Book reviews

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Proceedings of the Second Japanese–Soviet Symposium on Ferroelectricity. Edited by S. Hoshino, S. Sawada, K. Hamano and T. Sakudo. (Tokyo: Physical Society of Japan, 1980.) [Pp. xii + 208 + author index.] Price Yen 12,000 hardback.

Structural Phase Transitions. By A. D. Bruce and R. A. Cowley. (London: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1981.) [Pp. v + 326.] Price £15·00 hardback.

Fundamental Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors. Edited by F. Yonezawa, (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981.) [Pp. viii + 181.] Price Dm 58, – –/US $30·50 hardback.

Amorphous Solids. Low-temperature Properties. Edited by W. A. Phillips. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981.) [Pp. x + 167 + subject and material index.] Price DM 54, – –/US $32·00 hardback.

Glassy Metals I. Ionic Structure, Electronic Transport and Crystallization. Edited by H. J. Guntherodt and H. Beck. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981.) [Pp. xiv + 262 + subject index.] Price DM 58, – –/US $39·80 hardback.

Theoretical Aspects of Mainly Low Dimensional Magentic Systems. By H. C. Fogedby. Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 131. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1980.) [Pp. ix + 163.] Price DM 21, – –/US $12·40 paperback.

Green's Functions and Condensed Matter. By G. Rickayzen. (London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, San Francisco: Academic Press, 1980.) [Pp. x + 352 + subject index.] Price £22·80 hardback.

Solitons. Mathematical Methods for Physicists. By G. Eilenberger. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981.) [Pp. vi + 190 + subject index.] Price DM 56, – –/US $29·00 hardback.

Current Topics in Materials Science, Volume 6. Edited by E. Kaldis. (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland, 1980.) [Pp. vii + 462 + subject and materials index.] Price Dfl. 153·00/US $74·75 hardback.

Electronics for the Physicist with Applications. By C. F. G. Delaney. (Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1980.) [Pp. 301 + subject index.] Price £15·00 hardback, £4·85 paperback.