New Books

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Since Apr 20, 2013

Subject: Physics

Items on the New Bookshelf

This listing shows the books in alphabetical order by the author's last name. On the second line of each listing you will find the date the resource was added and imprint information. Click on the title to find the book's record in the MnPALS catalog.

• Climate change biology
  Apr 24, 2013 — Wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, c2011. xiii, 289 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
• Climate change in the Midwest : impacts, risks, vulnerability, and adaptation
  May 14, 2013 — Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013. xvi, 266 p., [64] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 27 cm.
• The birth of string theory
  Apr 25, 2013 — Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 xxv, 636 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
• The Copenhagen diagnosis : updating the world on the latest climate science
  May 2, 2013 — Burlington, MA : Elsevier, c2011. xiv, 98 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
• Biddle, Wayne. / A field guide to radiation
  Apr 23, 2013 — New York : Penguin Books, 2012. xxvi, 258 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
• Cassidy, David C., 1945- / A short history of physics in the American century
  May 1, 2013 — Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. 211 p. ; 25 cm.
• Close, F. E. / The infinity puzzle : quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe
  Apr 24, 2013 — New York : Basic Books, c2011. xii, 435 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• DeBuys, William Eno. / A great aridness : climate change and the future of the American southwest
  Apr 25, 2013 — New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. xii, 369 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
• Ferguson, Charles D. / Nuclear energy : what everyone needs to know
  May 1, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. xvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
• Freund, Daniel. / American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light
  Apr 22, 2013 — Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012. viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Illy, József, 1933- / The practical Einstein : experiments, patents, inventions
  May 2, 2013 — Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xi, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Jones, Richard A. L. (Richard Anthony Lewis), 1961- / Soft condensed matter
  May 22, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. x, 195 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• LaFave, Norman J. (Norman Joseph), 1958- / You want me to teach what? : sure-fire methods for teaching physical science and math
  May 30, 2013 — Arlington, Va. : National Science Teachers Association, c2012. xiii, 185 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
• McCracken, G. M. / Fusion : the energy of the universe
  May 1, 2013 — Waltham, MA ; Oxford, UK : Academic Press, c2013. xx, 228 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on America's Climate Choices. / America's Climate Choices
  Apr 24, 2013 — Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011. xv, 118 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
• Roulstone, Ian. / Invisible in the storm : the role of mathematics in understanding weather
  Apr 26, 2013 — Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013] ix, 325 pages : illustrations (some color), [8] p. of plates ; 25 cm
• Simonyi, Károly. / A cultural history of physics
  Apr 23, 2013 — Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012. xiv, 622 p. : ill. (some col.), [28] p. of plates ; 29 cm.
• Stone, Brian, Jr. / The city and the coming climate : climate change in the places we live
  May 2, 2013 — New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. x, 187 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
• Weart, Spencer R., 1942- / The rise of nuclear fear
  Apr 29, 2013 — Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012. ix, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
• Zalasiewicz, J. A. / The Goldilocks planet : the four billion year story of Earth's climate
  May 2, 2013 — Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. xx, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.