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New Trade Books Copernicus...... 2 Astronomy and Space...... 3 General Science...... 15

Recently Announced Trade Books Copernicus...... 2 Computer Trade...... 3 Astronomy and Space...... 3

Sci-Tech/Professional Books Astronomy & Astrophysics...... 16 Biomedicine...... 16 Business/Economics/Management...... 17 Chemistry...... 18 Computer Science...... 20 Electrical Engineering...... 29 Engineering...... 35 Geosciences...... 47 Life Sciences...... 49 Linguistics...... 50 Mathematics...... 51 Physics...... 63 Psychology...... 65 Public Health...... 68 Social Sciences...... 68 Statistics...... 69

Trade Backlist Copernicus...... 71 Astronomy and Space...... 71 Biomedicine Trade...... 74 Computer Trade...... 75 General Science...... 76 Key Curriculum...... 77 Physics...... 77 Medicine...... 78

Author Index...... 84 Title Index...... 85 Sales Representatives...... 88

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Co-Published by Springer-Praxis November 2006 ISBN 0-387-34164-1 Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone Approx. $27.50 Approx. 240 p. Kevin Nolan most exciting account of humanity’s fascina- Hardcover tion with, and future intentions regarding the Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone connects Red Planet. The book is built on the author’s 31 Previously Announced ordinary people with the relevance of space years experience of astronomy and 22 years of exploration in a way not seen since Carl Sagan. communicating science to the public, resulting The book encapsulates, completely and under- in many unique ideas and unprecedented ways standibly, the ‘big picture’ about humanity’s of conveying them. Such an emphasis is a prio- path to uncovering its cosmic connections and rity for the book–more so than conveying facts. how Mars is critical to that. Few, if any books in Market: Popular Science Audience, Science Fiction the area have attempted to do this and achieve Fans, Amateur Astronomers it, since those of Sagan. The book presents the Location in bookstore: General Science broadest, most complete, most up-to-date and

November 2006 Hot House ISBN 0-387-34179-X Global Climate Change and the Human Condition Approx. $27.50 Approx. 295 p. Robert G. Strom, University of Arizona This book attempts to address these complex Softcover and Jeffrey Kargel interactions, integrate them, and derive meaningful conclusions and possible solu- Previously Announced Global warming is extremely complex because tions. Robert Strom and Jeffrey Kargel provide it deals with so many different characteristics a complete, easy-to-read explanation of past of the Earth and their complex interactions. It and present global climate change, causes and is addressed by almost all sciences including possible solutions to the problem, including the many aspects of geosciences, atmospheric, politics and reasons why this is such a politi- the biological sciences, and even astronomy. cally charged issue. It has recently become the concern of other Market: Popular Science Enthusiasts and diverse disciplines such as economics, agricu- Environmentalists lture, demographics and population statistics, Location in bookstore: Environment medicine, engineering, and political science.

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The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a September 2006 Rocket Scientist ISBN 0-387-30876-8 Approx. $25.00 Approx. 170 p. James Longuski, Purdue University, life just a little bit more successful and fun. I just Hardcover West Lafayette, IN, USA couldn’t set this book down!” 7 Robert Cesarone, Rocket Scientist From the Reviews 7 “People of Earth… Attention! Jim Longuski’s book takes you on a This book explains the methods that rocket journey of exploration to that nearly infinite scientists use, expressed in ways that can be space between the ears and behind the brows of applied in everyday life. The book illustrates that most mysterious of all creatures - the rocket the Seven Secrets with anecdotes, quotations scientist! Going well beyond the oft-used apho- and biographical sketches of famous scien- risms, where no writer has gone before, he shows tists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and you how these gifted individuals think, feel, insights, and an occasional bit of space history. work, play, fantasize, rationalize, laugh and cry. The author reveals that rocket science is just From the glories of their epoch-making achie- common sense applied to the extraordinarily vements to the tragedies of their magnificent uncommon environment of outer space and failures, it is all here, told with insight, humor, that rocket scientists are people, too. objectivity and personal perspective. Without Market: General “Armchair“ Scientists Interested being preachy, lessons are offered that apply to in Popular Psychology, Space History, and Science anyone seeking to make professional or personal Fiction Films. Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space

Space Invaders November 2006 How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System ISBN 0-387-33232-4 Approx. $27.50 Michel Van Pelt, Noordwijk, Netherlands mission, Michel van Pelt offers a “behind the 208 p. 35 illus. scenes“ look at the life of a space probe: from Hardcover Manned space programs attract the most Its first conceptual design to the analysis of the media attention, and it is not hard to under- scientific data returned by the spacecraft. stand why-the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can While most popular books on space concen- imagine when humans are involved. But trate on manned spaceflight, this book shows robotic missions deserve a respectful and that unmanned space exploration is just as detailed history and analysis of their own, exciting. It demonstrates to the reader just what and this book provides it. Focusing on future it takes to send a robotic spacecraft to another modern spacecraft, Michel van Pelt explains planet and what fascinating insight and know- the exciting life of unmanned space explorers, ledge we have gained from these probes. making the technology, design, development, Market: Popular Science Readers and General operation and results of modern space probe Space Enthusiasts missions understandable by lay readers. Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space Instead of describing one specific spacecraft or

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Published by Springer-Praxis March 2007 ISBN 0-387-30775-3 The Story of Manned Space Stations Approx. $34.95 Approx. 390 p. Philip Baker This book will be the only one of its kind to tell Softcover the whole story of the manned space stations Philip Baker charts the history of manned from both nations, from the very beginning, space stations from the very beginning in a to the current ISS story, and to the possibilities logical, chronological order. He tells the story beyond. Each chapter of this book will contain of the two major space powers starting out interviews with many of the primary partici- on their very separate programs, but slowly pants, including the astronauts, cosmonauts, coming together through ASTP, Shuttle-Mir, designers, mission controllers, doctors and and the ISS, and includes programs that rarely managers most directly involved in the flights. get mentioned–the US Manned Orbiting The author paints a vivid picture of two compe- Laboratory, and the Soviet Almaz station, ting nations slowly coming together to form both military backed projects.The Mir space an alliance that is shaky and uncertain to begin station was one of the greatest human achie- with, but grows from fierce competition into vements in modern history, and a thorough solid collaboration. telling of its story is essential to this book. Market: Space Exploration Enthusiasts, Space During its life it grew and evolved into a truly Historians, Students and Engineers studying and international outpost, with visitors from all interested in Manned Space Flight over the world taking advantage of the only Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space permanent space station in orbit at that time.

February 2007 Aurora ISBN 0-387-36052-2 Observing and Recording Nature’s Spectacular Light Show Approx. $29.95 Approx. 190 p. Neil Bone observational angle. This new book addresses Softcover a gap in the literature, offering an explanation For the majority of amateur astronomers, of the aurora’s causes, how the occurrence of who live at the latitudes of North America, major events may now be predicted, and how the British Isles and Australia, the aurora is a amateur observers can go about recording relatively infrequent visitor to the night sky. displays. While the principal aim of the book is Major displays visible to the southern United to describe the aurora from the amateur obser- States or the south of England occur perhaps vational viewpoint, it discusses professional 20 times in each 11-year sunspot cycle. When studies of auroral/geomagnetic phenomena, to they occur, such auroral storms are a source put amateur work in context. A glossary gives of great interest and excitement. A number concise explanations of necessary technical of books highlighting the impact of auroral/ terms, and there is also a short bibliography. geomagnetic storms on communications and Market: Amateur Astronomers satellite technology have appeared in recent Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space years . None, however, has addressed the

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Published by Springer-Praxis March 2007 Animals in Space ISBN 0-387-36053-0 From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle Approx. $39.95 Approx. 350 p. Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs light test subjects not only evolved, but subse- Softcover quently changed over the years in response to This book is intended as a detailed, but highly a public outcry led by animal activists. It will readable and balanced account of the history of explore the ways in which animal high-altitude animal space flights, and the resultant appli- and space flight research impacted on space cation of hard-won research to space techno- flight biomedicine and technology, and how logy and astrobiology. Animals in Space will the results–both successful and disappoin- explain why dogs, primates, mice and other ting–allowed human beings to then undertake rodents were chosen and tested, at a time when that same hazardous journey with far greater dedicated scientists from both space nations understanding and confidence. This book will were determined to establish the survivabi- undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on lity of human subjects on both ballistic and animal space flights. orbital space flights. It will also recount the Market: Spaceflight and Space Exploration way this happened; the secrecy involved and Enthusiasts the methods employed, and offer an objective Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space analysis of how the role of animals as spacef-

Published by Springer-Praxis August 2006 Searching for Water in the Universe ISBN 0-387-34174-9 $29.95 Therese Encrenaz solar system and beyond. One by one she visits Approx. 200 p. 110 illus., a diversity of locations in the cosmos, from the 100 in color. Water plays an essential role in the appear- nearest planets to the furthest galaxies, where Softcover ance, evolution and maintenance of life on water has been discovered. In the formation of Earth. In Searching for Water in the Universe, the solar system, she explains how the water Previously Announced Thérèse Encrenaz takes the reader on a journey molecule played a major part, with the so- through the Universe in search of water. She called ‘ice frontier’ determining the natures of begins by introducing the most well-known the terrestrial and giant planets. molecule H2O, its physical and chemical char- Market: Practical Astronomers and acteristics and its cosmic formation and abun- Science Enthusiasts dance. She examines the methods by which the Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space presence of water is detected, both within the

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November 2006 Lonely Minds in the Universe ISBN 0-387-33925-6 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence $27.50 Approx. 304 p. 58 illus. Giancarlo Genta religious ones of extraterrestrial intelligent life. It Hardcover gives a summary of the chemical and biological The possibility that humans are not alone in the evolution of the Universe to demonstrate, as a Previously Announced Universe is one of the most intriguing unan- counterbalance to the ‘rare earth’ theory, why swered questions for mankind. Lonely Minds intelligent life might exist somewhere else in the in the Universe provides a discussion of the Universe, apart from on Earth. scientific and technical implications, including Market: Space and Popular Science Enthusiasts possible faster-than-light space travel and radio Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space communication, as well as the philosophical and

January 2007 Astronomical Sketching ISBN 0-387-26240-7 A Step-by-Step Introduction Approx. $29.95 Approx. 195 p. Richard Handy, Sol Robbins, Erika Rix, tial objects by following simple, illustrated, Softcover David B. Moody, Jeremy Perez step-by-step instructions. Readers can select a chapter related to their preferred class of Despite the fact that there are a wide variety object, and rapidly learn techniques in several of drawing media and techniques, there exists media. Each chapter contains useful informa- no comprehensive treatment of the subject of tion regarding equipment, types of telescope astronomical sketching. This book will present and eyepiece combinations, techniques for the amateur with fine examples of astronomical preserving and archiving sketches, and sugges- sketches and step-by-step tutorials in each tions for accurate record keeping. medium, including pencil, pen and ink, chalks Market: Practitioners, Students and pastels, painting and computer graphics Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space programs. This unique book can teach almost anyone to create beautiful sketches of celes-

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Published by Springer-Praxis April 2007 Exploring Venus, Mars and Mercury ISBN 0-387-21895-5 Approx. $39.95 David Harland, Brian Harvey, the highest surface temperature of any planet. Approx 300 p. Andy Salmon Mars, once thought as the abode of plant life, Softcover was found to be a freeze-dried world with huge This is the chronological story of how a series volcanoes, major dust storms, and a very thin of space probes launched by the former USSR atmosphere, although recent evidence suggests and USA dispelled many popular myths about that it may once have been conducive to the Mercury, Venus and Mars. They showed that development of microbial life. Mercury superficially resembles our Moon, Market: Space Enthusiasts that Venus, previously thought of as Earth’s Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space hospitable twin sister, has a super dense atmosphere, a runaway greenhouse effect, and

Living Off the Land in Space January 2007 Green Roads to the Cosmos ISBN 0-387-36054-9 Approx. $27.50 Gregory L. Matloff, Les Johnson, expanded their range. Today, the pattern of Approx. 300 p. C. Bangs human settlement extends from pole to pole. Softcover Humans regularly visit the upper troposphere Human civilization has evolved to the point at and ocean floor and technology has enabled which we can consider tapping space resources a few to even reside above the atmosphere in and expanding beyond Earth’s atmosphere. space stations. Living Off the Land in Space surveys possible Market: Popular Science Readers, Space Science motivations for large-scale human emigration and Science Fiction Enthusiasts to space. Since our early ancestors began to Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space move out of Africa, humans have constantly

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April 2007 Lights in the Sky ISBN 1-84628-562-3 Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena Approx. $29.95 Approx. 225 p. Michael Maunder book. The second part gives a full description, Softcover physical explanation, and where relevant notes Many lights and other objects in the sky go on observing and photographing the various unrecognized, or at least are little understood phenomena. The final portion of the book by those observing them. Such things range approaches UFOs from a scientific stand- from the commonplace like rainbows and point, particularly the way in which human meteors, to the distinctly unusual like the green perception and often preconception affects the flash and ball lightning. And there is still a outcome. It does however finish with a short residuum of objects that remain unidentified section on “extraterrestrial UFOs”, emphasizing by the watcher – classed generally as ‘UFOs’, a the burden of proof aspect and touching on the description which today has connotations of scientific theories of life on other worlds and the mysterious, even of extraterrestrial visitors. the improbability of visitors. The first part of this book is an identification Market: Amateur Astronomers guide, very much like the “plant identifier” Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space sections found in a good gardening or botany

February 2007 A Buyer’s and User’s Guide to Astronomical Telescopes ISBN 1-84628-439-2 & Binoculars Approx. $29.95 Approx. 230 p. James Mullaney many exciting and rewarding uses to which Softcover these instruments can be put in exploring the Amateur astronomers are always contem- wonders of the cosmos! Provides both existing Previously Announced plating the “next telescope up” and this book and prospective owners of classic telescopes will point the way to the most suitable instru- marketed over the past 50 years with hard-to- ment, and serve as a guide for first-time buyers. find, little-known information on their manu- Evaluations of hundreds of binoculars and facturers. The book is an invaluable treasure- telescopes help readers make an appropriate trove of information and helpful advice for all selection based on such factors as intended use, amateur astronomers portability requirements and budget. It offers Market: Amateur Astronomers help in the “resurrection” of telescopes now Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space collecting dust (instead of starlight!) in attics, cellars and garages by sharing with readers the

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A User’s Guide to the Meade LXD55 and March 2007 LXD75 Telescopes ISBN 0-387-36489-7 Approx. $39.95 Martin Peston experienced LXD series users. There is already Approx. 250 p. a large user-base of these telescopes around Softcover Following up on the highly successful book the world, but there is as yet no comprehen- by Mike Weasner, “Using the Meade ETX” sive guide commercially available for users to and the more recently published book by fully get to grips with using the LXD series of Swanson, “The NexStar Guide”, this extends telescopes. The manufacturer’s manuals are Springer’s range of books written for the most nowhere near detailed enough to be of real popular commercially-available telescopes. The help to beginners, nor are there advanced book provides a comprehensive introductory technical tips and user information to help the guide to “choosing and using” an LXD55/75 experienced astronomer get the best out of computer-controlled (“goto”) series of teles- these instruments. copes, and is useful for both beginners and Market: Amateur Astronomers more advanced practical amateur astronomers. Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space It will also cover advanced techniques for more

Published by Springer-Praxis February 2007 The Moon ISBN 0-387-36055-7 Resources, Future Development and Colonization Approx. $34.95 Second Edition Approx. 400 p. Softcover David Schrunk, Burton Sharpe, Bonnie location for the establishment of the first lunar L. Cooper, Madhu Thangavelu base. It will follow the same theme as the first Second Edition edition; concepts of space exploration from the The Moon–Resources, Future Development Moon and discussions of Earth benefits will be and Colonization tells the story of the feasible expanded. A color section depicting graphic transformation of the Moon into an inhabited images will be added in the second edition and sister planet of the Earth in the coming century. the number of appendices will be reduced. This second edition has been lengthened, Market: Space Science and Exploration Enthusiasts drawing on the latest satellite data to empha- and Students and Engineers size the power potential and communications Location in bookstore: Astronomy/Space advantages of Malapert Mountain in the South Polar region of the Moon, being the optimum

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August 2006 Celestial Mechanics ISBN 0-387-30777-X The Waltz of the Planets $29.95 Alessandra Celletti, Ettore Perozzi, University of Rome, the topic without the use of mathematics. The book Approx. 204 p. 20 illus. Rome, Italy emphasizes public awareness as a key issue for appre- Softcover ciating and exploiting the wealth of astronomical In Celestial Mechanics, the authors cover topics data and images gathered during the space age. which are on the front line of scientific research and technology in spaceflight for the exploration of our Market: Popular Science Enthusiasts Solar System. The book provides an interdisciplinary Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy cross section of all Celestial Mechanics, to explain

March 2006 Pattern Asterisms ISBN 1-84628-327-2 A New Way to Chart the Stars $39.95 John Chiravalle, Safford, AZ, USA remember stars in typical binocular or low-magnifi- Approx. 195 p. 120 illus., cation telescopic fields. This is a new aspect of astro- 40 in color. Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have nomy that does not involve dry science, but makes Softcover constructed patterns–the constellations–out of the it easy to learn about the night sky. Size, stellar almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. magnitudes, and coordinates are provided, along The fact that the constellations are still used today with north direction, star-hopping instructions and reflects not just their historical origins, but their Sky Atlas 2000 references. usefulness in identifying bright stars in the rotating dome of the sky. This book applies the same pattern Market: Amateur Astronomers approach, outlining a set of memorable mini-cons- Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy tellations to help amateur astronomers identify and

November 2006 Nebulae, and How to Observe Them ISBN 1-84628-482-1 Steven Coe to consider how best to successfully observe and $29.95 record the large range of astronomical objects that Approx. 220 p. Nebulae are the places where the stars are born. For fall under the general heading of “nebulae”. Nebulae, Softcover amateur astronomers, the many different kinds of and How to Observe Themis a mine of information nebulae vary from “easy” targets that can be seen with for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner modest equipment under mediocre skies, to “challen- to the experienced. ging” objects that require experienced observers, large telescopes and excellent seeing. The concept of the Market: Amateur Astronomers book is to present an up-to-date detailed description Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy and categorization (part one); and then (part two)

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Origins October 2006 How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began ISBN 1-84628-401-5 Steve Eales, University of Cardiff, UK language, and without advanced math, how we $29.95 have come to understand these questions, and how Approx. 230 p The four big “Origin Questions” have driven science is closing in on the answers. Hardcover modern scientific exploration of earth and space. Now the answers to how the planets, the stars, the Market: Amateur Astronomers and Popular galaxies, and the universe itself were formed are Science Enthusiasts coming within our grasp. Origins explains, in lucid Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy

Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006 November 2006 Tim Furniss, David J. Shayler missions which were non-orbital. There will be an ISBN 0-387-34175-7 image depicting each manned spaceflight, and data $39.95 Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006 will boxes containing brief biographies of all the space Approx. 500 p. open with a section entitled: Quest for Space, which travellers and basic flight data. The main text will be Softcover will provide an explanation of the methods employed a narrative of each mission, its highlights and accom- to get in and out of orbit and brief overviews of the plishments, including those strange facts and humo- different international space programmes. It will be rous stories that are connected to every mission. a complete chronological log of all attempted orbital manned spaceflights, including the X-15 “astrof- Market: Space Science and Exploration Enthusiasts, lights” of the 1960s that only achieved an altitude of Students, and Engineers. c. 50 miles and the two 1961 Mercury and Redstone Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy

Practical Scientific Astronomy: an Introduction November 2006 Observational Activities for Small Telescopes ISBN 1-84628-478-3 Michael Gainer ving. There are two objectives to these activities: $29.95 to re-enact the process of discovery and to provide Approx. 225 p. 10 illus. This book is about using an 80mm refractor/90mm amateur observers with the knowledge and skill that Softcover Maksutov (such as a Helios 80 or Meade ETX90) will help them make genuine contributions to the as more than a “quick look” instrument, but rather field of astronomy. something capable of use as an introduction to scientific observations. Emphasis is on measurement Market: Amateur Astronomers and discovery activities rather than on casual obser- Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy

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November 2006 The First Men on the Moon ISBN 0-387-34176-5 The Story of Apollo 11 Approx. $39.95 David Harland, Glasgow, Scotland, UK report, in-flight transcripts, including conversations Approx. 400 p., 170 illus. among the crew in the spacecraft that were not trans- Softcover The introductory chapters review the motivation mitted, as well as the post-flight debriefing. In addi- to land on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, the tion to having many ‘small’ in-line black-and-white development of the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo illustrations with the text running around them, the spacecraft as the means of doing so, the selection book will feature the high-resolution scans recently of potential landing sites, the precursor missions, produced by NASA from the original Hasselblad and the backgrounds of the three men who were to film, reproduced in a substantial color section. fly Apollo 11, the book will relate in detail the first moonlanding mission. The final chapters will discuss Market: Space Exploration Enthusiasts, what was learned of the moonrocks, and review the Space Historians, Students and Engineers in the follow-on missions. In order to bring the story to life, Aviation Industry and Space Agencies. David Harland makes use of the flight plan, mission Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy

August 2006 Space Exploration 2007 ISBN 0-387-33330-4 Space Launches, Missions and Events $29.95 Brian Harvey, Dublin, Ireland those planned for the future. The ten invited contri- Approx. 355 p. butions each year will cover a variety of topics within Softcover The aim of theSpace Exploration 2007 is to provide these areas, to appeal to a wide readership. an annual update on recent space launches, missions and results, to be published every year in September. Market: Space Enthusiasts from Teens Upwards The annual will cover space exploration from a through to Professionals Working in the Worldwide variety of angles: looking back at past missions, Space Industry and Journalists Covering Space Issues reviewing those currently under way and looking to Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy

September 2006 The Future of the Universe ISBN 1-85233-946-2 A.J. Meadows, Loughborough University, UK come to any kind of consensus about the probable $29.95 history of the universe, so have been relatively few Approx. 260 p. 29 illus., Many books have been written about the Big Bang books speculating about its future evolution. This 9 in color. and how the universe became the way it is today. will be a “must read” for all amateur astronomers, and Hardcover “Armchair astronomers” have found them endlessly scientifically inclined general readers. fascinating. But, what about the future of the universe? What will happen to the Earth and solar Market: Amateur Astronomers and system? What about our galaxy? Indeed, how long will Popular Science Readers the universe as we recognize it survive? It is only in Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy recent years that astronomers and cosmologists have

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State of the Universe 2007 August 2006 New Images, Discoveries and Events ISBN 0-387-34178-1 Martin Ratcliffe, Wichita, KS, USA complete list of the major announcements, discove- Approx. $27.50 ries and news items from each year, with the major Approx. 300 pp. The aim ofState of the Universe 2007 (and subse- ones being explained in detail through selected chap- Softcover quent volumes issued annually) is to provide an ters being written by invited contributors who are at annual astronomy review suitable for the popular the forefront in those fields. The January meeting of science level reader to be published every year in the American Astronomical Society each year will September in a format that will be suitable for an be the major source of astronomical news for the appeal to the Christmas market. The book will cover following year’s volume, giving access to potential all major astronomical news on topics beyond the authors and contacts with public information officers Solar System and place them in the context of the of major observatories, space centers, etc. longer term goals that astronomers and astrophysi- cists around the world are aiming for. The target is Market: Amateur Astronomers and Space Enthusiasts to capture the excitement and vibrancy of modern Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy astronomical research. The book will present a

Binocular Astronomy October 2006 Stephen Tonkin, Kent, UK instruments themselves, and offers sections on evalu- ISBN 1-84628-308-6 ating and buying binoculars and binocular telescopes, $29.95 Binoculars–the common kinds–are surprisingly their care, mounting, and accessories. In addition Approx. 275 pp. useful for wide-field observing, but “binocular astro- there is a selection of fine objects to be seen with Softcover nomy” is much more than that, including binocular 50mm and 100mm binoculars. eyepieces that can be fitted to normal astronomical telescopes, and even giant binocular telescopes that Market: Amateur and Practical Astronomers are effectively two astronomical telescopes working Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy in tandem. This book takes an in-depth look at the

Einstein’s Enigma or Black Holes in my Bubblebath September 2006 C.V. Vishveshwara embedded in casual lessons given by a worldly astro- ISBN 3-540-33199-9 physicist to his friend Alfie, a freelance organizer of $27.50 Einstein’s Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble proposals. Join the intellectual fun and exalt in the Approx. 350 p. Bath tells the story of gravitation theory from the frothy ideas while vicariously taking relaxing baths Hardcover early historic origins to the latest developments in in this magical bathtub. astrophysics, focusing on Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and black hole physics. Through Market: All Readers who are Interested in Science engaging conversations and napkin-scribbled in General and Gravitation/Black Holes in Particular. diagrams come tumbling the rudiments of relativity, Students of Natural Science and Scientists spacetime and much of modern physics, narrated Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy with high didactic and literary talent, and each

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Mastering Your PhD Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond

Patricia A. Gosling, European long and difficult journey toward a PhD. Neuromuscular Centre, Baarn, The Some of these students will make it through Netherlands; Bart D. Noordam, their program with flying colors. Others will FOM-AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands experience difficulty getting to the end: some will sink and some will manage to swim– Mastering Your PhD helps guide PhD barely. The doctoral years can be daunting. students through their graduate student days. While mainly directed to PhD students in the Filled with practical advice on getting started, sciences, the book’s scope is broad enough August 2006 communicating with your supervisor, staying to encompass the obstacles and hurdles that ISBN 3-540-33387-8 the course, and planning for the future, this almost all PhD students face at some point in $39.95 book is a handy guide for graduate students their doctoral training. 156 p. 10 illus. who need that extra bit of help getting started Market: PhD Students Softcover and making it through. Every year, thousands Location in bookstore: General Science/Physics of students around the world embark on the Previously Announced

