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astronomy and astrophysics

Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe. G. Vedrenne, J.-L. Atteia. Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Planetary Sciences . Praxis/Springer, New York, 2009. $189.00 (571 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-39085-5  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows: Astronum—2008. N. V. Pogorelov, E. Audit, P. Colella, G. P. Zank, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 406 . Proc. conf., St. John, Virgin Islands, June 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (324 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-692-9   Buy at Amazon

Physics of Relativistic Objects in Compact Binaries: From Birth to Coalescence. M. Colpi et al., eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 359 . Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2009. $199.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9263-3   Buy at Amazon

The Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design. J. Cheng. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 360 . Springer, New York, 2009. $179.00 (631 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-88790-6   Buy at Amazon

Probing Stellar Populations Out to the Distant Universe. L. A. Antonelli et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1111 . Proc. conf.,  Cefalù, Italy, Sept. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $319.00 (643 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0648-3   Buy at Amazon

Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments. D. Bastieri, R. Rando, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1112 . Proc. wksp., Abano Terme, Italy, Oct. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $118.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0649-0  Buy at Amazon

atomic and molecular physics

Foundations of Probability and Physics—5. L. Accardi et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1101 . Proc. conf., Växjö, Sweden, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $204.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0636-0   Buy at Amazon

ICAMDATA—2008. S. Zhu, J. Yan, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1125 . Proc. conf., Beijing, China, Oct. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $132.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0661-2   Buy at Amazon

The Spin: Poincaré Seminar 2007. B. Duplantier, J.-M. Raimond, V. Rivasseau, eds. Progress in Mathematical Physics 55 . Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009. $119.00 (193 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8798-3  Buy at Amazon

biological and medical physics

Circuits in the Brain: A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex.  C. R. Legéndy. Springer, New York, 2009. $129.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-88848-4   Buy at Amazon

Essential Cell Biology. 3rd ed. B. Alberts et al. Garland Science, New York, 2009 [2004]. $135.00, $120.00 paper (731 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8153-4129-1, ISBN 978-0-8153-4130-7 paper  Buy at Amazon , DVD-ROM

From Molecules to Medicines: Structure of Biological Macromolecules and Its Relevance in Combating New Diseases and Bioterrorism. J. L. Sussman, P. Spadon, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology . Proc. inst., Erice, Italy, May–June 2008. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2009. $189.00, $89.95 paper (251 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2337-7, ISBN 978-90-481-2338-4 paper  Buy at Amazon

Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics. Vol. 1. T. Jue, ed. Handbook of Modern Biophysics . Humana Press/Springer, New York, 2009. $129.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58829-973-4   Buy at Amazon

Protein Interaction Networks: Computational Analysis.  A. Zhang. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $70.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88895-0   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

RNA Polymerases as Molecular Motors. H. Buc, T. Strick, eds. RSC Biomolecular Sciences . Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2009. $199.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-134-3  Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Chirality at the Nanoscale: Nanoparticles, Surfaces, Materials and More.  D. B. Amabilino, ed. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2009. $210.00 (418 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-32013-4   Buy at Amazon

Excitations in Organic Solids. V. M. Agranovich. International Series of Monographs on Physics 142 . Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $130.00 (496 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923441-7   Buy at Amazon

Physicochemical Behavior and Supramolecular Organization of Polymers.  L. Gargallo, D. Radić. Springer, New York, 2009. $229.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9371-5   Buy at Amazon

Self-Organization of Molecular Systems: From Molecules and Clusters to Nanotubes and Proteins. N. Russo, V. Y. Antonchenko, E. S. Kryachko, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology . Proc. wksp., Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2008. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2009. $229.00, $119.00 paper (400 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2482-4, ISBN 978-90-481-2483-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

Structure Determination of Organic Compounds: Tables of Spectral Data. 4th rev. ed. E. Pretsch, P. Bühlmann, M. Badertscher. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2000]. $69.95 paper  (433 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-93809-5  Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

BICS 2008. C. Enachescu, B. L. Iantovics, F. G. Filip, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1117 . Proc. conf., Tirgu Mures, Romania, Nov. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $179.00 paper  (234 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0654-4   Buy at Amazon

Complexity: A Guided Tour.  M. Mitchell. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $29.95 (349 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-512441-5   Buy at Amazon

Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach.  S. Arora, B. Barak. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $55.00 (579 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-42426-4   Buy at Amazon

Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2008). Vol. 1. G. Maroulis, T. E. Simos, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1108 . Proc. conf., Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, Sept. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $139.00 paper  (274 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0644-5   Buy at Amazon

Computer Recognition Systems 3. M. Kurzynski, M. Wozniak, eds. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 57 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $339.00 paper  (612 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-93904-7   Buy at Amazon

Implementing Spectral Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Algorithms for Scientists and Engineers. D. A. Kopriva. Scientific Computation . Springer, New York, 2009. $119.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2260-8   Buy at Amazon

Numerical Analysis and Its Applications. S. Margenov. L. G. Vulkov, J. Waśniewski, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5434 . Proc. conf., Lozenetz, Bulgaria, June 2008. Springer, New York, 2009. $109.00 paper  (636 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00463-6   Buy at Amazon

Numerical Models for Differential Problems. A. Quarteroni (translated from Italian by S. Quarteroni). Modeling, Simulation and Applications 2 . Springer, Milan, Italy, 2009 [2008]. $69.95 (601 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-1070-3   Buy at Amazon

Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC). A. Lvovsky, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1110 . Proc. conf., Calgary, AB, Canada, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $214.00 (466 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0647-6   Buy at Amazon

Riemann Solvers and Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Introduction.  3rd ed. E. F. Toro. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [1999]. $179.00 (724 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-25202-3   Buy at Amazon

Scientific Data Mining: A Practical Perspective. C. Kamath. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2009. $71.00 paper  (286 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-75-7   Buy at Amazon

Scientific Modeling and Simulations. S. Yip, T. Diaz de la Rubia, eds. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 68 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $159.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9740-9   Buy at Amazon

Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry—2008. D.-Q. Wei, X.-J. Wang, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1102 . Proc. conf., Shanghai, China, Sept. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $147.00 paper  (314 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0637-7  Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Colloidal Magnetic Fluids: Basics, Development and Application of Ferrofluids. S. Odenbach, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 763 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (430 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85386-2   Buy at Amazon

Complex Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids: A Mode-Coupling Theory. W. Götze. International Series of Monographs on Physics 143 . Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $130.00 (641 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923534-6   Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures.  R. C. Desai, R. Kapral. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $80.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88361-0   Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Many-Body Physics: Principles and Methods.  W. Nolting (translated from German by W. D. Brewer). Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (602 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71930-4   Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering.  3rd ed. M. Razeghi. Springer, New York, 2009 [2006]. $99.00 (757 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-92167-9   Buy at Amazon

Quantum and Semi-classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids. A. K. Sen, K. K. Bardhan, B. K. Chakrabarti, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 762 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $109.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85427-2  Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Finding the Big Bang.  P. J. E. Peebles, L. A. Page Jr, R. B. Partridge. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $80.00 (571 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51982-3   Buy at Amazon

Lecture Notes on the General Theory of Relativity: From Newton’s Attractive Gravity to the Repulsive Gravity of Vacuum Energy. Ø. Grøn. Lecture Notes in Physics 772 . Springer, New York, 2009. $89.95 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-88133-1  Buy at Amazon

device physics

Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems.  2nd ed. P. H. King, R. C. Fries. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2009 [2003]. $119.95 (393 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6179-6   Buy at Amazon

Electrically Conductive Adhesives.  R. Gomatam, K. L. Mittal, eds. VSP/Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2008. $248.00 (425 pp.). ISBN 978-90-04-16592-2   Buy at Amazon

Evolution of Silicon Sensor Technology in Particle Physics. F. Hartmann. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 231 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $219.00 (204 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-25094-4   Buy at Amazon

Lithium-Ion Batteries: Science and Technologies.  M. Yoshio, R. J. Brodd, A. Kozawa, eds. Springer, New York, 2009. $99.00 (452 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-34444-7   Buy at Amazon

Magnetoelectronics of Microwaves and Extremely High Frequencies in Ferrite Films.  A. A. Ignatiev. Springer, New York, 2009. $149.00 (333 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-85456-4   Buy at Amazon

Meso- to Micro-Actuators: A Theoretical and Practical Approach.  A. Borboni. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $129.95 (400 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-9089-0   Buy at Amazon

Photonic MEMS Devices: Design, Fabrication and Control. A.-Q. Liu. Optical Science and Engineering 136 . CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2009. $129.95 (483 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-4568-0   Buy at Amazon

The Story of Semiconductors. J. Orton. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009 [2004, reissued]. $45.00 paper  (510 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-955910-7   Buy at Amazon

Transport Equations for Semiconductors. A. Jüngel. Lecture Notes in Physics 773 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $109.00 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-89525-1  Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Beyond Environmentalism: A Philosophy of Nature. J. E. Foss. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $65.00 paper  (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-17941-3   Buy at Amazon

Nanotechnology: Health and Environmental Risks. J. A. Shatkin. Perspectives in Nanotechnology . CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $49.95 paper  (167 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-5363-0   Buy at Amazon

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning.  J. Lovelock. Basic Books, New York, 2009. $25.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-01549-8  Buy at Amazon

fluids

Fluid Dynamics: Theory, Computation, and Numerical Simulation.  2nd ed. C. Pozrikidis. Springer, New York, 2009 [2001]. $129.00 (773 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-95869-9   Buy at Amazon

Geological Fluid Dynamics: Sub-Surface Flow and Reactions.  O. M. Phillips. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $80.00 (285 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86555-5   Buy at Amazon

Gravitational Systems of Goundwater Flow: Theory, Evaluation, Utilization.  J. Tóth. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $140.00 (297 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88638-3   Buy at Amazon

Lectures on Topological Fluid Mechanics. M. A. Berger et al. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1973 . Proc. lecture, Cetraro, Italy, July 2001. Springer, New York, 2009. $59.95 paper  (221 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00836-8   Buy at Amazon

Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2007: Implementations and Experiences on Large Scale and Grid Computing. I. H. Tuncer, Ü.  Gülcat, D. R. Emerson, K. Matsuno, eds. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 67 . Proc. conf., Antalya, Turkey, May 2007. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $139.00 paper  (480 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-92743-3   Buy at Amazon

Rogue Waves in the Ocean. C. Kharif, E. Pelinovsky, A. Slunyaev. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $149.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88418-7   Buy at Amazon

Turbulence Nature and the Inverse Problem. L. N. Pyatnitsky. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications 89 . Springer, New York, 2009. $149.00 (197 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2250-9   Buy at Amazon

Volumetric Properties of Mixtures and Solutions Binary Liquid Systems of Nonelectrolytes. H. V. Kehiaian, ed. Landolt-Börnstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology. Group 4: Physical Chemistry, Vol. 23 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $6,739.00 (563 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73583-0  Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Atmospheric Science for Environmental Scientists. C. N. Hewitt, A. V. Jackson, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $150.00, $84.95 paper (300 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-8542-4, ISBN 978-1-4051-5690-5 paper  Buy at Amazon

Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System: Their Relationship to Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation. J. Heintzenberg, R. J. Charlson, eds. Strüngmann Forum Reports . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009. $40.00 (597 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01287-4   Buy at Amazon

Coupling of Thunderstorms and Lightning Discharges to Near-Earth Space. N. B. Crosby, T.-Y. Huang, M. J. Rycroft, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1118 . Proc. wksp., Corte, France, June 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $119.00 (151 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0657-5   Buy at Amazon

Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation (IRS 2008). T. Nakajima, M. A. Yamasoe, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1100 . Proc. symp., Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $396.00 (677 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0635-3, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Crustal Magma Transfer, Storage and Differentiation. C. Annen, G.  F. Zellmer, eds. Geological Society Special Publication 304 . Geological Society, London, 2008. $170.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-1-86239-258-8   Buy at Amazon

Global Tectonics. 3rd. ed. P. Kearey, K. A. Klepeis, F. J. Vine. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, 2009 [1996]. $89.95 paper  (482 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-0777-8   Buy at Amazon

Gravity Interpretation: Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation. W. Jacoby, P. L. Smilde. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $159.00 (395 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85328-2, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Interfacing Geostatistics and GIS.  J. Pilz, ed. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-33235-0   Buy at Amazon

Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century. S. H. Schneider, J. R. Miller, E. Crist, P. J. Boston, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009 [2004, reissued]. $30.00 paper  (377 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-69369-1   Buy at Amazon

Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth. Rev. ed. H. Sato, M. C. Fehler. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing . Springer, Berlin, 2009 [1997]. $159.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-89622-7   Buy at Amazon

Subduction Zone Geodynamics. S. Lallemand, F. Funiciello, eds. Frontiers in Earth Sciences . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $199.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-87971-8   Buy at Amazon

Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami—Part I: Modelling and Hazard Assessment. P. R. Cummins, L. S. L. Kong, K. Satake, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes . Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009. $74.95 paper  (315 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0346-0056-9   Buy at Amazon

Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami—Part II: Observation and Data Analysis. P. R. Cummins, L. S. L. Kong, K. Satake, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes . Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009. $74.95 paper  (324 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0346-0063-7  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History.  R. W. Duffner. U. New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2009. $45.00 (457 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8263-4691-9  Buy at Amazon

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe. J. Krige. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009 [2006, reissued]. $23.00 paper  (376 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-61225-8  Buy at Amazon

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 11: Cumulative Index, Bibliography, List of Correspondence, Chronology, and Errata to Volumes 1–10.  A. J. Kox et al., eds. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $125.00 (619 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14187-9  Buy at Amazon

The Day We Found the Universe.  M. Bartusiak. Pantheon Books, New York, 2009. $27.95 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-0-375-42429-8  Buy at Amazon

Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung.  A. I. Miller. W. W. Norton, New York, 2009. $27.95 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06532-9  Buy at Amazon

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—And the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets.  J. Marchant. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009. $25.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-0-306-81742-7  Buy at Amazon

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self.  T. Metzinger. Basic Books, New York, 2009. $27.50 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-04567-9  Buy at Amazon

Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution. R. Staley. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $98.00, $38.00 paper (494 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-77056-7, ISBN 978-0-226-77057-4 paper  Buy at Amazon

First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science. H. Burton. Key Porter Books, Toronto, 2009. $24.95 paper  (286 pp.). ISBN 978-1-55470-175-9  Buy at Amazon

Galileo’s New Universe: The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos. S. P. Maran, L. A. Marschall. BenBella Books, Dallas, TX, 2009. $14.95 paper  (174 pp.). ISBN 978-1-933771-59-5  Buy at Amazon

Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany. M. W. Jackson. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $23.00 paper  (395 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-60075-0  Buy at Amazon

In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age.  S. Cooke. Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. $27.00 (488 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59691-617-3  Buy at Amazon

Indeterminacy: The Mapped, the Navigable, and the Uncharted. J. V. Ciprut, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009. $80.00, $37.00 paper (383 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-03388-6, ISBN 978-0-262-53311-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers.  J. C. Hermanowicz. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009. $55.00 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-32761-7  Buy at Amazon

Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics.  H. Weyl. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $35.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13545-8  Buy at Amazon

Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. B. A. Wallace. The Columbia Series in Science and Religion . Columbia U. Press, New York, 2009. $24.95 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-14730-9  Buy at Amazon

Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics. 3rd ed. H. P. Stapp. Frontiers Collection . Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2004]. $79.95 (300 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-89653-1  Buy at Amazon

Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science. H. Weyl (translated from German by O. Helmer). Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009 [1949, reissued]. $35.00 paper  (311 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14120-6  Buy at Amazon

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World.  E. S. Reich. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009. $26.95 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-0-230-22467-4  Buy at Amazon

Photography and Science. K. Wilder. Exposures . Reaktion Books, London, 2009. $29.95 paper  (139 pp.). ISBN 978-1-86189-399-4  Buy at Amazon

The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity. A. Bousquet. Critical War Studies . Columbia U. Press, New York, 2009. $35.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-70078-8  Buy at Amazon

The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents. J. M. Vaquero, M. Vázquez. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 361 . Springer, New York, 2009. $179.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-92789-3  Buy at Amazon

Theology in the Context of Science.  J. Polkinghorne. Yale U. Press, New Haven, CT, 2009. $26.00 (166 pp.). ISBN 978-0-300-14933-3  Buy at Amazon

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna.  M. Rentetzi. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2008. $60.00 (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-13558-0  Buy at Amazon

What I Require from Life: Writings on Science and Life from J. B. S. Haldane.  K. Dronamraju, ed. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $29.95 (231 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923770-8  Buy at Amazon

Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl. O. Darrigol. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009 [2005, reissued]. $40.00 paper  (356 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-955911-4  Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

4th International Conference on Laser Probing—LAP 2008. T. Iguchi, K. Watanabe, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1104 . Proc. conf., Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $112.00 paper  (215 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0640-7   Buy at Amazon

