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Abstract Ultrafast Processes in Spectroscopy 1991. Edited by A. Laubereau and A. Seilmeier. (Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 1992.) [Pp. xx + 642 + subject and author index.] Price £ 68.00/US$ 136.00 hard cover. Phase Transformations in Materials. Edited by P. Haasen. (Weinheim, New York and Basel: VCH, 1991.) [Pp. xiii+ 632 +subject index.] Price DM430.00 hard cover. Liquid Crystalline Polymers. By A. M. Donald and A. H. Windle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.) [Pp. xiv + 293 + molecule, symbol and subject index.] Price US$100.00 hard cover. Physics and Chemistry of Finite Systems: From Clusters to Crystals. Volumes I and II. Edited by P. Jena, S. N. Khanna and B. K. Rao. (Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.) [Pp.: vol I, xvi + 818; vol II xi + 1420 + subject index.] Price Dfl. 575-00/US $335.00 hard cover. Physical Limitations to Photovoltaic Energy Conversion. Edited by A. Luque and G. L. Araujo. (Bristol, Philadelphia and New York: Adam Hilger, 1990.) [Pp. xi +173.] Price £3500/US$70.00 hard cover. From Caveman to Chemists. Circumstances and Achievements. By H. W. Salzberg (Washington, D.C.: ACS, 1991.) [Pp. xix + 269 + subject index.] Price US$15.00 soft cover, $25.00 hard cover. Minerials and Reactions at the Atomie Scale: Transmission Electron Microscopy. Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 27. Edited by P. R. Buseck (Washington D. C: Mineralogical Society of America, 1992.) [Pp.xv+ 508.] Price £55.00 soft cover. Awards for First Degree Study at Commonwealth Universities 1993-95. Edited by E. Robinson and M. Hunter. (London: Association of Commonwealth Univer-sities, 1993.) [Pp. viii+ 79.] Price £6.50 soft cover. Awards for Postgcaduate Study at Commonwealth Universities 1993-95. Edited by E. Robinson and M. Hunter. (London: Association of Commonwealth Univer-sities, 1993.) [Pp. xii+ 403.] Price £18.50 soft cover. International Tables for Crystallography. Volume C. Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Tables. Edited by A. J. C. Wilson. (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.) [Pp. xxix + 854+ author and subject index.] Price Dfl.400-00/US$244.00 hard cover. Reflections on Symmetry in Chemistry… and Elsewhere. By E. Heilbronner and J. D. Dunitz. (Weinhem, New York and Basel: VCH, 1993.) [Pp. iv+154.] Price DM58.00 hard cover. Properties of Aluminium Gallium Arsenide. Edited by S. Adachi. EMIS Datareviews Series No. 7. (London: INSPEC, 1993.) Price £95.00 hard cover. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to High Tc and Conventional Superconductivity. Edited by L. C. Gupta. (Commack: Nova, 1991.) [Pp. x + 792 + subject index.] Price US$120.00 hard cover. A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students. By L. Lyons. (Cambridge: CUP, 1991.) [Pp. xii + 90 + subject index.] Price £19.95 hard cover, £7.95 soft cover.