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November 2006 Inside Relational Databases with Examples in Access ISBN 1-84628-394-9 Mark Whitehorn, University College of Worcester, UK $49.95 Approx. 350 p. Softcover

November 2006 Inside Relational Databases with Examples in ISBN 1-84628-393-0 SQL Server $49.95 Mark Whitehorn, University College of Worcester, UK ledge is required i.e. real world examples show how Approx. 350 p. to manage data efficiently. A significant amount of Softcover The first two editions ofInside Relational Data- new material is included in the core of the book and bases have both been best sellers. These new editions particular emphasis is given to showing how to make will also cover the relational database model but will a database run faster and more efficiently. use different engines to illustrate the model. In doing so, readers will be able to apply the model using their Market: Undergraduate Students, Practitioners, preferred database engine. The books show just how Database Users simple and useful databases can be. No prior know- Bookstore Location: Databases

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Fundamental Astronomy April 2007 Fifth Edition ISBN 3-540-34143-9 $69.95 Hannu Karttunen, University of Turku, Piikkiö, Finland; Approx. 472 p. 413 illus., 36 in Pekka Kröger, Helsinki, Finland; Heikki Oja, University The fifth edition of this successful undergraduate of Helsinki, Finland; Markku Poutanen, Finnish Geodetic textbook and reference has been extensively color. Institute, Masala, Finland; Karl Johan Donner, University modernized and extended in the parts dealing with Hardcover of Helsinki, Finland (Eds.) extragalactic astronomy and cosmology as well as extrasolar planets. Long considered a standard Fifth Edition Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and text for physical science majors, Fundamental (Replaces 3-540-00179-4) comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical Astronomy is also an excellent reference and entrée and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the for dedicated amateur astronomers. Previously Announced astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more Market: Students of Physics and Astronomy; Stargazers profound studies in the astronomical sciences. Location in bookstore: Physics/Astronomy

Biomedicine

Hypothalamus November 2006 Brainstem Interactions in Homeostasis ISBN 0-387-29083-4 Approx. $139.00 Shaun Morrison (Ed.) organization of hypothalamic-brainstem autonomic Approx. 350 p. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of pathways regulating homeostasis and reproduction, Hardcover research interest in the role of the hypothalamus this book provides a unique opportunity to in a variety of regulatory and behavioral functions, appreciate the multifaceted role of hypothalamic from feeding and energy homeostasis to circadian neural circuits in maintaining homeostasis, to rhythms, thermoregulation and blood pressure understand the critical role played by hypothalamic- control. Nearly every homeostatic function brainstem interactions and to recognize the many influenced by the hypothalamus is subject to a parallels in organization and occurrences of cross- dysregulation that becomes manifest in a disease talk among the hypothalamic regulatory systems. process. Elucidating the neuropharmacology of the hypothalamic-brainstem circuits that play Market: Researchers and Students in Neurobiology, such a significant role in homeostatic regulation Pharmacology, Anatomy, Physiology and Physiological can contribute to the design of novel therapeutic Psychology approaches. In assembling the most recent Location in bookstore: Biomedicine knowledge about the structural and functional

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Business/Economics/Management

September 2006 Successful in China ISBN 3-540-34614-7 Markus B. Hofer, Bernhard Ebel, Simon-Kucher & $64.95 Partners, Bonn, Germany (Eds.) of topics such as business strategies, branding, pricing, Approx. 300 p. market research, legal constraints and successful Hardcover Successful in China offers valuable insights and business relations. It also takes a closer look at best lessons from established and successful managers, practices from Volkswagen, Allianz and MAN Roland. Previously Announced academics and consultants. The book is divided into three parts: “Opportunities and Challenges in China”, Market: Practitioners in International Companies doing “Strategies for Market Entry and Business Success” business or planning business activities in China and “Practical Insights from China”. It covers a variety Location in bookstore: Business/Management

October 2006 The Value of RFID Technology and the EPCglobal Network ISBN 3-540-35654-1 Unique Identification in Supply Chain Management Approx. $79.95 Edmund W. Schuster, Massachusetts Institute of Approx. 330 p. Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Stuart J. Allen, way communication within supply chains by merging Hardcover Pennsylvania State University - The Behrend College, information with physical goods. The EPCglobal Erie, PA, USA; David L. Brock, Massachusetts Institute of Network uses the Internet to transmit data gathered Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA from RFID tags as well as a sophisticated information infrastructure designed at MIT. This book explores The EPCglobal Network and RFID technology, the essentials of RFID and the EPCglobal Network initially developed by the Massachusetts Institute from the perspective of a practitioner that needs to of Technology (MIT) and licensed in October 2003 make business decisions concerning the adoption of to Global Standards I (GS1), holds great promise the technology. The perspective is from the supply for transforming business through the use of low- chain management standpoint with emphasis on case cost, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to studies and new thinking about the subject. improve information flow and productivity. Through the placement of tags on individual items, cases, and Market: Practitioners pallets, RFID Technology will provide instant two- Location in bookstore: Management

September 2006 Regional Economic Development ISBN 3-540-34826-3 Analysis and Planning Strategy $74.95 Second Edition 451 p. Robert J. Stimson, University of Queensland, St. Softcover Lucia, QLD, Australia; Roger R. Stough, George Mason First, the book provides the reader with an overview University, Fairfax, VA, USA; Brian H. Roberts, University of key theoretical and conceptual contexts within Second Edition of Canberra, ACT, Australia which the economic development process takes place. (Replaces 3-540-43731-2) However, the deliberate emphasis is to provide the The second edition of this book is completely re-edited, reader with an account of quantitative and qualitative making the book even more valuable for graduate approaches to regional economic analysis and of old students, reflecting recent advances and adding and new strategic frameworks for formulating regional insightful new material. The book is about the analysis economic development planning. of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for local and Market: Students and Scientists regional economic development policy and planning. Location in bookstore: Business/Economics

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The Economics of Casino Gambling January 2007 ISBN 3-540-35102-7 Douglas M. Walker, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, GDP), employment, and tax revenues. However, Approx. $89.95 USA these benefits have been questioned. Does casino Approx. 225 p. expansion simply “cannibalize” other industries, Hardcover Casino gambling has spread throughout the world, having no net effect? Or does casino gambling and continues to spread. As governments try to have significant positive economic impacts?The cope with fiscal pressures, legalized casinos offer a Economics of Casino Gambling is a comprehensive possible source of additional tax revenue. But casino discussion of the social and economic costs gambling is often controversial, as some people and benefits of legalized gambling. It is the only have moral objections to gambling. In addition, a comprehensive discussion of these issues available small percentage of the population may become on the market. pathological gamblers who may create significant social costs. On the benefits side, casinos are often Market: Scientists, Researchers, Policy-makers purported to spur economic growth (increases in Location in bookstore: Business/Economics

Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry November 2006 Theory, Fundamentals and Chemical Metrology ISBN 3-540-35988-5 Approx. $109.00 Klaus Danzer, Jena, Germany results are discussed and quantified, such as sensitivity, Approx. 320 p. 170 illus. Usually, fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry precision, accuracy and ruggedness. Elements of signal Hardcover are presented as a sum of chemical and physical theory, information theory, statistics and fundamentals foundations, laws, axioms and equation for analytical of calibration are also presented for this aim. The methods and procedures. In contrast, this book delivers metrological foundations included define strictly the a practice-oriented, general guiding theory valid for all figures of merit in order to minimize confusions still methods and techniques. Starting with a closer look appearing in Analytical Chemistry publications today. to analytical signals and their dependencies, all the important figures of merit characterizing the power of Market: Students and Researchers analytical procedures and the reliability of analytical Location in bookstore: Chemistry

Wine Microbiology Practical Applications and Procedures October 2006 Second Edition ISBN 0-387-33341-X Approx. $79.00 Kenneth C. Fugelsang, California State University, Approx. 380 p. Fresno, CA, USA; Charles G. Edwards, Washington State of Wine Microbiology builds upon the foundation University, Pullman, WA, USA of its highly successful predecessor with emphasis Hardcover on modern molecular methods. Among changes Winemaking from the vineyard to shipment of bottled and additions are additional micrographs, a chapter Second Edition product is a series of challenges for the winemaking on laboratory safety, and a collection of laboratory (Replaces 0-412-06611-4) staff. The introductory narrative is designed be an methods. overview, from the wine microbiologist’s point of view, of those critical junctures in the process (CCPs) that Market: Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Professi- are of concern in wine quality as well as intervention/ onals, Microbiologists, Winemasters control programs to address them. The second edition Location in bookstore: Chemistry

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October 2006 Compendium of Chemical Warfare Agents ISBN 0-387-34626-0 Steven L. Hoenig, Florida Department of Health, Miami, Approx. $99.00 FL, USA chemicals such as nerve agents, vesicants and other Approx. 285 p. 94 illus. chemical warfare agents may be the new weapons Hardcover In his book, Compendium of Chemical Warfare of choice among terrorist groups throughout the Agents, author Steven L. Hoenig provides all the world and the latest addition to the “poor man‘s necessary information that First Responders, arsenal of opportunity”–a grave concern for all First Hospitals, HazMat Teams, Fire and Rescue Services, Responders and Emergency Management personnel. and other First Responders need to know when The Compendium of Chemical Warfare Agents dealing with dangerous chemical agents. Coverage furnishes the critical information to deal with includes health effects, physical characteristics, and this threat. hazards from reactivity, protection of personnel, and general first aid for each agent. The book Market: First Responders, Hospitals, HazMat Teams, Fire provides quick and easy access to critical data and Rescue Services on chemical warfare agents, both at the scene of Location in bookstore: Chemistry release and in the laboratory. Today, highly lethal

September 2006 Radioanalytical Chemistry ISBN 0-387-34122-6 Bernd Kahn, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, $89.95 GA, USA (Ed.) radioanalytical techniques. Its emphasis on the Approx. 600 p. 100 illus., 3 in color. practical aspects on laboratory setup and operation Hardcover This work, by one of the most prominent make it a valuable tool for training professionals and investigators in the field, is a comprehensive and students alike. much-needed tool for the teaching and practice of radioanalytical chemistry. Its scope encompasses Market: Senior Undergraduate and Graduate Students in a concise theoretical background, laboratory Radiochemistry; Practicing Radiochemists work, and data interpretation; as well as chapters Location in bookstore: Chemistry on the most current and visible applications of

November 2006 Essays in Brewing Science ISBN 0-387-33010-0 Michael J. Lewis, Charles W. Bamforth, University of $59.95 California, Davis, CA, USA essential operation. However, brewers think about all Approx. 177 p. of the stages in the process that might affect a single Softcover Essays in Brewing Science is an original and property, such as beer color. Alternatively brewers comprehensive examination of brewing from the might ponder the influence of such affective agents perspective of a real brewer. Brewing texts generally as modification or oxygen throughout the process. use a sequential barley-beer-bottle organization that takes the reader systematically through the various Market: Brewers and Students of the subject, both stages of beer-making in a logical and informative Professional and Amateur way. This approach adequately communicates the Location in bookstore: Chemistry

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Name Reactions September 2006 A Collection of Detailed Reaction Mechanisms ISBN 3-540-30030-9 Third Edition $89.95 652 p. Jie J. Li, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbour, MI, USA chemists who discovered or developed those name Hardcover reactions have been included. Furthermore, the The third edition of this book on name reactions subject index is significantly expanded. Third Edition contains major improvements over the previous (Replaces 3-540-40203-9) edition. In addition to updated references, each Market: Graduate and Senior Undergraduate Students, reaction is now supplemented with two to three Scientists in Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and representative examples in synthesis to showcase Biochemistry its synthetic utility. Biographical sketches for the Location in bookstore: Chemistry

Electron Microscopy of Polymers February 2007 ISBN 3-540-36350-5 G. Michler, Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Ed.) properties, particulary micromechanical properties, Approx. $109.00 There are many books on electron microscopy, is described in detail. Examples from all classes of Approx. 250 p. however, the study of polymers by EM needs special polymers are presented. Hardcover techniques, precautions and preparation methods, including ultramicrotomy. General characteristics of Market: Practitioners, Scientists and Lecturers in Polymer the different techniques of EM, including scanning Science, Materials Science, Macromolecular Chemistry, force microscopy (AFM), are given. Application and in the Chemical Industry of these techniques to study morphology and also Location in bookstore: Chemistry

Computer Science

Decrypted Secrets September 2006 Methods and Maxims of Cryptology ISBN 3-540-24502-2 Fourth Edition $99.00 Approx. 490 p. Friedrich L. Bauer, Munich Institute of Technology, München, Germany has become a standard book on cryptology. This 4th Hardcover edition has again been revised and extended in many The first part of this book treats secret codes and technical and biographical details. Fourth Edition their uses - cryptography. The second part deals with the process of covertly decrypting a secret From the reviews of the previous edition 7 “The best code - cryptanalysis - where in particular advice on single book on cryptology today.” 7 Cryptologia assessing methods is given. The book presupposes only elementary mathematical knowledge. Spiced Market: Scientists, Students and Practitioners in Applied with a wealth of exciting, amusing, and sometimes Mathematics, Computer Science and IT, and the personal stories from the history of cryptology, it General Reader will also interest general readers. Decrypted Secrets Location in bookstore: Computer Science

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December 2006 Security Issues in Ad-Hoc Networks ISBN 0-387-24433-6 Mike Burmester, Alec Yasinsac, Florida State University, $89.95 Tallahassee, FL, USA cryptographic mechanisms, and by exploiting Approx. 200 p. 20 illus. particular aspects of wireless communication. This Hardcover Ad-hoc networks are dynamic collections of self- book is designed for practitioners and researchers organizing mobile wireless nodes with links that in industry, and for advanced-level students in change in unpredictable ways. This professional computer science and electrical engineering. reference work investigates security issues of ad- hoc networks. The book shows that it is possible to Market: Practitioners and Researchers in Industry achieve secure communication in ad hoc networks Location in bookstore: Computer Science in a strong security model using appropriate

December 2006 Introduction to Discrete Event Systems ISBN 0-387-33332-0 Second Edition $89.95 Christos G. Cassandras, Boston University, MA, USA; Approx. 904 pages Stephane Lafortune, The University of Michigan, diagnosis of discrete event systems, decentralized Hardcover Ann Arbor, USA supervisory control, and interval-based timed automata and hybrid automata models. This Second Edition Introduction to Discrete Event Systems is a textbook is valuable to advanced-level students and (Replaces 0-7923-8609-4) comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete researchers in a variety of disciplines where the event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that study of discrete event systems is relevant: control, Previously Announced makes the material accessible to readers of varied communications, computer engineering, computer backgrounds. The book emphasizes a unified science, manufacturing engineering, operations modeling framework that transcends specific research, and industrial engineering. application areas, linking the following topics in a coherent manner: language and automata theory, Market: Advanced-level Students, and Researchers supervisory control, Petri net theory, Markov chains in Control, Communications, Computer Engineering, and queuing theory, discrete-event simulation, and Computer Science, Manufacturing Engineering, concurrent estimation techniques. This edition Operations Research, and Industrial Engineering includes recent research results pertaining to the Location in bookstore: Computer Science

November 2006 Ontology Learning and Population from Text ISBN 0-387-30632-3 Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications $99.00 Phillipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Approx. 350 p. 20 illus. text clustering and classification, as well as natural Hardcover In the last decade, ontologies have received language processing. The book is structured for much attention within computer science and research scientists and practitioners in industry. This related disciplines, most often as the semantic book is also suitable for graduate-level students in web. Ontology Learning and Population from computer science. Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications discusses ontologies for the semantic web, as well Market: Research Scientists as knowledge management, information retrieval, Location in bookstore: Computer Science

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Data Mining December 2006 Knowledge Discovery Methods ISBN 0-387-33333-9 $79.95 Krzysztof J. Cios, University of Colorado at Denver, CO, Approx. 505 p. USA; Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Furthermore, it contains extensive mathematical AB, Canada; Roman W. Swiniarski, San Diego State appendices of relevant material and includes a Hardcover University, San Diego, CA, USA; Lukasz Andrzej Kurgan, chapter on the hot topic of semi-supervised learning. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada The authors’ experience and expertise ensure that Previously Announced this text will be an authoritative instructional tool. This comprehensive textbook on data mining details Researchers, practitioners and students are certain the unique steps of the knowledge discovery process to consider this text an indispensable resource in - an industry standard that prescribes the sequence successfully accomplishing the goals of their data in which projects should be performed, from data mining projects. understanding and preprocessing to deployment of the results. This knowledge discovery approach is Market: Advanced-level Students, Researchers and what distinguishes Data Mining from other texts in Practitioners in Computer Science this area. The book provides exercises and solutions Location in bookstore: Computer Science and includes links to instructional presentations.

Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems December 2006 Second Edition ISBN 0-387-33254-5 $99.00 Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, theory and applications of MOEAs. There are Approx. 700 p. With CD-ROM. Departamento de Ingenieria Eléctrica, México D.F., numerous exercises and solutions, along with a Hardcover Mexico; David A. Van Veldhuizen, AFMC/DR, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA; Gary B. Lamont, Air CD-ROM containing teaching tools, a repository Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, Dayton, OH, USA of bibliographic references, and a Pareto-front generating software. Second Edition This is an excellent senior undergraduate- and (Replaces 0-306-46762-3) graduate-level textbook for courses on Evolutionary Market: Students, Researchers and Computer and Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation Scientists working in Evolutionary Computation, and Artificial Intelligence, presenting recent state- Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence of-the-art results along with an overview of the Location in bookstore: Computer Science

Exploring the Web March 2007 Visualizing Semantics, Services, and Applications ISBN 0-387-21891-2 Approx. $69.95 Dov Dori, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel between human beings and machines. Web Approx. 350 p. 125 illus. application developers, software engineers, and Softcover This book examines the principles underlying web Internet-based system architects will find the book design, the technologies that support its operations, an essential resource in their work. and a host of web applications. The material covers web fundamentals and XML, Web Services, the Market: Researchers and Professionals in Software Engi- Semantic Web, and an array of applications. It goes neering, Systems Architecture, Analysis and Design, and beyond major web developments by demonstrating Modeling and Simulation how the Semantic Web facilitates joint interaction Location in bookstore: Computer Science

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November 2006 Network: From Biology to Theory ISBN 1-84628-485-6 Jianfeng Feng, Warwick University, Coventry, UK; $99.00 Jürgen Jost, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in mathematics. The contributors are leading experts Approx. 550 p. the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Qian Minping, Peking in their own fields, but with a common interest. Hardcover University, China (Eds.) It serves as a foundation to artificial intelligence (neuroinformatics). The is the first book in this rapidly evolving area, covering mathematical theory and applications Market: Final Year Undergraduates, Graduates, of mathematical theory to biology. It is a Researchers true interdisciplinary book with contributors Location in bookstore: Computer Science from biology, computer science, physics and

September 2006 Enabling Semantic Web Services ISBN 3-540-34519-1 The Web Service Modeling Ontology $44.95 Dieter Fensel, Holger Lausen, DERI, Innsbruck, Austria; Approx. 192p. Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, from basic concepts to possible applications in Hardcover Spain; Jos de Bruijn, Michael Stollberg, Dumitru e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, and Roman, DERI, Innsbruck, Austria; John Domingue, they also describe its relation to other approaches The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK like OWL-S or WSDL-S. While many of the related technologies and standards are still under Service-oriented computing has become one of development, this book already offers both a broad the predominant factors in current IT research conceptual introduction and lots of pointers to and development. Dieter Fensel and his coauthors future application scenarios for researchers in deliver a profound introduction into one of the most academia and industry as well as for developers of promising approaches – the Web Service Modeling distributed Web applications. Ontology (WSMO). After a brief presentation of the underlying basic technologies and standards of Market: Researchers in Academia and Industry, and Web the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web, and Web Service Developers Services, they detail all the elements of WSMO Location in bookstore: Computer Science

November 2006 Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information ISBN 1-84628-506-2 Roy Frieden, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; $99.00 Robert A. Gatenby, Arizona Health Sciences Center, complex computational systems. Not only does Approx. 400 p. Tucson, AZ, USA (Eds.) information characterize the amount and quality of Hardcover their data, but–much more basically–it can be used This book uses a mathematical approach to deriving to analytically determine how the data arises out of the laws of science and technology that is based the system, by the EPI principle. The book can be upon the concept of Fisher information. The profitably read by someone whose level of math is approach that follows from these ideas is called the at the level of an undergraduate degree in science or principle of Extreme Physical Information (EPI). It engineering. is shown how to use EPI to determine the theoretical input–output laws of unknown systems. Depending Market: Researchers, Practitioners, and Students upon the system, these laws can be deterministic Location in bookstore: Computer Science or stochastic and applicable to data used in many

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Network Security Policies and Procedures October 2006 ISBN 0-387-30937-3 Douglas W. Frye, Principal, SkilledAnalytics.com, Alexandria, VA, USA introduces the technical issues surrounding security $125.00 as well as how security policies are formulated at Approx. 300 p. 50 illus. Company network administrators are compelled the executive level and communicated throughout Hardcover today to aggressively pursue a robust network the organization. Readers will gain a better security regime. Network Security Policies and understanding of how their colleagues on “the other Procedures aims to give the reader a strong, multi- side of the fence” view the company’s security and disciplinary understanding of how to pursue this will thus be better equipped to act in a way that goal. The book is intended for both technical and forwards the company’s goals. management professionals interested in learning how security manifests itself throughout all levels Market: Network Administrators, Technical and Manage- of an organization. The book is also suitable for ment Professionals involved in Information Security, advanced-level students in computer science and Research Scientists electrical engineering. This professional volume Location in bookstore: Computer Science

Cognitive Research January 2007 A Formal Approach ISBN 3-540-43058-X $69.95 Tamas Gergely, Applied Logic Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary; Oleg M. Anshakov, Russian State University of inference: context dependent induction, causal Approx. 300 pp. for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia; Victor K. Finn, analogy and a new formalization of abduction. Hardcover Sergei O. Kuznetsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Special many valued logics with constructive Moscow, Russia generation of truth values provide efficient tools to handle uncertainty similarly to fuzzy logic. A The authors describe the theory, methodology and method of automatic iterative hypotheses generation algorithmisation of a new approach. In doing so, is proposed by the use of cognitive reasoning. they explain some of its applications realized in the form of intelligent systems, e.g. for sociology and Market: Scientists and Researchers in the field, Graduates life sciences. The main subject developed in the Location in bookstore: Computer Science book is cognitive reasoning integrating three types

Finite Model Theory and Its Applications January 2007 ISBN 3-540-00428-9 Erich Grädel, RWTH Aachen, Germany; P.G. Kolaitis, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; L. Libkin, problems. The final chapter provides a concise modern $59.95 University of Toronto, Canada; M. Marx, University introduction to modal logic, which emphasizes the Approx. 300 p. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; J. Spencer, Courant continuity in spirit and technique with finite model Hardcover Institute, New York, USA; Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, theory. Students of logic and computer science will Houston, TX, USA; Y. Venema, University of Amsterdam, find here the tools necessary to embark on research in The Netherlands; Scott Weinstein, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA finite model theory, and all readers will experience the excitement of a vibrant area of application of logic to This book gives a broad overview of core topics of finite computer science. model theory: expressive power, descriptive complexity, and zero-one laws, together with selected applications Market: Lecturers, Graduate and Undergraduate to database theory and artificial intelligence, especially, Students constraint databases and constraint satisfaction Location in bookstore: Computer Science

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February 2007 The LaTeX Book ISBN 0-387-32289-2 A Guide for Documentation and Presentation Approx. $49.95 George Grätzer, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Approx. 610 p. 80 illus. Canada both the simpler FoilTex package and the more Softcover sophisticated Beamer package. Rounding out this The LaTeX Book is for the professional or student book is a major revision to the amsart document who needs to quickly learn how to write and typeset class. This comprehensive and up-to-date guide is using LaTeX or wants to advance their LaTeX the result of over two centuries of LaTeX experience. knowledge in order to write articles, books or As Grätzer began as a user of LaTeX, he writes from presentations containing mathematical formulas. a user’s perspective, making this guide accessible to As a spin-off of Grätzer’s well-receivedMath into the beginner and rewarding to the more experienced LaTeX, this book retains the simple, example-based, LaTeX user. visual approach, with sample articles to demonstrate the basic structure of LaTeX and AMS articles. Market: Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Typeset- This book includes a new chapter on implementing ters, Computer Scientists, Math Instructors, Researchers, LaTeX on multiple platforms and an entirely new Publishers, Scientific Writers, Authors, Editors section on creating presentations; he discusses Location in bookstore: Computer Science

December 2006 Parsing Techniques ISBN 0-387-20248-X Second Edition Approx. $75.00 Dick Grune, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs, Vrije Universiteit, Approx. 510 p. 125 illus. and developers can be found in several professions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hardcover including compiler designers, writers of input- transforming software such as Web browsers, Second Edition The book aims to explain nontrivial algorithms PostScript interpreters and compression programs, that are based in formal language theory to people and designers of linguistic systems. who are more interested in designing and writing software with a high algorithmic content than they Market: Researchers and Advanced-level Students are in formal language theory. Such researchers Location in bookstore: Computer Science

January 2007 Security in Networked Embedded Systems ISBN 1-84628-552-6 Stephen Hailes, Alexandr Seleznyov, University College Approx. $79.95 London, UK (Eds.) such as technical, social, ethical, etc. The authors Approx. 300 p. consider potential solution on different levels Softcover This book examines the issue of security across (application, network, middleware, etc). Written to the logical layers of a network embedded system– educate potential developers and researchers in the adopting both technological and sociological area of ubiquitous computing, this book informs perspectives. The authors take a holistic approach to about the real issues in security as viewed from a discussing security in network embedded systems systematic perspective, with further issues in social built on widespread experience from research acceptability as a natural consequence of the nature projects practical deployments, involving authors of the technology–this is essential reading for from both academic and industrial backgrounds. graduates and practitioners. The book concentrates on the main problem of technology–how to make it acceptably secure. This Market: Researchers, Graduates, Practitioners problem is considered from different perspectives, Location in bookstore: Computer Science

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Parallel Coordinates February 2007 ISBN 0-387-21507-7 Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel Included in a CD are visualizations of key topics and Approx. $69.95 Parallel coordinates has emerged as the leading examples, cross-referenced with the text, designed for 100 illus. methodology for multidimensional visualization. interactive classroom lectures and individual study. Hardcover with CD-Rom Starting from the geometrical foundations, here is a systematic and rigorous exposition of the Market: Advanced Students, Computer Scientists, methodology’s mathematical and algorithmic Computer Engineers, Statisticians components. Exercises range from the basics to Location in bookstore: Computer Science advanced project topics and open research questions.

