New Books

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Astronomy and Astrophysics	Atomic and Molecular Physics	Chemical Physics
Computers and Computational Physics	Condensed Matter Physics	Cosmology and Relativity
Device Physics	Energy and Environment	Fluids
Geophysics	History and Philosophy	Instrumentation and Techniques
Materials Science	Miscellaneous	Nonlinear Science and Chaos
Nuclear Physics	Popularizations	Society and Government
Space and Planetary Science	Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics	Texts and Education
Theory and Mathematical Methods

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Vol. 42. G. Burbidge, R. Blandford, A. Sandage, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. $84.00 (763 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-0942-1 Buy at Amazon

Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution. J. S. Mulchaey, A. Dressler, A. Oemler, eds. Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series 3. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $130.00 (381 pp.). ISBN 0-521-75577-8 Buy at Amazon

The Magnetic Universe: Geophysical and Astrophysical Dynamo Theory. G. R�diger, R. Hollerbach. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2004. $155.00 (332 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40409-0 Buy at Amazon

The New Amateur Astronomer. M. Mobberley. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $34.95 paper (229 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-663-3 Buy at Amazon

Origin and Evolution of the Elements. A. McWilliam, M. Rauch, eds. Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series 4. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $130.00 (496 pp.). ISBN 0-521-75578-6 Buy at Amazon

Star Formation at High Angular Resolution. M. G. Burton, R. Jayawardhana, T. L. Bourke, eds. International Astronomical Union Symposium 221. Proc. symp., Sydney, Australia, July 2003. International Astronomical Union, Paris, and Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2004. $77.00 (512 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-161-3 Buy at Amazon

Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Radiation: A Crucial Window on the Extreme Universe. F. A. Aharonian. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004. $107.00 (495 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4573-4 Buy at Amazon

Atomic and Molecular Physics

Novel Methods in Soft Matter Simulations. M. Karttunen, I. Vattulainen, A. Lukkarinen, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 640. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $79.95 (393 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20916-6 Buy at Amazon

Chemical Physics

Fundamentals of Quantum Chemistry. 2nd ed. J. E. House. Complimentary Science Series. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2004 [1989]. $46.95 paper (291 pp.). ISBN 0-12-356771-8 Buy at Amazon

Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry. Vol. 38. B. E. Conway, C. G. Vayenas, R. E. White, eds. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2005. $155.00 (543 pp.). ISBN 0-306-48703-9 Buy at Amazon

Computers and Computational Physics

Fortran 95/2003 Explained. M. Metcalf, J. Reid, M. Cohen. Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $124.50, $44.50 paper (416 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852692-X, ISBN 0-19-852693-8 Buy at Amazon paper

Grid Computing for Electromagnetics. L. Tarricone, A. Esposito. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2004. $120.00 (246 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-777-4 Buy at Amazon , CD-ROM

Quantum Computing: A Short Course from Theory to Experiment. J. Stolze, D. Suter. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2004. $59.95 paper (244 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40438-4 Buy at Amazon

Condensed Matter Physics

Advances in Solid State Physics. Vol. 44. B. Kramer, ed. Advances in Solid State Physics 44. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $199.00 (565 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21148-9 Buy at Amazon

Applications of the Isotopic Effect in Solids. V. G. Plekhanov. Springer Series in Materials Science 70. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $129.00 (332 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40809-6 Buy at Amazon

Electron Correlation in Metals. K. Yamada. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $100.00 (245 pp.). ISBN 0-521-57232-0 Buy at Amazon

High-Resolution X-Ray Scattering: From Thin Films to Lateral Nanostructures. 2nd ed. U. Pietsch, V. Hol�, T. Baumbach. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [1999]. $99.00 (408 pp.). ISBN 0-387-40092-3 Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Structural Phase Transitions. 2nd ed. M. Fujimoto. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005 [1997]. $129.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 0-387-40716-2 Buy at Amazon

