NEW BOOKS: SEPTEMBER 2008

Massive star formation : observations confront theory: proceedings of a conference held Heidelberg Convention Center, 2007 / eds.H. Beuther, H. Linz, & T. Henning. San Francisco: Astro. Society of the Pacific conf. 387, 2008. ISBN9781583816424 (B.7.1)

An introduction to nuclear astrophysics / Richard N. Boyd. Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007, 2008. ISBN: 9780226069715 (52/BOY)

Image processing and analysis : variational, PDE, wavelet, and stochastic methods / Tony F. Chan, Jianhong (Jackie) Shen. Philadelphia : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, c2005. ISBN: 089871589X (26/CHA)

Modelling and simulation in science : 6th International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy, Erice, Italy, April 2007 / edited by Vito Di Gesù, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Maria Concetta Maccarone. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007. ISBN: 9789812779441 9812779442 (26/DIG)

Flat Earth : the history of an infamous idea / Christine Garwood. Published: London : Macmillan, 2007. ISBN: 9781405047029 (hbk.) 140504702X (hbk.) (35/GAR)

Clusters of galaxies : beyond the thermal view / Jelle Kaastra, editor. New York : Springer, c2008. ISBN: 9780387788746 (133/KAA)

Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters: proceedings of a workshop at Lunteren, 2006 / edited by Alex de Koter, Linda J. Smith & Laurens B.F.M. Waters. San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific conf. 388, 2008. ISBN: 9781583816448 (B.7.1)

Cometography : a catalog of comets. Vol. 3, 1900-1932 / Gary W. Kronk. Published: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780521585064 (cased) (104/KRO)

Ultraviolet and X-ray spectroscopy of the solar atmosphere / by Kenneth J.H. Phillips, Uri Feldman, Enrico Landi Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780521841603 (hbk.) 0521841607 (hbk.) Cambridge astrophysics series ; 44 (74/PHI)

Extragalactic jets: theory and observation from radio to gamma ray: proceedings of workshop held, Alaska, May 2007 / eds. Travis A. Rector & D.S. De Young. San Francisco : Astro. Society of the Pacific conf. 386, 2008. ISBN: 9781583813355 (B.7.1)

The nonlinear universe : chaos, emergence, life / Alwyn C. Scott. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007. ISBN: 9783540341529 The frontiers collection, (11/SCO)

The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics / Leonard Susskind. New York : Little, Brown, 2008. ISBN: 9780316016407 0316016403 (58/SUS)