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Acoustics

Model-Based Processing for Underwater Acoustic Arrays. E. J. Sullivan. Springer, 2015. $54.00 paper (113 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17556-0 Buy at Amazon

Neurally Based Measurement and Evaluation of Environmental Noise. Y. Soeta, Y. Ando. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55431-8 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy and astrophysics

19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs. P. Dufour, P. Bergeron, G. Fontaine, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2015. $77.00 (572 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-870-1 Buy at Amazon

Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too! Replicating the Work of the Great Observers. R. K. Buchheim. Praxis/Springer, 2015. $49.99 paper (549 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15659-0 Buy at Amazon

The Complex Lives of Star Clusters. D. Stevenson. Springer, 2015. $34.99 paper (343 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14233-3 Buy at Amazon

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to 6th Edition; 2012–2014. L. D. Schmadel. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (396 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17676-5 Buy at Amazon

Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere: Resolved Stellar Populations of the Galactic Bulge and Magellanic Clouds. S. Points, A. Kunder, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2015. $77.00 (369 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-866-4 Buy at Amazon

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … Where Is Everybody? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life. 2nd ed. S. Webb. Springer, 2015. $29.99 paper (434 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13235-8 Buy at Amazon

Physics and Evolution of Magnetic and Related Stars. Y. Y. Balega, I. I. Romanyuk, D. O. Kudryavtsev, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2015. $77.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-872-5 Buy at Amazon

Atomic and molecular physics

The Quantum Physics of Atomic Frequency Standards: Recent Developments. J. Vanier, C. Tomescu. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2016. $309.95 (466 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-7695-7 Buy at Amazon

Biological and medical physics

Biomolecular Interfaces: Interactions, Functions and Drug Design. A. Fernández Stigliano. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16849-4 Buy at Amazon

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: New Approaches and New Applications. B. Doyle, K. Miller, A. Wittek, P. M. F. Nielsen, eds. Springer, 2015. $199.00 (139 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15502-9 Buy at Amazon

Medical Imaging Technology: Reviews and Computational Applications. K. W. Lai, D. E. Octorina Dewi, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-539-6 Buy at Amazon

Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy: Advantages, Disadvantages and Similarities. M. d’Ávila Nunes. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (110 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18982-6 Buy at Amazon

Pulsed Electrical Discharges for Medicine and Biology: Techniques, Processes, Applications. V. Kolikov, P. Rutberg. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18128-8 Buy at Amazon

Chemical physics

Chemical Theory Beyond the Born–Oppenheimer Paradigm: Nonadiabatic Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Chemical Reactions. K. Takatsuka, T. Yonehara, K. Hanasaki, Y. Arasaki. World Scientific, 2015. $138.00 (427 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4619-64-6 Buy at Amazon

Density Functionals: Thermochemistry. E. R. Johnson, ed. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (189 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19691-6 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Solid State Batteries. 2nd ed. N. J. Dudney, W. C. West, J. Nanda. World Scientific, 2016. $235.00 (822 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4651-89-9 Buy at Amazon

Ignitability and Explosibility of Gases and Vapors. T. Ma. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (213 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-2664-0 Buy at Amazon

Thom H. Dunning, Jr.: A Festschrift from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. A. K. Wilson, K. A. Peterson, D. E. Woon, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47050-3 Buy at Amazon

Computers and computational physics

Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers. 3rd ed. J. Essick. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $44.95 paper (668 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-021189-9 Buy at Amazon

Parallelism in Matrix Computations. E. Gallopoulos, B. Philippe, A. H. Sameh. Springer, 2016. $149.00 (473 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7187-0 Buy at Amazon

Spintronics-Based Computing. W. Zhao, G. Prenat, eds. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15179-3 Buy at Amazon

A Student’s Guide to Numerical Methods. I. H. Hutchinson. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $29.99 paper (207 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-47950-0 Buy at Amazon

Condensed-matter physics

Statistical Mechanics of Superconductivity. T. Kita. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55404-2 Buy at Amazon

Cosmology and relativity

Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and Its Open Problems. C. Bambi, A. D. Dolgov. Springer, 2016. $89.00 (251 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-48077-9 Buy at Amazon

Post-Planck Cosmology: Les Houches 2013, Session C. C. Deffayet et al., eds. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $79.95 (545 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-872885-6 Buy at Amazon

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. 100th anniversary ed. A. Einstein. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $26.95 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16633-9 Buy at Amazon

Device physics

Charge-Trapping Non-volatile Memories: Volume 1—Basic and Advanced Devices. P. Dimitrakis, ed. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15289-9 Buy at Amazon

Design of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuators. A. Rao, A. R. Srinivasa, J. N. Reddy. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (130 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03187-3 Buy at Amazon

