Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 133: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION SCIENCE NEWS No. 33 comes at 2/- from Penguin Books | (Harmondsworth, Middlesex) and as usual contains a series of interesting review articles. We have a most intriguing account of up-to-date notions and experiments on Jnstinct and Learning by S. A. Barnett; a brief but cogent review of High-Energy Nuclear Disinte- grations by P. E. Hodgson; a ““dimensional”’ piece on Celtic Interlacing Patterns and Topo- logy by H. A. Thurston; an account of nature’s forces in Weather, Climate and River Erosion in the Ice Age by G. H. Drury; a most fascinat- ing description of Recent Work on the Bacteriophage by J. E. Hotchin; a piece specially applicable to our own readers, New Ways of Taking Off and Landing by J. M. Stephenson; and the usual round-up of recent developments in Research Re- port by editor A. W. Haslett. A very good buy for 2/- In 1946 was published a very important book, but it was expensive and did not reach the general reader—who needed it most. Now Penguin 132 Books has brought it out as a Pelican at 2/6—cheap enough for anyone. The book is SEx AND THE SOCIAL ORDER by Georgene H. Seward. It is a masterly survey among animals and man of the part played in the organisation of societies by that topic of eternal interest, the differences between male and female. Thus “‘sex’’ is used here in its true traditional embrasive sense and is not limited merely to the phenomena of repro- duction. Dr. Seward is a well- known psychologist of a great many years’ experience, and she has brought to the com- pilation of this book a scholar- ship and erudition that con- ceals the hard work she must | have put into it. Following the sixteen chapters in this 275- page book are 701 references to the literature; so that everything may be checked, and everything may be looked into further if so desired. We heartily recommend this inex- pensive but valuable book to readers of all ages and sexes! Few arts are as firmly based on scientific principles as photography, and in few arts comiclooks.cormn