C. C. Petersen and J. C. Brandt,Hubble Vision,Early Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope

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C. J. Hogan,The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer

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F. P. Pijpers,J. Christensen-Dalsgaard,and C. S. Rosenthal (eds.), SCORe '96: Solar Convection and Oscillations and their Relationship

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J. Mayo Greenberg,The Cosmic Dust Connection.

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J.A. Pierce: pioneer award winner, 1961

A biography of John Alvin Pierce is given, starting with his early interest in radio. Pierce received his amateur license and operated a spark transmitter at the age of twelve. His amateur activities led to work at the Cruft Laboratory of Harvard University under the supervision of Professor H.R. Mimno. This association with the Cruft Laboratory has continued to the present day with few interruptions. Pierce's work with different groups and in various areas is sketched, focusing on his work with Loran     

H. J. Habing and H. J. G. L. M. Lamers (eds.), Planetary Nebulae,IAU Symposium 180

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R. Buccheri, J. van Paradijs, M. A. Alpar, The Many of Neutron Stars

We see neutron stars principally by their radio and X-ray emission. Their appearance in these different bands depends on whether the emission comes from the surface or its magnetosphere. New phenomena continue to be found from neutron stars, which makes it an exciting and topical research area. This volume is a collection of the papers from a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Italy in October 1996. Many, and for me the most interesting ones, are substantial reviews on topics such as Pulsar magnetic fields and glitches (M. Ruderman), Radio pulsar population properties (D. Lorimer), Gamma-ray emission from CGRO pulsars (G. Kanbach), Neutron stars and black holes in X-ray binaries (J. van Paradijs), Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in low-mass X-ray binaries (M. van der Klis), Thermonuclear burning on rapidly accreting neutron stars (L. Bildsten), On the X-ray emission properties of rotation powered pulsars (W. Becker and J. Truemper). It will serve as a useful reference and source book for students in high energy astrophysics and related fields. The high price may deter its purchase by individuals, but it will be a good volume for a library needing recent coverage on neutron stars. It does not of course include the most recent developments on anomalous X-ray pulsars or magnetars. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

J.-L. Starck,F. Murtagh,and A. Bijaoui,Image Processing and Data Analysis,The Multiscale Approach

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Kitchin,C. R., Astrophysical Techniques

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J. F. Lemaire,and K. I. Gringauz,with contributions from D. L. Carpenter and V. Bassolo,The Earth's Plasmasphere

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D. Winterhalter,J.T. Gosling,S.R. Habbal,W.S. Kurth,and M. Neugebauer (eds.). Solar Wind Eight

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经验与启示——张镇中教授谈麦道公司的沉没以及中美MD-82合作项目

张镇中教授亲历了美国麦道公司由盛到衰的过程，同时作为麦道公司的总代表，发起并参与了在上海总装MD-82飞机的中美合作项目，尽管这个计划的结果并不如人意，但它却是我国大飞机发展历程中一个重要的事件。前不久我们对张镇中教授进行了专访，请他回忆了这段经历，并对我国大飞机发展提出了一些看法和建议。