Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time,by T. Maudlin

Semiconductors Contacts: An Approach to Ideas and Models. By H. K. Henisch. (Oxford University Press, 1984.) [Pp. xxi + 377.] £48.00.

Nuclear Analytical Chemistry. By D. Brune, B. Forkman and B. Persson. (Chartwell-Bratt, 1984.) [Pp. 560.] £24.60. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate.

Interstellar Chemistry. By W. W. Duley and D. A. Williams. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp.viii + 251.] $45.00 £29.00. Level: Undergraduate/Graduate student.

Spacelab Research in Earth Orbit. By D. Shapland and M. Rycroft. (Cambridge University Press, 1984.) [Pp. 192.] £11. 95. Scope: Survey. Level: General Physics Readership.

Glass: Science and Technology, Volume 2. Edited by D. R. Uhlmann and N. J. Kreidl. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp.xi + 360.] $47.50; £56.00. Scope: Specialist technology. Level: Postgraduate.

Symmetry in Physics: Volume 1, Principles and Simple Applications; Volume 2, Further Applications. By J. P. Elliot and P. G. Dawber. (Macmillan Press, 1985.) [Pp. xix + 286; xviii + 560.] £15.00 per volume. Level: Undergraduate/Postgraudate.

Molecular Liquids. Edited by A. J. Barnes, W. J. Orville-Thomas and J. Yarwood. (D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984.) [Pp. viii + 590.] Dft.200,-; $79.50; £50.95. Scope: Specialised. Level: Research.

Risks and Benefits of Energy Systems. (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1984.) [Pp. 680.] 1300 Austrian Schillings. Level: Postgraduate and professional.

Electromagnetic Properties of High-spin Nuclear Levels. Edited by G. Goldring and M. Hass. (Adam Hilger Ltd., 1984.) [Pp. xi + 347.] £35.00. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: For specialist only: Specialist postgraduate.

Supermanifolds. By B. De Witt. (Cambridge University Press, 1984.) [Pp.xiv + 316.] £35.00; $59.50. Scope: Specialist Postgraduate.

Theory of NMR Parameters. By I. Ando and G. A. Webb. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xi + 217.] $52.00; £30.00.

Electron Spectroscopy: Theory, Techniques and Applications Volume 5. Edited by C. R. Bundle and A. D. Baker. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp.xii + 378.] £50.00; $75.00.

Nuclear Power and Public Responsibility. By L. E. J. Roberts. (Cambridge University Press, 1984.) [Pp.viii+142.] Level: General Reader.

Non-Invasive Physiological Measurements. Volume 2. By P. Rolfe. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xiv + 383.] $67.50; £39.50. Scope: Review articles. Level: Specialist/Research student.

Laser Dyes: Properties of Organic Compounds for Dye Lasers. By M. Maeda. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. x + 335.] $46.50.

Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control: A Guidebook. Technical Reports Series No. 239. (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1984.) [Pp. 390.] Austrian Schillings 780.

Nuclear Heat Application. Proceedings of a Technical Committee Meeting and Workshop: Cracow, 5–9 December 1983. (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1984.) [Pp. 419.] Austrian Schillings 820.

Gas Phase Ion Chemistry. Volume 3: Ions and Light. Edited by M. T. Bowers. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xiv + 453.] £58.00; $75.00. Scope: Survey Articles. Level: Specialist.

Physics and Chemistry of Electrons and Ions in Condensed Matter. Edited by J. V. Acrivos, N. F. Mott and A. D. Yoffe. (D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984.) [Pp. xviii + 732.] Dfl. 245,—; $99.00; £62.25. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: For specialists only.

Foundations of Radiation Hydrodynamics. By D. Mihalas and B. W. Mihalas. (Oxford University Press, 1985.) [Pp. xv + 718.] £55.00. Scope: Postgraduate Research. Level: Advanced.

Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena Vol. 9. Edited by D. DomE and J. L. Lebowitz. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xiv + 318.] £38.50; $60.00.

Microcircuit Engineering 83. Edited by H. Ahmed, J. R. A. Cleaver and G. A. C. Jones. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xvi + 533.] $29.50 £18.00.

Electron Correlation in Molecules. By. S. Wilson. (Oxford University Press, 1984.) [Pp. x + 281.] £40.00. Level: Specialist and Specialist post-graduate.

Electronic Properties of Doped Semiconductors. By B. I. Shklovskii and A. L. Efros. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. 386.] $50.20.

Physical Acoustics, Volume XVII. Edited by P. Mason and R. N. Thurston. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. x + 326.] £62.50; $89.00. Level: Specialist.

