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Algebraic Approach to Simple Quantum Systems. By B. G. Adams. (Springer, 1994.) [pp. xvi + 451.] DM68.00 (pbk). ISBN 3 540 57801 3. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. A Life of Erwin Schrödinger By W. MOORE. (Cambridge University Press, 1994.) [pp. xiii + 349] £11.95 (hbk), £7.95 (pbk). ISBN 0 521 46934 1. Scope: biography. Level: general reader. A Primer of Nonlinear Analysis By A. AMBROSETTI and G. PRODI. (Cambridge University Press, 1993.) [pp. viii + 171.] US$39.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 521 37390 5. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Basic Thermodynamics By G. CARRINGTON. (Oxford University Press, 1994.) [pp.xi + 385.] £40.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 198 51747 5. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate. Chemical Oscillations and Instabilities By P. GRAY and S. K. SCOTT 1994, £25·00 (pbk) pp. xvi + 453. Oxford, ISBN 0 19 855864 3. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Classical and Quantum Dynamics from Classical Paths to Path Integrals. 2nd Revised Edn. By W. DITTRICH and M. REUTER. (Springer, 1994.) [pp. 361.] DM52.00, SFr. 52.00 (pbk). ISBN 3 540 56245 1. Scope: textbook. Level: graduate student. Foundations of Astronomy By M. A. SEEDS (Wadsworth, 1995.) [pp. xviii + 701.] £21.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 534 21511 X. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and general reader. From Electrostatics to Optics, A Concise Electrodynamics Course By G. SCHARF. (Springer, 1994.) [pp. viii + 255.] DM58.00, SFr58.00 (hbk) ISBN 3 540 51682 7. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate. Fundamental Astronomy. 2nd Enlarged Edn. Edited by H. KARTTUNEN et al (Springer, 1994.) [pp. xiii + 511.] DM78.00, SFr78.00 (pbk). ISBN 3 540 57203 1. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate. Fundamentals of Crystals: Symmetry, and Methods of Structural Crystallography (2nd, enlarged edition). By BORIS K. VAINSHTEIN. 1994, £47·00 (hbk), pp. viii +480. Springer, ISBN 3 540 565582. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Group Theory and Physics By S. STERNBERG. (Cambridge University Press, 1994) [pp. xiii + 429.] £50.00, US$69.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 521 24870 1. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. High Energy Astrophysics, Volume 2 By M. S. LONGAIR 1994, £45·00, US$69·95 (hbk), £16·95, US$34·95 (pbk), pp. xvii + 393. Cambridge, ISBN 0 521 43584 6. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate. Inside Versus Outside, Endo-and Exo-Concepts of Observation and Knowledge in Physics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Edited by H. ATMANSPACHER and G. J. DALENOORT. (Springer, 1994.) [pp. + + 415.] DM98.00, SFr98.00 (hbk). ISBN 3 540 57088 8. Scope: conference proceedings. Level: specialist. Introduction to the Theory of Critical Phenomena By D. I. UZUNOV 1993, £54·00 (hbk), £24·00 (pbk), pp. xx + 452. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0389 6. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Low-Capacity Cryogenic Refrigeration. By G. WALKER and E. R. BINGHAM. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994) [pp. xv + 302.] £45.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 198 51760 2. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Mathematical Techniques By D. W. JORDAN and P. SMITH 1994, £14·95 (pbk), pp. xvi + 659. Oxford, ISBN 0 19 856267 5. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate. Mechanics of Solid Materials By J. LEMAITRE and J.-L. CHABOCHE 1994, £25·00, US$34·95 (pbk), pp. xxv + 556. Cambridge, ISBN 0 521 47758 1. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist. Order in Thin Organic Films By R. H. TREDGOLD (Cambridge University Press, 1994.) [pp. xii + 199.] £32.50, US$49.95 (hbk). ISBN 0 521 39484 8. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Particle Physics at the Fermi Scale Edited by Y. PANG, J. QIU and Z. QIU 1994, £70·00, US$108·00 (hbk), pp. xiii + 492. Gordon & Breach, ISBN 2 88449 108 2. Scope: symposium proceedings. Level: specialist. Plasma Physics. Basic Theory with Fusion Applications. 2nd. Edn. By. K. NISHIKAWA and M. WAKATANI. (Springer, 1994) [pp. xiii + 336.] DM80.00, SFr80.00. ISBN 3 540 56854 9. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and specialist. Physics , 4th edition, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 Extended By R. RESNICK, D. HALLIDAY and K. S. KRANE 1992, £24·95 each (pbk), pp. xi + 636 (Vol. 1), xi + 665 (Vol. 2). Wiley, ISBN0471 55917 2 (Vol. 1),0471 559180 (Vol. 2). Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate. Properties of Narrow Gap Cadmium-Based Components Edited by P. CAPPER 1994, £165·00 (hbk), pp. xxi + 618. The Institution of Electrical Engineers, ISBN 0 85296 880 9. Scope: reference. Level: specialist. The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons By S. D. SAGAN 1993, US$29·95 (hbk) pp. xvi + 286. Princeton, ISBN 0 69 93221 1. Scope: text. Level: non-specialist. Transmission Electron Microscopy By L. REIMER 1993, DM98·00 (pbk), pp. xiii + 545. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 56849 2. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist. The Real Structure of High Tc Superconductors. Edited by V. SH. SHEKHTMAN. (Springer, 1993.) [pp. ix + 189.] £54.50 (hbk). ISBN 3 540 56559 0. Scope: multi-author review. Level: specialist. Physics Demonstrations in Electricity and Magnetism. Parts I, II, III. (Physics Curriculum and Instruction, Lateville, Minnesota, 1993.) [Run time: Part I, 30;00 min; Part II, 30:00 min; Part III, 30:00 Min.] £55.00 each, £148.00 complete set. Scope: video demonstrations. Level: school GCSE and Advanced Level; undergraduate.
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