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Atmospheric and Space Flight Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation with MATLAB and Simulink. A. Tewari. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $89.95, $59.95 paper (556 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4437-6, ISBN 978-08176-4373-7 paper Large-Scale Kernel Machines. L. Bottou, O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston, eds. Neural Information Processing Series. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. $45.00 (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02625-3 Mathematical Methods in Electro-Magneto-Elasticity. D. I. Bardzokas, M. L. Filshtinsky, L. A. Filshtinsky, eds. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics 32. Springer, New York, 2007. $239.00 (530 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71030-1 Numerical Simulation in Molecular Dynamics: Numerics, Algorithms, Parallelization, Applications. M. Griebel, S. Knapek, G. Zumbusch. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering 5. Springer, New York, 2007. $59.95 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68094-9 Predicting Structured Data. G. 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