BOOKS RECEIVED.

HEMP HORIZONS: THE COMEBACK OF THE WORLD'S MOST PROMISING PLANT

John W. Roulac. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1997. (802) 295-6300. 211 pp. $18.95 Paperbound.

John W. Roulac is an author, an entrepreneur, and a composting and agricultural-fibers advocate. He has researched sustainable living systems for more than fifteen years. In 1987, Roulac founded Harmonious Technologies, an internationally recognized leader in the field of home composting. Roulac has also founded three environmental organizations: the Pasadena-based Arroyo Seco Council, Forests Forever, and the North American Industrial Hemp Council (NAIHC).

In Hemp Horizons, Roulac explores both the origins of industrial hemp and its current emergence as a marketplace phenomenon. Hemp Horizons provides an overview of the history, politics, global uses, markets, and farming practices for hemp. Arguing that the production, marketing, and manufacture of hemp and hemp products offer possibilities for new enterprises in the United States and competition in the world market, Roulac urges Americans to repeal the anachronistic law prohibiting hemp production.

PLURALISM BY THE RULES: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

Edward P. Weber. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998. (202) 687-5641. 308 pp. $55.00 Clothbound, $23.95 Paperbound.

Despite America's pluralistic, fragmented, and generally adversarial political culture, participants in pollution control politics have begun to collaborate to reduce the high costs of developing, implementing, and enforcing regulations. Weber uses examples from this traditionally combative policy arena to propose a new model for regulation, "pluralism by the rules," a structured collaborative format that can achieve more effective results at lower costs than typically come from antagonistic approaches. Pluralism by the Rules includes chapters on: the high costs of doing business in pollution control politics, the transition to collaborative games, cleaning the air of urban smog and dirty gasoline, and preventing pollution through the collaborative search for better information.

CHEMICAL EXPOSURES: LOW LEVELS AND HIGH STAKES

Nicholas Ashford & Claudia Miller. 2nd Edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. (212) 850-6484. 440 pp. $39.95 Clothbound.

Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes explains how day-to-day variations in chemical exposure may cause unusual and seemingly unpredictable...