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astronomy and astrophysics

The Andromeda Galaxy and the Rise of Modern Astronomy. D. Schultz. Astronomers’ Universe. Springer, New York, 2012. $34.95 paper (271 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3048-3 Buy at Amazon

Astrophysical Jets and Beams. M. D. Smith. Cambridge Astrophysics Series 49. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $105.00 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-83476-6 Buy at Amazon

A Field Guide to Deep-Sky Objects. 2nd ed. M. D. Inglis. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2012 [2001]. $39.95 paper (253 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1265-6 Buy at Amazon

Guidebook to the Constellations: Telescopic Sights, Tales, and Myths. P. Simpson. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2012. $34.95 paper (863 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-6940-8 Buy at Amazon

International Symposium on the Recent Progress of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Observation. H. Sagawa et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1367. Proc. symp., Aichi, Japan, Dec. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $156.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0927-9 Buy at Amazon

Observational Astronomy: Techniques and Instrumentation. E. C. Sutton. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $75.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01046-8 Buy at Amazon

A Panchromatic View of Galaxies. A. Boselli. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2012. $135.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40991-4 Buy at Amazon

Relativistic Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei. M. Böttcher, D. E. Harris, H. Krawczynski, eds. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2012. $135.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-41037-8 Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Atoms in Intense Laser Fields. C. J. Joachain, N. J. Kylstra, R. M. Potvliege. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $135.00 (568 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-79301-8 Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Biophysics: A Physiological Approach. P. F. Dillon. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $130.00, $65.00 paper (298 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00144-2, ISBN 978-0-521-17216-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Cell and Tissue Organization in the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems. M. Thiriet. Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems 1. Springer, New York, 2011. $199.00 (735 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9757-9 Buy at Amazon

The Mechanics of the Circulation. 2nd ed. C. G. Caro, T. J. Pedley, R. C. Schroter, W. A. Seed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012 [1978]. $49.00 paper (523 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-15177-1 Buy at Amazon

Molecular Chaperones: Methods and Protocols. S. K. Calderwood, T. L. Prince, eds. Methods in Molecular Biology 787. Humana Press/Springer, New York, 2011. $139.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61779-294-6 Buy at Amazon

Physiology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering. A. W. Wood. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $99.95 (762 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6513-8 Buy at Amazon

Ribosomes: Structure, Function, and Dynamics. M. V. Rodnina, W. Wintermeyer, R. Green, eds. Springer, Vienna, Austria, 2011. $209.00 (442 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7091-0214-5 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Ionic Equilibria in Analytical Chemistry. J.-L. Burgot. Springer, New York, 2012. $229.00 (770 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8381-7 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Advances in Cryptology—ASIACRYPT 2011. D. H. Lee, X. Wang, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7073. Proc. conf., Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 2011. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011. $131.00 paper (760 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-25384-3 Buy at Amazon

From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High-Energy Physics. R. Brun, F. Carminati, G. G. Carminati, eds. Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $99.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23156-8 Buy at Amazon

Modern Fortran: Style and Usage. N. S. Clerman, W. Spector. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $99.00, $45.00 paper (334 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51453-8, ISBN 978-0-521-73052-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Computations. B. Engquist, O. Runborg, Y.-H. R. Tsai, eds. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 82. Proc. wksp., Banff, AB, Canada, Dec. 2009. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $149.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21942-9 Buy at Amazon

A Student’s Guide to Coding and Information Theory. S. M. Moser, P.-N. Chen. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $85.00, $29.99 paper (191 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01583-8, ISBN 978-1-107-60196-3 paper Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

The BCS—BEC Crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas. W. Zwerger, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 836. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $119.00 paper (532 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21977-1 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Soft Matter: Neutron Applications. V. García Sakai, C. Alba-Simionesco, S.-H. Chen, eds. Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques. Springer, New York, 2012. $179.00 (449 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0726-3 Buy at Amazon

Strongly Correlated Systems: Theoretical Methods. A. Avella, F. Mancini, eds. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 171. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $199.00 (461 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21830-9 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (TEXAS 2010). F. A. Aharonian, W. Hofmann, F. M. Rieger, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1381. Proc. symp., Heidelberg, Germany, Dec. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $140.00 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0941-5 Buy at Amazon

Cosmic Update: Dark Puzzles. Arrow of Time. Future History. F. Adams, T. Buchert, L. Mersini-Houghton. Multiversal Journeys. Springer, New York, 2012. $69.95 (138 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8293-3 Buy at Amazon

device physics

Advanced High Voltage Power Device Concepts. B. J. Baliga. Springer, New York, 2011. $229.00 (568 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0268-8 Buy at Amazon

Analog Electronic Filters: Theory, Design and Synthesis. H. G. Dimopoulos. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, 2012. $119.00 (577 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2189-0 Buy at Amazon

