NEW BOOKS JULY 2004 (temporary display)

 

Observing and measuring visual double stars / Bob Argyle (Editor)  London Springer 2004  xii, 326p. ill. 23cm  CD-ROM ISBN 1852335580  Index  VISUAL BINARY STARS  BINARY STARS  STELLAR SYSTEMS  OBSERVATIONS  AMATEUR ASTRONOMY  (118/ARG)

 

The transit of Venus: The brief, brilliant life of Jeremiah Horrocks, father of British astronomy / Peter Aughton  London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004  xiii, 210p. ill. 24cm ISBN 029784721x Index  BIOGRAPHIES  HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY  VENUS  TRANSITS (3/HOR/A)

 

Asteroids III / William F. Bottke Jr. et al. (editors)  Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2002  xvii, 785p. ill. 29cm  ISBN 0816522812  Index and bibliographies ASTEROIDS  OBSERVATIONS  SPACE EXPLORATION  EVOLUTION  (97/BOT)

 

Introduction to comets / John C. Brandt and Robert D. Chapman  2nd. ed. Cambridge CUP 2004  viii, 441p. ill. 25cm ISBN 0521004667 Index and bibliography  COMETS  TAILS  COMAS  SOLAR WIND  MINOR PLANETS  (104/BRA) 

 

Discovering the essential universe / Neil F. Comins  2nd. ed. New York, W. H. Freeman, 2004  vii, 307p. ill. 28cm. ISBN 0716758040 Index  UNIVERSE  ASTRONOMY  (8/COM)

 

Voyager’s grand tour: To the outer planets and beyond / Henry C. Dethloff and Ronald A. Schorn  Washington and London  Smithsonian Books 2003  x, 278p. ill. 24cm  ISBN 1588341240 Index and bibliography  SPACE EXPLORATION  SPACE PROBES  SOLAR SYSTEM  (64/DET)

 

Stellar collapse / Chris L. Fryer (Editor)  Dordrecht Kluwer 2004  xxxi, 406p. ill. 25cm ISBN 1402019920 Index (Astrophysics and space science library no. 302)  COLLAPSE  COLLAPSED STARS  SUPERNOVAS  MASSIVE STARS BLACK HOLES  (58/FRY)

 

Once upon a universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology / Robert Gilmore  New York, Springer Verlag, 2003  xii, 228p. ill. 24cm  ISBN 0387955666 Index  COSMOLOGY  POPULAR WORKS (8/GIL)

 

Variable stars in the local group : IAU Colloquium 193 / Edited by Donald W. Kurtz and Karen R. Pollard  San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004  xxiv, 597p. ill 24cm ISBN 1583811621 Index (ASP CS 310) (proceedings of a Colloquium held at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 6-11 July 2003)  VARIABLE STARS  LOCAL GROUP OF GALAXIES  PULSATION THEORY  CONFERENCES (B.7.1)

 

Relativity: An introduction to special and general relativity / Hans Stephani  3rd. ed. Cambridge CUP, 2004  xx, 396p. diags. 23cm ISBN 0521010691 Index  RELATIVITY  GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY  SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY  GRAVITATION  (45/STE)

 

Astrophysics of dust/ Edited by Adolf N. Witt, Geoffrey C. Clayton and Bruce T. Draine  San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004  xxvi, 812p. ill. 24cm  ISBN 1583811591 Index (ASP CS 309) (proceedings of an International Symposium held at Estes Park, Colorado, USA 26-30 May 2003)  DUST  INTERSTELLAR MATTER   INTERSTELLAR DUST  CONFERENCES (B.7.1)

 

Neutrino physics / Kai Zuber  Bristol and Philadelphia, Institute of Physics 2004  xvi, 438p. diags. 24cm  ISBN 0750307501  Index (Series in high energy physics, cosmology and gravitation)  NEUTRINOS  PHYSICS  PARTICLES  (148/ZUB)