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Weekly Books Received List

Books received at Science during the week ending
Friday, May 13, 2005

Adventures in Order and Chaos
A Scientific Autobiography
George Contropoulos
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 201 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 1402030398.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 313.

Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
N. P. Padhy
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005
Paperback: 632 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 0195671546.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Benjamin Franklin Reader
Walter Isaacson, Ed.
Simon and Schuster, New York, 2005
Paperback: 569 pp., illus. $15. ISBN 0743273982.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2003 ed.

Cannabinoids
Roger G. Pertwee, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 782 pp., illus. $459. ISBN 354022565X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol. 168.

Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Theory and Experiment
Vladislav Cápek and Daniel P. Sheehan
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 363 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 1402030150.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol. 146.

Chlorophyll a Fluorescence
A Signature of Photosynthesis
George C. Papageorgiou and Govindjee, Eds.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 850 pp., illus. $349. ISBN 140203217X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol. 19.

Clinical and Basic Oculomotor Research
In Honor of David S. Zee
Stefano Ramat and Dominik Straumann, Eds.
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 2005
Paperback: 613 pp., illus. $130. ISBN 1573315664.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1039.

Coelenterate Biology 2003
Trends in Research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora
Daphne G. Fautin et al., Eds.
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 579 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $169. ISBN 1402027613.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Developments in Hydrobiology, vol. 178. From a conference, Lawrence, KS, 2003.

The Commerce of Cartography
Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England
Mary Sponberg Pedley
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005
Hardback: 363 pp., illus. $40, £28. ISBN 0226653412.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Complexities
Beyond Nature and Nurture
Susan McKinnon and Sydel Silverman, Eds.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005
Paperback: 340 pp., illus. $20, £14. ISBN 0226500241.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Contemporary Psychological Research on Social Dilemmas
Ramzi Suleiman et al., Eds.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
Hardback: 422 pp., illus. $95, £55. ISBN 0521808928.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Controversies in Science and Technology
From Maize to Menopause
Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman, Eds.
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2005
Hardback: 353 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 0299203905.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 353 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 0299203948.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Science and Technology in Society.

The Design of a Practical Enterprise Safety Management System
Hossam A. Gabbar and Kazuhiko Suzuki
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 252 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 1402029489.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Directory of Microbicides for the Protection of Materials
A Handbook
Wilfried Paulus, Ed.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 807 pp., illus. $329. ISBN 1402028172.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Einstein and Culture
Gerhard Sonnert
Humanity (Prometheus), Amherst, NY, 2005
Hardback: 427 pp. $28. ISBN 1591023165.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ethics for Life Scientists
Michiel Korthals and Robert J. Bogers, Eds.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 232 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 1402031785.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Wageningen UR Frontis, vol. 5.

Experts in Court
Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge
Bruce D. Sales and Daniel W. Shuman
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2005
Hardback: 172 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 1591472466.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Harmful Cyanobacteria
Jef Huisman, Hans C. P. Matthijs, and Petra M. Visser, Eds.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 255 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 1402030096.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Aquatic Ecology, vol. 3.

The Human Fossil Record
Vol. 4, Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (Genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin) and Overview Larry Chandler
Jeffrey H. Schwartz and Ian Tettersall
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005
Hardback: 573 pp., illus. $195. ISBN 0471319295.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
Kenn Kaufman
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005
Hardback: 392 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 0618073248.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 392 pp., illus. $22. ISBN 0618132198.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2000 ed.

Leeches, Lice and Lampreys
A Natural History of Skin and Gill Parasites of Fishes
Graham C. Kearn
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 450 pp., illus. $109. ISBN 140202925X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Life-Cycle Assessment of Metals
Issues and Research Directions
Alain Dubreuil, Ed.
SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL, 2005
Paperback: 308 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 1880611627.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Making Modern Science
A Historical Survey
Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005
Hardback: 537 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 0226068609.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 537 pp., illus. $25, £17.50. ISBN 0226068617.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation X
Innate Immunity
Sudhir Gupta, William E. Paul, and Ralph Steinman, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 171 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 0387241884.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol. 560.

Metabolome Analyses
Strategies for Systems Biology
Seetharaman Vaidyanathan, George G. Harrigan, and Royston Goodacre, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2005
Hardback: 410 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 0387252398.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Modern Techniques for Characterizing Magnetic Materials
Yimei Zhu, Ed.
Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2005
Hardback: 620 pp., illus. $249. ISBN 1402080077.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Molecular Biology of Human Cancers
An Advanced Student's Textbook
Wolfgang Arthur Schulz
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 528 pp., illus. $83. ISBN 1402031858.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The New Adventures in Bioinformatics
Joseph Seckbach and Eitan Rubin, Eds.
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 306 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 1402026390.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol. 8.

