New Books

Chemical physics

Viscoelasticity/Atomistic Models/Statistical Chemistry. Advances in Polymer Science 152. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 216 pp. $125.00 hc ISBN 3-540-66735-0

Computers and computational physics

Automatic Algorithm Recognition and Replacement: A New Approach to Program Optimization. R. Metzger, Z. Wen. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. 219 pp. $40.00 hc ISBN 0-262-13386-7

Computer Simulation of Dynamic Phenomena. Scientific Computation. M. L. Wilkins. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 246 pp. $84.95 hc ISBN 3-540-63070-8

Grid Generation Methods. Scientific Computation. V. D. Liseikin. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 362 pp. $87.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65686-3

Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems: A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer. Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series. P. Stone. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. 272 pp. $40.00 hc ISBN 0-262-19438-4

Scientific Applications of Neural Nets.

Lecture Notes in Physics 522. Proc. Sem., Bad Honnef, Germany, May 1998. J. W. Clark, T. Lindenau, M. L. Ristig, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 288 pp. $62.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65737-1

Condensed matter physics

Applied RHEED: Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction during Crystal Growth. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 154. W. Braun. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 216 pp. $139.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65199-3

Electronic Structure and Physical Properties of Solids: The Uses of the LMTO Method. Lecture Notes in Physics 535. Proc. Wksp., Mont Saint Odile, France, Oct. 1998. H. Dreyssé, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 458 pp. $115.80 hc ISBN 3-540-67238-9

Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Materials Properties. 2nd edition. P. Y. Yu, M. Cardona. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999 [1996]. 620 pp. $59.95 hc ISBN 3-540-65352-X

Growth Processes and Surface Phase Equilibria in Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 156. N. N. Ledentsov. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 84 pp. $75.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65794-0

Insulating and Semiconducting Glasses. Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics 17. P. Boolchand. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000. 882 pp. $115.00 hc ISBN 981-02-3673-5

Low-Dimensional Systems: Interactions and Transport Properties. Lecture Notes in Physics 544. Proc. Wksp., Hamburg, Germany, Jul. 1999. T. Brandes, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 219 pp. $72.80 hc ISBN 3-540-67237-0

Magnetic Dichroism in Core-Level Photoemission. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 159. K. Starke. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 136 pp. $84.00 hc ISBN 3-540-66268-5

Physics and Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxides. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 125. Proc. Symp., Kashikojima, Japan, May 1998. H. Fukuyama, N. Nagaosa, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 336 pp. $92.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65187-X

Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. N. Nagaosa. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 206 pp. $54.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65537-9

Quantum Processes in Semiconductors. 4th edition. B. K. Ridley. Oxford U. Press, New York, 1999 [1993]. 436 pp. $110.00 hc ($50.00 pb) ISBN 0-19-850-580-9 hc (0-19-850-579-5 pb)

Semiconductor-Laser Fundamentals: Physics of the Gain Materials. W. W. Chow, S. W. Koch. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 245 pp. $54.95 hc ISBN 3-540-64166-1

Solid State Physics. G. Grosso, G. P. Parravicini. Academic Press, San Diego, Calif., 2000. 727 pp. $79.95 hc ISBN 0-12-304460-X

Solid State Physics. M. S. Rogalski, S. B. Palmer. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2000. 467 pp. $80.00 hc ($45.00 pb) ISBN 90-5699-272-4 hc (90-5699-273-2 pb)

Strong Coulomb Correlations in Electronic Structure Calculations: Beyond the Local Density Approximation. Advances in Condensed Matter Science 1. V. I. Anisimov. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2000. 317 pp. $95.00 hc ISBN 90-5699-131-0

Cosmology and relativity

Gravitational Waves. AIP Conference Proceedings 523. Proc. Conf., Pasadena, Calif., Jul. 1999, S. Meshkov, ed. AIP, Melville, N.Y., 2000. 492 pp. $140.00 hc ISBN 1-56396-944-0

Quantum Cybernetics: Toward a Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory via Circularly Causal Modeling. G. Grössing. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 150 pp. $49.95 hc ISBN 0-387-98960-9

The Search for Non-Newtonian Gravity. E. Fischbach, C. L. Talmadge. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 305 pp. $54.95 hc ISBN 0-387-98490-9

