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acoustics

Good Vibrations: The Physics of Music. B. Parker. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2009. $27.95 (274 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-9264-6  Buy at Amazon

astronomy and astrophysics

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVIII. D. A. Bohlender, D. Durand, P. Dowler, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 411. Proc. wksp., Québec City, QC, Canada, Nov. 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (588 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-702-5  Buy at Amazon

Graduate School in Astronomy: XIII Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio de Janeiro (XIII CCE). F. Roig, D. Lopes, R. de la Reza, V. Ortega, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1192. Proc. sch., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $97.00 (141 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0730-5  Buy at Amazon

Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe. 2nd ed. M. Begelman, M. Rees. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010 [1995]. $99.00, $36.99 paper (302 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88944-5, ISBN 978-0-521-71793-9 paper  Buy at Amazon

High-Redshift Galaxies: Light from the Early Universe. I. Appenzeller. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $99.00 (349 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75823-5  Buy at Amazon

Jets from Young Stars IV: From Models to Observations and Experiments. P. J. V. Garcia, J. M. Ferreira, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 793. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $79.95 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02288-3  Buy at Amazon

Preserving Astronomy’s Photographic Legacy: Current State and the Future of North American Astronomical Plates. W. Osborn, L. Robbins, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 410. Proc. wksp., Rosman, NC, Nov. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2009. $77.00 (202 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-700-1  Buy at Amazon

The Rainbow Sky: An Exploration of Colors in the Solar System and Beyond. T. Buick. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2010. $34.95 paper (359 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-1052-3  Buy at Amazon

history and philosophy

How Physics Confronts Reality: Einstein Was Correct, but Bohr Won the Game. R. G. Newton. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $54.00, $29.95 paper (147 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4277-02-0, ISBN 978-981-4277-03-7 paper  Buy at Amazon

Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature. M. Lange. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $99.00, $24.95 paper (257 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-532813-4, ISBN 978-0-19-532814-1 paper  Buy at Amazon

National Geographic Concise History of Science and Invention: An Illustrated Time Line. J. Goddard, ed. National Geographic, Washington, DC, 2009. $40.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4262-0544-6  Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Insights: The Cold War Legacy. Vol. 2: Nuclear Threats and Prospects (A Knowledgeable Assessment). A. DeVolpi. Devolpi Inc., Oceanside, CA, 2009. $20.00 paper (394 pp.). ISBN 978-09777734-3-5  Buy at Amazon

Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century. M. Gessen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2009. $26.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-0-15-101406-4  Buy at Amazon

Pluto Confidential: An Insider Account of the Ongoing Battles over the Status of Pluto. L. A. Marschall, S. P. Maran. BenBella Books, Dallas, TX, 2009. $14.95 paper (223 pp.). ISBN 978-1-933771-80-9  Buy at Amazon

Selected Papers on the Periodic Table. E. Scerri. Imperial College Press, London, 2009. $88.00 (143 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-425-3  Buy at Amazon

instrumentation and techniques

Acoustic Microscopy. 2nd ed. G. A. D. Briggs, O. V. Kolosov. Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [1992]. $110.00 (356 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923273-4  Buy at Amazon

Two-Dimensional X-Ray Diffraction. B. B. He. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $115.00 (426 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-22722-0  Buy at Amazon

materials science

Advances in the Casimir Effect. M. Bordag, G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, V. M. Mostepanenko. International Series of Monographs on Physics 145. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $150.00 (749 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923874-3  Buy at Amazon

Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures. W. Steurer, S. Deloudi. Springer Series in Materials Science 126. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $159.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01898-5  Buy at Amazon

Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics. D. G. Seiler et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1173. Proc. conf., Albany, NY, May 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $219.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0712-1, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

High Density Data Storage: Principle, Technology, and Materials. Y. Song, D. Zhu, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $75.00 (263 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-469-0  Buy at Amazon

Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting of Concrete Buildings: Based on EN–Eurocode 8. M. N. Fardis. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering 8. Springer, New York, 2009. $169.00 (743 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-9841-3  Buy at Amazon

Selected Topics in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. A. T. S. Wee, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $78.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-955-8  Buy at Amazon

