book reviews New Volumes in Continuing Series The following titles are lhose of uolumes in continuing swiss. Many of lhrsc series are familiar to readers who aw best served b~ prompt annomement of the appearance of the new titl,,8. The policy of T H I S JOURNAL will be to publish full reviews only of inaugural volumes i n nevl se7ies. Solid State Chemistry. Series Two, International Review of Science, lnorganlc Chemistry, Volume 10
Edited by L. E. J. Roberts, AtomicEnergy Research Establishment, Harwell. Butterworths, London, and University Park Press, Baltimore, 1975. 264 pages. Figures and tahles. 24 X 15.5 cm. $37.50.
Liquid Crystals and Plastlc Crystals, Volume 2. Physlco-Chemical Properties and Methods of Investigation
Edited by G. W. Gray, University of Hull, and P. A. Winsor, Shell Research Limited. Halsted Press, New York, 1974. vi 314 pages. Figures and tahles. 23.5 X 16 cm. $32.
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Meluin B. Robin, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Academic Press, New York, 1975. x 418 pages. 23.5 X 16 cm. $39.50.
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Macromolecular Syntheses, Volume 5 Advances In Organometalllc Chemlstry, Volume 13
Edited byF. G. A. Stone, The University, Bristol, England, and Robert West, University of Wisconsin. Academic Press, New Yark, 1975. ia 562 pages. Figures and tahles. 23.5 X 16 cm. $44.50.
Edited by Emerson L. Wittbeeker. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1974. ix + 114 pages. Figures and tahles. 23.5 X 15.5 cm. $9.95.
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Contributors: John S. Thayer, W. E. Silverthorn, Joyce Y. Corey, D. Max Roundhill, Patrick M. Henry, J. D. Smith, and D. R. M. Walton.
Vlbratlonal Spectra and Structure, Volume Ouantitatlve Analvsis bv Gas -3 ~hromato~ra~h~.~~hro~atographic Sc~enceSeries. Volume 5 Edited by James R. Durig. University of South Carolina. Marcel Dekker, Inc.,New Jose/ Nouok, Institute of Analytical York, 1975. ix 328 pages. Figures and
Chemistry, Czeckoslovak Academy of Sciences. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1975. ix 218 pages. Figures and tables. 23.5 X 15.5 cm. $16.75.
Higher Exclted States of Polyatomic Molecules, Volume II
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Synthetic Peptldes
Georee R. Petir. Arizona State Universitv. Ac.~drmirPresq. Neu York. 197:. wi 7 418 piiacs. 23.3 X 16 cm. $39.50.
Atlas of Protein Spectra in the Ultraviolet and Visible Regions, Volume 2
Edited by Donald M. Kirsehenbaum, State University of New York, Brooklyn. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, 1974. xiv + 623 pages. Figures and tahles. 28.5 X 22 cm. $39.50.
Contributors: P. R. Bunker, John Overend, and George J. Thomas, Jr. The Organlc Chemistry of Nickel, Volume 11, Organlc Synthesis
Advances in Free-Radical Chemlstry, Volume V
Edited by G. H. Williams. Academic Press, New York, 1975. viii 394 pages. Figures and tables. 23 X 14.5 cm. $34.
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Contributors: R. Bolton and G. H. Williams, William A. Pryor and Lynn D. Lasswell, Ellis K. Fields, Seymour Meyerson, Jay K. Kochi, and R. Kaptein.
Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, Volume 18
Edited by A. R. Kotritzky, and A. J. Buulton, University of East Anglia. Aca486 demic Press, New York, 1975. ix pages. Figures and tables. 23.5 X 15.5 cm. $48.50.
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Contributors: D. Cagniant, P. Gagniant, T. Scott Griffin, Daniel L. Klayman, J. S. Kwiatkowski. Lucio Merlini, Frank D. Popp, Bernard Pullman, S. W. Schneller, and Thomas S. Woods.
Chemical Technology. Volume 8, Oils, Fats and Animal Food Products. etc.
Edited by L. W Codd, K. Dijkhoff, J. H. Fearon, C. J. uon Oss, H. G. Raebersen, and E. G. Stonford. Barnes and Nobel Books, New Yark, 1975. xxx 600 pages. Figures and tables. 25 X 16 cm.
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Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Volume 8
Edited by Per-Olou Lowdin, Uppsala University. Academic Press, New York, 1974. xvii 291 pages. Figures and tables. 23.5 X 15.5 em. $32.
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Contributors: G. Berthier. Guiseppe Del Re, Christian Klixbull, David A. Mieha, William 1. Salmon, and J. Serre.
Advances in Magnetic Resonance, Volume 7
Edited by John S. Waugh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Academic Press, New York, 1974. xiii 322 pages. Figures and tables. 23.5 X 15.5 em. $28.50.
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Contributors: Bernard R. Appleman, John L. Bjorkstam, G. L. Closs, Benjamin P. Dailey, Daniel Kivelson, and Kenneth Ogan.
Advances In Polymer Science, Volume 16. The Entanglement Concept in Polymer Rheology
William V Gmessley. Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, 1974.179 pages. Figures and tables. 24.7 X 17 cm. $27.
P. W. Jolly and G. Wilke, Max-PlsnckInstitut fur Kohlenforschung, Germany. Academic Press, New York, London, 1975. nv 400 pages. Figures and tahles. 23 X 15.5 cm. $48.
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Physical Chemlstry, An Advanced Treatise. Volume XIA, Mathematical Methods
Edited by Douglas Henderson, IBM Research Laboratories, San Jose, California. Academic Press, New York, 1975. xxiv 564 pages. Figures and tables. 23.5 X 16 cm. $45.
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Contributors: A. T. Amos, E. W. Grundke, Douglas Henderson, W. D. Hoskins, R. J. Jacob, C. Mavroyannis, F. David Peat, Harris J. Silverstone, and R. G. Stanton.
Physical Chemlstry, An Advanced Treatise. Volume VIA, Kinetics of Gas Reactions
Edited by Wilhelm Jost, University of Gottingen, Germany. Academic Press, New York, 1974. xx 507 pages. Figures and tahles. 23.5 X 15.5 em. $43.
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Contributors: C. F. Curtiss, H. Eyring, W. Jost, S. H. Lin, E. E. Nikitin, J. C. Polanyi, J. L. Schreiber, and J. Peter Toennies.
