Sue Howarth

How Homo became Sapiens — On the Evolution of Thinking

Peter Gärdenfors Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198528515 £17.99 250pp Reviewed by Hugh Fletcher Snakes The Natural History Museum Peter Stafford ISBN: 0565091492 £9.95 112pp Reviewed by Sue Howarth Medical Biochemistry: A core text with self-assessment Alexander Brownie and John Kernohan Elsevier, Churchill, Livingstone Second Edition, 2005 ISBN: 0443100152 £16.99 319pp Reviewed by Myles Ripley Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems Michael Begon, Colin R Townsend and John L Harper Blackwell Publishing UK Fourth Edition 2006 ISBN: 1405111178 £37.50 738pp Reviewed by Jean Wilson MBE Lapland — A Natural History Derek Ratcliffe A&C Black Publishers ISBN: 0713665297 £38.00 320pp Reviewed by Michael Reiss Medical Bacteriology — A Practical Approach (second edition) Peter Hawkey and Diedre Lewis (eds) Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0199637784 £40 436pp Reviewed by Richard O Jenkins The Neurobiology of Pain Stephen Hunt and Martin Koltzenburg (Eds) Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198515618 £60.00 403pp Reviewed by Kevin Coward Health & Disease — Presentation Media (Version 2) BIOZONE Learning Media (UK) Ltd www.biozone.co.uk CD-ROM £99.95 Reviewed by Richard O Jenkins Statistics explained — an introductory guide for life scientists Steve McKillup Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521543169 £19.99 267pp Reviewed by Mark Winterbottom

Question Genie For Biology. (Resource Review) Birchfield Interactive pic, Cardiff, UK. 2002.

Books Practical Methods in Ecology P.A. Henderson. 2003. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 150pp. £19.99. ISBN: 1-40510-244-6 Reviewed by James Banks and Pauline Lowrie Books Using the Digital Microscope Brian J Ford. 2002. Cambridge: Rothsay House. 35pp. £4.95. ISBN: 0-9543595-0-X Reviewed by Paul Pursglove Books Biotechnology: the making of a global controversy M W Bauer and G Gaskell (eds), 2002, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 411pp. £19.99. ISBN 0-521-77439-X (paperback). Reviewed by Richard O Jenkins Books Windermere: restoring the health of Englands largest lake A D Pickering. Freshwater Biological Association, Cumbria. ISBN 0-900386-68-1. £10.00 paperback Reviewed by Sue Dale Tunnicliffe Books Dragonflies Steve Brooks. 2003. London: The Natural History Museum. 96pp. £9.95. ISBN: 0-565-09180-8 Reviewed by Barbara Geatrell Software PaleoBase: Macrofossils Part 1.0 Norman MacLeod, Christopher Stevens, Paul Taylor, Richard Fortey, David Lewis, Sarah Long, Claire Mellish and Andrew Ross. 2000. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, UK (on behalf of the Natural History Museum). ISBN: 0-632- 05641-X System Requirements: PC: Windows 95, 98 or NT, Pentium 100Mz, 12 Mb RAM, 800 x 600 pixels, x6 CD Drive. Mac: OS 7.6, 9 Mb RAM, 640 x 480 pixels, x6 CD drive. Price: £25.00 (Single-User); £130.00 (Site Licence) Reviewed by Richard Sherbum Software Question Genie for Biology Birchfield Interactive plc, Cardiff, UK. 2002. Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Windows 95, 128Mb RAM and 150Mb of free hard disc space. Price: £99.99 + VAT for a site licence. Reviewed by Sue Howarth Software Butterflies, Bugs and other Beasties: a fun look at minibeasts in the garden Spiny Software, UK Forages 6–10 Supports National Curriculum Key Stages 1 and 2 Mac and PC compatible Price: £39.99 for 40-user site licence. Includes resource pack For ordering: Contact Spiny Software at PO Box 2311, Cardiff CF23 5YX or email to orders@spinysoft.co.uk. Tel: 029 20495992. Reviewed by Hilary Wilson Videos Mammals in Water 1992. Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Worldwide. Running time: 24 minutes. £145.00. Ordering: Tel. 01908 858785. Reviewed by Peter Bowen-Walker Videos Galapagos lives Narrator: Mike Bullivant, 1997. Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Worldwide. Running time: 30 minutes. Ordering: Tel. 01908 858785. Reviewed by Alan Cadogan