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'''MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE ENERGIES OF SPACE''' by Campbell, P. C. (ed) ''New York, 1961: Columbia University Press, 491 pages, $10.00'' This comprehensive work contains the proceedings of a conference on the title subjects held in late 1960 at the US Air Force Aerospace Medical Center. It provides excellent survey chapters on the energies of solar origin, energies from cosmic sources, particulate contents of space, magnetic fields, geomagnetically trapped radiation, gravitation, energy conversion and balance in manned space vehicles, spectral efficiency of photosynthesis, the interaction of primary cosmic rays with matter and tissue, problems in shielding, electromagnetic radiation, the chemical and biological protection and treatment of mammals, etc. There are two appendices and a good index. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by [[Frederick I. Ordway III]] [[Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick I. Ordway III]]

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