Astronomy and astrophysics
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
Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI. R. A. Shaw, F. Hill, D. J. Bell, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific 376. Proc. mtg., Tucson, AZ, Oct. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (731 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-313-3
The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei . L. C. Ho, J.-M. Wang, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 373. Proc. wksp., Xi’an, China, Oct. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (772 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-307-2
Fundamentals of Astronomy. C. Barbieri. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2007. $59.95 paper (366 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-0886-1
Heating Versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies . H. Böhringer, G. W. Pratt, A. Finoguenov, P. Schuecker, eds. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Proc. conf., Garching, Germany, Aug. 2006. Springer, New York, 2007. $129.95 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73483-3
Jets from Young Stars II: Clues from High Angular Resolution Observations. F. Bacciotti, E. Whelan, L. Testi, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 742. Springer, New York, 2008. $79.95 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-68031-4
The Multi-Messenger Approach to High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources . J. M. Paredes, O. Reimer, D. F. Torres, eds. Proc. conf., Barcelona, Spain, July 2006. Springer, New York, 2007. $169.00 (544 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6117-2
The Night Sky Companion: A Yearly Guide to Sky-Watching, 2008–2009. T. Plotner. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2007. $29.95 paper (669 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-71608-4
Unsolved Problems in Stellar Physics: A Conference in Honour of Douglas Gough. R. J. Stancliffe et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 948. Proc. conf., Cambridge, UK, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $187.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0462-5
Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: Their Importance as Actors and Probes. F. Kerschbaum, C. Charbonnel, R. F. Wing, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 378. Proc. conf., Vienna, Austria, Aug. 2006. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2007. $77.00 (506 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-318-8
Atomic and molecular physics
Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules. J. C. A. Boeyens, J. F. Ogilvie, eds. Proc. wksp., Berg-en-Dal, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Aug. 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $219.00 (484 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5940-7
Semiclassical Dynamics and Relaxation. D. S. F. Crothers. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 47. Springer, New York, 2008. $169.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74312-7
Biological and medical physics
Biomolecular Action of Ionizing Radiation . S. Lehnert, ed. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering . Taylor & Francis, New York, 2008. $59.95 paper (527 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-0824-3
Cell Motility. P. Lenz, ed. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering . Springer, New York, 2008. $139.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73049-3
Imaging Cellular and Molecular Biological Functions. S. L. Shorte, F. Frischknecht, eds. Principles and Practice. Springer, New York, 2007. $179.00 (449 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71330-2
Introduction to Macromolecular Binding Equilibria. C. P. Woodbury. CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $99.95 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-5298-5
An Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering . R. A. Cooper, H. Ohnabe, D. A. Hobson, eds. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering . Taylor & Francis, New York, 2007. $69.95 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-7222-3
Molecular and Cellular Biophysics . J. A. Tuszynski. CRC Series in Pure and Applied Physics. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $69.95 (520 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-675-4
Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine . C. Granja, C. Leroy, I. Stekl, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 958. Proc. sch., Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $144.00 paper (309 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0472-4
A Practical Approach to Medical Image Processing . E. Berry. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering . Taylor & Francis, New York, 2008. $79.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-824-6, CD-ROM
Radiation Oncology: A Physicist’s-Eye View. M. Goitein. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering . Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-72644-1
Chemical physics
A Chemist’s Guide to Valence Bond Theory . S. Shaik, P. C. Hiberty. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $100.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-03735-5
Computers and computational physics
Computational Methods for Nanoscale Applications: Particles, Plasmons and Waves. I. Tsukerman. Nanostructure Science and Technology . Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (529 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74777-4
Computational Methods in Science and Engineering . Vol. 1. G. Maroulis, T. E. Simos, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 963. Proc. conf., Corfu, Greece, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $179.00 (679 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0477-9
CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica. 2nd ed. D. H. von Seggern. Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Science Series. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2007 [1992]. $58.50 (556 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-599-3, CD-ROM
Fine- and Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Computing. S. Vassiliadis, D. Soudris, eds. Springer, New York, 2007. $119.00 (381 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6504-0, CD-ROM
Innovations in Hybrid Intelligent Systems. E. Corchado, J. M. Corchado, A. Abraham, eds. Advances in Soft Computing 44. Springer, New York, 2007. $199.00 paper (497 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74971-4
The Method of Moments in Electromagnetics . W. C. Gibson. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $119.95 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6145-1
Quantum Computing Explained. D. McMahon. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $80.00 (332 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-09699-4
Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Statistics. D. Petz. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics . Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $79.95 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74634-8
