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The Fractional Fourier Transform with Applications in Optics and Signal Processing. H. M. Ozaktas, Z. Zalevsky, M. A. Kutay. Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics. Wiley, New York, 2001. $65.00 (513 pp.). ISBN 0-471-96346-1

Mathematical Methods of Quantum Optics. R. R. Puri. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 79. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $59.95 (285 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67802-6

Nanoscale Linear and Nonlinear Optics. M. Bertolotti, C. M. Bowden, C. Sibilia, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 560. Proc. sch., Erice, Sicily, July 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $140.00 (450 pp.). ISBN 1-56396-993-9

Nonlinear Fiber Optics. 3rd edition. G. P. Agrawal. Optics and Photonics. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2001 [1995]. $74.95 (466 pp.). ISBN 0-12-045143-3

Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems. 2nd edition. M. J. Riedl. Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering TT48. SPIE, Bellingham, Wash., 2001 [1995]. $50.00 paper (182 pp.). ISBN 0-8194-4051-5

Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion. B. L. Shoop. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 81. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $89.95 (330 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41344-8

Photonics: Linear and Nonlinear Interactions of Laser Light and Matter. R. Menzel. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $89.95 (873 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67074-2

The Quantum Theory of Light. 3rd edition. R. Loudon. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2000 [1983]. $90.00, $45.00 paper (438 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850177-3, ISBN 0-19-850176-5 paper

Solid-State Lasers for Materials Processing: Fundamental Relations and Technical Realizations. R. Iffländer (translated from German by S. Weber). Springer Series in Optical Sciences 77. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $79.95 (350 pp.). ISBN 3-540-66980-9

Introduction to Bose–Einstein Correlations and Subatomic Interferometry. R. M. Weiner. Wiley, New York, 2000. $70.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 0-471-96922-2

The Supersymmetric World: The Beginnings of the Theory. G. Kane, M. Shifman, eds. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000. $58.00, $40.00 paper (271 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4522-X, ISBN 981-02-4539-4 paper

Physics of Ionized Gases. B. M. Smirnov. Wiley, New York, 2001. $89.95 (381 pp.). ISBN 0-471-17594-3

Spectral Line Shapes. J. Seidel, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 559. Proc. conf., Berlin, Germany, July 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $155.00 (510 pp.). ISBN 1-56396-991-2

The Energy of Nature. E. C. Pielou. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001. $25.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 0-226-66806-1

The Fermi Solution: Essays on Science. H. C. von Baeyer. Dover, Mineola, N.Y., 2001 [1993, reissued]. $8.95 paper (172 pp.). ISBN 0-486-41707-7

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. I. Stewart. Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $25.00 (301 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0442-0

Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology. D. Darling. Basic Books, New York, 2001. $26.00 (206 pp.). ISBN 0-465-01563-8

The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms. M. Chown. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001. $25.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 0-19-514305-1

Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet. W. Sheehan, S. J. O’Meara. Prometheus Books, New York, 2001. $27.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 1-57392-900-X

Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence. A. Delsemme. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2000 [1998, reissued]. $24.95, $14.95 paper (322 pp.). ISBN 0-521-62038-4, ISBN 0-521-79480-3 paper

Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos. A. W. Hirshfeld. Freeman, New York, 2001. $23.95 (314 pp.). ISBN 0-7167-3711-6

Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. W. Tucker, K. Tucker. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $27.95 (295 pp.). ISBN 0-674-00497-3

Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun. L. Golub, J. M. Pasachoff. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $29.95 (267 pp.). ISBN 0-674-00467-1

Space Physics: An Introduction to Plasmas and Particles in the Heliosphere and Magnetospheres. 2nd edition. M.-B. Kallenrode. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001 [1998]. $64.95 (365 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41249-2

Acoustic and Electromagnetic Equations: Integral Representations for Harmonic Problems. J.-C. Nédélec. Applied Mathematical Sciences 144. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $64.95 (316 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95155-5

Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory. R. A. Bertlmann. International Series of Monographs on Physics 91. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2000 [1996, reissued]. $50.00 paper (566 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850762-3

Best Approximation in Inner Product Spaces. F. Deutsch. CMS Books in Mathematics 7. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $69.95 (338 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95156-3

Continuous Advances in QCD 2000. M. B. Voloshin, ed. Proc. wksp., Minneapolis, Minn., May 2000. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000. $99.00 (340 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4469-X

Dimensionality Reducing Expansion of Multivariate Integration. T.-X. He. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $59.95 (222 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4170-X

A First Course in Wavelets with Fourier Analysis. A. Boggess, F. J. Narcowich. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2001. $66.67 paper (283 pp.). ISBN 0-13-022809-5

Geometrical Physics in Minkowski Spacetime. E. G. P. Rowe. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $59.95 (248 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-366-9

Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications. O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen, T. Mikosch, S. I. Resnick, eds. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $79.95 (415 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4167-X

Mathematical Aspects of Numerical Solution of Hyperbolic Systems. A. G. Kulikovskii, N. V. Pogorelov, A. Y. Semenov. Chapman and Hall/CRC Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics 118. Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York, 2001. $94.95 (540 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-0608-6

Neutron Interferometry: Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics. H. Rauch, S. A. Werner. Oxford Series on Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter 12. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2000. $120.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850027-0

Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization: A Generalized Homotopy Approach. C. Hillermeier (translated from German by R. Knop). International Series of Numerical Mathematics 135. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $59.95 (135 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-6498-X

Numerical Methods of Statistics. J. F. Monahan. Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $74.95 (428 pp.). ISBN 0-521-79168-5, Diskette

Orthogonal Polynomials of Several Variables. C. F. Dunkl, Y. Xu. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 81. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $80.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80043-9

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Theory. C. Macchiavello, G. M. Palma, A. Zeilinger, eds. Proc. sch., Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, July 1999. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000. $97.00 (517 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4117-8

Quantum Gauge Theories: A True Ghost Story. G. Scharf. Wiley, New York, 2001. $89.95 (245 pp.). ISBN 0-471-41480-8

Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of Atomic Measurements. J. Schwinger; B.-G. Englert, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $49.95 (484 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41408-8

Special Functions. G. E. Andrews, R. Askey, R. Roy. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications 71. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2000 [1999, reissued]. $85.00, $34.95 paper (664 pp.). ISBN 0-521-62321-9, ISBN 0-521-78988-5 paper