An Introduction to Knowledge Engineering September 2006 ISBN 1-84628-475-9 Simon Kendal, Malcolm Creen, University of book has been successfully used by undergraduates Approx. $64.95 Sunderland, UK around the world. It is aimed at undergraduates 264 p., 33 illus. and a strong math background is not required. It is Softcover The authors use a refreshing and novel ‘workbook’ beneficial for undergraduate/postgraduate students writing style which gives the book a very practical in computing science and related disciplines. and easy to use feel. It includes methodologies for the development of hybrid information systems, Market: Undergraduate/postgraduate Students in covers neural networks; case based reasoning Computing Science and related disciplines including and genetic algorithms as well as expert systems. Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Numerous pointers to web based resources and Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Cybernetics current research are also included. The content of the Location in bookstore: Computer Science

The Structure of Paintings August 2006 ISBN 3-211-35739-4 Michael Leyton, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. USA memory storage allow the systematic and rigorous Approx. $49.95 mapping not only of the compositional structure Approx. 220 p. 153 illus., Michael Leyton has developed new foundations for of a painting, but also of its emotional expression. 13 in color. geometry in which shape is equivalent to memory The argument is supported by detailed analyses of Softcover storage. A principal argument of these foundations paintings by Picasso, Raphael, Cezanne, Gauguin, is that artworks are maximal memory stores. The Modigliani, Ingres, De Kooning, Memling, Balthus theory of geometry is developed from Leyton’s and Holbein. fundamental laws of memory storage, and this book shows that these laws determine the structure of Market: Researchers, Students, Practitioners in Computer paintings. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that Science and Engineering the emotion expressed by a painting is actually the Location in bookstore: Computer Science memory extracted by the laws. Therefore, the laws of

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December 2006 Process Assessment and Improvement ISBN 0-387-30044-9 A Practical Guide for Managers, Quality Professionals and Assessors Approx. $95.00 Second Edition Approx. 350 p. Han van Loon, Walchwil, Switzerland Hardcover process improvement. The book details the costs of This second edition presents an updated version of the poor quality and the benefits of improvement for Second Edition practical aspects of process assessments and includes organizations involved in software and IT. It includes (Replaces 0-387-23281-X) new risk methods. This book provides a powerful industry experience using the standard as well as and practical approach to improving an organization useful examples, templates, and tools. through process assessment, combined with people factors such as organizational culture and team based Market: Professionals, Practitioners in Industry and improvement. It covers the three major business Researchers reasons for process assessment including setting Location in bookstore: Computer Science target profiles, process capability determination, and

February 2007 Emergence of Communication and Language ISBN 1-84628-491-0 Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, University of $99.00 to the ways in which disparate disciplines can Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK; Angelo Cangelosi, University Approx. 400 p. stimulate each other, this book examines the role of Plymouth, UK (Eds.) Hardcover of simulations as a novel way to express theories in This book brings together work on the emergence science, and their contribution to the development of communication language drawing on diverse of a new approach to the study of the emergence disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, of communication and language. Worldwide neuroscience, anthropology and computer science. contributors report on the results at the forefront of Computational simulations of the emergence of this interdisciplinary field and deliver state-of-the- phenomena associated with communication and art research and essential reading for researchers and language play a key role in illuminating some of the graduates. most significant issues, and the renewed scientific interest in language emergence has benefited greatly Market: Researchers, Lecturers, Graduates from research in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Location in bookstore: Computer Science Science. Starting with a road map chapter pointing

December 2006 Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV ISBN 0-387-33375-4 Rick Riolo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Approx. $99.00 Terence Soule, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA; application areas including chemical process Approx. 350 p. Bill Worzel, Genetics Squared, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Eds.) control, circuit design, financial data mining and Hardcover bioinformatics, to name just a few. This volume Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV is the result of an extensive dialog between GP was developed from the fourth workshop at the theoreticians and practitioners, and is a unique University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of and indispensable tool for both academics and Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas industry professionals involved in GP, evolutionary and information related to the rapidly advancing computation, machine learning and artificial field of Genetic Programming (GP). The text intelligence. provides a cohesive view of the issues facing both practitioners and theoreticians, and examines the Market: Researchers, Practitioners and Students of synergy between GP theory and application. The Genetic Programming foremost international researchers and practitioners Location in bookstore: Computer Science in the GP arena contributed to the volume, exploring 26 springer.com/booksellers New and Forthcoming Computer Science

Automatic Quantum Computer Programming December 2006 A Genetic Programming Approach ISBN 0-387-36496-X Approx. $49.95 Lee Spector, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA along with several examples of their human- Approx. 165 p. Automatic Quantum Computer Programming competitive performance on specific problems. Softcover is an introduction both to quantum computing for non-physicists and to genetic programming for Market: Researchers and Professionals in the fields non-computer-scientists. The book explores several of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Quantum ways in which genetic programming can support Computing, and Artificial Intelligence automatic quantum computer programming and Location in bookstore: Computer Science presents detailed descriptions of specific techniques,

Fast Algorithms for Stereo Matching January 2007

Changming Sun, CSIRO, North Ryde, NSW, Australia ISBN 0-387-95424-4 Approx. $55.00 An ongoing effort is being made in the field of include: fast algorithms for similarity measure, use Approx. 290 pp. 70 illus. computer vision to refine algorithms for optimal/ of subregioning technique to expedite similarity Hardcover better performance, which can mean reliability calculation, multiresolution scheme, fast 3-D surface and increased computational speed. Such fast technique for stereo matching, and stereo matching algorithms are becoming increasingly important using warping. for tele-reality, interactive media and visual serving applications. This book presents some fast and Market: Professionals, Researchers reliable algorithms for dense stereo matching and Location in bookstore: Computer Science optical-flow estimations. Techniques described

On-Line Business Security Systems January 2007 ISBN 0-387-35771-8 Godfried B. Williams, University of East London, UK networks. This professional book also presents a Approx. $89.00 On-Line Business Security Systems applies the model and simulation on an integrated approach to Approx. 250 p. concept of synchronization to security of global security and risk known as (SSTM) Service Server Hardcover heterogeneous and hetero-standard systems by Transmission Model. The book is designed for modeling the relationship of risk access spots (RAS) both a professional and an academic audience. This between advanced and developing economies includes researchers and practitioners in industry, as network platforms. The proposed model is more well as graduate students studying network security effective in securing the electronic security gap and risk/security management. between these economies with reference to real life applications, such as electronic fund transfer Market: Professionals in electronic business. This process involves the Location in bookstore: Computer Science identification of vulnerabilities on communication

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March 2007 Visual Languages and Applications ISBN 0-387-29813-4 Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Approx. $99.00 TX, USA provides an in-depth treatment of visual language Approx. 300 p. generation and wide coverage of successful, as well as Hardcover Visual Languages and Applications is a potential applications. Pointers to related topics and comprehensive introduction to diagrammatical visual further readings are also provided. languages. This book covers the underlying theory of graph grammars to the applications in various Market: Professionals in Industry domains. Visual Languages and Applications Location in bookstore: Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

July 2006 Platform Based Design at the Electronic System Level ISBN 1-4020-5137-9 Industry Perspectives and Experiences Approx. $109.95 Mark Burton, GreenSocs Ltd., France; Adam Morawiec, Approx. 200 p. ECSI, Grenoble, France (Eds.) a comprehensive picture of the current “interfaces” Hardcover between the platform providers and users, defined by Platform Based Design at the Electronic System technical requirements, current design methodology Level presents a multi-faceted view of the set of and flows, standards, and finally by the business problems that the electronic industry currently context and relationships. These producer-consumer faces in the development and integration of shared “interfaces” enable the exchange of data complex heterogeneous systems (including both between both parties to ensure design efficiency, hardware and software components). It analyses high productivity and best use of domain-specific and proposes solutions related to the provision of expertise and knowledge. integration platforms by SoC and IP providers in light of the needs and requirements expressed by Market: SoC Developers, Platform Providers, System the system companies: they are the users of such Engineers, Modelers, IP Developers, IP Integrators platforms which they apply to develop their next Location in bookstore: Engineering generation products. Further, the book tries to draw

November 2006 Design for Manufacturability and Yield for Nano-Scale CMOS ISBN 1-4020-5187-5 Charles Chiang, Jamil Kawa, Synopsys Inc., Mountain Approx. $129.95 View, CA, USA lithography artifacts through place and route, CMP Approx. 250 p. model based simulation and dummy-fill insertion, Hardcover Manufacturability and yield are no longer and through statistical timing closure of the design. fabrication, packaging, and test concerns. They It alerts the designer to the pitfalls to watch for and are aspects that have to be designed in, and to the good practices that can enhance a design’s they are everybody’s responsibility. Design for manufacturability and yield. A must read book for Manufacturability and Yield for Nano-Scale the serious designer. CMOS walks the reader through all the aspects of manufacturability and yield in a nano-CMOS Market: ASIC/ SOC Designers, EDA R&D Engineers, process. It addresses each aspect at the proper design Professors and Graduate Students step starting with the layout of standard cells and Location in bookstore: Engineering how to yield-grade libraries for critical area and

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Modern Circuit Placement February 2007 Best Practices and Results ISBN 0-387-36837-X Approx. $129.00 Jason Cong, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA; Gi-Joon Nam, IBM Austin Research the placement process, stands in the center of Approx. 275 p. Laboratory, Austin, Texas, USA (Eds.) interconnect optimization. It will have three unique Hardcover characteristics compared against other books on This book will cover the advanced techniques in design automation or physical design: 1) focusing placement which is known as one of the most solely on most recent placement techniques; 2) important components of physical design flow Comprehensiveness; 3) (Indirect) comparison in VLSI design. Physical design addresses the among techniques and 4) Optimality analysis. back-end layout stage of chip design process. As the technology scales down, the importance of Market: Academic Researchers and Industrial Developers interconnect optimization becomes more important working in Design Automation than ever, and physical design, particularly Location in bookstore: Engineering

Adaptive Filtering March 2007 Algorithms and Practical Implementation ISBN 0-387-31274-9 Third Edition Approx. $99.00 Approx. 650 p. (with CD-ROM) Paulo S.R. Diniz, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil solve new problems and test all of the algorithms Hardcover in a fast manner. Additionally, the book provides This book presents the basic concepts of adaptive easy access to working algorithms for practicing signal processing and adaptive filtering in a engineers. Provided for instructors is a set of master Third Edition concise and straightforward manner. The main transparencies as well as a MATLAB Package (Replaces 1-4020-7125-6) classes’ adaptive filtering algorithms are presented including the MATLAB codes for all the algorithms Previously Announced in a unified framework using clear notations described in the text. The book is accompanied by a that facilitate actual implementation. This book CD including the ancillary material for instructors covers the family of LMS and algorithms as well and/or students. as set-membership, sub-band, blind, IIR adaptive filtering, and more. Several problems are included Market: Graduate-level Students studying Adaptive at the end of chapters and some of these problems Filtering address applications. A user-friendly MATLAB Location in bookstore: Engineering package is provided where the reader can easily

CMOS and BiCMOS Process Integration and March 2007 Device Characterization ISBN 0-387-36798-5 Approx. $129.00 Badih El-Kareh, Texas Instruments, USA techniques and technology to help professional Approx. 350 p. This book includes discussion of silicon materials engineers in the field understand and develop Hardcover and electrical engineering properties as used in the electrical components. design of analog components. Due to the author’s background at Texas Instruments, the book will Market: Professional Circuit Design Engineers have an emphasis on newer process integration Location in bookstore: Engineering

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Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Technologies November 2006 Frank Ellinger, Dresden, Germany ISBN 3-540-35788-2 millimeter wave WLAN are discussed, which require Approx. $89.95 The striking feature ofRadio Frequency Integrated enhanced circuit system topologies and components. Approx. 400 p. Circuits and Technologies is its coverage of Among these novel ICs are e.g. multi-band circuits, Hardcover the upper GHz domain. It deals with design, pulse generators and bulk acoustic wave filters. optimization and modeling of high-speed circuits Design examples are provided including cookbook- on advanced technologies and addresses the latest like optimization strategies. The circuits represent silicon based technologies such as aggressively scaled the state-of-the-art making the book very valuable CMOS, HBT BiCMOS, silicon on insulator (SOI), for researchers as well as for engineers in industry. strained silicon, double gate field effect transistors, low-k, MEMS, etc. as well as the corresponding Market: Students in Electrical Engineering, Electrical enhancements in terms of circuit and system design. Engineers, Researchers In addition to existing communication standards, Location in bookstore: Engineering novel standards such as ultra-wideband (UWB) and

September 2006 Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Seamless Communications ISBN 1-4020-5065-8 Liljana Gavrilovska, University Sts. Kiril and Metodij, $99.00 Skopje, Macedonia; Ramjee Prasad, CTIF, Aalborg penetration of these networks will depend on the Approx. 350 p. University, Denmark successful resolution of key features and problems. Hardcover Ad-hoc networks pose many complex and open Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Seamless problems for researchers. The book reveals the Communications is dedicated to an area that state-of-the-art in wireless ad-hoc networking and concentrates on wireless ad hoc networking discusses some of the key research topics that are paradigm. The persistent efforts to acquire the expected to promote and accelerate the commercial ability to establish dynamic wireless connections applications of these networks (e.g., MAC, routing, from anywhere to anyone with any device without QoS, optimization issues, service discovery, traffic prerequisite imbedded infrastructure move the models, mobility, handovers, security). communications boundaries towards ad-hoc networks. Recently, ad hoc networking has attracted Market: Master’s Students, Ph.D. Candidates, Researchers growing interest due to advances in wireless from Academia and Industries, Educators communications, and developed framework for Location in bookstore: Engineering running IP based protocols. The expected degree of

October 2006 Physical Design Essentials ISBN 0-387-36642-3 ASIC Design Implementation Perspective Approx. $129.00 Khosrow Golshan, Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Approx. 300 p. Beach, CA, USA with general concepts of an ASIC library, then covers Hardcover floor planning, placement, routing, verification, and Physical Design Essentials is arranged in a format finally, testing. that follows the industry-common ASIC physical design flow. Its target audience is today’s physical Market: ASIC and Physical Designers, Design and design engineers or professionals in the ASIC area Business Manager involved with ASIC design, Process that are expected to be conversant with all aspects Engineers, Students studying EE and CS in the field of of ASIC design implementation stages including VLSI Architecture and Design Automation device processes, library development, place-and- Location in bookstore: Engineering route algorithms, verification and testing. It begins

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BioCMOS Technologies November 2006 ISBN 0-387-36836-1 Donhee Ham, Hakho Lee, Robert M. Westervelt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (Eds.) various biophenomena or to actuate biosystems. Approx. $129.00 These biolab-on-IC systems utilize the IC to facilitate Approx. 450 p. Today’s semiconductor integrated circuits can faster, repeatable, and standardized biological Hardcover contain over 100 million transistors, operate at GHz experiments at low cost with a small volume of speeds, process Gbyte data, and can be manufactured biological sample. The research activities in this inexpensively. These advantages have allowed ICs field are expected to enjoy substantial growth in the to become one of the most significant enabling foreseeable future. BioCMOS Technologies reviews technologies of this time, lying at the heart of today’s these exciting recent efforts in joining CMOS advanced computers, communication systems, technology with biology. and multimedia hardware. Lately, there has been a growing interest in exploiting the benefits of the ICs Market: Electrical Engineers, Bioengineers, Biophysicists, for areas outside of the traditional application spaces. Researchers in MEMS, BioMems, Microelectronics, One notable area is found in biology. Bioanalytical Microfluidics, Circuits and Systems instruments have been miniaturized on ICs to study Location in bookstore: Engineering

Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Analysis Systems November 2006 ISBN 0-387-28597-0 Steffen Hardt, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany; Friedhelm Schonfeld, Technische Universität, detailed orientation about the state of the art of the Approx. $129.00 Darmstadt, Germany (Eds.) microfluidic building blocks a Lab-on-a-Chip system Approx. 550 p. comprises. This book will be of interest to anyone Hardcover Microfluidic systems are devices that take advantage that is interested in the implementation of analysis of the enhanced control of small amounts of protocols in miniaturized systems. liquid having been enabled in the past few years. Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Market: Professionals and Researchers from Academia Analysis Systems addresses Lab-on-a-Chip devices, and Industry interested in the implementation of where the focus is on microfluidic technologies that Analysis Protocols in Miniaturized Systems have emerged in the past decade. In the context of Location in bookstore: Engineering discussing the latest research the book provides a

Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management January 2007 ISBN 0-387-27892-3 Alfred Olivier Hero, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,USA; Keith Kastella, General Dynamics Advanced These efforts have led to advances in theory and $125.00 Information Systems, Ypsilanti, MI, USA; David Castanon, implementation that have born some fruit in specific Approx. 400 p. Boston University, Boston, MA, USA; Doug Cochran, technology areas. For example, several promising Hardcover Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA (Eds.) new methods to approximate optimal multistage sensor management strategies for target tracking Active sensing is recognized as an enabling have been developed and an understanding of design technology for the next generation of agile, multi- challenges and performance tradeoffs is beginning modal, and multi-waveform sensor platforms to to emerge. This book introduces the area, takes stock efficiently perform tasks such as target detection, of these advances, and describes open problems and tracking, and identification. Recently, several challenges in order to advance the field. research programs at DARPA (SWARMS, ISP), ARO (MURI), and AFOSR (ATR MURI) have funded Market: Signal Processing Engineers, Control Engineers, efforts in areas related to active sensing. These and Radar Engineers resulted in focused efforts by several research groups Location in bookstore: Engineering in academia, government laboratories, and industry.

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March 2007 Carbon Nanotube Electronics ISBN 0-387-36833-7 Ali Javey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Jing Approx. $99.00 Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, substantial attention from the industrial and Approx. 350 p. MA, USA (Eds.) academic communities as it is considered to be a Hardcover serious contender for future electron based nano As the scaling limits of the conventional Si devices, potentially enabling faster and smaller technology is approached, many have pursued electronics. This book will provide the much needed alternative and revolutionary concepts as means complete guide to the field of nanotube electronics. to further improve the performance of future electronics. One such concept involves the Market: Industrial and Academic Researchers, Electrical integration of carbon nanotube building blocks Engineers, Materials Scientists, Physicists, and Advanced for active and passive components. The field of Graduate Students carbon nanotube electronics has recently received Location in bookstore: Engineering

March 2007 Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors ISBN 0-387-32473-9 Kouroush Kalantar-zadeh, RMIT University, Melbourne, Approx. $129.00 Victoria, Australia; Adrian Trinchi, CSIRO - Manufacturing The scope of the book includes: presentation of Approx. 500 p. and Infrastructure Technology, Highett, Victoria, terminologies and basics of sensors and transducers, Hardcover Australia; Wojtek Wlodarski, Benjamin Fry, RMIT a thorough explanation of quantum theory University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia related to nanostructures, growth, fabrication, and characterization of nano-structures such as This book is written as a reference for nanowires, nanotubes, quantum dots, quantum researchers and engineers working in sensor and wires, bio materials, and well-controlled nanotechnology fields. Presented are existing and nanostructures for sensing applications, as well new sensing methods, as well as advances in nano- as discussions of the synthesis and design of such materials and devices for sensing applications. materials in order to gain the understanding of novel The book aims to provide an interdisciplinary functional properties which can be obtained by approach, discussing chemical and physical nature impurity doping and surface modification. of nano materials/structure, state of-the-art of active and passive electronic and optoelectronic Market: Researchers and Engineers nanomaterials and devices for sensing applications. Location in bookstore: Engineering

February 2007 Qualitative Nonlinear Dynamics of Communication Networks ISBN 0-8176-4303-6 Vishwesh Kulkarni, University of Colorado at Boulder, Approx. $79.95 Boulder, CO examples, case studies, and recent results. It is a Approx. 220 pp., 50 illus. useful reference for graduate students, researchers, Hardcover Performance analysis of modern communication and practitioners in control, computer, electrical, systems has lead to a revision and sharpening of aerospace, and mechanical engineering, as well as for nonlinear stability analysis techniques developed applied mathematicians. over the last century. Applicability of such techniques involves a number of areas, including: Market: Control/computer Engineers, Applied process control systems, active queue management Mathematicians, Graduate Students, Professionals in data networks, air traffic control systems, and Location in bookstore: Engineering other branches of engineering. This book provides

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Dynamics of MEMS March 2007 ISBN 0-387-36800-0 Nicolae Lobontiu and provides an in-depth treatment of problems Approx. $99.00 Dynamics of MEMS is a textbook for upper- that involve reliable modeling, analysis and design. Approx. 400 p. undergraduate/graduate level students. It includes It serves as a textbook for graduate level students or Hardcover numerous solved examples together with the advanced undergraduates in MEMS. proposed problems. The material will also be of interest to researchers with a non-mechanical Market: Graduate Level Students or Advanced Under- background. The book offers a novel and systematic graduates in MEMS look into the domain and focuses on the mechanical Location in bookstore: Engineering domain, specifically the quasi-static sub-domain,

Solar Sailing February 2007 Technology, Dynamics and Mission Applications ISBN 3-540-25198-7 Second Edition Approx. $129.00 Approx. 400 p. Colin R. McInnes, University of Glasgow, UK particular emphasis on solar sail orbital dynamics and Hardcover Since the first edition of this text was published in includes a rigorous analysis of solar radiation pressure. 1999 and recognized as the definitive reference work The engineering design of solar sails is discussed in Second Edition on solar sailing, the field has moved on considerably. depth, along with practical mission applications. (Replaces 1-85233-102-X) The text assesses the benefits of solar sailing and comes to the inescapable conclusion that it offers a diverse Market: Space Scientists and Engineers, Intermediate- range of low-cost mission opportunities, many of level Undergraduates and Postgraduate Researchers which are impossible for any other type of conventional studying Space Science, Engineering, Propulsion and spacecraft. Introducing new ideas for solar sail orbits Trajectory Systems and mission applications since 1999, the author puts Location in bookstore: Engineering

Information and Communication Systems for Networked January 2007 Enterprises ISBN 1-84628-360-4 Infrastructures for Networked Production Systems and Business Approx. $109.00 Approx. 300 p. István Mezgár, CIM Research Laboratory, Computer and Hardcover Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of students in engineering, computer science and Sciences, Budapest, Hungary management studies as well as managers in industry and those interested in how modern technology is This book describes how networked enterprises changing the ways organizations perform. evolved and surveys new and emerging wired and wireless communication technologies. Unique to the Market: Graduate Students in Industrial Engineering and book is an analysis of the life cycle of a networked Information Technology; Researchers in Engineering; enterprise, including a description of every technology Management and IT faculties used. The book will be of use to researchers and Location in bookstore: Engineering

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April 2007 Polarization Effects in Semiconductors ISBN 0-387-36831-0 From Ab Initio Theory to Device Application Approx. $129.00 Colin Wood, US Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, Approx. 350 p. USA (Ed.) hexagonal semiconductors, growth of thin film Hardcover GaN, and GaN/AlGaN GaAlN/AlGaInN and other This book will present the latest understanding nitride, and SiC hetero-structures; graded structures of the solid physics, electronic implications and for distributed piezo-electric charge, electrical practical applications of the unique spontaneous and electronic characterization of polarization or pyro-electric polarization charge of hexagonal charge and charge distribution by scanning-probe semiconductors, and the piezo-electric effects in spectroscopy, gauge factors and strain effects. thin film hetero-structures, which are used in wide forbidden band gap sensor, electronic and opto- Market: Electrical Engineers; Electronics, Defense, electronic semiconductor devices. The book will Aerospace, and Power Distribution Companies cover ab initio theory of polarization in cubic and Location in bookstore: Engineering

Engineering

April 2007 Hybrid Hydrogen Systems for Stationary and ISBN 1-84628-466-X Transportation Applications Approx. $89.95 A Sustainable Pathway for Diversifying Our Energy Supply Approx. 300 p. Said Al-Hallaj, Kristofer Kiszynski, ChEE, Illinois Institute Hardcover of Technologies (IIT), Chicago, IL by discussing the fundamentals of renewable power generation, conversion and storage; presenting a Renewable energy technologies have been used on unique system optimization approach to hybrid a small scale for many years. Issues of intermittency hydrogen energy system design that minimizes cost and cost have prevented their wide-spread use and and maximizes reliability; introducing the benefits acceptance. Now, discussion and research aims to of hydrogen as an energy carrier in the context of move the current global fossil fuels economy to one sustainability. based on hydrogen. This book presents an original and comprehensive approach to hybrid energy Market: Senior undergraduate and postgraduate system optimization providing a much-needed students, lecturers, researchers systems approach to hydrogen energy applications, Location in bookstore: Engineering

