Book Reviews July 2005

book reviews

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The NEBLINE, July 2005

AWARDS ADMINISTERED July 2005

We extended the analysis of the thermal conductivity measurements of helium confined in cylindrical channels of glass capillary arrays to the case of rectangular channels. Measurements were made on plates with channels of 1x10 micro-m cross section, and simultaneously on bulk helium. To our great surprise the results show that the finite-size scaling-function for this geometry does not differ m...

BAAL Book Prize 2005

Edwards, Viv (2004) Multilingualism in the English-speaking World. Blackwell first review One of the main strengths of this book is the originality of its approach to the topic: it adopts a thematic angle, rather than the more obvious „geographical‟ approach, dealing with one country at a time. This makes for a very useful book. Also, the style is excellent and the book is readable and accessib...

Book Reviews Alan Law

Since its inaugural issue in the spring of 1977, each issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has contained a puzzle from Martin Gardner, dressed up as a brief science ction tale. This book collects the rst thirty-six. Most of them are mathematical, covering a variety of topics | numbers, geometry, games of strategy, combinatorics, simple logic | but a few involve word play and trivia ...