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Acoustics

Handbook of Contemporary Acoustics and Its Applications. J. Wu. World Scientific, 2016. $158.00 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4651-27-1 Buy at Amazon

Listening in the Ocean: New Discoveries and Insights on Marine Life from Autonomous Passive Acoustic Recorders. W. W. L. Au, M. O. Lammers, eds. Springer, 2016. $149.00 (416 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3175-0 Buy at Amazon

Sound: A Very Short Introduction. M. Goldsmith. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $11.95 paper (140 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-870844-5 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy and astrophysics

Astrophysics and Cosmology: Proceedings of the 26th Solvay Conference on Physics. R. Blandford, D. Gross, A. Sevrin, eds. World Scientific, 2016. $54.00 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 978-981-314-280-0 Buy at Amazon

Methods of Detecting Exoplanets: 1st Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science. V. Bozza, L. Mancini, A. Sozzetti, eds. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27456-0 Buy at Amazon

Uncharted Constellations: Asterisms, Single-Source and Rebrands. J. C. Barentine. Praxis/ Springer, 2016. $39.00 paper (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27618-2 Buy at Amazon

The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys: A Meeting to Honour the 70th Birthday of Massimo Capaccioli. N. R. Napolitano et al., eds. Springer, 2016. $199.00 (302 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-19329-8 Buy at Amazon

Biological and medical physics

Biological Effects of Metal Nanoparticles. E. M. Egorova, A. A. Kubatiev, V. I. Schvets. Springer, 2016. $159.00 (292 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30905-7 Buy at Amazon

Biophysics of Infection. M. C. Leake, ed. Springer, 2016. $209.00 (362 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-32187-5 Buy at Amazon

Biosensors for Security and Bioterrorism Applications. D. P. Nikolelis, G.-P. Nikoleli, eds. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (508 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-28924-3 Buy at Amazon

Molecular Science of Fluctuations Toward Biological Functions. M. Terazima, M. Kataoka, R. Ueoka, Y. Okamoto, eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55838-5 Buy at Amazon

Myths and Verities in Protein Folding Theories. A. Ben-Naim. World Scientific, 2016. $34.00 paper (421 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4725-99-6 Buy at Amazon

Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts. J. S. Weitz. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $69.50 (329 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16154-9 Buy at Amazon

Research on the Physics of Cancer: A Global Perspective. B. S. Gerstman, ed. World Scientific, 2016. $118.00 (209 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4730-25-9 Buy at Amazon

Chemical physics

9th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications (ESPA 2014). M. F. Ruiz-Lopez, F. J. Olivares del Valle, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-48793-8 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Quantum Chemistry: Electron Correlation in Molecules—ab initio Beyond Gaussian Quantum Chemistry. P. E. Hoggan, T. Ozdogan, eds. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2016. $245.00 (423 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-803060-8 Buy at Amazon

The Attribute of Water: Single Notion, Multiple Myths. C. Q. Sun, Y. Sun. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (494 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-0178-9 Buy at Amazon

The Encapsulation Phenomenon: Synthesis, Reactivity and Applications of Caged Ions and Molecules. Y. Voloshin, I. Belaya, R. Krämer. Springer, 2016. $279.00 (638 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27737-0 Buy at Amazon

Péter R. Surján: A Festschrift from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. Á. Szabados, M. Kállay, P. G. Szalay, eds. Springer, 2016. $139.00 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49824-8 Buy at Amazon

Computers and computational physics

Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Non-linear Reactive Flows. M. Uzunca. Birkhäuser, 2016. $89.99 paper (105 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30129-7 Buy at Amazon

Analysis and Synthesis for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy-Model-Based Systems. H. Li, L. Wu, H.-K. Lam, Y. Gao. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (257 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-0592-3 Buy at Amazon

Basic Concepts in Computational Physics. 2nd ed. B. A. Stickler, E. Schachinger. Springer, 2016. $59.99 (409 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27263-4 Buy at Amazon

Bioinformation Processing: A Primer on Computational Cognitive Science. J. K. Peterson. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (570 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-869-4 Buy at Amazon

Computational Methods for Solids and Fluids: Multiscale Analysis, Probability Aspects and Model Reduction. A. Ibrahimbegovic, ed. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (493 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27994-7 Buy at Amazon

Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXII. T. Dickopf et al., eds. Springer, 2016. $189.00 (647 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-18826-3 Buy at Amazon

Fully Implicit, Coupled Procedures in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Engineer’s Resource Book. Z. Mazhar. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (173 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29894-8 Buy at Amazon

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’15: Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2015. W. E. Nagel, D. H. Kröner, M. M. Resch, eds. Springer, 2016. $189.00 (701 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-24631-4 Buy at Amazon

Integral Methods in Science and Engineering: Theoretical and Computational Advances. C. Constanda, A. Kirsch, eds. Birkhäuser, 2015. $189.00 (717 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16726-8 Buy at Amazon

Inverse Modeling: An introduction to the theory and methods of inverse problems and data assimilation. G. Nakamura, R. Potthast. IOP, 2015. $150.00 (312 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1219-6 Buy at Amazon

Models for Physics of the Very Small and Very Large. T. J. Buckholtz. Atlantis Press, 2016. $89.99 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-94-6239-165-9 Buy at Amazon

Particle Methods for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics. M. B. Liu, G. R. Liu. World Scientific, 2016. $162.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4571-69-2 Buy at Amazon

Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering. A. Bartel, M. Clemens, M. Günther, E. J. W. ter Maten, eds. Springer, 2016. $139.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30398-7 Buy at Amazon

Condensed-matter physics

Bose–Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity. L. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $110.00 (553 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-875888-4 Buy at Amazon

Bulk and Boundary Invariants for Complex Topological Insulators: From K-Theory to Physics. E. Prodan, H. Schulz-Baldes. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (204 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29350-9 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Quantised Vortices in Superfluids. E. B. Sonin. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $155.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00668-3 Buy at Amazon

The Embedding Method for Electronic Structure. J. E. Inglesfield. IOP, 2015. $150.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1043-7 Buy at Amazon

Fundamental and Applied Nano-Electromagnetics. A. Maffucci, S. A. Maksimenko, eds. Springer, 2016. $189.00, $129.00 paper (290 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7476-5, ISBN 978-94-017-7488-8 paper Buy at Amazon

Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions. 2nd ed. H. Yamakawa, T. Yoshizaki. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (511 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-48714-3 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Graphene Plasmonics. P. A. D. Gonçalves, N. M. R. Peres. World Scientific, 2016. $65.00 paper (431 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4749-98-5 Buy at Amazon

A Short Course on Topological Insulators: Band Structure and Edge States in One and Two Dimensions. J. K. Asbóth, L. Oroszlány, A. Pályi. Springer, 2016. $49.99 paper (166 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-25605-4 Buy at Amazon

Superconductivity: A New Approach Based on the Bethe–Salpeter Equation in the Mean-Field Approximation. G. P. Malik. World Scientific, 2016. $102.00 (223 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4733-07-6 Buy at Amazon

Suspensions of Colloidal Particles and Aggregates. F. Babick. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (341 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30661-2 Buy at Amazon

Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials: Domain Walls, Vortices and Skyrmions. J. Seidel, ed. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-25299-5 Buy at Amazon

Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures: The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach. 2nd ed. J. K. Freericks. Imperial College Press, 2016. $118.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-857-3 Buy at Amazon

Cosmology and relativity

Beyond Peaceful Coexistence: The Emergence of Space, Time and Quantum. I. Licata, ed. Imperial College Press, 2016. $198.00 (720 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-831-3 Buy at Amazon

Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology. V. Melnikov, J.-P. Hsu, eds. World Scientific, 2016. $178.00 (407 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4759-80-9 Buy at Amazon

The Shadow of Black Holes: An Analytic Description. A. Grenzebach. Springer, 2016. $54.00 paper (94 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30065-8 Buy at Amazon

The Special Theory of Relativity: Foundations, Theory, Verification, Applications. C. Christodoulides. Springer, 2016. $59.00 paper (480 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-25272-8 Buy at Amazon

Device physics

3D Flash Memories. R. Micheloni, ed. Springer, 2016. $139.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7510-6 Buy at Amazon

3D Stacked Chips: From Emerging Processes to Heterogeneous Systems. I. M. Elfadel, G. Fettweis, eds. Springer, 2016. $119.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-20480-2 Buy at Amazon

Advanced Environmental Wind Engineering. Y. Tamura, R. Yoshie, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55910-8 Buy at Amazon