New Aspects in Phosphorus Chemistry V
Jean-Pierre Majoral, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 289 pp., illus. $259. ISBN 354022498X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Topics in Current Chemistry, vol. 250.

Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Politics and the Making of Moral Capital in the Philippines
Raymond L. Bryant
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005
Hardback: 284 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 0300106599.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Organic Solid State Reactions
Fumio Toda, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 325 pp., illus. $289. ISBN 3540229825.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Topics in Current Chemistry, vol. 254.

Out of Eden
An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Alan Burdick
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2005
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $25, C$35. ISBN 0374219737.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Personality-Guided Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Paul R. Rasmussen
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2005
Hardback: 367 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 159147230X.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Personality Guided Psychology.

Photographic Regional Atlas of Bone Disease
A Guide to Pathologic and Normal Variation in the Human Skeleton. 2nd ed.
Robert W. Mann and David R. Hunt
Thomas, Springfield, IL, 2005
Hardback: 312 pp., illus. $69.95. ISBN 0398075395.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Plant Ecology, Herbivory, and Human Impact in Nordic Mountain Birch Forests
Frans E. Wielgolaski, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 394 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $139. ISBN 3540229094.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecological Studies, vol. 180.

Power Electronics
Devices, Circuits, and Industrial Applications
V. R. Moorthi
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005
Paperback: 1027 pp., illus. $44.50. ISBN 0195670922.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Quantum Field Theory and Noncommutative Geometry
Ursula Carow-Watamura, Yoshiaki Maeda, and Satoshi Watamura, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 308 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 3540239006.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 662.

Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid
Gabriele Giuliani and Giovanni Vignale
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
Hardback: 797 pp., illus. $90, £50. ISBN 0521821126.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Respiration in Archaea and Bacteria
Diversity of Prokaryotic Respiratory Systems
Davide Zannoni, Ed.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $199. ISBN 1402020023.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol. 16.

The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle
Douglas Gouch, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
Hardback: 265 pp., illus. $75, £45. ISBN 0521824486.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Shadowlands of Conduct
Ethics and State Politics
Beth A. Rosenson
Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2005
Paperback: 272 pp., illus. $26.95. ISBN 1589010450.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
American Governance and Public Policy.

Special Relativity
A First Encounter
Domenico Giulini
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
Hardback: 176 pp., illus. $14.99, £14.99. ISBN 0198567464.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate
Joanna Haigh, Mark S. Giampapa, and Michael Lockwood
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 439 pp., illus. $89.95. ISBN 3540238565.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Saas-Fee Advanced Course 34.

Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four Manifolds
Jose Labastida and Marcos Marino
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 232 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 1402030584.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Mathematical Physics Studies, vol. 25.

Trends in Comparative Endocrinology and Neurobiology
Hubert Vaudry et al., Eds.
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 2005
Paperback: 549 pp., illus. $145. ISBN 1573315702.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1040.

Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems
Questions on Working with the Unexpected
Reuben R. McDaniel, Jr. and Dean J. Driebe, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2005
Hardback: 210 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 3540237739.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Understanding Complex Systems.

Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders
An Integrative Approach to Healing the Wounded Self
Barry E. Wolfe
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2005
Hardback: 311 pp. $59.95. ISBN 1591471966.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Visual Mind II
Michele Emmer, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 715 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 0262050765.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Vital Signs 2005
The Trends that Are Shaping Our Future
Linda Starke, Ed.
Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, 2005
Paperback: 140 pp., illus. $16.95. ISBN 0393326896.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005
Hardback: 398 pp., illus. $55, £39.95. ISBN 0520241355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Welfare of Cats
Irene Rochlitz, Ed.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 1402032269.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Animal Welfare, vol. 3.

When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World
The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty
Hugh Kennedy
Da Capo (Perseus), Cambridge, MA, 2005
Hardback: 374 pp., illus. $26. ISBN 0306814358.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2004 ed.

Working Environment in Life-Cycle Assessment
Pia Brunn Poulsen and Allan Astrup Jensen, Eds.
SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL, 2005
Paperback: 111 pp., illus. $69. ISBN 1880611686.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Youth Violence
Scientific Approaches to Prevention
John Devine et al., Eds.
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 2005
Paperback: 429 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 1573315265.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1036.

Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy
Horst Drechsel and Miloslav Zejda, Eds.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Hardback: 512 pp., illus. $219. ISBN 1402031319.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 296, no. 1-4, 2005.


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