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acoustics

Digital Sonar Design in Underwater Acoustics: Principles and Applications. Q. Li. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Zhejiang U. Press, Hangzhou, China, and Springer, Berlin, 2012. $269.00 (641 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-18289-1 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

XV Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio de Janeiro. E. Telles, R. Dupke, D. Lazzaro, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1386. Proc. course, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $135.00 (171 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0950-7 Buy at Amazon

Astrophysics of Neutron Stars 2010: A Conference in Honor of M. Ali Alpar. E. Göğüş, T. Belloni, Ü. Ertan, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1379. Proc. conf., Çeşme, Turkey, Aug. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $144.00 (231 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0939-2 Buy at Amazon

The Chemical Cosmos: A Guided Tour. S. Miller. Astronomers’ Universe. Springer, New York, 2012. $29.95 paper (236 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8443-2 Buy at Amazon

Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts. A. Cooke. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2012. $39.95 paper (243 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1185-7 Buy at Amazon

Treasures of the Southern Sky. R. Gendler, L. L. Christensen, D. Malin. Springer, New York, 2011. $39.95 (219 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0627-3 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Control of Cell Fate in the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems. M. Thiriet. Biomathematical and Biochemical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems 2. Springer, New York, 2012. $199.00 (536 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0328-9 Buy at Amazon

Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine: At the Building Block Level. G. A. Silva, V. Parpura, eds. Fundamental Biomedical Technologies. Springer, New York, 2012. $189.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-31282-8 Buy at Amazon

Single-Molecule Biophysics: Experiment and Theory. T. Komatsuzaki et al., eds. Advances in Chemical Physics 146. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2012. $130.00 (494 pp.). ISBN 978-1-118-05780-3 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Chemical Engineering: An Introduction. M. M. Denn. Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $125.00, $48.00 paper (265 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01189-2, ISBN 978-1-107-66937-6 paper Buy at Amazon

Multiscale Molecular Methods in Applied Chemistry. B. Kirchner, J. Vrabec, eds. Topics in Current Chemistry 307. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $349.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-24967-9 Buy at Amazon

Neural Networks in Chemical Reaction Dynamics. L. M. Raff, R. Komanduri, M. Hagan, S. T. S. Bukkapatnam. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2012. $79.95 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-976565-2 Buy at Amazon

Phase Interaction in the Metal–Oxide Melts–Gas System: The Modeling of Structure, Properties and Processes. V. Boronenkov et al. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $179.00 (407 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22376-1 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth. D. E. Knuth. CSLI Lecture Notes Number 202. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, 2011. $70.00, $35.00 paper (441 pp.). ISBN 978-1-57586-635-2, ISBN 978-1-57586-634-5 paper Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter: In Search of the Hidden Universe. A. Mazure, V. Le Brun (translated from French by B. Mizon). Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2012. $34.95 paper (172 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8821-8 Buy at Amazon

A New Perspective on Relativity: An Odyssey in Non-Euclidean Geometries. B. H. Lavenda. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $187.00 (668 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4340-48-9 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Chips 2020: A Guide to the Future of Nanoelectronics. B. Hoefflinger, ed. Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $109.00 (477 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22399-0 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance: Principles of Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR. P. T. Callaghan. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $94.95 (547 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-955698-4 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Heterogeneous Ferroelectric Solid Solutions: Phases and Domain States. V. Y. Topolov. Springer Series in Materials Science 151. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (156 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22482-9 Buy at Amazon

Liquid Crystal Displays: Fundamental Physics and Technology. R. H. Chen. Series in Display Technology. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2011. $95.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-93087-8 Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Chaotic Flows: Correlation Effects, Transport, and Structures. O. G. Bakunin. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $99.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20349-7 Buy at Amazon

Dynamical Systems and Methods. A. C. J. Luo, J. A. T. Machado, D. Baleanu, eds. Springer, New York, 2012. $179.00 (348 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0453-8 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Filtering and Optimal Phase Tracking. Z. Schuss. Applied Mathematical Sciences 180. Springer, New York, 2012. $74.95 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0486-6 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Internal Waves in Lakes. K. Hutter, ed. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $179.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23437-8 Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 61. B. R. Holstein, W. C. Haxton, A. Jawahery, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. $86.00 (532 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1561-0 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Physics with Polarized Particles. H. Paetz gen. Schieck. Lecture Notes in Physics 842. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $59.95 paper (182 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-24225-0 Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

Industrial Applications of Laser Diagnostics. Y. Deguchi. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $139.95 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-5337-5 Buy at Amazon

Integrated Modeling of Telescopes. T. Andersen, A. Enmark. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 377. Springer, New York, 2011. $199.00 (545 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0148-3 Buy at Amazon

Optical Properties of Nanostructured Metallic Systems: Studied with the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method. S. G. Rodrigo. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (163 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23084-4 Buy at Amazon

The Optics of Life: A Biologist’s Guide to Light in Nature. S. Johnsen. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012. $99.50 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13990-6 Buy at Amazon

Photographic Science: Advances in Nanoparticles, J-Aggregates, Dye Sensitization, and Organic Devices. T. Tani. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $98.50 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957295-3 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton–Proton Collisions. N. Boelaert. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $139.00 (167 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-24596-1 Buy at Amazon

