Book reviews

AN AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING by A. Gilpin. 16 × 24 cm, xvi and 271 pages. Oxford University Press: Melbourne 1990 (ISBN 0 19 554806 X) $A60.00 (hard). CONTINENT IN CRISIS: A Natural History of Australia by D. Smith, 13 × 20 cm, xii and 201 pages. Penguin: Melbourne 1990 (ISBN 0 14 011169 7) $A14.99 (soft). THE END OF NATURE by B. McKibben. 14 × 22 cm, xi and 212 pages. Viking: London 1990 (ISBN 0 670 82877 7) $A29.99 (hard); distributed by Penguin Books. THE FATE OF THE FOREST: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by S. Hecht and A. Cockburn. 13 × 20 cm, xiii and 349 pages. Penguin: London (ISBN 0 14 013382 8) $A16.99 (soft). ENVIRONMENT, AID AND REGIONALISM IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC (Pacific Research Monograph No. 22) by J. Carew-Reid. 17 × 25 cm, xii and 185 pages. National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University: Canberra 1989 (ISBN 0 7315 0673 1) $A25.00 (soft). NEW SEEDS AND POOR PEOPLE by M. Lipton with R. Longhurst. 14 × 21 cm, xiv and 473 pages, Unwin Hyman: London 1989 (ISBN 0 04 45326 4) $A39.95 (soft). CLIMATE CHANGE AND WORLD AGRICULTURE by M. Parry. 15 × 23 cm, xv and 157 pages. Earthscan: London 1990 (ISBN 1 85383 065 8) £9.95 (soft). INTRODUCTION TO WORLD VEGETATION (Second Edition) by A. S. Collinson. 14 × 21 cm, x and 325 pages. Unwin Hyman: London 1988 (ISBN 0 04 581 030 3) $A95.00 (hard); (ISBN 0 04 581 031 1) $A39.95 (soft). OCEANS OF LIFE OFF SOUTHERN AFRICA edited by A. I. L. Payne and R. J. M. Crawford. 22 × 29 cm, xii and 380 pages. Vlaeberg: Cape Town 1989 (ISBN 0 947461 01 9) $US30.00 plus $US5.00 postage (hard). KARST GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY by D. Ford and P. Williams. 15 × 23 cm, xv and 601 pages. Unwin Hyman: London 1989 (ISBN 0 04 551106 3) $A79.95 (soft). ENVISIONING INFORMATION by E. R. TUFTE. 22 × 78 cm, 126 pages. Graphics Press: Cheshire, CT 1990 $US48.00 (hard). Available from Graphics Press, Box 430, Cheshire, Connecticut, 06410, USA. A GUIDE TO REMOTE SENSING: Interpreting Images of the Earth by S. A. Drury. 22 × 27 cm, viii and 199 pages. Oxford University Press: Oxford 1991 (ISBN 0 19 854495 2) $A44.95 (soft). THE CAINOZOIC IN AUSTRALIA: A Re-appraisal of the Evidence (Special Publication No. 18) edited by M. A. J. William, P. De Deckker and A. P. Kershaw. 17 × 25 cm, x and 346 pages. Geological Society of Australia Inc: Sydney 1991 (ISBN 0 909869 76 6) $A60.00 (non-members), $A40.00 (members) (soft). MONSOONAL AUSTRALIA: Landscape, Ecology and Man in the No