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acoustics
Nonlinear Acoustics—Fundamentals and Applications. B. O. Enflo, C. M. Hedberg, L. Kari, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1022. Proc. symp., Stockholm, July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $280.00 (628 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0544-8, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon
astronomy and astrophysics
14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun. G. van Belle, ed. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 384. Proc. wksp., Pasadena, CA, Nov. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58321-331-7, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon
At the Edge of the Universe: Latest Results from the Deepest Astronomical Surveys. J. Afonso, H. C. Ferguson, B. Mobasher, R. Norris, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 380. Proc. mtg., Sintra, Portugal, Oct. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (580 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-323-2 Buy at Amazon
Classical Novae. 2nd ed. M. F. Bode, A. Evans, eds. Cambridge Astrophysics Series 43. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [1989]. $145.00 (375 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84330-0 Buy at Amazon
Clusters of Galaxies: Beyond the Thermal View. J. Kaastra, ed. Springer, New York, 2008. $179.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78874-6 Buy at Amazon
First Stars III. B. W. O'Shea, A. Heger, T. Abel, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 990. Proc. conf., Santa Fe, NM, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $270.00 (516 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0509-7 Buy at Amazon
Frontiers in Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics, and Reactions: FINUSTAR 2. P. Demetriou, R. Julin, S. V. Harissopulos, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1012. Proc. conf., Aghios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $199.00 (453 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0532-5 Buy at Amazon
Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007. M. Galassi, D. Palmer, E. Fenimore, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1000. Proc. conf., Santa Fe, NM, Nov. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $237.00 (657 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0533-2 Buy at Amazon
An Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics. R. N. Boyd. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $85.00 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-06971-5 Buy at Amazon
The Ninth Torino Workshop on Evolution and Nucleoesynthesis in AGB Stars and the Second Perugia Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics. R. Guandalini, S. Palmerini, M. Busso, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1001. Proc. wksp., Perugia, Italy, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $203.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0520-2 Buy at Amazon
A Population Explosion. R. M. Bandyopadhyay, S. Wachter, D. Gelino, C. R. Gelino, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1010. Proc. conf., St. Pete Beach, FL, Oct.–Nov. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $221.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0530-1, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon
Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array: A New Era for Astrophysics. R. Bachiller, J. Cernicharo, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $179.00 (335 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6934-5, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon
The Second Annual Spitzer Science Center Conference: Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution. R.-R. Chary, H. I. Teplitz, K. Sheth, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 381. Proc. mtg., Pasadena, CA, Nov. 2005. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (525 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-325-6 Buy at Amazon
Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV. G. J. Babu, E. D. Feigelson, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 371. Proc. conf., University Park, PA, June 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $65.00 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-240-2 Buy at Amazon
Status and Prospects of Astronomy in Germany 2003—2016: Memorandum. A. Burkert et al., eds. (translated from German), Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 2008 [2003]. $75.00 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-31910-7 Buy at Amazon
Topics in Gravitational Dynamics: So-lar, Extra-Solar and Galactic Systems. D. Benest, C. Froeschlé, E. Lega, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 729. Springer, New York, 2007. $119.00 (413 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72983-9 Buy at Amazon
The Universe in X-Rays. J. E. Trümper, G. Hasinger, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $119.00 (496 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-34411-7 Buy at Amazon
atomic and molecular physics
Dissociative Recombination of Molecular Ions. M. Larsson, A. E. Orel. Cambridge Molecular Science. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $150.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82819-2 Buy at Amazon
Molecules and Models: The Molecular Structures of Main Group Element Compounds. A. Haaland. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923535-3 Buy at Amazon
NMR-MRI, µSR and Mössbauer Spectroscopies in Molecular Magnets. P. Carretta, A. Lascialfari, eds. Springer, New York, 2007. $89.95 paper (293 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-0531-0 Buy at Amazon
biological and medical physics
Annual Review of Biophysics. Vol. 37. D. C. Rees, M. P. Sheetz, J. R. Williamson, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $84.00 (513 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1837-6 Buy at Amazon
Biological Physics. L. Dagdug, L. García-Colín Scherer, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 978. Proc. mtg., Mexico City, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $115.00 (150 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0497-7 Buy at Amazon
