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energy and environment

Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection. J. J. Berger. Center Books on Natural History 2. The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago/U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $49.50, $27.50 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 978-1-930066-51-9, ISBN 978-1-930066-52-6 paper  Buy at Amazon

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence.” R. Bryce. PublicAffairs, New York, 2008. $26.95 (371 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58648-321-0  Buy at Amazon

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (Norm V). International Atomic Energy Agency. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 2008. $110.00 paper (534 pp.). ISBN 978-92-0-101508-2, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Regional Climate Studies of China. C. Fu et al., eds. Regional Climate Studies. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $229.00 (476 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79241-3  Buy at Amazon

The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment. P. Dauvergne. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $24.95 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-04246-8  Buy at Amazon

The Water of the Jordan Valley: Scarcity and Deterioration of Groundwater and Its Impact on the Regional Development. H. Hötzl, P. Möller, E. Rosenthal, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $239.00 (531 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77756-4  Buy at Amazon

fluids

Flow and Combustion in Reciprocating Engines. C. Arcoumanis, T. Kamimoto, eds. Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $129.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-64142-1  Buy at Amazon

geophysics

The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited. L. A. Mendes-Victor, C. S. Oliveira, J. Azevedo, A. Ribeiro, eds. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering 7. Springer, New York, 2009. $219.00 (597 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8608-3  Buy at Amazon

Earth Sciences and Mathematics, Vol. 1. A. G. Camacho, J. I. Díaz, J. Fernández, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $74.95 paper (234 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8906-2  Buy at Amazon

Field Methods for Petroleum Geologists: A Guide to Computerized Lithostratigraphic Correlation Charts Case Study–Northern Africa. F. A. Assaad. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $129.00 (112 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78836-2  Buy at Amazon

Geochemical Kinetics. Y. Zhang. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $70.00 (631 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12432-2  Buy at Amazon

Groundwater Geophysics: A Tool for Hydrogeology. 2nd ed. R. Kirsch, ed. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009 [2006]. $199.00 (548 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88404-0  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History. E. M. Conway. New Series in NASA History. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2008. $55.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8984-4  Buy at Amazon

The Bomb: A New History. S. M. Younger. Ecco/HarperCollins, New York, 2009. $26.99 (238 pp.). ISBN 978-0-06-153719-6  Buy at Amazon

Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning Across Disciplines. S. H. Kellert. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $35.00 (292 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-42978-6  Buy at Amazon

Creating Scientific Concepts. N. J. Nersessian. Bradford Books. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $32.00 (251 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-14105-5  Buy at Amazon

Creative Evolution: A Physicist’s Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design. A. Goswami. Quest Books, Wheaton, IL, 2008. $26.95 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8356-0858-9  Buy at Amazon

Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad. J. T. Richelson. W. W. Norton, New York, 2009. $27.95 (318 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06515-2  Buy at Amazon

Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media. S. J. Wurtzler. Film and Culture Series. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2009 [2007, reissued]. $26.50 paper (393 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-13677-8  Buy at Amazon

Euler as Physicist. D. Suisky. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $69.95 (338 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74863-2  Buy at Amazon

The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life: The Search for Our Cosmic Roots. P. Teerikorpi et al. Springer, New York, 2009. $79.95 (508 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-09533-2  Buy at Amazon

Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience. L. Hoddeson, A. W. Kolb, C. Westfall. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $45.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-34623-6  Buy at Amazon

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact. C. Burgess, R. Hall. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2009. $39.95 paper (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-84823-5  Buy at Amazon

Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth. P. Murdin. Copernicus Books/Springer, New York, 2009. $27.50 (187 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-75533-5  Buy at Amazon

The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos. M. D. Lemonick. Great Discoveries. W. W. Norton, New York, 2009. $23.95 (199 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06574-9  Buy at Amazon

The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes. S. Brandt. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $70.00 (500 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-954469-1  Buy at Amazon

Mathematics in India. K. Plofker. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $39.50 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-12067-6  Buy at Amazon

