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acoustics

Patterns of Intuition: Musical Creativity in the Light of Algorithmic Composition. G. Nierhaus, ed. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (421 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9560-9 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Life and Death of the Stars. G. Srinivasan. Springer, 2014. $59.99 paper (225 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-45383-0 Buy at Amazon

Stella Novae: Past and Future Decades. P. A. Woudt, V. A. R. M. Ribeiro, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2014. $77.00 (416 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-864-0 Buy at Amazon

Thermal Convection, Magnetic Field, and Differential Rotation in Solar-Type Stars. H. Hotta. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (81 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55398-4 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Collective Atom—Light Interactions in Dense Atomic Vapours. J. Keaveney. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (144 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07099-5 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (IV). H. Liljenström, ed. Springer, 2015. $239.00 (618 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9547-0 Buy at Amazon

Biomedical Signals and Sensors II: Linking Acoustic and Optic Biosignals and Biomedical Sensors. E. Kaniusas. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (217 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-45105-2 Buy at Amazon

Compendium to Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists: 300 Problems and Solutions. E. B. Podgoršak. Springer, 2014. $169.00 (1148 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20185-1 Buy at Amazon

Innovative Approaches to Cell Biomechanics: From Cell Migration to On-Chip Manipulation. K. O. Okeyo, H. Miyoshi, T. Adachi. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55162-1 Buy at Amazon

Membrane Transport Mechanism: 3D Structure and Beyond. R. Krämer, C. Ziegler, eds. Springer, 2014. $189.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-53838-4 Buy at Amazon

Mutifaceted Roles of Crystallography in Modern Drug Discovery. G. Scapin, D. Patel, E. Arnold, eds. Springer, 2015. $189.00, $89.99 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9718-4, ISBN 978-94-017-9724-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Neural Fields: Theory and Applications. S. Coombes, P. beim Graben, R. Potthast, J. Wright, eds. Springer, 2014. $149.00 (487 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-54592-4 Buy at Amazon

Single Molecular Machines and Motors. C. Joachim, G. Rapenne, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13871-8 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Chemical Theory Beyond the Born– Oppenheimer Paradigm: Nonadiabatic Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Chemical Reactions. K. Takatsuka, T. Yonehara, K. Hanasaki, Y. Arasaki. World Scientific, 2015. $138.00 (427 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4619-64-6 Buy at Amazon

Electrophosphorescent Polymers Based on Polyarylether Hosts. S. Shao. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (96 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44375-0 Buy at Amazon

Graphene-Based Polymer Nanocomposites in Electronics. K. K. Sadasivuni, D. Ponnamma, J. Kim, S. Thomas, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13874-9 Buy at Amazon

Hydrogen Bonded Supremolecular Structures. Z.-T. Li, L.-Z. Wu, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-45755-9 Buy at Amazon

Surface Chemistry of Aqueous Corrosion Processes. E. McCafferty. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (89 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15647-7 Buy at Amazon

Transition Metal Compounds. D. I. Khomskii. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $125.00 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02017-7 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Computational Approaches to Protein Dynamics: From Quantum to Coarse-Grained Methods. M. Fuxreiter, ed. CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis, 2015. $129.95 (453 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-6157-1 Buy at Amazon

Finite Element Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Guide. D. Kuzmin, J. Hämäläinen. SIAM, 2015. $104.00 paper (313 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61197-360-0 Buy at Amazon

Numerical Methods and Applications. I. Dimov. S. Fidanova, I. Lirkov, eds. Springer, 2015. $84.00 paper (311 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15584-5 Buy at Amazon

Numerical Simulation of Mechatronic Sensors and Actuators: Finite Elements for Computational Multiphysics. 3rd ed. M. Kaltenbacher. Springer, 2015. $139.00 (587 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40169-5 Buy at Amazon

A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python. 4th ed. H. P. Langtangen. Springer, 2014. $79.99 (865 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-54958-8 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling. S. Girimaji, W. Haase, S.-H. Peng, D. Schwamborn, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (501 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15140-3 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Electronic Processes in Organic Electronics: Bridging Nanostructure, Electronic States and Device Properties. H. Ishii, K. Kudo, T. Nakayama, N. Ueno, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55205-5 Buy at Amazon

Graphene Quantum Dots. A. D. Güçlü, P. Potasz, M. Korkusinski, P. Hawrylak. Springer, 2014. $99.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44610-2 Buy at Amazon

Modelling of Plasmonic and Graphene Nanodevices. J. Munárriz Arrieta. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (121 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07087-2 Buy at Amazon

Novel Superfluids. Vol. 2. K. H. Bennemann, J. B. Ketterson, eds. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $225.00 (631 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-871926-7 Buy at Amazon

Phase Space Methods for Degenerate Quantum Gases. B. J. Dalton, J. Jeffers, S. M. Barnett. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $115.00 (417 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956274-9 Buy at Amazon

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Magnetic Bulk Impurities: From a Single Kondo Atom Towards a Coupled System. H. Prüser. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (109 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06384-3 Buy at Amazon

