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New Books List for November-December 2008

The following books were received at the Physics Library during November-December 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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QC6 S148 2007 . . . . . CONCEPTS OF MODERN PHYSICS:  THE HAIFA LECTURES.  By Mendel Sachs.  London:  Imperial College Press, 2007.

QC16 S26 F73 2008 . . . . . COSMIC ANGER:  ABDUS SALAM – THE FIRST MUSLIM NOBEL SCIENTIST.  By Gordon Fraser.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.

QB462.7 D67 2006 . . . . . COSMIC RAY INTERACTIONS, PROPAGATION AND ACCELERATION IN SPACE PLASMAS.  By Levi I. Dorman.  Dordrecht:  Springer-Verlag, 2006.  [Astrophysics and Space Science Library, v.339]

QC173.65 C37 2007 . . . . . DEFORMED SPACETIME:  GEOMETRIZING INTERACTIONS IN FOUR AND FIVE DIMENSIONS.  By Fabio Cardone and Roberto Mignani.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

QC482 S3 S38 2007 . . . . . ELECTRON DYNAMICS BY INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING.  By Winfried Schülke.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2007.  [Oxford Series on Synchrotron Radiation, v.7]

QC318 E57 G73 2008 . . . . . ENTROPY AND THE TIME EVOLUTION OF MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS.  By Walter T. Grandy, Jr.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.  [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.141]

TK6550 H3155 2008 . . . . . ESSENTIALS OF RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION.  By Christopher Haslett.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008.

QC174.12 P38125 2008 . . . . . INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM THEORY.  By Harry Paul.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008.

QC173.55 A43 2008 . . . . . INTRODUCTION TO 3+1 NUMERICAL RELATIVITY.   By Miguel Alcubierre.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.  [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.140]

QC145.45 H4 B67 2007 . . . . . IONS AND ELECTRONS IN LIQUID HELIUM.  By A.F. Borghesani.  Oxford:  Oxford Science Publications, 2007.  [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.137]

QC20 J54 2007 . . . . . MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS:  THE BASICS.  By S.D. Joglekar.  Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press, 2007.

QC6 B328 2007 . . . . . MEETING THE UNIVERSE HALFWAY:  QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE ENTANGLEMENT OF MATTER AND MEANING.  By Karen Barad.   Durham, NC:   Duke University Press, 2007.

QC793.5 N42 N45 2006 . . . . . NEUTRINO GEOPHYSICS:  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEUTRINO SCIENCES 2005.  (Proceedings)  Edited by Stephen T. Dye.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [Reprinted from Earth, Moon, and Planets, v.99, 2006]

QC793.5 N42 N63 2004 . . . . . NEUTRINO PHYSICS:  PROCEEDINGS OF NOBEL SYMPOSIUM 129.  (Proceedings)  Edited by L. Bergström, O. Botner, P. Carlson, P.O. Hulth and T. Ohlsson.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2005.  [Physica Scripta, v.T121]  (Available on the Internet at http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1402-4896/2005/T121)

QC174.17 R46 M32 2008 . . . . . NON-PERTURBATIVE RENORMALIZATION.  By Vieri Mastropietro.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2008.

QC171.2 A53 2008 . . . . . PARTICLE OR WAVE:  THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF MATTER IN MODERN PHYSICS. By Charis Anastopoulos.  Princeton:   Princeton University Press, 2008.

QC793.2 E26 2006 . . . . . PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY:  THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME.  (Proceedings)  Edited by F. Bernardeau, C. Grojean and J. Dalibard.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier, 2007.  [Les Houches, Session LXXXVI]

QC793.5 B62 T45 2008 . . . . . THE PHYSICS OF THE Z AND W BOSONS.  By Roberto Tenchini and Claudio Verzegnassi.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2008.

QC176.8 M46 H645 2008 . . . . . THE PHYSICS OF WARM NUCLEI:  WITH ANALOGIES TO MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS.  By Helmut Hoffmann.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.  [Oxford Studies in Nuclear Physics, v.25]

QC446.2 O78 2008 . . . . . QUANTUM OPTICS:  INCLUDING NOISE REDUCTION, TRAPPED IONS, QUANTUM TRAJECTORIES, AND DECOHERENCE.  2nd Edition.  By Miguel Orszag.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2008.

QC912.3 V37 2007 . . . . . RADIATION AND CLIMATE.   By I.M. Vardavas and F.W. Taylor.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2007.  [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.138]

TK9152 S7179 2007 . . . . . RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY:  AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PHYSICS.  By Michael G. Stabin.  New York:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.

QC318 I7 E93 2008 . . . . . STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF NONEQUILIBRIUM LIQUIDS.  2nd Edition.  By Denis J. Evans and Gary Moriss.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008.

LH 7V42 v.167 . . . . . STRANGENESS AND SPIN IN FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS.  (Proceedings)  Edited by M. Anselmino and T. Bressani.   Amsterdam:  IOS Press, 2008.  [Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi,” no.167]

QP517 M65 H46 2008 . . . . . THEORIES OF MOLECULAR REACTION DYNAMICS:  THE MICROSCOPIC FOUNDATION OF CHEMICAL KINETICS.   By Niels E. Henriksen and Flemming Y. Hansen.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.  [Oxford Graduate Texts]

QB355 T36 2008 . . . . . THEORY OF ORBITAL MOTION.  By Arjun Tan.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2008.

QC16 N56 K56 2007 . . . . . YOSHIO NISHINA:  FATHER OF MODERN PHYSICS IN JAPAN.  By Dong-Won Kim.  New York:  Taylor & Francis, 2007.

QC176.8 T8 N568 2008 . . . . . ZERO TIME SPACE:  HOW QUANTUM TUNNELING BROKE THE LIGHT SPEED BARRIER.  By Günter Nimtz and Astrid Haibel.  Weinheim:  Wiley-VCH, 2008.