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atomic and molecular physics

Controlling Steady-State and Dynamical Properties of Atomic Optical Bistability. A. Joshi, M. Xiao. World Scientific, 2012. $92.00 (231 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4307-55-0 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam. V. V. Toi, N. B. Toan, T. Q. D. Khoa, T. H. L. Phuong, eds. Springer, 2013. $259.00 paper (407 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-32182-5 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Medical Physics 2012. Vol. 4. A. B. Wolbarst et al., eds. Medical Physics, 2012. $115.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-1-930524-56-9 Buy at Amazon

Biologically Responsive Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering. I. Antoniac, ed. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4327-8 Buy at Amazon

Computational Systems Biology of Cancer. E. Barillot et al., eds. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $79.95 (423 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-3144-1 Buy at Amazon

Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics. Vol. 1: A–K. Vol. 2: L–Z. S.Tabakov et al., eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $719.00 set (822 pp. set). ISBN 978-1-4398-4652-0 Buy at Amazon

International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics. Y. Dekhtyar, A. Katashev, L. Lancere, eds. Springer, 2013. $259.00 paper (220 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34196-0 Buy at Amazon

Mechanical and Chemical Signaling in Angiogenesis. C. A. Reinhart-King, ed. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30855-0 Buy at Amazon

Molecular Imaging of the Brain: Using Multi-Quantum Coherence and Diagnostics of Brain Disorders. M. M. Kaila, R. Kaila. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (385 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30301-2 Buy at Amazon

Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine: Applications in Diagnostic Imaging. 2nd ed. M. Ljungberg, S.-E. Strand, M. A. King, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $129.95 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-4109-9 Buy at Amazon

Pulling G: Human Responses to High and Low Gravity. E. Seedhouse. Springer, 2013. $34.95 paper (210 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3029-2 Buy at Amazon

Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering: Signal Processing and Physiological Systems Modeling. 2nd ed. S. R Devasahayam. Springer, 2013. $79.99 (389 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5331-4 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Applied Chemistry: A Textbook for Engineers and Technologists. 2nd ed. O. V. Roussak, H. D. Gesser. Springer, 2013. $99.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4261-5 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Theory of Anharmonic Effects in Molecules. K. V. Kazakov. Elsevier, 2012. $150.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-397912-4 Buy at Amazon

Visualization of Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics: Water-Based Model Systems on a Cu(110) Surface. T. Kumagai. Springer, 2012. $129.00 (145 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54155-4 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Classical Mechanics with Mathematica. A. Romano. Birkhäuser, 2012. $129.00 (506 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-8351-1 Buy at Amazon

Computational Mathematical Modeling: An Integrated Approach Across Scales. D. Calvetti, E. Somersalo. SIAM, 2013. $69.00 paper (222 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-47-4 Buy at Amazon

Theoretical Foundations of Digital Imaging Using MATLAB. L. P. Yaroslavsky. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $99.95 (493 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-6140-0 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Incommensurate Crystallography. S. van Smaalen. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $69.99 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965923-4 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Nanostructures: Spin Dynamics and Spin Transport. H. Zabel, M. Farle, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-32041-5 Buy at Amazon

Photoemission Spectroscopy on High Temperature Superconductor: A Study of Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈ by Laser-Based Angle-Resolved Photoemission. W. Zhang. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (139 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-32471-0 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Dots: Optics, Electron Transport and Future Applications. A. Tartakovskii, ed. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $120.00 (376 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01258-5 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System. N. Prakash. World Scientific, 2013. $133.00 (700 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4304-53-5 Buy at Amazon

IX Workshop of the Gravitation and Mathematical Physics Division of the Mexican Physical Society. L. A. Ureña-López, R. Bercerril-Bárcenas, R. Linares-Romero, eds. AIP, 2012. $141.00 paper (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1080-0 Buy at Amazon

Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond. J. Trefil. National Geographic, 2012. $50.00 (335 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4262-0971-0 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Electrical Impedance: Principles, Measurement, and Applications. L. Callegaro. Taylor & Francis, 2013. $129.95 (300 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-4910-1 Buy at Amazon

Mutilayer Integrated Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators. Y. Zhang, D. Chen. Springer and SJTU Press, 2013. $129.00 (152 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-31775-0 Buy at Amazon

Nanodevices and Nanomaterials for Ecological Security. Y. N. Shunin, A. E. Kiv, eds. Springer, 2012. $119.00 paper (348 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-4121-8 Buy at Amazon

Optochemical Nanosensors. A. Cusano, F. J. Arregui, M. Giordano, A. Cutolo, eds. Taylor & Francis, 2013. $199.95 (597 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-5489-1 Buy at Amazon

Silicon Solid State Devices and Radiation Detection. C. Leroy, P.-G. Rancoita. World Scientific, 2012. $135.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4390-04-0 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 37. A. Gadgil, D. M. Liverman, eds. Annual Reviews, 2012. $83.00 (512 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-2337-0 Buy at Amazon

