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acoustics

A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. D. Tymoczko. Oxford Studies in Music Theory. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $39.95 (450 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-533667-2 Buy at Amazon

Ocean Ambient Noise: Measurement and Theory. W. M. Carey, R. B. Evans. Monograph Series in Underwater Acoustics. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (263 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7831-8 Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Astronomical Photometry: Past, Present, and Future. E. F. Milone, C. Sterken, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 373. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (217 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8049-6 Buy at Amazon

Astronomical Spectroscopy: An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra. 2nd ed. J. Tennyson. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011 [2005]. $65.00, $40.00 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4291-96-5, ISBN 978-981-4291-97-2 paper Buy at Amazon

Astronomical Spectroscopy for Amateurs. K. M. Harrison. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2011. $34.95 paper (241 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7238-5 Buy at Amazon

Atomic Astrophysics and Spectroscopy. A. K. Pradhan, S. N. Nahar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $75.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82536-8 Buy at Amazon

The Dynamic Interstellar Medium: A Celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. R. Kothes, T. L. Landecker, A. G. Willis, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 438. Proc. conf., Naramata, BC, Canada, June 2010. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2010. $77.00 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-756-8 Buy at Amazon

Exploring Ancient Skies: A Survey of Ancient and Cultural Astronomy. 2nd ed. D. H. Kelley, E. F. Milone. Springer, New York, 2011 [2005]. $99.00 paper (614 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7623-9 Buy at Amazon

Galaxy Collisions: Forging New Worlds from Cosmic Crashes. C. Struck. Springer/Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2011. $39.95 paper (285 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-85370-3 Buy at Amazon

High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscropy: Past, Present and Future. J. Kaastra, F. Paerels, eds. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9883-5 Buy at Amazon

How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera. 2nd ed. T. Buick, P. Pugh. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2011 [2006]. $39.95 paper (345 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-5827-3 Buy at Amazon

Interstellar Molecules: Their Laboratory and Interstellar Habitat. K. M. T. Yamada, G. Winnewisser, eds. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 241. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $179.00 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-16267-1 Buy at Amazon

The Moon in Close-Up: A Next Generation Astronomer’s Guide. J. Wilkinson. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $39.95 paper (310 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-14804-0 Buy at Amazon

The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies. G. Mackie. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $145.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-62062-8 Buy at Amazon

Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence. S. Schuh, H. Drechsel, U. Heber, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1331. Proc. mtg., Bamberg, Germany, Aug. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $146.00 paper (359 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0886-9 Buy at Amazon

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI Past, Present, and Future. H. P. Shuch, ed. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $79.95 (538 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-13195-0 Buy at Amazon

UP2010: Have Observations Revealed a Variable Upper End of the Initial Mass Function? M. Treyer et al., eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 440. Proc. conf., Sedona, AZ, June 2010. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011. $77.00 (416 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-760-5 Buy at Amazon

What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? J. S. Bloom. Princeton Frontiers in Physics. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $80.00, $27.95 paper (256 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14556-3, ISBN 978-0-691-14557-0 paper Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Biomedical Image Processing. T. M. Deserno, ed. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $199.00 (595 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15815-5 Buy at Amazon

Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue. 2nd ed. A. J. Welch, M. J. C. van Gemert, eds. Springer, New York, 2011 [1995]. $229.00 (958 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-8830-7 Buy at Amazon

The Shaping of Life: The Generation of Biological Pattern. L. G. Harrison. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (247 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-55350-6 Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Multicomponent Interfacial Transport: Described by the Square Gradient Model During Evaporation and Condensation. K. Glavatskiy. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (171 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15265-8 Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Bayesian Brain: Probabilistic Approaches to Neural Coding. K. Doya, S. Ishii, A. Pouget, R. P. N. Rao, eds. Computational Neuroscience. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011 [2007, reissued]. $26.00 paper (326 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-51601-3 Buy at Amazon

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer: Emerging Topics. R. S. Amano, B. Sundén, eds. Developments in Heat Transfer 23. WIT Press, Billerica, MA, 2011. $390.00 (486 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84564-144-3 Buy at Amazon

Next-Generation Internet: Architectures and Protocols. B. Ramamurthy, G. Rouskas, K. M. Sivalingam, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (409 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-11368-7 Buy at Amazon

Particle-Based Methods: Fundamentals and Applications. E. Oñate, R. Owen, eds. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 25. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0734-4 Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Nanophenomena at Surfaces: Fundamentals of Exotic Condensed Matter Properties. M. Michailov, ed. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 47. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $169.00 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-16509-2 Buy at Amazon

