3 September 2014

Latest Volumes of Annual Reviews Now Available at 30% Off

Richard Fienberg

Richard Fienberg AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force

As a benefit of belonging to the AAS, members are eligible to enjoy a 30% savings when purchasing new editions of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics and/or the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Volume 52 of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, for 2014, has just been released. Here's the table of contents:

  • Wondering About Things, George B. Field
  • Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts, Edo Berger
  • Observational Clues to the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae, Dan Maoz, Filippo Mannucci, and Gijs Nelemans
  • Tidal Dissipation in Stars and Giant Planets, Gordon I. Ogilvie
  • Gamma-Ray Pulsar Revolution, Patrizia A. Caraveo
  • Solar Dynamo Theory, Paul Charbonneau
  • The Evolution of Galaxy Structure Over Cosmic Time, Christopher J. Conselice
  • Microarcsecond Radio Astrometry, M. J. Reid and M. Honma
  • Far-Infrared Surveys of Galaxy Evolution, Dieter Lutz
  • Cosmic Star-Formation History, Piero Madau and Mark Dickinson
  • Mass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars, Nathan Smith
  • Hot Accretion Flows Around Black Holes, Feng Yuan and Ramesh Narayan
  • The Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes: Insights from Surveys of the Contemporary Universe, Timothy M. Heckman and Philip N. Best
  • Numerical Relativity and Astrophysics, Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius

Volume 42 of the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences is now available too. Some astronomically relevant selections from the table of contents:

  • Extrasolar Cosmochemistry, M. Jura and E. D. Young
  • The Stardust Mission: Analyzing Samples from the Edge of the Solar System, Don Brownlee
  • Mineralogy of the Martian Surface, Bethany L. Ehlmann and Christopher S. Edwards
  • Impact Origin of the Moon?, Erik Asphaug
  • Planetary Reorientation, Isamu Matsuyama, Francis Nimmo, and Jerry X. Mitrovica

To take advantage of your 30% AAS-member discount, visit our Annual Reviews page, which you'll be able to see only if you are signed in as an AAS member. In addition to the 2014 order form, you'll find a second form that you can use to pre-order one or both volumes for 2015 (the form includes draft tables of contents so you can see what you'll be getting).