Book reviews (1992)

Abstract The Origins of our Universe. By M. S. Longair. 1990, £20.00 $34.50 (hbk), £7.95 $12.95 (pbk), pp. 128. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 42303 1. Scope: Textbook. Level: General Reader. The Origins of our Universe. By M. S. Longair. 1990, £20.00 $34.50 (hbk), £7.95 $12.95 (pbk), pp. 128. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 42303 1. Scope: Textbook. Level: General Reader. Citizen Scientist. By F. von Hippel. 1991, £17.50 (hbk), pp. xv + 285. American Institute of Physics, ISBN 0 88318 709 4. Scope: Textbook. Level: General Readership. Oscillations and Waves in Strong Gravitational and Electromagnetic Fields. By N. R. Sibgatullin. 1991, DM 148.00 (hbk), pp. x + 362. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 19461 4. Scope: Monograph. Level: Postgraduate. Circuits for Electronic Instrumentation. By T. H. O'Dell. 1991, £35.00 US$69.50 (hbk), pp. xiii + 215. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 40428 2. Scope: Textbook. Level: Advanced Undergraduate/Postgraduate. Structural Transformations in Liquid Crystals. By S. A. Pikin. 1991, $95.00 £49.00 (hbk), pp. xii + 423. Gordon & Breach, ISBN 2 881242960. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Thermophysical Properties of Liquid Crystals. By A. L. Tyskalo. 1991, $95.00 £49.00 (hbk), pp. xii + 419. Gordon & Breach, ISBN 2 88124 322 3. Nuclear Choices. By R. Wolfson. 1991, £22.50 (hbk), pp. xv + 467. MIT Press, ISBN 0 262 23158 1. Scope: Textbook. Level: General Reader. Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Polyatomic Gases. Volume 1: Dilute Gases. By F. R. W. McCourt. 1990, £48.00 (hbk), pp. xi + 562. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 19 8550631 4. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Probability, Statistical Optics, and Data Testing. By B. R. Frieden. 1991, DM 79.00 (pbk), pp. 443. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 53310 9. Perovskites and High T c Superconductors. By F. S. Galasso. 1990, $110.00 (SAS Price $66.00), pp. xiii + 293. Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, ISBN 2 88124 391 6. Holographic Interferometry in Experimental Mechanics. By Yu. I. Ostrovsky, V. P. Shchepinov and V. V. Yakovlev. 1991, DM119.00 (hbk), pp. vi + 248. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 52604 8. Scope: Monograph. Level: Postgraduate. Laser Ultrasonics Techniques and Applications. By C. B. Scruby and L. E. Drain. 1990, £50 (hbk), pp. viii + 447. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 75030 050 7. Scope: Textbook. Level: General. Photovoltaic Engineering Handbook. By F. Lasnier and T. G. Ang. 1990, £70.00 (hbk), pp. 548. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 85274 311 4. Scope: Handbook. Level: Specialist. Advances in Multi-Photon Processes and Spectroscopy. Volume 6. By S. H. Lin. 1990, £43.00 (hbk), pp. v + 203. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0446 9. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Laser Heating of Metals. By J. Prokhorov, V. I. Konov, I. Ursu and I. N. Mihailescu 1990, £45.00 (hbk), pp. xi + 239. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 7503 0040 X. Scope: Monograph. Level: Postgraduate. Chemical Lasers. By N. Basov, A. S. Bashkin, V. Igoshin, A. N. Oraevsky and Va. Shcheglov. 1990, £63.00 (hbk), pp. 370. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 16185 6. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Transition Radiation and Transition Scattering. By V. L. Ginzburg and V. N. Tsytovich. 1990, £70.00 (hbk), pp. 433. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 85274 003 4. Scope: Monograph. Level: Advanced. Optical Solitons in Fibers. By A. Hasegawa. 1990, £17 (hbk), pp. ix + 79. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 51747 2. Scope: Monograph. Level: Postgraduate. Nuclear Density Functional Theory. By I. Zh. Petkov and M. V. Stoitsov. 1991, £40.00 (hbk), pp. vii + 362. Oxford Science Publications, ISBN 0 19851731 9. Scope: Monograph. Level: Postgraduate; specialist. Molecular and Laser Spectroscopy. By Zu-Geng Wang and Hui-Rong Xia. 1991, DM119.00 (hbk), pp. 281. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 50829 5. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Basics of Functional Methods and Eikonal Models. By H. M. Fried. 1990, £25 (hbk), pp. 326. Editions Frontières, ISBN 2 86332 075 0. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space. By M. Rycroft. 1990, £40.00 US$65.00 (hbk), pp. 386. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 36426 4. Scope: Encyclopedia. Level: Library/General reader. Solid-State Physics. By H. Ibach, H. Luth, K. F. A. Julich and R. W. T. H. Aachen. 