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New Books at the Science Library, March 2008

Lists are updated weekly, with last update operated on March 13, 2008.
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Within sections (following Library of Congress classification), books are ordered according to their call numbers.
Theses and disertations, when present, are grouped at the end of each section.

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* Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
* Chemistry
* Geology - Geography
* Natural history - Biology
* Botany
* Zoology
* Human anatomy - Physiology
* Microbiology
* Other

 
Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
 
* The augmented spherical wave method : a comprehensive treatment / Volker Eyert. Lecture notes in physics, 719. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. x, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-313) and index. QC20.7.S645 E946 2007
* Annual review of fluid mechanics. Palo Alto, Calif., Annual Reviews, inc. v. ill. 23 cm. v. 1- 1969-. QC145 .A57 v.40 2008
* Nuclear physics. B, Proceedings, supplements. [Amsterdam] : North-Holland, [c1987-. v. : ill. ; 26 cm. Vol. 1A (Sept. 1987)-. Irregular. QC173 .N884 V.174-175/176
* The many faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein equations : a Clifford bundle approach / Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr., Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira. Lecture notes in physics, 722. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xiv, 445 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC173.59.S65 R63 2007
* Quantum state estimation / Matteo Paris, Jaroslav R?eha´c?ek (eds.). Lecture notes in physics, 649. Lecture notes in physics ; 649. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2004. xiii, 519 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC174.12 .Q366 2004
* Factorization method in quantum mechanics / Shi-Hai Dong. Fundamental theories of physics ; v. 150. Dordrecht : Springer, c2007. xix, 297 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-294) and index. QC174.17.F3 D66 2007
* Green’s function estimates for lattice Schro¨dinger operators and applications / J. Bourgain. Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 158. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005. vi, 173 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QC174.17.S3 B68 2005
* Diffusion in solids : fundamentals, methods, materials, diffusion-controlled processes / Helmut Mehrer. Springer series in solid state science ; 155. Springer series in solid-state sciences ; 155. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xix, 651 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC176.8.D5 M45 2007
* Physics of zero- and one-dimensional nanoscopic systems / Sachindra Nath Karmakar, Santanu Kumar Maiti, Jayeeta Chowdhury (eds.). Springer series in solid-state sciences, 156. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC176.8.N35 P49 2007
* Sputtering by particle bombardment : experiments and computer calculations from threshold to MeV energies / Rainer Behrisch, Wolfgang Eckstein (eds.). Topics in applied physics, v. 110. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xvii, 507 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. QC176.8.S72 S685 2007
* Light scattering by systems of particles : null-field method with discrete sources : theory and programs / A. Doicu, T. Wriedt, Y.A. Eremin. Springer series in optical sciences, 124. Springer series in optical sciences ; v. 124. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xiii, 322 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. +. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-316) and index. QC427.4 .D65 2006
* Advances in chemical physics. New York, Interscience Publishers, 1958-. v. diagrs. 24 cm. v. 1-. QD453 .A27 V.137
* Physics of ferroelectrics : a modern perspective / Karin M. Rabe, Charles H. Ahn, Jean-Marc Triscone, eds. Topics in applied physics, v. 105. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xii, 388 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC596.5 .P48 2007
* Systems with hysteresis : analysis, identification and control using the Bouc-Wen model / Fayc¸al Ikhouane, Jose´ Rodellar. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, c2007. xviii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index. QC754.2.H9 I34 2007
* Particle metaphysics : a critical account of subatomic reality / Brigitte Falkenburg. The Frontiers collection ; 1612-3018. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xvii, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-381) and index. QC793.13 .F349 2007
* The power of [alpha] : electron elementary particle generation with [alpha]-quantized lifetimes and masses / Malcolm H. Mac Gregor. Hackensack, N.J. ; London : World Scientific, c2007. xxix, 428 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-420) and index. QC793.5.A22 M33 2007
 

