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Handbook of Soil Sciences, Second Edition (Two Volume Set) Pan Ming Huang, Yuncong Li, and Malcolm E. Sumner (Editors). CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742. 2012. 2,272 Pages. $249.95. ISBN on books: 978-1-4398-0305-9 (vol 1) and 978-1-4398-0307-3 (vol 2). CRC website shows one ISBN: 9781439803035
Every time I open one of the books in this two volume desktop reference set, it's like opening a treasure chest full of wonderful jewels: graphs, tables, pictures, equations, and well-written narrative describing soil science and its various disciplines. The Handbook of Soil Sciences has been updated and expanded from the first edition (2000) by a second volume and several additional chapters. This is not an introductory level text - it is a thorough, dense (both in content and bulk - it's heavy) compilation of the familiar themes of soil science related mostly to agriculture and somewhat incidentally to natural ecosystems and non-agricultural environments.
Volume I, "Properties and Processes", contains five sections and 39 chapters in 1,442 pages encompassing the traditional disciplines of soils including Soil...