1990, DM74.00 (hbk), pp. vi + 341. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 52207 7. Level: Advanced Undergraduate. Les Houches 1989—Part 1. By J. P. Hansen, D. Levesque and J. Zinn-Justin. 1991, US$131.50 DFL230.00 (hbk), pp. 503. Elsevier Science, ISBN 0 444 88927 2. Scope: Proceedings. Level: Graduate and research. Mathematical Physics. By P. K. Chattopadhyay. 1990, £28.30 (hbk), pp. 352. John Wiley &Sons, ISBN 0 470 21719 7. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media. By D. B. Melrose and R. C. McPhedran. 1991, £45.00 US$79.00 (hbk), pp. xvii + 407. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 41025 8. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Physical Acoustics and Metrology of Fluids. By J. P. M. Trusler. 1991, £45.00 (hbk), pp. xi + 255. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 7503 0113 9. Level: Postgraduate and research. The Physics of Fluid Turbulence. By W. D. McComb. 1990, £75.00 (hbk), pp. ix + 572. Oxford Science Publications, ISBN 0 19 856160 1. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Intense Laser Phenomena and Related Subjects. By I. Yu Kiyan and M. Yu Ivanov. 1991, £53.00 (hbk), pp. vi + 587. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0341 1. Surface Phonons. By W. Kress &F. W. de Wette. 1991, DM94.00 (hbk), pp. v + 301. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 52721 4. Scope: Multiauthor Reviews. Level: Postgraduate. Organic Molecules for Nonlinear Optics and Photonics. By K. Messier. 1991 DF1265.00 US$174.00 UK£91.00 (hbk), pp. ix + 544. Kluwer Academic, ISBN 0 7923 1181 7. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist. Short notices £College Physics 7th Edition. By F. W. Sears, M. W. Zemansky and H. D. Young. 1991, £20.95 (pbk), pp. 1060. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0 201 51417 6. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate. Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing. Edited by H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex. 1990, £50.00 (hbk), £17.50 (pbk), pp ix + 349. Adam Hilger, ISBN 0 7503 0057 4. Scope: Reprint Collection. Level: Postgraduate. Hamiltonian Systems: Chaos and Quantization. By A. M. Ozorio de Almeida. 1990, £15.00 US$24.95 (pbk), pp. ix + 238. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 38670 5. Scope: Textbook. Level: Postgraduate. Long Look at the Literature. By P. Morrison. 1990, £19.95 $24.95 (hbk), £11.95 $14.95 (pbk), pp. xi + 351. W. H. Freeman, ISBN 0 7167 2135 X. Scope: Collection of book reviews. Level: General reader. Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies. By A. Meinel and M. Meinel. 1991, $19.95 (pbk), pp. x + 163. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 40647 1. Scope: Text. Level: General reader. Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Edited by Yung-Kuo Lim. 1990, £34.00 (hbk) £16.00 (pbk), pp. v + 407. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0055 2. Scope: Collection of Solved Problems. Level: Advanced Undergraduate/Postgraduate. Introduction to Polymer Dynamics. By P. Gilles de Gennes. 1990, £20.00 US$34.50 (hbk) £6.95 US$12.95 (pbk), pp. 57. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 38849. Scope: Lecture notes. Level: Postgraduate. The Geometry and Physics of Knots. By M. Atiyah. 1990, £20.00 US$39.50 (hbk) £6.95 US$ 14.95 (pbk), pp. x + 78. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 52139554 2. Scope: Lecture notes. Level: Postgraduate. The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures. By G. Ekspong. 1991, £25.00 (pbk), pp. 123. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0353 5. Scope: Lectures. Level: General reader/postgraduate. The Theory of Singularities and its Applications. By V. I. Arnold. 1991, £9.95, US$19.95 (pbk), pp. 72. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 42280 9. Scope: Lecture notes. Level: Postgraduate. Frontiers of Physics. Edited by E. Gotsman, Y. Ne'eman and A. Voronel. 1990, £68.00 US$123.00 (hbk), pp. 441. Pergamon, ISBN 0 08 036939 1. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Postgraduate. Problems and Solutions on Optics. Edited by Lim Yung-Kuo. 1991, £14.00 (pbk), pp. vi + 192. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0439 6. Scope: Collection of solved problems. Level: Postgraduate. Electrodynamics of Particles and Plasmas. By P. C. Clemmow and J. P. Dougherty. 1990. £24.25 (pbk), pp. xx + 457. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0 201 51500 8. Solid State Physics. Volume 43. Edited by H. Ehrenreich and D. Turnbull. 1990. £35 (hbk), pp. ix + 328. Academic Press, ISBN 0 12 607743 6. Scope: Multiauthor surveys. Level: Postgraduate.