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A First Course in Computational Physics By P. L. DEVRIES 1994, £19·50 (pbk), pp. xii + 424. Wiley, ISBN 0471 599638. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate.

Algebra VII: Combinational Group Theory and Applications to Geometry Edited by A. N. PARSHIN and I. R. SHAFAREVICH 1993, DM141·00 (hbk), pp. 240. Springer, ISBN 3540547002. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory By G. STERMAN 1993, £60·00, US$l00·00 (pbk), £25.00, US$39·95 (pbk), xvii +572. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521311328. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators By D. A. EDWARDS and M. J. SYPHERS 1993, £38·50 (hbk), pp. xii + 292. Wiley, ISBN 0471551635. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

Applied Chaos Edited by J. H. KIM and J. STRINGER 1992, £45·50 (hbk), pp. xviii + 546. Wiley, ISBN 0471544531. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate.

Atomic Collisions, Heavy Particle Projectiles By E. W. MCDANIEL, J. B. A. MITCHELL and M. E. RUDD 1993, £103·00 (hbk), pp. xxix + 681. Wiley, ISBN 0471853089. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Atomic Scattering. A Meeting in Honour of Professor B. H. Bransden Edited by D. R. FLOWER 1992, £41·00 (hbk), pp. vii + 176. World Scientific, ISBN 9810209843. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: specialist.

Computation: The Micro and the Macro View Edited by B. A. HUBERMAN 1992, £20·00 (pbk), pp. ix + 162. World Scientific, ISBN 9810209827. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: specialist.

Critical Assembly By L. HODDESON, P. W. HENRIKSEN, R. A. MEADE and C. WESTFALL 1993, £45·00, US$39·95 (hbk), pp. xv + 509. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521441323. Scope: technical history. Level: general reader.

Electro-optical Displays Edited by M. A. KARIM 1992, US$165·00 (hbk), pp. xvi + 843. Marcel Dekker, ISBN 0824786955. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Elements of Solid State Physics, 2nd edn By M. N. RUDDEN and J. WILSON 1993, £15·95 (pbk), pp. xiii + 264. Wiley, ISBN 0471929735. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate.

Fearful Symmetry By I. STEWART and M. GOLUBITSKK 1993, £6·99, US$12·50 (pbk), pp. xix + 287. Penguin, ISBN 0140130470. Scope: popular survey. Level: general reader.

From Number Theory to Physics Edited by M. WALDSCHMIDT, P. MOUSSA, J.-M. LUCK and C. ITZYKSON 1992, DM128·00 (hbk), pp. x + 690. Springer, ISBN 3540533427. Scope: summer school proceedings. Level: post-graduate and specialist.

Fundamental Aspects of Combustion By A. LINAN and F. A. WILLIAMS 1993, £25·00 (hbk), pp. xii + 167. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195076265. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

In The Wake of Chaos By S. H. KELLERT 1993, £15·95 (hbk), pp. xiv + 190. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226429741. Scope: text. Level: non-specialist.

Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics for Physicists By H. D. I. ABARBANEL, M. I. RABINOVICH and M. M. SUSHCHIK 1993, £27·00 (hbk), £14·00 (pbk), pp. viii + 158. World Scientific, ISBN 9810214103. Scope: lecture notes. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

Introductory Differential Geometry for Physicists By A. VISCONTI 1992, £23·00 (pbk), pp. viii + 415. World Scientific, ISBN 9971501872. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate.

KAM Theory and Semiclassical Approximations to Eigenfunctions By V. F. LAZUTKIN 1993, DM198·00 (hbk), pp. ix + 387. Springer, ISBN 3540533893. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Materials Science and Technology, Vol. 6, Plastic Deformation and Fracture of Materials Edited by H. MUGHRABI 1993, DM430·00 (hbk), pp. 697. VCH, ISBN 3527268197. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Niels Bohr's Times. In Physics, Philosophy and Polity By A. PAIS 1993, £12·95 (pbk), pp. xvii + 565. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198520484. Scope: biography. Level: non-specialist.

Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamics By D. BISKAMP 1993, £50·00, US$79·95 (hbk), pp. xiv + 378. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521402069. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Optical Waveguide Theory By the Infinite Element Method By M. KOSHIBA 1993, £87·50, US$135·00, Dfl220·00 (hbk), pp. x + 272. Kluwer, ISBN 0792320808. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Physics and Chance By L. SKLAR 1994, US$40·00 (hbk), US$64·95 (pbk), pp. xiii + 427. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521440556. Scope: philosophical survey. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Progress in Optics, Vol. XXXI By E. WOLF 1993, Dfl250·00 (hbk), pp. xix + 434. Elsevier/North Hol- land, ISBN 0444898360. Scope: multiauthor surveys. Level : postgraduate.

