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New books

biological and medical physics

Raman and SERS Investigations of Pharmaceuticals. M. Baia, S. Astilean, T. Iliescu. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $159.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78282-7  Buy at Amazon

Vibrational Spectroscopy in Life Science. F. Siebert, P. Hildebrandt. Tutorials in Biophysics. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $124.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40506-0  Buy at Amazon

chemical physics

Amplification of Chirality. K. Soai, ed. Topics in Current Chemistry 284. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $239.00 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77868-4  Buy at Amazon

Ionic Transport Processes: In Electrochemistry and Membrane Science. K. Kontturi, L. Murtomäki, J. A. Manzanares. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $110.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-953381-7  Buy at Amazon

Photoresponsive Polymers I. S. R. Marder, K.-S. Lee, eds. Advances in Polymer Science 213. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $229.00 (209 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69448-9  Buy at Amazon

Photoresponsive Polymers II. S. R. Marder, K.-S. Lee, eds. Advances in Polymer Science 214. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $269.00 (207 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69452-6  Buy at Amazon

Polyfluorenes. U. Scherf, D. Neher, eds. Advances in Polymer Science 212. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $379.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68733-7  Buy at Amazon

computers and computational physics

Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation. F. Graziani, ed. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 62. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $99.00 paper (326 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77361-0  Buy at Amazon

Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes. H. G. Bock, E. Kostina, H. X. Phu, R. Rannacher, eds. Proc. conf., Hanoi, Vietnam, Mar. 2006. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $139.00 paper (666 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79408-0  Buy at Amazon

condensed-matter physics

Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport in Semiconductors. X. L. Lei. Frontiers of Research with the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $78.00 (636 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-902-4  Buy at Amazon

Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems. M. Di Ventra. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (476 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89634-4  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Magnetism. B. Barbara, Y. Imry, G. Sawatzky, P. C. E. Stamp, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. inst., Les Houches, France, June 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $179.00, $74.95 paper (249 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8510-9, ISBN 978-1-4020-8511-6 paper  Buy at Amazon

Semiconductor Quantum Bits. F. Henneberger, O. Benson. Pan Stanford/World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $179.00 (504 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4241-05-2  Buy at Amazon

Simple Models of Magnetism. R. Skomski. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (349 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857075-2  Buy at Amazon

Spin Physics in Semiconductors. M. I. Dyakonov, ed. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 157. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $179.95 (439 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78819-5  Buy at Amazon

cosmology and relativity

Accelerators in the Universe. H. Kodama, K. Ioka, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1040. Proc. conf., Tsukuba, Japan, Mar. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 paper (232 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0567-7  Buy at Amazon

N-Body Gravitational Problem: Unrestricted Solution. 2nd ed. K. Havel. Grevyt Press, Brampton, ON, Canada, 2008 [2003]. $14.95 paper (96 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9689120-5-8  Buy at Amazon

device physics

Smart Devices: Modeling of Material Systems. S. M. Sivakumar, V. Buravalla, A. R. Srinivasa, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1029. Proc. wksp., Chennai, India, Jan. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $165.00 (312 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0553-0  Buy at Amazon

Wafer Level 3-D ICs Process Technology. C. S. Tan, R. J. Gutmann, L. R. Reif, eds. Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-76532-7  Buy at Amazon

energy and environment

Hydroecology and Ecohydrology: Past, Present, and Future. P. J. Wood, D. M. Hannah, J. P. Sadler, eds. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $185.00 (436 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-01017-4  Buy at Amazon

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,0000 Years of Earth’s Climate. D. Archer. Science Essentials. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $22.95 (180 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13654-7  Buy at Amazon

Political Theory and Global Climate Change. S. Vanderheiden, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $60.00, $24.00 paper (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-22084-2, ISBN 978-0-262-72052-6 paper  Buy at Amazon

Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry. T. Bradford. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $14.95 paper (238 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-52494-0  Buy at Amazon

fluids

The XVth International Congress on Rheology. Parts 1 and 2. A. Co, L. G. Leal, R. H. Colby, A. J. Giacomin, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1027. Proc. mtg., Monterey, CA, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $399.00 set (1473 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0549-3 paper  Buy at Amazon

The Detonation Phenomenon. J. H. S. Lee. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $99.00 (388 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89723-5  Buy at Amazon

Fluid Mechanics: An Introduction to the Theory of Fluid Flows. F. Durst. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $109.00 (723 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71342-5  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Numerical Analysis of Incompressible Viscous Flows. W. Layton. Computational Science and Engineering 6. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008. $67.00 paper (213 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-57-3  Buy at Amazon

Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena. 2nd ed. G. Ben-Dor. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2007 [1991]. $199.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71381-4  Buy at Amazon