The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret. S. Shulman. W. W. Norton, New York, 2009 [2008, reissued]. $14.95 paper (256 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-33368-8  Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Atomic Layer Deposition for Nanotechnology: An Enabling Process for Nanotechnology Fabrication. A. Sherman. Ivoryton Press, Ivoryton, CT, 2008. $129.00, $39.00 paper (239 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9814663-4-7, ISBN 978-0-9814663-7-8 paper  Buy at Amazon

Surface and Interface Analysis: An Electrochemists Toolbox. R. Holze. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 74. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $164.95 (300 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-00859-0  Buy at Amazon

materials science

Advances in Nanoscale Magnetism. B. Aktas, F. Mikailov, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 122. Proc. conf., Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $219.95 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69881-4  Buy at Amazon

Einstein Relation in Compound Semiconductors and Their Nanostructures. K. P. Ghatak, S. Bhattacharya, D. De. Springer Series in Materials Science 116. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $179.00 (457 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79556-8  Buy at Amazon

FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications. Y. Hao, R. Mittra. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2009. $129.00 (379 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-160-2  Buy at Amazon

Ferroelectric Crystals for Photonic Applications: Including Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Techniques. P. Ferraro, S. Grilli, P. De Natale, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 91. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $189.95 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77963-6  Buy at Amazon

From Bulk to Nano: The Many Sides of Magnetism. C.-G. Stefanita. Springer Series in Materials Science 117. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $149.95 (171 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70547-5  Buy at Amazon

Lithium Niobate: Defects, Photorefraction and Ferroelectric Switching. T. Volk, M. Wöhlecke. Springer Series in Materials Science 115. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $149.95 (247 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70765-3  Buy at Amazon

Mesoscopic, Nanoscopic, and Macroscopic Materials. S. M. Bose, S. N. Behera, B. K. Roul, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1063. Proc. wksp., Bhubaneswar, India, Jan. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $235.00 (450 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0593-6  Buy at Amazon

Models and Methods of Magnetotellurics. M. N. Berdichevsky, V. I. Dmitriev. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $249.00 (563 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77811-0  Buy at Amazon

Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Materials Science 2008. M. Mashlan, R. ZboYil, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1070. Proc. conf., Hlohovec u BYeclavi, Czech Republic, June 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $119.00 (186 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0601-8  Buy at Amazon

Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library. Vol. 3: Solids II. Y. Horie, ed. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $219.95 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77078-7  Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas. S. A. Earle, L. K. Glover. National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 2009. $65.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4262-0319-0  Buy at Amazon

Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory. S. Miller, S. Verma, eds. Scriblerus Press, New York, 2008. $20.00 paper (265 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9802114-0-5  Buy at Amazon

Spectral Line Shapes. M. A. Gigosos, M. Á. González, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1058. Proc. conf., Valladolid, Spain, June 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $210.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0588-2  Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Coping with the Complexity of Economics. M. Faggini, T. Lux, eds. New Economic Windows. Springer, Milan, Italy, 2009. $89.95 (170 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-1082-6  Buy at Amazon

Interdisciplinary Aspects of Turbulence. W. Hillebrandt, F. Kupka, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 756. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $109.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78960-4  Buy at Amazon

“Let’s Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics.” M. Robnik, V. G. Romanovski, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1076. Proc. sch./conf., Maribor, Slovenia, June–July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 paper (312 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0607-0  Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics. I. Boztosun, A. B. Balantekin, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1072. Proc. conf., Cappadocia, Turkey, June 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $189.00 (332 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0603-2  Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics: Recent Developments. V. Petrova-Koch, R. Hezel, A. Goetzberger, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 140. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $149.95 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79358-8  Buy at Amazon

Light-Driven Alignment. B. P. Antonyuk. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 141. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $164.95 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69887-6  Buy at Amazon

Optical System Design. 2nd ed. R. E. Fischer, B. Tadic-Galeb, P. R. Yoder. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2008 [2000]. $99.95 (809 pp.). ISBN 978-0-07-147248-7  Buy at Amazon

Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices. 2nd ed. J.-M. Lourtioz et al. (translated from French by M. P. de Fornel). Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2005]. $149.00 (514 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78346-6  Buy at Amazon

