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For eighty-two years, this authoritative reference has been the bedrock volume for professionals worldwide involved with chemicals - from scientific and technical staff, to sales and marketing personnel, to managers and administrators. This resource remains unrivaled in totality, easy accessibility, and conciseness of data for common chemical substances and phenomena.
In its fourteenth edition, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary once again establishes itself as the world's principal lexicon of industrial chemicals, nomenclature, processes, reactions, products, and related terminology. Scrutinized and extensively revised by internationally renowned chemist and reference author, Richard J. Lewis Sr., this newest edition features updated information on production, usage, and regulatory trends. In addition, the dictionary contains:

- Up-to-date chemical entries, definitions, and cross references
- Web links to new, as well as established, manufacturers and associations
- To-the-point information on natural products, manufacturing processes, and equipment

This latest edition of the Condensed Chemical Dictionary has retained all the essential characteristics that have made it a bestseller by providing identification of chemical substances by name, physical properties, source of occurrence, CAS number, chemical formula, potential hazards, derivations, synonyms, and applications. It continues to be an essential tool for chemists and chemical engineers, environmental professionals, industrial hygienists, toxicologists, police and firefighters, EMTs, emergency clean-up technicians, and managers of toxicological and chemical information systems.

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• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Introduction: thinking about human rights
• Realities, Concepts, The social sciences, Beyond human rights law, Conclusion
• Chapter 2 Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights
• Why history? On rights and tyrants, Justice and rights, Natural rights, The age of revolutions, The decline of natural rights
• Chapter 3 After 1945: the new age of rights
• The UN and the human rights revival, The Universal Declaration, From theory to practice: (a)The Cold War, (b)After the Cold War, Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Theories of human rights
• Why theory? Human rights theory: (a) Rights (b) Other values (c) Human nature (d) Conflicts of rights (e) Democracy (f) Conclusion
• Chapter 5 The role of the social sciences
• Introduction: human rights and social science, The dominance of law, Political science, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, International relations, Conclusion
• Chapter 6 Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights
• The problem of cultural imperialism, Cultural relativism, Minority rights, Indigenous peoples, The right to self-determination, The rights of women
• Chapter 7 Idealism, realism and repression: the politics of human rights
• The real politics of human rights, The boomerang theory, The national politics of human rights, The statistics of human rights, NGOs in world politics
• Chapter 8 Development and Globalization: economics and human rights
• Development versus human rights? The right to development, Globalization, International financial institutions, Economic and social rights
• Chapter 9 Conclusion: human rights in the twenty-first century
• Learning from history, Objections to human rights, Problems of intervention, Concluding remarks
• References
• Index

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CHOICE Review

This work is of unique value to general readers, students, and researchers for its contextual information about chemicals. Concise entries on chemical substances give the work great appeal as a reference to keep at hand when reading the chemical literature; entries on concepts, processes, and chemists' biographies are also helpful, though terribly short. Entries on chemicals are more than definitions: they are identifications with context, listing uses of the chemical as well as physical properties, hazards, and producers of trademarked materials. This edition contains new entries relevant to biochemistry, nanotechnology, and many new chemicals. No claim of exhaustiveness is made, nor should it be, considering the limited length of the entries; nevertheless, this dictionary has been a standard reference work for nearly a century. The front matter includes a clear, enlightening explanation of the arrangement of entries, an issue that is confusing or simply unexplained in many other chemical references. Just as handy are the appendixes, which contain word origins for some chemical terms, a brief list of historical highlights in chemistry, and addresses of manufacturers mentioned elsewhere in the volume. Summing Up: Essential. All levels. S. K. Oelker Mount Holyoke College