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Geometry_ of Nonvositivelu Curved Manifolds. By Patrick B. Eberlein. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
(1996). 449 pages. $90.00, £71.95 (cloth); $45.00, £35.95 (paper).
Contents:
Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Notation and preliminaries. 2. Structure of symmetric spaces of noncompact
type. 3. Tits geometries. 4. Action of isometries on M(co). 5. A splitting criterion. 6. Isometries o f R n. 7. Spaces
with Euclidean factors. 8. Mostow rigidity theorem. 9. Rigidity theorems and characterizations of symmetric
spaces of higher rank. 10. Fundamental group and geometry. References. Index of definitions and terminology.
Index of notation.

Java A W T Reference. By John Zukowski. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1997). 1045 pages. $39.95.
Contents:
Preface. 1. Abstract window toolkit overview. 2. Simple graphics. 3. Fonts and colors. 4. Events. 5. Com-
ponents. 6. Containers. 7. Layouts. 8. Input fields. 9. Pick me. 10. Would you like to choose from the
menu? 11. Scrolling. 12. Image processing. 13. AWT exceptions and errors. 14. And then there were ap-
plets. 15. Toolkit and peers. 16. Data transfer. 17. Printing. 18. [Link] reference. 19. [Link] reference.
20. [Link] reference. 21. [Link] reference. 22. [Link] reference. 23. [Link]
reference. Appendices. A. Using properties and resources. B. HTML markup for applets. C. Platform-specific
event handling. D. Image loading.

Java Virtual Machine. By Jon Meyer and Troy Downing. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1997). 426 pages. $32.95
(diskette included).
Contents:
Preface. 1. Overview. 2. Quick tour. 3. Components of the machine. 4. Classes. 5. Security. 6. Implementation
notes. 7. D a t a operations. 8. Arithmetic. 9. Flow control. 10. Exceptions. 11. Threads. 12. Class file reference.
13. Instruction reference. Appendices. A. Instructions by function group. B. Instructions by opcode. C. Jasmin
user guide. D. The JAS library. Index.

The Limits of Medicine: How Science Shapes Our Hope for the Cure. By Edward Golub. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago. (1994). 258 pages. $14.95.
Contents:
Preface to the paperback edition. A few important words to the reader. Introduction: Framing health and
disease. I. Reframing the external world. 1. The constant presence of death. 2. La Longue durge. 3. T h e seeds of
change. 4. "Pasteur" and the authority of science. 5. Rewriting history: The triumph of science. II. Reframing the
internal world. 6. "Never to die of a disease in the future". 7. Reframing the internal world. 8. Magic bullets and
the new paradigm of medicine. 9. The therapeutic revolution. III. Framing the future. 10. Reshaping the goals of
medicine in the era of chronic diseases. Finale: Changing the metaphor. Readings and notes. Acknowledgments.
Index.

Computino Concepts with C-k-k Essentials. By Cay S. Horstmann. John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1997).
669 pages. $55.95.
Contents:
:Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Fundamental data types. 3. Objects. 4. Decisions. 5. Functions. 6. Iteration.
7. Testing and debugging. 8. Classes. 9. Vectors and matrices. 10. Files. 11. Modules. 12. Algorithms. 13. An
introduction to d a t a structures. 14. Inheritance and polymorphism. Appendices. A1. C + + language coding
guidelines. A2. C + + language summary. A3. Moving from C + + to C. Glossary. Photo credits. Index.

Nonmo~otonic Reasonina. By Grigoris Antoniou. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1997). 285 pages. $35.00.
Contents:
Series foreword. I. Prelude. 1. Introduction. 2. Predicate logic. II. Default logic. 3. Default reasoning. 4. Op-
erational semantics of default logic. 5. Normal default theories. 6. Semi-normal default theories. 7. Alternative
approaches. 8. Priorities among defaults. References for Part II. III. Classical approaches to nonmonotonic reason-
ing. 9. Autoepistemic logic. 10. Computing expansions of AF_rtheeries. 11. Embedding default logic into AE-logic.
12. Circumscription. References for Part III. IV. Abstract and dynamic approaches to nonmonotonic reasoning.
13. Nonmonotonic inference relations. 14. Belief revision. 15. Implementing belief revision. 16. Interconnections.
References for Part IV. V. Nonmonotonic reasoning and logic programming. 17. The system Theorist. 18. Stable
model semantics of logic programs. 19. Well-founded semantics. References for Part V. VI. Finale. 20. Future
directions of nonmonotonic reasoning research. Bibliography. Index.

