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acoustics

Computational Acoustics of Noise Propagation in Fluids—Finite and Boundary Element Methods. S. Marburg, B. Nolte, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $179.00 (578 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77447-1  Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More. C. G. Bassa, Z. Wang, A. Cumming, V. M. Kaspi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 983. Proc. conf., Montreal, Aug. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $263.00 (654 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0502-8  Buy at Amazon

African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Research in Africa. J. C. Holbrook, R. T. Medupe, J. O. Urama, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Proc. conf., Cape Coast, Ghana, Mar. 2006. Springer, New York, 2008. $139.00 (260 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6638-2  Buy at Amazon

Astrophysics of Compact Objects. Y.-F. Yuan, X.-D. Li, D. Lai, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 968. Proc. conf., Huangshan City, China, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $179.00 (431 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0485-4  Buy at Amazon

Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy. J. Mitton. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $35.00 (397 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82364-7  Buy at Amazon

Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics (II). L. Trache, S. Stoica, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 972. Proc. sch., Sinaia, Romania, Aug. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $256.00 (617 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0490-8  Buy at Amazon

Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics. M. Vietri. Theoretical Astrophysics. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $70.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-85569-1  Buy at Amazon

Galactic Dynamics. 2nd ed. J. Binney, S. Tremaine. Princeton Series in Astrophysics. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008 [1987]. $110.00, $60.00 paper (885 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13026-2,   Buy at Amazon

My Heavens! The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-the-Top Observatory. G. Rogers. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2008. $34.95 paper (180 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73781-2  Buy at Amazon

The National Virtual Observatory: Tools and Techniques for Astronomical Research. M. J. Graham, M. J. Fitzpatrick, T. A. McGlynn, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 382. Proc. sch., Aspen, CO, 2004, 2005, and 2006. $77.00 (713 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-327-0, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure. M. Plionis, O. López-Cruz, D. Hughes, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 740. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $89.95 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6940-6  Buy at Amazon

Relativistic Astrophysics. C. L. Bianco, S.-S. Xue, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 966. Proc. wksp., Pescara, Italy, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $135.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0483-0  Buy at Amazon

Short-Period Binary Stars: Observations, Analyses, and Results. E. F. Milone, D. A. Leahy, D. W. Hobill, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 352. Springer, New York, 2008. $139.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6543-9  Buy at Amazon

The Universe at Sub-Second Timescales: High Time Resolution Astrophysics. D. Phelan, O. Ryan, A. Shearer, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 984. Proc. conf., Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $147.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0503-5  Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Collected Papers of Carl Wieman. C. E. Wieman. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $128.00, $78.00 paper (812 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-415-3, ISBN 978-981-270-416-0 paper  Buy at Amazon

Theories of Molecular Reaction Dynamics: The Microscopic Foundation of Chemical Kinetics. N. E. Henriksen, F. Y. Hansen. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $90.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-920386-4  Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

The Origins of Genome Architecture. M. Lynch. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2007. $59.95 (494 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87893-484-3  Buy at Amazon

Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Biology and Medicine. M. Braun, P. Gilch, W. Zinth, eds. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, 2008. $239.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73565-6  Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Food Emulsifiers and Their Applications. 2nd ed. G. L. Hasenhuettl, R. W. Hartel, eds. Springer, New York, 2008 [1997]. $79.95 (426 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-75283-9  Buy at Amazon

The Inorganic Radiochemistry of Heavy Elements: Methods for Studying Gaseous Compounds. I. Zvára. Springer, New York, 2008. $279.00 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6601-6  Buy at Amazon

Inorganic Reactions in Water. R. L. Rich. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2007. $239.00 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73961-6  Buy at Amazon

Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: Characterization, Modification and Applications. M. Stamm, ed. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $169.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73864-0  Buy at Amazon

Polymeric Liquids and Networks: Dynamics and Rheology. W. W. Graessley. Garland Science/Taylor & Francis, New York, 2008. $130.00 (801 pp.). ISBN 978-0-81534-171-0  Buy at Amazon

Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals. J. Bernstein. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography 14. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2007 [2002, reissued]. $70.00 paper (410 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923656-5  Buy at Amazon

Recent Developments in Physical Chemistry. E. Díaz-Herrera, E. Juaristi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 979. Proc. mtg., Mexico City, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $125.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0498-4  Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Chaos: A Program Collection for the PC. 3rd rev. ed. H. J. Korsch, H.-J. Jodl, T. Hartmann. Springer, New York, 2008 [1999]. $99.00 (341 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74866-3, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Continuum Modeling in the Physical Sciences. E. van Groesen, J. Molenaar. Mathematical Modeling and Computation. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $65.00 paper (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-25-2  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