Tunable Laser Applications. 2nd ed. F. J. Duarte, ed. Optical Science and Engineering 137. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2009 [1995]. $149.95 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6009-6  Buy at Amazon

Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Introduction to Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technological Challenges. P. Schmüser, M. Dohlus, J. Rossbach. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 229. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $179.95 (207 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79571-1  Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Vol. 58. B. Kayser, B. R. Holstein, A. Jawahery, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $84.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1558-0  Buy at Amazon

Noncovariant Gauges in Canonical Formalism. A. Burnel. Lecture Notes in Physics 761. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2009. $89.95 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69920-0  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Leap: From Dirac and Feynman, Across the Universe, to Human Body and Mind. V. G. Ivancevic, T. T. Ivancevic. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $148.00 (839 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-927-7  Buy at Amazon

Sixth International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics. S. Boffi, C. Ciofi degli Atti, M. Giannini, D. Treleani, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1056. Proc. conf., Trieste, Italy, May 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $255.00 (463 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0586-8  Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Theory of Fusion Plasmas. X. Garbet, O. Sauter, E. Sindoni, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1069. Proc. wksp., Varenna, Italy, Aug. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $189.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0600-1  Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Bracing for Armageddon?: The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America. W. R. Clark. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $21.95 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-533621-4  Buy at Amazon

Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet. O. Morton. Harper/HarperCollins, New York, 2008. $28.95 (460 pp.). ISBN 978-0-00-716364-9  Buy at Amazon

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense. Expanded ed. A. Ben-Naim. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $29.00 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-225-2  Buy at Amazon

The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe. J. S. Bardi. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $27.95 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-14909-6  Buy at Amazon

Float Your Boat! The Evolution and Science of Sailing. M. Denny. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2009. $26.95 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-9009-3  Buy at Amazon

Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley. S. Faris. Henry Holt, New York, 2009. $25.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8050-8779-6  Buy at Amazon

The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg. R. P. Crease. W. W. Norton, New York, 2008. $25.95 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06204-5  Buy at Amazon

In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension. D. Falk. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2008. $25.95 (329 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-37478-5  Buy at Amazon

Is God a Mathematician? M. Livio. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2009. $26.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7432-9405-8  Buy at Amazon

Let There Be Light: The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies. A. Montwill, A. Breslin. Imperial College Press, London, 2008. $75.00, $42.00 paper (595 pp.). ISBN 978-1-86094-850-3, ISBN 978-1-84816-328-7 paper  Buy at Amazon

Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations. H. Rao. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. $24.95 (205 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13456-7  Buy at Amazon

Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries. M. Hotakainen. Springer, New York, 2008. $39.95 (253 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-76507-5  Buy at Amazon

The Music of the Big Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology. A. Balbi (translated from Italian). Astronomers’ Universe. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $29.95 (158 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78726-6  Buy at Amazon

Nobels: Nobel Laureates Photographed by Peter Badge. P. Badge. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $200.00 (620 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40816-0  Buy at Amazon

The Numerati. S. Baker. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2008. $26.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-0-618-78460-8  Buy at Amazon

Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement. 2nd ed. K. Laws, A. Sugano. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008 [2002]. $39.95 paper (263 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-534101-0  Buy at Amazon

The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet. N. D. Tyson. W. W. Norton, New York, 2009. $23.95 (194 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06520-6  Buy at Amazon

Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities. I. Stewart. Basic Books, New York, 2009. $16.95 paper (310 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-01302-9  Buy at Amazon

Shrouds of the Night: Masks of the Milky Way and Our Awesome New View of Galaxies. D. L. Block, K. C. Freeman. Springer, New York, 2008. $39.95 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78974-3  Buy at Amazon

society and government

The Internet Imaginaire. P. Flichy (translated from French by L. Carey-Libbrecht). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008 [2007, reissued]. $15.95 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-56238-6  Buy at Amazon

Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies. T. Pinch, R. Swedberg, eds. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $75.00, $30.00 paper (403 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-16252-4, ISBN 978-0-262-66207-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

Nanotechnology: Ethics and Society. D. Bennett-Woods. Perspectives in Nanotechnology. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $49.95 paper (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-5352-4  Buy at Amazon