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Avian Leukosis. G.F. De Boer (ed). 292 pp. Martinus Nijhoff Publishing. Boston/ Dordrecht/Lancaster, 1987. Price Dfl. 176, U.S. $70, U.K. pound57.75. ISBN 0-8983-8872-4. Necropsy: (Simplified) Procedures and Basic Diagnostic Methods for Practicing Veterinarians. Albert C. Strafuss (Ed), 1988, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield. $US 39.75. ISBN 0 398 05375-8.     

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Research in Avian Coccidiosis. Proceedings of the Georgia Coccidiosis Conference, November 18-20, 1985. L.R. McDougald, LJP. Joyner and P.L. Long (Editors). University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science, July 1986, 642 pp. $25.00.     

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Form and Function in Birds. Volume 4. A.S. King and J. McLelland (Editors). Academic Press, New York and London. 591pp. 1989. ISBN 0124075045. £89.

Nononcogenic Avian Viruses. R. Pandey (Ed.) 136pp. Karger Publishing, Basel, 1989. Price £52.30. ISBN 3–8055–4827–3.     

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Marek's Disease - Scientific Basis and Methods of Control. L.N. Payne (ed.). 359pp. Martinus Nijhoff Publishing. Boston/Dordrecht/Lancaster, 1985. Price U.S. $55. ISBN 0-89838-730-2. The T.G. Hungerford Vade Mecum Series for Domestic Animals, No.2 Diseases of Birds, Avian Therapy and Disease Control. R.A. Perry, 145pp. Published by the University of Sydney Post-Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science, 1983. Price A$18.00 surface mail, A$24.65. ISBN 0 86758 156 5.     

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Avian Hematology and Cytology, 2nd edn. Terry W. Campbell, Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1995, 104 pp., pound56.95, ISBN 0-8138-2970-4 Healthy Free Range Hens. A guide to flock health and disease control for free range egg producers Neil Christensen, N. H. Christensen, Palmerston North RD 4, New Zealand, 1995, 114 pp. ISBN 0-473-03328-3 Advances in Avian Immunology Research, T. F. Davison, N. Bumstead & P. Kaiser (Eds) Abingdon, Oxon, Carfax Publishing Company, 1995 277 pp., pound40 ISBN 0-902879-65-0.     

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Development of the Avian Embryo. James Metcalfe, Michael K. Stock and Rolf L. Ingermann. New York, Alan R. Liss, Inc. ISBN 0-8451-4227-5. $79.50 Control & Therapy Articles No.2001 - No.2333, Audio Cassette Catalogue No.1324 - No.1511, Video Tape Catalogue No.1 - No.44. Index No.7 of the Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, 1986, pp.79. ISBN 0909973466. (Copies are available from The Director, Post-Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science, P.O. Box A561, Sydney South NSW 2000, Australia. Price (with order) A$7 posted surface mail, A$8 posted airmail).     

Books

Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, Vol. 1 First congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Proceedings. Edited by J. Anderson, 1978, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp 822, DM 56.00, $ 28.00, £15.00. ISBN 3-540-08916-0

Review of ISAM 1977 Stott, F.D., 1978, Academic Press, London. £10.50 ISBN 12-672-3508

Biomaterials: An introduction Joon bu Park, 1979 Plenum Publishing Co. pp 251, $22.50, £6.00 ISBN 0-306-40103-7

Proceedings of the Seventh New England (Northeast) Bioengineering Conference Edited by L.E. Ostrander, 1979, Pergamon, Oxford. US $50.00 ISBN 0-08-024634-6

Digital Hardware Design Catt, I., Walton, D. and Davidson, M., 1979, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke. pp 95, £4.50. ISBN 0-333-25981-5

Handbook of Clinical Ultrasound de Vlieger, Marinus, Holmes, J.H., Kazner, E., Kossoff, G., Kratochwil, A., Draus, R., Poujol, J. and Strandness, D. E., 1978, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. pp 970 + xviii. £42.50. ISBN 0-471-02744-8     

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Avian Medicine and Surgery R. B. ALTMAN, S. L. CLUBB, G. M. DOR‐RESTEIN and K. QUEENBURY (Eds) Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1997 1070 pp., £68 ISBN 0–7216–5446–0.     

