New books: December 2021

Categories:

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

Acoustics

• Acoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures, N. Xiang, J. Blauert (Springer, 2021) $109.99

Astronomy and astrophysics

• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, E. F. van Dishoeck, R. C. Kennicutt, eds. (Annual Reviews, 2021) $118.00
• Decoding Astronomy in Art and Architecture, M. Dolan (Springer, 2021) $39.99
• Introduction to Gravitational Lensing: With Python Examples, M. Meneghetti (Springer, 2021) $79.99
• Introduction to Stellar Dynamics, L. Ciotti (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $64.99
• Principles of Multimessenger Astronomy, M. Filipović, N. Tothill (IOP, 2021) $120.00
• The Sky Eye: Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), R. Nan, ed. (Zhejiang Education Publishing House and Springer, 2021) $39.99
• Understanding Gravitational Waves, C. R. Kitchin (Springer, 2021) $34.99

Biological and medical physics

• Advanced Methods for Human Biometrics, N. Derbel, O. Kanoun, eds. (Springer, 2021) $109.00
• Biomedical Measurement Systems and Data Science, M. Insana (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $120.00
• Dynamic X-ray Imaging Systems Used in Medicine: Quality Control in Performance Characteristics, G. Stevens, ed. (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Nanomaterials for Luminescent Devices, Sensors, and Bio-imaging Applications, S. S. Nair, R. Philip (Springer, 2021) $139.99
• Quantitative Imaging in Medicine: Background and Basics, R. J. Nordstrom, ed. (AIP, 2021) $135.00

Computers and computational physics

• Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin, P. C. van Oorschot (Springer, 2021) $79.99
• Corruption Networks: Concepts and Applications, O. M. Granados, J. R. Nicolás-Carlock, eds. (Springer, 2021) $139.99
• Data Science for Social Good: Philanthropy and Social Impact in a Complex World, M. Lapucci, C. Cattuto, eds. (Springer, 2021) $69.99
• Physics Experiments with Arduino and Smartphones, G. Organtini (Springer, 2021) $79.99
• Single Flux Quantum Integrated Circuit Design, G. Krylov, E. G. Friedman (Springer, 2022) $119.99

Condensed-matter physics

• Multiscale Mechanics of Shock Wave Processes, Y. Meshcheryakov (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, H. Arastoopour, D. Gidaspow, R. W. Lyczkowski (Springer, 2022) $119.99

Device physics

• The Technology of Instrument Transformers: Current and Voltage Measurement and Insulation Systems, R. Minkner, J. Schmid (Springer, 2022) $109.99
• Wearable Antennas and Body Centric Communication: Past and Future, S. K. Koul, R. Bharadwaj (Springer, 2021) $119.99

Energy and environment

• Smart Energy Management Systems and Renewable Energy Resources, M. Rizwan, M. Jamil, eds. (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and The Discovery of Ancient Greenland, J. C. McElwain, M. H. Donnelly, I. J. Glasspool (U. Chicago Press, 2021) $30.00

Fluids

• Incompressible Fluid Dynamics, P. A. Davidson (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $105.00
• Liquid-Phase Transition in Water, O. Mishima (Springer, 2021) $109.99
• Motion of a Drop in an Incompressible Fluid, I. V. Denisova, V. A. Solonnikov (Birkhäuser, 2021) $99.99
• Numerical Methods for Unsteady Compressible Flow Problems, P. Birken (CRC Press, 2022) $150.00

