Book reviews

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NATURAL DISASTERS: ACTS OF GOD OR MAN? by A. Wijkman and L. Timberlake. Earthscan, London, 1984, 145 pp. (£3.50)

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN SOUTH AFRICA: TECHNICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES, edited by R. F. Fugle and M. A. Rabie. Cape Town: Juta, 587 pp., 1983.

CITIES, LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY: LEARNING FROM THE BRITISH, edited by Charles M. Haar. Lexington Books, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1984, xiii + 265 pp. (£29.50)

PENGUINS—PAST AND PRESENT, HERE AND THERE, by G. G. Simpson, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1983, 150 pp. (£12.50)

SPLENDID ISOLATION—THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICAN MAMMALS, by G. G. Simpson, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1983, 266 pp. (paperback £7.95; hardback £20)

MARINE ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES, by I. Valiela. Springer‐Verlag, New York, 1984. ISBN 0–387–90929X. 546 pp. ($44)

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS FOR GEOGRAPHERS AND EARTH SCIENTISTS, by R. B. G. Williams, Macmillan, London, 1984. viii + 349 pp. (Paperback £7.95)

THE NEOLITHIC TRANSITION AND THE GENETICS OF POPULATIONS IN EUROPE, by A. J. Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli‐Sforza. Princeton University Press 1984, 176 pp. (£25)

GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE GUIDE: POLLUTION TECHNOLOGY REVIEW No. 111, by J. H. Guswa, W. J. Lyman, A. S. Donigian Jr., T. Y. R. Lo and E. W. Shanahan, Noyes; U.S.A., 1984, xv + 490 pp. ($48.00)

HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL, edited by John P. Lehman, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Plenum Press, in association with the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society: New York and London, 1982. ($49.50)