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astronomy and astrophysics

The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets. J. M. Trigo-Rodriguez, F. Raulin, C. Muller, C. Nixon, eds. Springer, 2013. $199.00 (186 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5190-7 Buy at Amazon

Physics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Dust Shells. H.-P. Gail, E. Sedlmayr. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $130.00 (683 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-83379-0 Buy at Amazon

Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics. G. Ghisellini. Springer, 2013. $49.99 paper (147 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00611-6 Buy at Amazon

Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life: Lessons for Astrobiology. M. Gargaud et al. Springer, 2013. $69.95 paper (300 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22551-2 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules. Vol. 2. K. W. Madison et al., eds. World Scientific, 2014. $138.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4590-16-7 Buy at Amazon

Molecular Magnets: Physics and Applications. J. Bartolomé, F. Luis, J. F. Fernández, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (395 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40608-9 Buy at Amazon

Perfect/Complete Scattering Experiments: Probing Quantum Mechanics on Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Coincidences. H. Kleinpoppen, B. Lohmann, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40513-6 Buy at Amazon

Theoretical Femtosecond Physics: Atoms and Molecules in Strong Laser Fields. F. Grossmann. Springer, 2013. $69.99 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00605-5 Buy at Amazon

Young-Type Interferences with Electrons: Basics and Theoretical Challenges in Molecular Collision Systems. F. Frémont. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38478-3 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials. A. Öchsner, H. Altenbach, eds. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00478-5 Buy at Amazon

Bio-inspired Asymmetric Design and Building of Biomimetic Smart Single Nanochannels. X. Hou. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (127 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38049-5 Buy at Amazon

Computational Methods to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Biomolecular Processes. A. Liwo, ed. Springer, 2014. $229.00 (810 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-28553-0 Buy at Amazon

Fluorescence in Bio-inspired Nanotechnology: First as Probe, Then as Function. J. Hannestad. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (119 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01067-0 Buy at Amazon

Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy: LDR-PDR-HDR. G. Kovács, P. Hoskin, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (260 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-36498-3 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Biophysics. A. Rubin, G. Riznichenko. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-8701-2 Buy at Amazon

Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress. J. Seckbach, A. Oren, H. Stan-Lotter, eds. Springer, 2013. $209.00 (634 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-6487-3 Buy at Amazon

Protein–Nanoparticle Interactions: The Bio-Nano Interface. M. Rahman et al. Springer, 2013. $139.00 (84 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-37554-5 Buy at Amazon

Structure and Physics of Viruses: An Integrated Textbook. M. G. Mateu, ed. Springer, 2013. $259.00 (728 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-6551-1 Buy at Amazon

Terahertz Biomedical Science and Technology. J.-H. Son, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $149.95 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-7044-3 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

8th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications (ESPA 2012); A Conference Selection from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. J. J. Novoa, M. F. Ruiz-López, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-41271-4 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Vol. 65. M. A. Johnson, T. J. Martínez, P. S. Cremer, J. T. Groves, eds. Annual Reviews, 2014. $96.00 (643 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1065-3 Buy at Amazon

Diamond and Related Nanostructures. M. V. Diudea, C. L. Nagy, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-6370-8 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Markov State Models and Their Application to Long Timescale Molecular Simulation. G. R. Bowman, V. S. Pande, F. Noé, eds. Springer, 2014. $209.00 (139 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7605-0 Buy at Amazon

New Frontiers in Photochromism. M. Irie, Y. Yokoyama, T. Seki, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54290-2 Buy at Amazon

Photophysics of Ionic Biochromophores. S. Brøndsted Nielsen, J. A. Wyer, eds. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40189-3 Buy at Amazon

Theoretical Chemistry in Belgium: A Topical Collection from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. B. Champagne, M. S. Deleuze, F. De Proft, T. Leyssens, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-41314-8 Buy at Amazon

