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NEW BOOKS IN THE SCIENCES

Last Entry 12/2/07

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The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity. Stefan Klein. Calendars and schedules only register clock time. The time displayed on a wristwatch reveals very little about how our bodies go through the day. This book explores the hidden dimensions of time -- the phenomena that cannot be reduced to minutes and hours. Da Capo Press, 2007. 352 pages.
For more details: 9781600940170

Bending the Rules: Morality in the Modern World -- From Relationships to Politics and War. Robert A. Hinde. Everywhere stealing, lying and killing are considered wrong. But in some contexts, in war for example, these codes can differ. Robert Hinde argues that understanding the evolutionary origins of our morality and how we bend the rules can help guide us away from global catastrophe and towards a more ethical world. Oxford University Press, 2007. 256 pages.
For more details: 9780199218974

Built by Animals: The natural history of animal architecture. Mike Hansell. From vast termite mounds that outstrip our own skyscrapers, to elaborate birds nests, delicate shells, and deadly spiders' traps, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. Mike Hansell reveals the biology behind animal architecture - showing how small brains have evolved to produce complex and beautiful structures. Oxford University Press, 2007. 280 pages.
For more details: 9780199205561

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist.
Reviel Netz and William Noel.
Da Capo Press, New York, 2007.
Hardback. 312 pp., illus. $27.50.
More information: 9780306815805

Advanced Computational Methods for Biocomputing and Bioimaging
Tuan D. Pham, Hong Yan, and Denis I. Crane, Eds.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 225 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9781600212789

Advanced Materials Research Trends
Levan V. Basbanes, Ed.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 347 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9781600215841

Arthritis Research
Methods and Protocols. Vol. 1
Andrew P. Cope, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 465 pp., illus. $149. More Information: 9781588293442

Arthritis Research
Methods and Protocols. Vol. 2
Andrew P. Cope, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 453 pp., illus. $149. More Information: 9781588299185

Astronautics
A Historical Perspective of Mankind's Efforts to Conquer the Cosmos. Book 1- Dawn of the Space Age
Ted Spitzmiller
Apogee, Burlington, Canada, 2007
Paperback: 229 pp., illus. $24.95, C$25.95, £12.95. More Information: 9781894959636.

Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity
Dihua Yu and Mien-Chie Hung, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 189 pp., illus. $149. More Information: 9780387740379

Cancer Genomics and Proteomics
Methods and Protocols
Paul B. Fisher, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 374 pp., illus. $99.50. More Information: 9781588295040

Chemistry in the Garden
James R. Hanson
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2007
Hardback: 157 pp., illus. $29.95. More Information: 9780854048977

The Chemokine Receptors
Jeffrey K. Harrison and Nicholas W. Lukacs, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 417 pp., illus. $169. More Information: 9781588297730

Citrus
A History
Pierre Laszlo
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007
Hardback: 262 pp., illus. $25, £14. More Information: 9780226470269

Computer Physics Research Trends
Silvan J. Bianco, Ed.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 282 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9781600215957

Criminal Profiling
International Theory, Research, and Practice
Richard N. Kocsis, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 435 pp., illus. $99. More Information: 9781588296849

Current Topics in Quantum Field Theory Research
O. Kovras, Ed.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 333 pp., illus. $140. More Information: 9781600212833

Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America
Beyond the IOM Report
Richard Allen Williams, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 426 pp., illus. $59.50. More Information: 9781934115428

Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton
Origins and Evolution
Gáspár Jékely, Ed.
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 161 pp., illus. $149. More Information: 9780387740201.

Farewell to the Internal Clock
A Contribution in the Field of Chronobiology
Gunter Klein
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 140 pp., illus. $39.95. More Information: 9780387403151

Food Microbiology
3rd ed.
Martin R. Adams and Maurice O. Moss, Eds.
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2007
Hardback: 477 pp., illus. $59.95. More Information: 9780854042845

Frontiers in Surface Nanophotonics
Principles and Applications
David L. Andrews and Zeno Gaburro, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 181 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9780387489506

Gene Function Analysis
Michael F. Ochs, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 353 pp., illus. $99.50. More Information: 9781588297341

