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1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 29; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00207238708710363

1029-0400

I. G. Simmons, Dan Burns, Harry Edwards, T. A. Langlands, T. O'Riordan, Michael Brett‐Crowther, Douglas Pocock, M. J. Alexander, N. J. Cox,

Water Quality and Pollution Assessment

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)