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FROM VOLUME 3, NUMBER 10, OCTOBER 1990

BOOKS AND PROCEEDINGS...
REVIEWS

The following are reviews of books and reports previously listed in Global Climate Change Digest.

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Reviewed by A.B. Pittock in Environment, pp. 25-28, May 1990. Both publications are by the Committee on Earth Sciences, U.S. Federal Council for Science, Engineering and Technology; available from U.S. Govt. Printing Off.:

Our Changing Planet: The FY 1990 Research Plan, The U.S. Global Change Research Program, 196 pp., Sep. 1989.

Our Changing Planet: The FY 1991 U.S. Global Change Research Program, 60 pp., Jan. 1990.

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Interim Report--National Energy Strategy: A Compilation of Public Comments, Pub. Doc. DOE/S-0066P, Apr. 1990 (U.S. Govt. Printing Off.). Reviewed by P. Gray in Environmental Forum, p. 6, May/June 1990.

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Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences, S.F. Singer, Ed., 424 pp., 1989, $34.95 (Paragon). Reviewed by H. Diaz in Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 1034-1036, July 1990.

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The Challenge of Global Warming, D.E. Abrahamson, Ed., 350 pp., $34.95 hbk./$19.95 pbk. (Island Press). Reviewed by G. Walmet in Environment, 32(5), p. 27, 1990.

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The Greenhouse Effect: Negotiating Targets, M. Grubb, Dec. 1989, £10, (Royal Inst. Intl. Affairs), U.K. (tel:+44-1-930-2233). Reviewed by R. Mott in Environmental Forum, p. 6, May/June 1990.

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Electricity End-Use Efficiency, M. Friedrichs, E. Unterwurzacher (Intl. Energy Agency), 200 pp., 1989, $28/130 Francs (OECD Pub.). Reviewed in Energy Policy, pp. 305-306, Apr. 1990.

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Ozone Depletion: Health and Environmental Consequences, R.R. Jones, T. Wigley, Eds., 280 pp., 1989, £35/$72 (Wiley). Reviewed by F. Urbach in Nature, p. 598, Apr. 12, 1990.

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The End of Nature, B. McKibben, 217 pp., $19.95 (Random House). Reviewed by R. Streeter in Amicus J., p. 43, Spr. 1990.

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Climate, Science, and Life on Earth, T. Levenson, 242 pp., $18.95 (Harper & Row). Reviewed by B. Webster in Amicus J., p. 44-45, Spr. 1990.

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The Environmental Record in Glaciers and Ice Sheets, H. Oeschger, C.C. Langway, Eds., 403 pp., 1989, $98 (Wiley). Reviewed by A. Hofzumahaus in J. Atmos. Chem., Vol. 10, pp. 371-372, 1990.

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Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Change, J. Oerlemans, Ed., 432 pp., 1989, Dfl. 195/$109/£64 (Kluwer). Reviewed by T. Pfeffer in Arctic Alpine Res., pp. 114-115, Feb. 1990.

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The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture, Vol. I, M.L. Parry, T.R. Carter, N.T. Konijn, Eds., 876 pp., 1988, $99 (Kluwer). Reviewed by K.B. Perry in Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., pp. 1234-1235, Aug. 1990.