Curvature and Variational Modeling in Physics and Biophysics. Ó. J. Garay, E. García-Río, R. Vázquez-Lorenzo, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1002. Proc. sch., Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $152.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0521-9 Buy at Amazon
Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics. M. Pagel, A. Pomiankowski, eds. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2008. $79.95, $54.95 paper (351 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87893-655-7, ISBN 978-0-87893-654-0 paper Buy at Amazon
Handbook of Biomedical Nonlinear Optical Microscopy. B. R. Masters, P. T. C. So, eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $150.00 (860 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-516260-8 Buy at Amazon
Health Physics in the 21st Century. J. J. Bevelacqua. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $175.00 (562 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40822-1 Buy at Amazon
Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Vol. II: Epidemiology, Evolution and Ecology, Immunology, Neural Systems and the Brain, and Innovative Mathematical Methods. A. Deutsch et al., eds. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $109.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4555-7 Buy at Amazon
Neutron and X-Ray Scattering in Materials Science and Biology. A. Ikram et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 989. Proc. conf., Serpong and Bandung, Indonesia, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $149.00 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0508-0 Buy at Amazon
NMR in Biological Systems: From Molecules to Humans. K. V. R. Chary, G. Govil. Focus on Structural Biology 6. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $169.00 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6679-5 Buy at Amazon
Physical Biology: From Atoms to Medicine. A. H. Zewail. Imperial College Press, London, 2008. $158.00, $78.00 paper (567 pp.). ISBN 978-0-84816-199-3, ISBN 978-1-84816-200-6 paper Buy at Amazon
Stochastic and Quantum Dynamics of Biomolecular Systems. C. C. Bernido, M. V. Carpio-Bernido, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1021. Proc. wksp., Jagna, Philippines, Jan. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $139.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0543-1 Buy at Amazon
Structured Population Models in Biology and Epidemiology. P. Magal, S. Ruan, eds. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1936. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $74.95 paper (302 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78272-8 Buy at Amazon
chemical physics
Advanced Structural Inorganic Chemistry. W.-K. Li, G.-D. Zhou, T. C. W. Mak. IUCr Texts on Crystallography 10. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $150.00, $75.00 paper (819 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921694-9, ISBN 978-0-19-921695-6 paper Buy at Amazon
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Vol. 59. S. R. Leone, J. T. Groves, R. F. Ismagilov, G. Richmond, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $205.00 (803 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1059-2 Buy at Amazon
Chemistry and Physics of Carbon. Vol. 30. L. R. Radovic, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $199.95 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-4298-6 Buy at Amazon
Halogen Bonding: Fundamentals and Applications. P. Metrangolo, G. Resnati, eds. Structure and Bonding 126. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $229.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74329-3 Buy at Amazon
Liquid Crystalline Functional Assemblies and Their Supramolecular Structures. T. Kato, ed. Structure and Bonding 128. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $239.00 (237 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77866-0 Buy at Amazon
Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry No. 42. C. G. Vayenas, R. E. White, M. E. Gamboa-Aldeco, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $119.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-49488-3 Buy at Amazon
Nitrides with Nonpolar Surfaces: Growth, Properties, and Devices. T. Paskova, ed. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $200.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40768-2 Buy at Amazon
computers and computational physics
Brain Dynamics: An Introduction to Models and Simulations. 2nd ed. H. Haken. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2002]. $109.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75236-3 Buy at Amazon
Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective. O. Goldreich. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $70.00 (606 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88473-0 Buy at Amazon
Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB. 2nd ed. W. L. Martinez, A. R. Martinez. Computer Science and Data Analysis Series 10. Chapman & Hall/ CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008 [2002]. $89.95 (767 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-566-5 Buy at Amazon
Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics. B. G. Sidharth et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1018. Proc. symp., Udine and Trieste, Italy, Jan. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $145.00 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0539-4 Buy at Amazon
Linear Feedback Control: Analysis and Design and with MATLAB. D. Xue, Y. Chen, D. P. Atherton. Advances in De-sign and Control. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $99.00 paper (354 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-38-2 Buy at Amazon
Numerical Computing with Simulink: Vol. 1: Creating Simulations. R. J. Gran. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $81.00 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-37-5 Buy at Amazon
cosmology and relativity
The Oxford Companion to Cosmology. A. Liddle, J. Loveday. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $89.95 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-860858-5 Buy at Amazon
Recent Developments in Gravitation and Cosmology. A. Macías, C. Lämmerzahl, A. Camacho, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 977. Proc. mtg., Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $153.00 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0496-0 Buy at Amazon
energy and environment
Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them. K. Lisagor, H. Hansen. Vintage, New York, 2008. $15.95 paper (384 pp.). ISBN 978-0-307-27736-7 Buy at Amazon
Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. F. Krupp, M. Horn. W. W. Norton, New York, 2008. $24.95 (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06690-6 Buy at Amazon
Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Future. R. Wengenmayr, T. Bührke, eds. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $38.00 (118 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40804-7 Buy at Amazon
fluids
Atmospheric Turbulence: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective. A. F. Tuck. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $90.00 (157 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923653-4 Buy at Amazon
Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows: Boundary Stabilization and State Estimation. R. Vazquez, M. Krstic. Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $69.95 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4698-1 Buy at Amazon
Rheology for Chemists: An Introduction. 2nd ed. J. W. Goodwin, R. W. Hughes. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2008 [2000]. $89.95 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-839-7 Buy at Amazon
geophysics
Geological Atlas of Africa: With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology, Geohazards, Geosites and Geoscientific Education of Each Country. 2nd. ed. T. Schlüter. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2006]. $249.00 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76324-6, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon
GIS in Geology and Earth Sciences. K. Oleschko et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1009. Proc. conf., Queretaro, Mexico, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $152.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0528-8 Buy at Amazon
Reservoir Simulation: Mathematical Techniques in Oil Recovery. Z. Chen. CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 77. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $86.00 paper (219 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-40-5 Buy at Amazon
Terrestrial Fluids, Earthquakes and Volcanoes: The Hiroshi Wakita Volume III. N. M. Pérez, S. Gurrieri, C.-Y. King, Y. Taran, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $59.95 paper (180 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8737-2 Buy at Amazon
history and philosophy
Against the Tide: A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done. M. L. Corredoira, C. C. Perelman, eds. Universal, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $25.95 paper (265 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59942-993-9 Buy at Amazon
Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography. N. A. Rupke. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008 [2005, reissued]. $21.00 paper (316 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-73149-0 Buy at Amazon
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. A. Sokal. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $34.95 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923920-7 Buy at Amazon
Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology. J. North. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $95.00, $39.00 paper (876 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-59440-8, ISBN 978-0-226-59441-5 paper Buy at Amazon
Geometry and Monadology: Leibniz's Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space. V. De Risi. Science Networks–Historial Studies 33. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $179.00 (658 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-7985-8 Buy at Amazon
In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA. J. Schwartz. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $29.95 (370 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-02670-4 Buy at Amazon
Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy. R. Flood, M. McCartney, A. Whitaker, eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923125-6 Buy at Amazon
Leonhard Euler. E. A. Fellmann (translated from German by E. Gautschi, W. Gautschi). Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007 [1995]. $39.95 (179 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-7538-6 Buy at Amazon
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics. R. Bergland. Beacon Press, Boston, 2008. $29.95 (300 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8070-2142-2 Buy at Amazon
The Music of Pythagoras: How An Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to Outer Space. K. Ferguson. Walker, New York, 2008. $26.95 (366 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8027-1631-6 Buy at Amazon
Out of Orbit: The True Story of How Three Astronauts Found Themselves Hundreds of Miles Above the Earth with No Way Home. C. Jones. Broadway Books, New York, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $14.95 paper (288 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7679-1991-3 Buy at Amazon
Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics. C. Anastopoulos. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $35.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13512-0 Buy at Amazon
The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science. S. Jones. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $24.95 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-536909-0 Buy at Amazon
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry. F. Hidetoshi, T. Rothman. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $35.00 (348 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12745-3 Buy at Amazon
Secrets of the Hoary Deep: A Personal History of Modern Astronomy. R. Giacconi. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2008. $45.00 (411 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8809-0 Buy at Amazon
