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Abstract Light. Volume 2. Laser Light Dynamics. By H. Haken. (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland, 1985.) [Pp. xxiii + 336 + subject index.] Price Dfl. 125·00/US $46.25 hard cover. Electronic Structure and Electronic Transitions in Layered Materials. Edited by V. Grasso. (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1986.) [Pp. ix + 491 + author and subject index.] Price Dfl.225.00 hard cover. The Physics and Fabrication of Microstructures and Microdevices. Edited by M. J. Kelly and C. Weisbuch. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986.) [Pp. xi + 460.1 Price DM 99·00 hard cover. Unitary Transformations in Solid State Physics. By M. Wagner. (Amsterdam, Oxford, New York: North-Holland, 1986.) [Pp. xvi + 341 + author and subject index.] Price Dfl.225.00 hard cover. Differential Manifolds and Theoretical Physics. By W. D. Curtis and F. R. Miller. (Orlando, San Diego and New York: Academic Press, 1985.) [Pp. xiii + 388 + subject index.] Price £69·00 hard cover. Coherent States. Applications in Physics and Mathematical Physics. By J. R. Klauder and B. Skagerstam. (Singapore: World Scientific, 1985.) [Pp. xvii + 911.] Price £6670 soft cover. (69 reprints from various journals + introduction.) International Tables for Crystallography. Edited by T. Hahn. (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1985.) [Pp. viii +119.1 Price £9·00 soft cover. (Brief Teaching Edition of Volume A—Space-Group Symmetry.) Multiple Time Scales. Edited by J. U. Brackbill and B. I. Cohen. (Orlando, San Diego, New York: Academic Press, 1985.) [Pp. xiii + 436 + subject index.] Price ·65.00 hard cover. (Thirteen reviews of applications in physics.) Silicon-on-Insulator: Its Technology and Applications. Edited by S. Furukawa. (Dordrecht, Boston, London: D. Reidel; and Tokyo: KTK Scientific Publishers, 1985.) [Pp. vii + 295 + author index.] Price £49·95 hard cover. (20 papers presented at the seminar on ‘Solid Phase Epitaxy and Interface Kinetics’ held in Oiso, Japan, June, 1983.) Layered Structures and Interface Kinetics: Their Technology and Applications. Edited by S. Furukawa. (Dordrecht, Boston, London: D. Reidel; and Tokyo: KTK Scientific Publishers, 1985.) [Pp. viii + 367 + author index.] Price £60·95 hard cover. (22 papers presented at the seminar on ‘Solid Phase Epitaxy and Interface Kinetics’ held in Oiso, Japan, June, 1983.) Superlattices and Microstructures. Volume 1. Number 1. Edited by J. D. Dow. (Orlando, London, New York: Academic Press, 1985.) [Pp. 96.] soft cover. (New interdisciplinary journal devoted to the physics, chemistry, materials science and electrical engineering of submicron structures not only in semiconductors but also in materials with metallic, insulating and superconducting properties.) Solid Clues. Quantum Physics, Molecular Biology, and the Future of Science. By G. Feinberg. (London: Heinemann, 1985.) [Pp. i + 278 + subject index.] Price £12·95 hard cover. Laser Spectroscopy of Solids. Second Printing. Edited by W. M. Yen and P. M. Selzer. (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986.) [Pp. xiv + 311 + subject index.] Price DM79 soft cover (See Phil. Mag. B, 44, 185 for review.)