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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 ...

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S AND BOOK REVIEWS Richard Boothby. Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xv + 266 pp. The importance of Richard Boothby's Death and Desire lies in its demonstration of the theoretical centrality of the death drive to Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking seriously the commonplace about Lacan's "return to Freud," Boothby's account ma...

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We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...

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‘Heart Development and Regeneration’, edited by Nadia Rosenthal and Richard P. Harvey Published by Elsevier/Academic Press 3251 Riverport Lane, Maryland Heights, MO 63043, USA $199.95. ISBN 978-0-12-381332-9 (Set) Reviewed by Patrick P. L. Tam Embryology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute and Discipline of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia e-mail: ptam@cm...