- Most popular articles
- Month-long calculation resolves an 82-year-old quantum paradox
September 2009 - Friction, force chains, and falling fruit
September 2009 - US electricity grid still vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses
September 2009
August 2009
text size 
print 
email 
write the editor 
pdf 
New books
acoustics
Acoustic Emission Testing. C.U. Grosse, M. Ohtsu, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $219.00 (396 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69895-1 Buy at Amazon
Acoustics and Hearing. P. Damaske. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $79.95 paper (120 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78227-8 Buy at Amazon
Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design. K. Collins. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $28.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-03378-7 Buy at Amazon
astronomy and astrophysics
Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects. U. Heber, S. Jeffery, R. Napiwotzki, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 392. Proc. wksp., Bamberg, Germany, July 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-654-7 Buy at Amazon
Hydrogen-Deficient Stars. K. Werner, T. Rauch, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 391. Proc. wksp., Tübingen, Germany, Sept. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-652-3 Buy at Amazon
New Horizons in Astronomy: Frank N. Bash Symposium 2007. A. Frebel, J.R. Maund, J. Shen, M.H. Siegel, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 393. Proc. wksp., Austin, TX, Oct. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-656-1 Buy at Amazon
Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies. T. Suda et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1016. Proc. symp., Sapporo, Japan, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $218.00 (501 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0537-0 Buy at Amazon
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe. J.H. Knapen, T.J. Mahoney, A. Vazdekis, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 390. Proc. conf., Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain, Apr. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (588 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-650-9 Buy at Amazon
A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud. B.H. May. Springer, New York, 2007. $79.95 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77705-4 Buy at Amazon
atomic and molecular physics
Hybrid Methods of Molecular Modeling. A.L. Tchougréeff. Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics 17. Springer, New York, 2008. $449.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8188-0 Buy at Amazon
biological and medical physics
Advances in Medical Physics 2008. A.B. Wolbarst, K.L. Mossman, W.R. Hendee, eds. Medical Physics, Madison, WI, 2008. $94.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-1-930524-38-5 Buy at Amazon
Biological Modeling and Simulation: A Survey of Practical Models, Algorithms, and Numerical Methods. R. Schwartz. Computational Molecular Biology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $45.00 (389 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-19584-3 Buy at Amazon
Biomagnetism and Magnetic Biosystems Based on Molecular Recognition Processes. J.A.C. Bland, A. Ionescu, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1025. Proc. conf., San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $112.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0547-9 Buy at Amazon
Biomedical Informatics in Translational Research. H. Hu, R.J. Mural, M.N. Liebman, eds. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Imaging. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2008. $89.00 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-038-4 Buy at Amazon
Collective Dynamics: Topics on Competition and Cooperation in the Biosciences. L.M. Ricciardi, A. Buonocore, E. Pirozzi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1028. Proc. conf., Vietri sul Mare, Italy, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $199.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0552-3 Buy at Amazon
Methods in Industrial Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers. W.B.V. Kandasamy, F. Smarandache. InfoLearnQuest, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008. $25.00 paper (125 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59973-034-9 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Aspects of Life. D. Abbott, P.C.W. Davies, A. K. Pati, eds. Imperial College Press, London, 2008. $98.00, $55.00 paper (442 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-253-2, ISBN 978-1-84816-267-9 paper Buy at Amazon
chemical physics
Acidity and Basicity. A. Auroux et al. Molecular Sieves 6: Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $319.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73963-0 Buy at Amazon
computers and computational physics
VI Hotine–Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy. P. Xu, J. Liu, A. Dermanis, eds. International Association of Geodesy Symposia 132. Proc. symp., Wuhan, China, May–June 2006. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (362 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74583-9 Buy at Amazon
Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography. N.L. Biggs. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London, 2008. $39.95 paper (273 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84800-272-2 Buy at Amazon
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling: Principles and Applications. K.I. Ramachandran, G. Deepa, K. Namboori. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $99.00 (397 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77302-3 Buy at Amazon