History and philosophy

• Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power, M. Wortman (Yale U. Press, 2022) $26.00
• Arthur E. Haas—The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics: A Biography, M. Wiescher (Springer, 2021) $119.99
• A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks, C. Orzel (BenBella Books, 2022) $16.95
• Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus, M. Weinstock (The MIT Press, 2022) $24.95
• Concepts and the Foundations of Physics, A. Singh (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics, S. Perovic (U. Chicago Press, 2021) $45.00
• The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration, C. Burgess (Reaktion Books, 2021) $40.00
• Hubble, Humason and the Big Bang: The Race to Uncover the Expanding Universe, R. Voller (Springer, 2021) $34.99
• Making of a Satellite Centre: The Genesis of ISRO’s URSC, P. S. Goel (Springer, 2022) $39.99
• The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann, A. Bhattacharya (W. W. Norton, 2022) $23.75
• A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species, R. Dunn (Basic Books, 2021) $30.00
• Philosophy and the Interpretation of Quantum Physics, B. Ydri (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology, J. D. Hamblin (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $34.95

Instrumentation and techniques

• Advances in Terahertz Technology and Its Applications, S. Das, N. Anveshkumar, J. Dutta, A. Biswas, eds. (Springer, 2021) $139.99
• Chemical Master Equation for Large Biological Networks: State-space Expansion Methods Using AI, D. Kulasiri, R. Kosarwal (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Gas Sensors: Materials and Devices, J. Ma, ed. (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Internet of Things and M2M Communication Technologies: Architecture and Practical Design Approach to IoT in Industry 4.0, V. S. Chakravarthi (Springer, 2021) $119.99
• Laser Safety in Specialized Applications, K. Barat (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• Lectures on Stochastic Programming: Modeling and Theory, A. Shapiro, D. Dentcheva, A. Ruszczyński (SIAM, 2021) $104.00
• Signal Processing and Analysis Techniques for Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy, C. Monea, N. Bizon (Springer, 2022) $139.99
• Sophisticated Electromagnetic Forward Scattering Solver via Deep Learning, Q. Ren, Y. Wang, Y. Li, S. Qi (Springer, 2022) $149.99

Materials science

• Annual Review of Materials Research, D. R. Clarke, D. Lipkin, R. Seshadri, eds. (Annual Reviews, 2021) $118.00
• Carbon Nanostructures: Fundamentals to Applications, R. Thiruvengadathan, S. C. Roy, P. Sundriyal, S. Bhattacharya, eds. (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• The Chemistry and Physics of Aerogels: Synthesis, Processing, and Properties, L. Ratke, P. Gurikov (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $115.00
• Composites Engineering: An A–Z Guide, P. Alam (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Hybrid Flatland Metastructures, R. Caputo, G. E. Lio, eds. (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• Molecular Mobility in Deforming Polymer Glasses: Theories and Applications, N. Padhye (Springer, 2021) $59.99

Miscellaneous

• Being and Becoming: A Guide to Act in the Theatre of Existence, J. L. Perez Velazquez, V. Nenadovic (Springer, 2021) $59.99
• How Small Social Systems Work: From Soccer Teams to Jazz Trios and Families, Y. Neuman (Springer, 2021) $49.99
• The Science of Science, D. Wang, A.-L. Barabási (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $84.99
• Snow Crystals: A Case Study in Spontaneous Structure Formation, K. G. Libbrecht (Princeton U. Press, 2022) $125.00

Nonlinear science and chaos

• Creative Complex Systems, K. Nishimura, M. Murase, K. Yoshimura, eds. (Springer, 2021) $139.99

Nuclear physics

• Advanced Nuclear Radiation Detectors: Materials, Processing, Properties and Applications, A. K. Batra (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, B. R. Holstein, W. C. Haxton, eds. (Annual Reviews, 2021) $118.00
• Modern Nuclear Physics: From Fundamentals to Frontiers, A. Obertelli, H. Sagawa (Springer, 2021) $109.99
• The Nuclear Cooper Pair: Structure and Reactions, G. P. Aguilar, R. A. Broglia (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $155.00
• Probing into the World of Nuclei: Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou, G. Jin, G. Xiao, eds. (Zhejiang Education Publishing House and Springer, 2021) $39.99

