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Volume 1, Number 1, 1959
Volume 1, Number 2, 1959
Volume 1, Number 3, 1960
Volume 1, Number 4, 1960
Volume 1, Number 5, 1960
Volume 1, Number 6, 1960
Volume 2, Number 1, 1960
Volume 2, Number 2, 1960
Volume 2, Number 3, 1961
Volume 2, Number 4, 1961
Volume 2, Number 5, 1961
Volume 2, Number 6, 1961
Volume 3, Number 1, 1961
Volume 3, Number 2, 1961
Volume 3, Number 3, 1962
Volume 3, Number 4, 1962
Volume 3, Number 5, 1962
Volume 3, Number 6, 1962
Volume 4, Number 1, 1962
Volume 4, Number 2, 1962
Volume 4, Number 3, 1963
Volume 4, Number 4, 1963
Volume 4, Number 5, 1963
Volume 4, Number 6, 1963
Volume 5, Number 1, 1963
Volume 5, Number 2, 1963
Volume 5, Number 3, 1964
Volume 5, Number 4, 1964
Volume 5, Number 5, 1964
Volume 5, Number 6, 1964
Volume 6, Number 1, 1964
Volume 6, Number 2, 1964
Volume 6, Number 3, 1965
Volume 6, Number 4, 1965
Volume 6, Number 5, 1965
Volume 6, Number 6, 1965
Volume 7, Number 1, 1965
Volume 7, Number 2, 1965
Volume 7, Number 3, 1966
Volume 7, Number 4, 1966
Volume 7, Number 5, 1966
Volume 7, Number 6, 1966
Volume 8, Number 1, 1967
Volume 8, Number 2, 1967
Volume 8, Number 3, 1967
Volume 8, Number 4, 1967
Volume 8, Number 5, 1967
Volume 8, Number 6, 1967
Volume 9, Number 1, 1968
Volume 9, Number 2, 1968
Volume 9, Number 3, 1968
Volume 9, Number 4, 1968
Volume 9, Number 5, 1968
Volume 9, Number 6, 1968
Volume 10, Number 1, 1969
Volume 10, Number 2, 1969
Volume 10, Number 3, 1969
Volume 10, Number 4, 1969
Volume 10, Number 5, 1969
Volume 10, Number 6, 1969
Volume 11, Number 1, 1970
Volume 11, Number 2, 1970
Volume 11, Number 3, 1970
Volume 11, Number 4, 1970
Volume 11, Number 5, 1970
Volume 11, Number 6, 1970
Volume 12, Number 1, 1971
Volume 12, Number 2, 1971
Volume 12, Number 3, 1971
Volume 12, Number 4, 1971
Volume 12, Number 5, 1971
Volume 12, Number 6, 1971
Volume 13, Number 1, 1972
Volume 13, Number 2, 1972
Volume 13, Number 3, 1972
Volume 13, Number 4, 1972
Volume 13, Number 5, 1972
Volume 13, Number 6, 1972
Volume 14, Number 1, 1973
Volume 14, Number 2, 1973
Volume 14, Number 3, 1973
Volume 14, Number 4, 1973
Volume 14, Number 5, 1973
Volume 14, Number 6, 1973
Volume 15, Number 1, 1974
Volume 15, Number 2, 1974
Volume 15, Number 3, 1974
Volume 15, Number 4, 1974
Volume 15, Number 5, 1974
Volume 15, Number 6, 1974
Volume 16, Number 1, 1975
Volume 16, Number 2, 1975
Volume 16, Number 3, 1975
Volume 16, Number 4, 1975
Volume 16, Number 5, 1975
Volume 16, Number 6, 1975
Volume 17, Number 1, 1976
Volume 17, Number 2, 1976
Volume 17, Number 3, 1976
Volume 17, Number 4, 1976
Volume 17, Number 5, 1976
Volume 17, Number 6, 1976
Volume 18, Number 1, 1977
Volume 18, Number 2, 1977
Volume 18, Number 3, 1977
Volume 18, Number 4, 1977
Volume 18, Number 5, 1977
Volume 18, Number 6, 1977
Volume 19, Number 1, 1978
Volume 19, Number 2, 1978
Volume 19, Number 3, 1978
Volume 19, Number 4, 1978
Volume 19, Number 5, 1978
Volume 19, Number 6, 1978
Volume 20, Number 1, 1979
Volume 20, Number 2, 1979
Volume 20, Number 3, 1979
Volume 20, Number 4, 1979
Volume 20, Number 5, 1979
Volume 20, Number 6, 1979
Volume 21, Number 1, 1980
Volume 21, Number 2, 1980
Volume 21, Number 3, 1980
Volume 21, Number 4, 1980
Volume 21, Number 5, 1980
Volume 21, Number 6, 1980
Volume 22, Number 1, 1981
Volume 22, Number 2, 1981
Volume 22, Number 3, 1981
Volume 22, Number 4, 1981
Volume 22, Number 5, 1981
Volume 22, Number 6, 1981
Volume 23, Number 1, 1982
Volume 23, Number 2, 1982
Volume 23, Number 3, 1982
Volume 23, Number 4, 1982
Volume 23, Number 5, 1982
Volume 23, Number 6, 1982
Volume 24, Number 1, 1983
Volume 24, Number 2, 1983
Volume 24, Number 3, 1983
Volume 24, Number 4, 1983
Volume 24, Number 5, September, 1983
Volume 24, Number 6, 1983
Volume 25, Number 1, 1984
Volume 25, Number 2, 1984
Volume 25, Number 3, 1984
Volume 25, Number 4, 1984
Volume 25, Number 5, 1984
Volume 25, Number 6, 1984
Volume 26, Number 1, 1985
Volume 26, Number 2, 1985
Volume 26, Number 3, 1985
Volume 26, Number 4, 1985
Volume 26, Number 5, 1985
Volume 26, Number 6, 1985
Volume 27, Number 1, 1986
Volume 27, Number 2, 1986
Volume 27, Number 3, 1986
Volume 27, Number 4, 1986
Volume 27, Number 5, 1986
Volume 27, Number 6, 1986
Volume 28, Number 1, 1987
Volume 28, Number 2, 1987
Volume 28, Number 3, 1987
Volume 28, Number 4, 1987
Volume 28, Number 5, 1987
Volume 28, Number 6, 1987
Volume 29, Number 1, 1988
Volume 29, Number 2, 1988
Volume 29, Number 3, 1988
Volume 29, Number 4, 1988
Volume 29, Number 5, 1988
Volume 29, Number 6, 1988
Volume 30, Number 1, 1989
Volume 30, Number 2, 1989
Volume 30, Number 3, 1989
Volume 30, Number 4, 1989
Volume 30, Number 5, 1989
Volume 30, Number 6, 1989
Volume 31, Number 1, 1990
Volume 31, Number 2, 1990
Volume 31, Number 3, 1990
Volume 31, Number 4, 1990
Volume 31, Number 5, 1990
Volume 31, Number 6, 1990
Volume 32, Number 1, 1991
Volume 32, Number 2, 1991
Volume 32, Number 3, 1991
Volume 32, Number 4, 1991
Volume 32, Number 5, 1991
Volume 32, Number 6, 1991
Volume 33, Number 1, 1992
Volume 33, Number 2, 1992
Volume 33, Number 3, 1992
Volume 33, Number 4, 1992
Volume 33, Number 5, 1992
Volume 33, Number 6, 1992
Volume 34, Number 1, 1993
Volume 34, Number 2, 1993
Volume 34, Number 3, 1993
Volume 34, Number 4, 1993
Volume 34, Number 5, 1993
Volume 34, Number 6, 1993
Volume 35, Number 1, 1994
Volume 35, Number 2, 1994
Volume 35, Number 3, 1994
Volume 35, Number 4, 1994
Volume 35, Number 5, 1994
Volume 35, Number 6, 1994
Volume 36, Number 1, 1995
Volume 36, Number 2, 1995
Volume 36, Number 3, 1995
Volume 36, Number 4, 1995
Volume 36, Number 5, 1995
Volume 36, Number 6, 1995
Volume 37, Number 1, 1996
Volume 37, Number 2, 1996
Volume 37, Number 3, 1996
Volume 37, Number 4, 1996
Volume 37, Number 5, 1996
Volume 37, Number 6, 1996
Volume 38, Number 1, 1997
Volume 38, Number 2, 1997
Volume 38, Number 3, 1997
Volume 38, Number 4, 1997
Volume 38, Number 5, 1997
Volume 38, Number 6, 1997
Volume 39, Number 1, 1998
Volume 39, Number 2, 1998
Volume 39, Number 3, 1998
Volume 39, Number 4, 1998
Volume 39, Number 5, 1998
Volume 39, Number 6, 1998
Volume 40, Number 1, 1999
Volume 40, Number 2, 1999
Volume 40, Number 3, 1999
Volume 40, Number 4, 1999
Volume 40, Number 5, 1999
Volume 40, Number 6, 1999
Volume 41, Number 1, 2000
Volume 41, Number 2, 2000
Volume 41, Number 3, 2000
Volume 41, Number 4, 2000
Volume 41, Number 5, 2000
Volume 41, Number 6, 2000
Volume 42, Number 1, 2001
Volume 42, Number 2, 2001
Volume 42, Number 3, 2001
Volume 42, Number 4, 2001
Volume 42, Number 5, 2001
Volume 42, Number 6, 2001
Volume 43, Number 1, 2002
Volume 43, Number 2, 2002
Volume 43, Number 3, 2002
Volume 43, Number 4, 2002
Volume 43, Number 5, 2002
Volume 43, Number 6, 2002
Volume 44, Number 1, 2003
Volume 44, Number 2, 2003
Volume 44, Number 3, 2003
Volume 44, Number 4, 2003
Volume 44, Number 5, 2003
Volume 44, Number 6, 2003
Volume 45, Number 1, 2004
Volume 45, Number 2, 2004
Volume 45, Number 3, 2004
Volume 45, Number 4, 2004
Volume 45, Number 5, 2004
Volume 45, Number 6, 2004
Volume 46, Number 1, 2005
Volume 46, Number 2, 2005
Volume 46, Number 3, 2005
Volume 46, Number 4, 2005
Volume 46, Number 5, 2005
Volume 46, Number 6, 2005
Volume 47, Number 1, 2006
Volume 47, Number 2, 2006
Volume 47, Number 3, 2006
Volume 47, Number 4, 2006
Volume 47, Number 5, 2006
Volume 47, Number 6, 2006
Volume 48, Number 1, 2007
Volume 48, Number 2, 2007
Volume 48, Number 3, 2007
Volume 48, Number 4, 2007
Volume 48, Number 5, 2007
Volume 48, Number 6, 2007
Volume 49, Number 1, 2008
Volume 49, Number 2, 2008
Volume 49, Number 3, 2008
Volume 49, Number 4, 2008
Volume 49, Number 5, 2008
Volume 49, Number 6, 2008
Volume 50, Number 1, 2009
Volume 50, Number 2, 2009
Volume 50, Number 3, 2009
Volume 50, Number 4, 2009
Volume 50, Number 5, 2009
Volume 50, Number 6, 2009
Volume 51, Number 1, 2010
Volume 51, Number 2, 2010
Volume 51, Number 3, May / June, 2010
Volume 51, Number 4, 2010
Volume 51, Number 5, 2010
Volume 51, Number 6, 2010
Volume 52, Number 1, 2011
Volume 52, Number 2, 2011
Volume 52, Number 3, 2011
Volume 52, Number 4, 2011
Volume 52, Number 5, 2011
Volume 52, Number 6, 2011
Volume 53, Number 1, 2012
Volume 53, Number 2, 2012
Volume 53, Number 3, 2012
Volume 53, Number 4, 2012
Volume 53, Number 5, 2012
Volume 53, Number 6, 2012
Volume 54, Number 1, 2013
Volume 54, Number 2, 2013
Volume 54, Number 3, 2013
Volume 54, Number 4, 2013
Volume 54, Number 5, 2013
Volume 54, Number 6, 2013
Volume 55, Number 1, 2014
Volume 55, Number 2, 2014
Volume 55, Number 3, 2014
Volume 55, Number 4, 2014
Volume 56, Number 1, 2015
Volume 56, Number 2, 2015
Volume 56, Number 3, 2015
Volume 56, Number 4, 2015
Volume 57, Number 1, 2016
Volume 57, Number 2, 2016
Volume 57, Number 3, 2016
Volume 57, Number 4, 2016
Volume 58, Number 1, 2017
Volume 58, Number 2, 2017
Volume 58, Number 3, 2017
Volume 58, Number 4, 2017
Volume 59, Number 1, 2018
Volume 59, Number 2, 2018
Volume 59, Number 3, 2018
Volume 59, Number 4, 2018
Volume 60, Number 1, 2019
Volume 60, Number 2, 2019
Volume 60, Number 3, 2019
Volume 60, Number 4, 2019
Volume 61, Number 1, 2020
Volume 61, Number 2, 2020
Volume 61, Number 3, 2020
Volume 61, Number 4, 2020
Volume 62, Number 1, 2021
Volume 62, Number 2, 2021
Volume 62, Number 3, 2021
Volume 62, Number 4, 2021
Volume 63, Number 1, 2022
Volume 63, Number 2, 2022
Volume 63, Number 3, 2022
Volume 63, Number 4, 2022
Volume 64, Number 1, 2023
Volume 64, Number 2, 2023
Volume 64, Number 3, 2023


Contemporary Physics
Volume 1, Number 1, 1959

              C. N. Hinshelwood   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                   O. R. Frisch   Molecular beams  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
              R. J. Blin-Stoyle   The structure of the atomic nucleus  . . 17--34
                     L. Kellner   Alexander von Humboldt and the
                                  organization of international
                                  collaboration in geophysical research    35--48
                     H. V. Beck   The selection and design of experiments
                                  for alternating current teaching . . . . 49--55
               Barbara E. Sabey   Skidding friction The effect of
                                  hysteresis losses in tyre tread rubber   56--61
               E. J. Wilson and   
                J. D. H. Hughes   Light sources using radioisotopes  . . . 62--69
                      Anonymous   A review of: ``\booktitleTurning points
                                  in physics'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--76
                     D. A. Emms   A review of: \booktitle``Reading German
                                  for scientists'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 1, Number 2, 1959

                H. S. W. Massey   Space research . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
                    S. Tolansky   Diamond. Part 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--111
                    D. Ter Haar   Some recent developments in the
                                  many-body problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 112--133
                W. G. V. Rosser   Electromagnetism as a second-order
                                  effect (I). The definition of the ampere 134--141
                      F. Lester   Physical science for teachers in
                                  training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--146
             Sir John Cockcroft   Churchill College  . . . . . . . . . . . 147--150
                 L. R. B. Elton   A clearing house for physics students    151--153
                      Anonymous   Foundations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--158
                      Anonymous   A review of: \booktitle``The spiritual
                                  crisis of the scientific age'' . . . . . 159--162
                      Anonymous   A review of: ``\booktitleExploring the
                                  structure of matter''  . . . . . . . . . 163--168

Contemporary Physics
Volume 1, Number 3, 1960

                    D. R. Chick   Plasma research  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--190
                     N. Feather   A history of neutrons and nuclei. Part 1 191--203
                   J. G. Wilson   Cosmic radiation: The primary particles  204--219
                  A. C. Crombie   The scientific revolution of the
                                  seventeenth century and its consequences 220--229
                 D. G. Holloway   The strength of glass  . . . . . . . . . 230--235
                   John Scupham   Television and the teaching of science   236--241
                     H. Lockett   The science masters' association annual
                                  meeting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--244
                      Anonymous   The Institute of Physics report on the
                                  teaching of mathematics to physicists
                                  (1959) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
                      Anonymous   Foundations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
                      Anonymous   D.S.I.R. grants  . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
                    J. L. Lewis   The physical science study committee (1)
                                  a survey of its publications . . . . . . 248--252
                   G. R. Noakes   A review of: ``\booktitleHandbook of
                                  scientific instruments and apparatus''   253--256

Contemporary Physics
Volume 1, Number 4, 1960

                     N. Feather   A history of neutrons and nuclei. Part 2 257--266
         The Rev. G. D. Yarnold   Understanding surface tension  . . . . . 267--275
                    S. Tolansky   Diamond. Part 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--286
                      D. Naylor   Primary cells  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--303
                     W. Siddall   The 44th Physical Society Exhibition,
                                  1960: (1) A visitor's impressions  . . . 304--305
                   M. H. Wilson   The 44th Physical Society Exhibition,
                                  1960: (2) The physical society colour
                                  group's exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
                       L. Essen   The 44th Physical Society Exhibition,
                                  1960: (3) Atomic clocks  . . . . . . . . 306--307
                   D. A. Wright   The 44th Physical Society Exhibition,
                                  1960: (4) Recent advances in solid-state
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
               Henry F. Boulind   The Physical Science Study Committee.
                                  (2) The Summer Institute courses . . . . 309--312
                      Anonymous   The postgraduate training of physicists
                                  in British universities  . . . . . . . . 313--314
                   G. R. Noakes   Gulbenkian foundation reports  . . . . . 315--317
                      Anonymous   Science education in a scientific age    318--318
                 L. A. Woodward   Essay Review: \booktitleAdvances in
                                  spectroscopy [edited by H. W. Thompson]  319--321
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--336

Contemporary Physics
Volume 1, Number 5, 1960

                    Abdus Salam   Elementary particles . . . . . . . . . . 337--354
                  Arthur F. Kip   Cyclotron resonance in solids  . . . . . 355--369
                      H. Lipson   X-ray crystallography --- A meeting
                                  place of the sciences  . . . . . . . . . 370--384
                 D. F. Jephcott   Magnetohydrodynamic waves  . . . . . . . 385--389
             Sir Lawrence Bragg   Atoms and molecules: A Friday evening
                                  discourse delivered on November 20 1959  390--393
                L. L. Green and   
                    H. Muirhead   The Physical Society Conference on
                                  nuclear physics at Liverpool, March 1960 394--399
               S. W. Hutcherson   The preparatory schools science course
                                  at Denstone College, 1960  . . . . . . . 400--402
                   G. J. Bullen   Research day at the Royal Institution.
                                  The Department of Physics, Birkbeck
                                  College, University of London  . . . . . 403--405
                      Anonymous   Optical design research at Imperial
                                  College  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
                   G. R. Noakes   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 407--409
               Sir Arnold Plant   Essay Review: \booktitleElectronic
                                  computers and their business
                                  applications [by A. J. Burton and R. J.
                                  Mills] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--416

Contemporary Physics
Volume 1, Number 6, 1960

                 A. H. Cottrell   The metallic state . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432
                 Martin Johnson   The clue to a stellar interior from apse
                                  motion of a binary orbit . . . . . . . . 433--444
                   C. A. Taylor   Diffraction in three dimensions  . . . . 445--452
                W. G. V. Rosser   Electromagnetism as a second-order
                                  effect (II). The electric and magnetic
                                  fields of a charge moving with uniform
                                  velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--466
                   H. Henderson   Interference filters . . . . . . . . . . 467--478
                    K. Laybourn   Who will teach?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--482
                    L. F. Bates   The Royal Society tercentenary
                                  celebrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--485
                 V. T. Saunders   Medical electronics: Third International
                                  Conference and Exhibition  . . . . . . . 486--494
                    N. Thompson   Reports on progress in physics . . . . . 495--497
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--500


Contemporary Physics
Volume 2, Number 1, 1960

               K. W. H. Stevens   Masers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
                      Anonymous   O.E.E.C. seminar on the use of
                                  television for the teaching of science   14--14
                      Anonymous   The international scientific radio union 14--14
                    M. J. Poole   The neutron booster  . . . . . . . . . . 15--20
               R. A. R. Tricker   The sceptical physicist  . . . . . . . . 21--30
                    W. D. Allen   The tandem generator . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
                  Stephen White   The physical science study committee (3)
                                  the planning and structure of the course 39--54
                    L. F. Bates   Physics at the British Association,
                                  Cardiff meeting, 1960  . . . . . . . . . 55--58
              W. S. C. Williams   The nuclear physics meeting of the
                                  Institute of Physics and the Physical
                                  Society, Glasgow, September, 1960  . . . 59--62
                 V. T. Saunders   Opening of the Atomic Energy
                                  Establishment, Widrith . . . . . . . . . 63--68
                      Anonymous   International conference on physics
                                  education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
                   E. J. Wenham   Conference of the physical sciences
                                  section of the association of teachers
                                  in colleges and departments of education 71--72
                   G. R. Noakes   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
                  E. H. Linfoot   A review of: ``\booktitleLa structure et
                                  l'evolution de l'univers'' . . . . . . . 75--77
                      Anonymous   A review of: ``\booktitleThe special
                                  theory of relativity'' . . . . . . . . . 78--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 2, Number 2, 1960

                   L. Rotherham   Energy for the world's needs . . . . . . 81--92
             L. Pearce Williams   Faraday and the structure of matter  . . 93--105
               I. M. Stephenson   Science in space . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114
                   G. R. Noakes   Corso di aggiornamento . . . . . . . . . 115--115
                    J. V. Evans   Radar astronomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--142
                      E. W. Lee   Non-linear vibrations  . . . . . . . . . 143--156
                 V. T. Saunders   The Post Office Research Station, Dollis
                                  Hill, London, N.W.2 open days 22--23
                                  September 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164

Contemporary Physics
Volume 2, Number 3, 1961

      Sir Graham Sutton, C.B.E.   Advancing fronts in meteorology  . . . . 165--182
                    W. C. Nixon   X-ray microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--197
                  E. H. Freitag   The friction of solids . . . . . . . . . 198--216
          Dr. E. W. J. Mitchell   The physics of diamond . . . . . . . . . 217--222
                   D. Shoenberg   Low temperature physics  . . . . . . . . 223--230
                       G. R. N.   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 231--235
                      Anonymous   Optics at Imperial College . . . . . . . 235--235
                      Anonymous   The 45th annual exhibition of the
                                  Institute of Physics and the Physical
                                  Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
                     H. Lockett   The science masters' association annual
                                  meeting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--240
                      Anonymous   D.S.I.R. grants and awards, 1961 . . . . 240--240
                  G. B. Cobbold   A review of: \booktitle``Translation
                                  from Russian for scientists''  . . . . . 241--244

Contemporary Physics
Volume 2, Number 4, 1961

                     J. Mcaulay   Science in civil defence . . . . . . . . 245--252
                D. G. King-Hele   Satellite orbits and their geophysical
                                  implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267
              H. J. J. Braddick   Interference spectroscopy  . . . . . . . 268--276
                 R. E. Jennings   The microtron  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--285
                    R. R. Birss   Electromagnetic induction  . . . . . . . 286--297
                   E. J. Wenham   Physical science in the training college 298--301
                  P. J. Bateman   Thermoelectric power generation  . . . . 302--311
                 V. T. Saunders   The National Chemical Laboratory . . . . 312--317
                      Anonymous   Mathematics for physicists and engineers 318--318
                      Anonymous   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
                W. G. V. Rosser   A review of: ``\booktitleClassical
                                  electricity and magnetism''  . . . . . . 321--324
             Otto Robert Frisch   Book Review: \booktitleFrom dualism to
                                  unity in physics. By A. Landé (Cambridge
                                  University Press, 1960). Pp. xvi + 114   323--323

Contemporary Physics
Volume 2, Number 5, 1961

              R. J. Blin-Stoyle   Particles, field theory and force  . . . 325--344
                   W. R. Harper   Electrification following the contact of
                                  solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--359
                   P. Vigoureux   The gyromagnetic ratio of the proton . . 360--366
               J. M. A. Lenihan   The scalpel and the spectroscope . . . . 367--380
                       G. R. N.   Physics for grammar schools  . . . . . . 381--381
                      Anonymous   On the record  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384
                  M. B. Waldron   A survey of research on the transuranic
                                  elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--402
         Sister St. Joan of Arc   The teaching of modern physics in
                                  schools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--408

Contemporary Physics
Volume 2, Number 6, 1961

                  A. E. De Barr   The applications of single crystals  . . 409--422
                    G. M. Lewis   Neutrino and antineutrino losses in
                                  nuclear processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 423--427
                   R. D. Davies   Radio emission from interstellar neutral
                                  hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--446
                   A. Von Engel   The nature and properties of a plasma    447--462
                    G. W. Brown   Accurate voltage reference systems . . . 463--471
               J. Alan Chalmers   The correspondence between a
                                  current-carrying coil and a magnetic
                                  dipole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--474
                       V. T. S.   DSIR research establishments . . . . . . 475--478
                       G. R. N.   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 479--481
                   J. G. Powles   Essay Review: The nucleus as it usually
                                  is. \booktitleThe Principles of Nuclear
                                  Magnetism, by A. Abragam . . . . . . . . 482--483
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--488


Contemporary Physics
Volume 3, Number 1, 1961

                   J. W. Martin   Looking at metals: A lecture for schools 1--15
                   O. R. Frisch   Time and relativity: Part I  . . . . . . 16--27
                W. G. V. Rosser   Electromagnetism as a second order
                                  effect. Paper III. The Biot--Savart law  28--44
                   J. V. Jelley   \vCerenkov radiation: Its origin,
                                  properties and applications  . . . . . . 45--57
                D. H. Parkinson   Some aspects of the infra-red absorption
                                  spectra of semiconductors  . . . . . . . 58--74
                 V. T. Saunders   The Wool Industries Research Association 75--79
                       A. Salam   The proceedings of the 1960 Annual
                                  International Conference on high energy
                                  physics at Rochester, N.Y. . . . . . . . 80--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 3, Number 2, 1961

               S. H. G. Stevens   Clean air  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90
               M. H. Wilson and   
              R. W. Brocklebank   Colour and perception: The work of Edwin
                                  Land in the light of current concepts    91--111
            D. W. G. Ballentyne   Electroluminescence  . . . . . . . . . . 112--124
                      Anonymous   1. Determination of wood density
                                  variation across tree growth rings by
                                  means of $ \beta $-particle absorption   125--133
                 V. T. Saunders   The National Physical Laboratory: Solids
                                  at extremely high pressures  . . . . . . 134--137
                      Anonymous   The Institute of Physics and the
                                  Physical Society Conference on nuclear
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
                 A. Nightingale   Report on the fourth International
                                  Conference and Exhibition on Medical
                                  Electronics, New York, 1961  . . . . . . 140--144
                      Anonymous   The Rutherford High Energy Laboratory of
                                  the National Institute for Research in
                                  Nuclear Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--149
                    D. F. Gibbs   Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
                 M. V. Griffith   The British Association meeting at
                                  Norwich  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
                    J. E. Geake   Rutherford in Manchester . . . . . . . . 155--158
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160

Contemporary Physics
Volume 3, Number 3, 1962

                   M. J. Aitken   Physics applied to archaeology --- Part
                                  I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--176
                      Anonymous   The American Association of Physics
                                  Teachers: Demonstration experiments in
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
                     D. M. Blow   The molecular approach to biology  . . . 177--193
                   O. R. Frisch   Time and relativity: Part II . . . . . . 194--201
                    N. Pentland   The diploma in technology: Courses in
                                  applied physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--211
                      Anonymous   Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--216
                  P. L. Marsden   The International Conference on Cosmic
                                  Rays and the Earth Storm, Kyoto, Japan.
                                  September 3--15, 1961  . . . . . . . . . 217--221
                      E. W. Lee   Kyoto 1961. The international conference
                                  on magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--238
                      Anonymous   The 46th annual exhibition of the
                                  Institute of Physics and the Physical
                                  Society --- 15--19 January, 1962 . . . . 239--239
                      Anonymous   Harwell Reactor School: Science masters
                                  course No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
               T. G. Pickavance   A review of: ``\booktitleTechniques of
                                  high energy physics''  . . . . . . . . . 240--240

Contemporary Physics
Volume 3, Number 4, 1962

                    J. M. Ziman   Electrons in metals: A short guide to
                                  the Fermi surface  . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
                    A. W. Crook   Some physical aspects of lubrication and
                                  wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--271
              R. W. Brocklebank   Two international colour meetings  . . . 272--277
               J. Alan Chalmers   The laws of electromagnetism and an
                                  electrostatic analogue . . . . . . . . . 278--285
               K. G. Ramanathan   Faraday's law of induction and the force
                                  on a body due to change in its
                                  magnetization in an electric field . . . 286--289
                 V. T. Saunders   The NPL ``microwave mekometer''  . . . . 290--292
                      Anonymous   The teaching of science and mathematics  292--292
                 V. T. Saunders   DSIR research establishments: The
                                  Building Research Station, Garston . . . 293--296
                 V. T. Saunders   The British Association Granada lectures
                                  1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
                     E. B. Paul   Masses of nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
                      Anonymous   High energy instrumentation  . . . . . . 303--304
                      Anonymous   Isotope separation . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 3, Number 5, 1962

                    J. M. Ziman   Electrons in metals: A short guide to
                                  the Fermi surface  . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333
                   M. J. Aitken   Physics applied to archaeology --- part
                                  II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--352
                      E. J. Hay   Electromagnetism for schools, based on
                                  M.K.S.A. units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--367
               Uri Haber-Schaim   The Physical Science Study Committee
                                  (4): The working session on physics
                                  teaching at the Cavendish Laboratory,
                                  Cambridge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--374
                       R. Frith   Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere  . . . . 375--381
                  Gerd Buchdahl   The philosophical basis of physics . . . 382--394
                   D. W. Harlow   The Science Masters' Association annual
                                  meeting, Imperial College, 2nd to 5th
                                  January, 1962  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--397
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400

Contemporary Physics
Volume 3, Number 6, 1962

                    J. M. Ziman   Electrons in metals: A short guide to
                                  the Fermi surface  . . . . . . . . . . . 401--414
                     H. Barrell   The metre  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--434
                D. E. J. Ingram   Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--452
               R. A. R. Tricker   Amp\`ere as a contemporary physicist . . 453--468
                 V. T. Saunders   The Royal Institution Christmas
                                  lectures, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--473
                 K. Mendelssohn   Sciences in Communist China  . . . . . . 474--476
                   J. G. Wilson   Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--480


Contemporary Physics
Volume 4, Number 1, 1962

                    J. M. Ziman   Electrons in metals: A short guide to
                                  the Fermi surface  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                   W. J. Comley   Ultra high frequency acoustic waves  . . 15--26
                    B. J. Mason   The cloud chamber as a tool in cloud
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--48
                 D. F. Jephcott   The Salzburg conference on plasma
                                  physics and controlled nuclear fusion
                                  research (4th to 9th September, 1961)    49--54
                      Anonymous   The Royal Society and research in
                                  schools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64
                 V. T. Saunders   At the national physical laboratory open
                                  days, May 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72
                     N. Feather   Rutherford at McGill . . . . . . . . . . 73--78
               J. M. A. Lenihan   Elementary particles . . . . . . . . . . 76--78
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 4, Number 2, 1962

                    J. M. Ziman   Electrons in metals: A short guide to
                                  the Fermi surface  . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99
                   N. R. Howard   The physical principles of semiconductor
                                  power rectifier operation  . . . . . . . 100--112
             L. Pearce Williams   Amp\`ere's electrodynamic molecular
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
                   L. Mackinnon   Ultrasonic attenuation . . . . . . . . . 124--138
                   D. H. Martin   Filling the spectroscopic gap between
                                  microwaves and the infra-red. Part I . . 139--153
                   A. W. Bright   Essay Review: Applied electrostatics . . 154--155
                      Anonymous   Science master course at the Harwell
                                  Reactor School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--160

Contemporary Physics
Volume 4, Number 3, 1963

                Peter E. Glaser   Thermal imaging techniques for
                                  high-temperature research  . . . . . . . 161--175
                  J. E. Roberts   Codes of practice for the use of
                                  ionizing radiations  . . . . . . . . . . 176--186
                   D. H. Martin   Filling the spectroscopic gap between
                                  microwaves and the infra-red. Part II    187--205
                     H. V. Beck   Practical class work at the Cavendish
                                  Laboratory: A new approach . . . . . . . 206--220
                 A. S. Parasnis   The production of a single slit
                                  diffraction pattern by reflection  . . . 221--222
                 V. T. Saunders   DSIR Research Establishments. The
                                  British Leather Manufacturers' Research
                                  Association  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
                 V. T. Saunders   Some exhibits at the Royal Society
                                  conversazione, May 1962  . . . . . . . . 228--230
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--240

Contemporary Physics
Volume 4, Number 4, 1963

                S. N. Ghosh and   
                    Sharda Nand   Rocket spectroscopy  . . . . . . . . . . 241--255
                      J. Silcox   The electron microscopy of thin metal
                                  foils  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--277
                   W. H. McCrea   The origin of the solar system . . . . . 278--290
                 V. T. Saunders   At the national physical laboratory  . . 291--292
                 V. T. Saunders   DSIR research establishments . . . . . . 293--298
                   D. W. Harlow   The Science Masters' Association annual
                                  meeting Manchester College of Science
                                  and Technology, 2nd to 5th January, 1963 299--303
                      Anonymous   Emigration of scientists from the United
                                  Kingdom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
                      K. Dolder   Essay Review: The application of shock
                                  waves to research in chemistry and
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--308
                 Harold Heywood   Solar furnaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--312
                    D. F. Gibbs   Reports on progress in physics . . . . . 312--314
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 4, Number 5, 1963

                   F. E. Karasz   Adiabatic calorimetry  . . . . . . . . . 321--330
                   D. K. Thomas   Some aspects of the physics of space
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--337
                   J. G. Powles   Negative absolute temperatures and
                                  rotating temperatures  . . . . . . . . . 338--355
                D. F. Bacon and   
                     W. F. Nash   Spark chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--372
         Sister St. Joan of Arc   An enquiry into the teaching of physical
                                  science in girls' grammar schools  . . . 373--391
                    J. E. Geake   Physics at the B.A. in Manchester ---
                                  1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--398
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400

Contemporary Physics
Volume 4, Number 6, 1963

                     H. J. Pain   Shock waves in a plasma  . . . . . . . . 401--421
           K. A. G. Mendelssohn   Physical science in the twentieth
                                  century  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--434
                  C. Hilsum and   
                  P. G. R. King   Some demonstrations of the properties of
                                  optical masers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--444
                  Gerald Holton   On the teaching of physics as one of the
                                  basic sciences at University level ---
                                  Part I: Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . 445--452
                   R. C. Lyness   The equivalence of Amp\`ere's
                                  Electrodynamic Law and that of Biot and
                                  Savart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--455
               J. Alan Chalmers   Taking the mystery out of Gauss's
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--458
                   D. J. Sansom   The magnetic field arising from a steady
                                  current flowing in a long straight
                                  conductor of rectangular cross-section   459--461
                 V. T. Saunders   ``Harwell'' --- A film about the Atomic
                                  Energy Research Establishment  . . . . . 462--462
                 V. T. Saunders   At the National Chemical Laboratory open
                                  days, September 1962 . . . . . . . . . . 463--467
                      Anonymous   Relativity and gravity . . . . . . . . . 468--472
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--480


Contemporary Physics
Volume 5, Number 1, 1963

Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics   On the teaching of physics as one of the
                                  basic sciences at university level ---
                                  part II: Curriculum development  . . . . 1--14
             G. Burniston Brown   A new treatment of diffraction . . . . . 15--27
             L. Pearce Williams   Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic
                                  induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--37
                     D. E. Caro   Physics courses in Victoria, Australia   38--49
                   Helen Bunton   Looking forward in physics and chemistry
                                  teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
                      Anonymous   The Quiet Sun  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--54
                      Anonymous   Magnetism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58
                      Anonymous   The Earth's environment  . . . . . . . . 58--61
            R. E. D. Bishop and   
                 V. T. Saunders   The Christmas lectures at the Royal
                                  Institution on vibration . . . . . . . . 62--63
                      Anonymous   `Communication in the modern world'  . . 64--64
                      Anonymous   The new radio telescope at the Mullard
                                  Observatory at Cambridge . . . . . . . . 65--66
                 V. T. Saunders   At the national physical laboratory open
                                  days, May 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 5, Number 2, 1963

             Arthur L. Schawlow   Optical and infra-red masers . . . . . . 81--102
             Sir George Thomson   Research in theory and practice  . . . . 103--111
                   Nora E. Hill   Demonstration of the properties of
                                  polarized light using a Michelson
                                  interferometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
                   K. A. Pounds   The Royal Society discussion on
                                  satellite Ariel, May 1963  . . . . . . . 114--116
                 V. T. Saunders   At the national physical laboratory open
                                  days, May, 1963: The use of artificial
                                  satellites for relating time at distant
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
                      Anonymous   Recent research reports  . . . . . . . . 120--121
                 V. T. Saunders   DSIR research establishments: New
                                  physics division laboratories at the
                                  building research station, Garston . . . 122--131
                 V. T. Saunders   At the national physical laboratory open
                                  days, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--136
                      Anonymous   A review of: ``\booktitleProceedings of
                                  the International Conference on the
                                  Ionosphere'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
                G. D. Rochester   Strange particles  . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140
               A. D. C. Grassie   Apparatus drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143
                   G. R. Noakes   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
                      Anonymous   Problems facing university physics
                                  departments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160

Contemporary Physics
Volume 5, Number 3, 1964

                    J. L. Olsen   Strong magnetic fields . . . . . . . . . 161--179
                 R. M. Bull and   
                 W. F. Nash and   
                   B. C. Rastin   Flash tube detectors . . . . . . . . . . 180--197
                W. G. V. Rosser   The Van Allen radiation zones I: The
                                  theory of trapping and the inner zone    198--211
               J. M. A. Lenihan   The Scottish Research Reactor Centre . . 212--216
                 V. T. Saunders   Some exhibits at the Royal Society
                                  conversazione, 16th May, 1963  . . . . . 217--221
                 V. T. Saunders   Post Office Research Station (Dollis
                                  Hill) open days, 12th and 13th
                                  September, 1963  . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--226
                 V. T. Saunders   Hydraulics research station open day,
                                  11th September, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . 227--232
                   G. R. Noakes   Films for science teachers . . . . . . . 233--234
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--240

Contemporary Physics
Volume 5, Number 4, 1964

              Sir Harrie Massey   Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 241--254
                W. G. V. Rosser   The Van Allen radiation zones  . . . . . 255--269
              A. T. G. Ferguson   IBIS. A fast neutron time-of-flight
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--279
                  P. G. R. King   Rotation detection with a `Ring-laser'   280--283
                   G. R. Noakes   Elementary demonstrations: (1)
                                  Quantitative electrostatics  . . . . . . 284--291
               J. Alan Chalmers   A difficulty in elementary
                                  electromagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
                J. C. Henderson   Diffraction studies of dislocations in
                                  silicon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
                 V. T. Saunders   Communication in the modern world  . . . 296--297
                   D. W. Harlow   The association for science education
                                  annual meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--301
                   Frank Oldham   University reactions to changes in
                                  school physics teaching  . . . . . . . . 302--303
                  W. E. Burcham   Rutherford at Manchester, 1907--19 The
                                  Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of
                                  Nelson, Vol. 2. (London: George Allen &
                                  Unwin, 1963.) [Pp. 590] 105s . . . . . . 304--308
         John C. Jennings, M.P.   From inside Parliament (1): The Robbins
                                  report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--310
              Austen Albu, M.P.   From inside Parliament (2): The Robbins
                                  report and the Trend report  . . . . . . 311--313
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 5, Number 5, 1964

                W. Hume-Rothery   Some notes on the structures of alloys
                                  of iron  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--347
                E. H. S. Burhop   The physics of elementary particles  . . 348--358
                J. S. Rowlinson   The theory of liquids at equilibrium . . 359--376
                   N. J. Felici   Contemporary electrostatics --- I:
                                  Physical background and applications . . 377--390
                 V. T. Saunders   Particle size analysis . . . . . . . . . 391--393
                    W. Llowarch   Schlieren methods  . . . . . . . . . . . 394--397
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400

Contemporary Physics
Volume 5, Number 6, 1964

                Sir Nevill Mott   On teaching quantum phenomena  . . . . . 401--418
                   N. J. Felici   Contemporary electrostatics --- II:
                                  Ionization charging and insulation . . . 419--437
                 Arthur Suddaby   Transport processes in liquids . . . . . 438--456
              Sir Harrie Massey   Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 457--471
               J. M. A. Lenihan   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 472--475
                      W. Bolton   The association for science education:
                                  Physics teaching aids  . . . . . . . . . 475--475
               J. M. A. Lenihan   The 48th annual exhibition of the
                                  Institute of Physics and the Physical
                                  Society, January 1964  . . . . . . . . . 476--477
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--480


Contemporary Physics
Volume 6, Number 1, 1964

                   J. K. Wright   Non-linear Optics  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                   P. Vigoureux   Electric units and atomic constants  . . 15--25
              Sir Harrie Massey   Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 26--48
               J. M. A. Lenihan   Macmillan--Eothen `Cinette' film loops   49--49
                    A. Appleton   The soft X-ray emission spectra of
                                  metals and alloys  . . . . . . . . . . . 50--67
                    L. G. Parry   Elementary science teaching in New South
                                  Wales  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--72
                  K. W. Keohane   Essay Review: \booktitleReports on
                                  progress in physics, vol. XXVII, 1964    73--75
                  C. W. Haworth   Reports on progress in physics, vol.
                                  XXVI, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 6, Number 2, 1964

                   O. R. Frisch   Nuclei and nuclear reactions . . . . . . 81--93
                S. N. Postnikov   The friction of metals . . . . . . . . . 94--111
                    David Tabor   Large-scale properties of matter . . . . 112--128
                  R. E. Peierls   The development of quantum theory. Part
                                  I. Formulation and interpretation  . . . 129--139
                    U. W. Arndt   Automation in the laboratory . . . . . . 140--146
             Sir John Cockcroft   The role of government in scientific
                                  research and development . . . . . . . . 147--151
                  O. S. Heavens   Quantum electronics  . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
                   O. R. Frisch   Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
                                  to the theory of relativity, by A. V.
                                  Rosser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160

Contemporary Physics
Volume 6, Number 3, 1965

             Sir Lawrence Bragg   The history of X-ray analysis  . . . . . 161--171
              Sir Harrie Massey   Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 172--191
                  R. E. Peierls   The development of quantum theory  . . . 192--205
             Sir Harold Hartley   The scientific work of Sir Humphry Davy  206--216
                     E. Mendoza   Waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--224
                      R. P. Tye   Thermal conductivity: Recent
                                  developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229
                 V. T. Saunders   Radio research: A report on the 1964
                                  open days at the radio research station,
                                  Ditton Park, Slough  . . . . . . . . . . 230--236
               J. M. A. Lenihan   Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240

Contemporary Physics
Volume 6, Number 4, 1965

              Sir Harrie Massey   Space travel and exploration V. Lunar
                                  and planetary probes --- meteorology and
                                  communications --- geodesy and
                                  navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--260
                      E. W. Lee   Nottingham 1964. The international
                                  conference on magnetism  . . . . . . . . 261--273
            P. A. Egelstaff and   
                   P. Schofield   The structure and thermal motion of
                                  simple liquids --- I . . . . . . . . . . 274--284
                 A. W. Lawrence   Gyroscopes used in inertial navigation   285--298
                   D. W. Harlow   The association for science education
                                  annual meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
                      Anonymous   A new concept in courses for teachers of
                                  science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 6, Number 5, 1965

              Sir Harrie Massey   Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 321--337
                    D. Ter Haar   On the origin of cosmic rays . . . . . . 338--348
                   J. G. Morley   Crystal growth in glass  . . . . . . . . 349--364
                   J. W. Tucker   Relaxation processes in paramagnetic
                                  crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--380
                 V. T. Saunders   Road traffic and safety  . . . . . . . . 381--384
                 V. T. Saunders   Building research  . . . . . . . . . . . 385--389
                 V. T. Saunders   Some exhibits at the Royal Society
                                  conversazione, 1964  . . . . . . . . . . 390--395
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--400

Contemporary Physics
Volume 6, Number 6, 1965

                   H. P. Palmer   High resolution studies in radio
                                  astronomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420
                Albert D. Frost   Astronomy at radio frequencies . . . . . 421--435
                T. W. B. Kibble   Elementary particle symmetries . . . . . 436--452
            P. A. Egelstaff and   
                   P. Schofield   Structure and thermal motion of simple
                                  liquids--II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--464
                    D. Ter Haar   Wolfgang Pauli 1900--1958  . . . . . . . 465--471
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--480


Contemporary Physics
Volume 7, Number 1, 1965

                      Anonymous   The organization of civil science in the
                                  United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
                D. J. E. Ingram   Nuclear magnetic resonance (part I)  . . 13--28
                     N. Feather   The physical basis of Newtonian
                                  mechanics (Part I) . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44
                   O. R. Frisch   Take a photon \ldots . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
                W. J. Wilkinson   The new science teaching as seen in
                                  terms of educational and psychological
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
               J. Alan Chalmers   A logical sequence of ideas in
                                  electromagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
                 V. T. Saunders   Basic physics at the National Physical
                                  Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
                 V. T. Saunders   At the National Physical Laboratory open
                                  days, 19th and 20th may, 1965  . . . . . 66--69
              R. J. Blin-Stoyle   Congr\`es international de physique
                                  nucléaire (Paris). July 1964. Volumes I
                                  and II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 7, Number 2, 1965

           A. D. C. Grassie and   
                J. E. Spice and   
                     A. Gerrard   Introducing the Boltzmann distribution   81--102
                D. J. E. Ingram   Nuclear magnetic resonance (part II) . . 103--121
                     N. Feather   The physical basis of Newtonian
                                  mechanics. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 122--134
               A. C. Rose-Innes   The new superconductors  . . . . . . . . 135--151
                   R. Brown and   
                 D. L. Gardiner   Physics at school. A small-scale
                                  investigation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--157
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160

Contemporary Physics
Volume 7, Number 3, 1966

                    P. Halligey   The evolution of MKS electrical units:
                                  Effects on the teaching of electricity   161--173
                   I. G. Austin   Solids under very high pressure  . . . . 174--191
                 G. A. Saunders   The electron pair theory of
                                  superconductivity  . . . . . . . . . . . 192--209
                      W. Bolton   Teaching photoelectricity  . . . . . . . 210--216
                   R. F. Powell   Modern techniques for the measurement of
                                  the thermal conductivity of metals . . . 217--227
                      Anonymous   Reports on progress in physics, vol.
                                  XXVIII, 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
                      Anonymous   The collected papers of Lord Rutherford
                                  of Nelson. Vol. III --- The Cavendish
                                  Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
                      Anonymous   The crystalline state  . . . . . . . . . 232--233
               Robert Weinstock   On introducing the Boltzmann
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240

Contemporary Physics
Volume 7, Number 4, 1966

                   M. F. Hoyaux   Plasma physics and its applications  . . 241--260
                     Marc Odier   A simple photographic method for
                                  studying motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--277
                    W. M. Lomer   Neutron spectroscopy of solids --- Part
                                  I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--293
                     N. Feather   `Factors of ignorance' and the
                                  rationalized M.K.S.A. system of units    294--303
                    L. F. Bates   The study of magnetism . . . . . . . . . 304--307
                      F. Oldham   The education of professional physicists 307--309
                      Anonymous   The metric system and S.I. units . . . . 309--312
                   G. R. Noakes   Annual report of the Advisory Council on
                                  Scientific Policy 1963--64 . . . . . . . 313--313
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 7, Number 5, 1966

               F. I. G. Rawlins   The place of physics in the fine arts    321--330
                 K. Mendelssohn   Dewar at the Royal Institution . . . . . 331--342
                       L. Essen   The measurement of time and frequency    343--349
                   P. Vigoureux   Errors of observation and systematic
                                  errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--357
             Sir Lawrence Bragg   The Royal Institution lectures in
                                  science for members of the
                                  administrative class of the civil
                                  service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--361
                   C. W. Oatley   Mechanical and electrical oscillations;
                                  transient and alternating electric
                                  currents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--391
                K. A. Macfadyen   The physics of musical sounds  . . . . . 392--394
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400

Contemporary Physics
Volume 7, Number 6, 1966

                    W. M. Lomer   Neutron spectroscopy of solids --- part
                                  II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418
               P. G. H. Sandars   Magnetic charge  . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
                     S. H. Hall   The magnetic field of the ionospheric
                                  dynamo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--439
                   P. Vigoureux   Radiation pressure . . . . . . . . . . . 440--446
                    D. Ter Haar   Adiabatic invariance and adiabatic
                                  invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--458
                 V. T. Saunders   At the national physical laboratory open
                                  days, 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--467
               J. Alan Chalmers   The difference between a
                                  current-carrying coil and a permanent
                                  magnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472


Contemporary Physics
Volume 8, Number 1, 1967

                 A. H. Cottrell   Strength of materials: A foreword
                                  introducing the contemporary physics
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                W. O. Alexander   The simple economics of rivalries
                                  between materials  . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19
                       N. Kurti   Spins and cryogenics . . . . . . . . . . 21--40
             F. A. Vick, O.B.E.   Explorations in atomic energy  . . . . . 41--61
     B. J. Mason, D.Sc., F.R.S.   The meteorological office --- today and
                                  tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--85
            W. C. A. Hutchinson   Angular momentum --- an experiment to
                                  illustrate its conservation  . . . . . . 87--93
                     W. F. Nash   Proceedings of the ninth international
                                  conference on cosmic rays  . . . . . . . 95--100
                   K. J. Barnes   High energy physics and elementary
                                  particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
                      Anonymous   Reports on progress in physics, vol.
                                  XXIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112
                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113