Understanding Soft Condensed Matter Via Modeling and Computation. W. Hu, A.-C. Shi, eds. Series in Soft Condensed Matter 3. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $118.00 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4295-58-1 Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Basic Relativity: An Introductory Essay. P. Hraskó. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, New York, 2011. $49.95 (104 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-17809-2 Buy at Amazon

Canonical Gravity and Applications: Cosmology, Black Holes, and Quantum Gravity. M. Bojowald. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $75.00 (305 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19575-1 Buy at Amazon

Dark Matter and Dark Energy: A Challenge for Modern Cosmology. S. Matarrese, M. Colpi, V. Gorini, U. Moschella, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 370. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2011. $129.00 (404 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-8684-6 Buy at Amazon

Equations of Motion in General Relativity. H. Asada, T. Futamase, P. A. Hogan. International Series of Monographs on Physics 148. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $98.50 (153 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958410-9 Buy at Amazon

Lectures on Gravitation. A. Das. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $99.00, $48.00 paper (338 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4329-37-8, ISBN 978-981-4329-38-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Primordial Cosmology. G. Montani, M. V. Battisti, R. Benini, G. Imponente. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $199.00 (591 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4271-00-4 Buy at Amazon

device physics

A CMOS Self-Powered Front-End Architecture for Subcutaneous Event-Detector Devices: Three-Electrodes Amperometric Biosensor Approach. J. Colomer-Farrarons, P. L. Miribel-Català. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (163 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0685-9 Buy at Amazon

Nanoscale MOS Transistors: Semi-Classical Transport and Applications. D. Esseni, P. Palestri, L. Selmi. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $110.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51684-6 Buy at Amazon

Quasilinear Control: Performance Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems with Nonlinear Sensors and Actuators. S. Ching et al. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $115.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00056-8 Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Energy and the Environment: Scientific and Technological Principles. 2nd ed. J. A. Fay, D. S. Golomb. MIT-Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2012 [2002]. $89.95 (366 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-976513-3 Buy at Amazon

An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet. F. F. Chen. Springer, New York, 2011. $49.95 (433 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7819-6 Buy at Amazon

fluids

Excitations in Simple Liquids, Liquid Metals and Superfluids. W. Montfrooij, I. de Schepper. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $79.50 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956412-5 Buy at Amazon

Wave Turbulence. S. Nazarenko. Lecture Notes in Physics 825. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $59.95 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15941-1 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Biominerals and Fossils Through Time. J.-P. Cuif, Y. Dauphin, J. E. Sorauf. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $115.00 (490 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87473-1 Buy at Amazon

Coastal Altimetry. S. Vignudelli, A. G. Kostianoy, P. Cipollini, J. Benveniste, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $229.00 (565 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-12795-3 Buy at Amazon

The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Complexity, Synthesis, and Computation. L. Donner, W. Schubert, R. Somerville, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $85.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19006-0 Buy at Amazon

Diffusion in Minerals and Melts. Y. Zhang, D. J. Cherniak, eds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 72. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO, and Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, VA, 2010. $50.00 paper (1038 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-86-7 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Apollo 12—On the Ocean of Storms. D. M. Harland. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2011. $44.95 paper (522 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7606-2 Buy at Amazon

The Beautiful Invisible: Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics. G. Vignale. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $34.95 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957484-1 Buy at Amazon

Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel. M. Hoskin. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $29.95 (237 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14833-5 Buy at Amazon

Feynman. J. Ottaviani, L. Myrick. First Second/Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2011. $29.99 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59643-259-8 Buy at Amazon

Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics. P. Davies, N. H. Gregersen, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $30.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76225-0 Buy at Amazon

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. G. Saliba. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011 [2007, reissued]. $22.00 paper (341 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-51615-0 Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments. J. Baggott. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $29.95 (469 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956684-6 Buy at Amazon

A Scientific Autobiography: S. Chandrasekhar. K. C. Wali, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $85.00, $42.00 paper (277 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4299-57-2, ISBN 978-981-4299-58-9 paper Buy at Amazon

A Time and a Tide: A Memoir. C. K. Kao. Chinese U. Press, Hong Kong, 2011. $30.00, $20.00 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-962-996-446-7, ISBN 978-962-996-447-4 paper Buy at Amazon

