Book reviews

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Clouds in a Glass of Beer. By Craig F. Bohren. 1987, £9.95, pp. xv + 195. John Wiley, ISBN 0471 624829. Scope: Textbook. Level: General reader.

Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas. A Tribute to Arthur L. Schawlow. Edited by W. M. Yen and M. D. Levenson. 1987, DM 79.00, pp. xiv + 337. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 182969. Scope: Multiauthor review. Level: Postgraduate.

A Unified View of the Macro-and the Micro-Cosmos. Edited by A. De Rujida, D. V. Nanopoulos and P. A. Shaver. 1987, £66.20, pp. viii + 670. World Scientific, ISBN 9971 50 393 X. Scope: School proceedings. Level: Post-graduate students and other researchers.

Theories of High Temperature Superconductivity. Edited by J. Wood Halley. 1988, £44.95, pp. vi + 264. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201 120089. Scope: Solid-state physics. Level: Specialist.

The Atmosphere of the Sun. By C. J. Durrant. 1988, £23.50, pp. xiii+168. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 85274 375 0. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate.

Research on Laser Theory. Edited by A. N. Orayevskiy 1988, $92.00 (U.S.A. and Canada), $110.00 (elsewhere), pp. 288. Nova Science, ISBN 0941743 06 3. Scope: Multiauthor reviews. Level: Specialist.

Numerical Recipes in C—the Art of Scientific Computing. By W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky and W. T. Vetterling. 1988, $44.50, pp. 733. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 35465 X. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate.

Numerical Recipes in C—the Art of Scientific Programming, Example Book. By W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky and W. T. Vetterling. 1988, $19.95, pp. 239. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 35746 2. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate.

Portraits in Silicon. By Robert Slater. 1987, £22.50, pp. xiv + 374. MIT Press, ISBN 0 262 19262 4. Scope: Textbook. Level: General reader.

The Meaning of Quantum Gravity. By H.-H. von Borzeszkowski and H.-J. Treder. 1987, £29.95, pp. vii+132. Reidel. ISBN 90 277 2518 7. Scope: Textbook. Level: Specialist.