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acoustics

Urban Forest Acoustics. V. Bucur. Springer, New York, 2006. $129.00 (181 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30783-4  Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Astrochemistry: From Astronomy to Astrobiology. A. M. Shaw. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. $145.00, $60.00 paper (339 pp.). ISBN 0-470-09136-3, ISBN 0-470-09137-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

Astrophysical Disks: Collective and Stochastic Phenomena. A. M. Fridman, M. Ya. Marov, I. G. Kovalenko, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 337. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006. $159.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-4347-3  Buy at Amazon

Astrophysics in the Far Ultraviolet: Five Years of Discovery with Fuse. G. Sonneborn, H. W. Moos, B.-G. Andersson, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 348. Proc. conf., Victoria, BC, Aug. 2004. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2006. $77.00 (591 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-216-4  Buy at Amazon

Chaos and Complexity in Astrophysics. O. Regev. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $80.00 (455 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85534-9  Buy at Amazon

A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics: Chronology and Glossary with Data Tables. K. R. Lang. Springer, New York, 2006. $49.95 paper (375 pp.). ISBN 0-387-30734-6  Buy at Amazon

Extrasolar Planets. P. Cassen, T. Guillot, A. Quirrenbach. Saas-Fee Advanced Course 31. Springer, New York, 2006. $89.95 (451 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29216-0  Buy at Amazon

Graduate School in Astronomy. S. Daflon, J. Alcaniz, E. Telles, R. de la Reza, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 843. Proc. course, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $125.00 (169 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0336-8  Buy at Amazon

Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak, and Micro. P. Schneider, C. Kochanek, J. Wambsganss. Saas-Fee Advanced Course 33. Proc. course, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, Apr. 2003. Springer, New York, 2006. $109.00 (552 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30309-X  Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Optical Stellar Interferometry. A. Labeyrie, S. G. Lipson, P. Nisenson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $80.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82872-4  Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics II: Refereed and Selected Contributions. Zs. Fülöp, Gy. Gyürky, E. Somorjai, eds. Proc. conf., Debrecen, Hungary, May 2005. Springer, New York, 2006. $219.00 (349 pp.). ISBN 3-540-32842-4  Buy at Amazon

Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies. S. Kubono et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 847. Proc. symp., Tokyo, Nov. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $189.00 (529 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0342-2  Buy at Amazon

Planet Formation: Theory, Observations, and Experiments. H. Klahr, W. Brandner, eds. Cambridge Astrobiology 1. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $120.00 (302 pp.). ISBN 0-521-86015-6  Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Adaptive Optics for Vision Science: Principles, Practices, Design, and Applications. J. Porter et al., eds. Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. $150.00 (591 pp.). ISBN 0-471-67941-0  Buy at Amazon

Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering. 2nd ed. R. L. Fournier. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2007 [1999]. $105.00 (450 pp.). ISBN 1-59169-026-9  Buy at Amazon

Computational Biology: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective. R. Blossey. Mathematical and Computational Biology Series 12. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $79.95 (251 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-556-4  Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits. U. Alon. Mathematical and Computational Biology Series 10. Chapman & Hall/CRC/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2007. $49.95 paper (301 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-642-0  Buy at Amazon

Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXVII. G. Cicco, D. F. Bruley, M. Ferrari, D. K. Harrison, eds. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 578. Proc. mtg., Bari, Italy, Aug. 2004. Springer, New York, 2006. $179.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 0-387-29543-7  Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology. D. J. Wilkinson. Mathematical and Computational Biology Series 11. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $79.95 (254 pp.). ISBN 1-58488-540-8  Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Evolution of Phase Transitions: A Continuum Theory. R. Abeyaratne, J. K. Knowles. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $85.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 0-521-66147-1  Buy at Amazon

Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental Carbon. F. J. M. Rietmeijer. Developments in Fullerene Science 7. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006. $169.00 (295 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-4134-9  Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Applications of Soft Computing: Recent Trends. A. Tiwari et al., eds. Advances in Soft Computing. Springer, New York, 2006. $229.00 paper (420 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29123-7  Buy at Amazon

Computing Anticipatory Systems. D. M. Dubois, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 839. Proc. conf., Liège, Belgium, Aug. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $235.00 (652 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0331-7, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

