New Books
2004; AIP Publishing; Volume: 57; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1063/1.2408606
ISSN1945-0699
Tópico(s)Planetary Science and Exploration
ResumoAcousticsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcoustics <<Astronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers: Theory, Design and Application. T. J. Cox, P. D’Antonio. Spon Press, New York, 2004. $144.00 (405 pp.). ISBN 0-415-29649-8 Astronomy and astrophysics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic... <<Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Cosmochemistry: The Melting Pot of the Elements. C. Esteban, R. J. G. López, A. Herrero, F. Sánchez, eds. Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics . Proc. sch., Tenerife, Spain, Nov. 2001. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $100.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82768-X Focus on Astrophysics Research. L. V. Ross, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2003. $79.00 (225 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-784-0 Fred Hoyle’s Universe. C. Wickramasinghe, G. Burbidge, J. Narlikar, eds. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2003. $109.00 (608 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-1415-5 High Energy Cosmic Rays. 2nd ed. T. Stanev. Springer-Praxis Books in Astrophysics and Astronomy. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [2001]. $99.00 (319 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40653-0 Navigating the Night Sky: How to Identify the Stars and Constellations. G. de Almeida. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $29.95 paper (205 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-737-0 Solar Astrophysics . 2nd Rev. ed. P. V. Foukal. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2004 [1990]. $115.00 (466 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40374-4 Atomic and molecular physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys... <<Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Energy Landscapes: With Applications to Clusters, Biomolecules and Glasses . D. J. Wales. Cambridge Molecular Science. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003. $85.00 (681 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81415-4 Supramolecular Assembly via Hydrogen Bonds II. D. M. P. Mingos, ed. Structure and Bonding 111. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $149.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20086-XBiological and medical physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph... <<Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life . R. Popa. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics . Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $99.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20490-3 Chemical physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physics <<Computers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems . J. Weiner. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003. $75.00 (217 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78121-3 Introduction to Cluster Dynamics . P.-G. Reinhard, E. Suraud. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2004. $105.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40345-0 The Langevin Equation: With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering . 2nd ed. W. T. Coffey, Yu. P. Kalmykov, J. T. Waldron. Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics 14. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004 [1996]. $118.00 (678 pp.). ISBN 981-238-462-6 Physical Properties of Polymers . 3rd ed. J. Mark, et al. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [1993]. $120.00, $65.00 paper (519 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82317-X, ISBN 0-521-53018-0 paper Computers and computational physicsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation... <<Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Chemistry. R. L. Johnston, ed. Structure and Bonding 110. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $169.00 (184 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40258-6 Auxiliary Signal Design for Failure Detection. S. L. Campbell, R. Nikoukhah. Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $39.95 (202 pp.). ISBN 0-691-09987-1 DNA Computing. J. Chen, J. Reif, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2943. Proc. wksp., Madison, WI, June 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $47.00 paper (224 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20930-1 Intelligent Systems: Fusion, Tracking and Control . G. W. Ng. CSI: Control and Signal/Image Processing Series 2. Research Studies Press, Hertfordshire, UK, 2003. $90.00, $25.00 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 0-86380-277-X, ISBN 0-86380-295-8 paper Stability and Transition: Theory and Application—Efficient Numerical Methods With Computer Programs. T. Cebeci. Horizons Publishing, Long Beach, CA, and Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $219.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 0-9668461-7-6 (Horizons Publishing) 3-540-20160-2 (Springer-Verlag), CD-ROM Talking With Computers: Explorations in the Science and Technology of Computing. T. Dean. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $85.00, $30.00 paper (300 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83425-2, ISBN 0-521-54204-9 paper Condensed matter physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physics <<Cosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Advances in Condensed Matter and Materials Research. Vol. 5. F. Gerard, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2004. $98.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-801-4 Dissipative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: Some Applications. S. Dattagupta, S. Puri. Springer Series in Materials Science 71. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $149.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20381-8 Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods. R. M. Martin. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $75.00 (624 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78285-6 Fabrication of Long-Length and Bulk High-Temperature Superconductors . R. Meng, A. Goyal, W. Wong-Ng, K. Matsumoto, H. C. Freyhardt, eds. Ceramic Transactions 149. Proc. mtg., Nashville, TN, Apr. 2003. The American Ceramic Society, Westerville, OH, 2004. $109.00 (186 pp.). ISBN 1-57498-204-4 High-Pressure Shock Compression of Solids VII: Shock Waves and Extreme States of Matter. V. E. Fortov, L. V. Al’tshuler, R. F. Trunin, A. I. Funtikov, eds. High-Pressure Shock Compression of Condensed Matter. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $169.00 (531 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20575-6 Impurities in Semiconductors: Solubility, Migration, and Interactions. V. I. Fistul. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. $129.95 (435 pp.). ISBN 0-4153-0831-3 Modern Many-Particle Physics: Atomic Gases, Quantum Dots and Quantum Fields . E. Lipparini. