New books: December 2019

Categories:

• Acoustics
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Biological and medical physics
• Chemical physics
• Computers and computational physics
• Condensed-matter physics
• Energy and environment
• History and philosophy
• Instrumentation and techniques
• Materials science
• Miscellaneous
• Nonlinear science and chaos
• Nuclear physics
• Optics and photonics
• Plasmas and fusion
• Popularizations
• Quantum physics
• Society and government
• Space and planetary science
• Statistical physics and thermodynamics
• Texts and education
• Theory and mathematical methods

Acoustics

• Physical Approach to Engineering Acoustics, R. N. Miles (Springer, 2020) $89.00

Astronomy and astrophysics

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVI, M. Molinaro, K. Shortridge, F. Paisan, eds (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019) $88.00
• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVIII, P. J. Teuben, M. W. Pound, B. A. Thomas, E. M. Warner, eds (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019) $88.00
• Black Hole Formation and Growth, T. Di Matteo, A. King, N. J. Cornish (Springer, 2019) $89.99
• Radiative Signatures from the Cosmos: A Conference in Honor of Ivan Hubeny, K. Werner, C. Stehlé, T. Rauch, T. M. Lanz, eds (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019) $88.00

Biological and medical physics

• The Dynamics of Biological Systems, A. Bianchi, T. Hillen, M. A. Lewis, Y. Yi, eds (Springer, 2019) $109.99
• Recent Advances in Innovative Magnetic Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics, S. Mukherjee (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $26.00

Chemical physics

• Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Process: Fundamentals, Applications and Perspectives, D. T. Santos et al. (Springer, 2019) $59.99

Computers and computational physics

• Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition, L. Eldén (SIAM, 2019) $69.00
• Physics-Compatible Finite Element Methods for Scalar and Tensorial Advection Problems, C. Lohmann (Springer Spektrum, 2019) $74.99
• Using Mathematica for Quantum Mechanics: A Student’s Manual, R. Schmied (Springer, 2020) $84.99

Condensed-matter physics

• Electrons in Solids: Contemporary Topics, R. A. Dunlap (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $44.95

Energy and environment

• Annual Review of Environment and Resources, A. Gadgil, T. P. Tonnich, eds (Annual Reviews, 2019) $116.00
• The Sun and Photovoltaic Technologies, T. Pavlovic, ed (Springer, 2020) $149.99

History and philosophy

• Astronomical Heritage of the Middle East, S. V. Farmanyan, A. M. Mickaelian, J. M. Malville, M. Bagheri, eds (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019) $88.00
• Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence, F. Stadler, ed (Springer, 2019) $149.99
• Evolving Theories on the Origin of the Moon, W. D. Cummings (Springer, 2019) $109.99
• From Influence to Inhabitation: The Transformation of Astrobiology in the Early Modern Period, J. E. Christie (Springer, 2019) $99.99
• A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War, P. Fara (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $13.95
• Obsessed by a Dream: The Physicist Rolf Wideroe – A Giant in the History of Accelerators, A. Sørheim (Springer Open, 2020) $59.99
• On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair, M. A. Finocchiaro (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $32.95
• Stephen of Pisa and Antioch. Liber Mamonis: An Introduction to Ptolemaic Cosmology and Astronomy from the Early Crusader States, D. Grupe (Springer, 2019) $119.99
• The Turbulence Problem: A Persistent Riddle in Historical Perspective, M. Eckert (Springer, 2019) $59.99
• What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, D. Moore (Harvard U. Press, 2020) $29.95

Instrumentation and techniques

• Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows, K. Miura, N. Sladoje, eds (Springer, 2020) $59.99
• Development and Applications of Negative Ion Sources, V. Dudnikov (Springer, 2019) $149.99
• Forensic Analysis of Fire Debris and Explosives, K. Evans-Nguyen, K. Hutches, eds (Springer, 2019) $99.99
• Introduction to Lens Design, J. Sasian (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $64.99
• Medical Imaging Methods: Recent Trends, A. K. Shukla, ed (Springer, 2019) $99.99
• Next-Generation ADCs, High-Performance Power Management, and Technology Considerations for Advanced Integrated Circuits: Advances in Analog Circuit Design 2019, A. Baschirotto, P. Harpe, K. A. A. Makinwa, eds (Springer, 2020) $139.99
• Quality Assured Measurement: Unification across Social and Physical Sciences, L. Pendrill (Springer, 2019) $149.99

Materials science

• Aerospace Alloys, S. Gialanella, A. Malandruccolo (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth, U. Bardi (Springer, 2020) $59.99
• Dry Gross Fretting of Rough Surfaces: Influential Parameters, P. Pawlus, A. Dzierwa, A. Lenart (Springer, 2020) $59.99
• Transformations of Materials, D. D. Vvedensky (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $79.95

