New Books

Amateur–Professional Partnerships in Astronomy. J. R. Percy, J. B. Wilson, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 220. Proc. mtg., Toronto, Canada, July 1999. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2000. $52.00 (414 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-052-8

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 216. Proc. mtg., Kohala Coast, Hawaii, Oct. 1999. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2000. $52.00 (717 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-047-1

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. Vols. 73A and 73B: Literature 2000, Part 1. G. Burkhardt, U. Esser, H. Hefele, I. Heinrich, W. Hofmann, V. R. Matas, L. D. Schmadel, R. Wielen, G. Zech, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $349.00 set (1785 pp. set). ISBN 3-540-41606-4

Astronomy with Small Telescopes: Up to 5-inch, 125mm. S. F. Tonkin, ed. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $29.95 paper (157 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-629-3

The Be Phenomenon in Early-Type Stars, IAU Colloquium 175. M. A. Smith, H. F. Henrichs, J. Fabregat, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 214. Proc. mtg., Alicante, Spain, June–July 1999. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2000. $52.00 (766 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-045-5

Bioastronomy ‘99: A New Era in Bioastronomy. G. A. Lemarchand, K. J. Meech, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 213. Proc. mtg., Kohala Coast, Hawaii., Aug. 1999. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2000. $52.00 (709 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-044-7

Choosing and Using a Schmidt–Cassegrain Telescope: A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs. R. Mollise. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $39.95 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-631-5

Cosmic Evolution and Galaxy Formation: Structure, Interactions, and Feedback. The 3rd Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Conference. J. Franco, E. Terlevich, O. López-Cruz, I. Aretxaga, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 215. Proc. mtg., Puebla, Mexico, Nov. 1999. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2000. $52.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-046-3

Before the Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe. 2nd edition. E. J. Sternglass. Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 2001 [1997, reissued]. $16.00 paper (328 pp.). ISBN 1-56858-189-0

The Big Bang. 3rd edition. J. Silk. W. H. Freeman, New York, 2001 [1989]. $28.95, $19.95 paper (496 pp.). ISBN 0-7167-4246-2, ISBN 0-7167-3878-3 paper

The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory—The New Physics of Information. T. Siegfried. Wiley, New York, 2000. $27.95, $15.95 paper (281 pp.). ISBN 0-471-32174-5, ISBN 0-471-39974-4 paper

Cosmology Revealed: Living Inside the Cosmic Egg. A. Fairall. Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $29.95 (133 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-322-7

Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics. J. L. Casti. Wiley, New York, 2000. $27.95, $16.95 paper (268 pp.). ISBN 0-471-32233-4, ISBN 0-471-39528-5 paper

The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything. K. C. Cole. Harcourt, New York, 2001. $24.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 0-15-100398-X

No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz. V. Bruce. HarperCollins, New York, 2001. $26.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 0-06-019920-2

On the Cosmic Horizon: Ten Great Mysteries for Third Millennium Astronomy. J. Bennett. Addison Wesley Longman, New York, 2001. $25.00 (209 pp.). ISBN 0-321-02971-2

The Penguin Dictionary of Physics. 3rd edition. Penguin Books, New York, 2000 [1991]. $17.00 paper (504 pp.). ISBN 0-14-051459-7

The Pursuit of Destiny: A History of Prediction. P. Halpern. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. $25.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0095-6

Scientific American: The Amateur Astronomer. S. Carlson, ed. Wiley, New York, 2001. $16.95 paper (271 pp.). ISBN 0-471-38282-5

Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology. M. Gross. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. $16.00 paper (254 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0444-7

The Wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics. R. Gilmore. Copernicus Books, New York, 2001. $24.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95071-0

For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States. A. K. Mann. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2000. $27.50 (240 pp.). ISBN 0-231-11706-X

Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea: Public Ideas, Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs, and Environmental Regimes. L. Ringius. Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $60.00, $23.95 paper (261 pp.). ISBN 0-262-18202-5, ISBN 0-262-68118-8 paper

Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle. D. Albright, K. O’Neill, eds. Institute for Science and International Security Press, Washington, DC, 2000. $29.95 paper (333 pp.). ISBN 0-9669467-1-5

Origin of the Earth and Moon. R. M. Canup, K. Righter, eds. University of Arizona Space Science Series. Proc. conf., Monterey, Calif., 1998. U. of Ariz. Press, Tucson, 2000. $50.00 (555 pp.). ISBN 0-8165-2073-9

Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics: Manuscript and Notes of Felix Bloch. Prepared by J. D. Walecka. Imperial College Press, London, and World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000 [1989, reissued]. $38.00, $24.00 paper (302 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4419-3, ISBN 981-02-4420-7 paper

Introduction to Statistical Physics. S. R. A. Salinas. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $69.95 (377 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95119-9

