Instrumentation and techniques
Atomic Force Microscopy. P. Eaton, P. West. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $99.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957045-4
Diamond Nanotechnology: Syntheses and Applications. J. C. Sung, J. Lin. Pan Stanford, Singapore, 2010. $149.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4241-41-0
LASER 2009-Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Application of Lasers and Storage Devices in Atomic Nuclei Research: Recent Achievements and Future Prospects. K. Marinova, B. Markov, Z. Błaszczak, eds. Proc. wksp., Poznań, Poland, June 2009. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $259.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-12285-9
Light at Extreme Intensities: Opportunities and Technological Issues of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (LEI 2009). D. Dumitras, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1228. Proc. conf., Brasov, Romania, Oct. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $249.00 paper (467 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0771-8
Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation: New Trends. E. Beaurepaire, H. Bulou, F. Scheurer, J.-P. Kappler, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 133. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $249.00 (421 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-04497-7
Quantitative EPR. G. R. Eaton, S. S. Eaton, D. P. Barr, R. T. Weber. Springer, New York, 2010. $139.00 (185 pp.). ISBN 978-3-211-92947-6
Thermal Design and Thermal Behaviour of Radio Telescopes and Their Enclosures. A. Greve, M. Bremer. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 364. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03866-2
Materials science
Advances in Cryogenic Engineering: Transactions of the International Cryogenic Materials Conference-ICMC. Vol. 56. U. Balachandran, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1219. Proc. conf., Tucson, AZ, June-July 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $228.00 (422 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0765-7, CD-ROM
Dislocation Dynamics During Plastic Deformation. U. Messerschmidt. Springer Series in Materials Science 129. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $179.00 (503 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03176-2
Excitonic and Vibrational Dynamics in Nanotechnology: Quantum Dots vs. Nanotubes. S. V. Kilina, B. F. Habenicht. Pan Stanford, Singapore, 2009. $129.00 (188 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4241-30-4
Fracture and Life. B. Cotterell. Imperial College Press, London, 2010. $98.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-282-2
High-Temperature Levitated Materials. D. L. Price. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $125.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88052-7
Ice Physics. P. V. Hobbs. Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [1974, reissued]. $99.00 paper (837 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958771-1
Innovative Technological Materials: Structural Properties by Neutron Scattering, Synchrotron Radiation and Modeling. F. Rustichelli, J. J. Skrzypek, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 (279 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-12058-9
Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection. N. E. Chayen, J. R. Helliwell, E. H. Snell. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography 24. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $125.00 (221 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-921325-2
Magnetic Memory: Fundamentals and Technology. D. D. Tang, Y.-J. Lee. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $110.00 (196 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-44964-9
Modern Introduction to Surface Plasmons: Theory, Mathematica Modeling and Applications. D. Sarid, W. A. Challener. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $85.00 (371 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76717-0
Reaction-Transport Systems: Mesoscopic Foundations, Fronts, and Spatial Instabilities. V. Méndez, S. Fedotov, W. Horsthemke. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (454 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11442-7
Technology of Gallium Nitride Crystal Growth. D. Ehrentraut, E. Meissner, M. Bockowski, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 133. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (326 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-04828-9
Miscellaneous
NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions. F. W. J Olver, D. W. Lozier, R. F. Boisvert, C. W. Clark, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $99.00, $50.00 paper (951 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19225-5, ISBN 978-0-521-14063-8 paper, CD-ROM
Nonlinear science and chaos
IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Physical Instances of Granular Flows. J. D. Goddard, J. T. Jenkins, P. Giovine, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1227. Proc. symp., Reggio Calabria, Italy, Sept. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $228.00 (444 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0772-5
Quantum Signatures of Chaos. 3rd rev. ed. F. Haake. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, 2010 [2000]. $139.00 (573 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-05427-3
Nuclear physics
XXXII Brazilian Workshop on Nuclear Physics. A. Deppman et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1245. Proc. wksp., São Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $109.00 paper (170 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0792-3
La Rábida 2009, International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear Physics—Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments, and Applications. J. A. Caballero et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1231. Proc. mtg., La Rábida, Spain, July 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $149.00 (258 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0776-3
