Two new string books go on sale soon (Becker's and Dine's)

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521860695/?tag=pfamazon01-20
String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction (Hardcover)
by Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John Schwarz
$80.00
729 pages
Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (December 31, 2006)
ISBN: 0521860695
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #174,463 in Books
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Maybe I shouldn't call the next one a "new" release because it is listed here as a second edition. I am not sure of the facts concerning the first edition. In any case it is scheduled to come out by the end of the year and people evidently are advance-ordering it because it has a sales rank.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521858410/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model (Hardcover)
by Michael Dine
$80.00
536 pages
Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (December 31, 2006)
ISBN: 0521858410
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #200,108 in Books
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Amazon has these books available for pre-order. To be shipped whenever they get the item in stock.

Has anybody seen advance copies, or the earlier edition? Any comment?

The Dine book may actually be a 1st edition, and the Amazon page simply mistaken. Dine's webpage indicates a January 2007 release.

thx to Sean Carroll for alerting us to these forthcoming publications
 
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