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NUTRITION ILLUSTRATED

Coronary Heart Disease I and II are the titles in the latest of the National Dairy Council's fact files. They are comprehensive guides to current issues and the latest research in this important area of health. The fact files include a review of the likely risk factors, including dietary components and lifestyle, evidence that CHD begins in childhood, regional differences, free radicals and lipid peroxidation, the effects of environment and psychosocial factors. Free copies of these fact files are available to health professionals in return for an SAE, 6 × 9 inches, from CHD Fact Files, Education Dept, National Dairy Council, 5–7 John Princes Street, London W1M 0AP.

Database Directories: Review and Recent Developments

Directories of online databases vary in content and quality. Here, Beverly Feldman reviews nine publications, including comprehensive guides and basic introductions for users of home computers.

Commonplaces

I RECEIVED a most unusual publication through the post the other day which may not strictly come within the scope of this column, since it won't answer any particular problem except that of where to go for your holidays. It's called The North: a feminist local history and holiday guide by Susan Evasdaughter and is one of a series of similar booklets that includes London, Home Counties, West Country, Wales, and Central England. The books are not intended to be comprehensive holiday guides listing the best places to stay, the most interesting walks etc, but rather set out by area some of the most important things of specific interest to women. Information ranges from ‘pre‐historic matriarchal times’ to present day feminist activities. There is information on women castle builders, famous lesbians, local women heroes, artists, queens and witches, suffragettes, politicians, discoverers etc. Where possible information is given about places for women to stay although there aren't many specifically for women. The quality of printing is fairly basic; I expect the booklets were produced on a shoestring, so don't expect tourist board glossies. However, a lot of work has obviously gone into them, each has a name index, and they would be useful additions not only for local studies collections but also for any libraries who have a community information section on women's studies. The booklets cost £1.00 from 47 Ladysmith Avenue, Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex.

STATE‐OF‐THE‐ART OF ESTIMATING FLOOD DAMAGE IN URBAN AREAS1

ABSTRACT: With implementation of the Flood Insurance Act of 1968 many additional local flood protection projects are being considered. Consulting engineers and local agencies need consistent methods to estimate flood damage in order to perform feasibility studies. Federal agencies have a great deal of data and long experience in making damage estimates but no comprehensive guides are available at the local level. Curves of flood damages to different residential structure types are presented. The relationships in use by the U. S. Federal Insurance Administration are shown to be reasonable and are recommended for use as approximate guides. Additional research is recommended and discussion of the paper is invited in order to make additional data available in the literature.

French Proper Names: A Guide to Correct Usage

by clear-cut rules such as apply to even more complex Spanish names; comprehensive guides to usage are not readily available; a search for precedents will prove in some cases to be more confusing than useful; and a haphazard or intuitive resolving of questions of form can only be termed imprudent. Proper names entail special problems beyond the scope of this article; but I am disposed to think that writers, editors, and bibliographers generally will welcome a few helpful observations on their usage and, especially, on their treatment in bibliographies, indexes, and cross references.'

Legal Research in Education

THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH in the legal aspects of education have been summarized in previous issues of the Review. In contrast to such summaries the present chapter is concerned with the methods and materials of legal study and refers to the summaries of studies only as examples of available materials. Research methods used in the field of educational law were discussed in the Review for February 1934 by Edwards (111). Treatments of the same subject have been published elsewhere by Alexander (97), Chambers (100), Coffey (106), Cyr and Cunin (108), Edwards (112), and Good, Barr, and Scates (114). All these have presented useful outlines of the classifications of law, the sources of school law, and the indexes and other bibliographic aids available in law libraries. It would be out of place here to reproduce any such comprehensive guides. Instead, a fivefold task is undertaken: (a) to summarize some new approaches and uses of legal research in education; (b) to note some recent changes and additions among the legal bibliographic aids; (c) to offer certain suggestions regarding the analysis and digesting of legal materials; (d) to discuss needed research and the organization of facilities and personnel therefor; and (e) to present a synthesis of the place of legal research in education.