Book reviews

HANDBOOK ON THE TOXICOLOGY OF METALS, Second Edition (Volume I: General Aspects; Volume II: Specific Metals), by Dr. Lars Friberg, Karolinska Institute, S‐10401 Stockholm and Dr. Gunnar F. Nordberg, University of S‐901 87 Umeå, 460 + 696 pages (including 80 figures, 28 tables, and a subject index of 24 pages), linen, format 246×174 mm, ISBN 0–444–90413–1 and 0–444–90442–5, Elsevier Science Publishers, NL‐1000 BM Amsterdam (1986), US$ 255.50, hfl. 690.00.

CORROSION OF MATERIALS BY ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION, VDI Communication No. 530, 257 pages (including 77 figures, 37 tables, not too many literature references at the end of the chapters, no index), in German, cloth, format 230×159 mm, ISBN 3–18–090530–1, VDI Publishers Ltd., D‐4000 Düsseldorf (1985).

ATMOSPHERIC TRACE SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR PHYSICOCHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR (in German), edited by Prof. Dr. K. H. Becker, Technical University of D‐5600 Wuppertal 1 and Dr. J. Löbel, D‐4000 Düsseldorf 1, 264 pages (including 81 figures, 29 tables, many equations, and a subject index of 9 pages), paper board, format 241 × 165 mm, ISBN 3–540–15503–1, Springer‐Verlag, Berlin‐Heidelberg‐New York, 1985.

GROUND WATER QUALITY (Series on Environmental Science and Technology), edited by C. H. Ward, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Walter Giger, Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control, CH‐8600 Dübendorf; and P. L. McCarthy, Stanford University, California. 547 pages (including 175

THE ECOLOGY OF MARINE SEDIMENTS, by Prof. Dr. John S. Gray, Institute for Marine Biology, N‐Blindern Oslo 3, translated into German by Dr. Heye Rumohr, D‐2300 Kiel 1, 193 pages (including 70 figures, 22 tables, a subject index of five pages), paper board, format 243×166 mm, ISBN 3–540–13037–3, Springer‐Verlag, Berlin‐Heidelberg‐New York‐Tokyo (1984), DM 49.50, US$ ap‐prox. 19.40.

DERMAL EXPOSURE RELATED TO PESTICIDE USE (Discussion of Risk Assessment, ACS Symposium, Series No. 273), edited by Richard C. Honeycutt, Ciba‐Geigy, Greensboro, N.C. 27419, U.S.A.; Gunter Zweig, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.: and Nancy N. Ragsdale, Department of Agriculture. 529 pages (including 78 figures, 163 tables, non‐technical summaries and literature references added to the contributions, and a valuable subject index of 21 pages), linen, format 234×159 mm, ISBN 0–8412–0898–0, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 20036, U.S.A. (1985), US$ 79.95 (for U.S.A. and Canada), US$ 95.95 (for other countries).

RENAL EFFECTS OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS (Volume VII of Advances in Modern Environmental Toxicology), edited by Myron A. Mehlman, Mobil Oil Corporation, New York 10017; George P. Hemstreet III, University of Oklahoma Health Services Center; John J. Thope, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, Ruthers University; and Neill K. Weaver, American Petroleum Institute. 306 pages (including 52 figures, 106 tables, newest literature references up to 1984 added to each contribution, and a subject index of 6 pages), cloth, format 236 x 161 mm, ISBN 0–911131–08–6, Princeton Scientific Publishers Inc., Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (1984), £62.85.

BLACK CARBON IN THE ENVIRONMENT (Properties and Distribution, Series on Environmental Science and Technology), by Edward D. Goldberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 198 pages (including 57 figures, 36 tables, an appendix of 24 pages on Analytical Techniques for Black Carbon, 16 pages with literature references, and a subject index of 10 pages), cloth, format 236×158 mm, ISBN 0–471–81979–4, John Wiley & Sons, Interscience Publishers, New York‐Chichester‐Brisbane (1985), £34.65.

WATER CHLORINATION (Chemistry, Environmental Impact and Health Effects), Volume 5, by Robert L. Jolley et al., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, U.S.A., 1,575 pages (including 476 figures, 325 tables, an address list of authors of 14 pages, and a subject index of 33 pages), hard cover, format 243 x 168 mm, ISBN 0–87371–005–3, Lewis Publishers, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan 48118, U.S.A., £64.35.