Book Reviews

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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PROTECTION: INORGANIC ANALYSIS, edited by Wilhelm Fresenius and Ingo Luderwald (with a Preface by Hans Wolfgang Niirnberg), D-6204 Taunusstein and D-6200 Wiesbaden, 301 pages (in English and German), including 128 tables and 213 figures (but unfortunately without index), soft cover, format 275 × 207 mm, ISBN 3-540-13469-7, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York and Tokyo (1984), DM 42, or approx. US$15.30.

ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION, THIRD EDITION, by F. Pasquill and F. B. Smith, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, Berkshire, U.K., 437 pages (including a valuable glossary of symbols, an introduction, 97 figures, 48 tables, 31 pages of references, and an index of 7 pages), soft cover, format 228 × 152, ISBN 0-85312-426-4, Ellis Horwood Series in Environm. Science, Chichester, U.K. (1983), £12.95.

LEAD IN MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT, by Jennifer M. Ratcliffe, Laboratory of Toxicology, University College Medical School, London, U.K., 240 pages (including an introduction, 23 tables, 30 figures, 25 pages of references (practically none from German speaking studies), and an index of 5 pages), linen, format 238 × 161 mm, ISBN/-85312-257-1, Ellis Horwood Ltd. Series in Environmental Science, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 lUD, U.K. (1981), £27.50.

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR HEAVY METALS IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS, edited by Sergio Facchetti, Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Varese), Italy, 288 pages (including 70 tables, 73 figures, references at the end of each contribution, and an index of 4 pages), linen, format 248 × 172 mm, ISBN 0-444-42212-9, Commission of the European Communities and Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., NL-1000 AE Amsterdam (1983), US$83.00 or Dfl. 195.00.

ELSEVIERS DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY (INCLUDING TERMS FROM BIOCHEMISTRY; English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German), compiled by A. F. Dorian, 692 pages, linen, format 248 × 174 mm, ISBN 0-444-42230-7, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., NL-1000 AE Amsterdam and New York, N.Y. 10017 (1983), US$12.50 or Dfl. 295.00.

MDS, MULTILINGUAL DESCRIPTOR SYSTEM FOR THE EUROPEAN INVENTORIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT. (in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian), by a Working Group of the Environmental Protection Information Group (ENIG), Luxembourg, 500 pages, soft cover, format 296 × 211 mm, EUR 8638 EN or ISBN 0-86341-007-3, Commission of the European Communities and Peter Peregrinus Ltd., Hitchin, Hertshire SG5 lRJ, U.K.(Pilot Edition September 1983).

THE ORIGIN OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS (AND THE OKLO PHENOMENON), by Prof. Paul K. Kuroda, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, U.S.A., 176 pages (including an introduction, 48 tables, 24 figures, three appendices, and a subject index of 5 pages), cloth, format 249 × 172 mm, ISBN 3-540-1 1679-6, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York (1982), DM 92.00 or approx. US$36.80.

METALS IN THE HYDROCYCLE, by Dr. Wim Salomons, Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, Institute for Soil Fertility, NL-9750 RA Haren (Gr), and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Forstner, Technical University Harburg, D-2100 Hamburg 90, 349 pages (including an introduction, 83 tables, 149 figures, 42 pages of references, and a subject index of 17 pages), linen, format 248 × 173 mm, ISBN 3-540-12755-0, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo (1984), DM 98.00 or approx. US$36.60.

HANDBOOK OF PARTICLE SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS METHODS, by Prof. Dr. Charles H. Murphy, Kean College, Union, New Jersey 07083, U.S.A., 368 pages (including an introduction, 31 tables, 59 figures, references added to each chapter, and an index of 4 pages), linen, format 243 × 162mm, ISBN 0-89573-1 16-9, Verlag Chemie International, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Florida and 0-6940 Weinheim (1984), DM 165.00.