Book Review: DROUGHT FOLLOWS THE PLOW, M. H. Glantz (ed.), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 1994. No. of pages: xviii+197. Price: £25.00, US$39.95. ISBN 0–521–44252–4 (hardback). £12.95, US$19.95. ISBN 0521 47721 2 (paperback).

✍ Scribed by ROBERT E. DICKINSON

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 86 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-8418
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(199605)16:5<604::aid-joc1033>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

REVIEWS

relative air humidity and snow cover was used an empirical correlation method', or the more amusing inclusion from Selivanov, 'Global climate changes and humidity variations over East Europe and Asia by historical data'. However, if one can overlook the hand-drawn graphs, the absence of chapter numbers and the 'international' English, then one has to ask why it is necessary to mix some excellent work with papers that would never see the light of day in the most desperate of journals. I would not be pleased if I were an author who had gone to some effort.

In summary, this book comprises 70 per cent review articles, 20 per cent solid research and 20 per cent (in keeping with the arithmetic of the foreword!) that are forgettable. My conclusion: buy a third of the book.