Book Reviews

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GROUNDWATER RESIDUE SAMPLING DESIGN, edited by Ralph G. Nash, EPL Bio-Analytical Services Inc., Decatur, Illinois and Anne R. Leslie, E.P.A., Mail Stop H 7506 C, Washington, D.C., 396 pages (including 80 figures, 30 tables, and a subject index of ten pages), hard cover, format 235 × 158 mm, ISBN 0-8412-2091-3, ACS Symposium Series 465, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. (1991).

GLOBAL CHANGE AND RELEVANT SPACE OBSERVATIONS, edited by Jean-Louis Fellous, Centre National d'Etudes Spéciales, F-75001 Paris, 270 pages (including 128 figures, 38 tables, an author index, but no subject index), paperback, format 273 × 190 mm, ISBN 0-08-041148-7, Advances in Space Research 11(3), Special Issue, Pergamon Press Oxford New York Frankfurt Seoul Sydney Tokyo (1991). £70.

MEASURING INDOOR AIR QUALITY, a Practical Guide, by John E. Yocom, West Simsbury, Connecticut, and Sharon M. McCarthy, Westford, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 228 pages (including 38 figures, 20 tables, references, 10 appendices, and an index of 8 pages), hard cover, format 236 × 156 mm, ISBN 0-471-90728-6, Principles and Techniques in the Environmental Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester New York Brisbane Toronto Singapore (1991), £40.

EVALUATION OF CARCINOGENIC RISKS TO HUMANS: CHROMIUM, NICKEL AND WELDING, by an IARC Working Group under the Chairmanship of O. M⊘ller-Jensen, The Danish Cancer Registry, DK-2100 Copenhagen ⊘, 677 pages (including 117 tables (including those in the appendices), references added to the monographs, a cumulative index to IARC monographs, but unfortunately no subject index), paper board, format 238 × 176 mm, ISBN 92-832-1249-5, IARC Monographs Volume 49, World Health Organization, Lyon and Geneva (1990), SFr. 95.

TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS 2 “Potential Health Hazards of Existing Chemicals”, by BG Chemie, D-W-6900 Heidelberg 1, 212 pages (including 13 figures and an index of 6 pages for Volumes 1 and 2), linen, format 210 × 140 mm, ISBN 3-540-53435-0, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York London Paris Toronto Hong Kong Barcelona Budapest (1991). DM 68.

AEROSOL SCIENCE (THEORY AND PRACTICE), by Michael M. R. Williams, University of London, U.K. and Sudarshan K. Loyalka, University of Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A., 446 pages (including 123 figures, 38 tables, many equations, references, and a subject index of 22 pages), hard cover, format 255 × 177 mm, ISBN 0-08-037209-0, Pergamon Press, Oxford New York Seoul Tokyo (1991), £40., US$ 80.

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION AND CONTAMINATION SYSTEMS: ECOINFORMA 1, edited by Otto Hutzinger and Heidelore Fiedler, University of Bayreuth, 292 pages (including 68 figures, 41 tables, and a small index of 4 pages), hard cover, format 205 × 178 mm, ISBN 2-88124-791-1, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Volume Fifteen in the Current Topics in Environmental and Toxicological Chemistry Series, Philadelphia Reading Paris Montreux Tokyo Melbourne, US$ 90.

ALTERNATIVE USES FOR SEWAGE SLUDGE, edited by J. E. Hall, Water Research Centre, Marlow (United Kingdom), 387 pages (including 72 figures, 115 tables, references added to the contributions, discussion reports added to the sessions, an address list of participants, but unfortunately no index), hard cover, format 235 × 152 mm, ISBN 0-08-04021-2, Pergamon Press Oxford New York Beijing Frankfurt Sao Paulo Sydney Tokyo Toronto (1991), £45, US$90.

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY: AN INTRODUCTION (German language), by Laura Sigg and Werner Stumm, EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, 388 pages (including 128 figures, 42 tables (including 7 appendices), exercises, 2 pages of references, and an index of 15 pages), paperboard, format 230 × 160 mm, ISBN 3-7281-1729-3, Verlag der Fachvereine an den Schweizerischen Hochschulen und Techniken, Zürich (1989), SFr. 46.

STABLE ISOTOPES: NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC SULPHUR IN THE ENVIRONMENT, edited by H. R. Krouse, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and V. A. Grinenko, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia, 440 pages (including 139 figures, 104 tables, references added to the chapters, a 5 page address list of participants and contributors, and an index of 10 pages), hard cover, format 235 × 157 mm, ISBN 0-471-92646-9, SCOPE 43, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester New York Brisbane Toronto Singapore (1991), £63.

IMMUNOASSAYS FOR TRACE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS: MONITORING TOXIC CHEMICALS IN HUMANS, FOOD, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, edited by Martin Vanderlaan et al., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California 94550, U.S.A., 374 pages (including 101 figures, 67 tables, newest references added to the chapters, and a subject index of 12 pages), hard cover, 234 × 158 mm, ISBN 0-8412-1905-2, ACS Symposium Series 451, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 20036 (1991), US$79.95.