NEW BOOKS: AUGUST 2008

Extremely large telescopes: which wavelengths? : symposium for Arne Ardeberg / (ed.) Torben E. Andersen. Bellingham, Wash.: SPIE, 2008.  ISBN: 9780819471840 Proceedings of SPIE v. 6986. conference, Lund, Sweden, November 2007 (16/AND)

A primer in black holes, Mach’s principle and gravitational energy / Marcelo Samuel Berman. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.  ISBN: 9781600217951 (hardcover) 1600217958 (hardcover) (45/BER)

Classical novae / eds. Michael F. Bode, Aneurin Evans.  2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2008.  ISBN: 9780521843300  Cambridge astrophysics series ; 43 (122/BOD)

Dark galaxies and lost baryons : proceedings of the 244th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Cardiff, June 2007 / eds. Jonathan I. Davies & Michael J. Disney. Cambridge University Press, 2008.  ISBN: 9780521874663 (hbk.) (B.6.1)

Secrets of the hoary deep : a personal history of modern astronomy / Riccardo Giacconi.  Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780801888090 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801888093 (hardcover : alk. paper) (5/GIA)

A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background / Massimo Giovannini.  Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008. ISBN: 9812791426 9789812791429 (138/GIO)

Stonehenge / Rosemary Hill. London : Profile, 2008. ISBN: 9781861978653 (hbk.) 1861978650 (hbk.) (5/HIL)

British university observatories, 1772-1939 / Roger Hutchins. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008. ISBN: 9780754632504 (hbk.) 0754632504 (hbk.) (4/HUT)

Solar system astrophysics : background science and the inner solar system / Eugene F. Milone & William J.F. Wilson. New York : Springer, 2008.. ISBN: 9780387731537  Astronomy and astrophysics library, 0941-7834 (91/MIL)

A pan-chromatic view of clusters of galaxies and the large-scale structure / M. Plionis, O. López-Cruz, D. Hughes (Eds.). Dordrecht : Springer, 2008. ISBN: 9781402069406 (hbk.) 1402069405 (hbk.) 9781402069413 (ebk.) Lecture notes in physics ; 740 (133/PLI)

Numerical modeling of space plasma flows ASTRONUM-2007  / eds. N.V. Pogorelov, E. Audit & G.P. Zank. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008. ISBN9781583813331 ASP conf. v. 385 (B.7.1)

The universe in a mirror : the saga of the Hubble Telescope and the visionaries who built it / Robert Zimmerman. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, c2008. ISBN: 9780691132976 (hbk.) 0691132976 (hbk.) (24/ZIM)