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Unmaking the Mess

Nature volume 242, pages 349–350 (1973)Cite this article

The Spoils of Progress: Environmental Pollution in the Soviet Union.

By Marshall I. Goldman. Pp. xi + 372. (MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1972.) £3.60.

The Biology of Pollution.

By Kenneth Mellanby. (The Institute of Biology's Study in Biology, No. 38.) Pp. 60. (Edward Arnold: London, November 1972.) £1.50 cloth; 75p paper.

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Prepared by Michael Hussey for the Technology Foundation Course Team. (The Open University: Bletchley, Bucks, 1972.)

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