Book List

The following books have been received in the offices of The Industrial Physicist. Comments and questions may be addressed to Cynthia Cummings, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3843; tel. 301- 209-3004; fax 301-209-0842.

Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers.
S. F. Yu. Wiley- Interscience, Hoboken, N.J., 2003. 445 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 0-471-39124-7.
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Breakup of Liquid Sheets and Jets.
S. P. Lin. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. 269 pp. $75.00 hb ISBN 0-521-80694-1.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002.
Proc. 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD, Sydney, Australia, July 15-19, 2002. S. Armfield, P. Morgan, K. Srinivas, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 840 pp. $249.00 hb ISBN 3-540-00739-3.
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Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems.
R. M. Murray, ed. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2003. 102 pp. $30.00 pb ISBN 0-89871-528-8.
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Crystal Growth Technology.
K. Byrappa, T. Ohachi, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 590 pp. $179.00 hb ISBN 3-540-00367-3.
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Current Sense Amplifiers: For Embedded SRAM in High-Performance System-on-a-Chip Designs.
B. Wicht. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 164 pp. $99.00 hb ISBN 3-540-00298-7.
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Dielectric Properties of Porous Media.
S. O. Gladkov. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 261 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 3-540-00186-7.
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Differential Scanning Calorimetry. 2nd edition.
G. W. H. Höhne, W. F. Hemminger, H.-J. Flammersheim. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 298 pp. $149.00 hb ISBN 3-540-00467-X.
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Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Proc. 4th International Workshop, EMMCVPR 2003, Lisbon, Portugal, July 7-9, 2003. A. Rangarajan, M. Figueiredo, J. Zerubia, eds. Springer- Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 534 pp. $81.00 pb ISBN 3-540-40498-8.
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Experimental Chaos. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 676.
7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, August 26-29, 2002. V. In, L. Kocarev, T. L. Carroll, B. J. Gluckman, S. Boccaletti, J. Kurths, eds. American Institute of Physics, Melville, N.Y., 2003. 394 pp. $145.00 hb ISBN 0-7354-0145-4.
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Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics 2003.
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 677. Williamsburg, Va., February 2-5, 2003. P. K. Davies, D. J. Singh, eds. American Institute of Physics, Melville, N.Y., 2003. 288 pp. $140.00 hb ISBN 0-7354-0146-2.
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Future Directions in Distributed Computing: Research and Position Papers.
A. Schiper, A. A. Shvartsman, H. Weatherspoon, B. Y. Zhao, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 217 pp. $44.00 pb ISBN 3-540-00912-4.
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Graph Based Representations in Pattern Recognition.
Proc. 4th IAPR International Workshop, GbRPR 2003, York, U.K., June 30-July 2, 2003. E. Hancock, M. Vento, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 270 pp. $54.00 pb ISBN 3-540-40452-X.
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Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics.
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume Books 3674. First ICFA Instrumentation School at the ICFA Instrumentation Center in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, November 18-29, 2002. L. Villaseñor, V. Villanueva, eds. American Institute of Physics, Melville, N.Y., 2003. 404 pp. $165.00 hb ISBN 0-7354-0141-1.
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Laser-Induced Damage of Optical Materials.
R. M. Wood. Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, Philadelphia, 2003. 241 pp. $70.00 hb ISBN 0-7503-0845-1.
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Laser Physics at Relativistic Intensities.
A. V. Borovsky, A. L. Galkin. O. B. Shiryaev, T. Auguste. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 218 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 3-540-43446-1.
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Lock-in Thermography: Basics and Use for Functional Diagnostics of Electronic Components.
O. Breitenstein, M. Langenkamp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 193 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 3-540-43439-9.
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Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence.
D. Biskamp. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. 297 pp. $95.00 hb ISBN 0-521-81011-6.
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Measurement and Control of Charged Particle Beams.
M. G. Minty, F. Zimmermann. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 364 pp. $79.95 hb ISBN 3-540-44187-5.
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Modelling of Microfabrication Systems.
