New Books List for April 2009
The following books were received at the Physics Library during April 2009. 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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QC176.2 F47 v.48 . . . . ADVANCES IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS. Volume 48. Edited by Rolf Haug. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009.
QC174.12 G528 2008 . . . . THE AGE OF ENTANGLEMENT: WHEN QUANTUM PHYSICS WAS REBORN. By Louisa Gilder. New York: Random House/Knopf, 2008.
QC16 W415 A3 2008 . . . . ANALOGIES IN PHYSICS AND LIFE: A SCIENTIFIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By Richard M. Weiner. Singapore: World Scientific, 2008.
REF QB8 U1 2010 . . . . ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 2010. Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 2010. (in Reference) (Some material is available on the Internet at http://asa.usno.navy.mil)
Q172.5 C45 K67 2008 . . . . CHAOS: A PROGRAM COLLECTION FOR THE PC. 3rd Edition. By Hans Jürgen Korsch, Hans-Jörg Jodl and Timo Hartmann. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008.
QC454 M6 H37 2008 . . . . COLLISIONAL EFFECTS ON MOLECULAR SPECTRA: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS, CONSEQUENCES FOR APPLICATIONS. By Jean-Michel Hartmann, Christian Boulet and Daniel Robert. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2008.
QC794.6 S85 M87 2008 . . . . THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO STRING THEORY. By George Musser. New York: Alpha Books, 2008.
QC145.4 V5 G67 2009 . . . . COMPLEX DYNAMICS OF GLASS-FORMING LIQUIDS: A COMPLEX MODE-COUPLING THEORY. By Wolfgang Götzke. Oxford: Oxford Science Publications, 2009. [International Series of Monographs on Physics, v.143]
QC20.7 G76 A54 2008 . . . . CONFORMAL GROUPS IN GEOMETRY AND SPIN STRUCTURES. By Pierre Anglis. Boston: Birkhäuser, 2008. [Progress in Mathematical Physics, v.50]
QB791.3 D35 2007 . . . . DARK MATTER IN ASTROPARTICLE AND PARTICLE PHYSICS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6th INTERNATIONAL HEIDELBERG CONFERENCE. (Proceedings) Edited by Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Geraint F. Lewis. Singapore: World Scientific, 2008.
QH510 S63 2008 . . . . ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY: GENERAL ENERGETICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
QC176 S64 2007 v.2 . . . . FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PHYSICS OF SOLIDS. Volume 2: Electronic Properties. By Jenö Sólyom. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2007.
QC30 G7 v.2009 . . . . 2009 GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND RELATED FIELDS. New York: American Institute of Physics, 2009. (on reserve) (Available on the Internet at http://www.gradschoolshopper.com/)
QC20.7 S64 O45 2009 . . . . INTERMEDIATE SPECTRAL THEORY AND QUANTUM DYNAMICS. By César R. de Oliveira. Basel: Birkhaüser, 2009. [Progress in Mathematical Physics, v.54 ]
QC16 O62 W65 2008 . . . . A LIFE IN TWILIGHT: THE FINAL YEARS OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. By Mark Wolverton. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008.
QC173.3 C66 2008 . . . . THE MATERIAL WORLD. New Expanded Edition. By Rodney Cotterill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
QC9 G3 H46 2007 . . . . THE MENTAL AFTERMATH. THE MENTALITY OF GERMAN PHYSICISTS, 1945-1949. By Klaus Hentschel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
TL796 W75 2005 . . . . THE PHYSICS OF SPACE SECURITY: A REFERENCE MANUAL. By David Wright, Lauren Grego and Lisbeth Gronlund. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005. (gift)
HC9 E5 B7595 2008 . . . . PLAN B 3.0: MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION. Revised and Expanded Edition. By Lester R. Brown. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
QC793.5 P428 M34 2009 . . . . QUANTUM MECHANICS IN A NUTSHELL. By Gerald D. Mahan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
QC178 M64 2008 . . . . REINVENTING GRAVITY: A PHYSICIST GOES BEYOND EINSTEIN. By John W. Moffatt. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
QC793.5 H328 G75 2009 . . . . STRONG INTERACTIONS OF HADRONS AT HIGH ENERGIES: GRIBOV LECTURES ON THEORETICAL PHYSICS. By V.N. Gribov, prepared by Y.L. Dokshitzer and J. Nyiri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. [Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, v.27]
QB790 T73 2008 . . . . WHISTLER AND ALFVÉN MODE CYCLOTRON MASERS IN SPACE. By V.Y. Trakhtengerts and M. J. Rycroft. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. [Atmospheric and Space Science Series]
QC15 J46 2008 . . . . WILLIAM AND LAWRENCE BRAGG, FATHER AND SON: THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATION IN SCIENCE. By John Jenkin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.