Tuesday, February 05, 2008

New Books & Journal Issues - November 2007

NEW ‘CHEMISTRY’ BOOKS &
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

November 2007

If you would like to borrow any of these books or obtain a photocopy of the contents of any of the special issues, please *** the items of interest and return to Dana Roth (dzrlib@library.caltech.edu).

The following list has been prepared for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Faculty members, from books & journals added in the Millikan and Fairchild libraries during November 2007.

Books and special issues are arranged within three subject groups: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Biology & Medicine, and Physics



Chemistry & Chemical Engineering


Light scattering from polymer solutions and nanoparticle dispersions /
Wolfgang Schartl.
Springer, 2007.
Springer laboratory manuals in polymer science.
QC427.4 .S33 2007.

Ultrafast phenomena XV :
Proceedings of the 15th IC,2006 /
P. Corkum
Springer, c2007.
Springer series in chemical physics ; 88.
QC689.5.L37 I57 2007.

Molecular processes in plasmas :
collisions of charged particles with molecules /
Y. Itikawa
Springer, 2007.
Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics ; 43.
QC718.5.P55 I74 2007.

Chemistry in the garden /
James R. Hanson.
RSC Publishing, c2007.
QD39.2 .H36 2007.

Thin layer chromatography in chiral separations and analysis /
Teresa Kowalska and Joseph Sherma.
CRC Press, c2007.
Chromatographic science ; v. 98.
QD79.C454 T55 2007.

Handbook of near-infrared analysis /
Donald A. Burns and Emil W. Ciurczak.
CRC Press, c2008.
Practical spectroscopy ; v. 35.
QD96.I5 H36 2008.

Materials chemistry /
Bradley D. Fahlman
Springer, 2007.
SFL-QD131 .F33 2007.

Organic spectroscopic structure determination :
a problem-based learning approach /
Douglass F. Taber.
Oxford University Press, 2007.
QD272.S6 T33 2007.

Regio- and stereo-controlled oxidations and reductions /
Stanley M. Roberts, John Whittall
John Wiley, c2007.
Catalysts for fine chemical synthesis ; v. 5.
QD281.O9 R436 2007.

Frontiers in modern carbohydrate chemistry /
Alexei V. Demchenko, editor;
ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry.
ACS symposium series ; 960.
QD322.S95 F76 2007.

Organometallic chemistry and catalysis /
Didier Astruc.
Springer, c2007.
QD411 .A87 2007.

Inorganic chromotropism :
basic concepts and applications of colored materials /
Yutaja Fukuda, ed.
Springer, c2007.
QD473 .I56 2007.

A practical introduction to the simulation of molecular systems /
MartinJ. Field.
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
QD480 .F54 2007.

Metathesis chemistry :
from nanostructure design to synthesis of advanced materials /
Yavuz Imamoglu and Valerian Dragutan
Springer, 2007.
NATO science series. Series II; v. 243.
QD505 .N3665 2006.

Charge migration in DNA :
perspectives from physics, chemistry, and biology
Tapash Chakraborty
Springer, 2007.
QP624 .C43 2007.

Biomedical applications of nanotechnology /
Vinod Labhasetwar,Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky.
Wiley-Interscience, c2007.
SFL-R857.N34 B5566 2007.

Advanced image processing in magnetic resonance imaging /
Luigi Landini, Vicenzo Positano, Maria Filomena Santarelli.
CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2005.
Signal processing and communications ; 27.
RC78.7.N83 A377 2005.

Molecules and medicine /
E.J. Corey, B. Czako and L. Kurti
John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
RM300 .C67 2007.

Aminoglycoside antibiotics :
from chemical biology to drug discovery /
Dev P. Arya.
Wiley-Interscience, c2007.
Wiley series in drug discovery and development.
RM666.A456 A45 2007.

Nanoconvergence :
the unity of nanoscience, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science /
William Sims Bainbridge.
Prentice Hall, c2007.
SFL-T174.7 .B32 2007.

Nanoethics :
the ethical and social implications of nanotechnology/
Fritz Allhoff ... [et al.].
Wiley-Interscience, c2007.
SFL-T174.7 .N3547 2007.

Nanotubes and nanofibers /
Yury Gogotsi.
CRC Taylor & Francis, c2006.
SFL-TA418.9.N35 N3574 2006.

