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The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy. L. Papantonopoulos, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 720. Springer, New York, 2007. $79.95 (436 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71012-7

Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior. S. Zane, R. Turolla, D. Page, eds. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $219.00 (653 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5997-1

Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies. K. Wada, F. Combes, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Proc. symp., Ishigaki, Japan, June 2006. Springer, New York, 2008. $169.00 (392 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-72767-7, CD-ROM

Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries. N. St-Louis, A. F. J. Moffat, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 367. Proc. wksp., St-Alexis-des-Monts, QC, Canada, Aug. 2004. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (748 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-235-8

The Multicolored Landscape of Compact Objects and Their Explosive Origins. Parts 1 and 2. T. Di Salvo et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 924. Proc. conf., Cefalù, Italy, June 2006. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $249.00 set (950 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0434-2

The Road to Galaxy Formation. 2nd ed. W. C. Keel. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Planetary Sciences. Praxis/ Springer, New York, 2007 [2002]. $99.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72534-3

Rotation and Accretion Powered Pulsars. P. Ghosh. World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics 10. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $152.00 (772 pp.). ISBN 978-981-02-4744-7

Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them. M. Mobberley. Astronomers' Observing Guides. Springer, New York, 2007. $29.95 paper (201 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-69827-4

atomic and molecular physics

Molecular Clusters: A Bridge to Solid-State Chemistry. T. P. Fehlner, J.-F. Halet, J.-Y. Saillard. Cambridge Molecular Science. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $130.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85236-4

biological and medical physics

Charge Migration in DNA: Perspectives from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. T. Chakraborty, ed. Nanoscience and Technology. Springer, New York, 2007. $179.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72493-3

Modeling of Biological Materials. F. Mollica, L. Preziosi, K. R. Rajagopal, eds. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $89.95 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4410-9

Radiation Protection in the Health Sciences. 2nd ed. M. E. Noz, G. Q. Maguire Jr. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007 [1995]. $85.00, $45.00 paper (307 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-596-9, ISBN 978-981-270-597-6 paper

Structural Approaches to Sequence Evolution: Molecules, Networks, Populations. U. Bastolla, M. Porto, H. E. Roman, M. Vendruscolo, eds. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, 2007. $159.00 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-35305-8

Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing. G. Dornhege et al., eds. Neural Information Processing Series. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. $45.00 (507 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-04244-4

chemical physics

The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide. R. L. Myers. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2007. $85.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-0-313-33758-1

Electron Spin Resonance: Analysis and Interpretation. P. H. Rieger. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2007. $149.00 (173 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-355-2

High Energy Density Materials. T. M. Klapötke, ed. Structure and Bonding 125. Springer, New York, 2007. $269.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72201-4

Incommensurate Crystallography. S. van Smaalen. International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography 21. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2007. $130.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857082-0

Inorganic Chromotropism: Basic Concepts and Applications of Colored Materials. Y. Fukuda, ed. Kodansha, Tokyo, and Springer, New York, 2007. $239.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72311-0

Photofunctional Transition Metal Complexes. V. W. W. Yam, ed. Structure and Bonding 123. Springer, New York, 2007. $249.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-36809-0

Polymer Structure Characterization: From Nano to Macro Organization. R. A. Pethrick. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2007. $169.00 (334 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-466-5

computers and computational physics

Atmospheric and Space Flight Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation with MATLAB and Simulink. A. Tewari. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $89.95, $59.95 paper (556 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4437-6, ISBN 978-0-8176-4373-7 paper

Large-Scale Kernel Machines. L. Bottou, O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston, eds. Neural Information Processing Series. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. $45.00 (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02625-3

Mathematical Methods in Electro-Magneto-Elasticity. D. I. Bardzokas, M. L. Filshtinsky, L. A. Filshtinsky, eds. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics 32. Springer, New York, 2007. $239.00 (530 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71030-1

Numerical Simulation in Molecular Dynamics: Numerics, Algorithms, Parallelization, Applications. M. Griebel, S. Knapek, G. Zumbusch. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering 5. Springer, New York, 2007. $59.95 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68094-9

Predicting Structured Data. G. Bakir et al., eds. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. $45.00 (348 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02617-8

Simulating the Physical World: Hierarchical Modeling from Quantum Mechanics to Fluid Dynamics. H. J. C. Berendsen. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $75.00, $50.00 paper (596 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-83527-5, ISBN 978-0-521-54294-4 paper

condensed-matter physics

Competing Interactions and Pattern Formation in Nanoworld. E. Y. Vedmedenko. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2007. $150.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40484-1

Diffusion in Solids: Fundamentals, Methods, Materials, Diffusion-Controlled Processes. H. Mehrer. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 155. Springer, New York, 2007. $199.00 (651 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71486-6

Microstructure and Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors. I. A. Parinov. Springer, New York, 2007. $179.00 (583 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70976-3

Nanostructured Soft Matter: Experiment, Theory, Simulation and Perspectives. A. V. Zvelindovsky, ed. Nanoscience and Technology. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $199.00 (628 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6329-9