Contemporary Physics
Volume 8, Number 2, 1967

                    W. D. Biggs   Properties of materials: The engineering
                                  designer's point of view . . . . . . . . 113--126
                  T. S. Littler   The ear and hearing  . . . . . . . . . . 127--151
                    A. E. Ennos   Holography and its applications  . . . . 153--170
               D. E. Cartwright   Modern studies of wind-generated ocean
                                  waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--183
                  D. H. Trevena   The behaviour of liquids under tension   185--195
                   R. Mansfield   Application of the Argand diagram to
                                  magneto-conductivity effects . . . . . . 197--202
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212

Contemporary Physics
Volume 8, Number 3, 1967

                       T. Broom   Creep and fatigue of engineering
                                  materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
                D. H. Parkinson   High magnetic fields . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
                     A. H. Cook   The absolute determination of the
                                  acceleration due to gravity  . . . . . . 251--266
                B. J. Hinde and   
                    D. I. Gaunt   Microseisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--283
                  J. Malinowski   Properties of photoexcited holes in
                                  silver bromide crystals  . . . . . . . . 285--301
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--312

Contemporary Physics
Volume 8, Number 4, 1967

                       A. Kelly   High strength materials  . . . . . . . . 313--329
                 Zden\vek Kopal   Recent explorations of the Moon by
                                  spacecraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--356
                  M. S. Longair   Quasi-stellar radio sources  . . . . . . 357--372
                 A. W. Merrison   NINA --- the 4 GeV electron synchrotron
                                  of the Science Research Council  . . . . 373--384
                      C. D. Mee   Recent measurements of the
                                  magneto-optical properties of some
                                  garnets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--400
                 R. H. Tredgold   Space-charge conduction  . . . . . . . . 401--411
                    L. F. Bates   Essay Review: An essay in exposition.
                                  \booktitleMagnetism in Solids, by D. H.
                                  Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
                      E. W. Lee   The physics exhibition 1967  . . . . . . 417--420
                     E. R. Pike   The French Physical Society's 1967
                                  exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--425
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--432

Contemporary Physics
Volume 8, Number 5, 1967

                    A. A. Wells   Fracture in engineering design . . . . . 433--445
                     S. H. Hall   Measuring magnetic fields in space . . . 447--458
            Arthur P. Cracknell   Magnetic groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--473
            R. J. L. Popplewell   Some topics of current interest in
                                  infrared spectroscopy  . . . . . . . . . 475--487
                R. Kaischew and   
                    E. Budevski   Surface processes in
                                  electrocrystallization . . . . . . . . . 489--516
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--528

Contemporary Physics
Volume 8, Number 6, 1967

                H. G. Gibbs and   
                 D. W. Saunders   Engineering with polymeric materials . . 529--560
              A. C. Chamberlain   Radioactive aerosols and vapours . . . . 561--581
                   N. E. Cusack   The physics of liquid metals . . . . . . 583--606
                   G. Dearnaley   Solid-state radiation detectors  . . . . 607--626
                D. A. Greenwood   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--628


Contemporary Physics
Volume 9, Number 1, 1968

             Sir George Thomson   The early history of electron
                                  diffraction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
             H. I. S. Thirlaway   Diagnosing underground explosions and
                                  earthquakes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
                   N. C. McGill   The apparent shape of rapidly moving
                                  objects in special relativity  . . . . . 33--48
                  G. E. Stedman   Green's functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 49--69
               B. Crossland and   
                  A. S. Bahrani   Fundamentals, of explosive welding . . . 71--87
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95

Contemporary Physics
Volume 9, Number 2, 1968

                 David S. Betts   Helium isotope refrigeration . . . . . . 97--114
                  B. J. Hopkins   Ultra-high vacua . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--135
                    L. F. Bates   Anisotropy, defects, impurities and
                                  ripple a short report on the
                                  international congress on magnetism,
                                  1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
                 W. G. Van Dorn   Tsunamis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--164
                   M. F. Hoyaux   Plasma phenomena and the solid state . . 165--196
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202

Contemporary Physics
Volume 9, Number 3, 1968

                     H. Barrell   A short history of measurement standards
                                  at the National Physical Laboratory  . . 205--226
                     A. H. Cook   A new determination of the constant of
                                  gravitation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--238
                    S. F. Mason   Optical activity and molecular
                                  dissymmetry  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
               E. W. Palmer and   
                  J. F. Verrill   Diffraction gratings . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
           Ludwig Bewilogua and   
                Christel Gladun   Condensed rare gases . . . . . . . . . . 277--300
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309

Contemporary Physics
Volume 9, Number 4, 1968

                  T. S. Littler   The physical and analytical properties
                                  of the ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--332
                 V. E. Cosslett   The high-voltage electron microscope . . 333--354
                 V. L. Ginzburg   The problem of high temperature
                                  superconductivity  . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374
                 M. W. Thompson   The channelling of particles in crystals 375--398
                  John R. Baker   American physics curriculum projects . . 399--415
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--421
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--422

Contemporary Physics
Volume 9, Number 5, 1968

           W. Deryck Chesterman   Geophysical exploration of the ocean
                                  floor using acoustic methods . . . . . . 423--446
                  M. T. Watkins   The shaping of metals  . . . . . . . . . 447--474
                   K. D. Leaver   Thin ferromagnetic films . . . . . . . . 475--499
                      E. W. Lee   The physics exhibition, 1968 . . . . . . 501--504
               R. A. R. Tricker   Electricity and matter . . . . . . . . . 505--508
                  Gerd Buchdahl   The nature of physics  . . . . . . . . . 509--510
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--518
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519

Contemporary Physics
Volume 9, Number 6, 1968

                 D. A. O'Connor   The Mössbauer effect  . . . . . . . . . . 521--535
                  D. H. Trevena   Elastic liquids  . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--548
                A. W. B. Taylor   The microscopic theory of
                                  superconductivity  . . . . . . . . . . . 549--564
                D. Taylor Smith   Physics and sea-floor minerals . . . . . 565--585
                  N. J. Skinner   The electrojet phenomenon  . . . . . . . 587--602
                 P. B. Fellgett   Far infra-red spectrology  . . . . . . . 603--604
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--614
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--615


Contemporary Physics
Volume 10, Number 1, 1969

                    J. B. Adams   Progress towards a nuclear fusion
                                  reactor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
           H. Niewodnicza\'nski   The Institute of Nuclear Physics,
                                  Cracow, and its recent investigations in
                                  nuclear reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . 21--47
             Dr. Rajendra Kumar   Clusters in liquid metals  . . . . . . . 49--58
             Alan J. Walton and   
               Alan G. Woodruff   A kinetic liquid-simulator . . . . . . . 59--70
                    W. C. Nixon   Scanning electron microscopy . . . . . . 71--96
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104

Contemporary Physics
Volume 10, Number 2, 1969

                  R. W. Davidge   Mechanical properties of ceramic
                                  materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--124
                     N. F. Mott   Conduction and switching in
                                  non-crystalline materials  . . . . . . . 125--138
                   B. W. Petley   The Josephson effects  . . . . . . . . . 139--158
            R. G. F. Taylor and   
                  A. J. Pointon   Microwave ultrasonics  . . . . . . . . . 159--178
                  J. H. Fremlin   Relativity and the lever problem . . . . 179--180
                 Alan J. Walton   Archimedes' principle in gases . . . . . 181--186
               R. A. R. Tricker   Classical electromagnetism and
                                  relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--189
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--203
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204

Contemporary Physics
Volume 10, Number 3, 1969

                  Roger Parsons   Electrolysis and simple cells  . . . . . 205--220
                     R. M. Hill   Electrical conduction in discontinuous
                                  metal films  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--240
                 David S. Betts   Quantum fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
                  L. Davies and   
                   J. L. Wilson   Flight through the air at very high
                                  speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--276
                    L. N. Large   Ion implantation: A new method of doping
                                  semiconductors --- I . . . . . . . . . . 277--298
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304

Contemporary Physics
Volume 10, Number 4, 1969

                    B. L. Smith   Critical point phenomena . . . . . . . . 305--329
               A. W. Bright and   
                       B. Makin   Modern electrostatic generators  . . . . 331--353
               N. B. Brandt and   
                 N. I. Ginzburg   Superconductivity at high pressures  . . 355--386
                    K. I. Mayne   Polarized electron beams . . . . . . . . 387--412
                  W. G. Ferrier   The zone plate and its role in
                                  holography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--436
                    D. Melville   The physics exhibition, 1969 . . . . . . 437--442
                    B. L. Smith   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448

Contemporary Physics
Volume 10, Number 5, 1969

                Ronald F. Scott   The physics and mechanics of soil  . . . 449--472
                 David Turnbull   Under what conditions can a glass be
                                  formed?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--488
                 Alan J. Walton   Bulk and surface transport in liquids
                                  --- An introductory treatment  . . . . . 489--504
                    L. N. Large   Ion implantation: A new method of doping
                                  semiconductors --- II  . . . . . . . . . 505--531
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--536

Contemporary Physics
Volume 10, Number 6, 1969

              M. S. Khaikin and   
                       M. Kumar   Magnetic surface levels  . . . . . . . . 537--557
               Peter J. Webster   Heusler alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--577
                   R. W. Powell   Thermal conductivity: A review of some
                                  important developments . . . . . . . . . 579--600
                  D. H. Trevena   Ultrasonic waves in liquids  . . . . . . 601--614
                     Marc Odier   Neoncinegraphy in the teaching of
                                  mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--626
                  G. E. Stedman   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--634
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--636


Contemporary Physics
Volume 11, Number 1, 1970

               Brian R. Pamplin   Negative differential conductivity
                                  effects in semiconductors  . . . . . . . 1--19
                  J. G. Simmons   Applications of amorphous semiconductors
                                  in electronic devices  . . . . . . . . . 21--41
                    R. Meredith   Fibrous polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
                      J. Strnad   A note on the Trouton--Noble experiment  59--64
                    D. J. Craik   The magnetic domain structures of small
                                  crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--97
                      R. Loudon   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104

Contemporary Physics
Volume 11, Number 2, 1970

                    D. R. Bates   Reactions in the ionosphere  . . . . . . 105--124
                    B. L. Smith   Inert gas crystals . . . . . . . . . . . 125--149
                    E. Markland   Fluidics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--172
           D. Vernon Morgan and   
                Dirck Van Vliet   Charged particle tracks in solids  . . . 173--193
                  S. J. Edwards   A review of the theories of X-ray
                                  satellite lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
          Professor L. F. Bates   A new departure in conference reports.
                                  Conference Booklet No. 1. \em High
                                  Magnetic Fields and their Applications:
                                  Nottingham 1969. (The Institute of
                                  Physics and The Physical Society, 1969.)
                                  [Pp. vi + 168] 441, 5s.Od. . . . . . . . 201--203
       Richard J. L. Popplewell   \booktitleElectronic and vibrational
                                  spectra of molecules. Edited by V.
                                  Skobel'tsyn. (Consultants Bureau (Plenum
                                  Press), 1968.) [Pp. vii + 217.]
                                  \$22.50}. {Scope}: Library. {Level}:
                                  Specialist\slash postgraduate  . . . . . 205--207
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208

Contemporary Physics
Volume 11, Number 3, 1970

               H. N. Southworth   Field-ion microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 209--226
                     A. E. Owen   Semiconducting glasses part 1: Glass as
                                  an electronic conductor  . . . . . . . . 227--255
                     A. E. Owen   Semiconducting glasses part II:
                                  Properties and interpretation  . . . . . 257--286
                    D. H. Smith   Electrical and magnetic units in the
                                  syst\`eme international  . . . . . . . . 287--300
                    L. F. Bates   The introduction of SI in magnetism  . . 301--306
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312

Contemporary Physics
Volume 11, Number 4, 1970

                   Geoffrey Gee   The glassy state in polymers . . . . . . 313--334
                E. H. S. Burhop   Exotic atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--358
                       J. Byrne   The radioactivity of free neutrons . . . 359--386
              G. B. Gechele and   
                    F. Coccioli   Future polymer applications  . . . . . . 387--402
                    D. Melville   The physics exhibition, 1970 . . . . . . 403--407
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--422

Contemporary Physics
Volume 11, Number 5, 1970

                K. N. R. Taylor   The rare-earth metals  . . . . . . . . . 423--454
               I. G. Austin and   
                      D. Elwell   Magnetic semiconductors  . . . . . . . . 455--476
                    B. J. Mason   The role of satellites in observing and
                                  forecasting the weather  . . . . . . . . 477--496
                     J. A. Jope   The absorption of X-rays . . . . . . . . 497--508
             P. A. Atkinson and   
                  S. J. Edwards   Doppler observations of ionospheric
                                  disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--515
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--520
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522

Contemporary Physics
Volume 11, Number 6, 1970

                     M. S. Tite   The impact of the natural sciences on
                                  archaeology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
                  H. B. Gilbody   Atomic collision phenomena in
                                  gases--come modern aspects . . . . . . . 541--558
             R. H. S. Winterton   Van der Waals forces . . . . . . . . . . 559--574
                   J. D. Lawson   Some attributes of real and virtual
                                  photons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--580
                   P. G. Wright   Entropy and disorder . . . . . . . . . . 581--588
            C. Maxwell Cade and   
                Boris V. Barlow   Thermography: Imaging in the far
                                  infrared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--608
                      H. Lipson   Notes on recent progress. X-ray and
                                  electron crystallography . . . . . . . . 609--612
                    L. F. Bates   \booktitleMagnetism as a growth-point
                                  subject. An essay review of magnetism
                                  and metallurgy. Edited by A. Berkowitz
                                  and Kneller (Academic Press, 1970) . . . 613--618
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--624
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--625


Contemporary Physics
Volume 12, Number 1, 1971

                    J. E. Field   Brittle fracture: Its study and
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--31
               L. R. G. Treloar   Rubber elasticity  . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
                 R. G. A. Knott   Plasma diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74
             B. H. Crawford and   
                       H. Ikeda   The physics of vision in vertebrates . . 75--97
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104

Contemporary Physics
Volume 12, Number 2, 1971

                    B. L. Smith   Applications of the inert gases  . . . . 105--132
                   J. B. Hasted   Water and `polywater'  . . . . . . . . . 133--152
                    D. S. Betts   Helium isotope quantum fluid mixtures    153--178
                E. A. Mason and   
                   P. G. Wright   Graham's laws  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--186
                      J. Strnad   The gravity-induced electric field . . . 187--191
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208

Contemporary Physics
Volume 12, Number 3, 1971

             T. L. Blundell and   
                  E. Dodson and   
                  G. Dodson and   
                     M. Vijayan   The structure of a protein hormone,
                                  insulin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--228
                  K. H. Ruddock   The physics of colour vision . . . . . . 229--256
                   A. E. Hughes   Exploring solids with far infrared
                                  radiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--282
                     R. Figgins   Inelastic light scattering in liquids:
                                  Brillouin scattering . . . . . . . . . . 283--297
                       Tom Beer   Particle precipitation at auroral
                                  heights: Ground-based observations . . . 299--310
                   G. R. Noakes   The Bragg Medal and Prize of the
                                  Institute of Physics and the Physical
                                  Society, 1971  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312

Contemporary Physics
Volume 12, Number 4, 1971

                   G. T. Meaden   Conduction electron scattering and the
                                  resistance of the magnetic elements  . . 313--337
               W. G. Hoover and   
                       M. Rossj   Statistical theories of melting  . . . . 339--356
                    R. H. Brown   Measuring the angular diameters of stars 357--377
                  M. V. Penston   Star formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394
                  S. R. Woolley   Stellar movement . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--409
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417

Contemporary Physics
Volume 12, Number 5, 1971

                Boris V. Barlow   Hydrostatic bearings for the World's
                                  great telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--436
             David J. De Rosier   The reconstruction of three-dimensional
                                  images from electron micrographs . . . . 437--452
                   B. W. Petley   Towards a quantum voltage standard . . . 453--470
                    D. J. Adams   Cosmic X-ray astronomy . . . . . . . . . 471--493
                J. A. Catterall   Superconducting materials and their
                                  engineering applications . . . . . . . . 495--514
                    D. Melville   The physics exhibition, 1971 . . . . . . 515--520
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--521
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--522

Contemporary Physics
Volume 12, Number 6, 1971

                    R. A. Smith   Lasers and light scattering  . . . . . . 523--536
              Sir Harrie Massey   Atom-atom and atom-ion collisions: I.
                                  Collisions between neutral atoms in
                                  which no excitation occurs . . . . . . . 537--558
                   B. Crossland   Friction welding . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--574
            N. D. Lisgarten and   
              J. R. Sambles and   
                  L. M. Skinner   Vapour pressure over curved surfaces ---
                                  the Kelvin equation  . . . . . . . . . . 575--593
                  R. D. Present   Non-additive interactions  . . . . . . . 595--602
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--613
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--614


Contemporary Physics
Volume 13, Number 1, 1972

                    J. T. Finch   The study of virus structures by X-ray
                                  diffraction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
                     R. Diamond   Some contemporary developments in the
                                  techniques of protein crystallography    23--43
                J. M. Baker and   
               E. R. Davies and   
                   T. Rs. Reddy   Detailed mapping of atomic positions
                                  using electron nuclear double resonance
                                  (endor)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--59
              V. P. Chechev and   
              Ya M. Kramarovsky   Are the fundamental constants constant?  61--74
                   I. R. Kenyon   Bubble Chamber Film Analysis . . . . . . 75--104
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--111
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--112

Contemporary Physics
Volume 13, Number 2, 1972

                  J. A. Lee and   
                  M. B. Waldron   Recent progress in actinide research . . 113--133
              Sir Harrie Massey   Atom-atom and atom-ion collisions: II.
                                  Collisions between atoms and ions in
                                  which no excitation occurs-symmetrical
                                  charge transfer  . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--158
                   R. F. Powell   Recent developments in the use of the
                                  thermoelectric power of metals and
                                  alloys as a research tool  . . . . . . . 159--177
          A. C. Chamberlain and   
                  S. A. Penkett   Atmospheric pollution--present trends
                                  and future problems  . . . . . . . . . . 179--198
                 S. G. Christov   Electron currents through barriers
                                  between two metals . . . . . . . . . . . 199--222
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224

Contemporary Physics
Volume 13, Number 3, 1972

                   B. Bates and   
                  C. D. McKeith   Ultraviolet emission from the stars  . . 225--246
                       Tom Beer   Atmospheric waves and the ionosphere . . 247--271
                  S. W. Hawking   Gravitational radiation: The theoretical
                                  aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282
                 Peter S. Aplin   Gravitational radiation experiments  . . 283--293
               J. M. A. Lenihan   What is bio-engineering? . . . . . . . . 295--309
                      Anonymous   Sir James Chadwick, C.H., LL.D., F.R.S.:
                                  80th birthday  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--319
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 13, Number 4, 1972

                   D. Shoenberg   Metallic electrons in magnetic fields:
                                  Part I. Electronic structure and
                                  electron dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . . 321--354
            Boris V. Barlow and   
                     R. S. Read   High-speed rotating devices  . . . . . . 355--374
              Sir Harrie Massey   Atom-atom and atom-ion collisions. III.
                                  Collisions involving excitation
                                  transfer, spin exchange or
                                  depolarization, without internal energy
                                  change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--392
                Thomas O. Paine   Man's future in space  . . . . . . . . . 393--401
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--418

Contemporary Physics
Volume 13, Number 5, 1972

                    W. J. Jones   On the use of a Fabry--Pérot
                                  interferometer for the study of Raman
                                  spectra of gases under high resolution   419--439
                       W. Hayes   Spectroscopy with a synchrotron light
                                  source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--456
                   K. F. Canter   Slow positrons in rare gases . . . . . . 457--478
                   C. Henderson   Molecules in space . . . . . . . . . . . 479--499
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500
                    L. F. Bates   ``A great man who did good things''
                                  [Review of \booktitleRutherford:
                                  Recollections of the Cambridge Days, by
                                  Mark Oliphant (Elsevier, 1972). [Pp. xii
                                  + 158] Dfl 22.50; \$7.00}] . . . . . . . 501--502
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--518

Contemporary Physics
Volume 13, Number 6, 1972

                   R. Golub and   
               J. M. Pendlebury   The electric dipole moment of the
                                  neutron  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--558
                    R. S. Irani   The thermodynamics and mechanisms of
                                  ordering systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--583
                  G. H. A. Cole   The internal structure of planetary
                                  bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--600
                    L. F. Bates   A link between past and present in
                                  European magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . 601--614
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--617
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--618


Contemporary Physics
Volume 14, Number 1, 1973

                   G. V. Groves   The structure of the atmosphere up to
                                  150 kilometre  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
               A. W. Bright and   
                       B. Makin   The electrical propulsion of space
                                  vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
                     G. Fielder   The geology of the Moon  . . . . . . . . 39--54
            R. G. F. Taylor and   
                  H. A. H. Boot   Pyroelectric image tubes . . . . . . . . 55--87
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
                    L. F. Bates   Essay Review: An American study of
                                  research expenditure and support for
                                  physics. \booktitleAtomic and Molecular
                                  Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100

Contemporary Physics
Volume 14, Number 2, 1973

                      R. Berman   Heat conductivity of non-metallic
                                  crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
                     D. Eagland   The colloidal state  . . . . . . . . . . 119--148
                 G. A. Saunders   Semimetals and narrow gap semiconductors 149--166
                     G. Cocconi   The CERN intersecting storage rings and
                                  strong interactions at high energies . . 167--186
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--199
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200

Contemporary Physics
Volume 14, Number 3, 1973

                  R. F. Pearson   Application of magneto-optic effects in
                                  magnetic materials . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
                   M. C. Frazer   The dynamo problem and the geomagnetic
                                  field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--228
                    H. Rishbeth   Physics and chemistry of the ionosphere  229--249
              K. A. R. Mitchell   Low-energy electron diffraction  . . . . 251--271
                    L. F. Bates   The study and maintenance of physical
                                  standards  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--277
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--286
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288

Contemporary Physics
Volume 14, Number 4, 1973

                   Young S. Kim   The search for quarks in terrestrial
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--318
                       Tom Beer   The equatorial ionosphere  . . . . . . . 319--327
                   John L. Bahr   Photoelectron spectroscopy . . . . . . . 329--355
                   J. B. Hasted   Electron scattering spectroscopy . . . . 357--387
               S. Chandrasekhar   P. A. M. Dirac on his seventieth
                                  birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--394
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--398
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400

Contemporary Physics
Volume 14, Number 5, 1973

                     N. F. Mott   Metal-insulator transitions  . . . . . . 401--413
                  V. Valkovi\'c   X-ray emission spectroscopy --- Part I   415--438
                  V. Valkovi\'c   X-ray emission spectroscopy --- part II  439--462
                   R. M. Lemmon   Prebiological synthesis  . . . . . . . . 463--477
                    L. F. Bates   A new American compilation of physics
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--481
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--495
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496

Contemporary Physics
Volume 14, Number 6, 1973

              Sir Harrie Massey   Inelastic collisions . . . . . . . . . . 497--512
                J. C. Rivi\`ere   Auger electron spectroscopy  . . . . . . 513--539
                    W. J. Megaw   The background atmospheric aerosol . . . 541--557
                S. M. Hamberger   The development of high temperature
                                  plasma physics in the last decade  . . . 559--573
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--587
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--588


Contemporary Physics
Volume 15, Number 1, 1974

               S. Chandrasekhar   The black hole in astrophysics: The
                                  origin of the concept and its role . . . 1--24
              D. P. Jackson and   
                   D. V. Morgan   Computer modelling of collision
                                  processes in solids  . . . . . . . . . . 25--48
                   G. W. Series   The Rydberg constant . . . . . . . . . . 49--68
                       M. Shott   Physics in the open university . . . . . 69--85
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96

Contemporary Physics
Volume 15, Number 2, 1974

                   J. J. Quenby   Recent progress in cosmic ray physics    97--120
                    J. E. Geake   The physics of lunar and planetary
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--158
         Jacob N. Israelachvili   The nature of van der Waals forces . . . 159--178
                R. S. Pease and   
                  D. R. Willson   International collaboration in research
                                  on controlled thermonuclear fusion . . . 179--192
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196

Contemporary Physics
Volume 15, Number 3, 1974

             G. Backenstoss and   
                  J. Zakrzewski   Exotic bound states of strange hadrons   197--225
                 David S. Betts   Pomeranchuk cooling by adiabatic
                                  solidification of helium-3 . . . . . . . 227--247
                S. J. Swithenby   Magnetometry at liquid helium
                                  temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--269
               V. I. Little and   
               M. A. Cutter and   
                  P. Y. Key and   
                 R. G. Harrison   Scattering of light from light induced
                                  periodic structures  . . . . . . . . . . 271--298
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300

Contemporary Physics
Volume 15, Number 4, 1974

                    R. C. Brown   The surface tension of liquids . . . . . 301--327
                W. J. G. Beynon   Incoherent scatter sounding of the
                                  ionosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--352
                O. V. Lounasmaa   The superfluid phases of liquid$^3$ He   353--374
                   R. G. Jordan   Electrotransport in solid metal systems  375--400
                   J. M. Charap   The physicist's conception of nature . . 401--404
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408

Contemporary Physics
Volume 15, Number 5, 1974

                   J. G. Powles   Liquids --- the awkward in-between . . . 409--425
                   N. D. Twiddy   The steady-state flowing afterglow
                                  method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--444
                     M. J. Shaw   Penning ionization . . . . . . . . . . . 445--464
                   L. Rotherham   Nuclear power systems --- some
                                  principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
                   H. S. Lipson   Scientific papers of Arthur Holly
                                  Compton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
                   G. R. Bishop   Science policy and co-operative research
                                  in Europe  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--499
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500

Contemporary Physics
Volume 15, Number 6, 1974

           W. Deryck Chesterman   The ocean floor  . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--516
              J. S. Hardman and   
                   B. A. Lilley   The study of powder compaction
                                  mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--536
                 R. P. Williams   A convolution and Fourier-transform
                                  approach to paraxial optics  . . . . . . 537--552
                  K. H. Ruddock   From theoretical physics to biology  . . 553--558
                   W. H. McCrea   Physics in debate  . . . . . . . . . . . 559--561
                    L. F. Bates   Domain wall pinning  . . . . . . . . . . 562--564
                     N. Feather   Chadwick's neutron . . . . . . . . . . . 565--572
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--597
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--598


Contemporary Physics
Volume 16, Number 1, 1975

            R. D. Blandford and   
                     M. J. Rees   Extragalactic double radio sources ---
                                  the current observational and
                                  theoretical position . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
                       G. Peach   The width of spectral lines  . . . . . . 17--34
                 Geoffrey Allen   Polymeric materials  . . . . . . . . . . 35--49
                   P. F. Browne   Aspects of stellar evolution reappraised 51--68
                       W. Hayes   Scattering of light by solids  . . . . . 69--91
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--100

Contemporary Physics
Volume 16, Number 2, 1975

                   E. H. Putley   The hall effect and its applications . . 101--126
                     B. W. Dale   Mössbauer spectroscopy  . . . . . . . . . 127--146
          Malcolm A. D. Fluendy   Reactive scattering of molecular beams   147--172
                  D. H. Perkins   Neutrinos and nucleon structure  . . . . 173--205
                   W. H. McCrea   Trigger for disaster . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
                     S. E. Hunt   Technology arising from high energy
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
                 Norman Feather   The Cavendish Laboratory ---
                                  aristocrat's playground to people's
                                  workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
                      Anonymous   Book reviews: Reviews by Professor John
                                  Lenihan, Glasgow University  . . . . . . 215--218
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220

Contemporary Physics
Volume 16, Number 3, 1975

               D. Vernon Morgan   Recent advances in surface studies: Ion
                                  beam analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--241
                    D. Ter Haar   Pulsars  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--256
                       Tom Beer   Whispering galleries . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
                  D. J. Bradley   Some recent advances in lasers and
                                  opto-electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--286
                    O. C. Jones   Optical radiation scales . . . . . . . . 287--310
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--315
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316

Contemporary Physics
Volume 16, Number 4, 1975

                  K. H. Ruddock   Visual form perception . . . . . . . . . 317--348
            Denzil Taylor Smith   The sea: A physical resource bonanza?    349--374
                 A. E. Bell and   
                   A. D. Caplin   Dilute transition metal alloys and the
                                  Kondo problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--394
                     A. H. Cook   The importance of precise measurement in
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--408
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412

Contemporary Physics
Volume 16, Number 5, 1975

                F. J. M. Parley   The anomalous magnetic moment of the
                                  muon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--441
             J. S. Anderson and   
                J. L. Hutchison   The study of long range order in
                                  hexagonal barium ferrite layer
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--467
                   B. H. Briggs   Ionospheric irregularities and radio
                                  scintillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--488
                 Norman Feather   Twice thirty years of physics  . . . . . 489--498
                   Brian Bowers   Charles Wheatstone --- experimental
                                  philosopher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--512
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--515
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516

Contemporary Physics
Volume 16, Number 6, 1975

                     C. M. Hurd   Asymmetric scattering of electrons in
                                  metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532
                    B. J. Mason   The GARP Atlantic tropical experiment    533--546
                C. A. Bates and   
                     P. H. Wood   Magnetic moments and their interaction
                                  in insulating crystals . . . . . . . . . 547--560
                    R. D. Enoch   Magnetic domain studies on yttrium iron
                                  garnet using an infrared image converter 561--573
                    A. Stratton   Operational research: (I) its origins
                                  and development in government service    575--588
           W. H. McCrea, F.R.S.   Greenwich Observatory  . . . . . . . . . 589--590
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--610
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--611


Contemporary Physics
Volume 17, Number 1, 1976

                      Anonymous   Obituary: Sir George Paget Thomson,
                                  F.R.S. (1892--1975)  . . . . . . . . . . i--iii
                 W. V. Mayneord   SI units in medical physics  . . . . . . 1--12
      Margaret F. Cracknell and   
            Arthur P. Cracknell   Applications of ultrasonics  . . . . . . 13--44
                       T. Evans   Diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--70
                   N. W. Grimes   Crystal structures with asymmetric and
                                  off-centre atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--93
                B. H. P. Rivett   Operational research: (2) perspective
                                  and prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
             Sir Lawrence Bragg   The development of X-ray analysis  . . . 103--104
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108

Contemporary Physics
Volume 17, Number 2, 1976

                  D. H. Trevena   The stretching and superheating of
                                  liquids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
               G. F. J. Garlick   Infrared to visible light conversion . . 127--144
              J. P. Killingbeck   The use of pocket electronic calculators
                                  in scientific work . . . . . . . . . . . 145--168
                 Sir Peter Kent   Oil from beneath Britain's seas  . . . . 169--172
                      D. Weaire   The structure of amorphous solids  . . . 173--191
                    L. F. Bates   The bases of authority for our symbols
                                  and units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
                  Noman Feather   Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the
                                  Royal Society  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
                    R. D. Enoch   Magnetic bubbles . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--208

Contemporary Physics
Volume 17, Number 3, 1976

              C. I. Coleman and   
                  A. Boksenberg   Image intensifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 209--236
                   K. T. Dolder   Crossed beam experiments . . . . . . . . 237--248
      D. F. G. Durão and   
                 J. H. Whitelaw   Instantaneous velocity and temperature
                                  measurements in oscillating diffusion
                                  flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--274
                   J. J. Davies   Optically-detected magnetic resonance
                                  and its applications . . . . . . . . . . 275--294
                     A. H. Cook   Quantum gravity: An Oxford symposium . . 295--296
                      K. Parker   Peaceful nuclear explosions --- the
                                  state of the art . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--305
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--306

Contemporary Physics
Volume 17, Number 4, 1976

                    Dennis Shaw   Physics in the prevention and detection
                                  of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--330
                A. J. Berlinsky   Organic metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--354
                     P. Komarek   Superconductivity in technology  . . . . 355--386
                    P. S. Allen   Internal hyperfine fields in magnetic
                                  solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--402
                   J. G. Wilson   Nuclear tracks in solids . . . . . . . . 403--404
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--409
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410

Contemporary Physics
Volume 17, Number 5, 1976

                  G. L. Squires   The scattering of thermal neutrons by
                                  crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--441
                D. W. O. Heddle   Resonances in optical excitation
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--460
                       C. Bowlt   Thermally stimulated effects in
                                  dielectrics and their application to
                                  radiation dosimetry  . . . . . . . . . . 461--482
                    H. Rishbeth   EISCAT: A new project for studying the
                                  high latitude ionosphere . . . . . . . . 483--489
               W. Brunsdon Yapp   Essay Review: Nuclear Energy and the
                                  Environment. \booktitleCombined Effects
                                  of Radioactive, Chemical and Thermal
                                  Rebases to the Environment. Proceedings
                                  of a Symposium held in Stockholm, 2--5
                                  June 1975. Vienna, 1975. International
                                  Atomic Energy Agency. London, H.M.S.O.,
                                  pp. 358. \pounds 10.00.
                                  \booktitleImpacts of Nuclear Releases
                                  into the Aquatic Environment.
                                  Proceedings of an International
                                  Symposium held at Otaniemi, Finland, 30
                                  June--4 July 1975. Vienna, 1975.
                                  International Atomic Energy Agency.
                                  London, H.M.S.O., pp. 524. \pounds 14.60 491--494
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--505
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--506

Contemporary Physics
Volume 17, Number 6, 1976

               M. E. Clarke and   
                  J. B. Gardner   Refrigeration with expansion turbines    507--528
                  O. S. Heavens   Some recent developments in gas lasers   529--552
                   P. Mansfield   Proton spin imaging by nuclear magnetic
                                  resonance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--576
                     A. H. Cook   Measurement of distances to the Moon and
                                  artificial satellites  . . . . . . . . . 577--598
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--610


Contemporary Physics
Volume 18, Number 1, 1977

                     R. Morrell   `Zero-gravity' physics --- the Spacelab
                                  project  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
                   B. V. Barlow   Ground based low light astronomy . . . . 23--46
                   P. J. Grundy   Magnetic bubbles and their observation
                                  in the electron microscope . . . . . . . 47--72
                    A. J. Croft   Scientific aids for the blind  . . . . . 73--80
                   D. H. Martin   Probing solids and liquids (part 1)  . . 81--98
                    L. F. Bates   Essay Review: New growth points in
                                  magnetism: a review of
                                  \booktitleMagnetism: Selected Topics,
                                  edited by Simon Foner  . . . . . . . . . 99--103
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
                  B. E. Lambert   Essay Review: The insoluble plutonium
                                  hazard. \booktitleThe Diagnosis and
                                  Treatment of Radionuclides . . . . . . . 105--107
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--110
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112

Contemporary Physics
Volume 18, Number 2, 1977

                    R. S. Pease   The potential of controlled nuclear
                                  fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--135
                     G. D. Pitt   Developments in high pressure physics    137--164
                J. A. Ratcliffe   The magnetosphere  . . . . . . . . . . . 165--182
                C. H. E. Warren   Sonic bangs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--192
                   D. H. Martin   Probing solids and liquids (part 2)  . . 193--218
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--222
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224

Contemporary Physics
Volume 18, Number 3, 1977

                     N. F. Mott   Electrons in glass . . . . . . . . . . . 225--245
                 L. F. Brochard   Nematic fluids: Some easy demonstration
                                  experiments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--264
              J. P. Killingbeck   Some applications of programmable
                                  calculators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278
               Martin R. Parker   The physics of magnetic separation . . . 279--306
                       Tom Beer   Tropical meteorology . . . . . . . . . . 307--314
                       H. Bondi   Nigel Calder: `The key to the universe'  315--316
                J. S. Rowlinson   The hydrogen bond  . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
                   D. C. Leslie   Pulsed fusion reactors . . . . . . . . . 319--319
               W. Brunsdon Yapp   Science versus pollution . . . . . . . . 320--320
    Professor M. M. R. Williams   A review of: ``The JET project: Design
                                  proposal for the Joint European Torus,
                                  Commission of the European Communities,
                                  Brussels 1976. [Pp. xxx + 615.] \pounds
                                  9.80., Scope: Report/Survey. Level:
                                  Specialist'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322

Contemporary Physics
Volume 18, Number 4, 1977

                     W. J. Bray   Telecommunications --- the state of the
                                  art  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--349
                   D. G. Gadian   Nuclear magnetic resonance in living
                                  tissue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--372
                      P. Haasen   Precipitation hardening for mechanical
                                  strength, magnetic hardness and hardness
                                  of superconductors . . . . . . . . . . . 373--392
                     A. H. Cook   Standards of measurement and the
                                  structure of physical knowledge  . . . . 393--409
                    B. J. Hiley   Essay Review: Foundations of quantum
                                  mechanics. \booktitleConceptual
                                  Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, by
                                  Bernard D'Espagnat . . . . . . . . . . . 411--414
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--420
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421

Contemporary Physics
Volume 18, Number 5, 1977

                      M. Pepper   An introduction to silicon inversion
                                  layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--454
                  N. J. Skinner   Recent geophysical studies of the Kenya
                                  Rift Valley  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--470
                 G. G. Haselden   The liquefaction of natural gas  . . . . 471--488
              Malcolm J. Cooper   Compton scattering and electron momentum 489--517
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--524
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--526

Contemporary Physics
Volume 18, Number 6, 1977

                  E. J. Ansaldo   Uses of synchrotron radiation  . . . . . 527--546
                  S. J. Edwards   Applications of colour science . . . . . 547--554
               G. D. Hurley and   
                   J. F. Malone   Ultrasound in medical diagnosis  . . . . 555--570
                 J. R. Matthews   The behaviour of materials in fast
                                  reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--591
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--603
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--604


Contemporary Physics
Volume 19, Number 1, 1978

                 P. M. Williams   The evolution of the elements  . . . . . 1--24
               B. T. Debney and   
                   J. R. Knight   Terrestrial solar cells --- present and
                                  future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45
                   B. V. Barlow   Hypersensitizing processes in
                                  astrophotography . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--64
            William C. Stwalley   Long-range molecules . . . . . . . . . . 65--80
                   W. H. McCrea   Faces of the universe  . . . . . . . . . 81--82
                E. H. S. Burhop   The strong interaction . . . . . . . . . 83--84
                Boris v. Barlow   Remote sensing of the environment  . . . 85--86
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96

Contemporary Physics
Volume 19, Number 2, 1978

                      Anonymous   Obituary Professor L. F. Bates . . . . . 97--98
              J. Malinowski and   
                      A. Buroff   Photostimulated solid state reactions    99--108
      Stanford R. Ovshinsky and   
                    David Adler   Local structure, bonding, and electronic
                                  properties of covalent amorphous
                                  semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
                 E. Jakeman and   
                   G. Parry and   
                 E. R. Pike and   
                    P. N. Pusey   The twinkling of stars . . . . . . . . . 127--145
                      A. Hooper   Fast ionic conductors  . . . . . . . . . 147--168
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--175
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176

Contemporary Physics
Volume 19, Number 3, 1978

                Ian Solomon and   
                   Robert Golub   Climatic trends  . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--201
              Colin J. Thompson   The statistical mechanics of phase
                                  transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--224
                   B. Henderson   Colour, symmetry and imperfect crystals  225--267
                    D. J. Mapps   Magnetic domain demonstrations using the
                                  Kerr magneto-optic effect  . . . . . . . 269--281
                      Anonymous   Books reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--286

Contemporary Physics
Volume 19, Number 4, 1978

                    E. A. Stern   Structure determination by X-ray
                                  absorption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--310
      A. S. Borovik-Romanov and   
                L. A. Prozorova   Spin waves in antiferromagnetics . . . . 311--326
                 B. Coqblin and   
     J. R. Iglesias-Sicardi and   
                     R. Jullien   Spin fluctuations in metals: Application
                                  to the actinides . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--354
                 R. A. Dawe and   
                  E. O. Egbogah   The recovery of oil from petroleum
                                  reservoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--376

Contemporary Physics
Volume 19, Number 5, 1978

                 R. H. Williams   Electron spectroscopy of surfaces  . . . 389--413
                J. P. Connerade   The non-Rydberg spectroscopy of atoms    415--447
                  J. C. Lehmann   Iodine, a test molecule in modern
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--467
                       W. Hayes   Superionic conductors  . . . . . . . . . 469--486
                  Hermann Bondi   As much of cosmology as is possible  . . 487--488
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--492
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--494

Contemporary Physics
Volume 19, Number 6, 1978

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
                J. A. Ratcliffe   Wireless and the upper atmosphere
                                  1900--1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--504
                     G. Manning   Spallation neutron sources for neutron
                                  beam research  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--529
                   F. S. Feates   Nuclear power and radioactive waste
                                  management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--542
                   R. S. Nelson   The use of ion beams to study radiation
                                  effects in metals  . . . . . . . . . . . 543--569
                  W. E. Burcham   Nuclei and particles . . . . . . . . . . 571--572
                   B. V. Barlow   Hologram recording . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
                   W. H. McCrea   Astronomy and Cosmology  . . . . . . . . 575--577
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--582
                      Anonymous   Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--584


Contemporary Physics
Volume 20, Number 1, 1979

                  Alan Cottrell   The natural philosophy of engines  . . . 1--10
               M. J. Colles and   
               N. R. Geddes and   
                  E. Mehdizadeh   The optoacoustic effect  . . . . . . . . 11--36
                  Stig Stenholm   Laser-induced multiphoton transitions    37--54
            A. P. Cracknell and   
                    A. O. Tooke   The specific heats of
                                  magnetically-ordered materials . . . . . 55--82
               W. Brunsdon Yapp   Contemporary pollution . . . . . . . . . 83--84
                   B. V. Barlow   Optical and infrared detectors . . . . . 85--86
                      H. Lipson   Elements of X-ray diffraction  . . . . . 87--88
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--118
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119

Contemporary Physics
Volume 20, Number 2, 1979

                   A. B. Migdal   On the psychology of scientific
                                  creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--148
               Roger W. Hockney   The large parallel computer and
                                  university research  . . . . . . . . . . 149--185
                   B. K. Tanner   Antiferromagnetic domains  . . . . . . . 187--210
                   C. A. Murray   An astronomer's view of the pole . . . . 211--226
                Sir Nevill Mott   Nobel prizes in science  . . . . . . . . 227--228
                   G. R. Noakes   Einstein. a centenary volume . . . . . . 229--230
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 231--232
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--238

Contemporary Physics
Volume 20, Number 3, 1979

                     T. M. Rice   The electron-hole liquid . . . . . . . . 241--255
                   J. G. Morley   Composite materials: Designing for
                                  structural integrity . . . . . . . . . . 257--292
                    F. E. Close   The new particles and their significance 293--313
                    B. J. Mason   Weather forecasting as a problem in
                                  fluid dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--335
                Sir Nevill Mott   The electron-hole liquid . . . . . . . . 337--338
                   W. H. McCrea   Observational and theoretical astronomy  339--341
                   C. A. Taylor   The physics of vibration . . . . . . . . 343--344
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--368
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 369--371
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374

Contemporary Physics
Volume 20, Number 4, 1979

              R. J. Blin-Stoyle   The nucleus as a laboratory  . . . . . . 377--399
                     J. H. Leck   Ultra-high vacuum measurement  . . . . . 401--415
                G. L. Kulcinski   Fusion reactors: Their challenge to
                                  materials scientists . . . . . . . . . . 417--447
                     G. Pfister   New aspects of electronic properties of
                                  amorphous selenium and its use in
                                  xerography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--479
                        M. Motz   Some recent advances in optics . . . . . 481--482
                 Michael Pepper   Semiconductor physics  . . . . . . . . . 483--485
                Margaret Gowing   Essay Review: \booktitleMy life:
                                  Recollections of a Nobel laureate, by
                                  Max Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--498
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500

Contemporary Physics
Volume 20, Number 5, 1979

       F. García-Moliner   Physics in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--513
                   C. A. Taylor   Musical acoustics  . . . . . . . . . . . 515--534
                 A. M. Stoneham   The theory of defects in solids  . . . . 535--545
                        H. Motz   Undulators and `free-electron lasers'    547--568
                   R. L. Nelson   Nuclear power at a turning point . . . . 569--571
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--576
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 577--578
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--580

Contemporary Physics
Volume 20, Number 6, 1979

               O. R. Frisch and   
                    Nevill Mott   Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--583
                       H. Bondi   Gravitational capture  . . . . . . . . . 585--591
                   O. P. Nagpal   The sources of atmospheric gravity waves 593--609
                       J. Klein   The self-diffusion of polymers . . . . . 611--629
                  C. J. Latimer   Recent experiments involving highly
                                  excited atoms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--653
                Margaret Gowing   ``\ldots I have always lived very much
                                  in the present \ldots''  . . . . . . . . 655--657
                   B. K. Tanner   Experimental magnetism . . . . . . . . . 657--659
              Maurice Goldsmith   Is there hope \ldots?  . . . . . . . . . 659--660
                   W. H. McCrea   The theory of rotating stars . . . . . . 660--661
                      Anonymous   Books reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--675
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 677--678
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--680


Contemporary Physics
Volume 21, Number 1, 1980

             Sir Rudolf Peierls   Model-making in physics  . . . . . . . . 3--17
             R. G. Harrison and   
                  S. R. Butcher   Multiple photon infrared processes in
                                  polyatomic molecules . . . . . . . . . . 19--41
                     R. W. Cahn   Metallic glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--75
                   R. J. Araujo   Photochromism in glasses containing
                                  silver halides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84
      Sir Alan Cottrell, F.R.S.   Structural stability in physics  . . . . 85--86
          W. E. Burcham, F.R.S.   The forces of nature . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
                   A. D. Caplin   Clear as crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 94--94
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96

Contemporary Physics
Volume 21, Number 2, 1980

                 Martin J. Rees   Gravitational collapse and cosmology . . 99--120
                      I. Gutzow   Induced crystallization of glass-forming
                                  systems: A case of transient
                                  heterogeneous nucleation, part 1 . . . . 121--137
                   C. A. Taylor   Architectural acoustics  . . . . . . . . 139--158
                  J. Iliopoulos   Unified theories of elementary particle
                                  interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--183
                  G. H. A. Cole   Notions of space and time  . . . . . . . 185--186
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 191--193
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195

Contemporary Physics
Volume 21, Number 3, 1980

              John W. Vorreiter   Cryogenic systems for spacecraft . . . . 201--217
             C. M. Bhandari and   
                     D. M. Rowe   Silicon--germanium alloys as
                                  high-temperature thermoelectric
                                  materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--242
                      I. Gutzow   Induced crystallization of glass-forming
                                  systems: A case of transient
                                  heterogeneous nucleation (part II) . . . 243--263
                T. F. Smith and   
                T. R. Finlayson   Superconductivity and lattice
                                  instability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--275
                     K. Kendall   Sticky solids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--297
          W. E. Burcham, F.R.S.   The matter of physics  . . . . . . . . . 299--301
      Sir Alan Cottrell, F.R.S.   Effects of high-speed strain . . . . . . 301--302
           W. H. McCrea, F.R.S.   Gravitation in waves . . . . . . . . . . 302--305
                Sir Arthur Vick   Need for contemporary physics  . . . . . 305--308
              William C. Saslaw   A layman's guide to the new universe . . 308--310
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 323--325
                      Anonymous   List of books received . . . . . . . . . 327--328

Contemporary Physics
Volume 21, Number 4, 1980

                   A. P. French   The international commission on physics
                                  education  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--344
                     E. T. Hall   Advances in carbon dating using high
                                  energy mass spectrometers  . . . . . . . 345--358
                 Zden\vek Kopal   Planetary exploration by spacecraft  . . 359--380
                    B. J. Mason   The atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter . . 381--399
                  W. T. Welford   Laser speckle and surface roughness  . . 401--412
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--424
                      Anonymous   List of books received . . . . . . . . . 425--426

Contemporary Physics
Volume 21, Number 5, 1980

               S. Chandrasekhar   The general theory of relativity: The
                                  first thirty years . . . . . . . . . . . 429--449
                       W. Hayes   Self-trapping of electronic excitations
                                  and radiolysis of ionic solids . . . . . 451--461
            M. F. H. Schuurmans   The fluorescence of atoms near a glass
                                  surface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--482
                     J. E. Lynn   Helios: The new Harwell electron linear
                                  accelerator, and its scientific
                                  programme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--500
                 R. J. Nicholas   Quantum transport in semiconductors  . . 501--521
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--533
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 533--535
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--536

Contemporary Physics
Volume 21, Number 6, 1980

                    Arthur Vick   Dr. Kurt Mendelssohn, F.R.S. . . . . . . 539--540
                    S. Svanberg   Lasers as probes for air and sea . . . . 541--576
                    C. Domb and   
                   E. Stoll and   
                   T. Schneider   Percolation clusters . . . . . . . . . . 577--592
           J. M. Hammersley and   
                 D. J. A. Welsh   Percolation theory and its ramifications 593--605
                   B. W. Petley   The ubiquitous SQUID . . . . . . . . . . 607--630
                    K. F. Smith   Essay Review: Ultra-cold neutrons  . . . 631--650
               H. B. G. Casimir   Essay Review: \booktitlePeter Kapitza,
                                  by H. B. G. Casimir  . . . . . . . . . . 651--653
                Margaret Gowing   Atoms of war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--656
              Charles A. Taylor   Light delight  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--657
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--665
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--668


Contemporary Physics
Volume 22, Number 1, 1981

                 V. E. Cosslett   The development of electron microscopy
                                  and related techniques at the Cavendish
                                  Laboratory, Cambridge, 1946--79 part 1
                                  1946--60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--36
                    D. A. Swift   The electrical discharge . . . . . . . . 37--60
              P. K. Carroll and   
                  E. T. Kennedy   Laser-produced plasmas . . . . . . . . . 61--96
                       C. Bowlt   The use of radioisotopes in medical
                                  diagnosis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--115
            Anjan Bhattacharyya   A tunnelling-state model for the
                                  specific heat capacity and thermal
                                  conductivity of amorphous materials at
                                  low temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
              Dr. S. A. Penkett   Something in the air . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--141
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143