Transport in Nanostructures. 2nd ed. D. K. Ferry, S. M. Goodnick, J. Bird. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009 [1997]. $99.00 (659 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87748-0  Buy at Amazon

miscellaneous

The Astronaut’s Cookbook: Tales, Recipes, and More. C. T. Bourland, G. L. Vogt. Springer, New York, 2010. $29.95 paper (219 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-0623-6  Buy at Amazon

Doing Science: Design, Analysis, and Communication of Scientific Research. 2nd ed. I. Valiela. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009 [2001]. $34.95 paper (333 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-538573-1  Buy at Amazon

nonlinear science and chaos

Chaos: Concepts, Control and Constructive Use. Y. Bolotin, A. Tur, V. Yanovsky. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00936-5  Buy at Amazon

Discontinuous Dynamical Systems on Time-Varying Domains. A. C. J. Luo. Nonlinear Physical Science. Higher Education Press, Beijing, and Springer, Berlin, 2009. $189.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00252-6  Buy at Amazon

Dynamics of Markets: The New Financial Economics. 2nd ed. J. L. McCauley. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009 [2007]. $75.00 (270 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-42962-7  Buy at Amazon

From Leonardo to ITER: Nonlinear and Coherence Aspects. J. Weiland, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1177. Proc. wksp., Göteborg, Sweden, May 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $99.00 paper (113 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0716-9  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Modern Traffic Flow Theory and Control: The Long Road to Three-Phase Traffic Theory. B. S. Kerner. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02604-1  Buy at Amazon

nuclear physics

4th International Workshop on Nuclear Fission and Fission-Product Spectroscopy. A. Chatillon et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1175. Proc. wksp., Cadarache, France, May 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $224.00 (419 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0714-5  Buy at Amazon

Physics of the Manhattan Project. B. C. Reed. Trafford, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2009. $16.50 paper (182 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4269-0079-2  Buy at Amazon

optics and photonics

The 7th International Conference on Laser Applications—ICLA 2009. M. A. Harith, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1172. Proc. conf., Cairo, Egypt, May 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $99.00 paper (142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0711-4  Buy at Amazon

Characterization of Partially Polarized Light Fields. R. Martínez-Herrero, P. M. Mejías, G. Piquero. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 147. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (183 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01326-3  Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Guided-Wave Optoelectronic Devices. W. S. C. Chang. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $75.00 (199 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86823-5  Buy at Amazon

Optical Properties and Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials. J. Z. Zhang. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $64.00, $38.00 paper (383 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-664-9, ISBN 978-981-283-665-6 paper  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Aspects of Light Propagation. A. Lukš, V. Peřinová. Springer, New York, 2009. $209.00 (477 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-85589-9  Buy at Amazon

Theoretical and Computational Nanophotonics (TaCoNa-Photonics 2009). D. N. Chigrin, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1176. Proc. wksp., Bad Honnef, Germany, Oct. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $129.00 paper (175 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0715-2  Buy at Amazon

particle physics

Beta Beams: Neutrino Beams. M. Lindroos, M. Mezzetto. Imperial College Press, London, 2010. $78.00 (154 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-377-5  Buy at Amazon

The Origin of Discrete Particles. T. Bastin, C. W. Kilmister. Series on Knots and Everything 42. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $68.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4261-67-8  Buy at Amazon

Particle and Nuclear Physics at J-PARC. T. Sato, T. Takahashi, K. Yoshimura, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 781. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $79.95 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00960-0  Buy at Amazon

plasmas and fusion

Lectures in Magnetohydrodynamics: With an Appendix on Extended MHD. D. D. Schnack. Lecture Notes in Physics 780. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $89.95 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00687-6  Buy at Amazon

popularizations

Did Time Begin? Will Time End? Maybe the Big Bang Never Occurred. P. H. Frampton. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $28.00 (108 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4280-58-7  Buy at Amazon

Exposed! Ouija, Firewalking, and Other Gibberish. H. Broch (translated from French by B.K. Holland). Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2009 [2006]. $24.95 (149 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-9246-2  Buy at Amazon

Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle. M. Benson. Abrams, New York, 2009. $55.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8109-4948-5  Buy at Amazon