What Is Life? The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger. H. U. Gumbrecht, R. P. Harrison, M. R. Hendrickson, R. B. Laughlin. Stanford U. Press, Stanford, CA, 2011. $60.00, $18.95 paper (145 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8047-6915-0, ISBN 978-0-8047-6916-7 paper Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Coherent Light Microscopy: Imaging and Quantitative Phase Analysis. P. Ferraro, A. Wax, Z. Zalevsky, eds. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 46. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15812-4 Buy at Amazon

Concepts and Methods of 2D Infrared Spectroscopy. P. Hamm, M. Zanni. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00005-6 Buy at Amazon

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology. Vol. 3: Accelerators as Photon Sources. A. W. Chao, W. Chou, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $138.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4340-38-0 Buy at Amazon

Single-Sided NMR. F. Casanova, J. Perlo, B. Blümich, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-16306-7 Buy at Amazon

Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications. M. F. Pereira, O. Shulika, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. wksp., Marmaris, Turkey, Nov. 2009. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2011. $189.00, $89.95 paper (202 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0768-9, ISBN 978-94-007-0771-9 paper Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Introduction to the Physics of Electrons in Solids. H. Alloul (translated from French by S. Lyle). Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [2007]. $119.00 (616 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-13564-4 Buy at Amazon

A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics. P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, E. Ben-Naim. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $70.00 (488 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85103-9 Buy at Amazon

The Light Fantastic: A Modern Introduction to Classical and Quantum Optics. 2nd ed. I. R. Kenyon. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011 [2008]. $126.00, $62.95 paper (710 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958461-1, ISBN 978-0-19-958460-4 paper Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications. 2nd ed. N. A Spaldin. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011 [2003]. $65.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88669-7 Buy at Amazon

Numerical Weather and Climate Prediction. T. T. Warner. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $75.00 (526 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51389-0 Buy at Amazon

Observational Cosmology. S. Serjeant. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK and Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $130.00, $60.00 paper (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19231-6, ISBN 978-0-521-15715-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods. 2nd ed. M. S. Gockenbach. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011 [2002]. $85.00 (654 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898719-35-2 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics. P. R. Berman, V. S. Malinovsky. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $80.00 (519 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14056-8 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Plasma Physics for Engineers and Scientists. U. Inan, M. Gołkowski. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19372-6 Buy at Amazon

Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics: The Statistics of Nonlinear Processes in the Universe. M. Aschwanden. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Planetary Sciences. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2011. $169.00 (416 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15000-5 Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

XXIX Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics. P. Kielanowski et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1307. Proc. wksp., Białowieża, Poland, June–July 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $142.00 (220 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0861-6 Buy at Amazon

Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences. M. D. Todorov, C. I. Christov, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1301. Proc. conf., Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $374.00 paper (681 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0856-2 Buy at Amazon

Applications of Mathematics in Engineering and Economics (AMEE ’10). G. Venkov, R. Kovacheva, V. Pasheva, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1293. Proc. conf., Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $174.00 paper (314 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0850-0 Buy at Amazon

Local Bifurcations, Center Manifolds, and Normal Forms in Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems. M. Haragus, G. Iooss. Universitext. EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, France, and Springer, London, 2011. $74.95 paper (329 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85729-111-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Analysis of Problems in the Natural Sciences. V. Zorich (translated from Russian by G. G. Gould). Springer, Berlin, 2011 [2008]. $49.95 (135 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-14812-5 Buy at Amazon

New Structures for Physics. B. Coecke, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 813. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $159.00 paper (1031 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-12820-2 Buy at Amazon

Reasoning About Fuzzy Temporal and Spatial Information from the Web. S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. Kerre. Intelligent Information Systems 3. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $150.00 (594 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4307-89-5 Buy at Amazon

Roger Penrose: Collected Works. Vols. 1–6. R. Penrose. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $1250.00 set (5104 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-19-921944-5 Buy at Amazon

Search for Fundamental Theory. R. L. Amoroso, P. Rowlands, S. Jeffers, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1316. Proc. symp., London, July 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $243.00 paper (478 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0870-8 Buy at Amazon

Shapes and Geometries: Metrics, Analysis, Differential Calculus, and Optimization. 2nd ed. M. C. Delfour, J.-P . Zolésio. Advances in Design and Control. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $119.00 (622 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898719-36-9 Buy at Amazon

Symmetries in Nature. L. Benet, P. O. Hess, J. M. Torres, K. B. Wolf, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1323. Proc. symp., Cuernavaca, Mexico, Aug. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $189.00 paper (344 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0877-7 Buy at Amazon