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The MEMS Handbook. M. Gad-el-Hak, ed. The Mechanical Engineering Handbook Series. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 2002. $149.95 (1368 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-0077-0

Phonons in Nanostructures. M. A. Stroscio, M. Dutta. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $100.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 0-521-79279-7

Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics. M. D. Archer, R. Hill, eds. Series on Photo-conversion of Solar Energy 1. Imperial College Press, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $161.00 (844 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-161-3

Foundations of Hadronic Chemistry: With Applications to New Clean Energies and Fuels. R. M. Santilli. Fundamental Theories of Physics 120. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $138.00 (397 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0087-1

Radiation: At Home, Outdoors and in the Workplace. D. Brune, R. Hellborg, B. R. R. Persson, R. Pääkkönen, eds. Scandinavian Science, Oslo, Norway, 2001. $95.00 (547 pp.). ISBN 82-91833-02-8

Absorbing Boundaries and Layers, Domain Decomposition Methods: Applications to Large scale Computers. L. Tourrette, L. Halpern, eds. Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y., 2001. $79.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 1-56072-940-6

Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000. N. Satofuka, ed. Proc. conf., Kyoto, Japan, July 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $159.00 (810 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41459-2

Fluid Mechanics. 2nd edition. P. K. Kundu, I. M. Cohen. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2002 [1990]. $69.95 (730 pp.). ISBN 0-12-178251-4

Operator Approach to Linear Problems of Hydrodynamics. Vol. 1: Self-Adjoint Problems for an Ideal Fluid. N. D. Kopachevsky, S. G. Krein. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications 128. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2001. $179.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-5406-2

Quantized Vortex Dynamics and Superfluid Turbulence. C. F. Barenghi, R. J. Donnelly, W. F. Vinen, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 571. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $86.00 (455 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42226-9

Rarefied Gas Dynamics. T. J. Bartel, M. A. Gallis, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 585. Proc. symp., Sydney, Australia, July 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $295.00 (979 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0025-3, CD-ROM

Stochastic Methods for Flow in Porous Media: Coping with Uncertainties. D. Zhang. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2002. $79.95 (350 pp.). ISBN 0-12-779621-5

Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization. I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, A. Rinaldo. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001 [1997, reissued]. $49.95 paper (547 pp.). ISBN 0-521-00405-5

Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere. A. B. Watts. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $110.00, $44.95 paper (458 pp.). ISBN 0-521-62272-7, ISBN 0-521-00600-7 paper

Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets. G. Schubert, D. L. Turcotte, P. Olson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $200.00, $74.95 paper (940 pp.). ISBN 0-521-35367-X, ISBN 0-521-79836-1 paper

Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History. K. C. Condie. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $110.00, $39.95 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80604-6, ISBN 0-521-01472-7 paper

The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future. D. Seidov, B. J. Haupt, M. Maslin, eds. Geophysical Monograph 126. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2001. $60.00 (293 pp.). ISBN 0-87590-985-X

Physical Principles of Remote Sensing. 2nd edition. W. G. Rees. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001 [1990]. $110.00, $39.95 paper (343 pp.). ISBN 0-521-66034-3, ISBN 0-521-66948-0 paper

Rock Magnetism: Fundamentals and Frontiers. D. J. Dunlop, Ö. Özedmir. Cambridge Series in Magnetism 3. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001 [1997, reissued]. $49.95 paper (573 pp.). ISBN 0-521-00098-X

The Seismic Wavefield. Vol. 1: Introduction and Theoretical Development. B. L. N. Kennett. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $100.00, $35.95 paper (370 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80945-2, ISBN 0-521-00663-5 paper

Stable Isotope Geochemistry. J. W. Valley, D. R. Cole, eds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 43. Proc. course, Boston, Mass., Nov. 2001. Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, DC, and the Geochemical Society, St. Louis, Mo., 2001. $32.00 paper (662 pp.). ISBN 0-939950-55-3

Stochastic Climate Models. P. Imkeller, J.-S. von Storch, eds. Progress in Probability 49. Proc. wksp., Chorin, Germany, May–June 1999. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2001. $109.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-6520-X

