New Books

New Books List for January 2008

The following books were received at the Physics Library during January 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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LH 7AN94 R3233 v.32 . . . . ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES.  Volume 32.  Edited by Pamela A. Matson and Ashok Gadgil.  Palo Alto:  Annual Reviews, 2007.  (Available on the Internet at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/energy)

LH 7AN95 v.57 . . . . ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE.  Volume 57.  Edited by Boris Kayser, Barry R. Holstein and Abolhassan Jawahery.  Palo Alto:  Annual Reviews, 2007.  (Available on the Internet at http://nucl.annualreviews.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/current.shtml)

QC173.4 P64 A76 2006 . . . . ATOMS, MOLECULES AND CLUSTERS IN ELECTRIC FIELDS:  THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE CALCULATION OF ELECTRIC POLARIZABILITY.  Edited by George Maroulis.  London:  Imperial College Press, 2006.

QD381.9 E38 B37 2005 . . . . ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CONJUGATED POLYMERS.  By William Barford.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 2005.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2005.  [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.129]

QB981 G37 2007 . . . . ELEMENTS OF STRING COSMOLOGY.  By Maurizio Gasperini.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC178 G725 2006 . . . . GRAVITATION AND EXPERIMENT:  POINCARÉ SEMINAR 2006.  (Proceedings)  Edited by Thibault Damour, Bertrand Duplantier and Vincent Rivasseau.  Basel:  Birkhaüser, 2007.  [Progress in Mathematical Physics, v. 52]

QC774 B53 S77 2006 . . . . MARIETTE BLAU:  STARS OF DISINTEGRATION:  BIOGRAPHY OF A PIONEER OF PARTICLE PHYSICS.  Edited by Brigitte Strohmaier and Robert Rosner.  Riverside, CA:  Ariadne Press, 2006.  [Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought]

QA297 N866 2007 . . . . NUMERICAL RECIPES:  THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING.  3rd Edition.  Edited by William H. Press, et al.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC15 F8 2007 . . . . A PASSION FOR DISCOVERY.  By Peter Freund.  Hackensack, NJ:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC446.2 G73 2007 . . . . OPTICS AND PHOTONICS:  AN INTRODUCTION.  2nd Edition.  by F. Graham Smith, Terry A. King and Dan Wilkins.  Chichester:  Wiley, 2007.

Q162 B88 2005 . . . . A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING:  SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION.  By Bill Bryson.  New York:  Broadway Books, 2005.

QC718.5 M36 W55 2006 . . . . THEORY OF TOROIDALLY CONFINED PLASMAS.  Revised 2nd Edition.  By Roscoe B. White.  London:  Imperial College Press, 2006.

QC173.454 C55 2007 . . . . TOPICS AND METHODS IN CONDENSED MATTER THEORY:  FROM BASIC QUANTUM MECHANICS TO THE FRONTIERS OF RESEARCH.  By Michele Cini.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

QC806 L45 2007 . . . . THE UNIVERSE AND THE ATOM.  By Don Lichtenberg.  Hackensack, NJ:  World Scientific, 2007.

QB981 U557 2007 . . . . UNIVERSE OR MULTIVERSE?  Edited by Bernard Carr.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC173.65 B35 2007 . . . . VERY SPECIAL RELATIVITY:  AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE.  By Sander Bais.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2007.