BOOK REVIEWS 
THE WEB OF ADAPTATION — BIRD 
STUDIES IN THE AMERICAN TROP- 
ICS 
By David W. Snow 
Quadrangle/The New York Times Book 
Co., New York 
1976, 176 pp., many line drawings, $8.95. 
David Snow has written many scientific 
papers covering his research into tropical avi- 
fauna over the last twenty years. This book 
draws upon this field work and that of many 
others to present in general terms some basic 
behavior patterns. The book deals primarily 
with various cotingas and also covers the 
strange Oilbird. In conclusion Dr. Snow 
makes a powerful argument for the need to 
preserve this fast dwindling complex environ- 
ment: the tropical rainforest. 
—Peter C. Petersen 
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER MAN- 
AGEMENT HANDBOOK 
Edited by Hardam S. Azad 
McGraw, Hill, 1976 
546 pp., 154 illustrations, $27.50. 
Authoritative data and techniques designed 
to help solve wastewater management prob- 
lems in the largest water polluting industries 
are provided in this timely Handbook. 
Prepared by a staff of nationally recognized 
experts, this work presents specific problems, 
solutions, and case histories of the largest 
industries: chemical, petroleum, metals, 
power generation, pulp and paper, and food 
and beverage. It examines methods of pollu- 
tion prevention and product recovery, and 
shows how to minimize industrial wastewaters 
through process change product recovery, 
water reuse, and better housecleaning. 
Information on successful industrial prac- 
tices that others can follow in solving their 
own particular wastewater management prob- 
lems is supplied in detail. Practitioners are 
shown how to develop the most effective, 
flexible, and economical wastewater treatment 
schemes for the discharged wastewaters, all of 
which meet the pressing demands of today’s 
environmental control goals and legislation. 
Attention is also focused on recent advances 
in technology, effluent quality enforcement, 
and management approaches to problem iden- 
tification, as well as such timely subjects as the 
practicality of ‘‘zero discharge’’ by 1985 as a 
national goal and modular wastewater treat- 
ment plants. 
Director of Environmental Projects, NUS 
Corporation, Rockville, Md., Dr. Azad has 
had extensive experience in the environmental 
engineering field. As an active member of 
professional organizations, he has contributed 
to many environmental symposia both as a 
speaker and an organizer, written numerous 
technical reports on industrial wastewater 
management, and published over 15 major 
papers in environmental journals. 
—Sharon Liebert 
THE URBANIZATION OF THE EARTH 
By Jorge Arango 
Beacon Press, Boston, 02108 
1975, 177pp., Illustrations, $6.95. 
The earth spaceship now holds more than 
four billion people. It is expected that by the 
year 2000, there will be an increase of two 
more billion persons — all this in less than 25 
years. How much longer can it go on? All over 
the world, people are migrating to the cities, 
leaving ancestral homes and the pursuit of 
agriculture, to industrial and scientific em- 
ployment. Some succeed, and others do not. 
In either cases, certain geographic areas burst 
with humanity. Tokyo now boasts over ten 
million persons, while China has many cities 
with over one million in population. About 15 
thousand years have gone by since man settled 
down and built cities, leaving the tundra, the 
desert, the jungle and the forest behind them. 
Arango argues for freedom of choice in his 
‘‘Pan-Urban Land Use System’’; order, but 
not regimentation. 
Arango argues for his plan to stimulate the 
re-building of present derelict areas and slums. 
It should stop the spread of decay from one 
area to another. It must make growth of the 
urban areas controllable in quantity and qual- 
ity. Every city in the U.S.A. today has urgent 
and mounting problems. Our suburbs today 
are growing without any real plan and many of 
the investments on freeways, bridges and 
sewers are a severe waste, states Arango. He 
argues against leaving too much power to the 
engineers, who have botched up many new 
areas and suburbs. 
When America decides to spend as much 
money — $104 billion a year — on rehabili- 
tation of the cities, as it does on the Pentagon 
military budget, we may find ourselves out of 
this mess that apathy has helped to create. We 
need not only money, but a sense of direction 
to move. 
—Raymond Mostek 
