4 Editorial Europa — E Pluribus Unum Dr Anthony R. Michaelis Comment On the Importance of Ignorance in Charles L. Witte, MD, Ann Kerwin, PhD, Medical Practice and Education and Marlys H. Witte, MD Comment Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory and Dr Martha G. Russell ie lutlus Molecular Beauty Professor Roald Hoffmann The East Kimberley Impact Assessment Project Dr Helen Ross Public Action to Remedy Hunger Professor Amartya Sen The Global Research Agenda: a South—North International Development Research Perspective Centre The Aral Sea: Disaster Area and Interdisciplinary Lester R. Brown Solution Radiation and Society Dr Rosalyn S. Yalow Bookplates of Scientists Brian North Lee, FSA The Measurement of Time: its Role in Scientific Emeritus Professor Gerald J. Whitrow Thought since Galileo Exhibition review ‘Heurika’ — The Swiss National Research Dr Anthony R. Michaelis Exhibition 1991 Book reviews ‘Scientific analysis in archaeology’ Dr Michael J. Hughes ‘Life at low temperatures’ Dr David E. Pegg ‘The scented ape: the biology and culture of human Dr J. S. Jellinek odour’ ‘Evolutionary instability: logical and material Professor S. A. Barnett aspects of a unified theory of biosocial evolution’ ‘Jurassic Park’ Professor R. McNeill Alexander, FRS ‘Envisioning information’ Dr Paul Erni ‘Science, Churchill and me. The autobiography of Sir William McCrea, FRS Hermann Bondi’ ‘Introduction to interdisciplinary science’ Han Xu ‘Patterns of thought: the hidden meaning of the Emma St John Smith Great Pavement of Westminster Abbey’ ‘An engineer’s view of human error’ Dr Anthony R. Michaelis