New Books

New Books List for August 2008

The following books were received at the Astronomy Library during August 2008. Please check library stacks or ask library staff for assistance.

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QB1 I628 no.249 . . . . Exoplanets: Detection, Formation & Dynamics / Edited by Yi-Sui Sun, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello, and Ji-Lin Zhou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Proceedings of the 249th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Suzhou, China, October 22-26, 2007. Available online at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=IAU&volumeId=3&issueId=S249

QB1 I628 no.250 . . . . Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines / Edited by Fabio Bresolin, Paul A. Crowther, and Joachim Puls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Proceedings of the 250th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Kauai, Hawaii, USA, December 10-14, 2007. Available online at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=IAU&volumeId=3&issueId=S250

QB461 I79 2007 . . . . Astrophysics: Decoding the Cosmos / By Judith A. Irwin. Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, c2007.

QB466 F58 T46 2003 . . . . Stellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics / Edited by Michael J. Thompson and Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

QB500 N377 2006 . . . . NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program : An Architecture for Implementation / Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation, Space Studies Board and Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, c2007. Availble online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12006.html

QB815 S33 2008 . . . . The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe Through the Sky’s Most Brilliant Stars / By Fred Schaaf. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley, c2008.

QB981 L913 2008 . . . . The Wraparound Universe / By Jean-Pierre Luminet; translated by Eric Novak. Wellesley, Mass.: A.K. Peters, c2008.