NHBS Monthly Catalogue: February 2012
Physical Sciences
THE CAMBRIDGE PHOTOGRAPHIC STAR ATLAS
Axel Mellinger and Ronald Stoyan
Using the latest methods in digital photography and image processing, "The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas" presents the whole sky through large-scale photographic images with ......
186 pp, 164 colour illustrations.
hardcover | 2011 | £29.99 | approx. $48/€36
THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT CONTROVERSY (4-VOLUME SET)
Henry R Frankel
Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth Science. This four-volume treatise on the ......
Continental Drift Controversy
2100 pp, 227 b/w illustrations.
hardcover | NYP 04/2012 | £280 | approx. $442/€335
THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT CONTROVERSY: VOLUME 2, PALEOMAGNETISM AND CONFIRMATION OF DRIFT
Henry R Frankel
Resolution of the sixty year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth Science. This four-volume treatise on the ......
Continental Drift Controversy 2
540 pp, 64 b/w illustrations.
hardcover | NYP 03/2012 | £80 | approx. $127/€96
THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT CONTROVERSY: VOLUME 3, INTRODUCTION OF SEAFLOOR SPREADING
Henry R Frankel
Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the ......
Continental Drift Controversy 3
500 pp, 24 b/w illustrations, 13 maps.
hardcover | NYP 04/2012 | £80 | approx. $127/€96
THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT CONTROVERSY: VOLUME 4, EVOLUTION INTO PLATE TECTONICS
Henry R Frankel
Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the ......
Continental Drift Controversy 4
480 pp, 75 b/w illustrations.
hardcover | NYP 04/2012 | £80 | approx. $127/€96
CRUSTAL EVOLUTION AND METALLOGENY IN INDIA
Sanjib Chandra Sarkar and Anupendu Gupta
Crustal evolution means the resultant changes that the Earth's crust has gone through in its geologic past affected by changes in the mantle-crust system, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the ......
914 pp, 437 b/w illustrations, 164 tables.
hardcover | 2012 | £90 | approx. $143/€108
GEOHAZARD RISK MANAGEMENT FOR LINEAR FACILITIES
Matthias Jakob, Michael Porter and Wayne Savigny
This book provides a unified framework for geohazard risk management along linear facilities, such as roads, railways, pipelines, electrical transmission lines and telecommunication ......
Springer-Praxis Books: Environmental Sciences
310 pp.
hardcover | NYP 07/2012 | £90 | approx. $143/€108
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY (INTERNATIONAL EDITION)
Gary Miessler and Donald Tarr
New Edition
This highly readable text provides the essentials of inorganic chemistry at a level that is neither too high nor too low. Praised for its coverage of theoretical inorganic chemistry, it discusses ......
720 pp, colour illustrations, tables.
softcover | NYP 04/2012 | £51.99 | approx. $83/€63
MAGNETISM
A Very Short Introduction
Stephen J Blundell
Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, with magnetic therapies being proposed over the ......
Very Short Introduction Series
152 pp, 15 b/w illustrations.
softcover | NYP 06/2012 | £7.99 | approx. $13/€10
MAPPING THE UNIVERSE: THE INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
Paul Murdin
"Mapping the Universe: the Interactive History of Astronomy" is the story of man's quest through the ages to unlock the secrets of our universe, understand where we come from and where we are going. ......
124 pp, 180 colour & b/w photos & artworks.
hardcover | 2011 | £29.99 | approx. $48/€36
THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS (50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
Thomas S Kuhn and Ian Hacking
New Edition
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, ......
288 pp.
hardcover | NYP 04/2012 | £28.99 | approx. $46/€35
softcover | NYP 04/2012 | £9.50 | approx. $15/€12
TWEETING THE UNIVERSE
Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas
Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling
In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics--in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is ......
311 pp, no illustrations.
hardcover | 2011 | £12.99 | approx. $21/€16