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Chemistry
 
* Reviews in computational chemistry. New York, N.Y. : VCH, c1990-. v. : ill. ; 25 cm. [Vol. 1]-. Annual. QD39.3.E46 R48 V.25
* Practical data analysis in chemistry / Marcel Maeder, Yorck-Michael Neuhold. Data handling in science and technology ; v. 26. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007. xiv, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-316) and index. QD39.3.S7 M34 2007
* Columns for gas chromatography : performance and selection / Eugene F. Barry, Robert L. Grob. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2007. xiii, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QD79.C45 B37 2007
* Chemistry and physics of carbon. New York, M. Dekker, 1965-. v. ill. 24 cm. v. 1-. QD181.C1 C45 V.30
* Strategies and tactics in organic synthesis / edited by Thomas Lindberg. Orlando : Academic Press, 1984-[c1991 ]. v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographies and indexes. QD262 .S85 1984 V.7
* Enantioselective organocatalysis : reactions and experimental procedures / edited by Peter I. Dalko. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2007. xxiii, 536 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QD505 .E52 2007
 

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Geology - Geography
 
* Forensic geoscience : principles, techniques and applications / edited by K. Pye and D.J. Croft. Geological Society special publication ; no. 232. Geological Society special publication ; no. 232. London : The Geological Society, 2004. vi, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE38.5 .F67 2004
* Advances in high-pressure mineralogy / edited by Eiji Ohtani. Special paper ; 421. Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 421. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, c2007. vi, 242 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE364.2.H54 A38 2007
* Continental intraplate earthquakes : science, hazard, and policy issues / edited by Seth Stein, Ste´phane Mazzotti. Special paper ; 425. Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 425. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, c2007. vi, 402 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE511.4 .C655 2007
* Dawn of the dinosaurs : life in the Triassic / Nicholas Fraser ; illustrated by Douglas Henderson. Life of the past. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006. xvi, 307 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index. QE732 .F73 2006
* The Pennsylvanian-early Permian Bird Spring carbonate shelf, Southeastern California : fusulinid biostratigraphy, paleogeographic evolution, and tectonic implications / Calvin H. Stevens, Paul Stone. Special paper ; 429. Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 429. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2007. iv, 82 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82). QE772 .S74 2007
* Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms : environmental feedback / edited by Robert W. Scott. Special publication / SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) ; no. 87. Special publication (SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)) ; no. 87. Tulsa, Okla. : SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), c2007. 257 p. : ill., (some col.), maps ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE812.H573 I68 2007
* Palynology. Dallas, Tex. [etc.] American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation [etc.]. v. ill. 28 cm. annual. Vols. for 1977- are the proceedings of the 8th- annual meetings, 1975-. v. 1- 1977-. QE993 .A49a V.31 2005
 

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Natural history - Biology
 
* Advances in marine biology. London, New York, Academic Press, 1963-. v. illus. 24 cm. annual. v. 1-. QH91.A1 A22 V.53
* Quantitative analysis of marine biological communities : field biology and environment / Gerald J. Bakus. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2007. xv, 435 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-410) and index. QH91.57.M38 B35 2007
* Bioinformatics : database, tools, algorithms / Orpita Bosu, Simminder Kaur Thukral. Oxford higher education. New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 587 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. QH324.2 .B67 2007
* Artificial life IX : proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Artificial Life / edited by Jordan Pollack ... [et al.]. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004. xiv, 589 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH324.2 .I556 2004
* Pattern recognition in bioinformatics : second IAPR international workshop, PRIB 2007, Singapore, October 1-2, 2007 : proceedings / Jagath C. Rajapakse, Bertil Schmidt, Gwenn Volkert (eds.). Lecture notes in computer science, 4774. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Lecture notes in computer science ; 4774. Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xviii, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH324.2 .P75 2007
* Life system modeling and simulation : international conference, LSMS 2007, Shanghai, China, September 14-17, 2007 : proceedings / Kang Li ... [et al.] (eds.). Lecture notes in computer science, 4689. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Lecture notes in computer science ; 4689. Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xix, 561 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH324.8 .I567 2007
* Single-cell-based models in biology and medicine / Alexander R.A. Anderson, Mark A.J. Chaplain, Katarzyna A. Rejniak, editors. Mathematics and biosciences in interaction. Basel ; Boston : Birkha¨user, c2007. ix, 349 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. +. 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references and index. QH324.8 .S56 2007
* Teaching about scientific origins : taking account of creationism / edited by Leslie S. Jones & Michael J. Reiss. Counterpoints ; v. 277. Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 277. New York : Peter Lang, c2007. x, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH362 .T438 2007
* Comparative genomics : international workshop, RECOMB-CG 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, September 16-18, 2007 : proceedings / Glenn Tesler, Dannie Durand (eds.). LNCS sublibrary. SL 8, Bioinformatics. Lecture notes in computer science, 4751. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Lecture notes in computer science ; 4751. Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xii, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH447 .R44 2007
* Methods in cell biology. New York, Academic Press, 1973-. v. ill. 24 cm. v. 6- 1973-. QH585 .M472 V.84-85
 