Hydrogen Storage Technology: Materials and Applications. L. Klebanoff, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $159.95 (455 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-4107-5 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Counterflows: Paradoxical Fluid Mechanics Phenomena. V. N. Shtern. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $135.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02759-6 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Light Scattering Reviews 7: Radiative Transfer and Optical Properties of Atmosphere and Underlying Surface. A. A. Kokhanovsky, ed. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21906-1 Buy at Amazon

Monitoring Atmospheric Water Vapour: Ground-Based Remote Sensing and In-situ Methods. N. Kämpfer, ed. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (334 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3908-0 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Europe to the Stars: ESO’s First 50 Years of Exploring the Southern Sky. G. Schilling, L. L. Christensen. Wiley-VCH, 2012. $49.95 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-41192-4, DVD-ROM Buy at Amazon

Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry. G. Van Brummelen. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $35.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14892-2 Buy at Amazon

Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. J. Gray. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $35.00 (592 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15271-4 Buy at Amazon

The Jewel on the Mountaintop: Fifty Years of the European Southern Observatory. C. Madsen. Wiley-VCH, 2012. $75.00 (560 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-41203-7 Buy at Amazon

Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration. C. A. Piantadosi. Columbia U. Press, 2012. $35.00 (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-16242-5 Buy at Amazon

Newton and the Origin of Civilization. J. Z. Buchwald, M. Feingold. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $49.50 (528 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15478-7 Buy at Amazon

Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life. L. Swan, R. Gordon, J. Seckbach, eds. Springer, 2012. $209.00 (839 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-4155-3 Buy at Amazon

Radioactive Transformations. E. Rutherford. Yale U. Press, 2012. $23.00 paper (287 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-18130-2 Buy at Amazon

Reminiscences: A Journey Through Particle Physics. A. Melissinos. World Scientific, 2013. $42.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4405-00-3 Buy at Amazon

SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, the World’s Highest, Fastest Plane. R. H. Graham. Zenith Press, 2013. $35.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7603-4327-2 Buy at Amazon

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus: A Sixty Year Journey 1896–1956. B. Fernandez. Springer, 2013. $79.95 (547 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4180-9 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Applications of Neutron Powder Diffraction. E. H. Kisi, C. J. Howard. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $84.99 paper (486 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965742-1 Buy at Amazon

Industrial Accelerators and Their Applications. R. W. Hamm, M. E. Hamm, eds. World Scientific, 2012. $144.00 (421 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4307-04-8 Buy at Amazon

Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces: Synchrotron X-Ray Methods. P. S. Pershan, M. L. Schlossman. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $140.00 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-81401-0 Buy at Amazon

RF Linear Accelerators for Medical and Industrial Applications. S. Hanna. Artech House, 2012. $119.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-1-60807-090-9 Buy at Amazon

materials science

2nd International Advances in Applied Physics and Materials Science Congress. M. H. Aslan, A. Y. Oral, eds. AIP, 2012. $159.00 paper (408 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1085-5 Buy at Amazon

The 4th International Meeting of Advances in Thermofluids (IMAT 2011). Parts 1 and 2. M. A. Wahid et al. AIP, 2012. $326.00 paper set (1346 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-1032-9 Buy at Amazon

Adiabatic Shear Localization: Frontiers and Advances. 2nd ed. B. Dodd, Y. Bai, eds. Elsevier, 2012. $150.00 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-0-08-097781-2 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Materials Research. Vol. 42. D. R. Clarke, ed. Annual Reviews, 2012. $94.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1742-3 Buy at Amazon

Chemical Resistance of Specialty Thermoplastics. Vol. 3. W. A. Woishnis, S. Ebnesajjad, eds. William Andrew/Elsevier, 2012. $299.00 (1666 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4557-3110-7 Buy at Amazon

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. V. Chalivendra, B. Song, D. Casem, eds. Springer, 2013. $349.00 (597 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4237-0 Buy at Amazon

The Effect of Sterilization on Plastics and Elastomers. 3rd ed. L. McKeen. William Andrew/Elsevier, 2012. $330.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4557-2598-4 Buy at Amazon

Functional Materials. S. M. Bose, S. K. Tripathy, eds. AIP, 2012. $171.00 (428 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1065-7 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Biopolymers and Biodegradable Plastics: Properties, Processing, and Applications. S. Ebnesajjad, ed. William Andrew/Elsevier, 2013. $249.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4557-2834-3 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Plasticizers. 2nd ed. G. Wypych. ChemTec, 2012. $285.00 (748 pp.). ISBN 978-1-895198-50-8 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Zinc Oxide and Related Materials. Vol. 1: Materials. Z. C. Feng, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $149.95 (446 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-5570-6 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Zinc Oxide and Related Materials. Vol. 2: Devices and Nano-Engineering. Z. C. Feng, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $149.95 (562 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-5574-4 Buy at Amazon

The Handbook on Optical Constants of Metals: In Tables and Figures. S. Adachi. World Scientific, 2012. $188.00 (671 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4405-94-2 Buy at Amazon

The Handbook on Optical Constants of Semiconductors: In Tables and Figures. S. Adachi. World Scientific, 2012. $188.00 (619 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4405-97-3 Buy at Amazon

Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures: Characterization, Modeling and Applications. H. Ünlü, N. J. M. Horing, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (162 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-28423-6 Buy at Amazon

Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures. E. Y. Tsymbal, E. R. A. Dagotto, C.-B. Eom, R. Ramesh, eds. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $135.00 (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958412-3 Buy at Amazon

Nanostructures and Nanoconstructions Based on DNA. Y. M. Yevdokimov, V. I. Salyanov, S. G. Skuridin. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2012. $139.95 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-0569-8 Buy at Amazon

Structure of Materials: An Introduction to Crystallography, Diffraction and Symmetry. 2nd ed. M. De Graef, M. E. McHenry. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $115.00 (739 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00587-7 Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Proceedings of the Physics Conference TIM–11. M. Bunoiu, N. Avram, C. G. Biris, eds. AIP, 2012. $150.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1079-4 Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Let’s Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics. M. Robnik, V. G. Romanovski, eds. AIP, 2012. $159.00 paper (410 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1075-6 Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

Biomimetics in Photonics. O. Karthaus, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $119.95 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-7746-3 Buy at Amazon

Photons in Natural and Life Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. H.-J. Lewerenz. Springer, 2012. $169.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23748-5 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Flavor Physics at the Tevatron: Decay, Mixing and CP-Violation Measurements in pp‾-Collisions. T. Kuhr. Springer, 2013. $159.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-10299-8 Buy at Amazon

Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction. Vol. 1: From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to QED. 4th ed. I. J. R. Aitchison, A. J. G. Hey. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $69.95 (438 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1299-3 Buy at Amazon

Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction. Vol. 2: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories; QCD and the Electroweak Theory. 4th ed. I. J. R. Aitchison, A. J. G. Hey. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $69.95 (518 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1307-5 Buy at Amazon

GUT2012. T. Fukuyama, R. N. Mohapatra, eds. AIP, 2012. $158.00 paper (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1073-2 Buy at Amazon

QCD@Work 2012. L. Angelini et al., eds. AIP, 2012. $158.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1104-3 Buy at Amazon

Superstring Theory: 25th Anniversary Edition. Vol. 1: Introduction. M. B. Green, J. H. Schwarz, E. Witten. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $60.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02911-8 Buy at Amazon

Superstring Theory: 25th Anniversary Edition. Vol. 2: Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology. M. B. Green, J. H. Schwarz, E. Witten. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $60.00 (596 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02913-2 Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Quantum Plasmadynamics: Magnetized Plasmas. D. Melrose. Springer, 2013. $89.95 paper (490 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4044-4 Buy at Amazon

Turbulent Transport in Magnetized Plasmas. W. Horton. World Scientific, 2012. $128.00 (501 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4383-53-0 Buy at Amazon

Waves and Oscillations in Plasmas. H. L. Pécseli. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $119.95 (553 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-7848-4 Buy at Amazon

popularizations

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012. M. Pitici, ed. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $19.95 paper (288 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15655-2 Buy at Amazon

Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today’s Problems on the Back of a Napkin. L. Weinstein. Princeton U. Press, 2012. $19.95 paper (359 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15080-2 Buy at Amazon

The Life of a Leaf. S. Vogel. U. Chicago Press, 2012. $35.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-85939-2 Buy at Amazon

Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science. I. Sample. Basic Books, 2012. $16.99 paper (304 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-05873-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers. T. Jackson, ed. Shelter Harbor Press, 2012. $24.95 (144 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9853230-4-2 Buy at Amazon

The Mathematics of Life. I. Stewart. Basic Books, 2012. $15.99 paper (368 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-03240-2 Buy at Amazon

National Geographic Angry Birds Furious Forces! The Physics at Play in the World’s Most Popular Game. R. Allain. National Geographic, 2013. $13.95 paper (160 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4262-1172-0 Buy at Amazon

Total Addiction: The Life of an Eclipse Chaser. K. Russo. Springer, 2012. $24.95 paper (193 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30480-4 Buy at Amazon

The Universe: An Illustrated History of Astronomy. T. Jackson. Shelter Harbor Press, 2012. $24.95 (144 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9853230-5-9 Buy at Amazon

Waves. F. Raichlen. MIT Press, 2013. $11.95 paper (236 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-51823-9 Buy at Amazon

quantum physics

The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory. A. Duncan. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $120.00 (782 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957326-4 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger Equation and Path Integral. 2nd ed. H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten. World Scientific, 2012. $88.00 paper (919 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4397-74-2 Buy at Amazon

Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain. W. R. Loewenstein. Basic Books, 2013. $28.99 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02984-6 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Africa 2010: Theoretical and Experimental Foundations of Recent Quantum Technology. E. Brüning, T. Konrad, F. Petruccione, eds. AIP, 2012. $124.00 paper (132 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1076-3 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Computing from the Ground Up. R. T. Perry. World Scientific, 2012. $58.00 paper (244 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4412-11-7 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Field Theories in Two Dimensions: Collected Works of Alexei Zamolodchikov. Vols. 1 and 2. A. Belavin, Y. Pugai, A. Zamolodchikov, eds. World Scientific, 2012. $178.00 (1045 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4324-06-9 Buy at Amazon