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ABCD Springer.Com AB 2009 ABCD springer.com Springer NEWS Apress AIP Press American Institute of Physics Birkhäuser Copernicus Current Medicine Friends of ED Humana Press Want this by e-mail? Lars Müller Subscribe now to the monthlymonthly Lavoisier-Intercept Library Books E-Newsletter: Physica Verlag Springer-Praxis springer.com/librarybooks Get all the content of this catalog in PDF, Excel, and HTML. The Royal Society of Chemistry 11 Springer Wien NewYork Steinkopff Verlag NOVEMBERNOVEMBER DECEMBER Vieweg 12 2009 ABCD springer.com Notice of Price Changes Springer announces that as of April 15, 2009 a new price list for print books will take effect. The list of price changes will be posted for download from springer.com/booksellers new price list ANNOUNCEMENT 014161x springer.com/librarybooks Contents I Author Index . II Title Index . 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