150 Years of Quantum Many-Body Theory. R. F. Bishop, K. A. Gernoth, N. R. Walet, eds. Series on Advances in Quantum Many-Body Theory 5. Proc. wksp., Manchester, England, July 2000. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $98.00 (345 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4730-3

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash. S. Nasar. Touchstone, New York, 1998. $16.00 paper (461 pp.). ISBN 0-7432-2457-4

The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking. D. R. Danielson, ed. Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. $20.00 paper (556 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0498-6

A Century of Physics. D. A. Bromley. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $59.95 (114 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95247-0

The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Part B: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Vol. 7: Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. J. Mehra, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $129.00 (535 pp.). ISBN 3-540-57294-5

Earth–Moon Relationships. C. Barbieri, F. Rampazzi, eds. Proc. conf., Padova, Italy, Nov. 2000. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $199.00 (575 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7089-9, CD-ROM

Einstein and Soviet Ideology. A. Vucinich. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford U. Press, Stanford, Calif., 2001. $60.00 (291 pp.). ISBN 0-8047-4209-X

Einstein from B to Z. J. Stachel. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2002. $69.95 (556 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4143-2

The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics. Vols. 1 and 2. J. Mehra. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $90.00 set (1408 pp. set). ISBN 981-02-4342-1

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking. W. H. Cropper. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001. $35.00 (500 pp.). ISBN 0-19-513748-5

The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. W. E. Lamb Jr; J. Mehra, ed. Rinton Press, Princeton, N.J., 2001. $88.00 (486 pp.). ISBN 1-58949-005-3

Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623–1633. D. Sobel (in English and original languages). Walker, New York, 2001. $40.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-1387-4

Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics. E. Teller. Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 2001. $35.00 (628 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0532-X

Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light. R. Baierlein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001 [1996, reissued]. $29.95 paper (329 pp.). ISBN 0-521-42323-6

Newton’s Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed. D. H. Clark, S. P. H. Clark. Freeman, New York, 2001. $14.00 paper (188 pp.). ISBN 0-7167-4701-4

Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space. H. Genz (translated from German by Karin Heusch). Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. $20.00 paper (340 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0610-5

Portraits of Great American Scientists. L. M. Lederman, J. Scheppler, eds. Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y., 2001. $28.00 (305 pp.). ISBN 1-57392-932-8

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About. D. E. Knuth. CSLI Lecture Notes 136. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif., 2001. $35.00 (257 pp.). ISBN 1-57586-327-8

Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics. D. E. Osterbrock. Princeton U. Press., Princeton, N.J., 2001. $29.95 (270 pp.). ISBN 0-691-04936-X

Advanced Monte Carlo for Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation and Applications. A. Kling, F. Barão, M. Nakagawa, L. Távora, P. Vaz, eds. Proc. conf., Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $219.00 (1192 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41795-8, CD-ROM

Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology. A. Richards. SPIE Press, Bellingham, Wash., 2001. $56.00 paper (160 pp.). ISBN 0-8194-4142-2

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy: Basic Aspects and Practical Applications. 3rd, revised and enlarged edition. S. Svanberg. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 6. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001 [1992]. $99.00 (586 pp.). ISBN 3-540-67432-2

Deterministic Observation Theory and Applications. J.-P. Gauthier, I. Kupka. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $69.95 (226 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80593-7

Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. R. Brydson. Bios, Oxford, UK, 2001. $49.95 paper (137 pp.). ISBN 1-85996-134-7

Information and Measurement. 2nd edition. J. C. G. Lesurf. IOP, Philadelphia, 2002 [1995]. $50.00 paper (295 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0823-0

Inverse Problems and Inverse Scattering of Plane Waves. D. N. Ghosh Roy, L. S. Couchman. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2002. $75.00 (336 pp.). ISBN 0-12-281865-2

The Measurement of Time: Time, Frequency and the Atomic Clock. C. Audoin, B. Guinot (translated from French by S. Lyle). Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $110.00, $39.95 paper (335 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80080-3, ISBN 0-521-00397-0 paper