To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers. C. Gainor. Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. U. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. $29.95 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8032-2209-0 Buy at Amazon
Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory. R. Krömer. Science Networks–Historical Studies 32. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $129.00 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-7523-2 Buy at Amazon
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It. R. Zimmerman. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $29.95 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13297-6 Buy at Amazon
What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture. E. Slingerland. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $85.00, $24.99 paper (370 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87770-1, ISBN 978-0-521-70151-8 paper Buy at Amazon
instrumentation and techniques
Applied Scanning Probe Methods VIII: Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques. B. Bhushan, H. Fuchs, M. Tomitori, eds. Nanoscience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $189.95 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74079-7 Buy at Amazon
Applied Scanning Probe Methods IX: Characterization. B. Bhushan, H. Fuchs, M. Tomitori, eds. Nanoscience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $164.95 (387 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74082-7 Buy at Amazon
Applied Scanning Probe Methods X: Biomimetics and Industrial Applications. B. Bhushan, H. Fuchs, M. Tomitori, eds. Nanoscience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $189.95 (427 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74084-1 Buy at Amazon
Floating to Space: The Airship to Orbit Program. J. M. Powell. Apogee Books Space Series 72. Apogee Books, Burlington, ON, Canada, 2008. $27.95 paper (204 pp.). ISBN 978-1-894959-73-5, DVD-ROM Buy at Amazon
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 Buy at Amazon
Instabilities and Self-Organization in Materials. Vol. 1: Fundamentals of Nanoscience. Vol. 2: Applications in Materials Design and Nanotechnology. N. M. Ghoniem, D. D. Walgraef. Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $225.00 set (1158 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-19-929868-6 Buy at Amazon
NASSAU 2006. E. E. Alp, C. I. Wynter, eds. Proc. symp., Garden City, NY, Jan. 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $179.00 (177 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71124-7 Buy at Amazon
Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films for Microelectronics. E. A. Irene. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $125.00 (515 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-17447-0 Buy at Amazon
Tribology on the Small Scale: A Bottom Up Approach to Friction, Lubrication, and Wear. C. M. Mate. Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnology 6. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-852678-0 Buy at Amazon
miscellaneous
Pocket Book of Integrals and Mathematical Formulas. 4th ed. R. J. Tallarida. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008 [1999]. $24.95 paper (268 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6304-2 Buy at Amazon
Survival Guide for Scientists: Writing– Presentation–Email. A. Lagendijk. Amsterdam U. Press, the Netherlands, 2008. $19.95 paper (260 pp.). ISBN 978-90-5356-512-4 Buy at Amazon
nonlinear science and chaos
Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer. C. Gros. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $69.95 paper (250 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71873-4 Buy at Amazon
Complex Systems. M. Tokuyama, I. Oppenheim, H. Nishiyama, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 982. Proc. wksp., Sendai, Japan, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $255.00 (829 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0501-1 Buy at Amazon
Modeling Complex Living Systems: A Kinetic Theory and Stochastic Game Approach. N. Bellomo. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $69.95 (220 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4510-6 Buy at Amazon
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control: A Lyapunov-Based Approach. W. M. Haddad, V. Chellaboina. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $85.00 (948 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13329-4 Buy at Amazon
nuclear physics
New Facet of Three Nucleon Force—50 Years of Fujita Miyazawa Three Nucleon Force (FM50). H. Sakai, K. Sekiguchi, B. F. Gibson, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1011. Proc. symp., Tokyo, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $182.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0531-8 Buy at Amazon
optics and photonics
Nonlinear Optics. 3rd ed. R. W. Boyd. Academic Press, Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2008 [2003]. $99.95 (613 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-369470-6 Buy at Amazon
particle physics
High Energy Physics and Applications. J. Ellis, S. Nasri, E. Malkawi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1006. Proc. wksp., Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $115.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0525-7 Buy at Amazon
An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators. 2nd ed. M. Conte, W. W. MacKay. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [1991]. $86.00, $55.00 paper (374 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-960-1, ISBN 978-981-277-961-8 paper Buy at Amazon
Particle Detectors. 2nd ed. C. Grupen, B. Shwartz. Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology 26. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [1996]. $160.00 (651 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84006-4 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Superposition: Counterintuitive Consequences of Coherence, Entanglement, and Interference. M. P. Silverman. Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $89.95 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71883-3 Buy at Amazon
Theory and Design of Charged Particle Beams. 2nd rev. ed. M. Reiser. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008 [1994]. $230.00 (647 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40741-5 Buy at Amazon
