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New Books at the Science Library, December 2006

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Within sections (following Library of Congress classification), books are ordered according to their call numbers.
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* Reference Books - non-circulating
* Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
* Chemistry
* Geology - Geography
* Natural history - Biology
* Botany
* Zoology
* Human anatomy - Physiology
* Microbiology

 
Reference Books
 
Annual register of grant support. Chicago [etc.] Marquis Academic Media, Marquis Who’s Who [etc.] v. 29 cm. AS911.A2 A67 . 40th ed. 2007. c.2.
* The World almanac and book of facts. New York, Newspaper Enterprise Association [etc.] v. ill. (maps) tables. 19-22 cm. AY67.N5 W7 2007
* Handbook of applied solid state spectroscopy / [edited by] D.R. Vij. New York : Springer, c2006. 741 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC451 .H36 2006
* The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information/ Anne M. Coghill, Lorrin R. Garson, editors. 3rd ed. Washington, DC : American Chemical Society ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 430 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-388) and index. QD8.5 .A25 2006
Dictionary of plant tissue culture / Alan C. Cassells, Peter B. Gahan. New York : Food Products Press, c2006. viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265). QK725 .C34 2006
* Methods in enzymology. New York : Academic Press, 1955- v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Vol. 1- QP601 .C733 v.412, 413, 414, 416.
 

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Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
 
* Springer tracts in modern physics. Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag. v. ill. 24 cm. v. 1- 1922- QC1 .S797 v.217.
* My Einstein : essays by twenty-four of the world’s leading thinkers on the man, his work, and his legacy / edited by John Brockman. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2006. xvi, 261 p. ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QC16.E5 M9 2006
Construction of mappings for Hamiltonian systems and their applications / Sadrilla S. Abdullaev. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xiv, 378 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-376). QC20.7.H35 A24 2006
Diffusion, quantum theory, and radically elementary mathematics / edited by William G. Faris. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. , 243 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Publications by Edward Nelson": p. [233]-237. QC21.3 .D54 2006
* Nuclear physics. B, Proceedings, supplements. [Amsterdam] : North-Holland, [c1987- v. : ill. ; 26 cm. Vol. 1A (Sept. 1987)- QC173 .N884 v.158, 159, 160, 161.
* Disordered materials : an introduction / Paolo M. Ossi. 2nd ed. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2006. xii, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-324) and index. QC173.4.O73 O74 2006
Jamming, yielding, and irreversible deformation in condensed matter / M.C. Miguel, J.M. Rubi (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xiii, 209 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. QC173.45 .J36 2006
Defending Einstein : Hans Reichenbach’s writings on space, time, and motion / edited by Steven Gimbel, Anke Walz. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. vi, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC173.55 .R439 2006
Analytical and numerical approaches to mathematical relativity / Jo¨rg Frauendiener, Domenico J.W. Giulini, Volker Perlick (eds.) ; with a foreword by Roger Penrose. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xvii, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC173.59.M3 A63 2006
Is future given? / Ilya Prigogine. River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, 2003. xii, 145 p. : ill. (2 fold.), ports. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-90). QC173.59.S65 P763 2003
Statistical mechanics : a concise introduction for chemists / B. Widom. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix, 170 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC174.8 .W53 2002
Path integrals and anomalies in curved space / Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC174.17.P27 B37 2006
* Fundamentals of acoustical oceanography / Herman Medwin, Clarence S. Clay. Boston : Academic Press, c1998. xx, 712 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 662-691) and index. QC242.2 .M43 1998
* Thermodynamic equilibria and extrema : analysis of attainability regions and partial equilibria / Alexander N. Gorban ... [et al.] ; translated by Marina V. Ozerova, Valentina P. Yermakova, and Alexandre V. Keiko. New York : Springer, c2006. xiii, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-274) and indexes. QC318.T47 T47 2006
* Advances in heat transfer. New York, Academic Press, 1964- v. ill. 23 cm. v. 1- QC320.A1 A3 v.39.
* Progress in optics. Amsterdam, North-Holland Pub. Co., New York, Interscience Publishers, 1961- v. ill., diagrs. 23 cm. v. 1- QC351 .P7 v.49.
Field effect in semiconductor-electrolyte interfaces : application to investigations of electronic properties of semiconductor surfaces / Pavel P. Konorov, Adil M. Yafyasov, and Vladislav B. Bogevolnov. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton, c2006. xviii, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-173) and index. QC611.6.J85 K66 2006
Geospace electromagnetic waves and radiation / James W. LaBelle, Rudolf A. Treumann (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xv, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC662 .G46 2006
Annual reports on NMR spectroscopy. London, New York, Academic Press. v. illus. 24 cm. v. 3- 1970- QC762 .A462 v.58.
* Annual review of nuclear and particle science. Palo Alto, Calif., Annual Reviews. v. 23 cm. v. 28- 1978- QC770 .A52 v56. 2006.
* Advances in imaging and electron physics. San Diego : Academic Press, c1995- v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Vol. 90- QC793.5.E62 A3 v.144.
Quantum coherence : from quarks to solids / W. Po¨tz, J. Fabian, U. Hohenester (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xiv, 189 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QC794.6.C58 Q35 2006
* Fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics / James C. McWilliams. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 249 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244) and index. QC809.F5 M38 2006
 