Ultrafast Phenomena in Molecular Sciences: Femtosecond Physics and Chemistry. R. de Nalda, L. Bañares, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-02050-1 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Blast Mitigation: Experimental and Numerical Studies. A. Shukla, Y. D. S. Rajapakse, M. E. Hynes, eds. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (364 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7266-7 Buy at Amazon

High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities: Results of the HP-SEE User Forum 2012. M. Dulea et al., eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (170 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01519-4 Buy at Amazon

Optical Supercomputing: 4th International Workshop, OSC 2012, in Memory of H. John Caulfield, Bertinoro, Italy, July 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. S. Dolev, M. Oltean, eds. Springer, 2013. $72.00 paper (134 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-38249-9 Buy at Amazon

Pathways Through Applied and Computational Physics. N. Barbero, M. Delfino, C. Palmisano, G. Zosi. Springer, 2014. $79.99 paper (329 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-5219-2 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Hidden Order and Exotic Superconductivity in the Heavy-Fermion Compound URu₂Si₂. R. Okazaki. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (102 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54591-0 Buy at Amazon

Lecture Notes on Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics. C. Mudry. World Scientific, 2014. $74.00 paper (724 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4449-10-6 Buy at Amazon

Luttinger Model: The First 50 Years and Some New Directions. V. Mastropietro, D. C. Mattis, eds. World Scientific, 2014. $98.00 (297 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4520-71-3 Buy at Amazon

Optical Properties of Bismuth-Based Topological Insulators. P. Di Pietro. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (119 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01990-1 Buy at Amazon

Resonance Effects of Excitons and Electrons: Basics and Applications. I. Geru, D. Suter. Springer, 2013. $59.95 paper (283 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-35806-7 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Analogue Gravity Phenomenology: Analogue Spacetimes and Horizons, from Theory to Experiment. D. Faccio et al., eds. Springer, 2013. $89.99 paper (439 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00265-1 Buy at Amazon

Black Objects in Supergravity. S. Bellucci, ed. Springer, 2013. $139.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00214-9 Buy at Amazon

Probing the Early Universe with the CMB Scalar, Vector and Tensor Bispectrum. M. Shiraishi. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54179-0 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Mathematical Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology. A. García-Parrado, F. C. Mena, F. Moura, E. Vaz, eds. Springer, 2014. $169.00 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40156-5 Buy at Amazon

Space, Time and Matter. D. K. Sen. World Scientific, 2014. $58.00 (142 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4522-83-0 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Advanced Sensors for Safety and Security. A. Vaseashta, S. Khudaverdyan, eds. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (375 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-7002-7 Buy at Amazon

EMI-Resilient Amplifier Circuits. M. J. van der Horst, W. A. Serdijn, A. C. Linnenbank. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00592-8 Buy at Amazon

Mobile Robotics: Mathematics, Models, and Methods. A. Kelly. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $99.00 (701 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03115-9 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Semiconductor Devices. V. K. Jain, A. Verma, eds. Springer, 2014. $299.00 (932 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-03001-2 Buy at Amazon

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology. Vol. 5: Applications of Superconducting Technology to Accelerators. A. W. Chao, W. Chou, eds. World Scientific, 2013. $148.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4449-94-6 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Adhesive Particle Flow: A Discrete-Element Approach. J. S. Marshall, S. Li. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $135.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03207-1 Buy at Amazon

Incompressible Bipolar and Non-Newtonian Viscous Fluid Flow. H. Bellout, F. Bloom. Birkhäuser, 2014. $149.00 (569 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00890-5 Buy at Amazon

The Janus Fluid: A Theoretical Perspective. R. Fantoni. Springer, 2013. $49.99 paper (50 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-00406-8 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Models for Poroelastic Flows. A. Meirmanov. Atlantis Press, 2014. $129.00 (449 pp.). ISBN 978-94-6239-014-0 Buy at Amazon

Rheology and Non-Newtonian Fluids. F. Irgens. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01052-6 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Quantum Dynamics of a Particle in a Tracking Chamber. R. Figari, A. Teta. Springer, 2014. $49.95 paper (101 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-40915-8 Buy at Amazon