Fractional Order Differentiation and Robust Control Design: CRONE, H-infinity and Motion Control. J. Sabatier, P. Lanusse, P. Melchior, A. Oustaloup. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9806-8 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Bias Temperature Instability in MOS Transistors: Characterization Methods, Process and Materials Impact, DC and AC Modeling. S. Mahapatra, ed. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-81-322-2507-2 Buy at Amazon

On the Mathematical Modeling of Memristor, Memcapacitor, and Meminductor. A. G. Radwan, M. E. Fouda. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (231 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17490-7 Buy at Amazon

Energy and environment

High Concentrator Photovoltaics: Fundamentals, Engineering and Power Plants. P. Pérez-Higueras, E. F. Fernández, eds. Springer, 2015. $139.00 (477 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15038-3 Buy at Amazon

The Renaissance of Renewable Energy. G. A. Pagnoni, S. Roche. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $29.99 paper (294 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-69836-9 Buy at Amazon

Fluids

Scattering Methods in Complex Fluids. S.-H. Chen, P. Tartaglia. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $120.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88380-1 Buy at Amazon

Geophysics

Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean Crust. J. A. Karson et al. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $99.99 (414 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85718-5 Buy at Amazon

The Earth’s Heterogeneous Mantle: A Geophysical, Geodynamical, and Geochemical Perspective. A. Khan, F. Deschamps, eds. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (530 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15626-2 Buy at Amazon

Henbury Craters and Meteorites: Their Discovery, History and Study. 2nd ed. S. Buhl, D. McColl. Springer, 2015. $59.99 paper (173 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03954-1 Buy at Amazon

History and philosophy

50 Years of Quarks. H. Fritzsch, M. Gell-Mann, eds. World Scientific, 2015. $48.00 paper (506 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4618-10-6 Buy at Amazon

60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries. H. Schopper, L. Di Lella, eds. World Scientific, 2015. $48.00 paper (439 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4663-18-2 Buy at Amazon

The Electric Theories of J. Clerk Maxwell: A Historical and Critical Study. P. M. M. Duhem. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (185 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18514-9 Buy at Amazon

Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway. S. Roberts. Bloomsbury, 2015. $30.00 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-1-62040-593-2 Buy at Amazon

Herbert Fröhlich: A Physicist Ahead of His Time. G. J. Hyland. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (263 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14850-2 Buy at Amazon

Ken Wilson Memorial Volume: Renormalization, Lattice Gauge Theory, the Operator Product Expansion and Quantum Fields. B. E. Baaquie, K. Huang, M. E. Peskin, K. K. Phua, eds. World Scientific, 2015. $44.00 paper (385 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4619-22-6 Buy at Amazon

One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom: Proceedings from a Conference. F. Aaserud, H. Kragh, eds. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2015. $48.50 paper (559 pp.). ISBN 978-87-7304-387-5 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology. A. Wendt. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $89.99 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-08254-0 Buy at Amazon

Re-thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy: The Forgotten Present. A. von Müller, T. Filk, eds. Springer, 2015. $159.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10445-4 Buy at Amazon

Science Between Truth and Ethical Responsibility: Evandro Agazzi in the Contemporary Scientific and Philosophical Debate. M. Alai, M. Buzzoni, G. Tarozzi, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16368-0 Buy at Amazon

Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo. C. M. Graney. U. Notre Dame Press, 2015. $29.00 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-268-02988-3 Buy at Amazon

Three Scientific Revolutions: How They Transformed Our Conceptions of Reality. R. H. Schlagel. Humanity Books, 2015. $39.00 paper (292 pp.). ISBN 978-1-63388-032-0 Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and techniques

2nd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress. E. K. Polychroniadis, A. Y. Oral, M. Ozer, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16918-7 Buy at Amazon

Imaging and Manipulation of Adsorbates Using Dynamic Force Microscopy. P. Moriarty, S. Gauthier, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (154 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17400-6 Buy at Amazon

Insights into the Adsorption Behavior of a Prototype Functional Molecule: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study. M. Lepper. Springer Spektrum, 2015. $79.99 paper (86 pp.). ISBN 978-3-658-11046-8 Buy at Amazon

Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy. Vol. 3. S. Morita, F. J. Giessibl, E. Meyer, R. Wiesendanger, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (527 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15587-6 Buy at Amazon

Orifice Plates and Venturi Tubes. M. Reader-Harris. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16879-1 Buy at Amazon

Materials science

Bottom-Up Self-Organization in Supramolecular Soft Matter: Principles and Prototypical Examples of Recent Advances. S. C. Müller, J. Parisi, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19409-7 Buy at Amazon

Elements of Friction Theory and Nanotribology. E. Gnecco, E. Meyer. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $118.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00623-2 Buy at Amazon

Gold Nanostars: Synthesis, Properties and Biomedical Application. G. Chirico, M. Borzenkov, P. Pallavicini. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (80 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20767-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum physics

Introduction to Quantum Metrology: Quantum Standards and Instrumentation. W. Nawrocki. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (279 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15668-2 Buy at Amazon