Point-Contact Spectroscopy. Yu. G. Naidyuk, I. K. Yanson. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 145. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $159.00 (297 pp.). ISBN 0-387-21235-3 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Transport Theory. J. Rammer. Frontiers in Physics 99. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 2004 [1998, reissued]. $45.00 paper (521 pp.). ISBN 0-8133-4284-8 Buy at Amazon

Solid State Theory: An Introduction. U. Rössler. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $89.95 (345 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22244-8 Buy at Amazon

X-Ray Multiple-Wave Diffraction: Theory and Application. S.-L. Chang. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 143. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $179.00 (431 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21196-9 Buy at Amazon

Cosmology and Relativity

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory. D. Bailin, A. Love. Graduate Student Series in Physics. IOP, Philadelphia, 2004. $55.00 paper (313 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0492-8 Buy at Amazon

The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields: 50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity. P. T. Chrusciel, H. Friedrich. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2004. $129.00 (481 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7130-7 Buy at Amazon , CD-ROM

Relativity, Gravitation, Cosmology. V. V. Dvoeglazov, A. A. Espinoza Garrido, eds. Contemporary Fundamental Physics. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2004. $129.00 (195 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-981-9 Buy at Amazon

Device Physics

Emerging Nanoelectronics: Life with and after CMOS. Vols. 1-3. A. M. Ionescu, K. Banerjee, eds. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2005. $350.00 set (1388 pp. set). ISBN 1-4020-7917-6 Buy at Amazon

Future Trends in Microelectronics: The Nano, the Giga, and the Ultra. S. Luryi, J. Xu, A. Zaslavsky, eds. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $64.95 (408 pp.). ISBN 0-471-48405-9 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Microelectromechanical Microwave Systems. 2nd ed. H. J. De Los Santos. Microelectromechanical Systems Series. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2004 [1999]. $99.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-871-1 Buy at Amazon

Novel Sensors and Sensing. R. G. Jackson. Series in Sensors. IOP, Philadelphia, 2004. $100.00 (299 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0989-X Buy at Amazon

Shape Memory Microactuators. M. Kohl. Microtechnology and MEMS. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $119.00 (247 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20635-3 Buy at Amazon

Energy and Environment

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis-And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. R. Gelbspan. Basic Books, New York, 2004. $22.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 0-465-02761-X Buy at Amazon

Encyclopedia of Energy. Vols. 1-6. C. J. Cleveland, ed. Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2004. $1560.00 set (5146 pp. set). ISBN 0-12-176480-X Buy at Amazon

Energy: Technology and Directions for the Future. J. R. Fanchi. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2004. $69.99 (491 pp.). ISBN 0-12-248291-3 Buy at Amazon

Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media. P. J. Michaels. Cato Institute, Washington, DC, 2004. $24.95 (271 pp.). ISBN 1-930865-59-7 Buy at Amazon

Fluids

Flow of Industrial Fluids-Theory and Equations. R. Mulley. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, and The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2004. $89.95 (410 pp.). ISBN 0-84932-767-9 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Compressible Flow. A. Novotný, I. Straškraba. Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications 27. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $99.50 (506 pp.). ISBN 0-19-853084-6 Buy at Amazon

Turbulence: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers. P. A. Davidson. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $174.50, $69.50 paper (657 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852948-1, ISBN 0-19-852949-X Buy at Amazon paper

Geophysics

Computational Earthquake Science Part 1. A. Donnellan, P. Mora, M. Matsu'ura, X-c. Yin. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2004. $69.95 paper (304 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7142-0 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Models. S. M. Griffies. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $65.00 (518 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11892-2 Buy at Amazon

Geodetic and Geophysical Effects Associated with Seismic and Volcanic Hazards. J. Fernández, ed. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2004. $59.95 paper (290 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7044-0 Buy at Amazon

Geodynamics of Azores-Tunisia. E. Buforn, J. Martín-Dávila, A. Udías, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2004. $63.00 paper (250 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7043-2 Buy at Amazon

Physics of the Outer Heliosphere. V. Florinski, N. V. Pogorelov, G. P. Zank, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 719. Proc. conf., Riverside, CA, Feb. 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $150.00 (431 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0199-3 Buy at Amazon

