New books

Cosmology and relativity

Phi in the Sky: The Quest for Cosmological Scalar Fields . C. J. A. P. Martins et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 736. Proc. wksp., Porto, Portugal, July 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $127.00 (204 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0218-3

Device physics

Modern Microwave Circuits . N. Kinayman, M. I. Aksun. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2005. $131.00 (604 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-725-1, CD-ROM

Optoelectronic Devices: Advanced Simulation and Analysis. J. Piprek, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $249.00 (452 pp.). ISBN 0-387-22659-1

Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity. A. Gopinath, T. J. Coutts, J. Luther, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 738. Proc. conf., Freiburg, Germany, June 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $168.00 (491 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0222-1

Energy and environment

Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 29. P. A. Matson, A. Gadgil, D. M. Kammen, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. $89.00 (509 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-2329-7

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. P. W. Huber, M. P. Mills. Basic Books, New York, 2005. $26.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 0-465-03116-1

Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health. O. Selinus et al., eds. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2005. $99.95 (812 pp.). ISBN 0-12-636341-2

The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy. S. B. Krivit, N. Winocur. Pacific Oaks Press, Los Angeles, 2004. $25.95 paper (298 pp.). ISBN 0-9760545-8-2

Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century. S. H. Schneider, J. R. Miller, E. Crist, P. J. Boston, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $50.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 0-262-19498-8

Fluids

Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics . Vol. 3. S. Friedlander, D. Serre, eds. Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2004. $175.00 (674 pp.). ISBN 0-444-51556-9

Geophysics

The Interaction of Ocean Waves and Wind. P. Janssen. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $120.00 (300 pp.). ISBN 0-521-46540-0

Multiscale Processes in the Earth’s Magnetosphere: From Interball to Cluster. J.-A. Sauvaud, Z. Němeček, eds. NATO Science Series 2: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 178. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2004. $179.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-2766-4, CD-ROM

History and philosophy

Annus Mirabilis: 1905, Albert Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity . J. Gribbin, M. Gribbin. Chamberlain Bros., New York, 2005. $25.95 (310 pp.). ISBN 1-59609-144-4, DVD

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. O. Gingerich. Penguin Books, New York, 2005 [2004, reissued]. $15.00 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 0-14-30-3476-6

The Born–Einstein Letters, 1916–1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times. M. Born. Macmillan, New York, 2005 [1971, reissued]. $26.95 (235 pp.). ISBN 1-4039-4496-2

The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue. W. Dunham. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. $29.95 (236 pp.). ISBN 0-691-09565-5

Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness. J. S. Rigden. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. $21.95 (173 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01544-4

The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution. N. T. Greenspan. Basic Books, New York, 2005. $26.95 (374 pp.). ISBN 0-7382-0693-8

Establishing Research Corporation: A Case Study of Patents, Philanthropy, and Organized Research in Early Twentieth-Century America. T. D. Cornell, J. E. Turner, ed. Research Corp, Tucson, AZ, 2004. Available through university libraries in North America (328 pp.). ISBN 0-9633504-7-1

The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom. B. Cathcart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005. $25.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 0-374-15716-2

Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics. M. Dardo. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $110.00, $39.99 paper (533 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83247-0, ISBN 0-521-54008-9 paper

On the Shoulders of Giants: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences. G. Galilei, S. Hawking, ed. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2005 [2002, reissued]. $12.95 paper (230 pp.). ISBN 0-7624-2015-4

On the Shoulders of Giants: Harmonies of the World, Book Five. J. Kepler, S. Hawking, ed. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2005 [2002, reissued]. $9.95 paper (92 pp.). ISBN 0-7624-2018-9

On the Shoulders of Giants: On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. N. Copernicus, S. Hawking, ed. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2005 [2002, reissued]. $14.95 paper (384 pp.). ISBN 0-7624-2021-9

On the Shoulders of Giants: Principia. I. Newton, S. Hawking, ed. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2005 [2002, reissued]. $14.95 paper (432 pp.). ISBN 0-7624-2022-7

On the Shoulders of Giants: Selections from The Principle of Relativity . A. Einstein, S. Hawking, ed. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2005 [2002, reissued]. $9.95 paper (100 pp.). ISBN 0-7624-2023-5

A Physicist’s Labour in War and Peace: Memoirs 1933–1999. E. W. Kellermann. Stamford House, Peterborough, UK, 2004. $18.00 paper (242 pp.). ISBN 1-904985-09-2

Sneaking a Look at God’s Cards: Unraveling the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics . Rev. ed. G. Ghirardi (translated from Italian by G. Malsbary). Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005 [2004]. $35.00 (488 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12139-7

When Physics Became King. I. R. Morus. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. $60.00, $25.00 paper (303 pp.). ISBN 0-226-54201-7, 0-226-54202-5 paper

The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography. A. Taylor. Walker, New York, 2004. $26.00 (291 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-1377-7

Instrumentation and techniques

Beam Instrumentation Workshop 2004. T. Shea, R. C. Sibley III, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 732. Proc. wksp., Knoxville, TN, May 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $150.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0214-0, CD-ROM

Ewing’s Analytical Instrumentation Handbook . 3rd ed. J. Cazes, ed. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2005. $249.95 (1037 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-5348-8

Materials science

Handbook of Polymer Synthesis. 2nd ed. H. R. Kricheldorf, O. Nuyken, G. Swift. Plastics Engineering 70. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2005 [1992]. $269.95 (965 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-5473-5

Nanophysics and Nanotechnology: An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience. E. L. Wolf. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2004. $84.95 paper (174 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40407-4

Polymer Synthesis. Y. Furusho et al. Advances in Polymer Science 171. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $199.00 (213 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21711-8

Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice—Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments. 4th ed. D. Braun et al. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005 [2001]. $89.95 (385 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20770-8