Miscellaneous

• Physical Science Under Microgravity: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite, W. Hu, Q. Kang, eds (Science Press and Springer, 2019) $149.99

Nonlinear science and chaos

• Almost Periodicity, Chaos, and Asymptotic Equivalence, M. Akhmet (Springer, 2020) $129.00
• Predictability of Chaotic Dynamics: A Finite-time Lyapunov Exponents Approach, J. Vallejo, M. A. F. Sanjuan (Springer, 2019) $99.99

Nuclear physics

• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, B. R. Holstein, W. C. Haxton, A. Jawahery, eds (Annual Reviews, 2019) $116.00

Optics and photonics

• Asymptotic Diffraction Theory and Nuclear Scattering, R. J. Glauber, P. Osland (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $140.00
• Optics: The Science of Light, P. Ewart (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $39.95

Plasmas and fusion

• ITER. The Giant Fusion Reactor: Bringing a Sun to Earth, M. Claessens (Springer, 2020) $19.99

Popularizations

• The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, A. Ramirez (The MIT Press, 2020) $27.95
• At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds, D. Hooper (Princeton U. Press, 2019) $24.95
• Close Encounters of Art and Physics: An Artist’s View, L. Pesce (Springer, 2019) $37.99
• Cook, Taste, Learn: How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking, G. Crosby (Columbia U. Press, 2019) $26.95
• The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook; (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang), L. A. Barnes, G. F. Lewis (Cambridge U. Press, 2020) $22.95
• Rocket Science: From Fireworks to the Photon Drive, M. Denny, A. McFadzean (Springer, 2019) $29.99
• Saturn, W. Sheehan (Reaktion Books, 2019) $40.00
• Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole, S. Dry (U. Chicago Press, 2019) $30.00

Quantum physics

• Quantum Mechanics of the Diatomic Molecule with Applications, C. G. Parigger, J. O. Hornkohl (IOP, 2020) $159.00

Society and government

• China in Space: The Great Leap Forward, B. Harvey (Praxis/Springer, 2019) $37.99
• Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing Around the World, C. Frieze, J. L. Quesenberry, eds (Cambridge U. Press, 2020) $29.99

Space and planetary science

• Ionospheric Multi-Spacecraft Analysis Tools: Approaches for Deriving Ionospheric Parameters, M. W. Dunlop, H. Luhr, eds (Springer Open, 2020) $59.99

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

• Statistical Mechanics: An Introductory Graduate Course, A. J. Berlinsky, A. B. Harris (Springer, 2019) $109.99
• Thermodynamics: Fundamental Principles and Applications, A. Saggion, R. Faraldo, M. Pierno (Springer, 2019) $99.99

Texts and education

• Introduction to Modern Dynamics: Chaos, Networks, Space and Time, D. D. Nolte (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $48.95
• Introduction to the Foundations of Applied Mathematics, M. H. Holmes (Springer, 2019) $84.99
• Numerical Calculation for Physics Laboratory Projects Using Microsoft EXCEL^Ⓡ, S. Cho (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $64.95
• The Physics of Music and Color: Sound and Light, L. Gunther (Springer, 2019) $99.00
• Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics: Exploring Data from TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced, T. Neidorf et al (Springer Open, 2020) $59.99

Theory and mathematical methods

• Applied Wave Mathematics II: Selected Topics in Solids, Fluids, and Mathematical Methods and Complexity, A. Berezovski, T. Soomere, eds (Springer, 2019) $119.99
• The Cahn–Hilliard Equation: Recent Advances and Applications, A. Miranville (SIAM, 2019) $69.00
• Citation Analysis and Dynamics of Citation Networks, M. Golososvsky (Springer, 2019) $59.99
• Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories, T. Y. Cao (Cambridge University Press, 2019) $79.99
• Introduction to a Renormalisation Group Method, R. Bauerschmidt, D. C. Brydges, G. Slade (Springer, 2019) $44.99
• Invariant Integrals in Physics, G. P. Cherepanov (Springer, 2019) $139.99
• Multilevel Strategic Interaction Game Models for Complex Networks, E. Altman et al., eds (Springer, 2019) $139.99
• Potential Methods in Mathematical Theories of Multi-Porosity Media, M. Svanadze (Springer, 2019) $119.99
• Theory and Numerical Approximations of Fractional Integrals and Derivatives, C. Li, M. Cai (SIAM, 2020) $89.00
• Theory of Spinors and Its Application in Physics and Mechanics, V. A. Zhelnorovich (Springer, 2019) $149.99
• Weyl and the Problem of Space: From Science to Philosophy, J. Bernard, C. Lobo, eds (Springer, 2019) $119.99