Seismic Ground Motion in Large Urban Areas. G. F. Panza, I. Paskaleva, C. Nunziata, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2004. $69.95 paper (364 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7042-4 Buy at Amazon

History and Philosophy

Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time. S. Baxter. Forge Books, New York, 2004. $23.95 (245 pp.). ISBN 0-765-31238-7 Buy at Amazon

Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. A. B. Feferman, S. Feferman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $35.00 (425 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80240-7 Buy at Amazon

The Big One: The Earthquake that Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science. J. Page, C. Officer. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2004. $24.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 0-618-34150-1 Buy at Amazon

Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. M. J. Nye. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $40.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01548-7 Buy at Amazon

Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray. L. Simon. Harcourt, San Diego, CA, 2004. $25.00 (357 pp.). ISBN 0-15-100586-9 Buy at Amazon

Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove. P. Goodchild. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $29.95 (469 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01669-6 Buy at Amazon

Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. P. Galison. W. W. Norton, New York, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $14.95 paper (389 pp.). ISBN 0-393-32604-7 Buy at Amazon

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. J. Jonnes. Random House, New York, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $15.95 paper (424 pp.). ISBN 0-375-75884-4 Buy at Amazon

Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy. C. Bernardini, L. Bonolis, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, and Società Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, Italy, 2004. $49.95 (410 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22141-7 Buy at Amazon (Springer-Verlag), ISBN 88-7438-015-1 (SIF)

Fermi Remembered. J. W. Cronin, ed. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. $45.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 0-226-12111-9 Buy at Amazon

Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew. D. Stoltzenberg. Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, 2004. $40.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 0-941901-24-6 Buy at Amazon

Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves. H. Collins. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. $100.00, $39.00 paper (870 pp.). ISBN 0-226-11377-9, ISBN 0-226-11378-7 Buy at Amazon paper

History of Mathematics: From a Mathematician's Vantage Point. N. K. Artemiadis (translated from Greek by N. E. Sofronidis). American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2004. $59.00 (454 pp.). ISBN 0-8218-3403-7 Buy at Amazon

Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact. J. Cornwell. Penguin Books, New York, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $16.00 paper (535 pp.). ISBN 0-14-200480-4 Buy at Amazon

How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions. D. M. Harland. Apogee Books, Burlington, Canada, 2004. $25.95 paper (288 pp.). ISBN 1-894959-07-8 Buy at Amazon

In Soso's Web. Tatiana (W. I. Axford, T. K. Breus). Copernicus, Katlenburg- Lindau, Germany, 2004. $32.00 paper (268 pp.). ISBN 3-936586-25-X Buy at Amazon

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century. D. C. Cassidy. Pi Press, New York, 2005. $27.95 (462 pp.). ISBN 0-13-147996-2 Buy at Amazon

Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother. J. A. Connor. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, 2004. $24.95 (402 pp.). ISBN 0-06-052255-0 Buy at Amazon

Light Is a Messenger: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg. G. K. Hunter. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $59.50 (301 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852921-X Buy at Amazon

Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. K. Silverman. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $20.00 paper (503 pp.). ISBN 0-306-81394-7 Buy at Amazon

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance. E. Derman. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $29.95 (292 pp.). ISBN 0-471-39420-3 Buy at Amazon

The Ontology of Time. L. N. Oaklander. Studies in Analytic Philosophy. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2004. $30.00 paper (366 pp.). ISBN 1-59102-197-9 Buy at Amazon

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race. S. Nolen. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $15.00 paper (356 pp.). ISBN 1-56858-319-2 Buy at Amazon

Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities. C. M. Vest. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. $24.95 (292 pp.). ISBN 0-262-22072-5 Buy at Amazon

Rail, Steam, and Speed: The "Rocket" and the Birth of Steam Locomotion. C. McGowan. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2004. $29.95 (379 pp.). ISBN 0-231-13474-6 Buy at Amazon

Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century and the Amatuer Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution. G. Weightman. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $15.00 paper (312 pp.). ISBN 0-306-81378-5 Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and Techniques