Synthesis, properties, and applications of oxide nanomaterials /
Jose A. Rodriguez, Marcos Fernandez-Garcia.
Wiley-Interscience, c2007.
SFL-TA418.9.N35 S978 2007.

Corrosion and surface chemistry of metals /
Dieter Landolt.
CRC Press, c2007.
SFL-TA462 .L2313 2007.

Liquid crystals:
frontiers in biomedical engineering /
Scott J. Woltman, Gregory P. Crawford, and Gregory D. Jay.
World Scientific, 2007.
SFL-TA463 .L57 2007.

Encyclopedic dictionary of named processes in chemical technology /
AlanE. Comyns.
CRC Press, c2007.
SFL-TP155.7 .C66 2007.

Aerosol sampling :
science, standards, instrumentation and applications /
James H. Vincent.
John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
SFL-TP244.A3 V563 2007.

The man who stopped time :
the illuminating story of Eadweard Muybridge :
pioneer photographer, father of the motion picture, murderer /
Brian Clegg.
Joseph Henry Press, c2007.
SFL-TR849.M84 C64 2007.

The power of the scientific eThesis [electronic resource] :
August 6, 2007 / Peter Murray-Rust.
Caltech Digital Media Services, 2007.
SFL-Z692.E42 M87 2007.


Special Issues


Cannabinoid pharmacology : themed issue /
H.P Rang.
British journal of pharmacology ; v. 152, no. 5.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

Genomics on a phylogeny :
twelve Drosophila sequences traverse 400 million years of evolution /
Chris Gunter
Nature ; v. 450, no. 7167.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

Mechanisms and pathways of heterotrimeric G protein signaling /
Stephen R. Sprang.
Advances in protein chemistry ; v. 74.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

Microprocesses and nanotechnology /
Jun-ichi Fujita ... [et al.].
Japanese journal of applied physics. Part 1 ; v. 46, no. 9B.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

New physics at the nanoscale : special section /
Hideaki Kasai and Tadashi Itoh.
Journal of physics. Condensed matter ; v. 19, no. 44.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

Peroxiredoxin systems :
structures and functions /
Leopold Flohe and J. Robin Harris.
Springer, c2007.
Subcellular biochemistry ; v. 44.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

Photons, atoms and qubits :
Peter L. Knight FRS : special issue
Barry C. Sanders, Jon P. Marangos and Vladimir Buzek.
Journal of modern optics ; v. 54, no. 13-15.
JOURNAL ISSUE.

Green-sustainable chemistry
Special topic issue …Pietro Tundo
James R. Bull
Pure and applied chemistry ; v. 79, no. 11.
JOURNAL ISSUE.



Biology & Medicine


The statistical analysis of recurrent events /
Richard J. Cook, Jerald F. Lawless
Springer, c2007.
Statistics for biology and health.
QH323.5 .C65 2007.

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2007
Papers …
Russ B. Altman
World Scientific, c2007.
QH323.5 .P33 2007.

Methods for computational gene prediction /
William H. Majoros
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
QH324.2 .M34 2007.

Bioinformatics :
a practical approach /
Shui Qing Ye.
Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2008.
QH324.2 .Y42 2008.

Integrating evolution and development :
from theory to practice /
Roger Sansom and Robert N. Brandon.
MIT Press, c2007.
QH366.2 .I52 2007.

Phylogenetic trees made easy :
a how-to manual /
Barry G. Hall.
Sinauer Associates, c2008.
QH367.5 .H27 2008.

Reconstructing evolution :
new mathematical and computational advances /
Olivier Gascuel and Mike Steel.
Oxford University Press, 2007.
QH371.3.M37 R436 2007.

The case against perfection :
ethics in the age of genetic engineering /
Michael J. Sandel.
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
QH438.7 .S2634 2007.

Enhancing evolution :
the ethical case for making better people /
John Harris.
Princeton University Press, c2007.
QH442 .H37 2007.

Principles of population genetics /
Daniel L. Hartl, Andrew G. Clark.
Sinauer Associates, c2007.
QH455 .H37 2007.

Linkage disequilibrium and association mapping :
analysis and applications /
Andrew R. Collins.
Humana Press, c2007.
Methods in molecular biology ; 376.
QH506 .M45 v.376.

Hedgehog signaling protocols /
Jamila I. Horabin.
Humana, 2007.
Methods in molecular biology ; 397.
QH506 .M45 v.397.

