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Book Reviews

Book reviews

Pages 251-255 | Published online: 20 Aug 2006
 

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The Physics of Quasicrystals. Edited by P. J. Steinhardt and S. Ostland. (Singapore: World Scientific, 1987.) [Pp. xvi + 767.] Price £76·95 hard cover; £34·20 soft cover.

Persistent Spectral Hole-Burning: Science and Applications. Edited by W. E. Moerner. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.) [Pp. xiv + 308 + subject index.] Price DM 88·00 hard cover.

Physical Properties and Thermodynamic Behaviour of Minerals. Edited by E. K. H. Salje. (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1988.) [Pp. xxiv + 703 + subject index.] Price Dfl. £90·00, £89·00, US $144·00 hard cover.

Thin Film Growth Techniques for Low-Dimensional Structures. Edited by R. F. C. Farrow, S. S. P. Parkin, P. J. Dobson, J. H. Neave and A. S. Arrott. (New York, London: Plenum Press, 1986.) [Pp. ix + 548 + subject index.] Price US $97·50 hard cover.

Electron Microscopy and Analysis. Second Edition. By P. J. Goodhew and F. J. Humphreys. (London, New York, Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1988.) [Pp. xi+223 + subject index.] Price £25·00 hard cover; £12·00 soft cover.

Thermodynamics and Electrodynamics of Superconductors. Edited by V. L. Ginzburg. Translated by K. S. Hendzel (Commack: Nova Science, 1988.) [Pp. viii + 289 + subject index.] Price US $115·00 hard cover.

Gallium Arsenide and Related Compounds 1987. Edited by A. Christou and H. S. Rupprecht. (Bristol, Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 1988.) [Pp. xxvi + 826 + author index.] Price £55·00 hard cover. (Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Gallium Arsenide and Related Compounds held in Heraklion, Crete, from 28 September to 1 October 1987. 200 contributions.)

New Materials and their Applications 1987. Edited by S. G. Burnay (Bristol, Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 1988.) [Pp. ix + 312 + author index.] Price £40·00 hard cover. (Proceedings of the conference on New Materials and their Applications held in Coventry, 22-25 September 1987. 36 contributions.)

Physics of Amorphous Materials. By S. R. Elliott. (London, New York: Longman, 1988.) [Pp. xii + 374 + subject index.] Price £15·95 soft cover (hard cover published in 1984).

Electron Liquid Theory of Normal Metals. Edited by V. P. Silin. Translated by K. S. Hendzel. (Commack: Nova Science, 1988.) [Pp. vii +235 +subject index.] Price US $106·00 hard cover.

Recent Developments in Theoretical Physics. Edited by E. C. G. Sudarshan, K. S. Rao and R. Sridhar. (Singapore: World Scientific, 1987.) [Pp. xii+ 337.] Price US$55·00 hard cover. (Proceedings of the National Symposium on Recent Developments in Theoretical Physics, held in Kottayam, India, 15-19 September, 1986. 18 contributions.)

Noise in Physical Systems. Edited by C. M. Van Vliet. (Singapore: World Scientific, 1987.) [Pp. xxii +614 +author index.] Price £62·55 hard cover.

Periodic Table of the Elements. Compiled by P. Lof (Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier, 1988.) Size: 85 × 136cm. Price Dfl. 4500, US $17·50 (Full-colour wall chart with graphs, plots and tables of chemical, physical, thermodynamical, geochemical and radiochemical data. Available from Elsevier Science Publishing Co., PO Box 1663, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, U.S.A.; or PO Box 330, 1000 AH Amsterdam, The Netherlands.)

Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistics. Edited by I. A. Batalin, C. J. Isham and G. A. Vilkovisky. (Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1987.) [Pp. Volume 1: xxi + 685 + subject index; Volume 2: xxii + 587 + subject index.] Price (two volumes) £175·00 hard cover.

Luminescence Centers of Rare Earth Ions in Crystal Phosphors. Edited by M. D. Galanin. Translated by M. L. Allen. (Commack: Nova Science, 1988.) [Pp. vi+156 + subject index.] Price US $85·00 hard cover.

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