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(1) The Pastures of Wonder: the Realm of Mathematics and the Realm of Science (2) Modern Science: a General Introduction (3) The Rhythms of Life, and other Essays in Science (4) Short Stories in Science (5) Science and the New Civilisation (6) Popular Research Narratives (7) Men Who Found Out: Stories of Great Scientific Discoverers (8) This Bondage: a Study of the ‘Migration’ of Birds, Insects and Aircraft, with some Reflections on ‘Evolution’ and Relativity

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A. WHAT have you there?

(1) The Pastures of Wonder: the Realm of Mathematics and the Realm of Science.

Prof. Cassius Jackson Keyser. Pp. xii + 208. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1929.) 14s. net.

(2) Modern Science: a General Introduction.

Prof. J. Arthur Thomson. Pp. xi + 210 + 6 plates. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 3s. 6d.

(3) The Rhythms of Life, and other Essays in Science.

Dr. D. P. Fraser-Harris. (Science for You Series.) Pp. vii + 185. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1929.) 5s. net.

(4) Short Stories in Science.

J. G. Crowther. (Science for You Series.) Pp. viii + 213. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1929.) 5s. net.

(5) Science and the New Civilisation.

Robert A. Millikan. Pp. vi + 194. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.) 7s. 6d. net.

(6) Popular Research Narratives.

Vol. 3: Fifty Brief Stories of Research, Invention or Discovery, directly from the ‘Men who did it’. Pp. viii + 174 + 5 plates. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1929.) 4s. 6d. net.

(7) Men Who Found Out: Stories of Great Scientific Discoverers.

Amabel Williams-Ellis. Pp. 224 + 15 plates. (London: Gerald Howe, Ltd., 1929.) 5s. net.

(8) This Bondage: a Study of the ‘Migration’ of Birds, Insects and Aircraft, with some Reflections on ‘Evolution’ and Relativity.

Cmdr. Bernard Acworth. Pp. xxiv + 229. (London: John Murray, 1929.) 7s. 6d. net.

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Keen, B. (1) The Pastures of Wonder: the Realm of Mathematics and the Realm of Science (2) Modern Science: a General Introduction (3) The Rhythms of Life, and other Essays in Science (4) Short Stories in Science (5) Science and the New Civilisation (6) Popular Research Narratives (7) Men Who Found Out: Stories of Great Scientific Discoverers (8) This Bondage: a Study of the ‘Migration’ of Birds, Insects and Aircraft, with some Reflections on ‘Evolution’ and Relativity. Nature 126, 266–268 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126266a0

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