Pollution Causes, Effects and Control 3rd Edition Edited by RM Harrison, University of Birmingham, UK The third edition of Pollution has once again been updated and expanded to reflect the changes that have taken place in recent years. In particular, if contains new chapters on marine pollution, soils and contaminated land and the effects of air pollutant exposure on human health. The book’s treatment of its subject is essentially introductory, although some aspects are covered in greater depth. The contributions combine to give a broad over- view, touching on most of the important areas and delving deeper into many of them. More than ever, before, the environment is high on the political agenda, illustrating the need for authoritative scientific information on the subject.Pollution is a must for graduated and undergraduates with an interest in environmental and pollution research. “This book is useful as a textbook and is highly recommended.” Environmental International (reviewing 2nd edition) Softcover xxi + 480pages ISBN 0 85404 534 1 1996 f35.00 Environmental Impact of Chemicals Assessment and Control Edited by M Quint, Dames & Moore, UK D Taylor, Zeneca Environmental Lab, UK R Purchase, Environmental Chemistry Group, RSC, UK Environmental Impact of Chemicals contains a collection of views and theoretical discussions from industrialists, scientists and regulators which outline the latest legislative position and current state of the art on the rapidly changing field of environmental risk assessment.Risk assessment in safety and, to an increasing extent, chemical product registration, has been practised for many years. It is only relatively recently, however, that it has been routinely applied to chemicals released into the environment. This book describes the underlying science of such assessment, the problems associated with it and the difficulties involved in communicating the results to the general public. The book is highly practical and written from an applied perspective, with the majority of contributors being practitioners in the filed. It will prove useful to researchers and professionals in industry as well as to consultancy and governmental bodies. Special Publication No 7 76 Hardcover viii + 242 pages ISBN 0 85404 795 6 1996 f69.50 Simple Guide on Management and Control of Wastes This guide derives from a study carried out by a specialist committee of The Royal Society of Chemistry for the European Commission.As its title suggests, this is a basic guidebook which identifies with major moral, legal and administrative duties associated with the minimisation, control, and ultimate disposal of liquid, semi-solid and solid waste. Simple Guide on Management and Control of Wastes provides a useful reference work for those who need to acquaint themselves with the principles of waste management, identifying each of the major processes, such as incineration, landfill, recycling and ecologically acceptable waste reduction by physical, chemical and biological treatment.Throughout, the text is supported by data in diagrammatical form, together with tables of the EU waste identification criteria. Softcover 75pages ISBN 0 85404 990 8 1996 f9.95 Electrochemical Processes for Clean Technology By K Scott, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK This new book describes the technology and engineer- ing of electrochemical systems that are relevant to clean technology, such as chemical synthesis, effluent treat- ment and recycling. It explains basic scientific and engi- neering principles, and describes relevant cell and reac- tor technology with examples. It emphasises the increas- ing importance of electrochemistry in the synthesis of organic and inorganic compounds for the bulk, fine chemical, pharmaceutical and electronic industries. There is full coverage of effluent treatment and recycling for heavy and precious metals, organic contaminants, inorganic aqueous and gaseous effluents, and includes important coverage of electrochemical membrane-based separations, and electrochemically enhanced processes such as ion exchange and ultrafiltration.Hardcover xiv + 308 pages ISBN 0 85404 506 6 1996 f59.50 Ion Exchange Developments and Applications Edited by JA Greig, Nutra Sweet Kelko Company, UK This book concentrates on the application on this tech- nology in industry. In particular, it covers such topics as environmental and pollution control, water treatment, hydrometallurgy, the nuclear industry, ion exchange fun- damentals and separations, resin development and inor- ganic ion exchangers.New insights contained in this book throw light on many aspects of the science, engi- neering and implementation of ion exchange technology, and the range of industries affected is very broad. Special Publication No 182 Hard cover xvi + 560 pages ISBN 0 85404 726 3 1996 f89.50 Chemical Aspects of Drug Delivery Systems Edited by DR Karsa, Akcos Chemicals, Manchester, UK RA Stephenson, Chemical Consuftant Chemical Aspects of Drug Delivery Systems reflects the modern challenge to devise effective drug delivery and targeting systems, giving particular emphasis to recent innovations in the field. Delivery systems described include carbohydrate derivatives, novel non- ionic surfactant vescicles and various polymers, includ- ing polyacrylates and aqueous shellac solutions, as well as hydrogels. In addition, many of the key issues, such as the understanding of biosystems and targets and the development of materials to provide the deserved carrier and excipient properties for controtled, targeted drug delivery are considered in depth.Hard cover viii + 162 pages ISBN 0 85404 706 9 1996 f49.50 The Chemistry of Paper By JC Roberts, UMlST; UK This book provides an overview of the process of mak- ing paper from a chemical perspective. It deals with both the chemistry of paper as a material and the chemistry of its production, setting out the main principles involved at every stage. It provides a chemical definition of paper in the light of the many uses to which it is put, as well as dealing with the processes involved in the production of paper: the delignification of the wood fibres, the bleach- ing of the cellulose-rich pulp using environmentally- friendly systems, the formation of the pulp into sheets of fibres strengthened by extensive inter-fibre hydrogen bonding, and finally the coating of the sheets in a man- ner appropriate to their end use. Softcover xiv + 182 pages ISBN 0 85404 518 X 1996 f15.95