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Pages 141-150 | Published online: 20 Aug 2006
 

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300 Years of Gravitation. Edited by S. W. Hawking and W. Israel. 1987, £45.00, pp. xiii + 684. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 34312 7. Scope: Multiauthor survey. Level: Specialist.

Optics. Second Edition. By F. G. Smith and J. H. Thomson. 1988, £11.95, pp. xv + 320. John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471 91535 1. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate

Astronomical Optics. By Daniel J. Schroeder. 1987, $45.00, pp. xii + 352. Academic Press, ISBN 0 12 629805 X. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate.

Vertex Detectors. Edited by Francesca Villa. 1988, $75.00, pp. viii + 367. Plenum, ISBN 0 306 42798 2. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist.

The Structure of the Planets. By John Elder. 1987, £27.50, pp. xix + 210. Academic Press, ISBN 0 12 236452 X. Scope: Textbook. Level: Advanced undergraduate.

Physical Fluid Dynamics. (Second Edition.) By D. J. Tritton. 1988, £16.95 paperback, £35.00 hardback, pp. xvii + 519. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 854493 6 (pbk), 0 19 854489 8 (hbk). Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate.

Introduction to Synchrotron Radiation. By Giorgio Margaritondo. 1988, £32.00, pp. xi + 280. Oxford University Press, ISBN 019 504514 6. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate.

Signal Processing. Volume I. Edited by Jean-Louis Lacoume, Tariw Salim Durrani and Raymond Stora. 1987, Dfl. 415.00, pp. xxxvi + 397. North-Holland, ISBN 0 448 87058 X. Scope: Multiauthor survey. Level: Specialist.

Signal Processing. Volume II. Edited by Jean-Louis Lacoume, Tariw Salim Durrani and Raymond Stora. 1987, Dfl. 415.00, pp. xxxvi + 402–858, North-Holland. ISBN 0 444 87059 8. Scope: Multiauthor survey. Level: Specialist.

Noise and Diffusion in Bistable Nonequilibrium Systems. Teubner-Texte zur Physik, Band 5. By Horst Malchow and Lutz Schimansky-Geier. 1985, DM 20.50, pp. 167. Teubner, ISBN 3 322 00335 3. Scope: Textbook. Level: Specialist.

Coherent Effects in Highly Excited Nuclei. Edited by Z. Wilhelmi and G. Szeflinska. 1987, $65.00, pp. xiv + 407. Harwood, ISBN 3 7187 0399 3. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Models of the Nucleon. From Quarks to Solitons. By Rajat K. Bhaduri. 1988, £34.95, pp. xvii + 360. Addison Wesley, ISBN 0201 156733. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate.

Coherence in Atomic Collision Physics. Edited by H. J. Beyer, K. Blum and R. Hippler. 1988, $69.50, pp. xvii + 349. Plenum, ISBN 0 306 42842 3. Scope: Specialist. Level: Postgraduate.

The Elementary Structure of Matter. Edited by J.-M. Richard, E. Aslanides, and N. Boccara. 1988, DM 110.00, pp. xii + 467. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 190139. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Nuclei Far from Stability. AIP Conference Proceedings 164. Edited by Ian S. Towner. 1988, £56.00, pp. 869. American Institute of Physics (Adam Hilger, IOP Publishing), ISBN 0 88318 364 1. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Methods of Experimental Physics. Volume 23—Part C. Neutron Scattering. Edited by Kurt Sköld and David L. Price. 1987, $89.00, pp. xiv + 489. Academic Press, ISBN 0 12 475968 8. Scope: Multiauthor reviews. Level: Postgraduate.

Handbook on Nuclear Activation Data. (Technical Reports Series No. 273.) 1987, Aust.S. 1640.00, pp. 811. International Atomic Energy Agency, ISBN 92 0 135087 2. Scope: Data collection. Level: Specialist.

Crystal Growth: Principles and Progress. By A. W. Vere. 1987, $47.50, pp. xiii + 258. Plenum, ISBN 0 306 42576 9.

Growth of Crystals. Volume 15. Edited by E. I. Givargizov and S. A. Grinberg 1988, $75.00, pp. vii + 230. Plenum, ISBN 0 306 18115 0. Level: Specialist.

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. First Student Edition. Edited by Robert C. Weast. 1988, £19.95, pp. 1768. CRC Press, ISBN 0 8493 0740 6. Scope: Library. Level: Undergraduate.

Physical Chemistry Source Book. Edited by Sybil P. Parker. 1988, £45.00, pp. 406. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0 07 045504 X. Scope: Encylcopaedia. Level: Reference.

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