Experiments in Modern Physics. 2nd ed. A. C. Melissinos, J. Napolitano. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2003 [1966]. $80.00 (527 pp.). ISBN 0-12-489851-3 Buy at Amazon

Low Loss Dewars and Tanks: A Basis for Designing Efficient Cryogenic Storage and Handling Systems. R. G. Scurlock. Cryogenic Society of America Inc., Oak Park, IL, 2004. $75.00 paper (41 pp.). ISBN 0-9753254-0-X Buy at Amazon

Mö;ssbauer Spectroscopy of Environmental Materials and Their Industrial Utilization. E. Murad, J. Cashion. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2004. $165.00 (417 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-7726-2 Buy at Amazon

Materials Science

Crystals that Flow: Classic Papers from the History of Liquid Crystals. T. J. Sluckin, D. A. Dunmur, H. Stegemeyer. The Liquid Crystals Book Series. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2004. $149.95 (738 pp.). ISBN 0-415-25789-1 Buy at Amazon

Electronic Properties of Synthetic Nanostructures. H. Kuzmany, J. Fink, M. Mehring, S. Roth, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 723. Proc. sch., Kirchberg, Austria, Mar. 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $195.00 (604 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0204-3 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Surface and Superlattice Excitations. 2nd ed. M. G. Cottam, D. R. Tilley. Graduate Student Series in Physics. IOP, Philadelphia, 2005 [1989]. $65.00 paper (516 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0588-6 Buy at Amazon

Magnetism: Fundamentals. É. du Trémolet de Lacheisserie, D. Gignoux, M. Schlenker, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005 [2003, reissued]. $89.95 paper (507 pp.). ISBN 0-387-22967-1 Buy at Amazon

Magnetism: Materials and Applications. É. du Trémolet de Lacheisserie, D. Gignoux, M. Schlenker, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005 [2003, reissued]. $89.95 paper (517 pp.). ISBN 0-387-23000-9 Buy at Amazon

Nanometer Structures: Theory, Modeling, and Simulation. A. Lakhtakia, ed. The Handbook of Nanotechnology. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, and SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA, 2004. $88.00 (474 pp.). ISBN 0-8197-5186-X Buy at Amazon

NMR, 3D Analysis, Photopolymerization. N. Fatkullin, et al. Advances in Polymer Science 170. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $199.50 (294 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20510-1 Buy at Amazon

Silicon: Evolution and Future of a Technology. P. Siffert, E. F. Krimmel, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $139.00 (549 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40546-1 Buy at Amazon

Surfaces and Interfaces of Liquid Crystals. Th. Rasing, I. Muševič, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $129.00 (296 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20789-9 Buy at Amazon

Miscellaneous

2003 Physics Education Research Conference. J. Marx, S. Franklin, K. Cummings, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 720. Proc. conf., Madison, WI, Aug. 2003. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $125.00 paper (194 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0200-0 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Vols. 49A and 49B. J. Waynert, et al. AIP Conference Proceedings 710. Proc. conf., Anchorage, AK, Sept. 2003. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $360.00 set (1930 pp. set). ISBN 0-7354-0186-1 Buy at Amazon , CD-ROM

Flight Dynamics. R. F. Stengel. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $99.50 (845 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11407-2 Buy at Amazon

Physics Foibles: Thinking Incompleteness, Entropy, Uncertainty, Physics with a PC. M. Goldstein. Trafford, Victoria, Canada, 2003. $29.95 (424 pp.). ISBN 1-55395-776-8 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Science and Chaos

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16: Proceedings of the 2003 Conference. S. Thrun, L. K. Saul, B. Schölkopf, eds. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Proc. conf., Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 2003. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $100.00 (1621 pp.). ISBN 0-262-20152-6 Buy at Amazon

Complex Networks. E. Ben-Naim, H. Frauenfelder, Z. Toroczkai, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 650. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $79.95 (520 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22354-1 Buy at Amazon

Discrete Integrable Systems. B. Grammaticos Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach, T. Tamizhmani, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 644. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $79.95 (439 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21425-9 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Physics

