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New Books List for June 2005

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QB982 G58 2004 . . . . AFTER THE BEGINNING: A COSMIC JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME. By Norman K. Glendenning. London: Imperial College Press, 2004.

QC776 H49 2004 . . . . BASIC IDEAS AND CONCEPTS IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTORY APPROACH. 3rd Edition. By Kris L. G. Heyde. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004. [Series in Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics]

QC15 H295 2004 . . . . CANDID SCIENCE IV: CONVERSATIONS WITH FAMOUS PHYSICISTS. By István Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai. London: Imperial College Press, 2004. [Candid Science, no. 4]

QC446.2 D87 2005 . . . . CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS: THE STRANGE THEORY OF LIGHT IN A BOX. By Sergio M. Dutra. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2005. [Wiley Series in Lasers and Applications]

QC718.5 C65 M35 2005 . . . . CHARGED PARTICLE TRAPS: PHYSICS AND TECHNIQUES OF CHARGED PARTICLE FIELD CONFINEMENT. By F. G. Major, V. N. Gheorghe and G. Werth. Berlin: Springer, 2005. [Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, no. 37]

QC670 V28 2004 . . . . CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY. 2nd Edition. By Jack Vanderlinde. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004. [Fundamental Theories of Physics, v. 145]

QC760 F74 2005 . . . . CLASSICAL ELECTROMAGNETISM. By Jerrold Franklin. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 2005.

QC760 D49 2004 . . . . CLASSICAL THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM. 2nd Edition. By Baldassare Di Bartolo. Singapore: World Scientific, 2004.

QC793.3 G38 B35 2004 . . . . COSMOLOGY IN GAUGE FIELD THEORY AND STRING THEORY. By David Bailin and Alexander Love. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004. [Graduate Student Series in Physics]

QC24.5 L38 2005 . . . . DIFFERENT UNIVERSE: REINVENTING PHYSICS FROM THE BOTTOM DOWN. By Robert B. Laughlin. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

QC484 R64 2005 . . . . EINSTEIN'S OTHER THEORY: THE PLANCK-BOSE-EINSTEIN THEORY OF HEAT CAPACITY. By Donald Rogers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

QC522 M34 1988 . . . . ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM. By A. S. Mahajan and A. A. Rangwala. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited, 1988. (Gift)

QC176.8 E4 H39 2004 . . . . ELEMENTARY ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE. Revised Edition. By Walter A. Harrison. River Edge, New Jersey: World Scientific, 2004.

QC16 B643 G74 2005 . . . . END OF THE CERTAIN WORLD: THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF MAX BORN, THE NOBEL PHYSICIST WHO IGNITED THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION. By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

QC446.2 M56 2004 . . . . FAST LIGHT, SLOW LIGHT AND LEFT-HANDED LIGHT. By P. W. Milonni. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2005. [Optics and Optoelectronics Series]

QC689.5 L37 F46 2003 . . . . FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES: PRINCIPLES AND EXPERIMENTS. 2nd Edition. Edited by Claude Rullière. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005. [Advanced Texts in Physics]

QC173.458 S62 N37 2004 . . . . FORCES, GROWTH AND FORM IN SOFT CONDENSED MATTER: AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY. (Proceedings) Edited by A. T. Skjeltorp and A. V. Belushkin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004. [NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, v. 160]

QC718 B45 2004 . . . . FUNDAMENTALS OF PLASMA PHYSICS. 3rd Edition. By J. A. Bittencourt. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.

QC178 G723 2005 . . . . GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY: 2nd MEXICAN MEETING ON MATHEMATICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Alfredo Macías, Claus Läemmerzahl and Dario Nuñez. Melville, New York: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 758] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/758.jsp)

QC446.2 B32 2004 . . . . GUIDE TO EXPERIMENTS IN QUANTUM OPTICS. 2nd Edition. By Hans-A. Bachor. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2004.

QC793.5 H32 T66 2004 . . . . HADRON COLLIDER PHYSICS. (Proceedings) Edited by Harry Weerts. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 753] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/753.jsp)

QC794 B475 2004 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR REACTIONS. By Carlos A. Bertulani and Pawel Danielewicz. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004. [Graduate Student Series in Physics]

QC718 G87 2005 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO PLASMA PHYSICS: WITH SPACE AND LABORATORY APPLICATIONS. By Donald A. Gurnett and Amitara Bhattacharjee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

QC176 K5 2005 . . . . INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS. 8th Edition. By Charles Kittel. New York: John Wiley, 2005.

QC794.6 S85 S92 2004 . . . .INTRODUCTION TO STRING THEORY AND D-BRANE DYNAMICS. By Richard J. Szabo. London: Imperial College Press, 2004.

