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New Books at the Science Library, August 2006

Lists are updated weekly, with last update operated on August 18, 2006 .
Entries corresponding to the last update have an asterisc (*) in front.
Within sections (following Library of Congress classification), books are ordered according to their call numbers.
Theses and disertations are grouped at the end of each section.

NOTE: Books corresponding to the entries on these lists are shelved in the Science Library's New Books room; all circulating books can be checked out at any time; upon being returned, they go directly to the regular shelves.

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Reference Books - non-circulating
Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
Geology - Geography
Natural history - Biology
Botany
Zoology
Human anatomy - Physiology
Microbiology

 
Reference Books
 
* Organic reactions. New York, J. Wiley; London, Chapman & Hall, 1942- v. ill., tables. 24 cm. Includes bibliographies. v. 1- Biological abstracts 0006-3169 Chemical abstracts 0009-2258 QD251 .O7 v.67
* Wild orchids of the Canadian Maritimes and Northern Great Lakes Region / Paul Martin Brown ; with drawings by Stan Folsom. Brown, Paul Martin. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006. xv, 313 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-295) and indexes. QK495.O64 B7383 2006
* Methods in enzymology. New York : Academic Press, 1955- v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Vol. 1- QP601 .C733 v.408
* Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology. 5th ed. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2004- v. <1-15> : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Executive editor, Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz [v. 1-8]; editor, Arza Seidel [v. 9- ]. TP9 .K54 2004 v.18-v.19
 

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Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
 
* Springer tracts in modern physics. Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag. v. ill. 24 cm. v. 1- 1922-, "Herausgegeben von der Schriftleitung der ’Naturwissenschaften,’" 1922-35. QC1 .S797
* Akademik L. D. Landau; kratkai?a? biografii?a? i obzor nauchnykh rabot. Akademii?a? nauk SSSR. Nauchno-populi?a?rnai?a? serii?a? Moskva, Nauka, 1965. 46 p. ports. 20 cm. QC16.L25 A63
* The Le´vy Laplacian / M.N. Feller. Cambridge tracts in mathematics ; 166 Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. vi, 153 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-151) and index. The Le´vy Laplacian -- Le´vy-Laplace operators -- Symmetric Le´vy-Laplace operator -- Harmonic functions of infinitely many variables -- Linear elliptic and parabolic equations with Le´vy Laplacians -- Quasilinear and nonlinear elliptic equation with Le´vy Laplacians -- Nonlinear parabolic equations with Le´vy Laplacians. QC20.7.D5 F45 2005
* Ginzburg-Landau vortices / Hai¨m Brezis, Tatsien Li. Series in contemporary applied mathematics ; 5 Beijing, China : Higher Education Press ; Singapore : World Scientific Publishing, Co., c2005. vii, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Notes: "The "Ginzburg-Landau Vortices" School and Symposium ... was held during November 18-19, 2002 in Fudan University, Shanghai, China"--P. v. QC20.7.S54 G56 2005
* Critical phenomena in natural sciences : chaos, fractals, selforganization, and disorder : concepts and tools / Didier Sornette. Springer series in synergetics, 2nd ed. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2003. xxii, 528 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC173.4.C74 S67 2003
* Einstein, 1905-2005 : Poincare´ Seminar 2005 / Thibault Damour ... [et al.], editors. Progress in mathematical physics ; v. 47 Basel ; Boston : Birkha¨user Verlag, c2006. viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QC173.5 .P65 2005
* Einstein’s jury : the race to test relativity / Jeffrey Crelinsten. Crelinsten, Jeffrey. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006. xxix, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-383) and index. QC173.585 .C74 2006
* Advances in imaging and electron physics. San Diego : Academic Press, c1995- v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Vol. 90- Chemical abstracts 0009-2258 Computer & control abstracts 0036-8113 Electrical & electronics abstracts 0036-8105 Energy research abstracts 0160-3604 Physics abstracts 0036-8091 SPIN QC793.5.E62 A3 v.139-v.140.
* Local-moment ferromagnets : unique properties for modern applications / Markus Donath, Wolfgang Nolting (eds.). Lecture notes in physics, 678 Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005. xi, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web. QC761.5 .L63 2005
 