Equation of State of Uranium Dioxide: Data Collection. C. Ronchi, I. L. Iosilevski, E. S. Yakub. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $249.00 (356 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22122-0 Buy at Amazon

The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams. Vol. 1. J. Al-Khalili, E. Roeckl, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 651. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $79.95 (490 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22255-3 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices, and Prospects. 2nd ed. D. Bodansky. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [1996]. $99.00 (693 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20778-3 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Physics, Large and Small. R. Bijker, R. F. Casten, A. Frank, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 726. Proc. conf., Morelos, Mexico, Apr. 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $135.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0207-8 Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems that Reveal the Limits of Science. A. K. Dewdney. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $27.95 (224 pp.). ISBN 0-471-01398-6 Buy at Amazon

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Einstein A to Z. K. C. Fox, A. Keck. Wiley, Hoboken, 2004. $17.95 paper (310 pp.). ISBN 0-471-46674-3 Buy at Amazon

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Football Physics: The Science of the Game. T. Gay. Rodale, New York, 2004. $21.95 (290 pp.). ISBN 1-57954-911-X Buy at Amazon

The Harmonious Universe: The Beauty and Unity of Scientific Understanding. K. J. Laidler. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2004. $28.00 (370 pp.). ISBN 1-59102-187-1 Buy at Amazon

How Steam Locomotives Really Work. P. W. B. Semmens, A. J. Goldfinch. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2003 [2000, reissued]. $16.95 paper (348 pp.). ISBN 0-19-860782-2 Buy at Amazon

How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life. L. Fisher. Penguin Books, New York, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $14.00 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 0-14-303438-3 Buy at Amazon

The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time. M. Danesi. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $15.95 paper (248 pp.). ISBN 0-471-64816-7 Buy at Amazon

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Our Improbable Universe: A Physicist Considers How We Got Here. . . . M. Mallary. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2004. $15.00 paper (227 pp.). ISBN 1-56858-301-X Buy at Amazon

Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number. A. S. Posamentier, I. Lehmann. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2004. $26.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 1-59102-200-2 Buy at Amazon

QED: Beauty in Mathematical Proof. B. Polster. Wooden Books. Walker, New York, 2004. $10.00 (58 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-1431-5 Buy at Amazon

Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity-From the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven. R. Carlisle. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $40.00 (502 pp.). ISBN 0-471-24410-4 Buy at Amazon

Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. L. Daston, ed. Zone Books, New York, 2004. $34.50 (447 pp.). ISBN 1-890951-43-9 Buy at Amazon

Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information. B. Parry. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2004. $39.50 (319 pp.). ISBN 0-231-12174-1 Buy at Amazon

The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems. J. R. Vacca. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005. $24.99 (669 pp.). ISBN 0-13-142643-5 Buy at Amazon

Society and Government

Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense. R. Butler. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 2003 [2001, reissued]. $14.00 paper (178 pp.). ISBN 0-8133-3980-4 Buy at Amazon

People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex. H. Gusterson. U. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2004. $59.95, $19.95 paper (312 pp.). ISBN 0-8166-3859-4, ISBN 0-8166-3860-8 Buy at Amazon paper

Space and Planetary Science

China's Space Program-From Conception to Manned Spaceflight. B. Harvey. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $34.95 paper (349 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-566-1 Buy at Amazon

Mars-A Warmer, Wetter Planet. J. S. Kargel. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $34.95 paper (557 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-568-8 Buy at Amazon

Physics of the Earth's Space Environment: An Introduction. G. W. Prölss. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $99.00 (513 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21426-7 Buy at Amazon

Planetary Aeronomy: Atmosphere Environments in Planetary Systems. S. J. Bauer, H. Lammer. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer- Verlag, New York, 2004. $129.00 (207 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21472-0 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics

Kinetic Theory of Granular Gases. N. V. Brilliantov, T. Pöschel. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $74.50 (329 pp.). ISBN 0-19-853038-2 Buy at Amazon

