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New Books at the Science Library, October 2006

Lists are updated weekly, with last update operated on October 27, 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
Chemistry
Geology - Geography
Natural history - Biology
Zoology
Human anatomy - Physiology

 
Reference Books
 
* Transactions of the Board of Trustees / University of Illinois. Urbana : The University, [1968- v. ; 23 cm. 53rd (July 1, 1964 to June 30, 1966)- LD2351 v. 1-2, 2006/2007
* Night sky atlas : the moon, planets, stars and deep sky objects / Robin Scagell ; with maps by Wil Tirion. Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2005. 128 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 31 cm. * QB63 .S367 2005
* Encyclopedia of mathematical physics / editors Jean-Pierre Francoise, Gregory L. Naber and Tsou Sheung Tsun. Oxford, U.K. ; Boston : Academic, 2006. 5 v. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC20 .E63 2006 v.1-5
Pushing electrons : a guide for students of organic chemistry / Daniel P. Weeks. 3rd ed. Australia ; United States : Thomson Learning, Inc., c1998. xviii, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. QD476 .W38 1998 (PERMANENT RESERVES)
* Guide to minerals, rocks & fossils / A.C. Bishop, A.R. Woolley, W.R. Hamilton. [2nd ed.] Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2005. 336 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE363.8 .B565 2005
* Amazing numbers in biology / Rainer Flindt ; translated by Neil Solomon. Berlin : Springer-Verlag, c2006. xiv, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-265) and indexes. QH323.5 .F58 2006
* Waterfowl of eastern North America / Chris G. Earley. Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2005. 158 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.154-155) and index. QL696.A5 E27 2005
 

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Mathematics - Astronomy - Physics
 
* Stargazing with a telescope / Robin Scagell. Rev. ed. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2005. 192 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm. QB63 .S365 2005
* Albert Einstein : chief engineer of the universe : one hundred authors for Einstein / [edited by] Ju¨rgen Renn. Weinheim [Germany] : Wiley-VCH ; Berlin : Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, c2005. 472 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-466) and indexes. QC16.E5 A6584 2005
* Solid state physics . New York, Academic Press, 1955- v. diagrs. 24 cm. semiannual. v. 1- QC173 .S477 v. 60
* Condensed matter field theory / Alexander Altland and Ben Simons. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 624 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QC173.454 .A48 2006
* Geometry of quantum states : an introduction to quantum entanglement / Ingemar Bengtsson and Karol Z˙yczkowski. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 466 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-446) and index. QC174.12 .B457 2006
* Mathematical physics of quantum mechanics : selected and refereed lectures from QMath9 / Joachim Asch, Alain Joye (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xxi, 483 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. QC174.12 .Q53 2004
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime and black hole thermodynamics / Robert M. Wald. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiii, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. QC174.45 .W35 1994c.2
 

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Chemistry
 
LC/MS: a practical user's guide / Marvin C. McMaster. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2005. xii, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) QD79.C454 M363 2005
Quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometry / Raymond E. March, John F.J. Todd. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2005. xxxv, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QD96.M3 M335 2005 c.2
* Methods of biochemical analysis . New York, Interscience Publishers [1954- v. ill., diagrs. 24 cm. v. 1- QD271 .M46 v. 49
* Structure and bonding . Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1966- v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Vol. 1- QD461 S927 v. 122
 

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Geology - Geography
 
Space, structure and randomness : contributions in honor of Georges Matheron in the fields of geostatistics, random sets, and mathematical morphology : Michel Bilodeau, Fernand Meyer, Michel Schmitt (editors). Lecture notes in statistics ; 183. New York : Springer, c2005. xvii, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE33.2.S82 S62 2005
* New frontiers in Dead Sea paleoenvironmental research / edited by Yehouda Enzel, Amotz Agnon, Mordechai Stein. Special paper ; 401 Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2006. x, 253 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references. QE39.5.P27 N49 2006
* Wetlands through time / edited by Stephen F. Greb and William A. DiMichele. Special paper ; 399 Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2006. viii, 332 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QE720.2.N7 W48 2006
 

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Natural history - Biology
 
Data mining for biomedical applications : PAKDD 2006 workshop, BioDM 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006 : proceedings / Jinyan Li, Qiang Yang, Ah-Hwee Tan (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. viii, 154 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH324.2 .W67 2006
* Reconceiving the gene : Seymour Benzer’s adventures in phage genetics / Frederic Lawrence Holmes ; edited by William C. Summers. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006. ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-329) and index. QH429.2. S49 2006
* Computational and statistical approaches to genomics / edited by Wei Zhang and Ilya Shmulevich. 2nd ed. New York : Springer, c2006. viii, 416 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH438.4.M3 C65 2006
* The regulatory genome : gene regulatory networks in development and evolution / Eric H. Davidson. Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2006. xi, 289 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH453 .D453 2006
* In the beat of a heart : life, energy, and the unity of nature / John Whitfield. Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2006. vii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-260) and index. QH501 .W48 2006
* Research in computational molecular biology : 10th annual international conference, RECOMB 2006, Venice, Italy, April 2-5, 2006 : proceedings / Alberto Apostolico ... [et al.] (eds.). Lecture notes in computer science, 3909. Lecture notes in bioinformatics. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2006. xvii, 612 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. QH506 .I487 2006
 

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Zoology
 
* Les hominides non identifies des forets d'Afrique : dossier X / Jacqueline Roumegue`re-Eberhardt. Paris : Robert Laffont, c1990. 215 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. QL89.2.M56 R68 1990
Chimney swifts : America's mysterious birds above the fireplace / by Paul D. Kyle and Georgean Z. Kyle ; illustrated by Georgean Z. Kyle ; photography by Paul D. Kyle. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-138) and index. QL696.A552 K952 2005
Walker's marsupials of the world / Ronald M. Nowak ; introduction by Christopher R. Dickman. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005. vi, 226 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-224) and index. QL737.M3 N68 2005
* Primate and human evolution / Susan Cachel. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 469 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-451) and index. QL737.P9 C33 2006
* Current topics in developmental biology . New York, Academic Press. v. ill. 24 cm. annual. v. 1- 1966- QL951 .C8 v. 74
 

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Human anatomy - Physiology
 
* Learning to smell : olfactory perception from neurobiology to behavior / Donald A. Wilson & Richard J. Stevenson. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-297) and index. QP458 .W52 2006
VOCUS : a visual attention system for object detection and goal-directed search / Simone Frintrop: Frintrop, Simone. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Bonn, Germany. Berlin ; aNew York : Springer-Verlag, c2006. xii, 216 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index. Note: Also issued online. QP475 .F75 2006
 

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