The Search for the Higgs Boson at CMS. G. Petrucciani. Edizioni Della Normale, 2013. $24.99 paper (221 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642481-6 Buy at Amazon

Top Quark Pair Production: Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Experiment. A. C. Henrichs. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01486-9 Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Tokamak Engineering Mechanics. Y. Song et al. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-39574-1 Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Alice’s Adventures in Molecular Biology. A. Ben-Naim, R. Ben-Naim. World Scientific, 2013. $28.00 paper (157 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4417-25-9 Buy at Amazon

Behind the Scenes of the Universe: From the Higgs to Dark Matter. G. Bertone. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $34.95 (170 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-968308-6 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

Count Like An Egyptian: A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics. D. Reimer. Princeton U. Press, 2014. $29.95 (237 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-16012-2 Buy at Amazon

Dark Energy: Hitchcock’s Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime. P. J. Skerry. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. $29.95 paper (175 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4411-8945-5 Buy at Amazon

From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System. J. Chambers, J. Mitton. Princeton U. Press, 2014. $29.95 (299 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14522-8 Buy at Amazon

Gravity’s Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos. C. Scharf. Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. $16.00 paper (252 pp.). ISBN 978-0-374-53397-7 Buy at Amazon

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. M. E. Mann. Columbia U. Press, 2013. $19.95 paper (423 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-15255-6 Buy at Amazon

How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap: Odd Excursions into Optics. S. R. Wilk. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $34.95 (263 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-994801-7 Buy at Amazon

Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics. A. S. Posamentier, I. Lehmann. Prometheus Books, 2013. $24.00 (296 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-747-1 Buy at Amazon

The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers. C. White. St. Martin’s Press, 2013. $26.99 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-54628-1 Buy at Amazon

Newton’s Football: The Science Behind America’s Game. A. St. John, A. G. Ramirez. Ballantine Books, 2013. $26.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-0-345-54514-5 Buy at Amazon

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World. M. Miodownik. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. $26.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-0-544-23604-2 Buy at Amazon

Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math. D. Tammet. Little, Brown and Co, 2013. $26.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-0-316-18737-4 Buy at Amazon

Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales. G. ’t Hooft, S. Vandoren. World Scientific, 2014. $24.00 paper (212 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4489-81-2 Buy at Amazon

Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now? And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability. P. J. Nahin. Princeton U. Press, 2014. $27.95 (220 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15680-4 Buy at Amazon

quantum physics

Back-of-the-Envelope Quantum Mechanics: With Extensions to Many-Body Systems and Integrable PDEs. M. Olshanii. World Scientific, 2014. $38.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4508-46-9 Buy at Amazon

Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory. A. Cardona, I. Contreras, A. F. Reyes-Lega, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $125.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02683-4 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Information Theory. M. M. Wilde. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $75.00 (655 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03425-9 Buy at Amazon

Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking in Field Theory. P. Mitra. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014. $79.95 (100 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-8104-3 Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Comets! Visitors from Deep Space. D. J. Eicher. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $24.99 paper (208 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-62277-7 Buy at Amazon

Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes. P. E. Clark, C. Clark. Springer, 2013. $49.99 paper (116 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7761-7 Buy at Amazon

Meteor Showers: An Annotated Catalog. 2nd ed. G. W. Kronk. Springer, 2014. $39.99 paper (362 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7896-6 Buy at Amazon

Planetary Climates. A. P. Ingersoll. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $27.95 paper (278 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14505-1 Buy at Amazon

Planets: Ours and Others; From Earth to Exoplanets. T. Encrenaz. World Scientific, 2014. $28.00 paper (187 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4525-15-2 Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Bounded Noises in Physics, Biology, and Engineering. A. d’Onofrio, ed. Birkhäuser, 2013. $109.00 (285 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-7384-8 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Statistical Physics of Integrable Many-Body Systems. L. Šamaj, Z. Bajnok. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $130.00 (504 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03043-5 Buy at Amazon