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Design Practice January 2007 The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design ISBN 1-84628-391-4 Approx. $74.95 James Armstrong, Royal Academy of Engineering hydro electric scheme–Brazil, Toyota–Hybrid car Approx. 180 p. Design is the essential component of engineering. electric drive vehicle, Queen Mary 2 liner power Hardcover This book demonstrates the need to understand the source, refurbishment of the Royal Albert Hall and context, process and delivery of engineering projects award winning medical engineering techniques. and services by focusing on engineering design. This book is ideal for graduate students wanting It highlights the cultural, economic, political and a practical introduction to the design process and social parameters and illustrates the importance engineers who wish to learn more about how design of their understanding. Case studies demonstrate engineering works in practice. the principles described and the importance of using multidisciplinary teams to achieve effective Market: Practicing Engineering Designers; Researchers, design development. Contributions come from Lecturers and Postgraduate Students in Engineering professionals involved in civil and industrial Design engineering projects such as the: Channel Tunnel Location in bookstore: Engineering and Rail Link, British Airways London Eye, Itaipu

Modelling of Powder Die Compaction January 2007 ISBN 1-84628-098-2 Peter R Brewin, European Powder Metallurgy Approx. $119.00 Association, Shrewsbury, UK; Olivier Coube, Plansee AG, thus the loads needed to achieve compaction and Technologiezentrum, Reutte, Austria; Pierre Doremus, quality of the compacted part. Modeling of the Approx. 300 p. Domaine Universitaire, Grenoble, France; process of die compaction has been the subject of Hardcover James Hayward Tweed, AEA Technology, Oxfordshire, recent collaborative research from leading experts UK (Eds.) in Europe and this book presents a summary of the state of the art, taking examples from recent world- Manufacture of components from powders often class research. Case studies are presented, providing requires a compaction step; as in powder metallurgy, a reference for the testing and validation of these ceramic, hard metal, magnet, pharmaceutical, compaction models. refractory and other sectors to make anything from complex gears for cars to pills to dishwasher Market: Libraries; University researchers (those special- tablets. Development of the tooling to manufacture ising in Materials Science and Manufacturing Engi- a component can be a long process with several neering) and other researchers involved in developing iterations. A complementary approach is to use a models of die compaction model of the compaction process to predict the Location in bookstore: Engineering way that powder behaves during compaction and

Micromechanics of Heterogeneous Materials December 2006 ISBN 0-387-36827-2 Valeriy Buryachenko, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA and effective demonstration of the systematic and Approx. $129.00 The book features unified rigorous theoretical methods fundamental research of the microstructure of the Approx. 600 p., 180 illus. of applied mathematics and statistical physics in wide class of heterogeneous materials of natural and Hardcover material science of microheterogeneous media. The synthetic nature. prediction of the behavior of heterogeneous materials by the use of properties of constituents and their Market: Researchers and Graduate Students in the field microstructure is a central issue of micromechanics. of Micromechanics and Materials Modeling This book is the first in micromechanics with a useful Location in bookstore: Engineering

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November 2006 Residual Stress Measurement and the Slitting Method ISBN 0-387-37065-X Weili Cheng, BEAR Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA; Iain Finnie, Approx. $99.95 for traditional techniques.This work introduces Fremont, CA, USA Approx. 210 p. students to the concepts of residual stresses and their Hardcover measurement with examples and provides engineers The title provides a comprehensive study of the with detailed procedures in computation and slitting method for residual stress measurement, experiment for implementing methods. Researchers including analysis, computation, measurement, and will also benefit from the detailed coverage of the estimation. It discusses different roles of residual elements of the analysis and computation. stresses from the fracture mechanics perspective. Since its initial development in mid-1980, the Market: Students, Engineers, and Scientists in Mechanical slitting method has found increasing applications Engineering, Material Science and Civil Engineering in many configurations that would be very difficult Location in bookstore: Engineering

November 2006 Reliability-Based Structural Design ISBN 1-84628-444-9 Seung-Kyum Choi, Wright State University, OH, USA; Approx. $139.00 Ramana Grandhi, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, expansions for the reliability analysis of practical Approx. 200 p. Wright State University, OH, USA; Robert A. Canfield, Air engineering problems is also examined through the Hardcover Force Institute of Technology, OH, USA use of examples of practical engineering applications. This book will be of value to graduates and post This book provides readers with an understanding graduates studying in this field; as well as engineers, of the fundamentals and applications of structural researchers, and technical managers. reliability, stochastic finite element method, reliability analysis via stochastic expansion, and Market: Postgraduates studying Reliability, Engineers optimization under uncertainty. Probability theory, working in Aerospace, Automotive, Construction and statistic methods, and reliability analysis methods Manufacturing Industries are discussed. In addition, the use of stochastic Location in bookstore: Engineering

April 2007 The Revolution Your Customers Want ISBN 1-84628-357-4 Delivering on Customer Commitments Approx. $99.00 Louis Columbus, Cincom Systems, Irvine, CA, USA Approx. 200 p. perspective is critical to this revolution. This unique Hardcover Manufacturers have for too long been myopic; trying approach will interest executives in manufacturing to cost-reduce their way to market leadership. This companies, marketing and channel management, book is about switching from an inward-centric, global sales, as well as CIOs and IT professionals. myopic view to bringing the customers’ needs to the It is a useful reference for graduates studying center of global manufacturing strategies. It contains international marketing, international business or case studies of manufacturers who have turned their channel management and undergraduates studying organizations around by streamlining how they business. sell and fulfill customized products to show how manufacturers can accomplish this. Transparency Market: Executives in Manufacturing Companies, and efficiency in how products are managed from Marketing and Channel Management, Global Sales VPs, quote to fulfillment is at the heart of the revolution Chief Information Officers and IT Professionals customers want from manufacturers. Measuring the Location in bookstore: Engineering performance of manufacturing from the customers’

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Applied Reliability and Quality December 2006 Fundamentals, Methods and Procedures ISBN 1-84628-497-X $109.00 B. S. Dhillon, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada system engineers, engineering and manufacturing Approx. 300 p. Applied Reliability and Quality: Fundamentals, managers, reliability specialists, quality specialists, Hardcover Methods and Procedures meets the need for a graduate and senior undergraduate students of single volume that considers applied areas of both engineering, researchers and instructors of reliability reliability and quality. Before now, there has not and quality, and professionals in areas such as health been one book that covers both applied reliability care, software, power generation, robotics, textile, and quality; so to gain knowledge of each other’s food, and the Internet. specialties; these people had to study various books, articles, or reports on each area. As the first Market: Senior Undergraduate and Grad Students of book of its kind, Applied Reliability and Quality: Engineering, Researchers and Lecturers in Reliability and Fundamentals, Methods and Procedures will be Quality useful to design engineers, manufacturing engineers, Location in bookstore: Engineering

Complexity Explained February 2007

Péter Érdi, Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, USA ISBN 3-540-35777-7 Approx. $64.95 This introductory textbook explains why complex economics, psychology and sociology etc. have Approx. 300 p. systems research is important in understanding similar architecture. Complexity Explained is not Hardcover the structure, function and dynamics of complex highly technical mathematically, but teaches and natural and social phenomena. It illuminates how uses the basic mathematical notions of dynamical complex collective behavior emerges from the parts system theory, making the book useful for students of a system, due to the interaction between the of science majors and graduate courses, but it should system and its environment. You will learn the basic be readable for a more general audience. concepts and methods of complex system research. It is shown that very different complex phenomena of Market: Graduate and Undergraduate Students in nature and society can be analyzed and understood Complexity by nonlinear dynamics since many systems of very Location in bookstore: Engineering different fields, such as physics, chemistry, biology,

Context-aware Emotion-based Multi-agent Systems April 2007 ISBN 1-84628-370-1 Rajiv Khosla, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, Toyoaki Nishida, making and describe how human problem-solving $109.00 Kyoto University, Japan may be integrated with intelligent technologies and Approx. 400 p. intelligent agents. The result is an intelligent multi- Hardcover Human emotions are an integral part of decision agent architecture whose application is described in making in businesses and organizations. Recently, real-world applications of the Internet in business. there has been increasing interest in how products The authors’ expertise covers research and real create an emotional response, how humans business and industry experience in computer communicate emotions by facial expression and science, management, HCI and computer vision and how computers may do so with animated images, e-business, thus providing a well-balanced survey of and the ways intelligent systems may be enhanced an important multi-disciplinary topic. with emotional competencies in order to assist decision-making and decision support. This is the Market: Researchers in Affective Computing, HCI, first book to systematically cover the modeling of Multi-Agent Systems; Graduate Students emotions and emotional states in human decision Location in bookstore: Engineering 37 Engineering New and Forthcoming

November 2006 Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Application ISBN 1-84628-371-X Artificial Muscles and Sensors $129.00 Kwang J. Kim, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA; Approx. 250 p. Satoshi Tadokoro, International Rescue System Institute, and Dielectric Elastomers are discussed with Hardcover Kobe, Japan (Eds.) chapters on their properties and their uses in robotics applications. With its concentration on Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to devices based on EAPs and their uses, this book will electrical stimulation with large deformations. interest researchers working within the field as well They are dynamic actuators which have interested as postgraduate students studying robotics or smart an interdisciplinary audience of engineers and materials and structures. Practitioners working in scientists. An enabling EAP technology is emerging the mechanical, electrical and materials industries which attempts to imitate the properties of natural will also find this book of value. muscle and which can perform a unique function in a variety of biologically-inspired robotics Market: Researchers working within this field; applications. This book covers the properties, Postgraduate Students studying Robotics or Smart modeling and demonstration of EAPs in robotic Materials and Structures applications, focusing on artificial muscles and Location in bookstore: Engineering sensors. Ionic Polymer–Metal Composite Acutators

March 2007 Estimation and Control over Communication Networks ISBN 0-8176-4494-6 Alexey S. Matveev, University Western Australia Dept. Approx. $89.95 Electrical Engineering; Andrey V. Savkin, The University achievements in the area. The presentation offers Approx. 470 p. 60 illus. of New South Wales accessible mathematical models and results for Hardcover graduates, researchers, lecturers, practitioners, and This book presents a systematic theory of estimation advanced undergraduates in the fields of electrical, and control over communication networks. It mechanical, control, computer, and communications develops a theory that utilizes communications, engineering, as well as applied mathematics and control, information and dynamical systems theory computer science. motivated and applied to advanced networking scenarios. The book establishes theoretically rich Market: Graduate Students, Researchers, Lecturers, and practically important connections among Practitioners, and Advanced Undergraduate Students in modern control theory, Shannon information Electrical, Mechanical, Control, Computer, and theory, and entropy theory of dynamical systems Communications Engineering, Applied Mathematics, originated in the work of Kolmogorov. This and Computer Science self-contained monograph covers the latest Location in bookstore: Engineering

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Modeling of Biological Materials March 2007 ISBN 0-8176-4410-5 Francesco Mollica, Universita di Ferrara, Italy; Approx. $89.95 Luigi Preziosi, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy; in general, and the modeling of mechanical Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal, University of Texas A&M, considerations that have an effect in the biology, Approx. 400 p. 100 illus. College Station, TX, USA (Eds.) chemistry, and physics of living matter. Written in Hardcover a user-friendly style, which avoids cumbersome In modeling and subsequent mathematical mathematical techniques, “Modeling of Biological treatment, the relevant literature on many Materials” may be used in interdisciplinary biomechanical problems related to different introductory courses covering various biomechanical parts of the human body is widely spread across topics for graduate students in applied mathematics, journals with differing styles and often mutually engineering, and biomedicine. The surveys featured nonintersecting communities of readers, e.g., in the book will also be a lasting and valuable engineers, biologists, and medical doctors. This resource for a wide community of researchers, volume addresses this situation to a certain degree by practitioners, and advanced students. collecting several survey papers by actively working specialists, dealing with some of the most important Market: Graduate Students in Applied Mathematics, problems—both theoretical and practical—in Engineering, and Biomedicine; Engineers, Biologists, and biomechanics. This unique collection brings to Medical Doctors the forefront the central role played by modeling Location in bookstore: Engineering

Shock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory December 2006 ISBN 1-84628-441-4 Toshio Nakagawa, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Approx. $119.00 Japan maintenance policies of these models are explored in terms of maintenance theory and reliability Approx. 250 p. Units or systems can fail when they suffer shock theory and practical applications of all of these Hardcover and the total damage exceeds a failure level. Shock models are shown through case studies. Reliability and damage models describe catastrophic and engineers and managers of maintenance work will degradation failures. These reliability models are find this book a broad reference. It will also interest analyzed using the theory of stochastic processes. advanced undergraduate and graduate students Written by a leading researcher, this is the first and researchers studying reliability engineering and book to describe the reliability properties and applied stochastic processes. maintenance policies linked with these models. Stochastic processes are introduced before current Market: Advanced-level Undergraduates and Postgraduates developments are surveyed. The reliability quantities studying Reliability Engineering, Applied Stochastic Processes, of each model are explained and their optimization Operations Research, Statistics and Applied Mathematics problems are discussed analytically. The Location in bookstore: Engineering

The Design of Safe Machines April 2007 Corresponding to International Standards ISBN 3-540-35791-2 Approx. $129.00 A. Neudörfer, TU Darmstadt, Germany Approx. 350 p. Transl. English: Thomas Neudörfer searching for approaches which can be transferred immediately to the specific problem will find the Hardcover The aim of this book is the integration of human- direct way towards their own solution. This is the related design, which satisfies the requirements for English translation of the successful German book, safety and human health, into the methodology of currently published in its third edition. design. It embraces numerous practical examples in a systematic collection of solutions which are directly Market: Mechanical Engineers and Practitioners applicable for safety precautions and protective Location in bookstore: Engineering equipments. Mechanical engineers and practitioners 39 Engineering New and Forthcoming

December 2006 An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption ISBN 1-4020-4301-5 Changing Patterns of Direct and Indirect Use In India $89.95 S. Pachauri Approx. 204 p. the quality of life of individual households or persons Hardcover The book takes a socio-economic approach to and provides a novel view of the energy system and analyzing the energy system and energy consumption development in India. The work makes a first step in in India from a household perspective. In addition, identifying key driving forces and some important the work incorporates two crucial aspects often trends in technical, economic, demographic, and ignored by many traditional modeling approaches lifestyle changes that have an impact on the patterns that are characteristic of most developing countries, and use of energy within the country over the last namely the importance of non-commercial sources couple of decades. of energy, mostly biofuels, and the very large diversity in the patterns of energy use in households with Market: Researchers and Scientists in Development, widely diverging lifestyles and well-being. Adopting Economics; Researchers; Policy Makers; Practitioners a household perspective allows for analyzing how Location in bookstore: Engineering energy use and consumption patterns are linked with

February 2007 Biomaterials ISBN 0-387-31879-0 An Introduction Approx. $89.95 Third Edition Approx. 576 p. Joon Park, Roderic S. Lakes, University of Iowa, Hardcover Iowa City, USA orthopedic implants, and expanded treatment of ceramic materials and implants. All figures have Third Edition The extensively rewritten and updatedBiomaterials: been redrawn and more examples and problems have (Replaces 0-306-43992-1) An Introduction, Third Edition, includes a new been included to provide the student with hands-on chapter on tissue engineering and regenerative experience with the concepts. medicine, approximately 1900 references to additional reading, extensive tutorial materials on Market: Students new developments in spinal implants and fixation Location in bookstore: Engineering/Materials Science/ techniques and theory, systematic coverage of Biomedicine

January 2007 Analytic Design Methods for Design Practice ISBN 1-84628-472-4 Gyung-Jin Park, Hanyang University, Korea Approx. $109.00 design of experiments, robust design, structural Approx. 700 p. In the competitive world of modern engineering, optimization, dynamic response optimization, and Hardcover rigorous and definite design methodologies are multidisciplinary optimization. Case studies show needed. However, many parts of engineering how practical design problems can be solved with design are performed in either an ad-hoc manner analytic design methods. Students will find this book or based on the intuition of the engineer. This an excellent introduction to the subject. The book’s is the first book to look at both stages of the focus will interest practicing engineers as a practical design process–conceptual design and detailed handbook of design. design–and detail design methodologies for every step of the design process. The following analytic Market: Postgraduates studying Mechanical Engineering, design methodologies are introduced and their Students of Engineering Design, Researchers working in usefulness is explored with many mathematical and Design Applications practical examples: Axiomatic design, optimization, Location in bookstore: Engineering

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Optical Scanning Holography with MATLAB January 2007 ISBN 0-387-36826-4 Ting-Chung Poon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA recognition, 3-D microscopy, 3-D cryptography, Approx. $109.00 and 3-D optical remote sensing. The book covers Approx. 150 p. Optical Scanning Holography with MATLAB the basic principles of the topic which will make it Hardcover contains tutorials, research materials, as well as new relevant for years to come. ideas and insights that will be useful for graduate students, scientists, and engineers working in the Market: Scientists, Engineers, and Graduate Students in field of optics and holography. Optical scanning the field of Optics and Holography holography is an emerging area of interest and could Location in bookstore: Engineering lead to many novel applications such as 3-D pattern

Bionics - Natural Technologies and Biomimetics September 2007 ISBN 3-540-33688-5 T. Rossmann, C. Tropea, TU Darmstadt; J. Vincent, The University BATH, UK. including leading international researchers in the $89.95 field. The articles address both fundamental and Approx. 350 p. The work compiles several review articles and applied topics. Hardcover numerous original contributions in the fields of bionics and biomimetics. All authors are well known Market: Postgraduates, Researchers in Engineering, Previously Announced specialists, many of them members of the German Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Informatics Bionics competence network BioKon, but also Location in bookstore: Engineering

Metaheuristics August 2007 A Comprehensive Guide to the Design and Implementation of Effective Optimisation Strategies ISBN 1-84628-277-2 Approx. $109.00 Marc Sevaux, University of South Brittany, Lorient, France; Kenneth Sörensen, University of Antwerp, their pros and cons. It includes program codes Approx. 300 p. 30 illus. Belgium showing how each method is designed, used, Hardcover evaluated and improved. An ideal introduction Companies deal with many problems that for students; the inclusion of advanced topics also seem difficult to solve at first. Real problems makes it of use to researchers as well as engineers are too complex/large to solve using traditional and managers who will apply these methods to real mathematical programming methods. A new problems. collection of methods (metaheuristics) have been developed that can find “good enough” solutions Market: Graduate Students in Engineering/Manage- in reasonable time. This book presents the main ment; Lecturers in OR/management; Professionals in metaheuristic methods–taboo search, simulated Engineering/Computer Science/Software annealing and genetic algorithms–and discusses Location in bookstore: Engineering

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November 2006 Probability Distributions Involving Gaussian Random Variables ISBN 0-387-34657-0 A Handbook for Engineers, Scientists and Mathematicians $49.95 Marvin K. Simon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Cañada, 200 p. CA, USA of its concentration of relevant, timely, and easily Softcover accessible results.” 7 Dr. Larry Milstein, UCSD From the reviews: “The one source that brings almost all of the necessary background material together This handbook, now available in softcover, brings in a readily usable form and is thus an extremely together a comprehensive collection of mathematical valuable reference.” 7 Dr. Desmond P. Taylor, material in one location. University of Canterbury Market: Engineers, Scientists, and Applied Mathematicians. “One of the most useful aids to research…It has Location in bookstore: Engineering replaced various other well-known resources because

October 2006 Introduction to Fuzzy Logic using MATLAB ISBN 3-540-35780-7 S.N. Sivanandam, S. Sumathi, S. N. Deepa, PSG College Approx. $89.95 of Technology, Coimbatore, India research projects. The applications of Fuzzy Logic Approx. 400 p. are also dealt to make the readers understand Hardcover Fuzzy Logic, at present is a hot topic, among the concept of Fuzzy Logic. The solutions to the academicians as well various programmers. This problems are programmed using MATLAB 6.0 and book is provided to give a broad, yet an in-depth the simulated results are given. The MATLAB Fuzzy overview of the field of Fuzzy Logic. The basic Logic toolbox is provided for easy reference. principles of Fuzzy Logic are discussed in detail with various solved examples. The different approaches Market: Students in Fuzziness and Soft Computing and and solutions to the problems given in the book Computer Science are well balanced and pertinent to the Fuzzy Logic Location in bookstore: Engineering

December 2006 Atmospheric and Space Flight Dynamics ISBN 0-8176-4373-7 Modeling and Simulation with MATLAB and Simulink $59.95 Ashish Tewari, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Approx. 450 p. 100 illus. India A key feature of the text is the integration of Softcover many MATLAB–and Simulink–based numerical Bridging an important gap in the literature, examples and real-world simulations throughout for this work is a unified presentation replete with the design of aircraft, missiles, launch vehicles, illustrations, end-of-chapter exercises, and selected re-entry vehicles, and spacecraft. solutions, demonstrating that the two disciplines of atmospheric and space flight have actually Market: Undergraduate and Beginning Graduate evolved from the same set of physical principles. Students in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering It introduces a broad range of modern topics in an Location in bookstore: Engineering accessible, yet mathematically rigorous presentation.

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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering November 2006 ISBN 3-540-35782-3 Ikuo Towhata, University of Tokyo, Japan earthquake damage investigation (such as ground Approx. $89.95 This book presents all issues of earthquake motion, landslides, earth pressure, fault action, or Approx. 300 p. With CD-ROM. geotechnical engineering in a comprehensive liquefaction) as well as data from laboratory tests Hardcover way. It summarizes the present knowledge on and field investigation is supplied, together with earthquake hazards and their causative mechanisms, exercises/questions. experimental studies on nonlinear complex soil behavior, an analysis to predict ground behavior Market: Engineers, Graduate Students and Professionals during earthquakes, field studies to determine nature in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Earth of real ground as input data for analysis, and damage Sciences, Soil and Ground Mechanics mitigation technologies. Information obtained from Location in bookstore: Engineering

Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control September 2006 ISBN 0-8176-4491-1 Huaguang Zhang, Northeastern University, Liaoning, book presents the first unified and thorough Approx. $89.95 China; Derong Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, treatment of fuzzy modeling and fuzzy control, Approx. 440 p. 156 illus. Chicago, IL, USA providing necessary tools for the control of complex Hardcover Fuzzy logic methodology has been proven effective nonlinear systems. Careful consideration is given in dealing with complex nonlinear systems to questions concerning model complexity, model Previously Announced containing uncertainties that are otherwise difficult precision, and computing time. to model. Technology based on this methodology has been applied to many real-world problems, Market: Graduate Students and Researchers especially in the area of consumer products. This Location in bookstore: Engineering

Geosciences

Introduction to Planetary Science February 2007 The Geological Perspective ISBN 1-4020-5233-2 Approx. $79.95 Gunter Faure, Teresa Mensing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA chemistry, and celestial mechanics and that the Approx. 510 p. surface features of the solid bodies in the solar Hardcover Introduction to Planetary Science is presented system can be interpreted by means of the principles in 24 chapters that lead the reader through the of geology. solar system starting with historical perspectives on space exploration and the development of the Market: Faculty in Earth Science and Astronomy Depart- scientific method. The presentations concerning ments who already teach or who may decide to offer a the planets and their satellites emphasize that their course on planetary science; Students in Earth Sciences origin and subsequent evolution can be explained and Astronomy Departments by applications of certain basic principles of physics, Location in bookstore: Geosciences

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September 2006 Map Projections ISBN 3-540-36701-2 Cartographic Information Systems Approx. $99.00 Erik W. Grafarend, University of Stuttgart, Germany; 714 p. 100 illus. With CD-ROM. Friedrich W. Krumm, University of Stuttgart, Germany computer vision and remote sensing space projective Hardcover mappings. The attached CD-ROM includes a large This book offers a timely and innovative review variety of world map projections. of map projections (sphere, ellipsoidal, rotational surfaces) and of the geodetic datum transformations, Market: Graduate Students, Lecturers in the context of Geographical Information Location in bookstore: Geosciences Systems (GIS). The coverage includes reviews of

January 2007 Contaminated Rivers ISBN 1-4020-5286-3 A Geomorphological-Geochemical Approach to Assessment and Remediation Approx. $89.95 Jerry R. Miller, Suzanne M. Orbock Miller, Approx. 400 p. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA associated valleys. The text also evaluates proposed Hardcover and existing methods of contaminant remediation, This book provides a thorough description of and scrutinizes the state-of-the-art techniques used fluvial geomorphic processes and the application to restore riverine ecosystems in various geomorphic of geomorphic principles to the assessment, settings. The book is one of the first to integrate remediation, and restoration of metal contaminated geochemical and geomorphological analyses in the rivers. Emphasis is placed on deciphering the site assessment, remediation and restoration. geochemical relations between trace metals and particulate matter, the transport and deposition of Market: College Seniors and Graduate Students in contaminated sediment over varying temporal and Geoscience, Engineering, Environmental Science, spatial scales, and the stability of river channels, in Geography and Soil Science studying the means to assess, order to elucidate existing and future variations in remediate or restore Contaminated Streams and Rivers contaminant concentrations within rivers and their Location in bookstore: Geosciences

December 2006 Open Source GIS ISBN 0-387-35767-X A GRASS GIS Approach Approx. $95.00 Third Edition Approx. 400 p. Markus Neteler, Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC-irst), Hardcover Trento, Italy; Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State added a section that provides an overview of the University, Raleigh, NC, USA new graphical user interfaces that users can choose Third Edition when working with Grass. The book preserves (Replaces 1-4020-8064-6) Open Source GIS: A Grass GIS, Third Edition, the continuity of the first and second editions, by has undergone a thorough update with again, the keeping most of the book’s structure unchanged, most significant rewrite related to the completely and continues to target a professional audience new GRASS6, and the retirement of the site format. composed of researchers and practitioners in Also, completely new sections covering database government and industry. management working with attributes, and SQL were added reflecting the substantial extension of Market: Professionals, Researchers and Practitioners GRASS capabilities for managing attributes stored Location in bookstore: Geosciences in various database systems. This third edition has

