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Acoustics

Treatise on Acoustics: The First Comprehensive English Translation of E. F. F. Chladni’s Traité d’Acoustique. E. F. F. Chladni. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20360-7 Buy at Amazon

Vibro-Acoustics, Volume 2. 2nd ed. A. Nilsson, B. Liu. Science Press and Springer, 2016. $99.00 (452 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47933-9 Buy at Amazon

Vibro-Acoustics, Volume 3. 2nd ed. A. Nilsson, B. Liu. Science Press and Springer, 2016. $79.99 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47936-0 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy and astrophysics

First Light and Beyond: Making a Success of Astronomical Observing. D. A. Jenkins. Springer, 2015. $34.99 paper (300 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18850-8 Buy at Amazon

A Guide to Hubble Space Telescope Objects: Their Selection, Location, and Significance. J. L. Chen. Springer, 2015. $34.99 paper (244 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18871-3 Buy at Amazon

Remote Observatories for Amateur Astronomers: Using High-Powered Telescopes from Home. G. R. Hubbell, R. J. Williams, L. M. Billard. Springer, 2015. $39.99 paper (235 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21905-9 Buy at Amazon

Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics: Problems and Solutions. A. Dosch, G. P. Zank. Springer, 2016. $59.99 paper (257 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-24878-3 Buy at Amazon

Atomic and molecular physics

High-Energy Charged Particles: Their Chemistry and Use as Versatile Tools for Nanofabrication. S. Seki et al. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (74 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55683-1 Buy at Amazon

Biological and medical physics

Annual Review of Biophysics. Vol. 44. K. A. Dill, X. Zhuang, eds. Annual Reviews, 2015. $99.00 (371 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1844-4 Buy at Amazon

Biomedical Engineering: Frontier Research and Converging Technologies. H. Jo, H.-W. Jun, J. Shin, S. Lee, eds. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (511 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21812-0 Buy at Amazon

A Guide to Numerical Modelling in Systems Biology. P. Deuflhard, S. Röblitz. Springer, 2015. $49.99 (168 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20058-3 Buy at Amazon

High Pressure Bioscience: Basic Concepts, Applications and Frontiers. K. Akasaka, H. Matsuki, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (730 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9917-1 Buy at Amazon

Infrared Imaging: A Casebook in Clinical Medicine. F. Ring, A. Jung, J. Żuber, eds. IOP, 2015. $150.00 (161 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1144-1 Buy at Amazon

Membrane Hydration: The Role of Water in the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes. E. A. Disalvo, ed. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19059-4 Buy at Amazon

Methods and Models in Mathematical Biology: Deterministic and Stochastic Approaches. J. Müller, C. Kuttler. Springer, 2015. $131.00 paper (711 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-27250-9 Buy at Amazon

History and philosophy

Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki. U. Mäki, I. Votsis, S. Ruphy, G. Schurz, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (391 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-23014-6 Buy at Amazon

Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond. S. Helmreich. Princeton U. Press, 2016. $26.95 paper (300 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16481-6 Buy at Amazon

Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century: Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII. R. Pisano, D. Capecchi. Springer, 2016. $109.00 (504 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9709-2 Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and techniques

Introduction to Fluorescence Sensing. 2nd ed. A. P. Demchenko. Springer, 2015. $239.00 (794 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20779-7 Buy at Amazon

Materials science

Advanced Semiconducting Materials and Devices. K. M. Gupta, N. Gupta. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (573 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19757-9 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Materials Research. Vol. 45. D. R. Clarke, V. Gopalan, R. LeSar, eds. Annual Reviews, 2015. $105.00 (545 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1745-4 Buy at Amazon

Carbon at High Temperatures. A. Savvatimskiy. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (246 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21349-1 Buy at Amazon

Diffusion in Ceramics. J. Pelleg. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18436-4 Buy at Amazon

Nanomaterials and Nanoarchitectures: A Complex Review of Current Hot Topics and Their Applications. M. Bardosova, T. Wagner, eds. Springer, 2015. $229.00, $119.00 paper (343 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9920-1, ISBN 978-94-017-9937-9 paper Buy at Amazon

Nanosciences and Nanotechnology: Evolution or Revolution? J.-M. Lourtioz, M. Lahmani, C. Dupas-Haeberlin, P. Hesto, eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (438 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19359-5 Buy at Amazon

