Book reviews

• Published in: International Journal of Environmental Studies 1979, Vol.14 (3), p.242-249
• Main Authors: Day, M. R., Thomas, M. Pugh, Frey, Allan, Browne, R. C., Edwards, Harry, James, G. V., Brett-Crowther, Michael, Finkelstein, L.
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0020-7233; 1029-0400
• DOI: 10.1080/00207237908737401

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL, by W. Strauss. Wiley, Chichester, U.K., 1978. (£18.70) THE BREAKDOWN AND RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEMS, edited by M. W. Holgate and M. J. Woodman. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1978. ($36.00) SYDNEY'S ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITY 1970-1975, edited by N. G. Butlin. Australian National University Press, 1976. 301 pp. (A $ 9.95) CHLORINATED PHENOXY ACIDS AND THEIR DIOXINS, Mode of Action Health Risks and Environmental Effects, edited by C. Ramel (Report from a conference arranged by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, 7-9 February, 1977) (No price given) POLLUTANTS AND HIGH-RISK GROUPS. The biological basis of increased human susceptibility to environmental occupational pollutants, by Edward J. Calabrese. Wiley, Chichester, U.K., 1978. (£13.75) AIR POLLUTION SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS DESKBOOK, by Paul N. Chere-misinoff and Angelo C. Morresi. Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1978. vi + 489 pp, including 8-page index. (£18.60) TOXIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS: DESTRUCTION AND WASTE TREATMENT, by E. Ellsworth Hackman III (Pollution Technology Review, No. 40; Chemical Technology Review, No. 107). Noyes Data Corporation, U.S.A., 1978. ($42.00) THE MEASUREMENT OF DISSOLVED OXYGEN, by M. Hitchman. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1978. 255 pp. (£16.50) WATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN, by R. L. Sanks. Ann Arbor Science, Michigan, 1978. 845 pp, including index. (£25.20) SOCIAL CHANGE AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION: The Royal Institution 1799-1844, by Morris Berman. Heinemann Educational Book, London, 1978. 224 pp. (£11.00) SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science, by Nicholas Rescher. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1978. 278 pp. (£15.00) ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY ANALYSIS AND CONTROL, by R. J. Bennett and R. J. Chorley. Methuen and Co., London, 1978. xii + 624 pp. (£33.00)