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acoustics

Insect Hearing and Acoustic Communication. B. Hedwig, ed. Springer, 2014. $189.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40461-0 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature. D. W. Olson. Springer, 2014. $39.99 paper (355 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-8402-8 Buy at Amazon

The Constellation Observing Atlas. G. Privett, K. Jones. Springer, 2013. $29.99 paper (220 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7647-4 Buy at Amazon

Discovery and Classification in Astronomy: Controversy and Consensus. S. J. Dick. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $45.00 (458 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03361-0 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei. D. Merritt. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $75.00 paper (550 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15860-0 Buy at Amazon

Extreme Explosions: Supernovae, Hypernovae, Magnetars, and Other Unusual Cosmic Blasts. D. S. Stevenson. Springer, 2014. $39.99 paper (369 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-8135-5 Buy at Amazon

Secular Evolution of Galaxies. J. Falcón-Barroso, J. H. Knapen, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $125.00 (638 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03527-0 Buy at Amazon

Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies. M. S. Seigar, P. Treuthardt, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2014. $77.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-844-2 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Atomic Physics: Precise Measurements and Ultracold Matter. M. Inguscio, L. Fallani. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $84.95 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-852584-4 Buy at Amazon

Resolving Strong Field Dynamics in Cation States of CO₂ via Optimised Molecular Alignment. M. Oppermann. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05337-0 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Computer Vision Techniques for the Diagnosis of Skin Cancer. J. Scharcanski, M. E. Celebi, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39607-6 Buy at Amazon

Laser Interaction with Biological Material: Mathematical Modeling. K. Kulikov. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (149 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01738-9 Buy at Amazon

Systems Biology of Metabolic and Signaling Networks: Energy, Mass and Information Transfer. M. A. Aon, V. Saks, U. Schlattner, eds. Springer, 2014. $209.00 (375 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38504-9 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence: Protocols and Applications. S. Parveen, M. S. Aslam, L. Hu, G. Xu. Springer, 2013. $49.95 paper (152 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39554-3 Buy at Amazon

Frontiers of 4d- and 5d-Transition Metal Oxides. G. Cao, L. DeLong. World Scientific, 2013. $125.00 (319 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-85-9 Buy at Amazon

Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry III. J. Leszczynski, M. K. Shukla, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (436 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4899-7444-0 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Computational Electromagnetics: Recent Advances and Engineering Applications. R. Mittra, ed. Springer, 2014. $279.00 (704 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4381-0 Buy at Amazon

Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Food Processing. C. Anandharamakrishnan. Springer, 2013. $49.99 paper (86 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7989-5 Buy at Amazon

Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis. National Research Council. National Academies Press, 2013. $46.00 paper (176 pp.). ISBN 978-0-309-28778-4 Buy at Amazon

Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave. 4th ed. A. Quarteroni, F. Saleri, P. Gervasio. Springer, 2014. $59.99 (442 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-45366-3 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Charge Dynamics in 122 Iron-Based Superconductors. A. Charnukha. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (131 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01191-2 Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Dynamics of Magnetically Trapped Particles: Foundations of the Physics of Radiation Belts and Space Plasmas. 2nd ed. J. G. Roederer, H. Zhang. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-41529-6 Buy at Amazon

Solar Dynamics and Magnetism from the Interior to the Atmosphere. N. N. Mansour, A. G. Kosovichev, R. Komm, D. Longcope, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4899-8004-5 Buy at Amazon

Titan: Interior, Surface, Atmosphere, and Space Environment. I. Müller-Wodarg, C. A. Griffith, E. Lellouch, T. E. Cravens, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $135.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19992-6 Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology: Anomalous Diffusion, Front Propagation and Random Searches. V. Méndez, D. Campos, F. Bartumeus. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39009-8 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

2014 Graduate Programs in Physics, Astronomy, and Related Fields. AIP, 2013. $82.00 paper (728 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1177-7 Buy at Amazon

Commonly Asked Questions in Physics. A. Rex. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $29.95 paper (238 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-6017-8 Buy at Amazon

Computational Physics. 2nd ed. J. M. Thijssen. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $65.00 paper (620 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-67713-5 Buy at Amazon

A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists. R. L. Herman. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $89.95 paper (747 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-8467-9 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Classical and Quantum Fields: An Introduction. G. S. Setlur. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $89.95 (370 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-5628-7 Buy at Amazon

Essential Physics. J. Matolyak, A. Haija. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $99.95 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-7521-9 Buy at Amazon

Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers. V. Galitski, B. Karnakov, V. Kogan, V. Galitski Jr. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $165.00 (912 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923271-0 Buy at Amazon

Fractional Calculus: An Introduction for Physicists. 2nd ed. R. Herrmann. World Scientific, 2014. $88.00 (479 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4551-07-6 Buy at Amazon

A General Relativity Workbook. T. A. Moore. U. Science Books, 2013. $62.50 paper (476 pp.). ISBN 978-1-891389-82-5 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences. 2nd ed. A. B. Shiflet, G. W. Shiflet. Princeton U. Press, 2014. $99.50 (816 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16071-9 Buy at Amazon

Physics Olympiad: Basic to Advanced Exercises. The Committee of Japan Physics Olympiad. World Scientific, 2014. $48.00 paper (363 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4556-67-5 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Nanotechnology and Information Science. Y. B. Band, Y. Avishai. Academic Press, 2013. $126.00 (971 pp.). ISBN 978-0-444-53786-7 Buy at Amazon

Semiconductors: Bonds and Bands. D. K. Ferry. IOP Publishing, 2013. $190.00 (182 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1045-1 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Analytic Perturbation Theory and Its Applications. K. E. Avrachenkov, J. A. Filar, P. G. Howlett. SIAM, 2013. $89.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611973-13-6 Buy at Amazon

Collected Works. Vol. 2: Hydrodynamics, Bifurcation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry 1965–1972. V. I. Arnold. Springer, 2014. $149.00 (464 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-31030-0 Buy at Amazon

Continuous and Distributed Systems: Theory and Applications. M. Z. Zgurovsky, V. A. Sadovnichiy, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03145-3 Buy at Amazon

Haar Wavelets: With Applications. Ü. Lepik, H. Hein. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (207 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04294-7 Buy at Amazon

Symmetries in Fundamental Physics. K. Sundermeyer. Springer, 2014. $189.00 (763 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7641-8 Buy at Amazon