Organic and Hybrid Photonic Crystals. D. Comoretto, ed. Springer, 2015. $139.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16579-0 Buy at Amazon

Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification. 3rd ed. D. M. Stefanescu. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (556 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15692-7 Buy at Amazon

Miscellaneous

The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports. F. Braghin et al., eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3019-7 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear science and chaos

Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls and Applications. J. Lü, X. Yu, G. Chen, W. Yu, eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (482 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47823-3 Buy at Amazon

Models of Wave Memory. S. Kashchenko. Springer, 2015. $109.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19865-1 Buy at Amazon

New Approaches to Nonlinear Waves. E. Tobisch, ed. Springer, 2016. $59.99 paper (298 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20689-9 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, a Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. G. Kerschen, ed. Springer, 2016. $259.00 (531 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15220-2 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Optical and Atomic Systems: At the Interface of Physics and Mathematics. C. Besse, J.-C. Garreau, eds. Springer, 2015. $89.99 paper (338 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19014-3 Buy at Amazon

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation, Plus Econophysics Colloquium 2014. H. Takayasu, N. Ito, I. Noda, M. Takayasu, eds. Springer, 2015. $59.00 (346 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20590-8 Buy at Amazon

Replication of Chaos in Neural Networks, Economics and Physics. M. Akhmet, M. O. Fen. Springer, 2016. $149.00 (457 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47499-0 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear physics

Elements of Slow-Neutron Scattering: Basics, Techniques, and Applications. J. M. Carpenter, C.-K. Loong. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $175.00 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85781-9 Buy at Amazon

Key Nuclear Reaction Experiments: Discoveries and Consequences. H. Paetz gen. Schieck. IOP, 2015. $150.00 (175 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1174-8 Buy at Amazon

Optics and photonics

Advanced Manufacturing for Optical Fibers and Integrated Photonic Devices. A. Al-Azzawi. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2016. $149.95 (260 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-2945-1 Buy at Amazon

Contemporary Optoelectronics: Materials, Metamaterials and Device Applications. O. Shulika, I. Sukhoivanov, eds. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7314-0 Buy at Amazon

Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Coherent Sources. F. Canova, L. Poletto, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (197 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-47442-6 Buy at Amazon

Photonics: A Short Course. 2nd ed. V. Degiorgio, I. Cristiani. Springer, 2016. $59.99 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20626-4 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Optics for Engineers: Diffraction and Modal Analysis. W. S. C. Chang. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $125.00 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-07490-3 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII. K. Yamanouchi et al., eds. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (206 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-23656-8 Buy at Amazon

Refined Ray Tracing Inside Single- and Double-Curvatured Concave Surfaces. B. Choudhury, R. M. Jha. Springer, 2016. $54.00 paper (61 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-807-6 Buy at Amazon

Semiconductor Laser Theory. P. K. Basu, B. Mukhopadhyay, R. Basu. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2016. $99.95 (551 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-6191-5 Buy at Amazon

Particle physics

Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory. T. Hübsch. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $94.99 (563 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-09748-3 Buy at Amazon

From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams: A Course in Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners. 2nd ed. R. D’Auria, M. Trigiante. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (601 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22013-0 Buy at Amazon

Instantons and Large N: An Introduction to Non-Perturbative Methods in Quantum Field Theory. M. Mariño. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $94.99 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-06852-0 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Questions to the Universe. A. De Angelis, M. J. M. Pimenta. Springer, 2015. $119.00 paper (661 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-2687-2 Buy at Amazon

Perspectives on String Phenomenology. B. Acharya, G. L. Kane, P. Kumar, eds. World Scientific, 2015. $55.00 paper (433 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4641-93-7 Buy at Amazon

Resummation and Renormalization in Effective Theories of Particle Physics. A. Jakovác, A. Patkós. Springer, 2016. $59.99 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22619-4 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetry and Noncommutative Geometry. W. Beenakker, T. van den Broek, W. D. van Suijlekom. Springer, 2016. $54.99 paper (137 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-24796-0 Buy at Amazon

Plasmas and fusion

Collisionless Shocks in Space Plasmas: Structure and Accelerated Particles. D. Burgess, M. Scholer. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $155.00 (356 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51459-0 Buy at Amazon

