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RAPE OF THE WILD. MAN'S VIOLENCE AGAINST ANIMALS AND THE EARTH, by A. Collard with J. Contrucci, Women's Press, London, 1988, 187 pp. (£5.95) SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, edited by R. Kerry Turner, Bellhaven Press Boulder, Co; Westview Press, London, 1988, published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK. (£27.50) THE ECONOMY OF THE EARTH, by M. Sagoff, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, 271pp. (£25) ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD, by A. Gupta, Routledge, London and New York, 1988, 80 pp. (£5.95) AIR QUALITY GUIDELINES FOR EUROPE, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 1987, 426 pp. (Sw.F. 60) REGIONAL AND LONG RANGE TRANSPORT OF AIR POLLUTION, edited by S. Sandroni, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1987, 510 pp., index ($170) LAKE ACIDIFICATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1800–1986, Evidence from Analysis of Lake Sediments, by R. W. Batterbee, N. J. Anderson, P. G. Appleby, R. J. Flower, S. C. Fritz, E. Y. Haworth, S. Higgitt, V. J. Jones, A. Kreiser, M. A. R. Munro, J. Natkanski, F. Oldfield, S. T. Patrick, N. G. Richardson, B. Rippey and A. C. Stevenson, Palaeoecology Research Unit, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, 1988, 67 pp. (Prepared for the Department of the Environment and published by ENSIS Publishing, 3 Cintra Park, London SE19 2LH) (£8) ACIDIFICATION IN TROPICAL COUNTRIES SCOPE 36, edited by Henning Rodhe and Rafael Herrera, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1988. 405 pp. (£65, hardback) TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN LARGE LAKES, PROCEEDINGS OF WORLD CONFERENCE ON LARGE LAKES, MACKINAC ‘86. Volume I Chronic Effects of Toxic Contaminants in Large Lakes, 364 pp.; Volume II Impact of Toxic Contaminants on Fisheries Management, 330 pp.; Volume III Sources, Fate, and Controls of Toxic Contaminants, 440 pp.; Volume IV Prevention of Toxic Contamination in Large Lakes, 321 pp.; edited by Norbert W. Schmidtke, Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, USA 1988 (£158.60 for set, hardback) THE PROVIDENT SEA, by D. H. Cushing, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1988, 329 pp. index (£37.50) AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE, edited by B. Rhode, Vol. I Western Europe. European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, Vienna, 1988, 193 pp. (no price given) ILL WINDS. AIRBORNE POLLUTION'S TOLL ON TREES AND CROPS, by J. J. Mackenzie and M. T. El‐Ashry, World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., 1988. 74 pp. ($10) THE DARKNESS IS LIGHT ENOUGH, by C. Ferris, Sphere Books, London, 1988, 405 pp. [first published by Michael Joseph, 1986] (£4.50) ENVIRONMENTAL ATLAS FOR BEAUFORT SEA OIL SPILL RESPONSE, by D. Dickins et al., for Environment Canada, D. F. Dickins Associates, Vancouver, 1987, iii + 182 pp. + 61 pp. of appendices (no price given) PEOPLE OF THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST, edited by J. S. Denslow and J. Padoch, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, in association with Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C., 1988, 232 pp. (Hardback $35.90; paperback $19.50) RECENT CLIMATIC CHANGE, edited by Stanley Gregory, Belhaven Press, London, 1988, 326 pp. (£33) COASTAL METEOROLOGY, by S‐A. Hsu, Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, Cal., 1988, 260 pp. ($39.50) SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING—AN INTRODUCTION, by Ray Harris, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London and New York, 1987, 220 pp. (£10.95) PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 4–10 December 1986 (Nairobi, Kenya), Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, P.O. Box 8618, Ann Arbor, MI 48107–8618, USA, 1987 (no price given) PLANT WATCHING: HOW PLANTS LIVE, FEEL AND WORK, by Malcolm Wilkins, MacMillan, London, 1988, 207 pp. (£14.95) THE SEAWEED HANDBOOK: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SEAWEEDS FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO THE ARCTIC, by Thomas F. Lee, Dover Publications Inc., New York, v + 217 pp. 1986, (£4.75) CHESHIRE AND BURN'S MODERN LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, 14th ed., by E. H. Burn, Butterworths, London and Edinburgh, 1988, 974 pp. (£23.95) ELEMENTS OF LAND LAW, by Kevin J. Gray, Butterworths, London, 1987, 1094 pp. (£22.95) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND HIGHWAY PLANNING: A Comparative case study analysis of the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, by William V. Kennedy, edition sigma, Berlin, 1986, 239 pp. (no price given)