R.J. Bowell, C.N. Alpers, H.E. Jamieson, D.K. Nordstrom and J. Majzlan (Editors). Arsenic. Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Microbiology. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 79, Chantilly, Virginia (the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society), 2014. xv + 635 pp. (with 22 plates in colour). Price US$45.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-939950-94-2.

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R.J. Bowell, C.N. Alpers, H.E. Jamieson, D.K. Nordstrom and J. Majzlan (Editors). Arsenic. Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Microbiology . Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 79, Chantilly, Virginia (the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society), 2014. xv + 635 pp. (with 22 plates in colour). Price US$45.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-939950-94-2. Arsenic is the world's best known poison. It has been used over the centuries to kill pests and humans, and today is responsible for the mass poisoning of millions via contaminated waters, soils and dusts. The importance of arsenic has been covered in many reviews and books, raising the question of whether this book is needed. My answer is: absolutely! The book is the most comprehensive, up-to-date volume on arsenic geochemistry and mineralogy in surface environments, edited and written by prominent experts in the field. This book is number 79 in the well known Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry series. It brings together material from a successful short course of the same name held immediately after the June 2014 Goldschmidt conference in California. The book contains 14 chapters, each with separate reference lists, plus three appendices and an arsenic mineral index. The initial chapter (written by the book editors R.J. Bowell, C.N. Alpers, H.E. …