R. Nassar, W. Dai, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 269 pp. $99.00 hb ISBN 3-540-00252-9.
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Nonlinear Dynamics: From Lasers to Butterflies. World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems, Volume 1.
R. Ball, ed. World Scientific, River Edge, N.J., 2003. 435 pp. $62.00 hb ISBN 981-238-320-4.
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Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications. 3rd edition.
S. Hüfner. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 662 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 3-540-41802-4.
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Practical Interfacing in the Laboratory: Using a PC for Instrumentation, Data Analysis, and Control.
S. E. Derenzo. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. 610 pp. $65.00 hb ISBN 0-521-81527-4.
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Principles of Chemical Vapor Deposition: What’s Going on Inside the Reactor.
D. M. Dobkin, M. K. Zuraw, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Mass., 2003. 273 pp. $95.00 hb ISBN 1-4020-1248-9.
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Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science. Volume 122.
D. F. Anghel, ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 156 pp. $125.00 hb ISBN 3-540-00099-2.
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Propagation Handbook for Wireless Communication System Design.
R. K. Crane. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 2003. 307 pp. $119.95 hb ISBN 0-8493-0820-8.
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Quantum Phenomena in Clusters and Nanostructures.
S. N. Khanna, A. W. Castleman, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 265 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 3-540-00015-1.
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Rarefied Gas Dynamics. 23rd International Symposium, Whistler, B.C., Canada, July 20-25, 2002.
A. D. Ketsdever, E. P. Muntz, eds. American Institute of Physics, Melville, N.Y., 2003. 1,093 pp. $295.00 hb (includes CD-ROM) ISBN 0-7354-0124-1.
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Red Cell Membrane Transport in Health and Disease.
I. Bernhardt, J. C. Ellory, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 748 pp. $149.00 hb ISBN 3-540-44227-8.
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Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Volumes 22A and 22B.
AIP Conference Proceedings, Bellingham, Wa., July 14-19, 2002. D. O. Thompson, D. E. Chimenti, eds. American Institute of Physics, Melville, N.Y., 2003. 1,919 pp. $398.00 hb (includes CD-ROM) ISBN 0-7354-0117-9.
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Shock Focussing Effect in Medical Science and Sonoluminescence.
R. C. Srivastava, D. Leutloff, K. Takayama, H. Grönig, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 226 pp. $79.95 hb ISBN 3-540-42514-4.
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Signor Marconi’s Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century and the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution.
G. Weightman. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. 312 pp. $25.00 hb ISBN 0-306-81275-4.
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Solid-State Lasers: A Graduate Text.
W. Koechner, M. Bass. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003. 409 pp. $59.95 hb ISBN 0-387-95590-9.
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Solving Nonlinear Equations with Newton’s Method.
C. T. Kelley. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2003. 104 pp. $39.00 pb ISBN 0-89871-546-6.
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Space Plasma Simulation.
J. Büchner, C. T. Dum, M. Scholer, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 351 pp. $79.95 hb ISBN 3-540-00698-2.
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Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures II.
B. Hillebrands, K. Ounadjela, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 321 pp. $189.00 hb ISBN 3-540-44084-4.
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Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks.
R. Pastor-Satorras, M. Rubi, A. Diaz- Guilera, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 206 pp. $59.95 hb ISBN 3-540-40372-8.
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Structure and Properties of Aperiodic Materials.
Y. Kawazoe, Y. Waseda, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2003. 207 pp. $89.95 hb ISBN 3-540-00959-0.
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Studies of High Temperature Superconductors (Advances in Research and Applications): Layered Cuprates and More on Magnesium Diboride. Volume 44.
A. Narlikar, ed. Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2003. 275 pp. $98.00 hb (includes CD-ROM) ISBN 1-59033-564-3.
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Studies of High Temperature Superconductors (Advances in Research and Applications): Cuprates and Some Unconventional Systems. Volume 45.
A. Narlikar, ed. Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2003. 247 pp. $98.00 hb (includes CDROM) ISBN 1-59033-697-6.
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