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ISBN 0-8493-0130-0 Astronomy and astrophysics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic... <<Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Astronomy-Inspired Atomic and Molecular Physics. A. R. P. Rau. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 271. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $91.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0467-2 Chemical Enrichment of Intracluster and Intergalactic Medium. R. Fusco-Femiano, F. Matteucci, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 253. Proc. mtg., Vulcano, Eolie, Italy, May 2001. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2002. $57.00 (511 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-093-5 Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshift. J. Mulchaey, J. T. Stocke, eds. 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Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2002. $57.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-096-X Physics of Star Formation in Galaxies. F. Palla, H. Zinnecker. Saas-Fee Advanced Course 29. Proc. course, Geneva, Switzerland, Mar. 1999. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $64.95 (232 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43102-0 Practical Amateur Spectroscopy. S. F. Tonkin, ed. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, London, 2002. $39.95 paper (210 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-489-4 Atomic and molecular physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys... <<Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Strongly Correlated Electrons with Orbital Degrees of Freedom (ORBITAL 2001). K. Hirota, H. Aoki, Y. Kuramoto, eds. 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ISBN 0-471-38226-4 Chemical physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physics <<Computers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Advances in Chemical Physics. Vol. 123. I. Prigogine, S. A. Rice, eds. Wiley, New York, 2002. $175.00 (680 pp.). ISBN 0-471-21453-1 Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Vol. 53. S. R. Leone, P. Alivisatos, A. E. McDermott, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, Calif, 2002. $72.00 (633 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-1053-5 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 83rd edition. D. R. Lide, ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 2002 [2001]. $139.95 (2427 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-0483-0 Filled Elastomers Drug Delivery Systems. K.-S. Lee, ed. Advances in Polymer Science 160. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $129.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43052-0 An Introduction to Polymer Physics. D. I. Bower. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $120.00, $45.00 paper (444 pp.). ISBN 0-521-63137-8, ISBN 0-521-63721-X paper Statistical Mechanics: A Concise Introduction for Chemists. B. Widom. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $75.00, $28.00 paper (170 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81119-8, ISBN 0-521-00966-9 paper Computers and computational physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation... <<Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous DNA Computing. N. Jonoska, N. C. Seeman, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2340. Proc. wksp., Tampa, Fla., June 2001. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $69.00 paper (392 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43775-4 Gene Regulation and Metabolism: Postgenomic Computational Approaches. J. Collado-Vides, R. Hofestädt, eds. Computational Molecular Biology. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002. $45.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 0-262-03297-X The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain Modeling. A. Weitzenfeld, M. Arbib, A. Alexander. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002. $55.00 paper (439 pp.). ISBN 0-262-73149-5 Condensed matter physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physics <<Cosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Advanced Solid State Physics. P. Phillips. Westview Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. $100.00, $55.00 paper (386 pp.). ISBN 0-8133-4015-2, ISBN 0-8133-4014-4 paper Colossal Magnetoresistance and Phase Separation in Magnetic Semiconductors. E. L. Nagaev. Imperial College Press, London, 2002. $84.00 (457 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-295-4 Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics. S. Rao, ed. Proc. sch., Bangalore, India, Feb.-Mar. 2000. IOP, Philadelphia, 2002. $49.99 paper (408 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0876-1 International Tables for Crystallography, Brief Teaching Edition of Vol. A: Space-Group Symmetry. 5th edition. T. Hahn, ed. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002 [1999]. $27.00 paper (164 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-6591-7 International Tables for Crystallography. Vol. A: Space-Group Symmetry. 5th edition. Th. Hahn, ed. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002 [1998]. $225.00 (911 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-6590-9 Phase Transition Dynamics. A. Onuki. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $150.00 (714 pp.). ISBN 0-521-57293-2 Shock Compression of Condensed Matter—2001, Parts 1 and 2. M. D. Furnish, N. N. Thadhani, Y. Horie, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 620. Proc. conf., Atlanta, Ga., June 2001. AIP, Melville, NY, 2002. $320.00 set (1438 pp. set). ISBN 0-7354-0068-7, CD-ROM Soft Condensed Matter. R. A. L. Jones. Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics . Oxford U. Press, New York, 2002. $65.00, $30.00 paper (195 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850590-6, ISBN 0-19-850589-2 paper Cosmology and relativity Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativity <<Device physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Advances in the Interplay between Quantum and Gravity Physics. P. G. Bergmann, V. de Sabbata, eds. NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 60. Proc. inst., Erice, Italy, April-May 2001. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $117.