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Volume 136 - September 1999

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DIAMOND, J. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel. A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years. 480 pp. London: Jonathan Cape. Price £18.99 (hard covers). ISBN 0 224 03809 5.

HARLAND, W. B. 1998. The Geology of Svalbard. Geological Society Memoir no. 17. xxi + 521 pp. London, Bath: Geological Society of London. Price £99.00, US $165.00; members' price £49.00, US $82.00; hard covers. ISBN 1 897799 93 4.

BENNETT, M. R. & BOYLE, P. 1997. Environmental Geology. Geology and the Human Environment. ix + 501 pp. Chichester, New York, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons. Price £18.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 471 97459 5.

DONOVAN, S. K. & PAUL, C. R. C. (eds) 1998. The Adequacy of the Fossil Record. x + 312 pp. Chichester, New York, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons. Price £50.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 471 96988 5.

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ROBINSON, A. G. (ed.) 1997. Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region. AAPG Memoir no. 68. vi + 385 pp. Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Price US $149.00 (members' price US $99.00); hard covers. ISBN 0 89181 348 9.

BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1997. Geology of the United Kingdom (3 CD-ROM pack). Available from CD Vision (UK), P.O. Box 14210, London NW3 7WW, UK. Price £146.87 single user, £346.62 single network, £816.62 site licence (inc. VAT); plus £2 postage and packing. PC compatible.

MAVKO, G., MUKERJI, T. & DVORKIN, J. 1998. The Rock Physics Handbook. Tools for Seismic Analysis in Porous Media. x + 329 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £40.00, US $64.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 62068 6.

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HOLTSTAM, D. & LANGHOF, J. (eds) 1999. Långban: The Mines, Their Minerals, Geology and Explorers. 217 pp. Stockholm: Raster Förlag & Swedish Museum of Natural History. Price 450 Swedish Kroner. ISBN 91 87214 881.

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BOBROWSKY, P. T. (ed.) 1998. Aggregate Resources. A Global Perspective. vii + 470 pp. Rotterdam, Brookfield: A. A. Balkema. Price Dfl. 190.00 (hard covers). ISBN 90 5410 675 1.

YERSHOV, E. D. 1998. General Geocryology. Studies in Polar Research Series. First published in Russian as Obshchaya Geokriologiya by Nedra, 1990. xxiii + 580 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £75.00, US $120.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 47334 9.

GLENNIE, K. W. (ed.) 1998. Petroleum Geology of the North Sea. Basic Concepts and Recent Advances, 4th ed. xvi + 636 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Science for JAPEC (UK). Price £44.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 632 03845 4.

SCHOWENGERDT, R. A. 1998. Remote Sensing. Models and Methods for Image Processing, 2nd ed. xiv + 522 pp. San Diego, London: Academic Press. Price US $75.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 12 628981 6.

YOCHELSON, E. L. 1998. Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist. xvii + 510 pp. Kent: The Kent State University Press; distributed in Europe by Eurospan. Price US $49.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 87338 599 3.

CLARKE, L. B., WALKER, S. & MONTFORT, O. 1997. Coal Prospects in India. Perspectives Series no. IEAPER/37. 52 pp. London: IEA Coal Research. Price £255 (non-member countries), £85 (IEACR member countries), £42.50 (educational establishments within member countries); paperback. ISBN 92 9029 296 2.

EDGECOMBE, G. D. (ed.) 1998. Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny. vii + 347 pp. New York: Columbia University Press. Price US $125.00 (domestic), US $144.00, £100.00 (international); hard covers. ISBN 0 231 09654 2.

BLACKBURN, W. H. & DENNEN, W. H. 1997. Encyclopedia of Mineral Names. The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publication no. 1. vii + 360 pp. Ottawa: Mineralogical Association of Canada. Price C$40.00, US $40.00 (hard covers); 20% discount for MAC members. ISBN 0 921294 45 X.

SELLEY, R. C. 1998. Elements of Petroleum Geology, 2nd ed. xvi + 470 pp. San Diego, London, Boston, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto: Academic Press. Price £39.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 12 636370 6.

FOUQUÉ, F. A. 1999. Santorini and Its Eruptions. xvi + 495 pp. + loose maps. Translated and annotated by A. R. McBirney. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Price £62.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 8018 5614 0.

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