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From: The Bookwatch | Date: December 1, 2005 | Copyright information

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Four new arrivals provide important, diverse scientific discussions and will appeal both to school and general-interest collections. Most unusual is Mary Mycio's Wormwood Forest: A Natural History Of Chernobyl (0309094305, $27.95), from the reporter who first visited Kiev in 1989 to interview a local environmentalist about Chernobyl. One would anticipate Wormwood Forest would be telling of a barren wasteland left behind after contamination: 20 years after one of ...

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