Contemporary Physics
Volume 22, Number 2, 1981

                 V. E. Cosslett   The development of electron microscopy
                                  and related techniques at the Cavendish
                                  Laboratory, Cambridge, 1946--79 (part
                                  II)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--182
                E. J. N. Wilson   The design and commissioning of large
                                  particle accelerators  . . . . . . . . . 183--213
                    David Tabor   Solid surfaces: Their atomic, electronic
                                  and macroscopic properties . . . . . . . 215--234
         J. E. M. Goldsmith and   
                   J. E. Lawler   Optogalvanic spectroscopy  . . . . . . . 235--248
                Sir Nevill Mott   Essay Review: \booktitleElectrons at the
                                  Fermi surface. A Festschrift to honour
                                  Professor David Shoenberg, edited by M.
                                  Springford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
                Boris V. Barlow   The art of sensorship  . . . . . . . . . 250--252
                     B. J. Carr   A weight-watcher's guide to the galaxy   252--254
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 259--259
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261

Contemporary Physics
Volume 22, Number 3, 1981

                 R. F. W. Pease   Electron beam lithography  . . . . . . . 265--290
                Peter Landshoff   The large electron positron collider
                                  (LEP) for particle physics . . . . . . . 291--298
         J. C. Macgillivray and   
                     M. S. Feld   Superradiance in atoms and molecules . . 299--310
              D. B. Lightenrerg   Quantum chromodynamics . . . . . . . . . 311--334
                D. J. Blutndell   Earthquake hazard and risk mitigation    335--347
                   F. R. Farmer   The assessment of risk in relation to
                                  major hazards, with particular reference
                                  to nuclear reactors  . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
                  P. E. Hodgson   Essay Review: Heavy ions.
                                  \booktitleNuclear Reactions with Heavy
                                  Ions, by Reiner Bass. \booktitleHeavy
                                  Ion Collisions, edited by R. Bock.
                                  \booktitleDeep Inelastic and Fusion
                                  Reactions with Heavy Ions, edited by W.
                                  von Oertzen  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--363
                P. C. W. Davies   On clusters and conferences  . . . . . . 364--366
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372

Contemporary Physics
Volume 22, Number 4, 1981

            Victor F. Weisskopf   The formation of Cooper pairs and the
                                  nature of superconducting currents . . . 375--395
                  G. H. A. Cole   Aspects of the physics of planetary
                                  interiors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--424
            G. D. Rochester and   
                   K. E. Turver   Cosmic rays of ultra-high energy . . . . 425--450
               L. Kay Nicholson   The neutron spin-echo spectrometer: A
                                  new high resolution technique in neutron
                                  scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--475
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--482
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484

Contemporary Physics
Volume 22, Number 5, 1981

                   G. W. Series   Thirty years of optical pumping  . . . . 487--509
                  P. E. Hodgson   Nuclear charge and matter distributions  511--532
                F. Graham Smith   New prospects for astronomy  . . . . . . 533--544
                 T. E. Allibone   Power in the Year 2000. Some
                                  reminiscences and forecasts  . . . . . . 545--558
                  G. H. A. Cole   Essay Review: Inside information.
                                  \booktitleThe Interiors of the Planets,
                                  by A. H. Cook  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--560
             Dr. B. J. T. Jones   The spacious firmament . . . . . . . . . 560--562
               Dr. A. Gilchrist   A wind in season . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--564
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--589
                      Anonymous   Short notices of books . . . . . . . . . 590--591
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--594

Contemporary Physics
Volume 22, Number 6, 1981

                      Kun Huang   Lattice relaxation and multiphonon
                                  transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--612
                   U. P. Johari   The spectrum of ice  . . . . . . . . . . 613--642
              Richard A. Anthes   Tropical cyclones: Structure, computer
                                  simulation models, and operational
                                  prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--680
                Margaret Gowing   Essay Review: Oppenheimer and Los
                                  Alamos. \booktitleRobert Oppenheimer:
                                  Letters and Recollections, edited by
                                  Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner.
                                  \booktitleJ. Robert Oppenheimer,
                                  ``Shatterer of Worlds'', by Peter
                                  Goodchild. \booktitleReminiscences of
                                  Los Alamos, 1943--1945, edited by
                                  Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder
                                  and Herbert P. Broida  . . . . . . . . . 681--686
                   G. R. Noakes   Interpretation and review  . . . . . . . 687--689
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--703
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--706


Contemporary Physics
Volume 23, Number 1, 1982

                    F. C. Frank   Snow crystals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
              W. K. H. Panofsky   Particle substructure. A common theme of
                                  discovery in this century  . . . . . . . 23--44
                Boris V. Barlow   Space for the telescope. An account of
                                  NASA's projected space telescope . . . . 45--63
                  Ian A. Shanks   The physics and display applications of
                                  liquid crystals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--91
                   W. H. McCrea   Essay Review: The universe in a
                                  nutshell. \booktitleCosmology, by Edward
                                  R. Harrison  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
                  G. H. A. Cole   The very earth did shake . . . . . . . . 95--96
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110

Contemporary Physics
Volume 23, Number 2, 1982

                  G. H. Kinchin   Nuclear reactor safety: Physics and
                                  engineering aspects  . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
                        V. Dose   Metastable hydrogen  . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
                  Peter J. Ford   Spin glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--168
                     M. Salomaa   The mobility of negative ions in
                                  superfluid $^3$He  . . . . . . . . . . . 169--188
          C. H. Llewellyn-smith   Particle physics theory  . . . . . . . . 189--190
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--202
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204

Contemporary Physics
Volume 23, Number 3, 1982

               V. Radhakrishnan   On the nature of pulsars . . . . . . . . 207--231
                      J. Geddes   Chemical reactions of atoms with
                                  molecules in colliding beams . . . . . . 233--255
                David W. Hughes   Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--283
                   A. F. Gibson   Lasers for compression and fusion  . . . 285--297
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308

Contemporary Physics
Volume 23, Number 4, 1982

                    B. J. Mason   Personal reflections on 35 years of
                                  cloud seeding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--327
                 R. H. Williams   The Schottky barrier problem . . . . . . 329--351
                   T. W. Conlon   Doping surfaces with radioactive atoms
                                  --- for research and industry  . . . . . 353--369
                S. J. Pennycook   High resolution electron microscopy and
                                  microanalysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--400
                      Anonymous   Essay Review: \booktitleThe Isotropic
                                  Universe, by D. R. Raine . . . . . . . . 401--402
                P. C. W. Davies   Testing the theory . . . . . . . . . . . 402--403
                    J. E. Paton   The permissiveness of nature . . . . . . 403--405
                T. W. B. Kibble   The underlying unity . . . . . . . . . . 406--408
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--414
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--416

Contemporary Physics
Volume 23, Number 5, 1982

                     D. J. Webb   Tides and tidal energy . . . . . . . . . 419--442
                    M. Ishikawa   Can magnetism and superconductivity
                                  coexist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--468
                     C. M. Hurd   Varieties of magnetic order in solids    469--493
                  P. E. Hodgson   Heavy ion reactions  . . . . . . . . . . 495--512
                 V. E. Cosslett   Essay Review: Thirty-five years on.
                                  \booktitleElectron Microscopy and
                                  Analysis, 1981, edited by M. J. Goringe  513--514
                   W. H. McCrea   Ether its comings and goings . . . . . . 515--516
                    A. D. Joffe   Foreign invaders . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--519
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--526
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--528

Contemporary Physics
Volume 23, Number 6, 1982

                   W. H. McCrea   Recollections of Sir Arthur Eddington
                                  O.M., F.R.S., 28 December 1882--22
                                  November 1944  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--540
                    G. E. Bacon   Neutron beams for the study of condensed
                                  matter: A view of the first half-century 541--552
                    K. Moriyasu   The renaissance of gauge theory  . . . . 553--581
                 J. Friedel and   
               D. Jérome   Organic superconductors: The (TMTSF)$_2$
                                  X family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--624
                   G. W. Series   Essay Review: Recycling radiation.
                                  \booktitleDissipative Systems in Quantum
                                  Optics, edited by R. Bonifacio . . . . . 625--626
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--654
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--656


Contemporary Physics
Volume 24, Number 1, 1983

                     P. K. Hoch   A key concept from the electron theory
                                  of metals: history of the Fermi surface
                                  1933--60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
                Pawel Pieranski   Colloidal crystals . . . . . . . . . . . 25--73
                 R. M. Hill and   
                 A. K. Jonscher   The dielectric behaviour of condensed
                                  matter and its many-body interpretation  75--110
                E. P. Wohlfarth   Essay Review: High pressure physics.
                                  \booktitlePhysics of Solids under High
                                  Pressure, edited by J. S. Schilling and
                                  R. N. Shelton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126

Contemporary Physics
Volume 24, Number 2, 1983

                   J. M. Robson   Experimental Studies of the Beta Decay
                                  of the Neutron: a Historical Review  . . 129--141
                     D. Spetser   Newton's \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . 143--162
             I. E. McCarthy and   
                     E. Weigold   Observing the motion of electrons in
                                  atoms and molecules  . . . . . . . . . . 163--184
                  F. M. Hamzeht   Neutrino masses and oscillations . . . . 185--194
        Sir Nevill Mott, F.R.S.   From Karl Popper's `postscript'  . . . . 195--197
                    J. E. Paton   Accident or design?  . . . . . . . . . . 198--199
          W. E. Burcham, F.R.S.   Nuclear beta-decay . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
                      Paul Hoch   Bohr's decisive years  . . . . . . . . . 203--204
                  G. H. A. Cole   Comparative planetology  . . . . . . . . 205--206
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218

Contemporary Physics
Volume 24, Number 3, 1983

                 Rudolf Peierls   The early days of neutrino physics . . . 221--228
                  L. J. Challis   Phonon spectroscopy  . . . . . . . . . . 229--250
                   P. Hannaford   Spectroscopy with sputtered atoms  . . . 251--270
                    A. J. Forty   The structure and chemistry of crystal
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--299
                Boris V. Barlow   Space flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Revd. Dr. J. C. Polkinghorne, F.R.S.   Essay Review: The Science and the Life
                                  of Albert Einstein: \booktitleSubtle Is
                                  The Lord: the Science and the Life of
                                  Albert Einstein, by A. Pais  . . . . . . 302--305
                    M. Ishikawa   Superconductivity in ternary compounds   305--307
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--314
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316

Contemporary Physics
Volume 24, Number 4, 1983

                    M. Blackman   The lodestone: A survey of the history
                                  and the physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--331
               Luigi A. Lugiato   Optical bistability  . . . . . . . . . . 333--371
                    N. H. March   Quantum mechanics has accounted for a
                                  large part of physics and the whole of
                                  chemistry. True or false?  . . . . . . . 373--387
                E. Roland Dobbs   Superfluid helium three  . . . . . . . . 389--413
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--422
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424

Contemporary Physics
Volume 24, Number 5, September, 1983

                   J. M. Irvine   The Constancy of the Laws of Physics in
                                  the Light of Prehistoric Nuclear
                                  Reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--437
                    J. E. Field   High-speed photography . . . . . . . . . 439--459
                    Ian W. Boyd   A review of laser beam applications for
                                  processing silicon . . . . . . . . . . . 461--490
                  P. E. Hodgson   Effective mass in nuclei . . . . . . . . 491--503
                 T. A. M. Doust   Ultrafast phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . 505--507
        Sir Nevill Mott, F.R.S.   Haphazard reality  . . . . . . . . . . . 508--509
        Sir Nevill Mott, F.R.S.   More from Karl Popper's `postscript' . . 509--510
                  O. S. Heavens   Longer than red  . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--511
           W. H. McCrea, F.R.S.   The once and future universe . . . . . . 511--512
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--529
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--532

Contemporary Physics
Volume 24, Number 6, 1983

                    G. E. Rhead   Metal monolayers . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--559
                  J. E. Enderby   Neutron scattering and the structure of
                                  liquids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--575
                   A. R. Potter   Digital techniques in communications . . 577--589
                 Francis Halzen   The search for matter in its quark-gluon
                                  phase  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--622
               Robert Weinstock   Newton's \booktitlePrincipia and
                                  inverse-square orbits  . . . . . . . . . 623--625
                   B. V. Barlow   Essay Review: Optical rotation sensors.
                                  \booktitleFiber-Optic Rotation Sensors
                                  and Related Technologies, edited by S.
                                  Ezekiel and H. J. Arditty  . . . . . . . 627--628
                C. W. Kilmister   ``Too complex to model?''  . . . . . . . 628--629
                   C. A. Taylor   Integrated optics  . . . . . . . . . . . 629--631
               H. B. G. Casimir   The historical development of quantum
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--634
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--638
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--641


Contemporary Physics
Volume 25, Number 1, 1984

                   G. W. Series   Laser spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
                  E. T. Kennedy   Plasmas and intense laser light  . . . . 31--58
                  D. Weaire and   
                      N. Rivier   Soap, cells and statistics --- random
                                  patterns in two dimensions . . . . . . . 59--99
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--104
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106

Contemporary Physics
Volume 25, Number 2, 1984

                  G. G. Roberts   Langmuir--Blodgett films . . . . . . . . 109--128
             Mehrdad Nikoonahad   Recent advances in high resolution
                                  acoustic microscopy  . . . . . . . . . . 129--158
                 M. Salim Banna   The electronic structure of the elements
                                  from gas-phase X-ray photoelectron
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--176
                    Nevill Mott   Professor Sir Harrie Massey  . . . . . . 177--178
          W. E. Burcham, F.R.S.   Direct nuclear reactions . . . . . . . . 179--183
                    J. E. Paton   Initial conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 183--186
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--206
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208

Contemporary Physics
Volume 25, Number 3, 1984

                   Nathan Wiser   The electrical resistivity of the simple
                                  metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--249
                     A. Ourmazd   The electrical properties of
                                  dislocations in semiconductors . . . . . 251--268
                  David Gubbins   The Earth's magnetic field . . . . . . . 269--290
      Professor E. P. Wohlfarth   High field magnetism . . . . . . . . . . 291--294
                G. D. Rochester   Early particle physics . . . . . . . . . 294--300
       J. M. Hammersley, F.R.S.   The rough with the smooth  . . . . . . . 300--302
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--307

Contemporary Physics
Volume 25, Number 4, 1984

                     B. Bleaney   Microwave spectroscopy in Oxford: The
                                  first decade. Part I: Microwave gas
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--329
                   M. G. Haines   Tokamak physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--353
            Robert F. C. Vessot   Tests of gravitation and relativity  . . 355--380
             A. C. T. North and   
                    J. E. Lydon   The evolution of biological
                                  macromolecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--393
                Sir Arthur Vick   Cockcroft and the atom . . . . . . . . . 395--399
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--414
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--415

Contemporary Physics
Volume 25, Number 5, 1984

                     B. Bleaney   Microwave spectroscopy in Oxford: The
                                  first decade. Part II. Electron magnetic
                                  resonance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--440
               D. R. Bailes and   
                   D. I. Bryant   NMR imaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--475
                David H. Foster   Colour vision  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--497
                   G. R. Noakes   Into the depths of space . . . . . . . . 499--499
            G. D. Rochester Frs   A non-specialist's guide to particle
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--501
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--511
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--514

Contemporary Physics
Volume 25, Number 6, 1984

                   G. R. Noakes   Guest editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--517
              A. S. Webster and   
                  M. S. Longair   Millimetre and sub-millimetre astronomy  519--534
            P. Bergé and   
                      M. Dubois   Rayleigh--Bénard convection . . . . . . . 535--582
                  A. J. Leggett   Schrödinger's cat and her laboratory
                                  cousins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--598
                   K. F. Bowden   Ocean physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--602
               W. Brunsdon Yapp   On size and life . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--606
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--616
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--618


Contemporary Physics
Volume 26, Number 1, 1985

               D. A. Eisner and   
                     S. C. Wray   Ion pumping in biological membranes  . . 3--21
           David J. E. Callaway   Lattices for laymen: A non-specialist's
                                  introduction to lattice gauge theory
                                  part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--48
                        C. Domb   Critical phenomena: A brief historical
                                  survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--72
                    J. E. Paton   From QED to sci-fi solid crud  . . . . . 73--75
                 D. P. Woodruff   Desorption induced by electronic
                                  transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92

Contemporary Physics
Volume 26, Number 2, 1985

           David J. E. Callaway   Lattices for laymen: A non-specialist's
                                  introduction to lattice gauge theory
                                  part II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--123
    Christopher L. Scofield and   
                 Leon N. Cooper   Development and properties of neural
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--145
                John O. Kessler   Co-operative and concentrative phenomena
                                  of swimming micro-organisms  . . . . . . 147--166
         Professor J. M. Charap   Quantum theory of gravity  . . . . . . . 167--168
                Charles Webster   Christopher Wren . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--197
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200

Contemporary Physics
Volume 26, Number 3, 1985

                    Nevill Matt   Electrons in non-crystalline materials.
                                  The last twenty five years . . . . . . . 203--215
                P. I. P. Kalmus   Experimental techniques in particle
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--239
                       G. Werth   Trapped ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
                      M. Pepper   Localization and quantization in silicon
                                  inversion Iayers . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--293
                   Dr. W. Gough   The physics of vibration . . . . . . . . 295--296
                   W. H. McCrea   Maxwell's equations  . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308

Contemporary Physics
Volume 26, Number 4, 1985

                  G. E. Stedman   Ring interferometric tests of classical
                                  and quantum gravity  . . . . . . . . . . 311--332
             I. J. R. Aitchison   Nothing's plenty the vacuum in modern
                                  quantum field theory . . . . . . . . . . 333--391
                   W. H. Mccrea   Chandrasekhar on Eddington and on black
                                  holes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--396
             Dr. Julian Barbour   Essay Review: Galileo, free fall, and
                                  the law of inertia. \booktitleFrom
                                  Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical
                                  Physicists and their Discoveries, by
                                  Emilio Segr\`e . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--405
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--414
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--417

Contemporary Physics
Volume 26, Number 5, 1985

                      Anonymous   Conducting polymers  . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
                       W. Hayes   Conducting polymers  . . . . . . . . . . 421--441
                  J. C. Camparo   The diode laser in atomic physics  . . . 443--477
                    S. V. Pappu   Information storage using alkali halide
                                  crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--497
       Professor Charles Taylor   The optical papers of Isaac Newton . . . 499--501
             Sir William McCrea   Under Newton's shadow  . . . . . . . . . 503--504
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--515
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--518

Contemporary Physics
Volume 26, Number 6, 1985

                   T. W. Conlon   Nuclear physics for materials technology
                                  accelerator based methods? . . . . . . . 521--558
                   K. H. Rieder   Surface investigations with atomic beams 559--578
            G. Venkataraman and   
             Debendranath Sahoo   Curved space and amorphous structures.
                                  Part I. Geometric models . . . . . . . . 579--615
         Professor J. M. Irvine   Key problems in physics and astrophysics 617--620
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--630
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--632


Contemporary Physics
Volume 27, Number 1, 1986

            G. Venkataraman and   
             Debendranath Sahoo   Curved space and amorphous structures.
                                  Part II. Gauge theories  . . . . . . . . 3--35
                 J. C. Gill and   
                    H. H. Wills   Charge-density wave transport  . . . . . 37--59
                   J. Woodhouse   The physics of the violin  . . . . . . . 61--62
                Dr. M. J. Kelly   Hot electrons in semiconductors  . . . . 63--67
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--86
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88

Contemporary Physics
Volume 27, Number 2, 1986

                    D. H. Davis   Hypernuclei  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--116
          J. W. Vandersande and   
                        C. Wood   The thermal conductivity of insulators
                                  and semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . 117--144
                 M. S. Duesbery   The mechanical properties of the
                                  dislocation core . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--168
         Professor J. M. Irvine   Physics of dense matter  . . . . . . . . 169--172
                Dr. A. D. Yoffe   One-dimensional compounds  . . . . . . . 173--175
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--196
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--200

Contemporary Physics
Volume 27, Number 3, 1986

                 Y. Margoninski   Photoelectron diffraction and surface
                                  science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--240
                 P. D. Townsend   Ion implantation --- an introduction . . 241--256
               Dr. P. W. Atkins   Entropy in relation to complete
                                  knowledge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
                 Dr. Brian Tuck   Diffusion in crystalline solids  . . . . 261--263
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--284
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--288

Contemporary Physics
Volume 27, Number 4, 1986

               Peter M. Watkins   Discovery of the W and 2 bosons  . . . . 291--324
                  M. S. Longair   The universe --- present, past and
                                  future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
                       H. Rauch   Neutron interferometric tests of quantum
                                  mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--360
                Dr. R. C. Smith   Distances in space . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
         Professor J. C. Taylor   Grand unified theories . . . . . . . . . 363--365
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--388
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392

Contemporary Physics
Volume 27, Number 5, 1986

                  L. V. Keldysh   The electron-hole liquid in
                                  semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--428
                 D. Exerowa and   
                   D. Kashchiev   Hole-mediated stability and permeability
                                  of bilayers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--461
                    B. J. Mason   Numerical weather prediction . . . . . . 463--472
              Dr. G. J. Russell   Polycrystalline semiconductors . . . . . 473--477
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--491
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--496

Contemporary Physics
Volume 27, Number 6, 1986

                 K. A. Browning   Uses of radar in meteorology . . . . . . 499--517
                       W. Hayes   Premelting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--532
                K. P. Maher and   
                   J. F. Malone   Digital fluoroscopy: A new development
                                  in medical imaging . . . . . . . . . . . 533--552
               Dr. R. F. Bishop   Quantum theory of finite systems . . . . 553--555
         Professor D. C. Colley   Quarks and leptons: The New Elementary
                                  Particles? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--559
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--586
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--590
                      Anonymous   Erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--591
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--597


Contemporary Physics
Volume 28, Number 1, 1987

           J. M. Pendlebury and   
                    K. I. Smith   Molecular beams  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--32
                  G. T. Seaborg   Superheavy elements  . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
                    B. J. Mason   The world climate research programme . . 49--57
                 Paul Horan and   
                    Werner Blau   Optical nonlinearity near the bandgap in
                                  semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--68
                Sir Arthur Vick   A life in science  . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
             Professor N. Riley   Wave interactions and fluid flows  . . . 71--73
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--104
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113

Contemporary Physics
Volume 28, Number 2, 1987

                   S. G. Lipson   Helium crystals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--142
                    B. R. Coles   Heavy-fermion intermetallic compounds    143--157
                     A. H. Cook   The inverse square law of gravitation    159--175
                   David Bailin   Essay reviews Supersymmetry and
                                  supergravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--181
         Professor H. W. Wilson   Nuclear power technology . . . . . . . . 183--185
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--211
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--216

Contemporary Physics
Volume 28, Number 3, 1987

                  Denis Gratias   Quasicrystals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--239
               C. D. Beling and   
                    M. Charlton   Low-energy positron beams-origins,
                                  developments and applications  . . . . . 241--266
                  I. Markov and   
                    S. Stoyanov   Mechanisms of epitaxial growth . . . . . 267--320
          Dr. Julian B. Barbour   Mach on the principles of the theory of
                                  heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
                 Dr. R. Learner   Horace Darwin and the Cambridge
                                  Scientific Instrument Company  . . . . . 323--324
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--336
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--341
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--345

Contemporary Physics
Volume 28, Number 4, 1987

             Anne-Marie Cazabat   How does a droplet spread? . . . . . . . 347--364
                  P. E. Hodgson   Superdeformed nuclei . . . . . . . . . . 365--382
             A. I. Ferguson and   
                 J. M. Tolchard   Laser spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen    383--405
Dr. Jean François Joanny   Polymer dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--410
             Dr. John D. Barrow   An astrophysical primer  . . . . . . . . 411--412
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--434
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--438

Contemporary Physics
Volume 28, Number 5, 1987

                    Paul Murdin   The supernova in the Large Magellanic
                                  Cloud  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--455
                    D. G. Blair   Resonant-bar gravitational radiation
                                  antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--475
                     R. Jullien   Aggregation phenomena and fractal
                                  aggregates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--493
               Dr. David Bailin   The large, the small and the miniscule   495--499
         Professor E. T. Jaynes   Comment on a review by P. W. Atkins  . . 501--502
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--515
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--516
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--519

Contemporary Physics
Volume 28, Number 6, 1987

                   Ian L. Spain   Semiconductors at high pressure: New
                                  physics with the diamond-anvil cell  . . 523--546
                  J. S. Dugdale   Electron transport in metallic glasses   547--572
               K. C. Bowler and   
                   R. D. Kenway   Physics on parallel computers part 1:
                                  The new technology . . . . . . . . . . . 573--598
               Dr. I. D. Lawrie   Phase transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . 599--601
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--612
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--613
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--616


Contemporary Physics
Volume 29, Number 1, 1988

               D. N. Batchelder   Colour and chromism of conjugated
                                  polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--31
               K. C. Bowler and   
                   R. D. Kenway   Physics on parallel computers part 2:
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--55
                P. Agostini and   
                      G. Petite   Photoelectric effect under strong
                                  irradiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--77
         Professor R. J. Taylor   Light from the depths of time  . . . . . 79--82
             Professor D. Olive   Unravelling superstrings . . . . . . . . 83--85
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102

Contemporary Physics
Volume 29, Number 2, 1988

                  Stig Stenholm   Light forces put a handle on the atom:
                                  To cool and trap atoms by laser light    105--123
           M. N. R. Ashfold and   
                   J. D. Prince   Multiphoton processes in molecular gases 125--157
                    P. F. Smith   Terrestrial searches for new stable
                                  particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
              Dr. P. E. Hodgson   Nuclear physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--223
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--228
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--231

Contemporary Physics
Volume 29, Number 3, 1988

               B. Henderson and   
                  G. F. Imbusch   Optical processes in tunable
                                  transition-metal-ion lasers  . . . . . . 235--272
            Madeleine Djabourov   Architecture of gelatin gels . . . . . . 273--297
                    Gerd Leuchs   Squeezing the quantum fluctuations of
                                  light  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
         Dr. I. J. R. Aitchison   Either `and' or `or' but not both  . . . 315--320
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--334
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337

Contemporary Physics
Volume 29, Number 4, 1988

             Robert G. Harrison   Dynamical instabilities and chaos in
                                  lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--371
               Virginia Trimble   Dark matter in the universe: Where,
                                  what, and why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--392
                  A. B. Pippard   The invincible ignorance of science  . . 393--405
Professor C. H. Llewellyn Smith   Quantum chromodynamics . . . . . . . . . 407--409
                 Dr. A. D. Yofe   Physics at surfaces  . . . . . . . . . . 411--414
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--427
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--431

Contemporary Physics
Volume 29, Number 5, 1988

                Michael F. Land   The optics of animal eyes  . . . . . . . 435--455
                  P. E. Hodgson   Multistep processes in nuclear reactions 457--476
                    A. Hartland   Quantum standards for electrical units   477--498
               Dr. R. F. Bishop   Path integrals and condensed matter
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--502
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--521
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--524

Contemporary Physics
Volume 29, Number 6, 1988

               S. Chandrasekhar   Recent developments in the physics of
                                  liquid crystals  . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--558
             Nigel G. Adams and   
                    David Smith   Ionic reactions in atmospheric,
                                  interstellar and laboratory plasmas  . . 559--578
            L. Léger and   
                    J. L. Viovy   Entangled polymers . . . . . . . . . . . 579--595
             Dr. John Pickering   An anthropic cosmogeny?  . . . . . . . . 597--599
                  Dr. G. Barton   Statistical mechanics need not be dull   601--602
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--610
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--612


Contemporary Physics
Volume 30, Number 1, 1989

               R. Stephen Berry   How good is Niels Bohr's atomic model?   1--19
                 M. W. Hamilton   An introduction to stabilized lasers . . 21--33
             W. G. Williams and   
                  S. W. Lovesey   Pulsed neutron sources and condensed
                                  matter research  . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--53
              James M. Lattimer   Gravitational collapse and supernovae    55--64
                  Gerry Gilmore   Galactic dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76

Contemporary Physics
Volume 30, Number 2, 1989

                 B. E. Patchett   X-ray astronomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
                     J. G. Dash   Surface melting  . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
                     D. T. Pegg   Some new techniques in nuclear magnetic
                                  resonance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--112
              Vincent Croquette   Convective pattern dynamics at low
                                  Prandtl number: Part I . . . . . . . . . 113--133
                P. C. W. Davies   A brief history of time  . . . . . . . . 135--136
                   R. F. Bishop   Statistical field theory . . . . . . . . 137--140
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--150
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152

Contemporary Physics
Volume 30, Number 3, 1989

              Vincent Croquette   Convective pattern dynamics at low
                                  Prandtl number: Part II  . . . . . . . . 153--171
               I. Martinson and   
                   L. J. Curtis   Spectroscopic studies of the structure
                                  of highly ionised atoms  . . . . . . . . 173--185
                A. G. Naumovets   Phase transitions in two dimensions  . . 187--201
                    M. Adam and   
                    M. Delsanti   Percolation-type growth of branched
                                  polymers near gelation threshold . . . . 203--218
                   A. P. Sutton   Modern theory of metals  . . . . . . . . 219--222
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--234
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236

Contemporary Physics
Volume 30, Number 4, 1989

                      D. Bailin   Why superstrings?  . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250
                  A. A. Chernov   Formation of crystals in solutions . . . 251--276
                   J. O. Newton   Spinning nuclei  . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--299
                      G. Barton   Foundations of statistical mechanics . . 301--302
                  M. C. Parries   Optical fibre  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--317
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320

Contemporary Physics
Volume 30, Number 5, 1989

              Joel D. Brock and   
        Robert J. Birgeneau and   
              David Litster and   
                  Amnon Aharony   Hexatic ordering in liquid crystal films 321--335
             P. D. Townsend and   
                       Y. Kirsh   Spectral measurement during
                                  thermoluminescence --- an essential
                                  requirement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--354
            M. H. R. Hutchinson   Terawatt lasers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--365
                     D. Gifford   Dose limits for ionising radiation . . . 367--376
                   David Bailin   Of conservatives, pragmatists,
                                  revolutionaries and cranks . . . . . . . 377--380
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--397
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--399
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--402

Contemporary Physics
Volume 30, Number 6, 1989

                 W. R. Salaneck   Conformational defects in a conducting
                                  polymer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--416
                    B. J. Mason   The greenhouse effect  . . . . . . . . . 417--432
                 G. Backenstoss   Antiprotonic atoms . . . . . . . . . . . 433--448
                    N. J. Mason   Laser-assisted electron-atom collisions  449--463
                     K. Burnett   The new physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
                  J. B. Barbour   Unrolling time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--482
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484


Contemporary Physics
Volume 31, Number 1, 1990

                 Jean Charvolin   Crystals of fluid films  . . . . . . . . 1--17
                 B. H. Bransden   Charge exchange in ion-atom collisions   19--33
          D. M. S. Bagguley and   
                     B. Bleaney   Ferromagnetic resonance at the Clarendon
                                  Laboratory, Oxford. A tribute to J. H.
                                  E. Griffiths (1908--1981)  . . . . . . . 35--42
             Sir William McCrea   Origin of wave mechanics . . . . . . . . 43--48
                   G. W. Series   Journey into light. Life and science of
                                  C. V. Raman  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--70
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72

Contemporary Physics
Volume 31, Number 2, 1990

            D. D. Vvedensky and   
                 S. Crampin and   
             M. E. Eberhart and   
                 J. M. Maclaren   Quantum mechanics and mechanical
                                  properties: Towards twenty-first century
                                  materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--97
                  P. E. Hodgson   Alpha clustering in nuclei . . . . . . . 99--111
                    Nick Kaiser   Bulk flows in the universe: Part 1 ---
                                  current cosmogonical theories  . . . . . 113--125
                   R. J. Rivers   Finite-temperature field theory  . . . . 127--128
                    E. A. Power   Diffusion and waves  . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
                   R. F. Bishop   Quantum many-particle systems  . . . . . 131--134
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--145
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148

Contemporary Physics
Volume 31, Number 3, 1990

                    Nick Kaiser   Bulk flows in the universe: Part 2 ---
                                  observations and implications  . . . . . 149--163
                D. J. Milborrow   Energy from the wind . . . . . . . . . . 165--178
                R. Mannella and   
            P. V. E. McClintock   Noise in nonlinear dynamical systems . . 179--194
                    B. A. Joyce   Molecular beam epitaxy-fundamentals and
                                  current status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197
                C. W. Kilmister   Absolute or relative motion? . . . . . . 199--202
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--215
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218

Contemporary Physics
Volume 31, Number 4, 1990

                L. I. Ponomarev   Muon catalysed fusion  . . . . . . . . . 219--245
                      C. Y. She   Remote measurement of atmospheric
                                  parameters: New applications of physics
                                  with lasers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--260
                       W. Weise   The pion as a composite particle . . . . 261--270
       Sir Francis Graham Smith   The Hubble Space Telescope . . . . . . . 271--272
                  D. J. Wallace   Statistical field theory. Volumes 1 and
                                  2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--293

Contemporary Physics
Volume 31, Number 5, 1990

                  P. E. Hodgson   The unification of the nuclear optical
                                  potential  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308
            S. Bjòrnholm   Clusters, condensed matter in embryonic
                                  form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--324
                   R. D. Kenway   Particles from scratch: The hadron
                                  spectrum from lattice gauge theory . . . 325--333
                   T. J. Parker   Dispersive Fourier transform
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--353
                   I. D. Lawrie   Unification and universality . . . . . . 355--359
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--369
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372

Contemporary Physics
Volume 31, Number 6, 1990

                     N. F. Mott   High temperature superconductivity; The
                                  spin polaron theory  . . . . . . . . . . 373--385
                   S. Myers and   
                     E. Picasso   The design, construction and
                                  commissioning of the CERN large
                                  Electron--Positron collider  . . . . . . 387--403
                P. T. Greenland   Laser isotope separation . . . . . . . . 405--424
                    Arthur Vick   G. R. Noakes (1906--1990)  . . . . . . . 425--425
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--436
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--440


Contemporary Physics
Volume 32, Number 1, 1991

           Christopher Chua and   
                   Kosta Tsipis   Nuclear reactor high-level waste: Origin
                                  and safe disposal  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                    J. Shen and   
            R. G. Pritchard and   
                R. E. Thurstans   Scanning tunnelling microscopy . . . . . 11--20
                    B. A. Joyce   Molecular beam epitaxy of semiconductor
                                  films --- atomic dimension control and
                                  the evaluation of crystal growth
                                  dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--34
                    Ed Copeland   The fifth essence  . . . . . . . . . . . 35--38
                   R. J. Tayler   Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
                      G. Barton   Can you go there from here?  . . . . . . 42--43
               H. D. Hochheimer   Ian L. Spain (1940--1990)  . . . . . . . 45--46
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--70
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72

Contemporary Physics
Volume 32, Number 2, 1991

            L. M. Celnikier and   
                       N. Meyer   A plain man's guide to the cometary
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88
               Pavel \vSmilauer   Thin metal films and percolation theory  89--102
               Virginia Trimble   Neutron stars and black holes in binary
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--119
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--139
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--142

Contemporary Physics
Volume 32, Number 3, 1991

                      J. Mathon   Exchange interactions and giant
                                  magnetoresistance in magnetic
                                  multilayers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156
                   R. N. Wilson   Active optics and the new technology
                                  telescope (NTT): The key to improved
                                  optical quality at lower cost in large
                                  astronomical telescopes  . . . . . . . . 157--172
              J. R. Sambles and   
             G. W. Bradbery and   
                      Fuzi Yang   Optical excitation of surface plasmons:
                                  An introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--183
                   G. Alber and   
                      P. Zoller   Laser-induced excitation of electronic
                                  Rydberg wave packets . . . . . . . . . . 185--189
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--215
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--218

Contemporary Physics
Volume 32, Number 4, 1991

         I. J. R. Aitchison and   
               N. E. Mavromatos   Anyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--233
                S. W. H. Cowley   The plasma environment of the Earth  . . 235--250
              S. R. Elliott and   
             R. G. H. Robertson   Detecting neutrinos from the Sun . . . . 251--263
               Dr. A. I. M. Rae   Quantics rudiments . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--286
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289

Contemporary Physics
Volume 32, Number 5, 1991

                     J. Wambach   Nuclear sound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--303
           G. P. A. Malcolm and   
                 A. I. Ferguson   Diode-pumped solid-state lasers  . . . . 305--319
              Alexander Milchev   Electrochemical phase formation on a
                                  foreign substrate --- basic theoretical
                                  concepts and some experimental results   321--332
                      L. Mestel   Neutron star magnetospheres  . . . . . . 333--334
                  S. M. Barnett   Exciting atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337
                    John Tilley   Superfluid helium 3  . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--362
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--365
            L. M. Celnikier and   
                       N. Meyer   A plain man's guide to the cometary
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367

Contemporary Physics
Volume 32, Number 6, 1991

                     C. J. Foot   Laser cooling and trapping of atoms  . . 369--381
         Günther Bauer and   
                    Heinz Krenn   Multilayered superstructures . . . . . . 383--402
                Robert W. Keyes   Limits and challenges in electronics . . 403--419
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--442
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
                   G. Alber and   
                      P. Zoller   Laser-induced excitation of electronic
                                  Rydberg wave packets . . . . . . . . . . 445--445


Contemporary Physics
Volume 33, Number 1, 1992

                        G. Hall   Modern charged particle detectors  . . . 1--14
                 V. L. Ginzburg   Once again about high-temperature
                                  superconductivity  . . . . . . . . . . . 15--23
           Jean Louis Viovy and   
                Thomas Duke and   
          François Caron   The physics of DNA electrophoresis . . . 25--40
                   G. Lebon and   
                     D. Jou and   
               J. Casas-Vazquez   Questions and answers about a
                                  thermodynamic theory of the third type   41--51
                    D. Richards   Chaos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
                       R. Banks   Geological structures  . . . . . . . . . 55--56
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--78
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80

Contemporary Physics
Volume 33, Number 2, 1992

                   P. C. Hewett   Gravitational lensing as a new
                                  cosmological tool  . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90
                   V. A. Dogiel   Gamma-ray astronomy  . . . . . . . . . . 91--109
                  L. J. Challis   Physics in less than three dimensions    111--127
                    D. Richards   Mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
                 R. C. Thompson   Time for new standards?  . . . . . . . . 131--134
                    E. Copeland   Modern cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--136
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--159
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161

Contemporary Physics
Volume 33, Number 3, 1992

                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
           Francis Graham-Smith   The binary and millisecond pulsars . . . 165--173
                    J. S. Lucas   Technology review: High hopes carried in
                                  orbit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
                   F. W. Taylor   Of seaweed and sunsets . . . . . . . . . 177--179
                     E. Squires   Essay Review: \booktitleCosmogenesis ---
                                  The Growth of Order in the Universe, by
                                  D. Lazer. ISBN 0-19-506908-0 . . . . . . 181--184
                    W. S. Steer   Scanning microscopy  . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
                  G. W. Gibbons   Twistor theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
                    J. S. Lucas   Physics for all  . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
                       J. Paton   Unifying field theory  . . . . . . . . . 191--195
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--218
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220

Contemporary Physics
Volume 33, Number 4, 1992

                     R. Peierls   Broken symmetries: (Dirac memorial
                                  lecture, Cambridge, 15 June 1992)  . . . 221--226
                    B. J. Mason   Snow crystals, natural and man made  . . 227--243
                     P. Evesque   Shaking dry powders and grains . . . . . 245--261
                   F. W. Taylor   Remote sensing of the solar system . . . 263--266
                  P. E. Hodgson   Nuclear physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--270
               A. J. M. Garrett   Entropy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
                       B. Farid   From groups to bands . . . . . . . . . . 275--277
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--301
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304

Contemporary Physics
Volume 33, Number 5, 1992

                Anatole Abragam   Nuclear ferromagnetism and ant
                                  ferromagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--312
           Peter W. Milonni and   
                    Mei-Li Shih   Casimir forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--322
                      D. Caplin   High T$_c$ chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
                    D. Richards   Motion and mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
                         C. Guy   Biology and magnetic fields  . . . . . . 327--328
                      C. Jordan   Solar physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
              P. St. J. Russell   Waveguides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--333
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--353
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356

Contemporary Physics
Volume 33, Number 6, 1992

                   J. K. Davies   Infared astronomy from the UK infrared
                                  telescope  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--368
                    T. E. Whall   A plain man's guide to delta-doped
                                  semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--381
                S. W. H. Cowley   Space plasma physics . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
                    I. M. Firth   Exploring music  . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--387
                    J. S. Lucas   Massively parallel . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--408
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--410


Contemporary Physics
Volume 34, Number 1, 1993

                 C. N. Ironside   Ultra-fast all-optical switching . . . . 1--18
                    B. J. Mason   Role of the oceans in global climate . . 19--30
                  D. L. Henshaw   Radon exposure in the home: Its
                                  occurrence and possible health effects   31--48
                   G. H. C. New   Is creation purposeless  . . . . . . . . 49--51
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--65
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68

Contemporary Physics
Volume 34, Number 2, 1993

                     G. L. Kane   Physics goals of the superconducting
                                  supercollider (SSC)  . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
                     G. G. Ross   A `theory of everything'?  . . . . . . . 79--88
               J. A. D. Matthew   Some quasi-atomic effects in the solid
                                  state  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
                     Tom Kibble   The final theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--115
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118

Contemporary Physics
Volume 34, Number 3, 1993

                  Gerhard Rempe   Atoms in an optical cavity: Quantum
                                  electrodynamics in confined space  . . . 119--129
                   V. S. Beskin   Spin-down of radio pulsars . . . . . . . 131--145
            G. E. Satterthwaite   Astronomical discovery . . . . . . . . . 147--150
                   A. D. Caplin   Superconductivity  . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
                 R. C. Thompson   Modern metrology . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--173
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176

Contemporary Physics
Volume 34, Number 4, 1993

                   R. J. Hughes   The equivalence principle  . . . . . . . 177--191
                    G. K. White   Solids: Thermal expansion and
                                  contraction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
                   F. W. Taylor   A history of science . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
                   A. R. Liddle   Modern cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--211
            P. V. E. McClintock   Chaos for beginners  . . . . . . . . . . 213--214
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--232
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234

Contemporary Physics
Volume 34, Number 5, 1993

                    Paul Mandel   Lasing without inversion: A useful
                                  concept? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
                Eshel Ben-Jacob   From snowflake formation to growth of
                                  bacterial colonies Part I. Diffusive
                                  patterning in azoic systems  . . . . . . 247--273
                  A. C. Elitzur   The origin of life . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
                     J. Hassard   Nuclear fixes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296

Contemporary Physics
Volume 34, Number 6, 1993

                   U. Smilansky   On hearing the shape of a drum, and
                                  related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--302
             Edmund J. Copeland   Inflation after the cosmic background
                                  explorer (COBE)  . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--316
                 S. P. Thompson   The 2175 Å interstellar extinction
                                  feature  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--327
                  E. J. Squires   Consciousness in the Quantum world . . . 329--331
                    L. H. Ryder   General relativity comes of age  . . . . 333--336
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--358
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360


Contemporary Physics
Volume 35, Number 1, 1994

                    C. S. Adams   Atom optics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
                        Shu Shi   Molecular structures, macroscopic
                                  nonlinear optical effects, and photonic
                                  devices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--36
                   R. D. Kenway   Virtual-reality science  . . . . . . . . 37--39
                    E. Copeland   Dark matter in the universe  . . . . . . 41--43
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--72
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74

Contemporary Physics
Volume 35, Number 2, 1994

                David W. Hughes   Comets and asteroids . . . . . . . . . . 75--93
                  R. A. Broglia   The colour of metal clusters and of
                                  atomic nuclei  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--104
          Jonathan Tennyson and   
                  Steven Miller   H$_3^+$: from first principles to
                                  Jupiter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--116
                  R. G. Keesing   Newton in Context  . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
                  Max K. Wallis   Fallible cometary scientists . . . . . . 119--122
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--147
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150

Contemporary Physics
Volume 35, Number 3, 1994

                 Lewis H. Ryder   Matter-antimatter asymmetry in the early
                                  Universe and violation of time reversal
                                  symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163
               Duncan A. Bryant   Electron acceleration in the aurora  . . 165--179
           D. Michael P. Mingos   A chemist's view of clusters . . . . . . 181--189
             B. G. Yerozolimsky   Free neutron decay . . . . . . . . . . . 191--208
                P. T. Greenland   The story of cold fusion . . . . . . . . 209--211
                    R. C. Smith   The significance of COBE . . . . . . . . 213--215
                    E. A. Power   Essay review: The insights of John
                                  Wheeler  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--219
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--228
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230

Contemporary Physics
Volume 35, Number 4, 1994

                  L. O'C. Drury   Acceleration of cosmic rays  . . . . . . 231--242
                 K. Codling and   
                L. J. Frasinski   Coulomb explosion of simple molecules in
                                  intense laser fields . . . . . . . . . . 243--255
                   J. E. Thomas   Measuring the position of moving atoms
                                  with uncertainty-principle-limited
                                  precision  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--267
              David A. Williams   Cosmic chemistry: Molecules in space . . 269--283
                   D. J. Miller   Accelerator physics  . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
                 M. J. Thompson   Conceptual astronomy . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--308
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--310

Contemporary Physics
Volume 35, Number 5, 1994

                 T. S. Monteiro   Chaos in atomic physics  . . . . . . . . 311--327
                  P. E. Hodgson   Nuclear structure  . . . . . . . . . . . 329--346
                 Mark A. Howson   Magnetism of thin films and multilayers  347--359
                 B. S. Wherrett   The physics of golf  . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--374
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376

Contemporary Physics
Volume 35, Number 6, 1994

             I. E. McCarthy and   
                     E. Weigold   Electron momentum spectroscopy of solid
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--384
                       C. Bowlt   Environmental radioactivity:
                                  Measurements and their meaning . . . . . 385--398
                      D. Bailin   One man's myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--405
                    N. H. March   The liquid state . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
             Stephen M. Barnett   A backward look at the future  . . . . . 409--411
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--431
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434


Contemporary Physics
Volume 36, Number 1, 1995

             W. R. Macgillivray   The role of resonant laser radiation in
                                  completely determining electron-atom
                                  collision parameters . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                    B. W. Shore   Examples of counter-intuitive physics    15--28
              Michael G. Albrow   The top quark  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
                Roger J. Tayler   Helium in the Universe . . . . . . . . . 37--48
                    R. Maartens   The story of black holes . . . . . . . . 49--51
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--76
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78

Contemporary Physics
Volume 36, Number 2, 1995

           R. T. Schumacher and   
                   J. Woodhouse   Computer modelling of violin playing . . 79--92
              Barry R. Holstein   The Aharonov--Bohm effect and variations 93--102
             Richard T. Hammond   New fields in general relativity . . . . 103--114
                  M. J. Griffin   Science for the layman . . . . . . . . . 115--116
                  R. G. Keesing   Newton's alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--136
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138

Contemporary Physics
Volume 36, Number 3, 1995

    Krzysztof Wódkiewicz   Non-local and local ghost fields in
                                  quantum correlations . . . . . . . . . . 139--147
          Richard J. Hughes and   
                 D. M. Alde and   
                    P. Dyer and   
               G. G. Luther and   
               G. L. Morgan and   
                     M. Schauer   Quantum cryptography . . . . . . . . . . 149--163
        Simon J. D. Phoenix and   
               Paul D. Townsend   Quantum cryptography: How to beat the
                                  code breakers using quantum mechanics    165--195
                  P. E. Hodgson   The ultimate technological fix?  . . . . 197--200
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--212
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214

Contemporary Physics
Volume 36, Number 4, 1995

                 Michael Harris   Light-field fluctuations in space and
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--233
                 V. S. Letokhov   Laser Maxwell's demon  . . . . . . . . . 235--243
           David L. T. Anderson   The tropical ocean global atmosphere
                                  programme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--265
                   J. A. Jacobs   The Earth's magnetic field . . . . . . . 267--277
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298

Contemporary Physics
Volume 36, Number 5, 1995

                    B. J. Mason   Predictions of climate changes caused by
                                  man-made emissions of greenhouse gases:
                                  A critical assessment  . . . . . . . . . 299--319
                      D. Waxman   Impact of computer algebra on physics    321--327
               Edward H. Kerner   How certain is the uncertainty
                                  principle? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--334
                   A. D. Martin   The structure of the proton  . . . . . . 335--353
                  G. W. Gibbons   Knots and quantum gravity  . . . . . . . 355--356
                    R. S. Ellis   The big bang for beginners . . . . . . . 357--357
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--372
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374

Contemporary Physics
Volume 36, Number 6, 1995

         Professor P. L. Knight   Rudolf Peierls (1907--1995)  . . . . . . 375--375
                Neil F. Johnson   Electron correlations in mesoscopic
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--387
                R. V. Willstrop   New developments in telescope design . . 389--410
                    R. S. Ellis   Hubble Space Telescope observations of
                                  distant galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
                James F. Annett   Unconventional superconductivity . . . . 423--437
                   J. J. Quenby   The review of high-energy astrophysics   439--442
                 Cyril Isenberg   The physics of bubbles . . . . . . . . . 443--444
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--456
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458


