• Information and Biographical Guide by M G Shafranova (in Russian) Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Press 5 85165 488 0 (US$ 15). Produced and published by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, near Moscow, this is a compilation of JINR discoveries, prizes and literature, and of its scientists, history and much other useful information. The book includes more than 500 short biographical summaries of the scientists who created this research centre, who have worked or are working there, including specialists in physics, mathematics, chemistry, radiobiology and engineering from more than 20 countries. E-mail "post@office.jinr.ru", fax (7 095) 975 23 81.
  • Applications of Noncovariant Gauges in the Algebraic Renormalization Procedure by A Boresch, S Emery, O Moritsch, M Schweda, T Sommer and H Zerrouki, World Scientific 9810234562. This text goes a step beyond the algebraic formulation of renormalization using covariant gauges.
  • Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe edited by D B Cline, Proceedings of the Workshop on Primordial Black Holes and Hawking Radiation and 3rd International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe, 17­20 February 1998, Marina del Rey, reprinted from Physics Reports, Elsevier Science.
  • Hadrons in Dense Matter and Hadrosynthesis edited by Jean Cleymans, Hendrik B Geyer and Frederik G Scholtz, Proceedings of the 11th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School, Cape Town, 4­13 February 1998, Springer 3 540 65209 4.
  • Lectures in Synergetics by Volodymyr I Sugakov, World Scientific 9810234953 (hbk £28). In the World Scientific series on Nonlinear Science
  • Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information edited by Hoi-Kwong Lo, Sandu Popescu and Tim Spiller, World Scientific 981023399X (hbk £35). This provides an introduction to a dynamic new subject. The book is partially based on lectures organized by the editors and given at the Basic Institute in the Mathematical Sciences, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.