Optics and photonics

• Developments in Photoelasticity: A Renaissance, K. Ramesh (IOP, 2021) $50.00
• Efficient Extreme Ultraviolet Mirror Design: An FDTD Approach, Y.-M. Lee (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Light Sheet Microscopy and Imaging, P. P. Mondal (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• Optics and Artificial Vision, R. G. González-Acuña, H. A. Chaparro-Romo, I. Melendez-Montoya (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Semiconductors for Optoelectronics: Basics and Applications, N. Balkan, A. Erol (Springer, 2021) $99.00
• Springer Series in Light Scattering. Volume 7: Light Absorption and Scattering in Turbid Media, A. Kokhanovsky, ed. (Springer, 2021) $149.99

Particle physics

• The Interaction of Spin with Gravity in Particle Physics: Low Energy Quantum Gravity, G. Lambiase, G. Papini (Springer, 2021) $79.99

Popularizations

• The Alien Communication Handbook. So We Received a Signal—Now What?, B. S. McConnell (Springer, 2021) $29.99
• Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet—And Our Mission to Protect It, N. Stott (Seal Press, 2021) $30.00
• The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide (4th ed.), T. Dickinson, A. Dyer (Firefly Books, 2021) $49.95
• The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science, A. Rutherford, H. Fry (W. W. Norton, 2022) $26.95
• The Fight for Climate after COVID-19, A. C. Hill (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $24.95
• General Relativity: The Essentials, C. Rovelli (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $64.99
• The Hydrogen Revolution: A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy, M. Alverà (Basic Books, 2021) $30.00
• Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong, G. Brennecka (William Morrow, 2022) $28.99
• Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite Imagination in Your Life and Career, B. Keating (Lioncrest, 2021) $19.99
• Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers, J. D. Taillant (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $29.95
• The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial, D. Lipsky (W. W. Norton, 2022) $30.00
• Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction, R. T. Pierrehumbert (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $11.95
• Rebalancing Our Climate: The Future Starts Today, E. J. Rohling (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $34.95
• Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life, T. J. Jorgensen (Princeton U. Press, 2021) $29.95
• Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond, R. G. Andrews (W. W. Norton, 2021) $27.95
• A Tale of Two Infinities: Gravitational Waves and the Quantum Origin of the Universe’s Biggest Mysteries, G. Bertone (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $26.95
• They Knew: The Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis, J. G. Speth (The MIT Press, 2021) $27.95
• Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life, M. du Sautoy (Basic Books, 2021) $30.00
• This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist’s Journey to the Edge of Reality, M. Dine (Dutton, 2022) $28.00
• Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission, E. M. Collins, J. H. Ward (Arcade Publishing, 2021) $27.99
• Time: A Very Short Introduction, J. Ismael (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $11.95
• Weirdness! What Fake Science and the Paranormal Tell Us about the Nature of Science, T. Edis (Pitchstone, 2021) $16.95

Quantum physics

• Conversations on Quantum Gravity, J. Armas, ed. (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $49.99
• Epistemic Processes: A Basis for Statistics and Quantum Theory, I. S. Helland (Springer, 2021) $109.99
• Factorization Algebras in Quantum Fields Theory, K. Costello, O. Gwilliam (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $160.99
• Introduction to Quantum Computing, R. LaPierre (MRS, 2021) $59.99
• Local Quantum Measurement and Relativity, C. Beck (Springer, 2021) $139.99
• Quantum Arrangements: Contributions in Honor of Michael Horne, G. Jaeger et al., eds. (Springer, 2021) $119.99
• Quantum Information Processing: Theory and Implementation, J. A. Bergou, M. Hillery, M. Saffman (Springer, 2021) $109.99
• The Quantum Internet: The Second Quantum Revolution, P. P. Rohde (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $64.99

Society and government

• Science Wars: The Battle over Knowledge and Reality, S. L. Goldman (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $35.00
• The Survival Nexus: Science, Technology, and World Affairs, C. Weiss (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $39.95

Space and planetary science

• Auroral Physics, D. J. Knudsen et al., eds. (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Mars: A Volcanic World, G. Leone, ed. (Springer, 2021) $149.00
• Physics of Earth’s Radiation Belts: Theory and Observations, H. E. J. Koskinen, E. K. J. Kilpua (Springer, 2022) $59.99

