Book Reviews

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ELEMENT CONCENTRATION CADASTERS IN ECOSYSTEMS, edited by Helmut Lieth and Bernd Markert, University of D-W-4500 Osnabrück, 448 pages (incl. 123 figures, 119 tables, and a not very good index of 8 pages), hard cover, format 245 × 179 mm, ISBN 3-527-28054-5, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Weinheim-Basle-Cambridge-New York (1990), DM 164.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY OF ALUMINUM by Timothy E. Lewis, Lookhead Engineering and Sciences Company, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119, 344 pages (including 94 figures, 70 tables, newest references added to the chapters, and an index of 4 pages), hard cover, format 242 × 163 mm, ISBN 0-87371-194-7, Lewis Publishers, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan 48118, U.S.A. (1989), £48.55.

ORGANOTIN CHEMISTRY (ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY LIBRARY 21) by Iwao Omae, Tokyo Research Center, Teijin Limited, Asahigaoka, Hino (Japan), 356 pages (including 35 figures, 78 tables, many formulae and equations, over 1000 references distributed in the nine chapters, and an index of 13 pages), hard cover, format 245 × 171 mm, ISBN 0-444-87456-9, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., P.O. Box 330, NL-1000-AH Amsterdam, or P.O. Box 882, Madison Square Station, New York, N.Y. 10159 (1989), Dfl. 270.00 or US$142.00.

AIR POLLUTION AND FORESTS (INTERACTION BETWEEN AIR CONTAMINANTS AND FOREST ECOSYSTEMS), Second Edition, by William H. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 618 pages (including 120 figures, 182 tables, references added to each chapter, and an index of 8 pages), hard cover, format 243 × 160 mm, ISBN 3-540-97084-3, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-London-Paris-Tokyo-Hong Kong (1990), DM 198.00

THE HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY, Volume 1 (Part E), Volume 2 (Part E), Volume 3 (Part E), and Volume 4 (Part B), edited by Prof. Otto Hutzinger, Chair of Ecological Chemistry and Geochemistry, University of D-W-8580 Bayreuth, linen, format 248 × 170 mm, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Tokyo (1989/1990).

TOXICOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY (a Guide to Toxic Substances in Chemistry) by Stanley E. Manahan, Professor of Environmental and Toxicological Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A., 317 pages (including 26 figures, 10 tables, many formula, a few literature references added to the chapters, and an index of 11 pages), hard cover, format 242 × 162 mm, ISBN 0-87371-149-1, Lewis Publishers, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan 48118, U.S.A. (1989), £35.70.

A GUIDE TO MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS by John P. Sibilia, Allied Corporation, Morristown, N.J. 07960-1021, U.S.A., 318 pages (including 204 figures, no tables, and an index of 12 pages), hard cover, format 242 × 161 mm, ISBN 0-89573-269-6, VCH-Publishers, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10010, U.S.A. (1988), DM 75.00, £25.95.

ANALYTICAL METHODS IN FORENSIC CHEMISTRY by Mat H. Ho, Prof. of Chemistry of Alabama, Birmingham, U.S.A., 440 pages (including 217 figures, 71 tables, (not very new) references added to each chapter, and an index of 9 pages), hard cover, format 247 × 174 mm, ISBN 0-13-037961-1, Ellis Horwood Series in Analytical Chemistry, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.-New York-London-Toronto-Sidney-Tokyo-Singapore (1990), £56.00.

FOREST DECLINE AND AIR POLLUTION, A STUDY OF SPRUCE ON ACID SOILS by Ernst-Detlef Schulze, D-8580 Bayreuth, Otto L. Lange, D-8700 Würzburg, and Ram Oren, Durham, North Carolina 27706, U.S.A., 495 pages (including 186 figures, 95 tables, references added to the chapters, and a good subject index of 7 pages), linen, format 240 × 161 mm, ISBN 3-540-50793-0, Springer-Verlag Ecological Studies 77, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-London-Paris-Tokyo-Hong Kong (1989), DM298.00.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES No. 422 by D. William Tedder and Frederick G. Pohland, 402 pages (including 149 figures, 65 tables, references added to the chapters, and an excellent index of 12 pages), linen, format 235 × 160 mm, ISBN 0-8412-1747-5, American Chemical Society Distribution Office, Washington, D.C. 20036, U.S.A. (1990), US$89.95.

NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS by Juraj Tölgyessy, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and Edwin H. Klehr, University of Oklahoma, Norman, U.S.A., 185 pages (including 61 figures, 32 tables, references added to the chapters and in a special chapter on “sources of information” of 7 pages, and an index of 5 pages), hard cover, format 247 × 174 mm, ISBN 0-7458-0176-5, Ellis Horwood Series in Analytical Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, New York-Chichester-Brisbane-Toronto (1987), £35.00.

TOXICOLOGY OF COAL CONVERSION PROCESSING by Robert H. Gray, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington, Harvey Drucker, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, and Michael J. Massey, REI Technologies, Inc., Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 603 pages (including 159 figures, 182 tables, two appendices on descriptions of samples assayed for toxicological activity and a summary of the toxicological database for coal-conversion oils and tars, references added to the parts, and an excellent subject index of 17 pages), hard cover, format 241 × 170 mm, ISBN 0-471-80264-6, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, New York-Chichester-Brisbane-Toronto-Singapore (1988), £70.00.