Deduction, Computation, Experiment: Exploring the Effectiveness of Proof. R. Lupacchini, G. Corsi, eds. Springer, Milan, Italy, 2008. $89.95 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-0783-3 Buy at Amazon
An Introduction to Queueing Theory: Modeling and Analysis in Applications. U.N. Bhat. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $59.95 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4724-7 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists. N.S. Yanofsky, M.A. Mannucci. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $70.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-879965
9780521879965 Buy at AmazonQuantum Computing Without Magic: Devices. Z. Meglicki. Scientific and Engineering Computation. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $35.00 paper (422 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-13506-1 Buy at Amazon
condensed-matter physics
Lectures on the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems XII. A. Avella, F. Mancini, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1014. Proc. course, Salerno, Italy, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $149.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0535-6 Buy at Amazon
cosmology and relativity
The Light/Dark Universe: Light From Galaxies, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. J.M. Overduin, P.S. Wesson. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $68.00, $42.00 paper (225 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-441-6, ISBN 978-981-283-589-5 paper Buy at Amazon
Partial Differential Equations in General Relativity. A.D. Rendall. Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics 16. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $130.00, $60.00 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921540-9, ISBN 978-0-19-921541-6 paper Buy at Amazon
device physics
Gallium Nitride Electronics. R. Quay. Springer Series in Materials Science 96. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (469 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71890-1 Buy at Amazon
energy and environment
Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. C.R. Henke. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $32.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-08373-7 Buy at Amazon
DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism. T.R. Dunlap, ed. Classic Texts. U. Washington Press, Seattle, 2008. $16.95 paper (150 pp.). ISBN 978-0-295-98834-4 Buy at Amazon
Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet’s Freshwater Resources. A.Y. Hoekstra, A.K. Chapagain. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008. $64.95 (208 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-6335-4 Buy at Amazon
Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming: A Holocene Perspective. R.W. Battarbee, H.A. Binney, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $99.95 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-5905-0 Buy at Amazon
Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment. J.A. Layzer. American and Comparative Environmental Policy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $70.00, $28.00 paper (365 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-12298-6, ISBN 978-0-262-62214-1 paper Buy at Amazon
Physics of the Environment. A.W. Brinkman. Imperial College Press, London, 2008. $75.00, $55.00 paper (213 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-179-5, ISBN 978-1-84816-180-1 paper Buy at Amazon
Pollution of Lakes and Rivers: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective. 2nd ed. J.P. Smol. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008 [2002]. $59.95 paper (383 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-5913-5 Buy at Amazon
Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis. J.E. Till, H.A. Grogan, eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $125.00 (702 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-512727-0 Buy at Amazon
Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security. I.A. Luk’yanchuk, D. Mezzane, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. wksp., Marrakech, Morocco, Dec. 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $179.95, $75.95 paper (275 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8794-3, ISBN 978-1-4020-8795-0 paper Buy at Amazon
Surviving 1,000 Centuries: Can We Do It? R.-M. Bonnet, L. Woltjer. Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Science. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008. $39.95 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74633-3 Buy at Amazon
geophysics
2008 Seismic Engineering Conference: Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria Earthquake. Parts 1 and 2. A. Santini, N. Moraci, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1020. Proc. conf., Reggio Calabria, Italy, July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $499.00 set (1967 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0542-4 Buy at Amazon
Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction: Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer Exchange Processes. M. McPhee. Springer, New York, 2008. $119.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78334-5 Buy at Amazon
Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources, and Tsunamis. K.F. Tiampo, D.K. Weatherley, S.A. Weinstein, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $74.95 paper (795 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8756-3 Buy at Amazon
Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control, and Mitigation. M. Gad-el-Hak, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $200.00 (576 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87293-5 Buy at Amazon