Contemporary Physics
Volume 37, Number 1, 1996

                  Keith Burnett   Bose--Einstein condensation with
                                  evaporatively cooled atoms . . . . . . . 1--14
                      C. N. Guy   The second revolution in medical imaging 15--45
             B. G. Yerozolimsky   Electromagnetic properties of the
                                  neutron  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--69
                    F. E. Close   Releasing the nuclear genie  . . . . . . 71--73
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94

Contemporary Physics
Volume 37, Number 2, 1996

                        M. Fink   Time reversal in acoustics . . . . . . . 95--109
                      A. M. Fox   Optoelectronics in quantum well
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--125
                    Greg Watson   Hall conductance as a topological
                                  invariant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143
                    D. A. Coley   Genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
                   A. H. Harker   Computer algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
                 E. J. Copeland   Observing cosmic distances . . . . . . . 159--161
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--171
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174

Contemporary Physics
Volume 37, Number 3, 1996

                 L. Wolfenstein   Neutrino mass in particle physics and
                                  astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
                  A. Bracco and   
                  F. Alasia and   
                   S. Leoni and   
                  E. Vigezz and   
                  R. A. Broglia   Nuclear rotations  . . . . . . . . . . . 183--204
                    Justin Wark   Time-resolved X-ray diffraction  . . . . 205--218
                  W. Zlmmermann   The flow of superfluid$^4$ He through
                                  submicron apertures: Phase slip and
                                  critical velocities due to quantum
                                  vortex motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
              Patrick W. Fowler   Fullerene stability and structure  . . . 235--247
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262

Contemporary Physics
Volume 37, Number 4, 1996

           Martin A. Hendry and   
                Roger J. Tayler   The age of the universe  . . . . . . . . 263--281
                P. M. W. French   Ultrafast solid-state lasers . . . . . . 283--301
                  Axel Schenzle   Illusion or reality: The measurement
                                  process in quantum optics  . . . . . . . 303--320
               Normand Mousseau   The `game of life' . . . . . . . . . . . 321--323
                L. M. Celnikier   Space and the human condition  . . . . . 325--328
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--344

Contemporary Physics
Volume 37, Number 5, 1996

                       K. Prior   The development of II--VI semiconductors
                                  for blue diode lasers  . . . . . . . . . 345--358
                  M. A. Barstow   Hot white dwarfs: An observational
                                  viewpoint  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--374
                Adriano Barenco   Quantum physics and computers  . . . . . 375--389
                   F. W. Taylor   Remote sensing of the earth from space   391--405
             K. W. D. Ledingham   The development of detectors for use at
                                  low light levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
                  S. M. McMurry   The beauty of mathematics  . . . . . . . 409--411
                      D. J. Bat   Physics for non-scientists . . . . . . . 413--415
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--424
                      Anonymous   Book received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--426

Contemporary Physics
Volume 37, Number 6, 1996

          Professor B. R. Coles   Professor Sir Nevill Mott (1905--1996)   427--427
                    Peter Coles   The large-scale structure of the
                                  universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--440
              P. A. Midgley and   
                    M. Saunders   Quantitative electron diffraction: From
                                  atoms to bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--456
             Ronald W. Hellings   Gravitational wave detectors in space    457--469
               S. J. D. Phoenix   Science and religion . . . . . . . . . . 471--473
                    K. Dholakia   Laser spectroscopy comes of age  . . . . 475--477
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--499
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--502


Contemporary Physics
Volume 38, Number 1, 1997

                    F. E. Close   Glueballs and hybrids: New states of
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
             L. V. Morrison and   
               F. R. Stephenson   Contemporary geophysics from Babylonian
                                  clay tablets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23
          G. Zs. K. Horvath and   
             R. C. Thompson and   
                   P. L. Knight   Fundamental physics with trapped ions    25--48
                     David Moss   Dynamo generation of cosmic magnetic
                                  fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
                 P. J. Ford and   
                 G. A. Saunders   High-temperature superconductivity-ten
                                  years on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81
                   P. R. Hobson   Essay review Popular particle physics    83--85
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101

Contemporary Physics
Volume 38, Number 2, 1997

               Alex N. Halliday   Radioactivity, the discovery of time and
                                  the earliest history of the Earth  . . . 103--114
                   M. J. Gillan   The virtual matter laboratory  . . . . . 115--130
                K. P. Maher and   
                   J. F. Malone   Computerized scatter correction in
                                  diagnostic radiology . . . . . . . . . . 131--148
              Y. Y. Makdisi and   
               K. S. Bhatia and   
                J. P. Connerade   Probing the spatial distribution of
                                  excited atomic states  . . . . . . . . . 149--155
                     A. H. Cook   Essay review The state of gravity  . . . 157--160
                  J. B. Barbour   Essay review Reflections on the aims,
                                  methods, and criteria of the history of
                                  science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--177
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--179

Contemporary Physics
Volume 38, Number 3, 1997

                P. T. Greenland   Antimatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--203
                Eshel Ben-Jacob   From snowflake formation to growth of
                                  bacterial colonies II: Cooperative
                                  formation of complex colonial patterns   205--241
                  B. F. Drolias   Essay review Interesting times for
                                  astronomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256

Contemporary Physics
Volume 38, Number 4, 1997

              Stig Stenholm and   
                 Martin Wilkens   Jumps in quantum theory  . . . . . . . . 257--268
         Gary A. Glatzmaier and   
                Paul H. Roberts   Simulating the geodynamo . . . . . . . . 269--288
             Nigel J. Mason and   
                   S. K. Pathak   Spectroscopic studies of ozone- the
                                  Earth's UV filter  . . . . . . . . . . . 289--299
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--311
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314

Contemporary Physics
Volume 38, Number 5, 1997

                     T. Ditmire   Atomic clusters in ultrahigh intensity
                                  light fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--328
                Paul Sholtz and   
              Michael Bretz and   
                    Franco Nori   Sound-producing sand avalanches  . . . . 329--342
                   M. G. Raymer   Measuring the quantum mechanical wave
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--367
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369

Contemporary Physics
Volume 38, Number 6, 1997

                    Martin Bier   Brownian ratchets in physics and biology 371--379
                      Marc Ross   Fuel efficiency and the physics of
                                  automobiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--394
              R. F. Jameson and   
                  S. T. Hodgkin   Brown dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--407
                   James Dunlop   Cosmic fireworks: Illuminating the
                                  history of our Universe  . . . . . . . . 409--427
                      G. Barton   Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
                    D. O. Gough   Essay review The Sun as seen by a
                                  stellar physicist  . . . . . . . . . . . 431--432
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--446
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--447


Contemporary Physics
Volume 39, Number 1, 1998

                    Keith Riles   Testing the Standard Model . . . . . . . 1--11
               Alasdair J. Gill   Defects and the dynamics of phase
                                  transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--47
                   H. Fearn and   
                   A. M. Arroyo   Seeing clearly through the atmosphere    49--66
              G. J. Milburn and   
                      He Bi Sun   Classical and quantum noise in
                                  electronic systems . . . . . . . . . . . 67--79
                  S. M. Barnett   Essay review Reflections on the EPR
                                  Paradox  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94

Contemporary Physics
Volume 39, Number 2, 1998

               Andrew R. Liddle   Fingerprinting the Universe- Future
                                  cosmic microwave background experiments  95--105
                   Fulvio Ricci   The search for gravitational waves: An
                                  experimental physics challenge . . . . . 107--135
                  Martin Plenio   Essay review Quantum optics  . . . . . . 137--139
                   R. Thurstans   Essay review Electron microscopy for
                                  beginners  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--160
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162

Contemporary Physics
Volume 39, Number 3, 1998

            Lawrence Wilets and   
                 James S. Cohen   Fermion molecular dynamics in atomic,
                                  molecular, and optical physics . . . . . 163--175
             M. E. Shaposhnikov   Electroweak baryogenesis . . . . . . . . 177--194
                  David T. Pegg   Essay review Reflections on time . . . . 195--198
                    Ian Bennion   Essay review Optical fibre sensors . . . 199--202
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--222
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224

Contemporary Physics
Volume 39, Number 4, 1998

              Tanmay Vachaspati   Topological defects in the cosmos and
                                  lab  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--237
                Marcelo Gleiser   Phase transitions in the Universe  . . . 239--253
                 T. N. Todd and   
                  C. G. Windsor   Progress in magnetic confinement fusion
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--282
          Jonathan Tennyson and   
              Oleg L. Polyansky   Water on the Sun: The Sun yields more
                                  secrets to spectroscopy  . . . . . . . . 283--294
                      D. Weaire   Essay review: Pride and precedence in
                                  Victorian science  . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--314
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316

Contemporary Physics
Volume 39, Number 5, 1998

            Jerome P. Gauntlett   M-theory: Strings, duality and branes    317--328
               David R. Meacher   Optical lattices-crystalline structures
                                  bound by light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--350
                    K. Dholakia   Atom Hosepipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--369
             Ricardo A. Broglia   Wires of seven atoms --- Feynman's very,
                                  very small world . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--376
                  R. G. Keesing   The history of Newton's apple tree . . . 377--391
                      Ken Zetie   Essay review Time's quantum arrow
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--395
                   J. J. Binney   Essay review Conflicting views of spiral
                                  galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--413
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--417

Contemporary Physics
Volume 39, Number 6, 1998

                   Lucien Hardy   Spooky action at a distance in quantum
                                  mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
           Martin B. Plenio and   
                  Vlatko Vedral   Teleportation, entanglement and
                                  thermodynamics in the quantum world  . . 431--446
                  Bob Eisenberg   Ionic channels in biological membranes-
                                  electrostatic analysis of a natural
                                  nanotube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--466
            Malcolm J. W. Povey   Ultrasonics of food  . . . . . . . . . . 467--478
                    Harry Jones   Essay review Magnets at work and play    479--482
                   M. K. Wallis   Essay Review: Field theorists strike
                                  back --- stochastic electrodynamics.
                                  \booktitleThe Quantum Dice, by Luis de
                                  la Peña Ana-Maria Cetto. ISBN
                                  0-7923-3818-9  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--486
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--508
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--510


Contemporary Physics
Volume 40, Number 1, 1999

                  C. A. Collins   Searches for primeval galaxies . . . . . 1--10
                P. T. Greenland   Sonoluminescence . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--30
              Aneta Stefanovska   Physics of the human cardiovascular
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--55
                        J. Fort   Information theory and blackbody
                                  radiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70
            P. V. E. Mcclintock   Essay review Puzzles of evolution  . . . 71--72
                        A. Cook   Essay review Understanding the flow of
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--76
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94

Contemporary Physics
Volume 40, Number 2, 1999

                A. J. Schofield   Non-Fermi liquids  . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115
                     A. J. Ward   Light on a lattice . . . . . . . . . . . 117--137
                  M. Freyberger   Essay review Visions . . . . . . . . . . 139--141
                      R. Rivers   Essay review Artful dodging  . . . . . . 143--145
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--168
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--171
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173

Contemporary Physics
Volume 40, Number 3, 1999

                 S. J. Blundell   Spin-polarized muons in condensed matter
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--192
                Derryck T. Reid   Few cycle EM pulses  . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
             R. H. S. Winterton   Newton's law of cooling  . . . . . . . . 205--212
                     J. Barbour   Science and history  . . . . . . . . . . 213--218
                   John Hassard   Nuclear safety?  . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--231
                      Anonymous   Short Notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235

Contemporary Physics
Volume 40, Number 4, 1999

           S. Chandrasekhar and   
              S. Krishna Prasad   Recent developments in discotic liquid
                                  crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--245
         Marcus V. Mesquita and   
      Aurea R. Vasconcellos and   
                  Roberto Luzzi   Complexity in biological systems . . . . 247--256
                       Tony Hey   Richard Feynman and computation  . . . . 257--265
                     D. T. Pegg   Time as a river  . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--269
                 John K. Davies   Observing with the Hubble Space
                                  Telescope  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
                  F. W. Bullock   Tracing the history of particle physics  275--278
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--293
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298

Contemporary Physics
Volume 40, Number 5, 1999

                   B. R. Fulton   Clustering in nuclei: Nuclear chains,
                                  nuclear molecules and other exotic
                                  states of nuclear matter . . . . . . . . 299--311
             A. Calogeracos and   
                      N. Dombey   History and physics of the Klein paradox 313--321
                   F. E. Fujita   Recent developments in Mössbauer
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--337
               Andrew R. Liddle   It's full of stars \ldots  . . . . . . . 339--341
             J. C. Polkinghorne   Science for the common man . . . . . . . 343--345
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--365

Contemporary Physics
Volume 40, Number 6, 1999

         K. W. D. Ledingham and   
                  P. A. Norreys   Nuclear physics merely using a light
                                  source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--383
               Klaus-Peter Lieb   Thin film analysis with nuclear methods  385--413
                 D. M. Campbell   Nonlinear dynamics of musical reed and
                                  brass wind instruments . . . . . . . . . 415--431
                 B. M. Garraway   Quantum State Conclusion?  . . . . . . . 433--435
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--459
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--463
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465


Contemporary Physics
Volume 41, Number 1, 2000

                    T. Uzer and   
           Ernestine A. Lee and   
             David Farrelly and   
             Andrea F. Brunello   Synthesis of a classical atom:
                                  Wavepacket analogues of the Trojan
                                  asteroids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
            P. Lunkenheimer and   
               U. Schneider and   
                   R. Brand and   
                        A. Loid   Glassy dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--36
                  T. J. Sluckin   The liquid crystal phases: Physics and
                                  technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--56
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59

Contemporary Physics
Volume 41, Number 2, 2000

                     K. J. Kirk   Nanomagnets for sensors and data storage 61--78
             Ekhard K. H. Salje   Ferroelasticity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91
                    Ulrich Herr   Metastable phases in interface
                                  controlled materials . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
                  P. E. Hodgson   Quantum philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 105--108
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--127

Contemporary Physics
Volume 41, Number 3, 2000

                P. I. P. Kalmus   Particle physics at the turn of the
                                  century  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--142
               Carlton M. Caves   Predicting future duration from present
                                  age: A critical assessment . . . . . . . 143--153
                     B. Drolias   Essay reviews: Not with a bang but a
                                  whimper  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
                   P. J. Dobson   Nanotechnology: Opportunities missed . . 159--161
                   J. M. Charap   Relativistic gravitation . . . . . . . . 163--165
                  S. M. Barnett   Scientific revolutions, paradoxes and
                                  paradigms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--185
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190

Contemporary Physics
Volume 41, Number 4, 2000

                   T. J. Millar   The evolution of solar systems . . . . . 191--202
              Leonard M. Sander   Diffusion-limited aggregation: A kinetic
                                  critical phenomenon? . . . . . . . . . . 203--218
              M. Ya. Amusia and   
                  Y. Kornyushin   Application of the nuclear liquid drop
                                  model to atomic and molecular physics
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229
                      D. Bailin   And yet it moves . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
                     S. Goodlad   Communicating science  . . . . . . . . . 235--237
                   F. W. Taylor   The second greatest story ever told  . . 239--241
                   R. Thurstans   Retelling the old story  . . . . . . . . 243--245
                  J. Syroka and   
                       R. Toumi   Making money out of physics  . . . . . . 247--250
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--271
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274

Contemporary Physics
Volume 41, Number 5, 2000

              Miles Padgett and   
                       L. Allen   Light with a twist in its tail . . . . . 275--285
                   W. L. Barnes   Spontaneous emission and energy transfer
                                  in the optical microcavity . . . . . . . 287--300
               U. Leonhardt and   
                    P. Piwnicki   Light in moving media  . . . . . . . . . 301--308
                  J. E. Harries   Physics of the Earth's radiative energy
                                  balance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322
                   F. W. Taylor   Measuring the universe . . . . . . . . . 323--325
                  P. E. Hodgson   The deep symmetries of nature  . . . . . 327--330
                 R. M. Sillitto   In a tradition of excellence . . . . . . 331--333
                    H. R. Brown   The arrow of time  . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--350
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--353
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357

Contemporary Physics
Volume 41, Number 6, 2000

                 Gordon L. Kane   Supersymmetry: What? why? when?  . . . . 359--367
                    H. Batelaan   The Kapitza--Dirac effect  . . . . . . . 369--381
              H. K. Cummins and   
                       A. Jones   Nuclear magnetic resonance: A quantum
                                  technology for computation and
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--399
                Anthony Chefles   Quantum state discrimination . . . . . . 401--424
                       K. Zetie   Essay review: Still seeking the ultimate
                                  in physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--427
               George H. Rutter   Essay review: Count Rumford --- a
                                  forgotten genius . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--431
                     R. Gilmore   Essay review: Symmetry not so Super  . . 433--435
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--452
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--457
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460


Contemporary Physics
Volume 42, Number 1, 2001

                Eddy Timmermans   Superfluids and superfluid mixtures in
                                  atom traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
               M. B. Plenio and   
                     V. Vitelli   The physics of forgetting: Landauer's
                                  erasure principle and information theory 25--60
                   B. P. Kibble   What is mass?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75

Contemporary Physics
Volume 42, Number 2, 2001

                R. M. Godun and   
               M. B. D'Arcy and   
                G. S. Summy and   
                     K. Burnett   Prospects for atom interferometry  . . . 77--95
               P. G. H. Sandars   Electric dipole moments of charged
                                  particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
                     David Bugg   Thinking machines  . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
                  P. E. Hodgson   Einstein's religion  . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
                   E. R. Davies   Telepistemology --- knowledge in the age
                                  of the Internet  . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--124
                   N. M. Clarke   Science as social history  . . . . . . . 125--127
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--150

Contemporary Physics
Volume 42, Number 3, 2001

             T. M. Sanders, Jr.   Semiclassical mechanics of rotons  . . . 151--157
              Y. Kornyushin and   
                  M. Ya. Amusia   On the frequencies of collective
                                  electron oscillations in nanotubes . . . 159--165
            G. E. Satterthwaite   A large man in a grand time  . . . . . . 167--170
                     E. Sheldon   Understanding the decay of nuclei  . . . 171--173
                    M. W. Poole   Particle beam optics and the physics of
                                  accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
              W. C. K. Poon and   
                   P. B. Warren   Physics going soft: The emergence of
                                  soft condensed matter physics  . . . . . 179--183
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--203
                      Anonymous   Short notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207

Contemporary Physics
Volume 42, Number 4, 2001

                    Simon Hands   The phase diagram of QCD . . . . . . . . 209--225
                  Jessica James   Physics in finance . . . . . . . . . . . 227--238
                P. T. Greenland   Quantum computing  . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
                 J. P. Cullerne   Free will and the resolution of time
                                  travel paradoxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--245
                   Duncan Steel   Carl Sagan: Practitioner, popularizer
                                  and proponent of science . . . . . . . . 247--249
                   M. B. Plenio   The physics of information . . . . . . . 251--253
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--271
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274

Contemporary Physics
Volume 42, Number 5, 2001

                    W. Gelletly   Science with radioactive beams: The
                                  alchemist's dream  . . . . . . . . . . . 285--314
                   R. Thurstans   Looking inside people: The physics of
                                  medical imaging  . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
            André Balogh   The future of space exploration: Is it
                                  asking for the Moon? . . . . . . . . . . 319--321
                   S. Galbraith   Beauty from complexity . . . . . . . . . 323--325
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337

Contemporary Physics
Volume 42, Number 6, 2001

                M. G. Green and   
                  T. R. McMahon   CP violation in B meson decays . . . . . 339--351
            Christoph H. Keitel   Relativistic quantum optics  . . . . . . 353--363
                 Robert W. Cahn   Intermetallics: New physics  . . . . . . 365--375
                  P. G. Coleman   Thirty years of gaseous positronics  . . 377--379
               Geoffrey Duxbury   The workings of science  . . . . . . . . 381--382
                  P. E. Hodgson   Science and Religion . . . . . . . . . . 383--386
                Anthony Garrett   Reality cheque . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--403
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407


Contemporary Physics
Volume 43, Number 1, 2002

                    B. J. Mason   The role of clouds in the radiative
                                  balance of the atmosphere and their
                                  effects on climate . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                   David Waxman   A model of population genetics and its
                                  mathematical relation to quantum theory  13--20
                  Jessica James   Politically correct, but physically
                                  confusing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49

Contemporary Physics
Volume 43, Number 2, 2002

             Shaaban Khalil and   
            Carlos Muñoz   The enigma of the dark matter  . . . . . 51--61
             John Singleton and   
                 Charles Mielke   Quasi-two-dimensional organic
                                  superconductors: A review  . . . . . . . 63--96
          Barry M. Garraway and   
           Kalle-Antti Suominen   Wave packet dynamics in molecules  . . . 97--114
                     E. Sheldon   The mystique of mesons and cosmic
                                  radiation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120
                      Anonymous   Book review  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--142
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145

Contemporary Physics
Volume 43, Number 3, 2002

             B. M. Garraway and   
                    S. Stenholm   Does a flying electron spin? . . . . . . 147--160
               Rajpal S. Sirohi   Speckle interferometry . . . . . . . . . 161--180
                   A. A. Watson   Cosmic rays of the highest energies  . . 181--195
            Harry Pinkerton and   
              Lionel Wilson and   
                  Ray MacDonald   The transport and eruption of magma from
                                  volcanoes: A review  . . . . . . . . . . 197--210
                     R. Gilmore   The wily colonial boy  . . . . . . . . . 211--213
                 P. A. Hatherly   The legacy of Apollo . . . . . . . . . . 215--217
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--240

Contemporary Physics
Volume 43, Number 4, 2002

           Justin E. Molloy and   
               Miles J. Padgett   Lights, action: Optical tweezers . . . . 241--258
                J. F. Ralph and   
                   M. Bernhardt   Smart imaging in the infrared  . . . . . 259--272
                Brian Henderson   Spectroscopic effects of disorder in
                                  laser materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--300
                      D. Bailin   Once upon a time, in the Soviet Union
                                  \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
                     G. J. Pert   Fusion in prospect . . . . . . . . . . . 303--306
                  S. L. Altmann   The science wars . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--324

Contemporary Physics
Volume 43, Number 5, 2002

               Grahame A. Blair   The future linear collider . . . . . . . 325--338
                   A. J. Barger   Tracing activity in distant supermassive
                                  black holes with X-rays  . . . . . . . . 339--349
           Richard J. Warburton   Self-assembled semiconductor quantum
                                  dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
                 N. I. Zheludev   Nonlinear optics on the nanoscale  . . . 365--377
                D. G. Luchinsky   Deterministic patterns of noise and the
                                  control of chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--395
                       J. Byrne   Illusion and reality in the quantum
                                  world  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--400
                  T. M. Sanders   Heisenberg and the German bomb . . . . . 401--403
                   D. J. Jacobs   How we got here  . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--425

Contemporary Physics
Volume 43, Number 6, 2002

                     J. G. Dash   Melting from one to two to three
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--436
                    Jon Loveday   The Sloan Digital Sky Survey . . . . . . 437--449
               Timothy A. McKay   When light goes astray: Gravitational
                                  lensing in astrophysics  . . . . . . . . 451--460
                  P. E. Hodgson   Alpha-particle clustering in nuclear
                                  reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--472
       J. D. T. Arruda-Neto and   
                S. S. Dutra and   
                  J. Arrais and   
                        J. Mesa   Physics in organizations: A percolating
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--479
                 D. G. C. Jones   Time to leave the alchemist's cave?  . . 481--484
                     John Mason   From lightning to nuclear fusion . . . . 485--491
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--505
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--510


Contemporary Physics
Volume 44, Number 1, 2003

                        Bob Ott   Positron emission tomography: A view of
                                  the body's function  . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
              Peter D. Townsend   Photocathodes --- past performance and
                                  future potential . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--34
              Kam S. Arnold and   
                      C. Y. She   Metal fluorescence lidar (light
                                  detection and ranging) and the middle
                                  atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--49
                   Tien D. Kieu   Computing the non-computable . . . . . . 51--71
               Andrew J. Benson   Essay review --- A few of my favourite
                                  things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
                 Derry W. Jones   Essay review --- Nuclear radiation,
                                  radioactivity and safety . . . . . . . . 77--79
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97

Contemporary Physics
Volume 44, Number 2, 2003

                   R. S. Conroy   Frequency standards, metrology and
                                  fundamental constants  . . . . . . . . . 99--135
             Jonathan Leach and   
              Miles Padgett and   
              Johannes Courtial   Fractals in pixellated video feedback    137--143
              Emil Polturak and   
                        Nir Gov   Inside a quantum solid . . . . . . . . . 145--151
                J. I. B. Wilson   Essay Review --- Scholarly froth and
                                  engineering skeletons. \booktitleThe
                                  Physics of Foams, by D. Weaire and S.
                                  Hutzler. ISBN 0-19-851097-7 (paperback),
                                  0-19-850551-5 (hardback) . . . . . . . . 153--155
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--190
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192

Contemporary Physics
Volume 44, Number 3, 2003

                 Shaaban Khalil   Search for supersymmetry at LHC  . . . . 193--201
                    Ulrich Samm   Controlled thermonuclear fusion at the
                                  beginning of a new era . . . . . . . . . 203--217
                     Ben Morgan   Direct detection of WIMP dark matter . . 219--235
            Alessio Farhadi and   
              Dimitri Vvedensky   Risk, randomness, crashes and quants . . 237--257
                     A. Vourdas   Interaction of mesoscopic Josephson
                                  devices with non-classical microwaves    259--264
                      Cm Linton   Signs of life  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
                       Dw Jones   Fusion research and international
                                  scientific collaboration . . . . . . . . 269--272
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
                      Anonymous   Book Received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287

Contemporary Physics
Volume 44, Number 4, 2003

                     Gl Squires   The discovery of the structure of DNA    289--305
                       J. Kempe   Quantum random walks: An introductory
                                  overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--327
               Av Sergienko and   
                      Gs Jaeger   Quantum information processing and
                                  precise optical measurement with
                                  entangled-photon pairs . . . . . . . . . 341--356
                   Peter Bussey   Nature in all its wonders  . . . . . . . 357--360
                      Alan Cook   Essay Review: The times of their lives,
                                  Pauli and company [\booktitleNo Time to
                                  Be Brief. A Scientific Biography of
                                  Wolfgang Pauli. By C. P. Enz. (Oxford
                                  University Press, 2002.). Pp. viii +
                                  573. \pounds 35.00 (hardback). ISBN
                                  0-19-856479-1. Scope: biography. Level:
                                  non-specialist]  . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--387

Contemporary Physics
Volume 44, Number 5, 2003

                Valverde Jm and   
             Castellanos A. and   
                Quintanilla Mas   The memory of granular materials . . . . 389--399
          Michael Rosenblum and   
                Arkady Pikovsky   Synchronization: From pendulum clocks to
                                  chaotic lasers and chemical oscillators  401--416
                    J. Chin and   
                 J. Harting and   
                     S. Jha and   
                 Pv Coveney and   
                  Ar Porter and   
                     Sm Pickles   Steering in computational science:
                                  Mesoscale modelling and simulation . . . 417--434
                    Probert Mij   Molecular dynamics studies of liquids
                                  using a Beowulf computer . . . . . . . . 435--450
               Lyndsay Fletcher   The costs and benefits of space weather  451--453
                    Derry Jones   Fusion research and international
                                  scientific collaboration . . . . . . . . 455--458
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--467
                      Anonymous   Book Received  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--471

Contemporary Physics
Volume 44, Number 6, 2003

          Brian P. Anderson and   
                 Pierre Meystre   Nonlinear atom optics  . . . . . . . . . 473--483
                 Arttu Rajantie   Defect formation in the early universe   485--502
                Graham M. Shore   Quantum gravitational optics . . . . . . 503--521
                       Ar Engel   Have gamma-ray bursts kept their
                                  secrets? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--526
                     J. Hartley   Entanglement for the masses  . . . . . . 527--528
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--545
                      Anonymous   Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--548
                      Anonymous   Books Reviewed: author index . . . . . . 549--552
                      Anonymous   Books Reviewed: title index  . . . . . . 553--555


Contemporary Physics
Volume 45, Number 1, 2004

                      C. Durkan   Detection of single electronic spins by
                                  scanning tunnelling microscopy . . . . . 1--10
              Sarah Anne Harris   The physics of DNA stretching  . . . . . 11--30
            Jacob D. Bekenstein   Black holes and information theory . . . 31--43
                     Cd Bertram   Flow phenomena in floppy tubes . . . . . 45--60
                 Pa Hatherly Dr   Where is everybody?  . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
                 Julian Barbour   Is nature supernatural?  . . . . . . . . 65--69
                 Robert W. Cahn   Nobel idiosyncracies: a review of
                                  \booktitleNobel Lectures: Physics
                                  (1996--2000). Edited by Gösta Ekspong.
                                  (World Scientific, 2002). Pp. ix + 485.
                                  ISBN 981-238-004-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 71--73
                  C. J. Maxwell   The heart of the matter  . . . . . . . . 75--77
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92

Contemporary Physics
Volume 45, Number 2, 2004

                       U. Fantz   Optical phenomena in the open air  . . . 93--108
                        Sj Rose   Set the controls for the heart of the
                                  Sun  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121
                 Jl Flowers and   
                   Ha Klein and   
                    Hs Margolis   Hydrogenic systems, frequency standards
                                  and fundamental constants  . . . . . . . 123--145
               Jmr Parrondo and   
              Luis Dinís   Brownian motion and gambling: from
                                  ratchets to paradoxical games  . . . . . 147--157
               Richard S. Ellis   Astrobiology: a respectable new science  159--162
             Anthony Jm Garrett   Quantum mechanics: cleaning up
                                  metaphysical baggage . . . . . . . . . . 163--165
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--189

Contemporary Physics
Volume 45, Number 3, 2004

                      Jb Pendry   Negative refraction  . . . . . . . . . . 191--202
               Pavel Bakule and   
              Elvezio Morenzoni   Generation and applications of slow
                                  polarized muons  . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
                        Ph Brax   The Cosmological constant problem  . . . 227--236
                  Fv Kusmartsev   Electronic molecules in semiconductors
                                  and other novel materials  . . . . . . . 237--250
                  Dr. Matravers   Does the Universe have a mask? . . . . . 251--254
                  M. Freyberger   The new \em Fundamentals . . . . . . . . 255--256
               Simon L. Altmann   Comments on `Essay review Is nature
                                  supernatural?' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--276

Contemporary Physics
Volume 45, Number 4, 2004

                  Rs Conroy and   
                  C. Danilowicz   Unravelling DNA  . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--302
               Dg Angelakis and   
                  Pl Knight and   
                  E. Paspalakis   Photonic crystals and inhibition of
                                  spontaneous emission: an introduction    303--318
                Norman McCubbin   Beauty in physics: the legacy of Paul
                                  Dirac  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--333
                     E. Sheldon   Per gravitas ad astra  . . . . . . . . . 335--339
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--366

Contemporary Physics
Volume 45, Number 5, 2004

                      D. Jaksch   Optical lattices, ultracold atoms and
                                  quantum information processing . . . . . 367--381
                 G. Charvin and   
             J.-F. Allemand and   
                  Tr Strick and   
                D. Bensimon and   
                   V. Croquette   Twisting DNA: single molecule studies    383--403
               Dirk Helbing and   
                      Kai Nagel   The physics of traffic and regional
                                  development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--426
                Peter J. Bussey   Pressing to the extremes . . . . . . . . 427--430
                      Anonymous   Short Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--431
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--454

Contemporary Physics
Volume 45, Number 6, 2004

                       Ts Evans   Complex networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--474
                 Randall Peters   Friction at the mesoscale  . . . . . . . 475--490
                       K. Zuber   Double beta decay  . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
           F. Sagués and   
                      Jm Sancho   Patterns out of noise  . . . . . . . . . 503--514
                  D. R. Wilkins   A problem-centred approach to the
                                  history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 515--517
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--520
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--541


Contemporary Physics
Volume 46, Number 1, 2005

             Jelena Maricic and   
                   John Learned   The KamLAND anti-neutrino oscillation
                                  experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                 D. McGloin and   
                    K. Dholakia   Bessel beams: Diffraction in a new light 15--28
       Antonio Chrysostomou and   
                     Phil Lucas   The formation of stars . . . . . . . . . 29--40
                    Martin Bier   Modelling processive motor proteins:
                                  Moving on two legs in the microscopic
                                  realm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51
                     Sl Altmann   Complexity in everything . . . . . . . . 53--56
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75

Contemporary Physics
Volume 46, Number 2, 2005

                 Hiranya Peiris   First year \em Wilkinson Microwave
                                  Anisotropy Probe results: Implications
                                  for cosmology and inflation  . . . . . . 77--91
                   Jj Halliwell   How the quantum universe became
                                  classical  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
                Kenneth Baldwin   Metastable helium: Atom optics with
                                  nano-grenades  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--120
                       Rk Janev   Atomic and molecular physics issues in
                                  current thermonuclear fusion research    121--140
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--159

Contemporary Physics
Volume 46, Number 3, 2005

              Ferruccio Renzoni   Cold atom realizations of Brownian
                                  motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--171
              Mark Oxborrow and   
           Alastair G. Sinclair   Single-photon sources  . . . . . . . . . 173--206
                       Cj Isham   Is it true; or is it false; or somewhere
                                  in between? The logic of quantum theory  207--219
                 Derry W. Jones   Remarkable physicists: from Galileo to
                                  Yukawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--247

Contemporary Physics
Volume 46, Number 4, 2005

                    Mp Blencowe   Nanoelectromechanical systems  . . . . . 249--264
      Manuel Arrayás and   
          José L. Trueba   Investigations of pre-breakdown
                                  phenomena: streamer discharges . . . . . 265--276
                 Carl M. Bender   Introduction to $ \cal P T $-symmetric
                                  quantum theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--292
                      Anonymous   Short notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--312

Contemporary Physics
Volume 46, Number 5, 2005

                A.-C. Davis and   
                     Twb Kibble   Fundamental cosmic strings . . . . . . . 313--322
                M. E. J. Newman   Power laws, Pareto distributions and
                                  Zipf's law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--351
              Lawrence W. Jones   Cosmic-ray physics in the space age  . . 353--371
                      Anonymous   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--393

Contemporary Physics
Volume 46, Number 6, 2005

             Hans-A. Bachor and   
               Claude Fabre and   
               Ping Koy Lam and   
                  Nicolas Treps   Teaching a laser beam to go straight . . 395--405
         Timothy P. Spiller and   
           William J. Munro and   
            Sean D. Barrett and   
                     Pieter Kok   An introduction to quantum information
                                  processing: applications and
                                  realizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--436
                    Yasser Omar   Indistinguishable particles in quantum
                                  mechanics: an introduction . . . . . . . 437--448
                     E. Sheldon   The regimen of general relativity  . . . 449--452
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--470
                      Anonymous   Books Reviewed: author index . . . . . . 471--476
                      Anonymous   Books Reviewed: title index  . . . . . . 477--480


Contemporary Physics
Volume 47, Number 1, 2006

                     Fay Dowker   Causal sets as discrete spacetime  . . . 1--9
                Hartmut Pilkuhn   Klein--Gordon equation for atoms . . . . 11--24
                B. T. H. Varcoe   Testing special relativity using slow
                                  light  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
                   Arjun Berera   The warm inflationary universe . . . . . 33--49
                     E. Sheldon   We delight in physics  . . . . . . . . . 51--56
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65

Contemporary Physics
Volume 47, Number 2, 2006

                    F. E. Close   Quarks, diquarks, tetraquarks, and
                                  pentaquarks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78
                  H. M. Wiseman   From Einstein's theorem to Bell's
                                  theorem: a history of quantum
                                  non-locality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88
               Michael Hartmann   Minimal length scales for the existence
                                  of local temperature . . . . . . . . . . 89--102
          J. Ambjòrn and   
              J. Jurkiewicz and   
                        R. Loll   The universe from scratch  . . . . . . . 103--117
               Joseph P. Conlon   The string theory landscape: a tale of
                                  two hydras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--129

Contemporary Physics
Volume 47, Number 3, 2006

        G. L. Klimchitskaya and   
             V. M. Mostepanenko   Experiment and theory in the Casimir
                                  effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144
            Christopher A. Tout   The triple-$ \alpha $ process and the
                                  origin of the elements . . . . . . . . . 145--155
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega   `Planetodiversity': the variety of
                                  planets and planetary systems in the
                                  Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--165
                D. R. Matravers   A history skirmish in physics  . . . . . 167--170
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180

Contemporary Physics
Volume 47, Number 4, 2006

                      F. Rahman   Superconducting detectors in astronomy   181--194
            D. A. Battaglia and   
                      L. Stella   Optimization through quantum annealing:
                                  theory and some applications . . . . . . 195--208
           Patrick Voss-De Haan   Physics and fingerprints . . . . . . . . 209--230
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238

Contemporary Physics
Volume 47, Number 5, 2006

                Fred S. Wouters   The physics and biology of fluorescence
                                  microscopy in the life sciences  . . . . 239--255
            Jacob A. Dunningham   Using quantum theory to improve
                                  measurement precision  . . . . . . . . . 257--267
                G. Compagno and   
                R. Passante and   
                     F. Persico   Edwin Power and the birth of dressed
                                  atoms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278
                Kurt Jacobs and   
                Daniel A. Steck   A straightforward introduction to
                                  continuous quantum measurement . . . . . 279--303
           Klaus-Peter Lieb and   
                Juhani Keinonen   Luminescence of ion-irradiated $ \alpha
                                  $-quartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--331
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337

Contemporary Physics
Volume 47, Number 6, 2006

                B. W. Shore and   
                  N. V. Vitanov   Overdamping of coherently driven quantum
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--362
            Robert Connon Smith   Cataclysmic variables  . . . . . . . . . 363--386
            Jacob D. Bekenstein   The modified Newtonian dynamics --- MOND
                                  and its implications for new physics . . 387--403
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--411


Contemporary Physics
Volume 48, Number 1, 2007

                    Chris Quigg   Higgs bosons, electroweak symmetry
                                  breaking, and the physics of the Large
                                  Hadron Collider  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                   Sougato Bose   Quantum communication through spin chain
                                  dynamics: an introductory overview . . . 13--30
       Sébastien Balibar   Supersolidity and superfluidity  . . . . 31--39
       Michael Martin Nieto and   
               John D. Anderson   Search for a solution of the Pioneer
                                  anomaly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61

Contemporary Physics
Volume 48, Number 2, 2007

                  D. Alf\`e and   
               M. J. Gillan and   
                    G. D. Price   Temperature and composition of the
                                  Earth's core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--80
                Pablo Echenique   Introduction to protein folding for
                                  physicists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--108
         William D. Cochran and   
                   Michael Endl   Hot Neptunes and super Earths  . . . . . 109--117
                Christopher Guy   Essay Review: A tragic intellect or a
                                  tragedian? [review of
                                  \booktitleOppenheimer: The Tragic
                                  Intellect, by C. Thorpe, The University
                                  of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2006,
                                  pp. 384, \pounds 24.00, hardback (ISBN
                                  0-226-79845-3). Scope: sociological
                                  biography. Level: nonspecialist] . . . . 119--121
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--130

Contemporary Physics
Volume 48, Number 3, 2007

         Andreas Brandhuber and   
                Bill Spence and   
            Gabriele Travaglini   Twistor inspired methods in gauge theory
                                  and gravity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--142
           Christine Silberhorn   Detecting quantum light  . . . . . . . . 143--156
                     J. Banerji   Exploring fractional revivals and
                                  sub-Planck structures: a walk in phase
                                  space with Wigner and Kirkwood . . . . . 157--171
                   Peter Bussey   Views over the terrain of physics  . . . 173--176
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182

Contemporary Physics
Volume 48, Number 4, 2007

       Jean-Jacques Greffet and   
                 Carsten Henkel   Coherent thermal radiation . . . . . . . 183--194
                     S. F. King   Neutrino mass  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--211
                  J. Thomas and   
                       P. Vahle   Minos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--226
                 D. G. C. Jones   The birth of modern physics  . . . . . . 227--229
                David Matravers   Is there a theory of how to construct
                                  theories?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246

Contemporary Physics
Volume 48, Number 5, 2007

               Barbara A. Maher   Environmental magnetism and climate
                                  change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--274
            Stephen J. Blundell   Molecular magnets  . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290
                      Tom Melia   Beethoven's Fifth `Sine'-phony: the
                                  science of harmony and discord . . . . . 291--295
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--306

Contemporary Physics
Volume 48, Number 6, 2007

                  Milan Palu\vs   From nonlinearity to causality:
                                  statistical testing and inference of
                                  physical mechanisms underlying complex
                                  dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--348
              L. Sudheendra and   
               V. Moshnyaga and   
                      K. Samwer   Metal--insulator transition and colossal
                                  magnetoresistance: relevance of
                                  electron--lattice coupling and
                                  electronic phase separation  . . . . . . 349--364
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--374


Contemporary Physics
Volume 49, Number 1, 2008

             Savas Georgiou and   
           Demetrios Anglos and   
                 Costas Fotakis   Photons in the service of our past:
                                  lasers in the preservation of cultural
                                  heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
                M. Charlton and   
                 S. Jonsell and   
     L. V. Jòrgensen and   
                  N. Madsen and   
             D. P. van der Werf   Antihydrogen for precision tests in
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41
               Jens Siewert and   
                Carmelo Ferlito   Mechanical erosion by flowing lava . . . 43--54
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69

Contemporary Physics
Volume 49, Number 2, 2008

                 Roberto Trotta   Bayes in the sky: Bayesian inference and
                                  model selection in cosmology . . . . . . 71--104
                  Oleg A. Godin   Sound transmission through water--air
                                  interfaces: new insights into an old
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123
            Jonathan P. Dowling   Quantum optical metrology --- the
                                  lowdown on high-N00N states  . . . . . . 125--143
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--156

Contemporary Physics
Volume 49, Number 3, 2008

               Ko Van der Weele   Granular gas dynamics: how Maxwell's
                                  demon rules in a non-equilibrium system  157--178
                P. Agostini and   
                  L. F. DiMauro   Atoms in high intensity mid-infrared
                                  pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
                  W. Becker and   
                      H. Rottke   Many-electron strong-field physics . . . 199--223
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--235

Contemporary Physics
Volume 49, Number 4, 2008

                Ilia I. Roussev   Eruptive events in the solar atmosphere:
                                  new insights from theory and $3$-D
                                  numerical modelling  . . . . . . . . . . 237--254
             P. D. Townsend and   
                    B. Yang and   
                        Y. Wang   Luminescence detection of phase
                                  transitions, local environment and
                                  nanoparticle inclusions  . . . . . . . . 255--280
                  G. Carosi and   
              K. van Bibber and   
                  M. Pivovaroff   The search for axions  . . . . . . . . . 281--297
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311

Contemporary Physics
Volume 49, Number 5, 2008

                 Paul R. Berman   Light scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--330
                Russell Cowburn   Laser surface authentication --- reading
                                  Nature's own security code . . . . . . . 331--342
                    F. E. Close   Rumsfeld hadrons . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350
               D. J. Whitehouse   Nanometrology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--374
                     E. Sheldon   An overview of almost 20 years' research
                                  on cold fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--378
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390

Contemporary Physics
Volume 49, Number 6, 2008

           Christopher V. Gabel   Femtosecond lasers in biology: nanoscale
                                  surgery with ultrafast optics  . . . . . 391--411
              G. J. Milburn and   
                  M. J. Woolley   Quantum nanoscience  . . . . . . . . . . 413--433
                Kurt Jacobs and   
                Alireza Shabani   Quantum feedback control: how to use
                                  verification theorems and viscosity
                                  solutions to find optimal protocols  . . 435--448
                   Eric Sheldon   A starring role for nuclear physics  . . 449--453
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--467


Contemporary Physics
Volume 50, Number 1, 2009

            Peter Knight Editor   Introduction to the 50th Anniversary
                                  Issue of \em Contemporary Physics  . . . 1--1
             Professor F. Close   \booktitleElementary particles (1960) by
                                  Abdus Salam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
                    Abdus Salam   Elementary particles . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
            Dr. P. T. Greenland   \booktitleThe development of quantum
                                  theory. Part 1. Formulation and
                                  interpretation (1964) by R. E. Peierls   23--23
                  R. E. Peierls   The development of quantum theory  . . . 25--35
        Professor A. J. Leggett   \booktitleElementary particle symmetries
                                  (1965) by T. W. B. Kibble  . . . . . . . 37--37
                T. W. B. Kibble   Elementary particle symmetries . . . . . 39--55
              Dr. P. W. Milonni   \booktitleTake a photon \ldots (1965) by
                                  O. R. Frisch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
                   O. R. Frisch   Take a photon \ldots . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
  Professor P. V. E. McClintock   \booktitleThe Josephson effects (1969)
                                  by B. W. Petley  . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
                   B. W. Petley   The Josephson effects  . . . . . . . . . 71--90
            Professor R. Joseph   \booktitleGravitational radiation: the
                                  theoretical aspect (1972) by S. W.
                                  Hawking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
                  S. W. Hawking   Gravitational radiation: the theoretical
                                  aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102
            Professor R. Joseph   \booktitleThe black hole in
                                  astrophysics: the origin of the concept
                                  and its role (1974) by S. Chandrasekhar  103--103
               S. Chandrasekhar   The black hole in astrophysics: the
                                  origin of the concept and its role . . . 105--128
          Professor R. Thompson   \booktitleThe Rydberg constant (1974) by
                                  G. W. Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
                   G. W. Series   The Rydberg constant . . . . . . . . . . 131--150
            Professor A. Fisher   \booktitleSnow crystals (1982) by F. C.
                                  Frank  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151
                    F. C. Frank   Snow crystals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--172
             Professor F. Close   \booktitleParticle substructure. A
                                  common theme of discovery in this
                                  century (1982) by W. K. H. Panofsky  . . 173--173
              W. K. H. Panofsky   Particle substructure. A common theme of
                                  discovery in this century  . . . . . . . 175--196
       Professor A. Stefanovska   \booktitleSoap, cells and statistics ---
                                  random patterns in two dimensions (1984)
                                  by D. Weaire and N. Rivier . . . . . . . 197--197
                  D. Weaire and   
                      N. Rivier   Soap, cells and statistics --- random
                                  patterns in two dimensions . . . . . . . 199--239
         Professor J. H. Eberly   \booktitleSchrödinger's cat and her
                                  laboratory cousins (1984) by A. J.
                                  Leggett  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
                  A. J. Leggett   Schrödinger's cat and her laboratory
                                  cousins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--258
              Dr. P. W. Milonni   \booktitleNothing's plenty. The vacuum
                                  in modern quantum field theory (1985) by
                                  I. J. R. Aitchison . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
             I. J. R. Aitchison   Nothing's plenty. The vacuum in modern
                                  quantum field theory . . . . . . . . . . 261--319
          Professor R. Thompson   \booktitleMeasuring the quantum
                                  mechanical wave function, by M. G.
                                  Raymer (1997)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
                   M. G. Raymer   Measuring the quantum mechanical wave
                                  function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--335
        Professor Martin Plenio   \booktitleQuantum random walks: an
                                  introductory overview (2003) by J. Kempe 337--337
                       J. Kempe   Quantum random walks: an introductory
                                  overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--359
              Dr. P. W. Milonni   \booktitleNegative refraction (2004) by
                                  J. B. Pendry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
                   J. B. Pendry   Negative refraction  . . . . . . . . . . 363--374

Contemporary Physics
Volume 50, Number 2, 2009

              Jiannis K. Pachos   Manifestations of topological effects in
                                  graphene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--389
                   B. N. Murdin   Far-infrared free-electron lasers and
                                  their applications . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
                     Q-Han Park   Optical antennas and plasmonics  . . . . 407--423
                      Anonymous   Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--435

Contemporary Physics
Volume 50, Number 3, 2009

                       M. Vogel   The anomalous magnetic moment of the
                                  electron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--452
               David C. Roberts   When superfluids are a drag  . . . . . . 453--461
                 Makoto Tsubota   Quantum turbulence: from superfluid
                                  helium to atomic Bose--Einstein
                                  condensates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--475
                   Eric Sheldon   Two-and-a-half millennia of scientific
                                  endeavour and enlightenment  . . . . . . 477--478
                Peter J. Bussey   Beauty and physics . . . . . . . . . . . 479--482
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--494

Contemporary Physics
Volume 50, Number 4, 2009

                 Christian Beck   Generalised information and entropy
                                  measures in physics  . . . . . . . . . . 495--510
             Peter D. Ditlevsen   Climate transitions on long timescales   511--532
                     B. Normand   Frontiers in frustrated magnetism  . . . 533--552
                      Anonymous   Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--561