Advanced Potentiometry: Potentiometric Titrations and Their Systematic Errors.  E. Néher-Neumann. Springer, New York, 2009. $199.00 (239 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9524-5   Buy at Amazon

Chemical Vapour Deposition: Precursors, Processes and Applications.  A. C. Jones, M. L. Hitchman, eds. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2009. $299.00 (582 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-465-8   Buy at Amazon

Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering.  R. Begg, D. T. H. Lai, M. Palaniswami. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $134.95 (366 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-4080-2   Buy at Amazon

Deep-Sky Video Astronomy. S. Massey, S. Quirk. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series . Springer, New York, 2009. $34.95 paper  (185 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-87611-5   Buy at Amazon

Digital Photogrammetry: A Practical Course. 3rd. ed. W. Linder. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2006]. $129.00 (220 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-92724-2, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Experimental Neutron Scattering.  B. T. M. Willis, C. J. Carlile. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $90.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-851970-6   Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Capillary and Microchip Electrophoresis and Associated Microtechniques.  3rd ed. J. P. Landers, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008 [1997]. $209.95 (1567 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-3329-3   Buy at Amazon

High Frequency Electromagnetic Dosimetry. D. A. Sánchez-Hernández, ed. Electromagnetic Analysis Series . Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2009. $129.00 (260 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-397-2   Buy at Amazon

High-Temperature Measurements of Materials. H. Fukuyama, Y. Waseda, eds. Advances in Materials Research 11 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $189.00 (203 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85917-8   Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media. M. D. Hürlimann, Y.-Q. Song, P. Fantazzini, V. Bortolotti, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1081 . Proc. conf., Cambridge, MA, July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $109.00 (134 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0612-4   Buy at Amazon

Medical Infrared Imaging.  N. A. Diakides, J. D. Bronzino, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $93.95 (448 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-9027-2   Buy at Amazon

Optical Measurement Techniques: Innovations for Industry and the Life Sciences. K.-E. Peiponen, R. Myllylä, A. V. Priezzhev. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 136 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (155 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71926-7   Buy at Amazon

Satellite Radar Interferometry: Subsidence Monitoring Techniques. V. B. H. Ketelaar. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing 14 . Springer, New York, 2009. $129.00 (243 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9427-9   Buy at Amazon

Vibrationally Mediated Photodissociation.  S. Rosenwaks. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2009. $139.00 (204 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-155-8  Buy at Amazon

materials science

Charged Semiconductor Defects: Structure, Thermodynamics and Diffusion. E. G Seebauer, M. C. Kratzer. Engineering Materials and Processes . Springer, London, 2009. $159.00 (294 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84882-058-6   Buy at Amazon

Extended Defects in Germanium: Fundamental and Technological Aspects. C. Claeys, E. Simoen. Springer Series in Materials Science 118 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $164.95 (297 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85611-5   Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Nitride Semiconductors and Devices. Vol. 3: GaN-based Optical and Electronic Devices.  H. Morkoç. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2009. $360.00 (847 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40839-9   Buy at Amazon

Macro-Micro Theory on Multifield Coupling Behavior of Heterogeneous Materials.  Q.-H. Qin, Q.-S. Yang. Springer, Berlin, 2008. $149.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78258-2   Buy at Amazon

Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials. 2nd ed. G. A. Ozin, A. C. Arsenault, L. Cademartiri. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2009 [2005]. $89.95 paper  (783 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84755-895-4   Buy at Amazon

Static Compression of Energetic Materials. S. M. Peiris, G. J. Piermarini, eds. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena . Springer, Berlin, 2008. $199.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68146-5  Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Mission and Money: Understanding the University.  B A. Weisbrod, J. P. Ballou, E. D. Asch. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $30.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51510-8   Buy at Amazon

Rarefied Gas Dynamics. T. Abe, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1084 . Proc. symp., Kyoto, Japan, July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $376.00 (1185 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0615-5, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Sport Aerodynamics. H. Nørstrud, ed. CISM Courses and Lectures 506 . Springer, Udine, Italy, 2008. $229.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-3-211-89296-1   Buy at Amazon

UAV Cooperative Decision and Control: Challenges and Practical Approaches. T. Shima, S. Rasmussen, eds. Advances in Design and Control 18 . SIAM, Philadelphia, 2009. $85.00 (164 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-64-1  Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