Algebraic Methods in Physics: A Symposium for the 60th Birthdays of Jiří Patera and Pavel Winternitz. Y. Saint-Aubin, L. Vinet, eds. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Proc. symp., Montreal, Jan. 1997. $49.95 (259 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95125-3

Classical Potential Theory. D. H. Armitage, S. J. Gardiner. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $84.95 (333 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-618-8

Clifford Algebras and Their Applications in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 1: Algebra and Physics. R. Ablamowicz, B. Fauser, eds. Progress in Physics 18. Proc. conf., Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, June–July 1999. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000. $69.95 (461 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4182-3

Clifford Algebras and Their Applications in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 2: Clifford Analysis. J. Ryan, W. Sprößig, eds. Progress in Physics 19. Proc. conf., Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, June 1999. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2000. $59.95 (320 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4183-1

Foliations on Surfaces. I. Nikolaev. A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics 41. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $95.00 (450 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67524-8

Functional Analysis. G. Bachman, L. Narici. Dover, Mineola, N.Y., 2000 [1966, reissued]. $18.95 paper (532 pp.). ISBN 0-486-40251-7

Mathematical Modeling in Continuum Mechanics. R. Temam, A. Miranville. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001 [2000, reissued]. $54.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 0-521-64362-7

Mathematical Theory of Quantum Fields. H. Araki (translated from Japanese by U. Carow-Watamura). The International Series of Monographs on Physics 101. Oxford U. Press, New York, 1999 [1993, reissued]. $100.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 0-19-851773-4

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

Plane Networks and Their Applications. K. Borre. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $49.95 (170 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4193-9

Quantum Evolution: An Introduction to Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics. J. E. Bayfield. Wiley, New York, 1999. $99.95 (386 pp.). ISBN 0-471-18174-9

Wave Motion. J. Billingham, A. C. King. Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2000. $110.00, $37.95 paper (468 pp.). ISBN 0-521-63257-9, ISBN 0-521-63450-4 paper

Wavelets: Calderón–Zygmund and Multilinear Operators. Y. Meyer, R. Coifman (translated from French by D. Salinger). Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 48. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 1997. $69.95, $39.95 paper (314 pp.). ISBN 0-521-42001-6, ISBN 0-521-79473-0 paper

Academic Excellence: The Role of Research in the Physical Sciences at Undergraduate Institutions. M. P. Doyle, ed. Research Corporation, Tucson, Ariz., 2000. $3.00 paper (199 pp.). ISBN 0-9633504-5-5

Differential Equations with Maple: An Interactive Approach. J. H. Davis. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $59.95 (409 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4181-5, CD-ROM

Earth’s Dynamic Systems. 9th edition. W. K. Hamblin, E. H. Christiansen. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2001 [1998]. $74.67 paper (735 pp.). ISBN 0-13-070-1467, CD-ROM

Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers with Instructor’s Manual. E. G. Seebauer, R. L. Barry. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001. $35.00 set, paper (445 pp. set). ISBN 0-19-513488-5; ISBN 0-19-514419-8 manual

Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. D. Greenspan. Dover Books on Mathematics. Dover, Mineola, N.Y., 2000 [1961, reissued]. $8.95 paper (195 pp.). ISBN 0-486-41450-7

Modern Physics: An Introductory Text. J. I. Pfeffer, S. Nir. Imperial College Press, London, 2000. $78.00, $38.00 paper (544 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-242-3, ISBN 1-86094-250-4 paper

Optics Demonstrations with the Overhead Projector. D. S. Goodman. OSA, Washington, DC, and SPIE, Bellingham, Wash., 2000. $25.00 paper (55 pp.). ISBN 1-55752-650-8

Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction. 4th edition. W. Greiner. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001 [1994]. $59.95 paper (485 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67458-6

Snow Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Snow-Covered Ecosystems. H. G. Jones, J. W. Pomeroy, D. A. Walker, R. W. Hoham, eds. Proc. mtg., Quebec City, Canada, 1993. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $80.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 0-521-58483-3

Statistical Thermodynamics and Properties of Matter. L. Couture, R. Zitoun (translated from French by E. Geissler). Gordon and Breach Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2000. $110.00 paper (604 pp.). ISBN 90-5699-196-5

The Physics of Consciousness: Quantum Minds and the Meaning of Life.

E. H. Walker. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. $17.00 paper (368 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0436-6

Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists.

Revised edition. P. S. Fiske. AGU, Washington, D.C., 2001 [1996]. $19.95 paper (179 pp.). ISBN 0-87590-295-2

Scientific Laws, Principles, and Theories: A Reference Guide. R. E. Krebs. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2001. $65.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 0-313-30957-4

Structure in Science and Art. W. Pullan, H. Bhadeshia, eds. Darwin College Lectures. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2000. $34.95 (203 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78258-9