Mythematics: Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules. M. Huber. Princeton U. Press, New York, 2009. $24.95 (183 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13575-5  Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition. J. Kakalios. Gotham Books, New York, 2009 [2005]. $16.00 paper (424 pp.). ISBN 978-1-592-40508-4  Buy at Amazon

The Plasma Universe. C. Suplee. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $20.99 paper (76 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51927-4  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Leaps. J. Bernstein. Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009. $18.95 (230 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-03541-6  Buy at Amazon

Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear. W. Allison. Wade Allison, Oxford, UK, 2009. $24.88 paper (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9562756-1-5  Buy at Amazon

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Intercepting Alien Signals. M. Ross. Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2009. $29.95 paper (171 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73453-8  Buy at Amazon

When the Universe Took a U-Turn. B. G. Sidharth. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $58.00 (186 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4277-81-5  Buy at Amazon

society and government

Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us? P. J. H. Schoemaker, J. A. Schoemaker. FT Press/Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2010. $24.99 (216 pp.). ISBN 978-0-13-715385-5  Buy at Amazon

The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies. W. E. Bijker, R. Bal, R. Hendriks. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009. $32.00 (223 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02658-1  Buy at Amazon

space and planetary science

Comets and the Origin of Life. J. Wickramasinghe, C. Wickramasinghe, W. Napier. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $55.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 978-981-256-635-5  Buy at Amazon

The Earth’s Plasmasphere: A CLUSTER and IMAGE Perspective. F. Darrouzet, J. De Keyser, V. Pierrard, eds. Springer, New York, 2009. $129.00 (296 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-1322-7  Buy at Amazon

Totality: Eclipses of the Sun. 3rd ed. M. Littmann, F. Espenak, K. Willcox. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009 [2008, reissued]. $18.95 paper (343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956552-8  Buy at Amazon

statistical physics and thermodynamics

Basics of Statistical Physics: A Bachelor Degree Introduction. H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $58.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4287-22-7  Buy at Amazon

Entropy and Information. M. V. Volkenstein (translated from Russian by A. Shenitzer, R. G. Burns). Progress in Mathematical Physics 57. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009. $59.95 (209 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0346-0077-4  Buy at Amazon

Entropy Theory of Aging Systems: Humans, Corporations and the Universe. D. Hershey. Imperial College Press, London, 2010. $58.00 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-292-1  Buy at Amazon

A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics. 3rd ed. D. P. Landau, K. Binder. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009 [2005]. $75.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76848-1  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Statistical Mechanics. W. C. Schieve, L. P. Horwitz. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $81.00 (414 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84146-7  Buy at Amazon

texts and education

Basic Physics for All. B. N. Kumar. University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 2009. $18.95 paper (80 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7618-4782-3  Buy at Amazon

Classical and Relativistic Mechanics. D. Agmon, P. Gluck. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $95.00, $68.00 paper (564 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-669-4, ISBN 978-981-283-670-0 paper  Buy at Amazon

Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy. D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $199.00 (901 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70622-9  Buy at Amazon

Concepts in Thermal Physics. 2nd ed. S. J. Blundell, K. M. Blundell. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [2006]. $99.00, $55.00 paper (493 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956209-1, ISBN 978-0-19-956210-7 paper  Buy at Amazon

Instant Egghead Guide: Physics. B. Clegg, Scientific American. St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, 2009. $14.99 paper (218 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-59210-3  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Statistical Physics. 2nd ed. K. Huang. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010 [2001]. $59.95 (318 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-7902-9  Buy at Amazon

A Modern Course in Statistical Physics. 3rd rev. ed. L. E. Reichl. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2009 [1998]. $130.00 paper (411 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40782-8  Buy at Amazon

The New Physics: For the Twenty-First Century. G. Fraser, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009 [2006, reissued]. $34.99 paper (548 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-14002-7  Buy at Amazon

Non-relativistic Quantum Theory: Dynamics, Symmetry, and Geometry. K. S. Lam. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $72.00 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4271-79-0  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Information. S. M. Barnett. Oxford Master Series in Atomic, Optical, and Laser Physics 16. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $100.00, $49.95 paper (300 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-852762-6, ISBN 978-0-19-852763-3 paper  Buy at Amazon