City Out of Chaos: Urban Self-Organization and Sustainability.  R. M. Pulselli, E. Tiezzi. WIT Press, Billerica, MA, 2009. $99.00 (161 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84564-133-7   Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Approaching a Complex World.  C. Tsallis. Springer, New York, 2009. $99.95 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-85358-1   Buy at Amazon

The Nonlinear Workbook: Chaos, Fractals, Cellular Automata, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Gene Expression Programming, Support Vector Machine, Wavelets, Hidden Markov Models, Fuzzy Logic with C++, Java and SymbolicC++ Programs. 4th ed. W.-H. Steeb. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [2005]. $98.00, $58.00 paper (605 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-852-2, ISBN 978-981-281-853-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Field of Inquiry. B. Castellani, F. W. Hafferty. Understanding Complex Systems . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $89.95 (277 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88461-3   Buy at Amazon

Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing: From Statistical Physics to Risk Management. 2nd ed. J.-P. Bouchaud, M. Potters. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009 [2006]. $97.00, $58.00 paper (379 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-81916-9, ISBN 978-0-521-74186-6 paper  Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics. A. Blazhev, J. Jolie, N. Warr, A. Zilges, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1090 . Proc. symp., Cologne, Germany, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $224.00 (672 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0623-0  Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

Classical Optics and Its Applications.  2nd ed. M. Mansuripur. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009 [2002]. $90.00 (701 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88169-2   Buy at Amazon

Geometrical Charged-Particle Optics. H. H. Rose. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 142 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $199.00 (412 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85915-4   Buy at Amazon

High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. 3rd ed. J. C. H. Spence. Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials 60 . Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009 [2003, reissued]. $80.00 paper  (401 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-955275-7   Buy at Amazon

Photonic Signal Processing: Techniques and Applications. L. N. Binh. Optical Science and Engineering 130 . CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $124.95 (359 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-3762-8   Buy at Amazon

Physics of Photonic Devices. 2nd ed. S. L. Chuang. Pure and Applied Optics.  Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $140.00 (821 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-29319-5   Buy at Amazon

Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science IV. K. Yamanouchi, A. Becker, R. Li, S. L. Chin, eds. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 91 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $149.95 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69142-6   Buy at Amazon

Ultra-High Frequency Linear Fiber Optic Systems.  K. Y. Lau. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $119.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-25350-1  Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Supersymmetric Solitons. M. Shifman, A. Yung. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics . Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $120.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51638-9  Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

2nd ITER International Summer School: Confinement. S.-I. Itoh et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1095 . Proc. sch., Kasuga, Japan, July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009 [2007]. $157.00 paper  (243 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0628-5   Buy at Amazon

Advanced Accelerator Concepts. C. B. Schroeder, W. Leemans, E. Esarey, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1086 . Proc. wksp., Santa Cruz, CA, July–Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $368.00 (767 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0617-9, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Dense Z-Pinches. D. A. Hammer, B. R. Kusse, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1088 . Proc. conf., Alexandria, VA, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $132.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0620-9, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Complexity: A Guided Tour.  M. Mitchell. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $29.95 (349 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-512441-5   Buy at Amazon

Exploding Superstars: Understanding Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts. A. Mazure, S. Basa (translated from French by B. Mizon). Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy . Praxis/Springer, New York, 2009 [2007]. $29.95 paper  (154 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-09547-9   Buy at Amazon

The Fundamental Constants: A Mystery of Physics. H. Fritzsch (translated from German by G. Stodolsky). World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009 [2005]. $68.00, $34.00 paper` (195 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-819-5, ISBN 978-981-283-432-4 paper  Buy at Amazon

Measure Solar System Objects and Their Movements for Yourself! J. D. Clark. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series . Springer, New York, 2009. $34.95 paper  (173 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-89560-4   Buy at Amazon

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel. M. Kaku. Anchor Books, New York, 2009 [2008, reissued]. $15.95 paper  (329 pp.). ISBN 978-0-307-27882-1   Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider.  D. Lincoln. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2009. $25.00 (172 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-9144-1   Buy at Amazon

Time, Space, Stars and Man: The Story of the Big Bang. M. M. Woolfson. Imperial College Press, London, 2008. $98.00, $56.00 paper (422 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-272-3, ISBN 978-1-84816-273-0 paper  Buy at Amazon

society and government

Nanotechnology: Legal Aspects. P. M. Boucher. Perspectives in Nanotechnology . CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $49.95 paper  (250 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-5347-0  Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Habitability and Cosmic Catastrophes. A. Hanslmeier. Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $159.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76944-6   Buy at Amazon

Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds. M. Beech. Astronomers’ Universe . Springer, New York, 2009. $29.95 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-09795-4   Buy at Amazon

Whistler and Alfvén Mode Cyclotron Masers in Space. V. Y. Trakhtengerts, M. J. Rycroft. Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series . Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $160.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87198-3  Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Exactly Solved Models: A Journey in Statistical Mechanics—Selected Papers with Commentaries (1963–2008).  F. Y. Wu. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $138.00 (641 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-388-6   Buy at Amazon

Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions. Vol. 1: Absorbing Phase Transitions. M. Henkel, H. Hinrichsen, S. Lübeck. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics . Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $99.95 (385 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8764-6  Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Analysis in Vector Spaces: A Course in Advanced Calculus.  M. A. Akcoglu, P. F. A. Bartha, D. M. Ha. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $125.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-14824-2   Buy at Amazon

Foundations of Crystallography with Computer Applications.  M. M. Julian. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $89.95 (340 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6075-1   Buy at Amazon

Fuel Cell Fundamentals.  2nd ed. R. P. O’Hayre, S.-W. Cha, W. G. Colella, F.  B. Prinz. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009 [2006]. $130.00 (546 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-25843-9   Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Nuclear Science.  J. C. Bryan. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2009. $89.95 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6164-2   Buy at Amazon

Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems. B. Rogers, J. Adams, S. Pennathur. Mechanical Engineering Series 29 . CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $93.95 (398 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-8207-9   Buy at Amazon

Solid State Physics: Problems and Solutions. 2nd rev. ed. L. Mihály, M. C. Martin. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2009 [1996]. $70.00 paper  (315 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40855-9   Buy at Amazon

Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use. D. Savoie (translated from French by B. Mizon). Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy . Praxis/Springer, New York, 2009 [2003]. $29.95 paper  (181 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-09801-2  Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Applied Delay Differential Equations. T. Erneux. Surveys and Tutorials in the Applied Mathematical Sciences 3 . Springer, New York, 2009. $39.95 paper  (204 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74371-4  Buy at Amazon

Combinatorics: The Rota Way. J. P. S. Kung, G.-C. Rota, C. H. Yan. Cambridge Mathematical Library . Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $99.00, $39.99 paper (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88389-4, ISBN 978-0-521-73794-4 paper  Buy at Amazon

Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets: Applications to Signal and Image Processing.  S. A. Broughton, K. Bryan. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $95.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-29466-6  Buy at Amazon

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane. K. Astala, T. Iwaniec, G. Martin. Princeton Mathematical Series 48 . Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $85.00 (677 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13777-3  Buy at Amazon

Hydrodynamic Limits of the Boltzmann Equation. L. Saint-Raymond. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1971 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $59.95 paper  (188 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-92846-1  Buy at Amazon

Ideal Sequence Design in Time-Frequency Space: Applications to Radar, Sonar, and Communication Systems. M. An, A. K. Brodzik, R. Tolimieri. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis . Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009. $69.95 (218 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4737-7  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Number Theory. M. Erickson, A. Vazzana. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications . Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $89.95 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-937-3  Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Olympiad Challenges. 2nd ed. T. Andreescu, R. Gelca. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009 [2000]. $49.95 paper  (283 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4528-1  Buy at Amazon

Methods of Contemporary Mathematical Statistical Physics. M. Biskup et al. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1970 . Springer, Berlin, 2009. $74.95 paper  (343 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-92795-2  Buy at Amazon

Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations. K. E. Atkinson, W. Han, D. Stewart. Pure and Applied Mathematics . Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $89.95 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-04294-6  Buy at Amazon

Special Metrics and Supersymmetry. L. C. de Andrés, M. Fernández, Ó. J. Garay, L. Ugarte. AIP Conference Proceedings 1093 . Proc. wksp., Bilbao, Spain, May 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $139.00 paper  (201 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0626-1  Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Methods: A Handbook for the Natural and Social Sciences. 4th ed. C. Gardiner. Springer Series in Synergetics . Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2004]. $99.00 (447 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70712-7  Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Processes, Estimation, and Control. J. L. Speyer, W. H. Chung.  Advances in Design and Control 17 . SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $99.00 paper (383 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-55-9   Buy at Amazon