New books: June 2019

Categories:

• Acoustics
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Biological and medical physics
• Computers and computational physics
• Cosmology and relativity
• Device physics
• Fluids
• Geophysics
• History and philosophy
• Instrumentation and techniques
• Materials science
• Nonlinear science and chaos
• Optics and photonics
• Particle physics
• 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

• Ambiosonics: A Practical 3D Audio Theory for Recording, Studio Production, Sound Reinforcement, and VIrtual Reality, F. Zotter, M. Frank (Springer, 2019) $59.99
• Hyper-specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills, J. Braasch (Springer, 2019) $119.00
• Waves with Power-Law Attenuation, S. Holm (Springer, 2019) $119.00

Astronomy and astrophysics

• Comets in the 21st Century: A Personal Guide to Experiencing the Next Great Comet!, D. C. Boice, T. Hockey (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $35.00
• The Impact of Binary Stars on Stellar Evolution, G. Beccari, H. M. J. Boffin, eds (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $155.00
• Keplerian Ellipses: The Physics of the Gravitational Two-Body Problem, B. C. Reed (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $39.95
• Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves, J. J. Kolata (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $35.00
• Solving Fermi’s Paradox, D. H. Forgan (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $155.00

Biological and medical physics

• Biological Responses to Nanoscale Particles: Molecular and Cellular Aspects and Methodological Approaches, P. Gehr, R. Zellner, eds (Springer, 2019) $149.99
• Nanoparticle (NP)-Based Delivery Vehicles, N. Rabiee et al (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $35.00
• Nucleic Acid Amplification Strategies for Biosensing, Bioimaging and Biomedicine, S. Zhang, S. Bi, X. Song, eds (Springer, 2019) $119.00

Computers and computational physics

• Bits and Bugs: A Scientific and Historical Review of Software Failures in Computational Science, T. Huckle, T. Neckel (SIAM, 2019) $44.00
• Heterogeneous Integrations, J. H. Lau (Springer, 2019) $119.00
• Introduction to High Performance Scientific Computing, D. L. Chopp (SIAM, 2019) $89.00
• Reconfigurable Cellular Neural Networks and Their Applications, M. E. Yalçun, T. Ayhan, R. Yeniçeri (Springer, 2020) $59.00

Cosmology and relativity

• At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds, D. Hooper (Princeton U. Press, 2019) $24.95
• Cosmology and String Theory, H. Năstase (Springer, 2019) $139.00
• The Reality of Time Flow: Local Becoming in Modern Physics, R. T. W. Arthur (Springer, 2019) $89.00

Device physics

• High-Temperature Superconducting Microwave Circuits and Applications, H. Liu et al. (Science Press Beijing and Springer, 2019) $119.99

Fluids

• Nanofluidics: An Introduction, Z. Li (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2019) $169.95

Geophysics

• Electromagnetic Geophysical Fields: Precursors to Earthquakes and Tsunamis; Impacts on the Brain and Heart, O. Novik, F. Smirnov, M. Volgin (Springer, 2019) $149.00
• Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling through the Earth, M. Beech (World Scientific, 2019) $78.00
• History, Exploration and Exploitation of Oil and Gas, S. F. Figueirôa, G. A. Good, D. Peyerl, eds (Springer, 2019) $149.00
• Ice Ages and Interglacials: Measurements, Interpretation, and Models, D. Rapp (Springer, 2019) $139.00
• Mathematical Methods in the Earth and Environmental Sciences, A. Burd (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $64.99

History and philosophy

• The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions, B. R. Brown (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $29.95
• The Dawn of Science: Glimpses from History for the Curious Mind, T. Padmanabhan, V. Padmanabhan (Springer, 2019) $39.99
• Information–Consciousness–Reality: How a New Understanding of the Universe Can Help Answer Age-Old Questions of Existence, J. B. Glattfelder (Springer, 2019) $54.99
• On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair, M. A. Finocchiaro (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $32.95
• Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome: A Gentleman Scientist at Via Panisperna, M. Focaccia (Springer, 2019) $109.99
• Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, R. Iliffe (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $24.95

Instrumentation and techniques

• Cryogenic Safety: A Guide to Best Practice in the Lab and Workplace, T. J. Peterson, J. G. Weisend, II (Springer, 2019) $139.00
• Laser Scanning Systems in Highway and Safety Assessment: Analysis of Highway Geometry and Safety Using LiDAR, B. Pradhan, M. I. Sameen (Springer, 2020) $119.00
• The Mössbauer Effect, R. A. Dunlap (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $39.95

Materials science

• Magnetism in Topological Insulators, V. Litvinov (Springer, 2020) $149.99
• Mechanical Fatigue of Metals: Experimental and Simulation Perspectives, J. A. F. O. Correia, A. M. P. De Jesus, A. A. Fernandes, R. Calçada, eds (Springer, 2019) $59.99
• Nanomaterials: The Original Product of Nanotechnology, M. Benelmekki (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $39.95
• Size Really Does Matter: The Nanotechnology Revolution, C. Durkan (World Scientific, 2019) $58.00
• Thermal Stresses—Advanced Theory and Applications, R. B. Hetnarski, M. R. Eslami (Springer, 2019) $119.00