Structural Studies of Liquids and Glasses Using Aerodynamic Levitation. T. Farmer. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (113 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06574-8 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Space-Time Foliation in Quantum Gravity. Y. Sato. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (100 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54946-8 Buy at Amazon

Springer Handbook of Spacetime. A. Ashtekar, V. Petkov, eds. Springer, 2014. $499.00 (887 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-41991-1 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Biaxial Testing for Fabrics and Foils: Optimizing Devices and Procedures. P. Beccarelli. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (138 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02227-7 Buy at Amazon

Circuit Design on Plastic Foils. D. Raiteri, E. Cantatore, A. H. M. van Roermund. Springer, 2015. $99.99 (130 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-11426-2 Buy at Amazon

Comparators in Nanometer CMOS Technology. B. Goll, H. Zimmermann. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44481-8 Buy at Amazon

Functional Nanomaterials and Devices for Electronics, Sensors and Energy Harvesting. A. Nazarov, F. Balestra, V. Kilchytska, D. Flandre, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (467 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08803-7 Buy at Amazon

Photon Absorption Models in Nanostructured Semiconductor Solar Cells and Devices. A. Luque, A. V. Mellor. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (202 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14537-2 Buy at Amazon

Radiation-Tolerant Delta-Sigma Time-to-Digital Converters. Y. Cao, P. Leroux, M. Steyaert. Springer, 2015. $99.99 (114 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-11841-3 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century. 2nd ed. B. Richter. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $19.99 paper (361 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-67372-4 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Vol. 47. S. H. Davis, P. Moin, eds. Annual Reviews, 2015. $99.00 (659 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-0747-9 Buy at Amazon

Flow, Deformation and Fracture: Lectures on Fluid Mechanics and the Mechanics of Deformable Solids for Mathematicians and Physicists. G. I. Barenblatt. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $50.00 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-71538-6 Buy at Amazon

The Interaction Between Flexible Plates and Fluid in Two-Dimensional Flow. L. Jia. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (103 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-43674-5 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

The Atmosphere and Ionosphere: Elementary Processes, Monitoring, and Ball Lightning. V. L. Bychkov, G. V. Golubkov, A. I. Nikitin, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05238-0 Buy at Amazon

Climate Change in North America. G. Ohring, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03767-7 Buy at Amazon

Environmental and Resources Geochemistry of Earth System: Mass Transfer Mechanism, Geochemical Cycle and the Influence of Human Activity. N. Shikazono. Springer, 2015. $129.00 paper (244 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54903-1 Buy at Amazon

Flow in Porous Rocks: Energy and Environmental Applications. A. W. Woods. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $110.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-06585-7 Buy at Amazon

Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems. U. Marti, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (346 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10836-0 Buy at Amazon

Multiscale Seismic Tomography. D. Zhao. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55359-5 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Geophysics: Applications in Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology, Agriculture and Environmental Science. V. I. Ferronsky. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (522 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12450-6 Buy at Amazon

Rain Formation in Warm Clouds: General Systems Theory. A. M. Selvam. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (98 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13268-6 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Historical Perspectives from John Bernoulli (1727) to Ernst Hellinger (1914). G. A. Maugin. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05373-8 Buy at Amazon

Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars. E. M. Conway. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2015. $34.95 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-1604-5 Buy at Amazon

The Invisible Universe: The Story of Radio Astronomy. 3rd ed. G. Verschuur. Springer, 2015. $29.99 paper (259 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13421-5 Buy at Amazon

Masters of the Universe: Conversations with Cosmologists of the Past. H. Kragh. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $49.95 (285 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-872289-2 Buy at Amazon

Nature’s Third Cycle: A Story of Sunspots. A. R. Choudhuri. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $39.95 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-967475-6 Buy at Amazon

Questioning the Foundations of Physics: Which of Our Fundamental Assumptions Are Wrong? A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali, eds. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (274 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13044-6 Buy at Amazon

Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the Mind. L. N. Cooper. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $28.99 (246 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04317-6 Buy at Amazon

Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space. G. Israelian, B. May, eds. Starmus, 2014. $40.00 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-1-62795-026-8 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Dipolar Correlation Spectroscopy: Higher-Order Correlation Terms in Three-Spin Double Electron-Electron Resonance (DEER). B. Basel. Springer Spektrum, 2015. $89.99 paper (116 pp.). ISBN 978-3-658-09190-3 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Phased Arrays. L. W. Schmerr Jr. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07271-5 Buy at Amazon

High-Resolution Spin-Resolved Photoemission Spectrometer and the Rashba Effect in Bismuth Thin Films. A. Takayama. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (83 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55027-3 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Amorphous Semiconductors. S. Kugler, K. Shimakawa. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $99.99 (147 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01934-8 Buy at Amazon

Characterisation of Ferroelectric Bulk Materials and Thin Films. M. G. Cain, ed. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9310-4 Buy at Amazon

