NEW BOOKS: MARCH 2008

 

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter : Rhodes, September 2006 / eds. Minos Axenides, G. Fanourakis & J. Vergados. Singapore : World Scientific, 2007. ISBN: 9812708529 9789812708526 (138/AXE)

 

Statistical challenges in modern astronomy IV : a conference held at Pennsylvania State University, June 2006 / eds. G. Jogesh Babu, & E.D. Feigelson. San Francisco, CA : Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series No. 371, 2007. ISBN: 9781583812402 1583812407  (B.7.1)

 

Deformed spacetime : geometrizing interactions in four and five dimensions / by Fabio Cardone, Roberto Mignani. Dordrecht : Springer, 2007. ISBN: 1402062826 9781402062827 : Fundamental theories of physics ; v. 157 (45/CAR)

 

Extrasolar planets : formation, detection and dynamics / edited by Rudolf Dvorak. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2008. ISBN: 9783527406715 (pbk.) (109/DVO)

 

Planet Mars : story of another world / François Forget, François Costard & Philippe Lognonné. New York ; London : Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9780387489254 (pbk.) 0387489258 (pbk.) (95/FOR)

 

Science perspectives for 3D spectroscopy : proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, October 2005 / M. Kissler-Patig, J.R. Walsh, M.M. Roth (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9783540734901 ESO symposia ; 3291 (18/KIS)

 

The high energy solar corona : waves, eruptions, particles / K.-L. Klein, A.L. MacKinnon (eds.). Berlin: Springer, 2007. ISBN354071569X  Lecture notes in physics 725 (75/KLE)

 

Oxford dictionary of astronomy / edited by Ian Ridpath. 2nd ed. Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.  ISBN: 9780199214938 (pbk.) (R/G/RID)

 

Astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib / Julio Samsó.  Aldershot : Ashgate, 2007. ISBN: 9780754659341 (hbk.) 0754659348 (hbk.) (5/SAM)

 

New solar physics with Solar-B Mission: the sixth Solar-B Science Meeting,  November 2005, Kyoto, Japan / eds. Kazunari Shibata, S. Nagata & T. Sakurai. San Francisco, Calif.: ASP Conference Series No. 369, 2007. ISBN 9781583813034   (B.7.1)

 

The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science and what comes next / Lee Smolin. London : Allen Lane, 2007. ISBN: 9780713997996 (140/SMO)

 

Stellar populations as building blocks of galaxies : proceedings of the 241st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, La Palma, Tenerife, Spain, December, 2006 / edited by Alexandre Vazdekis & R. Peletier. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521863506 (B.6.1)