Quantum Theory of Magnetism. W. Nolting, A. Ramakanth. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $99.00 (752 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-85415-9  Buy at Amazon

Reading and Writing in Science: Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy. M. C. Grant, D. Fisher. Corwin/Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2010. $52.95, $23.95 paper (100 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4129-5613-0, ISBN 978-1-4129-5614-7 paper  Buy at Amazon

Spacetime, Geometry and Gravitation. P. Sharan. Progress in Mathematical Physics 56. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009. $99.95 (355 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-9970-2  Buy at Amazon

Statistical Field Theory: An Introduction to Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Physics. G. Mussardo. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $99.00 (755 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-954758-6  Buy at Amazon

Vibrations and Waves. G. C. King. Manchester Physics Series. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2009. $160.00, $60.00 paper (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-01188-1, ISBN 978-0-470-01189-8 paper  Buy at Amazon

theory and mathematical methods

Algebraic Topology: The Abel Symposium 2007. N. A. Baas, E. M. Friedlander, B. Jahren, P. A. Østvær, eds. Abel Symposia 4. Proc. symp., Oslo, Norway, Aug. 2007. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $139.00 (409 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01199-3  Buy at Amazon

Analisando o Teorema de Pitágoras. J. C. V. Saraiva. Kosmos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009. $11.25 paper (81 pp.). ISBN 978-85-904882-5-5  Buy at Amazon

Boundary Collocation Techniques and Their Application in Engineering. J. A. Kołodziej, A. P. Zieliński. WIT Press, Billerica, MA, 2009. $230.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84564-394-2  Buy at Amazon

Data Assimilation: The Ensemble Kalman Filter. 2nd ed. G. Evensen. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2007]. $169.00 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03710-8  Buy at Amazon

Dealing with Uncertainties: A Guide to Error Analysis. 2nd ed. M. Drosg. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [2007]. $129.00 (235 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01383-6  Buy at Amazon

Differential Equations—Geometry, Symmetries and Integrability: The Abel Symposium 2008. B. Kruglikov, V. Lychagin, E. Straume, eds. Abel Symposia 5. Proc. symp., Tromsø, Norway, June 2008. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $139.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00872-6  Buy at Amazon

Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry: From Finite to Infinite Dimensions. D. D. Holm, T. Schmah, C. Stoica. Oxford Texts in Applied and Engineering Mathematics 12. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2009. $130.00, $60.00 paper (515 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921290-3, ISBN 978-0-19-921291-0 paper  Buy at Amazon

Geometry and Physics. J. Jost. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $59.95 (217 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00540-4  Buy at Amazon

Groups and Symmetries: From Finite Groups to Lie Groups. Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach (translated from French by S. F. Singer). Universitext. Springer, New York, 2010. $49.95 paper (194 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78865-4  Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Graphical Theory of Angular Momentum: Case Studies. E. Balcar, S. W. Lovesey. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 234. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $159.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03117-5  Buy at Amazon

New Trends in Mathematical Physics: Selected Contributions of the XVth International Congress on Mathematical Physics. V. Sidoravičius, ed. Springer, New York, 2009. $189.00 (872 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2809-9  Buy at Amazon

Problems and Solutions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 3rd ed. Vol. 1: Introductory Level. W.-H. Steeb. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009 [2003]. $59.00, $35.00 paper (248 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4282-14-7, ISBN 978-981-4282-15-4 paper  Buy at Amazon

Problems and Solutions in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 3rd ed. Vol. 2: Advanced Level. W.-H. Steeb. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009 [2003]. $59.00, $35.00 paper (415 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4282-16-1, ISBN 978-981-4282-17-8 paper  Buy at Amazon

Thermoelasticity with Finite Wave Speeds. J. Ignaczak, M. Ostoja-Starzewski. Oxford Mathematical Monographs. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $130.00 (413 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-954164-5  Buy at Amazon

Variational Principles of Continuum Mechanics: I. Fundamentals. V. L. Berdichevsky. Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $89.95 paper (586 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88466-8  Buy at Amazon