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acoustics

Cochlear Mechanics: Introduction to a Time Domain Analysis of the Nonlinear Cochlea. H. Duifhuis. Springer, New York, 2012. $189.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-6116-7 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition. H. Beigi. Springer, New York, 2011. $119.00 (942 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77591-3 Buy at Amazon

Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and Its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop. R. López-Cózar Delgado, T. Kobayashi, eds. Proc. wksp., Granada, Spain, Sept. 2011. Springer, New York, 2011. $259.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1334-9 Buy at Amazon

Waves and Structures in Nonlinear Nondispersive Media: General Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Acoustics. S. N. Gurbatov, O. V. Rudenko, A. I. Saichev. Nonlinear Physical Science. Higher Education Press, Beijing, and Springer, Berlin, 2011. $189.00 (472 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23616-7 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

The 16th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun. C. M. Johns-Krull, M. K. Browning, A. A. West, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 448. Proc. wksp., Seattle, WA, Aug.—Sept. 2010. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011. $77.00 (545 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-776-6 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Fundamentals of GPS Receivers: A Hardware Approach. D. Doberstein. Springer, New York, 2012. $119.00 (329 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0408-8 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Vol. 44. S. H. Davis, P. Moin, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2012. $89.00 (655 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-0744-8 Buy at Amazon

Colloidal Suspension Rheology. J. Mewis, N. J. Wagner. Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $140.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51599-3 Buy at Amazon

Dissipative Ordered Fluids: Theories for Liquid Crystals. A. M. Sonnet, E. G. Virga. Springer, New York, 2012. $124.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-87814-0 Buy at Amazon

Interfacial Convection in Multilayer Systems. 2nd ed. A. Nepomnyashchy, I. Simanovskii, J. C. Legros. Applied Mathematical Sciences 179. Springer, New York, 2012 [2006]. $99.00 (498 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-87713-6 Buy at Amazon

Multiphase Flow Dynamics 1: Fundamentals. N. I. Kolev. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $279.00 (781 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20604-7 Buy at Amazon

Multiphase Flow Dynamics 4: Turbulence, Gas Adsorption and Release, Diesel Fuel Properties. N. I. Kolev. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $179.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20748-8 Buy at Amazon

New Approaches in Modeling Multiphase Flows and Dispersion in Turbulence, Fractal Methods and Synthetic Turbulence. F. C. G. A. Nicolleau et al., eds. ERCOFTAC Series 18. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (152 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2505-8 Buy at Amazon

Novel Porous Media Formulation for Multiphase Flow Conservation Equations. W. T. Sha. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01295-0 Buy at Amazon

Tracer Technology: Modeling the Flow of Fluids. O. Levenspiel. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications 96. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (137 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8073-1 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Fundamentals of Numerical Weather Prediction. J. Coiffier (translated from French by C. Sutcliffe). Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $85.00 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00103-9 Buy at Amazon

Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere–Ocean Climate System. 2nd ed. W. K. M. Lau, D. E. Waliser. Springer-Praxis Books in Environmental Sciences. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2012 [2005]. $229.00 (613 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-13913-0 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

The Astronomer Jules Janssen: A Globetrotter of Celestial Physics. F. Launay (translated from French by S. Dunlop). Astrophysics and Space Science Library 380. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (220 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0696-9 Buy at Amazon

Cosmic Secrets: Basic Features of Reality. W. Schommers. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $98.00 (379 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-643-4 Buy at Amazon

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science. L. Plévert. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $48.00 paper (341 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4355-25-4 Buy at Amazon

The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics. S. Turchetti (translated from Italian by S. Turchetti). U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012. $45.00 (292 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-81664-7 Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Adventure: Does God Play Dice? A. Montwill, A. Breslin. Imperial College Press, London, 2012. $86.00, $36.00 paper (248 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-647-9, ISBN 978-1-84816-648-6 paper Buy at Amazon

Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī. K. Ramasubramanian, M. S. Sriram. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, India, and Springer, New York, 2011. $179.00 (595 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85729-035-9 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Resonance and Aspect Matched Adaptive Radar (RAMAR). T. W. Barrett. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $110.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4329-89-7 Buy at Amazon

Two Studies in Gas-Phase Ion Spectroscopy: Vacuum-Ultraviolet Negative Photoion Spectroscopy and Ion-Molecule Reaction Kinetics. M. J. Simpson. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (162 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23128-5 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Glasses and Glass Ceramics for Medical Applications. E. El-Meliegy, R. van Noort. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1227-4 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection. 3rd ed. C. Leroy, P.-G. Rancoita. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012 [2009]. $232.00 (1016 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4360-51-7 Buy at Amazon

Self-Assembly of Nanostructures: The INFN Lectures, Vol. III. S. Bellucci, ed. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology 12. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0741-6 Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times. M. J. Kuchner. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2012. $19.95 paper (236 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59726-994-0 Buy at Amazon

Science: Image in Action. B. Zavidovique, G. Lo Bosco, eds. The Science and Culture Series—Astrophysics. Proc. wksp., Erice, Italy, Apr. 2011. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $148.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4383-28-8 Buy at Amazon