A Guide to MATLAB: For Beginners and Experienced Users. 2nd ed. B. R. Hunt et al. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [2001]. $125.00, $50.00 paper (311 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85068-1, ISBN 0-521-61565-8 paper  Buy at Amazon

A Short Introduction to Quantum Information and Quantum Computation. M. Le Bellac (translated from French by P. de Forcrand-Millard). Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006 [2005]. $60.00 (167 pp.). ISBN 0-521-86056-3  Buy at Amazon

condensed matter physics

Condensed Matter Field Theory. A. Altland, B. Simons. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $85.00 (624 pp.). ISBN 0-521-84508-4  Buy at Amazon

Green's Functions in Quantum Physics. 3rd ed. E. N. Economou. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 7. Springer, New York, 2006 [1983]. $159.00 (477 pp.). ISBN 3-540-28838-4  Buy at Amazon

Lectures on the Physics of Highly Correlated Electron Systems X. A. Avella, F. Mancini, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 846. Proc. course, Salerno, Italy, Oct. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $178.00 (305 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0340-6  Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

A Century of Relativity Physics. L. Mornas, J. D. Alonso, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 841. Proc. mtg., Oviedo, Spain, Sept. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2006. $198.00 (679 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0333-3  Buy at Amazon

Current Issues in Cosmology. J.-C. Pecker, J. Narlikar, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $110.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85898-4  Buy at Amazon

Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological. 2nd ed. W. Rindler. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006 [2001]. $99.50, $49.50 paper (430 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856731-6, ISBN 0-19-856732-4  Buy at Amazon

device physics

AmIware: Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence. S. Mukherjee et al., eds. Philips Research 5. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006. $159.00 (480 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-4197-7  Buy at Amazon

Applied Microphotonics. W. R. Jamroz, R. Kruzelecky, E. I. Haddad. Optical Science and Engineering 110. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $139.95 (403 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-4026-8  Buy at Amazon

Concepts in Spin Electronics. S. Maekawa, ed. Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology 13. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $134.50 (398 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856821-5  Buy at Amazon

Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides, and Accelerators—Including Seminal Papers of Julian Schwinger. K. A. Milton, J. Schwinger. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, New York, 2006. $179.00 (590 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29223-3  Buy at Amazon

Parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method. W. Yu et al. Electromagnetic Analysis Series. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2006. $119.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 1-59693-085-3  Buy at Amazon

Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics V: Nanophotonic Fabrications, Devices, Systems, and Their Theoretical Bases. M. Ohtsu, ed. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 117. Springer, New York, 2006. $119.00 (185 pp.). ISBN 3-540-28665-9  Buy at Amazon

Pulsed Power Systems: Principles and Applications. H. Bluhm. Springer, New York, 2006. $169.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 3-540-26137-0, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Semiconductor Physical Electronics. 2nd ed. S. S. Li. Springer, New York, 2006 [1993]. $149.00 (697 pp.). ISBN 0-387-28893-7  Buy at Amazon

fluids

One- and Two-Dimensional Fluids: Properties of Smectic, Lamellar, and Columnar Liquid Crystals. A. Jákli, A. Saupe. Series in Condensed Matter Physics. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $139.95 (339 pp.). ISBN 0-7503-0969-5  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time. S. Baxter. Forge, New York, 2006 [2004, reissued]. $13.95 paper (245 pp.). ISBN 0-765-31268-9  Buy at Amazon

Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. K. Van Cleempoel. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $179.50 (339 pp.). ISBN 0-19-853069-2  Buy at Amazon

Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War. M. L. Gross. Basic Bioethics. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006. $65.00, $26.00 paper (384 pp.). ISBN 0-262-07269-6, ISBN   Buy at Amazon

Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age. J. N. Shurkin. Macmillan, New York, 2006. $27.95 (297 pp.). ISBN 1-4039-8815-3  Buy at Amazon

The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 3: Early Modern Science. K. Park, L. Daston, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $160.00 (865 pp.). ISBN 0-521-57244-4  Buy at Amazon

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 10: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May–December 1920, and Supplementary Correspondence, 1909–1920. D. K. Buchwald et al., eds. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $110.00, $45.00 paper (683 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12825-1, ISBN 0-691-12826-X paper  Buy at Amazon