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Exercises in Earth Science September 2006 Quantitative Problems and Solutions ISBN 3-540-28612-8 Approx. $49.95 Kurt Stüwe, University of Graz, Austria; Bernhard Grasemann, University of Vienna, Austria metamorphic petrology. The coverage extends Approx. 300 p. to problems from other sub-disciplines, such as Hardcover This book comprises some 100 worked problems palaeontology and cartography. in Earth Science, along with their answers. The text focuses primarily on geodynamics including Market: Graduates, Undergraduates, Students, Lecturers problems from structural geology, geophysics and Location in bookstore: Geosciences

Life Sciences

Tissue Mechanics February 2007 ISBN 0-387-36825-6 Stephen C. Cowin, The City College of New York, New Approx. $89.95 York, NY; Stephen B. Doty, Hospital for Special Surgery, biomechanics. All of the foundation topics for New York,NY continuum models of biological materials are Approx. 530 p. covered. This material is illustrated through Hardcover The objective ofTissue Mechanics is to describe applications to the hard and soft tissues of the the methods of formulating continuum models human body. for biological tissue. A problems solution manual is available with the text. The material includes Market: Biologists, Students, and Researchers a rigorous and comprehensive introduction Location in bookstore: Life Sciences to continuum mechanics oriented toward

Principles of Protein X-Ray Crystallography December 2006 Third Edition ISBN 0-387-33334-7 Approx. $79.95 Jan Drenth, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and established scientists who want to use protein Approx. 385 p. In this new edition of his essential work, Dr. Jan crystallography in their own endeavors, or need to Hardcover Drenth, recognized internationally for his numerous understand the subject in order to critically evaluate contributions to crystallographic research, has the literature. New additions to the book include Third Edition provided an up-to-date and technically rigorous a section on twinning, an additional chapter on (Replaces 0-387-98587-5) introduction to the subject. Principles of Protein crystal growth and a discussion of single-wavelength X-ray Crystallography provides the theoretical anomalous dispersion (SAD). background necessary to understand how the structure of proteins is determined at atomic Market: Crystallographers, Biophysicists, Molecular Biolo- resolution. It is intended to serve as an introduction gists, Students for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, Location in bookstore: Life Sciences

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December 2006 Primate Anti-Predator Strategies ISBN 0-387-34807-7 Sharon Gursky, Texas A&M University, College Station, Approx. $125.00 TX, USA; Anna Nekaris, Oxford Brooks University, Oxford, chapters on the theoretical advances that researchers Approx. 745 p. UK (Eds.) studying nocturnal primates need to make (that is, where Hardcover the field needs to go given the state of predation theory). This volume details the different ways that nocturnal Chapters on predation theory of non-nocturnal primates primates avoid predators. Anti-predator strategies are included for comparison purposes. exhibited by nocturnal prosimians include: crypsis, alarm calling, mobbing behavior, and production of toxins, Market: Undergraduate, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral group cohesion, and behavioral modification during Researchers, and Faculty studying and working in the moonlight, and vigilance, among others. Additionally, field of Primate Behavioral Ecology Primate Anti-Predator Strategies incorporates several Location in bookstore: Life Sciences

Linguistics

January 2007 The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar ISBN 1-4020-4336-8 The Effect of Particular Languages $64.95 Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gülzow, Zentrum für Allgemeine Approx. 355 p. Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany (Eds.) without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage- Softcover based approach. Currently debated topics, such as the This volume investigates the linguistic development role of frequency, as well as traditional ones such as of children with regard to their knowledge of the bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of verb and its grammar. The selection of papers gives language-specific, learner-specific and more general empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages properties of the acquisition process. including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Estonian, Market: Researchers working in the field of Theoretical Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with a and Applied (Psycho)Linguistics focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, Location in bookstore: Linguistics

Mathematics

December 2006 An Introduction to Scientific Computing ISBN 0-387-34159-5 Twelve computational projects solved with Matlab Approx. $59.95 Gregoire Allaire, École Polytechnique Palaiseau, Centre de Approx. 400 p. Mathematiques Appliquées, France; Sidi Mahmoud Kaber, and science has made it essential for students to Hardcover Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Lab. Jacques-Louis Lions, France get training in numerical methods and computer programming. This book uses both Matlab and Previously Announced This book distinguishes itself from the many other SciLab software and covers core standard material. textbooks on the topic of linear algebra by including mathematical and computational chapters along with Market: Undergraduate and Beginning Graduate examples and exercises with Matlab. In recent years, Students, as well as Scientists and Engineers the use of computers in many areas of engineering Location in bookstore: Mathematics

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Essential Linear Algebra with Applications A Problem-Solving Approach February 2007 ISBN 0-8176-4360-5 Titu Andreescu, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA; Dorin Andrica, “Babes-Bolyai” engineering, cryptography, and political science. Approx. $69.95 University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Zoran Sunik, Texas Complete with bibliography and index, Essential Approx. 350 p. 40 illus. A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Linear Algebra with Applications is a natural Hardcover bridge between pure and applied mathematics and Rooted in a pedagogically successful problem- the natural and social sciences, appropriate for any solving approach to linear algebra, the present work student or researcher who needs a strong footing in fills a gap in the literature that is sharply divided the theory, problem-solving, and model-building between elementary texts and books that are too that are the subject’s hallmark. advanced to appeal to a wide audience. It clearly develops the theoretical foundations of vector spaces, Market: Undergraduates, Advanced Undergraduates, linear equations, matrix algebra, eigenvectors, and Researchers, Pure and Applied Mathematicians, Engineers, orthogonality, while simultaneously emphasizing Computer Scientists, Social Scientists, and Economists. applications and connections to fields such as Location in bookstore: Mathematics biology, economics, computer graphics, electrical

Conformal Groups in Geometry and Spin Structures October 2006 ISBN 0-8176-3512-2 Pierre Angles, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and index round out the work. Rich in exercises Approx. $89.95 This book provides a self-contained overview that are accompanied by full proofs and many hints, Approx. 320 p. 40 illus. of the role of conformal groups in geometry the book will be ideal as a course text or self-study Hardcover and mathematical physics. It features a careful volume for senior undergraduates and graduate development of the material, from the basics of students. Its scope and clarity will also appeal to Clifford algebras to more advanced topics; each researchers in mathematics and physics. chapter covers a specific aspect of conformal groups and conformal spin geometry. All major concepts Market: Advanced Undergraduates, Graduate Students, are introduced and followed by detailed descriptions Researchers in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics and definitions, and a comprehensive bibliography Location in bookstore: Mathematics

Stochastic Simulation December 2007 Algorithms and Analysis ISBN 0-387-30679-X Approx. $59.95 Soren Asmussen, Peter W. Glynn mathematical finance, operations research, industrial Approx. 300 p. 44 illus. The book covers a broad aspect of topics and engineering, electrical engineering and other Hardcover applications in simulation at a higher mathematical application areas. The book contains a large amount level than other recent texts in the area. Its of exercises and illustrations. readership is intended for graduate students and researchers from a broad variety of areas, Market: Graduate Students, Researchers in particular applied probability, statistics, Location in bookstore: Mathematics

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May 2007 Integration and Modern Analysis ISBN 0-8176-4306-0 From Classical Real Variables to Distribution Theory Approx. $64.95 John J. Benedetto, Wojciech Czaja, University of Approx. 456 p. 10 illus. Maryland, College Park, USA differentiation (FTC). Also, it leads to fundamental Hardcover notions and results in terms of weak convergence of The subject of real analysis is unified in this modern measures, a topic generally not treated in standard text by several central concepts, in particular the real variable texts. The topics are examined in notion of absolute continuity. Absolute continuity, a depth and in a way that is valuable not only from a major underlying idea in formulating and proving theoretical point of view, but in a way that presents a the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (FTC), the sophisticated array of tools with which to deal with a Lebesgue Dominated Convergence Theorem, and the host of difficult practical problems. Radon-Nikodym Theorem, is essential in dealing with problems of switching limits and of understanding the Market: Grad Students, Analysts, Applied Mathematicians amazing inverse relationship between integration and Location in bookstore: Mathematics

March 2007 Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Propagation Phenomena ISBN 0-387-34158-7 Henri Berestycki, EHESS, Paris, France; Francois Hamel, Approx. $69.95 Universite Aix-Marsellielle III, Marseille, France of reaction-diffusion and front propagation are Approx. 410 p. discussed, ranging from combustion models to Hardcover This book is about reaction diffusions in unbounded ecological invasion models. domains with a special emphasis on traveling waves and their generalizations and on different notions Market: Students and Mathematicians of propagation. Several models of applications Location in bookstore: Mathematics

March 2007 Set-Theoretic Methods in Control ISBN 0-8176-3255-7 Franco Blanchini, Stefano Miani, Universita di Udine, Approx. $79.95 Italy practice make the work suitable for a wide audience Approx. 400 p. 30 illus. of students, researchers, and practitioners in applied Hardcover New computer technology has catalyzed a math and engineering. Set-Theoretic Methods in resurgence of interest in set-theoretic techniques, Control is accessible to readers familiar with the and this self-contained monograph describes fundamentals of systems and control theory, as well the basics of these techniques and their links to as basic notions of MATLAB and C++, prerequisites fundamental problems in a number of related areas. such as convexity theory are included. The book includes established and new applications, along with examples, MATLAB and C++ algorithms, Market: Applied Mathematicians, Theoretical Control case studies, avenues for further research, and Specialists, Systems and Control Engineers, Students recipes to solve real-world problems in control. The Location in bookstore: Mathematics solid technical foundation and blend of theory and

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Finite Elements of Least-Squares Type February 2007 ISBN 0-387-30888-1 Pavel B. Bochev, Max D. Gunzburger, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA methods, their strengths and weaknesses, established Approx. $69.95 successes, and open problems. Appendices provide Hardcover This book is written to provide a common, results from functional analysis and standard finite mathematically sound foundation for least-squares theory which are used in various places in the book. finite element methods. It is intended to give both the researcher and the practitioner a concise guide to Market: Researchers, Graduate Students the theory and practice of least-square finite element Location in bookstore: Mathematics

Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Commutative Algebra September 2006 ISBN 0-387-24600-2 James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Sarah Glaz, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; in the field. These articles combine in various Approx. $99.00 William Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; degrees surveys of past work, by Gilmer and others, Approx. 425 p. Bruce Olberding, New Mexico State University, recent results which had never before seen print, Hardcover Las Cruces, NM (Eds.) open problems, and an extensive bibliography. In a concluding article, Gilmer points out directions For over 40 years, Robert Gilmer’s numerous for future research, highlighting the open problems articles and books have had a tremendous impact in the areas he considers of importance. The entire on research in commutative algebra. It is not an collection provides an in-depth overview of the exaggeration to say that most articles published topics of research in a significant and large area of today in non-Noetherian ring theory, and some commutative algebra, covering the last forty years. in Noetherian ring theory as well, originated in a topic that Gilmer either initiated or enriched by his Market: Researchers and Graduate Students in the field work. This volume, a tribute to his work, consists of Commutative Algebra of articles by some of the most prominent experts Location in bookstore: Mathematics

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Modern Methods in the Calculus of Variations October 2006 with Applications to Nonlinear Continuum Physics ISBN 0-387-35784-X Approx. $59.95 I. Fonseca a series of lectures by Fonseca at carnegie Mellon Approx. This book presents in a unified way both classical University. Because it is largely self-contained, it Hardcover and contemporary results in the Calculus of will appeal to non- specialists and new students in Variations. In recent years there has been a this area. It is intended to be a graduate text and a remarkable and renewed interest in this area, reference for more experienced researchers working motivated in part by applications of allied in the area.. disciplines. The need to bring together in one place the contemporary developments in the calculus of Market: Researchers, Graduate Students variations led to the writing of this book, based on Location in bookstore: Mathematics

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts December 2006 ISBN 0-387-34543-4 Jöran Friberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Approx. $129.00 Sweden of Babylonian familiarity with sophisticated mathematical objects, such as the knowledge of Approx. 555 p. The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the the three dimensional Pythagorean equation and Hardcover private collection of Martin Schoyen. While some the geometry of the icosahedron. Another very tablets are familiar, many contain fascinating new important finding is the use of the zero notation in material. The author translates their mathematical novel contexts and periods.The book is carefully content, compares it with previously known written and organized, with useful drawings and material, then evaluates the period of the tablet and pictures of the most interesting tablets. its purpose. This allows the author to provide new insights into the interpretation of some classical Market: Mathematicians, Historians of Science, tablets, as for example Plimpton 322. What makes Assyriologists this book so unique is the light being shed on Location in bookstore: Mathematics Babylonian mathematics, including new evidence

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November 2007 Self-adjoint Extensions as a Quantization Problem ISBN 0-8176-4400-8 Dmitry Gitman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Approx. $89.95 Igor Tyutin, Boris Voronov, P.N. Lebedev Institute, the problem of delta-like potentials and relativistic Approx. 255 p. Moscow, Russia Coulomb problemIt then shows how quantization Hardcover problems associated with correct definition This exposition is devoted to a consistent treatment of observables can be treated consistently for of quantization problems, based on appealing comparatively simple quantum-mechanical systems. to some nontrivial items of functional analysis In the end, related problems in quantum field theory concerning the theory of linear operators in Hilbert are briefly introduced. spaces. It begins by considering quantization problems in general, emphasizing the non-triviality Market: Students and Post Graduates interested in of consistent operator construction by presenting Mathematical problems in Quantum Mechanics; paradoxes to the naive treatment. It then builds the Scientists in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, necessary mathematical background following it by Mathematicians interested in Quantum Theory and its the theory of self-adjoint extensions. By considering application several problems such as the one-dimensional Location in bookstore: Mathematics Calogero problem, the Aharonov-Bohm problem,

April 2007 The Geometry of Complex Domains ISBN 0-8176-4139-4 Robert E. Greene, UCLA, Lost Angeles, CA, USA; Approx. $79.95 Kang-Tae Kim, Pohang University of Science and authoritative and accessible, this text touches upon Approx. 400 pp., 20 illus. Technology, Pohang, South Korea; Steven G. Krantz, many important parts of modern mathematics: Hardcover Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA complex geometry, Finsler metrics, Bergman and Kahler geometry, curvatures, differential invariants, This work examines a rich tapestry of themes boundary asymptotics of geometries, group actions, and concepts that provides a comprehensive and moduli spaces. treatment of an important area of mathematics, while simultaneously covering a broader area of the Market: Analysts, Geometers, Grad Students geometry of domains in complex space. At once Location in bookstore: Mathematics

September 2006 Foundations of Optimization in Finite Dimensions ISBN 0-387-34431-4 Osman Guler, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Approx. $59.95 as necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for USA Approx. 350 p. optimality, convex analysis and duality, are covered Hardcover in great detail, often from multiple points of view. A This book is intended as a textbook to be used distinctive feature of this book is its set of worked- in a first graduate level course, and covers the out examples and problems, including hundreds fundamental principals of optimization in finite of well-chosen problems and important examples. dimensions. It develops the necessary background It will be of benefit for graduate students and material in multivariable calculus using coordinates researchers in optimization, operations research. as well as in a coordinate-free manner, so that the recent developments such as semi-definite Market: Graduate Students and Researchers in programming can be dealt with ease. All the Optimization, Operations Research standard topics of mathematical programming, such Location in bookstore: Mathematics

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Braid Groups March 2007 ISBN 0-387-33841-1 Christian Kassel, Vladimir Turaev, Université Louis Pasteur-CNRS, Strasbourg, France to the linearity and orderability of braid groups are Approx. $49.95 carefully presented. This well-written text is ideal for Approx. 320 p., 60 illus. Braids and braid groups form central objects in knot graduate students and all mathematicians with an Hardcover theory and three-dimensional topology. They have interest in braids and braid groups. also been at the heart of important mathematical developments over the last two decades. This Market: Graduate Students, Mathematicians interested in introductory text presents the theory of braids and an introduction to Braids and Braid Groups braid groups to the reader along with the recent Location in bookstore: Mathematics developments in this field. Developments related

Electromagnetism March 2007 Classical Foundations and Quantum Perspectives ISBN 0-8176-4268-4 Approx. $59.95 Michael K. H. Kiessling, Rutgers University, Piscataway, 6 illus. NJ, USA new perspectives offered by Born- -Infeld theory regarding the elusive consistent relativistic quantum Hardcover Recent research in superstring and M theories has theory of electromagnetism and superstring theory. led to a revisit of the nonlinear electromagnetic field theories of M. Born and L. Infeld, which grew out Market: Mathematical Physicists, Physicists, and of the program of G. Mie. Little is to be found in the Graduate Students recent monograph literature on Mie theory. This Location in bookstore: Mathematics book not only fills that gap, but also presents exciting

History of Abstract Algebra November 2006

Israel Kleiner, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada ISBN 0-387-34050-5 Approx. $49.95 This exposition provides a comprehensive historical a course in abstract algebra inspired by history. Approx. 200 p. 10 illus. account of the intellectual lineage behind the basic Algebraists and historians of science will find the Hardcover concepts, results, and theories of abstract algebra. book a valuable reference. The book may serve as a primary text for a course on the history of modern algebra, or as a supplemental Market: Undergraduate and Graduate Students in text for an abstract algebra course or a more general Mathematics, Researchers, Historians of Science, course on the history of mathematics. Additionally, Math Instructors graduate students studying to become mathematics Location in bookstore: Mathematics instructors or existing math teachers will find the work particularly useful as a guide for designing

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February 2007 Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms ISBN 0-8176-4505-5 Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Kyoto University, RIMS, Kyoto, Approx. $79.95 Japan; Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University, Cambridge, representation theory and automorphic forms, and Approx. 310 p. 10 illus. MA; Jae-Hyun Yang, Inha University, Incheon, Korea their association with number theory and differential Hardcover (Eds.) geometry. Both graduate students and researchers will find inspiration within this volume. This volume uses a unified approach to representation theory and automorphic forms. The Market: Graduate Students and Researchers in invited papers, written by leading mathematicians, Mathematics track recent progress in the ever expanding fields of Location in bookstore: Mathematics

February 2007 Schubert Varieties ISBN 0-8176-4153-X V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Approx. $49.50 USA; Peter Littelmann, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, concepts, and to recent developments in quantum Hardcover Germany; C.S. Seshadri, Chennai Mathematical Institute, groups have further served to broaden the appeal of Chennai, India investigating Schubert Varieites. This text is written by three of the world’s leading mathematicians in the In recent years, the algebro-geometric study of subject. Schubert Varieties has had considerable impact on the important mathematical area of algebraic groups. Market: Algebraic Geometers and Grad Students Connections to the monomial theory of Hodge, Location in bookstore: Mathematics developed more than 50 years ago, to combinatorial

October 2006 An Introduction to the Mathematics of Money ISBN 0-387-34432-2 Saving and Investing $59.95 David Lovelock, Mendel Marilou, Arthur L. Wright, Approx. 265 p. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA by induction, recurrence relations, inequalities (in Hardcover particular, the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean inequality This book is an introduction to the mathematics of and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality), and the elements finance. Part I focuses on analysis of deterministic of probability and statistics. The book introduces cash flows, such as those generated by riskless the reader to the elements of investing that are of bonds and annuities. Part II focuses on the analysis life-long practical use. This book targets students of risky securities, such as stocks and options. This at the sophomore/junior level, without assuming a book is suitable for undergraduates in mathematics, background or any experience in investing. economics and business programs. It contains examples and exercises throughout. This book uses Market: Undergraduate Students investing as a vehicle to introduce ideas, techniques Location in bookstore: Mathematics and applications that might not be encountered other mathematics courses. These include proofs

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Dynamical Systems with Applications using MAPLE Second Edition January 2007 ISBN 0-8176-4389-3 Stephen Lynch, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK networks and Maplets have also been added. The Approx. $69.95 author has gone for breadth of coverage rather than Approx. 500 p. 350 illus. Dynamical Systems with Applications using fine detail, and theorems with proof are kept to a Softcover MAPLE provides an introduction to the theory minimum. of dynamical systems with the aid of the Maple Second Edition algebraic manipulation package. This new edition Market: Senior Undergraduates, Graduate Students, and (Replaces 0-8176-4150-5) has been thoroughly updated and expanded to working Scientists in various branches of Applied Math- include more applications, examples, and exercises, ematics, the Natural Sciences, and Engineering all with solutions; two new chapters on neural Location in bookstore: Mathematics

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December 2006 Mechanics, Boundary Layers, and Function Spaces ISBN 0-8176-4096-7 Diarmuid Ó’Mathúna, Dublin Institute for Advanced Approx. $69.95 Studies, Dublin, Ireland varied solution structure. In contrasting the issues Approx. 240 p. involved in the Kepler-Euler problems, the author Hardcover This work focuses on the two integrable systems of raises current issues in analysis and astronomy, and relevance to celestial mechanics, both of which date places these classical problems in a modern context. back to the18th century. Under discussion is the Kepler (two-body problem) and the Euler (two-fixed Market: Mathematical Analysts, Astronomers, Aerospace center) problem, the latter being the more complex Engineers and more instructive, as it exhibits a richer and more Location in bookstore: Mathematics

December 2006 Geometry and Topology in Hamiltonian Dynamics and ISBN 0-387-30892-X Statistical Mechanics Approx. $59.95 Marco Pettini, Osservat. Astrofisico Arcetri, Firenze, Italy Approx 331 p. singularities of thermodynamic observables. The two Hardcover This book covers a new explanation of the areas are strongly related because the geometrization origin of Hamiltonian chaos and its quantitative of microscopic dynamics, which is the ultimate characterization. The author focuses on two main physical source of phase transitions, naturally leads areas: Riemannian formulation of Hamiltonian to investigate how geometry and topology of the dynamics, providing an original viewpoint about mechanical manifolds have to change to induce a the relationship between geodesic instability and phase transition. Mathematicians and physicists curvature properties of the mechanical manifolds; working in this area will find this book of interest. and a topological theory of thermodynamic phase transitions, relating topology changes of microscopic Market: Researchers, Graduate Students configuration space with the generation of Location in bookstore: Mathematics

November 2006 Introduction to Mathematical Systems Theory ISBN 0-387-35763-7 A Behavioral Approach Approx. $59.95 Second Edition Approx. 455 p. Jan Willem Polderman, University of Twente, Enschede, Hardcover The Netherlands; Jan C. Willems, University of Leuven, in mathematics and engineering and contains Belgium numerous exercises, including simulation problems Second Edition and examples, notably of mechanical systems and (Replaces 0-387-35763-7) This is a book about modelling, analysis and electrical circuits. control of linear time invariant systems. It uses the behavioural approach for which the authors Market: Graduates, Senior Undergraduates are well regarded. It is a suitable text for senior Location in bookstore: Mathematics undergraduates or beginning graduate students

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Fields and Models February 2007 From Sturm to Tarski and Robinson ISBN 0-8176-4114-9 $99.00 Hourya Benis Sinaceur, CNRS, Paris, France is the unifying theme, as well as Artin’s solution to 446 p. 5 illus. Transl. English: F. Bourgoin Hilbert’s 17th problem, Tarski’s decision procedure Hardcover for the field of real numbers, and research into While mathematicians have often viewed logic quadratic forms. Drawing extensively on original as distinct from—even alien to—the progress sources, Hourya Sinaceur discusses not only the of much of the subject, this unique work, equal evolution of new mathematical ideas, but also their parts history, philosophy, and mathematics, proves epistemological foundations and the ways in which otherwise. The first English translation of the well- mathematical subdisciplines influence one another. received French text “Corps et Modèles,” “Fields A wide audience of students and researchers in both and Models: from Sturm to Tarski and Robinson” the sciences and humanities will benefit from this traces the intertwined development of logic and fascinating chapter of intellectual history. algebra, particularly Tarski’s model theory and Artin’s and Schrier’s algebra of real-closed fields. Market: Graduate Students and Researchers in Algebra, A number of pivotal results are woven in to this Logic, Algebraic Geometry, and other fields of collaboration across disciplines: Sturm’s theorem Mathematics on the location of roots of real polynomials, which Location in bookstore: Mathematics

Functional Equations and How to Solve Them November 2006 ISBN 0-387-34534-5 Christopher G. Small, University of Waterloo, Canada particular property. The emphasis here is on the Approx. $69.95 Over the years, a number of books have been written development of those tools which are most useful Approx. 132 p. on the theory of functional equations. However, very in assigning a family of solutions to each functional Hardcover little has been published which helps readers to solve equation in explicit form. functional equations in mathematics competitions and mathematical problem solving. This book fills Market: Advanced High School Students, Undergraduates, that gap. The student who encounters a functional Participants of Mathematical Olympiads and William Lowell equation on a mathematics contest will need to Putnam competitions investigate solutions to the equation by finding all Location in bookstore: Mathematics solutions, or by showing that all solutions have a

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Physics

November 2006 The Sound of Music ISBN 0-387-32496-8 Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds $89.95 James Beauchamp, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Approx. 715 p. 153 illus. (Ed.) and this book reflects the important trends and Hardcover interests current in the subject. Due to its breadth, The problems of analyzing and synthesizing musical students will find the book a thorough introduction timbres have been prevalent for over half a century, to current thinking and implementation of additive and a book length exploration of this large and sine wave timbral models. Researchers new to the complex subject has been long overdue. Sound of field will find a canvas of applications with citations Music: Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of to the relevant literature, which will also benefit the Musical Sounds consists of eight chapters that span teacher searching for an effective syllabus. the range from tutorial introduction to advanced research and application to speculative assessment Market: Graduate Students, Researchers, Musicians and of its various techniques. The authors represent Composers an international community of researchers and Location in bookstore: Physics teachers in the field of analysis/synthesis/perception,