Q180.55 I48 I59 2004 . . . . ISIS: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE. (Proceedings) Edited by Andrei Ludu, Nathan R. Hutchings and Darrell R. Fry. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 755] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/755.jsp)

QC793.5 H328 S37 2003 . . . . LARGE HADRON COLLIDER PHENOMENOLOGY. (Proceedings) Edited by M. Krämer and F. J. P. Soler. Edinburgh: SUSSP Publishing; Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004. [Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, v. 57]

QC774 S74 A3 2005 . . . . LEARNING ABOUT PARTICLES: 50 PRIVILEGED YEARS. By Jack Steinberger. Berlin: Springer, 2005.

QC174.17 P7 M36813 2004 . . . . MANY-BODY PROBLEMS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION. 2nd Edition. By Philippe A. Martin and François Rothen. Berlin: Springer, 2004. [Texts and Monographs in Physics]

QC174.45 M3 2005 . . . . MODERN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY. By Michele Maggiore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Oxford Master Series In Statistical, Computational, and Theoretical Physics]

QC318 T47 P47 2005 . . . . MOLECULAR THERMODYNAMICS AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: COMPLEXITIES OF SCALES IN SPACE AND TIME. By Michael H. Peters. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005. [McGraw-Hill Nanoscience and Technology Series]

QC176.8 N35 W65 2004 . . . . NANOPHYSICS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CONCEPTS IN NANOSCIENCE. By Edward L. Wolf. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2004.

QC793.3 S8 N837 2005 . . . . NUCLEI AT THE LIMITS. (Proceedings) Edited by Dariusz Seweryniak and Teng Lek Khoo. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 764] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/764.jsp)

QB355 R68 2005 . . . . ORBITAL MOTION. 4th Edition. By Archie E. Roy. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2005.

QB981 M2555 2004 . . . . OUR IMPROBABLE UNIVERSE: A PHYSICIST CONSIDERS HOW WE GOT HERE. By Michael Mallary. New York: Thunder's Mouth, 2004.

QC175.16 P5 G57 2004 . . . . PHASE TRANSITIONS: A BRIEF ACCOUNT WITH MODERN APPLICATIONS. By Moshe Gitterman and Vivian (Haim) Halpern. Singapore: World Scientific, 2004.

QC718 W66 2004 . . . . PHYSICS OF PLASMAS. By L. C. Woods. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2004.

QC787 P46 C46 1997 . . . . THE PHYSICS OF QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS. By K. K. Choi. Singapore: World Scientific, 1997. [Series in Modern Condensed Matter Physics, v. 7]

QC441 D29 2004 . . . . POLARIZATION IN SPECTRAL LINES. By Egidio Landi Degl'Innocenti and Marco Landolfi. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004. [Astrophysics and Space Science Library, v. 307]

QC787 C6 L47 2004 . . . .PRINCIPLES OF RADIATION INTERACTION IN MATTER AND DETECTION. By Claude Leroy and Pier-Giorgio Rancoita. Singapore: World Scientific, 2004.

QC793.3 Q35 S47 2004 . . . . THE QCD VACUUM, HADRONS AND SUPERDENSE MATTER. 2nd Edition. By E. V. Shuryak. Singapore; World Scientific, 2004. [World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics, v. 71]

QC174.43 N5513 2005 . . . . QUANTUM-STATISTICAL MODELS OF HOT DENSE MATTER: METHODS FOR COMPUTATIONAL OPACITY AND EQUATIONS OF STATE. By A. F. Nikiforov, V. G. Novikov and V. B Uvarov. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005. [Progress in Mathematical Physics, v. 37]

QC793.5 Q252 Q37 2004 . . . . QUARK CONFINEMENT AND THE HADRON SPECTRUM. (Proceedings) Edited by Nora Brambilla, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 756] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/756.jsp)

QC173.6 C4724 2005 . . . . RELATIVITY, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY: A BASIC INTRODUCTION. By Ta-Pei Cheng. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Oxford Master Series in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology]

QD381.9 S87 S64 2005 . . . . SOFT MATERIALS: STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS. Edited by John R. Dutcher and Alejandro G. Marangoni. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2005.

QC176 R68 2004 . . . . SOLID STATE THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION. By Ulrich Rössler. Berlin: Springer, 2004. [Advanced Texts in Physics]

QC174.7 M48 2004 . . . . STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND BEYOND. (Proceedings) Edited by Francisco J. Uribe, Leopoldo García-Colín S. and Enrique Díaz-Herrera. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 757] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/757.jsp)

QB799 I596 2004 . . . . STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS WITH THE WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPES. (Proceedings) Edited by Joanna Mikolajewska and Arkadiusz Olech. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2004. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 752] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/752.jsp)

QC611.92 G56 2004 . . . . SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. Revised Edition. By V. L. Ginzburg and E. A. Andryushin. Singapore: World Scientific, 2004.

QC611.95 L37 2005 . . . . THEORY OF FLUCTUATIONS IN SUPERCONDUCTORS. By Anatoly Larkin and Andrei Varlamov. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. [International Series of Monographs in Physics, v. 127]

QC490.4 A34 2004 . . . . VAVILOV-CHERENKOV AND SYNCHROTRON RADIATION: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS. By G. N. Afanasiev. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004. [Fundamental Theories of Physics, v. 142]