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condensed-matter physics

The Equilibrium Theory of Inhomogeneous Polymers. G. H. Fredrickson. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $74.95 paper (437 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-967379-7 Buy at Amazon

Feynman Diagram Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics. R. A. Jishi. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $110.00 (400 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02517-2 Buy at Amazon

Geometrically Constructed Markov Chain Monte Carlo Study of Quantum Spin-Phonon Complex Systems. H. Suwa. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (126 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54516-3 Buy at Amazon

Nanoscience with Liquid Crystals: From Self-Organized Nanostructures to Applications. Q. Li, ed. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04866-6 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Advanced General Relativity: Gravity Waves, Spinning Particles, and Black Holes. C. Barrabès, P. A. Hogan. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $89.95 (144 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-968069-6 Buy at Amazon

Foundations of Quantum Gravity. J. Lindesay. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $110.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00840-3 Buy at Amazon

Non-minimal Higgs Inflation and Frame Dependence in Cosmology. C. F. Steinwachs. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01841-6 Buy at Amazon

On the Topology and Future Stability of the Universe. H. Ringström. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $125.00 (718 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-968029-0 Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Reality: Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos. R. L. Amoroso, L. H. Kauffman, P. Rowlands, eds. World Scientific, 2013. $168.00 (526 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4504-77-5 Buy at Amazon

Special Relativity in General Frames: From Particles to Astrophysics. É. Gourgoulhon. Springer, 2013. $99.00 (784 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-37275-9 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Dynamics of Underactuated Multibody Systems: Modeling, Control and Optimal Design. R. Seifried. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (249 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01227-8 Buy at Amazon

Exploring Memory Hierarchy Design with Emerging Memory Technologies. G. Sun. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (122 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00680-2 Buy at Amazon

MOSFET Technologies for Double-Pole Four-Throw Radio-Frequency Switch. V. M. Srivastava, G. Singh. Springer, 2014. $119.00 (199 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01164-6 Buy at Amazon

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Materials, Devices and Applications. A. Buckley, ed. Woodhead Publishing, 2013. $325.00 (647 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85709-425-4 Buy at Amazon

Piezo-Electric Electro-Acoustic Transducers. V. Sharapov, Z. Sotula, L. Kunickaya. Springer, 2014. $119.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01197-4 Buy at Amazon

Rectenna Solar Cells. G. Moddel, S. Grover, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3715-4 Buy at Amazon

Transport Properties of Molecular Junctions. N. A. Zimbovskaya. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (338 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-8010-5 Buy at Amazon

Understanding LED Illumination. M. N. Khan. CRC Press, 2013. $69.95 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-0772-2 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Climate and Ecosystems. D. Schimel. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $27.95 paper (222 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15196-0 Buy at Amazon

Gas Turbine Emissions. T. C. Lieuwen, V. Yang, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $125.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76405-6 Buy at Amazon

Solar Cells Based on Colloidal Nanocrystals. H. Borchert. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04387-6 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Mechanics of Moving Materials. N. Banichuk et al. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01744-0 Buy at Amazon

Micro-Segmented Flow: Applications in Chemistry and Biology. J. M. Köhler, B. P. Cahill, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38779-1 Buy at Amazon

Slow Viscous Flow. 2nd ed. W. E. Langlois, M. O. Deville. Springer, 2014. $79.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03834-6 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Applied Geothermics. L. Eppelbaum, I. Kutasov, A. Pilchin. Springer, 2014. $279.00 (751 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34022-2 Buy at Amazon

Phase Diagrams for Geoscientists: An Atlas of the Earth’s Interior. 2nd ed. T. Gasparik. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5775-6 Buy at Amazon

Recent Advances in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring. Vol. 2. M. B. Kalinowski, A. Becker, eds. Birkhäuser, 2014. $74.99 paper (441 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0348-0818-7 Buy at Amazon

The Self-Potential Method: Theory and Applications in Environmental Geosciences. A. Revil, A. Jardani. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $120.00 (369 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01927-0 Buy at Amazon

Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Volcanoes: A User’s Manual. A. Harris. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $160.00 (727 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85945-5 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

100 Years of Subatomic Physics. E. M. Henley, S. D. Ellis. World Scientific, 2013. $48.00 paper (549 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4425-80-3 Buy at Amazon