Lecture Notes in Physics: Mathematical and Computational Methods in Nuclear Physics, Vol. 209. Edited by J. S. Dehesa, J. M. G. Gomez and A. Polls. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. 280.] DM 38,-; US $13.40. Scope: Theoretical nuclear spectroscopy. Level: Specialist.

Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transitions in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems. By S. W. Koch. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. 148.] US$7.00; DM19,-. Level: Postgraduate/Research.

Principles of Plasma Electrodynamics. By A. F. Alexandrov, L. S. Bogdankevich and A. A. Rukhadze. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. xvi + 488.] DM135,-.

The Fundamental Physical Constants and Physical Measurement. By B. W. Petley. (Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd., 1985.) [Pp. 346.] £28.50.

Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy 1984: Institute of Physics Conference Series. Edited by G. S. Hurst and M. G. Payne. (Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd., 1984.) [Pp. ix + 362.] £32.00; $49.00. Scope: Postgraduate, Research worker. Level: Advanced.     

《艺术与物理学--关于时空和光的艺术观和物理观》是一本难得的好书

近年来，对艺术与物理学的探讨可谓是不绝如缕，然而这些讨论大多都集中在想象力与灵感在物理学研究和艺术创作中的作用上，很少有人能从具体的艺术作品人手去探讨其中所蕴含的物理学机理，或是探讨物理学的观点在某件艺术作品中的体现．之所以出现这样的情况，可能是由于以下两方面的原因：其一是懂物理学的人中鲜有在艺术上有很深造诣者；其二是懂艺术的人中鲜有在物理学上有很深造诣者．而对于美国学者伦纳德-史莱茵，由于他对物理学与艺术的深厚造诣，     

Electromagnetic Anisotropy and Bianisotropy: A Field Guide,by Tom G. Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Fundamentals of Microoptics. By K. Iga, Y. Kokubun and M. Oikawa. (Academic Press, 1984.) [Pp.xiii + 218.] $38.00, £29.50. Scope: Textbook. Level: Specialist.

Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 217: Charge Density Waves in Solids. Edited by G. Hutiray and J. Solyom. (Springer-Verlag, 1985.) [Pp. xiv + 540.] DM80,-. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Photography for the Scientist. Edited by R. A. Morton. (Academic Press Inc., 1985.) [Pp.xviii + 542.] £76.00; $98.00. Scope: Survey Reviews. Level: Undergraduate/ Postgraduate.

Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, Supplement 16: The Beginnings of Electron Microscopy. Edited by P. W. Hawkes. (Academic Press Inc., 1985.) [Pp. xix + 633.] £67.00; $88.90. Scope: Library. Level: Postgraduate.

Electron Impact Ionization. Edited by T. D. M$aUrk and G. H. Dunn. (Springer-Verlag, 1985.) [Pp.xi + 383.] $59.00. Scope: Multiauthor reviews. Level Specialist.

Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet. Edited by S. P. McGlynn, G. L. Findley and R. H. Huebner. (D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984.) [Pp.xvi + 959.] Dfl. 270; US $99.00, £68.75.

Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. Edited by Hu Ning. (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1983.) [Pp.xvii + 1513 In two volumes.] $150.00. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Advanced.

Vibrational Spectroscopy at High External Pressures: The Diamond Anvil Cell. By J. R. Ferraro. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp.xiv + 264.] $59.00, £41.50. Scope: Survey. Level: Graduate (general interest) and Specialist postgraduate.

Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Optics. Edited by A. O. Barut. (Plenum, 1984.) [Pp.ix + 471.] $75.40. Scope: Library reference. Level: Specialist.

Optical Techniques in Biological Research. Edited by D. L. Rousseau. (Academic Press, 1984.) [Pp.xi + 430.] $65.00; £49.00. Scope: Monograph. Level: Specialist.

The Second Law. By P. W. Atkins. (W. H. Freeman and Co Ltd., 1984.) [Pp.ix + 230.] £16.50. Scope: Textbook. Level: General Reader.

Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers 1984. Edited by A. S. Kayes and A. C. Walker. (The Institute of Physics, 1985.) [Pp. xii + 534.] £38.00, $59.00. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Introduction to Quantum Statistical Mechanics. By N. N. Bogolubov and N. N. BogolDov, Jr. (Translated by V. P. Gupta; edited by C. J.-H. Lee) (World Scientific, 1982.) [Pp. viii + 299.] Scope: Library. Level PostgraduatelReseardh Monograph.

