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fluids	geophysics	history and philosophy
instrumentation and techniques	materials science	miscellaneous
nonlinear science and chaos	nuclear physics	optics and photonics
particle physics	plasmas and fusion	popularizations

fluids

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Vol. 40. S. H. Davis, P. Moin, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $205.00 (476 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-0740-0 Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Amphiboles: Crystal Chemistry, Occurrence, and Health Issues. F. C. Hawthorne, R. Oberti, G. Della Ventura, A. Mottana, eds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 67. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO, and Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, VA, 2007. $45.00 paper (545 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-79-9 Buy at Amazon

Fog and Boundary Layer Clouds: Fog Visibility and Forecasting. I. Gultepe, ed. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $79.95 paper (316 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8418-0 Buy at Amazon

Paleoaltimetry: Geochemical and Thermodynamic Approaches. M. J. Kohn, ed. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 66. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO, and Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, VA, 2007. $40.00 paper (278 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-78-2 Buy at Amazon

Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics. D. A. Yuen, S. Maruyama, S.-I. Karato, B. F. Windley, eds. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $99.00 (569 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5749-6 Buy at Amazon

Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows. J. B. Weiss, A. Provenzale, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 744. Springer, New York, 2008. $79.95 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75214-1 Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy. Rev. and corr. ed. M. Kac, G.-C. Rota, J. T. Schwartz. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008 [1992, reissued]. $39.95 paper (264 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4774-2 Buy at Amazon

Escape from Leipzig. H. Fritzsch (translated from German by K. Heusch). World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [2004]. $32.00, $16.00 paper (125 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-009-5, ISBN 978-981-279-306-5 paper Buy at Amazon

Indiscrete Thoughts. G.-C. Rota. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008 [1997, reissued]. $39.95 paper (280 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4780-3 Buy at Amazon

The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. P. Dear. Science.culture. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007 [2006, reissued]. $17.00 paper (242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-13949-4 Buy at Amazon

The Mechanical Mind in History. P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler, eds. Bradford Books. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $40.00 (458 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-08377-5 Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Revolution: A Historical Perspective. K. A. Peacock. Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2008. $65.00 (220 pp.). ISBN 978-0-313-33448-1 Buy at Amazon

Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician. N. Koblitz. Springer, New York, 2008. $49.95 (392 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74077-3 Buy at Amazon

Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry. L. Beranek. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $24.95 (235 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02629-1 Buy at Amazon

Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues. L. Gruen, L. Grabel, P. Singer, eds. Metaphilosophy. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2007. $34.95 paper (209 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-6062-9 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

William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science. J. Jenkin. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $70.00 (458 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923520-9 Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

GNSS—Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and More. B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, H. Lichtenegger, E. Wasle. Springer, Vienna, 2008. $79.95 paper (516 pp.). ISBN 978-3-211-73012-6 Buy at Amazon

Life Science Automation Fundamentals and Applications. M. Zhang, B. Nelson, R. Felder, eds. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2007. $169.00 (507 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-105-3 Buy at Amazon

Micro and Nano Manipulations for Biomedical Applications. T. C. Yih, I. Talpasanu, eds. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2008. $129.00 (295 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-254-8 Buy at Amazon

Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. M. Raffel, C. E. Willert, S. T. Wereley, J. Kompenhans. Springer, New York, 2007 [1998]. $109.00 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72307-3 Buy at Amazon

materials science

Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications: Artificial Muscles and Sensors. K. J. Kim, S. Tadokoro, eds. Springer, London, 2007. $129.00 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84628-371-0 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Heterostructures: Advances and Perspectives in Spinstructures and Spintransport. H. Zabel, S. D. Bader, eds. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 227. Springer, New York, 2008. $269.00 (363 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73461-1 Buy at Amazon

Self Healing Materials: An Alternative Approach to 20 Centuries of Materials Science. S. van der Zwaag, ed. Springer Series in Materials Science 100. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $169.00 (385 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6249-0, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon

Silanes and Other Coupling Agents. Vol. 4. K. L. Mittal, ed. Proc. symp., Toronto, June 2005. VSP/Brill Academic, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2007. $242.00 (409 pp.). ISBN 978-90-6764-452-5 Buy at Amazon

Wax Crystal Control - Nanocomposites - Stimuli-Responsive Polymers. S. Aoshima et al. Advances in Polymer Science 210. Springer, New York, 2008. $229.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75499-2 Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Advanced Summer School in Physics 2007: Frontiers in Contemporary Physics. M. Carbajal-Tinoco et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 960. Proc. sch., Mexico City, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $103.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0474-8 Buy at Amazon

