New books

Biological and medical physics

Raman and SERS Investigations of Pharmaceuticals. M. Baia, S. Astilean, T. Iliescu. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $159.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78282-7

Vibrational Spectroscopy in Life Science. F. Siebert, P. Hildebrandt. Tutorials in Biophysics . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $124.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40506-0

Chemical physics

Amplification of Chirality . K. Soai, ed. Topics in Current Chemistry 284. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $239.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77868-4

Ionic Transport Processes: In Electrochemistry and Membrane Science. K. Kontturi, L. Murtomäki, J. A. Manzanares. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-953381-7

Photoresponsive Polymers I. S. R. Marder, K.-S. Lee, eds. Advances in Polymer Science 213. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $229.00 (209 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69448-9

Photoresponsive Polymers II. S. R. Marder, K.-S. Lee, eds. Advances in Polymer Science 214. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $269.00 (207 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69452-6

Polyfluorenes. U. Scherf, D. Neher, eds. Advances in Polymer Science 212. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $379.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68733-7

Computers and computational physics

Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation. F. Graziani, ed. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 62. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $99.00 paper (326 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77361-0

Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes. H. G. Bock, E. Kostina, H. X. Phu, R. Rannacher, eds. Proc. conf., Hanoi, Vietnam, Mar. 2006. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $139.00 paper (666 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79408-0

Condensed-matter physics

Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport in Semiconductors . X. L. Lei. Frontiers of Research with the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $78.00 (636 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-902-4

Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems . M. Di Ventra. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (476 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89634-4

Quantum Magnetism. B. Barbara, Y. Imry, G. Sawatzky, P. C. E. Stamp, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics . Proc. inst., Les Houches, France, June 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $179.00, $74.95 paper (249 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8510-9, ISBN 978-1-4020-8511-6 paper

Semiconductor Quantum Bits . F. Henneberger, O. Benson. Pan Stanford/World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $179.00 (504 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4241-05-2

Simple Models of Magnetism. R. Skomski. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (349 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857075-2

Spin Physics in Semiconductors . M. I. Dyakonov, ed. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 157. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $179.95 (439 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78819-5

Cosmology and relativity

Accelerators in the Universe. H. Kodama, K. Ioka, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1040. Proc. conf., Tsukuba, Japan, Mar. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 paper (232 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0567-7

N-Body Gravitational Problem: Unrestricted Solution. 2nd ed. K. Havel. Grevyt Press, Brampton, ON, Canada, 2008 [2003]. $14.95 paper (96 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9689120-5-8

Device physics

Smart Devices: Modeling of Material Systems. S. M. Sivakumar, V. Buravalla, A. R. Srinivasa, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1029. Proc. wksp., Chennai, India, Jan. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $165.00 (312 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0553-0

Wafer Level 3-D ICs Process Technology. C. S. Tan, R. J. Gutmann, L. R. Reif, eds. Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-76532-7

Energy and environment

Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present, and Future. P. J. Wood, D. M. Hannah, J. P. Sadler, eds. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $185.00 (436 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-01017-4

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,0000 Years of Earth’s Climate. D. Archer. Science Essentials. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $22.95 (180 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13654-7

Political Theory and Global Climate Change . S. Vanderheiden, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $60.00, $24.00 paper (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-22084-2, ISBN 978-0-262-72052-6 paper

Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry. T. Bradford. MTT Press. Cambridge, MA, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $14.95 paper (238 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-52494-0

Fluids

The XVth International Congress on Rheology. Parts 1 and 2. A. Co, L. G. Leal, R. H. Colby, A. J. Giacomin, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1027. Proc. mtg., Monterey, CA, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $399.00 set (1473 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0549-3 paper

The Detonation Phenomenon. J. H. S. Lee. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $99.00 (388 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89723-5

Fluid Mechanics: An Introduction to the Theory of Fluid Flows . F. Durst. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $109.00 (723 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71342-5

Introduction to the Numerical Analysis of Incompressible Viscous Flows. W. Layton. Computational Science and Engineering 6. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $67.00 paper (213 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-57-3

Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena. 2nd ed. G. Ben-Dor. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2007 [1991]. $199.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71381-4

