March 2003 Book Reviews

SIL Electronic Book Reviews 2003 - 026 Morphological productivity

Morphological productivity is one of the most contested areas in the study of word formation. In this research volume Bauer reviews the significant contributions of scholars to the subject over the past 20–30 years. (As a caveat, amongst the 300 or so references to those who have made a contribution only one was to an SIL scholar, and that was Pike 1967). His chapters range over all the key are...

March 2003

The toxic element arsenic is widespread in New Zealand’s aquatic and terrestrial environments. Arsenic is ubiquitous in all of the geothermal areas and waterways that fall within or pass-through the Taupo Volcanic Zone, an area in the central North Island that stretches from Mt Ruapehu to White Island (Figure 1). On its way to the surface, super-heated geothermal water dissolves appreciable amo...

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Advanced Cryptography March 19, 2003

Book Reviews Alan Law

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...