Astronomy and astrophysics
Essays on the Motion of Celestial Bodies. V. V. Beletsky (translated from Russian by A. Iacob). Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2001. $169.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-5866-1
Gamma 2001. S. Ritz, N. Gehrels, C. R. Shrader, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 587. Proc symp., Baltimore, Md., Apr. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $250.00 (968 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0027-X
Mining the Sky. A. J. Banday, S. Zaroubi, M. Bartelmann, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. wksp., Garching, Germany, July–Aug. 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $54.95 (705 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42468-7
The Nature of Unidentified Galactic High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources. A. Carramiñana, O. Reimer, D. J. Thompson, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 267. Proc. wksp., Tonantzintla, Mexico, Oct. 2000. Kluwer Academic, Nor-well, Mass., 2001. $119.00 (355 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0010-3
The New Cosmos: An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics. 5th edition. A. Unsöld, B. Baschek (translated from German by W. Brewer). Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001 [1991]. $49.00 (557 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67877-8
The New Science of Astrobiology: From Genesis of the Living Cell to the Evolution of Intelligent Behaviour in the Universe. J. Chela-Flores. Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats 3. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $112.00 (251 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7125-9
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy. Vol. 2. A. Heck, ed. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 266. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $119.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7172-0
Quasars, AGNs and Related Research across 2000. G. Setti, J.-P. Swings, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. conf., Rome, Italy, May 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $34.95 (220 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42191-2
Relativistic Astrophysics. J. C. Wheeler, H. Martel, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 586. Proc. symp., Austin, Tex., Dec. 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $260.00 (938 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0026-1
The Restless Universe: Applications of Gravitational N-Body Dynamics to Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Systems. B. A. Steves, A. J. Maciejewski, eds. Scottish Graduate Textbook Series 54. Proc. sch., Blair Atholl, Scotland, July–Aug. 2000. IOP, Philadelphia, 2001. $49.99 paper (390 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0822-2
Singularity Theory and Gravitational Lensing. A. O. Petters, H. Levine, J. Wambsganss. Progress in Mathematical Physics 21. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $74.95 (603 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-3668-4
Starburst Galaxies: Near and Far. L. Tacconi, D. Lutz, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 88. Proc. wksp., Ringberg Castle, Germany, Sept. 2000. SpringerVerlag, New York, 2001. $98.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41472-X
Ultracool Dwarfs: New Spectral Types L and T. H. R. A. Jones, I. A. Steele, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $74.00 (193 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42353-2
Atomic and molecular physics
Clusters and Nanomaterials: Theory and Experiment. Y. Kawazoe, T. Kondow, K. Ohno, eds. Springer Series in Cluster Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $69.95 (345 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41805-9
The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Selecta of Elliott H. Lieb. 3rd edition. W. Thirring, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001 [1997]. $79.95 (812 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42083-5
Vibronic Interactions: Jahn-Teller Effect in Crystals and Molecules. M. D. Kaplan, G. O. Zimmerman, eds. NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 39. Proc. wksp. and symp., Boston, Mass., Aug. 2000. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $138.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0044-8
Biophysics and medical physics
The Biological Chemistry of the Elements: The Inorganic Chemistry of Life. 2nd edition. J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva, R. J. P. Williams. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001 [1991]. $140.00, $70.00 paper (575 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850847-6, ISBN 0-19-850848-4 paper
Chemical physics
Electronic Properties of Molecular Nanostructures. H. Kuzmany, J. Fink, M. Mehring, S. Roth, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 591. Proc. sch., Kirchberg, Tirol, Austria, Mar. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $195.00 (633 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0033-4
Fundamentals of Quantum Chemistry: Molecular Spectroscopy and Modern Electronic Structure Computations. M. Mueller. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2001. $69.50 (265 pp.). ISBN 0-306-46596-5
Nanonetwork Materials: Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Related Systems. S. Saito, T. Ando, Y. Iwasa, K. Kikuchi, M. Kobayashi, Y. Saito, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 590. Proc. symp., Kamakura, Japan, Jan. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $165.00 (556 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0032-6
Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry. 3rd edition. G. R. Choppin, J.-O. Liljenzin, J. Rydberg. Butterworth-Heinemann, Woburn, Mass., 2002 [1995]. $74.99 (709 pp.). ISBN 0-7506-7463-6
Computers and computational physics
Automata Theory and Its Applications. B. Khoussainov, A. Nerode. Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic 21. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $69.95 (430 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4207-2
Computational Information Retrieval. M. W. Berry, ed. SIAM Proceedings Series. Proc. conf., Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 2000. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2001. $38.00 paper (185 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-500-8
Computational Physics: An Introduction. 2nd edition. F. J. Vesely. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2001 [1993]. $60.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 0-306-46631-7
Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2001. V. G. Ganzha, E. W. Mayr, E. V. Vorozhtsov, eds. Proc. wksp., Konstanz, Germany, Sept. 2001. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $119.00 (553 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42355-9
Computing in Nonlinear Media and Automata Collectives. A. Adamatzky. IOP, Philadelphia, 2001. $120.00 (395 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0751-X
Cryptography and Computational Number Theory. K.-Y. Lam, I. Shparlinski, H. Wang, C. Xing, eds. Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic 20. Proc. wksp., Singapore, Nov. 1999. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2001. $109.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-6510-2
Financial Engineering and Computation: Principles, Mathematics, Algorithms. Y.-D. Lyuu. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $69.95 (627 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78171-X
Foundations of Logic and Mathematics: Applications to Computer Science and Cryptography. Y. Nievergelt. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2002. $59.95 (415 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4249-8
Graphical Models: Foundations of Neural Computation. M. I. Jordan, T. J. Sejnowski, eds. Computational Neuroscience. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $32.95 paper (421 pp.). ISBN 0-262-60042-0
Magic Graphs. W. D. Wallis. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $39.95 paper (146 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4252-8
Mind at Light Speed: A New Kind of Intelligence. D. D. Nolte. Free Press, New York, 2001. $26.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 0-7432-0501-4
Models of Neural Networks IV: Early Vision and Attention. J. L. van Hemmen, J. D. Cowan, E. Domany, eds. Physics of Neural Networks. SpringerVerlag, New York, 2002. $89.90 (413 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95105-9
Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective. 2nd edition. R. Ramaswami, K. N. Sivarajan. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2002 [1998]. $69.95 (831 pp.). ISBN 1-55860-655-6
Self-Organizing Map Formation: Foundations of Neural Computation. K. Obermayer, T. J. Sejnowski, eds. Computational Neuroscience. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $34.95 paper (440 pp.). ISBN 0-262-65060-6
Stream Processor Architecture. S. Rixner. Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $98.00 (120 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7545-9
Structured Matrices and Polynomials: Unified Superfast Algorithms. V. Y. Pan. Birkäuser, Boston, 2001. $54.95 (278 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4240-4
Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing. G. D. Abowd, B. Brumitt, S. Shafer, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2201. Proc. conf., Atlanta, Ga., Sept.-Oct. 2001. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $62.00 paper (372 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42614-0
Condensed matter physics
Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids. J. Singleton. Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001. $70.00, $35.00 paper (222 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850645-7, ISBN 0-19-850644-9 paper
Condensed Matter Theories. Vol. 16. S. Hernández, J. W. Clark, eds. Proc. wksp., Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 2000. Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y., 2001. $175.00 (489 pp.). ISBN 1-56072-908-2
Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics 2001. H. Krakauer, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 582. Proc. wksp., Williamsburg, Va., Feb. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $135.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0021-0
Ion-Induced Electron Emission from Crystalline Solids. H. Kudo. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 175. SpringerVerlag, New York, 2002. $99.00 (161 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42221-8
Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films. 4th, revised edition. H. Lüth. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001 [1997]. $59.95 (559 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42331-1
Symmetry Principles in Solid State and Molecular Physics. M. Lax. Dover, Mineola, N.Y., 2001 [1974, reissued]. $24.95 paper (499 pp.). ISBN 0-486-42001-9
Cosmology and relativity
Quantum Gravity in Four Dimensions. G. Esposito. Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y., 2001. $89.00 (153 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-000-5
Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological. W. Rindler. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001. $85.00, $40.00 paper (428 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850835-2, ISBN 0-19-850836-0