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RICH WORLD, POOR WORLD, by Geoffrey Lean. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1978. 352 pp. (£7.95).     

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ANALYSIS AND DECISION IN REGIONAL POLICY, edited by I. G. Cullen. London Papers in Regional Science 9, Pion, London, 1979. 232 pp. (£8.50)

DEVELOPMENTS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ANALYSIS, edited by M. G. Breheny. London Papers in Regional Science 10, Pion, London, 1979, 162 pp. (£6.50)

TOWARDS THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL SYSTEMS, edited by R. L. Martin. N. J. Thrift and R. J. Bennett, Pion, London, 1978. 210 pp. (£9.80)

A LOW ENERGY STRATEGY FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM, by Gerald Leach, Christopher Lewis, Frederic Romig, Ariane van Buren and Gerald Foley. The International Institute for Environment and Development, Science Reviews Ltd. (now Symposium Press), London, 1979. (£7.50)

“WOMEN'S WORK, MEN'S WORK,” The Ambivalence of Equality, by Virginia Novarra. Marion Boyars, London and Boston, March, 1980. 152 pp. (Hardcover £5.95; Paperback £2.95)     

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GAIA: A NEW LOOK AT LIFE ON EARTH, by J. E. Lovelock. Oxford University Press, 1979. 157 pp. (£4.95)

THE QUEST FOR GAIA: A BOOK OF CHANGES, by Kit Pedler. Souvenir Press, London, 1979. 213 pp. (£5.50)     

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LOSING GROUND: ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND WORLD FOOD PROSPECTS, by Erik P. Eckholm. Foreword by Maurice F. Strong. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1976. 223 pp. ($3.95).

MAN‐MADE FUTURES: DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY, A SECOND LEVEL COURSE, UNITS 1. 2–3, 6 and 9, by Nigel Cross, David Elliott, and Robin Roy. The Open University, 1975 (£1.50, £1.95, £1.90, and £1.80).

MOLECULAR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF MUTAGENESIS, edited by L. Prakash, F. Sherman, M. W. Miller, G W. Lawrence and H. W. Taber. Charles C. Thomas. Publ.. Springfield, Illinois, 1974. 289 pp. Proceedings of the 6th Rochester Intern. Conference on Environmental Toxicity ($24.50).     

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GEOGRAPHIES OF THE MIND: Essays in Historical Geosophy in Honor of John Kirtland Wright, edited by D. Lowenthal and M. L. Bowden, New York, Oxford University Press, 263 pp., 1976 (£6.95).

BRAIN by V. Serebriakoff, Davis‐Poynter Ltd., London, U.K., pp. 185, 1975 (£6.00.)     

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MAKING EUROPEAN POLICIES WORK: The implementation of Community legislation in the Member States, eds. (Heinrich Siedentopf and Jacques Ziller. European Institute of Public Administration/SAGE Publications, London, 1988. Vol One: Comparative Synthesis, 288 pp., cloth (£30); Vol Two: National reports, 736 pp., cloth (£45).     

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UNESCO SOURCEBOOK IN CLIMATOLOGY — FOR HYDROLOGISTS AND WATER RESOURCE ENGINEERS, edited by M. Sanderson, UNESCO 1990, xvi + 109 pp. (No price indicated).

“GLOBAL WARMING — ARE WE ENTERING THE GREENHOUSE CENTURY?” by Stephen H. Schneider, The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1990, 343 pp., index (Hbk: £13.95)

LIMITING GREENHOUSE EFFECTS: CONTROLLING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, edited by G. I. Pearman, J. Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK, 1992, viii + 632 pp., authors’ and subject indices (Hbk: £99.50; Pbk: £13.50)

INVENTING THE FUTURE. REFLECTIONS ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE, by David Suzuki, Adamantine Press, London, 1992, 247 pp. (£14.85)

CLEAN AIR AT WORK: NEW TRENDS IN ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT FOR THE 1990s, edited by R. H. Brown, M. Curtis, K. J. Saunders and S. Vandendriessche, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1992, xx + 508 pp., index of authors (Hbk: £65.00)

STRATEGIES OF EXPERTISE IN TECHNICAL CONTROVERSIES: A STUDY OF WOOD ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, by F. Frankena, Lehigh University Press (Bethlehem, USA) and Associated University Presses (London and Toronto), 1992, 273 pp., index, extensive notes and bibliography (Hbk: £32.50)

MARINE ECOLOGY OF THE ARABIAN REGION: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN EXTREME TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS, by C. Sheppard, A. Price and C. Roberts, Academic Press, Eastbourne (UK), 1992, 359 pp., index (£29.95)     

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CHANGING CLIMATE, by the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee, U.S. National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1983. 496 pp. ($29.50).

CAN WE DELAY A GREENHOUSE WARMING? by S. Seidel and D. Keyes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1983. 192 pp. ($6.00).     

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Karel Teige/1900–1950: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Švácha, eds.
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings Karel Teige
10 × 10 Vivian Constantinopulus, editor     

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Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico Edited by Edward R. Burian
Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis (World Cities Series) Roberto Segre, Mario Coyula, and Joseph L. Scarpaci
Cuba: 400 Years of Architectural Heritage Rachel Carley
Guide to Havana: Modern Architecture, 1925–1965 Eduardo Luis Rodriguez
Revolution of Forms: Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools John A. Loomis
Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History Alice T. Friedman
The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth Eleni Bastea
The Anaesthetics of Architecture Neil Leach
Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology Catherine Slessor with photographs by John Linden
Sustainable Architecture James Steele
Architecture and the Environment: Bioclimatic Building Design David Lloyd Jones
The Technology of Ecological Building Klaus Daniels     

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Recent Works on the Theme of Technology and Place
The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century William A. Shutkin     

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The American Country Club: Its Origins and Development James M. Mayo
Design as a Catalyst for Learning Meredith Davis, Peter Hawley, Bernard McMullan, and Gertrude Spilka
Shaping Structures: Statics Waclaw Zalewski and Edward Allen
Understanding Structures Fuller Moore     

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Learning by Building: Design and Construction in Architectural Education William J. Carpenter, AIA, ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold
Devil's Workshop: 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture Susan Piedmont-Palladino and Mark Alden Branch
Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Louise Pelletier     

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Architecture of the Everyday Edited by Steven Harris and Deborah Berke
A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture Ann Cline
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster Mike Davis