The following recently published books may be of interest to readers of this Newsletter.
L.S. Aiken & S.G. West 1991 Multiple regression: testing and interpreting interactions. Sage, Newbury Park. 212 pp.
D.L. Bruton & D.A.T. Harper 1990 Microcomputers in palaeontology. Contributions from the Palaeontological Museum, University of Oslo 370, 105 pp. (Available from Paleontologisk Museum, Sars gate 1, N-0562 OSLO 5, Norway)
J.S. Cramer 1991 The LOGIT model: an introduction for economists. Edward Arnold, London. 110 pp.
E. Feoli & L. Orloci (Eds.) 1991 Computer assisted vegetation analysis. Kluwer, Dordrecht. 498 pp.
B.S. Everitt & G. Dunn 1991 Applied multivariate data analysis. Edward Arnold, London. 304 pp. (Paperback).
P. Firth, & S.G. Fisher (Eds.) 1992 Global climate change and freshwater ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, New York. 321 pp.
B. Frenzel (Ed.) 1991 Evaluation of climate proxy data in relation to the European Holocene. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 309 pp. (Paperback).
D.R. Harris & K.D. Thomas (Eds.) 1991 Modelling ecological change. Institute of Archaeology, University College London. 102 pp. Paperback.
J.E. Jackson 1991 A User's Guide to Principal Components. J. Wiley & Sons, New York. 569 pp.
M. Jambu 1991 Exploratory and multivariate data analysis. Academic Press, Boston. 474 pp.
J.N.R. Jeffers (Ed.) 1991 Microcomputers in environmental biology. Parthenon Publishing, Carnforth. 344 pp.
K.-H. Jöckel, G. Rothe & W. Sendler (Eds.) 1992 Bootstrapping and related techniques. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 245 pp. Paperback.
P.M. Mather 1991 Computer applications in geography. J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 257 pp. Paperback.
G. McLachlan 1992 Discriminant analysis and statistical pattern recognition. J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 528 pp.
M. Monmonier 1991 How to lie with maps. University of Chicago Press. 176 pp. (Paperback).
P.L. Nimis & T.J. Crovello (Eds.) 1991 Quantitative approaches to phytogeography. Kluwer, Dordrecht. 280 pp.
R.J. Pankhurst 1991 Practical taxonomic computing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 202 pp.
P.G. Risser (Ed.) 1991 Long-term ecological research - an international perspective. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 294 pp.
D.J. Saville & G.R. Wood 1991 Statistical methods: the geometric approach. Springer Verlag, New York. 560 pp.
L.C.K. Shane & E.J. Cushing (Eds.) 1991 Quaternary Landscapes. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 229 pp.
Readers may be interested in the comparative review of 8 statistical software packages for PCs by Aaron M. Ellison (1992 in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (73, 74-87). SYSTAT, Stata, CRUNCH, CSS, Minitab, SPSS/PC, S-PLUS, and Gauss are extensively reviewed by Ellison. SYSTAT and S-PLUS both emerged particularly well from the review.