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astronomy and astrophysics

Astrophysical Formulae. Vol. 1: Radiation, Gas Processes, and High Energy Astrophysics. Vol. 2: Space, Time, Matter, and Cosmology. 3rd rev. ed. K. R. Lang. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, 2006 [1999]. $129.00 paper set (1050 pp. set). ISBN 3-540-29692-1  Buy at Amazon

Astrophysics of Variable Stars. C. Sterken, C. Aerts, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 349. Proc. mtg., Pécs, Hungary, Sept. 2005. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2006. $77.00 (480 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-217-2  Buy at Amazon

Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources. W. Lewin, M. van der Klis, eds. Cambridge Astrophysics Series 39. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $175.00 (690 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82659-4  Buy at Amazon

Handbook of CCD Astronomy. 2nd ed. S. B. Howell. Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers 5. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [2000]. $95.00, $39.99 paper (208 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85215-3, ISBN   Buy at Amazon

An Invitation to Astrophysics. T. Padmanabhan. World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics 8. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2006. $66.00, $36.00 paper (362 pp.). ISBN 981-256-638-4, ISBN 981-256-687-2   Buy at Amazon

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy. Vol. 6. A. Heck, ed. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 335. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006. $199.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-4055-5  Buy at Amazon

Planets to Cosmology: Essential Science in the Final Years of the Hubble Space Telescope. M. Livio, S. Casertano, eds. Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series 18. Proc. symp., Baltimore, MD, May 2004. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $120.00 (203 pp.). ISBN 0-521-84758-3  Buy at Amazon

Pulsar Astronomy. 3rd ed. A. G. Lyne, F. Graham-Smith. Cambridge Astrophysics Series 38. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [1998]. $150.00 (309 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83954-8  Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Beyond Born–Oppenheimer: Electronic Nonadiabatic Coupling Terms and Conical Intersections. M. Baer. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. $150.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 0-471-77891-5  Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Bioinformatics Basics: Applications in Biological Science and Medicine. 2nd ed. L. K. Buehler, H. H. Rashidi, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2005 [2000]. $89.95 (335 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-1283-3  Buy at Amazon

Biological Performance of Materials: Fundamentals of Biocompatibility. 4th ed. J. Black. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006 [1999]. $99.95 (497 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-3959-6  Buy at Amazon

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing. K. Najarian, R. Splinter. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $99.95 (417 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-2099-2  Buy at Amazon

Biomimetics: Biologically Inspired Technologies. Y. Bar-Cohen, ed. CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $139.95 (527 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-3163-3  Buy at Amazon

Exploiting Chemical Diversity for Drug Discovery. P. A. Bartlett, M. Entzeroth, eds. RSC Biomolecular Sciences. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2006. $219.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 0-85404-842-1  Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Computational Molecular Biology. S. Aluru, ed. Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series 9. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $139.95 (1104 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-406-1  Buy at Amazon

Informatics in Proteomics. S. Srivastava, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2005. $159.95 (436 pp.). ISBN 1-57444-480-8

An Introduction to Biomaterials. S. A. Guelcher, J. O. Hollinger, eds. Biomedical Engineering Series 11. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $99.95 (553 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-2282-0  Buy at Amazon

Knowledge Discovery in Proteomics. I. Jurisica, D. Wigle. Mathematical and Computational Biology Series 8. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $89.95 (318 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-439-8  Buy at Amazon

Medical Image Processing, Reconstruction and Restoration: Concepts and Methods. J. Jan. Signal Processing and Communications 25. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $139.95 (730 pp.). ISBN 0-8247-5849-8  Buy at Amazon

Molecular and Cellular Biophysics. M. B. Jackson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $130.00, $65.00 paper (512 pp.). ISBN 0-521-62441-X, ISBN 0-521-62470-3 paper  Buy at Amazon

Normal Mode Analysis: Theory and Applications to Biological and Chemical Systems. Q. Cui, I. Bahar, eds. Mathematical and Computational Biology Series 9. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $99.95 (406 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-472-X  Buy at Amazon

Protein Geometry, Classification, Topology, and Symmetry: A Computational Analysis of Structure. W. R. Taylor, A. Aszódi. Series in Biophysics. IOP, Philadelphia, 2005. $79.95 (333 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0985-7

Systems Biology: Properties of Reconstructed Networks. B. Ø. Palsson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $75.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85903-4  Buy at Amazon