Essentials of Modern Optical Fiber Communication. 2nd ed. R. Noé. Springer, 2016. $119.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49621-3 Buy at Amazon

Ferromagnetic Microwire Composites: From Sensors to Microwave Applications. H.-X. Peng, F. Qin, M.-H. Phan. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (245 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29274-8 Buy at Amazon

Optoelectronic Circuits in Nanometer CMOS Technology. M. Atef, H. Zimmermann. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (243 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27336-5 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Confined Laser Devices: Optical Gain and Recombination in Semiconductors. P. Blood. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $49.95 paper (405 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-964452-0 Buy at Amazon

Soft Error Mechanisms, Modeling and Mitigation. S. Sayil. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (105 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-30606-3 Buy at Amazon

Stepped-Frequency Radar Sensors: Theory, Analysis and Design. C. Nguyen, J. Park. Springer, 2016. $54.99 paper (129 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12270-0 Buy at Amazon

Superconducting Devices in Quantum Optics. R. H. Hadfield, G. Johansson, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (249 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-24089-3 Buy at Amazon

Transactions on Engineering Technologies: International Multiconference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2015. G.-C. Yang, S.-I. Ao, X. Huang, O. Castillo, eds. Springer, 2016. $199.00 (208 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-0550-3 Buy at Amazon

Transport in Semiconductor Mesoscopic Devices. D. K. Ferry. IOP, 2015. $150.00 (306 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1102-1 Buy at Amazon

Tunneling Field Effect Transistor Technology. L. Zhang, M. Chan, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (213 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-31651-2 Buy at Amazon

Energy and environment

Alternative Energy Sources and Technologies: Process Design and Operation. M. Martín, ed. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (512 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-28750-8 Buy at Amazon

Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling. 2nd ed. Y. Demirel. Springer, 2016. $119.00 (616 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29648-7 Buy at Amazon

Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future. J. T. Kiehl. Columbia U. Press, 2016. $28.00 (159 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-17718-4 Buy at Amazon

Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuel Production: From Basic Principles to Advanced Devices. S. Giménez, J. Bisquert, eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (559 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29639-5 Buy at Amazon

Fluids

Heat Transfer of Laminar Mixed Convection of Liquid. D.-Y. Shang, L.-C. Zhong. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27958-9 Buy at Amazon

Microfluidic Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI): Modeling, Simulation, Testing, Compilation and Physical Synthesis. P. Pop, W. H. Minhass, J. Madsen. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29597-8 Buy at Amazon

Geophysics

Atmospheric Reaction Chemistry. H. Akimoto. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (433 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55868-2 Buy at Amazon

Covered Karsts. M. Veress. Springer, 2016. $139.00 (536 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7516-8 Buy at Amazon

Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology. P. G. Talalay. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-0559-6 Buy at Amazon

Seismic Data Interpretation and Evaluation for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production: A Practitioner’s Guide. N. C. Nanda. Springer, 2016. $119.00 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-26489-9 Buy at Amazon

History and philosophy

Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life. D. E. Neuenschwander, ed. World Scientific, 2016. $36.00 paper (420 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4675-85-7 Buy at Amazon

Goethe’s “Exposure of Newton’s Theory”: A Polemic on Newton’s Theory of Light and Colour. M. Duck, M. Petry, trans. Imperial College Press, 2016. $28.00 paper (242 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-588-6 Buy at Amazon

Holograms: A Cultural History. S. F. Johnston. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $64.95 (257 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-871276-3 Buy at Amazon

Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality. G. Jaroszkiewicz. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $44.95 (305 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-871806-2 Buy at Amazon

A Lesson for the Future of Our Science: My Testimony on Lord Patrick M. S. Blackett. A. Zichichi. World Scientific, 2016. $28.00 paper (273 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4719-41-4 Buy at Amazon

Molecular Beam Epitaxy: A Short History. J. Orton, T. Foxon. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $79.95 (516 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-969582-9 Buy at Amazon

The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions. R. Wagner, A. Briggs. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $44.95 (468 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-874795-6 Buy at Amazon

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars. N. Holt. Little, Brown and Co, 2016. $27.00 (338 pp.). ISBN 978-0-316-33892-9 Buy at Amazon

Trick or Truth? The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics. A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali, eds. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27494-2 Buy at Amazon

