Reviews
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE USSR
Longman Guide to World Science and
Technology, vol. 6. Michael J. Beny,
ed. Longman, Essex, UK, 1988. 405
pp. £63. Distributed in the U.S. and
Canada by Gale Research Co., Detroit.
$95.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM
Longman Guide to World Science and Technology, vol. 7. E. Walter Kellerman Longman, Essex, UK, 1988. 131 pp. £63. Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Gale Research Co., Detroit. $100.
The latest (sixth and seventh) volumes in the Longman Guide to World Science and Technology maintain the high standards of comprehensiveness and topicality that characterized the first five books in the series. Particularly impressive and timely is the U.S.S.R. survey, edited by Soviet-watchers and analysts in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham and here. Given the normal gestation period of reference works, they and Longman have ...