Text Mining for Biology and Biomedicine. S. Ananiadou, J. McNaught, eds. Bioinformatics Series. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2006. $88.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-984-X  Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Introduction to the High-Temperature Oxidation of Metals. 2nd ed. N. Birks, G. H. Meier, F. S. Pettit. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [1983]. $115.00 (338 pp.). ISBN 0-521-48042-6  Buy at Amazon

Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry. Vol. 39. C. G. Vayenas, R. E. White, M. E. Gamboa-Adelco, eds. Springer, New York, 2006. $139.00 (279 pp.). ISBN 0-387-23371-7  Buy at Amazon

Modulated Temperature Differential Scanning Calorimetry: Theoretical and Practical Applications in Polymer Characterisation. M. Reading, D. J. Hourston, eds. Hot Topics in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 6. Springer, New York, 2006. $149.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3749-X  Buy at Amazon

Progress in Chemical Physics Research. A. N. Linke, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $150.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-451-4

Surface-Initiated Polymerization II. R. Jordan, ed. Advances in Polymer Science 198. Springer, New York, 2006. $209.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30251-4  Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Complex Computing-Networks: Brain-Like and Wave-Oriented Electrodynamic Algorithms. I. C. Göknar, L. Sevgi, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 104. Proc. symp., Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005. Springer, New York, 2006. $219.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30635-8  Buy at Amazon

Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows in Porous Media. Z. Chen, G. Huan, Y. Ma. Computational Science and Engineering 2. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2006. $125.00 paper (531 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-606-3  Buy at Amazon

Computer Vision and Robotics. J. X. Liu, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2006. $129.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-357-7  Buy at Amazon

Contemporary Cryptography. R. Oppliger. Computer Security Series. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2005. $99.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-642-5  Buy at Amazon

User's Guide to Cryptography and Standards. A. W. Dent, C. J. Mitchell. Computer Security Series. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2005. $89.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-530-5  Buy at Amazon

condensed matter physics

Condensed Matter Theories. Vol. 19. M. Belkacem, P. M. Dinh, eds. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $225.00 (343 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-308-9

Focus on Condensed Matter Physics Research. J. V. Chang, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-419-0  Buy at Amazon

Focus on Semiconductor Research. T. B. Elliot, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $150.00 (237 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-416-6  Buy at Amazon

Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter. M. C. Miguel, J. M. Rubi, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 688. Springer, New York, 2006. $59.95 (209 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30028-7  Buy at Amazon

Leading-Edge Semiconductor Research. T. B. Elliot, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-574-X  Buy at Amazon

Meshless Methods in Solid Mechanics. Y. Chen, J. D. Lee, A. Eskandarian. Springer, New York, 2006. $99.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 0-387-30736-2  Buy at Amazon

New Developments in Semiconductor Research. T. S. Miller, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $150.00 (231 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-575-8  Buy at Amazon

Particle Penetration and Radiation Effects: General Aspects and Stopping of Swift Point Charges. P. Sigmund. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 151. Springer, New York, 2006. $169.00 (437 pp.). ISBN 3-540-31713-9  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Coherence: From Quarks to Solids. W. Pötz, J. Fabian, U. Hohenester, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 689. Springer, New York, 2006. $79.95 (189 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30085-6  Buy at Amazon

Topics in Superconductivity Research. B. P. Martins, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (147 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-513-8  Buy at Amazon

Trends in Condensed Matter Physics Research. J. V. Chang, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2006. $129.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-415-8, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

1st Crisis in Cosmology Conference: CCC-I. E. J. Lerner, J. B. Almeida, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 822. Proc. conf., Monção, Portugal, June 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $90.00 paper (317 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0296-5  Buy at Amazon

General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists. M. P. Hobson, G. P. Efstathiou, A. N. Lasenby. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $70.00 (572 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82951-8  Buy at Amazon

General Relativity Research Trends. A. Reimer, ed. Horizons in World Physics 249. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2006. $129.00 (218 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-323-2  Buy at Amazon

Relativistic Physics in Arbitrary Reference Frames. N. V. Mitskievich. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2006. $98.00 (166 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-425-5  Buy at Amazon

Space Time Physics and Fractality: Festschrift in Honour of Mohamed El Naschie on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. P. Weibel, G. Ord, O. E. Rössler, eds. Springer, New York, 2005. $39.95 (231 pp.). ISBN 3-211-25210-X  Buy at Amazon

Spacetime Physics Research Trends. A. Reimer, ed. Horizons in World Physics 248. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (169 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-322-4  Buy at Amazon