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Geology - Geography
 
* The Neuque´n Basin, Argentina : a case study in sequence stratigraphy and basin dynamics / edited by G.D. Veiga ... [et al.]. Geological Society special publication ; no. 252 London : The Geological Society, c2005. viii, 336 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE231 .N48 2005
* Archean geodynamics and environments / Keith Benn, Jean-Claude Mareschal, Kent C. Condie, editors. Geophysical monograph series, 164. Washington, DC : American Geophysical Union, c2006. viii, 320 p., 2 foldout p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QE501 .A697 2006
* Early-Middle Pleistocene transitions : the land-ocean evidence / edited by M. J. Head and P. L. Gibbard. Geological Society special publication 247 Bath : The Geological Society, 2005. [vii], 326 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE697 .E165 2005
 

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Natural history - Biology
 
* Morphological characters of adult Syrphidae : description and phylogenetic utility / Heikki Hippa & Gunilla Sta°hls. Acta Zoologica Fennica ; No. 215, Helsinki : Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board, 2005. 72 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-66). QH7 .S78 no.215
* Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems / edited by Larry R. Brown ... [et al.]. American Fisheries Society symposium, 47 Bethesda, Md. : American Fisheries Society, 2005. xii, 423 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Notes: "Proceedings of the symposium The Effects of Urbanization on Aquatic Ecosystems held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 11-12 August 2003." " ... a special project of the Water Quality Section, American Fisheries Society"--P. facing t.p. QH104 .E34 2005
* Vietnam : a natural history / Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud Hurley, Le Duc Minh ; with illustrations by Joyce A. Powzyk. Sterling, Eleanor J. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006. xviii, 423 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-406) and index. QH184.6 .S74 2006
* Physical chemistry : principles and applications in biological sciences / Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. ... [et. al]. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002. xix, 740 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Notes: Rev. ed. of: Physical chemistry / Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., Kenneth Sauer, James C. Wang. 3rd ed. c1995. QH345 .T56 2002
* Evolution and ecology of the organism / Michael R. Rose, Laurence D. Mueller.. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006. xx, 693 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-680) and index. QH366.2 .R67 2006
* Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics:GTL program / Committee on Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics: GTL Program, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2006. xii, 89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-73). Also available via the Internet. QH447 .R48 2006
* The world of the cell / Wayne M. Becker, Lewis J. Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin. 6th ed. San Francisco : Pearson Benjamin Cummings, Inc., 2006. xxvi, 796, [90] p. : ill., (some col.) ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) Includes bibliographical references and index. QH581.2 .B43 2006
 

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Botany
 
* Codex botanicus Linnaeanus / by Hermann E. Richter ; with a biographical sketch by H. Walter Lack and a translation of the introductory text by Sten Hedberg ; edited by John Edmondson. Linne´, Carl von, 1707-1778. Regnum vegetabile, v. 140 Ruggell : A.R.G. Gantner Verlag, 2003. 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. V. 1. Linnaeus and Rechter / by H.W. Lack ; Translation of the explanatory text of H.E. Richter / by S. Hedberg ; Facsimile of Codex Botanicus Linnaeanus -- V. 2. Alphabetical index / by W.L. Petermann. Introductory text translated from German. Vol. 2 is index compiled by Wilhelm Ludwig Petermann. Facsimile edition of original published Leipzig : O. Wigand, 1835-1840. * QK96 .R4 v.140 pt.1-2 and pt.1
 

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Zoology
 
* Sea turtles of the Atlantic and gulf coasts of the United States / Carol Ruckdeschel and C. Robert Shoop with Meg Hoyle, photo editor. Ruckdeschel, Carol. A Wormsloe Foundation nature book Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c2006. viii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]) and index. QL666.C536 R78 2006
* Current topics in developmental biology. New York, Academic Press. v. ill. 24 cm. annual. v. 1- 1966- QL951 .C8 v.73
 

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Human anatomy - Physiology
 
* The learning brain : lessons for education / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith. Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell, 2005. 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-197) and index. QP408 .B58 2005
 

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Microbiology
 
* Abstracts of the ... General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Washington, DC : The Society, c1991- v. ; 28 cm. 1991- Annual QR1.A47 A22 v.106
 

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