Book Review

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Plant Stress From Air Pollution, by Michael Treshow and Franklin K. Anderson, University of Utah, U.S.A., 283 pages (including 18 figures, 17 tables, 31 pages of references (and suggested reading added to the chapters), two appendices on scientific names of plants and on conversion of concentration units, and a good index of 14 pages), format 236 × 157 mm, hard cover, ISBN 0-471-92374-5, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester New York Brisbane Toronto Singapore (1989), £39.00.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 114, edited by George W. Ware, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona 85721, Tucson, U.S.A., 171 pages (including 1 figure, 33 tables, references added to the four contributions, and an index of 9 pages), hard cover, format 237-156 mm, ISBN 3-540-97207-2, Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong (1990), DM 90.00.

Polychlorinated Dibenzo-Para-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans Icps/WHO, Environmental Health Criteria No. 88, by a Task Group under the Chairmanship of Prof. A. D. Dayan, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, U.K., 409 pages (no figures, including 73 tables, 79 pages of references, a French summary, but no index), paper back, format 210 × 140 mm, ISBN 92-4-154288-8. World Health Organization Publications, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (1989), SFr. 40.00, US$32.00.

Advances in Soil Sciences, Volume 9, edited by B. A. Stewart, USDA Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas 79012, U.S.A., 219 pages (including 66 figures, 27 tables, references added to each contribution, and an index of five pages), hard cover, format 242 × 162 mm, ISBN 3-540-96781-8, Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo (1989), DM 154.00.

Immunochemical Methods for Environmental Analysis, ACS Symposium Series No. 442, edited by Jeanette M. van Emon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas and by Ralph O. Mumma, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 229 pages (including 65 figures, 36 tables, references added to the chapters, and a subject index of 8 pages), hard cover, format 234 × 159 mm, ISBN 0-8412-1875-7, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 20037 (1990), US$ 49.95.

Identifying and Regulating Carcinogens, by the Office of Technology Assessment Task Force, Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 249 pages (including 8 figures, 41 tables, four appendices on the Statutory Authority for Regulating Carcinogens, Chemicals Listed in Annual Reports on Carcinogens and NCI/NTP Test Results, Acknowledgements, and Acronyms, and 15 pages of references), hard-bound, format 268 × 211 mm, ISBN 0-87371-152-1, Lewis Publishers, Inc., Chelsea, Michigan, U.S.A. (1988), £29.65.