WERNER STUMM is Professor and Head of the Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control associated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, the Monsanto Prize for Pollution Control, and has been awarded numerous international honorary degrees. He is the author of Aquatic Chemistry and Gewasser als Okosysteme, and has edited four other books. Dr. Stumm received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Zurich; he was a professor of applied chemistry at Harvard University until 1970.

• The Coordination Chemistry of the Hydrous Oxide-WaterInterface. Surface Charge and the Electric Double Layer. Adsorption. The Kinetics of Surface Controlled Dissolution of Oxide Minerals:An Introduction to Weathering. Precipitation and Nucleation. Particle-Particle Interaction. Carbonates and Their Reactivities. Redox Processes Mediated by Surfaces. Heterogeneous Photochemistry. Regulation of Trace Elements by the Solid-Water Interface inSurface Waters. References. Index.