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acoustics

Advances in Ocean Acoustics. J. Zhou, Z. Li, J. Simmen, eds. AIP, 2012. $204.00 (694 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1107-4 Buy at Amazon

Aerodynamic Noise: An Introduction for Physicists and Engineers. T. Bose. Springer, 2013. $89.95 (165 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5018-4 Buy at Amazon

Dimension-Based Quality Modeling of Transmitted Speech. M. Wältermann. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-35018-4 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Astrostatistical Challenges for the New Astronomy. J. M. Hilbe, ed. Springer, 2013. $109.00 (235 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3507-5 Buy at Amazon

Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution. A. C. Carciofi, T. Rivinius, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (439 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-810-7 Buy at Amazon

Electromagnetic Radiation from Pulsars and Magnetars. W. Lewandowski, O. Maron, J. Kijak, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-814-5 Buy at Amazon

Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac. 3rd ed. S. E. Urban, P. K. Seidelmann, eds. U. Science Books, 2013. $94.50 (676 pp.). ISBN 978-1-891389-85-6 Buy at Amazon

The First Galaxies in the Universe. A. Loeb, S. R. Furlanetto. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $130.00 (540 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14491-7 Buy at Amazon

Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars. L. Drissen, C. Robert, N. St-Louis, A. F. J. Moffat, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (532 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-812-1 Buy at Amazon

Imaging the Southern Sky: An Amateur Astronomer’s Guide. S. Chadwick, I. Cooper. Springer, 2012. $39.95 paper (415 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4749-8 Buy at Amazon

International Workshop: Binaries Inside and Outside the Local Interstellar Bubble. J. A. Docobo, V. S. Tamazian, Y. Y. Balega, eds. AIP, 2012. $125.00 (92 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1052-7 Buy at Amazon

Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Plasmas. A. Balogh et al., eds. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (640 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-6454-9 Buy at Amazon

Stellar Polarimetry: From Birth to Death. J. L. Hoffman, J. Bjorkman, B. Whitney, eds. AIP, 2012. $155.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1012-1 Buy at Amazon

The Stones and the Stars: Building Scotland’s Newest Megalith. D. Lunan. Springer, 2013. $34.95 paper (325 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5353-6 Buy at Amazon

Turbulence and Self-Organization: Modeling Astrophysical Objects. M. Y. Marov, A. V. Kolesnichenko. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (657 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5154-9 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules. Vol. 1. K. W. Madison, Y. Wang, A. M. Rey, K. Bongs, eds. World Scientific, 2013. $88.00 (518 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4440-39-4 Buy at Amazon

Fast Ion-Atom and Ion-Molecule Collisions. D. Belkić, ed. World Scientific, 2013. $118.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4407-12-0 Buy at Amazon

Fragmentation Processes: Topics in Atomic and Molecular Physics. C. T. Whelan, ed. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $140.00 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00744-4 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter: Atomic Clouds, Bose-Einstein Condensates and Rydberg Plasmas. J. Mendonça, H. Terças. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5412-0 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. T. Kahn, H. Busse, eds. Springer, 2012. $359.00 (507 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20705-1 Buy at Amazon

Optical Methods and Instrumentation in Brain Imaging and Therapy. S. J. Madsen, ed. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4977-5 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Introduction to Structural Chemistry. S. S. Batsanov, A. S. Batsanov. Springer, 2012. $209.00 (542 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-4770-8 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Advances in Spatial Data Handling: Geospatial Dynamics, Geosimulation and Exploratory Visualization. S. Timpf, P. Laube, eds. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-32315-7 Buy at Amazon

Astrolinguistics: Design of a Linguistic System for Interstellar Communication Based on Logic. A. Ollongren. Springer, 2013. $129.00 paper (248 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5467-0 Buy at Amazon

Computer Simulation Study of Collective Phenomena in Dense Suspensions of Red Blood Cells Under Shear. T. Krüger. Springer Spektrum, 2012. $69.95 paper (163 pp.). ISBN 978-3-8348-2375-5 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Flexoelectricity in Liquid Crystals: Theory, Experiments and Applications. Á. Buka, N. Éber, eds. Imperial College Press, 2013. $120.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-799-5 Buy at Amazon

Magnetism and Superconductivity in Iron-Based Superconductors as Probed by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. F. Hammerath. Springer Spektrum, 2012. $89.95 paper (188 pp.). ISBN 978-3-8348-2422-6 Buy at Amazon

Microstructure and Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. 2nd ed. I. A. Parinov. Springer, 2012. $229.00 (779 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34440-4 Buy at Amazon

Modern Theory of Magnetism in Metals and Alloys. Y. Kakehashi. Springer, 2012. $179.00 (347 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-33400-9 Buy at Amazon

Nonequilibrium Magnons: Theory, Experiment, and Applications. V. L. Safonov. Wiley-VCH, 2013. $149.95 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-41117-7 Buy at Amazon

