Monday, May 29, 2006

New Books in Hilo

On the New Books shelf:

From Dust to Stars: Studies of the Formation and Early Evolution of Stars
Schulz, Norbert
QB 806 .S38 2005

The Interstellar Medium
Lequeux, James
QB 790 .L4713 2005

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe
Susskind, Leonard and James Lindesay
QB 843 .B55 S87 2005

Mauna Kea: A Guide to Hawaii's Sacred Mountain
Lang, Leslie and David Byrne
QB 82 .M38 L36 2005

New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters
IAU Symposium 201
QB 1 .I58 v. 201

Friday, May 26, 2006

New Books in Manoa

Astrophysics : a new approach
Kundt, Wolfgang.
QB 461 .K75 2005

Asymptotic giant branch stars
Habing, H. J.
QB 843 A89 H33 2004

Methods of celestial mechanics : physical, mathematical, and numerical principles
Beutler, G.
QB 351 .B48 2005 v.1

Methods of celestial mechanics : application to planetary system, geodynamics and satellite geodesy
Beutler, G.
QB 351 .B48 2005 v.2

Quantum mechanics
Rae, Alastair I. M.
QC 174.12 .R33 2002

Thursday, May 25, 2006

MNRAS downtime

This from The Blackwell Synergy team, producers of the electronic editions of

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
and
Astronomy & Geophysics

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Monday, May 22, 2006

New Books in Manoa

Current issues in cosmology
Pecker, Jean Claude
QB 980 .P42 2006

Spectra of atoms and molecules
Bernath, Peter F.
QC 454 .A8 B47 2005

Thursday, May 18, 2006

New Books in Manoa

Fundamentals of molecular spectroscopy
Banwell, C. N.
QD 96 .M65 B36 1994

Galaxy formation and evolution
Spinrad, Hyron
QB 857.5 .E96 S65 2005

The Measurement of starlight : two centuries of astronomical photometry
Hearnshaw, J. B.
QB 815 .H43 1996

Physics of atoms and molecules
Bransden, B. H.
QC 173 .B677 2003

Monday, May 15, 2006

New Books in Manoa

ASP Conference Proceedings

343. Astronomical polarimetry: current status and future directions
QB 790 .A88 2005

349. Astrophysics of variable stars
QB 833 .A88 2006


Numerical recipes in FORTRAN 90 : the art of parallel scientific computing
Press, William H.
QA 76.73 .F25 N862 1996

Friday, May 12, 2006

New Books in Manoa

Astrobiology : future perspectives
Ehrenfreund, P.
QH 325 A77 2004

Collision-induced absorption in gases
Frommhold, Lothar
QC 162 .F76 1993

Last of the great observatories : Spitzer and the era
of faster, better, cheaper at NASA

Rieke, G. H.
QB 82 .U62 S63 2006

Life and death of planet Earth : how the new science
of astrobiology charts the ultimate fate of our world

Ward, Peter Douglas
QB 638.8 .W37 2003

Stardust from meteorites : an introduction to Presolar grains
Lugaro, Maria
QB 791.2 .L84 2005

IAU Symposium:
231. Astrochemistry : recent successes and current challenges
REF IAU Symp. 231

Thursday, May 04, 2006

New Books in Manoa

Elementary atomic structure.
Woodgate, G. K.
QC 173 .W66 2002


Polarization and intensity of light in the atmosphere
Coulson, Kinsell L.
QC 976 P7 C68 1988

Monday, May 01, 2006

New Book in Manoa

Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars 2006
REF QB 9 .I5 2006