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

• Computational Statistical Physics, L. Böttcher, H. J. Herrmann (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $79.99
• Molecular Theory of Electric Double Layers, D. N. Petsev, F. van Swol, L. J. D. Frink (IOP, 2021) $190.00
• Reconstructing Networks, G. Cimini, R. Mastrandrea, T. Squartini (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $20.00
• Statistical Approach to Quantum Field Theory: An Introduction, A. Wipf (Springer, 2021) $84.99
• Statistical Physics of Complex Systems: A Concise Introduction, E. Bertin (Springer, 2021) $49.99

Texts and education

• Cliff’s Nodes With Appreciations, F. Lock (AIP, 2021) $135.00
• Concise Guide to Electrochemical Methods and Voltammetry: A Problem-Based Test Prep for Students, X. W. Ng (Springer, 2022) $74.99
• Elementary Particle Physics: The Standard Theory, J. Iliopoulos, T. N. Tomaras (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $95.50
• Experimental Astrophysics, E. S. Battistelli (IOP, 2021) $120.00
• The General Theory of Relativity: A Mathematical Approach, F. Rahaman (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $69.99
• Introduction to Turbulent Transport of Particles, Temperature and Magnetic Fields: Analytical Methods for Physicists and Engineers, I. Rogachevskii (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $140.00
• Locally Convex Spaces and Harmonic Analysis: An Introduction with 93 Problems, P. G. Ciarlet (SIAM, 2021) $69.00
• Machine Learning with Neural Networks: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers, B. Mehlig (Cambridge U. Press, 2022) $49.99
• Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia, E. Darve, M. Wootters (SIAM, 2021) $89.00
• One-Dimensional Dynamical Systems: An Example-Led Approach, A. Rodrigues (CRC Press, 2022) $140.00
• Physical Models of Living Systems: Probability, Simulation, Dynamics (2nd ed.), P. Nelson (Chiliagon Science, 2021) $49.99
• Quantum Chemistry: A Concise Introduction for Students of Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials Science (3rd ed.), A. J. Thakkar (IOP, 2021) $120.00
• Quantum Mechanics, A. Berera, L. Del Debbio (Cambridge U. Press, 2022) $69.99
• Relativity Made Relatively Easy, Vol. 2: General Relativity and Cosmology, A. M. Steane (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $105.00
• Teaching Computational Thinking: An Integrative Approach for Middle and High School Learning, M. D. Neumann, L. Dion (MIT Press, 2021) $45.00
• Theory of Itinerant Electron Magnetism (2nd ed.), J. Kübler (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $125.00

Theory and mathematical methods

• Advancing Resilient Performance, C. P. Nemeth, E. Hollnagel, eds. (Springer, 2022) $119.99
• Attractors of Hamiltonian Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, A. Komech, E. Kopylova (Cambridge U. Press, 2022) $125.00
• A Mathematical Journey to Quantum Mechanics, S. Capozziello, W.-G. Boskoff (Springer, 2021) $99.99
• Mathematics and Tools for Financial Engineering, P. A. Ioannou (SIAM, 2021) $79.00
• Matrix Analysis and Computations, Z.-Z. Bai, J.-Y. Pan (SIAM, 2021) $99.00
• Mesoscopic Route to Time Travel, P. S. Deo (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Numerical Continuation and Bifurcation in Nonlinear PDEs, H. Uecker (SIAM, 2021) $89.00
• Plasmonics for Hydrogen Energy, K. Tanabe (Springer, 2022) $109.99
• Supergravity: From First Principles to Modern Applications, G. Dall’Agata, M. Zagermann (Springer, 2021) $74.99
• Time-Domain Scattering, P. A. Martin (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $99.99
• Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability, A. Aguirre, Z. Merali, D. Sloan, eds. (Springer, 2021) $84.99