Best-sellers in Physics, 2005

Which physics books were flying off the shelves last year? YBP Library Services has released the following list of physics best-sellers for 2005. Titles owned by UMass libraries have clickable links that will bring you to their library catalog records. Think we should own a title on this list? Let us know! Happy reading.

Best Sellers in Physics, January–December 2005, as compiled by YBP Library Services

1. Plows, Plagues, And Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
Ruddiman, W. F.
Princeton U. Press
2005. ISBN 0691121648. $24.95

2. It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity
Mermin, N. David
Princeton U. Press
2005. ISBN 0691122016. $29.95

3. Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes
Emanuel, Kerry A.
Oxford U. Press
2005. ISBN 0195149416. $45.00

4. Einstein on Race and Racism
Jerome, Fred
Rutgers U. Press
2005. ISBN 0813536170. $23.95

5. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
McMillan, Priscilla Johnson
Viking
2005. ISBN 0670034223. $25.95

6. Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
Munowitz, M.
Oxford U. Press
2005. ISBN 0195167376. $35.00

7. The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
Oerter, Robert
Prentice Hall
2006. ISBN 0132366789. $24.95

8. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Randall, Lisa
Ecco
2005. ISBN 0060531088. $27.95

9. Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Approaches
Oldfield, Frank
Cambridge U. Press
2005. ISBN 0521829364. $120.00

10. Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
Susskind, Leonard
Little, Brown
2006. ISBN 0316155799. $24.95

11. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
Bowen, Mark
Henry Holt
2005. ISBN 0805064435. $30.00

12. Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl
Darrigol, Olivier
Oxford U. Press
2005. ISBN 0198568436. $74.50

13. Ozone Depletion and Climate Change: Constructing a Global Response
Hoffman, Matthew J.
State U. of New York Press
2005. ISBN 079146525x. $81.50

14. Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Gosnell, Mariana
Alfred A. Knopf
2005. ISBN 0679426086. $30.00

15. Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach
Haddad, Wassim M.
Princeton U. Press
2005. ISBN 0691123276. $49.50

16. Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth
Danson, Edwin
Oxford U. Press
2006. ISBN 0195181697. $29.95

17. Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos
Chaisson, Eric
Columbia U. Press
2006. ISBN 0231135602. $34.50

18. Electromagnetic Processes
Gould, Robert J.
Princeton U. Press
2006. ISBN 0691124434. $89.50

19. Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Theoretical and Computational Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Harrison, Paul
John Wiley
2005. ISBN 0470010797. $150.00

20. Pauli's Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle
Massimi, Michela
Cambridge U. Press
2005. ISBN 0521839114. $75.00