Statistical Microhydrodynamics. E. G. Sinaiski, L. I. Zaichik. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $230.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40656-2

Theory and Simulation of Hard-Sphere Fluids and Related Systems. A. Mulero, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 753. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008! $129.00 (546 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78766-2

Geophysics

Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics . V. Yu. Khomich, A. I. Semenov, N. N. Shefov. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $289.00 (739 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75832-7

Convective and Advective Heat Transfer in Geological Systems. C. Zhao, B. E. Hobbs, A. Ord. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (229 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79510-0

Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data. A. E. Hartemink A. McBratney, M. L. Mendonça-Santos, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $159.00 (445 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8591-8

Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins: The Central European Basin System. R. Littke, U. Bayer, D. Gajewski, S. Nelskamp, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $239.00 (519 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85084-7, CD-ROM

Geophysical Continua: Deformation in the Earth’s Interior. B. L. N. Kennett, H.-P. Bunge. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86553-1

Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences: Applications in Climatology, Geodynamics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. R. V. Donner, S. M. Barbosa, eds. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 112. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $189.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78937-6

Object-Based Image Analysis: Spatial Concepts for Knowledge-Driven Remote Sensing Applications. T. Blaschke, S. Lang, G. J. Hay, eds. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography . Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $259.00 (817 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77057-2, CD-ROM

The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks. B. Velde, A. Meunier. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75633-0

Physics of Asymmetric Continuum: Extreme and Fracture Processes—Earthquake Rotation and Soliton Waves. R. Teisseyre, H. Nagahama, E. Majewski, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68354-4

Solved Problems in Geostatistics. O. Leuangthong, K. D. Khan, C. V. Deutsch. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $79.95 paper (207 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-17792-1

History and philosophy

The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn. L. Gilder. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008. $27.50 (443 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4000-4417-7

The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics. S. Balibar (translated from French by N. Stein). Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $24.95 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13108-5

Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters. F. Burkhardt, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $32.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89838-6

The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate. A. Frank. U. California Press, Berkeley, 2009. $24.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-0-520-25412-1

Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present. J. B. Foster, B. Clark, R. York. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2008. $60.00, $15.95 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58367-174-0, ISBN 978-1-58367-173-3 paper

Discovering the Principles of Mechanics, 1600-1800: Essays by David Speiser. K. Williams, S. Caparrini, eds. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $119.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8564-4

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. D. Hitt, O. Garriott, J. Kerwin. Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight. U. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. $29.95 (520 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8032-2434-6

The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto . G. Schilling. Corpernicus/Springer, New York, 2009. $27.50 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77804-4

Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was. M. Montandon. Da Capo Press, New York, 2008. $25.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-0-306-81528-7

The Moon That Wasn’t: The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite . H. Kragh. Science Networks-Historical Studies 37. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $59.95 (199 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8908-6

Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners. M. Worek, ed. (translated from Portuguese). Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY, 2008 [2007]. $39.95, $24.95 paper (320 pp.). ISBN 978-1-55407-411-2, ISBN 978-1-55407-416-7 paper

Plato’s Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. J. Gray. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $45.00 (515 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13610-3

Instrumentation and techniques

Nuclear Proficiency Testing . E. Cincu, I. Manea, M. Woods, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1036. Proc. wksp., Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0560-8

Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry: Capabilities for In Situ Analysis . P. J. Potts, M. West, eds. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2008. $189.00 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-552-5

Transmission Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation . 5th ed. L. Reimer, H. Kohl. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 36. Springer, New York, 2008 [1997]. $139.00 (587 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-40093-8

The Uncertainty in Physical Measurements: An Introduction to Data Analysis in the Physics Laboratory. P. Fornasini. Springer, New York, 2008. $89.95 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78649-0

Materials science

Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering . J. Banhart, ed. Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $150.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921324-5, CD-ROM

Crystallography of Modular Materials . G. Ferraris, E. Makovicky, S. Merlino. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography 15. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008 [2004, reissued]. $70.00 paper (372 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-954569-8

Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices and Systems. A. Vaseashta, I. N. Mihailescu, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics . Proc. inst., Sinaia, Romania, June 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $229.95, $99.95 paper (489 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8901-5, ISBN 978-1-4020-8902-2 paper