Essentials Of Environmental Toxicology

By W. William Hughes

Book Overview

This introductory text addresses the principles and mechanisms of toxicology as applied to environmentally-encountered toxic agents. Each chapter concludes with review questions that may be used for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560324708
• ISBN13: 9781560324706
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Simply Outstanding And A Credit To Environmental Toxicology

After thoroughly perusing the pages of this textbook, it became clearly that the author, W. W. Hughes, touches on every topic and subtopic associated with the discipline of Environmental Toxicology.Unlike other textbooks dealing with the same scientific discipline, Hughes does not appear to be unitalented or uniknowledgable when dealing with the discipline of environmental toxicology. Rather, Hughes shows that he is very knowledgable about this discipline as well as its many subareas and topics. This textbook touches on every area and related subarea of environmental toxicology from organ toxicity and specificty to the finer components of a detailed and scientifically adequate risk assessment.Moreover, the author breaks down the various classes of environmental pesticides for the reader in terms of names, biochemical class, solubility in water, and their Modes of Actions on terrestrials, aquatic, and invertebrate species.This textbook is a must for any student, instructor, government biologist/chemist/toxicologist, or industrialist desiring a more indepth and perhaps more scientific knowledge about the components which are used in the discipline of environmental toxicology.Hughes makes sure this textbook stands out as an informative science novel from an environmental point of view. It is a must-read textbook that will definitely hold the reader's interest for a long period of time.