NEW BOOKS: JUNE 2004  (temporary display)

 

The cold universe / A. Blain, F. Combes and B. Draine  (Saas-Fee Advanced Course 32: 2002) Berlin Springer 2004 xiii, 308p. diags. 24cm  ISBN 354040838x  index GALAXY FORMATION  GALAXY EVOLUTION  REDSHIFT  DUST(57/BLA)

 

Life everywhere: The maverick science of astrobiology / David Darling  New York Basic Books 2001  xiii, 206p. 23cm  ISBN 0465015646  Includes index  EXOBIOLOGY  EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE   (7/DAR)

 

The calendar / David Ewing Duncan  London Fourth Estate 1999  xii, 360p. ill. 18cm  ISBN 1857029798  Includes index  CALENDARS  GREGORIAN CALENDAR  JULIAN CALENDAR  TIME  (34/DUN)

 

Observing variable stars / Gerry A. Good  London Springer 2003  viii, 274p. ill. 24cm  ISBN 1852334983  Includes index OBSERVING TECHNIQUES  VARIABLE STARS  CATACLYSMIC VARIABLE STARS  CLOSE BINARY STARS  AMATEUR ASTRONOMY  (120/GOO)

 

The history of astronomy: A very short introduction / Michael Hoskin  Oxford OUP 2003  x, 123p ill. 18cm  ISBN 0192803069 Contains index and bibliography  HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY  POPULAR WORKS (5/HOS) 

 

Astronomy: A physical perspective / Marc L. Kutner  2nd. Ed. Cambridge CUP 2003  xviii, 582p. ill. 25cm  ISBN 0521529271  Includes index  ASTRONOMY (8/KUT)

 

The Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI): mission description and early results / Robert P. Lin, Brian R. Dennis and Arnold O. Benz (eds.)  Dordrecht Kluwer 2003  456p ill. 24cm  ISBN 1402011075  SPACE TELESCOPES  FLARES  SOLAR ACTIVITY  X RAY SPECTROSCOPY  GAMMA RAY SPECTROSCOPY  HIGH ENERGY RADIATION  (24/LIN)

 

An introduction to turbulent flow / Jean Mathieu and Julian Scott  Cambridge CUP 2000  x, 374p. diags. 26cm  ISBN 0521775388  FLOW  FLUID DYNAMICS  TURBULENCE [EARTH ATMOSPHERE]  TURBULENCE [STAR ATMOSPHERE]  (143/MAT)

 

A dictionary of astronomy / Ian Ridpath  Revd. Ed.  Oxford OUP 2003  ix, 518p. diags. 20cm  ISBN 0198605137  ASTRONOMY  DICTIONARIES  (R/G/RID)

 

Cosmology / Michael Rowan-Robinson  4th ed.  Oxford Clarendon Press 2004 xv, 184p. ill. 23cm ISBN 0198527470  Contains index and bibliography COSMOLOGY  EXPANDING UNIVERSE  INTRODUCTIONS  (136/ROW)

 

Windows XP killer tips / Kleber Stephenson  New Riders Publ. 2003  xx, 258p. ill. 23cm  ISBN 073571357x index  COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS(162/STE)

 

The evolution of galaxies: I–observational clues /Jose M. Vilchez, Grazyna Stasinska & Enrique Perez  (Eds.) Dordrecht Kluwer 2001 636p.diags. 25cm  ISBN1402000014  GALAXIES  GALACTIC STRUCTURE  EVOLUTION (130/VIL)