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Acoustic Emission Testing . C. U. Grosse, M. Ohtsu, eds. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $219.00 (396 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-69895-1

Acoustics and Hearing . P. Damaske. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $79.95 paper (120 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-78227-8

Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design. K. Collins. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $28.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-03378-7

Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects. U. Heber, S. Jeffery, R. Napiwotzki, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 392. Proc. wksp., Bamberg, Germany, July 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-654-7

Hydrogen-Deficient Stars . K. Werner, T. Rauch, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 391. Proc. wksp., Tubingen, Germany, Sept. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-652-3

New Horizons in Astronomy: Frank N. Bash Symposium 2007. A. Frebel, J. R. Maund, J. Shen, M. H. Siegel, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 393. Proc. wksp., Austin, TX, Oct. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (304 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-656-1

Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies . T. Suda et al, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1016. Proc. symp., Sapporo, Japan, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $218.00 (501 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0537-0

Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe. J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, A. Vazdekis, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 390. Proc. conf., Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain, Apr. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (588 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-650-9

A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud. B. H. May. Springer, New York, 2007. $79.95 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-77705-4

Hybrid Methods of Molecular Modeling . A. L. Tchougréeff. Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics 17. Springer, New York, 2008. $449.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8188-0

Advances in Medical Physics 2008. A. B. Wolbarst, K. L. Mossman, W. R. Hendee, eds. Medical Physics, Madison, WI, 2008. $94.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-1-930524-38-5

Biological Modeling and Simulation: A Survey of Practical Models, Algorithms, and Numerical Methods. R. Schwartz. Computational Molecular Biology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $45.00 (389 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-19584-3

Biomagnetism and Magnetic Biosystems Based on Molecular Recognition Processes. J. A. C. Bland, A. Ionescu, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1025. Proc. conf., San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $112.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0547-9

Biomedical Informatics in Translational Research. H. Hu, R. J. Mural, M. N. Liebman, eds. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Imaging . Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2008. $89.00 (264 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59693-038-4

Collective Dynamics: Topics on Competition and Cooperation in the Biosciences. L. M. Ricciardi, A. Buonocore, E. Pirozzi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1028. Proc. conf., Vietri sul Mare, Italy, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $199.00 (372 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0552-3

Methods in Industrial Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers . W. B. V. Kandasamy, F. Smarandache. InfoLearnQuest, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008. $25.00 paper (125 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59973-034-9

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

Acidity and Basicity. A. Auroux et al. Molecular Sieves 6: Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $319.00 (275 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73963-0

VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy . P. Xu, J. Liu, A. Dermanis, eds. International Association of Geodesy Symposia 132. Proc. symp., Wuhan, China, May-June 2006. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (362 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74583-9

Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography . N. L. Biggs. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London, 2008. $39.95 paper (273 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84800-272-2

Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling: Principles and Applications. K. I. Ramachandran, G. Deepa, K. Namboori. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $99.00 (397 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-77302-3

Deduction, Computation, Experiment: Exploring the Effectiveness of Proof. R. Lupacchini, G. Corsi, eds. Springer, Milan, Italy, 2008. $89.95 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-0783-3

An Introduction to Queueing Theory: Modeling and Analysis in Applications. U. N. Bhat. Statistics for Industry and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $59.95 (268 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4724-7

Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists. N. S. Yanofsky, M. A. Mannucci. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $70.00 (384 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-879965

Quantum Computing Without Magic: Devices. Z. Meglicki. Scientific and Engineering Computation. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $35.00 paper (422 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-13506-1

Lectures on the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems XII. A. Avella, F. Mancini, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1014. Proc. course, Salerno, Italy, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $149.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0535-6

The Light/Dark Universe: Light From Galaxies, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. J. M. Overduin, P. S. Wesson. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $68.00, $42.00 paper (225 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-441-6, ISBN 978-981-283-589-5 paper

Partial Differential Equations in General Relativity. A. D. Rendall. Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics 16. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $130.00, $60.00 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921540-9, ISBN 978-0-19-921541-6 paper

Gallium Nitride Electronics. R. Quay. Springer Series in Materials Science 96. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (469 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71890-1

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. C. R. Henke. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $32.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-08373-7

DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism. T. R. Dunlap, ed. Classic Texts. U. Washington Press, Seattle, 2008. $16.95 paper (150 pp.). ISBN 978-0-295-98834-4

Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet’s Freshwater Resources. A. Y. Hoekstra, A. K. Chapagain. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008. $64.95 (208 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-6335-4

Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming: A Holocene Perspective. R. W. Battarbee, H. A. Binney, eds. Wiley-Black-well, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. $99.95 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-5905-0

Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment. J. A. Layzer. American and Comparative Environmental Policy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $70.00, $28.00 paper (365 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-12298-6, ISBN 978-0-262-62214-1 paper

Physics of the Environment. A. W. Brinkman. Imperial College Press, London, 2008. $75.00, $55.00 paper (213 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-179-5, ISBN 978-1-84816-180-1 paper

Pollution of Lakes and Rivers: A Paleoen-vironmental Perspective. 2nd ed. J. P. Smol. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008 [2002]. $59.95 paper (383 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-5913-5

Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis. J. E. Till, H. A. Gro-gan, eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $125.00 (702 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-512727-0

Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security. I. A. Luk’yanchuk, D. Mezzane, eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics . Proc. wksp., Marrakech, Morocco, Dec. 2007. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $179.95, $75.95 paper (275 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8794-3, ISBN 978-1-4020-8795-0 paper

Surviving 1,000 Centuries: Can We Do It? R.-M. Bonnet, L. Woltjer. Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Science. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008. $39.95 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-74633-3

2008 Seismic Engineering Conference: Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria Earthquake. Parts 1 and 2. A. Santini, N. Moraci, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1020. Proc. conf., Reggio Calabria, Italy, July 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $499.00 set (1967 pp. set). ISBN 978-0-7354-0542-4

Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction: Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer Exchange Processes. M. McPhee. Springer, New York, 2008. $119.00 (215 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-78334-5

Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources, and Tsunamis. K. F. Tiampo, D. K. Weatherley, S. A. Weinstein, eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $74.95 paper (795 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8756-3

Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control, and Mitigation. M. Gad-el-Hak, ed. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $200.00 (576 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87293-5

Micrometeorology. T. Foken (translated from German by C. J. Nappo). Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2006]. $99.00 paper (306 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74665-2

Seismic Inverse Q Filtering. Y. Wang. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2008. $149.95 (238 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4051-8540-0

Around the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr. D. Shayler. Space Series 63. Apogee Books, Burlington, ON, Canada, 2008. $31.95 paper (272 pp.). ISBN 978-1-894959-40-7, DVD-ROM

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry. P. Coffey. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $29.95 (379 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-532134-0

Chance or Dance: An Evaluation of Design. J. H. Davis, H. L. Poe. Templeton Foundation Press, West Conshohocken, PA, 2008. $24.95 paper (236 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59947-133-4

The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words. N. K. Frankenberry, ed. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $29.95 (523 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13487-1

H. G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation. S. Gliboff. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $35.00 (259 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-07293-9

Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. E. Robson. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. $49.50 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-09182-2

Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. K. Bijsterveld. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $40.00 (350 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02639-0

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. C. Thorpe. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $25.00 paper (413 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-79846-2

Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison. M. B. Schiffer. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. $38.00 (420 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-19582-9

The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. S. Shapin. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. $29.00 (468 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-75024-8

The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern. K. Devlin. Basic Books, New York, 2008. $24.95 (191 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-00910-7

When Science and Christianity Meet. D. C. Lindberg, R. L. Numbers, eds. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008 [2003, reissued]. $20.00 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-48216-3

Annual Review of Materials Research. Vol. 38. D. R. Clarke, M. Rühle, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $89.00 (587 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1738-6

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

The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors. A. G. Lebed, ed. Springer Series in Materials Science 110. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $219.00 (752 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76667-4

Reactive Sputter Deposition. D. Depla, S. Mahieu, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 109. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $199.00 (570 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-76662-9

Thermal Stress Resistance of Materials. A. Lanin, I. Fedik. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $149.00 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-71399-9

Current Issues of Physics in Malaysia. H. B. Senin, G. Carini, J. Abdullah, D. A. Bradley, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1017. Proc. conf., Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $225.00 (443 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0538-7

Map-Based Mobile Services: Design, Interaction and Usability. L. Meng, A. Zipf, S. Winter, eds. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $189.00 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-37109-0

Complex Nonlinearity: Chaos, Phase Transitions, Topology Change and Path Integrals. V. G. Ivancevic, T. T. Ivancevic. Understanding Complex Systems . Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008. $159.00 (844 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-79356-4

The Painlevé Handbook. R. Conte, M. Musette. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2008. $129.00 (256 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-8490-4

The Physics of Warm Nuclei: With Analogies to Mesoscopic Systems. H. Hofmann. Oxford Studies in Nuclear Physics 25. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $130.00 (623 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-850401-6

