NEW BOOKS: JULY 2008

People and the sky : our ancestors and the cosmos / by Anthony Aveni. London : Thames & Hudson, 2008. ISBN: 0500051526 (5/AVE)

Topics in gravitational dynamics : solar, extra-solar and galactic systems / D. Benest, C. Froeschle, E. Lega (eds.). Berlin : Springer, 2007. ISBN: 3540729836 Lecture notes in physics 729 Proceedings of the 2006 Aussois Winter School (40/BEN)

Star-disk interaction in young stars : proceedings of the 243rd symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Grenoble, May 2007 / eds. Jérôme Bouvier & I. Appenzeller. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN0521874653 (B.6.1)

Galaxies: A very short introduction / John Gribbin. Oxford University Press, 2008 ISBN 97801992334349 (129/GRI)

The Zen in modern cosmology / Chi-Sing Lam World Scientific, 2008 ISBN 109812771867 (136/LAM)

First light in the universe / A. Loeb, A. Ferrara, R.S. Ellis ; edited by D. Schaerer, A. Hempel and D. Puy. Berlin : Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9783540741626 36th SAAS-Fee advanced course April 2006 in the Swiss Alps in Les Diablerets (57/LOE).

Galileo’s glassworks : the telescope and the mirror / Eileen Reeves. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780674026674 (3/GAL/R)

An introduction to Gödel’s Theorems / Peter Smith. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521674539 Reprinted with corrections 2008 (150/SMI)

Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture / Alan Sokal. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 0199239207 (11/SOK)

Theory of orbital motion / Arjun Tan. World Scientific, 2008. ISBN: 9789812709110 (41/TAN)

14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun : proceedings of a workshop held by Spitzer Science Center and Michelson Science Center at Pasadena, California, November 2006 / edited by Gerard van Belle San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008. ISBN: 1583813314 ASP conference series ; v. 384 (B.7.1)

Foundations of high-energy astrophysics / Mario Vietri University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 100226855694 (58/VIE)