Prof's Choice

• Alice Ottoboni, The Dose Makes the Poison (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991)

A nontechnical look at what makes chemicals harmful or harmless.

• Elizabeth Whelan, Toxic Terror (Jameson Books, 1985) Assessing chemical "disasters" at Love Canal, Times Beach, Seveso, and elsewhere, Whelan puts chemicals, acid rain, radiation, and pollution into perspective.

• Edith Efron The Apocalyptics Cancer and the Big Lie (Simon and Schuster, 1984) A well-documented, provocative "detective story" about cancer and natural carcinogens.

• Merril Eisenbud, Environment,Technology, and Health (New York University Press, 1978) An environmental overview, from resources to chemicals, population to nuclear power.

• John Maddox, The Doomsday Syndrome (McGraw-Hill, 1972) A counter to such prophecies of calamity as the pesticide menace.