What’s New in Paper Back

Wm. Heinemann & Co., Pi

lishers, have introduced a r series of paper-backs each ( signed to fit us more easily i; the scientific age we live in.

Originally they were published

the United States as part of a fr approach to the teaching and sti of physics, and as they are writ in English, and not in the langu of science (which is mathematii they are well-suited for the layn as well as the student.

The first five books in the Scie Study Series cover a large fi from soap bubbles to neutrons, i although reading them won’t t you into a nuclear physicist, it r allow you to understand what important men of our times

talking about.

This—remember?—is the age which there are no more front and no worlds to conquer ex< those of science, SOAP BUBBLES and the Forces w Mould Them: This is probably the ea of the five books to start with, as it written as far back as 1889, for a juv audience, by Sir Charles Vernon I one of the foremost mathematicians scientists of his day.

Most people have blown soap bubbh some time or other, and haven’t botl to think that the bubbles’ behaviour in any way phenomenal or puzzling.

It will probably come as a shock, reading this book, to realise that in bubble you are in contact with man the basic principles of pressures, 1 skins, electrical conduction and jets.

C. V. Boys was a human sort of scie and a pretty good bubble-blower in own right. He shows you how can get quite a few variations on old theme—like blowing one bubble i another, attaching •‘hem to rings threads, etc.

How Old Is The Earth? Ever

man became a reasoning animal, he been interested in the earth and moon and the stars and the sun. each age there have been people who concerned about the earth we live on its age, and each generation has d« a new theory or modified an older o In our own nuclear age, new and accurate methods have been dc based on the radioactivity of the and experiments linked to the known life of various elements.

Dr. Patrick M. Hurley who writes book was born in Hongkong but we: school and university in Canada. I: lifetime he has—amongst other thi carried on research in radioacf prospected for gold and advised th Navy on anti-submarine warfare underwater ballistics.

MAGNETS The Education ol Physicist. This subject, dealing witl of the many influences one bit of n can exert on another, has been the study of Professor Francis Bitter, a professor of Physics, his resea have been spread over a large I from studies of the magnetic behs of atoms to the defence against ma( mines during the war. This book story of the Professor’s own life science, and reads less like a text boo some of the others in the series.

Echoes Of Bats And Men. I

nguage of echoes is one that some limals understood before man. Bats ive long been known to have some sort inbuilt echo-sounding devices, but Dr. onald R. Griffin has also studied trpoises, beetles and migratory birds in s researches into sonar and radar.

Working simultaneously in biology and lysics has allowed him to come up with me useful conclusions, most of which ,ve very practical applications.

THE NEUTRON STORY is told by maid J. Hughes, who worked on the e-Hiroshima atom bomb project in nerica and thus helped father the clear age. This is a biography of the utron, its chain-reacting history and ange behaviour that has not only made ssible the atom bomb, but radio active iterials for medicine and industry, ship ipulsion and the generation of electric iver. But the neutron is not the imate; some day, the author thinks, ,n may stumble on this and write the initive account of matter. When that le comes, the neutron will be one of the ry’s great chapters.

The Science Study Series. Pub

led by Wm. Heinemann Ltd. Each the books is priced at 5/9 Australian, 1 all except “Soap Bubbles” has an ex—rare in a paper-backed book.) ■AT, by Val Gielgud. This is, in a y, a murder story but concerned more h the murderer and what made him h, than in clues and detection. On fourth page. Charles Trent knocks out pipe and says: “I don’t want to waste r time or the country’s money. 1 ed Evelyn Cavendish”.

NREASONABLE DOUBT, by Elizabeth rars. When Alistair Dirke and his ! went for a holiday to the South of nee they were asked to undertake a .11 job for a friend and there they mixed up with another couple and mately the French police. Back in land they were disposed to put it out their minds—until they received an nymous and mysterious message.

He Memoirs Of Field-Marshal

VTGOMERY. This book was reviewed his section when it was first published Wm. Collins Ltd. in 1958. As Lord ee said at that time, these Memoirs s the stamp of Montgomery on every ;. Need more be said? Viscount tgomery was never a mild-mannered and he doesn’t write like one.

ILOUR SCHEME, by Ngaio Marsh. author returns to the land of her i for this one, and has her victim ' to a turn in one of the boiling mud s of New Zealand thermal district. /as first published in 1943.

IE LAST SQUADRON, by Gerd Gaiser. lovel translated from the original nan to tell the story of the last s of a fighter squadron defending the erland in a desperate rear-guard lUNDER IN THE DUST, by Alan Le . who writes cowboy sagas for those want them. Hero Tom Cloud tries tart up a ranch in Lower California ich is, at any rate, a change from s or Wyoming—but has a tough time rustlers. His cowboys are Mexicans ich is also different but also another lem.

Ur Frightened People, By E.

t Robertson. A story about Malaya ; n °t about the Emergency. Bubonic ie breaks out on the old freighter igst the 500 Chinese on her lower i and, for various reasons of their own, of the Europeans on board decide to )ff her and walk.

Appointment With Death By

Agatha Christie. This is one of her Middle Eastern numbers, the background for which Agatha, no doubt, absorbed when on a digging expedition with her archaeologist husband. Hercule Poirot somehow got himself there, too.

MINUTE FOR MURDER, by Nicholas Blake, who has a dazzling blonde poisoned and the Director of a Government Depart ment stabbed—all in the interests of high treason, human relations, suspense and a good thriller-mystery.

DRIVIN’ WOMAN, by Elizabeth Chevalier. A full blooded story of two sisters at one of the dramatic periods of American history—the post-Civil war. A story of “love adventure, big business and gambling’’ plus a Virginia heiress and a riverboat gambler.

THE YELLOW TURBAN, by Charlotte Jay. Brooke was the second man to be sent to Karachi to trace the whereabouts of Roy Findlay. He woke one night to find the corpse of number-one in bed with him. Quite a jolt. (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Over seas) Ltd. All Fontana books, and all A3/9 except “Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery” and “Drivin’ Woman”, which are 7/6.)