New books

Abstract

Astronomy and astrophysics Section:ChooseTop of pageAstronomy and astrophysic... <<Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed-matter physicsDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsCITING ARTICLES Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 57. B. Kayser, B. R. Holstein, A. Jawahery, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2007. $197.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1557-3 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI. R. A. Shaw, F. Hill, D. J. Bell, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific 376. Proc. mtg., Tucson, AZ, Oct. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (731 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-313-3 The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei . L. C. Ho, J.-M. Wang, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 373. Proc. wksp., Xi’an, China, Oct. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (772 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-307-2 Fundamentals of Astronomy. C. Barbieri. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2007. $59.95 paper (366 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-0886-1 Heating Versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies . H. Böhringer, G. W. Pratt, A. Finoguenov, P. Schuecker, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. conf., Garching, Germany, Aug. 2006. Springer, New York, 2007. $129.95 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73483-3 Jets from Young Stars II: Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations. F. Bacciotti, E. Whelan, L. Testi, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 742. Springer, New York, 2008. $79.95 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68031-4 The Multi-Messenger Approach to High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources . J. M. Paredes, O. Reimer, D. F. Torres, eds. Proc. conf., Barcelona, Spain, July 2006. Springer, New York, 2007. $169.00 (544 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6117-2 The Night Sky Companion: A Yearly Guide to Sky-Watching, 2008–2009. T. Plotner. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2007. $29.95 paper (669 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-71608-4 Unsolved Problems in Stellar Physics: A Conference in Honour of Douglas Gough. R. J. Stancliffe et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 948. Proc. conf., Cambridge, UK, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $187.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0462-5 Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: Their Importance as Actors and Probes. F. Kerschbaum, C. Charbonnel, R. F. Wing, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 378. Proc. conf., Vienna, Austria, Aug. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (506 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-318-8 Atomic and molecular physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys... <<Biological and medical ph...Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed-matter physicsDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsCITING ARTICLES Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules. J. C. A. Boeyens, J. F. Ogilvie, eds. Proc. wksp., Berg-en-Dal, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Aug. 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $219.00 (484 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5940-7 Semiclassical Dynamics and Relaxation. D. S. F. Crothers. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 47. Springer, New York, 2008. $169.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74312-7Biological and medical physics Section:ChooseTop of pageAstronomy and astrophysic...Atomic and molecular phys...Biological and medical ph... <<Chemical physicsComputers and computation...Condensed-matter physicsDevice physicsEnergy and environmentFluidsGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle