New books: February 2019

Categories:

• Acoustics
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Biological and medical physics
• Chemical physics
• Computers and computational physics
• Device physics
• Energy and environment
• Geophysics
• History and philosophy
• Instrumentation and techniques
• Materials science
• Miscellaneous
• Nonlinear science and chaos
• Optics and photonics
• Plasmas and fusion
• Popularizations
• Texts and education
• Theory and mathematical methods

Acoustics

• Automatic Speech Recognition of Arabic Phonemes with Neutral Networks: A Contrastive Study of Arabic and English, M. Dib (Springer, 2019) $69.99

Astronomy and astrophysics

• Cruise Ship Astronomy and Astrophotography, G. I. Redfern (Springer, 2018) $29.00
• From Disks to Planets: The Making of Planets and Their Early Atmospheres, M. Blanc et al., eds (Springer, 2018) $139.00
• The Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars, L. Rezzolla, et al., eds (Springer, 2018) $179.99
• Science with a Next-Generation Very Large Array, E. J. Murphy, ed (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2018) $88.00
• Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale: A Conference in Honor of Jeremy Mould, J. B. Jensen, R. M. Rich, R. de Grijs, eds (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2018) $88.00

Biological and medical physics

• Advances in Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery: Polymeric, Nanocarbon and Bio-inspired, M. Karimi, M. R. Mansouri, N. Rabiee, M. R. Hamblin (Morgan and Claypool, 2018) $59.95
• Glycobiophysics, Y. Yamaguchi, K. Kato, eds (Springer, 2018) $159.00
• The Handbook of Medical Image Perception and Techniques, E. Samei, E. A. Krupinski, eds (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $155.00
• A New Bio-inspired Optimization Algorithm Based on the Self-defense Mechanism of Plants in Nature, C. Caraveo, F. Valdez, O. Castillo (Springer, 2019) $68.97
• The Physics and Technology of Radiation Therapy, P. N. McDermott, C. G. Orton (Medical Physics, 2018) $165.00

Chemical physics

• Nanoscale Electrochemistry of Molecular Contacts, P. R. Bueno (Springer, 2018) $69.99
• Theories of Molecular Reaction Dynamics: The Microscopic Foundation of Chemical Kinetics, N. E. Henriksen, F. Y. Hansen (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $75.00

Computers and computational physics

• Computational Mathematics with SageMath, P. Zimmerman et al (SIAM, 2019) $69.00
• Computational Methods to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Biomolecular Processes: From Bioinformatics to Molecular Quantum Mechanics, A. Liwo, ed (Springer, 2019) $279.99
• Cyber Criminology, H. Jahankhani, ed (Springer, 2018) $119.00
• Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Ç. K. Koç, ed (Springer, 2018) $159.99
• Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, M. T. Heath (SIAM, 2018) $94.00
• Variant Construction from Theoretical Foundation to Applications, J. Zheng, ed (Springer, 2019) $59.99

Device physics

• Light-Emitting Diodes: Materials, Processes, Devices and Applications, J. Li, G. Q. Zhang, eds (Springer, 2019) $169.99

Energy and environment

• Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century, B. Usher (Columbia U. Press, 2019) $20.00

Geophysics

• Great Moments in the History of Life, G. H. Shaw (Praxis/Springer, 2018) $37.00
• Infrasound Monitoring for Atmosphere Studies: Challenges in Middle Atmosphere Dynamics and Societal Benefits, A. Le Pichon, E. Blanc, A. Hauchecorne, eds (Springer, 2019) $279.00

History and philosophy

• C. V. Raman’s Laboratory and Discovery of the Raman Effect, R. Singh (Shaker Verlag, 2018) $6.26
• C. V. Raman’s Student Sukumar Chandra Sirkar: Life and Science, R. Singh (Shaker Verlag, 2019) $6.26
• Feynman and His Physics: The Life and Science of an Extraordinary Man, J. Resag (Springer, 2018) $37.99
• A Jewel Unearthed: Bibha Chowdhuri: The Story of an Indian Woman Scientist, R. Singh, S. C. Roy (Shaker Verlag, 2019) $6.26
• No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, D. Kennefick (Princeton U. Press, 2019) $29.95
• The Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science, A. Tinniswood (Basic Books, 2019) $25.00

Instrumentation and techniques

• Measurement in Machining and Tribology, J. P. Davim, ed (Springer, 2019) $149.99

Materials science

• Active Vibration Control and Stability Analysis of Flexible Beam Systems, W. He, J. Liu (Springer, 2019) $149.99
• Atomic Scale Dynamics at Surfaces: Theory and Experimental Studies with Helium Atom Scattering, G. Benedek, J. P. Toennies (Springer, 2018) $179.99
• Dynamic Spin Fluctuation Theory of Metallic Magnetism, N. B. Melnikov, B. I. Reser (Springer, 2018) $169.00
• Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, M. Razeghi (Springer, 2019) $139.00
• Reconstruction of Macroscopic Maxwell Equations: A Single Susceptibility Theory, K. Cho (Springer, 2018) $139.99

