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Acoustics

Signal Analysis of Hindustani Classical Music. A. K. Datta et al. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-3958-4 Buy at Amazon

Sound-Based Assistive Technology: Support to Hearing, Speaking and Seeing. T. Ifukube. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47996-5 Buy at Amazon

Understanding Acoustics: An Experimentalist’s View of Acoustics and Vibration. S. L. Garrett. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (896 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-49976-5 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy and astrophysics

From the Sun to the Stars. J. B. Kaler. World Scientific, 2017. $32.00 paper (239 pp.). ISBN 978-981-3143-24-1 Buy at Amazon

Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy. 3rd ed. A. R. Thompson, J. M. Moran, G. W. Swenson Jr. Springer, 2017. $59.99 (872 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-44429-1 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Astrochemistry: Chemical Evolution from Interstellar Clouds to Star and Planet Formation. S. Yamamoto. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54170-7 Buy at Amazon

Biological and medical physics

Cardiovascular Biomechanics. P. R. Hoskins, P. V. Lawford, B. J. Doyle, eds. Springer, 2017. $149.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46405-3 Buy at Amazon

Dynamic Isolation Technologies in Negative Pressure Isolation Wards. Z. Xu, B. Zhou. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-2922-6 Buy at Amazon

Microwave Effects on DNA and Proteins. C. D. Geddes, ed. Springer, 2017. $209.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-50288-5 Buy at Amazon

The Neuroscience of Intelligence. R. J. Haier. Cambridge U. Press, 2017. $37.99 paper (251 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-46143-7 Buy at Amazon

Physiological Aspects of Legged Terrestrial Locomotion: The Motor and the Machine. G. Cavagna. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-49979-6 Buy at Amazon

Short Pulse Laser Systems for Biomedical Applications. K. Mitra, S. Miller. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (49 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-54252-2 Buy at Amazon

Computers and computational physics

Molecular Simulation Studies on Thermophysical Properties: With Application to Working Fluids. G. Raabe. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (306 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-3544-9 Buy at Amazon

Condensed-matter physics

Hybrid Phonons in Nanostructures. B. K. Ridley. Oxford U. Press, 2017. $75.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-878836-2 Buy at Amazon

Cosmology and relativity

Gravity and the Quantum: Pedagogical Essays on Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantum Gravity. J. S. Bagla, S. Engineer, eds. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (494 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-51699-8 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology. C. G. Böhmer. World Scientific, 2017. $38.00 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78634-118-1 Buy at Amazon

It’s About Time: Elementary Mathematical Aspects of Relativity. R. Cooke. American Mathematical Society, 2017. $75.00 (403 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4704-3483-0 Buy at Amazon

Device physics

Charge-Trapping Non-Volatile Memories. Vol. 2: Emerging Materials and Structures. P. Dimitrakis, ed. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-48703-8 Buy at Amazon

Design, Analysis and Control of Cable-Suspended Parallel Robots and Its Applications. B. Zi, S. Qian. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (299 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-1752-0 Buy at Amazon

In Search of the Next Memory: Inside the Circuitry from the Oldest to the Emerging Non-Volatile Memories. R. Gastaldi, G. Campardo, eds. Springer, 2017. $119.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47722-0 Buy at Amazon

On-Surface Atomic Wires and Logic Gates. M. Kolmer, C. Joachim, eds. Springer, 2017. $259.00 (193 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-51846-6 Buy at Amazon

Outlook and Challenges of Nano Devices, Sensors, and MEMS. T. Li, Z. Liu, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.99 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-50822-1 Buy at Amazon

Power Switching Components: Theory, Applications and Future Trends. K. Niayesh, M. Runde. Springer, 2017. $89.99 (249 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-51459-8 Buy at Amazon

Systems with Hidden Attractors: From Theory to Realization in Circuits. V.-T. Pham, C. Volos, T. Kapitaniak. Springer, 2017. $54.00 paper (105 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-53720-7 Buy at Amazon

Energy and environment

Biorefineries: Targeting Energy, High Value Products and Waste Valorisation. M. Rabaçal, A. F. Ferreira, C. A. M. Silva, M. Costa, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (294 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-48286-6 Buy at Amazon

Ecology of Meromictic Lakes. R. D. Gulati, E. S. Zadereev, A. G. Degermendzhi, eds. Springer, 2017. $199.00 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-49141-7 Buy at Amazon

Hydrogen Generation from Ethanol Using Plasma Reforming Technology. J. Yan, C. Du. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (99 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-3658-3 Buy at Amazon

