New Books

New Books List for August 2008

The following books were received at the Physics Library during August 2008. Please check library stacks or ask library staff for assistance. Check MadCat to see if anyone has the book checked out or request that a book be sent to a library near you with our Book Retrieval Service.

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QC174.12 D97 2007 . . . . ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS.  By Freeman Dyson.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QA76.889 E44 2007 . . . . ELEMENTS OF QUANTUM INFORMATION            .  Edited by W.P. Schleich and H. Walther.  Weinheim:  Wiley-VCH, 2007.

QC16 R8 R44 2008 . . . . A FORCE OF NATURE:  THE FRONTIER GENIUS OF ERNEST RUTHERFORD.  By Richard Reeves.  New York:  W.W. Norton, 2008.  [Great Discoveries]

QC7 C235 2007 . . . . FROM QUANTA TO QUARKS:  MORE ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF PHYSICS.  By Anton Z. Capri.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC794.6 G7 G77 2007 . . . . IN SEARCH OF SUPERSTRINGS:  SYMMETRY, MEMBRANES AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.  By John Gribbin.  Cambridge:  Icon Books, 2007.

QC311 S84 2007 . . . . AN INTRODUCTION TO THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS.  2nd Edition.  By Keith Stowe.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QD96 L3 L3525 2007 . . . . LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY.  Edited by Jagdish P. Singh and Surya N. Thakur.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier Science Publishing, 2007.

QA76.889 L438 2007 . . . . LECTURES ON QUANTUM INFORMATION.  Edited by Dagmar Bruß and Gerd Leuchs.  Weinheim:  Wiley-VCH, 2007.

QC753.2 M34 2001 v.4 . . . . MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS IV.  Edited by Joel S. Miller and Marc Drillon.  Weinheim:  Wiley-VCH, 2003.

QH505 S449 2007 . . . . METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS:  STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, FUNCTION.  By Igor N. Serdyuk, Nathan R. Zaccai and Joseph Zaccai.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QA927 L83 2007 . . . . NONLINEAR WAVES AND SOLITONS ON CONTOURS AND CLOSED SURFACES.  By Andrei Ludu.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [Springer Series in Synergetics]

TK8304 L58 2005 . . . . PHOTONIC DEVICES.  By Jia Ming Liu.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2005.

QC793.5 A22 M33 2007 . . . . THE POWER OF α :  ELECTRON ELEMENTARY PARTICLE GENERATION WITH α-QUANTIZED LIFETIMES AND MASSES.  By Malcolm H. MacGregor.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.