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Cosmology and relativity

LQG for the Bewildered: The Self-Dual Approach Revisited. D. Vaid, S. Bilson-Thompson. Springer, 2017. $89.00 paper (138 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43182-6 Buy at Amazon

Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding. S. Wuppuluri, G. Ghirardi, eds. Springer, 2017. $79.99 (530 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44417-8 Buy at Amazon

Device physics

Dynamics and Vibration Analyses of Gearbox in Wind Turbine. Q. Han, J. Wei, Q. Han, H. Zhang. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (164 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2746-8 Buy at Amazon

High Sensitivity Magnetometers. A. Grosz, M. J. Haji-Sheikh, S. C. Mukhopadhyay, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (576 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-34068-5 Buy at Amazon

Inverter-Based Circuit Design Techniques for Low Supply Voltages. R. K. Palani, R. Harjani. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (126 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46626-2 Buy at Amazon

Power GaN Devices: Materials, Applications and Reliability. M. Meneghini, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43197-0 Buy at Amazon

Sensors for Everyday Life: Healthcare Settings. O. A. Postolache, S. C. Mukhopadhyay, K. P. Jayasundera, A. K. Swain, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47318-5 Buy at Amazon

Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) Measurements and Uncertainty Assessment. N. Shoaib. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (82 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44771-1 Buy at Amazon

Energy and environment

Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 41. A. Gadgil, T. P. Tomich, eds. Annual Reviews, 2016. $96.00 (620 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-2341-7 Buy at Amazon

Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability. C. A. S. Hall. Springer, 2017. $54.99 (174 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47820-3 Buy at Amazon

Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Materials and Applications. Z. Shao, M. O. Tadé. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-52934-8 Buy at Amazon

Long-Term Research Challenges in Wind Energy—a Research Agenda by the European Academy of Wind Energy. G. van Kuik, J. Peinke, eds. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (98 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46918-8 Buy at Amazon

Neutronic Analysis for Nuclear Reactor Systems. B. Zohuri. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (551 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42962-5 Buy at Amazon

Operation Characteristics of Renewable Energy Sources. S. Misak, L. Prokop. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (235 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43411-7 Buy at Amazon

Fluids

Field Responsive Fluids as Smart Materials. A. Hajalilou, S. A. Mazlan, H. Lavvafi, K. Shameli. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (135 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2494-8 Buy at Amazon

Fluidized-Bed Reactors: Processes and Operating Conditions. J. G. Yates, P. Lettieri. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-39591-3 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Theory of Compressible Viscous Fluids: Analysis and Numerics. E. Feireisl, T. G. Karper, M. Pokorný. Birkhäuser, 2016. $89.99 paper (186 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44834-3 Buy at Amazon

Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Reprint. C. Tropea, A. L. Yarin, J. F. Foss, eds. Springer, 2016. $299.00 (1557 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49162-1 Buy at Amazon

Turbulence: Introduction to Theory and Applications of Turbulent Flows. F. T. M. Nieuwstadt, B. J. Boersma, J. Westerweel. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-31597-3 Buy at Amazon

Two-Fluid Model Stability, Simulation and Chaos. M. L. de Bertodano, W. Fullmer, A. Clausse, V. H. Ransom. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44967-8 Buy at Amazon

Geophysics

Atlas of Bedforms in the Western Mediterranean. J. Guillén, J. Acosta, F. L. Chiocci, A. Palanques, eds. Springer, 2017. $199.00 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-33938-2 Buy at Amazon

Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics. E. K. H. Salje. A. Saxena, A. Planes, eds. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-45610-2 Buy at Amazon

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming. W. Sweet. Yale U. Press, 2016. $18.00 paper (237 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-20963-1 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Petrophysics. S. Yang. Petroleum Industry Press and Springer, 2017. $99.00 (502 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-53527-1 Buy at Amazon

Geodetic Boundary Value Problem: The Equivalence between Molodensky’s and Helmert’s Solutions. F. Sansò, M. G. Sideris. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (81 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46357-5 Buy at Amazon

Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in the Eastern Coastal Swamp Depo-belt of the Niger Delta Basin: Stratigraphic Framework and Structural Styles. C. I. P. Dim. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (71 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44626-4 Buy at Amazon

Marine Geochemistry: Ocean Circulation, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change. M. Roy-Barman, C. Jeandel. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $54.95 paper (398 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-878750-1 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Paradigms of Climate Science. F. Ancona, P. Cannarsa, C. Jones, A. Portaluri, eds. Springer, 2016. $109.00 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-39091-8 Buy at Amazon

Migration Imaging of the Transient Electromagnetic Method. X. Li, G. Xue, C. Yin. Science Press and Springer, 2017. $99.00 (139 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2707-9 Buy at Amazon

Turbulence and Dispersion in the Planetary Boundary Layer. F. Tampieri. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43602-9 Buy at Amazon

History and philosophy

Because Without Cause: Non-Causal Explanations in Science and Mathematics. M. Lange. Oxford U. Press, 2017. $74.00 (489 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-026948-7 Buy at Amazon

Collected Papers Supplementary Volume. Reprint. J. C. Kiefer. Springer, 2016. $79.99 paper (56 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-6592-2 Buy at Amazon

A Critical Edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s On the Shape of the Eclipse: The First Experimental Study of the Camera Obscura. D. Raynaud. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47990-3 Buy at Amazon

From Chemistry to Consciousness: The Legacy of Hans Primas. H. Atmanspacher, U. Müller-Herold, eds. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (154 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43572-5 Buy at Amazon

John Tebbutt: Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy. W. Orchiston. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (555 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44520-5 Buy at Amazon

Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology. S. Wynchank. Springer, 2017. $89.99 (140 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43396-7 Buy at Amazon

Maxwell’s Enduring Legacy: A Scientific History of the Cavendish Laboratory. M. Longair. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $69.99 (664 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-08369-1 Buy at Amazon

The Pythagorean World: Why Mathematics Is Unreasonably Effective in Physics. J. McDonnell. Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. $109.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-40975-7 Buy at Amazon

Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research. 2nd ed. C. J. Cunningham. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (477 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-32846-1 Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and techniques

3rd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress (InterM). A. Y. Oral, Z. B. Bahsi Oral, eds. Springer, 2017. $199.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46600-2 Buy at Amazon

Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy: Imaging and Diffraction in Nanoscience. J. M. Zuo, J. C. H. Spence. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (731 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-6605-9 Buy at Amazon

Fiber Optic Sensors: Current Status and Future Possibilities. I. R. Matias, S. Ikezawa, J. Corres, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (381 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42624-2 Buy at Amazon

Integrated Nanoelectronics: Nanoscale CMOS, Post-CMOS and Allied Nanotechnologies. V. K. Khanna. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (451 pp.). ISBN 978-81-322-3623-8 Buy at Amazon

MRI Contrast Agents: From Molecules to Particles. S. Laurent et al. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (125 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2527-3 Buy at Amazon

XAFS Techniques for Catalysts, Nanomaterials, and Surfaces. Y. Iwasawa, K. Asakura, M. Tada, eds. Springer, 2017. $229.00 (556 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43864-1 Buy at Amazon

Materials science

Applications of Chalcogenides: S, Se, and Te. G. K. Ahluwalia, ed. Springer, 2017. $139.00 (461 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-41188-0 Buy at Amazon

Characterization of Metals and Alloys. R. Pérez Campos, A. Contreras Cuevas, R. A. Esparza Muñoz, eds. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-31693-2 Buy at Amazon

Correlated Functional Oxides: Nanocomposites and Heterostructures. H. Nishikawa et al., eds. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43777-4 Buy at Amazon

Designing of Elastomer Nanocomposites: From Theory to Applications. K. W. Stöckelhuber, A. Das, M. Klüppel, eds. Springer, 2017. $259.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47695-7 Buy at Amazon

Electrodeposition of Nanostructured Materials. F. Nasirpouri. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44919-7 Buy at Amazon

