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Volume 120 - February 1993

Book Reviews

Fream's Principles of Food and Agriculture (17th edn), ed. C. R. W. Spedding. xxvii + 308 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications (1992). £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 623 02978 1.

Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants, by N. I. Vavilov. xxxi + 498 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992). £75.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 40427 4.

Progress in Sheep and Goat Research, by A. W. Speedy, viii + 280 pp. Wallingford: CAB International (1992). £40.00 or $76.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 85198 772 9.

Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries, by F. Ellis, xv + 357 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992). £14.95 or $29.95 (paperback), £40.00 or $69.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 39584 4 (paperback) 0 521 40004 X (hardback).

Grass Evolution and Domestication, ed. G. P. Chapman. xviii + 390 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992). £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 41654 X.

Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture, eds K. Mulongoy, M. Gueye & D. S. C. Spencer, xiv + 488 pp. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (1992). £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 471 93560 3.

Terrestrial Behaviour of Pesticides: Chemistry of Plant Protection: Volume 8, eds W. Ebing, H. Borner, D. Martin et al. viii + 144 pp. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1992). DM 158.00 (hardback). ISBN 3 540 54238 8.

Poultry Production Systems: Behaviour, Management and Welfare, by M. C. Appleby, B. O. Hughes & H. A. Elson. xvi + 238 pp. Wallingford: CAB International (1992). £40.00 or $76.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 85198 797 4.

Stockmanship: Improving the care of the pig and other livestock, by P. R. English, G. Burgess, R. S. Segundo & J. H. Dunn, xii + 190 pp. Ipswich: Farming Press Books (1992). £12.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 85236 236 6.

Field Crop Ecosystems: Ecosystems of the World. Vol 18, ed. C. J. Pearson, xiii + 576 pp. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers (1992). $207.50 or Dfl. 405.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 444 88675 3.

The Diversion of Land: Conservation in a period of fanning contraction, by C. Potter, P. Burnham, A. Edwards, R. Gasson & B. Green. ix + 130 pp. London: Routledge (1991). £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 415 03627 5.

The Grass Genera of the World, by L. Watson & M. J. Dallwitz, 1038 pp. Wallingford: CAB International (1992). £75.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 85198 802 4.

Shifting Cultivations and Alternatives: An Annotated Bibliography, 1972–1989, compiled by D. Robison & S. J. McKean. v + 280 pp. Wallingford: CAB International (1992). £25.00 or $47.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 85198 680 3.

Growth and Water Use of Forest Plantations, eds I. R. Calder, R. L. Hall & P. G. Adlard. xiii + 381 pp. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons (1992). £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 471 93561 1.

Molecular Mechanisms of Insecticide Resistance: Diversity Among Insects, eds C. A. Mullin & J. G. Scott. xiii + 322 pp. Washington: American Chemical Society (1992). $74.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8412 2474 9.

Biosynthesis of the Major Crop Products, by P. John. xx + 154 pp. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons (1992). £15.95 (paperback) or £34.95 (clothbound). ISBN 0 471 93585 9 (clothbound). ISBN 0 471 93816 5 (paperback).

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The Behaviour of Sheep, by J. J. Lynch, G. N. Hinch & D. B. Adams, x + 237 pp. Wallingford: CAB International and East Melbourne, Victoria: CSIRO Publications (1992). £19.95 or $85.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 85198 787 7.

The Ecology of Intercropping, by John Vandermeer. xi + 237 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992). £16.95 or $27.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 34689 4.

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