Good Germs, Bad Germs
Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Jessica Snyder Sachs
Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2007
Hardback: 300 pp. $25, C$29. More Information: 9780809050635

The Healthcare Fix
Universal Insurance for All Americans
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007
Hardback: 127 pp. $17.95. More Information: 9780262113144

Heat and Thermodynamics
A Historical Perspective
Christopher J. T. Lewis
Greenwood, New York, 2007
Hardback: 223 pp., illus. $65, £37.95. More Information: 9780313333323

Hispaniola
A Photographic Journey Through Biodiversity. Bioversidad A Través De Un Recorrido Fotográfico
Eladio Fernández, Ed.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007
Hardback: 394 pp., illus. $60. More Information: 9780674026285

Human Origins 101
Holly M. Dunsworth
Greenwood, New York, 2007
Hardback: 217 pp., illus. $49.95, £27.95. More Information: 9780313336737

Inorganic Chromotropism
Basic Concepts and Applications of Colored Materials
Yutaka Fukuda, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2007
Hardback: 393 pp., illus. $239. More Information: 9783540723110

Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping
Analysis and Applications
Andrew R. Collins, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 269 pp., illus. $99.50. More Information: 9781588296696

Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health
A History of Twelve Countries
James C. Riley
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007
Hardback: 245 pp., illus. $45, £26.95. More Information: 9780520252868

Lysosomal Storage Disorders
John A. Barranger and Mario A. Cabrera-Salazar, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 582 pp., illus. $149. More Information: 9780387709086

The Many Faces of Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein Equations
A Clifford Bundle Approach
Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr. and Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira
Springer, Berlin, 2007
Hardback: 459 pp., illus. $79.95. More Information: 9783540712923

Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres
Maryanne C. J. Large et al.
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 258 pp., illus. $99. More Information: 9780387312736

Microtubule Protocols
Jun Zhou, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 315 pp., illus. $89. More Information: 9781588296429

Natural Selections
Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution
David P. Barash
Bellevue Literary, New York, 2007
Hardback: 192 pp. $25, C$30. More Information: 9781934137055

Neuronal Network Research Horizons
Martin L. Weiss, Ed.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 344 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9781600214851

New Research on Biofeedback
Heather L. Puckhaber, Ed.
Nova Biomedical (Nova Science), Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 242 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9781600213625

New Trends and Potentialities of ToF-SIMS in Surface Studies
Jacek Grams
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 283 pp., illus. $89. More Information: 9781600216350

Origin and Evolution of theVertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex
F. Aboitiz and J. Montiel
Springer, Berlin, 2007
Paperback: 124 pp., illus. $119. More Information: 9783540497608

Physics of Zero- and One-Dimensional Nanoscopic Systems
Sachindra Nath Karmakar, Santanu Kumar Maiti, and Jayeeta Chowdhury, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2007
Hardback: 350 pp., illus. $169. More Information: 9783540726319

Physiology and Medicine
Ivan Yu. Torshin
Nova Biomedical (Nova Science), Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 316 pp., illus. $89. More Information: 9781600217524

Planet Ocean
Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm
Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp
National Geographic Books, Washington, DC, 2007
Hardback: 368 pp., illus. $40, C$50. More Information: 9781426201868

Salmonella
Methods and Protocols
Heide Schatten and Abraham Eisenstark, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2007
Hardback: 375 pp., illus. $99.50. More Information: 9781588296191

Signal Transduction Research Trends
Nickolas O. Grachevsky, Ed.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 325 pp., illus. $129. More Information: 9781600214875

Statistical and Condensed Matter Physics
Over the Horizon
S. Fujita, T. Obata, and A. Suzuki, Eds.
Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2007
Hardback: 330 pp., illus. $145. More Information: 9781600217586

The Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling
Parasites, Pathology and Philanthropy
E. Chaves-Carballo
Sussex Academic, Portland, 2007
Hardback: 282 pp., illus. $75. More Information: 9781845191832

Turbulent Particle-Laden Gas Flows
A. Y. Varaksin
Springer, Berlin, 2007
Hardback: 207 pp., illus. $169. More Information: 9783540680536

Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 8
Carl E. Baum, Alexander P. Stone, and J. Scott Tyo, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2007
Hardback: 271 pp., illus. $249. More Information: 9780387730455