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HINKING BY MACHINE, a study of cybernetics, by Pierre de Latil, translated by Y. M. Golla; Sidgwick and Jackson, English price 45/-. Quoting Blaise Pascal’s dictum that "It is much more satisfactory to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing," Pierre de Latil endeavours to show through the concepts of cybernetics that a study of functional activity is of more importance than thinking in terms of causality about natural phenomena. "The logic of effects," he writes, "must be re-investi-gated from its very beginnings." ] HOUGHT FOR FOOD, a cookery book for entertaining occasions, by Cecily Finn and Joan O’Connor; Museum Press, English price 15/-. Of ingenuity in the making of cookery books there is no end. This latest example has excellent recipes, selected for ccecasions which place some strain upon the hostess: "Luncheon given to grandparents before matinee," "Dinner for a charming stranger," "First dinner at home after the return from a honeymoon," "Dinner for an Angry Client," "Dinner given the night the pipes burst," etc., etc. The commentary is witty, and the book throughout is as entertaining as it is useful, [HE SUN, by Guido Abetti; Faber and Faber, English price 63/-. For more than 20 years this has been the recognised text on the sun, and for this translation the author has supplied much material not included in the revised Italian edition of six years ago. There are nearly 150. plates and many illustrations in the text.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 952, 8 November 1957, Page 14
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243ACKNOWLEDGMENTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 952, 8 November 1957, Page 14
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