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0592-X Cosmological Special Relativity: The Large-Scale Structure of Space, Time and Velocity. 2nd edition. M. Carmeli. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2002 [1997]. $48.00 (207 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4936-5 Cosmology and Elementary Particle Physics. B. N. Kursunoglu, S. L. Mintz, A. Perlmutter, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 624. Proc. conf., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Dec. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $145.00 (364 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0073-3 Experimental Cosmology at Millimetre Wavelengths. M. De Petris, M. Gervasi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 616. Proc. wksp., Valle d’Aosta, Italy, July 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $165.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0062-8 Historical Development of Modern Cosmology. V. J. Martínez, V. Trimble, M. J. Pons-Bordería, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 252. Proc. sch., Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2000. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2001. $57.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-092-7 Matter in the Universe. Ph. Jetzer, K. Pretzl, R. von Steiger, eds. Space Sciences Series of ISSI 14. Proc. wksp., Mar. 2001, Bern, Switzerland. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $111.00 (319 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0666-7Device physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physics <<Energy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Low-Dimensional Nitride Semiconductors. B. Gil, ed. Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology 9. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2002. $130.00 (467 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850974-X Semiconductor Optics and Transport Phenomena. W. Schäfer, M. Wegener. Advanced Texts in Physics . Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $74.95 (495 pp.). ISBN 3-540-61614-4 Spontaneous Ordering in Semiconductor Alloys. A. Mascarenhas, ed. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2002. $125.00 (474 pp.). ISBN 0-306-46778-X Energy and environmentSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environment <<FluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Energy: Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability. R. Bent, L. Orr, R. Baker, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2002. $55.00, $27.50 paper (257 pp.). ISBN 1-55963-910-5, ISBN 1-55963-911-3 paper Vital Signs 2002: The Trends that Are Shaping Our Future. Worldwatch Institute. W. W. Norton, New York, 2002. $14.95 paper (215 pp.). ISBN 0-393-32315-3FluidsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluids <<GeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Geomorphological Fluid Mechanics. N. J. Balmforth, A. Provenzale, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 582. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $99.00 (577 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42968-9 Laser Techniques for Fluid Mechanics. R. J. Adrian, D. F. G. Durao, M. V. Heitor, M. Maeda, C. Tropea, J. H. Whitelaw, eds. Proc. symp., Lisbon, Portugal, July 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $159.00 (566 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42837-2 Lectures on Fluid Dynamics: A Particle Theorist’s View of Supersymmetric, Non-Abelian, Noncommutative Fluid Mechanics and d-Branes. R. Jackiw. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics . Proc. lectures, Montreal, Mar. and June 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $49.95 (114 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95422-8GeophysicsSection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysics <<History and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Vol. 30. R. Jeanloz, A. L. Albee, K. C. Burke, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, Calif, 2002. $77.00 (595 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-2030-1 The Atmospheric Environment: Effects of Human Activity. M. B. McElroy. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, N.J., 2002. $80.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 0-691-00691-1 Ocean Acoustic Interference Phenomena and Signal Processing. W. A. Kuperman, G. L. D’Spain, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 621. Proc. wksp., San Francisco, May 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $140.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0070-9 Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems: Linear Interactions Including Wave-Energy Extraction. J. Falnes. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $75.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78211-2History and philosophySection:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophy <<Particle physicsTheory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous The Art of Teaching Physics: The Eighteenth-Century Demonstration Apparatus of Jean Antoine Nollet. L. Pyenson, J.-F. Gauvin, eds. Septentrion, Sillery, Quebec, Canada, 2002. $54.95 (220 pp.). ISBN 2-89448-320-1 The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 7: The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921. M. Janssen, R. Schulmann, J. Illy, C. Lehner, D. K. Buchwald, eds. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, N.J., 2002. $110.00 (689 pp.). ISBN 0-691-05717-6 The Continuing Story of the International Space Station. P. Bond. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $29.95 (392 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-567-X Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers. A. J. G. Hey, ed. Westview Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002 [1999, reissued]. $43.00 paper (438 pp.). ISBN 0-8133-4039-X Feynman Lectures on Gravitation. R. P. Feynman, F. B. Morinigo, W. G. Wagner; B. Hatfield, ed. Westview Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003 [1995, reissued]. $35.00 paper (232 pp.). ISBN 0-8133-4038-1 The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science. T. Edis. Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y., 2002. $29.