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Chemistry
 
Annual reports on the progress of chemistry. Section C, Physical chemistry. London : Royal Society of Chemistry, c1980- v. : ill. ; 23 cm. Vol. 76 (1979)- QD1 .C574 v.102.
* Liquid chromatography--mass spectrometry. Chromatographic science series ; 97 3rd ed. / Wilfried M.A. Niessen. Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, c2006. 608 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QD79.C454 N54 2006
* Organic syntheses. New York [etc.] J. Wiley & Sons, inc. [etc.] v. ill., diagrs. 24 cm. v. 1- 1921- QD262 .O7 v.83
* Advances in chromatography. New York, M. Dekker. v. ill. 24 cm. v. 1- 1965- QD271 .A23 v.45.
Metal-containing and metallosupramolecular polymers and materials / Ulrich S. Schubert, editor, George R. Newkome, editor, Ian Manners, editor ; sponsored by the ACS divisions of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., Inorganic Chemistry, Inc., and Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, Inc. Washington, DC : American Chemical Society ; [New York] : Distributed by Oxford University Press, c2006. xix, 575 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. QD382.C66 M48 2006
Advances in heterocyclic chemistry. New York, Academic Press, 1963- v. ill. 24 cm. Includes bibliography. v. 1- QD400 .A18 v.92
* Organometallic chemistry / Gary O. Spessard, Gary L. Miessler. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1997. xi, 561 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QD411 .S65 1997
* Information theory of molecular systems / Roman F. Nalewajski. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006. xviii, 443 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-433) and index. QD461 .N27 2006
Electronic structure calculations for solids and molecules : theory and computational methods / Jorge Kohanoff. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 348 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QD462.6.D45 K64 2006
* The history and use of our earth’s chemical elements : a reference guide / Robert E. Krebs ; illustrations by Rae De´jur. 2nd ed. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. xxv, 422 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-416) and index. QD466 .K69 2006
* Advances in photochemistry. New York, Interscience Publishers, 1963- diagrs. 24 cm. v. 1- QD601.A1 A28 v.29
 

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Geology - Geography
 
Quantitative textural measurements in igneous and metamorphic petrology / Michael Denis Higgins. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-259) and index. QE440 .H54 2006
Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism : deep continental subduction / edited by Bradley R. Hacker, William C. McClelland, Juhn G. Liou. Special paper ; 403 Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2006. v, 206 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QE475.A2 U485 2006
* Evolution and differentiation of the continental crust / edited by Michael Brown, Tracy Rushmer. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. vii, 553 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE511 .E878 2006
Analogue and numerical modelling of crustal-scale processes / edited by S.J.H. Buiter and G. Schreurs. London ; Tulsa : Geological Society, c2006. vi, 440 p. : ill. (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE511.4 .A53 2006
Collisional delamination in New Guinea : the geotectonics of subducting slab breakoff / by Mark Cloos ... [et al.]. Special paper ; 400 Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2005. iv, 51 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-51). QE511.46 .C65 2005
 

