New Books

New Books List for October 2008

The following books were received at the Physics Library during October 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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QD381.9 S65 A34 2007 . . . . . AGEING AND THE GLASS TRANSITION.  (Proceedings)  Edited by Malte Henkel, Michael Pleimling and Roland Sanctuary.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [Lecture Notes in Physics, v.716]

PN4193 L4 A337 2007 . . . . . THE ART OF LECTURING:  A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL UNIVERSITY LECTURES AND BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS.  By Parham Aarabi.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QC174.12 B49 2007 . . . . . BEYOND THE QUANTUM.  Edited by Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen, Václav Špička, Bahar Mehmani, Maryam J. Aghdami and Andrei Yu. Khrennikov.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

TL 795.3 C76 2007 . . . . . CAN STAR SYSTEMS BE EXPLORED?  THE PHYSICS OF STAR PROBES.  By Lawrence B. Crowell.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC794.6 C58 S36 2007 . . . . . DECOHERENCE AND THE QUANTUM-TO-CLASSICAL TRANSITION.  By Miximilian Schlosshauer.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [The Frontiers Collection]

TA418 C66 2007 . . . . ELASTICITY WITH MATHEMATICA7:  AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND LINEAR ELASTICITY.   By Andrei Constantinescu and Alexander Korsunsky.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Q172.5 C45 F47 2008 . . . . . THE FERMI-PASTA-ULAM PROBLEM:  A STATUS REPORT.  (Proceedings)  Edited by G. Gallavotti.  Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008.  [Lecture Notes in Physics, v.728]

QC32 W25 1977 . . . . . THE FLYING CIRCUS OF PHYSICS.  With answers.  By Jearl Walker.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons, 1977.  (gift)

TA418.78 M44 2007 . . . . . GRANULAR PHYSICS.  By Anita Mehra.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

QA805 M822 2008 . . . . . INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MECHANICS:  WITH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.  By David Morin.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

TK7874.887 B36 2008 . . . . . INTRODUCTION TO SPINTRONICS.  By Supriyo Bandyopadhyay and Marc Cahay.   Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press, 2008.

QC355.3 K46 2008 . . . . . THE LIGHT FANTASTIC:  A MODERN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM OPTICS.  By I.R. Kenyon.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.

QC355.3 C54 2008 . . . . . LIGHT YEARS:  AN EXPLORATION OF MANKIND’S ENDURING FASCINATION WITH LIGHT.  Revised Edition.  By Brian Clegg.  London:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

QD549.2 C64 C64 2008 . . . . . MESOCRYSTALS AND NONCLASSICAL CRYSTALLIZATION.  By Helmut Coelfen and Markus Antonietti.  New York:  Wiley, 2008.

QC174.13 S73 2007 . . . . . MINDFUL UNIVERSE:  QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THE PARTICIPATING OBSERVER.  By Henry P. Stapp.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2007.  [The Frontiers Collection]

QB981 L535 2008 . . . . . THE OXFORD COMPANION TO COSMOLOGY.  By Andrew Liddle and Jon Loveday.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008.

TA340 V34 2007 . . . . . PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS.  By Adriaan van den Bos.  New York:  Wiley – Interscience, 2008.

QC793 S27 2008 . . . . . PARTICLE AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS.  By Utpal Sarkar.  New York:  Taylor & Francis, 2008.  [Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation]

QC611.6 O6 H38 2008 . . . . . QUANTUM KINETICS IN TRANSPORT AND OPTICS OF SEMICONDUCTORS.  2nd Edition.  By Hartmut Haug and Antti-Pekka Jauho.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2008.  [Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, v.123]

QC754.2 M34 S84 2007 . . . . . RELAXATION PROCESSES IN MICROMAGNETICS.  By Harry Suhl.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2007.  [International Series in Monographs on Physics, v.133]

QC16 P375 A4 2007 v.1 . . . . . SIR RUDOLF PEIERLS:  SELECTED PRIVATE AND SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE.  Volume 1.  Edited by Sabine Lee.  Singapore:  World Scientific, 2007.

QC446.2 C374 1999 v.2 . . . . . STATISTICAL METHODS IN QUANTUM OPTICS 2:  NON-CLASSICAL FIELDS.  By Howard J. Carmichael.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag, 2008.  [theoretical and Mathematical Physics]

QC145.2 L47 2008 . . . . . TURBULENCE IN FLUIDS.  4TH Edition.  By Marcel Lesieur.  Dordrecht:  Springer-Verlag, 2008.

LH 7V42 v.164 . . . . . ULTRA-COLD FERMI GASES.  (Proceedings)  Edited by M. Inguscio, W. Ketterle and C. Salomon.  Amsterdam:  IOS Press, 2007.  [Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi,” no.164]