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The Stress of Hot Environments (Monographs of the Physiological Society)

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This is a classic book on characterization of the thermal environment. It is still contemporary however and is the seed of much more ideas on approaches to research problems in the discipline that graduate students can be inspired and learn from a book or a lecture. For example, efficiency of sweating, environmental indices, and the mechanisms of human eccrine sweating and hidromeosis (sweat gland depression) are still problems not currently resolved. The book is superbly written by a master scientist and theorist. This should be in every environmental biologist's personal library. In fact, it is a good choice to carry on an airplane and read whenever one needs to be inspired by good biophysics and integrative physiology. Unfortunately, the book is out of print and many college libraries generally discard old books (this book was originally in the Ohio State University Library)in favor of new electronic media. Too bad, students need to learn from classic books.