Soft Materials: Structure and Dynamics . J. R. Dutcher, A. G. Marangoni, eds. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2005. $175.00 (409 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-5358-5

Stress-Induced Phenomena in Metallization . P. S. Ho, S. P. Baker, T. Nakamura, C. A. Volkert, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 741. Proc. wksp., Austin, TX, June 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $136.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0225-6

Transport Processes in Ion-Irradiated Polymers . D. Fink, ed. Springer Series in Materials Science 65. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $139.00 (335 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20943-3

Miscellaneous

Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Artificial Life. J. Pollack et al., eds. Proc. conf., Boston, Sept. 2004. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. $80.00 paper (589 pp.). ISBN 0-262-66183-7

Exploring Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy . D. H. Kelley, E. F. Milone. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $298.00 (612 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95310-8

Make Your Mark in Science: Creativity, Presenting, Publishing and Patents—A Guide for Young Scientists. C. Ascheron, A. Kickuth. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005. $29.95 paper (235 pp.). ISBN 0-471-65733-6

The Penguin Dictionary of Biology. 11th ed. M. Thain, M. Hickman. Penguin Books, New York, 2004 [2000]. $16.00 paper (753 pp.). ISBN 0-141-01396-6

A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit. A. Lightman. Pantheon Books, New York, 2005. $23.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 0-375-42320-6

Nonlinear science and chaos

Collective Dynamics of Nonlinear and Disordered Systems . G. Radons, W. Just, P. Häussler, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $139.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21383-X

Experimental Chaos . S. Boccaletti et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 742. Proc. conf., Florence, Italy, June 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $145.00 (365 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0226-4

Minority Games: Interacting Agents in Financial Markets . D. Challet, M. Marsili, Y.-C. Zhang. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $84.50 (344 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856640-9

Quantitative Finance for Physicists: An Introduction. A. B. Schmidt. Academic Press Advanced Finance Series. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2005. $59.95 (167 pp.). ISBN 0-12-088464-X

Nuclear physics

Nuclear Renaissance: Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power . W. J. Nuttall. IOP, Philadelphia, 2005. $65.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0936-9

Optics and photonics

Electronic and Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Case Studies. A. M. Ellis, M. Feher, T. G. Wright. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $55.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81737-4

Encyclopedia of Modern Optics. Vols. 1–5. R. D. Guenther, D. G. Steel, L. Bayvel, eds. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2005. $1795.00 set (2415 pp. set). ISBN 0-12-227600-0

Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light. P. W. Milonni. Series in Optics and Optoelectronics. IOP, Philadelphia, 2005. $105.00 (247 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0926-1

Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation, and Applications. J. Ye, S. T. Cundiff, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $89.95 (361 pp.). ISBN 0-387-23790-9

Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Biology: Advanced Methods and Their Applications to Membranes, Proteins, DNA, and Cells . M. Hof, R. Hutterer, V. Fidler, eds. Springer Series on Fluorescence: Methods and Applications 3. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $129.00 (305 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22338-X

Handbook of Coherent Domain Optical Methods: Biomedical Diagnostics, Environmental and Material Science . Vols. 1 and 2. V. V. Tuchin, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2004. $189.50 set (1003 pp. set). ISBN 1-4020-7576-6

Infrared Ellipsometry on Semiconductor Layer Structures: Phonons, Plasmons, and Polaritons . M. Schubert. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 209. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $159.00 (193 pp.). ISBN 3-540-23249-4

Nonimaging Optics. R. Winston, J. C. Miñano, P. Benítez. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2005. $89.95 (497 pp.). ISBN 0-12-759751-4

Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) Interferometry . J. Zheng. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 107. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $139.00 (245 pp.). ISBN 0-387-23009-2

Polarization Optics in Telecommunications . J. N. Damask. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 101. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $159.00 (520 pp.). ISBN 0-387-22493-9

Tribute to Emil Wolf: Science and Engineering Legacy of Physical Optics . T. P. Jannson, ed. SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA, 2005. $92.00 (510 pp.). ISBN 0-8194-5441-9

Particle physics

Advanced Visual Quantum Mechanics . B. Thaller. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $79.95 (516 pp.). ISBN 0-387-20777-5, CD-ROM

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 54. B. Kayser, B. R. Holstein, A. Jawahery, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. $84.00 (590 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-1554-5

Effective Field Theories in Flavour Physics. T. Mannel. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 203. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $159.00 (175 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21931-5

50 Years of Yang–Mills Theory . G.’t Hooft, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $84.00, $34.00 paper (487 pp.). ISBN 981-238-934-2, ISBN 981-256-007-6 paper

Learning About Particles: 50 Privileged Years. J. Steinberger. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $49.95 (181 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21329-5

IX Hadron Physics and VII Relativistic Aspects of Nuclear Physics . M. E. Bracco, M. Chiapparini, E. Ferreira, T. Kodama, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 739. Proc. mtg., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Mar.–Apr. 2004. AIP, Melville, NY, 2004. $192.00 (736 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0223-X

Popularizations

Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science. M. G. Lord. Walker, New York, 2005. $24.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 0-8027-1427-7

Converging Realities: Toward a Common Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics. R. Omnès. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. $29.95 (264 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11530-3

The Curvature of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, and Gravitation . H. Fritzsch (translated from German by K. Heusch). Columbia U. Press, New York, 2005 [2002, reissued]. $17.95 paper (341 pp.). ISBN 0-231-11821-X

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. R. B. Laughlin. Basic Books, New York, 2005. $26.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 0-465-03828-X

Earth: An Intimate History. R. Fortey. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004. $30.00 (429 pp.). ISBN 0-375-40626-3

Evolving Cosmos. G. Schilling. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $40.00 (135 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83325-6