Nucleation Theory. V. I. Kalikmanov. Springer, 2013. $69.95 paper (316 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3642-1 Buy at Amazon

Quasicrystals: A Primer. 2nd ed. C. Janot. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $74.99 paper (426 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965740-7 Buy at Amazon

Topological Insulators: Dirac Equation in Condensed Matters. S.-Q. Shen. Springer, 2012. $129.00 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-32857-2 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

The 9th LISA Symposium. G. Auger, P. Binétruy, E. Plagnol, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013. $77.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-816-9 Buy at Amazon

Advanced Statistical Methods for Astrophysical Probes of Cosmology. M. C. March. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (177 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-35059-7 Buy at Amazon

device physics

8th International Conference on Concentrating Photovoltaic Systems. F. Dimroth, F. Rubio, I. Antón, eds. AIP, 2013. $172.00 paper (414 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1086-2 Buy at Amazon

Delta-Sigma A/D-Converters: Practical Design for Communication Systems. R. Gaggl. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (145 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34542-5 Buy at Amazon

High-Performance D/A-Converters: Application to Digital Transceivers. M. Clara. Springer, 2013. $119.00 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-31228-1 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Fuel Cells: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. K.-D. Kreuer, ed. Springer, 2013. $279.00 (801 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5784-8 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Energy: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. N. Tsoulfanidis, ed. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (525 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5715-2 Buy at Amazon

Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste. W. M. Alley, R. Alley. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $29.99 (370 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03011-4 Buy at Amazon

Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. J. S. Gulliver, ed. Springer, 2012. $179.00 (375 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5730-5 Buy at Amazon

fluids

The Application of the Chebyshev-Spectral Method in Transport Phenomena. W. Guo, G. Labrosse, R. Narayanan. Springer, 2012. $49.95 (229 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34087-1 Buy at Amazon

New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics VIII. A. Dillmann et al., eds. Springer, 2013. $299.00 (749 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-35679-7 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

The Atmosphere and Ionosphere: Elementary Processes, Discharges and Plasmoids. V. Bychkov, G. Golubkov, A. Nikitin, eds. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2913-1 Buy at Amazon

Climate Change Modeling Methodology: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. P. J. Rasch, ed. Springer, 2012. $179.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5766-4 Buy at Amazon

Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: A Record of Large Impacts in Sedimentary Deposits. B. P. Glass, B. M. Simonson. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (716 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88261-9 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Satellite Applications. Vols. 1 and 2. J. N. Pelton, S. Madry, S. Camacho-Lara, eds. Springer, 2013. $679.00 (1228 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7670-3 Buy at Amazon

Materials Science for Structural Geology. M. S. Paterson. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (247 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-5544-4 Buy at Amazon

The Mjølnir Impact Event and Its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event. H. Dypvik, F. Tsikalas, M. Smelror, eds. Springer, 2010. $179.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88259-6 Buy at Amazon

Plate Deformation from Cradle to Grave: Seismic Anisotropy and Deformation at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in the Lowermost Mantle. A. Nowacki. Springer, 2013. $139.00 (166 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34841-9 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

A. S. Eddington and the Unity of Knowledge: Scientist, Quaker and Philosopher. V. Heine, ed. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $28.99 paper (228 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-69212-1 Buy at Amazon

Cold War Space Sleuths: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program. D. Phelan, ed. Springer, 2013. $39.95 paper (322 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3051-3 Buy at Amazon

Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy. R. D. Holder, S. Mitton, eds. Springer, 2012. $129.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-32253-2 Buy at Amazon

Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. E. Dekker. Oxford U. Press, 2013. $135.00 (467 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-960969-7 Buy at Amazon

Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic. M. van der Schaar, ed. Springer, 2013. $129.00 (161 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-5136-1 Buy at Amazon

The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements. D. Berlinski. Basic Books, 2013. $24.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-01481-1 Buy at Amazon

Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science. C. Irmscher. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. $35.00 (434 pp.). ISBN 978-0-547-57767-8 Buy at Amazon

Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics. L. Sklar. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $29.99 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-71630-7 Buy at Amazon

Taking the Back off the Watch: A Personal Memoir. T. Gold; S. Mitton, ed. Springer, 2012. $129.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-27587-6 Buy at Amazon

A Vertical Empire: History of the British Rocketry Programme. 2nd ed. C. N. Hill. Imperial College Press, 2012. $45.00 paper (388 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-796-4 Buy at Amazon

Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering. S. Roberts. Princeton U. Press, 2013. $29.95 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15153-3 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Auger- and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Materials Science: A User-Oriented Guide. S. Hofmann. Springer, 2013. $229.00 (528 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-27380-3 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Astronomical Spectroscopy. I. Appenzeller. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $110.00 (260 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01579-1 Buy at Amazon

Laser Drilling: Practical Applications. B. S. Yilbas. Springer, 2013. $49.95 paper (82 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34981-2 Buy at Amazon

