how improved mentoring can help prevent ethical misconduct among scientists, the literary medium that he calls "science-in-fiction," the pleasures of collecting art, and sponsoring art through his Djerassi Resident Artists Rogram. This intriguing and thought-provoking book dealing with a variety of socially relevant topics, especially those related to science, will he of interest to the general reader and scientific and technological specialist alike.
search and interest surrounding public health issues since the
Third Edition was published 12 years ago. Part E, the fiRh book of %lurne 2, continues the detailed examination begun in Part A of the host of toxins common to the modern industrial workplace. The hook's systematic, chapter-hy-chapter analysis includes the following topics: heterocyclic and miscellaneous nitrogen compounds; aliphatic carboxylic acids; synthetic polymers; and halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons containing chlorine, bromine, and iodine.
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SI Chemical Data, Third Edition Gordon Aylwardand Tristan Findlay. Wiley: New York. NY 1994.xi+ 180pp.Tables. 15.3x22.8cm. $20.95 PB.
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Recognition of Health Hazards in industry: A Review of Mater~als and Processes, Second Edition William A. Burgess. Wiley: New York, NY. 1995. xiii + 538 pp. Figs. and tables. 16.3 x 24.4 cm. $69.95.
Dictionary of Named Processes in Chemical Technology Alan E. Comyns. Oxford University Press: New York, NY 1993. xi + 338 pp. 16.5 x 24.1 cm. $75.00. The purpose of this dictionary is to pmvide concise descriptions of all the process names in current use in chemical technology, which covers the production of chemicals and all those processes in which chemical reactions are conducted. These include extractive metallurgy, plastics manufacture, sewage treatment, and many others. It also covers the more important historical ones. Many references are provided, dwumenting the original inventions, definitive reviews, and the current commercial status of the processes. Derivations of the names are given where known.
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Whatever Happened to "Eureka"? Cartoons on Science Nick Downes. Rutgem University Press: New Brunswick, NJ, 1994. 157pp. Illus.20.4~20.4cm.$10.95PB. This collection of more than 150 cartaans deals with the foibles of science. medicine. technolow. the environment. human nature. and dogs.'& author's first co~crionofcanoons,~~~erence, was originally pubhshed by the American Assmiation for the Advancement of Science in 1992.
New Volumes in Continuing Series Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. Volume 2E: Toxicology, Fourth Edition Geome D. Clavton and Florence E. Clavton, Editors. Wilev: . tables. 17.2.~ New Vork. ~ ~ , . 1 9 9xvi 4 . + 1025 pp. ~ i g sand 24.3 cm. $195.00. Expanded to six books containing a total of 46 chapters, the Fourth Edition of Volume 2 reflects an intense proliferation in re-
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