Micrometeorology. T. Foken (translated from German by C. J. Nappo). Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2006]. $99.00 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74665-2 Buy at Amazon
Seismic Inverse Q Filtering. Y. Wang. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008. $149.95 (238 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-8540-0 Buy at Amazon
history and philosophy
Around the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr. D. Shayler. Space Series 63. Apogee Books, Burlington, ON, Canada, 2008. $31.95 paper (272 pp.). ISBN 978-1-894959-40-7, DVD-ROM Buy at Amazon
Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry. P. Coffey. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $29.95 (379 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-532134-0 Buy at Amazon
Chance or Dance: An Evaluation of Design. J.H. Davis, H.L. Poe. Templeton Foundation Press, West Conshohocken, PA, 2008. $24.95 paper (236 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59947-133-4 Buy at Amazon
The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words. N.K. Frankenberry, ed. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $29.95 (523 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13487-1 Buy at Amazon
H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation. S. Gliboff. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $35.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-07293-9 Buy at Amazon
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. E. Robson. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $49.50 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-09182-2 Buy at Amazon
Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. K. Bijsterveld. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $40.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02639-0 Buy at Amazon
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. C. Thorpe. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $25.00 paper (413 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-79846-2 Buy at Amazon
Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison. M.B. Schiffer. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $38.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-19582-9 Buy at Amazon
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. S. Shapin. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $29.00 (468 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-75024-8 Buy at Amazon
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern. K. Devlin. Basic Books, New York, 2008. $24.95 (191 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-00910-7 Buy at Amazon
When Science and Christianity Meet. D.C. Lindberg, R.L. Numbers, eds. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008 [2003, reissued]. $20.00 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-48216-3 Buy at Amazon
materials science
Annual Review of Materials Research. Vol. 38. D.R. Clarke, M. Rühle, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $89.00 (587 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1738-6 Buy at Amazon
Crystallography of Modular Materials. G. Ferraris, E. Makovicky, S. Merlino. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography 15. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008 [2004, reissued]. $70.00 paper (372 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-954569-8 Buy at Amazon
The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors. A.G. Lebed, ed. Springer Series in Materials Science 110. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $219.00 (752 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76667-4 Buy at Amazon
Reactive Sputter Deposition. D. Depla, S. Mahieu, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 109. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (570 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76662-9 Buy at Amazon
Thermal Stress Resistance of Materials. A. Lanin, I. Fedik. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $149.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71399-9 Buy at Amazon
miscellaneous
Current Issues of Physics in Malaysia. H.B. Senin, G. Carini, J. Abdullah, D.A. Bradley, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1017. Proc. conf., Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $225.00 (443 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0538-7 Buy at Amazon
Map-Based Mobile Services: Design, Interaction and Usability. L. Meng, A. Zipf, S. Winter, eds. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $189.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-37109-0 Buy at Amazon
nonlinear science and chaos
Complex Nonlinearity: Chaos, Phase Transitions, Topology Change and Path Integrals. V.G. Ivancevic, T.T. Ivancevic. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $159.00 (844 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79356-4 Buy at Amazon
The Painlevé Handbook. R. Conte, M. Musette. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $129.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8490-4 Buy at Amazon
nuclear physics
The Physics of Warm Nuclei: With Analogies to Mesoscopic Systems. H. Hofmann. Oxford Studies in Nuclear Physics 25. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $130.00 (623 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-850401-6 Buy at Amazon
optics and photonics
Chromatic Monitoring of Complex Conditions. G.R. Jones, A.G. Deakin, J.W. Spencer, eds. Series in Sensors 2. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $119.95 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-988-5 Buy at Amazon
