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List of Contributors. <p>Preface.</p> <p>Soils: A Neglected Resource In Urban Areas.</p> <p>The Classification Of Soils In Urban Areas.</p> <p>Waste Material In Urban Soils.</p> <p>Metal Contamination Of Soils In Urban Areas.</p> <p>Soil Storage And Handling.</p> <p>Physical Properties Of Soils In Urban Areas.</p> <p>Nutrient Provision And Cycling In Soils In Urban Areas.</p> <p>The Biology Of Soils In Urban Areas.</p> <p>Soils And Vegetation In Urban Areas.</p> <p>Appendix.</p> <p>Index.</p>

<p>Peter Bullock and Peter J. Gregory are the authors of Soils in the Urban Environment, published by Wiley.

Urban areas contain a wide variety of open spaces including gardens, playing fields, waste lands, spoil heaps and islands of natural land. Recently there has been growing interest in the problems of contamination, erosion, acidification and compacting of these open spaces and in the planning of attractive urban environment. A sound knowledge of soil is essential to the solution of these problems and to planning the future land use. <p>This book provides a scientific base for the investigation of soils in the urban environment. It reviews the physical, chemical and biological properties of the soils, and considers topical environmental problems including waste materials and metal contamination. <i>Soils in the Urban Environment</i> also provides a classification of urban soils as a framework of future research and as a basis for further discussion.</p> <p>With contributions from some of the leading workers in this area, and sponsored by the British Society for Soil Science and the Nature Conservancy Council, this book breaks new ground in addressing the problems of urban soils in UK.</p> <p>The photographs on the front cover are from Brent Reservoir and clockwise from the top show: recently deposited soil material containing some urban waste forming a shallow bund against the main road; sedimentation lagoons containing silty dredgings; detail of dumped soil material consisting of about 2.5 m of recently deposited clay and loam containing refuse. Photographs courtesy Peter Bullock.</p>

"Children's drawing is a fascinating topic with a wide-ranging appeal,  and this well-written and well-informed book will be very useful to students and researchers of child development and art education, as well as being accessible to the general reader.  In ten clearly laid out chapters Richard Jolley gives an up-to-date overview of some of the debates in the field, an overview amply supported by research findings.  In a further and final chapter he suggests “future directions” which, I'm sure, will provide food for thought for many of the up-and-coming generation of researchers."<br /> –<b>Dr Maureen Cox</b>, Emeritus Reader, Department of Psychology, University of York <p>"A long time in the making, this book was well worth waiting for. It is unusual in the range of topics it covers and the importance it accords to the field.  It can serve both as an introduction for new readers and as a resource for established researchers, which is extraordinarily hard to bring off.  This is because the author is clearly conducting a dialogue with the reader throughout, in a gracefully styled stream of writing."<br /> –<b>Norman Freeman</b>, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Cognitive Development, University of Bristol</p> <p>"Psychologist Richard Jolley takes the reader on a fascinating journey, using children’s drawings and their understanding of pictures as a way to understand children’s minds. This book will enlighten researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents – anyone who wants to understand why children draw in the sometimes odd, almost always charming, way that they do."<br /> –<b>Ellen Winner</b>, Professor of Psychology, Boston College, and Senior Research Associate, Project Zero, Harvard Universit<b>y</b></p>

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