The Message of Quantum Science: Attempts Towards a Synthesis. P. Blanchard, J. Fröhlich, eds. Springer, 2015. $89.99 paper (348 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46421-2 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Communications. G. Cariolaro. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (673 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15599-9 Buy at Amazon

Society and government

How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts. C. Callison. Duke U. Press, 2014. $24.95 paper (316 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8223-5787-2 Buy at Amazon

Reflections on World Affairs: Peace and Politics. A. H. Zewail. World Scientific, 2015. $44.00 paper (274 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-726-2 Buy at Amazon

Space and planetary science

Mercury’s Interior, Surface, and Surrounding Environment: Latest Discoveries. P. E. Clark. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (97 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-2243-7 Buy at Amazon

The Solar Activity Cycle. A. Balogh, H. Hudson, K. Petrovay, R. von Steiger, eds. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (602 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-2583-4 Buy at Amazon

Some Aspects of the Formation of the Solar System. V. N. Anfilogov, Y. V. Khachay. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (75 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17830-1 Buy at Amazon

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Isoconversional Kinetics of Thermally Stimulated Processes. S. Vyazovkin. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14174-9 Buy at Amazon

Texts and education

Electrodynamics: The Field-Free Approach; Electrostatics, Magnetism, Induction, Relativity and Field Theory. K. Prytz. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (361 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13170-2 Buy at Amazon

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction. 2nd ed. P. Schneider. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (626 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-54082-0 Buy at Amazon

A First Course in Network Theory. E. Estrada, P. A. Knight. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $49.99 paper (254 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-872646-3 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Experimental Biophysics: A Laboratory Guide. J. L. Nadeau. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $99.95 paper (169 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-5765-9 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists. 2nd ed. N. Jeevanjee. Birkhäuser, 2015. $69.99 (305 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14793-2 Buy at Amazon

Molecular Engineering Thermodynamics. J. J. De Pablo, J. D. Schieber. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $110.00 (480 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76562-6 Buy at Amazon

Physical Hydrodynamics. 2nd ed. E. Guyon, J.-P. Hulin, L. Petit, C. D. Mitescu. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $74.95 paper (512 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-870245-0 Buy at Amazon

Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions; Or Ninety Minutes of Shame But a PhD for the Rest of Your Life! D. Budker, A. O. Sushkov. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $39.99 paper (203 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-968166-2 Buy at Amazon

A Primer on Electromagnetic Fields. F. Frezza. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (171 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16573-8 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Optics. 2nd ed. J. W. Goodman. Wiley, 2015. $115.00 (516 pp.). ISBN 978-1-119-00945-0 Buy at Amazon

Theory and mathematical methods

From Particle Systems to Partial Differential Equations II: Particle Systems and PDEs II, Braga, Portugal, December 2013. P. Gonçalves, A. J. Soares, eds. Springer, 2015. $169.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16636-0 Buy at Amazon

Geometric Continuum Mechanics and Induced Beam Theories. S. R. Eugster. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16494-6 Buy at Amazon

Geometrical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics: An Application to First- and Second-Order Elasticity and Elasto-Plasticity. P. Steinmann. Springer, 2015. $229.00 paper (517 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46459-5 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Neural Network Methods for Differential Equations. N. Yadav, A. Yadav, M. Kumar. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (114 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9815-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Methods in Physics: Distributions, Hilbert Space Operators, Variational Methods, and Applications in Quantum Physics. 2nd ed. P. Blanchard, E. Brüning. Birkhäuser, 2015. $149.00 (597 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14044-5 Buy at Amazon

Multidimensional Periodic Schrödinger Operator: Perturbation Theory and Applications. O. Veliev. Springer, 2015. $159.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16642-1 Buy at Amazon

Off-Diagonal Bethe Ansatz for Exactly Solvable Models. Y. Wang, W.-L. Yang, J. Cao, K. Shi. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (296 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46755-8 Buy at Amazon

Polynomial Chaos Methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations: Numerical Techniques for Fluid Dynamics Problems in the Presence of Uncertainties. M. P. Pettersson, G. Iaccarino, J. Nordström. Springer, 2015. $99.99 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10713-4 Buy at Amazon

Principal Bundles: The Quantum Case. S. B. Sontz. Springer, 2015. $79.99 paper (350 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15828-0 Buy at Amazon

Questions About Elastic Waves. J. Engelbrecht. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14790-1 Buy at Amazon

Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems, and Integrable Systems. P. Deift, P. Forrester, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $120.00 (528 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-07992-2 Buy at Amazon

Simulations of Oscillatory Systems: With Award-Winning Software, Physics of Oscillations. E. I. Butikov. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $89.95 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-0768-8 Buy at Amazon

Tensor Alegebra and Tensor Analysis for Engineers: With Applications to Continuum Mechanics. 4th ed. M. Itskov. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16341-3 Buy at Amazon