Finding My Way is a textbook dealing The diagrams used in the text are ex- new edition maintains the high standards with adolescent sexuality. It includes five tensive and helpful in showing the stu- of earliereditions: the excellent dissection parts and 15 chapters. The first section dent the progressive steps involved in a directions for dogfish shark, skate, Nec- addresses topics of immediate concern particular procedure. For example, the turus, turtle, pigeon, cat, and rabbit; for young people, like sex roles and com- proper method for sterile transfer of cul- cogent discussions of the conceptual municating between boys and girls. ture using the inoculating loop is shown framework of each system; and up-to- Parts two, three, and four explain how progressively in four outlined steps that date suggested reading lists for each of environmental factors influence sexual should leave the student with little doubt the organ systems. It is considerably behavior patterns, describe the typical as to how this procedure is conducted. expanded with more illustrations and anatomy and physiology of the male and The major topics covered in the with the addition of the many pertinent female body, and discuss some of the manual include: (1) Preliminaries to developments in the subsequent thirty- problems encountered during a teenage Laboratory Study, (2) Classical Micro- seven years after the second edition. A pregnancy. The last section deals with biological Laboratory Techniques, (3) major change, indicative perhaps of the unusual forms of sexual behavior, such Bacterial Growth, (4) Antibiotics, Dis- information explosion, is from a sin- as homosexuality and sex offenses. At infectants, and Antiseptics, (5) A Study gle author, Libbie Hyman, to separate the end of each chapter, students are of Bacteria in Three Natural Habitats; authors-revisers for each chapter. The presented with a series of questions Soil, Water, and Air. The text is also pro- eleven authors, from the United State of that encourage them to make personal vided with a table of logarithms to base America and England, are specialists in decisions about their own sexuality and 10, supplementary articles, and a the subject or one of the subjects of their sexual behavior. glossary of terms. chapters. E. J. W. Barrington, for ex- Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/42/8/499/38763/4447072.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 Case studies are integrated throughout The author states that the detailed ample, presents the protochordates and the textbook. These examples provide explanations and the simplicity of the Marvalee H. Wake the introduction to students with an opportunity to explore approach have given students greater ontogeny, among here other duties. relevant social problems in the context understanding and success in the labor- Whatever their speciality, they are re- of real-life situations and furnish them atory with a resulting sustained interest searchers and teachers interested in with a mechanism to investigate both and motivation. I agree with the author comparative anatomy. sides of some controversialtopics. that this is the strong point of the text. In modern parlance, the bottom line According to the preface, the authors However, this manual is its brevity does is the value of the textbook for our stu- interviewed parents, teachers, school not include several exercises that should dents. Its price is within the present officials, and students to determine what be included in an introductory micro- level of textbook costs and is relatively most adolescents want to know about biology course for biology majors. economical when considered that it will themselves and their peers of the op- Johnny L. Mattox serve as a laboratory manual as well as posite sex. Upon review of this textbook, ItawambaJunior College a textbook. It will be inadequate, as were the credibility of this claim is verified. Fulton, Mississippi the other editions, for the weaker student The information is up-to-date and is for it demands abilities of conceptuali- written in a style that adolescents will zation and imagination beyond mechani- understand. cal memorization. The student who has I would recommend the use of this Physiology and Anatomy difficultyfollowing the printed page and textbook in any secondary school. It requires realistic diagrams and photo- speaks frankly to adolescents about sex graphs for all dissections will need extra VERTE- without being offensive to dogmatic. HYMAN'S COMPARATIVE help where they are not included in the Charles R. Barman BRATE ANATOMY textbook. For the more gifted student Marvalee H. Wake, ed. 3rd ed., Universityof Wisconsin by it will offer a rich introduction to com- 1979. University of Press Superior parative anatomy at its best. And it will (5801 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago be a challenge to us to teach compara- 60637). 788 p. $22. tive anatomy rather than conducting The appearance of a new edition of strenuous exercises in feats of memory Hyman's Comparative Anat- of the anatomies of the Shark and the Microbiology omy is a landmark for many generations Cat. of teachers and students of comparative Ralph M. Wetzel Universityof Connecticut FUNDAMENTALS IN LABORATORY anatomy. I compared it, nostalgically, that I used as a stu- Storrs MICROBIOLOGY to the 1942 edition in my early years as a teacher. by Sandra S. Gottfried. 1979. Lydette dent and was an eminent Publishing Company (P.O. Box 654, By then Libbie Hyman zoologist at the Cedar Falls, Iowa). 94 p. $8. senior American Museum of Natural History, This text is a basic laboratory manual far removed from her teaching years at SEEING: ILLUSION, BRAIN AND providing introductory microbiological the where the first MIND techniques and experiments for students edition was published in 1922. by John P. Frisby, 1979, Oxford who have no prior knowledge of micro- The new edition continues to use the University Press (200 Madison Ave- biology. It takes a simple, straightforward organ system approach-e.g., comparing nue, New York10016). 160 p. $16.95. approach to use of classical methods the circulationof all the , then employed in the microbiology labor- the nervous system, and so on-a teach- Seeing examines the model used by atory with emphasis on the relationship ing arrangement I have always favored. many nonscientists, where the process between organisms and their environ- An alternative is the classical vertebrate of vision is compared to an individual ments. This text was prepared specifically study of the entire anatomical having an inner screen within the mind for the high school or junior/community system of one class of vertebrates, then where vision takes place, and examines college introductory microbiologycourse. another, from fishes to mammals. The the predictive failure of this model. A

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