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History and philosophySection:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophy <<Instrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970–1993, with an Autobiographical Interview. T. S. Kuhn. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002 [2000, reissued]. $18.00 paper (335 pp.). ISBN 0-226-45799-0 Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact. D. H. Levy. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, N.J., 2002 [2000, reissued]. $16.95 paper (303 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11325-4 Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens. K. Ferguson. Walker, New York, 2002. $28.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-1390-4Instrumentation and techniquesSection:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn... <<Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Bandwidth-Efficient Digital Modulation with Application to Deep-Space Communications. M. K. Simon. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., 2003. $125.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 0-471-44536-3 Materials science Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials science <<Nonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous High-Resolution Imaging and Spectrometry of Materials. F. Ernst, M. Rühle, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 50. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $119.00 (440 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41818-0 Rational Continua, Classical and New: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Gianfranco Capriz on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. P. Podio-Guidugli, M. Brocato, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $69.95 (207 pp.). ISBN 88-470-0157-9 Transport Processes in Bubbles, Drops, and Particles. 2nd edition. D. De Kee, R. P. Chhabra, eds. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2002 [1992]. $130.00 (433 pp.). ISBN 1-56032-906-8Nonlinear science and chaos Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha... <<Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Dynamics of Dissipation. P. Garbaczewski, R. Olkiewicz, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 597. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $99.00 (512 pp.). ISBN 3-540-44111-5 Handbook of Graphs and Networks: From the Genome to the Internet. S. Bornholdt, H. G. Schuster, eds. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., 2003. $175.00 (401 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40336-1 Hypercomplex Iterations: Distance Estimation and Higher Dimensional Fractals. Y. Dang, L. H. Kauffman, D. Sandin. Series on Knots and Everything 17. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2002. $33.00 (144 pp.). ISBN 981-02-3296-9, CD-ROM Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability, Chaos, and Patterns. M. Lakshmanan, S. Rajasekar. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $99.00 (619 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43908-0 Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems. D. Sornette. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, N.J., 2003. $29.95 (421 pp.). ISBN 0-691-09630-9Optics and photonics Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonics <<Particle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Advances in Laser and Optics Research. Vol. 2. W. T. Arkin, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, N.Y., 2002. $98.00 (182 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-398-5 Detection of Light: From the Ultraviolet to the Submillimeter. 2nd edition. G. H. Rieke. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003 [1994]. $110.00, $40.00 paper (363 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81636-X, ISBN 0-521-01710-6 paper Infrared Holography for Optical Communications: Techniques, Materials, and Devices. P. Boffi, D. Piccinin, M. C. Ubaldi, eds. Topics in Applied Physics 86. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $139.00 (181 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43314-7 Laser Cleaning. B. Luk’yanchuk, ed. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2002. $58.00 (466 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4941-1 Optical Solitons in Fibers. 3rd edition. A. Hasegawa, M. Matsumoto. Springer Series in Photonics 9. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003 [1990]. $69.95 (200 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43695-2 Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics I: Basics and Theory of Near-Field Optics. M. Ohtsu, ed. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 86. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $69.95 (161 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43504-2 RF Photonic Technology in Optical Fiber Links. W. S. C. Chang, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $110.00 (403 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80375-6 Sensing with Terahertz Radiation. D. Mittleman, ed. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 85. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $109.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43110-1 Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Devices. H. E. Li, K. Iga, eds. Springer Series in Photonics 6. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $74.95 (385 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67851-4 Particle physics Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physics <<Plasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 52. C. Quigg, V. Lüth, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, Calif., 2002. $77.00 (483 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-1552-9 Exotic Clustering. S. Costa, A. Insolia, C. Tuvè, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 644. Proc. conf., Catania, Italy, June 2002. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $160.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0099-7Plasmas and fusion Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusion <<PopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Advances in Plasma Physics Research. Vol. 3. F. Gerard, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, N.Y., 2002. $89.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-329-2 BEAMS 2002. T. A. Mehlhorn, M. A. Sweeney, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 650. Proc. conf., Albuquerque, N. Mex., June 2002. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $175.00 (528 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0107-1 Dense Z-Pinches. J. Davis, C. Deeney, N. R. Pereira, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 651. Proc. conf., Albuquerque, N. Mex., June 2002. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $175.00 (459 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0108-X Plasma and Fluid Turbulence: Theory and Modelling. A. Yoshizawa, S.-I. Itoh, K. Itoh. Series in Plasma Physics . IOP, Philadelphia, 2003. $135.00 (459 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0871-0PopularizationsSection:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizations <<Society and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Astronomy in Depth. G. North. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $29.95 paper (230 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-580-7 The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega—the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe. J. D. Barrow. Pantheon Books, New York, 2002. $26.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 0-375-42221-8 Crystals and Life: A Personal Journey. C. Abad-Zapatero. International University Line, La Jolla, Calif., 2002. $24.95 paper (280 pp.). ISBN 0-9720774-0-5 Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time. M. Bartusiak. Berkeley Books, New York, 2003 [2000, reissued]. $14.00 paper (256 pp.). ISBN 0-425-18620-2 Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation. J. Magueijo. Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. $26.00 (279 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0525-7 Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen). B. Mazur. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2003. $22.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 0-374-17469-5 Knots: Mathematics with a Twist. A. Sossinsky (translated from French by G. Weiss). Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002. $24.95 (127 pp.). ISBN 0-674-00944-4 The Misunderstood Gene. M. Morange (translated from French by M. Cobb). Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002 [2001, reissued]. $15.95 paper (222 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01009-4 Observing Comets. N. James, G. North. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $44.95 paper (234 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-557-2, CD-ROM Observing Variable Stars. G. A. Good. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $39.95 paper (274 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-498-3 Origins: The Quest for Our Cosmic Roots. T. Yulsman. IOP, Philadelphia, 2003. $17.99 paper (384 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0765-X The Practical Astronomer’s Deep-Sky Companion. J. K. Gilmour. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $44.95 paper (140 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-474-6 A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. G. Johnson. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003. $24.00 (204 pp.). ISBN 0-375-41193-3Society and governmentSection:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and government <<Statistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Challenger’s Shadow: Did Government and Industry Management Kill Seven Astronauts? J. C. Macidull, L. E. Blattner. Llumina Press, Coral Springs, Fla., 2002. $27.95 (139 pp.). ISBN 1-932047-39-5 Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-First Century. A. T. J. Lennon, ed. A Washington Quarterly Reader. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002. $24.95 paper (332 pp.). ISBN 0-262-62166-5 Responsible Conduct of Research. A. E. Shamoo, D. B. Resnik. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2003. $65.00, $29.95 paper (345 pp.). ISBN 0-19-514845-2, ISBN 0-19-514846-0 paper State of the World 2003: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. L. Starke, ed. W. W. Norton, New York, 2003. $27.95, $16.95 paper (241 pp.). ISBN 0-393-05173-0, ISBN 0-393-32386-2 paper Statistical physics and thermodynamics Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t... <<Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Developments in Mathematical and Experimental Physics. Vol. B: Statistical Physics and Beyond. A. Macias, F. Uribe, E. Diaz, eds. Proc. mtg., Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 2001. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2003. $145.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 0-306-47391-7 Maxwell’s Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing. 2nd edition. H. S. Leff, A. F. Rex, eds. IOP, Philadelphia, 2003 [1990]. $55.00 paper (485 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0759-5 Statistical Mechanics. F. Schwabl (translated from German by W. Brewer). Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $69.95 (573 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43163-2 Thermodynamics of Systems in Non-equilibrium States. R. J. Tykodi. Thinkers’ Press, Davenport, Iowa, 2002. $35.00 (474 pp.). ISBN 1-888710-12-8 Theory and mathematical methods Section:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m... <<Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous Asymptotic Models of Fields in Dilute and Densely Packed Composites. A. B. Movchan, N. V. Movchan, C. G. Poulton. Imperial College Press, London, 2002. $48.00 (190 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-318-7 Chebyshev Polynomials. J. C. Mason, D. C. Handscomb. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Fla., 2003. $99.95 (341 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-0355-9 Dictionary of Applied Math for Engineers and Scientists. E. Previato, ed. Comprehensive Dictionary of Mathematics. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 2003. $39.95 paper (155 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-053-8 Diffusions and Waves. H. Gzyl. Mathematics and Its Applications. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $81.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0967-4 Facts, Conjectures, and Improvements for Simulated Annealing. P. Salamon, P. Sibani, R. Frost. SIAM Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002. $45.00 paper (150 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-508-3 Fundamentals of Quantum Information: Quantum Computation, Communication, Decoherence and All That. D. Heiss, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 587. Proc. sch., Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 2001. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $57.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43367-8 Geometric Mechanics. W. M. Oliva. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1798. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $52.80 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 3-540-44242-1 Handbook of Green’s Functions and Matrices. V. D. Seremet. WIT Press, Billerica, Mass., 2003. $229.00 (295 pp.). ISBN 1-85312-933-X, CD-ROM An Introduction to a Realistic Quantum Physics. G. Preparata. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2002. $24.00 (73 pp.). ISBN 981-238-176-7 Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations. Vol. 1: Theory. J. K. Cullum, R. A. Willoughby. Classics in Applied Mathematics 41. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002 [1985, reissued]. $42.00 paper (268 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-523-7 Multiple Decision Procedures: Theory and Methodology of Selecting and Ranking Populations. S. S. Gupta, S. Panchapakesan. Classics in Applied Mathematics 44. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002 [1979, reissued]. $70.00 paper (573 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-532-6 Nonclassical Thermoelastic Problems in Nonlinear Dynamics of Shells: Applications of the Bubnov-Galerkin and Finite Difference Numerical Methods. J. Awrejcewicz, V. A. Krys’ko. Scientific Computation. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $89.95 (428 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43880-7 Nonlinear Systems Analysis. 2nd edition. M. Vidyasagar. Classics in Applied Mathematics 42. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002 [1993, reissued]. $55.00 paper (498 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-526-1 Ordinary Differential Equations in Theory and Practice. R. Mattheij, J. Molenaar. Classics in Applied Mathematics 43. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002 [1996, reissued]. $45.00 paper (405 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-531-8 Quantum Electrodynamics. 3rd edition. W. Greiner, J. Reinhardt. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003 [1994]. $69.95 paper (475 pp.). ISBN 3-540-44029-1 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. H. M. Pilkuhn. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $69.95 (239 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43666-9 Scattering Theory of Waves and Particles. 2nd edition. R. G. Newton. Dover, Mineola, N.Y., 2002 [1982, reissued]. $34.95 paper (745 pp.). ISBN 0-486-42535-5 Stochastic Modeling in Broadband Communications Systems. I. Kaj. SIAM Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002. $60.00 paper (177 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-519-9 Synchrotron Radiation. H. Wiedemann. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $89.95 (274 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43392-9 Theoretical Physics. V. Elias, R. J. Epp, R. C. Myers, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 646. Proc. conf., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2002. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $150.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0101-2 Theoretical Physics 2001. H. F. Arnoldus, T. F. George, eds. Horizons in World Physics 238. Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y., 2002. $98.00 (285 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-243-1 Variational Principles and Methods in Theoretical Physics and Chemistry. R. K. Nesbet. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003. $80.00 (229 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80391-8 Undergraduate texts and educationSection:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e... <<Miscellaneous Introducing Special Relativity. W. S. C. Williams. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2002. $88.00, $40.00 paper (249 pp.). ISBN 0-415-27761-2, ISBN 0-415-27762-0 paper Introduction to Relativity. W. D. McGlinn. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, Md., 2003. $69.95, $24.95 paper (205 pp.). ISBN 0-8018-7047-X, ISBN 0-8018-7053-4 paper Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics. 3rd edition. A. Z. Capri. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2002 [1985]. $78.00, $48.00 paper (522 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4634-X, ISBN 981-02-4651-X paper Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods. M. S. Gockenbach. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2002. $69.00 (614 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-518-0, CD-ROM Quantum Theory of Solids. E. P. O’Reilly. Masters Series in Physics and Astronomy. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2002. $69.95, $29.95 paper (250 pp.). ISBN 0-7484-0628-X, ISBN 0-7484-0627-1 paper Understanding the Properties of Matter. 2nd edition. M. de Podesta. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2002 [1996]. $104.00, $38.95 paper (434 pp.). ISBN 0-415-25787-5, ISBN 0-415-25788-3 paper MiscellaneousSection:ChooseTop of pageHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceNonlinear science and cha...Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPlasmas and fusionPopularizationsSociety and governmentStatistical physics and t...Theory and mathematical m...Undergraduate texts and e...Miscellaneous << AIP Physics Desk Reference. 3rd edition. E. R. Cohen, D. R. Lide, G. L. Trigg, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003 [1989]. $69.95 (888 pp.). ISBN 0-387-98973-0 The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science. S. L. Montgomery. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003. $40.00, $15.00 paper (228 pp.). ISBN 0-226-53484-7, ISBN 0-226-53485-5 paper The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid. M. Alley. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $29.95 paper (241 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95555-0 Graphics and GUIs with MATLAB. 3rd edition. P. Marchand, O. T. Holland. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Fla., 2003 [1999]. $44.95 paper (518 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-320-0 Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications. W. B. Nelson. ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability. American Statistical Association, Alexandria, Va. and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2003. $85.00 (151 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-522-9 Van Nostrand’s Concise Encyclopedia of Science. C. G. De Pree, A. Axelrod, eds. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., 2003. $40.00 (821 pp.). 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