November 2006 Quantum Information ISBN 0-387-35725-4 An Overview $49.95 Gregg Jaeger, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Approx. 280 p. from its various sources, allows researchers and Hardcover This book gives an overview for practitioners and students in a broad range of areas including physics, students of quantum physics and information photonics, solid-state electronics, nuclear magnetic science. It is designed to provide ready access to resonance and information technology, in their essential information on quantum information applied and theoretical branches, to have this vital processing and communication, such as definitions, material directly at hand when needed. This is made protocols and algorithms. Quantum information possible through a concise, thorough format. science is a rapidly expanding area of technology and research containing a diverse spectrum of Market: Students and Researchers mathematical tools rarely found in clear and concise Location in bookstore: Physics form. This book brings together this information

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Quantum Optics and Quantum Information October 2006 An Introduction ISBN 3-540-34571-X $79.95 Peter Lambropoulos, David Petrosyan, IESL FORTH, Approx. 350 p. 95 illus. Heraklion, Greece information processing using quantum optical systems. It thus has an interdisciplinary character. Hardcover This book is an introduction to the two closely Certain aspects of quantum information, including related subjects of quantum optics and quantum those pertaining to recent experiments on cavity Previously Announced information. Essentially, the physical aspects of QED and quantum dots, are described here for the quantum information processing have now become first time in book form. an integral part of quantum optics. The book gives a simple, self-contained introduction to both subjects, Market: Advanced Students while illustrating the physical principles of quantum Location in bookstore: Physics

Stochastic Optimization September 2006 ISBN 3-540-34559-0 Johannes J. Schneider, University of Mainz, Germany; Scott Kirkpatrick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, having primarily scientists and students from the $99.00 Jerusalem, Israel physical and engineering sciences in mind, this book Approx. 500 p. addresses a larger community of all those wishing to Hardcover This book addresses stochastic optimization learn about stochastic optimization techniques and procdures in a broad manner, giving an overview of how to use them. the most relevant optimization philosophies in the first part. The second part deals with benchmark Market: Graduate Students, Researchers problems in depth, by applying a selection of Location in bookstore: Physics optimization procedures to them in turn. While

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August 2006 The Theory of Quark and Gluon Interactions ISBN 3-540-33209-X Francisco J. Ynduráin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, $99.00 Spain experimental findings. The reader will learn enough 474 p. to be able to follow modern research articles. This Hardcover F.J. Yndurain’s book on Quantum Chromodynamics fourth edition presents a new section on heavy quark has become a classic among advanced textbooks. effective theories, more material on lattice QCD First published in 1983 it now sees its fourth edition. and on chiral perturbation theory and is aimed at It addresses readers with basic knowledge of field students and university teachers. theory and particle phenomenology. The author presents the basic facts of quark and gluon physics in Market: Students, University Professors pedagogical form. Theory is always confronted with Location in bookstore: Physics

Psychology

August 2006 Phenomenology and Psychological Science ISBN 0-387-33760-1 Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Approx. $59.95 Approx. 180 p. Peter Ashworth, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, Hardcover UK; Man Cheung Chung, University of Plymouth, practice, applications of phenomenology in case Plymouth, UK (Eds.) conceptualization and therapy, possibilities for qualitative-based research. The unique presentation of In order to dispel the basic misconceptions its subject makes this volume a source of considerable surrounding phenomenological philosophy, the interest for readers involved in theoretical and editors and their seven collaborators trace the historical psychology. It will also prove to be evolution of phenomenological philosophy (including important reading for the professional or advanced the work of Sartre and Heidegger) and its parallel student concerned with the search for meaning that impact on psychological science, revealing key unites philosophy and psychology. points of compatibility: The phenomenological roots of mainstream psychology, controversies within Market: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychologists, phenomenology on the nature of consciousness, Historians and Philosophers of the Social Sciences, Histo- existentialist currents in contemporary psychology, rians of Psychology, and Social Scientists the value of qualitative methods in science-based Location in bookstore: Psychology

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Emotion Regulation December 2006 Conceptual and Clinical Issues ISBN 0-387-29985-8 Approx. $89.95 Johan Denollet, Ivan Nyklicek, Adrianus Vingerhoets, Approx. 350 p. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands (Eds.) intelligence, emotional expression and depression, emotional expression and anxiety disorders, in Hardcover An increasing number of studies have been addition to the emotional competence in children. conducted on the role of expression and regulation of emotion in health. Emotion Regulation addresses Market: Health Psychologists; Neuropsychologists; the question of these studies from diverse angles Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Post-graduates while encompassing conceptual, developmental, in Health/Medical Psychology; Neuropsychology; and clinical issues. Central concepts discussed Psychiatry; Behavioral Medicine in this volume that are related to health include: Location in bookstore: Psychology coping styles and aggression, alexithymia, emotional

Abnormal Psychology for First Responders February 2007 Applications for Police, Firefighters and Rescue Personnel ISBN 0-387-35139-6 Approx. $39.95 William I. Dorfman, Lenore E. Walker, Nova Approx. 190 p. Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA trauma, and the various levels of mental impairment suffered by both victims and survivors. Renowned Softcover Natural disasters, hostage situations, terror attacks! trauma experts William Dorfman and Lenore During these and other emergency situations, Walker give this book immediate relevance through first responders make split-second judgments: the use of real-life examples from a wide range of evaluating risks, identifying dangerous conditions, crisis situations. and—often the hardest job of all, attending to those distressed and disturbed by their ordeal. Abnormal Market: Professionals in the Emergency, Security, and Psychology for First Responders gives readers Rescue Services critical insights into the human impact of extreme Location in bookstore: Psychology

Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death November 2006 A Practitioner’s Guide ISBN 0-387-35144-2 Approx. $49.95 Patricia Furer, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, handling impasses and setbacks–Up-to-date guide Approx. 260 p. 15 illus. Manitoba, Canada; Murray B. Stein, University of to pharmacotherapy for health anxiety As media Hardcover California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; John Walker, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, attention to health issues increases, client fears of Manitoba, Canada illness won’t go away any time soon. Treating Health Anxiety gives prescribing and non-prescribing Treating Health Anxiety and Fear of Death offers clinicians (as well as the counselors and social the professional reader not only an understanding workers who encounter the problem) the tools to of this condition, but also an easily implemented reduce both the fears and the medical costs that so cognitive/behavioral program for reducing fear of often accompany them. illness, overcoming the fear of death, and getting more enjoyment from life, including: -Step-by-step Market: Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Clinical coverage of the assessment process and therapy Social Workers, and Counselors who specialize in or treat sessions -Patient worksheets and self-monitoring clients with anxiety forms -Specific guidelines for treating health Location in bookstore: Psychology anxiety in children and the elderly–Strategies for

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November 2006 Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ISBN 0-387-32930-7 John W. Jacobson, James A. Mulick, The Ohio State $89.95 University, Columbus, OH, USA; Johannes Rojahn, scientist-clinicians, who offer much-needed insight Approx. 660 p. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (Eds.) and guidance into ongoing improvements in theory Hardcover and practice as well as intervention and prevention. Changes within the interdisciplinary field of TheHandbook of Intellectual and Developmental intellectual and developmental disabilities are Disabilities makes clear the far-reaching impact evolving at a rapid pace. The Handbook of these disorders have on individuals, their families, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is an and society in general. For clinicians, researchers, essential resource for any professional who works and advanced-level graduate students, this volume is with this vulnerable population. This volume a must-have resource and reference. examines in detail the numerous advances in the field, summarizing major domains and emerging Market: Psychologists, Special Educators, Allied Educa- subspecialties into one eminently useful reference. tion Professionals and Graduate Students Its contributors comprise a panel of the leading Location in bookstore: Psychology

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September 2006 Optimizing Health: Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery ISBN 0-387-33920-5 Franz Porzsolt, University Hospital Ulm, Germany; Approx. $69.95 Robert M. Kaplan, UCLA School of Public Health, Los for patients have and can be determined. A section Approx. 270 p. Angeles, CA, USA (Eds.) of the book about clinical practice discusses Hardcover problems that can reduce the value to patients of This is an important and timely book. As health care medical care. All-in-all, the volume is must reading costs soar there is increasing interest in examining for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers what society and, particularly, patients receive in who want to find in one place the state-of-the-art return for these expenditures. Optimizing Health thinking and future directions of valuing medical brings together the best thinking from both sides care from the patient’s perspective. of the Atlantic to explore these issues. It employs disciplinary perspectives from economics, ethics, Market: Health Care Professionals and Academics philosophy, psychology, clinical practice, and Location in bookstore: Public Health epidemiology to explore various ways that value

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Innovation in Strategic Philanthropy November 2006 Local and Global Perspectives ISBN 0-387-34252-4 $89.95 Helmut Anheier, UCLA School of Public Policy and Approx. 570 p. Social Research, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Adele Simmons, which focus on the role of philanthropy in the Global Philanthropy Partnership, Chicago, IL, USA; David globalization process and in lesser developed Hardcover Winder, Synergos Institute, New York, NY, USA (Eds.) economies. Throughout, they emphasize the lessons in innovation that can be taken from them, Most of the research focuses on organizations and and together demonstrate that these emerging institutions in developed market economies, in philanthropic institutions can develop their own particular the United States. But in looking at other methods and indeed offer criteria that the Western areas such as the global South and Central and world might learn from. Eastern Europe, major differences in a number of critical aspects emerge that challenge conventional Market: Researchers, Nonprofit Managers, Business and assumptions and models of philanthropy. This book Political Science Professionals, Philanthropic Organizations is the result of case studies conducted as part of the Location in bookstore: Social Sciences International Network on Strategic Philanthropy,

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Model-based Geostatistics October 2006 ISBN 0-387-32907-2 Peter J. Diggle, University of Lancaster, UK; Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do and the physical and environmental sciences. Model- $79.95 Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil based geostatistics refers to the application of general 230 p. statistical principles of modeling and inference Hardcover Geostatistics is concerned with estimation and to geostatistical problems. This volume is the first prediction problems for spatially continuous book-length treatment of model-based geostatistics. phenomena, using data obtained at a limited number of spatial locations. The name reflects its origins in Market: Researchers, Graduate Students mineral exploration, but the methods are now used Location in bookstore: Statistics in a wide range of settings including public health

The Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller August 2006 ISBN 0-387-20271-4 Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; David Hoaglin, Abt Associates Inc., to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, edited by $74.95 Cambridge, MA, USA (Eds.) Stephen E. Fienberg, David C. Hoaglin, William H. Approx. 672 p. Kruskal, and Judith M. Tanur (Springer-Verlag, 1990), Hardcover This volume brings together 40 of Frederick Mosteller’s and to Mosteller’s forthcoming autobiography, which most original and influential papers, capturing the will also be published by Springer. It includes a biography variety and depth of his writings. The editors hope to and a comprehensive bibliography of Mosteller’s books, share these with a new generation of researchers, so that papers, and other writings. they can build upon his insights and efforts. This volume of selected papers is a companion to the earlier volume A Market: Researchers, Graduate Students Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions Location in bookstore: Statistics 63 Statistics New and Forthcoming

July 2006 Nonparametrics ISBN 0-387-35212-0 Statistical Methods Based on Ranks $59.95 Erich Lehmann, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Approx. 480 p. USA procedures derived from them, along with giving an Softcover account of their properties. Rank tests form a class of statistical procedures that New Price have the advantage of great simplicity combined Market: Graduate Students, Researchers with surprising power. The current edition of this Location in bookstore: Statistics textbook describes these tests and the estimating

October 2006 Stochastic Orders ISBN 0-387-32915-3 Moshe Shaked, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA; J. Approx. $89.95 George Shanthikumar, University of California, Berkeley, value of the other notions of stochastic orderings still 481 p. CA, USA needs to be explored further. This book is an ideal Hardcover reference for anyone interested in decision making This reference text presents a comprehensive under uncertainty and interested in the analysis of coverage of the various notions of stochastic complex stochastic systems. It is suitable as a text for orderings, their closure properties, and their advanced graduate course on stochastic ordering and applications. Some of these orderings are routinely applications. used in many applications in economics, finance, insurance, management science, operations research, Market: Researchers, Grad Students statistics, and various other fields of study. And the Location in bookstore: Statistics

December 2006 Introduction to Variance Estimation ISBN 0-387-32917-X Second Edition Approx. $89.95 Kirk Wolter, NORC and University of Chicago, IL, USA Approx. 400 p. especially as they apply to newer methods of Hardcover This second edition reflects shifts in the theory analysis such as logistic regression or the generalized and practice of sample surveys that have occurred regression estimator. An introductory section on Second Edition since the content of the first edition solidified in the survey weighting has been added. Sections on (Replaces 0-387-32917-X) early 1980’s. Additional replication type methods Hadamard matrices and computer software have appeared during this period and have featured been substantially scaled back. Fresh material on prominently journal publications. Reflecting these these topics is now readily available on the Internet developments, the second edition now includes or from commercial sources. a new major chapter on the bootstrap method of variance estimation. This edition also includes Market: Graduate Students, Researchers extensive new material on Taylor series methods, Location in bookstore: Statistics

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Curve Ball 2003 and conventional wisdom. Rather it tests whether ISBN 0-387-00193-X Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game baseball’s accepted measurements stand up to scru- $19.95 Jim Albert and Jay Bennett tiny. . . . This is great stuff…Curve Ball makes clear 432 pages, 125 illus. “Smart and energetic…hardcore fans will find its how pleasurable [stats] can be, and arguably how Softcover mission refreshing. Curve Ball doesn’t pay the important, to view the great American game with usual misty-eyed homage to baseball’s traditions real precision.” 7 The Wall Street Journal

Secrets of the Old One October 2005 physics. A fourth short paper was received by the ISBN 0-387-26005-6 Einstein, 1905 journal on the 27th of September. It contained $25.00 Jeremy Bernstein Einstein’s derivation of the formula E=mc^2. These 214 p. 118 illus. Noted science writer Jeremy Bernstein tells the remar- papers with their many technological ramifications Softcover kable story of Einstein’s papers and their impact one changed our lives in the twentieth century and century ago. Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905, at beyond. While to a professional physicist the mathe- approximately eight week intervals, the noted German matics in these papers is quite straight forward, the physics journal Annalen der Physik received three ideas behind the mathematics are not. In fact, none of hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown Einstein’s contemporaries fully understood what he patent examiner in Bern. The patent examiner was had done. This book makes these ideas accessible to the twenty-six year old Albert Einstein and the three a general reader with no more mathematics than one papers would set the agenda for twentieth century learns in high school.

Distant Worlds August 2006 ments in scientific exploration possible. Bond’s ISBN 0-387-40212-8 Milestones in Planetary Exploration perspective provides a much-needed overview, but $27.50 Peter Bond it also details the very human feelings that animated c. 272 pages, 25 illus., Peter Bond provides an overview of key, unmanned the intense rivalries between the Soviet Union and 8 page color insert Hardcover missions, chapter by chapter, to planets in the the United States, and most recently the difficulties A Copernicus/ twentieth century. He tells the story of the mission that arose in collaborations between NASA and ESA Praxis Co-publication planners and engineers who, working mostly in the on the Rosetta and Halley’s Comet missions. background, made these unprecedented achieve-

Columbia: Final Voyage January 2006 hand account of what happened that fateful day in ISBN 0-387-27148-1 The Last Flight of NASA‘s First Space Shuttle February 2003. The author provides a comprehensive $27.50 Philip Chien, Merritt Island, FL, USA and personal look at both the Columbia astronauts 464 p., 235 illus. Aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 and the STS-107 mission, together with a behind- Hardcover years’ experience covering the US space program, the-scenes account of other people involved in the provides a unique insight into the crew members mission and their personal reactions to the accident. who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. He Chien interviewed all seven crew members several reviews in detail their scientific work and other times and got to know them as individuals. Includes activities during their successful 16-day flight, the up-to-the-minute coverage of the fuel tank foam background of the accident itself and a detailed first- investigation by NASA.

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2001 Chemical and Biological Warfare ISBN 0-387-95076-1 “The portion devoted to biological warfare, which A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen $27.50 I am qualified to comment on, is most informative 352 pages, 25 illus. Eric Croddy without getting into the ‚how to’ business. The book is Hardcover “Croddy’s robust study helps CBW experts hone their very readable and addresses all aspects of biological opinions after the events of September 11, 2001. warfare that an informed citizen should know.” From armchair generals to scholars everyone should 7 William C. (Bill) Patrick III, President of Biothreats feel informed after reading Croddy’s concise and illu- Assessment, and the “Father” of the U.S. Biowarfare minating tour de force on CBW.” 7 Theodore Karasik, Program Political Scientist, Rand Corporation

February 2005 Brute Force ISBN 0-387-20109-2 DESCHALL (the DES Challenge) sent shockwaves Cracking the Data Encryption Standard $25.00 through government and financial networks world- c. 288 pages, Matt Curtin wide. In this captivating book, Matt Curtin traces 10 illus. In 1997, in a remarkable demonstration of collective DES’s rise and fall, providing an insider’s view into Hardcover computing, a loosely organized team of univer- the group of strangers who banded together to over- sity students, programmers, and scientists linked turn public encryption policy nearly overnight. He together thousands of computers over the Internet tells us not just how this motley crew made strong to crack DES and thus dramatize its vulnerabili- cryptography available to all of us, but why this ties. Networking literally thousands of CPUs (most “opening up” of a powerful computer technology was of them in desktop PCs) and testing as many as a critically important step forward—economically 7 billion keys per second, these participants in and politically, as well as technologically.

December 2005 The Square Root of Two ISBN 0-387-20220-X is so important, and how, in puzzling out its special A Mathematical Dialog and Excursion $25.00 qualities, mathematicians came to their insights c. 240 pages, 31 illus. David A. Flannery about the nature of irrational numbers. Using no Hardcover Often overshadowed by its more famous cousins more than the most basic algebra and geometry, A Copernicus/Praxis (like pi and zero), the square root of 2 is nonetheless Flannery manages to convey not just why irrational Co-publication a very important number. While pi is the circum- numbers are fascinating and significant, but how the ference of a unit circle, the square root of 2 is the whole enterprise of mathematical thinking can be diagonal of a unit square. What’s more, the square played out in a dialog that is imaginative, intriguing, root of 2 was the first known, and mathematically and engaging. Original and informative, this book proven, irrational number. is a one-of-a-kind introduction to the pleasure and This book, through an imaginary dialog between a beauty of mathematical thinking teacher and student, shows readers why this number

1995 Alice in Quantumland ISBN 0-387-91495-1 atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different An Allegory of Quantum Physics $24.00 aspect of quantum theory. Alice’s unusual encoun- 200 pages, 50 illus. Robert Gilmore ters, enhanced by illustrations by Gilmore himself, Hardcover In this cleverly conceived book, physicist Robert make the Uncertainty Principle, wave functions, the Gilmore makes accessible some complex concepts in Pauli Principle, and other elusive concepts easier and quantum mechanics by sending Alice to Quantum- fun to grasp. land—a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an

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Centauri Dreams 2004 take at least 40 years to complete? Gilster investigates ISBN 0-387-00436-X Imagining and Planning Interstellar Travel the science, and just as importantly the spirit, of the $25.00 Paul Gilster researchers who are actually at work on just such a 319 pages An audacious plan to send an unmanned craft to project. The challenges in terms of materials science, Hardcover Centauri, the star system nearest to our Sun, is already propulsion systems, and communications, to say underway at a number of NASA sites around the nothing of distances measured in light-years and U.S. Why, today, would anyone undertake to think missions lasting decades, pushes thinking about such and plan seriously for such a hypothetical spacecraft? a project to the brink of science fiction. Yet the work Can scientists and engineers seriously contemplate on the Centauri project is unambiguously thoughtful such a vehicle, when its existence is at least 30 years and serious and profound in its implications for the in the future, and its first one-way journey would future of human exploration.

The Hundred Greatest Stars 2002 constellation, its apparent brightness as viewed ISBN 0-387-95436-8 James B. Kaler from Earth, its distance from our Sun, and its visual $32.50 In this arresting and lavishly illustrated volume, luminosity. Then the real story begins. In choosing 240 pages, noted astronomy writer and teacher Jim Kaler has his “top 100,” Kaler has aimed not just at providing 150 illus. (50 in color) Hardcover chosen 100 stars to illustrate the mind-boggling a representative sample of the Universe’s extraor- variety of stars’ shapes and sizes, their immense dinarily diverse population, but at capturing their ages, and their vast range of configurations. From complexity, their dynamism, and the amazing view AG Draconis to Z Andromedae, this alphabeti- they provide into the extraordinary physical forces cally arranged volume first lists each star’s resident at play.

A Seat on the Aisle, Please! June 2006 ISBN 0-387-95509-7 The Essential Guide to Urinary Tract Problems in Women $27.50 Elizabeth Kavaler, M.D. worse still, as indicators of underlying psychological Approx. 350 p. 50 illus. In the course of a lifetime, more than half of all disease. Hardcover women will experience some form of debilitating In this concise, clearly written, and sympathetic pelvic disease or discomfort, including chronic new book, Elizabeth Kavaler suggests that a new urinary tract infections, various kinds of inconti- approach to UT disorders is long overdue. One of nence, pelvic floor prolapse, and interstitial cystitis. the surprisingly small number of female urologists Surprisingly, until recently there has been only practicing in the U.S., Dr. Kavaler explains what scant attention paid to this very common group these diseases are and what patients can do to get of disorders, considering the vast population of themselves diagnosed and treated properly. But sufferers. What’s more, doctors have long tended to more than that, she extends an expert, sympathetic, dismiss many symptoms of urinary tract disorders and skilled hand to those who’ve been distressed, as an inevitable consequence of the aging process or, isolated, and embarrassed for too long.

The Forgotten Cure December 2005 reality (in the mid to late 1940s), bacteriophages, ISBN 0-387-95557-7 The Past and Future of Phage Therapies however exotic they seemed, appeared to have a very Approx. $27.50 Anna Kuchment bright future. From current developments in human c. 320 pages, As Anna Kuchment dramatically recounts in The medical therapies, to applications for livestock and 20 illus. Hardcover Forgotten Cure, phages have a long history. First in food processing, and to the current entrepre- developed by Russian scientists almost a century neurial rush to create the first viable bacteriophage ago, they were used during World War II by both businesses, The Forgotten Cure brilliantly portrays the German and Russian armies. And until the the story of this exciting once and future medical widespread availability of antibiotics became a technology. 67 Copernicus Backlist

October 2006 Contact with Alien Civilizations ISBN 0-387-28598-9 Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials $27.50 Approx. 400 p. 50 illus. Michael Michaud, Internatio nal Institute of Space Law, speculations. The book also includes brief background Hardcover Dulles, VA, USA summaries of the history of thinking about extraterres- This book reviews a wide variety of speculations by many trial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contras- authors about the consequences for humanity of coming ting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The text paradox that those paradigms allegedly create. examines and analyzes the assumptions underlying these

March 2005 Space Tourism ISBN 0-387-40213-6 describing the technological developments that will Adventures in Earth Orbit and Beyond $27.50 make space tourism feasible, he tells us: What will c. 304 pages, 40 illus. Michel van Pelt it take for an individual to get into space? What will Hardcover There is a significant community of scientists, resear- space feel like, and why are so many people (appa- A Copernicus/Praxis chers, and even investors who are seriously investiga- rently) determined to sign up for the trip? How is our Co-publication ting the idea of privately funded space travel that’s definition of space changing, and how will launch and safer, cheaper, and more available than anything liftoff technologies (including reusable airplane-like we’ve ever imagined. space vehicles) change our expectations? The space In Space Tourism, Michel van Pelt gives us an up-to- aficionado with a taste for adventure will find Space date report on just what these scientists, engineers, Tourism an informative, entertaining, and irresistible researchers, and entrepreneurs are up to. Besides guide to where we’re going.

November 2005 Return to the Moon 0-387-24285-6 Schmitt envisions is a scenario in which private Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human $25.00 industry will turn the moon into the richest energy Settlement of Space c. 208 pages, 30 illus. source humans have ever mined. As he sees it, Hardcover Harrison J. Schmitt twenty-five years from now there should be a perma- The key question behind Harrison Schmitt’s Return nent human settlement on the Moon, supported to the Moon is: What unifying constant is going to by commercial operations producing helium-3 for animate and sustain the next great push into space terrestrial fusion electrical power. Other resources by the United States? would be sold for use in space. The Space Station In a word, Schmitt’s answer is that the need for new would also, as Schmitt imagines it, be a tourist desti- sources of energy is what will drive the U.S., and the nation of significant interest with a National Parks rest of the industrialized nations on earth, back into Service Space Module staffed by Park Rangers of the space, and more specifically back to the moon.What Department of Interior.

