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Capably edited by Jill S. Baron (Ecosystem Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University, Fort Collins), and enhanced with an informative four-page Foreword by Paul R. Ehrlich (Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Science, Stanford University), Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective is a sober and comprehensive survey of the tremendous impact human influence has had on the Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Featuring case studies, cascading effects, human-driven changes and more, this seminal and authoritative compilation of researched essays by educated authors paints an accurate and documented picture of an ecology being pushed beyond its limits, and then offers succinct, practical, and occasionally inspired ideas on what to do about it before it's too late. Rocky Mountain Futures is an essential, fundamentally critical addition to any personal, professional, governmental, organizational, academic, or community library Environmental Studies reference collection and supplemental reading list.

This is one of the very few books that ever changed the way I look at things. I don't agree with all of the author's opinions (and he doesn't ask me to), but after reading this I doubt I'll ever look at humanity's relation to "Nature" - or even the idea of seperation of the two - the same way again.

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In recent years, the study of laser-matter interaction has been without
any doubts one of the most rapidly evolving field in the physical
sciences. One of the main factor for such enormous interest and large
scientific production is certainly the invention, at the beginning of
the '90s, of the "Chirped Pulse Amplification" (CPA) technology which
has allowed the generation of very short pulses (in the ps and fs
duration range) with very high energy per pulse. Hence it has been

possible to produce laser powers in the Petawatt range, and laser
intensities on target so high that the free electrons, created by the
rapid ionization of the target material, practically do oscillate in the
laser field at the velocity of light. This has opened the new domain of
"relativistic plasma physics" to experiments, while just a few years
ago it just appeared as theoreticians' speculations.
New experiments and theoretical models have opened new perspectives not
only for the fundamental studies of nature, but also for fruitful
applications. Short-pulse high-intensity lasers appear to be possible
future sources of energetic electrons and ions and of radiation (X and
gamma ray). These might be used for a new approach to Inertial
confinement Fusion ("fast ignition"), for new schemes of accelerators,
for time resolved X-ray crystallography (to be used, for instance, on
proteins), and even as a possible tool for treating cancers (laser
proton therapy).

Since this field is still very new, not many books have appeared yet
which deal with such subjects. Therefore the book "Science and
Technology of Laser-Matter Interaction 2000" is an useful tool to cover
these new topics. It contains the reports from a conference held in July
2000 in La Jolla, California, in the series "Frontiers in
Interdisciplinary Physics". Of course, it is not a surprise that about
half of the contributions are concentrated on the topic of Short-pulse
high-intensity laser-matter interactions, in particular containing two
interesting reports respectively on the production of relativistic
electrons and the acceleration of collimated beams of ions.
The remaining contributions in the book do concentrate on topics which
are related to Inertial Confinement Fusion, reporting the last
achievements on implosion physics obtained at the Omega laser facility
(at the University of Rochester) currently the largest laser system in
the world, as well as some new scientific results on kinetic theory,
radiation-hydrodynamics, Brillouin instability, Thomson scattering,
fusion plasmas.

In conclusion this book is a valuable up-to-date research reference
which may be useful for active researchers in the field as well as for
graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

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Professor Dimitri Batani
Dipartimento di Fisica "G.Occhialini" and INFM, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca,
Via Emanueli 15, 20126 Milan, Italy

In Sharing Nature's Interest: Ecological Footprints As An Indicator Of Sustainability, Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons, and Mathis Wackernagel deftly collaborate to present the reader with a compendium of information on assessing ecology on a regional and a global basis through a process called 'ecological footprinting'. The informative text is enhanced with figures, tables, summary "boxes", a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a primer on thermodynamics, conversion tables, glossary, and an index. Sharing Nature's Interest is an important and highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and professional environmental studies reference collections and reading lists.