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The article reviews the book "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science Including the Original Papers," by Alan Lightman.

Reviews the books "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919-April 1920," edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald, Robert Schulmann, Jázsef Ylly, Daniel J. Kennefick and Tilman Sauer and "The Born–Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times," by Albert Einstein and Max Born.

Reviews the book 'The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton: Narrow Roads of Gene Land. Volume II: Evolution of Sex,' by W.D. Hamilton.

Reviews the book `Semiconductor Devices: Pioneering Papers,' edited by S.M. Sze. Research papers on semiconductor devices dating back to the early years of this century; The early days of radio; More.

Reviews the book `The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell. Volume 1, 1846-1862,' edited by P.M. Harman.

The article reviews the book "Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology," edited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel.

Reviews the book "Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers With Commentaries," edited by Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax and James H. Brown.

Reviews the book `Paper Chemistry,' edited by J.C. Roberts. Appeals to paper scientists and technologists and highly recommended as a textbook for students and researchers.

Reviews the book `The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume 2: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909, edited by John Stachel.

Reviews the book `The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Citrus Fruit,' by David Freedberg and Enrico Baldini.

Reviews the book `The World on Paper,' by David R. Olson.

Reviews the science journals `Carbohydrate Letters,' edited by Pierre G. Sinay and `Cellulose,' edited by John C. Roberts.

Reviews the book `Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626,' by B.H.G. Wormald.

Reviews the book `The Pencil,' by Henry Petroski, an engagingly written treatise filled with fact, fancy and cogitation.

Reviews the essential conclusions of recent conflicting research papers on the mechanisms by which eukaryotic transcriptional activators work. VP16 and TFIID; A missing component; E1a and SP1; Conclusion.

Reviews the book `Vision: Coding and Efficiency,' edited by Colin Blakemore. Presents a collection of papers on comparative topics.

Reviews the book `Molecular Biology: A Selection of Papers,' compiled by S. Brenner, which contains some of the best papers from the `Journal of Molecular Biology' extending from 1959 to 1975. It celebrates the 30th anniversary of `JMB' and is a tribute to its founder John Kendrew.

Reviews the book 'Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology: Classic Papers With Commentaries,' by T.C. Whitmore.

Book review. `The Release of Genetically-Engineered Micro-Organisms' ed. by M. Sussman, C.H. Collins, F.A. Skinner, and D.E. Stewart-Tull. Collection of papers from a symposium on the dangers of creating genetically manipulated organisms.

Reviews the book `Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton. Vol. 1--Evolution of Social Behavior,' by W.D. Hamilton.

Reviews the book `I.E. Tamm: Selected Papers,' edited by B.M. Bolotovskii and V. Ya Frenkel.

Reviews the book `How To Lie With Maps,' by Mark Monmonier. The author want to alert the map-user to what he sees as different levels of cartographic misrepresentation. Examples of roads and towns that exist only on paper; More.

Reviews the journal `Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds,' edited by M. Zander. Aims to collate information from scientists working with polycyclic aromatic compounds in biology, physics and chemistry laboratories; Short papers, full-length articles and reviews; Useful to scientists working with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; More.

Reviews the journal `Cytokine,' edited by Scott Durum and Gordon Duff. Expansion of research into the biological activities of cytokines; Abundance of papers concerned with interleukin-1 and interleukin-6; High production quality of the journal;More.

Reviews the journal `Anticancer Drugs: An International Journal of Anti-Cancer Agents,' edited by Mels Sluyser. Rapid publication policy which aims to peer review and publish acceptable papers within 30-60 days.

Reviews the journal `Discovery and Innovation,' edited by T.T. Isoun. The journal is sponsored by the African Academy of Sciences, which is an offshoot of the Third World Academy of Sciences. Mixture of news, reviews and original papers somewhatdominated by Kenya and Nigeria; Abstracts in English and French; More.

Reviews two books by Frank Spencer: `Piltdown. A Scientific Forgery'; and, `The Piltdown Papers. Explores theories and facts that surround one of the most gigantic frauds in scientific history.

Reviews the journal `Metals Materials and Processes,' editor C.V. Sundaram. A quarterly journal that covers a wide range of topics and contains a good mix of review articles and research papers. B

The article features the works of Leonardo da Vinci's exhibitions across Europe which reflect his skills in the combination of art and science. The Universal Leonardo project, a collaboration of art and science historians, does justice to Leonardo's broad interests in a series of events across Europe. The exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum throws light on how Leonardo 'thought on paper' and the display at the Alte Pinakothek scientificicaly analyses the 'Madonna and Child.'

Reviews the exhibition titled 'Journeys on Paper,' by Chris Drury, shown at the Stephen Lacey Gallery in London, England until July 7, 2000.

Book review. `The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour,' ed. by Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson. Collection of papers from symposium on the domestic cat.

Reviews the book `Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe,' by Alexander S. Sharov and Igor D. Novikov. Biography of astronomer Edwin Hubble; Authors as representatives of Russian astronomy and astrophysics; Published papers on redshift-apparent magnitude; Lack of knowledge on American astronauts during Hubble's time.

Reviews the book `The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force: Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics,' by Allan Franklin. Detailed review of scientific papers, conference discussions and informal electronic-mail exchanges of the original collaborating workers concerning a possible extra component to gravity.

Reviews the `Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine,' edited by W. Bonfield and D.F. Williams. Quality of the first few editions; One note of discord; High quality of papers; More.

Reviews the journal `Behavioral Ecology,' edited by Staffan Ulfstrand and Donald L. Kramer. High caliber papers; Alluring cover photographs; More.

Reviews the journal `Bioconjugate Chemistry,' edited by Claude F. Meares. Representation of many different chemical and biological subjects; Immunoconjugates; Papers involving proteins, polypeptides, oligonucleotides, oligosaccharides, drugs and the biomolecules; More.

Reviews the book "The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes," by Richard Panek.