The future will soon be here

This time, I look at two books that deal with adapting to trends. One conjectures about how you and I will adapt to the accelerating pace of technology when that pace outstrips our biological limitations. The other provides sound advice for dealing with an immediate situation, the globalization of technology-based commerce.     

Tables of attenuation coefficients for angular distribution of gamma rays from partially aligned nuclei

A set of attenuation coefficients has been calculated to be used in the interpretation of angular distributions of gamma radiations from partially aligned nuclei. To facilitate the use of these tables, the angular-distribution functions appropriate for totally aligned nuclei, as calculated by Yamazaki, have been extended to higher spins.     

Too much information

Sometimes the stack of interesting books gets too tall. I can only review a few each time, but there are many more that are too good to pass over. This time I look briefly at a number of books I wish I could spend more time with.