Pulsed Magnetic Resonance: NMR, ESR and Optics. A Recognition of E. L. Hahn Edited by D. M. S. BAGGULEY 1992, £65·00 (hbk), pp. xv + 550. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198539622. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Quantum Chaos. A New Paradigm of Nonlinear Dynamics By K. NAKAMURA 1992, £35·00 (hbk), pp. xii -1- 208. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521392497. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Quantum Scattering Theory for Several Particle Systems By L. D. FADDEEV and S. P. MERKURIEV 1993, £117·00, US$180·00, Dfl295·00 (hbk), pp. xiii + 404. Kluwer, ISBN 0792324145. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Quantum Scattering Theory for Several Particle Systems By L. D. FADDEEV and S. P. MERKURIEV 1993, £117·00, US$180·00, Dfl295·00 (hbk), pp. xiii + 404. Kluwer, ISBN 0792324145. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Scattering in Quantum Field Theories. The Axiomatic and Constructive Approaches By D. IAGOLNITZER 1993 (USA), 1994 (ROW), £37·50, US$49·50 (hbk), pp. xxi + 290. Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691087897. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Semiconductor Superlattices and Interfaces Edited by A. STELLA and L. MIGLIO 1993, US$208·50, Dfl365·00 (hbk), pp. xi + 473. Elsevier, ISBN 0444816437. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Special Relativity By M. SALEEM and M. RAFIQUE 1992, $39·95 (hbk), pp. x + 257. Ellis Horwood, ISBN 0138271062. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

Surfaces and Interfaces of Solids, 2nd edn By H. LUTH 1993, DM99·00 (hbk), pp. x + 487. Springer, ISBN 3540568409. Scope: texbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

The Philosophy Behind Physics By T. A. BRODY, edited by L. DE LA PENA and P. HODGSON 1993, DM98·00 (hbk), pp. xii + 355. Springer, ISBN 3540559140. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

The Photon's Magnetic Field. Optical NMR Spectroscopy By M. W. EVANS 1992, £25·00 (hbk), pp. vii + 256. World Scientific, ISBN 9810212658. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

The Physics of Atoms and Quanta, Introduction to Experiments and Theory, 3rd edn By H. HAKEN and H. C. WOLF 1993, DM74·00 (pbk), pp. xvi + 462. Springer, ISBN 3540563 121. Scope: texbook. Level: undergraduate.

The Quantum Labyrinth By D. J. HOEKZEMA 1993, £78·50, US$130·00, Dfl195·00 (hbk), pp. xvi + 277. Kluwer, ISBN 0792320662. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

The Quantum Vacuum By P. W. MILONNI 1994, £54·00 (hbk), pp. xvi+522. Academic, ISBN 0124980805. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

The Skyrme Model, Fundamentals, Methods, Applications By V. G. MAKHANKOV, Y. P. RYBAKOV and V. I. SANYUK 1993, DM138·00 (hbk), pp. ix + 265. Springer, ISBN 3540549056. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Thermodynamics of Chaotic Systems, An Introduction By C. BECK and F. SCHLOGL 1993, £40·00, US$64·95 (hbk), pp. xx + 286. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521433673. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate.

Transformation Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations By D. G. B. EDELEN and J.-H. WANG 1992, £38·00 (hbk), pp. xii + 325. World Scientific, ISBN 9810209339. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate.

Whistler-Mode Waves in a Hot Plasma By S. SAZHIN 1993, US$69·95 (hbk), pp. x + 259. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521401658. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Artifice and Artefacts By R. W. CAHN 1992, £19·95, US$39·90 (pbk), pp. xiii + 365. IOP, ISBN 075030152 X. Scope: collected essays. Level: non-specialist.

Chaos From Theory to Applications By A. A. TSONIS 1992, US$71·40 (hbk), pp. xii + 274. Plenum, ISBN 030641713. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

Has Hawking Erred? By G. KRAUS 1993, £14·99, pp. xiv + 154. Janus, ISBN 1 857560884. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Ion Beam Modification of Metals By F. KOMAROV 1992, £48·00, US$88·00 (hbk), pp. vii + 251. Gordon & Breach, ISBN 2881248349. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Quantum Field Theory, revised By F. MANDL and G. SHAW 1993, £26·95 (pbk), pp. ix + 358. Wiley, ISBN 0471941867. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

The Broken Dice and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance By I. EKELAND 1993, £15·95 (hbk), pp. 183. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226199916. Scope: text. Level: general reader.

Wave Asymptotics Edited by P. A. MARTIN and G. R. WICKHAM 1992, £22·95, US$39·95 (hbk), pp. xii + 244. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521414148. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: specialist.