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Soft cover. Condición: Good. Pages are clean and unmarked with light toning. One page shows some offset from the black portion of a page opposite it. The upper right corner of the front cover and many pages is bent or lightly creased. Exterior covers are clean with light toning to the front cover and considerable rubbing to the back cover. There is one small tear and crease at the bottom edge of the back cover. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "External Human Fertilization" (Debate on conception in vitro needs to be informed by the facts of human development" by Clifford Globstein; "The Nerve-Growth Factor" (A protein that makes nerve cells grow plays a key role in the formation of the nervous system) by Rita Levi-Montaleini and Pietro Calissano; "Automatic Control by Distributed Intelligence" (A hierarchy of 'chips' could control industrial plants) by Irving Lefkowitz and Charles Rose; "The Theory of Knots" (Topology deals with knots as models of one-dimensional curves in three-dimensional space) by Lee Neuwirth; "A Neolithic Flint Mine" (At extensive workings in the Netherlands miners of 5,000 years ago dug out flints by the ton) by Peter W. Bosch; "Ultracold Neutrons" (Neutrons moving so slowly that they cannot penetrate a solid surface can be stored in a bottle) by R. Golub; W. Mampe; J. M. Pendlebury; and P. Ageron; "The History of the Atlantic" (In the 165 million years since it began to open plate-techtonic processes have shaped its depths) by John G. Sclater and Christopher Tapscott; "The Year without a Summer" (In 1816 a distant volcanic eruption gave New England snow in June and killing frosts in August) by Henry Stommel and Elizabeth Stommel; plus "Letters"; "50 and 100 Years Ago"; "The Authors"; "Mathematical Games"; "Books"; "Science and the Citizen"; "The Amateur Scientist" and "Bibliography".