Linear Programming with MATLAB. M. C. Ferris, O. L. Mangasarian, S. J. Wright. MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization 7. SIAM, Philadelphia, and Mathematical Programming Society, Philadelphia, 2007. $45.00 paper (266 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-43-6  Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Dilute III-V Nitride Semiconductors and Material Systems: Physics and Technology. A. Erol, ed. Springer Series in Materials Science 105. Springer, New York, 2008. $189.95 (590 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74528-0  Buy at Amazon

Modern Many-Particle Physics: Atomic Gases, Nanostructures and Quantum Liquids. 2nd ed. E. Lipparini. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [2004]. $110.00, $65.00 paper (582 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-931-8,   Buy at Amazon

The NMR Probe of High-T_c Materials. R. E. Walstedt. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 228. Springer, New York, 2008. $209.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75564-7  Buy at Amazon

Problems of Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum Coherence Phenomena in Electron-Hole and Coupled Matter-Light Systems. A. L. Ivanov, S. G. Tikhodeev, eds. International Series of Monographs on Physics 139. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $130.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923887-3  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Hall Effects: Field Theoretical Approach and Related Topics. 2nd ed. Z. F. Ezawa. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [2000]. $97.00 (706 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-032-2  Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background. M. Giovannini. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $75.00 (474 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-142-9  Buy at Amazon

device physics

Current at the Nanoscale: An Introduction to Nanoelectronics. C. Durkan. Imperial College Press, London, 2007. $79.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-1-86094-823-7  Buy at Amazon

Design and Test of Digital Circuits by Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata. F. Lombardi, J. Huang, eds. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2008. $129.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-267-8  Buy at Amazon

Organic Nanostructures for Next Generation Devices. K. Al-Shamery, H.-G. Rubahn, H. Sitter, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 101. Springer, New York, 2008. $164.95 (356 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71922-9  Buy at Amazon

Organic Semiconductors in Sensor Applications. D. A. Bernards, R. M. Owens, G. G. Malliaras, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 107. Springer, New York, 2008. $169.00 (287 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76313-0  Buy at Amazon

Physical Limitations of Semiconductor Devices. V. A. Vashchenko, V. F. Sinkevitch. Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74513-8  Buy at Amazon

Terrestrial Neutron-Induced Soft Errors in Advanced Memory Devices. T. Nakamura et al. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-881-9  Buy at Amazon

Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices. J. A. Eichmeier, M. K. Thumm, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $169.00 (535 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71928-1  Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming. N. Lawson. Overlook Duckworth, New York, 2008. $19.95 (149 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59020-084-1  Buy at Amazon

Energy, Environment, and Climate. R. Wolfson. W. W. Norton, New York, 2008. $89.75 paper (532 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-92763-4  Buy at Amazon

fluids

Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation. G. P. Galdi, R. Rannacher, A. M. Robertson, S. Turek. Oberwolfach Seminars 37. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $49.95 paper (501 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-7805-9  Buy at Amazon

Hydrodynamics and Water Quality: Modeling Rivers, Lakes, and Estuaries. Z.-G. Ji. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $125.00 (676 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-13543-3, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

IUTAM Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence. A. V. Borisov, V. V. Kozlov, I. S. Mamaev, M. A. Sokolovskiy, eds. IUTAM Bookseries 6. Proc. symp., Moscow, Aug. 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $199.00 (500 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6743-3  Buy at Amazon

Liquid Separations with Membranes: An Introduction to Barrier Interference. K. W. Böddeker. Springer, New York, 2008. $69.95 (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-47451-7  Buy at Amazon

Water Dynamics. K. Tohji, N. Tsuchiya, B. Jeyadevan, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 987. Proc. wksp., Sendai, Japan, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $95.00 (186 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0506-6  Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Cold Aqueous Planetary Geochemistry with FREZCHEM: From Modeling to the Search for Life at the Limits. G. M. Marion, J. S. Kargel. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $119.00 (251 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75678-1  Buy at Amazon

Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface: Recent Advances. V. Badescu, ed. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $139.00 (517 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77454-9, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Terrestrial Fluids, Earthquakes and Volcanoes: The Hiroshi Wakita Volume II. N. M. Pérez, S. Gurrieri, C.-Y. King, Y. Taran, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $54.95 paper (204 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8719-8  Buy at Amazon

Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard. 2nd ed. E. Bryant. Springer-Praxis Books in Geophysical Sciences. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008 [2001]. $169.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74273-9  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450. 2nd ed. D. C. Lindberg. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007 [1992]. $25.00 paper (488 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-48205-7  Buy at Amazon

The Bethe–Peierls Correspondence. S. Lee. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $85.00 (506 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-135-3  Buy at Amazon

Charles Darwin. M. Ruse. Blackwell Great Minds 5. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 2008. $74.95, $24.95 paper (337 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-4912-9, 978-1-4051-4913-6 paper  Buy at Amazon

Einstein: His Life and Universe. W. Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $17.95 paper (675 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7432-6474-7  Buy at Amazon

Elements of Argumentation. P. Besnard, A. Hunter. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $35.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02643-7  Buy at Amazon

Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science. M. A. Bedau, P. Humphreys, eds. Bradford Books. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $80.00, 40.00 paper (464 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02621-5,   Buy at Amazon

Falling for Science: Objects in Mind. S. Turkle, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $24.95 (318 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-20172-8  Buy at Amazon

God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. V. J. Stenger. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $17.95 paper (302 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59102-652-5  Buy at Amazon

Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age. W. P. McCray. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $29.95 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12854-2  Buy at Amazon

NASA: The Complete Illustrated History. M. Gorn. Merrell, New York, 2008 [2005, reissued]. $29.95 paper (304 pp.). ISBN 978-1-8589-4427-2  Buy at Amazon

Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion. S. A. Kauffman. Basic Books, New York, 2008. $27.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-00300-6  Buy at Amazon

Science and Nonbelief. T. Edis. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $18.95 paper (283 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59102-561-0  Buy at Amazon

The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. B. W. Ogilvie. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $27.00 paper (385 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-62088-6  Buy at Amazon

The Stem Cell Dilemma: Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom? L. Furcht, W. Hoffman. Arcade, New York, 2008. $26.99 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-1-55970-872-2  Buy at Amazon

What Is Life? Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. E. Regis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008. $22.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-0-374-28851-8  Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Advances in Cryogenic Engineering: Transactions of the Engineering Conference—CEC. Vols. 53A and 53B. J. G. Weisend II et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 985. Proc. conf., Chattanooga, TN, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $417.00 set (1730 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0504-2, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Electron Microscopy and Multiscale Modeling. A. S. Avilov, S. L. Dudarev, L. D. Marks, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 999. Proc. conf., Moscow, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $162.00 (300 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0519-6  Buy at Amazon

Particle Image Velocimetry: New Developments and Recent Applications. A. Schroeder, C. E. Willert, eds. Topics in Applied Physics 112. Springer, New York, 2008. $229.00 (512 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73527-4  Buy at Amazon

Radio Sounding and Plasma Physics. P. Song, J. C. Foster, M. Mendillo, D. Bilitza, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 974. Proc. mtg., Lowell, MA, Apr.–May 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $115.00 (187 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0493-9  Buy at Amazon

Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Vols. 27A and 27B. D. O. Thompson, D. E. Chimenti, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 975. Proc. mtg., Golden, CO, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $419.00 set (1845 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0494-6, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Signals from the Subatomic World: How to Build a Proton Precession Magnetometer. S. Hollos, R. Hollos. Abrazol/ Exstrom Laboratories, Longmont, CO, 2008. $24.95 paper (150 pp.). ISBN 978-1-887187-00-8  Buy at Amazon

TCP 2006. J. Dilling, M. Comyn, J. Thomson, G. Gwinner, eds. Proc. conf., Parksville, BC, Canada, Sept. 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $219.00 (458 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73465-9  Buy at Amazon

popularizations

The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870–1920. P. Thurtle. In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science. U. Washington Press, Seattle, 2007. $80.00, $30.00 paper (381 pp.). ISBN 978-0-295-98756-9, ISBN 978-0-295-98750-7 paper  Buy at Amazon

Patterns of Light: Chasing the Spectrum from Aristotle to LEDs. S. Beeson, J. W. Mayer. Springer, New York, 2008. $69.95 (195 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-75106-1  Buy at Amazon

The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed. D. Leslie-Pelecky. Dutton, New York, 2008. $29.95 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-0-525-95053-0  Buy at Amazon

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel. M. Kaku. Doubleday, New York, 2008. $26.95 (329 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-52069-0  Buy at Amazon

