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Developmental Toxicology: Risk Assessment and the Future. Ronald D. Hood, Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 7625 Empire Dr., Florence, KY 41042. 1990. vi + 279 pages. $49.95, cloth.
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Hazardous and Industrial Wastes. Joseph P. Martin, Shi-Chieh Cheng, and Mary Ann Susavidge, Eds. Technomic Publishing, Box 3535, Lancaster, PA 17604. 1990. 808 pages. $75, paper.
Developmenral Toxicology aims at covering the entire range of research and policy needs in the field of developmental toxicology and teratogenicity. Topics include maternal versus developmental toxicity, paternally mediated toxicity, pharmacokinetic considerations in developmental toxicity, tests for developmental toxicity, structure-activity relationships, and mathematical modeling of teratogenic effects.
Site Unseen: The Politics of Siting a Nuclear Waste Repository. Gerald Jacob. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. 1990. xxi + 234 pages. $29.95, cloth. Where will radioactive wastes be buried? Yucca Mountain, NV is one proposed site, but Nevadans are fighting this proposal. Sire Unseen helps put the politics of nuclear waste in perspective and discusses the nuclear establishment, technological solutions, and the failure of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of
Hazardous and Industrial Wastes contains the papers presented at the Twenty-Second Mid-Atlantic Hazardous Waste Conference. Topics include waste minimization, resource recovery, remediation, process wastewater, risk assessment, analytical procedures, sludge treatment and disposal, toxic materials, and thermal treatment.
Integrated Pollution Control in Europe and North America. Nigel Haigh and Frances Irwin, Eds. The Conservation Foundation, P.O. Box 4866, Hampden Post Office, Baltimore, MD 21211. 1990. xiv + 241 pages. $20, paper. Integrated Pollution Control presents
an overview, a review of North American experiences, and four European case studies. Among topics discussed are options, permitting, inspection, and policy planning.
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Element Concentration Cadasters in Ecosystems: Methods of Assessment and Evaluation. Helmut Lieth and Bernd Markert, Eds. VCH Publishers, Suite 909, 220 E. 23rd St., New York, NY 10010-4606. 1990. x + 448 pages. $120, cloth. Major topics include sampling and sample preparation, instrumental measurement, quality control, use and interptation of multielement data, and political considerations. Discussions include elements in tree leaves, foods, marine ecosystems, and biological samples. The emphasis is 00 Europe.
orbital theory approach to geochemical processes.
Aquatic Chemical Kinetics: Reaction Rates of Processes in Natural Waters. Werner Stumm, Ed. John Wiley & Sons, 605 Thii Ave., New York, NY 10016. 1990. xii + 543 pages. $89.95, cloth. The objectives of Aquatic Chemical Kinetics are to explain general principles of aquatic chemistry, to discuss the application of kinetics to natural processes, and to inspire the development of new engineering principles. Included among the topics are chemical transformations of organics in the aquatic environment, catalysis, redox reactions of metal ions, trace metal complexation, enzymatic reactions, and the frontier-molecular-
1784 Environ. Sci. Technol., VoI. 24. No. 12, 1990
Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles. GPO Stock No. 052-003-01260-5. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Superintendent of Documents, US. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325. 1990. $7, paper. Replacing Gasoline explains why alternative fuels are needed. The book discusses the use of merhanol and its effects on air quality, the greenhouse effect, control of troposphericozone, natural gas and hydrogen as fuels, reformulated gasoline, and elecnic vehicles.
Kinetics and Mechanisms of the GasPhase Reactions of the Hydroxyl Radical with Organic Compounds. Roger Atkinson. American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. 1989. iii + 246 pages. $55 ($66 outside United States and Canada), cloth. This book is Monograph 1 from the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Dofa. Major topics include hydroxyl reactions with many different classes of aliphatic and aromatic compounds, and substituted compounds.
0013-936x190/0924-1784$02.50/00 1990 American Chemical Society
