Book reviews [8 books reviewed]

The following books are reviewed in this issue: Springer Handbook of Mechanical Engineering (Grote, K. and Antonsson, E. K., Eds.; 2009); Building Scientific Apparatus, 4th Edition (Moore, J. H. et al.; 2009); Handbook of Surface and Interface Analysis, 2nd Edition (Riviere, J. C. and Myhra, S., Eds.; 2009); The Communication Problem Solver (Carroll, N. R.; 2009); Switching Power Supply Design, 3rd Edition (Pressman, A. I. et al.; 2009); Chirality at the Nanoscale (Amabilino, D. B., Ed.; 2009); Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing (Ahmed, W. and Jackson, M. J., Eds.; 2009); and Carbon Nanotube Science (Harris, P. J. F.; 2009).