Nonlinear Physics with Mathmatica for Scientists and Engineers. R. H. Enns, G. C. McGuire. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $79.95 (691 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4223-4, CD-ROM

Non-Smooth Thermomechanics. M. Frémond. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $89.95 (480 pp.). ISBN 3-540-66500-5

Physics of, and Science with, the X-Ray Free-Electron Laser. S. Chattopadhyay, M. Cornacchia, I. Lindau, C. Pellegrini, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 581. Proc. wksp., Arcidosso, Italy, Sept. 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $140.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0022-9

Schlieren and Shadowgraph Techniques: Visualizing Phenomena in Transparent Media. G. S. Settles. Experimental Fluid Mechanics . Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $89.95 (376 pp.). ISBN 3-540-66155-7

Statistical Physics of Spin Glasses and Information Processing: An Introduction. H. Nishimori. International Series of Monographs on Physics 111. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2001. $85.00, $45.00 paper (243 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850940-5, ISBN 0-19-850941-3 paper

Alkali Halides: A Handbook of Physical Properties. D. B. Sirdeshmukh, L. Sirdeshmukh, K. G. Subhadra. Springer Series in Materials Science 49. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $79.95 (284 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42180-7

Handbook of Materials Behavior Models. Vol. 1: Deformations of Materials, Vol. 2: Failures of Materials, Vol. 3: Multiphysics Behaviors. J. Lemaitre, ed. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2001. $795.00 set (1200 pp. set). ISBN 0-12-443341-3

Impact: The Theory and Physical Behaviour of Colliding Solids. W. Goldsmith. Dover, Mineola, N.Y., 2001 [1960, reissued]. $19.95 paper (379 pp.). ISBN 0-486-42004-3

Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation. E. Beaurepaire, F. Scheurer, G. Krill, J.-P. Kappler, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 565. Proc. sch., Alsace, France, Apr. 2000, Apr. 1996, Mar. 1989. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $74.00 (388 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42047-9

Permanent Magnet and Electromechanical Devices: Materials, Analysis, and Applications. E. P. Furlani. Academic Press Series in Electromagnetism. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2001. $149.95 (518 pp.). ISBN 0-12-269951-3

Nonequilibrium and Nonlinear Dynamics in Nuclear and Other Finite Systems. Z. Li, K. Wu, X. Wu, E. Zhao, F. Sakata, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 597. Proc. conf., Beijing, China, May 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $160.00 (445 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0041-5

Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics. D. Budker, P. H. Bucksbaum, S. J. Freedman, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 596. Proc. symp., Berkeley, Calif., May 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $145.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0040-7

Hadrons and Nuclei. I.-T. Cheon, T. Choi, S.-W. Hong, S. H. Lee, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 594. Proc. symp., Seoul, Korea, Feb. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $165.00 (421 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0037-7

Conjugated Polymer and Molecular Interfaces: Science and Technology for Photonic and Optoelectronic Applications. W. R. Salaneck, K. Seki, A. Kahn, J.-J. Pireaux, eds. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2002. $225.00 (866 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-0588-2

Electromagnetic Scintillation, Vol. 1: Geometrical Optics. A. D. Wheelon. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $110.00 (455 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80198-2

Introduction to Information Optics. F. T. S. Yu, S. Jutamulia, S. Yin, eds. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2001. $99.95 (734 pp.). ISBN 0-12-774811-3

Spatial Solitons. S. Trillo, W. Torruellas, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 82. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $109.00 (454 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41653-6

B Physics and CP Violation. T. Ohshima, A. I. Sanda, eds. Proc. Wksp., Ise-Shima, Japan, Feb. 2001. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $145.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4661-7

Flavor Physics for the Millennium: TASI 2000. J. L. Rosner, ed. Proc. Inst., Boulder, Colo., June 2000. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $198.00 (871 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4562-9

High Quality Beams. S. I. Kurokawa, S. Y. Lee, J. Miles, E. A. Perevedentsev, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 592. Proc. sch., St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, July 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $235.00 (633 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0034-2

New Directions in Antimatter Chemistry and Physics. C. M. Surko, F. A. Gianturco, ed. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $144.00 (511 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7152-6