Calendrical Calculations. 3rd ed. N. Dershowitz, E. M. Reingold. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [2001]. $90.00, $29.99 paper (479 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88540-9, ISBN 978-0-521-70238-6 paper Buy at Amazon

Electrical Engineering: A Pocket Reference. Rev. ed. H. Schmidt-Walter, R. Kories. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2007 [2003]. $69.00 paper (666 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-244-9 Buy at Amazon

Robotics: Science and Systems III. W. Burgard, O. Brock, C. Stachniss, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $75.00 paper (335 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-52484-1 Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity: An International Conference. S. Abe et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 965. Proc. conf., Catania, Italy, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $149.00 (348 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0481-6 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Chaos Control. 2nd rev. ed. E. Schöll, H. G. Schuster, eds. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008 [1999]. $255.00 (819 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40605-0 Buy at Amazon

Microscopic Chaos, Fractals and Transport in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics. R. Klages. Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics 24. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $75.00 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-981-256-507-5 Buy at Amazon

Seventh International Conference on Vibration Problems: ICOVP 2005. E. İnan, A. Kiriş, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 111. Proc. conf., Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2005. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $239.00 (557 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5400-6 Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

Proton Emitting Nuclei and Related Topics. L. S. Ferreira, P. Arumugam, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 961. Proc. conf., Lisbon, Portugal, June 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $149.95 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0475-5 Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

Coherent Vibrational Dynamics. S. De Silvestri, G. Cerullo, G. Lanzani, eds. Practical Spectroscopy Series 36. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $139.95 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-1-57444-650-0 Buy at Amazon

Engineering Optics. 3rd ed. K. Iizuka. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 35. Springer, New York, 2008 [1987]. $89.95 (525 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-75723-0 Buy at Amazon

Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography: The Science of Microfabrication. C. Mack. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2007. $200.00, $80.00 paper (515 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-01893-4, ISBN 978-0-470-72730-0 paper Buy at Amazon

Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks. J. Nimmrichter, W. Kautek, M. Schreiner, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 116. Proc. conf., Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2005. Springer, New York, 2007. $259.00 (647 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72129-1 Buy at Amazon

Optical Inspection of Microsystems. W. Osten, ed. Optical Science and Engineering 109. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2007. $129.95 (503 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-3682-9 Buy at Amazon

Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics. N. C. Santos, L. Pasquini, A. C. M. Correia, M. Romaniello, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. conf., Aveiro, Portrugal, Sept. 2006. Springer, New York, 2008. $109.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75484-8 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Optics. Vol. 50. E. Wolf, ed. Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2007. $170.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-0-444-53023-3 Buy at Amazon

Semiconductor Lasers: Stability, Instability and Chaos. 2nd ed. J. Ohtsubo. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 111. Springer, New York, 2008 [2005]. $189.00 (476 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72647-0 Buy at Amazon

Ultrafast Phenomena XV. P. Corkum, D. Jonas, R. J. D. Miller, A. M. Weiner, eds. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 88. Proc. conf., Pacific Grove, CA, July–Aug. 2006. Springer, New York, 2007. $269.00 (842 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68779-5 Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Axions: Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches. M. Kuster, G. Raffelt, B. Beltrán, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 741. Springer, Berlin, 2008. $84.95 (245 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73517-5 Buy at Amazon

Lectures on the ElectroWeak Interactions. R. Barbieri. Appunti 5. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 2007. $22.95 paper (84 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-311-6 Buy at Amazon

Nishina Memorial Lectures: Creators of Modern Physics. Nishina Memorial Foundation, ed. Lectures Notes in Physics 746. Springer, New York, 2008. $69.95 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-77055-8 Buy at Amazon

The Physics of the Z and W Bosons. R. Tenchini, C. Verzegnassi. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $89.00 (419 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-702-4 Buy at Amazon

The Spin Structure of the Proton. S. D. Bass. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $68.00, $42.00 paper (199 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-946-2, ISBN 978-981-270-947-9 paper Buy at Amazon

String Theory and Fundamental Interactions: Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. M. Gasperini, J. Maharana, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 737. Springer, New York, 2008. $139.00 (974 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74232-6 Buy at Amazon

Time in Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. J. G. Muga, R. S. Mayato, Í. L. Egusquiza, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 734. Springer, New York, 2008 [2002]. $99.00 (455 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73472-7 Buy at Amazon

Zero to Infinity: The Foundations of Physics. P. Rowlands. Series on Knots and Everything 41. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $88.00 (713 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-914-1 Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas. V. N. Tsytovich, G. E. Morfill, S. V. Vladimirov, H. M. Thomas. Lecture Notes in Physics 731. Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (370 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-29000-1 Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future. J. Bennett. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $26.95 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13549-6 Buy at Amazon