Phase Transitions: Modern Applications. 2nd ed. M. Gitterman. World Scientific, 2014. $48.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4520-60-7 Buy at Amazon

A Student’s Guide to Entropy. D. S. Lemons. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $28.99 paper (181 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-65397-9 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Basic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks. M. Chaichian, H. Perez Rojas, A. Tureanu. Springer, 2014. $59.95 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19597-6 Buy at Amazon

Climate Dynamics. K. H. Cook. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $65.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12530-5 Buy at Amazon

Computational Methods for Physics. J. Franklin. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $80.00 (400 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03430-3 Buy at Amazon

The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium. 4th ed. J. M. Pasachoff, A. Filippenko. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $85.00 paper (599 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-68756-1 Buy at Amazon

Experimental Neutron Scattering. B. T. M. Willis, C. J. Carlile. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $54.95 paper (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-967377-3 Buy at Amazon

Fundamental Planetary Science: Physics, Chemistry and Habitability. J. J. Lissauer, I. de Pater. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $60.00 paper (583 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-61855-7 Buy at Amazon

Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions. 2nd ed. C. Quigg. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $75.00 (482 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13548-9 Buy at Amazon

Granular Media: Between Fluid and Solid. B. Andreotti, Y. Forterre, O. Pouliquen. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $110.00 (464 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03479-2 Buy at Amazon

Heat Transfer Physics. 2nd ed. M. Kaviany. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $120.00 (771 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04178-3 Buy at Amazon

High Temperature Gas Dynamics: An Introduction for Physicists and Engineers. 2nd ed. T. K. Bose. Springer, 2014. $179.00 (518 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-05199-4 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Modern Digital Holography: With MATLAB. T.-C. Poon, J.-P. Liu. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $95.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01670-5 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Solid Mechanics: An Integrated Approach. J. Lubliner, P. Papadopoulos. Springer, 2014. $99.00 (519 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-6767-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Physics: A Modern Introduction to Its Foundations. 2nd ed. S. Hassani. Springer, 2013. $99.00 (1205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-01194-3 Buy at Amazon

Methods of Applied Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists. T. B. Co. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $135.00 (559 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00412-2 Buy at Amazon

Modern Particle Physics. M. Thomson. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $75.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03426-6 Buy at Amazon

Practical Seismic Data Analysis. H.-W. Zhou. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $75.00 (481 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19910-0 Buy at Amazon

Ray Tracing and Beyond: Phase Space Methods in Plasma Wave Theory. E. R. Tracy, A. J. Brizard, A. S. Richardson, A. N. Kaufman. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $115.00 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76806-1 Buy at Amazon

Soft Matter Physics. M. Doi. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $79.95 (251 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965295-2 Buy at Amazon

Turbulence in Rotating, Stratified and Electrically Conducting Fluids. P. A. Davidson. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $160.00 (681 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02686-5 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Aperiodic Order. Volume 1: A Mathematical Invitation. M. Baake, U. Grimm. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $120.00 (531 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86991-1 Buy at Amazon

The Bethe Wavefunction. M. Gaudin. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $110.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-04585-9 Buy at Amazon

Functional Differential Geometry. G. J. Sussman, J. Wisdom. MIT Press, 2013. $35.00 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01934-7 Buy at Amazon

The Korepin Festschrift: From Statistical Mechanics to Quantum Information Science. L. C. Kwek, S. Severini, H. Su, eds. World Scientific, 2013. $56.00 (217 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4460-31-6 Buy at Amazon

Lattice Sums Then and Now. J. M. Borwein et al. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $120.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03990-2 Buy at Amazon

Multi-scale Analysis for Random Quantum Systems with Interaction. V. Chulaevsky, Y. Suhov. Birkhäuser, 2014. $109.00 (238 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-8225-3 Buy at Amazon

New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures. T. Maudlin. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $75.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-870130-9 Buy at Amazon