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Safe Design and Construction of Electromedical Equipment Physiological Measurement Topic Group (Hospital Physicists' Association, London, 1983), pp. 43. £6.00. ISBN0-904-181-25-1. TGR 37.

The Directory of Schools of Medicine and Nursing Consultant Editor: Laidon Alexander (Kogan Page Ltd, London. 1983), pp. c. 700. Hard cover £14.95. ISBN 0-85038-608-X.

Biomedical Engineering 1: Recent Developments. Edited by Subrata Saha (Pergamon Press, Inc., New York, USA, Oxford, UK, Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia, 1982), pp. 410. Soft cover $55.00. ISBN 0-08-02 8826-X.

A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers By Peter Kenny (Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol, UK, 1982). pp. xii + 182. ‘Flexicover’ £6.50. ISBN 0-85274-553-2.

Doppler Ultrasound in Cardiology: Physical Principles and Clinical Applications Liv Hatle and Bjerrn Angelsen (Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, USA, 1982), pp. 238. $29.75. ISBN 0-8121-0852-3.

Computing in Medicine: Microprocessors, Signal Analysis, Modelling, Statistics and Information Systems. Edited by J. P. Paul, M. M. Jordan, M. W. Ferguson-Pel1 and B. J. Andrews (Macmillan Press, London, 1982), pp. 408. ISBN 0-333-31886-2.

An Overview of Ultrasound Theory, Measurement, Medical Applications, and Biological Effects. Edited by Harold F. Stewart and Melvin E. Stratmeyer (published by the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service Food and Drug Administration, 1983). $7.50. Stock NO. 01 7-015-00206-3.     

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Avian Immunology in Progress F. Coudert. (Ed.) INRA Editions, Paris, 1993, 351 pp., FF 165 (postage FF20) ISBN 2-7380-4090-3 Bone Biology and Skeletal Disorders in Poultry C. C. Whitehead (Ed.) Poultry Science Symposium No. 23 Carfax Publishing Company, Abingdon, 1992, 374 pp., pound80.00 ISBN 0-9028-7910-3, ISSN 09667318 Ostrich Diseases F. W. Huchzermeyer Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Republic of South Africa, 1994 121 pp. Price Rand 76-85 softback, including postage and packaging. The Veterinary Formulary Handbook of Medicines Used in Veterinary Practice Yolande Debuf (Ed.) The Pharmaceutical Press, London, 1994 480 pp., pound45.00 ISBN 0-85369-304-8.     

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Laboratory Minicomputing By John R. Bourne (Academic Press, New York, USA and London, 1981), pp. 297. $27.00 and $18.00: ISBN 0–12–119080–3.

Monitoring of Vital Parameters during Extracorporeal Circulation Edited by H. P. Kimmich (S. Karger AG, Basel, Switzerland, 1981), pp. × + 334. DM226.00; SwFr. 189.00; US $11325. ISBN 3–8055–2059-X.

Biomaterials 1980 Edited by G. D. Winter, D. F. Gibbons and H. Plenk, Jr. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 1982), pp. xxii + 829. $29.75. ISBN 0–471–10126–5.

Tribology of Natural and Artificial Joints By John H. Dumbleton (Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Oxford and New York, 1981), pp.460. $75.50; Dfl 155.00. ISBN 0–444–41898–9.

Thoracic Impedance Cardiodynamic Assessment: Validation and Clinical Use By F. D. Thompson and A. M. Joekes with a mathematical model by M. Girling (Ciba Geigy, London, 1981), pp. 108.     

Cognitive neuropsychology and language: The state of the art

A commentary on Surface Dyslexia, edited by K.E. Patterson, J.C. Marshall, and M. Coltheart. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd., 1985, 600 pages, ISBN 0-86377-026-6, £29.95 ($45.00); and The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language, edited by M. Coltheart, G. Sartori, and R. Job. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd., 1987, 432 pages, ISBN 0-86377-036-3, £29.95 ($45.00).     

