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Polymer Viscoelasticity: Basics, Molecular Theories and Experiments. Yn-H. Lin. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2003. $70.00, $38.00 paper (251 pp.). ISBN 981-238-394-8, ISBN 981-238-417-0 paper

Polymers and Light. T. Lippert. Advances in Polymer Science 168. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $299.00 (360 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40471-6

Rubber and Rubber Balloons: Paradigms of Thermodynamics. I. Müller, P. Strehlow. Lecture Notes in Physics 637. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $59.95 (123 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20244-7

Thermoelectric Materials 2003–Research and Applications. G. S. Nolas, J. Yang, T. P. Hogan, D. C. Johnson, eds. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 793. Proc. symp., Boston, MA, Dec. 2003. MRS, Warrendale, PA, 2004. $91.00 (466 pp.). ISBN 1-55899-731-8

Thin Films—Stresses and Mechanical Properties X. S. G. Corcoran, Y.-C. Joo, N. R. Moody, Z. Suo, eds. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 795. Proc. symp., Boston, MA, Dec. 2003. MRS, Warrendale, PA, 2004. $101.00 (583 pp.). ISBN 1-55899-733-4

Wafer Bonding: Applications and Technology. M. Alexe, U. Gösele, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 75. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $179.00 (499 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21049-0

Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image. F. Frankel. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004 [2002, reissued]. $35.00 paper (328 pp.). ISBN 0-262-56205-7

Horizons in World Physics. A. Reimer, ed. Horizons in World Physics 244. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2004. $98.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-927-4

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. R. Siegwart, I. R. Nourbakhsh. Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $50.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 0-262-19502-X

Geometric Sturmian Theory of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations and Applications. V. A. Galaktionov. Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Science Series 3. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. $80.96 (360 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-462-2

Handbook of Stochastic Methods: For Physics, Chemistry and the Natural Sciences. 3rd ed. C. W. Gardiner. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [1997]. $99.00 paper (415 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20882-8

Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Physical Processes and Fields. M. Z. Zgurovsky, V. S. Mel’nik. Data and Knowledge in a Changing World. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $179.00 (508 pp.). ISBN 3-540-14019-0

Space Physics: An Introduction to Plasmas and Particles in the Helio-sphere and Magnetospheres. 3rd ed. M.-B. Kallenrode. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [2001]. $99.00 (482 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20617-5

Albert Einstein’s Vision: Remarkable Discoveries that Shaped Modern Science. B. Parker. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2004. $28.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 1-59102-186-3

Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe. C. Seife. Penguin Books, New York, 2004 [2003, reissued]. $14.00 paper (294 pp.). ISBN 0-14-200446-4

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming. M. Tennesen. Alpha, New York, 2004. $18.95 paper (328 pp.). ISBN 1-59257-071-2

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Einstein. 2nd ed. G. F. Moring. Alpha, New York, 2004 [2000]. $18.95 paper (404 pp.). ISBN 1-59257-185-9

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. P. Ball. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2004. $27.00 (520 pp.). ISBN 0-374-28125-4

The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything. P. Halpern. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $27.95 (326 pp.). ISBN 0-471-46595-X

Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing. N. Forbes. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $25.95 (171 pp.). ISBN 0-262-06241-0

The Mathematical Century: The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years. P. Odifreddi (translated from Italian by A. Sangalli). Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $27.95 (204 pp.). ISBN 0-691-09294-X

Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics. S. Webb. Copernicus Books, New York, 2004. $27.50 (308 pp.). ISBN 0-387-02930-3

Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking. D. W. Braben. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $39.95 paper (198 pp.). ISBN 0-471-48852-6

Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr’s Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped. J. Ottaviani, L. Purvis. G. T. Labs, Ann Arbor, MI, 2004. $24.95 paper (318 pp.). ISBN 0-9660106-5-5

At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War. T. C. Reed. Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, New York, 2004. $25.95 (368 pp.). ISBN 0-89141-821-0

Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance. S. Jasanoff, M. L. Martello, eds. Politics, Science, and the Environment. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $67.00, $27.00 paper (356 pp.). ISBN 0-262-10103-3, ISBN 0-262-60059-5 paper

Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court’s 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law. D. L. Faigman. Times Books, New York, 2004. $27.50 (417 pp.). ISBN 0-8050-7274-8

Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. P. Podvig, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004 [2001, reissued]. $35.00 paper (692 pp.). ISBN 0-262-66181-0

Annual Review of Earth and Planeary Sciences. Vol. 32. R. Jeanloz, A. L. Albee, K. C. Burke, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. $84.00 (682 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-2032-8

The Story of the Space Shuttle. D. M. Harland. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $29.95 paper (444 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-793-1

Advances in Finite Time Thermodynamics: Analysis and Optimization. L. Chen, F. Sun, eds. Nova Science, Haupauge, NY, 2004. $87.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-914-2

Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics. M. Le Bellac, F. Mortessagne, G. G. Batrouni. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. 75.00 (616 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82143-6