Modulation Calorimetry: Theory and Applications. Y. Kraftmakher. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $129.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21082-2 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems: Complexity and Statistical Fluctuations-A Maximum-Entropy Viewpoint. P. A. Mello, N. Kumar. Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $124.50 (401 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852582-6 Buy at Amazon

The Specific Heat of Matter at Low Temperatures. A. Tari. Imperial College Press, London, 2003. $82.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-314-4 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces. 2nd ed. D. Nelson, T. Piran, S. Weinberg. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004 [1989]. $48.00, $24.00 paper (426 pp.). ISBN 981-238-760-9, ISBN 981-238-772-2 Buy at Amazon paper

Texts and Education

Classical Mechanics. J. R. Taylor. University Science Books, Sausalito, CA, 2005. $86.50 (786 pp.). ISBN 1-891389-22-X Buy at Amazon

Incomprehensible Flow Turbomachines: Design, Selection, Applications, and Theory. G. F. Round. Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2004. $79.95 (341 pp.). ISBN 0-7506-7603-5 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology. M. H. Jones, R. J. Lambourne, eds. The Open University, Milton Heynes, UK, and Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $110.00, $65.00 paper (442 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83738-3, ISBN 0-521-54623-0 Buy at Amazon paper

Understanding Materials Science: History, Properties, Applications. 2nd ed. R. E. Hummel. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [1998]. $79.95 (440 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20939-5 Buy at Amazon

Theory and Mathematical Methods

Combinatorial Enumeration. I. P. Goulden, D. M. Jackson. Dover Books on Mathematics. Dover, Mineola, NY, 2004 [1983, reissued]. $34.95 paper (569 pp.). ISBN 0-486-43597-0 Buy at Amazon

Computing Anticipatory Systems. D. M. Dubois, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 718. Proc conf., Liège, Belgium, Aug. 2003. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $195.00 (602 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0198-5 Buy at Amazon

Conjugate Gradient Algorithms and Finite Element Methods. M. Křízek, P. Neittaanmäki, R. Glowinski, S. Korotov, eds. Scientific Computation. Springer- Verlag, New York, 2004. $109.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21319-8 Buy at Amazon

Contemporary Accelerator Physics. S. I. Tzenov. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004. $76.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 981-238-900-8 Buy at Amazon

Evolutionary Theory: Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations. S. H. Rice. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. $49.95 paper (370 pp.). ISBN 0-87893-702-1 Buy at Amazon

Generalized Functions: Theory and Applications. 3rd ed. R. P. Kanwal. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2004 [1998]. $89.95 paper (476 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4343-5 Buy at Amazon

Initial-Boundary Value Problems and the Navier-Stokes Equations. H.-O. Kreiss, J. Lorenz. Classics in Applied Mathematics 47. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2004 [1989, reissued]. $48.00 paper (402 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-565-2 Buy at Amazon

Path Integrals and Quantum Anomalies. K. Fujikawa, H. Suzuki. International Series of Monographs on Physics 122. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $99.50 (284 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852913-9 Buy at Amazon

Primer for Point and Space Groups. R. L. Liboff. Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $59.95 (220 pp.). ISBN 0-387-40248-9 Buy at Amazon

Science from Fisher Information: A Unification. 2nd ed. B. R. Frieden. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [1998]. $110.00, $65.00 paper (490 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81079-5, ISBN 0-521-00911-1 Buy at Amazon paper

Special Functions for Scientists and Engineers. W. W. Bell. Dover Books on Mathematics. Dover, Mineola, NY, 2004 [1996, reissued]. $15.95 paper (247 pp.). ISBN 0-486-43521-0 Buy at Amazon

Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Physics. 2nd ed. R. H. Wasserman. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004 [1992]. $99.50 (447 pp.). ISBN 0-19-851059-4 Buy at Amazon

Topology, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory. U. Tillmann, ed. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 308. Proc. symp., London, June 2002. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $90.00 paper (577 pp.). ISBN 0-521-54049-6 Buy at Amazon

Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory. V. D. Blondel, A. Megretski, eds. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $39.50 (334 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11748-9 Buy at Amazon

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