2004 Out of This World ISBN 0-387-02930-3 be true. Then, in a series of increasingly astonishing Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild $27.50 chapters, he introduces us to the seemingly outlan- Ideas of Modern Physics 320 pages, 100 illus. dish and bizarre ideas that astronomers and physi- Hardcover Stephen Webb cists have come up with to account for this apparent A Copernicus/Praxis During the past few years cosmologists have just theoretical inconsistency, ultimately leading us to Co-publication begun to develop a new theory—a so-called “Theory the wholly new realms of understanding that many of Everything”. In Out of This World, Webb examines scientists and mathematicians are now proposing. these amazing recent theories. After introducing In a model of lucid and compelling popular science general relativity and quantum mechanics—the writing, Webb makes these strange and wonderful twin foundations of twentieth century physics—he goings-on accessible, engaging, and enjoyable. explains how these two theories simply cannot both

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If the Universe is teeming with aliens… 2002 “Everyone who has ever considered the possibility Where is Everybody? ISBN 0-387-95501-1 that other intelligent civilizations exist elsewhere $27.50 Fifty Solutions to Fermi’s Paradox and the Problem of within our galaxy will enjoy Where Is Everybody?” 304 pages, 72 illus., Extraterrestrial Life 7 Science Hardcover Stephen Webb “a delightful mental romp…This book is a must read “I have read a number of good astronomy books this for anyone who has ever pondered the question, ‘Are past year; but this is the one I regard as indispensable.” we alone?’” 7 Astronomy 7 Mercury Magazine

The Pathological Protein 2003 so far proved resistant to drug therapies and even ISBN 0-387-95508-9 Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly standard sterilization. In a medical detective story $27.50 Prion Diseases with an undercurrent of urgency, Yam describes how 284 pages, 15 illus. Philip Yam the mysterious prion was discovered, how it has been Hardcover In The Pathological Protein, Philip Yam describes linked to a number of exotic and poorly understood how scientists discovered that the agent of disease in illnesses, and how likely it is that scientists will Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and a host of other devas- soon find effective tools for controlling its spread, tating neurological disorders is a bizarre, misshapen diagnosing its presence, and treating the devastating version of a protein called a prion. Unlike the better- disorders it causes. known pathogens that afflict humans, prions have

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7 Published by Springer-Praxis 2003 past 40 years, which enabled Gagarin’s first flight Russian Spacesuits 1-85233-732-X in 1961, the first space walk in 1965 and the Mir $39.95 The Soviet/Russian Spacesuit History missions of the 1990s, and which have culminated in 300 pages, 100 illus. Isaac Abramov and Ingemar Skoog (eds.) today’s International Space Station. Many documents Softcover Russian Spacesuits is a unique contribution to space are published for the first time that, together with science. The authors, part of the original Zveda team photographs, detailed descriptions of the events that manufactured spacesuits for the first Russian of the time and the authors’ personal memo- space flights, still play an integral role in spacesuit ries, provide a fascinating review of a previously research and development. Thus there is no one unknown aspect of space science. better to describe the technical innovations of the

Star Clusters and How to Observe Them December 2005 ISBN 1-84628-190-3 Mark Allison, Cheshire, UK information on using refractors, reflectors, and, of $29.95 Modern commercially-made telescopes enable course, Meade and Celestron’s ubiquitous range Approx. 220 p. amateur astronomers to see a surprising amount of of computer-controlled SCT telescopes. The book Softcover detail, and to record - using CCD cameras, video, features a list of suitable clusters to observe accor- webcams and film - some remarkably beautiful and ding to the instruments available, from binoculars to detailed images. Contained here also is detailed large-aperture telescopes.

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2004 Observing and Measuring Visual hundreds of new pairs—but this has left enormous 1-85233-558-0 Double Stars $39.95 numbers of wide, faint pairs under-observed or not 338 pages Robert W. Argyle (ed.) observed at all. This is where amateur astronomers Softcover with Double stars are the rule, rather than the exception: can help. Bob Argyle shows where enthusiastic CD-ROM our solar system, having a single sun, is in the mino- amateur observers can best direct their efforts. The rity. Orbiting satellites, ground based observatories book caters to the use of every level of equipment. and interferometers have all helped discover many

2004 Navigating the Night Sky 1-85233-737-0 astronomical observation. His book emphasizes the $29.95 Guilherme de Almeida (ed.) point that getting to know the night sky with the 196 pages This book will interest anyone who marvels at the naked eye is an essential platform from which to Softcover night sky and would like to learn to recognize cons- start any astronomical observation. Step-by-step, tellations and identify the brightest stars by name. the reader is guided through the knowledge needed Renowned amateur astronomer, Guilherme de to recognize key constellations, identify stars and Almeida, dispels the myth that specialist knowledge planets, and interpret changes in the overall appea- and elaborate instruments are a prerequisite for all rance of the sky throughout the year.

December 2005 Saturn and How to Observe It ISBN 1-85233-887-3 $29.95 Julius Benton, ALPO Saturn Section, Savannah, GA, USA observed and imaged planet for amateur astronomers, Approx. 300 p. This is a book in a new series designed for practical because it is always changing-the moons move visibly 96 illus. amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, in the course of an hour, the weather systems on the Softcover but want to know the details of exactly what they are planet change, and the orientation of the ring alters looking at. Saturn is the second largest planet in the this way and that. The concept of the book-and of the solar system, and the only one with a spectacular series-is to present an up-to-date detailed description ring system that is easily visible from Earth. It is a (part one); and then (part two) to consider how best gas-giant, a huge world dominated by its rings and a to observe and record the planet, its moons and its retinue of moons and is probably the most commonly ring system successfully.

August 2006 Human Vision and The Night Sky ISBN 0-387-30776-1 How to Improve Your Observation Skills $29.95 Approx. 240 p. Michael Borgia through their own eyes. We start close to home with 50 illus. This book is intended to take amateur astronomers the hidden treasures of the Moon, on to investigate Softcover - typically readers of Sky & Telescope similar astro- the power of the Sun, incredibly hot Mercury, the nomy periodicals–to the “next level” in observational subtleties of Venus, the changing surface of Mars, astronomy. It begins with teaching astronomers to use the outer solar system and then on into deep space. their most important astronomy tool, their eyes, and Each chapter includes a series of observing challenges discusses how to select the right telescope, and how to that will entertain and push the reader to continually set up and care for the instrument. Readers tour the higher levels of achievement. solar system as they have never viewed it before–

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How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with your Digital Camera February 2006 ISBN 1-85233-990-X Tony Buick low-cost DIY camera mount) and examples, it also $29.95 Tony Buick has written this illustrated step-by-step provides a concise photographic atlas of the whole Approx. 220 p. manual for anyone who has a telescope (of any of the nearside of the Moon–with every image made 330 illus. Softcover size) and a digital camera. The color images he has using a standard digital camera–and describes the produced–there are over 300 of them in the book– various lunar features, including the sites of manned are of breathtaking quality. More than a manual and robotic landings. of techniques (including details of how to make a

Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies June 2005 ISBN 1-85233-901-2 A New Approach to Observing Deep Space to know about what to observe, and using some of $39.95 Antony Cooke today’s state-of-the-art technique and commercial 214 p. 118 illus. Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other equipment, how to get superb views of faint and Softcover advances in technology, have brought the deep distant astronomical objects. But, rather than the sky–star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies–within plethora of books emphasizing imaging for later reach of amateur astronomers. Given a site with viewing, this book explores what can be done in real clear, dark night skies everything else follows. This time at the location and during the viewing session. book provides the reader with everything he needs

7 Published by Springer-Praxis 2003 NASA’s Voyager Missions ISBN 1-85233-745-1 $39.95 Exploring the Outer Solar System and Beyond However, for both crafts their journeys have involved 255 pages, 129 illus. Ben Evans and David M. Harland far more than this and for one of them it would Softcover This book tells the story of Voyagers 1 and 2, feature close encounters with Uranus and Neptune. undoubtedly the most far-reaching missions of There can be little doubt that the Voyager mission exploration ever undertaken. Evans and Harland tell rates as one of the greatest stories of exploration. The the human story that is interwoven in the Voyager book is illustrated with stunning color images, which odyssey. In 1977, the two Voyager space probes set chronicle the missions’ major achievements. out to explore the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn.

7 Published by Springer-Praxis November 2005 Space Shuttle Columbia ISBN 0-387-21517-4 $39.95 Her Missions and Crews Columbia’s 28 missions, as described by scientists Approx. 500 p. Ben Evans and researchers who developed and supported its 280 illus. Softcover On February 1st 2003, one most public disaster many payloads, by the engineers who worked on in the human space program unfolded in the it and by the astronauts who flew Columbia. This skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle record is intended to provide a fitting tribute to this Columbia– the world’s first truly reusable manned remarkable flying machine and those who perished spacecraft– disintegrated during its return to Earth, on its last mission. with a crew of seven. This book chronicles each of

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March 2006 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 0-387-27616-5 In Search of Dark Matter $34.95 Approx. 200 p. Ken Freeman, Geoff McNamara, Mount Stromlo the craters of our Moon, and the myriad stars in 15 illus. Observatory, Weston Creek, Australia the Milky Way. Modern telescopes bring images of Softcover Astronomy was first a quest for light. Our ancestors objects so distant they are not only near the edge of never suspected that the stars they saw with only the Universe, but at the edge of physical detectability. their eyes were other suns, the planets other worlds. Now, with telescopes that observe the highest and Such revelations had to wait for the invention of lowest frequencies, we search for Dark Matter–one of the telescope, which revealed the moons of Jupiter, the most profound questions ever put to science.

November 2005 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 0-387-26129-X Cassini at Saturn- Huygens Results $39.95 Approx. 350 p. David M. Harland obtained by a space mission. The book contains a Softcover Cassini at Saturn–Huygens Results brings the story 16-page colour section, with a selection of the most of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint stunning early images. There is great interest in exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. the first results and images of the surface of Titan, Here the author reports 8 months of scientific data Saturn’s largest moon, and this book will be the first available for review, including the most specta- to appear with an incisive summary of this ground- cular images of Saturn, its rings and satellites ever breaking material.

2004 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 1-85233-793-1 The Story of the Space Shuttle $29.95 468 pages, 174 illus. David Harland tion the Space Shuttle has made to the international Softcover The Space Shuttle remains the most successful space program, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble spacecraft ever developed. Conceived and designed and more recently its role in the assembly of the as a reusable spacecraft to provide cheap access International Space Station (ISS). It concludes with to low Earth orbit, and to supersede expendable a chapter beyond the Shuttle, looking at possible launch vehicles, it now coexists with a new range of future concepts for a partly or totally reusable space commercial rockets. Harland’s definitive work on vehicle that is being considered as a replacement for the Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribu- the Shuttle.

2003 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 1-85233-713-3 The Big Bang $39.95 350 pages, 100 illus. A View from the 21st Century Softcover David M. Harland the very smallest particles and earliest structures (the David M. Harland describes how particle physics has ‘microscale’) in the Universe evolved to produce the influenced the structure of the Universe from the Universe as it is now (the ‘macroscale’). Harland also very beginning of time. He discusses how our under- describes how scientists are attempting to develop standing of the Universe has developed, to the idea a ‘Theory of Everything’ that would explain how an that all matter originated in a hot, Big Bang, then instant after the Big Bang a single primordial force explains the many subtle improvements to the basic was transformed into the four forces of nature that theory that have been necessary to understand how we observe today.

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7 Published by Springer-Praxis November 2005 Water and the Search for Life on Mars ISBN 0-387-26020-X $29.95 David Harland, Glasgow, UK have sought evidence of life on Mars. The author 239 p. 324 illus., many Mars was thought to have been cold, dead and dry provides a comprehensive account of the recent in color. Softcover for eons, but striking new evidence suggests the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover planet was relatively warm and wet in geologically missions, and describes the planning for the tests recent times, and that even today there are reserves carried out by the Viking missions in 1976, with an of water frozen beneath the planet’s surface. This account of the debate over their results. highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA

7 Published by Springer-Praxis 2004 China’s Space Program—From Conception to Manned Spaceflight ISBN 1-85233-566-1 $34.95 Brian Harvey This new edition also brings readers up-to-date with 376 pages, 60 illus. This book is designed for publication straight after other developments in the Chinese space program Softcover the launch of China’s first manned spacecraft. China’s from 1998 to the manned flight and looks forward Space Program builds upon the previous edition to to China’s future plans and ambitions in space take into account China’s first manned space flight. exploration.

Galaxies and How to Observe Them December 2006 ISBN 1-85233-752-4 Richard Jakiel, USA; Wolfgang Steinicke, Umkirch, author describes the theory and features of galaxies $29.95 Germany (including groups and clusters), offers observing Approx. 255 p. This book provides up-to-date information for techniques and instruments, and lists many objects, Softcover amateur astronomers who want to know all about with observing hints. The book is written for what they are observing, and details more advanced amateur observers with experience ranging from the observation techniques for practical astronomers, novice to the seasoned veteran. working with a range of different instruments. The

Mars: A Warmer, Wetter Planet 2004 ISBN 1-85233-568-8 Jeffrey S. Kargel As well as casting fascinating new insights into Mars’ $34.95 Long believed to have been cold, dead and dry for past, this discovery is also forcing a complete rethink 605 pages, 185 illus. eons, there is now striking new proof that not only about the mechanisms of global planetary change. Softcover was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologi- In this absorbing, beautifully illustrated book, Jeffrey cally recent times, but that even today there are vast Kargel describes the still unfolding revolution in our reserves of water frozen beneath the planet’s surface. knowledge about the Red Planet.

7 Published by Springer-Praxis November 2005 The Sky at Einstein‘s Feet ISBN 0-387-26130-3 $34.95 W. Keel readers the many applications of relativity that have Approx. 300 p. The impact of Einstein’s relativity are perhaps not been shown in earlier popular-level books. Using Softcover most dramatic in astronomy, radically altering our no mathematics beyond e=mc2, it explains how interpretation of the observations of the stars and deeply realtivistic ways of viewing the Universe have galaxies. Astronomers now encounter challenging informed our interpretations of it, and how many of phenomena that Einstein never lived to see, in which the amazing discoveries of these decades have made the bizarre effects of relativity played out on a cosmic sense only as part of Einstein’s universe. scale. This accessible overview explains to general 73 Astronomy and Space Backlist

August 2006 Parting the Cosmic Veil ISBN 0-387-30735-4 $39.95 Kenneth R. Lang, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA is evolving, participating in ongoing processes of 250 p. 89 illus., Parting the Cosmic Veil describes our gradual creation, destruction, and re-birth. But even though 42 in color. awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe. It we are pushing the boundaries of knowledge closer Hardcover is a story of expanding horizons and the discovery of to an understanding of the origins and destinies, invisible worlds, made possible with new technology of either the Universe or Life, the ultimate answers and novel telescopes that have broadened our range to these grand questions still lie hidden behind the of perception and sharpened our vision. The Cosmos Cosmic Veil.

September 2006 Calibrating the Cosmos ISBN 0-387-30778-8 How Cosmology Explains our Big Bang Universe $29.95 Approx. 230 p. Frank Levin symmetries lead to only one quantity being needed Hardcover Calibrating the Cosmos explains in clear, non- to describe the growth of the universe from its mathematical language the measurements and the infancy to the present time, and how the so-called interpretation of the resulting data that have led to parameters of the universe are the ingredients used the current understanding of the origin, evolution to construct the model universes to which ours and properties of our expanding Big Bang universe. - the real thing - is compared. Coverage includes Theoretical concepts are explored, in particular the background material, a description of the current symmetries of homogeneity and isotropy observed understanding and how it emerged, and a glimpse of in our universe on the largest scales, how these unsolved questions and conjectured solutions.

May 2006 Hubble ISBN 0-387-28599-7 15 Years of Discovery $39.95 Approx. 120 p. Lars Lindberg Christensen, Bob Fosbury, ESA Hubble 15th Anniversary volume enables the reader to peer 80 illus. in color. Space Telescope, Munich, Germany deeply into the wonders of the Universe in full color With DVD. As an observatory in space, the Hubble Space Teles- with unprecedented clarity and resolution. The Hardcover cope is one of the most successful scientific projects photos are unmatched in competing titles, because of all time, both in terms of scientific output and its the images have been prepared straight from the data immediate public appeal. The only Hubble Heritage by scientists to reach the highest possible quality. picture book endorsed by NASA and ESA, this lush

November 2006 The Hands-On Guide to Science Communication ISBN 0-387-26324-1 With Examples From Physics and Astronomy $29.95 Approx. 250 p. Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESO, Garching, Munich fabric of issues: product types, target groups, written 280 illus., 80 in color. Many people know something about communica- communication, visual communication, validation With CD-ROM tion–it is after all an innate human ability–but a full processes, practices of efficient workflow, distribu- Softcover comprehension of effective science communication tion, promotion, advertising and much more. Check is not easily acquired. Unique in the publishing lists and short “to-the-point” overviews enable rapid world, this guide touches on all aspects of science progress and quick results. communication, revealing a tightly interwoven

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Lunar and Planetary Webcam User‘s Guide May 2006 ISBN 1-84628-197-0 Martin Mobberley, Suffolk, England ving target separately, describing and explaining all $39.95 In the Lunar and Planetary Webcam User’s specialised techniques in context. Glance through Approx. 160 p. Guide, Martin Mobberley de-mystifies the jargon the images in this book to see just how much you 160 illus., 40 in color. Softcover of webcams and computer processing, and provides can–easily–achieve by using a webcam with your detailed hints and tips for imaging the Sun, Moon telescope! and planets with a webcam. He looks at each obser-

The New Amateur Astronomer 2004 ISBN 1-85233-663-3 Martin Mobberley alike. All the aspects of the new hi-tech astronomy $34.95 In recent years technology has advanced so much are covered. The book is divided into two parts, the 239 pages, 155 illus. that amateur astronomers are now able to achieve first dealing with the basics and equipment, and the Softcover what only professionals were doing at the end of the second discussing the observers and their tech- 1960s. Observers are able to make use of sophisti- niques. Throughout the book there are numerous cated equipment such as CCDs and robotic teles- planetary, cometary, and Deep Sky images and copes in the comfort of their own homes. Mobberley also pictures of the observers and the equipment has written The New Amateur Astronomer to inspire discussed—all designed to spur the astronomer into determined beginners and experienced observers this exciting field!

Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope 2001 ISBN 1-85233-631-5 A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs $39.95 Rod Mollise, Mobile, AL, USA use them, and which are the best to choose. There 368 pages, 53 illus. Amateur astronomy is becoming more and more are sections on accessories, observing techniques, Softcover popular, mostly because of the availability of rela- and hints and tips gleaned from the author’s 25 tively low-cost astronomical telescopes of superb years experience with this type of telescope: clea- quality—commercially made Schmidt-Cassegrain ning, collimating, maintaining the telescope and and Maksutovs. Featuring (but not exclusively) the mounting; using the telescope in various conditions; ubiquitous Meade and Celestron ranges, Mollise computer control; and imaging. describes what these instruments will do, how to

The Urban Astronomer‘s Guide June 2006 ISBN 1-84628-216-0 Rod Mollise, Mobile, AL, USA “why,” “how,” and “what” of astronomy under light- $39.95 Most amateur astronomers yearn to observe more polluted skies. The author describes the many objects Approx. 210 p. 100 illus., frequently. Many of them, however, live in urban that can be seen in a bright urban sky, and shows the 50 in color. Softcover and highly developed suburban areas that are heavily city or suburban astronomer how to observe object light polluted. Due to this light pollution, they are after object, season after season. About 50% of the under the impression that deep sky objects–nebulae, book is devoted to describing “tours” of the sky, galaxies, star clusters - are either invisible or not with physical and observational descriptions, at the worth viewing from home. This book covers the eyepiece drawings, and photographs.

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January 2005 Astronomy with a Home Computer ISBN 1-85233-805-9 $39.95 Neale Monks, Lincoln, NE (ed.) c. 255 pages, 87 illus. Here is a one-volume guide to just about everything on and on. Find out here how to choose the best Softcover computer-related for amateur astronomers! Today’s planetarium program. Learn how to optimize a go-to amateur astronomy is inextricably linked to personal telescope, or connect it to a laptop. Discover how computers. Computer-controlled “go-to” telescopes to choose the best webcam and use it with your teles- are inexpensive. CCD and webcam imaging make cope. Create a mosaic of the Moon, or high-resolu- intensive use of the technology for capturing and tion images of the planets. Astronomy with a Home processing images. The Internet offers links to other Computer is designed for every amateur astronomer astronomers, information, and software. The list goes who owns a home computer.

2003 Astronomy with a Budget Telescope ISBN 1-85233-586-6 $19.95 Patrick Moore and John Watson models along with detailed and essential hints and 140 pages, 100 illus. Having surveyed some the best and worst of today’s tips about what to look for when buying. The second (98 in color) inexpensive mail-order-catalog and main-street part describes how best to use the telescope, which Softcover astronomical telescopes, the authors have admitted celestial objects to observe (with full-page star charts to being astonished by how good some of them to help find them), what you can expect to see, and are. Astronomy with a Budget Telescope is in two how to take and even computer-enhance astrono- parts. The first provides reports on some available mical photographs.

August 2006 Moore on Mercury ISBN 1-84628-257-8 The Planet and the Missions $29.95 Approx. 160 p. Patrick Moore million km, compared to the Earth’s 150 million km. Softcover Mercury is one of the more difficult objects for On its sunlit side, Mercury’s surface temperature amateur astronomers to observe because of its can exceed 450C while the night side freezes at 180C. close proximity to the Sun. It is also one of the In his inimitable, easy-going style, Patrick Moore most fascinating and strange planets. Amateur describes Mercury, the professional astronomers who astronomers can see Mercury and its ever-changing have observed it over the centuries, amateur observa- phases all year, and sometimes watch it transit the tions, and the past, present and future space missions Sun. Mercury is not much larger that our Moon, to this extraordinary world. The book includes infor- but orbits the Sun at an average distance of only 58 mation on the Mercury Messenger mission.

2002 More Small Astronomical Observatories ISBN 1-85233-572-6 $39.95 Patrick Moore (ed.) 256 pages, This book is a sequel to the successful Small Astro- tory of some sort—it saves a vast amount of time and 185 illus. nomical Observatories, also edited by Patrick Moore. effort—and this book provides the necessary help. As Softcover with CD-ROM It contains detailed descriptions of even more a bonus, the enclosed CD-ROM contains the entire innovative and interesting observatories built, for the first book, Small Astronomical Observatories in PDF most part, by amateur astronomers. Almost every format. serious amateur astronomer wants a fixed observa-

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Apollo March 2006 ISBN 0-387-30043-0 The Definitive Sourcebook $49.95 Richard Orloff, Oakhurst, NJ, USA; David Harland, initial reconnaissance in lunar orbit. When Apollo Approx. 400 p. Glasgow, Scotland, UK 17 lifted off from the Moon in December 1972, the Softcover On 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy announced the program was concluded. Now, at long last, there is a goal of landing an American man on the Moon by real prospect of a resumption of human exploration the end of the decade. This challenge forced NASA of the Moon. This book provides an overview of the to review the planned lunar landing of a three-man origins of the Apollo program and descriptions of the spaceship named Apollo in the mid-1970s. In 1962, ground facilities, launch vehicles and spacecraft that it was decided that a specialized vehicle would will serve as an invaluable single-volume ‘sourcebook’ accompany the main spacecraft, to make the lunar for space enthusiasts, space historians, journalists, landing while the mothership remained in lunar orbit. and program-makers on radio/TV. It supplements To send these vehicles to the Moon would require the that other books that have focused on the politics and development of an enormous rocket. Development management of the Apollo program, the astronauts, was protracted, but in December 1968 Apollo 8 was and their training and exploits. launched on a pioneering mission to perform an

Care of Astronomical Telescopes and Accessories 2004 ISBN 1-85233-715-X A Manual for the Astronomical Observer and Amateur Telescope Maker $49.95 M. Barlow Pepin (ed.) the practicalities of the purchase, care, and upkeep of 252 pages, Barlow has written this complete manual for all astronomical telescopes and accessories. 82 illus. Softcover owners—and prospective owners—of astronomical instruments. This is a unique and essential book for today’s amateur astronomer, dealing in depth with

7 Published by Springer-Praxis July 2006 NASA’s Scientist-Astronauts ISBN 0-387-21897-1 $39.95 David J. Shayler and Colin Burgess 3-man crew were identified as the first ‘scientific c. 400 pages, Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the passengers’ in space. A few days later NASA and the 170 illus. Softcover National Academy of Sciences (NAS) led to NAS completed joint studies into the possibility of NASA’s conclusion that flying scientifically trained using scientists in the manned space program, and crewmembers would generate greater returns. In invited scientists to apply for astronaut training. October 1964 the Soviets launched Voskhod 1 whose

7 Published by Springer-Praxis July 2005 Women In Space: Following Valentina ISBN 1-85233-744-3 $39.95 David J. Shayler and Ian A. Moule woman balloonist in 1784 to their breakthrough as c. 350 pages, Space exploration has developed from early, astronauts and cosmonauts detailing the contribu- 100 illus. Softcover unmanned space probes, through the pioneering tion women have made to space exploration. These years of the ‘Manned’ Mercury, Gemini and Apollo and other events are presented in a highly readable missions, to missions that now include women account that recalls the difficult path to space explo- in the crew. Shayler tells the story from the first ration by women.

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August 2005 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 1-85233-792-3 Marswalk One $29.95 First Steps on a New Planet c. 400 pages, more importantly, what a human crew could achieve 150 illus. David J. Shayler, Andy Salmon, and Michael Shayler that an automated mission could not. The main (16 color pages) Marswalk One addresses the question of why we objective is to look at what science will be done on should embark on a journey to Mars, documenting the surface—supported by orbital operations—and what the first human crew will do when they place what hardware and technology will be employed to their feet in the red dust of the planet. The book also achieve the mission objectives. addresses why we need to carry out these tasks and,

April 2006 CCD Astrophotography ISBN 0-387-26241-5 High-quality Imaging from the Suburbs $39.95 Approx. 210 p. Adam Stuart, Physician Offices of South Florida, Florida see the product of– initially– a fellow beginner’s 60 illus., 20 in color. City, FL, USA efforts. The glorious images found in numerous Softcover Adam Stuart has written this reference book for books, and especially those seen in Sky & Telescope all amateur astronomers who are interested in magazine–might seem out of reach. But this is not CCD imaging, especially those who have to work the case. Respectable images are attainable with under suburban conditions. The book outlines the modest equipment. This book outlines a complete materials and (commercially-available) equipment and thoroughly tested working program for every used for high-quality imaging. The many wonderful beginner to high-quality digital imaging. images Dr Stuart has produced allow the reader to

2004 The NexStar User Guide ISBN 1-85233-714-1 $29.95 Michael W. Swanson 220 pages, 140 illus. Celestron’s NexStar telescopes, along with Meade’s The NexStar User Guide contains just about every- Softcover ETX and LX ranges, together dominate the inter- thing, from basic descriptions of models to technical national market for affordable computer-controlled details of alignment and even programming. The “go to” telescopes. Michael Swanson has written book is highly comprehensive, including a chapter this complete, detailed guide to buying, using, and on Astronomy Basics, and is suitable for beginners maintaining NexStar telescopes, which will appeal to and experts alike. Every NexStar owner will want all buyers and potential buyers of these telescopes. this book!