Statistical Microhydrodynamics. E. G. Sinaiski, L. I. Zaichik. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $230.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40656-2  Buy at Amazon

Theory and Simulation of Hard-Sphere Fluids and Related Systems. A. Mulero, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 753. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $129.00 (546 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78766-2  Buy at Amazon

geophysics

Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics. V. Yu. Khomich, A. I. Semenov, N. N. Shefov. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $289.00 (739 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75832-7  Buy at Amazon

Convective and Advective Heat Transfer in Geological Systems. C. Zhao, B. E. Hobbs, A. Ord. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (229 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79510-0  Buy at Amazon

Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data. A. E. Hartemink A. McBratney, M. L. Mendonça-Santos, eds. Springer, New York, 2008. $159.00 (445 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8591-8  Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins: The Central European Basin System. R. Littke, U. Bayer, D. Gajewski, S. Nelskamp, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $239.00 (519 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85084-7, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Geophysical Continua: Deformation in the Earth’s Interior. B. L. N. Kennett, H.-P. Bunge. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $80.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86553-1  Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences: Applications in Climatology, Geodynamics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. R. V. Donner, S. M. Barbosa, eds. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 112. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $189.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78937-6  Buy at Amazon

Object-Based Image Analysis: Spatial Concepts for Knowledge-Driven Remote Sensing Applications. T. Blaschke, S. Lang, G. J. Hay, eds. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $259.00 (817 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77057-2, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

The Origin of Clay Minerals in Soils and Weathered Rocks. B. Velde, A. Meunier. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75633-0  Buy at Amazon

Physics of Asymmetric Continuum: Extreme and Fracture Processes—Earthquake Rotation and Soliton Waves. R. Teisseyre, H. Nagahama, E. Majewski, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (293 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68354-4  Buy at Amazon

Solved Problems in Geostatistics. O. Leuangthong, K. D. Khan, C. V. Deutsch. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $79.95 paper (207 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-17792-1  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn. L. Gilder. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008. $27.50 (443 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4000-4417-7  Buy at Amazon

The Atom and the Apple: Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics. S. Balibar (translated from French by N. Stein). Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $24.95 (190 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13108-5  Buy at Amazon

Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters. F. Burkhardt, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $32.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89838-6  Buy at Amazon

The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate. A. Frank. U. California Press, Berkeley, 2009. $24.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-0-520-25412-1  Buy at Amazon

Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present. J. B. Foster, B. Clark, R. York. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2008. $60.00, $15.95 paper (240 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58367-174-0, ISBN 978-1-58367-173-3 paper  Buy at Amazon

Discovering the Principles of Mechanics, 1600–1800: Essays by David Speiser. K. Williams, S. Caparrini, eds. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $119.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8564-4  Buy at Amazon

Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. D. Hitt, O. Garriott, J. Kerwin. Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight. U. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. $29.95 (520 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8032-2434-6  Buy at Amazon

The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto. G. Schilling. Corpernicus/Springer, New York, 2009. $27.50 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77804-4  Buy at Amazon

Jetpack Dreams: One Man’s Up and Down (But Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention That Never Was. M. Montandon. Da Capo Press, New York, 2008. $25.00 (261 pp.). ISBN 978-0-306-81528-7  Buy at Amazon

The Moon That Wasn’t: The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite. H. Kragh. Science Networks–Historical Studies 37. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $59.95 (199 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8908-6  Buy at Amazon

Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners. M. Worek, ed. (translated from Portuguese). Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY, 2008 [2007]. $39.95, $24.95 paper (320 pp.). ISBN 978-1-55407-411-2, ISBN 978-1-55407-416-7 paper  Buy at Amazon

Plato’s Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. J. Gray. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $45.00 (515 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13610-3  Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Nuclear Proficiency Testing. E. Cincu, I. Manea, M. Woods, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1036. Proc. wksp., Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0560-8  Buy at Amazon

Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry: Capabilities for In Situ Analysis. P. J. Potts, M. West, eds. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2008. $189.00 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-0-85404-552-5  Buy at Amazon

Transmission Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation. 5th ed. L. Reimer, H. Kohl. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 36. Springer, New York, 2008 [1997]. $139.00 (587 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-40093-8  Buy at Amazon

The Uncertainty in Physical Measurements: An Introduction to Data Analysis in the Physics Laboratory. P. Fornasini. Springer, New York, 2008. $89.95 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78649-0  Buy at Amazon

materials science

Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering. J. Banhart, ed. Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $150.00 (462 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921324-5, CD-ROM  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

Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices and Systems. A. Vaseashta, I. N. Mihailescu, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. inst., Sinaia, Romania, June 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $229.95, $99.95 paper (489 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8901-5, ISBN 978-1-4020-8902-2 paper  Buy at Amazon