The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology. M. S. Longair. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $60.00 (545 pp.). ISBN 0-521-47436-1  Buy at Amazon

Darwinism and Its Discontents. M. Ruse. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $30.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82947-X  Buy at Amazon

Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. B. T. Moran. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006 [2005, reissued]. $16.95 paper (210 pp.). ISBN 0-674-02249-1  Buy at Amazon

Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics. R. Arianrhod. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006 [2005, reissued]. $16.95 paper (323 pp.). ISBN 0-19-530890-5  Buy at Amazon

Hans Bethe and His Physics. G. E. Brown, C.-H. Lee, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2006. $98.00, $38.00 paper (314 pp.). ISBN 981-256-609-0, ISBN 981-256-610-4 paper  Buy at Amazon

In the Grip of the Distant Universe: The Science of Inertia. P. Graneau, N. Graneau. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2006. $48.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 981-256-754-2  Buy at Amazon

Knowing Things for Sure: Science and Truth. M. Artigas (translated from Spanish by A. McCone Jr). University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 2006. $39.00 paper (275 pp.). ISBN 0-7618-3511-3  Buy at Amazon

The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. I. Hargittai. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $34.50 (313 pp.). ISBN 0-19-517845-9  Buy at Amazon

A New Foundation of Physical Theories. G. Ludwig, G. Thurler. Springer, New York, 2006. $109.00 (178 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30832-6  Buy at Amazon

Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851. M. C. Jacob, L. Stewart. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006 [2004, reissued]. $16.95 paper (201 pp.). ISBN 0-674-02242-4  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. B. Rosenblum, F. Kuttner. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $29.95 (211 pp.). ISBN 0-19-517559-X  Buy at Amazon

Space-Time, Relativity, and Cosmology. J. Wudka. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $55.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82280-7  Buy at Amazon

Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope. F. Watson. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006 [2004, reissued]. $15.95 paper (342 pp.). ISBN 0-306-81483-8  Buy at Amazon

materials science

Carbon: The Future Material for Advanced Technology Applications. G. Messina, S. Santangelo, eds. Topics in Applied Physics 100. Springer, New York, 2006. $219.00 (529 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29531-3  Buy at Amazon

Molecular Nanomagnets. D. Gatteschi, R. Sessoli, J. Villain. Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology 5. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $99.50 (395 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856753-7  Buy at Amazon

Properties of Single Organic Molecules on Crystal Surfaces. P. Grütter, W. Hofer, F. Rosei, eds. Imperial College Press, London, 2006. $108.00 (430 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-628-3  Buy at Amazon

Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments. P. Oswald, P. Pieranski (translated from French by D. Constantin). Liquid Crystals Book Series. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. $139.95 (690 pp.). ISBN 0-8493-9840-1  Buy at Amazon

Theory of Quantum Transport in Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures. A. Glatz, V. I. Kozub, V. M. Vinokur, eds. NATO Science Series 2: Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry 230. Proc. wksp., St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2003. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006. $169.00, $79.95 paper (322 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-4777-0, ISBN 1-4020-4778-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Directory of Physics, Astronomy, and Geophysics Staff, 2006. AIP, College Park, MD, 2006. $82.00 paper (646 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0335-X  Buy at Amazon

popularizations

After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning. I. Wilmut, R. Highfield. W. W. Norton, New York, 2006. $24.95 (335 pp.). ISBN 0-393-06066-7  Buy at Amazon

Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. J. Goodell. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2006. $25.95 (324 pp.). ISBN 0-618-31940-9  Buy at Amazon

The DNA Detectives: How the Double Helix Is Solving Puzzles of the Past. A. Meyer. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2006. $14.95 paper (232 pp.). ISBN 1-56025-863-2  Buy at Amazon

The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon. B. Clegg. St. Martin's, New York, 2006. $24.95 (269 pp.). ISBN 0-312-34341-8  Buy at Amazon

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? L. Lederman, D. Teresi. Mariner Books, New York, 2006 [1993, reissued]. $15.95 paper (434 pp.). ISBN 0-618-71168-6  Buy at Amazon

High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health. E. Grossman. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2006. $25.95 (334 pp.). ISBN 1-55963-554-1  Buy at Amazon

Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery. L. Lindberg Christensen, B. Fosbury. Springer, New York, 2006. $39.95 (124 pp.). ISBN 0-387-28599-7  Buy at Amazon

Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. K. Shepherd-Barr. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $29.95 (271 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12150-8  Buy at Amazon

The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation. G. Gilder. Enterprise Series. Atlas Books/W. W. Norton, New York, 2006 [2005, reissued]. $14.95 paper (318 pp.). ISBN 0-393-32841-4  Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space. B. Krone, ed. Space Series 58. Apogee Books, Burlington, ON, 2006. $27.95 paper (296 pp.). ISBN 1-894959-41-8  Buy at Amazon

Wandering Stars: About Planets and Exo-Planets—An Introductory Notebook. G. H. A. Cole. Imperial College Press, London, 2006. $78.00, $38.00 paper (488 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-464-7, ISBN   Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability: Methodology and Applications. N. Balakrishnan, N. Kannan, H. N. Nagaraja, eds. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005. $99.00 (412 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-3232-8  Buy at Amazon

Heat and Mass Transfer. 2nd rev. ed. H. D. Baehr, K. Stephan. Springer, New York, 2006 [1998]. $89.95 (688 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29526-7  Buy at Amazon

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity. J. P. Sethna. Oxford Master Series in Physics 14. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006. $99.50, $44.50 paper (349 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856676-X, ISBN 0-19-856677-8 paper  Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Elementary Differential Geometry. 2nd rev. ed. B. O'Neill. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2006 [1997]. $79.95 (503 pp.). ISBN 0-12-088735-5  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences. A. B. Shiflet, G. W. Shiflet. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $69.50 (554 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12565-1  Buy at Amazon

Nuclear and Particle Physics: An Introduction. B. R. Martin. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. $145.00, $60.00 paper (411 pp.). ISBN 0-470-01999-9, ISBN 0-470-02532-8 paper  Buy at Amazon

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics. J. L. Sarmiento, N. Gruber. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $75.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 0-691-01707-7  Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Analysis of Toeplitz Operators. 2nd ed. A. Böttcher, B. Silbermann. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, 2006 [1990]. $99.00 (665 pp.). ISBN 3-540-32434-8  Buy at Amazon

Analytical Mechanics: An Introduction. A. Fasano, S. Marmi (translated from Italian by B. Pelloni). Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006 [2002]. $89.50 (772 pp.). ISBN 0-19-850802-6  Buy at Amazon

Asymptotics for Dissipative Nonlinear Equations. N. Hayashi, E. I. Kaikina, P. I. Naumkin, I. A. Shishmarev. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1884. Springer, New York, 2006. $103.00 paper (557 pp.). ISBN 3-540-32059-8  Buy at Amazon

Classical Mathematical Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic. R. L. Epstein. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $79.50 (522 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12300-4  Buy at Amazon

Construction of Mappings for Hamiltonian Systems and Their Applications. S. S. Abdullaev. Lecture Notes in Physics 691. Springer, New York, 2006. $79.95 (378 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30915-2  Buy at Amazon

From Micro to Macro Quantum Systems: A Unified Formalism with Superselection Rules and Its Applications. K. K. Wan. Imperial College Press, London, 2006. $98.00 (688 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-625-9  Buy at Amazon

Lie Theory: Harmonic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces—General Plancherel Theorems. J.-P. Anker, B. Orsted, eds. Progress in Mathematics 230. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005. $69.95 (175 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-3777-X  Buy at Amazon

Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers. 3rd ed. J. R. Fanchi. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006 [2000]. $59.95 paper (347 pp.). ISBN 0-471-75715-2  Buy at Amazon

Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves. S. S. Kudla, M. Rapoport, T. Yang. Annals of Mathematics Studies 161. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006. $99.50, $45.00 paper (373 pp.). ISBN 0-691-12550-3, ISBN 0-691-12551-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers. 2nd ed. L. Debnath. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005 [1997]. $79.95 (737 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4323-0  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Information: An Introduction. M. Hayashi. Springer, New York, 2006. $89.95 (426 pp.). ISBN 3-540-30265-4  Buy at Amazon

Series Expansion Methods for Strongly Interacting Lattice Models. J. Oitmaa, C. Hamer, W. Zheng. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $130.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 0-521-84242-5  Buy at Amazon