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 1-57392-977-8 Historical Studies in the Nobel Archives: The Prizes in Science and Medicine. E. Crawford, ed. Uppsala Studies in the History of Science 31. Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 2002. $30.00 paper (161 pp.). ISBN 4-946443-69-X Horse Power to Nuclear Power: A Memoir of an Energy Pioneer. D. B. Trauger. Hillsboro Press, Franklin, Tenn., 2002. $28.95 (436 pp.). ISBN 1-57736-253-5 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass. M. Lange. Blackwell, Maiden, Mass., 2002. $64.95, $29.95 paper (320 pp.). ISBN 0-631-22500-5, ISBN 0-631-22501-3 paper Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers. Vol. 1: Physical Sciences, Vol. 2: Biomolecular Sciences. B. Kamb, L. P. Kamb, P. J. Pauling, A. Kamb, L. Pauling Jr, eds. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Chemistry 10. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $167.00 set (1573 pp. set). ISBN 981-02-2784-1 Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements. P. Strathern. Berkley Books, New York, 2002 [2001, reissued]. $14.00 paper (308 pp.). ISBN 0-425-18467-6 The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century. J. Brockman, ed. Vintage Books, New York, 2002. $14.00 paper (301 pp.). ISBN 0-375-71342-5 The Nobel Population 1901-1950: A Census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. E. Crawford. Uppsala Studies in the History of Science 30. Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 2002. $40.00 paper (420 pp.). ISBN 4-946443-70-3, CD-ROM No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence. W. A. Dembski. Rowman & Littlefield, New York, 2002. $35.00 (404 pp.). ISBN 0-7425-1297-5 No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe. Revised edition. M. Young. 1stBooks, Bloomington, Ind., 2001. $13.95 paper (348 pp.). ISBN 0-75961-089-4 Nuclear Fusion: Half a Century of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research. C. M. Braams, P. E. Stott. IOP, Philadelphia, 2002. $70.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0705-6 Particle physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physics <<Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Heavy Flavor Physics. A. Ryd, F. C. Porter, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 618. Proc. symp., Pasadena, Calif, Sept. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $185.00 (488 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0064-4 Theory and mathematical methods Section:ChooseTop of pageAcousticsAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biophysics and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed matter physicsCosmology and relativityDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyParticle physicsTheory and mathematical m... <<Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Digital and Image Geometry. G. Bertrand, A. Imiya, R. Klette, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2243. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $49.95 paper (453 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43079-2 The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light. D. M. Grimes, C. A. Grimes. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2002. $68.00 (447 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4785-0 Floer Homology Groups in Yang-Mills Theory. S. K. Donaldson. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 147. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $75.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80803-0 Fluctuations and Localization in Mesoscopic Electron Systems. M. Janssen. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $48.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4209-3 The Formation and Logic of Quantum Mechanics. Vol. 1: The Formation of Atomic Models. M. Taketani, ed. Vol. 2: The Way to Quantum Mechanics. M. Taketani, M. Nagasaki, eds. Vol. 3: The Establishment and Logic of Quantum Mechanics. M. Taketani, M. Nagasaki (translated from Japanese by M. Nagasaki). World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $187.00 set (855 pp. set). ISBN 981-02-4601-3 (set) Fundamentals of Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics. B. N. Roy. Wiley, New York, 2002. $99.00, $45.00 paper (743 pp.). ISBN 0-470-84313-6, ISBN 0-470-84316-0 paper High-Field Electrodynamics. F. V. Hartemann. CRC Series in Pure and Applied Physics . CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 2000. $129.95 (669 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-2378-9 Measurements and Quantum Probabilities. M. D. Srinivas. Universities Press, Hyderabad, India, 2001. $20.00 paper (272 pp.). ISBN 81-7371-370-7 Modified Maxwell Equations in Quantum Electrodynamics. H. F. Harmuth, T. W. Barrett, B. Meffert. Contemporary Chemical Physics 19. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $60.00 (299 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4770-2 My Double Unveiled: The Dissipative Quantum Model of Brain. G. Vitiello. Advances in Consciousness Research 32. John Benjamins, Philadelphia, 2001. $44.95 paper (161 pp.). ISBN 90-272-51525 A New Kind of Science. S. Wolfram. Wolfram Media, Champaign, Ill., 2002. $44.95 (1197 pp.). ISBN 1-57955-008-8 The Nuclear Many-Body Problem 2001. W. Nazarewicz, D. Vretenar, eds. NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 53. Proc. wksp., Brijuni, Pula, Croatia, June 2001. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $138.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0462-1 Optimization Algorithms in Physics. A. K. Hartmann, H. Rieger. Wiley-VCH, Berlin, Germany, 2002. $135.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40307-8 Quantum Field Theory, Conformal Group Theory, Conformal Field Theory: Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations, Physical and Geometrical Applications. R. Mirman. Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y., 2001. $59.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 1-56072-992-9 Resonances in Few-Body Systems. A. T. Kruppa, R. G. Lovas, eds. Supplement 13. Proc. wksp., Sárospatak, Hungary, Sept. 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $95.00 (302 pp.). ISBN 3-211-83766-3 A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics. 2nd edition. I. D. Lawrie. IOP, Philadelphia, 2002 [1990]. $52.50 paper (564 pp.). 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