Low-Carbon Energy in Africa and Latin America: Renewable Technologies, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy. R. Guerrero-Lemus, L. E. Shephard. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (369 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-52309-5 Buy at Amazon

Pollutant Dispersion in Built Environment. T. Ming, C. Peng, T. Gong, Z. Li. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (127 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-3820-4 Buy at Amazon

Towards 100% Renewable Energy: Techniques, Costs and Regional Case-Studies. T. S. Uyar, ed. Springer, 2017. $259.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-45658-4 Buy at Amazon

Fluids

Advances in Transitional Flow Modeling: Applications to Helicopter Rotors. C. Sheng. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (130 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-32575-0 Buy at Amazon

Barriers and Transport in Unsteady Flows: A Melnikov Approach. S. Balasuriya. SIAM, 2016. $84.00 paper (264 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611974-57-7 Buy at Amazon

Collective Dynamics of Particles: From Viscous to Turbulent Flows. C. Marchioli, ed. Springer, 2017. $169.00 (128 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-51224-2 Buy at Amazon

Geophysics

Acoustics of the Seabed as a Poroelastic Medium. N. P. Chotiros. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (100 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14276-0 Buy at Amazon

Geological Storage of CO₂ in Deep Saline Formations. A. Niemi, J. Bear, J. Bensabat, eds. Springer, 2017. $199.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-94-024-0994-9 Buy at Amazon

Global Tsunami Science: Past and Future, Volume I. E. L. Geist, H. M. Fritz, A. B. Rabinovich, Y. Tanioka, eds. Birkhäuser, 2017. $84.00 paper (539 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-55479-2 Buy at Amazon

IGFS 2014: Proceedings of the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Shanghai, China, June 30–July 6, 2014. S. Jin, R. Barzaghi, eds. Springer, 2016. $199.00 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-39819-8 Buy at Amazon

International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH). M. Hashimoto, ed. Springer, 2017. $199.00 (168 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-39767-2 Buy at Amazon

History and philosophy

50 Years of Science in Singapore. B. T. G. Tan, H. Lim, K. K. Phua, eds. World Scientific, 2017. $35.00 paper (587 pp.). ISBN 978-981-3140-89-9 Buy at Amazon

Astrophysics and Creation: Perceiving the Universe through Science and Participation. A. Benz. Crossroad, 2016. $19.95 (201 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8245-2213-1 Buy at Amazon

Collected Papers. Reprint. W. Magnus. G. Baumslag, B. Chandler, eds. Springer, 2017. $79.99 paper (726 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-6608-0 Buy at Amazon

Ettore Majorana: Unveiled Genius and Endless Mysteries. S. Esposito. Springer, 2017. $89.99 (191 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-54318-5 Buy at Amazon

The European Research Council. T. König. Polity Press, 2017. $35.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7456-9124-4 Buy at Amazon

Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World. K. Devlin. Princeton U. Press, 2017. $29.95 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-17486-0 Buy at Amazon

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Space Flight. J. Guthrie. Penguin Press, 2016. $28.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59420-672-6 Buy at Amazon

Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy. J. M. Steele. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (109 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-55220-0 Buy at Amazon

Varieties of Scientific Realism: Objectivity and Truth in Science. E. Agazzi, ed. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (411 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-51607-3 Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and techniques

3rd International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications. H. P. Urbach, G. Zhang, eds. Springer, 2017. $259.00 (517 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-49183-7 Buy at Amazon

Digital Audio Watermarking: Fundamentals, Techniques and Challenges. Y. Xiang, G. Hua, B. Yan. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (90 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-4288-1 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors. 2nd ed. P. R. Saulson. World Scientific, 2017. $54.00 (313 pp.). ISBN 978-981-3143-07-4 Buy at Amazon

Laser Beam Shaping Applications. 2nd ed. F. M. Dickey, T. E. Lizotte, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2017. $199.95 (429 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-1441-9 Buy at Amazon

A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. A. R. Jensenius, M. J. Lyons, eds. Springer, 2017. $229.00 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47213-3 Buy at Amazon

Secure and Privacy-Preserving Data Communication in Internet of Things. L. Zhu, Z. Zhang, C. Xu. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (78 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-3234-9 Buy at Amazon

Materials science

Basic Thermochemistry in Materials Processing. G. Plascencia, D. Jaramillo. Springer, 2017. $89.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-53813-6 Buy at Amazon

Defect and Material Mechanics. R. Kienzler, ed. Springer, 2017. $119.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-51631-8 Buy at Amazon

Fillers for Polymer Applications. R. Rothon, ed. Springer, 2017. $299.00 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-28116-2 Buy at Amazon