Scientific Astrophotography: How Amateurs Can Generate and Use Professional Imaging Data. G. R. Hubbell. Springer, 2013. $44.95 paper (333 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-5172-3 Buy at Amazon

Surface Science Techniques. G. Bracco, B. Holst, eds. Springer, 2013. $189.00 (663 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-34242-4 Buy at Amazon

Techniques in High Pressure Neutron Scattering. S. Klotz. CRC Press, 2013. $149.95 (258 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-3562-3 Buy at Amazon

materials science

The 4th Manufacturing Engineering Society International Conference (MESIC 2011). M. Marcos, J. Salguero, eds. AIP, 2012. $246.00 (1003 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1017-6 Buy at Amazon

Acoustic Metamaterials: Negative Refraction, Imaging, Lensing and Cloaking. R. V. Craster, S. Guenneau, eds. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-4812-5 Buy at Amazon

Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals. P. A. Deymier, ed. Springer, 2013. $179.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-31231-1 Buy at Amazon

quantum physics

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

The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility. R. E. Kastner. Cambridge U. Press, 2013. $100.00 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76415-5 Buy at Amazon

society and government

Connecting People to Science: A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach. J. B. Jensen, J. G. Manning, M. G. Gibbs, D. Daou, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-796-4 Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

4th Hinode Science Meeting: Unsolved Problems and Recent Insights. L. R. B. Rubio, F. Reale, M. Carlsson, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (376 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-792-6 Buy at Amazon

Frontiers of Astrobiology. C. Impey, J. Lunine, J. Funes, eds. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $50.00 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00641-6 Buy at Amazon

Hinode-3: The 3rd Hinode Science Meeting. T. Sekii, T. Watanabe, T. Sakurai, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (469 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-790-0 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Solar/Stellar Physics with Helio- and Asteroseismology. H. Shibahashi, M. Takata, A. E. Lynas-Gray, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012. $77.00 (546 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-806-0 Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

An Introduction to Stochastic Processes and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics. Rev. ed. H. S. Wio, R. R. Deza, J. M. López. World Scientific, 2012. $88.00 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-78-1 Buy at Amazon

The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. M. Hemmo, O. R. Shenker. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $95.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01968-3 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Thermodynamics: Understanding the Properties of Macroscopic Systems. L. C. Fai, G. S. Wysin. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $79.95 (534 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1067-8 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Chaos and Fractals: An Elementary Introduction. D. P. Feldman. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $44.00 paper (408 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956644-0 Buy at Amazon

Group Theory for High Energy Physicists. M. Saleem, M. Rafique. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $79.95 (218 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1063-0 Buy at Amazon

How to Succeed as a Scientist: From Postdoc to Professor. B. J. Gabrys, J. A. Langdale. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $36.99 paper (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-18683-4 Buy at Amazon

Ocean Dynamics. D. Olbers, J. Willebrand, C. Eden. Springer, 2012. $139.00 (704 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23449-1 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Nano-Optics. 2nd ed. L. Novotny, B. Hecht. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $90.00 (564 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00546-4 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetry: Theory, Experiment, and Cosmology. P. Binétruy. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $63.90 paper (520 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965273-0 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

The 8th International Conference on Progress in Theoretical Physics (ICPTP 2011). N. Mebarki, J. Mimouni, N. Belaloui, K. Ait Moussa, eds. AIP, 2012. $170.00 paper (504 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-1040-4 Buy at Amazon

Applications to Regular and Bang-Bang Control: Second-Order Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions in Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control. N. P. Osmolovskii, H. Maurer. SIAM, 2012. $109.00 paper (390 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-35-1 Buy at Amazon

Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice. L. N. Trefethen. SIAM, 2013. $49.00 paper (295 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-39-9 Buy at Amazon

Hyperbolic Dynamics and Brownian Motion: An Introduction. J. Franchi, Y. Le Jan. Oxford U. Press, 2012. $89.99 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-965410-9 Buy at Amazon

The Langevin Equation: With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering. 3rd ed. W. T. Coffey, Y. P. Kalmykov. World Scientific, 2012. $188.00 (827 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4355-66-7 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Inclusions and Hemivariational Inequalities: Models and Analysis of Contact Problems. S. Migórski, A. Ochal, M. Sofonea. Springer, 2013. $169.00 (285 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4231-8 Buy at Amazon

Physical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics. A. I. Murdoch. Cambridge U. Press, 2012. $135.00 (423 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76558-9 Buy at Amazon

q-Fractional Calculus and Equations. M. H. Annaby, Z. S. Mansour. Springer, 2012. $89.95 paper (318 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30897-0 Buy at Amazon

Semidefinite Optimization and Convex Algebraic Geometry. G. Blekherman, P. A. Parrilo, R. R. Thomas, eds. SIAM, 2013. $129.00 paper (495 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-28-3 Buy at Amazon

A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics. 3rd ed. I. D. Lawrie. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013. $79.95 paper (711 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-8446-1 Buy at Amazon