Laser Spectroscopy—Vol. 1: Basic Principles. 4th ed. W. Demtröder. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2003]. $109.00 (457 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73415-4 Buy at Amazon
Modern Developments in X-Ray and Neutron Optics. A. Erko, M. Idir, T. Krist, A.G. Michette, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 137. Springer, New York, 2008. $219.00 (533 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74560-0 Buy at Amazon
New Directions in Holography and Speckle. H.J. Caulfield, C.S. Vikram, eds. Titles in Nanotechnology. American Scientific, Stevenson Ranch, CA, 2008. $399.00 (540 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58883-101-9 Buy at Amazon
Principles of Nanophotonics. M. Ohtsu et al. Series in Optics and Optoelectronics 6. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $79.95 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-972-4 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Optics. J.C. Garrison, R.Y. Chiao. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $90.00 (716 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-850886-1 Buy at Amazon
RIAO/OPTILAS 2007. N.U. Wetter, J. Frejlich, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 992. Proc. conf., Campinas, Brazil, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $499.00 (1343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0511-0 Buy at Amazon
particle physics
Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 57. B. Kayser, B.R. Holstein, A. Jawahery, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2007. $197.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1557-3 Buy at Amazon
Colliders and Neutrinos: The Window into Physics Beyond the Standard Model. S. Dawson, R.N. Mohapatra, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $128.00 (704 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-925-3 Buy at Amazon
Composite Fermions. J.K. Jain. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $95.00 (543 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86232-5 Buy at Amazon
A Direct Derivation of the Form of the Standard Model from GL(16). S. Blaha. Pingree-Hill, Auburn, NH, 2008. $9.95 paper (124 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9746958-9-1 Buy at Amazon
Electroweak Theory. E.A. Paschos. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $79.00 (245 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86098-7 Buy at Amazon
Grand Unified Theories: Current Status and Future Prospects. T. Fukuyama, T. Kikuchi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1015. Proc. wksp., Kusatsu, Japan, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0536-3 Buy at Amazon
Lectures on the ElectroWeak Interactions. R. Barbieri. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore Lecture Notes 5. Edizioni della Normale/Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $22.95 paper (84 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-311-6 Buy at Amazon
Neutrino Oscillations: Present Status and Future Plans. J.A. Thomas, P.L. Vahle, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $58.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-196-4 Buy at Amazon
Perspectives on LHC Physics. G. Kane, A. Pierce, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00, $48.00 paper (337 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-975-5, ISBN 978-981-283-389-1 paper Buy at Amazon
Polarized Antiproton Beams—How? S. Chattopadhyay et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1008. Proc. wksp., Daresbury, UK, Aug. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $105.00 (133 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0527-1 Buy at Amazon
Supersymmetry in Particle Physics: An Elementary Introduction. I.J.R. Aitchison. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $65.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88023-7 Buy at Amazon
Ten Years of AdS/CFT. J.D. Edelstein, N. Grandi, C. Nú ñez, M. Schvellinger, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1031. Proc. conf., Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $189.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0555-4 Buy at Amazon
plasmas and fusion
Cold Antimatter Plasmas and Application to Fundamental Physics. Y. Kanai, Y. Yamazaki, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1037. Proc. wksp., Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $199.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0561-5 Buy at Amazon
Fundamentals of Plasma Physics. P.M. Bellan. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $75.00 paper (609 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-52800-9 Buy at Amazon
Plasma Chemistry. A. Fridman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $170.00 (978 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84735-3 Buy at Amazon
Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas. S. Benkadda, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1013. Proc. sch., Aix en Provence, France, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $190.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0534-9 Buy at Amazon
popularizations
13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time. M. Brooks. Doubleday, New York, 2008. $23.95 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-52068-3 Buy at Amazon
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. L. Susskind. Little, Brown and Co, New York, 2008. $27.99 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-0-316-01640-7 Buy at Amazon
The Carbon Age: How Life’s Core Element Has Become Civilization’s Greatest Threat. E. Roston. Walker, New York, 2008. $25.99 (309 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8027-1557-9 Buy at Amazon
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory. G. Musser. Alpha Books, New York, 2008. $16.95 paper (334 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59257-702-6 Buy at Amazon
Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art. J.R. Leibowitz. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2008. $24.95 (148 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8866-3 Buy at Amazon
Out of the Blue—A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival. J.S. Friedman. Delacorte Press/Bantam Dell, New York, 2008. $24.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-34115-8 Buy at Amazon
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines. R.A. Muller. W.W. Norton, New York, 2008. $26.95 (380 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06627-2 Buy at Amazon
Relativity: A Very Short Introduction. R. Stannard. Very Short Introductions. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $11.95 paper (114 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923622-0 Buy at Amazon
The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature’s Unity-in-Diversity. S.M. Rosen. Series on Knots and Everything 18. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $78.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-173-5 Buy at Amazon
society and government
Global Catastrophic Risks. N. Bostrom, M.M. Ćirković, eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $50.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857050-9 Buy at Amazon
In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. Z. Wang. Rutgers U. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008. $49.95 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8135-4331-4 Buy at Amazon
Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis. M. Chinoy. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2008. $27.95 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-37153-1 Buy at Amazon
Nuclear Safeguards, Security, and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy. J.E. Doyle, ed. Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security Series. Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2008. $99.95 (592 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7506-8673-0 Buy at Amazon
Technology and the American Way of War. T.G. Mahnken. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2008. $29.50 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-12336-5 Buy at Amazon
space and planetary science
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Vol. 36. R. Jeanloz, A.L. Albee, K.C. Burke, K.H. Freeman, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $89.00 (669 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-2036-2 Buy at Amazon
Basics of the Solar Wind. N. Meyer-Vernet. Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $132.00 (463 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-81420-1 Buy at Amazon
Salyut—The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy. G.S. Ivanovich. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008. $34.95 paper (426 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73585-6 Buy at Amazon
The Solar Tachocline. D.W. Hughes, R. Rosner, N.O. Weiss, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $160.00 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86101-4 Buy at Amazon
Subsurface and Atmospheric Influences on Solar Activity. R. Howe, R.W. Komm, K.S. Balasubramaniam, G.J.D. Petrie, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 383. Proc. wksp., Sunspot, NM, Apr. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (440 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-329-4 Buy at Amazon
statistical physics and thermodynamics
Basics of Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions in Complex Intermetallics. E. Belin-Ferré, ed. Complex Metallic Alloys 1. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $109.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-058-3 Buy at Amazon
Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. C.M. Van Vliet. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $152.00, $86.00 paper (960 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-477-1, ISBN 978-981-270-478-8 paper Buy at Amazon
A First Course in Order Statistics. B.C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, H.N. Nagaraja. Classics in Applied Mathematics 54. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008 [1992, reissued]. $73.00 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-89871-648-1 Buy at Amazon
Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations: Their Thermodynamic Basis. 2nd ed. M. Hillert. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [1998]. $85.00 (510 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85351-4 Buy at Amazon
Statistical Physics. 2nd rev. ed. T. Guénault. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007 [1995]. $69.95 paper (204 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5974-2 Buy at Amazon
Symmetry Studies: An Introduction to the Analysis of Structured Data in Applications. M.A.G. Viana. Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics 26. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $60.00 (235 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84103-0 Buy at Amazon
Thermophysical Properties of Materials and Devices. P. Predeep, S. Prasanth, A.S. Prasad, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1004. Proc. conf., Kollam, India, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $179.00 (361 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0523-3 Buy at Amazon
Universality in Nonequilibrium Lattice Systems: Theoretical Foundations. G. Ódor. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $98.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-227-8 Buy at Amazon
texts and education
