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Weekly Books Received List

Books received at Science during the week ending
Friday, April 01, 2005

Adapting Minds
Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature
David J. Buller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 564 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 0262025795.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Knopf (Random House), New York, 2005
Hardback: 736 pp. $35, C$47. ISBN 0375412026.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Beam
The Race to Make the Laser
Jeff Hecht
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
Hardback: 254 pp., illus. $29.95, £18.50. ISBN 0195142101.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Behavioral Flexability in Primates
Causes and Consequences
Clara B. Jones
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 207 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 0387232974.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects.

The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
The Art of Chindogu
Kenji Kawakami
Norton, New York, 2005
Paperback: 304 pp., illus. $12.95. ISBN 0393326764.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Binocular Rivalry
David Alais and Randolph Blake
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 395 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 026201212X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Antimicrobial Drug Action
6th ed.
T. J. Franklin and G. A. Snow
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 192 pp., illus. $89.95. ISBN 0387225544.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Biomarker Guide
Biomarkers and Isotopes in Petroleum Exploration and Earth History, vol. 2. 2nd ed.
Kenneth E. Peters, Clifford C. Walters, and J. Michael Moldowan
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
Hardback: 670 pp., illus. $150, £85. ISBN 0521837626.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Birds of Two Worlds
The Ecology and Evolution of Migration
Russell Greenberg and Peter P. Marra, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2005
Hardback: 486 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 0801881072.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Carnivorous Nights
On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger
Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson
Villard, New York, 2005
Hardback: 334 pp., illus. $24.95, C$34.95. ISBN 1400060028.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semichemicals II
Stefan Schultz, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 345 pp., illus. $249. ISBN 3540213082.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Topics in Current Chemistry, vol. 240.

The Complete World of Human Evolution
Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews
Thames and Hudson, New York, 2005
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $39.95, C$60. ISBN 0500051321.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cusco Amazónico
The Lives of Amphibians and Reptiles in an Amazonian Rainforest
William E. Duellman
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2005
Hardback: 447 pp., illus. $74.95, £40.95. ISBN 0801439973.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Descent
The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
Brad Matsen
Pantheon, New York, 2005
Hardback: 302 pp., illus. $25, C$35. ISBN 0375422587.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Drawn from Nature
The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly
Richard H. Axsom
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005
Hardback: 123 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 0300103212.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Drugs for Relapse Prevention of Alcoholism
Rainer Spanagel and Karl F. Mann, Eds.
Birkhäuser, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 255 pp., illus. $169. ISBN 3764302143.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Milestones in Drug Therapy.

Electroceramic-Based MEMS
Fabrication-Technology and Applications
Nava Setter
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 426 pp., illus. $119. ISBN 0387233105.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Electronic Materials: Science and Technology.

Empirically Based Play Interventions for Children
Linda A. Reddy, Tara M. Files-Hall, and Charles E. Schaefer, Eds.
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2005
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 1591472156.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Endless Forms Most Beautiful
The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
Sean B. Carroll
Norton, New York, 2005
Hardback: 380 pp., illus. $25.95, C$38. ISBN 0393060160.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Evaluating Feynman Integrals
Vladimir A. Smirnov
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 260 pp., illus. $199. ISBN 3540239332.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol. 211.

Fab
The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
Neil Gershenfeld
Basic Books (Perseus), New York, 2005
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $26, C$36.95. ISBN 0465027458.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fatal Sequence
The Killer Within
Kevin J. Tracey
Dana Press, Washington, DC, 2005
Hardback: 232 pp., illus. $23.95, £18. ISBN 193259406X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fever of War
The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I
Carol R. Byerly
New York University Press, New York, 2005
Hardback: 269 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 081479923X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 269 pp., illus. $21. ISBN 0814799248.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Forensic DNA Typing
Biology, Technology, and Genetics of STR Markers. 2nd ed.
John M. Butler
Elsevier Academic, Burlington, MA, 2005
Hardback: 678 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 0121479528.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Gene Targeting and Embryonic Stem Cells
Alison Thompson and Jim McWhir, Eds.
Garland Science (Taylor and Francis), New York, 2005
Paperback: 215 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 1859963609.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advanced Methods.

The Genesis of Animal Play
Testing the Limits
Gordon M. Burghardt
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 519 pp., illus. $50, £32.95. ISBN 0262025434.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Glutamate Receptors in Peripheral Tissue
Excitatory Transmission Outside the CNS
Santokh Gill and Olga Pulido, Eds.
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 286 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 0306479737.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Graded Ferroelectics, Transpacitors, and Transponents
Joseph V. Mantese and S. Pamir Alpay
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 163 pp., illus. $139. ISBN 0387233113.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Multifunctional Thin Films.

Haploids in Crop Improvement II
C. E. Palmer, W. A. Keller, and K. J. Kasha, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 334 pp., illus. $199. ISBN 3540222243.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol. 56.

The Innermost Kernal
Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C. G. Jung
Suzanne Gieser
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 392 pp., illus. $54.95. ISBN 3540208569.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Genetics
Adrian Woolfson
Overlook (Peter Mayer), New York, 2005
Hardback: 240 pp. $21.95, C$32, £12.99. ISBN 1585676632.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Interferon
The Science and Selling of a Miracle Drug
Toine Pieters
Routledge, London, 2005
Hardback: 280 pp., illus. £63. ISBN 0415342465.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, vol. 21.

