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The structure of this book is an interesting variant on familiar text-books of psychology. After a brief introductory chapter on the subject-matter and methods of the science, the student is plunged at once into the technical field of animal psychology. The author admits in his preface that this chapter is " the least well rounded and comprehensive "; and this is true. It is so because many of ...

The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. By A. S. Eddington. Cambridge, University Press, 1923. VI + 247 pp. The Meaning of Relativity. By Albert Einstein. Translated into English by E. P. Adams. Princeton University Press, 1923. 123 pp. The Theory of General Relativity and Gravitation. By L. Silberstein. New York, Van Nostrand, 1922. IV + 141 pp. In attempting a combined review of these three bo...

Users of structural equation modeling (SEM), a method that has also been known as causal modeling, have learned to tread lightly around the subject of causality. After all, the empirical raw material of SEM is typically a covariance matrix derived from nonexperimental data, and research dogma indicates that this is insufficient for making statements about cause-and-effect relations. At least as...

The aim of this section is to give brief indications of the character, content, and cost of new books in the various fields of biology. More books are received by The Quarterly than can be reviewed critically. All submitted books, however, are carefully considered for originality, timeliness, and reader interest, and we make every effort to find a competent and conscientious reviewer for each b...

A CARDINAL GOAL of librarians of institutions of higher learning is to build up collections of permanent value. For a non-fiction work to serve this purpose, we would expect it to be read in whole or in part and to be referred to for such things as facts, opinions, ideas, or felicitous phrasing. College librarians have to buy books selectively, a task made more difficult by the rising cost of b...

In Chinese medicine, qi and blood are the most fundamental elements of the human body, and disorders affecting either of them can give rise to a variety of condi¬tions. Dysfunctions or abnormalities of the channels, collaterals, and the various tissues and organs of the body are all related to changes in the qi and blood. Understanding and treating these disorders is therefore very important i...

We describe a software book model that emulates a range of properties associated with physical books— analog page turning, visual location cues, bookmarks and annotations—and, furthermore, incorporates many advantages of digital environments—hyperlinks, multimedia, full-text search, automatic identification of synonyms, cross-referencing of key terms with an online encyclopedia, and an automati...