Nonlinear science and chaos

• Nonlinear Dynamics: A Hands-On Introductory Survey, M. R. Roussel (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $99.95

Optics and photonics

• Engineering Optics, K. Iizuka (Springer, 2019) $119.99
• Fundamentals of Photonics. Part I: Optics, Part II: Photonics, B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich (Wiley, 2019) $195.00
• Imaging Optics, J. Braat, P. Török (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $99.99
• Modern Ophthalmic Optics, J. Alonso, J. A. Gómez-Pedrero, J. A. Quiroga (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $84.99
• Optics, Photonics and Laser Technology 2017, P. Ribeiro, D. L. Andrews, M. Raposo, eds (Springer, 2019) $149.99

Particle physics

• Looking Inside Jets: An Introduction to Jet Substructure and Boosted-object Phenomenology, S. Marzani, G. Soyez, M. Spannowsky (Springer, 2019) $69.99
• Multiquark Hadrons, A. Ali, L. Maiani, A. D. Polosa (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $79.99

Plasmas and fusion

• Surface Electron Cyclotron Waves in Plasmas, V. Girka, I. Girka, M. Thumm (Springer, 2019) $149.99

Popularizations

• The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, S. Kean (Little, Brown and Company, 2019) $30.00
• Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality, A. Aguirre (W. W. Norton, 2019) $27.95
• Eight Lessons on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure, H. Shapira (Duncan Baird, 2019) $16.95
• Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes, and Fictitious Science, A. May (Springer, 2019) $27.99
• How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, R. Munroe (Riverhead Books, 2019) $28.00
• The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild, T. D. Seeley (Princeton U. Press, 2019) $29.95
• Matter: A Very Short Introduction, G. Cottrell (Oxford U. Press, 2019) $11.95
• The Moon Hoax?: Conspiracy Theories on Trial, T. Eversberg (Springer, 2019) $27.99
• One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon, C. Fishman (Simon & Schuster, 2019) $29.99
• Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell’s Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality, G. Greenstein (MIT Press, 2019) $19.95
• Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, S. Carroll (Dutton, 2019) $29.00
• Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Prove and/or Ruin Everything, K. Weinersmith, Z. Weinersmith (Penguin Press, 2017) $18.00
• Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum, L. Susskind, A. Friedman (Basic Books, 2019) $19.99
• Spirals and Vortices: In Culture, Nature, and Science, K. Tsuji, S. C. Müller, eds (Springer, 2019) $84.00
• Underland: A Deep Time Journey, R. Macfarlane (W. W. Norton, 2019) $27.95
• The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets, G. Farmelo (Basic Books, 2019) $30.00

Quantum physics

• Lectures on Quantum Statistics: With Applications to Dilute Gases and Plasmas, W. Ebeling, T. Pöschel (Springer, 2019) $59.99
• Particles, Fields and Forces: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, W. Schmitz (Springer, 2019) $84.00
• Quantum Worlds: Perspectives on the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics, O. Lombardi, S. Fortin, C. López, F. Holik, eds (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $155.00

Society and government

• Double Jeopardy: Combating Nuclear Terror and Climate Change, D. B. Poneman (MIT Press, 2019) $27.95

Space and planetary science

• The Human Factor in a Mission to Mars: An Interdisciplinary Approach, K. Szocik, ed (Springer, 2019) $109.00

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

• A Dynamical Systems Theory of Thermodynamics, W. M. Haddad (Princeton U. Press, 2019) $95.00
• Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics: An Introduction, K. Binder, D. W. Heermann (Springer, 2019) $84.99

Texts and education

• Numerical Analysis: Theory and Experiments, B. Sutton (SIAM, 2019) $94.00
• PDE Dynamics: An Introduction, C. Kuehn (SIAM, 2019) $69.00
• Physics Problems for Aspiring Physical Scientists and Engineers: With Hints and Full Solutions, K. Riley (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $32.99

Theory and mathematical methods

• Handbook of Contact Mechanics: Exact Solutions of Axisymmetric Contact Problems, V. L. Popov, M. Heß, E. Willert (Springer Open, 2019) $59.99
• Introduction to Symplectic Geometry, J.-L. Koszul, Y. M. Zou (Science Press Beijing and Springer, 2019) $74.99
• Nonlocal Modeling, Analysis, and Computation, Q. Du (SIAM, 2019) $59.00
• Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory: An Introduction, T. A. Lähde, U.-G. Meißner (Springer, 2019) $59.99
• Relativistic Fluid Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium: And Applications to Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, P. Romatschke, U. Romatschke (Cambridge U. Press, 2019) $140.00
• Set Theory for Physicists, N. A. Pereyra (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $35.00
• Topological Insulators, P. Kotetes (Morgan & Claypool, 2019) $79.95