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Botany
 
* Advances in botanical research. London ; New York : Academic Press, c1963-. v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Vol. 1-. Irregular. QK1 .A353 V.46 2008
* Progress in botany. Fortschritte der Botanik. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1974-. v. 25 cm. 36-. QK1 .F672 V.69
* Nitric oxide in plant growth, development and stress physiology / volume editors, Lorenzo Lamattina, Joseph C. Polacco. Plant cell monographs, 6. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xiv, 283 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. QK711.2 .N58 2007
 

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Zoology
 
* Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweisen. Jena, G. Fischer, 1925-. v. illus., plates. 1.- T. QL265 .T5 V.79
* Advances in insect physiology. London, New York, Academic Press. v. ill., diagrs. 24 cm. v. 1- 1963-. QL495 .A23 V.34
* A systematic catalog, bibliography, and classification of the world antlions (Insecta:Neuroptera:Myrmeleontidae) / by Lionel A. Stange. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute ; v. 74. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute ; no. 74. Gainesville, FL : American Entomological Institute, 2004. 565 p. ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-525) and indexes. QL513.M9 S83 2004
* A morphological phylogenetic analysis of Middle American cichlids with special emphasis on the section "Nandopsis" sensu Regan / by Prosanta Chakrabarty. Miscellaneous publications / Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, no. 198. Miscellaneous publications (University of Michigan. Museum of Zoology) ; no. 198. Ann Arbor : Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, [2007]. iv, 31 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24). QL638.C55 C48 2007
* The inner bird : anatomy and evolution / Gary W. Kaiser. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007. xiv, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QL697 .K16 2007
* The gestural communication of apes and monkeys / [edited by] Josep Call and Michael Tomasello. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2007. viii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. +. 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references and indexes. QL737.P96 G47 2007
* Built by animals : the natural history of animal architecture / Mike Hansell. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. viii, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-257) and index. QL756 .H357 2007
* Atlas and dissection guide for comparative anatomy / Saul Wischnitzer with Edith Wischnitzer. 6th ed. New York : W.H. Freeman and Co., c2007. xviii, 331 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index. QL812 .W77 2007
* Current topics in developmental biology. New York, Academic Press. v. ill. 24 cm. annual. v. 1- 1966-. QL951 .C8 V.81
 

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Human anatomy - Physiology
 
* Bioelectricity : a quantitative approach / Robert Plonsey and Roger C. Barr. 3rd ed. New York, NY : Springer, c2007. xiv, 528 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references and index. QP341 .P734 2007
* Advances in brain, vision, and artificial intelligence : second international symposium, BVAI 2007, Naples, Italy, October 10-12, 2007 : proceedings / Francesco Mele ... [et al.] (eds.). Lecture notes in computer science, 4729. LNCS sublibrary. SL 6, Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and graphics. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. xvi, 618 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QP363.3 .B82 2007
* Genomic signal processing / Ilya Shmulevich and Edward R. Dougherty. Princeton series in applied mathematics. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. xiii, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QP517.C45 S5 2007
* ESR spectroscopy in membrane biophysics / Marcus A. Hemminga and Lawrence J. Berliner, [editors]. Biological magnetic resonance ; v. 27. New York : Springer, c2007. xiv, 379 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. +. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). Includes bibliographical references and index. QP552.M44 E87 2007
 

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Microbiology
 
* The biofilm primer / volume author, J. William Costerton. Springer series on biofilms, 1. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. viii, 199 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-195) and index. QR100.8.B55 C67 2007
 

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Other
 
* Annual review of entomology. Palo Alto, Calif. [etc.] Annual Reviews, inc. [etc.]. v. ill. 23 cm. Bibliographies included. v. 1- 1956-. SB931 .A5 V.53 2008
 

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