Extending the Theory of Composites to Other Areas of Science. G. W. Milton, ed. Milton and Patton, 2016. $80.00 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4835-6919-2 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Membrane Bioreactors: Materials, Systems and Membrane Fouling. B. Ladewig, M. N. Z. Al-Shaeli. Springer, 2017. $54.99 (150 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2013-1 Buy at Amazon

Heteroepitaxy of Semiconductors: Theory, Growth, and Characterization. 2nd ed. J. E. Ayers, T. Kujofsa, P. Rago, J. E. Raphael. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2017. $259.95 (643 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4822-5435-8 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Physics of Silicene and Other 2D Materials. S. Cahangirov, H. Sahin, G. Le Lay, A. Rubio. Springer, 2017. $49.99 paper (96 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46570-8 Buy at Amazon

Materials Aspect of Thermoelectricity. C. Uher, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2017. $179.95 (610 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-5490-3 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Theory of Elasticity of Quasicrystals and Its Applications. 2nd ed. T.-Y. Fan. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (452 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-1982-1 Buy at Amazon

Membranes: Materials, Simulations, and Applications. A. Maciel-Cerda, ed. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (154 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-45314-9 Buy at Amazon

Semi-Solid Processing of Aluminum Alloys. S. Nafisi, R. Ghomashchi. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-40333-5 Buy at Amazon

Simulation Based Engineering in Solid Mechanics. J. S. Rao. Springer, 2017. $54.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47613-1 Buy at Amazon

Stimuli-Responsive Interfaces: Fabrication and Application. T. Kawai, M. Hashizume, eds. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (313 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2461-0 Buy at Amazon

Miscellaneous

A Doctorate and Beyond: Building a Career in Engineering and the Physical Sciences. G. C. Goodwin, S. F. Graebe. Springer, 2017. $34.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-45876-2 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear science and chaos

Chaos: Concepts, Control and Constructive Use. 2nd ed. Y. Bolotin, A. Tur, V. Yanovsky. Springer, 2017. $109.00 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42495-8 Buy at Amazon

Chaos in Hydrology: Bridging Determinism and Stochasticity. B. Sivakumar. Springer, 2017. $119.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2551-7 Buy at Amazon

Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation. M. P. Zylka, H. Fuehres, A. Fronzetti Colladon, P. A. Gloor, eds. Springer, 2016. $139.00 (185 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42696-9 Buy at Amazon

Machine Learning Control—Taming Nonlinear Dynamics and Turbulence. T. Duriez, S. L. Brunton, B. R. Noack. Springer, 2017. $89.00 (213 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-40623-7 Buy at Amazon

Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives. R. Kenna, M. MacCarron, P. MacCarron, eds. Springer, 2017. $109.00 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-39443-5 Buy at Amazon

Memorized Discrete Systems and Time-Delay. A. C. J. Luo. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42777-5 Buy at Amazon

Periodic Flows to Chaos in Time-Delay Systems. A. C. J. Luo. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42663-1 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear physics

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 66. B. R. Holstein, W. C. Haxton, A. Jawahery, eds. Annual Reviews, 2016. $102.00 (473 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1566-5 Buy at Amazon

New Horizons in Fundamental Physics. S. Schramm, M. Schäfer, eds. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (389 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44164-1 Buy at Amazon

Optics and photonics

Advanced Geometrical Optics. P. D. Lin. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (460 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2298-2 Buy at Amazon

Asymptotic Representation of Relaxation Oscillations in Lasers. E. V. Grigorieva, S. A. Kaschenko. Springer, 2017. $109.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42859-8 Buy at Amazon

Chiral Nanophotonics: Chiral Optical Properties of Plasmonic Systems. M. Schäferling. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (159 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42263-3 Buy at Amazon

The Limits of Resolution. G. de Villiers, E. R. Pike. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2017. $119.95 (546 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-5811-6 Buy at Amazon

Quantum-Limit Spectroscopy. Z. Ficek, R. Tanaś. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (376 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3738-7 Buy at Amazon