Functionally Graded Materials. R. M. Mahamood, E. Titilayo Akinlabi. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (103 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-53755-9 Buy at Amazon

High Performance Soft Magnetic Materials. A. Zhukov, ed. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-49705-1 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Modelling in Solid Mechanics. F. dell’Isola, M. Sofonea, D. Steigmann, eds. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-3763-4 Buy at Amazon

Modern Techniques of Surface Science. 3rd ed. D. P. Woodruff. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $125.00 (492 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02310-9 Buy at Amazon

Polymer Glasses. C. B. Roth, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2017. $249.95 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-1187-6 Buy at Amazon

Reviews in Plasmonics 2016. C. D. Geddes, ed. Springer, 2017. $209.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-48080-0 Buy at Amazon

Smart Polymer Nanocomposites: Energy Harvesting, Self-Healing and Shape Memory Applications. D. Ponnamma, K. K. Sadasivuni, J.-J. Cabibihan, M. A.-A. Al-Maadeed, eds. Springer, 2017. $229.00 (397 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-50423-0 Buy at Amazon

Sol-Gel Materials for Energy, Environment and Electronic Applications. S. C. Pillai, S. Hehir, eds. Springer, 2017. $179.00 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-50142-0 Buy at Amazon

Miscellaneous

The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science. 2nd ed. S. L. Montgomery. U. Chicago Press, 2017. $25.00 paper (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-14450-4 Buy at Amazon

The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. B. Borel. U. Chicago Press, 2016. $17.00 paper (174 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-29093-5 Buy at Amazon

Communicating Science: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Physical Scientists. R. Boxman, E. Boxman. World Scientific, 2017. $68.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-981-3144-22-4 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear science and chaos

Agent-Based Modeling of Sustainable Behaviors. A. Alonso-Betanzos et al., eds. Springer, 2017. $109.00 (257 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46330-8 Buy at Amazon

Complex Networks VIII: Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Complex Networks CompleNet 2017. B. Gonçalves, R. Menezes, R. Sinatra, V. Zlatic, eds. Springer, 2017. $139.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-54240-9 Buy at Amazon

Dynamic Mode Decomposition: Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Systems. J. N. Kutz, S. L. Brunton, B. W. Brunton, J. L. Proctor. SIAM, 2016. $69.00 paper (234 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611974-49-2 Buy at Amazon

Econophysics and Sociophysics: Recent Progress and Future Directions. F. Abergel et al., eds. Springer, 2017. $169.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47704-6 Buy at Amazon

Emergent Complexity from Nonlinearity, in Physics, Engineering and the Life Sciences. G. Mantica, R. Stoop, S. Stramaglia, eds. Springer, 2017. $139.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-47808-1 Buy at Amazon

Infectious Disease Modeling: A Hybrid System Approach. X. Liu, P. Stechlinski. Springer, 2017. $109.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-53206-6 Buy at Amazon

Modeling Nonlinear Problems in the Mechanics of Strings and Rods: The Role of the Balance Laws. O. M. O’Reilly. Springer, 2017. $79.00 (425 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-50596-1 Buy at Amazon

Network Role Mining and Analysis. D. Doran. Springer, 2017. $54.99 paper (101 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-53885-3 Buy at Amazon

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND 2016). V. In, P. Longhini, A. Palacios, eds. Springer, 2017. $259.00 paper (314 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-52620-1 Buy at Amazon

The Structure and Dynamics of Cities: Urban Data Analysis and Theoretical Modeling. M. Barthelemy. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $94.99 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-10917-9 Buy at Amazon

Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models. D. Pumain, R. Reuillon. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (123 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-46495-4 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear physics

Small Modular Reactors for Electricity Generation: An Economic and Technologically Sound Alternative. J. Morales Pedraza. Springer, 2017. $129.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-52215-9 Buy at Amazon

Optics and photonics

Nano-Optics: Principles Enabling Basic Research and Applications. B. Di Bartolo, J. Collins, L. Silvestri, eds. Springer, 2017. $229.00, $119.00 paper (584 pp.). ISBN 978-94-024-0848-5, ISBN 978-94-024-0869-0 paper Buy at Amazon

Progress in Nanophotonics 4. M. Ohtsu, T. Yatsui, eds. Springer, 2017. $99.00 (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-49012-0 Buy at Amazon

Reviews in Fluorescence 2016. C. D. Geddes, ed. Springer, 2017. $209.00 (360 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-48259-0 Buy at Amazon

Particle physics

Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model. 2nd ed. G. Kane. Cambridge U. Press, 2017. $59.99 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-16508-3 Buy at Amazon