CMOS High Efficiency On-chip Power Management. J. Hu, M. Ismail. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (120 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9525-4 Buy at Amazon

Structural Synthesis of Parallel Robots. Part 4: Other Topologies with Two and Three Degrees of Freedom. G. Gogu. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications 183. Springer, New York, 2012. $229.00 (626 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2674-1 Buy at Amazon

Test and Diagnosis for Small-Delay Defects. M. Tehranipoor, K. Peng, K. Chakrabarty. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (212 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8296-4 Buy at Amazon

Ultra-Wideband Radio Frequency Identification Systems. F. Nekoogar, F. Dowla. Springer, New York, 2011. $119.00 (160 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9700-5 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology. R. Kittler, M. Kocifaj, S. Darula. Springer, New York, 2012. $169.00 (341 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8815-7 Buy at Amazon

Noise-Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences. L. Ridolfi, P. D’Odorico, F. Laio. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $110.00 (313 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19818-9 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Buoyancy-Driven Flows. E. P. Chassignet, C. Cenedese, J. Verron, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $120.00 (436 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00887-8 Buy at Amazon

Multiphase Flow Dynamics 3: Thermal Interactions. 4th ed. N. I. Kolev. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [2007]. $229.00 (679 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21371-7 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Water Waves with Applications to Wave-Current Interactions and Tsunamis. A. Constantin. CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 81. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $89.00 paper (321 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611971-86-6 Buy at Amazon

Recent Progresses in Fluid Dynamics Research. J. Li, S. Fu, eds. Proc. conf., Guangzhou, China, June–July 2011. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $238.00 (658 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0936-1, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts. H. Rashid, L. Polyak, E. Mosley-Thompson, eds. Geophysical Monograph 193. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011. $120.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-484-9 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-Penetrating Radar. R. D. Miller, J. H. Bradford, K. Holliger, eds. Geophysical Developments Series 15. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, OK; American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC; Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, Denver, CO, 2010. $149.00 (487 pp.). ISBN 978-1-56080-224-2 Buy at Amazon

Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. M. J. Siegert, M. C. Kennicutt II, R. A. Bindschadler, eds. Geophysical Monograph 192. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011. $110.00 (246 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-482-5 Buy at Amazon

Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? D.-Z. Sun, F. Bryan, eds. Geophysical Monograph 189. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2010. $90.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-480-1 Buy at Amazon

Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges. P. A. Rona, C. W. Devey, J. Dyment, B. J. Murton, eds. Geophysical Monograph 188. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2010. $129.00 (440 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-478-8 Buy at Amazon

The Earth’s Cryosphere and Sea Level Change. L. Bengtsson et al., eds. Space Sciences Series of ISSI 40. Springer, New York, 2012. $169.00 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2062-6 Buy at Amazon

Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise. Y. Liu, A. MacFadyen, Z.-G. Ji, R. H. Weisberg, eds. Geophysical Monograph 195. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011. $80.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-485-6 Buy at Amazon

Rainfall: State of the Science. F. Y. Testik, M. Gebremichael, eds. Geophysical Monograph 191. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2010. $130.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-481-8 Buy at Amazon

Seismic Imaging and Inversion: Application of Linear Inverse Theory. R. H. Stolt, A. B. Weglein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $125.00 (404 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01490-9 Buy at Amazon

The Stratosphere: Dynamics, Transport, and Chemistry. L. M. Polvani, A. H. Sobel, D. W. Waugh, eds. Geophysical Monograph 190. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2010. $120.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-479-5 Buy at Amazon

Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems: Scientific Approaches, Analyses, and Tools. A. Simon, S. J. Bennett, J. M. Castro, eds. Geophysical Monograph 194. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011. $120.00 (544 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-483-2 Buy at Amazon

Tectonic, Climatic, and Cryospheric Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula. J. B. Anderson, J. S. Wellner, eds. Special Publications 63. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2011. $60.00 paper (218 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-734-5 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Ambartsumian’s Legacy and Active Universe. H. Harutyunian, D. Sedrakian, A. Kalloghlian, A. Nikoghossian, eds. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0181-0 Buy at Amazon

The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos. D. G. York, O. Gingerich, S.-N. Zhang, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $79.95 (426 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-3600-2 Buy at Amazon

The Construction of the Heavens: William Herschel’s Cosmology. M. Hoskin. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $105.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01838-9 Buy at Amazon

Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India. A. Sur. Navayana, New Delhi, India, 2011. $45.75 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-8189059323 Buy at Amazon

Emilie du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton. R. Hagengruber, ed. International Archives of the History of Ideas 205. Springer, New York, 2012. $139.00 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2074-9 Buy at Amazon

