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acoustics

The Technology of Binaural Listening. J. Blauert, ed. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (511 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-37761-7 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Accretion Processes in Astrophysics. I. González Martínez-País, T. Shahbaz, J. Casares Velázquez, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $120.00 (294 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03019-0 Buy at Amazon

Astronomical Measurement: A Concise Guide. A. Lawrence. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39834-6 Buy at Amazon

Astrophysical Techniques. 6th ed. C. R. Kitchin. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $79.95 (536 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1115-6 Buy at Amazon

Fifty Years of Seismology of the Sun and Stars. K. Jain et al., eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013. $77.00 (416 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-840-4 Buy at Amazon

New Trends in Radio Astronomy in the ALMA Era: The 30th Anniversary of Nobeyama Radio Observatory. R. Kawabe, N. Kuno, S. Yamamoto, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013. $77.00 (431 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-836-7 Buy at Amazon

Observing Photons in Space: A Guide to Experimental Space Astronomy. 2nd ed. M. C. E. Huber et al., eds. Springer, 2013. $279.00 (731 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7803-4 Buy at Amazon

Progess in Physics of the Sun and Stars: A New Era in Helio- and Asteroseismology. H. Shibahashi, A. E. Lynas-Gray, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013. $77.00 (581 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-842-8 Buy at Amazon

Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and Its Black Hole. R. H. Sanders. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $39.99 (197 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03918-6 Buy at Amazon

Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data. Ž. Ivezić, A. J. Connolly, J. T. VanderPlas, A. Gray. Princeton U. Press, 2014. $95.00 (540 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15168-7 Buy at Amazon

Tools of Radio Astronomy. 6th ed. T. L. Wilson, K. Rohlfs, S. Hüttemeister. Springer, 2013. $119.00 (609 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39949-7 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Dielectric Properties of Isolated Clusters: Beam Deflection Studies. S. Heiles, R. Schäfer. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (100 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7865-8 Buy at Amazon

Electrons in Molecules: From Basic Principles to Molecular Electronics. J.-P. Launay, M. Verdaguer. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $89.95 (491 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-929778-8 Buy at Amazon

Physics with Trapped Charged Particles: Lectures from the Les Houches Winter School. M. Knoop, N. Madsen, R. C. Thompson, eds. Imperial College Press, 2014. $54.00 paper (364 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-405-6 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Diagnostic Endoscopy. H. Zeng, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $99.95 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-8346-0 Buy at Amazon

Discrete and Topological Models in Molecular Biology. N. Jonoska, M. Saito, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (524 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40192-3 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience. I. F. Uchegbu, A. G. Schätzlein, W. P. Cheng, A. Lalatsa, eds. Springer, 2013. $119.00 (598 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9163-7 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Fluorescence. D. M. Jameson. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $79.95 (295 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-0604-3 Buy at Amazon

Perspectives on Organisms: Biological Time, Symmetries and Singularities. G. Longo, M. Montévil. Springer, 2014. $189.00 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-35937-8 Buy at Amazon

The Radon Transform and Medical Imaging. P. Kuchment. SIAM, 2014. $82.00 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611973-28-0 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Chemistry: The Key to Our Sustainable Future. M. Gupta Bhowon, S. Jhaumeer-Laulloo, H. Li Kam Wah, P. Ramasami, eds. Springer, 2014. $259.00 (353 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7388-2 Buy at Amazon

Crystalline State Photoreactions: Direct Observation of Reaction Processes and Metastable Intermediates. Y. Ohashi. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (208 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54372-5 Buy at Amazon

Electronic Structure of Metal Phthalocyanines on Ag(100). C. Krull. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02659-6 Buy at Amazon

Growth Mechanisms and Novel Properties of Silicon Nanostructures from Quantum-Mechanical Calculations. R.-Q. Zhang. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (66 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40904-2 Buy at Amazon

Heterogeneous Photocatalysis Using Inorganic Semiconductor Solids. U. I. Gaya. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (213 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7774-3 Buy at Amazon

Hierarchical Macromolecular Structures: 60 Years After the Staudinger Nobel Prize I. V. Percec, ed. Springer, 2013. $259.00 (421 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01136-3 Buy at Amazon

A New-Generation Density Functional: Towards Chemical Accuracy for Chemistry of Main Group Elements. I. Y. Zhang, X. Xu. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (110 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40420-7 Buy at Amazon

Relaxation of the Chemical Bond: Skin Chemisorption Size Matter ZTP Mechanics H₂O Myths. C. Q. Sun. Springer, 2014. $279.00 (807 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4585-20-0 Buy at Amazon

Water: Molecular Structure and Properties. X. F. Pang. World Scientific, 2014. $128.00 (472 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4440-42-4 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Applied and Computational Measurable Dynamics. E. M. Bollt, N. Santitissadeekorn. SIAM, 2013. $89.00 paper (368 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-63-4 Buy at Amazon

Approximation and Modeling with B-Splines. K. Höllig, J. Hörner. SIAM, 2013. $85.00 paper (214 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-94-8 Buy at Amazon

