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Transport Spectroscopy of Confined Fractional Quantum Hall Systems. S. Baer, K. Ensslin. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21050-6 Buy at Amazon

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Cosmological Applications of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes. T.-P. Hack. Springer, 2016. $54.99 paper (123 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21893-9 Buy at Amazon

Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity. A. Robinson. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $24.95 paper (256 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16989-7 Buy at Amazon

General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective. A. Ashtekar, B. K. Berger, J. Isenberg, M. MacCallum, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $89.99 (674 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03731-1 Buy at Amazon

Pseudo-Complex General Relativity. P. O. Hess, M. Schäfer, W. Greiner. Springer, 2016. $109.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-25060-1 Buy at Amazon

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Coriolis Vibratory Gyroscopes: Theory and Design. V. Apostolyuk. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (117 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22197-7 Buy at Amazon

Fault-Tolerant Digital Microfluidic Biochips: Compilation and Synthesis. P. Pop, M. Alistar, E. Stuart, J. Madsen. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-23071-9 Buy at Amazon

Frequency Selective Surfaces Based High Performance Microstrip Antenna. S. Narayan, B. Sangeetha, R. M. Jha. Springer, 2016. $54.00 paper (45 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-774-1 Buy at Amazon

General Momentum Theory for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines. J. N. Sørensen. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (194 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22113-7 Buy at Amazon

Low Profile Conformal Antenna Arrays on High Impedance Substrate. H. Singh, R. Chandini, R. M. Jha. Springer, 2016. $54.00 paper (56 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-762-8 Buy at Amazon

Memristor-Based Nanoelectronic Computing Circuits and Architectures. I. Vourkas, G. C. Sirakoulis. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22646-0 Buy at Amazon

Microelectronics: From Fundamentals to Applied Design. M. Di Paolo Emilio. Springer, 2016. $94.99 (100 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22544-9 Buy at Amazon

Nanoscale Materials and Devices for Electronics, Photonics and Solar Energy. A. Korkin, S. Goodnick, R. Nemanich, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18632-0 Buy at Amazon

On-Chip High-Voltage Generator Design: Design Methodology for Charge Pumps. 2nd ed. T. Tanzawa. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21974-5 Buy at Amazon

Transformer-Based Design Techniques for Oscillators and Frequency Dividers. H. C. Luong, J. Yin. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15873-0 Buy at Amazon

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Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change. J.-P. Bourguignon, R. Jeltsch, A. A. Pinto, M. Viana, eds. Springer, 2015. $169.00 (430 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16120-4 Buy at Amazon

Solar Energy for Fuels. H. Tüysüz, C. K. Chan, eds. Springer, 2016. $259.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-23098-6 Buy at Amazon

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Progress in Wall Turbulence 2: Understanding and Modelling. M. Stanislas, J. Jimenez, I. Marusic, eds. Springer, 2016. $199.00 (439 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20387-4 Buy at Amazon

Small-Angle Scattering from Confined and Interfacial Fluids: Applications to Energy Storage and Environmental Science. Y. B. Melnichenko. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (314 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01103-5 Buy at Amazon

Geophysics

Active Volcanoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean: Piton de la Fournaise and Karthala. P. Bachèlery, J.-F. Lénat, A. Di Muro, L. Michon, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (428 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-31394-3 Buy at Amazon

Effects of Magnetoelastic Interactions in Conductive Plates and Shells. G. Baghdasaryan, M. Mikilyan. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19161-4 Buy at Amazon

Enhanced Surface Imaging of Crustal Deformation: Obtaining Tectonic Force Fields Using GPS Data. A. J. Haines, L. L. Dimitrova, L. M. Wallace, C. A. Williams. Springer, 2015. $54.00 paper (99 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21577-8 Buy at Amazon

Extreme Ocean Waves. 2nd ed. E. Pelinovsky, C. Kharif, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21574-7 Buy at Amazon

Full-3D Seismic Waveform Inversion: Theory, Software and Practice. P. Chen, E.-J. Lee. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (513 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16603-2 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Tsunamis. 2nd ed. B. W. Levin, M. A. Nosov. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (388 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-24035-0 Buy at Amazon

Pore-Scale Geochemical Processes. Vol. 80. C. I. Steefel, S. Emmanuel, L. M. Anovitz, eds. Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, 2015. $50.00 paper (481 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-96-6 Buy at Amazon

Seafloor Observatories: A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss. P. Favali, L. Beranzoli, A. De Santis, eds. Springer, 2015. $209.00 (676 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11373-4 Buy at Amazon

Shallow Water Waves on the Rotating Earth. N. Paldor. Springer, 2015. $54.00 paper (77 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20260-0 Buy at Amazon

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Andrei Sakharov: The Conscience of Humanity. S. D. Drell, G. P. Shultz, eds. Hoover Institution Press, 2015. $19.95 paper (164 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8179-1895-8 Buy at Amazon

Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter. C. Burgess. Praxis/Springer, 2016. $34.00 paper (239 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20438-3 Buy at Amazon

Bodies and Media: On the Motion of Inanimate Objects in Aristotle’s Physics and On the Heavens. I. Yavetz. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (118 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21262-3 Buy at Amazon

Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again. T. Jackson. Bloomsbury, 2015. $27.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4729-1143-8 Buy at Amazon

Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg. A. M. Glazer, P. Thomson, eds. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $59.95 (427 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-874430-6 Buy at Amazon

Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research. C. Cunningham. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21776-5 Buy at Amazon

Electrochemistry in a Divided World: Innovations in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. F. Scholz, ed. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21220-3 Buy at Amazon

Galileo and the Equations of Motion. D. Boccaletti. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (175 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20133-7 Buy at Amazon

Gustave Trouvé: French Electrical Genius (1839–1902). K. Desmond. McFarland, 2015. $39.95 paper (218 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7864-9709-6 Buy at Amazon

Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy. D. K. Love. Prometheus, 2015. $24.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-1-63388-106-8 Buy at Amazon

The Muleskinner and the Stars: The Life and Times of Milton La Salle Humason, Astronomer. R. L. Voller. Springer, 2016. $34.99 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-2879-8 Buy at Amazon

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