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Natural history - Biology
 
Writing naturally : a memoir / William Sargent. Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2006. viii, 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. QH31.S185 A3 2006
* Biology / Peter H. Raven, George B. Johnson. 6th ed. Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2002. 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm. QH308.2 .R38 2002
The revenge of Gaia : earth’s climate in crisis and the fate of humanity / James Lovelock ; foreword by Sir Crispin Tickell. New York : Basic Books, c2006. xvii, 176 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-169) and index. QH343.4 .L694 2006x
Evolution : a Scientific American reader. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. vii, 355 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QH366.2 .E8492 2006
Darwinism and its discontents / Michael Ruse. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. x, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-308) and index. QH371 .R755 2006
* Evolution through genetic exchange / Michael L. Arnold. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-234) and index. QH421 .A76 2006
Principles of development / Lewis Wolpert ... [et al.]. 3rd ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007. xxiii, 551 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH491 .P74 2007
The dioxin story : a community commentary on the health and safety effects of dioxin contamination and other toxic chemical wastes in the Saginaw Valley / Richard A. Maltby. Midland, Mich. : Richard A. Maltby, [2004] 80, 8 p. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references ( p. [1]-8). QH545.D55 M34 2004
The dioxin story, episode II : continuation of a community commentary on the health and safety effects of dioxin contamination and other hazardous wastes and environmental concerns in the Saginaw Valley / Richard Maltby. Midland, Mich. : Richard A. Maltby, [2005] 106 p. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-106). QH545.D55 M342 2005
The dioxin story, episode III : seeking the public interest through community involvement and dialogue : being a continuation of a community commentary on the health and safety effects of dioxin contamination and other hazardous wastes and environmental concerns in the Saginaw Valley and other parts of the world / Richard A. Maltby. Midland, Mich. : Richard A. Maltby, [2006] 202 p. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202). QH545.D55 M3421 2006
* System modeling in cell biology : from concepts to nuts and bolts / edited by Zoltan Szallasi, Jo¨rg Stelling, Vipul Periwal. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006. xiv, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-433) and index. QH585.5.D38 S97 2006
 

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Botany
 
Advances in botanical research. London ; New York : Academic Press, c1963- v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Vol. 1- QK1 .A353 v.44. 2006.
* Plant responses to air pollution and global change / [edited by] Kenji Omasa, Isamu Nouchi, Luit J. De Kok. Tokyo : Springer, c2005. xviii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QK751 .P573 2005
 

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Zoology
 
Wildlife monographs. [Washington] Wildlife Society. no. ill. 26 cm. Includes bibliography. QL1 .W54 No.163 and 164. 2006.
C. elegans : methods and applications / edited by Kevin Strange. Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2006. xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QL391.N4 E64 2006
* Parasitic flatworms : molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology and physiology / edited by Aaron G. Maule and Nikki J. Marks. Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2006. xx, 448 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QL391.P7 P368 2006
* The other insect societies / James T. Costa. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv, 767 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. QL496 .C67 2006
Extinction & biogeography of tropical Pacific birds / David W. Steadman. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 594 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-574) and indexes. QL694.O25 S73 2006
The altruism equation : seven scientists search for the origins of goodness / Lee Alan Dugatkin. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006. xi, 188 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-183) and index. QL775.5 .D84 2006
 

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Human anatomy - Physiology
 
On the contexts of things human : an integrative view of brain, consciousness, and freedom of will / Ronald J. MacGregor. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2006. xiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index. QP411 .M325 2006
* Dynamical systems in neuroscience : the geometry of excitability and bursting / Eugene M. Izhikevich. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007. xvi, 441 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index. QP355.2 .I94 2007
Chemical biology : applications and techniques [edited by] Banafshe´ Larijani, Colin A. Rosser, Rudiger Woscholski. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2006. xiv, 258 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QP514.2 .C4554 2006
Concepts and models in bioinorganic chemistry / edited by Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz and Nils Metzler-Nolte. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH ; [Chichester : John Wiley, distributor], c2006. xxvi, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QP531 .C663 2006
* The JNK signaling pathway / [edited by] Anning Lin. Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience : Eurekah.com, c2006. 97 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QP606.P76 J55 2006
Microarray technology and its applications / U.R. Mu¨ller, D.V. Nicolau (eds.). Berlin : Springer, c2005. xxii, 379 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-374) and index. QP624.5.D726 M5 2005
* Advanced analysis of gene expression microarray data / Aidong Zhang. New Jersey : World Scientific, 2006. xv, 339 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index. QP624.5.D726 Z436 2006
* The aptamer handbook : functional oligonucleotides and their applications / edited by Sven Klussmann. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2006. xxviii, 490 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. QP625.O47 A68 2006
 

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Microbiology
 
* Annual review of microbiology. Stanford, Calif., Annual Reviews. v. illus. 23 cm. v. 1- 1947- QR1 .A5 v.60. 2006.
* Methods in microbiology. London ; New York : Academic Press, 1969- v. : ill. ; 26 cm. Vol. 1- QR65 .N59 v.35.
 

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