plasmas and fusion
Burning Plasma Diagnostics. F. P. Orsitto, G. Gorini, E. Sindoni, M. Tardocchi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 988. Proc. conf., Vareena, Italy, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $215.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0507-3 Buy at Amazon
Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows: ASTRONUM–2007. N. V. Pogorelov, E. Audit, G. P. Zank, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 385. Proc. conf., Paris, June 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (334 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-333-1 Buy at Amazon
popularizations
Alien Volcanoes. R. M. C. Lopes, M. W. Carroll. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2008. $29.95 (150 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8673-7 Buy at Amazon
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. C. Zimmer. Pantheon Books, New York, 2008. $25.95 (243 pp.). ISBN 978-0-375-42430-4 Buy at Amazon
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything. D. Macdougall. U. California Press, Berkeley, 2008. $24.95 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-520-24975-2 Buy at Amazon
A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry. N. Hodge, S. Weinberger. Bloomsbury, New York, 2008. $24.95 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59691-378-3 Buy at Amazon
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science. R. Preston. Random House, New York, 2008. $26.00 (188 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4000-6490-8 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. B. Rosenblum, F. Kuttner. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $15.95 paper (217 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-534250-5 Buy at Amazon
Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology. G. Parkinson. Yale U. Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. $60.00 (294 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-09887-7 Buy at Amazon
The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half Century. M. Wallace, ed. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN, 2008. $24.99 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8499-0370-0 Buy at Amazon
Zero Time Space: How Quantum Tunneling Broke the Light Speed Barrier. G. Nimtz, A. Haibel. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $37.50 paper (150 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40735-4 Buy at Amazon
society and government
Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb. C. L. Pritchard. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2007. $26.95 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8157-7200-2 Buy at Amazon
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire. A. Abella. Harcourt, New York, 2008. $27.00 (388 pp.). ISBN 978-0-15-101081-3 Buy at Amazon
space and planetary science
Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites. O. R. Norton, L. A. Chitwood. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, London, 2008. $39.95 paper (287 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84800-156-5 Buy at Amazon
The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury. D. L. Domingue, C. T. Russell, eds. Springer, New York, 2007. $189.00 (623 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77211-0 Buy at Amazon
Solar System Astrophysics: Background Science and the Inner Solar System. E. F. Milone, W. J. F. Wilson. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, New York, 2008. $79.95 (257 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73154-4 Buy at Amazon
The Solar System Beyond Neptune. M. A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. P. Cruikshank, A. Morbidelli, eds. University of Arizona Space Science Series. U. Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, and Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, 2008. $70.00 (592 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8165-2755-7 Buy at Amazon
To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket. 2nd ed. J. A. Dewar. Apogee Space Books 68. Apogee Books, Burlington, ON, Canada, 2007 [2004]. $26.95 paper (297 pp.). ISBN 978-1-894959-68-1 Buy at Amazon
statistical physics and thermodynamics
Equilibrium Statistical Physics: Phases of Matter and Phase Transitions. M. Baus, C. F. Tejero. Springer, New York, 2008. $109.00 (364 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74631-7 Buy at Amazon
Heat Conduction: Mathematical Models and Analytical Solutions. L. Wang, X. Zhou, X. Wei. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $139.00 (515 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74028-5 Buy at Amazon
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Heterogeneous Systems. S. Kjelstrup, D. Bedeaux. Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics 16. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00 (434 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-913-7 Buy at Amazon
The Thermodynamic Universe: Exploring the Limits of Physics. B. G. Sidharth. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $58.00 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-234-6 Buy at Amazon
texts and education
Beyond the Nanoworld: Quarks, Leptons, and Gauge Bosons. H. G. Dosch. A. K. Peters, Wellesley, MA, 2008. $39.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-56881-345-5 Buy at Amazon
Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation. N. J. Higham. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $59.00 (425 pp.). ISBN 978-0-89871-646-7 Buy at Amazon
Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics. E. E. Lewis. Academic Press/ Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2008. $94.95 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-370631-7 Buy at Amazon
How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography. M. Denny. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $99.50, $45.00 paper (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12646-3, ISBN 978-0-691-12647-0 paper Buy at Amazon