Analysis in Classes of Discontinuous Functions and Equations of Mathematical Physics. Edited by A. I. Vol'pert and S. I. Hudjaev. (Martinus Nijhoff, 1985.) [Pp. xviii + 678.] £86.50. Scope: Research text. Level: Specialist only.

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Phase Transitions. By Z. Iqbal and F. J. Owens. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp.x + 316.] $6150; £47.00. Scope: Treatise. Level Specialist.

Rational Thermodynamics: Second Edition. By C. Truesdell. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp.xvi + 578.] DM 214,-. Scope: Treatise. Level: Specialist.

Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures. By S. Coleman. (Cambridge University Press, 1985.) [Pp.xiv + 402.] £4000. Scope: Lecture Notes. Level: Advanced post-graduate.

Macmillan Dictionary of Astronomy. Second Edition. By V. Illingworth. (Macmillan Press, 1985.) [Pp. 437.] £25.00. Scope: Reference. Level: General.

Relativistic Mechanics, Time and Inertia. By E. Tocaci. (D. Reidel, 1984.) [Pp. x + 259.] £35.00. Scope: Textbook. Level: Specialist.

Notes on Radiation Effects on Materials. By J. N. Anno. (Hemisphere, 1984.) [Pp.ix + 342.] $24.95. Scope: Textbook. Level: Specialists.

Turbulent Shear Flows 4. Edited by L. J. S. Bradbury, F. Durst, B. E. Launder, F. W. Schmidt and J. H. Whitelaw. (Springer-Verlag, 1985.) [Pp. viii + 395.] DM 168,-. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Open Quantum Systems and Feynman Integrals. By P. Exner. (D. Reidel, 1984.) [Pp.xix + 356.] Dfl 160.00; US $40.75. Scope: Textbook. Level: Specialist postgraduate.

Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1984. Vols. 1–3. (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1985.) Austrian Schillings 1300 each. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialists only.

Lecture Notes in Physics: Fusion Reactions Below the Coulomb Barrier. Vol. 219. Edited by S. G. Steadman. (Springer-Verlag, 1985.) [Pp. vii + 351.] DM52,-. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics: An Introduction to Radiation-Molecule Interactions. By D. P. Craig and T. Thirunamachandran. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xi + 324.] $58.00; £38.50. Scope: Textbook. Level: Beginning postgraduate.

Semiconductors and Semimetals, Volume 17. C. W. Beam Processing of Silicon and other Semiconductors. Edited by J. F. Gibbons. (Academic Press Inc., 1984.) [Pp. xii + 458.] $55.00; £41.00. Scope: Survey Reviews Level: Specialist only.

Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology. By S. M. Sze. (John Wiley &; Sons Ltd., 1985.) [Pp. xi + 523.] £41.60. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate/postgraduate.

Localization, Interaction, and Transport Phenomena. Edited by B. Kramer, G. Bergmann and Y. Bruynseraede. (Springer-Verlag, 1985.) DM85,-. [Pp.ix + 264.] Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Quantum Field Theory. By L. H. Ryder. (Cambridge University Press, 1985.) [Pp.xii + 443.] £40.00; $74.50. Scope: Text book. Level: Postgraduate students and all particle theorists.

Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Chemical Systems. Edited by C. Vidal and A. Pacault. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. x + 255.] DM75,-. Scope: Conference Proceedings Level: Specialist.

Progress in Atomic Spectroscopy. Part C. Edited by H. J. Beyer and H. Kleinpoppen. (Plenum, 1984.) [Pp. xxxiii + 617.] $85.00. Scope: Survey Reviews. Level: Specialist postgraduate.

Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 218 Ninth International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics. Edited by Soubbaramayer and Boujot. (Springer-Verlag, 1985.) [Pp. x + 612.] DM82,-. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Chemistry and Physics of Solid Surfaces V. Edited by R. Vanselow and R. How. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. xxi + 554.] DM 125, -; US $45.50. Scope: Advanced Monograph. Level: Specialist.

Lecture Notes in Physics: Supersymmetry and Supergravity; Non-perturbative QCD. Edited by P. Roy and V. Singh. (Springer-Verfag, 1984.) [Pp. iv + 389.] DM52,-; US $18.30. Scope: Summer school proceedings. Level: Advanced.

Problems of Collapse and Numerical Relativity. Edited by D. Banchel and M. Signore. (D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984.) [Pp. x + 381.] Dfl. 145,-; $59.00; £36–95. Scope: Workshop proceedings. Level Specialist.

Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry Vol. 8 Experimental Methods in Electrochemistry. Edited by R. E. White, J. O'M. Bockris, B. E. Conway, and E. Yeager. (Plenum Press, 1984.) [Pp. xviii + 620.] US$89.50. Scope: Experimental methods. Level: Research.

