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Acoustics

Foundation of Statistical Energy Analysis in Vibroacoustics. A. Le Bot. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $110.00 (317 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-872923-5 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy and astrophysics

Astro-Imaging Projects for Amateur Astronomers: A Maker’s Guide. J. Chung. Springer, 2015. $34.99 paper (246 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18545-3 Buy at Amazon

Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems. L. Kolokolova, J. Hough, A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $150.00 (487 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04390-9 Buy at Amazon

Atomic and molecular physics

Engineering the Atom-Photon Interaction: Controlling Fundamental Processes with Photons, Atoms and Solids. A. Predojević, M. W. Mitchell, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19230-7 Buy at Amazon

Biological and medical physics

Bioinformatics: An Introduction. 3rd ed. J. Ramsden. Springer, 2015. $79.99 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4471-6701-3 Buy at Amazon

Gas-Phase IR Spectroscopy and Structure of Biological Molecules. A. M. Rijs, J. Oomens, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19203-1 Buy at Amazon

Liquid Crystals in Biotribology: Synovial Joint Treatment. S. Ermakov, A. Beletskii, O. Eismont, V. Nikolaev. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20348-5 Buy at Amazon

Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and Applications. I. El Naqa, R. Li, M. J. Murphy, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18304-6 Buy at Amazon

Motor Proteins and Molecular Motors. A. B. Kolomeisky. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $89.95 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4822-2475-7 Buy at Amazon

Nano/Micro Science and Technology in Biorheology: Principles, Methods, and Applications. R. Kita, T. Dobashi, eds. Springer, 2015. $209.00 (443 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54885-0 Buy at Amazon

Chemical physics

Bench Scale Calorimetry in Chemical Reaction Kinetics: An Alternative Approach to Liquid Phase Reaction Kinetics. W. Litz. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (243 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12531-2 Buy at Amazon

Computers and computational physics

Active Subspaces: Emerging Ideas for Dimension Reduction in Parameter Studies. P. G. Constantine. SIAM, 2015. $39.00 paper (100 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61197-385-3 Buy at Amazon

Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging. F. Gao, K. Shi, S. Li, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18430-2 Buy at Amazon

Coupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics. M. Günther, ed. Springer, 2015. $149.00 (565 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46671-1 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

Condensed-matter physics

The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction. 4th ed. C. Hammond. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $59.95 paper (519 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-873868-8 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity. K. Behnia. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $98.50 (233 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-969766-3 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanical Models of Metal Surfaces and Nanoparticles. W. Gräfe. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (100 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19763-0 Buy at Amazon

Cosmology and relativity

Cosmological and Black Hole Apparent Horizons. V. Faraoni. Springer, 2015. $59.99 paper (199 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19239-0 Buy at Amazon

Materials science

Introduction to Nanofiber Materials. F. K. Ko, Y. Wan. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $99.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87983-5 Buy at Amazon

Materials Characterization. R. Pérez Campos, A. Contreras Cuevas, R. Esparza Muñoz, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (223 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15203-5 Buy at Amazon

Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials. J. J. Skrzypek, A. W. Ganczarski, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17159-3 Buy at Amazon

The Mechanics of Ribbons and Möbius Bands. R. Fosdick, E. Fried, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7299-0 Buy at Amazon

Nanodesign: Some Basic Questions. W. Schommers. World Scientific, 2014. $45.00 (183 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4520-34-8 Buy at Amazon

Nanotechnology in Construction: Proceedings of NICOM5. K. Sobolev, S. P. Shah, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (509 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17087-9 Buy at Amazon

Polymer Surfaces in Motion: Unconventional Patterning Methods. J. Rodríguez-Hernández, C. Drummond, eds. Springer, 2015. $139.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17430-3 Buy at Amazon

Quodons in Mica: Nonlinear Localized Travelling Excitations in Crystals. J. F. R. Archilla et al., eds. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (567 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21044-5 Buy at Amazon

Synthesis, Properties and Application of Graphene Woven Fabrics. X. Li. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (125 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47202-6 Buy at Amazon

Transparent Ceramics. L. B. Kong et al. Springer, 2015. $279.00 (734 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18955-0 Buy at Amazon

Miscellaneous

A Chorus of Bells and Other Scientific Inquiries. J. Bernstein. World Scientific, 2014. $38.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4578-94-3 Buy at Amazon

Networking for Nerds: Find, Access and Land Hidden Game-Changing Career Opportunities Everywhere. A. G. Levine. Wiley Blackwell, 2015. $29.95 paper (248 pp.). ISBN 978-1-118-66358-5 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Liquid Matter: Modern Problems. L. Bulavin, N. Lebovka, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (374 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20874-9 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear science and chaos

Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering—Vol. 4. S. Banerjee, L. Rondoni, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17036-7 Buy at Amazon

Differentiability and Fractality in Dynamics of Physical Systems. I. Merches, M. Agop. World Scientific, 2016. $110.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4678-38-4 Buy at Amazon

Discretization and Implicit Mapping Dynamics. A. C. J. Luo. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47274-3 Buy at Amazon

An Exploration of Dynamical Systems and Chaos. 2nd ed. J. Argyris, G. Faust, M. Haase, R. Friedrich. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (865 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46041-2 Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Equations for Complex Systems: Theoretical and Computational Topics. S. Heinz, H. Bessaih, eds. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18205-6 Buy at Amazon

Optics and photonics

Advanced Lasers: Laser Physics and Technology for Applied and Fundamental Science. O. Shulika, I. Sukhoivanov, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9480-0 Buy at Amazon

General Theory of Light Propagation and Imaging Through the Atmosphere. T. S. McKechnie. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (624 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18208-7 Buy at Amazon

Light Sources: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications. 2nd ed. S. Kitsinelis. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $149.95 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4822-4367-3 Buy at Amazon

OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. D. J. Gaspar, E. Polikarpov, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $149.95 (478 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1518-5 Buy at Amazon

Optical Soliton Communication Using Ultra-Short Pulses. I. Sadegh Amiri, H. Ahmad. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (51 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-557-0 Buy at Amazon

The Wonders of Light. M. García-Matos, L. Torner. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $29.99 paper (128 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-47741-4 Buy at Amazon

Particle physics

Gravity and Strings. 2nd ed. T. Ortín. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $150.00 (1015 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76813-9 Buy at Amazon

The Higgs Boson Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. R. Wolf. Springer, 2015. $159.00 (187 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18511-8 Buy at Amazon

The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider: The New Machine for Illuminating the Mysteries of Universe. O. Brüning, L. Rossi, eds. World Scientific, 2015. $48.00 paper (393 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4678-14-8 Buy at Amazon

The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1. T. Schörner-Sadenius, ed. Springer, 2015. $149.00 (532 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15000-0 Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Ettore Majorana: Phenomenological, Theoretical, and Mathematical. S. Esposito. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $85.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04402-9 Buy at Amazon

Plasmas and fusion

Atomic Properties in Hot Plasmas: From Levels to Superconfigurations. J. Bauche, C. Bauche-Arnoult, O. Peyrusse. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (379 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18146-2 Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think. G. Madhavan. W. W. Norton, 2015. $26.95 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-23987-4 Buy at Amazon

Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns. F. A. Farris. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $35.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16173-0 Buy at Amazon

Exploring the Invisible Universe: From Black Holes to Superstrings. B. E. Baaquie, F. H. Willeboordse. World Scientific, 2015. $48.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4618-67-0 Buy at Amazon

The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why. A. Benjamin. Basic Books, 2015. $26.99 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-05472-5 Buy at Amazon

Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures. A. S. Posamentier, B. Thaller. Prometheus Books, 2015. $19.00 paper (400 pp.). ISBN 978-1-63388-030-6 Buy at Amazon

The Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn’t the Answer to Everything. N. Agar. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $29.95 (206 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-871705-8 Buy at Amazon

Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers. M. Chamberland. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $26.95 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16114-3 Buy at Amazon

Quantum physics

Resonant Tunneling: Quantum Waveguides of Variable Cross-Section, Asymptotics, Numerics, and Applications. L. Baskin, P. Neittaanmäki, B. Plamenevskii, O. Sarafanov. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15104-5 Buy at Amazon

Space and planetary science

New Solutions for the Space Debris Problem. J. N. Pelton. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (94 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17150-0 Buy at Amazon

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics. 4th ed. D. P. Landau, K. Binder. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $85.00 (519 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-07402-6 Buy at Amazon

Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe: What We Know and What We Do Not Know. A. Ben-Naim. World Scientific, 2015. $29.00 paper (464 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4651-67-7 Buy at Amazon

Rational Extended Thermodynamics beyond the Monatomic Gas. T. Ruggeri, M. Sugiyama. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (376 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13340-9 Buy at Amazon

Texts and education

College Physics. R. A. Freedman, T. G. Ruskell, P. R. Kesten, D. L. Tauck. W. H. Freeman, 2014. $242.99 (1168 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4641-3562-0 Buy at Amazon

Electricity and Magnetism. P. F. Kelly. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $79.95 (404 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4822-0635-7 Buy at Amazon