The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition. S. C. Prautschi, R. P. Olenick, T. M. Apostol, D. L. Goodstein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1986]. $75.00 paper (585 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-71590-4 Buy at Amazon
Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium. S. Kwok. University Science Books, Sausalito, CA, 2007. $86.00 (569 pp.). ISBN 978-1-891389-46-7 Buy at Amazon
Principles of Model Checking. C. Baier, J.-P. Katoen. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $60.00 (975 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02649-9 Buy at Amazon
Principles of Population Genetics. 4th ed. D. L. Hartl, A. G. Clark. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2007 [1997]. $93.95 (652 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87893-308-2 Buy at Amazon
Science Formative Assessment: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning. P. Keeley. Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2008. $72.95, $33.95 paper (233 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4129-4179-2, ISBN 978-1-4129-4180-8 paper Buy at Amazon
Special Relativity for Beginners: A Textbook for Undergraduates. J. Freund. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $58.00, $38.00 paper (314 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-159-9, ISBN 978-981-277-160-5 paper Buy at Amazon
Your Cosmic Context: AN Introduction to Modern Cosmology. T. Duncan, C. Tyler. Pearson Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, 2009. $80.00 paper (466 pp.). ISBN 978-0-13-240010-7 Buy at Amazon
theory and mathematical methods
The 1–2–3 of Modular Forms: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway. J. H. Bruinier, G. Van der Geer, G. Harder, D. Zagier. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $69.95 paper (266 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74117-6 Buy at Amazon
Algebraic Curves Over a Finite Field. J. W. P. Hirschfeld, G. Korchmáros, F. Torres. Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $85.00 (696 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-09679-7 Buy at Amazon
Differential Dynamical Systems. J. D. Meiss. Mathematical Modeling and Computation 14. $79.00 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-35-1 Buy at Amazon
Field Models in Electricity and Magnetism. P. Di Barba, A. Savini, S. Wiak. Springer, New York, 2008. $109.00 (174 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6842-3 Buy at Amazon
Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: Steady-State and Time-Dependent Problems. R. J. LeVeque. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $63.00 paper (341 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-29-0 Buy at Amazon
A First Course in Fourier Analysis. Rev. ed. D. W. Kammler. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [2000]. $160.00, $80.00 paper (798 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88340-5, ISBN 978-0521-70979-8 paper Buy at Amazon
Geometry and Topology in Hamiltonian Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics. M. Pettini. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics 33. Springer, New York, 2007. $69.95 (451 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-30892-0 Buy at Amazon
An Introduction to Modeling and Simulation of Particulate Flows. T. I. Zohdi. Computational Science and Engineering. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $110.00 paper (176 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-27-6 Buy at Amazon
Isochronous Systems. F. Calogero. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-953528-6 Buy at Amazon
The J-Matrix Method: Developments and Applications. A. D. Alhaidari, E. J. Heller, H. A. Yamani, M. S. Abdelmonem, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $179.00 (356 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6072-4 Buy at Amazon
Lacroix and the Calculus. J. C. Domingues. Science Networks–Historical Studies 35. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $169.00 (468 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8637-5 Buy at Amazon
Linear Algebra Thoroughly Explained. M. Vujičić, J. Sanderson, ed. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $79.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74637-9 Buy at Amazon
The Matrix Eigenvalue Problem: GR and Krylov Subspace Methods. D. S. Watkins. Other Titles in Applied Mathematics 101. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $99.00 paper (442 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-41-2 Buy at Amazon
Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition. L. Eldén. Fundamentals of Algorithms 4. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $69.00 paper (224 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-26-9 Buy at Amazon
Mixed Boundary Value Problems. D. G. Duffy. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Science Series 15. Chapman & Hall/CRC/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $99.95 (467 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-579-5 Buy at Amazon
Numerical Methods for Special Functions. A. Gil, J. Segura, N. M. Temme. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $99.00 paper (417 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-34-4 Buy at Amazon
Perturbation Bounds for Matrix Eigenvalues. R. Bhatia. Classics in Applied Mathematics 53. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007 [1987, reissued]. $49.00 paper (191 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-31-3 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Dissipative Systems. 3rd ed. U. Weiss. Series in Modern Condensed Matter Physics 13. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [1999]. $58.00 paper (507 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-162-7 Buy at Amazon
Stability and Stabilization of Time-Delay Systems: An Eigenvalue-Based Approach. W. Michiels, S. I. Niculescu. Advances in Design and Control 12. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $99.00 paper (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-32-0 Buy at Amazon
Stability of Dynamical Systems: Continuous, Discontinuous, and Discrete Systems. A. N. Michel, L. Hou, D. Liu. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $79.95 (501 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4486-4 Buy at Amazon