James E. Keeler: Pioneer American Astrophysicist and the Early Development of American Astrophysics. By D. E. Osterbrock. (Cambridge University Press, 1984.) [Pp. xii + 411.] £35.00.

Electron-Molecule Collisions. Edited by I. Shimamura and K. Takayanagi. (Plenum Press, 1984.) [Pp. xiii + 570.] US$85.00. Scope: Multiauthor monograph. Level: Specialist.

Optical Orientation. Edited by F. Meier and B. Zakharchenya. (North-Holland Physics Publishing, 1984.) [Pp. xi + 523.] Dfl 290.00; US$111.50. Scope: Multiauthor Monograph. Level: Advanced.

Building The Universe. Edited by C. Sutton. (Basil Blackwell, 1985.) [Pp. x + 361.] £7.95 soft cover; £19.50 hard cover. Scope: Library. Level: General readership.

Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei and Particles: Second Edition. By R. Eisberg and R. Resnick. (John Wiley &; Sons, 1985.) [Pp. xiii + 812.] £24.95. Scope Textbook. Level: Undergraduate.

Optical and Acoustic Waves in Solids—Modern Topics. Edited by M. Borissov. (World Scientific, 1983.) [Pp. 483.] Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist Post-graduate.

Structural and Resonance Techniques in Biological Research. Edited by D. L. Rousseau. (Academic Press, 1984.) [Pp. xi + 476.] $69.00; £52.00. Scope: Survey articles. Level: For specialists only.

Defect Properties and Processing of High-Technology Nonmetallic Materials. Edited by J. H. Crawford, Y. Chen and W. A. Sibley. (North-Holland, 1984.) [Pp. xv + 482.] Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist post-graduate.

Fluctuations and Sensitivity in Nonequilibrium Systems. Edited by W. Horsthemke and D. K. Kondepudi. (Springer-Verlag, 1984.) [Pp. ix + 273.] DM79,-; US$27.80. Scope: Conference proceedings. Level: Specialist.

Analytical Laser Spectroscopy (Nato ASI Series B Physics Vol. 119). Edited by S. Martellucci and A. N. Chester. (Plenum Publishing Co., 1985.) [Pp. viii + 290.] US$52.50. Scope: Conference Proceedings. Level: Specialist.     

A Thermodynamic Formalism for Continuous Time Markov Chains with Values on the Bernoulli Space: Entropy, Pressure and Large Deviations

Through this paper we analyze the ergodic properties of continuous time Markov chains with values on the one-dimensional spin lattice $\{1,\dots,d\}^{{\mathbb{N}}}$ (also known as the Bernoulli space). Initially, we consider as the infinitesimal generator the operator , where is a discrete time Ruelle operator (transfer operator), and $A:\{1,\dots,d\}^{{\mathbb{N}}}\to\mathbb{R}$ is a given fixed Lipschitz function. The associated continuous time stationary Markov chain will define the a priori probability. Given a Lipschitz interaction $V:\{1,\dots,d\}^{{\mathbb{N}}}\to\mathbb{R}$ , we are interested in Gibbs (equilibrium) state for such V. This will be another continuous time stationary Markov chain. In order to analyze this problem we will use a continuous time Ruelle operator (transfer operator) naturally associated to V. Among other things we will show that a continuous time Perron-Frobenius Theorem is true in the case V is a Lipschitz function. We also introduce an entropy, which is negative (see also Lopes et al. in Entropy and Variational Principle for one-dimensional Lattice Systems with a general a-priori probability: positive and zero temperature. Arxiv, 2012), and we consider a variational principle of pressure. Finally, we analyze large deviations properties for the empirical measure in the continuous time setting using results by Y. Kifer (Tamsui Oxf. J. Manag. Sci. 321(2):505–524, 1990). In the last appendix of the paper we explain why the techniques we develop here have the capability to be applied to the analysis of convergence of a certain version of the Metropolis algorithm.     

The Quantum Vacuum: A Scientific and Philosophical Concept,from Electrodynamics to String Theory and the Geometry of the Microscopic World,by Luciano Boi

The standards of measurement employed in physics are arbitrary; it is shown that in consequence, the equations of motion in classical and quantum mechanics ere linear first order differential equations and that macroscopic phenomena obey the transformations of special relativity. The relations of these statements to microscopic evidence for special relativity and to conservation laws are considered. The physical reasons for the choice of a number of independent physical standards are discussed. The use of quantum phenomena to establish standards of measurements is described and related to the occurrence of fundamental quantum constants of physics.