Rugged Free Energy Landscapes: Common Computational Approaches to Spin Glasses, Structural Glasses and Biological Macromolecules . W. Janke, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 736. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.00 (412 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74025-4
Condensed-matter physics
Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in Bose–Einstein Condensates: Theory and Experiment. P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, R. Carretero-González, eds. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 45. Springer, New York, 2008. $164.95 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73590-8
Fundamentals of Magnetism. M. Getzlaff. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.00 (387 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-31150-8
Physics of Semiconductors in High Magnetic Fields . N. Miura. Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology 15. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $130.00 (360 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-851756-6
Quantum Kinetics in Transport and Optics of Semiconductors . 2nd rev. ed. H. Haug, A.-P. Jauho. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 123. Springer, New York, 2008 [1997]. $164.95 (360 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73561-8
Device physics
Electrochemistry of Zirconia Gas Sensors . S. Zhuiykov. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $149.95 (297 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-4761-5
Electromagnetic Theory for Microwaves and Optoelectronics. 2nd ed. K. Zhang, D. Li. Springer, New York, 2008 [1998]. $229.00 (711 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74295-1
FinFETs and Other Multi-Gate Transistors . J.-P. Colinge, ed. Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer, New York, 2008. $129.00 (339 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-71751-7
Fundamentals of Electrical Drives. A. Veltman, D. W. J. Pulle, R. W. De Doncker. Power Systems . Springer, New York, 2007. $89.95 (345 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5503-4, CD-ROM
Energy and environment
Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 32. P. A. Matson, A. Gadgil, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2007. $181.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-2332-7
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. B. Fagan. Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2008. $26.95 (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59691-392-9
Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture. M. V. K. Sivakumar, R. P. Motha, eds. Springer, New York, 2007. $169.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72744-6
Modelling Land-Use Change: Progress and Applications. E. Koomen, J. Stillwell, A. Bakema, H. J. Scholten, eds. The Geo-Journal Library 90. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007. $199.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5647-5
The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America. T. Priest. Texas A & M U. Press, College Station, 2007. $39.95 (317 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58544-568-4
Fluids
Capillary Flows with Forming Interfaces . Y. D. Shikhmurzaev. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $62.68 (456 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-748-5
Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics . C. Tropea, A. L. Yarin, J. F. Foss, eds. Springer, New York, 2007. $199.00 (1557 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-25141-5, DVD-ROM
Geophysics
Atmospheric Acoustic Remote Sensing . S. Bradley. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $119.95 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-3588-4
Geodynamics of the Lithosphere: An Introduction. 2nd ed. K. Stüwe. Springer, New York, 2007 [2002]. $119.00 (493 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71236-7
Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets. K. E. Fishbaugh et al., eds. Space Sciences Series of ISSI 24. Springer, New York, 2007. $169.00 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74287-8
Groundwater: Resource Evaluation, Augmentation, Contamination, Restoration, Modeling and Management. M. Thangarajan, ed. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, and Capital, New Delhi, India, 2007. $169.00 (362 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5728-1
MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences. 2nd ed. M. H. Trauth. Springer, New York, 2007 [2006]. $69.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72748-4, CD-ROM
Model-Based Geostatistics. P. J. Diggle, P. J. Ribeiro Jr. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, 2007. $79.95 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-32907-9
Potential Theory in Applied Geophysics. K. K. Roy. Springer, New York, 2008. $179.00 (651 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72089-8
History and philosophy
Among the Stars: The Life of Maria Mitchell. M. M. Booker. Mill Hill Press, Nantucket, MA, 2007. $59.95 (621 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9612984-8-7
Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes. B. Watkins. Bison Books/U. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. $17.95 paper (202 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8032-6041-2
Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. P. D. Smith. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2007. $27.95 (552 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-37397-9
The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856. R. O’Connor. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. $45.00 (541 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-61668-1
Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror . E. Reeves. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $21.95 (231 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-02667-4
The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. 3rd ed. E. J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, J. Wajcman, eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008 [1995]. $55.00 (1065 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-08364-5
The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians. C. C. Kelly, ed. Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 2007. $24.95 (495 pp.). ISBN 978-1-57912-747-3
Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt. N. Burleigh. Harper/HarperCollins, New York, 2007. $25.95 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-0-06-059767-2
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance. E. Derman. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2007 [2004, reissued]. $16.95 paper (292 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-19273-3
Nobel Faces: A Gallery of Nobel Prize Winners. P. Badge. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008. $95.00 (621 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40678-4
Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace: Pief Remembers. W. K. H. Panofsky. Springer, New York, 2007. $69.95 (191 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-69731-4
Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences. A. Fyfe, B. Lightman, eds. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. $45.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-27650-2
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization. D. W. Braben. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $60.00 paper (184 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-22654-4
Stephen Hawking: A Biography . K. Larsen. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2007. $16.95 paper (215 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59102-574-0
The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire. J. Jackson. Viking, New York, 2008. $27.95 (414 pp.). ISBN 978-0-670-01853-6
Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. B. Lightman. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. $45.00 (545 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-48118-0
Walther Nernst: Pioneer of Physics and of Chemistry. H.-G. Bartel, R. P. Huebener. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $62.00 (394 pp.). ISBN 978-981-256-560-0
Instrumentation and techniques
Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials . M. A. Kinch. Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering TT76. SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA, 2007. $56.00 paper (173 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8194-6731-7
Handbook of Molecular Force Spectroscopy . A. Noy, ed. Springer, New York, 2008. $159.00 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-49987-1
Materials science
Granular and Complex Materials . T. Aste, T. Di Matteo, A. Tordesillas, eds. World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems 8. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007. $78.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-198-8
Introduction to the Principles of Materials Evaluation. D. C. Jiles. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $89.96 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-7392-3
Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials . 3rd ed. B. Fultz, J. Howe. Springer, New York, 2008 [2002]. $119.00 (758 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73885-5
Miscellaneous
Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems: Theory, Methods, and Algorithms. 3rd ed. J. Angeles. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, 2007 [2002]. $99.00 (549 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-29412-4, CD-ROM
Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Theory and Practice. J. Love. Springer, New York, 2007. $299.00 (1093 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84628-281-2
Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control. R. N. Jazar. Springer, New York, 2007. $79.95 (693 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-32475-3
Nonlinear science and chaos
The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: A Status Report. G. Gallavotti, ed. Lecture Notes in Physics 728. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.95 (301 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72994-5
Nonlinear Waves and Solitons on Contours and Closed Surfaces . A. Ludu. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, New York, 2007. $119.00 (464 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72872-6
Nuclear physics
VII Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications. R. Alarcon, P. L. Cole, C. Djalali, F. Umeres, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 947. Proc. symp., Cusco, Peru, June 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $169.00 (516 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0461-8
Optics and photonics
Advances in Nanophotonics II. C. Sibilia, D. S. Wiersma, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 959. Proc. sch., Erice, Italy, June–July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $79.00 (125 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0473-1
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing: Technologies and Applications. H.J. Thiele, M. Nebeling, eds. Optical Science and Engineering 127. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2007. $129.95 (335 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8493-3533-4
Fluorescence of Supermolecules, Polymers, and Nanosystems . M. N. Berberan-Santos, ed. Springer Series on Fluorescence 4. Springer, New York, 2008. $269.00 (468 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73927-2
Free-Space Laser Communications: Principles and Advances. A. K. Majumdar, J. C. Ricklin. Optical and Fiber Communications Reports 2. Springer, New York, 2008. $199.00 (417 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-28652-5
Introduction to the Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light. E. Wolf. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $45.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82211-4
Laser Fabrication and Machining of Materials . N. B. Dahotre, S. P. Harimkar. Springer, New York, 2008. $99.00 (558 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-72343-3
Optical Microresonators: Theory, Fabrication, and Applications. J. Heebner, R. Grover, T. Ibrahim. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 138. Springer, New York, 2008. $139.00 (263 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73067-7
Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging . W. J. Bock, I. Gannot, S. Tanev, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics . Proc. inst, Gatineau, QC, Canada, Oct. 2006. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $179.95, $79.95 paper (269 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-6950-5, ISBN 978-1-4020-6951-2 paper
Quantum Optics: Including Noise Reduction, Trapped Ions, Quantum Trajectories, and Decoherence. 2nd ed. M. Orszag. Springer, New York, 2008 [1997]. $99.00 (414 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72706-4
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy in Complex Liquids: An Experimental Perspective. R. Torre, ed. Springer, New York, 2008. $135.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-25557-6
Particle physics
The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon . F. Jegerlehner. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 226. Springer, New York, 2008. $269.00 (426 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-72633-3
Introduction to Quantum Control and Dynamics . D. D’Alessandro. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Science Series 13. Chapman & Hall/CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $89.95 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-884-0
Particle and Astroparticle Physics. U. Sarkar. Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology, and Gravitation . Taylor & Francis, New York, 2008. $89.95 (524 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-931-1
Particles, Strings, and Cosmology . A. Rajantie, P. Dauncey, C. Contaldi, H. Stoica, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 957. Proc. symp., London, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2007. $167.00 (477 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0471-7