Methods in membrane lipids /
Alex M. Dopico.
Humana, c2007.
Methods in molecular biology ; 400.
QH506 .M45 v.400.

Patch-clamp methods and protocols /
Peter Molnar and James J. Hickman.
Humana, 2007.
Methods in molecular biology ; 403.
QH506 .M45 v.403.

Environmental degradation and transformation of organic chemicals /
Alasdair H. Neilson and Ann-Sofie Allard.
Taylor & Francis, c2008.
SFL-QH545.W3 N45 2008.

A computer scientist's guide to cell biology :
a travelogue from a stranger in a strange land /
William W. Cohen
Springer, c2007.
QH581.2 .C644 2007.

Patch-clamp analysis :
advanced techniques /
Wolfgang Walz
Humana Press, c2007.
Neuromethods ; 38.
QH585 .P2945 2007.

Mitochondria :
the dynamic organelle /
Stephen W. Schaffer and M-Saadeh Suleiman
Springer, c2007.
Advances in biochemistry in health and disease ; v. 2.
QH603.M5 M5555 2007.

The cell cycle :
principles of control /
David O. Morgan
Sinauer Associates, c2007.
Primers in biology.
QH605 .M67 2007.

Terrestrial vegetation of California /
Michael G. Barbour, Todd Keeler-Wolf, Allan A. Schoenherr.
University of California Press, c2007.
QK149 .T44 2007.

Meaningful scents around the world :
olfactory, chemical, biological, and cultural considerations /
Roman Kaiser.
Verlag Helvetica Chimica, 2006.
QK865 .K257 2006.

The new encyclopedia of snakes /
Chris Mattison.
Princeton University Press, c2007.
QL666.O6 M37 2007.

Of a feather :
a brief history of American birding /
Scott Weidensaul.
Harcourt, c2007.
QL682 .W45 2007.

In defense of dolphins :
the new moral frontier /
Thomas I. White.
Blackwell Pub., 2007.
QL737.C432 W48 2007.

Fins into limbs :
evolution, development, and transformation /
Brian K. Hall.
University of Chicago Press, 2007.
QL950.7 .F56 2007.

Biology of humans :
concepts, applications, and issues /
Judith Goodenough, Betty McGuire, Robert A. Wallace.
Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
QP34.5 .G658 2007.

Modern concepts in angiogenesis /
Michael Simons, Gabor M. Rubanyi.
Imperial College Press, c2007.
QP106.6 .M62 2007.

Functional and dysfunctional sexual behavior :
a synthesis of neuroscience and comparative psychology /
Anders Agmo
Elsevier Academic, 2007.
QP251 .A46 2007.

A natural history of families /
Scott Forbes.
Princeton University Press, 2007.
QP251 .F644 2007.

The role of physical exercise in preventing disease and
improving the quality of life /
Vilberto Stocchi, Pierpaolo de Feo, David A. Hood
Springer, c2007.
QP301 .R654 2007.

Monoaminergic modulation of cortical excitability /
Kuei-Yuan Tseng, Marco Atzori
Springer, c2007.
QP356.2 .M66 2007.

Neuroscience of rule-guided behavior /
Silvia A. Bunge and Jonathan D. Wallis
Oxford University Press, 2008.
QP360.5 .N4977 2008.

Developmental psychophysiology :
theory, systems, and methods /
Louis A. Schmidt, Sidney J. Segalowitz
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
QP363.5 .D52 2008.

Statistical and process models for cognitive neuroscience and aging /
Michael J. Wenger, Christof Schuster.
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
Notre Dame series on quantitative methodologies.
QP365.5 .S73 2007.

Memory, attention, and decision-making :
a unifying computational neuroscience approach /
Edmund T. Rolls.
Oxford University Press, 2008.
QP406 .R65 2008.

Lectins : analytical technologies /
Carol L. Nilsson
Elsevier, 2007.
QP552.L42 L43 2007.

Strict and facultative anaerobes :
medical and environmental aspects /
Michiko M. Nakano, Peter Zuber
Horizon Bioscience, c2004.
SFL-QR89.5 .S77 2004.

Fundamentals of biofilm research /
Zbigniew Lewandowski, Haluk Beyenal.
CRC Press, c2007.
SFL-QR100.8.B55 L49 2007.