Toward Entrepreneurship: Establishing a Successful Technology Business. M. Chang. Milton Chang, Menlo Park, CA, 2011. $35.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9835958-0-9 Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Complex Systems: Fractionality, Time-Delay and Synchronization. A. C. J. Luo, J.-Q. Sun. Nonlinear Physical Science. Higher Education Press, Beijing, and Springer, Berlin, 2011. $139.00 (370 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-17592-3 Buy at Amazon

Neural Control Engineering: The Emerging Intersection Between Control Theory and Neuroscience. S. J. Schiff. Computational Neuroscience. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. $55.00 (361 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01537-0 Buy at Amazon

Regularity and Complexity in Dynamical Systems. A. C. J. Luo. Springer, New York, 2012. $179.00 (493 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1523-7 Buy at Amazon

The Universe as Automaton: From Simplicity and Symmetry to Complexity. K. Mainzer, L. Chua. Springer Briefs in Complexity. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012. $49.95 paper (108 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23476-7 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

XII Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields. A. Ayala, G. Contreras, I. Leon, P. Podesta, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1361. Proc. wksp., Mazatlán, Mexico, Nov. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $163.00 paper (429 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0919-4 Buy at Amazon

Accelerator Physics. 3rd ed. S. Y. Lee. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012 [2004]. $148.00 paper (533 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-94-1 Buy at Amazon

Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering: Mellin Moments of Heavy Flavor Contributions to F₂(x, Q²) at NNLO. S. Klein. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23285-5 Buy at Amazon

From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams: A Course of Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners. R. D’Auria, M. Trigiante. Springer, Italy, 2012. $89.95 paper (573 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-1503-6 Buy at Amazon

An Invitation to Quantum Field Theory. L. Álvarez-Gaumé, M. Á. Vázquez-Mozo. Lecture Notes in Physics 839. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $59.95 paper (294 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23727-0 Buy at Amazon

A Primer for Chiral Perturbation Theory. S. Scherer, M. R. Schindler. Lecture Notes in Physics 830. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $89.95 paper (338 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19253-1 Buy at Amazon

String Theory and Its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale (TASI 2010). M. Dine, T. Banks. S. Sachdev, eds. Proc. inst., Boulder, CO, June 2010. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $260.00 (862 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4350-51-8 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetry in Mathematics and Physics: UCLA Los Angeles, USA 2010. S. Ferrara, R. Fioresi, V. S. Varadarajan, eds. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2027. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $59.95 paper (273 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21743-2 Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Magnetic Reconnection: Theoretical and Observational Perspectives. W. Lewis, S. Antiochos, J. Drake, eds. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (168 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3045-2 Buy at Amazon

Partially Ionized Plasmas Throughout the Cosmos: Proceedings of the 2010 Huntsville Workshop. V. Florinski, J. Heerikhuisen, G. P. Zank, D. L. Gallagher, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1366. Proc. wksp., Nashville, TN, Oct. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $138.00 (182 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0926-2 Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Drive and Curiosity: What Fuels the Passion for Science. I. Hargittai. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2011. $26.00 (338 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-468-5 Buy at Amazon

An Engineer’s Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession. H. Petroski. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $21.99 (360 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01506-7 Buy at Amazon

Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds. C. Kitchin. Astronomers’ Universe. Springer, New York, 2012. $29.95 paper (281 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0643-3 Buy at Amazon

The Glorious Golden Ratio. A. S. Posamentier, I. Lehmann. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2012. $27.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-423-4 Buy at Amazon

Math for the Frightened: Facing Scary Symbols and Everything Else That Freaks You Out About Mathematics. C. Pask. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2011. $19.00 paper (380 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-421-0 Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Invisibility: A Story of Light and Deception. M. Beech. Springer, New York, 2012. $29.95 paper (206 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0615-0 Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does). B. Cox, J. Forshaw. Da Capo Press, Boston, 2012. $25.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-306-81964-3 Buy at Amazon

quantum physics

Advanced Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. F. Dyson (transcribed by D. Derbes). World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011 [2007]. $92.00, $39.00 paper (289 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4383-40-0, ISBN 978-981-4383-41-7 paper Buy at Amazon

Bell’s Theorem and Quantum Realism: Reassessment in Light of the Schrödinger Paradox. D. L. Hemmick, A. M. Shakur. Springer Briefs in Physics. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012. $49.95 paper (97 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23467-5 Buy at Amazon

The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers on Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World. S. Hawking, ed. Running Press, Philadelphia, 2011. $30.00 (1071 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7624-3434-3 Buy at Amazon

Elegance and Enigma: The Quantum Interviews. M. Schlosshauer, ed. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $69.95 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20879-9 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Mechanics: Its Early Development and the Road to Entanglement and Beyond. 2nd ed. E. G. Steward. Imperial College Press, London, 2012 [2008]. $110.00, $69.00 paper (315 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-769-8, ISBN 978-1-84816-770-4 paper Buy at Amazon

Scattering Matrix Approach to Non-Stationary Quantum Transport. M. V. Moskalets. Imperial College Press, London, 2012. $98.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-834-3 Buy at Amazon