Elementary Mechanics Using Matlab: A Modern Course Combining Analytical and Numerical Techniques. A. Malthe-Sørenssen. Springer, 2015. $69.99 (590 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19586-5 Buy at Amazon

Elements of Crustal Geomechanics. F. H. Cornet. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $95.00 (461 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87578-3 Buy at Amazon

Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation! A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning and Writing a Thesis or Dissertation for Undergraduate and Graduate Science Students. 2nd ed. E. Fisher, R. Thompson. Imperial College Press, 2014. $28.00 paper (338 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-421-6 Buy at Amazon

A Guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences. 3rd ed. R. Snieder, K. van Wijk. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $65.00 paper (560 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-64160-0 Buy at Amazon

Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. 5th ed. R. K. Hobbie, B. J. Roth. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (629 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12681-4 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics. P. Jain. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $79.95 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-8590-1 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Dynamics. F. Pfeiffer, T. Schindler. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46720-6 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Statistical Physics: And to Computer Simulations. J. P. Casquilho, P. I. C. Teixeira. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $75.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-05378-6 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Stochastic Dynamics. J. Duan. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $150.00 (291 pp.), $64.99 paper (291 pp.). ISBN 978-1- 107-07539-9, ISBN 978-1-107-42820-1 paper Buy at Amazon

Orbitals: With Applications in Atomic Spectra. C. S. McCaw. Imperial College Press, 2015. $58.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-413-1 Buy at Amazon

Physics from Planet Earth: An Introduction to Mechanics. J. C. Amato, E. J. Galvez. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $89.95 (593 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-6783-9 Buy at Amazon

Physics Olympiad: Basic to Advanced Exercises. The Committee of Japan Physics Olympiad. World Scientific, 2014. $48.00 paper (363 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4556-67-5 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur. T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $110.00 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-969932-2 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanics. R. Fitzpatrick. World Scientific, 2015. $68.00 paper (471 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4689-95-3 Buy at Amazon

Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Gravity. H. Elvang, Y.-T. Huang. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $65.00 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-06925-1 Buy at Amazon

Solar Energy: An Introduction. M. E. Mackay. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $49.95 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965211-2 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

Waves and Oscillations in Nature: An Introduction. A. S. Narayanan, S. K. Saha. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $99.95 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-9093-9 Buy at Amazon

Theory and mathematical methods

Advanced Dynamics of Mechanical Systems. F. Cheli, G. Diana. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (818 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18199-8 Buy at Amazon

Bayesian Methods for the Physical Sciences: Learning from Examples in Astronomy and Physics. S. Andreon, B. Weaver. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (238 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15286-8 Buy at Amazon

BRST Symmetry and de Rham Cohomology. S.-T. Hong. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (201 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9749-8 Buy at Amazon

Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Analysis and Fitting but Were Afraid to Ask. P. Young. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (85 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19050-1 Buy at Amazon

Fourier Transformation for Pedestrians. 2nd ed. T. Butz. Springer, 2015. $59.99 paper (242 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16984-2 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Measure Theory and Functional Analysis. P. Cannarsa, T. D’Aprile. Springer, 2015. $79.99 paper (314 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17018-3 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. T. Becher, A. Broggio, A. Ferroglia. Springer, 2015. $49.00 paper (206 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14847-2 Buy at Amazon

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. N. J. Higham, ed. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $99.50 (994 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15039-0 Buy at Amazon

Queues and Lévy Fluctuation Theory. K. Dębicki, M. Mandjes. Springer, 2015. $69.99 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20692-9 Buy at Amazon

Selected Works of Jindřich Nečas: PDEs, Continuum Mechanics and Regularity. Š. Nečasová, M. Pokorný, V. Šverák, eds. Birkhäuser, 2015. $189.00 (785 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0348-0230-7 Buy at Amazon

Solving Hyperbolic Equations with Finite Volume Methods. M. E. Vázquez-Cendón. Springer, 2015. $69.99 paper (188 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14783-3 Buy at Amazon

Space-Time Algebra. 2nd ed. D. Hestenes. Birkhäuser, 2015. $89.99 (102 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18412-8 Buy at Amazon

Spherical Radial Basis Functions, Theory and Applications. S. Hubbert, Q. T. Lê Gia, T. M. Morton. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (143 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-17938-4 Buy at Amazon

Structural Equation Models: From Paths to Networks. J. C. Westland. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (175 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16506-6 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetric Field Theories: Geometric Structures and Dualities. S. Cecotti. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $99.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-05381-6 Buy at Amazon