Fluid Flows to Black Holes: A Tribute to S. Chandrasekhar on His Birth Centenary. D. J. Saikia, V. Trimble, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $108.00 (299 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-76-7 Buy at Amazon

Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts. M. A. Peterson. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. $28.95 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-05972-6 Buy at Amazon

How James Watt Invented the Copier: Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists. R. Schils (translated from Dutch by A. Brown). Springer, New York, 2012. $34.95 paper (170 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0859-8 Buy at Amazon

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization. S. Cave. Crown Publishers, New York, 2012. $25.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-307-88491-6 Buy at Amazon

Interpreting Physics: Language and the Classical/Quantum Divide. E. MacKinnon. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 289. Springer, New York, 2012. $139.00 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2368-9 Buy at Amazon

The New Quantum Age: From Bell’s Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation. A. Whitaker. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2012. $45.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958913-5 Buy at Amazon

The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions. J. Illy. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2012. $60.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0457-8 Buy at Amazon

Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory. G. Harman, S. Kulkarni. Bradford Book. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012 [2007, reissued]. $16.00 paper (108 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-51734-8 Buy at Amazon

Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science. P. D. Usher. Cambria Press, Amherst, NY, 2010. $124.99 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-1-60497-733-2 Buy at Amazon

Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. K. C. Harper. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012 [2008, reissued]. $21.00 paper (308 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-51735-5 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors. D. G. Blair, E. J. Howell, L. Ju, C. Zhao, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $120.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87429-8 Buy at Amazon

Nanofabrication Handbook. S. Cabrini, S. Kawata, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $129.95 (518 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-9052-9 Buy at Amazon

Optical Interferometry for Biology and Medicine. D. D. Nolte. Bioanalysis: Advanced Materials, Methods, and Devices. Springer, New York, 2012. $169.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0889-5 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Elastomere Friction: Theory, Experiment and Simulation. D. Besdo et al. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics 51. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 (249 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-10656-9 Buy at Amazon

Energetic Materials at Extreme Conditions. D. I. A. Millar. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23131-5 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability. D. S. Ginley, D. Cahen, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $99.00 (753 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00023-0 Buy at Amazon

Mechanical Behaviour of Materials. Volume 1: Micro- and Macroscopic Constitutive Behaviour. D. François, A. Pineau, A. Zaoui. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications 180. Springer, New York, 2012. $229.00 (646 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-2545-4 Buy at Amazon

Physical Basis of Plasticity in Solids. J.-C. Tolédano. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $78.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-05-7 Buy at Amazon

Reviews in Plasmonics 2010. C. D. Geddes, ed. Reviews in Plasmonics. Springer, New York, 2012. $209.00 (334 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0883-3 Buy at Amazon

Solid State Physics: Proceedings of the 55th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2010. Parts A and B. A. B. Garg, R. Mittal, R. Mukhopadhyay, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1349. Proc. symp., Manipal, India, Dec. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $386 set (1344 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0905-7 Buy at Amazon

Thermodynamics of Materials with Memory: Theory and Applications. G. Amendola, M. Fabrizio, J. M. Golden. Springer, New York, 2012. $124.00 (574 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1691-3 Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Ship Resistance and Propulsion: Practical Estimation of Ship Propulsive Power. A. F. Molland, S. R. Turnock, D. A. Hudson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $110.00 (537 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76052-2 Buy at Amazon

Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers. F. C. Frankel, A. H. DePace. Yale U. Press, New Haven, CT, 2012. $35.00 paper (153 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-17644-5 Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

3rd International Workshop on Nucleon Structure at Large Bjorken X. S. Malace, R. Ent, W. Melnitchouk, I. Niculescu, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1369. Proc. wksp., Newport News, VA, Oct. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $143.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0929-3 Buy at Amazon

Fast Spectrum Reactors. A. E. Waltar, D. R. Todd, P. V. Tsvetkov, eds. Springer, New York, 2012. $349.00 (720 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9571-1 Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

The 8th International Conference on Laser Applications—ICLA 2011. M. A. Harith, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1380. Proc. conf., Cairo, Egypt, May 2011. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $126.00 paper (112 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0940-8 Buy at Amazon

The Fourth International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Nanophotonics. D. N. Chigrin, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1398. Proc. wksp., Bad Honnef, Germany, Oct. 2011. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $139.00 paper (189 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0968-2 Buy at Amazon

Optical Transmission: The FP7 BONE Project Experience. A. Teixeira, G. M. T. Beleffi, eds. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1766-4 Buy at Amazon

Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy. 2nd ed. B. Hapke. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012 [2005]. $90.00 (513 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88349-8 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

High-Energy Nuclear Optics of Polarized Particles. V. G. Baryshevsky. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $158.00 (620 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4324-83-0 Buy at Amazon