Defects at Oxide Surfaces. J. Jupille, G. Thornton, eds. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14366-8 Buy at Amazon

In-Situ Structure Characterization of Elastomers During Deformation and Fracture. K. Brüning. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (124 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06906-7 Buy at Amazon

Nanoscience Advances in CBRN Agents Detection, Information and Energy Security. P. Petkov, D. Tsiulyanu, W. Kulisch, C. Popov, eds. Springer, 2015. $229.00, $119.00 paper (533 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9696-5, ISBN 978-94-017-9699-6 paper Buy at Amazon

Phase Transitions in Materials. B. Fultz. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $90.00 (583 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-06724-0 Buy at Amazon

Theoretical Modeling of Inorganic Nanostructures: Symmetry and Ab-Initio Calculations of Nanolayers, Nanotubes and Nanowires. R. A. Evarestov. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (672 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44580-8 Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Gravity: Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic. E. Poisson, C. M. Will. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $85.00 (780 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03286-6 Buy at Amazon

It from Bit or Bit from It? On Physics and Information. A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali, eds. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12945-7 Buy at Amazon

Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics: 26 Surprising Insights. T. Padmanabhan. Springer, 2015. $59.99 paper (302 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13442-0 Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems Based on Volterra Series Expansion: A Parametric Characteristic Approach. X. Jing, Z. Lang. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12390-5 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Laser Physics: From Principles to Practical Work in the Lab. M. Eichhorn. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (171 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05127-7 Buy at Amazon

A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity. 5th ed. E. H. Dowell. Springer, 2015. $279.00 (700 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09452-6 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Chaos: An Introduction. S. Wimberger. Springer, 2014. $69.99 (206 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06342-3 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Physics. A. Kamal. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (612 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38654-1 Buy at Amazon

Particle Physics. A. Kamal. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (529 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38660-2 Buy at Amazon

The Physics of the Manhattan Project. 3rd ed. B. C. Reed. Springer, 2015. $89.99 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-43532-8 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Astrophysics: Using Gravity and Stellar Physics to Explore the Cosmos. C. Keeton. Springer, 2014. $89.99 paper (434 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9235-1 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanics. J. L. Powell, B. Crasemann. Dover, 2015. $29.95 paper (495 pp.). ISBN 978-0-486-79459-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Theory of Many-Body Systems: Techniques and Applications. 2nd ed. A. Zagoskin. Springer, 2014. $99.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07048-3 Buy at Amazon

What Are the Stars? G. Srinivasan. Springer, 2014. $59.99 paper (177 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-45301-4 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

The Complete Works of Gabrio Piola: Volume I. F. dell’Isola et al., eds. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (813 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00262-0 Buy at Amazon

Heavily-Doped 2D-Quantized Structures and the Einstein Relation. K. P. Ghatak, S. Bhattacharya. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (347 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08379-7 Buy at Amazon

Inside Interesting Integrals. P. J. Nahin. Springer, 2015. $49.99 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-1276-6 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Laplace Transforms and Fourier Series. 2nd ed. P. Dyke. Springer, 2014. $49.99 paper (318 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4471-6394-7 Buy at Amazon

Limit Theorems for Multi-Indexed Sums of Random Variables. O. Klesov. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44387-3 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theories. D. Calaque, T. Strobl, eds. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (556 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09948-4 Buy at Amazon

Measurement and Probability: A Probabilistic Theory of Measurement with Applications. G. B. Rossi. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-8824-3 Buy at Amazon

Measurement Uncertainties in Science and Technology. 2nd ed. M. Grabe. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (401 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04887-1 Buy at Amazon

Modelling Electroanalytical Experiments by the Integral Equation Method. L. K. Bieniasz. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44881-6 Buy at Amazon

Noncommutative Geometry and Particle Physics. W. D. van Suijlekom. Springer, 2015. $69.99 (237 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9161-8 Buy at Amazon

Nonequilibrium and Irreversibility. G. Gallavotti. Springer, 2014. $109.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-06757-5 Buy at Amazon

The Non-equilibrium Green’s Function Method for Nanoscale Device Simulation. M. Pourfath. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7091-1799-6 Buy at Amazon

Spectral Methods in Chemistry and Physics: Applications to Kinetic Theory and Quantum Mechanics. B. Shizgal. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (415 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9453-4 Buy at Amazon

State Space Consistency and Differentiability. D. Serakos. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (72 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14468-9 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R. E. D. Kolaczyk, G. Csárdi. Springer, 2014. $59.99 paper (207 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-0982-7 Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Equations: Theory and Applications in Acoustics, Hydrodynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Radiophysics. Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Exact Results, and Asymptotic Approximations. V. I. Klyatskin. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07586-0 Buy at Amazon

Tensor Analysis and Elementary Differential Geometry for Physicists and Engineers. H. Nguyen-Schäfer, J.-P. Schmidt. Springer, 2014. $99.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-43443-7 Buy at Amazon

Tensorial Methods and Renormalization in Group Field Theories. S. Carrozza. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05866-5 Buy at Amazon