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Animal Drugs and Human Health L. M. Crawford & D. A. Franco (Eds) Basel, Technomic Publishing Co, 1994 256 pp. Sfr 124 ISBN 1-56676-102-6 Raptor Biomedicine P. T. Redig, J. E. Cooper, J. D. Remple & D. B. Hunter (Eds) Keighley, Chiron Publications Ltd., 1993 265 pp., pound31.00 in UK; pound33.00 in continental Europe, post free ISBN 0-9507-716-4-3 Indian Poultry Industry Yearbook 1994 Shakuntala P Gupta (Ed.), 10th edition, 1994 718 pp., US $350 ( +postage $18) obtainable from Mrs S. P. Gupta, A-25, Priyadarshini Vihar, Delhi 110092, India.     

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Diseases of Cage and Aviary Birds, 3rd edn, W. J. ROSSKOPF & R. W. WOERPEL (Eds), 1996, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1088 xv + pp., pound90, ISBN 0-683-07382-6 Introduction to Veterinary Genetics, F. W. NICHOLAS, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, 317 pp., pound17.95, ISBN 0 19 854292 5 (paperback), ISBN 0 19 854292 3 (hardback) Ratite Management, Medicine, and Surgery, THOMAS TULLY, JR & SIMON M. SHANE, Malabar, Florida, Krieger Publishing Company, 1996 188 pp., pound53.95 (hardback), ISBN 0 89464 874 8 Poultry Diseases and Meat Hygiene. A Color Atlas, D.C. Herenda & D.A. Franco, Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1996, 264 pp., pound79.95, ISBN 0 8138 2463 X.     

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Rickettsial and Chlamydial Diseases of Domestic Animals ZERAI WOLDEHIWET & MIODRAG RISTIC (Eds) Oxford, New York, Seoul, and Tokyo, Pergamon Press, 1993 427 pp., US $125.00 ISBN 0-08-040831-1 Virus Infections of Birds J.B. McFERRAN & M.S. McNULTY Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokyo, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1993. 640 pp., US$ 242.75, Dfl. 425.00. ISBN 0-444-89899-9.     

Book Reviews

PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION, edited by J. L. Fox, Z. Deyl and A. Blazej. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York and Basel, 1976. 561 pp. ($45.00).

IMMUNOLOGY AND AGING, edited by T. Makinodan and E. Yunis. Vol. I in Comprehensive Immunology, Series Editors R. A. Good and S. B. Day. Plenum Medical Book Co., New York and London, 1977. 208 pp. ($22.50).

PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION, edited by J. L. Fox, Z. Deyl and A. Blazej. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York and Basel, 1976. 561 pp. 45.00).

IMMUNOLOGY AND AGING, edited by T. Makinodan and E. Yunis. Vol. I in Comprehensive Immunology, Series Editors R. A. Good and S. B. Day. Plenum Medical Book Co., New York and London, 1977. 208 pp. ($22.50).

PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION, edited by J. L. Fox, Z. Deyl and A. Blazej. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York and Basel, 1976. 561 pp. ($45.00).

IMMUNOLOGY AND AGING, edited by T. Makinodan and E. Yunis. Vol. I in Comprehensive Immunology, Series Editors R. A. Good and S. B. Day. Plenum Medical Book Co., New York and London, 1977. 208 pp. ($22.50).     

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Immunological Recognition of Peptides in Medicine and Biology: Edited by N. D. Zegers, W.J.A. Boersma & E. Claassen CRC Press - $115.00 (in US) - $138.00 (outside US)

Bacterial Endotoxins: Basic Science to Anti-Sepsis Strategies: J. Levin, J.H. van Deventer, T. van der Poll and A. Sturk (eds) Wiley-Liss, New York, hardbound, 456 pp., $99.95

Methods in Immunotoxicology: Edited by Gary R. Burleson, Jack H. Dean and Albert E. Munson Wiley-Liss Inc., New York, USA, 1995; hardbound; vol. 1 pp. xxii + 527 and vol. 2 pp. xxi + 467; $225     

Portable diathermy powermeter

Physical principles of audiology. Haughton, P M, 1980 Adam Hilger Ltd pp x + 183, £12.95 ISBN 0-85274 502 8

EEG Recording. Hector, M L, translated by Mollo, S and Osselton, J W. 1980 Butterworths pp 168, £9.95 ISBN 0-407 00136 0