Beyond the Mechanical Universe: From Electricity to Modern Physics. R.P. Olenick, T.M. Apostol, D.L. Goodstein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1986, reissued]. $39.95 paper (574 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-71591-1 Buy at Amazon
Fundamentals of Geophysics. 2nd ed. W. Lowrie. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1997]. $140.00, $70.00 paper (381 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85902-8, ISBN 978-0-521-67596-3 paper Buy at Amazon
Girls in Science: A Framework for Action. L. Chatman et al. NSTA Press, Arlington, VA, 2008. $24.94 paper (290 pp.). ISBN 978-1-93353-104-5 Buy at Amazon
Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. A. Bettini. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $70.00 (431 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88021-3 Buy at Amazon
Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations. J.D. Walecka. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00, $65.00 paper (477 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-224-7, ISBN 978-981-281-225-4 paper Buy at Amazon
The Pursuit of Perfect Packing. 2nd ed. T. Aste, D. Weaire. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2008 [2000]. $59.95 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6817-7 Buy at Amazon
Statistical Physics of Fields. M. Kardar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $75.00 (359 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87341-3 Buy at Amazon
Statistical Physics of Particles. M. Kardar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $75.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87342-0 Buy at Amazon
A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science. R.H. Landau, M.J. Páez, C.C. Bordeianu. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $69.50 (658 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13137-5, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon
Theory of Orbital Motion. A. Tan. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $64.00, $28.00 paper (281 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-911-0, ISBN 978-981-270-912-7 paper Buy at Amazon
theory and mathematical methods
Boundary Control of PDEs: A Course on Backstepping Designs. M. Krstic, A. Smyshlyaev. Advances in Design and Control 16. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $89.00 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-89871-650-4 Buy at Amazon
Eisenstein Series and Applications. W.T. Gan, S.S. Kudla, Y. Tschinkel, eds. Progress in Mathematics 258. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $69.95 (314 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4496-3 Buy at Amazon
Geometry and Dynamics of Groups and Spaces: In Memory of Alexander Reznikov. M. Kapranov, eds. Progress in Mathematics 265. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $109.00 (742 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8607-8 Buy at Amazon
Group Theory: Birdtracks, Lie’s, and Exceptional Groups. P. Cvitanović. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $39.95 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-11836-9 Buy at Amazon
Handbook of Special Functions: Derivatives, Integrals, Series and Other Formulas. Y.A. Brychkov. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $99.95 (680 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-956-4 Buy at Amazon
Integral Methods in Science and Engineering: Techniques and Applications. C. Constanda, S. Potapenko, eds. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $89.95 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4670-7 Buy at Amazon
Many-Body Theory Exposed! Propagator Description of Quantum Mechanics in Many-Body Systems. 2nd ed. W.H. Dickhoff, D. Van Neck. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [2005]. $98.00, $75.00 paper (831 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-379-4, ISBN 978-981-281-380-0 paper Buy at Amazon
Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems. R. Glowinski. Scientific Computation. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [1984, reissued]. $84.95 paper (493 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77506-5 Buy at Amazon
Path Integrals and Stochastic Processes in Theoretical Physics. M. Masujima. Feshbach, Minneapolis, MN, 2007. $129.00 (829 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9762021-3-4 Buy at Amazon
Problem Book in Quantum Field Theory. 2nd ed. V. Radovanović. Springer, New York, 2008 [2006]. $69.95 paper (243 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77013-8 Buy at Amazon
Quantum Spaces: Poincaré Seminar 2007. B. Duplantier, V. Rivasseau, eds. Progress in Mathematical Physics 53. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $109.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8521-7 Buy at Amazon
The Schwinger Action Principle and Effective Action. D.J. Toms. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $160.00 (495 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87676-6 Buy at Amazon
Selfdual Gauge Field Vortices: An Analytical Approach. G. Tarantello. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 72. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $109.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4310-2 Buy at Amazon
Unified Field Theory: Atomic Nuclei, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes. K. Kumar. Tennessee Tech Printing Ser-vices Press, Cookeville, TN, 2007. $35.00 paper (212 pp.). ISBN 978-1-60530-233-1 Buy at Amazon
Variational Problems in Transport Theory with Mass Concentration. F. Santambrogio. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore Theses 4. Edizioni della Normale/Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $24.95 paper (198 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-312-3 Buy at Amazon