Immunity :
the immune response in infectious and inflammatory disease /
Anthony L. DeFranco, Richard M. Locksley, Miranda Robertson.
Sinauer Associates, c2007.
Primers in biology.
QR186 .D445 2007.

Superantigens :
molecular basis for their role in human diseases /
Malak Kotb and John D. Fraser.
ASM Press, c2007.
QR186.6.S94 S875 2007.

Viruses and human disease /
James H. Strauss, Ellen G. Strauss.
Elsevier / Academic Press, c2008.
QR360 .S772 2008.

Using and understanding medical statistics /
David E. Matthews, Vernon T. Farewell.
Karger, c2007.
RA409 .M39 2007.

Fit to be citizens? :
public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 /
Natalia Molina.
University of California Press, c2006.
American crossroads ; 20.
RA448.4 .M65 2006.

Genes and common diseases /
Alan Wright, Nicholas Hastie ; foreword by David J. Weatherall
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
RB155 .G349 2007.

Information processing in medical imaging :
20th international conference, IPMI 2007
Proceedings /
Nico Karssemeijer, Boudewijn Lelieveldt
Springer, c2007.
Lecture notes in computer science ; 4584.
RC78.7.D53 I58 2007.


Physics

Science talk :
changing notions of science in American popular culture /
Daniel Patrick Thurs.
Rutgers University Press, c2007.
Q125 .T574 2007.

American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe /
John Krige.
MIT Press, c2006.
Q127.E8 K75 2006.

The Jewel house :
Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution /
Deborah E. Harkness
Yale University Press, c2007.
Q127.G4 H37 2007.

Making prehistory :
historical science and the scientific realism debate/
Derek Turner
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Q175.32.R42 T87 2007.

Science for sale :
the perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism /
Daniel S. Greenberg
University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Q180.55.F5 G74 2007.

Successful science and engineering teaching in colleges and universities/
Calvin S. Kalman.
Anker Pub., c2007.
Q181 .K35 2007.

The scientific literature :
a guided tour / edited with commentaries by
Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross.
The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Q225.5 .S35 2007.

Challenges for computational intelligence /
Wodzisaw Duch, Jacek Mandziuk, (eds.)
Springer, c2007.
Studies in computational intelligence ; v. 63.
Q342 .C43 2007.

Software for dependable systems : sufficient evidence? /
Daniel Jackson,Martyn Thomas, and Lynette I. Millett, eds. ;
National Academies Press, c2007.
QA76.76.R44 N35 2007.

Continuous symmetries, lie algebras,
differential equations and computer algebra /
Willi-Hans Steeb.
World Scientific, c2007.
QC20.7.D5 S74 2007.

The augmented spherical wave method :
a comprehensive treatment /
VolkerEyert.
Springer, c2007.
Lecture notes in physics ; 719.
QC20.7.S645 E946 2007.

Fundamentals of physics. Extended
Jearl Walker
Wiley, c2008.
QC21.2 .H35 2008E.

Ions and electrons in liquid helium /
A.F. Borghesani
Oxford University Press, 2007.
International series of monographs on physics ; 137.
QC145.45.H4 B67 2007.

Very special relativity :
an illustrated guide /
Sander Bais
Harvard University Press, 2007.
QC173.65 .B35 2007.

The demon and the quantum :
from the pythagorean mystics to Maxwell's demon and quantum mystery /
Robert J. Scully ; with endnotes by Marlan O. Scully.
Wiley-VCH, c2007.
QC173.98 .S28 2007.

Path integrals in quantum mechanics, statistics, polymer physics,
and financial markets / Hagen Kleinert.
World Scientific, c2006.
QC174 .K54 2006.

Phase transitions and renormalization group /
Jean Zinn-Justin.
Oxford University Press, 2007.
QC175.16.P5 Z56 2007.

Diffusion in solids :
fundamentals, methods, materials, diffusion-controlled processes /
Helmut Mehrer.
Springer, c2007.
Springer series in solid-state sciences ; 155.
QC176.8.D5 M45 2007.

Gravitation and experiment :
Poincare Seminar 2006 /
Thibault Damour, Bertrand Duplantier, Vincent Rivasseau
Birkhauser, c2007.
Progress in mathematical physics ; v. 52.
QC178 .P59 2006.

Four laws that drive the universe /
Peter Atkins.
Oxford University Press, 2007.
QC311.2 .A85 2007.

