Book reviews

INTERPRETING THE ENVIRONMENT by Grant W. Sharpe (Ed.). John Wiley and Sons, N.Y., London, Sydney, Toronto, 1976. i-xvi, 566 pages ($10.80 paperback; $18.35 hardback). THE ENVIRONMENT-A DICTIONARY OF THE WORLD AROUND US by Geoffrey Holister and Andrew Porteous. Arrow Books, London, 1976 (£1.25). BRITAIN'S ENVIRONMENT. CONSERVE OR DESTROY? by R. A. Beddis. University of London Press, 1975. 64 pp. (£0.25). SURVIVAL by K. L. Marriott, P. J. Palmer, G. K. Thompson and E. Vlass. McMillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., 1975. 253 pp. (£2.95). EARLY ACTION ON THE GLOVAL ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM. Anon. National Academy of Sciences, 1976, vi + 26 pp. (unpriced). BIOLOGY, FOOD AND PEOPLE by Robert Barras, Unibooks, English Universities Press, 1974 (£2.25). ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS by R. A. Leone (Ed.). Lexington Books, 1976. 129 pp. ( ). THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL INDUSTRY by K. Ch. Leung and J. A. Klim. Ann Arbor Books, 1976. 138 pp. (£8.25). SHELTER AND SUBSISTENCE; WATER; ICE AND SNOW by J. Douglas. Macmillan, London, 1976 (£3.95 each). RECLAMATION (Environment and Man) Volume 4, edited by John Lenihan and William W. Fletcher. Blackie, 1976 (£7.90 hardback, £3.95 limp). WASTE OIL RECOVERY AND DISPOSAL, Pollution Technology Review No. 20 by Vaughan S. Kimball, Noyes Data Corporation, Park Ridge, New Jersey, 1975 ($24.00). TOXICOLOGY OF PESTICIDES by Wayland J. Hayes, Jr., Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1975. 580 pp. ($39.50). THE ECONOMICS OF NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS by J. Krutilla and A. C. Fisher. John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, for Resources for the Future Inc., 1975, pp. XVIII + 292 (£9.10). URBAN ECONOMICS by K. J. Button, 1976. Macmillan, London, 209 pp. (£10.00). FEDERALISM AND CLEAN WATERS by Harvey Lieber. Published by Lexington Books of Farnborough, Hants, and D. C. Heath Ltd., Lexington, Mass., U.S.A. and Toronto, Canada, 288 pp. including index. 1975 (£10.25). CHEMISTRY OF THE ATMOSPHERE by M. J. McEwan and L. F. Phillips, Edward Arnold, London, 1975, ix + 301 pp. (£9.75). ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE EXCHANGE OF PARTICULATE AND GASEOUS POLLUTANTS (1974). Proceedings of a Symposium held at Richland, Washington, 4-6 September, 1974. ERDA Symposium Series 38, co-ordinated by Rudolf, J. Engelmann and George A. Schmel. ERDA Technical Information Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1976 ($16.10). AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN AIR POLLUTION LITERATURE compiled by C. J. Sparrow and L. T. Foster. Ann Arbor Science Publishers Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1976 (£14.65). SE