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2003. $101.00, $58.00 paper (431 pp.). ISBN 981-238-345-X, ISBN 981-238-346-8 paper Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors . 4th ed. H. Haug, S. W. Koch. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004 [1994]. $88.00, $48.00 paper (453 pp.). ISBN 981-238-609-2, ISBN 981-238-756-0 paper Shock-Wave Phenomena and the Properties of Condensed Matter . G. I. Kanel, S. V. Razorenov, V. E. Fortov. High-Pressure Shock Compression of Condensed Matter. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $149.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20572-1 Superconductivity, Superfluids, and Condensates. J. F. Annett. Oxford Master Series in Physics. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $70.00, $40.00 paper (186 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850755-0, ISBN 0-19-850756-9 paper Two-Dimensional Coulomb Liquids and Solids. Y. Monarkha, K. Kono. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 142. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $139.00 (346 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20754-6 Ultrafast Dynamical Processes in Semiconductors . K.-T. Tsen, ed. Topics in Applied Physics 92. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $199.00 (400 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40239-X Cosmology and relativity Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativity <<Device physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity . 3rd edition. H. Stephani. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [1990]. $110.00, $60.00 paper (396 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81185-6, ISBN 0-521-01069-1 paper Relativity in Rotating Frames: Relativistic Physics in Rotating Reference Frames. G. Rizzi, M. L. Ruggiero, eds. Fundamental Theories of Physics 135. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2004. $193.00 (452 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-1805-3 Singular Null Hypersurfaces in General Relativity: Light-Like Signals From Violent Astrophysical Events. C. Barrabès, P. A. Hogan. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2003. $48.00 (193 pp.). ISBN 981-238-737-4 Device physicsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physics <<Energy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Ceramic Materials and Multilayer Electronic Devices . K. M. Nair, et al., eds. Ceramic Transactions 150. Proc. symp., Nashville, TN, Apr. 2003. The American Ceramic Society, Westerville, OH, 2004. $129.00 (486 pp.). ISBN 1-57498-205-2 Nanoelectronics and Information Technology: Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Devices . R. Waser, ed. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2003. $90.00 (1001 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40363-9Energy and environmentSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environment <<FluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Our Affair With El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current Into a Global Climate Hazard. S. G. Philander. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $26.95 (275 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11335-1FluidsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluids <<GeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Hypersonic Inviscid Flow . W. D. Hayes, R. F. Probstein. Dover Books on Physics. Dover, Mineola, NY, 2004 [1966, reissued]. $39.95 paper (602 pp.). ISBN 0-486-43281-5GeophysicsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysics <<History and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Disturbances in Geospace: The Storm-Substorm Relationship. A. S. Sharma, Y. Kamide, G. S. Lakhina, eds. Geophysical Monograph Series 142. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2003. $82.00 (268 pp.). ISBN 0-87590-407-6 Mechanics of Fluid-Saturated Rocks. Y. Guéguen, M. Boutéca, eds. International Geophysics Series 89. Elsevier, New York, 2004. $89.95 (450 pp.). ISBN 0-12-305355-2 Time Series Analysis and Inverse Theory for Geophysicists . D. Gubbins. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $100.00, $50.00 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 0521-81965-2, ISBN 0-521-52569-1 paper History and philosophySection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophy <<Materials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Aerodynamics: Selected Topics in the Light of Their Historical Development. T. von Kármán. Dover Books on Engineering. Dover, Mineola, NY, 2004 [1957, reissued]. $14.95 paper (203 pp.). ISBN 0-486-43485-0 Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory . J. Baggott. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $74.50, $34.50 paper (379 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852927-9, ISBN 0-19-852536-2 paper A Brief History of the Harvard University Cyclotrons. R. Wilson. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $25.00 paper (198 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01460-X Candid Science IV: Conversations With Famous Physicists . M. Hargittai, I. Hargittai. Imperial College Press, London, 2004. $118.00, $58.00 paper (711 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-414-0, ISBN 1-86094-416-7 paper City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics . J. Hecht. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004 [1999, reissued]. $18.95 paper (340 pp.). ISBN 0-19-516255-2 Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution. E. B. Bolles. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2004. $27.95 (348 pp.). ISBN 0-309-08998-0 Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. M. Kaku. Great Discoveries Series. W. W. Norton, New York, 2004. $22.95 (251 pp.). ISBN 0-393-05165-X The Empirical Stance. B. C. van Fraassen. The Terry Lectures . Yale U. Press, New Haven, CT, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $20.00 paper (282 pp.). ISBN 0-300-10306-9 The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation. K. W. Staley. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $70.00 (343 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82710-8 The Forgotten Genius: The Biography of Robert Hooke 1635-1703. S. Inwood. MacAdam/Cage, San Francisco, 2003. $28.50 (482 pp.). ISBN 1-931561-56-7 Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics. J. Z. Buchwald, A. Warwick, eds. Dibner Institute Studies for the History of Science and Technology . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004 [2001, reissued]. $25.00 paper (514 pp.). ISBN 0-262-52424-4 Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. T. M. Porter. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $35.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11445-5 The Metamorphosis of a Geophysicist: An Autobiography. J. R. Herman. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, MD, 2003. $19.95 paper (244 pp.). ISBN 1-4137-1327-0 The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice. G. J. N. Gooday. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $85.00 (285 pp.). ISBN 0-521-43098-4 The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues With the Dalai Lama. A. Zajonc, ed. The Mind and Life Series. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $29.95 (246 pp.). ISBN 0-19-515994-2 Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader. S. Chandrasekhar. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2003 [1996, reissued]. $79.50 paper (593 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852675-X A Personal History of CESR and CLEO: The Cornell Electron Storage Ring and Its Main Particle Detector Facility. K. Berkelman. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004. $52.00 (151 pp.). ISBN 981-238-697-1 Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science. R. McCormmach. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $35.00 (258 pp.). ISBN 0-19-516004-5 Stone by Stone: The Magnificant History in New England’s Stone Walls. R. M. Thorson. Walker, New York, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $14.00 paper (287 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-7687-6 A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table. M. D. Gordin. Basic Books, New York, 2004. $30.00 (364 pp.). ISBN 0-465-02775-X Materials science Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials science <<Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Characterization 1. H. G. Karge, J. Weitkamp, eds. Molecular Sieves, Science and Technology 4. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $450.00 (606 pp.). ISBN 3-540-64335-4 Nonlinear Time Series Analysis . 2nd ed. H. Kantz, T. Schreiber. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [1997]. $120.00, $55.00 paper (369 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82150-9, ISBN 0-521-52902-6 paper Quantum Chaos and Quantum Dots . K. Nakamura, T. Harayama. Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology 3. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $109.50 (199 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852589-3 Optics and photonics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonics <<Particle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy: Basic Aspects and Practical Applications. 4th rev. ed. S. Svanberg. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [2001]. $69.95 paper (588 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20382-6 Handbook of Modern Optics . Vol. 5. B. J. Pernick. Peconic, Boynton Beach, FL, 2003. $19.00 paper (117 pp.). ISBN 0-9636539-6-2 Optical Near Fields: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Theories of Electromagnetic Phenomena at the Nanoscale. M. Ohtsu, K. Kobayashi. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $89.95 (205 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40483-X Optical Spectra and Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Compounds: Special Volume 1, Dedicated to Professor Jørgensen. T. Schönherr, ed. Structure and Bonding 106. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $249.00 (263 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00853-5 Practical Holography . 3rd ed. G. Saxby. IOP, Philadelphia, 2004 [1994]. $85.00 paper (482 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0912-1 UV-Visible Reflection Spectroscopy of Liquids . J. Räty, K.-E. Peiponen, T. Asakura. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 92. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $89.95 (221 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40582-8 Particle physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physics <<PopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 53. C. Quigg, V. Lüth, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2003. $80.00 (512 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-1553-9 Compton Scattering: Investigating the Structure of the Nucleon With Real Photons . F. Wissmann. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 200. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $119.00 (132 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40742-1 Deep Inelastic Scattering . R. Devenish, A. Cooper-Sarkar. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $89.50 (403 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850671-6 Proceedings of the Dirac Centennial Symposium. H. Baer, A. Belyaev, eds. Proc. symp., Tallahassee, FL, Dec. 2002. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2003. $77.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 981-238-412-X Refereed and Selected Contributions From International Quark Nuclear Physics . Ch. Elster, J. Speth, Th. Walcher, eds. Proc. conf., Jülich, Germany, June 2002. Società Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, Italy, and Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $199.00 (569 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20661-2PopularizationsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizations <<Society and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Knots: Mathematics With a Twist. A. Sossinsky (translated from French by G. Weiss). Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $14.95 paper (127 pp.). ISBN 0-674-00944-4 The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone. K. W. Ford. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $24.95 (270 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01342-5 Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time. T. Siegfried. Berkley Books, New York, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $15.00 paper (351 pp.). ISBN 0-425-19417-5Society and governmentSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and government <<Space and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation. L. Eden. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Cornell U. Press, Ithaca, NY, 2004. $32.50 (365 pp.). ISBN 0-8014-3578-1Space and planetary science Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien... <<Statistical physics and t...Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... Life in the Solar System and Beyond. B. W. Jones. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $39.95 paper (317 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-101-1 Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors. P. Ulivi, D. M. Harland. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $39.95 paper (363 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-746-X Space Technology and Applications International Forum-STAIF 2004. M. S. El-Genk, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 699. Proc. conf., Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $290.00 (1259 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0171-3 The Sun: An Introduction. 2nd ed. M. Stix. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [1989]. $99.00 (490 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20741-4 Statistical physics and thermodynamics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyMaterials scienceOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSociety and governmentSpace and planetary scien...Statistical physics and t... <<Texts and educationTheory and mathematical m... 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