Contemporary Physics
Volume 50, Number 5, 2009

               Lawrence M. Ward   Physics of neural synchronisation
                                  mediated by stochastic resonance . . . . 563--574
               Mark Hillery and   
        Vladimír Bu\vzek   Quantum machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--586
                  Mark D. Havey   Freezing light with cold atoms . . . . . 587--599
           Dr. Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleLidar. Range-Resolved Optical
                                  Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, in the
                                  Springer Series in Optical Sciences,
                                  Vol. 102, edited by Claus Weitkamp,
                                  Scope: review. Level: specialist . . . . 601--602
                Dr. B. W. James   \booktitleBright Earth --- The Invention
                                  of Colour, by P. Ball, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 602--602
             Dr. Keith Benedict   \booktitleQuantum Field Theory of
                                  Non-Equilibrium States, by J. Rammer,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: students . . . . 602--603
           Dr. Shashank Virmani   \booktitleField Theory --- A Path
                                  Integral Approach, by A. Das, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: graduate  . . . . . . . 604--604
      Professor David Matravers   \booktitleThe Cosmic Microwave
                                  Background, by R. Durrer, Scope:
                                  textbook/reference text. Level: advanced 604--605
         Professor R. A. Cairns   \booktitlePlasma Physics and Fusion
                                  Energy, by J. Freidberg, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: senior undergraduates,
                                  beginning postgraduates and researchers  605--606
           Professor Geoff Hall   \booktitlePerspectives on LHC Physics,
                                  edited by G. Kane and A. Pierce, Scope:
                                  survey of possible discoveries at the
                                  LHC, the detectors and experimental
                                  challenges. Level: graduate students and
                                  scientists interested in the LHC . . . . 606--607
           Professor Ken Pounds   \booktitleUltraviolet and X-ray
                                  Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere, in
                                  Cambridge Astrophysics Series, by K. J.
                                  H. Phillips, U. Feldman and E. Landi,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: students and
                                  senior researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608
   Professor Stephen M. Barnett   \booktitleElements of Quantum
                                  Information, edited by W. P. Schleich
                                  and H. Walther, Scope: overview and
                                  progress report. Level: specialist and
                                  non-specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--609
   Professor Stephen M. Barnett   \booktitleLectures on Quantum
                                  Information, edited by D. Bruß and G.
                                  Leuchs, Scope: lectures. Level: students
                                  and undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
          Professor S. Stenholm   \booktitleQuantum Gravity, by C.
                                  Rovelli, Scope: report. Level: advanced
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
                 John McFarland   \booktitleObserving the Moon: The Modern
                                  Astronomer's Guide, 2nd edition, by G.
                                  North, Scope: reference guide. Level:
                                  general  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--611
         Professor Chris Linton   \booktitleWave Propagation. From
                                  Electrons to Photonic Crystals and
                                  Left-Handed Materials, by P. Marko\vs
                                  and C. M. Soukoulis, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: final year undergraduates and
                                  first year postgraduates . . . . . . . . 611--612
        Professor G. W. Gibbons   \booktitleFunctional Integration: Action
                                  and Symmetries, by P. Cartier and C.
                                  DeWitt-Morette, Scope: supplement.
                                  Level: graduate level and above  . . . . 612--613
      Professor Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleObserving the Sun with
                                  Coronado\TM Telescopes, by P. Pugh,
                                  Scope: introductory guide. Level:
                                  general  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--613

Contemporary Physics
Volume 50, Number 6, 2009

                   Peter Knight   50 years at the forefront of Physics . . 615--616
        Matthew A. B. Baker and   
               Richard M. Berry   An introduction to the physics of the
                                  bacterial flagellar motor: a nanoscale
                                  rotary electric motor  . . . . . . . . . 617--632
        Konstantinos Dimopoulos   Where galaxies really come from  . . . . 633--646
                Robert W. Keyes   Physics, and transistors in computers    647--651
                 Derry W. Jones   Locating targets with waves: radar and
                                  sonar  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--655
              Jonathan Tennyson   Is there anybody out there?  . . . . . . 657--659
          Dr. Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of
                                  Coherence and Polarization of Light, by
                                  E. Wolf, Scope: textbook and reference.
                                  Level: graduate and practising
                                  scientist/engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 661--662
         Professor Eric Sheldon   \booktitleAn Introduction to Nuclear
                                  Astrophysics, by R. N. Boyd, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate and specialist  . . . . . . 662--663
               Dr. P. J. Bussey   \booktitleQuantum Reflections, edited by
                                  J. Ellis and D. Amati, Scope: essays.
                                  Level: graduate and general academic
                                  physicist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--664
              Dr. Simon Altmann   \booktitle100 Essential Things You
                                  Didn't Know You Didn't Know, by J. D.
                                  Barrow, Scope: general knowledge. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--664
               Dr. M. Jamil and   
           Professor J. T. Rhee   \booktitleQuark--Gluon Plasma, by K.
                                  Yagi, T. Hatsuda and Y. Miake, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate and
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--666
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleSubatomic Physics, 3rd
                                  edition, by E. M. Henley and A. García,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate and
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--667
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleDynamical Systems, edited by
                                  A. Fathi and J.-C. Yoccoz, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 667--667
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleMathematical Tools for
                                  One-Dimensional Dynamics, E. de Faria
                                  and W. de Melo, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--668
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleQuantum Computing for Computer
                                  Scientists, N. S. Yanofsky and M. A.
                                  Manucci, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--669
             Dr. D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleThree Steps to the Universe,
                                  D. Garfinkle and R. Garfinkle, Scope:
                                  introductory. Level: general reader and
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--669
          Professor Ian M. Ward   \booktitlePolymers: Chemistry and
                                  Physics of Modern Materials, 3rd
                                  edition, by J. M. G. Cowie and V.
                                  Arrighi, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--670
         Professor John Carroll   \booktitleEssentials of Photonics, 2nd
                                  edition, by A. Rogers, Scope: textbook
                                  covering classical photonic devices and
                                  systems. Level: undergraduate or
                                  introductory postgraduate courses  . . . 670--671
         Professor F. W. Taylor   \booktitleMars: From Myth and Mystery to
                                  Recent Discoveries, by M. Hotakainen,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: general reader  671--671
         Professor Eric Sheldon   \booktitleColliders and Neutrinos: The
                                  Window into Physics beyond the Standard
                                  Model. Proceedings of the 2006
                                  Theoretical Advanced Summer Institute
                                  (TASI-2006) Lectures, edited by S.
                                  Dawson and R. N. Mohapatra, Scope:
                                  advanced summer school proceedings.
                                  Level: postgraduate and specialist . . . 671--673
                Matthew Foreman   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--673


Contemporary Physics
Volume 51, Number 1, 2010

                   Peter Knight   Obituary notice of Vitaly Ginzburg . . . 1--1
                      Axel Hutt   Oscillatory activity in excitable neural
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
            A. N. Vamivakas and   
                M. Atatüre   Photons and (artificial) atoms: an
                                  overview of optical spectroscopy
                                  techniques on quantum dots . . . . . . . 17--36
                 H. S. Margolis   Optical frequency standards and clocks   37--58
                     Bob Coecke   Quantum picturalism  . . . . . . . . . . 59--83
                  Norman Dombey   Essay Review: The first war of physics:
                                  \booktitleAtomic: the First War of
                                  Physics and the Secret History of the
                                  Atomic Bomb, 1939--49, by J. Baggott.
                                  ISBN 978-1-84831-044-5 . . . . . . . . . 85--90
    Professor R. C. Johnson and   
                       Dr M. Oi   \booktitleNuclear Superfluidity. Pairing
                                  in Finite Systems, by D. M. Brink and R.
                                  A. Broglia, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  specialist, postdoctoral and
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleThe Noisy Pendulum, by M.
                                  Gitterman, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate, graduate and general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
               Dr. Matt Probert   \booktitleComputational Physics of
                                  Carbon Nanotubes, by H. Rafii-Tabar,
                                  Scope: introduction/reference. Level:
                                  researchers and postgraduate . . . . . . 92--93
                  Dr. Anne Juel   \booktitleMagneto-Fluid Dynamics.
                                  Fundamentals and Case Studies of Natural
                                  Phenomena, by P. Lorrain, F. Lorrain and
                                  S. Houle, Scope: introduction. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduates and
                                  postgraduates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
       Professor S. J. Blundell   \booktitleThe Pursuit of Perfect
                                  Packing, by T. Aste and D. Weaire,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: general reader,
                                  postgraduate and specialist  . . . . . . 94--95
       Professor S. J. Blundell   \booktitleThe Earth: Its Origin, History
                                  and Physical Constitution, 6th edition,
                                  by Sir Harold Jeffreys, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 95--96

Contemporary Physics
Volume 51, Number 2, 2010

                 Graham Farmelo   Did Dirac predict the positron?  . . . . 97--101
                Netta Cohen and   
                Jordan H. Boyle   Swimming at low Reynolds number: a
                                  beginners guide to undulatory locomotion 103--123
           Andrew N. Jordan and   
          Alexander N. Korotkov   Uncollapsing the wavefunction by undoing
                                  quantum measurements . . . . . . . . . . 125--147
                   K. Blaum and   
             Yu. N. Novikov and   
                       G. Werth   Penning traps as a versatile tool for
                                  precise experiments in fundamental
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--175
                  Dr. Anne Juel   \booktitleFree Surface Flows Under
                                  Gravity Compensated Conditions, by M. E.
                                  Dreyer, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduates, researchers and
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177
             Professor Mark Fox   \booktitleFundamentals of Photonic
                                  Crystal Guiding, by M. Skorobogatiy and
                                  J. Yang, Scope: text. Level: graduate
                                  students and researchers . . . . . . . . 177--178
             Professor Mark Fox   \booktitleSlow Light. Science and
                                  Applications, edited by J. B. Khurgin
                                  and R. S. Tucker, Scope: research
                                  monograph. Level: graduate students and
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
         Professor R. S. MacKay   \booktitleFacts and Speculations in
                                  Cosmology, by J. V. Narlikar and G.
                                  Burbidge, Scope: interplay between
                                  observation and cosmological models.
                                  Level: generally accessible  . . . . . . 178--180
          Professor Ian M. Ward   \booktitleElectron Microscopy of
                                  Polymers, in the series Springer
                                  Laboratory, by G. H. Michler, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate  . . . . . 180--181
 Professor N. C. Wickramasinghe   \booktitleDust in the Universe ---
                                  Similarities and Differences, by K. S.
                                  Krishna Swamy, Scope: introduction.
                                  Level: graduate students . . . . . . . . 181--182
            Professor D. Bailin   \booktitleModern Quantum Field Theory: A
                                  Concise Introduction, by T. Banks,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . 182--183
       Professor Richard Carter   \booktitleThe Method of Moments in
                                  Electromagnetics, by W. C. Gibson,
                                  Scope: modelling of electromagnetic
                                  radiation and scattering problems.
                                  Level: postgraduate and professional . . 183--184
             Dr. D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleConcepts in Quantum Mechanics,
                                  by V. Swarup Mathur and S. Singh, Scope:
                                  comprehensive textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 184--184
        Professor Allan Solomon   \booktitleBoulevard of Broken
                                  Symmetries: Effective Field Theories of
                                  Condensed Matter, by A. M. J. Schakel,
                                  Scope: textbook and reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate and specialist  . . . . . . 184--185
               Dr. P. J. Bussey   \booktitleQuantum Leap: From Dirac and
                                  Feynman, Across the Universe to Human
                                  Body and Mind, by V. Ivancevic and T.
                                  Ivancevic, Scope: monograph collection.
                                  Level: graduate student and professional
                                  research worker  . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleChaos and Coarse Graining in
                                  Statistical Mechanics, by P.
                                  Castiglione, M. Falcioni, A. Lesne and
                                  A. Vulpiani, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  professional physicists, researchers and
                                  Ph.D. students . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
                  Dr. Tim Evans   \booktitleDynamical Processes on Complex
                                  Networks, by A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy and
                                  A. Vespignani, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate students in any scientific
                                  disciplines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
         Professor Chris Linton   \booktitleA History of Physical Theories
                                  of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple, by
                                  T. Heidarzadeh, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  educated lay person and science
                                  historians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleMissing Data in Longitudinal
                                  Studies: Strategies for Bayesian
                                  Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis, by M.
                                  J. Daniels and J. W. Hogan. Scope:
                                  research monograph. Level: professional
                                  statisticians and Ph.D. students . . . . 188--189
        Professor Alan Michette   \booktitleInteractions of Photons and
                                  Neutrons with Matter, by S.-H. Chen and
                                  M. Kotlarchyk, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  beginning graduates and above,
                                  scientists working at synchroton and
                                  neutron facilities . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
               Dr. P. J. Bussey   \booktitleFermilab: Physics, The
                                  Frontier and Megascience, by L.
                                  Hoddeson, A. Kolb and C. Westfall,
                                  Scope: historical. Level: general reader 190--190
   Professor Stephen M. Barnett   \booktitleHilbert Transforms, by F. W.
                                  King, Scope: reference/textbook. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
                  Dr. Ken Zetie   \booktitleThe Language of Physics: A
                                  Foundation for University Study, by J.
                                  P. Cullerne and A. Machacek, Scope:
                                  undergraduate/pre-university textbook.
                                  Level: physics and engineering students  191--192

Contemporary Physics
Volume 51, Number 3, May / June, 2010

             Salvatore Esposito   The disappearance of Ettore Majorana: an
                                  analytic examination . . . . . . . . . . 193--209
        Michelangelo L. Mangano   The super-LHC  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--231
               S. M. Soskin and   
        P. V. E. McClintock and   
             T. M. Fromhold and   
             I. A. Khovanov and   
                    R. Mannella   Stochastic webs and quantum transport in
                                  superlattices: an introductory review    233--248
              Darwin Palima and   
          Jesper Glückstad   Generalised phase contrast: microscopy,
                                  manipulation and more  . . . . . . . . . 249--265
                 Derry W. Jones   Titanic Hungarian refugee physicists . . 267--271
                 Derry W. Jones   Lovelock: a sustaining life  . . . . . . 273--276
         Professor Chris Linton   \booktitleA First Course in Continuum
                                  Mechanics, by O. Gonzalez and A. Stuart,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: graduate and
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 277--277
      Professor Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleElectromagnetic Interactions
                                  and Hadronic Structure, edited by F.
                                  Close, S. Donnachie and G. Shore, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: graduate students and
                                  researchers in the field of particle
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
                  J. Matthewman   \booktitleA History of the Science and
                                  Politics of Climate Change, by B. Bolin,
                                  Scope: documentary. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleA Journey through Statistical
                                  Physics. Selecta of Jürg Fröhlich, edited
                                  by G. Felder, G. M. Graf and K. Hepp,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: research  . . . 279--280
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleQuantum Field Theory of
                                  Non-equilibrium States, by J. Rammer,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: graduate
                                  research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleHilbert Space Operators in
                                  Quantum Physics, 2nd edition, by J.
                                  Blank, P. Exner and M. Havlicek, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: graduate  . . . . . . . 281--281
      Professor David Matravers   \booktitleEntangled World --- The
                                  Fascination of Quantum Information and
                                  Computation, edited by J. Audretsch
                                  (translator R. Ehrlich), Scope: popular
                                  science. Level: undergraduate with many
                                  parts for a general reader . . . . . . . 281--282
       Professor D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleCambridge Illustrated Handbook
                                  of Optoelectronics and Photonics, by S.
                                  Kasap, H. Ruda and Y. Boucher, Scope:
                                  comprehensive reference. Level:
                                  undergraduate and above  . . . . . . . . 282--283
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleAn Introduction to the Theory
                                  of Numbers, 6th edition, by G. H. Hardy
                                  and E. M. Wright, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate and above  283--283
                  Dr. G. Barton   \booktitleAngular Momentum in Quantum
                                  Physics, by L. C. Biedenharn and J. D.
                                  Louck, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
       Professor S. J. Blundell   \booktitleQuantum Theory of the Electron
                                  Liquid, by G. F. Giuliani and G.
                                  Vignale, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleMonsoon Dynamics, edited by J.
                                  Lighthill and R. Pearce, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 285--285
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleIntroduction to
                                  Nanoelectronics, by V. V. Mitin, V. A.
                                  Kochelap and M. A. Stroscio, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate and
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
        Professor K. Alan Shore   \booktitleProgress in
                                  Nano-Electro-Optics VI, Springer Series
                                  in Optical Sciences, edited by M. Ohtsu,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level:specialist . . . 286--287
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleCosmic Perspectives, edited by
                                  S. K. Biswas, D. C. V. Mallik and C. V.
                                  Vishveshwara, Scope: review. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
           Dr. J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleThe Sun: A User's Manual, By
                                  C. Vita-Finzi, Scope: popular science.
                                  Level: general public  . . . . . . . . . 287--288

Contemporary Physics
Volume 51, Number 4, 2010

                  Axel Kuhn and   
               Daniel Ljunggren   Cavity-based single-photon sources . . . 289--313
                   T. Cheng and   
                      Q. Su and   
                       R. Grobe   Introductory review on quantum field
                                  theory with space--time resolution . . . 315--330
            Jonathan J. Heckman   F-theory and experiment  . . . . . . . . 331--348
                        Sue Ion   The world's nuclear future --- built on
                                  material success . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--364
     Professor Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleGeometrical and Trigonometric
                                  Optics, by E. L. Dereniak and T. D.
                                  Dereniak, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365
     Professor Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleTerahertz Spectroscopy:
                                  Principles and Applications, edited by
                                  S. L. Dexheimer, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  beginners  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
      Professor Barrie W. Jones   \booktitleStrategies of Life Detection,
                                  edited by O. Botta, J. L. Bada, J.
                                  Gómez-Elvira, E. Javaux, F. Selsis and R
                                  Summons, Scope: workshop papers. Level:
                                  postgraduates/specialists/advanced
                                  hobbyists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleHandbook of Charged Particle
                                  Optics, 2nd edition, edited by J.
                                  Orloff, Scope: handbook/reference.
                                  Level: experts/advanced students . . . . 367--367
        Professor J. R. Sambles   \booktitleAperiodic Structures in
                                  Condensed Matter, by E. M. Barber,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate    367--369
         Professor Eric Sheldon   \booktitleNuclear and Particle Physics:
                                  An Introduction, 2nd edition, by B. R.
                                  Martin, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate and
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
           Dr. J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleClassical Mechanics and
                                  Relativity, by H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten,
                                  Scope: introductory. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
        Professor G. W. Gibbons   \booktitleAntimatter, by F. Close,
                                  Scope: popular account. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
             Professor N. Riley   \booktitleThe Detonation Phenomenon, by
                                  J. H. S. Lee, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
               Dr. A. H. Harker   \booktitlePhysics and Applications of
                                  Negative Refractive Index Materials, by
                                  S. Anantha Ramakrishna and T. M.
                                  Grzegorczyk, Scope:
                                  introduction/reference. Level: newcomer
                                  to the field and above . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleAdvanced Tomographic Methods
                                  in Materials Research and Engineering,
                                  edited by J. Banhart, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate and
                                  postdoctoral workers . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
               Dr. Oleg Kolosov   \booktitleBiophotonics: Biological and
                                  Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,
                                  edited by L. Pavesi and P. M. Fauchet,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: graduate
                                  students in final year to academics  . . 375--375
         Professor Peter Kalmus   \booktitlePlaying with Planets, by
                                  Gerard 't Hooft, Scope: popular science.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 375--376
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleA Group-Theoretical Approach
                                  to Quantum Optics, by A. B. Klimov and
                                  S. M. Chumakov, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced lecturer or researcher  . . . . 376--377
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleQuantum Computing without
                                  Magic, by Zdzislaw Meglicki, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: researchers and
                                  advanced students  . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleInformation, Physics and
                                  Computation, by Marc Mézard and Andrea
                                  Montanari, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  specialist researcher  . . . . . . . . . 378--378
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleAdvanced Condensed Matter
                                  Physics, by L. M. Sander, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
                                  and beginning graduate . . . . . . . . . 378--379
       Professor D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleQuantum Transport.
                                  Introduction to Nanoscience, by Y. V.
                                  Nazarov and Y. M. Blanter, Scope:
                                  general introduction. Level:
                                  postgraduate students and physicists . . 379--380
       Professor S. J. Blundell   \booktitleA Paradigm Called Magnetism,
                                  by S. Dattagupta, Scope: general
                                  introduction. Level: postgraduate  . . . 380--380

Contemporary Physics
Volume 51, Number 5, 2010

           Jonathan P. Williams   The astrophysical environment of the
                                  solar birthplace . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--396
            Doreen Stoneham and   
              Marshall Stoneham   Beating the forger: authenticating
                                  ceramic antiquities  . . . . . . . . . . 397--411
                 R. M. L. Evans   Statistical physics of shear flow: a
                                  non-equilibrium problem  . . . . . . . . 413--427
                 Derry W. Jones   Sailing: saga and science  . . . . . . . 429--431
                 Derry W. Jones   Magnetic mines, molecular models and the
                                  mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--437
          Dr. Aneta Stefanovska   \booktitleThe Biophysical Basis of
                                  Excitability, by H. G. Fereira and M. W.
                                  Marshall, Scope: research. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--440
        Professor J. R. Sambles   \booktitleMicrostructural Randomness and
                                  Scaling in Mechanics of Materials, by M.
                                  Ostoja-Starzewski, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
        Professor T. J. M. Boyd   \booktitleLet there be Light, by A.
                                  Montwill and A. Breslin, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general reader,
                                  undergraduate, graduate physics students 440--441
      Professor John E. Carroll   \booktitleMetamaterials: Critique and
                                  Alternatives, by B. A. Munk, Scope:
                                  research monograph. Level: masters
                                  degree and above . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--444
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleSuperconductivity --- A very
                                  short introduction, by S. Blundell,
                                  Scope: scientific essay. Level:
                                  interested reader  . . . . . . . . . . . 444--444
              Dr. Chris Athorne   \booktitleAlgebraic Theory of
                                  Differential Equations, edited by M. A.
                                  H. MacCallum and A. V. Mikhailov, Scope:
                                  workshop proceedings. Level:
                                  postgraduate/research level  . . . . . . 444--445
       Professor John J. Quenby   \booktitleFoundations of High-Energy
                                  Astrophysics, by M. Vietri, Scope:
                                  textbook and reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate and
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleMicroscopic Chaos, Fractals
                                  and Transport in Nonequilibrium
                                  Statistical Mechanics, Advanced Series
                                  in Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 24, by R.
                                  Klages, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  graduate students and researchers  . . . 446--447
               Dr. Tony Sudbery   \booktitlePhysics and the Art of Dance:
                                  Understanding Movement, by K. Laws and
                                  A. Sugano, photographs by M. Swope and
                                  G. Schiavone, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  general reader and undergraduate . . . . 447--448
Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleAn Introduction to Lagrangian
                                  Mechanics, by A. J. Brizard, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate and
                                  graduate students  . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleStochastic Resonance. From
                                  Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance to
                                  Stochastic Signal Quantization, by M. D.
                                  McDonnell, N. G. Stocks, C. E. M. Pearce
                                  and D. Abbott, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  graduate students and researchers  . . . 448--449
                Dr. K. P. Zetie   \booktitleStargazing Basics: Getting
                                  Started in Recreational Astronomy, by P.
                                  E. Kinzer, Scope: introductory guide.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 449--450
             Professor Mark Fox   \booktitleSemiconductor Quantum Bits,
                                  edited by F. Henneberger and O. Benson,
                                  Scope: research monograph. Level:
                                  graduate students and researchers  . . . 450--450
        Professor Allan Solomon   \booktitleQuantum Hall Effects. Field
                                  Theoretical Approach and Related Topics,
                                  2nd ed., by Z. F. Ezawa, Scope:
                                  encyclopedic compendium. Level: student
                                  and researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleThe Universe in a Helium
                                  Droplet, by G. E. Volovik, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: research level . . . . 451--452
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitleAstrophysical Lasers, by V.
                                  Letokhov and S. Johansson, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: research level . . . . 452--453
             Dr. C. Böhmer   \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum
                                  Effects in Gravity, by V. F. Mukhanov
                                  and S. Winitzki, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate and graduate students,
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--453
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleNothing: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by F. Close. Scope:
                                  scientific essay. Level: --- interested
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleRadial Basis Functions, by M.
                                  D. Buhmann, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  general audience, mathematics theorists  454--454
     Professor Geoffrey Duxbury   \booktitleThe Jahn--Teller Effect, by I.
                                  B. Bersuker, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced/research  . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
         Professor Peter Hobson   \booktitlePolarization Holography, by L.
                                  Nikolova and P. S. Ramanujam, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 455--456
          Professor Alan Martin   \booktitleYou are Here: A Portable
                                  History of the Universe, by C. Potter,
                                  Scope: plain text. Level: general reader 456--456
        Professor Ian D. Lawrie   \booktitleApproaches to Quantum Gravity,
                                  edited by Daniele Oriti, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 457--457
               Dr. Matt Probert   \booktitleSymmetry and Condensed Matter
                                  Physics --- A Computational Approach, by
                                  M. El-Batanouny and F. Wooten, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: active researcher at
                                  postgraduation and above . . . . . . . . 457--458
        Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleThe Behaviour of Chemical
                                  Elements in Stars, by C. Jascheck and M.
                                  Jasheck, Scope: reference work. Level:
                                  postgraduate/specialist  . . . . . . . . 458--459
           Professor Ken Pounds   \booktitleGalaxies: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by J. Gribbin, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general reader . . . . 459--460
      Professor David Matravers   \booktitleFinding the Big Bang, edited
                                  by P. J. E. Peebles, L. A. Page, Jr. and
                                  R. B. Partridge, Scope: history of
                                  science. Level: general reader with an
                                  interest in cosmology to specialist in
                                  history or philosophy of science . . . . 460--463
           Dr. J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleBose--Einstein Condensation in
                                  Dilute Gases, 2nd ed., by C. J. Pethick
                                  and H. Smith. Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate and postgraduate  463--463
         Professor R. S. MacKay   \booktitleThe Correspondence of Isaac
                                  Newton, Volume V, 1709--1713, edited by
                                  A. Rupert Hall and L. Tilling, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: specialist in history
                                  of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleSirius Matters, by N. Brosch,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduates,
                                  graduate students, amateur astronomers,
                                  educated public  . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
       Professor S. J. Blundell   \booktitleObserving the Night Sky with
                                  Binoculars, by S. J. O'Meara, Scope:
                                  popular astronomy. Level: general  . . . 465--465
      Professor Ilia I. Roussev   \booktitleSolar and Stellar Magnetic
                                  Activity, by C. Schrijver and C. Zwaan,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: specialist,
                                  postgraduate, graduate and undergraduate 466--466
      Professor Ilia I. Roussev   \booktitleCool Discs, Hot Flows: The
                                  Varying Faces of Accreting Compact
                                  Objects, edited by M. Axelsson, Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  specialist, postgraduate and graduate    466--467
            Dr. Robert C. Smith   \booktitleAstrophysics Processes: The
                                  Physics of Astronomical Phenomena, by H.
                                  Bradt, Scope: textbook. Level: senior
                                  undergraduate/beginning postgraduate . . 467--467
              Joshua R. Sangoro   \booktitlePolymers, Liquids and Colloids
                                  in Electric Fields, edited by Y. Tsori
                                  and U. Steiner, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  specialist and non-specialist  . . . . . 467--468
               Dr. S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleFrom Quantum Cohomology to
                                  Integrable Systems, by M. A. Guest,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: graduate,
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469

Contemporary Physics
Volume 51, Number 6, 2010

          Adriana Pálffy   Nuclear effects in atomic transitions    471--496
       Christopher C. Gerry and   
                   Jihane Mimih   The parity operator in quantum optical
                                  metrology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--511
               Danilo Zavrtanik   Ultra high energy cosmic rays  . . . . . 513--529
                   P. J. Bussey   Quantum quicksands . . . . . . . . . . . 531--534
           Professor Ken Pounds   \booktitleSpace Enterprise --- Living
                                  and Working Offworld in the 21st
                                  Century, by Philip R. Harris, Scope:
                                  source book. Level: general reader and
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--535
     Professor Ko van der Weele   \booktitleThe Light/Dark Universe. Light
                                  from Galaxies, Dark Matter and Dark
                                  Energy, by J. M. Overduin and P. S.
                                  Wesson, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  informed reader interested in astronomy  535--536
        Professor Stig Stenholm   \booktitlePhilosophy of Mathematics and
                                  Natural Science, by H. Weyl. Source:
                                  monograph. Level. researchers and
                                  advanced students  . . . . . . . . . . . 537--539
Emeritus Professor Derry W. Jones   \booktitleTurbulence, by Giles Foden,
                                  Scope: wartime meteorology and fiction.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 539--540
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleFuture Spacecraft Propulsion
                                  Systems, 2nd ed., by P. A. Czysz and C.
                                  Bruno, Scope: electric rockets
                                  explained, IAC, propulsion space,
                                  spacecraft engines. Level: advanced
                                  students and experts on the field  . . . 540--541
        Professor Vlatko Vedral   \booktitleQuantum Statistical Mechanics,
                                  by W. C. Schieve and L. P. Horwitz,
                                  Scope: basic theory, with applications
                                  from quantum optics to quantum gravity.
                                  Level: researchers and advanced students 541--542
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleQuantum Information, Oxford
                                  Master Series in Physics, by Stephen M.
                                  Barnett, Scope: quantum information,
                                  quantum computing and the foundations of
                                  quantum theory. Level: undergraduate,
                                  graduate and postgraduate  . . . . . . . 542--543
                 Dr. Max Wallis   \booktitleCosmic Imagery: Key Images in
                                  the History of Science, by John D.
                                  Barrow, Scope: key concepts. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--544
                   Dr. M. Jamil   \booktitleComputer Solutions in Physics:
                                  With Applications in Astrophysics,
                                  Biophysics, Differential Equations, and
                                  Engineering, by Steve VanWyk, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate students 544--545
        Professor M. Bertolotti   \booktitleWaves in Metamaterials, by L.
                                  Solymar and E. Shamonina, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: researchers and
                                  advanced students  . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleUniverse or Multiverse?, by
                                  Bernard Carr, Scope: review. Level:
                                  physicists and philosophers advanced
                                  undergraduate and above  . . . . . . . . 546--550
       Dr. Monica Pierri-Galvao   \booktitleThe New Physics: For the
                                  Twenty-first Century, by Gordon Fraser,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate    550--551
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleDynamics of Self-Organized and
                                  Self-Assembled Structures, by Rashmi C.
                                  Desai and Raymond Kapral, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: professional
                                  physicists, researchers, Ph.D. students,
                                  advanced undergraduates  . . . . . . . . 551--552
        Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleMeasured Tones: The Interplay
                                  of Physics and Music, 3rd edition, by
                                  Ian Johnston, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--552
        Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleBuilding Scientific Apparatus,
                                  4th edition, by John H. Moore,
                                  Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan
                                  and Sandra E. Greer, Scope: reference.
                                  Level: anyone using, designing,
                                  modifying or specifying scientific
                                  apparatus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--553
          Dr. Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleFundamentals of Medical
                                  Imaging, by Paul Suetens, Scope:
                                  textbook and reference. Level:
                                  undergraduate, graduate and practicing
                                  scientist/engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 553--554
          Dr. Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleComputed Tomography: From
                                  Photon Statistics to Modern Cone-Beam
                                  CT, by Thorsten M. Buzug, Scope:
                                  textbook and reference. Level: graduate
                                  and practising scientist/engineer  . . . 554--555
           Dr. Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleElectronic Noise and
                                  Fluctuations in Solids, by Sh. Kogan,
                                  Scope: general reader, postgraduate and
                                  specialist. Level: anyone interested in
                                  the theory of fluctuation phenomena  . . 555--555
           Professor Ken Pounds   \booktitleFormation and Evolution of
                                  Galaxy Bulges (IAU S245), Proceedings of
                                  the IAU Symposia and Colloquia, edited
                                  by Martin Bureau, E. Athanassoula, and
                                  Beatriz Barbuy Scope: wide-ranging
                                  review. Level: graduate students and
                                  active researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 556--556
            Dr. Robert C. Smith   Stellar Spectral Classification, by
                                  Richard O. Gray and Christopher J.
                                  Corbally, Scope: monograph and reference
                                  book. Level: advanced undergraduates,
                                  postgraduates and specialists  . . . . . 556--557
 Professor N. C. Wickramasinghe   An Introduction to the Physics of
                                  Interstellar Dust, by E. Krugel, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: workers in the field of
                                  interstellar dust  . . . . . . . . . . . 557--557
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain
                                  Function, 2nd ed., edited by Ron D.
                                  Frostig, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced graduate and postgraduate
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--558
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Quantum Frontier: The
                                  Large Hadron Collider, by D. Lincoln,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate  . . . . . . . 558--559
               Dr. Matt Probert   \booktitlePhysics Meets Mineralogy:
                                  Condensed-Matter Physics in Geosciences,
                                  edited by Hideo Aoki, Yasuhiko Syono and
                                  Russell J. Hemley, Scope: geophysicists,
                                  mineralogists, condensed matter
                                  physicists. Level: graduate level
                                  textbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--559
          Professor Alan Martin   \booktitleOrigins of Life in the
                                  Universe, by R. Jastrow and M. Rampino,
                                  Scope: illustrated text for non-science
                                  students. Level: general reader  . . . . 559--560
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleEngineering the Guitar: Theory
                                  and Practice, by Richard Mark French,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate
                                  physicists and engineers, musicologists,
                                  guitar builders and players  . . . . . . 560--561
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleIntroduction to Statistical
                                  Physics, 2nd ed., by Kerson Huang,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--561
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitlePlanetary Systems: Detection,
                                  Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar
                                  Planets, by M. Ollivier, T. Encrenaz, F.
                                  Roques, F. Selsis and F. Casoli, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate and
                                  postgraduate physicists and researchers  561--562
             Matthew R. Foreman   Short notices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--563
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Contemporary Physics
Volume 52, Number 1, 2011

             Joan Centrella and   
                 John Baker and   
              Bernard Kelly and   
                James van Meter   Merging black holes  . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
              Richard G. Carter   Acceleration technologies for charged
                                  particles: an introduction . . . . . . . 15--41
          Christopher Eling and   
              Itzhak Fouxon and   
                       Yaron Oz   Gravity and a geometrisation of
                                  turbulence: an intriguing correspondence 43--54
                Keith A. Nugent   The measurement of phase through the
                                  propagation of intensity: an
                                  introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
         Peter V. E. McClintock   Quantum aspects of life  . . . . . . . . 71--73
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleWaves in Oceanic and Coastal
                                  Waters, by Leo H. Holthuijsen, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
                                  and above  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
     Professor Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleOptical Pattern Recognition,
                                  edited by F. T. S. Yu and S. Jutamulia,
                                  Scope: review. Level: graduate students
                                  and researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
     Professor Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleThe Essence of Dielectric
                                  Waveguides, by C. Yeh and F.
                                  Shimabukuro, Scope: overview. Level:
                                  researchers and students in optical
                                  communications, photonics and applied
                                  electromagnetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
               Dr. Matt Probert   \booktitleElectronic Structure: Basic
                                  Theory and Practical Methods, by Richard
                                  M. Martin, Scope: graduate level
                                  textbook. Level: theoretical materials
                                  scientists/condensed matter
                                  physicists/computational chemists  . . . 77--77
            Dr. Edmund Tarleton   \booktitleApplied Solid Mechanics, by P.
                                  Howell, G. Kozyreff and J. Ockendon,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: graduate and
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 77--79
                   Dr. M. Jamil   \booktitleAn Introduction to the Physics
                                  of Particle Accelerators, by Mario Conte
                                  and William W. MacKay, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: graduate students and researchers 79--80
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleQuantum Mechanics with Basic
                                  Field Theory, by Bipin R. Desai, Scope:
                                  course book. Level: graduate . . . . . . 80--80
      Professor Michael Belsley   \booktitleMrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt
                                  and Other Intriguing Stories of
                                  Mathematical Physics, by Paul J. Nahin,
                                  Scope: general. Level: undergraduate . . 80--81
                  Dr. S. Tiwari   \booktitleHilbert Space Methods in
                                  Quantum Mechanics, by Werner O. Amrein,
                                  Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate    81--82
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleThe Universe --- Order Without
                                  Design, by Carlos I. Calle, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general reader . . . . 82--83
                  Dr. A. M. Fox   \booktitleMagnetism and Magnetic
                                  Materials, by J. M. D. Coey, Scope:
                                  handbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates, postgraduates and
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleDecoding Reality: The Universe
                                  as Quantum Information, by Vlatko
                                  Vedral, Scope: monograph. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
         Professor Eric Sheldon   \booktitleAlex's Adventures in
                                  Numberland, by Alex Bellos, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
           Dr. Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleStatistical Physics of
                                  Particles, by Mehran Kardar, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
                                  and graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleQuantum Reality: Theory and
                                  Philosophy, by Jonathan Allday, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitlePerspectives in Computation,
                                  by Robert Geroch, Scope: theory of
                                  computation. Level: graduate and
                                  advanced undergraduate students,
                                  scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
               Dr. Amgad Salama   \booktitleGeological Fluid Dynamics:
                                  Sub-Surface Flow and Reactions, by O. M.
                                  Phillips, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
            Dr. Robert C. Smith   \booktitleThe Rotation of Sun and Stars,
                                  by J.-P. Rozelot and C.
                                  Neiner/\booktitlePhysics, Formation and
                                  Evolution of Rotating Stars, by A.
                                  Maeder, Scope: monograph and reference.
                                  Level: postgraduates and
                                  specialists/Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduates, specialists and advanced
                                  undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91
        Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleModern Thermodynamics with
                                  Statistical Mechanics, by Carl S.
                                  Helrich, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate/postgraduate  . . 91--92
Emeritus Massey Professor Marshall Stoneham   \booktitleChirality at the Nanoscale,
                                  edited by David B. Amabilino, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: graduate
                                  student/research scientist . . . . . . . 92--93
                  Richard Ellis   \booktitleAstronomical Spectrographs and
                                  Their History, by John J. Hearnshaw,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: science
                                  historians, general scientific,
                                  undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
                 John McFarland   \booktitleThe Cambridge Double Star
                                  Atlas, by J. Mullaney and W. Tirion,
                                  Scope: handbook. Level: general reader
                                  and specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Emeritus Professor Derry W. Jones   \booktitleSeeing Further: The Story of
                                  Science and the Royal Society, edited by
                                  Bill Bryson, Scope: articles on history,
                                  philosophy and a range of science.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 94--95
               Dr. Manuel Vogel   \booktitleIntroduction to Nuclear
                                  Science, by J. C. Bryan, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 95--96
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Many Worlds of Hugh
                                  Everett III, by Peter Byrne, Scope:
                                  biography. Level: undergraduate
                                  physicist and philosopher and above  . . 96--97
      Professor John E. Carroll   \booktitleSuperstrings and Other Things:
                                  A Guide to Physics, 2nd ed., by Carlos
                                  I. Calle, Scope: manual. Level: general
                                  scientific reader  . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleBasics of Statistical Physics,
                                  by Harald J. W. Müller-Kirsten, Scope:
                                  textbook, monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate and graduate students  . . 97--98
Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleConcepts in Thermal Physics,
                                  2nd ed., by Stephen J. Blundell and
                                  Katherine M. Blundell, Scope: handbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate and graduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleScientific Computing with Case
                                  Studies, by Dianne P. O'Leary, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate and early
                                  graduate students  . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
               Dr. Amgad Salama   \booktitleUnderstanding Fluid Flow, by
                                  Grae Worster, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 99--100

Contemporary Physics
Volume 52, Number 2, 2011

            Reiner Krücken   Introduction to shell structure in
                                  exotic nuclei  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--120
           Elena Pettinelli and   
         Pier Matteo Barone and   
          Elisabetta Mattei and   
        Sebastian Emanuel Lauro   Radio wave techniques for
                                  non-destructive archaeological
                                  investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
           Jonathan Keeling and   
             Natalia G. Berloff   Exciton--polariton condensation  . . . . 131--151
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleDiscrete Mathematics: Proof,
                                  Structures, and Applications, 3rd edn.,
                                  by Rowan Garnier and John Taylor, Scope:
                                  text-book. Level: undergraduate computer
                                  science students . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleThe Mathematical Mechanic:
                                  Using Physical Reasoning to Solve
                                  Problems, by Mark Levi, Scope: handbook.
                                  Level: students, scientists, physicists,
                                  mathematicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleThe Edge of Physics:
                                  Dispatches from the Frontiers of
                                  Cosmology, by Anil Ananthaswamy, Scope:
                                  synoptic picture of experimental modern
                                  astronomy, cosmology and particle
                                  physics. Level: general readers, A level
                                  and undergraduate physicists,
                                  specialists in other fields  . . . . . . 155--155
               Dr. Amgad Salama   \booktitleGood Vibrations: The Physics
                                  of Music, by Barry Parker, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: general reader  . . . . 155--156
     Professor J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleInterest Rates and Coupon
                                  Bonds in Quantum Finance, by Belal E.
                                  Baaquie, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156
       Professor S. J. Blundell   \booktitleMicromagnetism and the
                                  Microstructure of Ferromagnetic Solids,
                                  by Helmut Kronmüller and Manfred Fähnle,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researcher  . . 157--157
         Professor Chris Linton   \booktitleApplied Mathematical Methods
                                  in Theoretical Physics, 2nd edn., by
                                  Michio Masujima, Scope: reference.
                                  Level: undergraduates, postgraduates,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158
        Professor Ian D. Lawrie   \booktitleQuantum Field Theory in Curved
                                  Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity,
                                  by L. Parker and D. Toms, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 158--159
Professor Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleUltracold Quantum Fields, by
                                  H. T. C. Stoof, K. B. Gubbels and D. B.
                                  M. Dickerscheid, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: researchers, postgraduate
                                  physicists and senior undergraduates . . 159--159
                 John McFarland   \booktitleTheory of Orbit Determination,
                                  by Andrea Milani and Giovanni F.
                                  Gronchi, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
               Mabrouk Benhamou   \booktitleP. G. de Gennes' Impact on
                                  Science: Volume I, edited by Julien Bok,
                                  Jacques Prost and Françoise
                                  Brochard-Wyart, Scope: handbook. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
                   Dr. M. Jamil   \booktitleScientific Computation, by
                                  Gaston H. Gonnet and Ralf Scholl, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: graduate level
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
               Dr. A. H. Harker   \booktitleConcepts of Nanochemistry, by
                                  Ludovico Cademartiri and Geoffrey A.
                                  Ozin, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 162--162
        Professor Allan Solomon   \booktitleQuantum Measurement and
                                  Control, by H. M. Wiseman and G. J.
                                  Milburn, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate and researcher  . . . . . . 162--163
              Dr. R. S. Shorter   \booktitleAn Introduction to Relativity,
                                  by Jayant V. Narlikar, Scope: review.
                                  Level: undergraduate and postgraduate    163--164
              Dr. R. S. Shorter   \booktitleCremona Violins: A Physicist's
                                  Quest for Secrets of Stradivari, by
                                  Kameshwar C. Wali, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 164--164
         Dr. Natalie L. Garrett   \booktitleIntroduction to Physics in
                                  Modern Medicine, 2nd edn., by Suzanne
                                  Amador Kane, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165
             Dr. Giovanni Volpe   \booktitleDarwin Meets Einstein. On the
                                  Meaning of Science, by Frans W. Saris,
                                  Scope: popular account. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
        Professor J. R. Sambles   \booktitleSymmetries in Physics:
                                  Philosophical Reflections, edited by
                                  Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani,
                                  Scope: edited volume. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--168
        Professor Vlatko Vedral   \booktitleQuantum Processes, Systems,
                                  and Information, by Benjamin Schumacher
                                  and Michael Westmoreland, Scope: review.
                                  Level: undergraduate and postgraduate    168--168
               Dr. A. H. Harker   \booktitleUnderstanding Solid State
                                  Physics, by Sharon Ann Holgate, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 169--169
             Dr. D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleSemiconductor Devices for
                                  High-Speed Optoelectronics, by Giovanni
                                  Ghione, Scope: monograph and review.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate and
                                  early career researcher  . . . . . . . . 169--170
      Professor David Matravers   \booktitleThe Primordial Density
                                  Perturbation: Cosmology, Inflation and
                                  the Origin of Structure, by David H.
                                  Lyth and Andrew R. Liddle, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171
        Professor Allan Solomon   \booktitleNon-relativistic Quantum
                                  Theory: Dynamics, Symmetry and Geometry,
                                  by Kai S. Lam, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 171--171
         Dr. Natalie L. Garrett   \booktitleBiochemical Applications of
                                  Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy, edited
                                  by Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate and researcher  . . . . . . 171--172
      Professor Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleThe Large Hadron Collider: A
                                  Marvel of Technology, edited by Lyndon
                                  Evans, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  general reader and non-specialists . . . 172--173
Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleLinear Partial Differential
                                  Equations and Fourier Theory, by Marcus
                                  Pivato, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  students in mathematics and physics,
                                  lecturers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
    Professor Thomas J. Bridges   \booktitleSolitons, Instantons, and
                                  Twistors, by Maciej Dunajski, Scope:
                                  review. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher    174--175
            Dr. Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleCausality, Measurement Theory
                                  and the Differentiable Structure of
                                  Space--Time, by R. N. Sen, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 175--175
        Professor J. R. Sambles   \booktitleElectromagnetic Anisotropy and
                                  Bianisotropy: A Field Guide, by Tom G.
                                  Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, specialist  . . . . . 176--177
      Professor J. I. B. Wilson   \booktitleSpectroscopy of Low
                                  Temperature Plasma, by V. N. Ochkin
                                  translated by S. Kittell, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 177--177
Emeritus Professor Derry W. Jones   \booktitleOn Fact and Fraud: Cautionary
                                  Tales from the Front Lines of Science,
                                  by David Goodstein, Scope: twentieth
                                  century physics history and advice for
                                  scientists and administrators. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179

Contemporary Physics
Volume 52, Number 3, 2011

                     J. Banerji   The method of (not so) ordinary least
                                  squares: what can go wrong and how to
                                  fix them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--195
              G. W. Gibbons and   
                  C. M. Warnick   The geometry of sound rays in a wind . . 197--209
             Javier Redondo and   
               Andreas Ringwald   Light shining through walls  . . . . . . 211--236
               J. Rogel-Salazar   Essay Review: Improving science
                                  literacy: from atoms to galaxies.
                                  \booktitleFrom Atoms to Galaxies by
                                  Sadri Hassani  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
             Matthew R. Foreman   Opus musicum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242
                   S. C. Tiwari   Physical reality beyond the Standard
                                  Models: revolution in fundamental
                                  physics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleTwo-dimensional Optical
                                  Spectroscopy, by Minhaeng Cho, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 249--250
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleAn Introduction to Modeling of
                                  Transport Processes, by Ashim Datta and
                                  Vineet Rakesh, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
                  Joseph Shamir   \booktitleOptical Methods of
                                  Measurement: Wholefield Techniques, 2nd
                                  edn., by R. S. Sirohi, Scope: monograph
                                  and reference. Level: early career
                                  researcher and engineers . . . . . . . . 251--251
                   Tony Sudbery   \booktitleQuantum: Einstein, Bohr and
                                  the Great Debate About the Nature of
                                  Reality, by Manjit Kumar, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 251--254
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitlePhysics of the Sun: A First
                                  Course, by D. J. Mullan, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduates . . . . 254--254
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleStatistical Mechanics: An
                                  Elementary Outline, revised edition, by
                                  Lahiri Avijit, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
  Jörg Bernhard Götte   \booktitleIntermediate Spectral Theory
                                  and Quantum Dynamics, by C. R. de
                                  Oliveira, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 255--256
                   Yves Laberge   \booktitleCracking the Einstein Code:
                                  Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole
                                  Physics, by F. Melia, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 256--256
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleIntroduction to Nanophotonics,
                                  Sergey V. Gaponenko, Scope: manual.
                                  Level: graduate students and researchers 257--257
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleMassive: The Hunt for the God
                                  Particle, by Ian Sample, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership and
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleKinematics: The Lost Origins
                                  of Einstein's Relativity, by Alberto A.
                                  Martínez, Scope: biography and reference.
                                  Level: general readership, teacher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleNuclear Reactions for
                                  Astrophysics: Principles, Calculation
                                  and Applications of Low-Energy
                                  Reactions, by Ian J. Thompson and
                                  Filomena M. Nunes, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: graduate students and researchers 259--259
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleFundamentals of Guided-Wave
                                  Optoelectronic Devices, by William S. C.
                                  Chang, Scope: reference. Level: graduate
                                  level students studying optoelectronic
                                  waveguide devices  . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleAlgorithmic Cryptanalysis, by
                                  Antoine Joux, Scope: handbook/textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate, graduate . . . . . 260--261
                      Anonymous   Acceleration technologies for charged
                                  particles: an introduction . . . . . . . 263--263

