New Books List for December 2006
The following books were received at the Physics Library during December 2006. 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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LH7 AN94 R3233 v.31 . . . . ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES. Volume 31. Edited by Pamela A. Matson, Ashok Gadgil, and Daniel M. Kammen. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 2006. (Available on the Internet at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/energy)
LH7 V42 v.159 . . . . BACKGROUND MICROWAVE RADIATION AND INTRACLUSTER COSMOLOGY. (Proceedings) Edited by F. Melchiorri and Y. Rephaeli. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2005. [Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," no.159]
ONLINE ONLY . . . . CENTURY OF RELATIVITY PHYSICS: ERE 2005. (Proceedings) Edited by Lysiane Mornas. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 841] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/841.jsp)
QC16 E5 A2 1987a v.10 . . . . THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN. VOLUME 10: THE BERLIN YEARS: CORRESPONDENCE, MAY-DECEMBER 1920, AND SUPPLEMENTARY CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1920. (English Translation). Edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald, et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
LH 7V42 v.163 . . . . CP VIOLATION: FROM QUARKS TO LEPTONS. (Proceedings) Edited by M. Giorgi, I. Mannelli, and A.I. Sanda. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006. [Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," no. 163]
QC16 E5 E367 2004 . . . . EINSTEIN REVEALED. (Video recording) Boston: WGBH Boston, 2004. (DVD)
QC73.8 C6 E36 2005 . . . . EINSTEIN'S BIG IDEA: UNDERSTANDING THE EQUATION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. (Video recording) Boston: WGBH Boston, 2005. (Based on David Bodanis' book, E=MC2.) (DVD)
QD462.6 D45 K64 2006 . . . . ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS FOR SOLIDS AND MOLECULES: THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS. By Jorge Kohanoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
QC794.6 S85 G75 2003 . . . . THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE. (Video recording) Written by Julia Cort and Brian Greene. Boston: WGBH Video, 2003. (DVD)
QA274 M58 2006 . . . . EXPERIMENTAL STOCHASTICS IN PHYSICS. By Otto Moeschlin. Berlin: Springer, 2006.
QC75 W55 2006 . . . . FANTASTIC REALITIES: 49 MIND JOURNEYS AND A TRIP TO STOCKHOLM. By Frank Wilczek. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2006.
QC793.3 F5 K36 2006 . . . . FINITE-TEMPERATURE FIELD THEORY: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS. 2nd Edition. By Joseph I. Kapusta and Charles Gale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics]
QC174.45 L34 2005 . . . . FIRST BOOK OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY. 2nd Edition. By Amitabha Lahiri and Palash B. Pal. Harrow: Alpha Science International, 2005.
ONLINE ONLY . . . . FLOW DYNAMICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Michio Tokuyama. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 832] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/832.jsp)
ONLINE ONLY . . . . FUSION06: REACTION MECHANISMS AND NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AT COULOMB BARRIER. (Proceedings) Edited by Lorenzo Corradi. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 853] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/853.jsp)
ONLINE ONLY . . . . GRADUATE SCHOOL IN ASTRONOMY. (Proceedings) Edited by Simone Daflon. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 843] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/843.jsp)
QC793.5 H32 H318 2006 . . . . HADRON PHYSICS. (Proceedings) Edited by I.J.D. Douglas MacGregor and R. Kaiser. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006. [Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, v. 58]
QC16 B46 H36 2005 . . . . HANS BETHE AND HIS PHYSICS. Edited by Gerald E. Brown and Chang Hwan-Lee. Singapore: World Scientific, 2006.
QC173.6 P64 2006 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY. By Jerzy Plebanski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
TA418.9 N35 R36 2005 . . . . NANOTUBES AND NANOWIRES. By C. N. R. Rao and A. Govindaraj. Cambridge: Royal Society Chemistry, 2005. [RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology]
QC355.3 T48 2006 . . . . OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN LINEAR MEDIA: ATMOSPHERIC GASES AND PARTICLES, SOLID-STATE, COMPONENTS, AND WATER. By Michael E. Thomas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. [John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Series in Science and Engineering]
ONLINE ONLY . . . . ORIGIN OF MATTER AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES. (Proceedings) Edited by S. Kubono. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 847] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/847.jsp)
ONLINE ONLY . . . . PARTICLES AND NUCLEI. (Proceedings) Edited by Peter D. Barnes. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 842] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/842.jsp)
QC174.17 P27 B37 2006 . . . . PATH INTEGRALS AND ANOMALIES IN CURVED SPACE. By Fiorenzo Batianelli and Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics]
QB991 C64 N37 2006 . . . . PHYSICS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND. By Pavel D. Naselky and Dmitry I. Novikor and Igor D. Novikor. Translated by Nina Iskandarian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Cambridge Astrophysics Series, no. 41]
LH 7V42 v.161 . . . . POLARONS IN BULK MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY. (Proceedings) Edited by G. Iadonisi and J. Ranniger. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006. [Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," no. 161]
QC793.4 N38 2006 . . . . REVEALING HIDDEN NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME: CHARTING THE COURSES FOR ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS. By The Committee on Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006. (Available on the Internet at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309101948/html/)
LH 7So4 v.60 . . . . SOLID STATE PHYSICS. Volume 60. Edited by Henry Ehrenreich and Frans Spaepen. Boston: Elsevier Academic Press, 2006. [Solid State Physics, v. 60]
QC174.8 B67 2006 . . . . STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF DISORDERED SYSTEMS: A MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE. By Anton Bovier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, no. 18]
QC6 S6535 . . . . THE TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS: THE RISE OF STRING THEORY, THE FALL OF A SCIENCE, AND WHAT COMES NEXT. By Lee Smolin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
ONLINE ONLY . . . . ZABABAKHIN SCIENTIFIC TALKS-2005: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Evgeniy Avrorin. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 849] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/849.jsp)