NEW BOOKS: FEBRUARY 2007

Solar system update / Philippe Blondel and John W. Mason (editors). Berlin: Springer; Chichester: Published in association with Praxis Pub., 2006. ISBN3540260560 (91/BLO)

Collins dictionary of astronomy / [editors] John Daintith, William Gould. [5th ed.]. Glasgow : Collins, 2006. ISBN: 9780007220922 (pbk.) 0007220928 (pbk.) (R/G/DAI)

The curious history of relativity : how Einstein’s theory of gravity was lost and found again / Jean Eisenstaedt ; translated by Arturo Sangalli. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2006. ISBN: 9780691118659 0691118655 (45/EIS)

Searching for water in the universe / Therese Encrenaz. New York : Springer-Praxis, 2007. ISBN: 9780387341743 0387341749 (pbk.) Notes: First published in French as ’A la recherche de l’eau dans l’univers’, Editions Belin, 2004. (8/ENC)

Dark cosmos : in search of our universe’s missing mass and energy / Dan Hooper. New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006. ISBN: 006113032X  9780061130328 (138/HOO)

Calibrating the cosmos : how cosmology explains our big bang universe / Frank Levin. New York : Springer, 2006. ISBN 9780387307787 0387307788 (136/LEV)

Magneto-fluid dynamics : fundamentals and case studies of natural phenomena / Paul Lorrain, Francois Lorrain, Stephane Houle. New York: Springer, 2006. ISBN: 9780387335421 0387335420 (hdbk.)  (141/LOR)

Astrophysics update 2 / John W. Mason (Editor). Berlin, London : Springer-Praxis, 2006. ISBN: 354030312x Springer-Praxis books in astrophysics and astronomy (48/MAS)

Planetary ring systems / Ellis D. Miner, Randii R. Wessen, Jefferey N. Cuzzi. New York : Springer-Praxis, 2007. ISBN: 9780387341774 0387341773 (pbk.) (91/MIN)

Plasma astrophysics. Part II, Reconnection and flares / Boris V. Somov. New York : Springer, 2006. ISBN: 0387349480 9780387349480 Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 340 (50/SOM)

Einstein’s enigma, or, Black holes in my bubble bath / C.V. Vishveshwara. New York : Copernicus Books, 2006. ISBN 3540331999  9783540331995 (58/VIS)

Handbook of space astronomy and astrophysics / Martin V. Zombeck. 3rd ed. Cambridge; New York : CUP, 2007. ISBN: 0521782422  (R/G/ZOM)