Contemporary Physics
Volume 52, Number 4, 2011

           Miles J. Padgett and   
           Kevin O'Holleran and   
             Robert P. King and   
                 Mark R. Dennis   Knotted and tangled threads of darkness
                                  in light beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--279
                   G. H. C. New   Nonlinear optics: the first 50 years . . 281--292
              Roger Falcone and   
             Chris Jacobsen and   
                 Janos Kirz and   
         Stefano Marchesini and   
              David Shapiro and   
                    John Spence   New directions in X-ray microscopy . . . 293--318
             Oleg L. Berman and   
     Roman Ya. Kezerashvili and   
             German V. Kolmakov   Introduction to nonlinear phenomena in
                                  superfluid liquids and Bose--Einstein
                                  condensates: helium, semiconductors and
                                  graphene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--340
                 D. G. C. Jones   Visions of discovery . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
                   F. W. Taylor   Origin of planets  . . . . . . . . . . . 345--347
                   Eric Sheldon   Dark mysteries of the Universe . . . . . 349--354
                  Peter Holland   A quantum of history . . . . . . . . . . 355--358
                Peter J. Bussey   Physics and poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 359--362
                   S. Sivakumar   \booktitleQuantum Mechanics: Concepts
                                  and Applications, 2nd edn., by Nouredine
                                  Zettili, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduates and advanced students . . 363--363
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleBose-Condensed Gases at Finite
                                  Temperatures, by Allan Griffin, Tetsuro
                                  Nikuni and Eugene Zaremba, Scope:
                                  review. Level: graduate and researcher   364--364
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleEverywhere and Everywhen:
                                  Adventures in Physics and Philosophy, by
                                  Nick Huggett, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  popular science  . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitleGold Medal Physics: The
                                  Science of Sports, by John Eric Goff,
                                  Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists, teachers    365--365
              Ingemar Bengtsson   \booktitleFeynman Motives, by Matilde
                                  Marcolli, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitlePolarisation: Applications in
                                  Remote Sensing, by Shane Cloude, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: graduate and
                                  practising scientist/engineer  . . . . . 366--367
                  Andrew Briggs   \booktitleCrafting the Quantum: Arnold
                                  Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory,
                                  1890--1926, by Suman Seth, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367
               Danilo Zavrtanik   \booktitleCP Violation, 2nd edn., by I.
                                  I. Bigi and A. I. Sanda, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: early career
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
                     M. Ogilvie   \booktitleIntroduction to Statistical
                                  Field Theory, by E. Brézin, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 368--369
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitlePhysics of Sailing, by John
                                  Kimball, Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitleLighter Side of Adaptive
                                  Optics, by Robert K. Tyson, Scope:
                                  review. Level: general readership  . . . 370--370
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleHandbook of Space Engineering,
                                  Archaeology, and Heritage, edited by A.
                                  G. Darrin and B. L. O'Leary, Scope:
                                  handbook. Level: experts . . . . . . . . 370--371
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleObservational Cosmology, by S.
                                  Serjeant, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate students  . . . . 371--371
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleNonlinear Resonance Analysis:
                                  Theory, Computation, Applications, by
                                  Elena Kartashova, Scope: research
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate and
                                  beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleTurbulence in the Atmosphere,
                                  by John C. Wyngaard, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
               Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleAstrophysics for Physicists,
                                  by Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, beginning postgraduate    373--374
                 John J. Quenby   \booktitleAn Introduction to Particle
                                  Physics and the Standard Model, by
                                  Robert Mann, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate  . . . . . . 374--377
               Mabrouk Benhamou   \booktitleP. G. de Gennes' Impact on
                                  Science: Volume II, edited by Julien
                                  Bok, Jacques Prost and Françoise
                                  Brochard-Wyart, Scope: review. Level:
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleHigh Energy Radiation from
                                  Black Holes: Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays,
                                  and Neutrinos, by Charles D. Dermer and
                                  Govind Menon, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  graduate students and advanced
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
                 Giovanni Volpe   \booktitleOptical Tweezers: Methods and
                                  Applications, edited by Miles J.
                                  Padgett, Justin Molloy and David
                                  McGloin, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
            Murli Manohar Verma   \booktitleThe Future of Theoretical
                                  Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating
                                  Stephen Hawking's Contributions to
                                  Physics, edited by G. W. Gibbons, E. P.
                                  S. Shellard and S. J. Rankin, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general readership . . 380--382
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleJudging Edward Teller, by
                                  Istvan Hargittai, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 382--383
                  Peter Holland   \booktitleThe Stability of Matter in
                                  Quantum Mechanics, by E. H. Lieb and R.
                                  Seiringer, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384

Contemporary Physics
Volume 52, Number 5, 2011

            Jennifer C. Brookes   Olfaction: the physics of how smell
                                  works? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--402
             Nader Haghighipour   Super-Earths: a new class of planetary
                                  bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--438
            Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo   Physical approaches to the dynamics of
                                  genetic circuits: a tutorial . . . . . . 439--464
                     D. Jou and   
                   L. Restuccia   Mesoscopic transport equations and
                                  contemporary thermodynamics: an
                                  introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--474
                   David Bailin   Double beta decay and all that . . . . . 475--478
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleHydroclimatology: Perspectives
                                  and Applications, by Marlyn L. Shelton,
                                  Scope: reference. Level: undergraduate   479--480
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleExploring Fundamental
                                  Particles, by Lincoln Wolfenstein and
                                  João P. Silva, Scope: monograph, general
                                  interest. Level: undergraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, scientist . . . . . . . . 480--481
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleQuantum Chromodynamics:
                                  Perturbative and Nonperturbative
                                  Aspects, by B. L. Ioffe, V. S. Fadin and
                                  L. N. Lipatov, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  graduate students and researchers  . . . 481--482
                      Ken Zetie   \booktitleA Question and Answer Guide to
                                  Astronomy, by Pierre-Yves Bely, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists  . . . . . . 482--482
                    Lewis Ryder   \booktitleRelativity, Gravitation and
                                  Cosmology, by Robert J. A. Lambourne,
                                  Scope: review. Level: undergraduate  . . 482--483
                   Peter Kalmus   \booktitleNeutrino, by Frank Close,
                                  Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleCosmochemistry, by Harry Y.
                                  McSween, Jr. and Gary R. Huss, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--484
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleSecond-Order Nonlinear Optical
                                  Characterization Techniques: An
                                  Introduction, by Thierry Verbiest, Koen
                                  Clays and Vincent Rodriguez, Scope:
                                  review. Level: postgraduate and
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleAdvanced Modern Physics:
                                  Theoretical Foundations, by John Dirk
                                  Walecka, Scope: manual. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleExperimental and Computational
                                  Techniques in Soft Condensed Matter
                                  Physics, edited by Jeffrey Olafsen,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researchers and
                                  postgraduate physicists  . . . . . . . . 486--486
                Mircea Dragoman   \booktitleGravitation: Foundations and
                                  Frontiers, by T. Padmanabhan, Scope:
                                  review. Level: early career researcher   486--487
                   F. W. Taylor   \booktitleAn Introduction to Planetary
                                  Atmospheres, by A. Sanchez-Lavega,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate   487--487
                  Stig Stenholm   \booktitleA Kinetic View of Statistical
                                  Physics, by Pavel L. Krapivsky, Sidney
                                  Redner and Eli Ben-Naim, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher  488--488
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleStellar Evolution and
                                  Nucleosynthesis, by Sean G. Ryan and
                                  Andrew J. Norton, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--489
                       R. Ellis   \booktitleAn Introduction to the Theory
                                  of Stellar Structure and Evolution, 2nd
                                  edn., by Dina Prialnik, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: early career
                                  researcher, postgraduate, teacher  . . . 490--490
                     M. Ogilvie   \booktitleNon-Perturbative Field Theory
                                  --- From Two Dimensional Conformal Field
                                  Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions, by
                                  Yitzhak Frishman and Jacob Sonnenschein,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 490--491
                David Matravers   \booktitleBayesian Logical Data Analysis
                                  for the Physical Sciences, edited by P.
                                  C. Gregory, Scope: text book, handbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 491--492
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleNanoscopy and Multidimensional
                                  Optical Fluorescence Microscopy, edited
                                  by Alberto Diaspro, Scope: edited book,
                                  guide, review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 492--492
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleStatistical and Thermal
                                  Physics with Computer Applications, by
                                  Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 492--493
                       R. Ellis   \booktitleStellar Populations: Planning
                                  for the Next Decade, edited by G.
                                  Bruzual and S. Charlot . . . . . . . . . 493--493
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleHandbook of Plastic Optics,
                                  edited by Stefan Baumer, Weinheim  . . . 494--494
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleCurrent-Driven Phenomena in
                                  Nanoelectronics, edited by Tamar
                                  Seideman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleTwisted Photons: Application
                                  of Light with Orbital Angular Momentum,
                                  edited by Juan P. Torres and Lluis
                                  Torner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
              Timothy J. Sumner   \booktitleParticle Dark Matter, edited
                                  by Gianfranco Bertone  . . . . . . . . . 496--496
               Allan I. Solomon   \booktitleGroup Theory for the Standard
                                  Model of Particle Physics and Beyond, by
                                  Ken J. Barnes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--497
                   Ian Thompson   \booktitleNIST Handbook of Mathematical
                                  Functions, edited by Frank W. J. Olver,
                                  Daniel W. Lozier, Ronald F. Boisvert,
                                  Charles W. Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
                  Simon Redfern   \booktitleElementary Scattering Theory
                                  For X-ray and Neutron Users, by D. S.
                                  Sivia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--498
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleFinitary Probabilistic Methods
                                  in Econophysics, by Ubaldo Garibaldi and
                                  Enrico Scalas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
                   Yves Laberge   \booktitleAn Illustrated Guide to
                                  Relativity, by Tatsu Takeuchi  . . . . . 499--500
                      Andy Chia   \booktitleIntroduction to Optical
                                  Quantum Information Processing, by
                                  Pieter Kok and Brendon W. Lovett . . . . 500--501
                 Giovanni Volpe   \booktitleThe Inverted Bowl:
                                  Introductory Accounts of the Universe
                                  and its Life, by George H. A. Cole . . . 501--501
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitlePrinciples of Adaptive Optics,
                                  3rd edn., by Robert K. Tyson . . . . . . 501--502
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitlePhysics Over Easy: Breakfasts
                                  with Beth and Physics, 2nd edn., by
                                  Leonid V. Azároff . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503

Contemporary Physics
Volume 52, Number 6, 2011

           Marcus D. Hughes and   
            Bjoern Lekitsch and   
          Jiddu A. Broersma and   
          Winfried K. Hensinger   Microfabricated ion traps  . . . . . . . 505--529
                     Roee Ozeri   The trapped-ion qubit tool box . . . . . 531--550
                 J. P. Marangos   Introduction to the new science with
                                  X-ray free electron lasers . . . . . . . 551--569
            Alexey Slunyaev and   
            Ira Didenkulova and   
                Efim Pelinovsky   Rogue waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--590
         Peter V. E. McClintock   Essay Review: \booktitleRevolutions that
                                  made the Earth, by T. Lenton and A.
                                  Watson. ISBN 978-0-19-958704-9, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general reader with a
                                  science education  . . . . . . . . . . . 591--593
                   Tony Sudbery   \booktitleThe Amazing Story of Quantum
                                  Mechanics, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 595--595
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleFusion: An Introduction to the
                                  Physics and Technology of Magnetic
                                  Confinement Fusion, 2nd edn., by W. M.
                                  Stacey, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . 595--596
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleAt the Leading Edge: The ATLAS
                                  and CMS LHC Experiments, edited by Dan
                                  Green, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  physicists, graduates in particle
                                  physics, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 596--597
              Ingemar Bengtsson   \booktitleClassical Measurements in
                                  Curved Space--Times, by Fernando de
                                  Felice, Scope: monograph. Level: early
                                  career researcher, researcher  . . . . . 597--597
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleNumerical Relativity: Solving
                                  Einstein's Equations on the Computer, by
                                  Th.W. Baumgarte and S. L. Shapiro,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates, researchers, teachers,
                                  specialists, scientists  . . . . . . . . 598--599
                      Ken Zetie   \booktitleMichael Faraday: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by Frank A. J. L. James,
                                  Scope: biography, general interest.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, teacher . . . . . . . . 599--599
                      K. Pounds   \booktitleCoevolution of Black Holes and
                                  Galaxies, edited by Luis C. Ho, Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 599--600
                    Alan Phelps   \booktitleComplex and Dusty Plasmas:
                                  From Laboratory to Space, edited by
                                  Vladimir E. Fortov and Gregor E.
                                  Morfill, Scope: edited monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 600--601
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleNumerical Solution of
                                  Hyperbolic Partial Differential
                                  Equations, by John A. Trangenstein,
                                  Scope: review. Level: textbook for
                                  engineering students; engineering
                                  researchers, computer scientists . . . . 601--602
              Jonathan Tennyson   \booktitleExoplanet Atmospheres:
                                  Physical Processes, by Sara Seager,
                                  Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 602--603
              Christopher Gerry   \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum
                                  Physics and Relativity, by Jacob
                                  Dunningham and Vlatko Vedral, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 603--604
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleQuantum Computation and
                                  Quantum Information, by M. A. Nielsen
                                  and I. L. Chuang, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate and above  604--605
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleEconophysics and Companies:
                                  Statistical Life and Death in Complex
                                  Business Networks, by Hideaki Aoyama,
                                  Yoshi Fijiwara, Yuichi Ikeda, Hirishi
                                  Iyetomi and Wataru Souma, Scope: review.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate and
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--606
                   P. J. Bussey   \booktitleHigher Speculations: Grand
                                  Theories and Failed Revolutions in
                                  Physics and Cosmology, by Helge Kragh,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--606
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleMethods of Wave Theory in
                                  Dispersive Media, by M. V. Kuzelev and
                                  A. A. Rukhadze, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researchers and experts, students and
                                  post-graduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--607
                   Peter Hobson   \booktitleOptoelectronic Devices:
                                  Design, Modeling, and Simulation, by Xun
                                  Li, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist and
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608
            Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleEnergy, the Subtle Concept, by
                                  Jennifer Coopersmith, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general reader with some
                                  scientific background  . . . . . . . . . 608--609
                   P. J. Bussey   \booktitleParticle Physics Experiments
                                  at High Energy Colliders, by John
                                  Hauptman, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleStorm and Cloud Dynamics, 2nd
                                  edn., by W. R. Cotton, G. H. Bryan and
                                  S. C. van den Heever, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: advanced students and experts . . 610--611
           Monica Pierri-Galvao   \booktitleThe Dark Matter Problem, by
                                  Robert H. Sanders, Scope: review. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 611--611
                     S. Virmani   \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum
                                  Statistical Mechanics, 2nd edn., by N.
                                  N. Bogolubov and N. N. Bogolubov, Jr.,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--612
                     S. Virmani   \booktitleQuantum Field Theory in a
                                  Nutshell, 2nd edn., by A. Zee,
                                  Princeton, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--612
                    Bill Barnes   \booktitleOptical Properties of Solids,
                                  2nd edn, by Mark Fox, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 612--613
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleSoap, Science and Flat-Screen
                                  TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals, by
                                  David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin, Scope:
                                  history of science with biographies.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 613--614
                  Vlatko Vedral   \booktitleQuantum Physics: A Fundamental
                                  Approach to Modern Physics, by John S.
                                  Townsend, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--615
                   B. P. Kibble   \booktitleReliability in Scientific
                                  Research: Improving the Dependability of
                                  Measurements, Calculations, Equipment,
                                  and Software, by I. R. Walker, Scope:
                                  review. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 615--616
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleHandbook of Photonics for
                                  Biomedical Science, edited by Valery V.
                                  Tuchin, Scope: handbook. Level: graduate
                                  and practising scientist/engineer  . . . 616--617
                Martin Counihan   \booktitleMeteorite Craters and Impact
                                  Structures of the Earth, by Paul Hodge,
                                  Scope: reference. Level: general
                                  scientific readership  . . . . . . . . . 617--617
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleHandbook of Biosensors and
                                  Biosensor Kinetics, by A. Sadana and N.
                                  Sadana, Scope: monograph. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--618
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleNeutron Physics for Nuclear
                                  Reactors: Unpublished Writings by Enrico
                                  Fermi, edited by S. Esposito and O.
                                  Pisanti, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers
                                  and researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--619
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleSuper Structures: The Science
                                  of Bridges, Buildings, Dams and Other
                                  Feats of Engineering, by Mark Denny,
                                  Scope: review. Level: undergraduate or
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--619
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleStatistical Mechanics, 3rd
                                  edn., by R. K. Pathria and P. D. Beale,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate or
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 619--620
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleHeisenberg's Quantum
                                  Mechanics, by Mohsen Razavy, Scope:
                                  advanced textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--621
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitlePrinciples of Laser
                                  Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics, by Paul
                                  R. Berman and Vladimir S. Malinovsky,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . 621--622
                   P. J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Beautiful Invisible:
                                  Creativity, Imagination and Theoretical
                                  Physics, by Giovanni Vignale, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--623
                  Alan Michette   \booktitleIntroduction to XAFS. A
                                  Practical Guide to X-ray Absorption Fine
                                  Structure Spectroscopy, by Grant Bunker,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 623--623
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleMathematical Aspects of
                                  Quantum Field Theory, by E. de Faria and
                                  W. de Melo, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--624
                 John McFarland   \booktitleAstrophysics and
                                  Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950:
                                  Part A, edited by O. Gingerich, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher  624--625
                   S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleEmmy Noether's Wonderful
                                  Theorem, by D. E. Neuenschwander, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: senior
                                  undergraduate/graduate physics students  625--626
             Do\uga Gürsoy   \booktitleThe Science of Imaging: An
                                  Introduction, 2nd edn., by Graham Saxby,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . 626--626
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleParadigms of Combinatorial
                                  Optimization: Problems and New
                                  Approaches, edited by Vangelis T.
                                  Paschos, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, teacher,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--627
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum
                                  Optics: From the Semi-Classical Approach
                                  to Quantized Light, by Gilbert Grynberg,
                                  Alain Aspect and Claude Fabre, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 627--628
           Jörg Götte   \booktitleQuantum Mechanics and Quantum
                                  Field Theory: A Mathematical Primer, by
                                  Jonathan Dimock, Scope: reference.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 628--629
                   D. J. Miller   \booktitleWhat are Gamma-Ray Bursts?, by
                                  Joshua S. Bloom, Scope: review. Level:
                                  non-specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--630
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleTurbulence and Shell Models,
                                  by P. D. Ditlevsen, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 630--631
               Robert D. Joseph   \booktitleHow Old is the Universe?, by
                                  David A. Weintraub, Scope: review.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 631--632
                    Alan Martin   \booktitleQuantum Physics for Poets, by
                                  Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T.
                                  Hill, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 632--632
                 Gerard Milburn   \booktitleClassical and Quantum
                                  Information, by D. C. Marinescu and G.
                                  M. Marinescu, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--633
                  Martin Hendry   \booktitleLectures on Gravitation, by
                                  Ashok Das, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher  . . . . . . . . . . 633--634
          Adriana Pálffy   \booktitleThe Quantum Story: A History
                                  in 40 Moments, by Jim Baggott, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--635
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleAdaptation in Dynamical
                                  Systems, by Ivan Tyukin, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference. Level: general
                                  reader, undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--635
               Geoffrey Duxbury   \booktitleConcepts and Methods of $2$D
                                  Infrared Spectroscopy, by Peter Hamm and
                                  Martin Zanni, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--636
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Contemporary Physics
Volume 53, Number 1, 2012

           Timothy C. Ralph and   
                 Tony G. Downes   Relativistic quantum information and
                                  time machines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
           Pablo Balenzuela and   
               Holger Braun and   
               Dante R. Chialvo   The ghost of stochastic resonance: an
                                  introductory review  . . . . . . . . . . 17--38
                Derek Raine and   
                   Sarah Symons   Problem-based learning: undergraduate
                                  physics by research  . . . . . . . . . . 39--51
                   Eric Sheldon   Essay Review: \booktitleNeutrino
                                  Physics, 2nd edn., by K. Zuber. ISN
                                  978-1-4200-6471-1, Scope: textbook,
                                  review Level: postgraduate, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
                   David Harris   \booktitleWaves and Rays in Elastic
                                  Continua, by Michael A. Slawinski,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleOptical Interactions in
                                  Solids, 2nd edn, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56
               Adolfo del Campo   \booktitleFundamentals and New Frontiers
                                  of Bose--Einstein Condensation, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced graduate and
                                  postgraduate students and researchers    56--57
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleClassical Mechanics
                                  Illustrated by Modern Physics: 42
                                  Problems with Solutions, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 57--57
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleModern Atomic and Nuclear
                                  Physics (Revised Edition): Problems and
                                  Solutions Manual, Scope: manual. Level:
                                  graduate students and researchers  . . . 58--58
                   P. J. Bussey   \booktitleLawless Universe: Science and
                                  the Hunt for Reality, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general reader  . . . . 58--59
                       B. Cowan   \booktitleThermodynamics, by H. J.
                                  Kreuzer and Isaac Tamblyn, Scope:
                                  manual. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 59--60
                Barrie W. Jones   \booktitleFormation and Evolution of
                                  Exoplanets, edited by Rory Barnes,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: scientist . . . 60--61
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitlePhysics of the Human Body, by
                                  Richard P. McCall, Scope:
                                  monograph/essay. Level: undergraduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleNonlinear Wave Methods for
                                  Charge Transport, by Luis L. Bonilla and
                                  Stephen W. Teitsworth, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: graduate students and specialists 61--62
                   Matt Probert   \booktitleThermodynamic Properties of
                                  Solids: Experiment and Modeling, edited
                                  by Samrath L. Chaplot, Ranjan Mittal and
                                  Narayani Choudhury, Scope: review.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 62--63
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleAdvanced Mechanics and General
                                  Relativity, by J. Franklin, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: graduate  . . . . . . . 63--64
                   R. S. MacKay   \booktitleThe Dark Universe: Matter,
                                  Energy, and Gravity, edited by Mario
                                  Livio, Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of
                                  Critical Phenomena: Mean Field,
                                  Fluctuations and Renormalization, 2nd
                                  edn., by Dimo I. Uzunov, Scope: research
                                  monograph. Level: early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 65--66
                     Ian Lawrie   \booktitleCanonical Gravity and
                                  Applications: Cosmology, Black Holes,
                                  and Quantum Gravity, by M. Bojowald,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher  . . . . . . . . 66--67
             Vahan Senekerimyan   \booktitleOptical Sensors: Basics and
                                  Applications, by J. Haus, Scope: general
                                  interest, monograph. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . 67--67
                S. T. C. Siklos   \booktitleExact Space--Times in
                                  Einstein's General Relativity, by Jerry
                                  B. Griffiths and Ji\vrí Podolský, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 67--69
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleFiber Optics: Physics and
                                  Technology, by Fedor Mitschke, Scope:
                                  manual. Level: advanced undergraduate
                                  and postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleNanoimaging, edited by Beth A.
                                  Goins and William T. Phillips, Scope:
                                  research monograph. Level: postgraduate
                                  and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleHeliophysics: Space Storms and
                                  Radiation: Causes and Effects, edited by
                                  C. J. Schrijver and G. L. Siscoe, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate
                                  and above  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleFoundations of Environmental
                                  Physics: Understanding Energy Use and
                                  Human Impacts, by Kyle Forinash, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference. Level:
                                  undergraduate, teacher, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
                   S. Sivakumar   \booktitleAn Introduction to Quantum
                                  Optics: Photon and Biphoton Physics,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researchers and
                                  lecturers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
          Nikolaos Kourkoumelis   \booktitleResearch Methods for Science,
                                  by Michael P. Marder, Scope: handbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
             Hrant Ye. Seferyan   \booktitleSupercontinuum Generation in
                                  Optical Fibers, edited by J. M. Dudley
                                  and J. R. Taylor, Scope: edited book,
                                  handbook, reference, review. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
                    C. Isenberg   \booktitleClassical Mechanics with
                                  Applications, by Porter Wear Johnson,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 75--76
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleRelativity in Fundamental
                                  Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames,
                                  and Data Analysis, IAU Symposium 261,
                                  edited by S. A. Klioner, P. K.
                                  Seidelmann and M. H. Soffel, Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleQuantum Phase Transitions, 2nd
                                  edn., by S. Sachdev, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate or advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleElements of Phase Transitions
                                  and Critical Phenomena, by H. Nishimori
                                  and G. Ortiz, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78

Contemporary Physics
Volume 53, Number 2, 2012

Vladimir García-Morales and   
             Katharina Krischer   The complex Ginzburg--Landau equation:
                                  an introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--95
                 Daniele Faccio   Laser pulse analogues for gravity and
                                  analogue Hawking radiation . . . . . . . 97--112
            John G. Learned and   
            R.-P. Kudritzki and   
             Sandip Pakvasa and   
                         A. Zee   The Cepheid galactic Internet  . . . . . 113--118
                Luca Gammaitoni   There's plenty of energy at the bottom
                                  (micro and nano scale nonlinear noise
                                  harvesting)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
              Natalia B. Janson   Non-linear dynamics of biological
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--168
                    S. Esposito   \booktitleThe fisherman and his net: is
                                  Physics discovered or invented?, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--172
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitlePrinciples of Lasers, 5th
                                  edn., by O. Svelto, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate and above  173--173
                   B. Ishak and   
                   J. McFarland   \booktitleIcy Bodies of the Solar System
                                  (IAU S263). Proceedings of the IAU
                                  Symposia and Colloquia, edited by J. A.
                                  Fernández, D. Lazarro, D. Prialnik and R.
                                  Schulz. Scope: wide-ranging review.
                                  Level: postgraduates and specialists . . 173--174
                   D. J. Miller   \booktitleHigh Energy Astrophysics, 3rd
                                  edn., by Malcolm S. Longair, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 174--175
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleConcepts of Combinatorial
                                  Optimization, edited by Vangelis Th.
                                  Paschos, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  researchers, practitioners, MSc or Ph.D.
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleIntroductory Statistical
                                  Thermodynamics, by Nils Dalarsson,
                                  Mariana Dalarsson and Leonardo
                                  Golubovic, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitlePrimordial Cosmology, by
                                  Giovanni Montani, Marco Valerio
                                  Battisti, Riccardo Benini and Giovanni
                                  Imponente, Scope: review, textbook.
                                  Level: researcher, specialist, scientist 176--177
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleKnocking on Heaven's Door: How
                                  Physics and Scientific Thinking
                                  Illuminate The Universe and the Modern
                                  World, by Lisa Randall, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general reader  . . . . 178--178
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleApplications of Combinatorial
                                  Optimization, edited by Vangelis Th.
                                  Paschos, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  researchers, practitioners, MSc or Ph.D.
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleAdvanced Particle Physics,
                                  Volume I: Particles, Fields, and Quantum
                                  Electrodynamics, by O. M. Boyarkin.
                                  \booktitleAdvanced Particle Physics,
                                  Volume II: The Standard Model and
                                  Beyond, by O. M. Boyarkin. Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: graduate, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level graduate  . . . . . . . 179--180
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleStochastic Transport in
                                  Complex Systems: From Molecules to
                                  Vehicles, by Andreas Schadschneider,
                                  Scope: review. Level: graduate students
                                  and specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitlePhysical Foundations of
                                  Quantum Electronics, by David Klyshko,
                                  edited by Maria Chekhova and Sergey
                                  Kulik, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
                Mircea Dragoman   \booktitlePhysics of the Universe, by
                                  Mendel Sachs, Scope: review. Level:
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
                   D. J. Miller   \booktitleHow did the First Stars and
                                  Galaxies Form?, by Abraham Loeb, Scope:
                                  review. Level: non-specialists . . . . . 183--183
               Nicholas Dimakis   \booktitleComputational Nanoscience:
                                  Applications for Molecules, Clusters,
                                  and Solids, by Kálmán Varga and Joseph A.
                                  Driscoll, Scope: review. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates and graduate students in
                                  computational physics, material science,
                                  and engineering  . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleRecent Advances in
                                  Spectroscopy: Theoretical, Astrophysical
                                  and Experimental Perspectives, edited by
                                  R. K. Chaudhuri, M. V. Mekkaden, A. V.
                                  Raveendran, A. Satya Narayanan, Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist  . . . 184--185
                Peter J. Bussey   Physics at the Terascale, edited by I.
                                  Brock and T. Schörner-Sadenius, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: researcher . . . . . . 185--185
           Benjamin J. Whitaker   \booktitleIntroduction to Nonlinear
                                  Optics, by Geoffrey New, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 186--186
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleThe Fallacy of Fine-Tuning:
                                  Why The Universe is Not Designed for Us,
                                  by Victor J. Stenger, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 186--187
                  J. E. Carroll   \booktitleFractional Calculus: An
                                  Introduction For Physicists, by Richard
                                  Herrmann, Scope: review. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitle50 Years of Anderson
                                  Localization, edited by Elihu Abrahams,
                                  Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
                   David Bailin   \booktitleQuark--Gluon Plasma 4, edited
                                  by Rudolph C. Hwa and Xin-Nian Wang,
                                  Scope: edited book, monograph. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
                   R. G. Carter   \booktitleField Computation for
                                  Accelerator Magnets: Analytical and
                                  Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic
                                  Design and Optimization, by Stephan
                                  Russenschuck, Scope: monograph,
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 190--191
                  Allan Solomon   \booktitleSymmetries and Conservation
                                  Laws in Particle Physics: An
                                  Introduction to Group Theory for
                                  Particle Physicists, by Stephen Haywood,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher    191--192
              G. M. Schütz   \booktitleNon-Hermitian Quantum
                                  Mechanics, by Nimrod Moiseyev, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleNew Trends in the Physics and
                                  Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture
                                  Notes of the Les Houches Summer School,
                                  Volume 92, edited by Martine Ben Amar,
                                  Alain Goriely, Martin Michael Müller and
                                  Leticia Cugliandolo, Scope: conference
                                  proceedings. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist  . . . . . . . . . . 193--193

Contemporary Physics
Volume 53, Number 3, 2012

                 Arttu Rajantie   Introduction to magnetic monopoles . . . 195--211
                   Thomas House   Modelling epidemics on networks  . . . . 213--225
            Martine Chevrollier   Radiation trapping and Lévy flights in
                                  atomic vapours: an introductory review   227--239
                  Norman Dombey   \booktitleThe Infinity Puzzle, by F.
                                  Close, Scope: reference. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--245
                 Derry W. Jones   Essay Review: Physics Letters: the
                                  Stokes--Thomson effect. \booktitleThe
                                  Correspondence between Sir George
                                  Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson,
                                  Baron Kelvin of Largs: Vols. 1 & 2,
                                  edited by D. B. Wilson, Scope: review.
                                  Level: final-year science undergraduate  247--250
             Matthew R. Foreman   \booktitleStatistical Signal Processing
                                  of Complex-Valued Data: The Theory of
                                  Improper and Noncircular Signals, by
                                  Peter J. Schreier and Louis L. Scharf,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
               Mabrouk Benhamou   \booktitlePolymer Physics: From
                                  Suspension to Nanocomposites and Beyond,
                                  edited by Leszek A. Utracki and
                                  Alexander M. Jamieson, Scope: review.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
                      Ken Zetie   \booktitleRelativity for the Questioning
                                  Mind, by Daniel F. Styer, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 253--253
                     Xuetao Zhu   \booktitleBasic Elements of
                                  Crystallography, by Nevill Gonzalez
                                  Szwacki and Teresa Szwacka, Scope:
                                  handbook, reference. Level:
                                  non-specialists, undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Quest for Reality: Bohr
                                  and Wittgenstein --- Two Complementary
                                  Views, by S. Stenholm, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: scientist . . . . . . . 254--255
          Nikolaos Kourkoumelis   \booktitleNanocomposite Particles for
                                  Bio-Applications: Materials and
                                  Bio-Interfaces, by Tito Trindade and Ana
                                  L. Daniel da Silva, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
                   David Bailin   Essay Review: The geese that never
                                  cackled. \booktitleSecret Days:
                                  Codebreaking in Bletchley Park, by Asa
                                  Briggs. ISBN 978-1-84832-615-6, Scope:
                                  review. Level: general readership  . . . 256--262
               Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleScience at the Nanoscale: An
                                  Introductory Textbook, by C. W. Shong,
                                  S. C. Haur and A. T. S. Wee, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 262--262
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitleProperties of Perovskites and
                                  Other Oxides, by K. Alex Müller and Tom
                                  W. Kool, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
               Geoffrey Duxbury   \booktitleAdvances in Infrared
                                  Photodetectors, edited by Sarath D.
                                  Gunapala, David R. Rhiger and
                                  Chennupatti Jagadish, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: early career researcher . . . . . 263--264
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleWavefronts and Rays as
                                  Characteristics and Asymptotics, by A.
                                  Bóna and M. A. Slawinski, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 265--265
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleNanocomputing: Computational
                                  Physics for Nanoscience and
                                  Nanotechnology, by James J. Y. Hsu,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
                   K. A. Pounds   \booktitleThe Expanding Universe:
                                  Astronomy's `Great Debate', 1900--1931,
                                  by Robert W. Smith, Scope: general
                                  interest, monograph. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists  . . . . . . 266--267
               Geoffrey Duxbury   \booktitle$3$D Spectroscopy in
                                  Astronomy, edited by E. Mediavilla, S.
                                  Arribas, M. Roth, J. Cepa-Nogué and F.
                                  Cepa-Nogué, Scope: guide. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
                    Bo Reipurth   \booktitleStar Clusters: Basic Galactic
                                  Building Blocks Throughout Time and
                                  Space, IAU S266, edited by Richard de
                                  Grijs and Jacques Lépine, Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 268--269
                  Chris Athorne   \booktitleSolved Problems in Classical
                                  Mechanics: Analytical and Numerical
                                  Solutions with Comments, by O. L. de
                                  Lange and J. Pierrus, Scope: review.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleStochastic Control and
                                  Mathematical Modeling: Applications in
                                  Economics, by H. Morimoto, Scope:
                                  review. Level: advanced postgraduate or
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleOptically Pumped Atoms, by
                                  William Happer, Yuan-Yu Jau and Thad G.
                                  Walker, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate  . . . . . . 270--271
                   Matt Probert   \booktitleEngineering Optimisation: An
                                  Introduction with Metaheuristic
                                  Applications, by Xin-She Yang, Scope:
                                  reference. Level:undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleSuperlattice to
                                  Nanoelectronics, by Raphael Tsu, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 272--273
                   David Bailin   \booktitleAn Introduction to String
                                  Theory and D-Brane Dynamics: With
                                  Problems and Solutions, 2nd edn., by
                                  Richard J. Szabo, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
                 Giovanni Volpe   \booktitleOptical Processes in
                                  Microparticles and Nanostructures, A
                                  Festschrift, dedicated to Richard Kounai
                                  Chang on his Retirement from Yale
                                  University, edited by Ali Serpengüzel and
                                  Andrew W. Poon, Scope: review. Level:
                                  practitioners  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
            Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleAstronomical Spectroscopy: An
                                  Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular
                                  Physics of Astronomical Spectra, 2nd
                                  edn., by Jonathan Tennyson.
                                  \booktitleAtomic Astrophysics and
                                  Spectroscopy, by Anil K. Pradhan and
                                  Sultana N. Nahar. Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate. Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate/postgraduate . . . . . . . 275--276
                    J. M. Sykes   \booktitleThe Magnesium Civilisation: An
                                  Alternative New Source of Energy to Oil,
                                  by Takashi Yabe and Tatsuya Yamaji,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  readership and non-specialists . . . . . 276--277
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleFluid Mechanics: A Short
                                  Course for Physicists, by Gregory
                                  Falkovich, Scope: handbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 277--278
                      A. Freise   \booktitleOptical Metamaterials:
                                  Fundamentals and Applications, by W. Cai
                                  and V. Shalaev, Scope: handbook, review.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 278--279
                      A. M. Fox   \booktitleFundamentals of
                                  Semiconductors: Physics and Materials
                                  Properties, 4th edn., by Peter Y. Yu and
                                  Manuel Cardona, Scope: manual. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
               Allan I. Solomon   \booktitleApplications of Unitary
                                  Symmetry and Combinatorics, by James D.
                                  Louck, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleNumerical Modeling in
                                  Materials Science and Engineering,
                                  Springer Series in Computational
                                  Mathematics, Vol. 32, by M. Rappaz, M.
                                  Bellet, and M. Deville, translated by R.
                                  Snyder, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate  . . . . . . 280--281
                 D. G. Bucknall   \booktitleFunctional Supramolecular
                                  Architectures: For Organic Electronics
                                  and Nanotechnology, 2 Volume set, edited
                                  by P. Samor\`\i and F. Cacialli, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
          Adriana Pálffy   \booktitleQuantum Enigma: Physics
                                  Encounters Consciousness, 2nd edn., by
                                  Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
                 Gerard Milburn   \booktitleQuantum Engineering: Theory
                                  and Design of Quantum Coherent
                                  Structures, by A. M. Zagoskin, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 283--284
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleAdvances in Nanotechnology and
                                  the Environment, edited by Juyoung Kim,
                                  Scope: review. Level: researcher,
                                  specialist and scientist . . . . . . . . 284--285
                     John Sykes   \booktitleElectrochemical
                                  Nanofabrication: Principles and
                                  Applications, edited by Di Wei, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: early career
                                  researcher, researcher, specialist and
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleOptics of Nanomaterials, by
                                  Vladimir I. Gavrilenko, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, scientist and
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleRelativistic Quantum Physics:
                                  From Advanced Quantum Mechanics to
                                  Introductory Quantum Field Theory, by
                                  Tommy Ohlsson, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleElectricity and Magnetism, 2nd
                                  ed., by Edward Purcell, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 287--288
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleLasers in the Preservation of
                                  Cultural Heritage: Principles and
                                  Applications, by C. Fotakis, D.
                                  Anglos,V. Zafiropulos, S. Georgiou, and
                                  V. Tornari, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  researchers, practitioners, postgraduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleOptical Measurement
                                  Techniques: Innovations for Industry and
                                  the Life Sciences, Springer Series in
                                  Optical Sciences, Vol. 136, by Kai-Erik
                                  Peiponen, Risto Mullylä and Alexander V.
                                  Priezzhev, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate and beyond  . . . . . . . . 289--289
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleSemiconductor Quantum Optics,
                                  by Mackillo Kira and Stephan W. Koch,
                                  Scope: monograph, reference. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate and postgraduate  289--290
                P. T. Greenland   \booktitleThe Mesoscopic Theory of
                                  Polymer Dynamics, 2nd edn., Springer
                                  Series in Chemical Physics, Vol. 95, by
                                  V. N. Pokrovskii, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
                   F. W. Taylor   \booktitleCollisional Line Broadening
                                  and Shifting of Atmospheric Gases: A
                                  Practical Guide for Line Shape Modelling
                                  by Current Semi-Classical Approaches, by
                                  J. Buldyreva, N. Lavrentiveva and V.
                                  Starikov, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
                   R. S. MacKay   \booktitleProbability on Graphs: Random
                                  Processes on Graphs and Lattices, by G.
                                  Grimmett, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 291--292
                   David Bailin   \booktitleFast Car Physics, by Chuck
                                  Edmondson, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: pre-university, undergraduate . . 292--293

Contemporary Physics
Volume 53, Number 4, 2012

                    Frank Close   Higgs boson: beginning of the end or end
                                  of the beginning?  . . . . . . . . . . . 295--300
                R. F. O'Connell   Radiation reaction: general approach and
                                  applications, especially to
                                  electrodynamics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--313
               Pasquale Di Bari   An introduction to leptogenesis and
                                  neutrino properties  . . . . . . . . . . 315--338
                 Andreja Gomboc   Unveiling the secrets of gamma ray
                                  bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--355
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleOur single UNIverse or a
                                  plethora of MULTIverses?, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360
                    John Quenby   \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of
                                  the Early Universe: Cosmological
                                  Perturbations and Inflation Theory, by
                                  Dimitry S. Gorbunov and Valery A.
                                  Rubakov, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduates and early career
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleFundamentals of Nuclear
                                  Models: Foundational Models, by David J.
                                  Rowe and John L. Wood, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: graduate students and researchers 363--363
                   Chris Linton   \booktitleAn Introduction to
                                  Metamaterials and Waves in Composites,
                                  by B. Banerjee, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate and advanced undergraduate  . . 363--364
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleModern Plasma Physics, Volume
                                  1: Physical Kinetics of Turbulent
                                  Plasmas, by P. H. Diamond, S.-I. Itoh
                                  and K. Itoh, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
                 Keith Benedict   \booktitleUnderstanding Quantum Phase
                                  Transitions, edited by Lincoln Carr,
                                  Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher and researcher   365--366
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleLight Propagation in Gain
                                  Media Media: Optical Amplifiers, by
                                  Malin Premaratne and Govind P. Agrawal,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and
                                  early career researcher  . . . . . . . . 366--366
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleLectures on Dynamics of
                                  Stochastic Systems, by V. I. Klyatskin,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . 366--367
                   S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleGribov-80 Memorial Volume:
                                  Quantum Chromodynamics and Beyond,
                                  edited by Yu. L. Dokshitzer, P. Lévai and
                                  J. Nyíri, Scope: conference proceedings.
                                  Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368
                 Milton W. Cole   \booktitleIntroduction to Statistical
                                  Mechanics, by John Dirk Walecka, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate and
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleField Theory of
                                  Non-Equilibrium Systems, by A. Kamenev,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . 368--369
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleFirst Steps in Random Walks:
                                  From Tools to Applications, by J.
                                  Klafter and I. M. Sokolov, Scope:
                                  review. Level: graduate students or
                                  scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370
              Fredric W. Taylor   \booktitlePlanetary Crusts: Their
                                  Composition, Origin and Evolution, by
                                  Stuart Ross Taylor and Scott M.
                                  McLennan, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate and early
                                  career researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleQuips, Quotes and Quanta: An
                                  Anecdotal History of Physics, 2nd edn,
                                  by Anton Z. Capri, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 371--371
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleThin-Film Optical Filters, 4th
                                  edition, by H. Angus Macleod, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: researchers,
                                  specialists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 371--372
            Stephen H. Ashworth   \booktitleMolecular Quantum Mechanics,
                                  5th edn, by Peter Atkins and Ronald
                                  Friedman, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373
                     M. Blamire   \booktitleHandbook of Magnetic
                                  Materials, edited by K. H. J. Buschow,
                                  Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 373--374
                   S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleFoundations of Perturbative
                                  QCD, by John Collins, Scope:
                                  textbook/monograph. Level: graduate
                                  students/researchers in high energy
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleRelativistic Celestial
                                  Mechanics of the Solar System, by Sergei
                                  Kopeikin, Michael Efroimsky and George
                                  Kaplan, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 375--376
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleNoise-Induced Phenomena in the
                                  Environmental Sciences, by Luca Ridolfi,
                                  Paolo D'Odorico and Francesco Laio,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: graduate
                                  students and specialists, general
                                  readers, undergraduates, postgraduates,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleLife at the Nanoscale: Atomic
                                  Force Microscopy of Live Cells, edited
                                  by Yves Dufrêne, Scope: guide, handbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist  . . . 377--377
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleAstronomical Optics and
                                  Elasticity Theory: Active Optics
                                  Methods, by G. R. Lemaitre, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 377--378
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleNanomedicine: Design and
                                  Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials,
                                  Nanosensors and Nanosystems, by Vijay K.
                                  Varadan, Linfeng Chen and Jining Xie,
                                  Scope: monograph, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleIntroduction to Experimental
                                  Biophysics: Biological Methods for
                                  Physical Scientists, by Jay Nadeau,
                                  Scope: handbook, manual, reference.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist  . . . 379--379
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleCarbon Nanotube and Graphene
                                  Device Physics, by H.-S. Philip Wong and
                                  Deji Akinwande, Scope: monograph,
                                  reference, textbook. Level:
                                  non-specialist, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, researcher  . . . . . . . 379--380
               Frazer R. Pearce   \booktitleExtra-Solar Planets: The
                                  Detection, Formation, Evolution and
                                  Dynamics of Planetary Systems, edited by
                                  Bonnie Steves, Martin Hendry and Andrew
                                  C. Cameron, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380
                Frank Berkshire   \booktitleReviews of Nonlinear Dynamics
                                  and Complexity, Volume 3, edited by
                                  Heinz Georg Schuster, Scope: review.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 380--381
            Jitesh S. B. Gajjar   \booktitleHandbook of Compressible
                                  Aerodynamics, by Jean Délery, Scope:
                                  handbook. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, engineers  . . . . . . . . . 381--382
               Nicholas Dimakis   \booktitleIntroduction to Medical
                                  Imaging --- Physics, Engineering and
                                  Clinical Applications, by Nicholas
                                  Dimakis, Scope: medical imaging. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduates and graduate
                                  students in medical imaging and related
                                  disciplines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
                Frank Berkshire   \booktitleTheir Arrows Will Darken the
                                  Sun --- The Evolution and Science of
                                  Ballistics, by Mark Denny, Scope:
                                  general interest, guide. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  undergraduate, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
          Nikolaos Kourkoumelis   \booktitleQuantitative Understanding of
                                  Biosystems: An Introduction to
                                  Biophysics, by Thomas M. Nordlund,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 384--384
           Jörg Götte   \booktitleAnalytical Mechanics for
                                  Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, 2nd
                                  edition, by Oliver Davies Johns, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--385
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleUltracold Gases and Quantum
                                  Information: Lecture Notes of the Les
                                  Houches Summer School in Singapore,
                                  edited by C. Miniatura, L-C. Kwek, M.
                                  Ducloy, B. Grémaud, B-G. Englert, L. F.
                                  Cugliandolo, A. Ekert and K. K. Phua,
                                  Scope: specialist. Level: postgraduate   385--386
                      A. M. Fox   \booktitleManipulating Quantum
                                  Structures Using Laser Pulses, by Bruce
                                  W. Shore, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387
                      R. Tucker   \booktitleCovariant Electrodynamics: A
                                  Concise Guide, by John M. Charap, Scope:
                                  review. Level: advanced undergraduates   387--387
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleDrive and Curiosity: What
                                  Fuels the Passion, by Istvan Hargittai,
                                  Scope: recent history of scientists.
                                  Level: general reader and scientists . . 387--389
               Charlie Ironside   \booktitleMore is Different: Fifty Years
                                  of Condensed Matter Physics, edited by
                                  N. Phuan Ong and Ravin N. Bhatt, Scope:
                                  review. Level: researcher  . . . . . . . 389--389
                Frank Berkshire   \booktitleGliding for Gold: The Physics
                                  of Winter Sports, by Mark Denny, Scope:
                                  general interest, guide, monograph.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, undergraduate, teacher,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390
             Catherine M. Wykes   \booktitleIntroduction to Holography, by
                                  Vincent Toal, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--391
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleNanosensors: Physical,
                                  Chemical, and Biological, by Vinod Kumar
                                  Khanna, Scope: reference, review, text
                                  book. Level: general readership,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleQuantum Mechanics: Its Early
                                  Development and the Road to Entanglement
                                  and Beyond, by E. G. Steward, Scope:
                                  general science. Level: undergraduate    392--392
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleA Modern Introduction to
                                  Particle Physics, 3rd edition, by
                                  Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate  . . . . . 393--393
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Quantum Vacuum: A
                                  Scientific and Philosophical Concept,
                                  from Electrodynamics to String Theory
                                  and the Geometry of the Microscopic
                                  World, by Luciano Boi, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleBlack Holes, Wormholes and
                                  Time Machines (2nd edition), by Jim
                                  Al-Khalili, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 394--394
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitleSuperconductivity in New
                                  Materials, Vol. 4, volume edited by Z.
                                  Fisk and H. R. Ott, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
               Allan I. Solomon   \booktitleDynamical Symmetry, by Carl E.
                                  Wulfman, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  post-graduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleExploring Monte Carlo Methods,
                                  by William L. Dunn and J. Kenneth
                                  Shultis, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396

Contemporary Physics
Volume 53, Number 5, 2012

    Valérie Messager and   
             Robert Gilmore and   
           Christophe Letellier   Henri Poincaré and the principle of
                                  relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--415
              Jeong San Kim and   
                 Gilad Gour and   
               Barry C. Sanders   Limitations to sharing entanglement  . . 417--432
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleWhat is life?, Scope: review.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 433--435
                   D. J. Miller   \booktitleYou are Wrong Mr Einstein!
                                  Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg and Feynman
                                  Discussing Quantum Mechanics, by Harald
                                  Fritzsch, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: undergraduates and/or general
                                  readers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--439
                 David Bucknall   \booktitleSolid-State Spectroscopy: An
                                  Introduction, 2nd edn., by Hans Kuzmany,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates,
                                  advanced undergraduates, early career
                                  researchers, researchers, teachers,
                                  scientists and engineers . . . . . . . . 439--440
                  Marco Casazza   \booktitleThermal Physics: Entropy and
                                  Free Energies, 2nd edn., by Joon Chang
                                  Lee, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduates, postgraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates, early career researchers
                                  and teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleThe Physicist's World: The
                                  Story of Motion and the Limits to
                                  Knowledge, by Thomas Grissom, Scope:
                                  review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 440--441
       Christian G. Böhmer   \booktitleThe Geometry of Physics: An
                                  Introduction, 3rd edn., by Theodore
                                  Frankel, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduates and graduate students,
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleTurbulence, Coherent
                                  Structures, Dynamical Systems and
                                  Symmetry, 2nd edn., by P. Holmes, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: researchers  . . . . . 442--442
                   P. J. Bussey   \booktitleCosmic Anger: Abdus Salam ---
                                  The First Muslim Nobel Scientist, by
                                  Gordon Fraser, Scope: biography. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleOxford Dictionary of
                                  Astronomy, by Ian Ridpath, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: general readership . . 443--444
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleStatistical Physics of Liquids
                                  at Freezing and Beyond, by S. P. Das,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher and specialist  . . . . . . . 444--445
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleAdvanced Solid State Physics,
                                  2nd edn., by P. Phillips, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate  . . . . . 445--445
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleContinuum Mechanics and
                                  Thermodynamics: From Fundamental
                                  Concepts to Governing Equations, by
                                  Ellad B. Tadmor, Ronald E. Miller and
                                  Ryan S. Elliott, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, teacher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleAdvanced Topics in Quantum
                                  Field Theory: A Lecture Course, by M.
                                  Shifman, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitlePhysics for Clinical Oncology,
                                  edited by Amen Sibtain, Scope: handbook.
                                  Level: teacher, specialist . . . . . . . 447--447
           Monica Pierri-Galvao   \booktitleNeutrino, by Frank Close,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  reader, undergraduate through
                                  professionals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleLuminescence Spectroscopy of
                                  Semiconductors, Ivan Pelant and Jan
                                  Valenta, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitlePlasmonic Nanoguides and
                                  Circuits, edited by Sergei I.
                                  Bozhevolnyi, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 448--449
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleViral Nanoparticles: Tools for
                                  Materials Science and Biomedicine, by
                                  Nicole Steinmetz and Marianne
                                  Manchester, Scope: guide, monograph,
                                  review. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449
                   D. J. Miller   \booktitleCosmic Rays for Particle and
                                  Astroparticle Physics, by S. Giani, C.
                                  Leroy and P. G. Rancoita, Scope: general
                                  interest, textbook. Level:
                                  pre-university, undergraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, teacher, scientist  . . . 450--450
              John I. B. Wilson   \booktitleTokamaks, 4th edn., by John
                                  Wesson, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 450--451
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleTheory of Molecular Fluids
                                  Volume 2: Applications, by Christopher
                                  G. Gray, Keith E. Gubbins, and
                                  Christopher G. Joslin, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleScience: Image in Action (The
                                  Science and Culture Series:
                                  Astrophysics), edited by Bertrand
                                  Zavidovique and Giosu\`e Lo Bosco,
                                  Scope: conference proceedings. Level:
                                  students, researchers and academics  . . 452--453
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleAccelerator Physics, 3rd edn.,
                                  by S. Y. Lee, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate students  . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleMore and Different: Notes from
                                  a Thoughtful Curmudgeon, by Philip W.
                                  Anderson, Scope: biography, edited book,
                                  review. Level: general readership but
                                  parts need physics background  . . . . . 454--455
                  Peter Holland   \booktitleA History of Optics from Greek
                                  Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, by
                                  Olivier Darrigol, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: Postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist  . . . . 455--456
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleStatistics for Imaging,
                                  Optics, and Photonics, (Wiley Series in
                                  Probability and Statistics), by Peter
                                  Bajorski, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate and professional  . . . . . 456--456
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleAstronautics: The Physics of
                                  Space Flight, 2nd edn., by Ulrich
                                  Walter, Scope: textbook. Level: space
                                  industry professionals, postgraduates,
                                  senior undergraduates  . . . . . . . . . 456--457
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitlePhysics of the Atmosphere and
                                  Climate, 2nd edn., by M. L. Salby,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate    457--458
                   Tony Leggett   \booktitleThe Physics of Solar Cells, by
                                  Jenny Nelson, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, scientist  . . . 458--459