Thin Films of Soft Matter. S. Kalliadasis, U. Thiele, eds. CISM Courses and Lectures 490. Springer, New York, 2007. $89.95 paper (206 pp.). ISBN 978-3-211-69807-5

Topics and Methods in Condensed Matter Theory: From Basic Quantum Mechanics to the Frontiers of Research. M. Cini. Springer, New York, 2007. $99.00 (443 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70726-4

Vortices in Bose–Einstein Condensates. A. Aftalion. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 67. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006. $99.00 (203 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4392-8

cosmology and relativity

Elements of String Cosmology. M. Gasperini. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $85.00 (552 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86875-4

energy and environment

Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics. R. L. Sandler. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2007. $45.00 (201 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-14106-2

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren. J. F. C. DiMento, P. Doughman, eds. American and Comparative Environmental Policy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. $60.00, $19.95 paper (217 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-04241-3, ISBN 978-0-262-54193-0 paper

Connecting the Dots to Future Electric Power. E. J. Blair. AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN, 2007. $20.90, $14.10 paper (273 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4259-9585-0, ISBN 978-1-4259-9586-7 paper

fluids

Fluid—Fluid Interactions. A. Liebscher, C. A. Heinrich, eds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 65. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO, and Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, VA, 2007. $40.00 paper (430 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-77-5

Turbulent Particle-Laden Gas Flows. A. Y. Varaksin. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 41. Springer, New York, 2007. $169.00 (191 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68053-6

geophysics

The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults. T. H. Dixon, J. C. Moore, eds. MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Earth Science Series. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2007. $125.00 (680 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-13866-6

Well Logging for Earth Scientists. 2nd ed. D. V. Ellis, J. M. Singer. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007 [1987]. $99.00 (692 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-3738-2

history and philosophy

Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. W. Clark. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007 [2006, reissued]. $22.50 paper (662 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-10922-0

Felix Berezin: Life and Death of the Mastermind of Supermathematics. M. Shifman, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $75.00, $39.00 paper (244 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-532-7, ISBN 978-981-270-533-4 paper

Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program. P. Duggins. U. Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2007. $24.95 (249 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8130-3146-0

Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism: A New Reading of Representation and Reality. J. Buechner. Bradford Books. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $38.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02623-9

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. K. Marton. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007 [2006, reissued]. $15.00 paper (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7432-6116-6

The Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic. E. A. Marchisotto, J. T. Smith. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $129.00 (494 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-3210-6

Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970. C. Lécuyer. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007 [2006, reissued]. $22.00 paper (393 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-62211-0

Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer. H. P. Stapp. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, New York, 2007. $39.95 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72413-1

A Physicist Remembers. R. J. Weiss. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $42.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-058-2

texts and education

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense. A. Ben-Naim. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $49.00, $29.00 paper (221 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-052-0, ISBN 978-981-270-055-1 paper

F = ma to E = mc²: Relativity Made Easy. F. P. Finck Jr. Vantage Press, New York, 2006. $24.95 (124 pp.). ISBN 978-0-53315536-1

Fundamental Astronomy. 5th ed. H. Karttunen et al., eds. Springer, New York, 2007 [2003]. $69.95 (510 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-34143-7

Ideas of Quantum Chemistry. L. Piela. Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2007. $170.00 (1086 pp.). ISBN 978-0-444-52227-6

Integral Equations and Their Applications. M. Rahman. WIT Press, Billerica, MA, 2007. $252.00 (356 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84564-101-6

Introduction to General Relativity. J. D. Walecka. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $78.00, $48.00 paper (342 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-584-6, ISBN 978-981-270-585-3 paper

An Introduction to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. 2nd ed. K. Stowe. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1984]. $70.00 (556 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86557-9

Subatomic Physics. 3rd ed. E. M. Henley, A. García. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007 [1991]. $98.00, $58.00 paper (620 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-056-8, ISBN 978-981-270-057-5 paper

theory and mathematical methods

A Dressing Method in Mathematical Physics. E. V. Doktorov, S. B. Leble. Mathematical Physics Studies 28. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $139.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6138-7

From Geometry to Quantum Mechanics: In Honor of Hideki Omori. Y. Maeda, P. Michor, T. Ochiai, A. Yoshioka, eds. Progress in Mathematics 252. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $99.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4512-0

Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations. V. A. Marchenko, E. Y. Khruslov (translated from Russian by M. Goncharenko, D. Shepelsky). Progress in Mathematical Physics 46. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006. $139.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4351-5

Linear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers. 4th ed. T. Myint-U, L. Debnath. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007 [1989]. $89.95 (778 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4393-5

Physics of Classical Electromagnetism. M. Fujimoto. Springer, New York, 2007. $139.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-68015-6

Prime-Detecting Sieves. G. Harman. London Mathematical Society Monographs Series 33. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007. $65.00 (362 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12437-7

The Quantum Phase Operator: A Review. S. M. Barnett, J. A. Vaccaro, eds. Series in Optics and Optoelectronics 5. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2007. $129.95 (499 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-760-7