New books

Acoustics

9th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU 2009). K. Hynynen, J. Souquet, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1215. Proc. symp., Aix-en-Provence, France, Sept. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $224.00 paper (408 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0758-9

Astronomy and astrophysics

AKARI, a Light to Illuminate the Misty Universe. T. Onaka, G. J. White, T. Nakagawa, I. Yamamura, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 418. Proc. conf., Tokyo, Feb. 2009. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (546 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-716-2

Astrophysics and Cosmology After Gamow. S. K. Chakrabarti, G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, A. I. Zhuk. AIP Conference Proceedings 1206. Proc. conf., Odessa, Ukraine, Aug. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $274.00 paper (488 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0743-5

Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes, and Extraterrestrial Life. K. J. Meech et al., eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 420. Proc. wksp., San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (531 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-720-9

The Earth as a Distant Planet: A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds. M. Vázquez, E. Pallé, P. Montañés Rodríguez. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, 2010. $119.00 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-1683-9

Fifth European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics. C. Spitaleri, C. Rolfs, R. G. Pizzone, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1213. Proc. sch., Santa Tecla, Sicily, Italy, Sept. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $154.00 paper (259 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0756-5

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V. J. M. Diego et al., eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Proc. mtg., Santander, Spain, July 2008. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $249.00 (566 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11249-2

Protoplanetary Dust: Astrophysical and Cosmochemical Perspectives. D. Apai, D. S. Lauretta, eds. Cambridge Planetary Science. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $120.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51772-0

Science with the New Generation of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments. C. Cecchi, S. Ciprini, P. Lubrano, G. Tosti, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1223. Proc. wksp., Assisi, Italy, Oct. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $114.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0767-1

Solar-Stellar Dynamos as Revealed by Helio- and Asteroseismology. M. Dikpati et al., eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 416. Proc. conf., Boulder, CO, Aug. 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (597 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-712-4

Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis. S. G. Ryan, A. J. Norton. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $130.00, $60.00 paper (236 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19609-3, ISBN 978-0-521-13320-3 paper

Submillimeter Astrophysics and Technology: A Symposium Honoring Thomas G. Phillips. D. C. Lis et al., eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 417. Proc. symp., Pasadena, CA, Feb. 2009. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (458 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-714-8

Atomic and molecular physics

Optically Pumped Atoms. W. Happer, Y.-Y. Jau, T. Walker. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2010. $145.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40707-1

Biological and medical physics

Handbook of Physics in Medicine and Biology. R. Splinter, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $149.95 (548 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-7524-3

Chemical physics

Adsorption and Phase Behaviour in Nanochannels and Nanotubes. L. J. Dunne, G. Manos, eds. Springer, New York, 2010. $199.00 (295 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2480-0

Advances in Macromolecules: Perspectives and Applications. M. V. Russo, ed. Springer, New York, 2010. $159.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3191-4

Free-Radical Retrograde-Precipitation Polymerization (FRRPP): Novel Concept, Processes, Materials, and Energy Aspects. G. Caneba. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03024-6

Functional Phthalocyanine Molecular Materials. J. Jiang, ed. Structure and Bonding 135. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $339.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-04751-0

Reviews in Fluorescence 2008. Vol. 5. C. D. Geddes, ed. Springer, New York, 2010. $189.00 (489 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-0828-5

Computers and computational physics

Applied Quantum Cryptography. C. Kollmitzer, M. Pivk, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 797. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $79.95 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-04829-6

Cosmology and relativity

Lectures on Cosmology: Accelerated Expansion of the Universe. G. Wolschin, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 800. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $79.95 paper (181 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-10597-5

Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later. V. Petkov, ed. Fundamental Theories of Physics 165. Springer, New York, 2010. $159.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3474-8

Quantum Cosmology—The Supersymmetric Perspective. Vol. 2: Advanced Topics. P. V. Moniz. Lecture Notes in Physics 804. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $79.95 paper (283 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11569-1

The Sun, the Stars, the Universe, and General Relativity: International Conference in Honor of Y. B. Zeldovich’s 95th Anniversary. R. Ruffini, G. Vereshchagin, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1205. Proc. conf., Minsk, Belarus, Apr. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $179.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0742-8

Device physics

Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Modules and Their Applications. G. N. Tiwari, S. Dubey. RSC Energy Series 2. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2010. $289.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84973-020-4

Energy and environment

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century. B. Richter. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $99.00, $29.99 paper (226 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76384-4, ISBN 978-0-521-74781-3 paper

Fluids

Turbulence in the Atmosphere. J. C. Wyngaard. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $75.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88769-4

Geophysics

Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust. A. Zang, O. Stephansson. Springer, New York, 2010. $99.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8443-0, DVD-ROM

History and philosophy

137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession. A. I. Miller. W. W. Norton, New York, 2010 [2009, reissued]. $16.95 paper (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-33864-5

Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. A. Sokal. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [2008, reissued]. $24.95 paper (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956183-4

Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality. P. L. Nunez. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $39.95 (306 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-534071-6

Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975. C. Burgess, ed. Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight. U. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2010. $34.95 (480 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8032-2665-4