Chromatic Monitoring of Complex Conditions. G. R. Jones, A. G. Deakin, J. W. Spencer, eds. Series in Sensors 2. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $119.95 (281 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-988-5

Laser Spectroscopy—Vol. 1: Basic Principles. 4th ed. W. Demtröder. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 [2003]. $109.00 (457 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-73415-4

Modern Developments in X-Ray and Neutron Optics. A. Erko, M. Idir, T. Krist, A. G. Michette, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 137. Springer, New York, 2008. $219.00 (533 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-74560-0

New Directions in Holography and Speckle. H. J. Caulfield, C. S. Vikram, eds. Titles in Nanotechnology . American Scientific, Stevenson Ranch, CA, 2008. $399.00 (540 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58883-101-9

Principles of Nanophotonics. M. Ohtsu et al. Series in Optics and Optoelectronics 6. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. $79.95 (228 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58488-972-4

Quantum Optics. J. C. Garrison, R. Y. Chiao. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $90.00 (716 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-850886-1

RIAO/OPTILAS 2007. N. U. Wetter, J. Frejlich, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 992. Proc. conf., Campinas, Brazil, Oct. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $499.00 (1343 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0511-0

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

Colliders and Neutrinos: The Window into Physics Beyond the Standard Model. S. Dawson, R. N. Mohapatra, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $128.00 (704 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-925-3

Composite Fermions. J. K. Jain. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $95.00 (543 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86232-5

A Direct Derivation of the Form of the Standard Model from GL(16). S. Blaha. Pingree-Hill, Auburn, NH, 2008. $9.95 paper (124 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9746958-9-1

Electroweak Theory. E. A. Paschos. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $79.00 (245 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86098-7

Grand Unified Theories: Current Status and Future Prospects. T. Fukuyama, T. Kikuchi, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1015. Proc. wksp., Kusatsu, Japan, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $169.00 (269 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0536-3

Lectures on the ElectroWeak Interactions. R. Barbieri. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore Lecture Notes 5. Edizioni della Normale/Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $22.95 paper (84 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-311-6

Neutrino Oscillations: Present Status and Future Plans. J. A. Thomas, P. L. Vahle, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $58.00 (265 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-196-4

Perspectives on LHC Physics. G. Kane, A. Pierce, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00, $48.00 paper (337 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-975-5, ISBN 978-981-283-389-1 paper

Polarized Antiproton Beams—How? S. Chattopadhyay et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1008. Proc. wksp., Daresbury, UK, Aug. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $105.00 (133 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0527-1

Supersymmetry in Particle Physics: An Elementary Introduction. I. J. R. Aitchison. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $65.00 (222 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88023-7

Ten Years of AdS/CFT. J. D. Edelstein, N. Grandi, C. Nú ñez, M. Schvellinger, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1031. Proc. conf., Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $189.00 (284 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0555-4

Cold Antimatter Plasmas and Application to Fundamental Physics. Y. Kanai, Y. Yamazaki, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1037. Proc. wksp., Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 2008. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $199.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0561-5

Fundamentals of Plasma Physics. P. M. Bellan. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [2006, reissued]. $75.00 paper (609 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-52800-9

Plasma Chemistry. A. Fridman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $170.00 (978 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84735-3

Turbulent Transport in Fusion Plasmas. S. Benkadda, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1013. Proc. sch., Aix en Provence, France, July 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $190.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0534-9

13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time. M. Brooks. Doubleday, New York, 2008. $23.95 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-52068-3

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. L. Susskind. Little, Brown and Co, New York, 2008. $27.99 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-0-316-01640-7

The Carbon Age: How Life’s Core Element Has Become Civilization’s Greatest Threat. E. Roston. Walker, New York, 2008. $25.99 (309 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8027-1557-9

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory. G. Musser. Alpha Books, New York, 2008. $16.95 paper (334 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59257-702-6

Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art. J. R. Leibowitz. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2008. $24.95 (148 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8866-3

Out of the Blue—A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival. J. S. Friedman. Delacorte Press/Bantam Dell, New York, 2008. $24.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-0-385-34115-8

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines. R. A. Muller. W. W. Norton, New York, 2008. $26.95 (380 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-06627-2

Relativity: A Very Short Introduction. R. Stannard. Very Short Introductions. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $11.95 paper (114 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923622-0

The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature’s Unity-in-Diversity. S. M. Rosen. Series on Knots and Everything 18. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $78.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-173-5

Global Catastrophic Risks. N. Bostrom, M. M. Ćirković, eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2008. $50.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-857050-9