Frontiers in Fusion Research II: Introduction to Modern Tokamak Physics. M. Kikuchi, M. Azumi. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18904-8 Buy at Amazon

Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey’s Research. D. Southwood, S. W. H. Cowley, S. Mitton, eds. Springer, 2015. $199.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18358-9 Buy at Amazon

Plasma-Based Radar Cross Section Reduction. H. Singh, S. Antony, R. M. Jha. Springer, 2016. $54.00 paper (52 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-759-8 Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe. S. Nadis, S.-T. Yau. International Press of Boston, 2015. $29.50 (167 pp.). ISBN 978-1-57146-310-4 Buy at Amazon

No Wonder You Wonder! Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries. C. Phipps. Springer, 2016. $34.00 paper (331 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21679-9 Buy at Amazon

A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours. J. A. Paulos. Prometheus, 2015. $17.00 paper (206 pp.). ISBN 978-1-63388-118-1 Buy at Amazon

The Quotable Feynman. R. P. Feynman; M. Feynman, ed. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $24.95 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15303-2 Buy at Amazon

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything. G. Musser. Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. $27.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-0-374-29851-7 Buy at Amazon

Quantum physics

Concepts in Quantum Field Theory: A Practitioner’s Toolkit. V. Ilisie. Springer, 2016. $69.99 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22965-2 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Spin Models: From Statistical Physics to Quantum Information. A. Dutta et al. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $140.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-06879-7 Buy at Amazon

Reversible Logic Synthesis Methodologies with Application to Quantum Computing. S. M. R. Taha. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (174 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-23478-6 Buy at Amazon

Space and planetary science

The Magnetodiscs and Aurorae of Giant Planets. K. Szego et al., eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3394-5 Buy at Amazon

Racing the Moon’s Shadow with Concorde 001. P. Léna. Springer, 2015. $29.99 paper (103 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21728-4 Buy at Amazon

Suizhou Meteorite: Mineralogy and Shock Metamorphism. X. Xie, M. Chen. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (258 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-48477-7 Buy at Amazon

Texts and education

Astrobiology: An Introduction. A. Longstaff. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2015. $89.95 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-7576-6 Buy at Amazon

Classical Mechanics with Maxima. T. K. Timberlake, J. W. Mixon Jr. Springer, 2016. $59.99 paper (258 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3206-1 Buy at Amazon

A First Course in Vibrations and Waves. M. Samiullah. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $110.00 (492 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-872978-5 Buy at Amazon

Fluid Dynamics: Part 2: Asymptotic Problems of Fluid Dynamics. A. I. Ruban. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $94.95 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-968174-7 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Polymer Physics and Molecular Biophysics. H. B. Bohidar. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $110.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-05870-5 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics: Special Relativity, Quantum and Statistical Physics. 3rd ed. C. M. Becchi, M. D’Elia. Springer, 2016. $49.99 paper (243 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20629-5 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Optical Metrology. R. S. Sirohi. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2016. $149.95 (423 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4822-3610-1 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence. H. Năstase. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $79.99 (438 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-08585-5 Buy at Amazon

Mathematics for Natural Scientists: Fundamentals and Basics. L. Kantorovich. Springer, 2016. $89.99 paper (526 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-2784-5 Buy at Amazon

Theory and mathematical methods

Advances in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory. R. Brunetti, C. Dappiaggi, K. Fredenhagen, J. Yngvason, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (453 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-21352-1 Buy at Amazon

Differential Geometry and Continuum Mechanics. G.-Q. G. Chen, M. Grinfeld, R. J. Knops, eds. Springer, 2015. $169.00 (387 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18572-9 Buy at Amazon

Differential Geometry and Kinematics of Continua. J. D. Clayton. World Scientific, 2015. $58.00 (182 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4616-03-4 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Quasi-Stable Dissipative Systems. I. Chueshov. Springer, 2015. $79.00 paper (390 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-22902-7 Buy at Amazon

Feynman’s Operational Calculus and Beyond: Noncommutativity and Time-Ordering. G. W. Johnson, M. L. Lapidus, L. Nielsen. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $84.95 (369 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-870249-8 Buy at Amazon