New Books

Acoustics

Forensic Voice Identification. H. Hollien. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2002. $79.95 (240 pp.). ISBN 0-12-352621-3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Accretion Power in Astrophysics . 3rd edition. J. Frank, A. King, D. Raine. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002 [1992]. $110.00, $40.00 paper (384 pp.). ISBN 0-521-62053-8, ISBN 0-521-62957-8 paper

Astrophysical Polarized Backgrounds. S. Cecchini, S. Cortiglioni, R. Sault, C. Sbarra, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 609. Proc. wksp., Bologna, Italy, Oct. 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $155.00 (314 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0055-5

Astrophysical Spectropolarimetry. J. Trujillo-Bueno, F. Moreno-Insertis, F. Sánchez, eds. Proc. sch., Tenerife, Spain, Nov. 2000. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $95.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80998-3

An Introduction to Radio Astronomy . 2nd edition. B. F. Burke, F. Graham-Smith. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002 [1997]. $110.00, $40.00 paper (393 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80889-8, ISBN 0-521-00517-5 paper

The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources . D. S. De Young. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. $45.00 (558 pp.). ISBN 0-226-14415-1

Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution. V. J. Martínez, E. Saar. Chapman & Hall/CRC, New York, 2002. $74.95 (432 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-084-8

Atomic and molecular physics

Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Clusters: An Introduction to Intermolecular Forces . M. Havenith. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 176. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $99.00 (120 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42691-4

Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling: How Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest. F. Bardou, J.-P. Bouchaud, A. Aspect, C. Cohen-Tannoudji. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $90.00, $30.00 paper (199 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80821-9, ISBN 0-521-00422-5 paper

Biophysics and medical physics

Electrostatic Effects in Soft Matter and Biophysics . C. Holm, P. Kékicheff, R. Podgornik, eds. NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 46. Proc. wksp., Les Houches, France, Oct. 2000. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $180.00 (509 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0196-7

Lasers in Medicine. R. W. Waynant, ed. CRC Press, New York, 2002. $149.95 (335 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-1146-2

Chemical physics

The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry: The Bond Valence Model . I. D. Brown. IUCr Texts on Crystallography 12. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2002. $130.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850870-0

Radical Reactions of Fullerenes and Their Derivatives. B. Tumanskii, O. Kalina. Developments in Fullerene Science 2. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $69.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0176-2

Single Molecule Spectroscopy: Nobel Conference Lectures . R. Rigler, M. Orrit, T. Basché, eds. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 67. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. $89.00 (355 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42453-9

Computers and computational physics

Advanced Computer Systems . J. Sołdek, J. Pejas, eds. Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science. Proc. conf, Mielno, Poland, Oct. 2001. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2002. $130.00 (500 pp.). ISBN 0-7923-7651-X

Human and Machine Perception 3: Thinking, Deciding, and Acting. V. Cantoni, V. Di Gesù, A. Setti, D. Tegolo, eds. Proc. wksp., Palermo, Italy, June 2000. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2001. $80.00 (245 pp.). ISBN 0-306-46673-2

Numerical Recipes in C++: The Art of Scientific Computing. 2nd edition. W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, B. P. Flannery. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002 [1992]. $70.00 (1002 pp.). ISBN 0-521-75033-4

The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man. J. Satinover. Wiley, New York, 2001. $24.95, $15.95 paper (276 pp.). ISBN 0-471-33326-3, ISBN 0-471-44153-8 paper

Condensed Matter Physics

Defects and Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics . D. R. Nelson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $110.00, $40.00 paper (377 pp.). ISBN 0-521-80159-1, ISBN 0-521-00400-4 paper

Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments. O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, C. Zannoni, S. Zumer, eds. NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 43. Proc. wksp., Erice, Sicily, Sept. 2000. Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Mass., 2001. $129.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-0169-X

Electrodynamics of Solids: Optical Properties of Electrons in Matter. M. Dressel, G. Grüner. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $110.00, $45.00 paper (474 pp.). ISBN 0-521-59253-4, ISBN 0-521-59726-9 paper

A Quantum Approach to Condensed Matter Physics . P. L. Taylor, O. Heinonen. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $120.00, $45.00 paper (414 pp.). ISBN 0-521-77103-X, ISBN 0-521-77827-1 paper

The Quantum Hall Effect . D. Yoshioka. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 133. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $64.95 (207 pp.). ISBN 3-540-43115-2

Three Dimensional Problems of Piezo-elasticity. D. Haojiang, C. Weiqiu, eds. Nova Science, Huntington, N.Y., 2001. $129.00 (532 pp.). ISBN 1-56072-926-0

Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors and Superfluids . R. P. Huebener, N. Schopohl, G. E. Volovik, eds. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 132. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $89.95 (359 pp.). ISBN 3-540-42336-2

Cosmology and relativity

Deparametrization and Path Integral Quantization of Cosmological Models . C. Simeone. World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics 69. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2001. $28.00 (139 pp.). ISBN 981-02-4741-9

The Future of Spacetime. S. W. Hawking, K. S. Thorne, I. Novikov, T. Ferris, A. Lightman. Proc. lecture, Pasadena, Calif., June 2000. W. W. Norton, New York, 2002. $25.95 (220 pp.). ISBN 0-393-02022-3

An Introduction to Cosmology . 3rd edition. J. V. Narlikar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002 [1993]. $100.00, $50.00 paper (541 pp.). ISBN 0-521-79028-X, ISBN 0-521-79376-9 paper

Modern Cosmology . S. Bonometto, V. Gorini, U. Moschella, eds. Studies in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation . Proc. sch., Spring 2000, Como, Italy. IOP, Philadelphia, 2002. $120.00 (480 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0810-9

Pushing Gravity: New Perspectives on Le Sage’s Theory of Gravitation . M. R. Edwards, ed. Apeiron, Montreal, 2002. $25.00 paper (316 pp.). ISBN 0-9683689-7-2

The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation: Theory and Applications. C. Cercignani, G. M. Kremer. Progress in Mathematical Physics 22. Birkhäuser Verlag, Boston, 2002. $89.95 (384 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-6693-1

String Theory . H. Aoki, T. Tada, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 607. Proc. symp., Fukuoka, Japan, July 2001. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2002. $150.00 (366 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0051-2

Device physics

Giant Magneto-Resistance Devices. E. Hirota, H. Sakakima, K. Inomata. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 40. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002. $69.95 (177 pp.). ISBN 3-540-41819-9

High-Speed Heterostructure Devices: From Device Concepts to Circuit Modeling. P. Roblin, H. Rohdin. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2002. $85.00 (688 pp.). ISBN 0-521-78152-3

Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics. 2nd edition. Y. Imry. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2002 [1997]. $90.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 0-19-8507380

Undergraduate texts and education

Textbook of Astronomy and Astrophysics with Elements of Cosmology . V. B. Bhatia. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., and Narosa, New Delhi, India, 2001. $59.95 (386 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-1013-X

Miscellaneous

Dynamical Cognitive Science. L. M. Ward. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2002. $45.00 (355 pp.). ISBN 0-262-23217-0