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Reviews & Notices
Can Desert Encroachment be Stopped? Edited by A. Rapp, H. N. Le Houérou & B. Lundholm. (Ecological Bulletin No. 24.) Swedish Natural Science Research Council, Stockholm: 241 pp., 16.4 × 24.2 × 1.3 cm, stiff paper covers [no price indicated], 1976.
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Understanding Climatic Change: A Program for Action. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 20418: xv + 239 pp., figs & tables, 23 × 15 × 1.3 cm, (no price indicated), 1975.
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The Drama of the Oceans, by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Abrams, New York, N.Y.: 258 pp., numerous photographic illustrations (mostly in colour), 28.7 × 25.1 × 2.4 cm, US $25.00, 1975.
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Conferences & Meetings
Open Meeting of SCOPE Executive Committee, held at the Headquarters of the Royal Society of London, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London Sw1, England, 3–6 October 1977
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Future Landscapes, Edited by Malcolm MacEwen. Chatto & Windus, London: xii + 224 pp., illustr., 24 × 16 × 2 cm, £6.00, 1976.
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An Environmental Sanitation Plan for the Mediterranean Seaboard: Pollution and Human Health, by J. Brisou. (Public Health Papers No. 62.) World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: viii + 96 pp., figs & tables, 21.2 × 14 × 0.6 cm, stiff paper covers, Sw.fr. 10.00 or US $4.00 (also available in French, Spanish, and Russian), 1976.
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United Nations Conference on Desertification
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The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press, London: vii + 224 pp., 14.2 × 22.2 + 2.5 cm, £2.95, 1976.
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Fishes of the World, by Joseph S. Nelson. John Wiley, New York–London–Sydney–Toronto: ix + 416 pp., numerous text figures, 45 maps, 22.8 × 15.3 × 2.5 cm, [no price indicated but £17.84 paid by a major library], 1976.
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The Benthos of Lakes, by Ralph O. Brinkhurst with the collaboration of R. E. Boltt, M. G. Johnson, S. Mozley & A. V. Tyler. The Macmillan Press, 4 Little Essex Street, London, England: 190 pp., illustr., 28.2 × 22 × 2.2 cm, £14.00, 1975.
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A Guide to the British Landscape, by J. R. W. Cheatle. Collins, London, England: 350 pp., illustr., 19 × 13·6 × 2.2 cm, £3.95, 1976.
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Lichens as Pollution Monitors, by David L. Hawksworth & Francis Rose. (Studies in Biology No. 66.) Edward Arnold, 25 Hill Street, London: iv + 60 pp., 17 figs, tables, 21.5 × 13.8 × 0.4 cm, £2.80, £1.40 paper covers, 1976.
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Early Action on the Global Environmental Monitoring System. A Report of the International Environmental Programs Committee (Gilbert F. White, Chairman) of the Environmental Studies Board Commission on Natural Resources, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20418: pp. vi + 26 pp., map, 20.8 × 15.2 × 0.4 cm, paper covers (available free from the Committee, c/o National Academy of Sciences), 1976. - Assessment of Research on Natural Hazards, by Gilbert F. White & J. Eugene Haas. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: xxii + 487 pp., figs & tables, 25.0 × 17.3 × 3.0 cm, paper covers, [no price indicated], 1975.
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Evolution of Crop Plants, Edited by N. W. Simmonds, Longman, London & New York: xii + 339 pp., 19.0 × 25.0 × 2.6 cm, £14, 1976.
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Man and Environment: Crisis and the Strategy of Choice (4th edn), by ‘Robert Arvill’. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, and New York, N.Y. 10022: 432 pp., 13 figs, 18 × 11 × 1.6 cm, stiff paper covers, £1.25 or Can. $5.25, 1976.
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The Nile: Biology of an Ancient River, Edited by Julian Rzóska. Dr W. Junk, The Hague, Netherlands: xvi + 417 pp., 101 figs, 18 tables, 2 coloured plates and 1 fold-out map, 24.8 × 16.0 × 2.1 cm, 120 guilders, 1976.
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Other Books etc Received
Other Books etc. Received 1976*
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Recreational Land Management, by C. W. N. Miles & W. Seabrooke (with a Foreword by J. Cripps). E. & F. N. Spon, London, England: ix + 147 pp., 17 figs, 24 × 16 × 1.4 cm, £5.00, 1977.
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The Distribution and Diversity of Soil Fauna, by John A. Wallwork. Academic Press, London, New York & San Francisco: xiv + 355 pp., 14.5 × 23 × 2 cm, £11.00, 1976.
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Land for the People, compiled by Herbert Cirardet. Published by Crescent Books, 8a Loighton Crescent, London, NW5, and distributed by Prism Press, Stable Court, Chalmington, Dorchester, England144 pp., illustr., 14.6 × 20.6 × 0.8 cm, £1.20 (paperback), 1976.
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