(4) 4-6 Great Minds of Science series. This series provides useful, if not riveting, information about these well-known scientists. Both biographical and scientific material is clearly presented in sufficient detail to inform school reports. The text is supplemented by photographs and illustrations. The appended activities are sometimes only tangentially related to the scientists' work. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Great Minds of Science titles: Edwin Hubble, Robert Hooke, Marie Curie, and Ivan Pavlov.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

(3) YA Oxford Portraits in Science series. This critical biography moves carefully and smoothly through Pavlov's pioneering work on dogs, from his early experiments in physiology up through his interests in determinism to account for psychic behavior and in the possibility of eugenics. Readers, however uninitiated, will be able to understand the man and his work, aided by photos, diagrams, and other carefully chosen, well-documented material. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian