Books received.

FOREST FUTURES: SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND POLICY FOR THE NEXT CENTURY

Edited by Karen Arabas and Joe Bowersox. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 0-7425-3135-X. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com. 392 pp. $29.95. Softbound.

Forest Futures includes original essays written by leading forest scientists, land managers, social scientists, and legal advocates. Their observations and analyses address four related issues regarding the future of our nation's forests: ideas and practices for sustainable forestry, science and policymaking, threatened and endangered species protection on forested lands, and the future of public forest lands management. The collection takes a dialogic approach and includes a section exploring questions of scientific uncertainty and the use and abuse of science within the policy process.

Karen Arabas is an Associate Professor of Geography at Willamette University.

Joe Bowersox is an Associate Professor of Politics at Willamette University.

WHEN SMOKE RAN LIKE WATER: TALES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECEPTION AND THE BATTLE AGAINST POLLUTION

Devra Davis. New York, New York: Basic Books, 2004. (212) 580-8833. http://www.basicbooks.com. 0-465-01522-0. 336 pp. $16.95. Paperback.

In When Smoke Ran Like Water, epidemiologist and environmental researcher Devra Davis offers new data to support her findings on the following topics: how industry manipulates scientists to lobby...