December 2005 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 0-387-27919-9 US Spacesuits $39.95 415 p. Kenneth S. Thomas, Harold J. McMann clothing provides a link to the function of spacesuits Softcover This highly focused reference reviews the technical and why spacesuits are far more than garments. They evolution of U.S. spacesuits from their roots in high are a last refuge for survival in disaster and a perso- altitude aviation and vacuum tube development nalized spacecraft that allows direct contact and to the present day, with a stimulating look into the interaction with everything beyond our world. future. The text explains how the routine use of

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Mars and How to Observe It August 2006 ISBN 1-85233-885-7 Approx. $29.95 Daniel M. Troiani, Triton College, IL, USA the basis of the first part of the book. The second part Approx. 300 p. Astronomers’ Observing Guides provide up-to-date details observing techniques for practical astrono- Softcover information for amateur astronomers who want to mers, working with a range of different instruments. know all about what it is they are observing. This is

2004 7 Published by Springer-Praxis ISBN 1-85233-735-4 Expedition Mars and planned developments in nuclear and electric $39.95 342 pages, 130 illus. Martin J. L. Turner propulsion technologies, are the key factors that will Softcover For those interested in the human conquest of enable a human expedition to Mars. Of particular space and exploration of the planets, Martin Turner importance are the challenges of transporting cargo describes the challenges that will be presented by to Mars and in providing necessary life support for the next “giant leap” in the human exploration of the crew, including supply of consumables, such as our Solar System—a return journey to the Red food, water, air and fuel, for the return journey. Planet. The author begins by describing how the very latest rocket propulsion and spacecraft technology,

The Invisible Universe November 2006 ISBN 0-387-30816-4 The Story of Radio Astronomy Approx. $29.95 Second Edition Approx. 280 p. Gerrit Verschuur, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN in Puerto Rico, in the green Pocahontas Valley in Hardcover This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio West Virginia, as well as dozens of other remote sites Second Edition waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, around the world. With each of these observatories, colliding galaxies, and by the very beginnings of the scientists collect and analyze their data, “liste- the universe itself. In The Invisible Universe, you ning” to the radio signals from space, in order to learn what astronomers are doing with those huge learn what is out there, and perhaps even if someone dishes in the New Mexico desert, in a remote valley else may be listening as well.

Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis February 2006 ISBN 0-387-29365-5 Brian Warner, Minor Planet Observer, Colorado Springs, in the process, and offers detailed examples on how $39.95 CO, USA to obtain and analyze data. Under “choosing the right Approx. 300 p. 110 illus. This practical text provides those with access to even a software,” the author looks critically at the commer- Softcover modest telescope and a CCD camera the background cially-available packages, providing screen shots and and detailed steps to contribute to astronomical useful advice. Amateur astronomers who want to go research, including joint projects in which they beyond CCD imaging will find everything they need can take part, as well as techniques for gathering, to step into the world of “real” science. analyzing, and publishing their data. The text helps the reader understand–and avoid–common pitfalls

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December 2005 The ABCs of Gene Cloning ISBN 0-387-28663-2 Second Edition $49.95 Approx. 230 p. Dominic Wong, Western Regional Research Center, understanding of gene cloning are presented in a Softcover Agricultural Research Service, V.S. Department of well-organized and accessible manner. This updated Agriculture, Albany, CA version of the first edition is an invaluable book Second Edition (Replaces for nonscientists as well as scientists with little 0-412-07791-4) Clear and concise, this easy-to-use text offers an background knowledge in gene cloning, providing introductory course on the language of gene cloning, a wealth of information for anyone wishing to gain covering microbial, plant, and animal systems. proficiency in reading and speaking the language of The essential concepts in biology relevant to the gene cloning.

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June 2005 Accessible Access 2003 ISBN 1-85233-949-7 started. We were delighted with the reception that $39.95 Mark Whitehorn and Bill Marklyn the book received and have tried to keep the same Approx. 350 p. Written by the team which brought you Inside philosophy. Rather than simply reprinting the book With CD-ROM. Relational Databases and based on their best-selling with 2003 in the title, we have gone through it with a Softcover book for Access 2000, Accessible Access has been fine toothcomb. Every screen shot has been retaken totally re-written for Access 2003. and every section has been re-checked to ensure that it still works and also that it is still relevant. We have From the authors: re-written parts where the product has changed and We wrote Accessible Access 2000 for people who also added some. For example, there is a new section were new to the world of building databases. In that on Object Dependencies and a whole new chapter book we tried to act as intelligent filters, presenting about Data Access Pages–helping you to put your only the essential information that you need to get Access database onto an intranet.

June 2001 Inside Relational Databases ISBN 1-85233-401-0 updated to include recent developments in the world $39.95 Mark Whitehorn and Bill Marklyn of databases. 345 pages This second edition of the best-selling Inside Relati- Softcover with onal Databases offers a reader-friendly explanation CD-ROM of the relational model and its importance to data- base designers, as well as the necessary techniques to build robust databases. This book has been Second Edition

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Grade Inflation 2003 evaluation experiment conducted at Duke Univer- ISBN 0-387-00125-5 A Crisis in College Education sity, the effects of student grading on various educa- $27.50 Valen E. Johnson tional processes, and their subsequent impact on 270 pages, 31 illus. Grade inflation runs rampant at most colleges and student and faculty behavior, is examined. Material Hardcover universities, but faculty and administrators are contained in this book is essential reading for anyone seemingly unwilling to face the problem. This book involved in efforts to reform the postsecondary explains why, exposing many of the misconceptions educational system, or for those who simply wish to surrounding college grading. Based on historical survive and prosper in it. research and the results of a year-long online course

The Craft of Scientific Presentations 2003 and delivery. It discusses ways of organizing graphics ISBN 0-387-95555-0 Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid and text in projected images and of using layout and $29.95 Michael Alley design to present information effectively. Unlike 264 pages, 43 illus. The Craft of Scientific Presentations provides a other books that discuss technical presentations, Softcover score of examples from contemporary and historical this book anchors its advice in the experiences of scientific presentations to show clearly what makes scientists and engineers, including examples from an oral presentation effective. It considers presenta- such successful presenters as Robert Oppenheimer, tions made to persuade an audience to adopt some Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr, and Rita Levi-Montal- course of action as well as presentations made to cini, as well as currently active laboratory directors, communicate information, and it considers these scientists, and engineers. from four perspectives: speech, structure, visual aids,

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2004 7 Published by Key College Publishing Baylor University. This beautifully illustrated comic ISBN 1-931914-22-2 Why Knot? $29.95 book is appropriate for undergraduates, high school An Introduction to Mathematical Theory of Knots 100 pages students in math clubs or honors math courses and Softcover Colin Adams is perfect for the lay math enthusiast. Each copy of Colin Adams, well-known for his advanced research Why Knot? includes a plastic manipulative called in topology and knot theory, is the author of this the Tangle® (www.tangletoys.com). The Tangle is exciting new book that brings his findings and his the ultimate tool for knot theory because knots are passion for the subject to a more general audience. defined in mathematics as being “closed on a loop.” He has been awarded the MAA Distinguished Readers use the Tangle to complete the experiments Teaching Award, has served as MAA Polya Lecturer, throughout the brief volume. First entry in Key and was most recently awarded the prestigious College Publishing’s Math is Fun series. Robert Foster Cherry Great Teaching Award by

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2003 Fantastic Voyages ISBN 0-387-00440-8 and biology, and a lot of other information besides.” Learning Science through Science Fiction Films $49.95 7 New Scientist 352 pages, 72 illus. Judith E. Boss, Leroy W. Dubeck, and Suzanne E. Moshier “The idea of using science fiction films to convey Softcover From the reviews of the First Edition: science in an interesting way is sound, and anyone “If you find science fiction films thought-provoking, preparing a course using the genre should at least Second Edition this could be the book for you. . . . The scope of the consult this book.” 7 Nature book is wide, with a good grounding in basic physics

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The Physics of Golf 1999 casual reader while satisfying the critical student . . ISBN 0-387-98691-X Theodore P. Jorgensen . first word or last, for anyone who has swung a golf $29.95 210 pages, 25 illus. From the reviews: club, the book is fun to read.” 7 Physics Today Softcover “The heart of golfer Ted Jorgensen’s delightful book “Gives us new insights and precise views into the lies in his analysis of the swing of the golf club and forces and torques developed in the downswing… Second Edition how, armed with insights from that analysis, you, he, Thank you, Dr. Jorgensen. We will all treasure your and I might all swing the club better and play better book.” 7 American Golf Pro golf. The exposition is designed to be accessible to the

Landing Your First Job 2003 Students. This book contains information on the ISBN 0-7354-0080-6 A Guide for Physics Students job search, including cover letters, resume writing, $12.95 John S. Rigden interview preparation, and salary negotiation. It 110 pages If you’ve recently received your degree and are also includes the latest employment statistics and Softcover looking for the most complete and up-to-date glimpses of physicists in the workplace. information on career and employment opportuni- ties, get Landing Your First Job: A Guide for Physics

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Caring for the Country 2004 medical students, and family physicians to consider ISBN 0-387-20978-6 Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns rural family practice and is an excellent resource $29.95 Howard K. Rabinowitz for medical school advisors. In-depth profiles cover 262 pages, 13 illus. Medical students lack role models in rural primary social and professional issues important to rural Softcover care, contributing to the shortage in rural areas. This family physicians, such as health care policy, rural text profiles graduates from the Physician Shortage obstetrics, and telemedicine. The concluding chapter Area Program of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas summarizes lessons learned and outlines the future Jefferson University, who now practice rural family of rural family practice. medicine. It challenges pre-med undergraduates,

Clinician’s Guide to Medical Writing 2004 the clinician in private practice seeking personal ISBN 0-387-22249-9 Robert B. Taylor enrichment. Written by a renowned family medicine $29.95 This book teaches what clinicians need to know physician and loaded with practical advice and real- 266 pages about medical writing and publishing. This title world examples, this text benefits readers who are Softcover will appeal to the physician, physicians assistant, new to medical writing and those who have authored or nurse practitioner who sees patients and also a few articles or chapters and want to improve their wants to contribute to the medical literature. It is for abilities. the assistant professor aspiring to promotion and

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Author Index

A C Érdi, 37 Handy, 6 Kulkarni, 33 Evans, 71 Hardt, 31 Abramov, 69 Calter, 49 Evans, 71 Harland, 72 L Adams, 82 Candilis, 60 Harland, 7 Albert, 65 Cassandras, 20 F Harland, 72 Lakshmibai, 54 Al-Hallaj, 34 Celletti, 10 Harland, 12 Lambropoulos, 59 Allaire, 46 Cheng, 36 Faure, 43 Harland, 72 Lang, 74 Alley, 81 Chiang, 29 Feng, 22 Harland, 73 Lehmann, 64 Alley, 81 Chien, 65 Fensel, 22 Harvey, 73 Levin, 74 Alley, 81 Chiravalle, 10 Fienberg, 63 Harvey, 12 Lewis, 18 Allison, 69 Choi, 36 Flannery, 66 Hero, 32 Leyton, 25 Andreescu, 47 Christensen, 74 Fonseca, 51 Hoenig, 18 Li, 19 Angles, 47 Christensen, 74 Freeman, 72 Hofer, 16 Lobontiu, 33 Anheier, 63 Cimiano, 20 Friberg, 51 Longuski, 3 Argyle, 70 Cios, 21 Frieden, 22 I Loon, van, 26 Armstrong, 35 Coe, 10 Frye, 23 Lovelock, 54 Ashworth, 60 Coello Coello, 21 Fugelsang, 17 Inselberg, 25 Lynch, 55 Asmussen, 47 Columbus, 36 Furer, 61 Lynch, 55 Cong, 29 Furniss, 11 J Lyon, 26 B Cooke, 71 Cowin, 45 G Jacobson, 62 M Baker, 4 Crandall, 50 Jaeger, 58 Bauer, 19 Croddy, 66 Gagarina, 46 Jakiel, 73 Matloff, 7 Beauchamp, 58 Curtin, 66 Gainer, 11 Javey, 32 Matveev, 38 Benedetto, 48 Gan, 51 Johnson, 81 Maunder, 8 Benton, 70 D Gavrilovska, 30 Jorgensen, 83 McInnes, 33 Berestycki, 48 Genta, 6 Meadows, 12 Bernstein, 65 Dacorogna, 50 Gergely, 23 K Mezgár, 34 Blanchini, 48 Danzer, 17 Gilmore, 66 Michaud, 68 Bochev, 49 de Almeida, 70 Gilster, 67 Kahn, 18 Michler, 19 Bond, 65 Denollet, 61 Gitman, 52 Kalantar-zadeh, 32 Miller, 44 Bone, 4 Dhillon, 37 Golshan, 31 Kaler, 67 Mobberley, 75 Borgia, 70 Diggle, 63 Gosling, 14 Kargel, 73 Mobberley, 75 Boss, 82 Diniz, 29 Grädel, 23 Karttunen, 15 Molisse, 75 Brewer, 49 Dorfman, 61 Grafarend, 44 Kassel, 535 Mollica, 39 Brewin, 35 Dori, 21 Grätzer, 24 Kavaler, 67 Mollise, 75 Buick, 71 Drenth, 45 Greene, 52 Keel, 73 Monks, 76 Burgess, 5 Grune, 24 Kendal, 25 Moore, 76 Burmester, 20 E Guler, 52 Khosla, 37 Moore, 76 Burton, 28 Gursky, 46 Kiessling, 53 Moore, 76 Buryachenko, 35 Eales, 11 Kim, 38 Morrison, 15 El-Kareh, 30 H Kleiner, 53 Mullaney, 8 Ellinger, 30 Kobayashi, 54 Elnashaie, 50 Hailes, 24 Kolobov, 58 84 Encrenaz, 5 Ham, 31 Kuchment, 67 springer.com/booksellers N-Z, A-D Author/Title Index

N Pettini, 56 Sevaux, 41 Tewari, 42 Whitehorn, 80 Polderman, 56 Shaked, 64 Thomas, 78 Whitehorn, 80 Nakagawa, 39 Poon, 41 Shayler, 78 Tonkin, 13 Whitehorn, 14 Neteler, 44 Porzsolt, 62 Shayler, 77 Towhata, 43 Whitehorn, 14 Neudörfer, 39 Shayler, 77 Troiani, 79 Williams, 27 Nolan, 2 R Simon, 42 Turner, 79 Wolter, 64 Nolan, 55 Sinaceur, 57 Wong, 80 Rabinowitz, 83 Sivanandam, 42 V Wood, 34 O Ratcliffe, 13 Small, 57 Rigden, 83 Spector, 27 Van Pelt, 3 Y Ó’Mathúna, 56 Riolo, 26 Stimson, 16 van Pelt, 68 Orloff, 77 Rossmann, 41 Strom, 2 Verschuur, 79 Yam, 69 Stuart, 78 Vishveshwara, 13 Ynduráin, 60 P S Stüwe, 45 Sun, 27 W Z Pachauri, 40 Schmitt, 68 Swanson, 78 Park, 40 Schneider, 59 Walker, 17 Zhang, 43 Park, 40 Schrunk, 9 T Warner, 79 Zhang, 28 Pepin, 77 Schuster, 16 Webb, 69 Peston, 9 Scott, 59 Taylor, 83 Webb, 68

Title Index

A Astronomy With a Budget Braid Groups, 53 China’s Space Program–From Context-aware Emotion-based Telescope, 76 Brute Force, 66 Conception to Manned Multi-agent Systems, 37 ABCs of Gene Cloning, 80 Astronomy with a Home Buyer’s and User’s Guide to Spaceflight, 73 Craft of Editing, 81 Abnormal Psychology for First Computer, 76 Astronomical Telescopes & Choosing and Using a Craft of Scientific Responders, 61 Atmospheric and Space Flight Binoculars, 8 Schmidt-Cassegrain Presentations, 81 Accessible Access 2003, 80 Dynamics, 42 Telescope, 75 Craft of Scientific Writing, 81 Acquisition of Verbs and their Aurora, 4 C Clinician’s Guide to Medical Curve Ball, 65 Grammar, 46 Automatic Quantum Writing, 83 Adaptive Filtering, 29 Computer Programming, 27 Calibrating the Cosmos, 74 CMOS and BiCMOS Process D Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Carbon Nanotube Electronics, 32 Integration and Device Seamless Communications, 30 B Care of Astronomical Characterization, 30 Data Mining, 21 Alice in Quantumland, 66 Telescopes and Accessories, 77 Cognitive Research, 23 Decrypted Secrets, 19 Analytic Design Methods for Big Bang, 72 Caring for the Country, 83 Columbia: Final Voyage, 65 Design for Manufacturability Design Practice, 40 Binocular Astronomy, 13 Cassini at Saturn- Huygens Compendium of Chemical and Yield for Nano-Scale Analytical Chemistry, 17 BioCMOS Technologies, 31 Results, 72 Warfare Agents, 18 CMOS, 29 Animals in Space, 5 Biomaterials, 40 CCD Astrophotography, 78 Complexity Explained, 37 Design of Safe Machines, 39 Apollo, 77 Bionics-Natural Technologies Celestial Mechanics, 10 Conformal Groups in Geometry Design Practice, 35 Applied Reliability and Quality, 37 and Biomimetics, 41 Centauri Dreams, 67 and Spin Structures, 47 Distant Worlds, 65 Astronomical Sketching, 6 Black Holes in My Bubble Chemical and Biological Contact with Alien Civilizatins, 68 Bath, 13 Warfare, 66 Contaminated Rivers, 44

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Dynamical Systems with Fields and Models, 57 How to Photograph the Moon Introduction to Variance Nanotechnology-Enabled Applications using MAPLE, 55 Finite Elements of Least- and Planets with your Digital Estimation, 64 Sensors, 32 Dynamical Systems Squares Type, 49 Camera, 71 Invisible Universe, 79 NASA’S Scientist-Astronauts, 77 with Applications Using Finite Model Theory and Its Hubble, 74 NASA’s Voyager Missions, 71 Mathematica®, 55 Applications, 23 Human Vision and The Night L Navigating the Night Sky, 70 Dynamics of MEMS, 33 First Men on the Moon, 12 Sky, 70 Nebulae, and How to Observe Forensic Ethics and the Expert Hundred Greatest Stars, 67 Landing Your First Job, 83 Them, 10 E Witness, 60 Hybrid Hydrogen Systems for LaTeX Book, 24 Network Security Policies and Forgotten Cure, 67 Stationary and Lights in the Sky, 8 Procedures, 23 Economics of Casino Foundations and Applications Transportation Applications, 34 Living Off the Land in Space, 7 Network: From Biology to Gambling, 17 of Sensor Management, 32 Hypothalamus, 15 Lonely Minds in the Universe, 6 Theory, 22 Eisenstein Series and Foundations of Optimization Lunar and Planetary Webcam New Amateur Astronomer, 75 Applications, 51 in Finite Dimensions, 52 I User’s Guide, 75 NexStar User Guide, 78 Electroactive Polymers for Functional Equations and How Nonlinear Universe, 59 Robotic Application, 38 to Solve Them, 57 If the Universe is Teeming with M Nonparametrics, 64 Electromagnetism, 53 Fundamental Astronomy, 15 Aliens…Where is Numerical Techniques for Electron Microscopy of Fundamentals of Quantum Everybody?, 69 Map Projections, 44 Chemical and Biological Polymers, 19 Optics and Quantum In Search of Dark Matter, 72 Mars, 73 Engineers Using MATLAB, 50 Emergence of Communication Information, 59 Information and Mars and How to Observe It, 79 and Language, 26 Future of Universe, 12 Communication Systems for Mars, A Cosmic Stepping O Emotion Regulation, 61 Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Networked Enterprises, 34 Stone, 2 Enabling Semantic Web Control, 43 Innovation in Strategic Marswalk One, 78 Observing and Measuring Services, 22 Philanthropy, 63 Mastering Your PhD, 14 Visual Double Stars, 70 Energy Analysis of Household G Inside Relational Databases, 80 Metaheuristics, 41 On-Line Business Security Consumption, 40 Inside Relational Databases Microfluidic Technologies for Systems, 27 Essays in Brewing Science, 18 Galaxies and How to Observe with Examples in Access, 14 Miniaturized Analysis Ontology Learning and Essential Linear Algebra with Them, 73 Inside Relational Databases Systems, 31 Population from Text, 20 Applications, 47 Genetic Programming Theory with Examples in SQL Server, 14 Micromechanics of Open Source GIS, 44 Estimation and Control over and Practice IV, 26 Integrable Systems in Celestial Heterogeneous Materials, 35 Optical Scanning Holography Communication Networks, 38 Geometer’s Sketchpad, 82 Mechanics, 56 Model-based Geostatistics, 63 with MATLAB, 41 Evolutionary Algorithms Geometry and Topology in Integration and Modern Modeling of Biological Optimizing Health, 62 for Solving Multi-Objective Hamiltonian Dynamics and Analysis, 48 Materials, 39 Origin Questions, 11 Problems, 21 Statistical Mechanics, 56 Introduction to Discrete Event Modelling of Powder Die Out of This World, 68 Exercises in Earth Science, 45 Geometry of Complex Systems, 20 Compaction, 35 Expedition Mars, 79 Domains, 52 Introduction to Fuzzy Logic Modern Circuit Placement, 29 P Exploratory Data Analysis Geotechnical Earthquake Using MATLAB, 42 Modern Methods in the Using Fisher Information, 22 Engineering, 43 Introduction to Knowledge Calculus of Variations, 51 Parallel Coordinates, 25 Exploring the Web, 21 Global RFID, 16 Engineering, 25 Moon, 9 Parsing Techniques 2/e, 24 Exploring Venus, Mars and Grade Inflation, 81 Introduction to Mathematical Moore on Mercury, 76 Parting the Cosmic Veil, 74 Mercury, 7 Systems Theory, 56 More Small Astronomical Pathological Protein, 69 H Introduction to Planetary Observatories, 76 Pattern Asterisms, 10 F Science, 43 Multiplicative Ideal Theory in Phenomenology and Handbook of Intellectual and Introduction to Scientific Commutative Algebra, 49 Psychological Science, 60 Fantastic Voyages, 82 Developmental Disabilities, 62 Computation, 50 Physical Design Essentials, 31 Fast Algorithms for Stereo Hands-On Guide to Science Introduction to Scientific N Physics of Golf, 83 Matching, 27 Communication, 74 Computing, 46 Platform Based Design at the Fathom Dynamic Statistics, 82 History of Abstract Algebra, 53 Introduction to the Name Reactions, 19 Electronic System Level, 28 Hot House, 2 Mathematics of Money, 54 86 springer.com/booksellers P-W Author/Title Index

Polarization Effects in Revolution Your Customers T Semiconductors, 34 Want, 36 Practical Guide to Lightcurve Russian Spacesuits, 69 Theory of Quark and Gluon Photometry and Analysis, 79 Interactions, 60 Practical Scientific Astronomy: S Tissue Mechanics, 45 an Introduction, 11 Treating Health Anxiety and Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log Saturn and How to Observe Fear of Death, 61 1961-2006, 11 It, 70 Primate Anti-Predator Schubert Varieties, 54 U Strategies, 46 Searching for Water in the Principles of Protein X-Ray Universe, 5 Urban Astronomer’s Guide, 75 Crystallography, 45 Seat on the Aisle Please!, 67 US Spacesuits, 78 Probability Distributions Secrets of the Old One, 65 User’s Guide to the Meade Involving Gaussian Random Security in Networked LXD55 and LXD75 Variables, 42 Embedded Systems, 24 Telescopes, 9 Process Assessment and Security Issues in Ad-Hoc Improvement, 26 Networks, 20 V Selected Papers of Frederick Q Mosteller, 63 Visual Astronomy Under Dark Self-adjoint Extensions as a Skies, 71 Qualitative Nonlinear Quantization Problem, 52 Visual Languages and Dynamics of Communication Set-Theoretic Methods in Applications, 28 Networks, 33 Control, 48 Quantum Imaging, 58 Seven Secrets of How to Think W Quantum Information, 58 Like a Rocket Scientist, 3 Quasiconvex Analysis and the Shock and Damage Models in Water and the Search for Life Calculus of Variations, 50 Reliability Theory, 39 on Mars, 73 Sky at Einstein’s Feet, 73 Why Knot?, 82 R Solar Sailing, 33 Wine Microbiology, 17 Sound of Music, 58 Women In Space –Following Radio Frequency Integrated Space Exploration 2007, 12 Valentina, 77 Circuits and Technologies, 30 Space Invaders, 3 Radioanalytical Chemistry, 18 Space Shuttle Columbia, 71 Reaction-Diffusion Equations Space Tourism, 68 and Propagation Square Root of Two, 66 Phenomena, 48 Squaring the Circle, 49 Regional Economic Stable Distributions, 55 Development, 16 Star Clusters and How to Reliability-based Structural Observe Them, 69 Design, 36 State of the Universe 2007, 13 Remarkable Collection of Stochastic Optimization, 59 Babylonian Mathematical Stochastic Orders, 64 Texts, 51 Stochastic Simulation, 47 Representation Theory and Story of Manned Space Automorphic Forms, 54 Stations, 4 Residual Stress Measurement Story of Space Shuttle, 72 and the Slitting Method, 36 Structure of Paintings, 25 Return to the Moon, 68 Success in China, 16 87 General Information Sales Representatives

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