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Volume 53, Number 6, 2012

                   Peter Becker   The new kilogram definition based on
                                  counting the atoms in a$^{28}$ Si
                                  crystal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--479
                   David Bailin   Essay Review: AdS/CFT goes viral.
                                  \booktitleString Theory and its
                                  Applications: From meV to the Planck
                                  Scale, edited by M. Dine, T. Banks, and
                                  S. Sachdev. ISBN 978-981-4350-51-8 . . . 481--483
                   S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleSymmetry and geometry: pursuit
                                  of beauty in physics, Scope:
                                  textbook/monograph. Level Ph.D.
                                  students/researchers . . . . . . . . . . 485--490
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleThe Universe in all its
                                  dimensions, Scope: review, textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate and graduate
                                  students, scientists, general readership 491--494
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleThe imprint of genius, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist  . . . 495--498
              Keith A. Benedict   \booktitleBasic Aspects of the Quantum
                                  Theory of Solids: Order and Elementary
                                  Excitations, by Daniel I. Khomskii,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate    499--500
                      Jeff Kuhn   \booktitleSolar and Stellar Variability:
                                  Impact on Earth and Planets, IAU S264,
                                  by A. G. Kosovichev, A. H. Andrei and
                                  J-P Rozelot. Scope: conference
                                  proceedings. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 500--501
               Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleExploring Quantum Physics
                                  through Hands-On Projects, by D. Prutchi
                                  and S. R. Prutchi, Scope: general
                                  interest, guide, monograph. Level:
                                  pre-university, undergraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . 501--502
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleMechanical and Electromagnetic
                                  Vibrations and Waves, by T. Bécherrawy,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503
                P. T. Greenland   \booktitleData Analysis for Physical
                                  Scientists Featuring Excel\reg, 2nd
                                  edn., by Les Kirkup, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleGraphene: Carbon in Two
                                  Dimensions, by Mikhail I. Katsnelson,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate
                                  students, researchers  . . . . . . . . . 503--504
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleRelativistic Cosmology, by G.
                                  F. R. Ellis, R. Maartens and M. A. H.
                                  MacCallum, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleQuantum Physics: Illusion or
                                  Reality?, by Alastair M. Rae, Scope:
                                  review. Level: general readership  . . . 505--506
                   F. W. Taylor   \booktitleTheory of Atmospheric
                                  Radiative Transfer: A Comprehensive
                                  Introduction, by Manfred Wendisch and
                                  Ping Yang, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 506--506
                     Mike Evans   \booktitleMeteorites, Ice and
                                  Antarctica: A Personal Account, by
                                  William A. Cassidy, Scope:
                                  monograph/general interest. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507
                       R. Ellis   \booktitleStellar Magnetism, 2nd edn.,
                                  by Leon Mestel, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduates, advanced undergraduates,
                                  early career researchers, researchers,
                                  teachers, specialists, scientists  . . . 507--508
                   Chris Pedder   \booktitleMr Tompkins in Paperback, by
                                  George Gamow, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--509
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes:
                                  The Use of Rare-Earth Transition Metals,
                                  by Luiz Pereira, Scope: review. Level:
                                  advanced graduate and postgraduate,
                                  researchers, specialists . . . . . . . . 509--509
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitlePlant Physics, by Karl Niklas,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: specialists,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--510
              Ingemar Bengtsson   \booktitleTopics in the Foundations of
                                  General Relativity and Newtonian
                                  Gravitation Theory, by David B.
                                  Malament, Scope: monograph, textbook.
                                  Level: postgraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates, early career researcher  510--511
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleAlbert Einstein Memorial
                                  Lectures, by Jacob D. Bekenstein and
                                  Raphael Mechoulam. Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: non-specialists . . . . . . . . . 511--512
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitleThe Wonders of Physics, 3rd
                                  edn., by Andrey Varlamov and Lev
                                  Aslamazov, Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-university, teachers . . . . . . . . 512--512
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleIntroduction to Black Hole
                                  Physics, by V. P. Frolov and A.
                                  Zelnikov, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--513
                  Lionel Wilson   \booktitleThe Physics of Microdroplets,
                                  by Jean Berthier and Kenneth A. Brakke,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduates,
                                  advanced undergraduates, researchers,
                                  scientists, engineers  . . . . . . . . . 513--514
                David J. Miller   \booktitleFrom Black Clouds to Black
                                  Holes, 3rd edn., by Jayant V. Narlikar,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists  . . . . . . 514--515
         Chandra Wickramasinghe   \booktitleThe Universe: A Challenge to
                                  the Mind, by Jacques Vanier, Scope:
                                  general interest, textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleNuclear Medicine Physics,
                                  edited by J. J. De Lima, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: graduate students and
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516
             Catherine M. Wykes   \booktitleHandbook of Surface and
                                  Nanometrology, 2nd edn., by David J.
                                  Whitehouse, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduates, advanced undergraduates,
                                  early career researchers, researchers,
                                  specialists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 516--517
              John I. B. Wilson   \booktitlePhysics of Radio-Frequency
                                  Plasmas, by Pascal Chabert and Nicholas
                                  Braithwaite, Scope: monograph, textbook.
                                  Level: postgraduates, early career
                                  researchers, researchers, scientists,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--519
                     Mario Agio   \booktitleAdvances in Atomic Physics: An
                                  Overview, by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and
                                  David Guéry-Odelin, Scope: monograph,
                                  text book. Level: postgraduates,
                                  advanced undergraduates, early career
                                  researchers, researchers, teachers,
                                  specialists, scientists  . . . . . . . . 519--520
         Chandra Wickramasinghe   \booktitleAdventures in Cosmology, by
                                  David Goodstein, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduates . . . . . 520--520
                David J. Miller   \booktitleFrom Nuclei to Stars, edited
                                  by Sabine Lee, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: specialists . . . . . . . . . . . 520--521
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleFemtosecond Laser--Matter
                                  Interactions: Theory, Experiments, and
                                  Applications, by Eugene G. Gamaly,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduates,
                                  advanced undergraduates, early career
                                  researchers, teachers, scientists,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleFracture Nanomechanics, by
                                  Takayuki Kitamura, Hiroyuki Hirakata,
                                  Takashi Sumigawa and Takahiro Shimada,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researchers,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--522
                   David Bailin   \booktitlePerspectives on Supersymmetry
                                  II, Advanced Series on Directions in
                                  High Energy Physics: Volume 21, edited
                                  by Gordon L. Kane, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 522--524
               Mabrouk Benhamou   \booktitlePolymer Viscoelasticity ---
                                  Basics, Molecular Theories, Experiments
                                  and Simulations, 2nd edn, by Yn-Hwang
                                  Lin, Scope: textbook. Level: researchers 524--524
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe Release of Thermonuclear
                                  Energy by Inertial Confinement: Ways
                                  Towards Ignition, by Friedwardt
                                  Winterberg, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  scientists, engineers  . . . . . . . . . 525--525
                David J. Miller   \booktitleExploding Superstars:
                                  Understanding Supernovae and Gamma Ray
                                  Bursts, by Alain Mazure and Stéphane
                                  Basa, Scope: general interest, textbook.
                                  Level: general readership, advanced
                                  undergraduates, early career
                                  researchers, scientists  . . . . . . . . 525--526
                P. T. Greenland   \booktitlePrinciples of Terahertz
                                  Science and Technology, by Yun-Shik Lee,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researchers,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--527
                   J. H. Eberly   \booktitleStochastic Processes, by
                                  Richard F. Bass, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduates, researchers . . . . . . . 527--527
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleCompound Semiconductor
                                  Photonics: Materials, Devices and
                                  Integration, by Chua Soo-Jin, Teng
                                  Jinghua and Aaron Danner, Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--528
                David J. Miller   \booktitleThe Quantum Adventure: Does
                                  God Play Dice?, by Alex Montwill and Ann
                                  Breslin, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  general readership, undergraduates,
                                  teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleFluid Flows to Black Holes: A
                                  Tribute to S. Chandrasekhar on His Birth
                                  Centenary, by D. J. Saikia and V.
                                  Trimble, Scope: biography. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 529--530
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleThe Mathematical Language of
                                  Quantum Theory: From Uncertainty to
                                  Entanglement, by T. Heinosaari and M.
                                  Ziman, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--530
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleLectures on Quantum Mechanics,
                                  2nd edn, by Ashok Das, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: postgraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--531
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleIntroduction to Modern
                                  Physics: Theoretical Foundations, by
                                  John Dirk Walecka, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduates, teachers  . . . . 531--532
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitleThe Fundamentals of Imaging:
                                  From Particles to Galaxies, by Michael
                                  Mark Woolfson, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  General readership, pre-university,
                                  teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--532
                 David H. Coule   \booktitleQuantum Gravity, 3rd edn, by
                                  Claus Kiefer, Scope: monograph,
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduates, early
                                  career researchers, researchers  . . . . 532--533
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleProbability, Random Processes,
                                  and Statistical Analysis, by H.
                                  Kobayashi, B. L. Mark and W. Turin,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate
                                  students, researchers, teachers  . . . . 533--534
                  M. F. El-Amin   \booktitleRotating Flow, by Peter
                                  Childs, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduates, scientists, engineers . . 534--534
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleDisordered Semiconductors ---
                                  Physics and Applications, by Anatoly
                                  Popov, Scope: review. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--535
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleComputational Analysis of the
                                  Human Eye with Applications, by Sumeet
                                  Dua, Rajendra Acharya U. and E. Y. K.
                                  Ng, Scope: review. Level: postgraduates,
                                  advanced undergraduates, researchers,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--536
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleA Student's Guide to Vectors
                                  and Tensors, by Daniel Fleisch, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: pre-university,
                                  undergraduates, teachers, scientists,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--536
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleQuantum Bio-Informatics IV:
                                  From Quantum Information to
                                  Bio-Informatics, 1st edn, by Luigi
                                  Accardi Wolfgang Freudenberg and
                                  Masanori Ohya, Scope: review. Level:
                                  researchers in quantum information,
                                  bio-informatics and life science . . . . 537--537
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleSemiconductor Quantum Bits,
                                  edited by F. Henneberger and O. Benson,
                                  Scope: edited book. Level: researchers,
                                  theorists, postgraduate students . . . . 537--538
               Allan I. Solomon   \booktitleSupersymmetric Quantum
                                  Mechanics: An Introduction, by A.
                                  Gangopadhyaya, J. V. Mallow and C.
                                  Rasinariu, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 538--539
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleThe Thermodynamics of Quantum
                                  Yang--Mills Theory: Theory And
                                  Applications, by Ralf Hofmann, Scope:
                                  review. Level: researchers . . . . . . . 539--539
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleAtoms in Intense Laser Fields,
                                  by C. J. Joachain, N. J. Kylstra and R.
                                  M. Potvliege, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, scientist  . . 539--540
                 Gerard Milburn   \booktitleEssentials of Hamiltonian
                                  Dynamics, by J. H. Lowenstein, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--541
               Allan I. Solomon   \booktitleA Brief Tour of Modern Quantum
                                  Mechanics, by Moshe Gitterman, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--542
               Allan I. Solomon   \booktitleClassical Mechanics, 5th edn.,
                                  by Tom W. B. Kibble and Frank H.
                                  Berkshire, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--543
          Suresh Chandra Tiwari   \booktitleThe Supersymmetric Dirac
                                  Equation: The Application to Hydrogenic
                                  Atoms, by Allen Hirshfeld, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduates  . . . . 543--544
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitlePrinciples of Radiation
                                  Interaction in Matter and Detection, 3rd
                                  edn., by Claude Leroy and Pier-Giorgio
                                  Rancoita, Scope: monograph, reference.
                                  Level: postgraduates, early career
                                  researchers, researchers, specialists,
                                  scientists, engineers  . . . . . . . . . 544--544
                 David Bucknall   \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of
                                  Thermal Neutron Scattering, 3rd edn., by
                                  G. L. Squires, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  early career researchers, researchers,
                                  specialists, scientists  . . . . . . . . 544--545
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleFundamentals of Numerical
                                  Weather Prediction, by Jean Coiffier,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . 545--546
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleA Philosophical Guide to
                                  Chance, by T. Handfield, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general readership . . 546--547
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Contemporary Physics
Volume 54, Number 1, 2013

                    Louis Lyons   Bayes and Frequentism: a particle
                                  physicist's perspective  . . . . . . . . 1--16
           Christophe Schinckus   Introduction to econophysics: towards a
                                  new step in the evolution of physical
                                  sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
                    A. G. Green   An introduction to gauge-gravity duality
                                  and its application in condensed matter  33--48
                 D. G. C. Jones   Many worlds make hard work . . . . . . . 49--51
               Geoffrey Duxbury   Reinventing molecular spectroscopy . . . 52--54
         Chandra Wickramasinghe   \booktitleCosmic Paradoxes, by Julio A.
                                  Gonzalo, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  non-specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleTime-Dependent
                                  Density-Functional Theory: Concepts and
                                  Applications, by Carsten A. Ullrich,
                                  Scope: monograph, textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher    55--56
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitleOrbital Approach to the
                                  Electronic Structure of Solids, by E.
                                  Canadell, M.-L. Doublet and C. Iung,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 56--57
              John I. B. Wilson   \booktitlePrinciples of Plasma Physics
                                  for Engineers and Scientists, by Umran
                                  S. Inan and Marek Go\lkowski, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates, early career
                                  researchers, teachers, scientists,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
                   F. W. Taylor   \booktitleGalileo, by J. L. Heilbron,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: generalreaders  58--58
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThermodynamics, by S. Klein
                                  and G. Nellis, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  students and engineers . . . . . . . . . 59--59
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleBeyond the Stars: Our Origins
                                  and the Search for Life in The Universe,
                                  by P. Saraceno, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level:general readers  . . . . . . . . . 59--60
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitlePhysics of Continuous Matter:
                                  Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the
                                  Macroscopic World, 2nd ed., by B.
                                  Lautrup, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleChaos and Complexity in
                                  Astrophysics, by O. Regev, Scope:
                                  text-book. Level: graduate . . . . . . . 60--61
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleHandbook of Mathematical
                                  Methods in Imaging, edited by Otmar
                                  Scherzer, Scope: handbook. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
                       N. Riley   \booktitleShock Wave-Boundary-Layer
                                  Interactions, edited by Holger Babinsky
                                  and John K. Harvey, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
                   Kavita Dorai   \booktitleSignal Processing in Magnetic
                                  Resonance Spectroscopy with Biomedical
                                  Applications, by Dzevad Belkic and Karen
                                  Belkic, Scope: review.
                                  Level:undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleIntroduction to Geophysical
                                  Fluid Dynamics: Physical and Numerical
                                  Aspects, 2nd edn., by B. Cushman-Roisin
                                  and J.-M. Beckers, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
                  Marco Casazza   \booktitlePierre-Gilles de Gennes: A
                                  Life in Science by Laurence Plévert,
                                  Scope: review. Level: general readership 65--66
           Srinivasan Sivakumar   \booktitleClassical Electromagnetism in
                                  a Nutshell, by Anupam Garg, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate  . . . . . 66--66
                  Peter Holland   \booktitleA Trajectory Description of
                                  Quantum Processes. I. Fundamentals: A
                                  Bohmian Perspective, by Á.S. Sanz and Á.S.
                                  Miret-Artés, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitlePrize Fight: The Race and the
                                  Rivalry to be the First in Science, by
                                  Morton A. Myers, Scope: review. Level:
                                  general readers and scientists . . . . . 67--68
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitlePhilosophy of Physics: Space
                                  and Time, by T. Maudlin, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: teachers  . . . . . . . 68--69
             Natalie A. Starkey   \booktitleThe Earth: Its Birth and
                                  Growth, 2nd edn., by Minoru Ozima, Jun
                                  Korenaga and Qing-Zhu Yin, Scope:
                                  general interest, textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate,graduate, general
                                  readership, teachers . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
                David J. Miller   \booktitleInterpreting Newton: Critical
                                  Essays, edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric
                                  Schliesser, Scope:biography. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70
                 David H. Coule   \booktitleFoundations of Space and Time:
                                  Reflections on Quantum Gravity, edited
                                  by Jeff Murugan, Amanda Weltman and
                                  George F. R. Ellis, Scope:conference
                                  proceedings. Level: researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleQuantum Information,
                                  Computation and Communication, by J. A.
                                  Jones and D. Jaksch, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
                   S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleHiggs: The Invention and
                                  Discovery of the `God Particle', by J.
                                  Baggott, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  generalreaders, non-specialists  . . . . 72--73
                  Jorge O. Sofo   \booktitleProblems in Solid State
                                  Physics with Solutions, by Fuxiang Han,
                                  Scope: guide. Level: postgraduate  . . . 73--73
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleIntelligent Nanomaterials,
                                  edited by A. Tiwari, A. K. Mishra, H.
                                  Kobayashi and A. P. F. Turner. General
                                  interest. Level: non-specialists, early
                                  career researchers, teachers . . . . . . 74--74
                   David Bailin   \booktitleABC of Physics: A Very Brief
                                  Guide, by Lev B. Okun, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: non-specialists, early
                                  career researchers, teachers . . . . . . 74--75
                Paul van Kampen   \booktitleMagnetism: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by Stephen Blundell,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleBiosensors and Molecular
                                  Technologies for Cancer Diagnostics,
                                  edited by Keith E. Herold and Avraham
                                  Rasooly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleQuantum Mechanics: Theory and
                                  Experiment, by Mark Beck, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate  77--77
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleHeliophysics: Evolving Solar
                                  Activity and the Climates of Space and
                                  Earth, edited by C. J. Schrijver and G.
                                  L. Siscoe, Scope: advanced
                                  undergraduates, graduates, post-docs,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
                   F. W. Taylor   \booktitleEntropy and the Time Evolution
                                  of Macroscopic Systems, by Walter
                                  Grandy, Jr., Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum
                                  Mechanics: Schrödinger Equation and Path
                                  Integral, 2nd edn., by Harald J. W.
                                  Müller-Kirsten, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
                   B. Ishak and   
                   J. McFarland   \booktitlePhysics of Comets, 3rd edn.,
                                  by K. S. Krishna Swamy, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 79--80
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleIntroduction to Theoretical
                                  and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2nd
                                  edn., by Constantine Pozrikidis, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleOptical Electronics:
                                  Self-Organized Integration and
                                  Applications, by Tetsuzo Yoshimura,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researchers,
                                  scientists, postgraduate students  . . . 81--82
                  G. W. Gibbons   \booktitleClassical Solutions in Quantum
                                  Field Theory: Solitons and Instantons in
                                  High Energy Physics, by E. J. Weinberg,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 82--83
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleAn Introduction to Celestial
                                  Mechanics, by R. Fitzpatrick, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 83--84
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleEurope to the Stars, by G.
                                  Schilling and L. L. Christensen, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleDynamical Heterogeneities in
                                  Glasses, Colloids, and Granular Media,
                                  edited by Ludovic Berthier, Giulio
                                  Biroli, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Luca
                                  Cipelletti, Wim van Saarloos, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
                   Enda McGlynn   \booktitleZnO Nanostructures and Their
                                  Applications, edited by Xiao Wei Sun and
                                  Yi Yang, Scope: review, monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher,specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
                  G. W. Gibbons   \booktitleThe Birth of String Theory,
                                  edited by Andrea Cappelli, Elena
                                  Castellani, Filippo Colomo and Paolo Di
                                  Vecchia, Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readers, postgraduates,researchers . . . 86--87
                       Angie Ma   \booktitleMechanics of the Cell, by
                                  David Boal, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 87--88
                 Adriana Palffy   \booktitleThe Practical Einstein:
                                  Experiments, Patents, and Inventions, by
                                  József Illy, Scope: biography, general
                                  interest. Level: general readers . . . . 88--89
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleCoronal Seismology: Waves and
                                  Oscillations in Stellar Coronae, by A.
                                  V. Stepanov, V. V. Zaitsev and V. M.
                                  Nakariakov, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  early career researchers, researchers,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89

Contemporary Physics
Volume 54, Number 2, 2013

                  G. B. Mindlin   The physics of birdsong production . . . 91--96
                P. T. Greenland   \booktitleShould we eat Einstein's
                                  brain?, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe world of many worlds,
                                  Scope: edited book, monograph. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--103
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleFundamentals of Attosecond
                                  Optics, by Zenghu Chang, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, researchers, engineers    104--105
                   Matt Probert   \booktitleHigh-Pressure Physics, edited
                                  by John Loveday. Scope: conference
                                  proceedings, edited book, reference.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleCompound Semiconductor
                                  Radiation Detectors: Series in Sensors,
                                  by Alan Owens, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  graduate students, researchers . . . . . 105--106
          Gunter M. Schütz   \booktitleIntroduction to Probability
                                  and Stochastic Processes with
                                  Applications, by L. B. Castañeda, V.
                                  Arunachalam and S. Dharmaraja, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: non-specialists,
                                  Advanced Undergraduates. Early career
                                  researchers, Engineers . . . . . . . . . 106--107
                  Alan Michette   \booktitleX-Rays, Neutrons and Muons:
                                  Photons and Particles for Material
                                  Characterization, by Walter E. Fischer
                                  and Rudolf Morf, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher    107--107
                       B. Ishak   \booktitlePulsar Astronomy, 4th edn., by
                                  A. Lyne and F. Graham-Smith, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: Ph.D.s, post-docs and,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleReminiscences: A Journey
                                  Through Particle Physics, by Adrian
                                  Melissinos, Scope: biography. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 108--109
                 Dawn E. Leslie   \booktitleStars: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by Andrew King, Scope:
                                  guide, general interest. Level: general
                                  readers, non-specialists,
                                  pre-undergraduate, undergraduate,
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleQuantum Optics, by G. S.
                                  Agarwal, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe International Atlas of
                                  Mars Exploration: The First Five
                                  Decades, Vol. 1, 1953 to 2003, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general readers 110--111
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleA Unified Grand Tour of
                                  Theoretical Physics, 3rd edn., by Ian D.
                                  Lawrie, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates and above . . . . . . . . 111--112
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleUltracold Atoms in Optical
                                  Lattices: Simulating Quantum Many-Body
                                  Systems, by Maciej Lewenstein, Anna
                                  Sanpera and Ver\`onica Ahufinger, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, specialist  . . . . . 112--113
                 David H. Coule   \booktitleTime Reversibility, Computer
                                  Simulation, Algorithms, 2nd edn., by
                                  William G. Hoover and Carol G. Hoover,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, researcher . . . 113--113
             Alexander Korotkov   \booktitleFluctuating Nonlinear
                                  Oscillators: From Nano-Mechanics to
                                  Quantum Superconducting Circuits, edited
                                  by Mark I. Dykman, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: postgraduate, researcher  . . . . 113--114
            Juan A. Añel   \booktitleFundamentals of Geophysical
                                  Fluid Dynamics, by James C. McWilliams,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
                   Enda McGlynn   \booktitleElectron Paramagnetic
                                  Resonance of Transition Ions, Oxford
                                  Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences,
                                  by A. Abragam and B. Bleaney, Scope:
                                  textbook, monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 115--116
                   B. N. Murdin   \booktitleQuantum Computing from the
                                  Ground Up, by Riley Tipton Perry, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate  . . . . 116--117
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleAdvances in Thin-Film Solar
                                  Cells, by I. M. Dharmadasa, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitleCorrelated Electrons in
                                  Quantum Matter, by Peter Fulde, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 117--118
                   B. N. Murdin   \booktitleSemiconductor Spintronics, by
                                  Jianbai Xia, Weikun Ge, Kai Chang,
                                  Scope: reference. Level: researcher  . . 118--119
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleNetworks in Social Policy
                                  Problems, edited by Balázs Vedres and
                                  Marco Scotti, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  general readers, researcher, scientist   119--120
          Suresh Chandra Tiwari   \booktitleThe Physics of Neutrinos, by
                                  V. Barger, D. Marfatia and K. Whisnant,
                                  Scope: review, monograph. Level:
                                  specialist, researcher, teacher  . . . . 120--121
                   Matt Probert   \booktitleComputer-Based Modelling of
                                  Novel Carbon Systems and Their
                                  Properties: Beyond Nanotubes, edited by
                                  L. Colombo and A. Fasolino, Scope:
                                  edited book, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121
                  Tom Lancaster   \booktitleDo We Really Understand
                                  Quantum Mechanics?, by Franck Laloë,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate to specialist  . . . . . . 121--122
                  Marco Casazza   \booktitleThe Weather Observer's
                                  Handbook, by Stephen Burt, Scope:
                                  handbook, manual, textbook. Level:
                                  general readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-University, undergraduate,
                                  Postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist, scientist.
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123
           Jörg Götte   \booktitlePrinciples of Nano-Optics, 2nd
                                  edn., by Lukas Novotny and Bert Hecht,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist  . . . . 123--124
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleRelativity Made Relatively
                                  Easy, by Andrew M. Steane, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate. Advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
                  Marco Casazza   \booktitleNon-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
                                  and Statistical Mechanics: Foundations
                                  and Applications, by Phyl Attard, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
                 Chih-Yueh Wang   \booktitleDeath of Massive Stars (IAU
                                  S279): Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts,
                                  Proceedings of the International
                                  Astronomical Union (IAU S279), edited by
                                  P. W. A. Roming, N. Kawai and E. Pian.,
                                  Scope: conference proceeding. Level:
                                  postgraduate/specialist  . . . . . . . . 125--126
                  G. W. Gibbons   \booktitleBlack Holes, Cosmology and
                                  Extra Dimensions, by Kirill A. Bronnikov
                                  and Sergey G. Rubin, Scope: review.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 126--127
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe Theory of Probability, by
                                  Santosh S. Venkatesh, Scope: text book.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate  . . . . . 127--127
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleWhy You Hear What You Hear,
                                  Eric J. Heller, Scope: general interest,
                                  monograph. Level: general readership . . 127--128
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleA General Relativity Workbook,
                                  by T. A. Moore, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduates, lecturers . . . 128--129
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleIllustrating the Phaenomena:
                                  Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and
                                  the Middle Ages, by E. Dekker, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialists  . . . . . 129--130
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleLectures on Quantum Mechanics,
                                  by S. Weinberg, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131
                    Garth Jones   \booktitleMathematical Structures of
                                  Quantum Mechanics, by Kow Lung Chang,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 131--132
                P. T. Greenland   \booktitleApplied Bohmian Mechanics from
                                  Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology, edited
                                  by X. Oriols, J. Mompart, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . 132--133
                  R. S. Shorter   \booktitleNiels Bohr and the Quantum
                                  Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure
                                  1913--1925, by Helge Kragh, Scope:
                                  biography, general interest. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
                     Mark Nicol   \booktitleMeasuring the Universe: A
                                  Multiwavelength Perspective, by George
                                  H. Rieke, Scope: review. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 133--134
          Nikolaos Kourkoumelis   \booktitleModern Diffraction Methods,
                                  edited by E. J. Mittemeijer and U.
                                  Welzel, Scope: edited book, handbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 134--135
               Mabrouk Benhamou   \booktitleAdvances in Carbon
                                  Nanomaterials: Science and Applications,
                                  by Nikos Tagmatarchis, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: researchers . . . . . . . . 135--136
                 Robert Appleby   \booktitleAccelerator Physics: Example
                                  Problems with Solutions, by William W.
                                  MacKay and Mario Conte, Scope: review.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 136--136
                 Adriana Palffy   \booktitleQuantum Principles and
                                  Particles, by Walter M. Wilcox, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 136--137
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleLHC Physics, edited by T.
                                  Binoth, C. Buttar, P. J. Clark and E. W.
                                  N. Glover, Scope: conference
                                  proceedings. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleEssentials of Electromagnetics
                                  for Engineering, by David A. De Wolf,
                                  Scope: review. Level: undergraduate  . . 138--138
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Quantum Divide: Why
                                  Schrödinger's Cat is either Dead or
                                  Alive, by Christopher C. Gerry and
                                  Kimberley M. Bruno, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: non-specialists,
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleGamma-Ray Bursts, by C.
                                  Kouveliotou, R. A. M. J. Wijers and S.
                                  Woosley, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  Ph.D.s, post-docs and specialists  . . . 139--139
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitlePrinciples of Diffuse Light
                                  Propagation: Light Propagation in
                                  Tissues with Applications in Biology and
                                  Medicine, by Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleNanofabrication Using Focused
                                  Ion and Electron Beams: Principles and
                                  Applications, edited by Ivo Utke,
                                  Stanisislav Moshkalev and Phillip
                                  Russell, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141

Contemporary Physics
Volume 54, Number 3, 2013

                   Yukio Kawano   Terahertz waves: a tool for condensed
                                  matter, the life sciences and astronomy  143--165
                   David Bailin   \booktitleDiscrete symmetries and CP
                                  violation, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate and early career researcher 166--168
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleBiomedical Nanosensors, edited
                                  by Joseph Irudayaraj, Scope: edited
                                  book, reference, review. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleModern Trends in Physics
                                  Research. Third International Conference
                                  on Modern Trends in Physics Research.
                                  Cairo, Egypt 6--10 April 2008, edited by
                                  Lotfia M. El Nadi, Scope: conference
                                  proceedings. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, researcher,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleThermal Physics: Concepts and
                                  Practice, by Allen L. Wasserman, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  graduate students, lecturers . . . . . . 170--171
           Lampros Nikolopoulos   \booktitleQuantum Control of Molecular
                                  Processes, (Second, Revised and Enlarged
                                  Edition), by M. Shapiro and P. Brumer,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleThe Cambridge Photographic
                                  Moon Atlas, by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech,
                                  Mario Weigand, translated by Storm
                                  Dunlop, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  general readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-university, undergraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 172--172
                 Chih-Yueh Wang   \booktitleFrom Interacting Binaries to
                                  Exoplanets (IAU S282): Essential
                                  Modelling Tools, edited by M. T.
                                  Richards and I. Hubeny. Scope:
                                  conference proceedings. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleEssentials of Heat Transfer:
                                  Principles, Materials, and Applications,
                                  by Massoud Kaviany, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduates, advanced
                                  undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleFundamentals of Astrometry, by
                                  Jean Kovalevsky and P. Kenneth
                                  Seidelmann, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduates and above . . . . . . . . 174--175
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleSelf-Organised Criticality:
                                  Theory, Models and Characterisation, by
                                  Gunnar Pruessner, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
                  Tom Lancaster   \booktitleEinstein's Physics: Atoms,
                                  Quanta, and Relativity --- Derived,
                                  Explained, and Appraised, by Ta-Pei
                                  Cheng, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176
                  T. J. M. Boyd   \booktitleBasic Space Plasma Physics, by
                                  Wolfgang Baumjohann and Rudolf A.
                                  Treumann, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 176--177
                   David Bailin   \booktitleGroup Theory for High Energy
                                  Physicists, by Mohammad Saleem and
                                  Muhammad Rafique, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleNeutrino Cosmology, by J.
                                  Lesgourgues, G. Mangano, G. Miele and S.
                                  Pastor, Scope: monograph. Level: early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
                       R. Ellis   \booktitleBinary Paths to Type Ia
                                  Supernovae Explosions, edited by Rosanne
                                  Di Stefano, Marina Orio and Maxwell Moe,
                                  Scope: conference proceedings. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180
                Charles Downing   \booktitleAdvanced Quantum Mechanics: A
                                  Practical Guide, by Yuli V. Nazarov and
                                  Jeroen Danon, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180

Contemporary Physics
Volume 54, Number 4, 2013

               S. F. Huelga and   
                   M. B. Plenio   Vibrations, quanta and biology . . . . . 181--207
                David J. Miller   Essay Review: The anatomy of a
                                  paradigm-shift. \booktitleThe
                                  Continental Drift Controversy, by Henry
                                  R. Frankel. ISBN 978-0-521-87507-3.
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: accessible and
                                  useful to all levels of reader, from
                                  general interest to specialist . . . . . 208--210
                   David Bailin   \booktitleQuantum Field Theories in Two
                                  Dimensions: Collected Works of Alexei
                                  Zamolodchikov (in 2 Volumes), edited by
                                  Alexander Belavin, Yaroslav Pugai and
                                  Alexander Zamolodchikov, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . 211--212
                       Angie Ma   \booktitleBiophysics: Searching for
                                  Principles, by William Bialek, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 212--213
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleThe First Galaxies in the
                                  Universe, by Abraham Loeb and Steven R.
                                  Furlanetto, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, specialist  . . 213--214
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleAstrometry for Astrophysics:
                                  Methods, Models, and Applications,
                                  edited by William F. van Altena, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: undergraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 214--214
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleThe Handbook on Optical
                                  Constants of Metals: In Tables and
                                  Figures & The Handbook on Optical
                                  Constants of Semiconductors: In Tables
                                  and Figures, by Sadao Adachi, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: researcher . . . . . . 215--215
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleArtificial Human Sensors:
                                  Science and Applications, by Peter Wide,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: general
                                  readership, advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate,researcher, teacher,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleOur Magnetic Earth: The
                                  Science of Geomagnetism, by Ronald T.
                                  Merrill, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217
                   Matt Probert   \booktitleThe Transactional
                                  Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The
                                  Reality of Possibility, by Ruth E.
                                  Kastner, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
                   S. C. Tiwari   \booktitleThe Angular Momentum of Light,
                                  by D. L. Andrews and M. Babiker, Scope:
                                  reference, edited book. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, researcher,teacher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleThe Long Road to Stockholm,
                                  The Story of MRI: An Autobiography, by
                                  Peter Mansfield, Scope: autobiography.
                                  Level: scientist, general reader . . . . 219--220
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleQuantum Concepts in Physics:
                                  An Alternative Approach to the
                                  Understanding of Quantum Mechanics, by
                                  Malcolm Longair, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  teacher, specialist  . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleNonequilibrium Many-Body
                                  Theory of Quantum Systems: A Modern
                                  Introduction, by G. Stefanucci and R.
                                  van Leeuwen, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Oxford Handbook of
                                  Philosophy of Physics, edited by R.
                                  Batterman, Scope: review, edited book.
                                  Level: postgraduate, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 221--223
                  Joseph Eberly   \booktitleReview of Modern Physics, by
                                  Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn,
                                  Scope: reference, textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
               Robert D. Joseph   \booktitleIsaac Newton's Scientific
                                  Method: Turning Data into Evidence about
                                  Gravity and Cosmology, by William L.
                                  Harper. Scope: review. Level: specialist 224--225
                    John Quenby   \booktitleRelativistic Jets from Active
                                  Galactic Nuclei, edited by M.
                                  Boetttcher, D. E. Harris, and H.
                                  Krawczynski, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 225--226
                  Marco Casazza   \booktitleSynergetic Agents, by Hermann
                                  Haken and Paul Levi, Scope: reference,
                                  monograph, manual, textbook. Level:
                                  non-specialists, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 226--227
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleContinuum Mechanics in the
                                  Earth Sciences, by William I. Newman,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
               Mabrouk Benhamou   \booktitleTheory of Intermolecular
                                  Forces, by Anthony Stone, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
                   D. C. Barber   \booktitleCorrection Techniques in
                                  Emission Tomography, edited by Mohammad
                                  Dawood, Xiaoyi Jiang and Klaus Schäfers,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, specialist  . . 228--229
                       M. Jamil   \booktitleFusion, the Energy of the
                                  Universe, by Garry McCracken and Peter
                                  Stott, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate,early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
             David R. Matravers   \booktitleThe Ballet of the Planets: A
                                  Mathematician's Musings on the Elegance
                                  of Planetary Motion, by Donald C.
                                  Benson, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  pre-university, undergraduate  . . . . . 230--231

Contemporary Physics
Volume 54, Number 5, 2013

                 K. C. Yung and   
                   W. M. Wu and   
            M. P. Pierpoint and   
               F. V. Kusmartsev   Introduction to graphene electronics ---
                                  a new era of digital transistors and
                                  devices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--251
                  Norman Dombey   Essay Review: Oppenheimer, the bomb and
                                  beyond, Scope: biography. Level: general
                                  readership [Review of \booktitleInside
                                  the Centre: The Life of J. Robert
                                  Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk, London,
                                  Jonathon Cape, 2012, 818 pp., \pounds
                                  30.00 (hardback), ISBN
                                  978-0-224-06262-6] . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
                Philip Phillips   \booktitleThe Physics of Dilute Magnetic
                                  Alloys, by Jun Kondo, translated by
                                  Shigeru Koikegami, Kosuke Odagiri,
                                  Kunihiko Yamaji and Takashi Yanagisawa,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate    254--254
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleBiomimetics in Photonics,
                                  edited by Olaf Karthaus, Scope: review.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, scientist  . . . . . . . . 254--255
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleA Practical Guide to Optical
                                  Metrology for Thin Films, by Michael
                                  Quinten, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
                     Ken Pounds   \booktitleTime, Space, Stars and Man:
                                  The Story of the Big Bang, by Michael M.
                                  Woolfson. Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256
                Frank Berkshire   \booktitleIntroduction to the Physics of
                                  Waves, by Tim Freegarde, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: general readership,
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleA Modern Course in the Quantum
                                  Theory of Solids, edited by Fuxiang Han,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . 257--257
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleIntroduction to Mathematical
                                  Physics: Methods and Concepts, 2nd edn.,
                                  by Chun Wa Wong, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleModern Physics: An
                                  Introductory Text, by Jeremy I. Pfeffer
                                  and Shlomo Nir, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
            Juan A. Añel   \booktitleTuring: Pioneer of the
                                  Information Age, by B. Jack Copeland,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
                 Robert Appleby   \booktitleMeasurement Uncertainty and
                                  Probability, by Robin Willink, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: specialist  . . . . . . 259--260
                   B. Ishak and   
                   J. McFarland   \booktitleAstrophysics from Antarctica,
                                  edited by Michael G. Burton, Xiangqun
                                  Cui and Nicholas F. H. Tothill, Scope:
                                  wide-ranging review. Level:
                                  postgraduates and specialists  . . . . . 260--261
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleExploring Quantum Mechanics: A
                                  Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for
                                  Students, Lecturers, and Researchers, by
                                  Victor Galitski, Boris Karnakov,
                                  Vladimir Kogan, and Victor Galitski,
                                  Jr., Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleElectricity and Magnetism, by
                                  Edward M. Purcell and David J. Morin,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate    261--262
                 David Bucknall   \booktitleElectronic and Optical
                                  Properties of Conjugated Polymers, 2nd
                                  edn., International Series of Monographs
                                  on Physics 159, by William Barford,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 262--263
                P. T. Greenland   \booktitleTerahertz Physics, by R. A.
                                  Lewis, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleComputational Methods for
                                  Electromagnetic Phenomena:
                                  Electrostatics in Solvation, Scattering
                                  and Electron Transport, by Cai Wei,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleEncyclopaedia of Medical
                                  Physics (2 Volume Set), edited by Slavik
                                  Tabakov, Franco Milano, Sven-Erik
                                  Strand, Cornelius Lewis and Perry
                                  Sprawls, Scope: reference, encyclopedia.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 264--265
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleRadioactivity: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by Claudio Tuniz, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general reader,
                                  preferably with physical science
                                  background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266
                  A. J. Leggett   \booktitleRevolutions in
                                  Twentieth-Century Physics, by David J.
                                  Griffiths, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university  . . . . 266--266
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleLight--Matter Interaction:
                                  Physics and Engineering at the
                                  Nanoscale, by John Weiner and Frederico
                                  Nunes, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
              William T. Coffey   \booktitlePath Integrals for Stochastic
                                  Processes: An Introduction, by Horacio
                                  S. Wio, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate  . . . . . . 268--268
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitleField Theories of Condensed
                                  Matter Physics, 2nd edn., by Eduardo
                                  Fradkin, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269
                      H. Osborn   \booktitleAn Introduction to
                                  Non-Perturbative Foundations of Quantum
                                  Field Theory, by Franco Strocchi, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: scientist  . . . . . . 269--269
                  Peter Holland   \booktitleGauge Theories of Gravitation:
                                  A Reader with Commentaries, edited by
                                  Milutin Blagojevi\'c and Friedrich W.
                                  Hehl, Scope: edited book, reference,
                                  review. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher  . . . . . 269--270
                   Matt Probert   \booktitleAtomistic Computer
                                  Simulations: A Practical Guide, by V.
                                  Brázdová and D. R. Bowler, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher  . . . . . 270--271
                 Dawn E. Leslie   \booktitleThe Infinity Puzzle: The
                                  Personalities, Politics and
                                  Extraordinary Science Behind the Higgs
                                  Boson, by Frank Close. Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitlePlanetary Systems and the
                                  Origins of Life, Cambridge Astrobiology
                                  (No. 3), edited by Ralph Pudritz, Paul
                                  Higgs and Jonathon Stone, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: general readership  . . . . 271--272

Contemporary Physics
Volume 54, Number 6, 2013

                  Martin McCall   Transformation optics and cloaking . . . 273--286
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleCrystallographic centenary
                                  celebration: the emergence of X-ray
                                  analysis, Scope: general interest,
                                  monograph. Level: general reader,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290
                George Rowlands   \booktitleAn Introduction to Stochastic
                                  Processes and Nonequilibrium Statistical
                                  Physics, revised edition, Series on
                                  Advances in Statistical Mechanics:
                                  Volume 19, edited by Horacio S. Wio,
                                  Roberto R. Deza and Juan M. López, Scope:
                                  review. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . 291--291
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Theory of the Quantum
                                  World: Proceedings of the 25th Solvay
                                  Conference on Physics, edited by David
                                  Gross, Marc Henneaux and Alexander
                                  Sevrin, Scope: conference proceedings.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleEarth: Evolution of a
                                  Habitable World, 2nd edn., by J. I.
                                  Lunine, Scope: monograph. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-university . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
                  Sergey Krotov   \booktitleFirst Magnitude: A Book of the
                                  Bright Sky, by James B. Kaler, Scope:
                                  edited book, general interest. Level:
                                  general readership, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
                   T. J. Sumner   \booktitleDark Matter, Neutrinos and Our
                                  Solar System, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  general readership, postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
               Francisco Caruso   \booktitleOn Space and Time, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career research,
                                  research, teacher, specialist  . . . . . 294--295
          Gunter M. Schütz   \booktitleExercises in Probability: A
                                  Guided Tour from Measure Theory to
                                  Random Processes, via Conditioning, 2nd
                                  edn., by L. Chaumont and M. Yor, Scope:
                                  guide. Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 295--296
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleOrder and Disorder: Science
                                  Essentials for the Non-Scientist, by
                                  Myron Kaufman, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership, teacher . . . 296--297
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleComputational Photonics: An
                                  Introduction With MATLAB, by Marek S.
                                  Wartak, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, practising
                                  scientists and engineers . . . . . . . . 297--297
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleSilicon Photonics:
                                  Fundamentals and Devices, by M. Jamal
                                  Deen and P. K. Basu, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher  . . . . 297--298
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleSimple Models of Magnetism,
                                  Oxford Graduate Texts, by Ralph Skomski,
                                  Scope: review. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
                 Prashant Khare   \booktitleTen Chapters in Turbulence,
                                  edited by Peter A. Davidson, Yukio
                                  Kaneda and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan,
                                  Scope: edited book, reference, review.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, scientist  . . . 299--300
             Charles A. Downing   \booktitleTopics in Modern Physics:
                                  Theoretical Foundations, by John Dirk
                                  Walecka, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 300--300
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleHandbook of $3$D Machine
                                  Vision: Optical Metrology and Imaging,
                                  Series in Optics and Optoelectronics,
                                  edited by Song Zhang, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: postgraduate, researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleQuantum Cascade Lasers, by
                                  Jérôme Faist, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
                Edmund Tarleton   \booktitleDislocations, Mesoscale
                                  Simulations and Plastic Flow, Oxford
                                  Series on Materials Modelling 5, by
                                  Ladislas Kubin, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 302--303
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleElectromechanics and MEMS, by
                                  Thomas B. Jones and Nenad G. Nenadic,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
                Richard Shorter   \booktitleTESLA: Inventor of the
                                  Electrical Age, by W. Bernard Carlson,
                                  Scope: biography. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
          Aniruddha Chakraborty   \booktitleThe Wonderful World of
                                  Relativity: A Precise Guide for the
                                  General Reader, by Andrew M. Steane,
                                  Scope: review. Level: non-specialists    304--304
                Richard Shorter   \booktitleNight Vision: Exploring the
                                  Infrared Universe, by Michael
                                  Rowan-Robinson, Scope: general interest,
                                  textbook. Level: general readership,
                                  advanced undergraduate, teacher  . . . . 304--305
                       R. Ellis   \booktitleThe Life and Death of Stars,
                                  by Kenneth R. Lang, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleGravitation and Spacetime, 3rd
                                  edn., by Hans C. Ohanian and Remo
                                  Ruffini, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 306--306
                    L. M. Brown   \booktitleStrengthening Mechanisms in
                                  Crystal Plasticity, by Ali Argon, Scope:
                                  review. Level: scientist, engineers  . . 306--307
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleEinstein Gravity in a
                                  Nutshell, by A. Zee, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
                    Erling Riis   \booktitleOptical Magnetometry, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 308--309
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleQuantum Physics and
                                  Linguistics: A Compositional,
                                  Diagrammatic Discourse, Scope: edited
                                  book, monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Contemporary Physics
Volume 55, Number 1, 2014

Roberto Fernández-García and   
         Yannick Sonnefraud and   
Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez and   
          Vincenzo Giannini and   
                Stefan A. Maier   Design considerations for near-field
                                  enhancement in optical antennas  . . . . 1--11
                 Kevin H. Knuth   Information-based physics: an
                                  observer-centric foundation  . . . . . . 12--32
             A. Härter and   
            J. Hecker Denschlag   Cold atom--ion experiments in hybrid
                                  traps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--45
                  G. J. Milburn   \booktitleQuantum Dissipative Systems,
                                  (Fourth edition), by Ulrich Weiss,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 46--47
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleNature Loves to Hide: Quantum
                                  Physics and the Nature of Reality, a
                                  Western Perspective (Revised Edition),
                                  by Shimon Malin, Scope: review. Level:
                                  non-specialists, undergraduate . . . . . 47--47
                    K. P. Zetie   \booktitleTime Travel and Warp Drives: A
                                  Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through
                                  Time and Space, by Allen Everett and
                                  Thomas Roman, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: undergraduate, pre-university,
                                  teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleGeneralised Optomechanics and
                                  its Applications: Quantum Optical
                                  Properties of Generalised Optomechanical
                                  System, by Jin-Jin Li and Ka-Di Zhu,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researcher  . . 48--48
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleModern Electrodynamics, by
                                  Andrew Zangwill, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleA Physicist's View of Matter
                                  and Mind, by Chandre Dharma-wardana,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
                  Richard Ellis   \booktitleThe Cosmic Century: A History
                                  of Astrophysics and Cosmology, by
                                  Malcolm S. Longair, Scope: monograph,
                                  reference, review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher  . . . . 50--51
                  Tom Lancaster   \booktitlePolarons, by David Emin,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitlePhysical Mathematics, by Kevin
                                  Cahill, Scope: reference, text book.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitle100 Years of Subatomic
                                  Physics, edited by Ernest M. Henley and
                                  Stephen D. Ellis, Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleMathematical Topics in Fluid
                                  Mechanics --- Volumes 1 & 2, by
                                  Pierre-Louis Lions, Scope: monograph,
                                  review. Level: postgraduate, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 53--53

