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Abstract Abstract Organic Solid State Chemistry. Edited by G. R. Desiraju. (Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: Elsevier, 1987.) [Pp. xx + 546 + subject index.] Price Dfl. 360·00/US $175·50 hard cover. Chemical Crystallography with Pulsed Neutrons and Synchroton X-rays. Edited by M. A. Carrondo and G. A. Jeffrey (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1987.) [Pp. xi + 592 + subject and formula index.] Price Dfl.250·00/US$119·00/£76·00 hard cover. Novel Superconductivity. Edited by S. A. Wolf and V. Z. Kresin. (New York, London: Plenum Press, 1987.) [Pp. xix + 1118 + subject index.] Price US $125·00 hard cover. Non-Debye Relaxation in Condensed Matter. Edited by T. V. Ramakrishnan and M. R. Lakshmi. (Singapore, New Jersey, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 1987.) [Pp.vii + 491.] Price US $48·00 hard cover. High Resolution Powder Diffraction. Edited by C. R. A. Catlow. (Aedermannsdorf: Trans Tech, 1986.) [Pp. vii + 131 + subject index.] Price SwFr 95·00 soft cover. Electrochemistry of Conducting Polymers. Edited by J. Przyluski and S. Roth. (Aedermannsdorf, Brookfield Trans Tech, 1987.) [Pp. vii + 213.] Price SwFr 95·00 soft cover. Lanthanide and Actinide Research. Edited by S. P. Sinha. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987.) Price per volume Dfl. 290·00/US $125·00 for institutions and Dfl. 135·00/US $59·00 for individuals. Issued bimonthly, six issues per volume, soft cover. Surface Physics. Edited by X. Xide. (Singapore, New Jersey, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 1987.) [Pp. xvii + 481.] Price £72·85 hard cover. (Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Symposium on Surface Physics, held in Shanghai, 14-17 April, 1987. 66 contributions.) Picosecond Electronics and Optoelectronics II. Edited by F. J. Leonberger, C. H. Lee, F. Capasso and H. Morkoç. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987.) [Pp. xii + 288 + author index.] Price DM 79·00/US $44·00 hard cover. (Proceedings of the Second OSA-IEEEE conference held in Nevada, 14-16 January, 1987. 61 contributions.) The Physics of Structure Formation. Theory and Simulation. Edited by W. Guttinger and G. Dangelmayr. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987.) [Pp. xiii + 425 + author index.] Price DM 109·00/US $55·00 hard cover. (Proceedings of an International Symposium, held in T$uUbingen, 27 October-2 November, 1986. 33 contributions.) Current Trends in the Physics of Materials. Edited by M. Yussouff. (Singapore, New Jersey, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 1987.) [Pp. xv + 429 + author index.] Price US $48·00 hard cover. (Proceedings of the Symposium held in Kanpur, 5-8 November, 1986. 51 contributions.) Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. Volume 154. Part I/II Anniversary Edition. Edited by E. Wicke. (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1987.) [Pp. ix + 295.] Price £;83·00 soft cover.