Is It Safe to Eat?
Enjoy Eating and Minimize Food Risks
Ian Shaw
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 263 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 3540212868.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Stanley Aronowitz
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2005
Hardback: 175 pp. $49.50. ISBN 1592131379.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 175 pp. $16.95. ISBN 1592131387.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Life and Death in Intensive Care
Joan Cassell
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2005
Hardback: 243 pp., illus. $64.50. ISBN 1592133355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 243 pp., illus. $22.95. ISBN 1592133363.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Lupus
Everything You Need to Know
Sasha Bernatsky and Jean-Luc Senécal, Eds.
Firefly, Buffalo, 2005
Paperback: 168 pp., illus. $16.95. ISBN 1554070635.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Your Personal Health.

Macromolecular Nanostructured Materials
N. Ueyama and A. Harada, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 351 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 3540223274.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Springer Series in Materials Science, vol. 78.

Microbial Imaging
Tor Savidge and Charalabos Pothoulakis, Eds.
Elsevier Academic, Burlington, MA, 2005
Paperback: 387 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 0125215355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Microbiology, vol. 34.

Microbial Protein Toxins
Manfred J. Schmitt and Raffael Schaffrath, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 251 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 3540235620.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Topics in Current Genetics, vol. 11.

A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Michele Maggiore
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
Hardback: 307 pp., illus. $99.50, £47.95. ISBN 0198520735.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 307 pp., illus. $44.50, £23.95. ISBN 0198520743.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Master Series in Physics, vol. 12.

Molecular and Cellular Signaling
Martain Beckerman
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 608 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 0387221301.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biological and Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.

Molecular Models of Life
Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology
Sahotra Sarkar
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 412 pp., illus. $38. ISBN 0262195127.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology.

Nematology: Advances and Perspectives
Vol. 1, Nematode Morphology, Physiology, and Ecology
Z. X. Chen, S. Y. Chen, and D. W. Dickson, Eds.
CABI, Wallingford, UK, 2005
Hardback: 654 pp., illus. $150. ISBN 0851996450.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Neurobiology of Attention
Laurent Itti, Geraint Rees, and John K. Tsotsos, Eds.
Elsevier Academic, Burlington, MA, 2005
Hardback: 740 pp., illus. $149.95. ISBN 0123757312.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The New Quotable Einstein
Alice Calaprice, Ed.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005
Hardback: 447 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 0691120749.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 447 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 1691120757.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Oceanographers and the Cold War
Disciples of Marine Science
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2005
Hardback: 376 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 0295984821.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Optical Near-Field Recording
Science and Technology
J. Tominaga and T. Nakano
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 132 pp., illus. $89.95. ISBN 354022128X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Origin of Stars
Michael D. Smith
Imperial College Press, London, 2005
Hardback: 262 pp., illus. $53. ISBN 1860944892.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 262 pp., illus. $32. ISBN 1860945015.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Origins of Language
Constraints on Hypotheses
Sverker Johansson
John Benjamins, Philadelphia, 2005
Hardback: 358 pp., illus. $114, EUR 95. ISBN 1588116298.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, vol. 5.

Ozone
A New Medical Drug
Velio Bocci
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 323 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 1402031394.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Physical Acoustics in the Solid State
B. Lüthi
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 442 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 3540229108.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol. 148.

Pollination Ecology and the Rain Forest
Sarawak Studies
David W. Roubik, Shoko Saki, and Abang A. Hamid Karim, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 337 pp., illus. $139. ISBN 0387213090.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecology Studies, vol. 174.

Progress in Botany
Vol. 66, Genetics Physiology Systematics Ecology
K. Esser et al., Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 467 pp., illus. $249. ISBN 3540224742.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Quantum Thermodynamics
Emergence of Thermodynamic Behavior Within Composite Quantum Systems
J. Gemmer, M. Michel, and G. Mahler, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 308 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 3540229116.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 657.

The Reign of Relativity
Philosophy in Physics 1915-1925
Thomas Ryckman
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
Hardback: 329 pp. $60, £36.50. ISBN 0195177177.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Retrying Galileo
1633-1992
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005
Hardback: 497 pp. $50, £32.50. ISBN 0520242610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Serendipity Machine
A Voyage of Discovery Through the Unexpected World of Computers
David Green
Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, Australia, 2005
Paperback: 216 pp., illus. $16.95, C$23.95. ISBN 186508655X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis
The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers
Dan Rockmore
Pantheon, New York, 2005
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $25, C$35. ISBN 037542136X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Story of Space Station MIR
David M. Harland
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Paperback: 450 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 0387230114.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Sweetness and Light
The Mysterious History of the Honey Bee
Hattie Ellis
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2005
Paperback: 304 pp., illus. £8.99. ISBN 0340734523.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2004 ed.

Techniques in Prion Research
Sylvain Lehmann and Jacques Grassi, Eds.
Birkhäuser, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 229 pp., illus. $119. ISBN 3764324155.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 229 pp., illus. $89.95. ISBN 3764322241.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Tensors, Relativity, and Cosmology
A First Course
Mirjana Dalarsson and Nils Dalarsson
Elsevier Academic, Burlington, MA, 2005
Hardback: 292 pp., illus. $69.95. ISBN 012200681X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

True North
Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
Bruce Henderson
Norton, New York, 2005
Hardback: 331 pp., illus. $24.95, C$36. ISBN 0393057917.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ultrafast Phenomena XIV
Takayoshi Kobayashi et al., Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 944 pp., illus. $259. ISBN 3540241108.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Chemical Physics, vol. 79.

Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Thomas P. Lowry
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005
Hardback: 137 pp., illus. $21.95, £16.95. ISBN 0803229593.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel
Further Adventures in Kitchen Science
Robert L. Wolke, with recipes by Marlene Parrish
Norton, New York, 2005
Hardback: 434 pp., illus. $25.95. ISBN 0393059637.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Who Needs Emotions?
The Brain Meets the Robot
Jean-Marc Fellous and Michael A. Arbib, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
Hardback: 415 pp., illus. $59.95, £36.50. ISBN 0195166191.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Affective Science.


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