New Books

Nonlinear science and chaos

Dynamics of Coupled Map Lattices and of Related Spatially Extended Systems. J.-R. Chazottes, B. Fernandez. Lecture Notes in Physics 671. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $99.95 (361 pp.). ISBN 3-540-24289-9

Neural Networks: Methodology and Applications. G. Dreyfus. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $129.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22980-9

Theory of Neural Information Processing Systems. A. C. C. Coolen, R. Kühn, P. Sollich. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $154.50, $64.50 paper (569 pp.). ISBN 0-19-853023-4, ISBN 0-19-853024-2 paper

Nuclear physics

Nuclear Fission and Cluster Radioactivity: An Energy-Density Functional Approach. M. A. Hooshyar, I. Reichstein, F. B. Malik. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $89.95 (195 pp.). ISBN 3-540-23302-4

Topical Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques. B. Cleveland, R. Ford, M. Chen, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 785. Proc. wksp., Sudbury, Canada, Dec. 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2005. $146.00 (285 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0274-4

Optics and photonics

Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine. U. Wittrock, ed. Springer Proceedings in Physics 102. Proc. wksp., M¨nster, Germany, Oct. 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $169.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 3-540-23978-2

Advanced Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Techniques. W. Becker. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 81. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $179.00 (401 pp.). ISBN 3-540-26047-1

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. Vol. 50. B. Bederson, H. Walther, eds. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2005. $132.00 (312 pp.). ISBN 0-12-003850-1

Handbook of Optical Interconnects. S. Kawai, ed. Optical Engineering 100. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2005. $139.95 (466 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-2441-0

High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy. H. U. Käufl, R. Siebenmorgen, A. Moorwood, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. wksp., Garching, Germany, Nov. 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $79.95 (559 pp.). ISBN 3-540-25256-8

Optoelectronics of Molecules and Polymers. A. Moliton. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 104. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $159.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 0-387-23710-0

Passive Micro-Optical Alignment Methods. R. A. Boudreau, S. M. Boudreau. Optical Engineering 98. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2005. $139.95 (400 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-0706-0

Physics of Optoelectronics. M. A. Parker. Optical Engineering 104. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2005. $129.95 (742 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-5385-2, CD-ROM

The Physics of Thin Film Optical Spectra: An Introduction. O. Stenzel. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 44. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $159.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 3-540-23147-1