New books

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Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology. M. Zirnmer. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2005. $28.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 1-59102-253-3

Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. A. Upgren. Rutgers U. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2005. $24.95 (198 pp.). ISBN 0-8135-3512-3

Petit Point: A Candid Portrait on the Aberrations of Science. P.-G. de Gennes. DL/World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2004. $14.00 paper (72 pp.). ISBN 981-256-011-4

Puzzling Adventures: Tales of Strategy, Logic, and Mathematical Skill. D. E. Shasha. W. W. Norton, New York, 2005. $15.95 paper (227 pp.). ISBN 0-393-32663-2

The Quantum Quark. A. Watson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $30.00 (464 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82907-0

Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos. D. Lincoln. World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 2004. $88.00, $28.00 paper (567 pp.). ISBN 981-238-703-X, ISBN 981-238-705-6 paper

Virtual LM: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Lunar Module—The Historic Spacecraft that Landed Man on the Moon. S. P. Sullivan. Apogee Books Space Series 47. Apogee Books, Burlington, Canada, 2004. $29.95 paper (249 pp.). ISBN 1-894959-14-0, CD-ROM

Weighing the Soul: Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre. L. Fisher. Arcade Publishing, New York, 2004. $25.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 1-55970-732-1

Society and government

The Bomb: A Life. G. J. DeGroot. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. $27.95 (397 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01724-2

NASA Office of Space Science Education and Public Outreach Conference. C. Narasimhan, B. Beck-Winchatz, I. Hawkins, C. Runyon, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Proceedings 319. Proc. mtg., Chicago, June 2002. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2004. $77.00 (482 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-181-8

Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evolution of Space Reconnaissance. L. P. Temple III. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, VA, 2005. $49.95 (613 pp.). ISBN 1-56347-723-8

Space and planetary science

Europa—The Ocean Moon: Search for an Alien Biosphere. R. Greenberg. Springer—Praxis Books in Geophysical Sciences. Praxis/Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $89.95 (380 pp.). ISBN 3-540-22450-5

Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Vol. 1: Physical, Mathematical, and Numerical Principles. G. Beutler. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $99.00 (464 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40749-9, CD-ROM

Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Vol. 2: Application to Planetary System, Geodynamics and Satellite Geodesy. G. Beutler. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $99.00 (448 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40750-2, CD-ROM

The Origin of Chondrules and Chondrites. D. W. G. Sears. Cambridge Planetary Science 3. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2004. $110.00 (209 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83603-4

Solar and Space Weather Radio-physics: Current Status and Future Developments. D. E. Gary, C. U. Keller, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 314. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2004. $159.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-2813-X

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Analysis of Heat Equations on Domains. E. M. Ouhabaz. London Mathematical Society Monograph Series. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. $60.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12016-1