State of the Universe 2008: New Images, Discoveries, and Events. M. Ratcliffe. Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008. $29.95 paper (183 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-71674-9  Buy at Amazon

society and government

The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA. G. Slack. Jossey-Bass/Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2007. $24.95 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7879-8786-2  Buy at Amazon

Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race. R. A. Fannin. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2008. $24.95 (183 pp.). ISBN 978-0-07-149447-2  Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet. L. W. Esposito, E. R. Stofan, T. E. Cravens, eds. Geophysical Monograph 176. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2007. $85.00 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-0-87590-441-2  Buy at Amazon

The Heliosphere Through the Solar Activity Cycle. A. Balogh, L. J. Lanzerotti, S. T. Suess. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Praxis/ Springer, New York, 2008. $159.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74301-9  Buy at Amazon

How Apollo Flew to the Moon. W. D. Woods. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008. $29.95 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-71675-6  Buy at Amazon

Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar System. D. Brodie. Springer, New York, 2008. $39.95 (130 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73102-5  Buy at Amazon

Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets. D. Jewitt, A. Morbidelli, H. Rauer. Saas-Fee Advanced Course 35. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.00 (258 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71957-1  Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Long-Range Interactions: Theory and Experiments. A. Campa, A. Giansanti, G. Morigi, F. S. Labini, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 970. Proc. wksp., Assisi, Italy, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $165.00 paper (364 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0488-5  Buy at Amazon

Order, Disorder and Criticality: Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory. Vol. 2. Y. Holovatch, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $85.00 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-767-3  Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Art in Chemistry; Chemistry in Art. 2nd ed. B. R. Greenberg, D. Patterson. Teacher Ideas Press/Libraries Unlimited, Westport, CT, 2008 [1998]. $35.00 paper (391 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59158-309-7  Buy at Amazon

Essential Quantum Mechanics. G. E. Bowman. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $90.00, $44.95 paper (208 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-922892-8, ISBN 978-0-19-922893-5 paper  Buy at Amazon

Modeling Differential Equations in Biology. 2nd ed. C. H. Taubes. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [2001]. $60.00 paper (500 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-70843-2  Buy at Amazon

Science, Evolution, and Creationism. National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2008. $12.95 paper (70 pp.). ISBN 978-0-309-10586-6  Buy at Amazon

The Zen in Modern Cosmology. C.-S. Lam. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $42.00, $28.00 paper (234 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-185-8, ISBN 978-981-277-186-5 paper  Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information. S. J. Muller. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, New York, 2007. $109.00 (165 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69883-8  Buy at Amazon

Conformal Groups in Geometry and Spin Structures. P. Anglès. Progress in Mathematical Physics 50. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $99.00 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-3512-1  Buy at Amazon

Curved Spaces: From Classical Geometries to Elementary Differential Geometry. P. M. H. Wilson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $120.00, $39.99 paper (186 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88629-1, ISBN 978-0-521-71390-0 paper  Buy at Amazon

From Nano to Space: Applied Mathematics Inspired by Roland Bulirsch. M. H. Breitner, G. Denk, P. Rentrop, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $79.95 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74237-1  Buy at Amazon

Gauging What's Real: The Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Gauge Theories. R. Healey. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2007. $80.00 (297 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-928796-3  Buy at Amazon

Group Theory for Physicists. Z.-Q. Ma. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $88.00, $52.00 paper (491 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-141-4, ISBN 978-981-277-142-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Iterative Toeplitz Solvers. R. H. Chan, X.-Q. Jin. Fundamentals of Algorithms. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2007. $67.00 paper (111 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-36-8  Buy at Amazon

Media Theory: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. D. Eppstein, J.-C. Falmagne, S. Ovchinnikov. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71696-9  Buy at Amazon

Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter. J. C. A. Boeyens, D. C. Levendis. Springer, New York, 2008. $139.00 (374 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6659-7  Buy at Amazon

Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds. P.-A. Absil, R. Mahony, R. Sepulchre. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $49.50 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13298-3  Buy at Amazon

Pythagorean-Hodograph Curves: Algebra and Geometry Inseparable. R. T. Farouki. Geometry and Computing 1. Springer, New York, 2008. $79.95 (728 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73397-3  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Gravity. C. Rovelli. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [2005, reissued]. $70.00 paper (458 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-71596-6  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations–4. G. Adenier et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 962. Proc. conf., Växjö, Sweden, June 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $152.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0479-3  Buy at Amazon

Theoretical Kaleidoscope. I. B. Khriplovich. Lecture Notes in Physics 747. Springer, New York, 2008. $59.95 paper (96 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-75251-8  Buy at Amazon