The following recently published books and monographs may be of interest to readers of this Newsletter.
Bradbury, J.P. & Dean, W.E. (Eds.) 1993 Elk Lake, Minnesota: Evidence for Rapid Climatic Change in the North-Central United States. Geological Society of America Special Paper 276, 336 pp. Paperback
Buckland, P.C. & Coope, G.R. 1991 A Bibliography and Literature Review of Quaternary Entomology. J.R. Collis Publications, University of Sheffield. 85 pp. Paperback.
Cleveland, W.S. 1993 Visualizing Data. AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. 360 pp. (Available from Hobart Press, PO Box 1473, Summit, NJ 07902-8473, USA).
Coker, P.D. 1993 How to deal with Disk Disasters. Kuma Books, Pangbourne. 176 pp. Paperback.
Cromwell, J.B. et al. 1994 Univariate Tests for Time Series Models. Sage University Press, Thousand Oaks. 96 pp. Paperback.
Dunn, G., Everitt, B. & Pickles, A. 1993 Modelling Covariances and Latent Variables using EQS. Chapman and Hall, London. 201 pp. Paperback
Elias, S.A. 1994. Quaternary Insects and Their Environments. Smithsonian Institution Press, Blue Ridge Summit, PA. 256 pp.
Everitt, B.S. 1992 The Analysis of Contingency Tables (Second edition). Chapman and Hall, London. 164 pp.
Fraser-Taylor, D.R. (Ed.) 1991. Geographic Information Systems. The Microcomputer and Modern Cartography. Pergamon Press, Oxford 251 pp.
Frenzel, B. (Ed.) 1994 Evaluation of land surfaces cleared from forests in the Roman Iron Age and the time of migrating Germanic tribes based on regional pollen diagrams. European Science Foundation Project European Palaeoclimate and Man 7, 134 pp. Paperback.
Frenzel, B., Matthews, J.A. and Gläser, B. (Eds.) 1993 Solifluction and climatic variation in the Holocene. European Science Foundation Project European Palaeoclimate and Man 6, 387 pp. Paperback
Hardisty, J., Taylor, D.M. & Metcalfe, S.E. 1993 Computerised Environmental Modelling. A Practical Introduction using EXCEL. J. Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 204 pp. Paperback.
Hastings, H.M. & Sugihara, G. 1993 Fractals - A User's Guide for the Natural Sciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 235 pp. Paperback.
Krol, E. 1994 The Whole Internet - User's Guide & Catalog (Second edition). O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA. 543 pp. Paperback.
Maling, D.H. 1992 Coordinate Systems and Map Projections. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 476 pp. Paperback.
Marcus, L.F., Bello E. & Garcia-Valdecasas, A. 1993 Contributions to Morphometrics. Monografias Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. 264 pp. Paperback (with diskette).
Patil, G.P. & Rao, C.R. (Eds.) 1993 Multivariate Environmental Statistics. North-Holland Series in Statistics and Probability 6. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 596 pp. (Includes chapters by R.H. Green, V. Barnett, N. Cressie, B.F.J. Manly, C.J.F. ter Braak et al., L. Orloci, and E.P. Smith on topics such as environmental reconstructions, randomisation tests, species-environment relation- ships, trend analysis, spatial analysis, etc.).
Ricklefs, R.E. and Schluter, D. (Eds.) 1993 Species Diversity in Ecological Communities. Historical and Geographical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press. 414 pp. Paperback. (A book that is of interest to Quaternary palaeoecologists even though the Quaternary is barely mentioned despite the subtitle "historical"!)
Saarnisto, M. & Kahra, A. (Eds.) 1992 Laminated Sediments - Proceedings of the Workshop at Lammi Biological Station 4-6 June 1990. Geological Survey of Finland Special Paper 14, 113 pp.
Scheiner, S.M. and Gurevitch, J. (Eds.) 1993 Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments. Chapman and Hall, New York. 445 pp. Paperback. (Contains much of relevance to the quantitative palaeoecologist, with chapters on exploratory data analysis, time-series analysis, multiple regression, bootstrapping and jack-knifing, spatial statistics, and Mantel tests).
Wright, H.E., Kutzbach, J.E. Webb III, T., Ruddiman, W.F., Street- Perrott, F.A. & Bartlein, P.J. (Eds.) 1993 Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 569 pp.