Singular Optics. G. J. Gbur. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2017. $129.95 (545 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-8077-0 Buy at Amazon

Particle physics

Hadrons at Finite Temperature. S. Mallik, S. Sarkar. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $140.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-14531-3 Buy at Amazon

Jet Physics at the LHC: The Strong Force beyond the TeV Scale. K. Rabbertz. Springer, 2017. $159.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42113-1 Buy at Amazon

Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics: Practical Essentials. F. Knechtli, M. Günther, M. Peardon. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (140 pp.). ISBN 978-94-024-0997-0 Buy at Amazon

Lectures on Matrix Field Theory. B. Ydri. Springer, 2017. $59.99 paper (352 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46002-4 Buy at Amazon

Non-Relativistic QED Theory of the van der Waals Dispersion Interaction. A. Salam. Springer, 2016. $54.99 paper (105 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-45604-1 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Field Theory I: Foundations and Abelian and Non-Abelian Gauge Theories. E. B. Manoukian. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (586 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30938-5 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Unification. P. Nath. Cambridge U. Press, 2017. $94.99 (520 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19702-1 Buy at Amazon

Surveys in Theoretical High Energy Physics—2: Lecture Notes from SERC Schools. R. Rangarajan, M. Sivakumar, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (292 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2590-7 Buy at Amazon

Plasmas and fusion

Introduction to Modern Magnetohydrodynamics. S. Galtier. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $74.99 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-15865-8 Buy at Amazon

Plasma Physics and Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions Driven Fusion Energy. B. Zohuri. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (142 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47309-3 Buy at Amazon

Theory of Low-Temperature Plasma Physics. S. Nguyen-Kuok. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (498 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-43719-4 Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. E. A. Newman et al., eds. Abrams, 2017. $40.00 (203 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4197-2227-1 Buy at Amazon

Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond. T. C. Onstott. Princeton U. Press, 2017. $35.00 (486 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-09644-5 Buy at Amazon

A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos. G. F. Lewis, L. A. Barnes. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $27.99 (373 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-15661-6 Buy at Amazon

How Long Is Now? Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions. F. Swain, ed. Nicholas Brealey, 2016. $14.95 paper (298 pp.). ISBN 978-1-85788-663-4 Buy at Amazon

The Origin of (Almost) Everything. G. Lawton. New Scientist, 2016. $35.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-1-85788-661-0 Buy at Amazon

The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less). D. Bercovici. Yale U. Press, 2016. $23.00 (136 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-21513-7 Buy at Amazon

Radioactivity and Radiation: What They Are, What They Do, and How to Harness Them. C. Grupen, M. Rodgers. Springer, 2016. $39.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-42329-6 Buy at Amazon

Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship. R. Armstrong, ed. Praxis/Springer, 2017. $39.00 paper (492 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-31040-4 Buy at Amazon

Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing. J. O. Weatherall. Yale U. Press, 2016. $26.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-20998-3 Buy at Amazon

Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists. L. Weschler. Bloomsbury, 2017. $25.00 (165 pp.). ISBN 978-1-63286-718-6 Buy at Amazon

Weather in the Courtroom: Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology. W. H. Haggard. American Meteorological Society, 2016. $30.00 paper (201 pp.). ISBN 978-1-940033-95-2 Buy at Amazon

Quantum physics

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Based Quantum Computing. T. Takui, L. Berliner, G. Hanson, eds. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3656-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Information Theory: Mathematical Foundation. 2nd ed. M. Hayashi. Springer, 2017. $119.00 (636 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49723-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication. D. S. Simon, G. Jaeger, A. V. Sergienko. Springer, 2017. $109.00 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46549-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum [Un]speakables II: Half a Century of Bell’s Theorem. R. Bertlmann, A. Zeilinger, eds. Springer, 2017. $79.99 (533 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-38985-1 Buy at Amazon

Society and government

Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier. V. Narayanamurti, T. Odumosu. Harvard U. Press, 2016. $24.95 (170 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-96796-0 Buy at Amazon