Nonextensive Entropy—Interdisciplinary Applications. M. Gell-Mann, C. Tsallis, eds. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2004. $69.50, $39.95 paper (422 pp.). ISBN 0-19-515976-4, ISBN 0-19-515977-2 paper

A Primer of Ecological Statistics. N. J. Gotelli, A. M. Ellison. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. $34.95 paper (510 pp.). ISBN 0-87893-269-0

Statistical Physics of Polymers: An Introduction. T. Kawakatsu. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $79.95 (216 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43440-2

Engineering Electromagnetics. 2nd ed. N. Ida. Springer-Verlag, New York, 004 [2000]. $139.00 (1235 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20156-4

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. S. A. Huettel, A. W. Song, G. McCarthy. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. $79.95 (492 pp.). ISBN 0-87893-288-7, CD-ROM

Fundamentals of Enzyme Kinetics. 3rd ed. A. Cornish-Bowden. Portland Press, London, 2004 [1979]. $44.25 paper (422 pp.). ISBN 1-85578-158-1

Fundamentals of Plasma Physics. 3rd ed. J. A. Bittencourt. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [1986]. $79.95 (678 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20975-1

An Introduction to Materials Science. W. González-Viñas, H. L. Mancini. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $60.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 0-691-07097-0

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: In Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology. S. M. Blinder. Complementary Science Series. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, 2004. $47.95 paper (319 pp.). ISBN 0-12-10651-9

Special Relativity: From Einstein to Strings. P. M. Schwarz, J. H. Schwarz. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $50.00 (376 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81260-7, CD-ROM

Superconductivity: Physics and Applications. K. Fossheim, A. Sudbø. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. $89.95 (427 pp.). ISBN 0-470-84452-3

Approximating Perfection: A Mathematician’s Journey into the World of Mechanics. L. P. Lebedev, M. J. Cloud. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $29.95 (225 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11726-8

Aspects of Ergodic, Qualitative and Statistical Theory of Motion. G. Gallavotti, F. Bonetto, G. Gentile. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $79.95 (435 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40879-7

Bayesian Nonparametrics via Neural Networks. H. K. H. Lee. ASA–SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability. SIAM, Philadelphia, and American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, 2004. $42.50 paper (96 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-563-6

The Cauchy–Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities. J. M. Steele. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $80.00, $29.00 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83775-8, ISBN 0-521-54677-X paper

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

Computational Materials Science: From Basic Principles to Material Properties. W. Hergert, A. Ernst, M. Däne, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 642. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $99.95 (320 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21051-2

Elements of the Random Walk: An Introduction for Advanced Students and Researchers. J. Rudnick, G. Gaspari. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $65.00 (329 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82891-0

Focus on Mathematical Physics Research. C. V. Benton, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY 2004. $87.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-923-1

The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction. 2nd ed. T. Frankel. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [1997]. $120.00, $45.00 paper (694 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83330-2, ISBN 0-521-53927-7 paper

Graphs and Networks: Transfinite and Nonstandard. A. H. Zemanian. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2004. $84.95 paper (202 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4292-7

Handbook of Mathematics. 4th ed. I. N. Bronshtein, K. A. Semendyayev, G. Musiol, H. Muehlig. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004 [2000]. $59.95 paper (1153 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43491-7

Knot Theory. V. Manturov. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. $79.95 (400 pp.). ISBN 1-415-31001-6

Mathematical Physics Research at the Cutting Edge. C. V. Benton, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2004. $130.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-939-8

Mathematical Physics Research on the Leading Edge. C. V. Benton, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2004. $90.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-905-3

New Developments in Mathematical Physics Research. C. V. Benton, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2004. $87.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 1-59033-922-3

Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets. 3rd ed. H. Kleinert. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004 [1995]. $138.00, $38.00 paper (1468 pp.). ISBN 981-238-106-6, ISBN 981-238-107-4 paper

Quantum Integrable Systems. A. R. Chowdhury, A. G. Choudhury. Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics 435. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. $99.95 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-380-4

Radon Transforms and the Rigidity of the Grassmannians. J. Gasqui, H. Goldschmidt. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. $75.00, $45.00 paper (366 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11898-1, ISBN 0-691-11899-X paper

Selected Works, V. A. Fock: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. L. D. Faddeev, L. A. Khalfin, I. V. Komarov, eds. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. $99.95 (567 pp.). ISBN 0-415-30002-9

The Sharpest Cut: The Impact of Manfred Padberg and His Work. M. Grötschel, ed. MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization. SIAM, Philadelphia, and Mathematical Programming Society, Philadelphia, 2004. $99.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-552-0

The Structure of Spherical Buildings. R. M. Weiss. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003. $45.00 (135 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11733-0

Transfer Matrix, Green Function and Related Techniques: Tools for the Study of Multilayer Heterostructures. R. Pérez-Álvarez, F. García-Moliner. Ciències Experimentals 5. Universitat, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, 2004. paper (285 pp.). ISBN 84-8021-474-4

Wavelets in Physics. J. C. van den Berg, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004 [1999, reissued]. $70.00 paper (453 pp.). ISBN 0-521-53353-8