Entropy demystified :
the second law reduced to plain common sense /
Arieh Ben-Naim.
World Scientific, c2007.
QC318.E57 B46 2007.

The theory of the Moire phenomenon.
Vol. II : Aperiodic layers /
Isaac Amidror.
Springer, c007.
Computational imaging and vision ; v. 34.
QC415 .A57 2007.

Quantum theory of optical coherence :
selected papers and lectures /
RoyJ. Glauber.
Wiley-VCH, c2007.
QC476.C6 G53 2007.

Engines of discovery /
a century of particle accelerators /
Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson.
World Scientific, c2007.
QC787.P3 S47 2007.

Decoherence and the quantum-to-classical transition /
Maximilian Schlosshauer
Springer, c2007.
The frontiers collection.
QC794.6.C58 S36 2007.

Radioactivity :
introduction and history /
Michael L'Annunziata.
Elsevier, 2007.
QC795 .L366 2007.

Computational quantum mechanics for materials engineers :
the EMTO method and applications /
Levente Vitos.
Springer, c2007.
Engineering materials and processes.
SFL-QC20.7.D43 V58 2007.

Geometric mechanics :
toward a unification of classical physics /
Richard Talman.
Wiley-VCH, c2007.
SFL-QC125.2 .T35 2007.

Advanced transport phenomena :
fluid mechanics and convective transport processes /
L. Gary Leal
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SFL-QC145.2 .L43 2007.

Topics and methods in condensed matter theory :
from basic quantum mechanics to the forefront of research /
Michele Cini.
Springer, c2007.
SFL-QC173.454 .C55 2007.

Soft matter under exogenic impacts /
Sylwester J. Rzoska and Victor A. Mazur
Springer, c2007.
NATO science series. Series II; v.242.
SFL-QC173.458.S62 N357 2005.

Introduction to quantum control and dynamics /
Domenico D'Alessandro.
Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2008.
SFL-QC174.125 .D2 2008.

Analytical methods for problems of molecular transport /
I. N. Ivchenko, S.K. Loyalka, and R. V. Tompson, Jr.
Springer, c2007.
Fluid mechanics and its applications ; v. 83.
SFL-QC175 .I852 2007.

Internal friction in metallic materials :
a handbook /
M.S. Blanter
Springer, c2007.
Springer series in materials science ; v. 90.
SFL-QC191 .I38 2007.

Springer handbook of acoustics /
Thomas D. Rossing
Springer, c2007.
SFL-QC225.15 .S67 2007.

Optical shop testing /
Daniel Malacara.
Wiley-Interscience, c2007.
SFL-QC367 .O59 2007.

Optical scanning holography with MATLAB /
Ting-Chung Poon.
Springer, c2007.
SFL-QC449 .P66 2007.

Structural nanocrystalline materials :
fundamentals and applications /
Carl C. Koch
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SFL-QC611.8.N33 S77 2007.

Electromagnetic theory /
Julius Adams Stratton
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2007.
IEEE Press series on electromagnetic wave theory.
SFL-QC670 .S8 2007.

Interaction of photons and neutrons with matter :
an introduction / Sow-Hsin Chen, Michael Kotlarchyk.
World Scientific, c1997.
SFL-QC794 .C43 1997.

Earth under fire :
how global warming is changing the world /
Gary Braasch ; with an afterword by Bill McKibben.
University of California Press, c2007.
SFL-QC981.8.C5 B715 2007.

Degrees that matter :
climate change and the university /
Ann Rappaport and Sarah Hammond Creighton.
MIT Press, c2007.
Urban and industrial environments.
SFL-QC981.8.C5 R367 2007.

Scientific writing :
a reader and writer's guide /
Jean-Luc Lebrun.
Hackensack, NJ ; London : World Scientific, c2007.
SFL-T11 .L43 2007.

Ingenium :
five machines that changed the world /
Mark Denny.
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.
SFL-T15 .D3417 2007.

To queue or not to queue :
equilibrium behavior in queueing systems /
Refael Hassin, Moshe Haviv.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003.
International series in operations research & management science ; 59.
SFL-T57.9 .H39 2003.

Imagining MIT : designing a campus for the twenty-first century /
William J. Mitchell ; afterword by Charles M. Vest.
MIT Press, c2007.
SFL-T171.M49 M58 2007.

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