The Performance of the ATLAS Detector. ATLAS Collaboration CERN, ed. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $99.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22115-6 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Field Theory III: Gauge Theory—A Bridge Between Mathematicians and Physicists. E. Zeidler. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $139.00 (1126 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22420-1 Buy at Amazon

Time Machines. S. Greenberg. Hirmer, Munich, Germany, 2011. $59.95 (131 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7774-4041-5 Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Complex Plasmas. C. A. Knapek. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (158 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19670-6 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Plasmas: An Hydrodynamic Approach. F. Haas. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 65. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (206 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8200-1 Buy at Amazon

popularizations

The Aha! Moment: A Scientist’s Take on Creativity. D. Jones. John Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2012. $70.00, $25.00 paper (264 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0330-4, ISBN 978-1-4214-0331-1 paper Buy at Amazon

Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique. J. Gribbin. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2011. $25.95 (219 pp.). ISBN 978-1-118-14797-9 Buy at Amazon

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011. M. Pitici, ed. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012. $19.95 paper (383 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15315-5 Buy at Amazon

Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization. A. Bejan, J. P. Zane. Doubleday, New York, 2012. $27.95 (296 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-53461-1 Buy at Amazon

Electromagnetism: Nature’s Force That Shapes Our Lives. L. Fagg. Nottingham U. Press, Nottingham, UK, 2011. $33.95 paper (105 pp.). ISBN 978-1-908062-54-3 Buy at Amazon

The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. R. H. Gray. Palmer Square Press, Chicago, 2012. $29.95 paper(242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9839584-4-4 Buy at Amazon

Evolution and the Emergent Self: The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature. R. L. Neubauer. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2012. $32.50 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-15070-5 Buy at Amazon

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. B. Greene. Vintage Books, New York, 2011. $16.95 paper (443 pp.). ISBN 978-0-307-27812-8 Buy at Amazon

How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel. B. Clegg. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2011. $25.99 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-65688-1 Buy at Amazon

The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe. F. Close. Basic Books, New York, 2011. $28.99 (435 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02144-4 Buy at Amazon

Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics: Charming the Cosmic Snake. R. Jayakumar. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $69.95 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22063-0 Buy at Amazon

Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation. J. D. Livingston. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. $27.95 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-05535-3 Buy at Amazon

Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space. A. Everett, T. Roman. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012. $30.00 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-22498-5 Buy at Amazon

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. L. M. Krauss. Free Press, New York, 2012. $24.99 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4516-2445-8 Buy at Amazon

The Wondrous Universe: Creation Without Creator? G. Börner. Astronomer’s Universe. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $29.95 paper (184 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20103-5 Buy at Amazon

quantum physics

Constructing Reality: Quantum Theory and Particle Physics. J. Marburger. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $29.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00483-2 Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Vacuum: A Scientific and Philosophical Concept, from Electrodynamics to String Theory and the Geometry of the Microscopic World. L. Boi. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2011. $75.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0247-5 Buy at Amazon

society and government

Successful Science Communication: Telling It Like It Is. D. J. Bennett, R. C. Jennings, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $110.00, $45.00 paper (462 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00332-3, ISBN 978-0-521-17678-1 paper Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight. K. F. Long. Springer, New York, 2012. $44.95 paper (367 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0606-8 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Spacecraft Charging: Spacecraft Interactions with Space Plasmas. S. T. Lai. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012. $90.00 (246 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12947-1 Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Scale Invariance: From Phase Transitions to Turbulence. A. Lesne, M. Laguës (translated from French by R. J. Hawkins). Springer, Berlin, 2012. $99.00 (397 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15122-4 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Energy, Environment, and Climate. 2nd ed. R. Wolfson. W. W. Norton, New York, 2012 [2008]. $86.65 paper (435 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-91274-6 Buy at Amazon

A First Course in Loop Quantum Gravity. R. Gambini, J. Pullin. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $62.95 (183 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-959075-9 Buy at Amazon

General and Statistical Thermodynamics. R. Tahir-Kheli. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $119.00 (677 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21480-6 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Physical and Numerical Aspects. 2nd ed. B. Cushman-Roisin, J.-M. Beckers. International Geophysics Series 101. Academic Press/Elsevier, Waltham, MA, 2011 [1994]. $94.95 (828 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-088759-0 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Modern Climate Change. A. E. Dessler. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $110.00, $50.00 paper (238 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00189-3, ISBN 978-0-521-17315-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Ordinary Differential Equations: A Practical Guide. B. J. Schroers. AIMS Library Series. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $25.99 paper (118 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-69749-2 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Alternating Projection Methods. R. Escalante, M. Raydan. Fundamentals of Algorithms. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $60.00 paper (127 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611971-93-4 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics with Inequalities: Impacts and Hard Constraints. D. E. Stewart. Applied Mathematics. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $99.00 paper (387 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611970-70-8 Buy at Amazon

Implicit Filtering. C. T. Kelley. Software, Environments, Tools. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $65.00 paper (170 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611971-89-7 Buy at Amazon

Random Fields on the Sphere: Representation, Limit Theorems and Cosmological Applications. D. Marinucci, G. Peccati. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 389. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $70.00 paper (341 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-17561-6 Buy at Amazon

The Schrödinger–Virasoro Algebra: Mathematical Structure and Dynamical Schrödinger Symmetries. J. Unterberger, C. Roger. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $99.00 (302 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22716-5 Buy at Amazon