Balances: Instruments, Manufacturers, History. E. Robens, S. A. A. Jayaweera, S. Kiefer. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (730 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-36446-4 Buy at Amazon

Buried Glory: Portraits of Soviet Scientists. I. Hargittai. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $35.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-998559-3 Buy at Amazon

The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter. K. Freese. Princeton U. Press, 2014. $29.95 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15335-3 Buy at Amazon

Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration. C. Impey, H. Henry. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $35.00 (450 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14753-6 Buy at Amazon

Einstein’s Berlin: In the Footsteps of a Genius. D. Hoffmann. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2013. $45.00 paper (175 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-1040-1 Buy at Amazon

Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics. D. Leverington. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $75.00 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89994-9 Buy at Amazon

Extraterrestrial Altruism: Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos. D. A. Vakoch, ed. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (329 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-37749-5 Buy at Amazon

From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity: A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought. M. Eigen. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $225.00 (732 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857021-9 Buy at Amazon

Hans Christian Orsted: Reading Nature’s Mind. D. C. Christensen. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $69.95 (743 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-966926-4 Buy at Amazon

In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought. M. Harwit. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $50.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04406-7 Buy at Amazon

The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences. P. M. Harman, A. E. Shapiro, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $102.00 paper (531 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89266-7 Buy at Amazon

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning. M. Gleiser. Basic Books, 2014. $29.99 (335 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-03171-9 Buy at Amazon

The Principle of the Common Cause. G. Hofer-Szabó, M. Rédei, L. E. Szabó. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $99.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01935-5 Buy at Amazon

Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space. L. Sherr. Simon & Schuster, 2014. $28.00 (374 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4767-2576-5 Buy at Amazon

The Six-Cornered Snowflake. J. Kepler. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $29.95 paper (74 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-871249-7 Buy at Amazon

Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery. W. J. Turkel. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2013. $34.95 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0981-8 Buy at Amazon

String Theory and the Scientific Method. R. Dawid. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $95.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02971-2 Buy at Amazon

Thinking in Physics: The Pleasure of Reasoning and Understanding. L. Viennot. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (161 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-8665-2 Buy at Amazon

Under the Spell of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies. M. Shifman, ed. World Scientific, 2013. $68.00 paper (537 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4436-56-4 Buy at Amazon

The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life. P. V. Rabins. Columbia U. Press, 2013. $28.95 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-16472-6 Buy at Amazon

William and Caroline Herschel: Pioneers in Late 18th-Century Astronomy. M. Hoskin. Springer, 2014. $49.99 paper (112 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-6874-1 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Attosecond Physics: Attosecond Measurements and Control of Physical Systems. L. Plaja, R. Torres, A. Zaïr, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-37622-1 Buy at Amazon

Helium Ion Microscopy: Principles and Applications. D. C. Joy. Springer, 2013. $54.99 paper (64 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-8659-6 Buy at Amazon

Historical Evolution Toward Achieving Ultrahigh Vacuum in JEOL Electron Microscopes. N. Yoshimura. Springer, 2014. $54.99 paper (125 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54447-0 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Resonance and Its Applications. V. I. Chizhik et al. Springer, 2014. $239.00 (782 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05298-4 Buy at Amazon

Novel Optical Technologies for Nanofabrication. Q. Liu, X. Duan, C. Peng. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40386-6 Buy at Amazon

Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Research. D. A. Bonnell, S. V. Kalinin, eds. World Scientific, 2013. $158.00 (602 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4434-70-6 Buy at Amazon

Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and Materials Science. G. S. Henderson, D. R. Neuville, R. T. Downs, eds. Mineralogical Society of America and Geochemical Society, 2014. $50.00 paper (800 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-93-5 Buy at Amazon

Studying Complex Surface Dynamical Systems Using Helium-3 Spin-Echo Spectroscopy. B. A. J. Lechner. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01179-0 Buy at Amazon

Viscometry for Liquids: Calibration of Viscometers. S. V. Gupta. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04857-4 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Factors Governing Tin Whisker Growth. E. Crandall. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (136 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00469-3 Buy at Amazon

Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Bioapplications. X. Chen, Y. Lin, D. Tu. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (208 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40363-7 Buy at Amazon

Mechanical Properties of Ceramics. J. Pelleg. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (765 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-04491-0 Buy at Amazon

Physics, Chemistry and Applications of Nanostructures. V. E. Borisenko, S. V. Gaponenko, V. S. Gurin, C. H. Kam, eds. World Scientific, 2013. $175.00 (642 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4460-17-0 Buy at Amazon

Piezo-Active Composites: Orientation Effects and Anisotropy Factors. V. Y. Topolov, P. Bisegna, C. R. Bowen. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (169 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38353-3 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Processes in Semiconductors. 5th ed. B. K. Ridley. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $64.95 paper (430 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-967722-1 Buy at Amazon

Tungsten Carbides: Structure, Properties and Application in Hardmetals. A. S. Kurlov, A. I. Gusev. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00523-2 Buy at Amazon

Wave Propagation in Nanostructures: Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics Formulations. S. Gopalakrishnan, S. Narendar. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (359 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01031-1 Buy at Amazon

ZnO Nanocrystals and Allied Materials. M. S. R. Rao, T. Okada, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (374 pp.). ISBN 978-81-322-1159-4 Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Funding Your Career in Science: From Research Idea to Personal Grant. R. C. Jansen. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $27.99 paper (209 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-62417-7 Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Complexity and the Arrow of Time. C. H. Lineweaver, P. C. W. Davies, M. Ruse, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $30.00 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02725-1 Buy at Amazon

Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks. A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy, A. Vespignani. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $60.00 paper (347 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-62625-6 Buy at Amazon

Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012. T. Gilbert, M. Kirkilionis, G. Nicolis, eds. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (1096 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00394-8 Buy at Amazon

Theories and Simulations of Complex Social Systems. V. Dabbaghian, V. K. Mago, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (204 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39148-4 Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

Extensions to the No-Core Shell Model: Importance-Truncation, Regulators and Reactions. M. Karl, G. Kruse. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (126 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01392-3 Buy at Amazon

Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei. J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, eds. World Scientific, 2014. $198.00 (712 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4525-42-8 Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

Ceramic Lasers. A. Ikesue, Y. L. Aung, V. Lupei. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $120.00 (445 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-11408-0 Buy at Amazon

Electromagnetic Wave Scattering on Nonspherical Particles: Basic Methodology and Simulations. 2nd ed. T. Rother, M. Kahnert. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (360 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-36744-1 Buy at Amazon

Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy and Surgery. H. Jelínková, ed. Woodhead Publishing, 2013. $355.00 (798 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85709-237-3 Buy at Amazon

Optical Signal Processing by Silicon Photonics. J. Ahmed, M. Y. Siyal, F. Adeel, A. Hussain. Springer, 2013. $54.99 paper (126 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4560-10-8 Buy at Amazon

Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Bulk and Surface Electronic Structures. S. Suga, A. Sekiyama. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-37529-3 Buy at Amazon

Precision Interferometry in a New Shape: Higher-Order Laguerre–Gauss Modes for Gravitational Wave Detection. P. Fulda. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (154 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01374-9 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume X. K.Yamanouchi, G. G. Paulus, D. Mathur, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (156 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00520-1 Buy at Amazon

Theory of Nonlinear Propagation of High Harmonics Generated in a Gaseous Medium. C. Jin. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (159 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01624-5 Buy at Amazon

X-Ray Lasers 2012. S. Sebban, J. Gautier, D. Ros, P. Zeitoun, eds. Springer, 2014. $259.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00695-6 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Beyond Standard Model Phenomenology at the LHC. P. de Aquino. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (158 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00761-8 Buy at Amazon

Charge Multiplicity Asymmetry Correlation Study Searching for Local Parity Violation at RHIC for STAR Collaboration. Q. Wang. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (134 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00755-7 Buy at Amazon

Hadronic Transport Coefficients from Effective Field Theories. J. M. Torres-Rincon. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00424-2 Buy at Amazon

Polarization and CP Violation Measurements: Angular Analysis of B → ϕ K* Decays and Search for CP Violation at the Belle Experiment. M. Prim. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (101 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05755-2 Buy at Amazon