PHYSICS

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REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 1
edited by Alexander W Chao (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA)
& Weiren Chou (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

There are also tens of thousands of small accelerators all over the world. They are used every day for medical imaging, cancer therapy, radioisotope production, high-density chipmaking, mass spectrometry, cargo X-ray/gammaray imaging, detection of explosives and illicit drugs, and weapons. This volume, which will be of interest to physicists, engineers and practitioners in accelerator science, provides a comprehensive review of this driving and fascinating field.

THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS
A Mystery of Physics
by Harald Fritzsch (University of Munich, Germany)
translated by Gregory Stodolsky

The speed of light, the fine structure constant, and Newton's constant of gravity — these are just three among the many physical constants that define our picture of the world. Where do they come from? Are they constant in time and across space? In this book, physicist and author Harald Fritzsch invites the reader to explore the mystery of the fundamental constants of physics in the company of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a modern-day physicist. The conversation that the three scientists are imagined to have provides an entertaining introduction to the constants and covers topics ranging from atomic, nuclear, and particle physics to astrophysics and cosmology.

MATHEMATICS

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SELECTED WORKS OF KAI LAI CHUNG
edited by Farid AitSahlia (University of Florida, USA), Elton Hsu (Northwestern University, USA) & Ruth Williams (University of California, San Diego, USA)

As Kai Lai Chung's contributions spawned critical new developments, this volume also contains retrospective and perspective views provided by collaborators and other authors who themselves advanced the areas of probability and mathematics.

ECONOMICS & FINANCE

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HARRY MARKOWITZ
Selected Works
edited by Harry M Markowitz (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Harry M Markowitz received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990 for his pioneering work in portfolio theory. He also received the von Neumann Prize from the Institute of Management Science and the Operations Research Institute of America in 1989 for his work in portfolio theory, sparse matrices and the SIMSCRIPT computer language. While Dr Markowitz is well-known for his work on portfolio theory, his work on sparse matrices remains an essential part of linear optimization calculations. In addition, he designed and developed SIMSCRIPT - a computer programming language. This book consists of a collection of Dr Markowitz's most important works in these and other fields.

ENGINEERING

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COASTAL PROCESSES
Concepts in Coastal Engineering and Their Applications to Multifarious Environments
by Tomoya Shibayama (Yokohama National University, Japan)

This book provides us with important concepts in coastal engineering, their applications to coastal processes and disaster prevention works. It is designed for graduate students pursuing advanced studies in coastal processes and for engineers and managers of coastal zone management. The first part describes basic concepts of coastal engineering, dealing mainly with wave-induced physical problems in the field of coastal engineering and hydraulics. The second part consists of the author's results of 30 years of scientific research on the progress of coastal sediment transport and coastal disasters. In terms of sediment transport study, the book covers not only coastal zones but also sediment production in river basins and river sediment transport to understand the present reasons for coastal erosion.

LIFE SCIENCES

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TEXTBOOK ON STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
by Anders Liljas (Lund University, Sweden), Lars Liljas (Uppsala University, Sweden), Jure Piskur (Lund University, Sweden), Göran Lindblom (Umeå University, Sweden), Poul Nissen & Morten Kjeldgaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

This is an important textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in structural biology, chemistry, biochemistry, biology and medicine. Written by a team of leading scientists in the field, it covers all the essential aspects of proteins, nucleic acids and lipids, including the rise and fall of proteins, membranes and gradients, the structural biology of cells, and evolution — the comparative structural biology. The focus is on interesting and relevant molecular structures as well as central biology.