Spacetime: Foundations of General Relativity and Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Physics m59. M. Kriele. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 432 pp. $74.80 hc ISBN 3-540-66377-0

Device physics

Electronic States and Optical Transitions in Semiconductor Heterostructures. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. F. T. Vasko, A. V. Kuznetsov. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 401 pp. $69.95 hc ISBN 0-387-98567-0

Ferroelectric Memories. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics 3. J. F. Scott. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. 248 pp. $82.00 hc ISBN 3-540-66387-8

Nitride Semiconductors and Devices. Springer Series in Materials Science 32. H. Morkoç. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 488 pp. $116.00 hc ISBN 3-540-64038-X

Semiconductor Physics: An Introduction. 7th edition. K. Seeger. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999 [1997]. 521 pp. $70.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65786-X

Semiconductor Radiation Detectors: Device Physics. G. Lutz. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 353 pp. $72.95 hc ISBN 3-540-64859-3

Energy and environment

Advances in Cold-Region Thermal Engineering and Sciences: Technological, Environmental, and Climatological Impact. Lecture Notes in Physics 533. Proc. Symp., Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 1999. K. Hutter, Y. Wang, H. Beer, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 608 pp. $112.00 hc ISBN 3-540-66333-9

Fluids

An Engineering Approach to the Calculation of Aerodynamic Flows. T. Cebeci. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 396 pp. $96.00 hc ISBN 3-540-66181-6

Modeling and Computation of Boundary-Layer Flows: Laminar, Turbulent and Transitional Boundary Layers in Incompressible Flows. T. Cebeci, J. Cousteix. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 469 pp. $95.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65010-5

Turbulent Flows: Models and Physics. J. Piquet. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 761 pp. $199.00 hc ISBN 3-540-65411-9

Geophysics

Chemistry of Atmospheres. 3rd edition. R. P. Wayne. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2000 [1991]. 775 pp. $57.95 pb ISBN 0-19-850375-X

Satellites, Oceanogrophy and Society. Elsevier Oceanography Series 63. D. Halpern, ed. Elsevier, New York, 2000. 367 pp. $35.00 hc ISBN 0-444-50501-6

History and philosophy

100 Years of Planck’s Quantum. I. Duck, E. C. G. Sudarshan. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000. 545 pp. $86.00 hc ISBN 981-02-4309-X

Atomic Fragments: A Daughter’s Questions. M. Palevsky. U. of Calif. Press, Los Angeles, 2000. 289 pp. $24.95 hc ISBN 0-520-22055-2

Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society. SUNY Series in Science, Technology and Society. U. Segerstråle, ed. SUNY Press, New York, 2000. 238 pp. $59.50 hc ($19.95 pb) ISBN 0-7914-4617-4 hc (0-7914-4618-2 pb)

Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe. R. F. Mould. IOP, Philadelphia, 2000. 402 pp. $57.00 hc ISBN 0-7503-0670-X

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science. J. L. Heilbron. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000 [reissued, 1996]. 254 pp. $16.95 pb ISBN 0-674-00439-6

Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879–1909. D. Howard, J. Stachel, eds. Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass., 2000. 258 pp. $54.95 hc ISBN 0-8176-4030-4

Henry Norris Russell: Dean of American Astronomers. D. H. DeVorkin. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, N.J., 2000. 499 pp. $49.50 hc ISBN 0-691-04918-1

More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Celebration of Physics at the Millennium. B. Bederson, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. 841 pp. $79.00 hc ISBN 0-387-98662-6

On Tycho’s Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570–1601. J. R. Christianson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2000. 451 pp. $34.95 hc ISBN 0-521-65081-X

Quantum Chemistry: Classic Scientific Papers. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Chemistry 8. H. Hettema. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2000. 478 pp. $90.00 hc ISBN 981-02-2771-X

Real Science: What It Is, and What It Means. J. Ziman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2000. 399 pp. $39.95 hc ISBN 0-521-77229-X

Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace. D. Cahan, M. E. Rudd. U. of Nebr. Press, Lincoln, 2000. 200 pp. $45.00 hc ISBN 0-8032-1508-8