STATISTICAL MECHANICS MADE SIMPLE A Guide for Students and Researchers
by Daniel C Mattis (University of Utah, USA)
"its focus is on theoretical techniques that the author has helped to pioneer, which have proven to be very useful in tackling some important problems in statistical mechanics ... it will be a valuable addition to any statistical physicist’s library, and possibly a good choice as a supplementary text for an advanced course."
American Journal of Physics
"Daniel Mattis’s Statistical Mechanics Made Simple is an admirable piece of work by an outstanding expert in the field … for advanced graduate students, researchers, and professors, it contains a wealth of valuable material and unusual insights."
Physics Today
SPATIAL CONTROL OF VIBRATION Theory and Experiments
by S O Reza Moheimani (The University of Newcastle, Australia), Dunant Halim (Adelaide University, Australia), &
Andrew J Fleming (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
"The authors are to be commended for including experimental results to compare with the theoretical models that have been developed, and for the practical implementation of several of their control schemes. ... For readers with a control background requiring a self contained discussion of active vibration control, Spatial Control of Vibration would be a good book to read."
Journal of Sound and Vibration
FRAGMENTS OF NEUROLOGICAL HISTORY
by John M S Pearce (Emeritus Consultant Neurologist, Hull Royal Infirmary, UK)
"It is a very interesting publication with lots of illustrations, photographs and quotations from early works. Students of neurology and neurophysicians will be thrilled to read it."
World Neurology
CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL STATEOWNED ENTERPRISES Between Profitability and Bankruptcy
by Carsten A Holz (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
"A strength of the book lies in the fact that it gives a good overview of the literature on industrial SOEs and has a useful account of reform initiatives in the late 1990s which aimed to increase industrial SOE profitability ... this book is a very useful addition to the literature on China's experience with reforming its state-owned sector."
The China Review
UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE From Quarks to the Cosmos
by Don Lincoln (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
Understanding the Universe explains the fascinating world of quarks and leptons and the forces that govern their behavior. Told from an experimental physicist's perspective, it forgoes mathematical complexity and instead uses particularly accessible figures and apt analogies. It is a selection of the Library of Science. Sample some of the praises the book has harvested:
"Don Lincoln’s book, Understanding the Universe, is an exciting description of what we know, and what we would like to know about the worlds of fundamental particles, astrophysics, and cosmology. The book is not only for students of physics or astronomy in high school or in the first years of college, it is for every non-scientist who would like to learn about the universe. The writing is clear and the diagrams are very helpful. This is the book to go to for a first explanation of subjects from the Higgs particle to early-universe inflation. And there are also short historical sections that are fascinating."
Martin Perl
Nobel Laureate in Physics
"The Universe, and the things it is made of, can be studied and understood by us, humble humans ... This big adventure is notoriously difficult to explain to the layman, but Don Lincoln, a physicist at Fermilab near Chicago, has done a marvelous job. Being an experimentalist, he gives particularly colorful descriptions of numerous experiments, interspersed with humorous comments and anecdotes ... This makes his book, Understanding the Universe, easy and pleasant reading."
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Nobel Laureate in Physics
"Lincoln has an infectious love for physics ... (and) demonstrates a humorous writing style that successfully engages the reader."
Publishers Weekly
"A veteran of many popular talks on physics, (Lincoln) charmingly relates the tale of humankind’s almost insatiable curiosity about the ultimate nature of nature and the quest to determine the basic particles of matter. His style is engaging and obviously directed to informed lay readers, but the more scientifically minded will find it equally appealing..."