Contemporary Physics
Volume 55, Number 2, 2014

                 Hywel Owen and   
              Ranald MacKay and   
                  Ken Peach and   
                    Susan Smith   Hadron accelerators for radiotherapy . . 55--74
                    L. Wang and   
                         S. Gai   The next generation mass storage devices
                                  --- Physical principles and current
                                  status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--93
              M. V. Fedorov and   
                   N. I. Miklin   Schmidt modes and entanglement . . . . . 94--109
            David A. Burton and   
                     Adam Noble   Aspects of electromagnetic radiation
                                  reaction in strong fields  . . . . . . . 110--121
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleUnderstanding the
                                  Nanotechnology Revolution, by Edward L.
                                  Wolf and Manasa Medikonda, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
                     S. Virmani   \booktitleAn Introduction to Statistical
                                  Mechanics and Thermodynamics, by Robert
                                  H. Swendsen, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  non-specialists. Undergraduate.
                                  Postgraduate. Advanced undergraduate.
                                  Teacher. Scientist. Engineers  . . . . . 122--123
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleOptochemical Nanosensors,
                                  edited by Andrea Cusano, Francisco J.
                                  Arregui, Michele Giordano and Antonello
                                  Cutolo, Scope: monograph, reference.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum
                                  Information Science, by Vlatko Vedral,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleComputational Methods for
                                  Physics, by Joel Franklin, Scope: text
                                  book. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . 125--125
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleSpace, Time, & Stuff, by Frank
                                  Arntzenius, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate students, researchers . . . 126--126
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleModern Statistical Methods for
                                  Astronomy With R Applications, by Eric
                                  D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, graduate, specialised . . 126--127
                      Chao Huan   \booktitleSpin Current, edited by
                                  Sadamichi Maekawa, Sergio O. Valenzuela,
                                  Eiji Saitoh, and Takashi Kimura, Scope:
                                  monograph, review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 127--128
                John M. Stewart   \booktitleIntroduction to $ 3 + 1 $
                                  Numerical Relativity, by Miguel
                                  Alcubierre, Scope: review. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher  . . . . . . . . 128--129
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleSimple Brownian Diffusion, by
                                  Daniel Thomas Gillespie and Effrosyni
                                  Seitaridou, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  senior undergraduate students,
                                  postgraduates, researchers . . . . . . . 129--129
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleNovel Superfluids: Vol. 1,
                                  edited by K. H. Bennemann and J. B.
                                  Ketterson, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate students, researchers . . . 130--132
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleStatistical Data Analysis for
                                  the Physical Sciences, by Adrian Bevan,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate    132--133
                   Jock McOrist   \booktitleGeometric and Topological
                                  Methods for Quantum Field Theory, edited
                                  by Alexander Cardona, Iván Contreras and
                                  Andrés F. Reyes-Lega, Scope: conference
                                  proceedings, review. Level: postgraduate
                                  student, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleFoundations of Quantum
                                  Gravity, by James Lindesay, Scope:
                                  textbook. level: specialist  . . . . . . 134--134
                John M. Stewart   \booktitleAdvanced General Relativity:
                                  Gravity Waves, Spinning Particles and
                                  Black Holes, by Claude Barrab\`es and
                                  Peter A. Hogan, Scope: textbook, review.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher    134--135
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleHerschel 400 Observing Guide,
                                  by Stephen James O'Meara, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 135--135
                  C. A. Downing   \booktitleFoundation Mathematics for the
                                  Physical Sciences, by K. F. Riley and M.
                                  P. Hobson, Scope: textbook, solution
                                  manual. Level: first year undergraduate  136--136
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleNanotechnology for the Energy
                                  Challenge, edited by Javier
                                  Garcia-Martinez, Scope: monograph,
                                  reference, review. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 136--137
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleScience, Religion and the
                                  Search for Extraterrestrial
                                  Intelligence, by David Wilkinson, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
                    D. W. Jones   \booktitleUncorked: The Science of
                                  Champagne, Revised ed. by Gerard
                                  Liger-Belair, Scope: general interest,
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, researcher, scientist . . 138--139
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleBehind the Scenes of the
                                  Universe: From the Higgs to Dark Matter,
                                  by Gianfranco Bertone. Scope: popular
                                  survey, general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate, teacher,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
                  J. R. Sambles   \booktitleTransmission Lines: Equivalent
                                  Circuits, Electromagnetic Theory and
                                  Photons, by Richard Collier, Scope:
                                  review. Level: undergraduates  . . . . . 140--141
                    Rob Appleby   \booktitleOscillations and Waves: An
                                  Introduction, by Richard Fitzpatrick,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate    141--141
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleElectricity and Magnetism,
                                  Volume 1: Third Edition, Electricity and
                                  Magnetism, Volume 2: Third Edition, by
                                  B. I. Bleaney and B. Bleaney, Scope:
                                  textbook, Level: undergraduate . . . . . 141--142
                   D. C. Barber   \booktitleWebb's Physics of Medical
                                  Imaging, (Second Edition), edited by M.
                                  Flower, Scope: textbook, review. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 142--143
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleComplex Dynamics of
                                  Glass-forming Liquids: A Mode-coupling
                                  Theory, by Wolfgang Götze, Scope: review.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 143--144
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleCosmic Masers --- From OH to
                                  Ho (IAU S287), edited by Roy S. Booth,
                                  Wouter H. T. Vlemmings and Elizabeth M.
                                  L. Humphreys. Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleImaging Gaseous Detectors and
                                  their Applications, by Eugenio Nappi and
                                  Vladimir Peskov, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate, researcher  . . . . 145--145
                  Peter Holland   \booktitlePhysical Foundations of
                                  Continuum Mechanics, by A. Ian Murdoch,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 145--146
                   D. J. Miller   \booktitleNuclear Physics: Exploring the
                                  Heart of Matter, by National Research
                                  Council, Scope: report, review. Level:
                                  administrators of nuclear physics
                                  research programmes, politicians,
                                  interested non-experts, physics students
                                  looking for an overview, postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147
               Geoffrey Duxbury   \booktitleLaser-Based Measurements for
                                  Time and Frequency Domain Applications:
                                  A Handbook, by Pasquale Maddaloni, Marco
                                  Bellini, and Paolo De Natale, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference, review. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
                David J. Miller   \booktitleHandbook of Accelerator
                                  Physics and Engineering, 2nd edition, by
                                  Alexander Wu Chao, Karl Hubert Mes,
                                  Maury Tigner and Frank Zimmermann,
                                  Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
       S. J. Blundell Professor   \booktitleFrustrated Spin Systems, (2nd
                                  ed.), edited by H. T. Diep, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 148--149
                Lachlan Marnham   \booktitleQuantum Information Theory and
                                  the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, by
                                  Christopher G. Timpson, Scope: review,
                                  text book. Level: non-specialists,
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . 149--149
            Juan A. Añel   \booktitleMesoscale-Convective Processes
                                  in the Atmosphere, by Robert J. Trapp,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  researcher, teacher  . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
                Charles Downing   \booktitleEssential Mathematical Methods
                                  for the Physical Sciences & Student
                                  Solution Manual for Essential
                                  Mathematical Methods for the Physical
                                  Sciences, by K. F. Riley and M. P.
                                  Hobson, Scope: textbook, solution
                                  manual. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 150--151
             N. Riley Professor   \booktitleGranular Media; Between Fluid
                                  and Solid, by Bruno Andreotti, Yo\Hel
                                  Forterre and Olivier Pouliquen, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher and specialist  151--152
       S. J. Blundell Professor   \booktitleStatistical Mechanics of
                                  Magnetic Excitations, From Spin Waves to
                                  Stripes and Checkerboards, by Enrico
                                  Rastelli, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe Cosmos: Astronomy in the
                                  New Millennium, 4th edition, by Jay M.
                                  Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko, Scope:
                                  general interest, text book. Level:
                                  pre-university, undergraduate  . . . . . 153--153
                      H. Osborn   \booktitleGauge Theories in Particle
                                  Physics: A Practical Introduction,
                                  Fourth Edition, Volumes 1 & 2, by Ian
                                  Aitchison and Anthony Hey, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates, graduates  . . . . . . . 154--154
                  Stig Stenholm   \booktitleMathematics of Quantization
                                  and Quantum Fields, by Jan Derezi\'nski
                                  and Christian Gérard, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
                      H. Osborn   \booktitleThree-Particle Physics and
                                  Dispersion Relation Theory, by A. V.
                                  Anisovich, V. V. Anisovich, M. A.
                                  Matveev, V. A. Nikonov, J. Nyiri, and A.
                                  V. Sarantsev, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleString Theory and the
                                  Scientific Method, by Richard Dawid,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  specialists, scientists  . . . . . . . . 156--156

Contemporary Physics
Volume 55, Number 3, 2014

                   T. N. Palmer   Lorenz, Gödel and Penrose: new
                                  perspectives on determinism and
                                  causality in fundamental physics . . . . 157--178
            Constantino Tsallis   An introduction to nonadditive entropies
                                  and a thermostatistical approach to
                                  inanimate and living matter  . . . . . . 179--197
          Matthew G. Walker and   
                   Abraham Loeb   Is the universe simpler than $ \Lambda
                                  $CDM?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--211
                    M. S. Child   Quantum monodromy and molecular
                                  spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--221
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleThe genesis of the Bohr atom,
                                  Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 222--225
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleThe Higgs boson, its
                                  quantum-field interaction mechanism and
                                  its aftermath. Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, teacher . . . . . . . . 226--230
                  Norman Dombey   \booktitleChurchill's Bomb: a hidden
                                  history of science, war and politics,
                                  Scope: history of science. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
                 Ignazio Licata   \booktitleIn search of the quantum
                                  oneness, Scope: review. Level: scientist 235--237
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleThe nuclear astrophysics of
                                  star-shine, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, graduate,
                                  professional and specialist researcher,
                                  early career researcher  . . . . . . . . 238--241
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleComplexity is complex, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: general reader,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--245
                Lachlan Marnham   \booktitleConductor--Insulator Quantum
                                  Phase Transitions, edited by Vladimir
                                  Dobrosavljevic, Nandini Trivedi, and
                                  James M. Valles, Jr., Scope: reference,
                                  review. Level: postgraduate, specialist,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246
                     Mark Nicol   \booktitlePhysical Principles of Remote
                                  Sensing, (3rd Edition), by W. G. Rees,
                                  Scope: handbook, text book. Level:
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, teacher, engineers  . . . 246--247
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleUltra-realistic Imaging:
                                  Advanced Techniques in Analogue and
                                  Digital Colour Holography, by Hans
                                  Bjelkhagen and David
                                  Brotherton-Ratcliffe, Scope: handbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
                 Prashant Khare   \booktitlePhysics of Continuous Media:
                                  Problems and Solutions in
                                  Electromagnetism, Fluid Mechanics and
                                  MHD, by Grigory Vekstein, Scope:
                                  reference, text book. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, teacher,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
                     Mark Nicol   \booktitlePlanetary Science: The Science
                                  of Planets around Stars, Second Edition,
                                  by George H. A. Cole and Michael M.
                                  Woolfson, Scope: general interest, text
                                  book. Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, scientist, engineers  . . 249--250
                  Tom Lancaster   \booktitleAdvanced Mechanics: From
                                  Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos,
                                  by S. G. Rajeev, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 250--250
             Steven R. Spurgeon   \booktitleExperimental Neutron
                                  Scattering, by B. T. M. Willis and C. J.
                                  Carlile, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleModern Particle Physics, by
                                  Mark Thomson, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, teacher  . . . . . . . . . 251--252
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleFundamental Planetary Science:
                                  Physics, Chemistry and Habitability, by
                                  Jack J. Lissauer and Imke de Pater,
                                  Scope: textbook, Level: undergraduate    252--252
                  Y. I. Salamin   \booktitleSchrödinger's Killer App: Race
                                  to Build the World's First Quantum
                                  Computer, by Jonathan P. Dowling, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--254
       Dr. Monica Pierri-Galvao   \booktitleBasic Concepts in Physics:
                                  From the Cosmos to Quarks, by Masud
                                  Chaichian, Hugo Perez Rojas and Anca
                                  Tureanu, Scope: review. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
              Ingemar Bengtsson   \booktitleOn the Topology and Future
                                  Stability of the Universe, by Hans
                                  Ringström, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleExtreme physics: properties
                                  and behaviour of matter at extreme
                                  conditions, by Jeff Colvin and Jon
                                  Larsen, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 256--256
                     Mark Nicol   \booktitleUnderstanding the Universe: An
                                  Inquiry Approach to Astronomy and the
                                  Nature of Scientific Research, by George
                                  Greenstein, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  pre-university, undergraduate, teacher   256--257
                    D. W. Jones   \booktitleA Tale of Seven Elements, by
                                  Eric Scerri, Scope: accessible
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduate, general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleAtomic Physics: Precise
                                  Measurements and Ultracold Matter, by
                                  Massimo Inguscio and Leonardo Fallani,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 258--259
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleHandbook of Biophotonics: 3
                                  Volume Set, edited by Jürgen Popp, Valery
                                  V. Tuchin, Arthur Chiou and Stefan H.
                                  Heinemann, Scope: handbook, reference.
                                  Level: specialist, scientist, engineers  259--259
                  Marco Casazza   \booktitleThe Principle of the Common
                                  Cause, by Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Miklós Rédei
                                  and Lázló E. Szabó, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 260--260
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleEconophysics and Physical
                                  Economics, by Peter Richmond, Jürgen
                                  Mimkes and Stefan Hutzler, Scope: text
                                  book. Level: advanced undergraduate  . . 260--261

Contemporary Physics
Volume 55, Number 4, 2014

                  M. G. Edmunds   The Antikythera mechanism and the
                                  mechanical universe  . . . . . . . . . . 263--285
                    F. Battista   Single particle sources and quantum heat
                                  fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--301
                 Guy Ropars and   
 Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan and   
                Albert Le Floch   The sunstone and polarised skylight:
                                  ancient Viking navigational tools? . . . 302--317
               A. E. Biondo and   
                A. Pluchino and   
                   A. Rapisarda   Micro and macro benefits of random
                                  investments in financial markets . . . . 318--334
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleServing the Reich: The
                                  Struggle for the Soul of Physics under
                                  Hitler, by Philip Ball, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 335--336
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleCrystals in Glass: A Hidden
                                  Beauty, by E. D. Zanotto, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 336--337
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleElectronic Processes in
                                  Non-crystalline Materials, (Second
                                  Edition), by N. F. Mott and E. A. Davis,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleStochastic Calculus and
                                  Differential Equations for Physics and
                                  Finance, by Joseph L. McCauley, Scope:
                                  review. Level: postgraduate, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
                       Mark Fox   \booktitleQuantum Processes in
                                  Semiconductors, (Fifth Edition), by
                                  Brian K. Ridley, Scope: text book.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 338--339
                 Prashant Khare   \booktitleA Student's Guide to Entropy,
                                  by Don S. Lemons, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: undergraduate, early stage
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleScientific Inference: Learning
                                  from Data, by Simon Vaughan, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, researcher, teacher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe Physics of Quantum
                                  Mechanics, by James Binney and David
                                  Skinner, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate    340--341
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Physics of Reality: Space,
                                  Time, Matter, Cosmos, edited by Richard
                                  L. Amoroso, Louis H. Kauffman and Peter
                                  Rowlands, Scope: conference proceedings.
                                  Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleHow the Ray Gun Got Its Zap:
                                  Odd Excursions into Optics, by Stephen
                                  R. Wilk, Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleAstrobiology: A Very Short
                                  Introduction, by David C. Catling,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--344
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleFunctional Differential
                                  Geometry, by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack
                                  Wisdom with Will Farr, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate  . . . . . 344--344
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleIntroduction to Graphene-Based
                                  Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure
                                  to Quantum Transport, by Luis E. F. Foa
                                  Torres, Stephan Roche and
                                  Jean-Christophe Charlier, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleThe Physics and Evolution of
                                  Active Galactic Nuclei, by Hagai Netzer,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: specialists . . 345--345
                 Chih-Yueh Wang   \booktitleNeutron Stars and Pulsars (IAU
                                  S291): Challenges and Opportunities
                                  after 80 Years, Proceedings of the
                                  International Astronomical Union (IAU
                                  S279), edited by Joeri van Leeuwen.,
                                  Scope: conference proceedings. Level:
                                  researcher, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 346--347
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleDark Matter and Cosmic Web
                                  Story, by Jaan Einasto, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general readership,
                                  specialists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitlePerspectives on Spin Glasses,
                                  by Pierluigi Contucci and Cristian
                                  Giardin\`a, Scope: reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
               Robert D. Joseph   \booktitleMagnificent Principia:
                                  exploring Isaac Newton's masterpiece, by
                                  Colin Pask, Scope: general interest,
                                  monograph. Level: general readership,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 348--349
           Lampros Nikolopoulos   \booktitleComputational Physics, 2nd
                                  Edition, by Jos Thijssen, Scope: review.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 349--350
              Alan D. R. Phelps   \booktitleWaves and Oscillations in
                                  Plasmas, by Hans L. Pécseli, Scope: text
                                  book. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher  . . . . . . . . 350--350
                  Ian D. Lawrie   \booktitleBlack Holes --- New Horizons,
                                  edited by Sean Hayward, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . 350--351
                 Ignazio Licata   \booktitleEnergy Science, Principles,
                                  Technologies and Impacts: Second
                                  Edition, by John Andrews and Nick
                                  Jelley, Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, teacher  . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleIntroduction to
                                  Metal-nanoparticle Plasmonics, by
                                  Matthew Pelton and Garnett W. Bryant,
                                  Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, researcher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
              Alan D. R. Phelps   \booktitlePlasma Research at the Limit:
                                  From the International Space Station to
                                  Applications on Earth, (with DVD-ROM),
                                  by Gregor Morfill, Yuri Baturin, and
                                  Vladimir Fortov. Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 353--353
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleTopological Insulators and
                                  Topological Superconductors, by B.
                                  Andrei Bernevig with Taylor L. Hughes,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
                John M. Stewart   \booktitleRelativistic Hydrodynamics, by
                                  Luciano Rezzolla and Olindo Zanotti,
                                  Scope: monograph, text book. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 354--355
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleGraphene: A New Paradigm in
                                  Condensed Matter and Device Physics, by
                                  E. L. Wolf, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 355--355
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitlePhase Transitions: Modern
                                  Applications, (2nd edition), by Moshe
                                  Gitterman, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356
                Richard Shorter   \booktitleJames Clerk Maxwell:
                                  Perspectives on His Life and Work,
                                  edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney,
                                  and Andrew Whitaker, Scope: Review.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 356--356
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleQuantum Mechanics, by Gennaro
                                  Auletta, Mauro Fortunato and Giorgio
                                  Parisi, Scope: text book. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 357--357
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleHow Big is Big and How Small
                                  is Small: The Sizes of Everything and
                                  Why, by Timothy Paul Smith, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, scientists, engineers   357--358
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe Science of Ocean Waves:
                                  Ripples, Tsunamis and Stormy Seas, by J.
                                  B. Zirker, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 358--359
                Richard Shorter   \booktitleAn Introduction to Mechanics,
                                  (2nd Edition), by Daniel Kleppner and
                                  Robert Kolenkow, Scope: review. Level:
                                  pre-university, undergraduate, teacher   359--359
                Robert C. Smith   \booktitleAstrophysical Techniques,
                                  Sixth Edition, by C. R. Kitchin, Scope:
                                  general interest, text book. Level:
                                  general readership, postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, teacher  . . . . 359--360
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitleThe Quantum World, by Michel
                                  Le Bellac and Alain Aspect, Scope:
                                  review. Level: advanced undergraduate    360--361
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi


Contemporary Physics
Volume 56, Number 1, 2015

                   Peter Knight   Editorial --- International Year of
                                  Light  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                    M. V. Berry   Nature's optics and our understanding of
                                  light  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--16
               Tommaso Treu and   
               Richard S. Ellis   Gravitational Lensing: Einstein's
                                  unfinished symphony  . . . . . . . . . . 17--34
                     M. J. Duff   How fundamental are fundamental
                                  constants? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47
           Levi P. Neukirch and   
              A. Nick Vamivakas   Nano-optomechanics with optically
                                  levitated nanoparticles  . . . . . . . . 48--62
            Richard C. Thompson   Ion Coulomb crystals . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
                   David Bailin   \booktitleMathematics is everything,
                                  maybe, Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 80--84
              William T. Coffey   \booktitleA Concise Treatise on Quantum
                                  Mechanics in Phase Space, Scope: review.
                                  Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
               Charlie Ironside   \booktitleComputational Photonics: An
                                  Introduction with MATLAB, by Marek S.
                                  Wartak, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
               Mario Bertolotti   \booktitleHigh-order Harmonic Generation
                                  in Laser Plasma Plumes, by Rashid
                                  Ganeev, Scope: review. Level: early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
                     Mark Nicol   \booktitleMadame Wu Chien-Shiung: The
                                  First Lady of Physics Research, by
                                  Tsai-Chien Chiang/translated by
                                  Tang-Fong Wong, Scope: review. Level:
                                  general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
                 Chih-Yueh Wang   \booktitleIntelligible Design: A
                                  Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and
                                  History of Science, by Julio A. Gonzalo
                                  and Manuel M. Carreira, Scope: general
                                  interest, monograph. Level: general
                                  readership, researcher, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
              Keith A. Benedict   \booktitleThe Physics of
                                  Nanoelectronics: Transport and
                                  Fluctuation Phenomena at Low
                                  Temperatures, by Tero T. Heikkilä, Scope:
                                  text book. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleEinstein Relatively Simple:
                                  Our Universe Revealed in Everyday
                                  Language, by Ira Mark Egdall, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
                  Tom Lancaster   \booktitleAn Introduction to Macroscopic
                                  Quantum Phenomena and Quantum
                                  Dissipation, A. O. Caldeira, Scope: text
                                  book. Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 92--92
                     Mark Nicol   \booktitleA Course in Mathematical
                                  Methods for Physicists, Scope: review.
                                  Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
                      H. Osborn   \booktitleSymmetry and Fundamental
                                  Physics: Tom Kibble at 80, edited by
                                  Jerome Gauntlett, Scope: review. Level:
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleQuantum Social Science, by
                                  Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleFundamentals of Picoscience,
                                  edited by Klaus D. Sattler, Scope:
                                  edited book. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 95--95
                  Norman Dombey   \booktitlePhysics and Our World: Reissue
                                  of the Proceedings of a Symposium in
                                  Honor of Victor F Weisskopf, Scope:
                                  history of science. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
                       B. Ishak   \booktitlePhysics and Chemistry of
                                  Circumstellar Dust Shells, by Hans-Peter
                                  Gail and Erwin Sedlmayr, Scope: text
                                  book. Level: specialist  . . . . . . . . 97--97
                      H. Osborn   \booktitleSymmetry Relationships between
                                  Crystal Structures: Applications of
                                  Crystallographic Group Theory in Crystal
                                  Chemistry, by Ulrich Müller, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
             Alexander Pikovski   \booktitleBack-of-the-envelope Quantum
                                  Mechanics: With Extensions to Many-body
                                  Systems and Integrable PDEs, by Maxim
                                  Olshanii, Scope: textbook/supplementary
                                  text. Level: undergraduate and
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98
                     Bob Joseph   \booktitleThe Oxford Handbook of the
                                  history of physics, edited by Jed Z.
                                  Buchwald and Robert Fox, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: general readership . . 98--99
                 S. J. Blundell   \booktitle40 Years of
                                  Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless
                                  Theory, edited by Jorge V. José, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 99--100
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleOne Hundred Physics
                                  Visualisations Using Matlab, (With
                                  DVD-ROM), by Dan Green. Scope: Review.
                                  Level: Undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleEssential Physics, by John
                                  Matolyak and Ajawad Haija, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: pre-university  . . . . 101--101
                  Thomas Peters   \booktitleQuantum Field Theory and the
                                  Standard Model, by Matthew D. Schwartz,
                                  Scope: text Book. Level: postgraduate    101--102
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleIntroduction to Elementary
                                  Particle Physics, (2nd Edition), by
                                  Alessandro Bettini, Scope: text book.
                                  Level: undergraduate, teacher  . . . . . 102--102
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleFrom Photons to Higgs: A Story
                                  of Light, (2nd Edition), by Moo-Young
                                  Han. Scope: general interest. Level:
                                  non-specialists, postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, teacher, scientist  . . . 102--103
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleCeramic Lasers, by Akio
                                  Ikesue, Yan Lin Aung, and Voicu Lupei,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: researcher  . . 103--104
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleProbing the Meaning of Quantum
                                  Mechanics: Physical, Philosophical and
                                  Logical Perspectives, edited by Diederik
                                  Aerts, Sven Aerts and Christian de
                                  Ronde, Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
                   Stephen Hull   \booktitleTechniques in High Pressure
                                  Neutron Scattering, by Stefan Klotz,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate    104--105
                    Brian Cowan   \booktitleNuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and
                                  the race for Atomic Weapons in World War
                                  II, by Kenneth D. McRae, Scope: review.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 105--105
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleLasers and Electro-Optics:
                                  Fundamentals and Engineering, (2nd
                                  Edition), by Christopher C. Davis,
                                  Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, engineers  . . . 105--106
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108

Contemporary Physics
Volume 56, Number 2, 2015

                 Jim Al-Khalili   Advances in optics in the medieval
                                  Islamic world  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122
     Siegfried Weisenburger and   
               Vahid Sandoghdar   Light microscopy: an ongoing
                                  contemporary revolution  . . . . . . . . 123--143
                    Svenja Ettl   Introductory review on `Flying
                                  Triangulation': a motion-robust optical
                                  $3$D measurement principle . . . . . . . 144--158
                  Joshua Erlich   An introduction to holographic QCD for
                                  nonspecialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--171
               Maria Schuld and   
             Ilya Sinayskiy and   
          Francesco Petruccione   An introduction to quantum machine
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--185
              Natascha Kappeler   Cantilevers for biological monitoring:
                                  opportunities for classical and quantum
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--201
                    John Quenby   \booktitleMagnetohydrodynamics of the
                                  Sun, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 202--205
            Juan A. Añel   \booktitleOn the importance of weather
                                  and climate change for our present and
                                  future energy needs, edited by Troccoli,
                                  Dubus and Ellen Haupt, Scope: edited
                                  book. Level: undergraduate,
                                  Non-specialists, Advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers, researcher  . . . . . . . . . 206--208
             Chih-Yueh Wang and   
                   Yuxiang Peng   Extrasolar Planets . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleThe Physics of War: From
                                  Arrows to Atoms, Scope: history reviews.
                                  Level: first-year science undergraduate
                                  or general reader  . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219
                   S. C. Tiwari   Demystifying the riddle of quantum
                                  physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--224
                   Eric Sheldon   Essay Review: Nobel Lectures: Physics
                                  (2006--2010) [review of \booktitleNobel
                                  Lectures: Physics (2006--2010), edited
                                  by Lars Brink, Singapore, NJ, and
                                  London, World Scientific 2014, xii + 371
                                  pp. ISBN 978-981-4612-67-8 (hardback),
                                  978-9-81-461268-5 (paperback),
                                  978-9-81-461270-08 (e-book)] . . . . . . 225--232
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleLight --- The Physics of the
                                  Photon, by Ole Keller, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleIsochronous Systems, by
                                  Francesco Calogero, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleNonautonomous Dynamical
                                  Systems in the Life Sciences, edited by
                                  Peter E. Kloeden and Christian Pötzsche,
                                  Scope: edited book, monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 234--235
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleElements of Mechanics, by P.
                                  F. Kelly, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
             Salvatore Esposito   Auroral Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleNonlinear Science: An
                                  Interactive Mathematica\TM Notebook, by
                                  David K. Campbell, Sebastian M. Marotta
                                  and Thomas A. Tanury, Scope: guide.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 236--237
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleSymmetry of Crystals and
                                  Molecules, by Mark Ladd, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 237--238
                 Alan D. Martin   \booktitleQuantum Field Theory for the
                                  Gifted Amateur, by Tom Lancaster and
                                  Stephen J. Blundell, Scope: review, text
                                  book. Level: general readership,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate  . . . . . . 238--239
          Gunter M. Schütz   \booktitleThe Bethe Wavefunction, by
                                  Michel Gaudin, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, scientist, specialist  . . . 239--240
               J. Rogel-Salazar   \booktitleFractional Calculus: An
                                  Introduction for Physicists, (2nd
                                  Edition) by Richard Herrmann, Scope:
                                  reference. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 240--240
                 Chih-Yueh Wang   \booktitleMolecular Gas, Dust, and Star
                                  Formation in Galaxies (IAU S292), edited
                                  by Tony Wong and Jürgen Ott. Scope:
                                  conference proceeding. Level:
                                  researcher/scientist . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
                 Richard Carter   \booktitleEngines of Discovery: A
                                  Century of Particle Accelerators,
                                  (Revised and Expanded Edition), by
                                  Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-university, undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist, scientist,
                                  engineers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
                    Rob Appleby   \booktitleBeam Dynamics in High Energy
                                  Particle Accelerators, by Andrzej
                                  Wolski, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher  . . . . . 242--243
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleImage processing and
                                  acquisition using Python, by Ravishankar
                                  Chityala and Sridevi Pudipeddi, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: general readership,
                                  undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 243--243
                     Kavan Modi   Thermal energy at the nanoscale  . . . . 243--244
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleHandbook of Nano-optics and
                                  Nanophotonics --- 2 Volume Set, edited
                                  by Motoichi Ohtsu, Scope: reference,
                                  monograph, handbook. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 244--245
               Robert S. MacKay   \booktitleLocal Activity Principle: The
                                  Cause of Complexity and Symmetry
                                  Breaking, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246
         Chandra Wickramasinghe   \booktitleCOMETS! Visitors from Deep
                                  Space, by David J. Eicher, Scope:
                                  review, general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate  . . . . . . . 246--247

Contemporary Physics
Volume 56, Number 3, 2015

             N. B. Narozhny and   
                  A. M. Fedotov   Extreme light physics  . . . . . . . . . 249--268
                 Peter Townsend   The role of physics in shaping music . . 269--291
              C. A. Lütken   Introduction to the role of modular
                                  symmetries in graphene and other
                                  two-dimensional materials  . . . . . . . 292--318
            David E. Hanson and   
                 John L. Barber   A new paradigm for the molecular basis
                                  of rubber elasticity . . . . . . . . . . 319--337
           Jose Manuel Valverde   Pattern-formation under acoustic driving
                                  forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--358
               Sergey Nazarenko   Wave turbulence  . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--373
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleFundamentals of Electro-optic
                                  Systems Design: Communications, Lidar,
                                  and Imaging, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376
                  A. J. Leggett   \booktitleEinstein's Opponents: The
                                  Public Controversy about the Theory of
                                  Relativity in the 1920s, Scope: general
                                  interest, monograph. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleStellar Evolution Physics:
                                  Volume 2: Advanced Evolution of Single
                                  Stars, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduates and specialists . . . . . 379--380
              Raymond F. Bishop   \booktitleFoundations of quantum optics:
                                  a basis for the new quantum
                                  technologies, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early-career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384
                 Prashant Khare   \booktitleFluid Dynamics: Part 1:
                                  Classical Fluid Dynamics, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, early career researcher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 385--387
              Peter R. T. Munro   \booktitleOptical Antennas, edited by
                                  Mario Agio and Andrea Al\`u, Scope:
                                  handbook, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 388--388
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleThe Quantum Theory of
                                  Nonlinear Optics, by Peter D. Drummond
                                  and Mark Hillery, Scope: reference,
                                  monograph, textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher, scientist  . . 388--389
                 D. G. C. Jones   \booktitlePhotonics: technology for the
                                  Twenty First Century?, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . 389--392
                  Joseph Eberly   \booktitleNon-diffracting Waves, edited
                                  by Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa, Michel
                                  Zamboni-Rached, and Erasmo Recami,
                                  Scope: edited book. Level: early career
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392
                 Richard Carter   \booktitleReviews of Accelerator Science
                                  and Technology: Volume 5 ---
                                  Applications of Superconducting
                                  Technology to Accelerators, edited by
                                  Alexander W. Chao and Weiren Chou,
                                  Scope: review. Level: specialist,
                                  scientists, engineers  . . . . . . . . . 392--393
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleSea-level Science:
                                  Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis
                                  and Mean Sea-level Changes, by David
                                  Pugh and Philip Woodworth, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate 394--394
                    Brian Cowan   \booktitleTranslational Dynamics and
                                  Magnetic Resonance: Principles of Pulsed
                                  Gradient Spin Echo NMR, by Paul T.
                                  Callaghan, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395
                   Peter Knight   \booktitleQuantum Machines: Measurement
                                  and Control of Engineered Quantum
                                  Systems, edited by Michel Devoret,
                                  Benjamin Huard, Robert Schoelkopf, and
                                  Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 395--396
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleThe Nature of the Hydrogen
                                  Bond: Outline of a Comprehensive
                                  Hydrogen Bond Theory, by Gastone Gilli
                                  and Paola Gilli, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: scientist . . . . . . . 396--397
              Thomas J. Bridges   \booktitleHomogeneous, Isotropic
                                  Turbulence: Phenomenology,
                                  Renormalization, and Statistical
                                  Closures, by W. David McComb, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher  . . . . . 397--398
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleDynamics of Galaxies, (2nd
                                  Edition), by Giuseppe Bertin, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate  . . . . . 398--399
         Chandra Wickramasinghe   \booktitleAlien universe:
                                  Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and
                                  in the Cosmos, by Don Lincoln, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, undergraduate  . . . . . . . 399--400
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleTime in Powers of Ten: Natural
                                  Phenomena and Their Timescales, by
                                  Gerard 't Hooft and Stefan Vandoren,
                                  translated by Saskia Eisberg-'t Hooft,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleFrom Strange Simplicity to
                                  Complex Familiarity: A Treatise on
                                  Matter, Information, Life and Thought,
                                  by Manfred Eigen, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: advanced undergraduate  . . . . . 401--402
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleWaves and Particles: Two
                                  Essays on Fundamental Physics, by Roger
                                  G. Newton, Scope: historical review.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 402--402
                   Chris Linton   \booktitleElectromagnetic Scattering by
                                  Particles and Particle Groups: An
                                  Introduction, Scope: monograph,
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher  . . . . . 402--403
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleWhat Does a Black Hole Look
                                  Like?, by Charles D. Bailyn, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
               Stephen J. Burns   \booktitleThe Theory of Materials
                                  Failure, by Richard M. Christensen,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduates  . . . . . . . . 404--404
                      Anonymous   Corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405

Contemporary Physics
Volume 56, Number 4, 2015

                   J. H. Eberly   Shimony--Wolf states and hidden
                                  coherences in classical light  . . . . . 407--416
            Donald P. Umstadter   All-laser-driven Thomson X-ray sources   417--431
               Peter Wizinowich   Adaptive optics in astronomy . . . . . . 432--450
                 T. Whyntie and   
                 H. Bithray and   
                    J. Cook and   
                   A. Coupe and   
                    D. Eddy and   
             R. L. Fickling and   
                 J. McKenna and   
                  B. Parker and   
                    A. Paul and   
                     N. Shearer   CERN@school: demonstrating physics with
                                  the Timepix detector . . . . . . . . . . 451--467
                    Ian G. Moss   Higgs boson cosmology  . . . . . . . . . 468--476
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleNonlinear optics and
                                  photonics, Scope: monograph, textbook.
                                  Level: postgraduate, early career
                                  researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
          Nikolaos Kourkoumelis   \booktitleSpectroscopy for biosciences,
                                  Scope: edited book. Level: specialist    480--482
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleQuantum Physics of Light and
                                  Matter: A Modern Introduction to
                                  Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems, by
                                  Luca Salasnich, Scope: reference,
                                  textbook. Level: general readership,
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate    483--483
                       B. Ishak   \booktitlePlanetary rings: a
                                  post-equinox view, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general readership, undergraduate
                                  and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--486
               David L. Andrews   \booktitleLaser Spectroscopy 1: Basic
                                  Principles & Laser Spectroscopy 2:
                                  Experimental Techniques (5th edition),
                                  Scope: handbook, monograph, reference,
                                  text book. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 487--488
             A. N. Dobrynin and   
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleShedding light on matter,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . 489--492
                 Giovanni Volpe   \booktitleAn Introduction to Practical
                                  Laboratory Optics, by J. F. James,
                                  Scope: monograph, manual, guide. Level:
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495
                  Tom Lancaster   \booktitleLectures on Classical
                                  Electrodynamics, by Berthold-Georg
                                  Englert, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  teacher, specialist  . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
                  A. J. Leggett   \booktitlePhysics and Necessity:
                                  Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian
                                  Past to the Quantum Present, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level:
                                  undergraduate/specialist . . . . . . . . 497--499
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleNearest Star: The Surprising
                                  Science of our Sun, (2nd Edition), by
                                  Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: general
                                  readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500
                  S. W. Lovesey   \booktitleSolution Manual for Quantum
                                  Mechanics (2nd edition), by Ahmed
                                  Ishtiaq, Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin,
                                  Scope: manual. Level: undergraduate  . . 501--501
                   Amgad Salama   \booktitleNovel Porous Media Formulation
                                  for Multiphase Flow Conservation
                                  Equations, by William T Sha, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: postgraduate,
                                  researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 501--502
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe Large Hadron Collider: The
                                  Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson
                                  and Other Stuff that will Blow Your
                                  Mind, by Don Lincoln. Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general reader  . . . . 502--502
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleModern Small Antennas, by
                                  Kyohei Fujimoto and Hisashi Morishita,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: specialist,
                                  engineers, early career researchers  . . 502--503
                 Derry W. Jones   \booktitleThe Quantum Age: How the
                                  Physics of the Very Small Transformed
                                  Our Lives, by Brian Clegg, Scope:
                                  general interest. Level: pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, general readership  . . . 503--504
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleMind and Reality. The
                                  Space--Time Window, Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general reader,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505
                Peter R. Hobson   \booktitleMeasurement Instrumentation
                                  and Sensors Handbook Electromagnetic,
                                  Optical, Radiation, Chemical, and
                                  Biomedical Measurement, by J. G. Webster
                                  and H. Eren, Scope: reference, handbook.
                                  Level: non-specialists, undergraduate,
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, teacher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
                Peter J. Dobson   \booktitleNanoantenna Plasmon-Enhanced
                                  Spectroscopies for Biotechnological
                                  Applications, edited by Marc Lamy de la
                                  Chapelle and Annemarie Pucci, Scope:
                                  monograph, reference. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 506--506
                 Andrew Resnick   \booktitleLie groups and Lie algebras
                                  for physicists, by Ashok Das and Susumu
                                  Okubo, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, specialist, scientist  . . . 506--507
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleNonlinear Physics of
                                  Ecosystems, by Ehud Meron, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist, early
                                  career researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 507--508
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleBlack Holes --- A Student
                                  Text, (3rd edition), by Derek Rain and
                                  Edwin Thomas, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 508--508
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleProceedings of the Conference
                                  in Honour of the 90th Birthday of
                                  Freeman Dyson, edited by K. K. Phua, L.
                                  C. Kwek, N. P. Chang, and A. H. Chang,
                                  Scope: conference proceedings. Level:
                                  postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 508--509
                   Norman Riley   \booktitleDouble-diffusive Convection,
                                  by Timour Radko, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: postgraduate  . . . . . . . . . . 509--510
    Miguel A. F. Sanjuán   \booktitleA Certain Uncertainty.
                                  Nature's Random Ways, by Mark P.
                                  Silverman, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510
               Nigel John Mason   \booktitleAn Introduction to Planets.
                                  Ours and Others; From Earth to
                                  Exoplanets, by Therese Encrenaz, Scope:
                                  guide, general interest. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-university, undergraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511


Contemporary Physics
Volume 57, Number 1, 2016

                        A. Kirk   Nuclear fusion: bringing a star down to
                                  Earth  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
                   Dirk K. Morr   Crossover from quantum to classical
                                  transport  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--45
         Alexander Jesacher and   
            Monika Ritsch-Marte   Synthetic holography in microscopy:
                                  opportunities arising from advanced
                                  wavefront shaping  . . . . . . . . . . . 46--59
             David Jennings and   
                 Matthew Leifer   No return to classical reality . . . . . 60--82
                     M. J. Duff   $M$-history without the $M$  . . . . . . 83--85
                 Ignazio Licata   Essay Review: The architecture of time.
                                  \booktitlePrinciples of Discrete Time
                                  Mechanics, by George Jaroszkiewicz,
                                  Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical
                                  Physics, New York, NY, Cambridge
                                  University Press, 2014, 366 + 14 pp.,
                                  \pounds 85.00 (hardback), ISBN:
                                  978-1-107-03429-7. Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--89
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleStellar Evolution Physics ---
                                  Volume 1. Physical Processes in Stellar
                                  Interiors, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduates and specialists  90--92
         Peter V. E. McClintock   Essay Review: The origins of life on
                                  Earth. [\booktitleThe Search for our
                                  Cosmic Ancestry, by Chandra
                                  Wickramasinghe, Singapore, World
                                  Scientific, 2014, 216 pp. \pounds 25.00
                                  (paperback), ISBN 978-981-4616-97-3,
                                  (hardcover) ISBN 978-981-4616-96-6,
                                  (e-book) 978-981-4616-99-7], Scope:
                                  review, monograph, general interest.
                                  Level: general readership,
                                  non-specialists, pre-university,
                                  undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher    93--95
                   Enda McGlynn   \booktitleCrystal Symmetry, Lattice
                                  Vibrations, and Optical Spectroscopy of
                                  Solids: A Group Theoretical Approach,
                                  Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate,
                                  early career researcher, researcher,
                                  specialist, scientist & engineers . . . . 96--99
                Peter J. Bussey   Essay Review: Illumination on
                                  Information. \booktitleInformation and
                                  the Nature of Reality: from Physics to
                                  Metaphysics, edited by Paul Davies and
                                  Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cambridge,
                                  Cambridge University Press, 2014,. 488
                                  pp. \pounds 12.99 (paperback). ISBN
                                  978-1-107-68453-9. Scope: edited book.
                                  Level: general readership, researcher    100--103
          Gunter M. Schütz   Faith and Science: Friend or Foe?  . . . 104--109
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleDeep-sky Companions: The
                                  Messier Objects, (2nd Edition), Scope:
                                  reference. Level: general readership . . 110--112
               Peter W. Milonni   \booktitleLasers: the first 50 years,
                                  Scope: review, general interest. Level:
                                  general readership, teacher,
                                  undergraduate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--116
                 Prashant Khare   \booktitleIncompressible Flow, 4th
                                  Edition, by Ronald L. Panton, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  early stage postgraduate . . . . . . . . 117--118
             Michael C. Ogilvie   \booktitleDynamics of the standard
                                  model, 2nd edition, John F. Donoghue,
                                  Eugene Golowich and Barry R. Holstein,
                                  Scope: monograph, reference. Level:
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
                Richard Keesing   \booktitleDiscrete or Continuous? The
                                  Quest for Fundamental Length in Physics,
                                  by Amit Hagar, Scope: monograph. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate.
                                  early career researcher, researcher  . . 120--121
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitle$4$D visualization of matter:
                                  recent collected works of Ahmed H.
                                  Zewail, Nobel Laureate, by Nikolaos E.
                                  Myridis, Scope: anthology (article
                                  collection). Level: academics,
                                  researchers, postgraduates and
                                  specialists in: physical chemistry,
                                  biochemistry, chemical biology,
                                  biophysics, bioengineering, imaging,
                                  structural biology, cancer research  . . 122--122
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleTowards a new dimension:
                                  Exploring the Nanoscale, by Anne
                                  Marcovich and Terry Shinn, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 122--124
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleNanoscale microwave
                                  engineering: Optical control of
                                  nanodevices, by Charlotte
                                  Tripon-Canseliet and Jean Chazelas,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: specialist  . . 124--125
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleAstrophysics Processes: The
                                  Physics of Astronomical Phenomena, by
                                  Hale Bradt, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
                                  teacher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleAn Introduction to Galaxies
                                  and Cosmology, (2nd Edition), edited by
                                  Mark H. Jones, Robert J. A. Lambourne,
                                  and Stephen Serjeant, Scope: textbook.
                                  Level: general readership, undergraduate 126--128
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleGravitation and Spacetime,
                                  (3rd Edition), by Hans C. Ohanian and
                                  Remo Ruffini, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate, postgraduate . . 128--128
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleAstrophysics Through
                                  Computation: With Mathematica$^{{\reg
                                  }}$ Support, by Brian Koberlein and
                                  David Meisel, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduates, graduate
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleQuantum Transport Calculations
                                  for Nanosystems, by Kenji Hirose and
                                  Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: specialist, researcher, early
                                  career researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleBiomedical Photonic Handbook,
                                  (3 Volumes), edited by Tuan Vo-Dinh,
                                  Scope: handbook. Level: specialist,
                                  engineers, early career researchers  . . 130--131
                  K. Alan Shore   \booktitleHistory of Modern Optics and
                                  Optoelectronics Development in China,
                                  edited by Fuxi Gan and Shouyun Tian,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: general
                                  readership, engineers, early career
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
                    Frank Close   \booktitleParticle Accelerators: From
                                  Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy, by
                                  Ugo Amaldi, Scope: monograph, review,
                                  postgraduate. Level: general reader,
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist  132--134
                   Manuel Vogel   \booktitleThe Formation of the Solar
                                  System: Theories Old and New, (2nd
                                  Edition), by Michael Woolfson, Scope:
                                  monograph, Level: general readership . . 134--135
             Lynn E. Eberly and   
               Joseph H. Eberly   \booktitleBayesian Probability Theory:
                                  Applications in the Physical Science, by
                                  W. von der Linden, V. Dose and U. von
                                  Toussaint. Scope: review. Level: general
                                  readership, non-specialists  . . . . . . 135--136
               Nigel John Mason   \booktitleThe Science of Interstellar,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  reader, non specialist . . . . . . . . . 136--137
               Nigel John Mason   \booktitleElectrons in Molecules: From
                                  Basic Principles to Molecular
                                  Electronics, by Jean Pierre Launay and
                                  Michel Verdaguer, Scope: reference,
                                  textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
                                  postgraduate, early career researcher,
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
                  G. J. Milburn   \booktitleQuantum Measurement Theory and
                                  its Applications, by Kurt Jacobs, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher  . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
             Salvatore Esposito   \booktitleA Chorus of Bells and Other
                                  Scientific Inquiries, by Jeremy
                                  Bernstein, Scope: article collection.
                                  Level: postgraduate, teacher, scientist  139--139
            Nikolaos E. Myridis   \booktitleAn Introduction to Sparse
                                  Stochastic Processes, Scope: reference.
                                  Level: postgraduate, (early career)
                                  researcher, teacher, specialist,
                                  scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleMaterials Modelling using
                                  Density Functional Theory: Properties
                                  and Predictions, by Giustino Feliciano,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early stage
                                  researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitleSemiconductors: Bonds and
                                  Bands, by David K. Ferry, Scope:
                                  textbook. Level: postgraduate  . . . . . 141--141
                   A. H. Harker   \booktitlePhase transitions in
                                  materials, Scope: textbook. Level:
                                  advanced undergraduate; postgraduate,
                                  early stage researcher . . . . . . . . . 141--142
               Robert D. Joseph   \booktitleThe Universal Force: Gravity
                                  --- Creator of Worlds, Scope: monograph.
                                  Level: general reader  . . . . . . . . . 142--142
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleMid-Ocean Ridges, Scope:
                                  monograph. Level: undergraduates,
                                  graduate students, interdisciplinary
                                  researchers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleUnseen Cosmos: The Universe in
                                  Radio, Scope: reference, general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 143--144
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleLiving with the Stars: how the
                                  human body is connected to the life
                                  cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and
                                  the Stars, Scope: general interest.
                                  Level: general readership  . . . . . . . 144--144
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleEssentials of in vivo
                                  Biomedical Imaging, edited by Simon R.
                                  Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi and Jinyi Qi,
                                  Scope: edited book. Level:
                                  postgraduates, research scientists . . . 144--145
                Michael Belsley   \booktitleExperiments and Demonstrations
                                  in Physics Bar-llan Physics Laboratory
                                  (second edition), Scope: guide or
                                  manual. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 145--146
                       B. Ishak   \booktitleWhy we need nuclear power: the
                                  environmental case, Michael H. Fox, New
                                  York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014,
                                  320 pp., \pounds 22.99 (Hardback), ISBN
                                  978-0-199-34457-4. Scope: general
                                  interest. Level: general readership  . . 146--147
         Peter V. E. McClintock   \booktitleSuperfluid States of Matter,
                                  by Boris Egor Nikolay Svistunov, Egor
                                  Nikolay Babaev and Nikolay Prokof'ev,
                                  Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduates,
                                  research scientists  . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
                   Eric Sheldon   \booktitleRelativity: The Special and
                                  the General Theory, 100th Anniversary
                                  Edition, by Albert Einstein, Scope:
                                  general interest, edited book. Level:
                                  general readership, non-specialists,
                                  pre-university, undergraduate, advanced
                                  undergraduate, postgraduate, early
                                  career researcher, researcher, teacher,
                                  specialist, scientist  . . . . . . . . . 147--149
                Peter J. Bussey   \booktitleThe beauty of physics:
                                  patterns, principles and perspectives,
                                  Scope: general interest. Level: general
                                  reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149

Contemporary Physics
Volume 57, Number 2, 2016

                   Hai-Jun Zhou   The rock--paper--scissors game . . . . . 151--163
              Clare Burrage and   
             Edmund J. Copeland   Using atom interferometry to detect dark
                                  energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--176
                    Chris Quigg   Particle physics after the Higgs boson
                                  discovery: opportunities for the Large
                                  Hadron Collider  . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187
                   Hiroya Nakao   Phase reduction approach to
                                  synchronisation of nonlinear oscillators 188--214
           Stefan Schippers and   
       A. L. David Kilcoyne and   
          Ronald A. Phaneuf and   
             Alfred Müller   Photoionisation of ions with synchrotron
                                  radiation: from ions in space to atoms
                                  in cages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--229