New books: June 2021

Categories:

• Biological and medical physics
• Chemical physics
• Computers and computational physics
• Condensed-matter physics
• Device physics
• Energy and environment
• Fluids
• History and philosophy
• Instrumentation and techniques
• Materials science
• Nuclear physics
• Optics and photonics
• Popularizations
• Quantum physics
• Society and government
• Texts and education
• Theory and mathematical methods

Biological and medical physics

• Intracranial and Spinal Radiotherapy: A Practical Guide on Treatment Techniques, L. M. Halasz, S. S. Lo, E. L. Chang, A. Sahgal, eds. (Springer, 2021) $84.99
• Physics of Biological Oscillators: New Insights into Non-Equilibrium and Non-Autonomous Systems, A. Stefanovska, P. V. E. McClintock, eds. (Springer, 2021) $139.99

Chemical physics

• Basis Sets in Computational Chemistry, E. Perlt, ed. (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Symmetry in Inorganic and Coordination Compounds: A Student’s Guide to Understanding Electronic Structure, F. Morazzoni (Springer, 2021) $149.99

Computers and computational physics

• Luminescence: Data Analysis and Modeling Using R, V. Pagonis (Springer, 2021) $84.99

Condensed-matter physics

• The Electrodynamics of Water and Ice, V. Artemov (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Flow Boiling and Condensation in Microscale Channels, F. T. Kanizawa, G. Ribatski (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity: A Textbook of Solid Body Mechanics, V. Molotnikov, A. Molotnikova (Springer, 2021) $109.99

Device physics

• Physical Anti-Collision in RFID Systems: Theory and Practice, X. Yu, Z. Zhao, X. Zhang (Science Press and Springer, 2021) $139.99

Energy and environment

• Onshore Wind Farms: Dynamic Stability and Applications in Hydrogen Production, K. Okedu (AIP Publishing, 2021) $135.00
• Synthetic Solar Irradiance: Modeling Solar Data, J. M. Bright (AIP Publishing, 2021) $135.00

Fluids

• Vortex Ring Models, I. Danaila, F. Kaplanski, S. S. Sazhin (Springer, 2021) $119.99
• Waves in Flows, T. Bodnár, G. P. Galdi, Š. Nečasová, eds. (Birkhäuser, 2021) $119.99
• Waves in Flows: The 2018 Prague-Sum Workshop Lectures, T. Bodnár, G. P. Galdi, Š. Nečasová, eds. (Birkhäuser, 2021) $84.99

History and philosophy

• Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age, D. A. Price (Knopf, 2021) $28.00
• Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister, M. DiMeo (U. Chicago Press, 2021) $45.00
• Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way (2nd ed.), L. Belkora (CRC Press, 2021) $115.00
• The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix, H. Markel (W. W. Norton, 2021) $30.00
• Three Mile Island and Beyond: Memories of a Life in Nuclear Safety, H. Denton, C. Metz Jr. (American Nuclear Society, 2021) $29.95

Instrumentation and techniques

• The Underwater World for Digital Data Transmission, P. N. Mahalle, P. A. Shelar, G. R. Shinde, N. Dey (Springer, 2021) $69.99

Materials science

• Next-Generation Materials for Batteries, R. Ahuja (AIP Publishing, 2021) $135.00

Nuclear physics

• Gamow Shell Model: The Unified Theory of Nuclear Structure and Reactions, N. Michel, M. Płoszajczak (Springer, 2021) $84.99

Optics and photonics

• Free Space Laser Communication with Ambient Light Compensation, S. Faruque (Springer, 2021) $119.99
• Optical Communication, B. Elliott (AIP Publishing, 2021) $135.00
• Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications, P. Dey, J. N. Roy (Springer, 2021) $149.99
• Springer Series in Light Scattering. Volume 6: Radiative Transfer, Light Scattering, and Remote Sensing, A. Kokhanovsky, ed. (Springer, 2021) $139.99
• Weld Pool Dynamics in Deep Penetration Laser Welding, S. Gong, S. Pang, H. Wang, L. Zhang (Springer, 2021) $149.99

Popularizations

• The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life’s Unending Algorithm, C. Scharf (Riverhead Books, 2021) $28.00
• Colliding Worlds: How Cosmic Encounters Shaped Planets and Life, S. Marchi (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $25.95
• Life Is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe, J. McFadden (Basic Books, 2021) $30.00
• The Mystery of Dark Matter: In Search of the Invisible, W. Kapferer (Springer, 2021) $27.99
• Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction, D. Wallace (Oxford U. Press, 2021) $11.95
• A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are, V. O’Keane (W. W. Norton, 2021) $27.95
• What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions, P. Davies (U. Chicago Press, 2021) $22.50

Quantum physics

• Quantum Technologies and Military Strategy, A. Lele (Springer, 2021) $109.99

Society and government

• Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons, D. Albright, S. Burkhard (Institute for Science and International Security, 2021) $59.98
• Your Life in Numbers: Modeling Society through Data, P. Jensen (Copernicus Books, 2021) $24.99

Texts and education

• Fundamentals of Astrophysics, S. Owocki (Cambridge U. Press, 2021) $99.99
• A Student’s Guide to Python for Physical Modeling (2nd ed.), J. Kinder, P. Nelson (Princeton U. Press, 2021) $75.00

Theory and mathematical methods

• Geometry, Mechanics, and Control in Action for the Falling Cat, T. Iwai (Springer, 2021) $59.99
• Modern Perspectives in Theoretical Physics: 80th Birthday Festschrift in Honor of K. Babu Joseph, K. S. Sreelatha, V. Jacob, eds. (Springer, 2021) $119.99
• Multidisciplinary Mathematical Modelling: Applications of Mathematics to the Real World, F. Font, T. G. Myers, eds. (Springer, 2021) $149.99