In the Computers and Electronics category, new material includes sections on intra-line processingand laboratory information management systems. Two new tecbniques-affinity chromatography and GC-FTIR-are discussed in the Chromatography category. With the development of microelectrodes other than the DME, it is no longer desirable to distinguish polarographie tecbniques from other voltammetric techniques. This edition reflects this development by not only adding a section on microelectrodes, hut also by reclassifying techniques as various forms of voltemmetry. Thus, terms such as derivative polarography and ac polarography are no longer found. In so far as this reviewer has been able to judge, only one new technique-spectroelectroehemistry-bas been added to this category. The miscellaneous category includes thermal methods, radiochemistry, and process instruments and automated analysis. For the latter two, new material consists of the Cerenkov technique (radiocbemistry), process FTIR, flow injection analysis, microinstrumentation, and laboratory robots. In the reviewer's opinion, the weaknesses of this textbook are the absence of a chapter on basic electronics (students get mostly electricity and magnetism theory in fresbman physics) and an inadequate number of problems for chapter 3. An excellent job has heen done in the other categories. This is a textbook which an undergraduate student pursuing a chemistry career will value as a referencelong after bisor her baccalaureate. Vaneica Y. Young University of Florida Gainesvilie, FL 3261 1
The Metamlct S l a t e Roald Hoffmann. University of Central Florida Press: Orlando. FL. 1987. vlil 104 pp. 13.8 X 21.4 cm. $10.95.
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Despite C. P. Snow's lament about the abysmal lack of communication between scientists and humanists (The Two Cultures and the Scientific Reuolution; Cambridge University Press: New York, NY, 19621, the wellsprings of creativity for both groups-scientists and artists-are the same, as I (Kauffman, G. B. J. Chem. Edue. 1966.43.617) and others have maintained. Thus, it should not he surprising that poets have written on science, e.g., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, August Strindherg (Kauffman, G. B. J. Chem. Educ. 1983,60, 585), and Cyrano de Bergerac (Nierenberg, W. A. Proc. Am. Phil Soc. 1986,130, 354), while scientists have written poetry, e.g., the physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer and Alan Liehtman, the immunoloeist Miroslav Holug, the anthropologist
