Book Reviews

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AIR POLLUTION AND PLANT METABOLISM, edited by Sigurd Schulte-Hostede, GSF, D-8042 Neuherberg, and three experts from Leatherhead and Lancaster, UK, 381 pages (including 32 tables, 94 figures, but unfortunately no index, which makes literature research in the interesting field difficult), cloth, format 248 × 170 mm. ISBN 1–85166–230–8, Elsevier Applied Science, London and New York (1988), £44.00.

METAL SPECIATION (THEORY, ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION), edited by James R. Kramer (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) and Herbert E. Allen (Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 357 pages (including 111 figures, 31 tables, and a good subject index of 11 pages), linen, format 235 × 158 mm, ISBN 0–87371–140–8, Lewis Publishers, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan 48118, USA (1988).

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA), Guidance Documents, MARC Reports Nos. 41 and 42, by Frank C. Go, 55 resp. 60 pages (including 13 resp. 22 figures, 7 resp. 14 tables, references, but no indices), paper board, format 210 × 148 mm, ISBN 0–905918–37–1 and 0–905918–38-X. The Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre (MARC). King's College, University of London SW100QX, UK (1987/1988), £5.00 or US $10.00.

SELENIUM (Environmental Health Criteria 58), edited by a WHO task group under the chairmanship of Professor Dr. Anthony T. Diplock, Guy's Hospital Medical School, University of London, London SE1 9RT, UK (Rapporteur Dr. Orville A. Levander, U.S.D.A. Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, USA), 306 pages (including 13 figures, 57 tables, 59 pages of valuable literature references, but unfortunately no index), soft cover, format 210 × 140 mm, ISBN 92–4–154258–6, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva (1987), SFr. 24.00.

ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS IN THE ENVIRONMENT (Principles and Reactions), edited by Dr. Peter J. Craig, School of Chemistry, Leicester Polytechnic, UK, 368 pages (including 56 figures, 76 tables, references added to the chapters, and an index (which is unfortunately not very helpful, when looking for instance for bioalkylation, mutagenicity, micro-organisms, or speciation) of 4 pages), hard cover, format 241 × 164 mm, ISBN 0–582–46361–0, Longman Group Ltd., Harlow, Essex CM19 5AA, UK (1986), £35.00.

ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY (an Overview), by John S. Thayer, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA, 170 pages (including 23 figures, 5 tables, latest references added to each chapter, an author index (also for the literature in the references; one misses however the names of a few experts). a good subject index of 6 pages, and a compound index of 10 pages), hard cover, format 243 × 161 mm, ISBN 0–89573–121–5, VCH Publishers Inc., New York 10010, USA (1988), DM 68.00.

LEAD, MERCURY, CADMIUM AND ARSENIC IN THE ENVIRONMENT (SCOPE 31), edited by Professor Thomas C. Hutchinson and K. M. Meema, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada, 360 pages (including 35 figures, 96 tables, references added to the chapters, and a good index of 12 pages), hard cover, format 235 × 158 mm, ISBN 0–471–91126–7, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester-New York-Brisbane-Toronto-Singapore (1987), £48.95.

CADMIUM IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT, edited by Jerome O. Nriagu and John B. Sprague, Burlington and Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 272 pages (including 18 figures, 43 tables, references added to the chapters, and an index of 8 pages), linen, format 240 × 167 mm, ISBN 0–471–85884–6, Wiley-Interscience, New York, USA (1987), £59.65.

ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WATERS, by Dr. Hubert Hellmann, Federal German Institute of Hydrology, D-5400 Koblenz, 275 pages (including 189 figures, 49 tables, literature references (mainly German literature of the 1970's) added to each chapter, and an index of 5 pages), hard cover, format 246 × 172 mm, ISBN 0470–20924–0, Ellis Horwood Limited/John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK (1987), US $89.95.

THE HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY, Volume 2, “Reactions and Processes”, Part D (with six Contributions), edited by Professor Dr. Otto Hutzinger, University of D-8580 Bayreuth, 210 pages (including 47 figures, 55 tables, references added to each chapter, and a subject index of 4 pages), linen, format 248 × 172 mm, ISBN 3–540–15547–3, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York (1988), DM 186.00.