The CMBES Academic series: clinical measurements, basic electricity, standards, cardiac pacing, parameters of fibrillation and defibrillation. T Fenton, B Finlay, R N Scott, Bruce Vachon, O Z Roy, 1979 Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, c/o National Research Council, Room 183, Bldg M-50, Ottawa, Canada

Holography in medicine and biology. Edited by G von Bally, 1979 Springer-Verlag, Berlin pp 269, $ 42.90, £22.00 ISBN 3-540 09793 7

Biomedical instrumentation and measurements. Cromwell, Leslie, Weibell, Fred J and Pfieffer, Erich A Prentice/Hall International pp 510, £14.25, $ 29.65 ISBN 0-13 076448 5     

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Lung Carcinomas Edited by Elizabeth M.McDowell. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1987, 410 pages, $40.00
Adipose Tissue Tumors. The American Society of Clinical Pathologists Classic Teaching Collections Soft Tissue Series No. 6 F.M. Enzinger, E.H. Soule & R. Lattes. American Society of Clinical Pathologists Press, Chicago (distributed by Raven Press, New York outside the US and Canada), 1986, 17 pages, $75.00
Striated and Smooth Muscle Tumors. The American Society of Clinical Pathologists Classic Teaching Collections Soft Tissue Series No. 4 E.H. Soule, R. Lattes & F.M. Enzinger. American Society of Clinical Pathologists Press, Chicago (distributed by Raven Press, New York outside the US and Canada), 1987, 33 pages, $75.00
Pathology of Neoplasia in Children and Adolescents M. Finegold. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1987, 481 pages, $60.00
Cytochemistry of the Gas-Exchange Area in Vertebrate Lungs C. Meban. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1987, 57 pages, DM 56.00
Pigment Cell, Vol. 8, Pathobiology of Malignant Melanoma Edited by D. Elder. S. Karger, Basel, 1987, 225 pages, $79.10
Concise Renal Pathology F.E. Dische. Castle House Publications, Tunbridge Wells, 1987, $48.00     

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Hearing Science and Hearing Disorders Edited by M. E. Lutman and M. P. Haggard (Academic Press, Inc. [London] Ltd, London, 1983), pp. 338. £1500 and S28-0O. ISBN 0-12-460440-4.

Denzil N. Brooks Withington Hospital, Manchester, UK

Sculptured Surfaces in Engineering and Medicine By J. P. Duncan and S. G. Mair (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1983), pp. 383. Hard cover £42-50. ISBN 0-521-23450-6.

R. J. Minns A. D. Craxford Dryburn Hospital, Durham, UK

Ultrasound Annual 1982 Edited by Roger C. Sanders (Raven Press, New York, 1982). pp. 363. S59-52. ISBN 0-89004-861-4.

D. O. Cosgrove Royal Mursilen Hospital, Sutton, UK

Electrocardiographic Data Acquisition and Applications for Cardiac Dysrhythmia Monitoring (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington, USA, 1983), pp. 27. $25-00, SI5-00 to AAMI members. ISBN 0-910275-19-X.

Alan Murray Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

The Impact of Computer Technology on Drug Information Edited by Per Manell and Sven G. Johansson (North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and New York, USA, 1982), pp. 262. Dfl. 8000 and $37-25. ISBN 0-444-864512.

Peter Jones The Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK

Biomechanics: Principles and Applications Edited by Rik Huiskes, Dick H. van Campen and Joost R. de Wijn (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, Boston, USA and London, 1982), pp. 458. Hard cover, Dfl. 15000 and S65O0. ISBN 90-247-3047-3. Part of Martinus Nijhoffs series ‘Developments in Biomechanics’.

E. J. Evans University College, Cardiff, UK Biomedical images and computers Edited by J. Sklansky and J.-C. Bisconte (Springer-Verlag, Berlin. FR Germany, 1982), pp.vii + 332. Soft cover DM49-50; USSf. 22-00 ISBN 3-540-11579-X.

D. Nicholas Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK Proceedings AAMI 18th Annual Meeting, 1983 Orders to AAMI, 1901 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 602, Arlington, Virginia 22209. USA.