Physics with an Electron Polarized Light-Ion Collider. R. G. Milner, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 588. Proc. wksp., Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 2000. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $155.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0028-8

Supersymmetry: Structure and Phenomena. Extensions of the Standard Model. N. Polonsky. Lecture Notes in Physics: Monographs 68. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $39.00 (169 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42442-3

Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas. T. K. Mau, J. deGrassie, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 595. Proc. conf., Oxnard, Calif., May 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2001. $175.00 (544 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0038-5

The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century. G. Piel. Basic Books, New York, 2001. $40.00 (460 pp.). ISBN 0-465-05755-1

Cosmic Discoveries: The Wonders of Astronomy. D. H. Levy with W. Wallach-Levy. Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y., 2001. $28.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 1-57392-931-X

Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game. J. Albert, J. Bennett. Copernicus Books, New York, 2001. $29.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 0-387-98816-5

Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession. M. Hart. Walker, New York, 2001. $26.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-1368-8

Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond the Solar System. B. Dorminey. Copernicus Books, New York, 2002. $29.95 (226 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95074-5

Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon that Changed the Course of History. D. Steel. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2001. $24.95 (474 pp.). ISBN 0-309-07438-X

The Grip of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Laws of Motion and Gravitation. P. Gondhalekar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $27.95 (358 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80316-0

A History of Great Inventions. J. Dyson. R. Uhlig, ed. Carroll & Graf, New York, 2001. $32.00 (188 pp.). ISBN 0-7867-0903-0

Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time. M. Gorst. Broadway Books, New York, 2001. $23.95 (338 pp.). ISBN 0-7679-0827-9

Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the World. J. L. Powell. Free Press, New York, 2001. $25.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 0-684-87282-X

Universal Foam: Exploring the Science of Nature’s Most Mysterious Substance. S. Perkowitz. Anchor Books, New York, 2001 [2000, reissued]. $12.00 paper (194 pp.). ISBN 0-385-72070-X

Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects. N. A. Downie. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, N.J., 2001. $39.50, $18.95 paper (253 pp.). ISBN 0-691-00985-6, ISBN 0-691-00986-4 paper

Weather: How It Works and Why It Matters. A. Upgren, J. Stock. Perseus, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. $18.00 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0521-4

Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen. E. Croddy with C. Perez-Armendariz and J. Hart. Copernicus Books, New York, 2002. $27.50 (306 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95076-1

Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. M. C. Roco, W. S. Bainbridge, eds. Proc. wksp., Arlington, Va., Sept. 2000. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $93.00 (370 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7178-X

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun. K. R. Lang. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $49.95 (256 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78093-4

Caught by Disorder: Bound States in Random Media. P. Stollmann. Progress in Mathematical Physics 20. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $49.95 (166 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4210-2

Dimensionality Reducing Expansion of Multivariate Integration. T.-H. He. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2001. $59.95 (225 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4170-X

Finite Element Solution of Boundary Value Problems: Theory and Computation. O. Axelsson, V. A. Barker. Classics in Applied Mathematics 35. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2001. $50.00 paper (432 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-499-0

Harmonic Superspace. A. Galperin, E. A. Ivanov, V. I. Ogievetsky, E. S. Sokatchev. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics . Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $90.00 (306 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80164-8

Introduction to Numerical Analysis. A. Neumaier. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2001. $95.00, $34.95 paper (356 pp.). ISBN 0-521-33323-7, ISBN 0-521-33610-4 paper

Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information. H.-K. Lo, S. Popescu, T. Spiller, eds. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000 [1999, reissued]. $62.00, $38.00 paper (348 pp.). ISBN 98102-3399-X, ISBN 981-02-4410-X paper

Lectures on Modern Convex Optimization: Analysis, Algorithms, and Engineering Applications. A. Ben-Tal, A. Nemirovski. MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization . Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Programming Society, Philadelphia, 2001. $99.00 paper (488 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-491-5

A Mathematical View of Interior-Point Methods in Convex Optimization. J. Renegar. MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization . Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Programming Society, Philadelphia, 2001.