Time and Matter. I. I. Bigi, M. Faessler, eds. Proc. colloq., Venice, Italy, Aug. 2002. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2006. $98.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 981-256-634-1  Buy at Amazon

device physics

Concepts in Spin Electronics. S. Maekawa, ed. Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology 13. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $134.50 (398 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856821-5  Buy at Amazon

Detection and Signal Processing: Technical Realization. W. J. Witteman. Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics 22. Springer, New York, 2006. $119.00 (173 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29599-2  Buy at Amazon

Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuit, and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering. 2nd ed. P. Russer. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2006 [2003]. $139.00 (729 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-907-6  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Modeling HBTs. M. Rudolph. Artech House Microwave Library. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2006. $119.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-144-X  Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists. E. Daniell. Yale U. Press, New Haven, CT, 2006. $27.50 (268 pp.). ISBN 0-300-11323-4  Buy at Amazon

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. A. Gibbons. Doubleday, New York, 2006. $26.00 (306 pp.). ISBN 0-385-51226-0  Buy at Amazon

Letters to a Young Mathematician. I. Stewart. Basic Books, New York, 2006. $22.95 (210 pp.). ISBN 0-465-08231-9  Buy at Amazon

Memory Practices in the Sciences. G. C. Bowker. Inside Technology. MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2005. $34.95 (261 pp.). ISBN 0-262-02589-2  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanics Demystified. D. McMahon. Demystified Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006. $19.95 paper (393 pp.). ISBN 0-07-145546-9  Buy at Amazon

Relativity Demystified. D. McMahon. Demystified Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006. $19.95 paper (344 pp.). ISBN 0-07-145545-0  Buy at Amazon

The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases. E. J. Wagner. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. $24.95 (244 pp.). ISBN 0-471-64879-5  Buy at Amazon

Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought. T. Robbin. Yale U. Press, New Haven, CT, 2006. $40.00 (137 pp.). ISBN 0-300-11039-1  Buy at Amazon

Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design. H. Petroski. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $22.95 (235 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12225-3  Buy at Amazon

The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. J. R. Primack, N. E. Abrams. Riverhead Books, New York, 2006. $26.95 (386 pp.). ISBN 1-59448-914-9  Buy at Amazon

society and government

Biotechnology Unglued: Science, Society, and Social Cohesion. M. D. Mehta, ed. UBC Press, Vancouver, BC, 2005. $85.00, $29.95 paper (194 pp.). ISBN 0-7748-1133-1, ISBN 0-7748-1134-X paper  Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook. R. W. Orloff, D. M. Harland. Springer– Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2006. $49.95 paper (633 pp.). ISBN 0-387-30043-0  Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Radiation: An Introduction with 400 Problems. C. F. Bohren, E. E. Clothiaux. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2006. $90.00 paper (472 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40503-8  Buy at Amazon

The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE): Mission Description and Early Results. G. Rottman, T. Woods, V. George, eds. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2005. $159.00 (413 pp.). ISBN 0-387-30242-5  Buy at Amazon

Space Technology and Applications International Forum—STAIF 2006. M. S. El-Genk, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 813. Proc. conf., Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2006. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $320.00 (1425 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0305-8  Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Applications of Random Matrices in Physics. E. Brézin et al., eds. NATO Science Series 2: Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry 221. Proc. inst., Les Houches, France, June 2004. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006. $209.00, $89.95 paper (513 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-4529-8, ISBN 1-4020-4530-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics. A. G. Percus, G. Istrate, C. Moore, eds. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $94.50, $44.50 paper (367 pp.). ISBN 0-19-517737-1, ISBN 0-19-517738-X paper  Buy at Amazon

Continuum Thermomechanics. A. Bermúdez de Castro. Progress in Mathematical Physics 43. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005. $79.95 (209 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7265-6  Buy at Amazon

Monte Carlo and Quasi–Monte Carlo Methods 2004. H. Niederreiter, D. Talay, eds. Springer, New York, 2006. $139.00 paper (514 pp.). ISBN 3-540-25541-9  Buy at Amazon

Principles of Statistical Physics: Distributions, Structures, Phenomena, Kinetics of Atomic Systems. B. M. Smirnov. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2006. $120.00 (460 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40613-1  Buy at Amazon

texts and education

2005 Physics Education Research Conference. P. Heron, L. McCullough, J. Marx, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 818. Proc. conf., Salt Lake City, UT, Aug. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $125.00 paper (158 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0311-2, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Honors Calculus. C. R. MacCluer. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $45.00 (168 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12533-3  Buy at Amazon