The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel. G. Bernardi. Springer, 2016. $99.00 paper (179 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-26125-6 Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and techniques

Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves. S. Huang, S. Wang, W. Li, Q. Wang. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (301 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-0562-6 Buy at Amazon

Multi-band Polarization Imaging and Applications. Y. Zhao et al. National Defense Industry Press and Springer, 2016. $109.00 (194 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49371-7 Buy at Amazon

Practical Acoustic Emission Testing. The Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (130 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55071-6 Buy at Amazon

Materials science

2D Materials for Nanoelectronics. M. Houssa, A. Dimoulas, A. Molle, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2016. $199.95 (467 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4987-0417-5 Buy at Amazon

Advanced High Strength Steel and Press Hardening. Y. Zhang, M. Ma. World Scientific, 2016. $226.00 (736 pp.). ISBN 978-981-3140-61-5 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Nanomaterials. M. Husain, Z. H. Khan, eds. Springer, 2016. $139.00 (429 pp.). ISBN 978-81-322-2666-6 Buy at Amazon

Cellulose Chemistry and Properties: Fibers, Nanocelluloses and Advanced Materials. O. J. Rojas, ed. Springer, 2016. $259.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-26013-6 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Thermoelectricity. 2nd ed. H. J. Goldsmid. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49255-0 Buy at Amazon

Magneto Thermoelectric Power in Heavily Doped Quantized Structures. K. P. Ghatak. World Scientific, 2016. $202.00 (758 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4713-19-1 Buy at Amazon

Modern Piezoelectric Energy-Harvesting Materials. C. R. Bowen, V. Y. Topolov, H. A. Kim. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (152 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29141-3 Buy at Amazon

Recent Advances in the Scientific Research on Ancient Glass and Glaze. F. Gan, Q. Li, J. Henderson, eds. World Scientific, 2016. $65.00 paper (555 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4630-28-3 Buy at Amazon

Silicene: Structure, Properties and Applications. M. J. S. Spencer, T. Morishita, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-28342-5 Buy at Amazon

Silicon Nanowire Transistors. A. Bindal, S. Hamedi-Hagh. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (165 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27175-0 Buy at Amazon

Viscoelasticity of Polymers: Theory and Numerical Algorithms. K. S. Cho. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (612 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-7562-5 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear science and chaos

Lyapunov Exponents: A Tool to Explore Complex Dynamics. A. Pikovsky, A. Politi. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $84.99 (285 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03042-8 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Dynamics: Materials, Theory and Experiments. M. Tlidi, M. G. Clerc, eds. Springer, 2016. $169.00 (361 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-24869-1 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear physics

Nuclear Structure in China 2014: Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Nuclear Structure in China. J. Meng, N. Wang, S.-G. Zhou, eds. World Scientific, 2016. $154.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-981-3109-62-9 Buy at Amazon

Optics and photonics

Organic Electro-Optics and Photonics: Molecules, Polymers, and Crystals. L. R. Dalton et al. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $79.99 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-44965-6 Buy at Amazon

The Supercontinuum Laser Source: The Ultimate White Light. 3rd ed. R. R. Alfano. Springer, 2016. $229.00 (434 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3324-2 Buy at Amazon

Particle physics

Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century. O. Brüning, S. Myers, eds. World Scientific, 2016. $190.00 (842 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4436-39-7 Buy at Amazon

From Tracking Code to Analysis: Generalised Courant-Snyder Theory for Any Accelerator Model. E. Forest. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (347 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55802-6 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model. 2nd ed. M. Dine. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $94.99 (482 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04838-6 Buy at Amazon

Plasmas and fusion

Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas. 2nd ed. M. Ariola, A. Pironti. Springer, 2016. $129.00 (203 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29888-7 Buy at Amazon

Modern Methods in Collisional-Radiative Modeling of Plasmas. Y. Ralchenko, ed. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (212 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27512-3 Buy at Amazon

Multi-scale Structure Formation and Dynamics in Cosmic Plasmas. A. Balogh, A. Bykov, J. Eastwood, J. Kaastra, eds. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-3546-8 Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space. J. Levin. Knopf, 2016. $26.95 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-0-307-95819-8 Buy at Amazon

Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence. J. Mazur. Basic Books, 2016. $26.99 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-06095-5 Buy at Amazon

Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific Diversions. N. D. Mermin. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $29.99 (391 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02430-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum physics

Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates. J. Bub. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $44.95 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-871853-6 Buy at Amazon

Society and government

Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 World. D. Hafemeister. Springer, 2016. $59.99 (434 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-25365-7 Buy at Amazon

Science and the Economic Crisis: Impact on Science, Lessons from Science. F. Sylos Labini. Springer, 2016. $39.99 paper (171 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-29527-5 Buy at Amazon

Space and planetary science

Heliophysics: Active Stars, Their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments. C. J. Schrijver, F. Bagenal, J. J. Sojka, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $79.99 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-09047-7 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Reconnection: Concepts and Applications. W. Gonzalez, E. Parker, eds. Springer, 2016. $129.99 (542 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-26430-1 Buy at Amazon

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Brownian Ratchets: From Statistical Physics to Bio and Nano-motors. D. Cubero, F. Renzoni. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $140.00 (186 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-06352-5 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Physics, Optimization, Inference, and Message-Passing Algorithms. F. Krzakala et al., eds. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $69.95 (292 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-874373-6 Buy at Amazon

Texts and education

Calculus for Cognitive Scientists: Partial Differential Equation Models. J. K. Peterson. Springer, 2016. $179.00 (534 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-878-6 Buy at Amazon

Electrical Measurements in the Laboratory Practice. R. Bartiromo, M. De Vincenzi. Springer, 2016. $79.99 paper (286 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-31100-5 Buy at Amazon

Essential Radio Astronomy. J. J. Condon, S. M. Ransom. Princeton U. Press, 2016. $85.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13779-7 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Many-Body Physics. P. Coleman. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $84.99 (796 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86488-6 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Modern Climate Change. 2nd ed. A. Dessler. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $54.99 paper (257 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-48067-4 Buy at Amazon

Learning Scientific Programming with Python. C. Hill. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $44.99 paper (452 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-42822-5 Buy at Amazon

Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course. T. C. Hayes. Cambridge U. Press, 2016. $79.99 paper (1141 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-17723-8 Buy at Amazon

Photonics: An Introduction. G. A. Reider. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-26074-7 Buy at Amazon

Practical Quantum Mechanics: Modern Tools and Applications. E. Manousakis. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $69.95 (332 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-874934-9 Buy at Amazon

Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science. P. Pruzan. Springer, 2016. $99.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-27166-8 Buy at Amazon

Theory and mathematical methods

Bessel Processes, Schramm–Loewner Evolution, and the Dyson Model. M. Katori. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (141 pp.). ISBN 978-981-10-0274-8 Buy at Amazon

Effective Medium Theory: Principles and Applications. 2nd ed. T. C. Choy. Oxford U. Press, 2016. $110.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-870509-3 Buy at Amazon

Elements of Probability and Statistics: An Introduction to Probability with de Finetti’s Approach and to Bayesian Statistics. F. Biagini, M. Campanino. Springer, 2016. $69.99 paper (246 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07253-1 Buy at Amazon

Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists. A. Zee. Princeton U. Press, 2016. $90.00 (613 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16269-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Analysis I. 2nd ed. V. A. Zorich. Springer, 2015. $69.99 (616 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-48790-7 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Analysis II. 2nd ed. V. A. Zorich. Springer, 2016. $79.99 (720 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-48991-8 Buy at Amazon

Noether’s Theorems: Applications in Mechanics and Field Theory. G. Sardanashvily. Atlantis Press, 2016. $109.00 (297 pp.). ISBN 978-94-6239-170-3 Buy at Amazon

Perturbative Algebraic Quantum Field Theory: An Introduction for Mathematicians. K. Rejzner. Springer, 2016. $89.99 (180 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-25899-7 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Field Theory: The Why, What and How. T. Padmanabhan. Springer, 2016. $69.99 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-28171-1 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mathematical Physics: A Bridge between Mathematics and Physics. F. Finster, J. Kleiner, C. Röken, J. Tolksdorf, eds. Birkhäuser, 2016. $129.00 (518 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-26900-9 Buy at Amazon

Supermathematics and Its Applications in Statistical Physics: Grassmann Variables and the Method of Supersymmetry. F. Wegner. Springer, 2016. $89.99 paper (374 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-49168-3 Buy at Amazon