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Fellow Researchers:

At the risk of appearing to make a commercial, I would would to alert the
forestry research community to today's (Feb 23, 1996) Times Higher
Education Supplement which includes a section reviewing recent books in
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, including...


Sir Ghillean Prance's review of:

HUMID TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS
by Alison J Reading, Russell D Thompson and Andrew C Millington
Blackwell, 429 pp, £60
ISBN 0 631 17287


Other books reviewed include:

A PASSION FOR PLANTS: THE LIFE AND VISION OF GHILLEAN PRANCE
by Clive Langmead
Lion Publishing, 280 pp, £16.99
ISBN 0 7324 1254 4


KRAKATAU: THE DESTRUCTION AND REASSEMBLY OF AN ISLAND ECOSYSTEM
by Iain Thornton
Harvard University Press
327 pp, £25.50
ISBN 0 674 50568 9


THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: BIODIVERSITY AND ITS SURVIVAL
By Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
288 pp, £18.99
ISBN 0 297 817337

and 2 books on ants, one on hamadryas baboons, one on amphibians and three
on food production and agriculture.

THES is available on the Internet at:

http://thesis.newsprint.co.uk
or
gopher.timeshigher.newsint.co.uk

I apologize in advance in case anybody thinks this posting is too
commercial and therefore offensive. I just thought it would interest many
of you.

Azlan Adnan, MA
Tel: + 44 956 105 228
Fax: + 44 171 713 5158
Email: a.azlan@rhbnc.ac.uk




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