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. 6th ed. R. A. Day, B. Gastel. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2006 [1998]. $75.00, $29.95 paper (302 pp.). ISBN 0-313-33027-1, ISBN 0-313-33040-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Computational Physics. 2nd ed. T. Pang. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [1997]. $70.00 (385 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82569-5  Buy at Amazon

The New Physics for the Twenty-First Century. G. Fraser, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $60.00 (548 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81600-9  Buy at Amazon

Physical Chemistry: Kinetics. H. Metiu. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2006. $40.95 paper (169 pp.). ISBN 0-8153-4089-3, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Physical Chemistry: Quantum Mechanics. H. Metiu. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2006. $40.95 paper (481 pp.). ISBN 0-8153-4087-7, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Physical Chemistry: Statistical Mechanics. H. Metiu. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2006. $40.95 paper (292 pp.). ISBN 0-8153-4085-0, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics. H. Metiu. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2006. $45.95 paper (694 pp.). ISBN 0-8153-4091-5, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Physical Processes in Earth and Environmental Sciences. M. Leeder, M. Pérez-Arlucea. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2006. $49.95 paper (321 pp.). ISBN 1-4051-0173-3  Buy at Amazon

Physics: Concepts and Connections. 4th ed. A. Hobson. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007 [2003]. $96.00 paper (470 pp.). ISBN 0-13-187946-4  Buy at Amazon

Physics: Instructor's Edition. 3rd ed. J. S. Walker. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007 [2004]. $94.97 (1109 pp.). ISBN 0-13-173463-6  Buy at Amazon

Physics for Class XI. N. Khan. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $19.95 paper (190 pp.). ISBN 0-19-579991-7  Buy at Amazon

Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants in Colleges and Universities. 3rd ed. E. Sarkisian. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006 [2000]. $14.95 paper (103 pp.). ISBN 0-674-02141-X  Buy at Amazon

Thermodynamics: Concepts and Applications. S. R. Turns. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $95.00 (736 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85042-8,   Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Adventures in Theoretical Physics: Selected Papers with Commentaries. S. L. Adler. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics 37. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2006. $108.00, $58.00 paper (744 pp.). ISBN 981-256-370-9, ISBN 981-256-522-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

Classical and Quantum Dissipative Systems. M. Razavy. Imperial College Press, London, 2005. $84.00, $48.00 paper (334 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-525-2, ISBN 1-86094-530-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Control Perspectives on Numerical Algorithms and Matrix Problems. A. Bhaya, E. Kaszkurewicz. Advances in Design and Control 10. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2006. $97.00 paper (272 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-602-0  Buy at Amazon

Exact and Approximate Modeling of Linear Systems: A Behavioral Approach. I. Markovsky, J. C. Willems, S. Van Huffel, B. De Moor. Mathematical Modeling and Computation 11. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2006. $64.00 paper (206 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-603-9  Buy at Amazon

General Theory of Algebraic Equations. E. Bézout (translated from French by E. Feron). Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006 [1779]. $49.50 (337 pp.). ISBN 0-691-11432-3  Buy at Amazon

Infinite Dimensional Algebras and Quantum Integrable Systems. P. P. Kulish, N. Manojlovic, H. Samtleben, eds. Progress in Mathematics 237. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005. $109.00 (263 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7215-X  Buy at Amazon

An Invitation to Modern Number Theory. S. J. Miller, R. Takloo-Bighash. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $49.50 (503 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12060-9  Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering. 3rd ed. K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson, S. J. Bence. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [2005]. $160.00, $80.00 paper (1333 pp.). ISBN 0-521-86153-5, ISBN 0-521-67971-0   Buy at Amazon

Measures, Integrals, and Martingales. R. L. Schilling. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $90.00, $50.00 paper (381 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85015-0, ISBN 0-521-61525-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction. 2nd ed. K. W. Morton, D. F. Mayers. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005 [1994]. $43.00 paper (278 pp.). ISBN 0-521-60793-0  Buy at Amazon

Physical Applications of Homogeneous Balls. Y. Friedman, T. Scarr. Progress in Mathematical Physics 40. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005. $79.95 (279 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-3339-1  Buy at Amazon

Selected Topics in Complex Analysis: The S. Ya. Khavinson Memorial Volume. V. Ya. Eiderman, M. V. Samokhin, eds. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications 158. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005. $159.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 3-7643-7251-6  Buy at Amazon

Theory of Bridge Aerodynamics. E. N. Strømmen. Springer, New York, 2006. $109.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30603-X  Buy at Amazon