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astronomy and astrophysics

Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields. U. Klein, A. Fletcher. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08941-6 Buy at Amazon

Grab ’n’ Go Astronomy. N. English. Springer, 2014. $39.99 paper (245 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-0825-7 Buy at Amazon

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Third Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. C. F. Sopuerta, ed. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (309 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10487-4 Buy at Amazon

New Insights from Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson. W. Orchiston, D. A. Green, R. Strom, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07613-3 Buy at Amazon

Spectral Evolution in Blazars: The Case of CTA 102. C. Fromm. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (210 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10767-7 Buy at Amazon

The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes: An Analytic Approach. N. C. Stone. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (154 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12675-3 Buy at Amazon

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe. J. S. Vink, ed. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09595-0 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Novel Approaches for Single Molecule Activation and Detection. F. Benfenati, E. Di Fabrizio, V. Torre, eds. Springer, 2014. $199.00 (219 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-43366-9 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Advances in Medical Diagnostic Technology. K. W. Lai et al. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (188 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4585-71-2 Buy at Amazon

Bioelectronic Nose: Integration of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. T. H. Park, ed. Springer, 2014. $189.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-8612-6 Buy at Amazon

The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication. S. J. Hagen, ed. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-1401-2 Buy at Amazon

Smart Biomaterials. M. Ebara et al. Springer, 2014. $129.00 paper (373 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54399-2 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging. A. Sitek. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $119.95 (251 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-4934-7 Buy at Amazon

Wavelets in Neuroscience. A. E. Hramov et al. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (318 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-43849-7 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Analysis of Kinetic Reaction Mechanisms. T. Turányi, A. S. Tomlin. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44561-7 Buy at Amazon

Liquid Explosives. J. Liu. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-45846-4 Buy at Amazon

Polymeric Cryogels: Macroporous Gels with Remarkable Properties. O. Okay, ed. Springer, 2014. $259.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05845-0 Buy at Amazon

Refractories for Aluminium: Electrolysis and the Cast House. A. Yurkov. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-11441-5 Buy at Amazon

Salts of Amino Acids: Crystallization, Structure and Properties. M. Fleck, A. M. Petrosyan. Springer, 2014. $209.00 (574 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06298-3 Buy at Amazon

Simulation Studies of Recombination Kinetics and Spin Dynamics in Radiation Chemistry. A. Agarwal. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06271-6 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Computational Electromagnetics—Retrospective and Outlook: In Honor of Wolfgang J. R. Hoefer. I. Ahmed, Z. Chen, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (319 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-094-0 Buy at Amazon

Computational Problems in Engineering. N. Mastorakis, V. Mladenov, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03966-4 Buy at Amazon

Fundamental Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics. T. H. Pulliam, D. W. Zingg. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05052-2 Buy at Amazon

IDIHOM: Industrialization of High-Order Methods—A Top-Down Approach; Results of a Collaborative Research Project Funded by the European Union, 2010–2014. N. Kroll et al., eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (686 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12885-6 Buy at Amazon

Optimization with PDE Constraints: ESF Networking Program ‘OPTPDE’. R. Hoppe, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08024-6 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Flux Pinning in Superconductors. 2nd ed. T. Matsushita. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (475 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-45311-3 Buy at Amazon

Gelled Bicontinuous Microemulsions: A New Type of Orthogonal Self-Assembled Systems. M. Laupheimer. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (161 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07718-5 Buy at Amazon

Iron-Based Superconductivity. P. D. Johnson, G. Xu, W.-G. Yin, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (447 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-11253-4 Buy at Amazon

LACAME 2012: Proceedings of the 13th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect, held in Medellín, Colombia, November 11–16, 2012. C. A. Barrero Meneses et al., eds. Springer, 2014. $139.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-6481-1 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Nanoparticles: A Study by Synchrotron Radiation and RF Transverse Susceptibility. A. I. Figueroa. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (165 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07093-3 Buy at Amazon

Strongly Correlated Systems: Experimental Techniques. A. Avella, F. Mancini, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (302 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44132-9 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

The Special Theory of Relativity: A Mathematical Approach. F. Rahaman. Springer, 2014. $69.99 (249 pp.). ISBN 978-81-322-2079-4 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Carbon for Sensing Devices. D. Demarchi, A. Tagliaferro, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08647-7 Buy at Amazon

CMOS Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Efficient Power Extraction, Interface Modeling and Loss Analysis. T. Hehn, Y. Manoli. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (204 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9287-5 Buy at Amazon

Electrical Design of Through Silicon Via. M. Lee, J. S. Pak, J. Kim, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9037-6 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Laser-Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies. V. P. Veiko, V. I. Konov, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05986-0 Buy at Amazon

Hardware/Software Co-Design and Optimization for Cyberphysical Integration in Digital Microfluidic Biochips. Y. Luo, K. Chakrabarty, T.-Y. Ho. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (197 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09005-4 Buy at Amazon

In-Situ Studies with Photons, Neutrons and Electrons Scattering II. T. Kannengiesser, S. S. Babu, Y. Komizo, A. J. Ramirez, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06144-3 Buy at Amazon

Integrated Devices for Quantum Information with Polarization Encoded Qubits. L. Sansoni. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (140 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07102-2 Buy at Amazon