How to Read Historical Mathematics. B. Wardhaugh. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010. $22.95 (116 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14014-8

One Book, the Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today. R. D. Mohr, B. M. Sattler, eds. Proc. conf., Urbana, IL, Sept. 2007. Parmenides, Las Vegas, NV, 2010. $87.00 paper (406 pp.). ISBN 978-1-930972-32-2

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World. E. S. Reich. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010 [2009, reissued]. $17.00 paper (266 pp.). ISBN 978-0-230-62384-2

Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein. B. J. Hunt. Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2010. $45.00, $20.00 paper (182 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-9358-2, ISBN 978-0-8018-9359-9 paper

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. M. Kumar. W. W. Norton, New York, 2010. $27.95 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-07829-9

The Quest for a Fusion Energy Reactor: An Insider’s Account of the INTOR Workshop. W. M. Stacey. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $24.95 (188 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-973384-2

Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon. I. James. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $85.00, $34.99 paper (201 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51621-1, ISBN 978-0-521-73165-2 paper

Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography: A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk. H. von Storch, K. Hasselmann. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 (137 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-12086-2

ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science. B. J. Gold. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. $30.00 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01372-7

Space and planetary science

The Scientific Exploration of Mars. F. W. Taylor. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $45.00 (348 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82956-4

The Second Hinode Science Meeting: Beyond Discovery — Toward Understanding. B. Lites et al., eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 415. Proc. mtg., Boulder, CO, Sept.-Oct. 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-710-0

The Solar Corona. 2nd ed. L. Golub, J. M. Pasachoff. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010 [1997]. $80.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88201-9

Theory of Orbit Determination. A. Milani, G. F. Gronchi. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $75.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87389-5

Statistical physics and thermodynamics

Introduction to Quantum Statistical Mechanics. 2nd ed. N. N. Bogolubov, N. N. Bogolubov Jr. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010 [1994]. $80.00, $48.00 paper (422 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4295-19-2, ISBN 978-981-4295-82-6 paper

Thermodynamics, Gibbs Method and Statistical Physics of Electron Gases. B. M. Askerov, S. R. Figarova. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 57. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (374 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03170-0

Texts and education

Classical Mechanics: Systems of Particles and Hamiltonian Dynamics. 2nd ed. W. Greiner. Springer, Berlin, 2010 [1992]. $99.00 paper (579 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03433-6

Concepts of Nanochemistry. L. Cademartiri, G. A. Ozin. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2009. $120.00, $55.00 paper (261 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-32626-6, ISBN 978-3-527-32597-9 paper

Energy and Entropy: Equilibrium to Stationary States. M. E. Starzak. Springer, New York, 2010. $79.95 (314 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77822-8

Exploring Integrated Science. B. E. Baaquie, F. H. Willeboordse. CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $99.95 (572 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-8793-2

Fundamentals of Cosmology. 2nd ed. J. Rich. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2001]. $99.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02799-4

An Introduction to Soil Dynamics. A. Verruijt. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media 24. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2010. $99.00 (433 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3440-3, CD-ROM

An Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution. 2nd ed. D. Prialnik. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010 [2008]. $70.00 (314 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86604-0

Linear Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Theory. M. Pivato. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $120.00, $60.00 paper (601 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19970-4, ISBN 978-0-521-13659-4 paper

Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell. 2nd ed. A. Zee. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010 [2003]. $27.95 (576 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14034-6

Quantum Mechanics with Basic Field Theory. B. R. Desai. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $95.00 (838 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87760-2

Semiconductor Nanostructures: Quantum States and Electronic Transport. T. Ihn. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $125.00, $65.00 paper (552 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-953442-5, ISBN 978-0-19-953443-2 paper

Solid State Physics: Principles and Modern Applications. J. J. Quinn, K.-S. Yi. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $99.00 (534 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-92230-8

Solitons, Instantons, and Twistors. M. Dunajski. Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics 19. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $125.00, $65.00 paper (359 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857062-2, ISBN 978-0-19-857063-9 paper

Understanding Fluid Flow. G. Worster. AIMS Library Series. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $24.99 paper (104 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-13289-3

Theory and mathematical methods

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology. M. P. Hobson et al., eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $65.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88794-6

Introduction to Analytical Dynamics. Rev. ed. N. M. J. Woodhouse. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London, 2009 [1987]. $49.95 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84882-815-5

An Introduction to Random Matrices. G. W. Anderson, A. Guionnet, O. Zeitouni. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 118. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $65.00 (492 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19452-5

Involution: The Formal Theory of Differential Equations and Its Applications in Computer Algebra. W. M. Seiler. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics 24. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 (650 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01286-0

The Mathematical Theory of Symmetry in Solids: Representation Theory for Point Groups and Space Groups. C. J. Bradley, A. P. Cracknell. Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [1972, reissued]. $75.00 paper (745 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958258-7

Quantal Density Functional Theory II: Approximation Methods and Applications. V. Sahni. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (426 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-92228-5

Time in Quantum Mechanics—Vol. 2. J. G. Muga, A. Ruschhaupt, A. del Campo, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 789. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $89.95 (423 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03173-1