New Books!

currently on the new bookshelf in Manoa:


Astronomical Almanac 2006 [REF QB 8 .U3 A5 2006]

Europa The Ocean Moon - Search for an Alien Bioshpere [QB 404 .G74 2005]

New Books!

in Manoa -


ASP 321: Extrasolar Planets: Today and Tomorrow [QB 820 .I57 2003]

ASP 322: The Formation and Evolution of Massive Young Star Clusters [QB 853 .F67 2003]

ASP 324: Debris Disks and the Formation of Planets : A Symposium in memory of Fred Gillett [QB 600 .D428 2002]

ASP 327: Satellites and Tidal Streams [QB 791.3 .S37 2003]


IAU Symposium 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution [REF IAU Symp. 202]


Astronomy with a home computer by Neale Monks [QB 51.3 .E43 M64 2005]

An Atlas of sunspot umbral spectra in the visible from 15,000 to 25,500 cmp-^1 (3920 to 6664 A), revised. By L. Wallace and W. Livingston [QB 528 .W344 2005 ATL/CAT]

Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics by Martinus Veltman [QC 793.2 .V45 2003]

Highlights of Spanish astrophysics III (proceedings) edited by Jesus Gallego, et al. [QB 460 .S63 2002]

Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz (O’Reilly Publishing) [QA 76.73 .P22 S37 2001]

Toward an international virtual observatory edited by P.J.Quinn (proceedings) [QB51.3 .E43 E86 2002]

Quantum field theory in a nutshell by A. Zee [QC 174.45 .Z44 2003]

Watch This Space

Looks like this could be a valuable resource in the future: Classic Textbooks in Science from the National Academy of Sciences, which "intends to present a digitized collection of out-of-print classics spanning a variety of fields."

The only text available now is John A. Moore, Heredity and Development, Second Edition.

SPIE Online

UH Manoa now has a subscription to the SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Digital Library for full text coverage from 1998 to the present. This subscription gives access to more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings, including:

Proceedings of SPIE: Complete* starting at Volume 3245 (1998); scattered volumes from 1990-1997
Optical Engineering: Complete starting at Volume 37 (1998)
Journal of Electronic Imaging: Complete starting at Volume 7 (1998)
Journal of Biomedical Optics: Complete starting at Volume 3 (1998)
Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems: Complete starting at Volume 1 (2002)

*Some Proceedings volumes are available only in print as SPIE does not have electronic rights to this material. Scattered volumes from 1990-1997 are also available. Listings for these special cases are available from the front page of the SPIE Digital Library.

Use the "SPIE Digital Library" link the on the IfA Libraries' Journals & Newsletters page to access all content.

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