Book Review of Accretion Power in Astrophysics (3rd Edition) by Juhan Frank,Andrew King,Derek Raine Cambridge University Press, 2002, XIV+384 pp., £27.95, hardback (ISBN 0 521 62053 8), paperback (ISBN 0 521 62957 8).

The velocity, pressure, perturbation magnetic field, helicity and electromotive force driven by an isolated buoyant parcel in an unbounded, rapidly rotating, electrically conducting fluid in the limit of small Elsasser number and very small Ekman number are calculated, visualized and analyzed. On the scale of the parcel, the solution is identical to that obtained in the limit of small Ekman number and zero Elsasser number. On the scale of the Taylor-column, it is elongated in the direction of the applied magnetic field and compressed in the direction perpendicular to it. The α-effect calculated by averaging the electromotive force on planes normal to rotation is strongly anisotropic: near the parcel and in the inner part of the Taylor-column it is strongest when the applied magnetic field is perpendicular to rotation and gravity; in the outer part of the Taylor-column it is strongest when the applied magnetic field is in the same plane as rotation and gravity.     

Book Review: Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Regional Wave Propagation and Crustal Structure. By Howard J. Patton and Brian J. Mitchell (Eds.), Birkhäuser Verlag, 2001, 222 pp., softcover,Euro 45, ISBN 3-7643-6550-1

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Book Review: Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Seismic Event Discrimination and Identification By William R. Walter and Hans E. Hartse (Eds.), Birkhäuser Verlag, 2001, 289 pp., softcover,Euro 52, ISBN 3-7643-6675-3

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Book review of TURBULENCE – AN INTRODUCTION FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS by P.A. Davidson,Oxford University Press, 2004, XIX + 657 pp., £90.00, $174.50 hardback (ISBN 0-19-852948-1), £35.00, $69.50 paperback (ISBN 0-19-852949-X).

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By T. G. Cowling. Adam Hilger Ltd, x + 136 pp. £10.00 (ISBN O 85274 300 9) July 1976.