The following recently published books may be of interest to readers to this Newsletter.
Boon, F.J. & Howell, D.L. (Eds.) 1997 Freshwater quality: defining the indefinable? The Stationary Office and Scottish Natural Heritage, Edinburgh. 552 pp.
Bowman, A.W. & Azzalini, A. 1997 Applied smoothing techniques for data analysis. The Kernel approach with S-Plus Illustrations. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 193 pp.
Cryer, P. 1996 The Research Student's Guide to Success. Open University Press, Buckingham. 222 pp. Pb.
Driver, T.S. & Chapman, G.P. (Eds.) 1996 Time-scales and environmental change. Routledge, London. 275 pp. Pb.
Elias, S.A. 1997 The Ice-Age History of Southwestern National Parks. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 200 pp. Pb.
Everitt, B.S. 1995. The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics in the Medical Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 277 pp.
Everitt, B.S. & Rabe-Hesketh, S. 1997 The analysis of proximity data. Arnold, London. 178 pp.
Fleming, L.V., Newton, A.C., Vickery, J.A. & Usher, M.B. (Eds.) 1997 Biodiversity in Scotland: Status, Trends and Initiatives. The Stationary Office and Scottish Natural Heritage, Edinburgh. 309 pp.
Gilbertson, D., Kent, M. & Grattan, J. (Eds.) 1996 The Outer Hebrides - The Last 14,000 Years. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield. 275 pp.
Hayek, L-A.C. & Buzas, M.A. 1997 Surveying Natural Populations. Columbia University Press, New York. 563 pp. Pb.
Huntley, B., Cramer, W., Morgan, A.V., Prentice, H.C. & Allen, J.R.M. (Eds.) 1997 Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes: The Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota. NATO ASI Series Series I: Global Environmental Change Volume 47. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 523 pp.
Håkanson, L. & Peters, R.H. 1995 Predictive Limnology. Methods for Predictive Modelling. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam. 464 pp.
Matthews, J.A., Brunsden, D., Frenzel, B., Gläser, B. & Weiss, M.M. (Eds.) 1997 Rapid mass movement as a source of climatic evidence for the Holocene. Paläoklimaforschung 19, 444 pp. Pb.
Smith, T.H., Shugart, H.H. & Woodward, F.I. (Eds.) 1997 Plant Functional Types. Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 369 pp. Pb.
Underwood, A.J. 1997 Experiments in Ecology. Their logical design and interpretation using analysis of variance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 504 pp. Pb.
United Kingdom Climate Change Impacts Review Group 1996. Review of the Potential Effects of Climate Change in the United Kingdom. HMSO, London. 247 pp. Pb.
Ukraintseva, V.V. 1993 Vegetation cover and environment of the "Mammoth Epoch" in Siberia. Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, Dakota. 309 pp. Pb.
Wadhams, P., Dowdeswell, J.A. and Schofield, A.N. (Eds.) 1996 The Arctic and Environmental Change. Gordon & Breach, Amsterdam. 193 pp.
Woodin, S.J. & Marquiss, M. (Eds.) 1997 Ecology of Arctic Environments. Special Publication Series of the British Ecological Society 13. Blackwell Science, Oxford.