Thomas Sullivan provides a clear, consise, and easy to use reference guide for anyone to use. This book not only contains actual text of some major environmental laws, but it also sites case studies and court decisions, all in an easy to read format. This book is a must for anyone dealing in environmental matters, and is a good source of reference for anyone concerned with the environment and public policy.

Ritter's book "Process Geomorphology" is one of the better books available to elementary students in Geomorphology. The book is divided into logical categories and contains a plethora of useful diagrams, maps and graphs. This book is especially useful for those who have had only a little background in Physical Geology or Earth History and want to explore earth processes such as weathering, erosion, fluvial and eolian processes at depth. It is worthy of a read and is worth the price. 4 Stars!

This is a book about about a product that we all take for granted but the history of Formica and its uses is quite fascinating. Author Lewin was the Creative Director of Formica from 1982 so don't expect to read anything untoward about the company, the twelve other contributors tell the story from their perspective, I particularly liked Jeffrey Meikle's essay on 'Plastics' and Susan Bayliss on 'Formica in Women's Lives'.

So this book will tell you all you need to know about the history of the product, in text and photos, plenty of them and this is where the book comes to a full stop.

The design is just infuriating! Only the right-hand pages have numbers, captions are all given a chapter and photo number, this is repeated near or on the relevant photo, now for the crazy bit, every photo has a bit cut out of it, it could be a triangular shape or a curve or maybe a bit of one photo on the same spread cut out and placed on another photo. This is just visual nonsense and I am surprised that a quality publisher like Rizzoli allowed this appalling design to go all the way through the editorial process and not get picked up.

A pity because it is an interesting book ruined by the work of some trendy designer who should go back to design school.