New Books

Astronomy and astrophysics

Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs: A Guide to Spectacular Viewing. A. Cooke. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $39.95 paper (265 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-707-9

Atomic and molecular physics

Many-Particle Quantum Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Fragmentation. J. Ullrich, V. P. Shevelko, eds. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 35. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $139.00 (513 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00667-2

Biological and medical physics

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure . Vol. 32. R. M. Stroud, W. K. Olson, M. P. Sheetz, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2003. $80.00 (533 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-1832-3

Biochips: Technology and Applications. W.-L. Xing, J. Cheng, eds. Biological and Medical Physics Series. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $89.95 (134 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00423-8

Chemical physics

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . Vol. 54. S. R. Leone, P. Alivisatos, A. E. McDermott, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2003. $75.00 (608 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-1054-3

Modern Mass Spectrometry . C. A. Schalley, ed. Topics in Current Chemistry 225. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $269.00 (317 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00098-4

Principles of Chemical Vapor Deposition . D. M. Dobkin, M. K. Zuraw, eds. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2003. $95.00 (273 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-1248-9

Computers and computational physics

Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases . T. Hadzilacos, Y. Manolopoulos, J. F. Roddick, Y. Theodoridis, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2750. Proc. symp., Santorini Island, Greece, July 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $81.00 paper (524 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40535-6

Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002. S. Armfield, P. Morgan, K. Srinivas, eds. Proc. conf., Sydney, Australia, July 2002. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $249.00 (840 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00739-3

Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition . A. Rangarajan, M. Figueiredo, J. Zerubia, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2683. Proc. wksp., Lisbon, Portugal, July 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $81.00 paper (534 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40498-8

Future Directions in Distributed Computing: Research and Position Papers. A. Schiper, A. A. Shvartsman, H. Weatherspoon, B. Y. Zhao, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2584. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $44.00 paper (217 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00912-4

Graph Based Representations in Pattern Recognition . E. Hancock, M. Vento, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2726. Proc. wksp., York, UK, June–July 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $54.00 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40452-X

Implementation and Application of Automata. O. H. Ibarra, Z. Dang, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2759. Proc. conf., Santa Barbara, CA, July 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $58.00 paper (312 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40561-5

Introduction to Numerical Continuation Methods. E. L. Allgower, K. Georg. Classics in Applied Mathematics 45. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2003 [1979, reissued]. $57.00 paper (388 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-544-X

Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. V. Mařík, J. Müller, M. Pěchouček, eds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2691. Proc. conf., Prague, Czech Republic, June 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $98.00 paper (660 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40450-3

OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming. M. J. Voss, ed. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2716. Proc. wksp., Toronto, June 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $54.00 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40435-X

Rewriting Techniques and Applications. R. Nieuwenhuis, ed. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2706. Proc. conf, Valencia, Spain, June 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $81.00 paper (514 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40254-3

Scientific Computing With MATLAB. A. Quarteroni, F. Saleri. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering 2. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $49.95 (257 pp.). ISBN 3-540-44363-0

Solving Nonlinear Equations With Newton’s Method. C. T. Kelley. Fundamentals of Algorithms. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2003. $39.00 paper (104 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-546-6

Static Analysis. R. Cousot, ed. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2694. Proc. symp., San Diego, CA, June 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $81.00 paper (503 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40325-6

Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning With Uncertainty. T. D. Nielsen, N. L. Zhang, eds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2711. Proc. conf., Aalborg, Denmark, July 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $93.00 paper (608 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40494-5

User Modeling 2003. P. Brusilovsky, A. Corbett, F. de Rosis, eds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2702. Proc. conf, Johnstown, PA, June 2003. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $71.00 paper (436 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40381-7

Condensed matter physics

Fractal Concepts in Condensed Matter Physics . T. Nakayama, K. Yakubo. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 140. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $89.95 (206 pp.). ISBN 3-540-05044-2

Lectures on the Physics of Highly Correlated Electron Systems VII. A. Avella, F. Mancini, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 678. Proc. course, Salerno, Italy, Oct. 2002. AIP, Melville, NY, 2003. $155.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0147-0

Phase Separation in Soft Matter Physics: Micellar Solutions, Microemulsions, Critical Phenomena . P. K. Khabibullaev, A. A. Saidov. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 138. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $69.95 (180 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43890-4

Cosmology and relativity

Recent Developments in General Relativity, Genoa 2000. R. Cianci, R. Collina, M. Francaviglia, P. Fré, eds. Proc. conf, Genova, Italy, Sept. 2000. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $99.00 paper (463 pp.). ISBN 88-470-0162-5

Device physics

An Analog Electronics Companion: Basic Circuit Design for Engineers and Scientists. S. Hamilton. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003. $120.00 (649 pp.). ISBN 0-521-79838-8, CD-ROM

Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers . S. F. Yu. Wiley Series in Lasers and Applications. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2003. $89.95 (445 pp.). ISBN 0-471-39124-7

Microdrop Generation. E. R. Lee. Nano- and Microscience, Engineering, Technology, and Medicine Series. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2003. $159.95 (252 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-1559-X

Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion. M. A. Green. Springer Series in Photonics 12. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $109.00 (160 pp.). ISBN 3-540-40137-7

Current Sense Amplifiers for Embedded SRAM in High-Performance System-on-a-Chip Designs. B. Wicht. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics 12. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $99.00 (164 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00298-7

Lock-In Thermography: Basics and Use for Functional Diagnostics of Electronic Components . O. Breitenstein, M. Langenkamp. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics 10. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $89.95 (193 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43439-9

Modelling of Microfabrication Systems . R. Nassar, W. Dai. Microtechnology and MEMS . Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. $99.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 3-540-00252-9

The Physics of Solar Cells . J. Nelson. Imperial College Press, London, 2003. $68.00, $38.00 paper (363 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-340-3, ISBN 1-86094-349-7 paper

Energy and environment

The Discovery of Global Warming . S. R. Weart. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. $24.95 (228 pp.). ISBN 0-674-01157-0

Fluids

Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves. P.-G. de Gennes, F. Brochard-Wyart, D. Quéré (translated from French by A. Reisinger). Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004. $69.95 (291 pp.). ISBN 0-387-00592-7

Geophysics

Introduction to Geomagnetic Fields. 2nd edition. W. H. Campbell. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003 [1997]. $100.00, $50.00 paper (337 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82206-8, ISBN 0-521-52953-0 paper

History and philosophy

Circles: 50 Round Trips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture. J. Burke. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2003 [2000, reissued]. $13.00 paper (286 pp.). ISBN 0-7432-4976-3

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. J. Jonnes. Random House, New York, 2003. $27.95 (416 pp.). ISBN 0-375-50739-6