Micro and Nanophotonics for Semiconductor Infrared Detectors: Towards an Ultimate Uncooled Device. Z. Jakšić. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (258 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09673-5 Buy at Amazon

Millimeter-Wave Gyrotron Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifiers. C.-H. Du, P.-K. Liu. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-54727-0 Buy at Amazon

Semiconductor Technologies in the Era of Electronics. Y. H. Kang. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (149 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-8767-3 Buy at Amazon

Smart Rotor Modeling: Aero-Servo-Elastic Modeling of a Smart Rotor with Adaptive Trailing Edge Flaps. L. Bergami. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (157 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07364-4 Buy at Amazon

System Level ESD Protection. V. Vashchenko, M. Scholz. Springer, 2014. $139.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03220-7 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Energy Technologies and Economics. P. A. Narbel, J. P. Hansen, J. R. Lien. Springer, 2014. $89.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08224-0 Buy at Amazon

Environmental Security of the European Cross-Border Energy Supply Infrastructure. M. G. Culshaw, V. I. Osipov, S. J. Booth, A. S. Victorov, eds. Springer, 2015. $189.00, $89.99 paper (253 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9537-1, ISBN 978-94-017-9543-2 paper Buy at Amazon

Harvesting Space for a Greener Earth. 2nd ed. G. Matloff, C. Bangs, L. Johnson. Springer, 2014. $34.99 paper (277 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9425-6 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Advanced Experimental and Numerical Techniques for Cavitation Erosion Prediction. K.-H. Kim, G. Chahine, J.-P. Franc, A. Karimi, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-8538-9 Buy at Amazon

Fluid Mechanics of Viscoplasticity. R. R. Huilgol. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-45616-3 Buy at Amazon

Instability and Control of Massively Separated Flows. V. Theofilis, J. Soria, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06259-4 Buy at Amazon

Turbulence and Interactions. M. O. Deville et al., eds. Springer, 2014. $199.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-43488-8 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

The 1st International Workshop on the Quality of Geodetic Observation and Monitoring Systems (QuGOMS’11). H. Kutterer, F. Seitz, H. Alkhatib, M. Schmidt, eds. Springer, 2015. $199.00 (183 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10827-8 Buy at Amazon

Advanced Data Assimilation for Geosciences: Les Houches 2012 Special Issue. É. Blayo, M. Bocquet, E. Cosme, L. F. Cugliandolo, eds. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $69.95 (584 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-872384-4 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Lakes. Volume 3: Methods of Understanding Lakes as Components of the Geophysical Environment. K. Hutter, Y. Wang, I. P. Chubarenko. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (605 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00472-3 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves. M. Bassan, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (387 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03791-2 Buy at Amazon

Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy: An Introduction for Operators. J. Thomas, T. Gemming. Springer, 2014. $99.00 (348 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-8600-3 Buy at Amazon

Cylindrical Liner Z-Pinches as Drivers for Converging Strong Shock Experiments. G. C. Burdiak. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (144 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06961-6 Buy at Amazon

Digital Holography and Wavefront Sensing: Principles, Techniques and Applications. 2nd ed. U. Schnars, C. Falldorf, J. Watson, W. Jüptner. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44692-8 Buy at Amazon

International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress. E. K. Polychroniadis, A. Y. Oral, M. Ozer, eds. Springer, 2014. $259.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04638-9 Buy at Amazon

ISAC and ARIEL: The TRIUMF Radioactive Beam Facilities and the Scientific Program. J. Dilling, R. Krücken, L. Merminga, eds. Springer, 2014. $139.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7962-4 Buy at Amazon

Synchrotron Radiation: Basics, Methods and Applications. S. Mobilio, F. Boscherini, C. Meneghini, eds. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (799 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-55314-1 Buy at Amazon

Theoretical Foundations of Synchrotron and Storage Ring RF Systems. H. Klingbeil, U. Laier, D. Lens. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07187-9 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials. P. Misra, ed. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-241-8 Buy at Amazon

Crystallographic Texture of Materials. S. Suwas, R. K. Ray. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (260 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4471-6313-8 Buy at Amazon

Integration of Functional Oxides with Semiconductors. A. A. Demkov, A. B. Posadas. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9319-8 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Ceramics. R. Pampuch. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (91 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10409-6 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Microscopy of Layered Structures. W. Kuch, R. Schäfer, P. Fischer, F. U. Hillebrecht. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (246 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44531-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical and Computational Analyses of Cracking Formation: Fracture Morphology and Its Evolution in Engineering Materials and Structures. Y. Sumi. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54934-5 Buy at Amazon

Mesoscopic Phenomena in Multifunctional Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling and Applications. A. Saxena, A. Planes, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-55374-5 Buy at Amazon

Noise and Vibration in Friction Systems. V. P. Sergienko, S. N. Bukharov. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-11333-3 Buy at Amazon

Novel Aspects of Diamond: From Growth to Applications. N. Yang, ed. Springer, 2015. $199.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09833-3 Buy at Amazon

Particle Penetration and Radiation Effects Volume 2: Penetration of Atomic and Molecular Ions. P. Sigmund. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (603 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05563-3 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Wurtzite Nitrides and Oxides: Passport to Devices. B. Gil. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06804-6 Buy at Amazon