Basic Concepts in Computational Physics. B. A. Stickler, E. Schachinger. Springer, 2014. $59.99 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02434-9 Buy at Amazon

Reduced Order Methods for Modeling and Computational Reduction. A. Quarteroni, G. Rozza, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (332 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02089-1 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: Basics and Applications. V. Fridkin, S. Ducharme. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (122 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-41006-2 Buy at Amazon

Modern Trends in Superconductivity and Superfluidity. M. Y. Kagan. Springer, 2013. $119.00 paper (550 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-6960-1 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Graphene. H. Aoki, M. S. Dresselhaus, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02632-9 Buy at Amazon

Superconducting State: Mechanisms and Properties. V. Z. Kresin, H. Morawitz, S. A. Wolf. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $110.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965255-6 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Accelerated Cosmic Expansion. C. Moreno González, J. E. Madriz Aguilar, L. M. Reyes Barrera, eds. Springer, 2014. $199.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02062-4 Buy at Amazon

Asymptotic Safety and Black Holes. K. Falls. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (185 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01293-3 Buy at Amazon

Dark Matter and Cosmic Web Story. J. Einasto. World Scientific, 2014. $124.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4551-04-5 Buy at Amazon

Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse. M.-J. Rubenstein. Columbia U. Press, 2014. $28.95 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-15662-2 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Bias Temperature Instability for Devices and Circuits. T. Grasser, ed. Springer, 2014. $139.00 (810 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7908-6 Buy at Amazon

Copper Electrodeposition for Nanofabrication of Electronics Devices. K. Kondo, R. N. Akolkar, D. P. Barkey, M. Yokoi, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9175-0 Buy at Amazon

How to Gain Gain: A Reference Book on Triodes in Audio Pre-Amps. 2nd ed. B. Vogel. Springer, 2013. $139.00 (862 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-33032-2 Buy at Amazon

Measuring Signal Generators: Theory & Design. Y. K. Rybin. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (488 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02832-3 Buy at Amazon

Memristors and Memristive Systems. R. Tetzlaff, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (409 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9067-8 Buy at Amazon

Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants. D. P. Nikolelis, T. Varzakas, A. Erdem, G.-P. Nikoleli, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $199.95 (806 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-7632-2 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Alternative Energies: Updates on Progress. G. Ferreira, ed. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40679-9 Buy at Amazon

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren. 2nd ed. J. F. C. DiMento, P. Doughman, eds. MIT Press, 2014. $22.95 paper (343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-52587-9 Buy at Amazon

Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth. G. Palmer. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (91 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02939-9 Buy at Amazon

Renewables: A Review of Sustainable Energy Supply Options. D. Elliott. IOP Publishing, 2013. $190.00 (168 pp.). ISBN 978-0-750-31041-3 Buy at Amazon

Thoria-Based Nuclear Fuels: Thermophysical and Thermodynamic Properties, Fabrication, Reprocessing, and Waste Management. D. Das, S. R. Bharadwaj, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4471-5588-1 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Solid–Liquid Separation in the Mining Industry. F. Concha. Springer, 2014. $99.00 (429 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02483-7 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Biophysical Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing. J. M. Hanes, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-25046-0 Buy at Amazon

Flexible Global Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System Model: A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community. T. Zhou, Y. Yu, Y. Lin, B. Wang, eds. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (483 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-41800-6 Buy at Amazon

Geochemistry of Geologic CO₂ Sequestration. D. J. DePaolo, D. R. Cole, A. Navrotsky, I. C. Bourg, eds. Geochemical Society and Mineralogical Society of America, 2013. $40.00 (539 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-92-8 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems. W. G. Gray, C. T. Miller. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (582 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04009-7 Buy at Amazon

The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean: Structure, Dynamics and Applications. 2nd ed. A. Soloviev, R. Lukas. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (552 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7620-3 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

50 Years of Brown Dwarfs: From Prediction to Discovery to Forefront of Research. V. Joergens, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (168 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01161-5 Buy at Amazon

The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy. 2nd ed. J. B. Hearnshaw. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $120.00 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03174-6 Buy at Amazon

Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault. J. Dvorak. Pegasus, 2014. $27.95 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-1-60598-495-7 Buy at Amazon

Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators. Rev. ed. A. Sessler, E. Wilson. World Scientific, 2014. $48.00 paper (264 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4417-19-8 Buy at Amazon

Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders. S. Bourgeois. U. California Press, 2013. $49.95 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-0-520-27607-9 Buy at Amazon

Henri Poincaré: A Biography Through the Daily Papers. J.-M. Ginoux, C. Gerini. World Scientific, 2014. $29.00 (238 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4556-61-3 Buy at Amazon

History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues. K. Gavroglu, ed. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7198-7 Buy at Amazon

The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements. D. Berlinski. Basic Books, 2013. $15.00 paper (172 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-06571-4 Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas. A. Balogh et al., eds. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (642 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4899-7412-9 Buy at Amazon

The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas. 3rd ed. R. B. White. World Scientific, 2014. $88.00 (494 pp.). ISBN 978-1-78326-363-9 Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Bankrupting Physics: How Today’s Top Scientists Are Gambling Away Their Credibility. A. Unzicker, S. Jones. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. $28.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-1-137-27823-4 Buy at Amazon

