Book reviews

AIR POLLUTANTS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM edited by A. H. Legge and S. V. Krupa; Wiley series in Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 18, J. Wiley, New York, 1986, 662 pp. (£82.75)

AIR COMPOSITION AND CHEMISTRY, by P. Brimblecombe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986, viii +224pp. (£8.95, paperback)

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION OF INDIVIDUAL AIRBOURNE PARTICLES, edited by K. R. Spurny, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1986, xi + 418 pp. (£55.00)

INNOVATIVE THERMAL HAZARDOUS ORGANIC WASTE TREATMENT PROCESSES, by Harry Freeman, Noyes Publications, USA, 1985, viii + 125pp. ($32.00)

THE MAGNIFICENT EXPERIMENT: BUILDING THE SALT RIVER RECLAMATION PROJECT 1890–1917, by Karen L. Smith, The University of Arizona Press, Tuscon, Arizona 1986, 195 pp. ($22.50, hardback)

POLICY MAKING IN EDUCATION: THE BREAKDOWN OF CONSENSUS, edited by Ian McNay and Jenny Ozga, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1985, 335 pp. ($15.00, paperback)

COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS, edited by Albert Cherns and Moshe Shellar, Gower Publishing, Farnborough, Hants, 1985, 291pp. (£17.50, hardback)

THE LOCAL PLAN INQUIRY: ITS ROLE IN LOCAL PLAN PREPARATION, by Geoffrey Marsh, Progress in Planniong, vol. 19, No. 2, 1983. ($20.00, paper)

THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN LABOUR AND ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES, by H. Siegmann. Gower Press, Farnborough, Hants, 1985, 192pp. (£17.50, hardback)

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LAND, by Alan Gilbert and Patsy Healey, Gower Press, Farnborough, Hants, 1985, 150pp. (£17.50)

THE ENGLISH HOUSE 1860–1914, THE FLOWERING OF ENGLISH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, by Gavin Stamp and Andre Goulancourt, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1986, 254 pages (including index). £251

THE WHALE AND THE REACTOR: A SEARCH FOR LIMITS IN AN AGE OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY, by Langdon Winner, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1986, 200p. (including index). (£14.95)

THE DECLINE OF NAYAR DOMINANCE: SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN TRAVANCORE, 1847–1908, by Robin Jeffrey, Sussex University Press (now through Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh), 1976, 376 pp. (£12.00)

AN INDIAN RURAL ECONOMY 1880–1955: THE TAMILNAD COUNTRYSIDE, by Christopher John Baker, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985, 616 pp. (£??.??)

THE FORTIFICATION OF MALTA BY THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN, 1530–1798, by Alison Hoppen, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1979, 221pp. (£12.50)

THE CILICIAN KINGDOM OF ARMENIA, edited by T. S. R. Boase, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh & London, 1978, 206pp. (£10.00)

SAUDI ARABIA: A CASE STUDY IN DEVELOPMENT, completely revised and updated edition, by Fouad Al‐Farsy, KPI Limited, London, 1986, 264 pp. (£25.00)

ARABIC‐ISLAMIC CITIES: BUILDING AND PLANNING PRINCIPLES, by Besim Selim Hakim, KPI Limited, London: 1986, 192pp. (£45.00).

THE LONG DARKNESS: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MORAL PERSPECTIVES ON NUCLEAR WINTER, edited by Lester Grinspoon, Yale University Press, London, 1986, 213 pp. (£6.95)

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF LEO H. KLAASAN, by J. H. P. Paelinck, Gower, Aldershot, 1986, 328 pp. (£27.50)

A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO CONSERVATION TILLAGE, edited by Frank M. D'Itri, Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan, 1985, xvii + 384pp. (£36.75)

HAWAI'I'S TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, C. P. Stone and J. M. Scott (eds), Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1985.

THE MAKING OF THE EARTH (A New Scientist Guide), edited by Richard Fifield, Blackwell, Oxford, 1985, xvi + 336 pp. (Hardback £19.50, paperback £7.95)