Miscellaneous

• Development: Mechanisms of Change, T. Krude, S. T. Baker, eds (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $19.99
• Science in the Arena: Explanations and Analyses of Performances and Phenomena in Sport, B. Baker (Morgan and Claypool, 2018) $35.00
• The Science of Baseball: Batting, Bats, Bat-Ball Collisions, and the Flight of the Ball, A. T. Bahill (Springer, 2018) $49.00

Nonlinear science and chaos

• IUTAM Symposium on Intelligent Multibody Systems – Dynamics, Control, Simulation, E. Zahariev, J. Cuadrago, eds (Springer, 2019) $219.99
• Multiplex and Multilevel Networks, S. Battiston, G. Caldarelli, A. Garas, eds (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $83.95
• The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences: A Rock in the Pond, L. U. Ulivi, ed (Springer, 2019) $159.99

Optics and photonics

• Applied Nanophotonics, S. V. Gaponenko, H. V. Demir (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $89.99
• Catenary Optics, X. Luo (Springer, 2019) $169.99
• An Introduction to Time-Resolved Optically Stimulated Luminescence, M. L. Chithambo (Morgan and Claypool, 2018) $64.95
• Optics f2f from Fourier to Fresnel, C. S. Adams, I. G. Hughes (Oxford U. Press, 2016) $39.95
• The Physics and Art of Photography, Volume 3: Detectors and the Meaning of Digital, J. Beaver (Morgan and Claypool, 2018) $69.95

Plasmas and fusion

• Fractional Dynamics, Anomalous Transport and Plasma Science: Lectures from CHAOS2017, C. H. Skiadas, ed (Springer, 2018) $149.00

Popularizations

• Five Photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time, J. Geach (Reaktion Books, 2018) $24.95
• Granite Skyscrapers: How Rock Shaped Earth and Other Worlds, D. S. Stevenson (Praxis/Springer, 2018) $37.00
• Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes, R. Cowen (Harvard U. Press, 2019) $26.95
• Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe, S. Strogatz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) $28.00
• Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration, R. Pyle (Prometheus Books, 2019) $18.00
• Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History, L. Dartnell (Basic Books, 2016) $30.00
• Power Trip: The Story of Energy, M. E. Webber (Basic Books, 2019) $28.00
• Practical Alchemy: A Memoir, W. A. Harrison (World Scientific, 2019) $58.00
• Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell’s Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality, G. Greenstein (MIT Press, 2019) $19.95
• The Second Quantum Revolution: From Entanglement to Quantum Computing and Other Super-Technologies, L. Jaeger (Springer, 2018) $34.99
• Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything, R. M. Hazen (W. W. Norton, 2019) $26.95
• Thermodynamics Weirdness: From Fahrenheit to Clausius, D. S. Lemons (MIT Press, 2018) $24.95
• Universal Life: An Inside Look Behind the Race to Discover Life Beyond Earth, A. Boss (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $24.95

Texts and education

• A Complete Course on Theoretical Physics: From Classical Mechanics to Advanced Quantum Statistics, A. Lindner, D. Strauch (Springer, 2018) $74.99
• Reliability Physics and Engineering: Time-to-Failure Modeling, J. W. McPherson (Springer, 2019) $109.99

Theory and mathematical methods

• Extensions of f (R) Gravity: Curvature-Matter Couplings and Hybrid Metric-Palatini Theory, T. Harko, F. S. N. Lobo (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $180.00
• Finite Element Exterior Calculus, D. N. Arnold (SIAM, 2018) $54.00
• Frequency Domain Techniques for H_∞ Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, H. Özbay, S. Gümüssoy, K. Kashima, Y. Yamamoto (SIAM, 2018) $79.00
• From Particle Systems to Partial Differential Equations, P. Gonçalves, A. J. Soares, eds (Springer, 2018) $159.99
• An Introduction to Singular Integrals, J. Peyrière (Higher Education Press and SIAM, 2018) $59.00
• Introduction to the Scenario Approach, M. C. Campi, S. Garatti (SIAM, 2018) $54.00
• Mathematical Methods in Engineering: Theoretical Aspects, K. Tas, D. Baleanu, J. A. T. Machado, eds (Springer, 2019) $169.00
• Parity-time Symmetry and Its Applications, D. Christodoulides, J. Yang, eds (Springer, 2018) $179.00
• Recent Developments in Integrable Systems and Related Topics of Mathematical Physics, V. M. Buchstaber, S. Konstantinou-Rizos, A. V. Mikhailov, eds (Springer, 2018) $169.99
• Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water, Y. Kodama (SIAM, 2018) $69.00