In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America. Z. Wang. Rutgers U. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008. $49.95 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8135-4331-4

Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis. M. Chinoy. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2008. $27.95 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-37153-1

Nuclear Safeguards, Security, and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy. J. E. Doyle, ed. Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security Series. Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2008. $99.95 (592 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7506-8673-0

Technology and the American Way of War. T. G. Mahnken. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2008. $29.50 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-12336-5

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Vol. 36. R. Jeanloz, A. L. Albee, K. C. Burke, K. H. Freeman, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2008. $89.00 (669 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-2036-2

Basics of the Solar Wind. N. Meyer-Vernet. Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $132.00 (463 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-81420-1

Salyut—The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy. G. S. Ivanovich. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2008. $34.95 paper (426 pp.). ISBN 978-0-387-73585-6

The Solar Tachocline. D. W. Hughes, R. Rosner, N. O. Weiss, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $160.00 (367 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86101-4

Subsurface and Atmospheric Influences on Solar Activity. R. Howe, R. W. Komm, K. S. Balasubramaniam, G. J. D. Petrie, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 383. Proc. wksp., Sunspot, NM, Apr. 2007. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008. $77.00 (440 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-329-4

Basics of Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions in Complex Intermetallics. E. Belin-Ferré, ed. Complex Metallic Alloys 1. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $109.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-058-3

Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. C. M. Van Vliet. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $152.00, $86.00 paper (960 pp.). ISBN 978-981-270-477-1, ISBN 978-981-270-478-8 paper

A First Course in Order Statistics. B. C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, H. N. Nagaraja. Classics in Applied Mathematics 54. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008 [1992, reissued]. $73.00 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-89871-648-1

Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations: Their Thermodynamic Basis. 2nd ed. M. Hillert. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008 [1998]. $85.00 (510 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85351-4

Statistical Physics. 2nd rev. ed. T. Guénault. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2007 [1995]. $69.95 paper (204 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4020-5974-2

Symmetry Studies: An Introduction to the Analysis of Structured Data in Applications. M. A. G. Viana. Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics 26. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $60.00 (235 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84103-0

Thermophysical Properties of Materials and Devices. P. Predeep, S. Prasanth, A. S. Prasad, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1004. Proc. conf., Kollam, India, Sept. 2007. AIP, Melville, NY, 2008. $179.00 (361 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0523-3

Universality in Nonequilibrium Lattice Systems: Theoretical Foundations. G. Ódor. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $98.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-227-8

Beyond the Mechanical Universe: From Electricity to Modern Physics. R. P. Olenick, T. M. Apostol, D. L. Goodstein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1986, reissued]. $39.95 paper (574 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-71591-1

Fundamentals of Geophysics. 2nd ed. W. Lowrie. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007 [1997]. $140.00, $70.00 paper (381 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85902-8, ISBN 978-0-521-67596-3 paper

Girls in Science: A Framework for Action. L. Chatman et al. NSTA Press, Arlington, VA, 2008. $24.94 paper (290 pp.). ISBN 978-1-93353-104-5

Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. A. Bettini. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2008. $70.00 (431 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88021-3

Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations. J. D. Walecka. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008. $88.00, $65.00 paper (477 pp.). ISBN 978-981-281-224-7, ISBN 978-981-281-225-4 paper

The Pursuit of Perfect Packing. 2nd ed. T. Aste, D. Weaire. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2008 [2000]. $59.95 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-6817-7

Statistical Physics of Fields. M. Kardar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $75.00 (359 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87341-3

Statistical Physics of Particles. M. Kardar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $75.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87342-0

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Path Integrals and Stochastic Processes in Theoretical Physics. M. Masujima. Feshbach, Minneapolis, MN, 2007. $129.00 (829 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9762021-3-4

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Quantum Spaces: Poincaré Seminar 2007. B. Duplantier, V. Rivasseau, eds. Progress in Mathematical Physics 53. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $109.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7643-8521-7

The Schwinger Action Principle and Effective Action. D. J. Toms. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics . Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2007. $160.00 (495 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87676-6

Selfdual Gauge Field Vortices: An Analytical Approach. G. Tarantello. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications 72. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2008. $109.00 (325 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4310-2

Unified Field Theory: Atomic Nuclei, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes. K. Kumar. Tennessee Tech Printing Services Press, Cookeville, TN, 2007. $35.00 paper (212 pp.). ISBN 978-1-60530-233-1

Variational Problems in Transport Theory with Mass Concentration. F. Santambrogio. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore Theses 4. Edizioni della Normale/Birkhäuser, Boston, 2007. $24.95 paper (198 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-312-3