Geoff Leigh (Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science, CPES) and N. Winterton (eds)
Modern Coordination Chemistry: The Legacy of Joseph Chatt
Royal Society of Chemistry, £89.99 (hardback)

The publisher says: "Co-ordination chemistry, as we know it today, has been shaped by major figures from the past, one of whom was Joseph Chatt. Intended as a permanent record of Chatt's life, work and influence, this book may be of interest to lecturers, graduate students, researchers and science historians."

David Rudling (CCE)
Downland Settlement and Land Use: The Archaeology of the Brighton Bypass
Archetype Publications, £30.00 (hardback)

Between 1989 and 1991 a programme of archaeological rescue excavations was undertaken on the route of the new A27 Brighton Bypass. In addition to investigating an area, which had previously yielded an important assemblage of Mesolithic and later flintwork (Redhill), and a nationally important block of prehistoric fields (Eastwick Barn), the Brighton Bypass Archaeology Project located and recorded two important and previously unknown Later Bronze Age settlements (Mile Oak and Downsview). It provides a significant advance in our understanding of the prehistory of the South Downs, and has much wider implications for areas beyond Sussex.

David Alan Mellor (Professor of History of Art, EAM)
The Art of Robyn Denny
Mad Dog Art Publishers, £19.95 (paper)

James Thomson (Reader in Economic History, EURO)
A Distinctive Industrialization: Cotton in Barcelona 1728-1832
Cambridge University Press £22.95 (paper)

The publisher says: "This is a study of the development of Barcelona's cotton industry from its origins in calico-printing in 1728 to its introduction of steampower in 1832. It thus describes the experiences of the leading industry of the city, and one which provides the only Mediterranean exception to the tendency of early industrialization to be concentrated in northern Europe."

Christopher Wrigley (Emeritus Reader of History, AFRAS)
Kinship and State: The Buganda Dynasty
Cambridge University Press, £20.95 (paper)

The publisher says: "The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. He has written an elegant, wide-ranging and original study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms. "