Solvinq t~¢ Pf~me P r o b ~ : A Mcth~mctical lnvestiaation of the Common Sense Law of Inertia. By Murray
Shanahan. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1997). 407 pages. $45.00.
Contents:
Series foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. W h a t is the frame problem? 2. Logical foundations. 3. Towards
a non-monotonic solution. 4. Chronological minimisation. 5. Causal minimisation. 6. Introducing state-based
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minimisation. 7. Generalising state-based minimisation. 8. Tailor-made techniques. 9. Narratives in the situation

calculus. 10. Incomplete narratives and concurrent actions. 11. The foundations of logic programming. 12. Logic
programs for reasoning about action. 13. Simplifying and extending the event calculus. 14. A circumseriptive
calculus of events. 15. Applying the calculus of events. 16. Forced separation. 17. Explanation: The assimilation
of observations. Epilogue: Is the frame problem solved? Bibliography. Appendices. A. Proof of Theorem 9.7.5.
B. Proof of Theorem 14.5.2. C. Temporal projection algorithms. D. Proof of Theorem 15.5.3. Index.

Desiqninq Incentive Requlation for the Telecommunications Industry. By David E. M. Sappington and Dennis
L. Weisman. MIT Press/AIE Press, Cambridge, MA/Washington, DC. (1996). 388 pages. $35.00.
Contents:
Foreword. Acknowledgments. About the authors. 1. Introduction and overview. 2. Today's telecommunications
industry. 3. A review of existing regulatory plans. 4. Regulatory goals and resources. 5. Selecting performance
criteria and reward structures. 6. Designing options in incentive regulation plans. 7. Fostering regulatory com-
mitment powers. 8. Competition, regulation, and deregulation. 9. RBOC entry into interLATA long-distance
markets. 10. Pitfalls in measuring the effects of incentive regulation. 11. Empirical studies of the effects of in-
centive regulation. 12. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Case and regulatory proceeding index. Name index.
Subject index.

A n Introduction to Natural Computation. By Dana H. Ballard. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1997). 307 pages.
$45.00.
Contents:
List of figures. List of tables. Preface. 1. Natural computation. I. Core concepts. 2. Fitness. 3. Programs.
4. Data. 5. Dynamics. 6. Optimization. II. Memories. 7. Content-addressable memory. 8. Supervised learning.
9. Unsupervised learning. III. Programs. 10. Markov models. 11. Reinforcement learning. IV. Systems. 12. Genetic
algorithms. 13. Genetic programming. 14. Summary. Index.

Web Client Proqramminq with Perl. By Clinton Wong. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1997). 213 pages. $29.95.
Contents:
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Demystifying the browser. 3. Learning HTTP. 4. The socket library. 5. The
LWP library. 6. Example LWP programs. 7. Graphical examples with Perl/Tk. Appendices. A. H T T P headers.
B. Reference tables. C. The Robot Exclusion Standard. Index.

NetTravel: How Travelers Use the Internet. By Michael Shapiro. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1997). 284 pages.
$24.95 (CD included).
Contents:
Foreword. About the author. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Destination anywhere. 2. Planes, trains, and
automobiles. 3. Room and board. 4. Finding the best deals. 5. Taking care of business. 6. The ultimate vacation.
7. Adventure travel. 8. Newsgroups and mailing lists. 9. Traveling with the net. 10. How travel agents use the
net. Appendices. A. NetTravel toolbox--Sites listed by subject. B. Basic internet training. C. A guide to the
online services. Index.

The Practical Imaaination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century. By David F. Lindenfeld.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. (1997). 382 pages. $57.00, £45.50 (cloth); $19.95, £15.95 (paper).
Contents:
List of tables and figures. Acknowledgments. Introduction: A theoretical framework. 1. The Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century background: Classification. 2. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815:
Assimilation. 3. The sciences of state at their height, 1815-1840: Deliberation. 4. A period of transition, 1840-
1866: Variation. 5. A truncated revival, 1866-1890: Organized research and charisma. 6. The Wilhelminian
Era, 1890-1914: Specialization and clarification. Epilogue. Appendix: The data from university catalogues.
Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index.

Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Praqramminq Approach. By Moshe Sipper. Springer-Vet-
lag, Berlin. (1997). 198 pages. DM 58.00, 6S 423.40, sFr 51.50.
Contents:
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Universal computation in quasi-uniform cellular automata. 3. Studying artificial
life using a simple, general cellular model. 4. Cellular programming: Coevolving cellular computation. 5. Toward
applications of cellular programming. 6. Online autonomous evolware: The firefly machine. ?. Studying fault
tolerance in evolved cellular machines. 8. Coevolving architectures for cellular machines. 9. Concluding remarks
and future research. Appendices. A. Growth and replication: Specification of rules. B. A two-state, r -~ 1 CA that
classifies density. C. Specification of evolved CAs. D. Specification of an evolved architecture. E. Computing God
and equivalent d ~. Bibliography. Index.