The Supersymmetric Dirac Equation: The Application to Hydrogenic Atoms. A. Hirshfeld. Imperial College Press, London, 2012. $75.00 (201 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-797-1 Buy at Amazon

The Thermodynamics of Quantum Yang–Mills Theory: Theory and Applications. R. Hofmann. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $120.00 (461 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4329-04-0 Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

High-Energy Aspects of Solar Flares. A. G. Emslie, B. R. Dennis, R. P. Lin, H. S. Hudson, eds. Springer, New York, 2012. $179.00 (476 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3072-8 Buy at Amazon

Laboratory Science with Space Data: Accessing and Using Space-Experiment Data. D. Beysens, L. Carotenuto, J. J. W. A. van Loon, M. Zell, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21143-0 Buy at Amazon

Satellite Communications. J. N. Pelton. Springer Briefs in Space Development. Springer, New York, 2012. $49.95 paper (126 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1993-8 Buy at Amazon

Sketching the Moon: An Astronomical Artist’s Guide. R. Handy et al. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2012. $39.95 paper (233 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0940-3 Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

A Concise Introduction to the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems. E. Bertin. Springer Briefs in Complexity. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2012. $49.95 paper (77 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23922-9 Buy at Amazon

Theory of Periodic Conjugate Heat Transfer. 2nd ed. Y. B. Zudin. Mathematical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [2007]. $129.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21420-2 Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics: From Fundamental Concepts to Governing Equations. E. B. Tadmor, R. E. Miller, R. S. Elliott. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $80.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00826-7 Buy at Amazon

Electricity and Magnetism. 2nd ed. E. M. Purcell. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011 [1965]. $75.00 (484 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01360-5 Buy at Amazon

Exploring Quantum Physics Through Hands-On Projects. D. Prutchi, S. R. Prutchi. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2012. $69.95 paper (261 pp.). ISBN 978-1-118-14066-6 Buy at Amazon

The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction. 3rd ed. T. Frankel. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012 [2009]. $65.00 paper (686 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-60260-1 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Tensors and Group Theory for Physicists. N. Jeevanjee. Birkhäuser/Springer, New York, 2011. $59.95 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4714-8 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Structures of Quantum Mechanics. K. L. Chang. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $58.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4366-58-8 Buy at Amazon

A Modern Introduction to Particle Physics. 3rd ed. F. Riazuddin. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012 [2000]. $82.00 (657 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4338-83-7 Buy at Amazon

Navigating Graduate School and Beyond: A Career Guide for Graduate Students and a Must Read for Every Advisor. S. A. Christopher. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011. $28.00 paper (157 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-736-9 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers. 3rd ed. L. Debnath. Birkhäuser/Springer, New York, 2012 [2005]. $89.95 (860 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-8264-4 Buy at Amazon

Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle: Principles and Mechanisms. R. G. Williams, M. J. Follows. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $73.00 (404 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84369-0 Buy at Amazon

A Physical Introduction to Suspension Dynamics. É. Guazzelli, J. F. Morris. Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $85.00, $40.00 paper (229 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19319-1, ISBN 978-0-521-14927-3 paper Buy at Amazon

Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate. M. L. Salby. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $90.00 (666 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76718-7 Buy at Amazon

Planetary Surface Processes. H. J. Melosh. Cambridge Planetary Science 13. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $80.00 (500 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51418-7 Buy at Amazon

Problems and Solutions in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information. 3rd ed. W.-H. Steeb, Y. Hardy. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012 [2006]. $95.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4366-32-8 Buy at Amazon

Problems in Solid State Physics with Solutions. F. Han. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $138.00, $78.00 paper (648 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4365-02-4, ISBN 978-981-4366-87-8 paper Buy at Amazon

A Student’s Guide to Vectors and Tensors. D. A. Fleisch. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $75.00, $28.99 paper (197 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19369-6, ISBN 978-0-521-17190-8 paper Buy at Amazon

Thermal Physics: Concepts and Practice. A. L. Wasserman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $65.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00649-2 Buy at Amazon

Thermodynamics of the Earth and Planets. A. Patiño Douce. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $90.00 (709 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89621-4 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Differentiable Manifolds: A Theoretical Physics Approach. G. F. Torres del Castillo. Birkhäuser/Springer, New York, 2012. $59.95 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-8270-5 Buy at Amazon

Mechanical Behaviour of Soils Under Environmentally Induced Cyclic Loads. C. di Prisco, D. M. Wood, eds. CISM Courses and Lectures 534. Springer, New York, 2012. $249.00 (573 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7091-1067-6 Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Stability of Differential Equations. 2nd ed. R. Khasminskii. Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability 66. Springer, Berlin, 2012 [1980]. $129.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23279-4 Buy at Amazon

Symmetry-Adapted Basis Sets: Automatic Generation for Problems in Chemistry and Physics. J. C. Avery, S. Rettrup, J. E. Avery. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $90.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4350-46-4 Buy at Amazon

Variational Models and Methods in Solid and Fluid Mechanics. F. dell’Isola, S. Gavrilyuk, eds. CISM Courses and Lectures 535. Springer, New York, 2011. $209.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7091-0982-3 Buy at Amazon