Beyond the God Particle. L. M. Lederman, C. T. Hill. Prometheus Books, 2013. $24.95 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-801-0 Buy at Amazon

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. M. Kaku. Knopf Doubleday, 2014. $28.95 (400 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-53082-8 Buy at Amazon

Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun. 2nd ed. L. Golub, J. M. Pasachoff. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $24.99 paper (297 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-67264-2 Buy at Amazon

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. M. Tegmark. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. $30.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84614-476-9 Buy at Amazon

The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time. H. Päs. Harvard U. Press, 2014. $26.95 (295 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-72501-0 Buy at Amazon

What Is Relativity? An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter. J. Bennett. Columbia U. Press, 2014. $25.95 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-16726-0 Buy at Amazon

quantum physics

A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space. T. L. Curtright, D. B. Fairlie, C. K. Zachos. World Scientific, 2014. $38.00 (159 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4520-43-0 Buy at Amazon

Modern Functional Quantum Field Theory: Summing Feynman Graphs. H. M. Fried. World Scientific, 2014. $98.00 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4415-87-3 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Theory of Tunneling. 2nd ed. M. Razavy. World Scientific, 2014. $168.00 (767 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4525-00-8 Buy at Amazon

The Quantum World. M. Le Bellac. World Scientific, 2013. $34.00 paper (250 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4522-42-7 Buy at Amazon

society and government

Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities. P. Gasparini, G. Manfredi, D. Asprone, eds. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (75 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04315-9 Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

The Coronas-F Space Mission: Key Results for Solar Terrestrial Physics. V. Kuznetsov, ed. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (483 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39267-2 Buy at Amazon

GRAIL: Mapping the Moon’s Interior. M. T. Zuber, C. T. Russell, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (76 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9583-3 Buy at Amazon

Suborbital: Industry at the Edge of Space. E. Seedhouse. Springer, 2014. $34.99 paper (184 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03484-3 Buy at Amazon

The Van Allen Probes Mission. N. Fox, J. L. Burch, eds. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (647 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4899-7432-7 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Data Analysis: Statistical and Computational Methods for Scientists and Engineers. 4th ed. S. Brandt. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (523 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03761-5 Buy at Amazon

Essentials of Econophysics Modelling. F. Slanina. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $74.95 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-929968-3 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics. R. Shankar. Yale U. Press, 2014. $25.00 paper (464 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-19220-9 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Grids, Graphs, and Networks. C. Pozrikidis. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $99.00 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-999672-8 Buy at Amazon

Manifolds, Tensors, and Forms: An Introduction for Mathematicians and Physicists. P. Renteln. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $70.00 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04219-3 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Reactions: An Introduction. H. Paetz gen. Schieck. Springer, 2014. $89.99 paper (365 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-53985-5 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Physics: From Quantum Field Theory to Classical Mechanics. J. Ni. World Scientific, 2014. $78.00 (426 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4579-39-1 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model. M. D. Schwartz. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $90.00 (865 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03473-0 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. L. Susskind, A. Friedman. Basic Books, 2014. $26.99 (364 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-03667-7 Buy at Amazon

Quirky Quantum Concepts: Physical, Conceptual, Geometric, and Pictorial Physics That Didn’t Fit in Your Textbook. E. L. Michelsen. Springer, 2014. $49.99 paper (361 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-9304-4 Buy at Amazon

A Textbook on Ordinary Differential Equations. S. Ahmad, A. Ambrosetti. Springer, 2014. $59.99 paper (312 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02128-7 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

The Abel Prize 2008–2012. H. Holden, R. Piene, eds. Springer, 2014. $89.95 (571 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39448-5 Buy at Amazon

Advances in One-Dimensional Wave Mechanics: Towards a Unified Classical View. Z. Cao, C. Yin. Springer, 2014. $109.00 (145 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40890-8 Buy at Amazon

Covering Walks in Graphs. F. Fujie, P. Zhang. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (110 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-0304-7 Buy at Amazon

Differential Manifolds: A Basic Approach for Experimental Physicists. P. Baillon. World Scientific, 2014. $86.00 (592 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4449-56-4 Buy at Amazon

Discrete Dynamical Models. E. Salinelli, F. Tomarelli. Springer, 2014. $79.99 paper (388 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02290-1 Buy at Amazon

An Expedition to Continuum Theory. W. H. Müller. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7798-9 Buy at Amazon

Finite Sample Analysis in Quantum Estimation. T. Sugiyama. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (118 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54776-1 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth. A. Celletti, U. Locatelli, T. Ruggeri, E. Strickland, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02656-5 Buy at Amazon

Open Quantum Systems Far from Equilibrium. G. Schaller. Springer, 2014. $49.99 paper (207 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03876-6 Buy at Amazon

The Theory of the Top. Volume IV: Technical Applications of the Theory of the Top. F. Klein, A. Sommerfeld. Birkhäuser, 2014. $109.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4826-8 Buy at Amazon