Nuclear Computational Science: A Century in Review. Y. Azmy, E. Sartori. Springer, New York, 2010. $139.00 (470 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3410-6
Nuclear Physics Trends. A. Ozawa, W. Liu, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1235. Proc. symp., Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $229.00 paper (410 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0780-0
Recent Advances in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring. A. Becker et al., eds. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2010. $59.95 paper (246 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0346-0370-6
Optics and photonics
Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Science. V. V. Tuchin, ed. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $134.96 (815 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-0628-9
Industrial Color Physics. G. A. Klein. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 154. Springer, New York, 2010. $159.00 (497 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-1196-4
Laser Florence 2009: A Gallery Through the Laser Medicine World; Selected Papers at the International Laser Medicine Congress. L. Longo, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1226. Proc. conf., Florence, Italy, Nov. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $111.00 paper (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0770-1
Optical Properties of Solids. 2nd ed. M. Fox. Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [2001]. $99.00, $55.00 paper (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957336-3, ISBN 978-0-19-957337-0 paper
Supercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers. J. M. Dudley, J. R. Taylor, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010 $125.00 (404 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51480-4
X-Ray Optics and Microanalysis: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress (ICXOM20). M. A. Denecke, C. T. Walker, eds. AIP Conference Proecedings 1221. Proc. conf., Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $124.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0764-0
Particle physics
b-Quark Physics with the LEP Collider: The Development of Experimental Techniques for b-Quark Studies from Z0-Decay. G. J. Barker. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 236. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (170 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-05278-1
Popularizations
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World. M. D. Fayer. AMACOM, New York, 2010. $24.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8144-1488-0
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information. V. Vedral. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $29.95 (229 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923769-2
Lawless Universe: Science and the Hunt for Reality. J. Rosen. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2010. $75.00, $30.00 paper (184 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-9580-7, ISBN 978-0-8018-9581-4 paper
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. N. Lane. W. W. Norton, New York, 2010 [2009, reissued]. $16.95 paper (344 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-33866-9
The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics. D. Harriman. New American Library, New York, 2010. $16.00 paper (275 pp.). ISBN 978-0-451-23005-8
Space and planetary science
SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum. S. R. Cranmer, J. T. Hoeksema, J. L. Kohl, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 428. Proc. wksp., Northeast Harbor, ME, Sept. 2009. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2010. $77.00 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-736-0
Statistical physics and thermodynamics
An Introduction to the Boltzmann Equation and Transport Processes in Gases. G. M. Kremer. Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 paper (303 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11695-7
Texts and education
Advanced Magnetohydrodynamics: With Applications to Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas. J. P. Goedbloed, R. Keppens, S. Poedts. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $190.00, $95.00 paper (634 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87957-6, ISBN 978-0-521-70524-0 paper
Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe. 6th ed. E. Chaisson, S. McMillan. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, San Francisco, 2010 [2007]. $129.80 paper (503 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-60510-8
Astrophysics for Physicists. A. R. Choudhuri. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $60.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-81553-6
College Physics. 7th ed. J. D. Wilson, A. J. Buffa, B. Lou. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, San Francisco, 2010 [2006]. $199.33 (1032 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-60183-4
Conceptual Physics. 11th ed. P. G. Hewitt. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, San Francisco, 2010 [2009]. $154.00 (737 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-56809-0
Designing Quantitative Experiments: Prediction Analysis. J. Wolberg. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $69.95 paper (210 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11588-2
Essential College Physics. Vols. 1 and 2. A. F. Rex, R. Wolfson. Addison-Wesley/ Pearson, San Francisco, 2010. $125.00 paper (634 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-59854-7 set
Finite-Dimensional Linear Algebra. M. S. Gockenbach. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $99.95 (650 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-1563-2
Foundations of Astrophysics. B. Ryden, B. M. Peterson. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, San Francisco, 2010. $145.60 (596 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-59558-4
From Atoms to Galaxies: A Conceptual Physics Approach to Scientific Awareness. S. Hassani. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $89.95 (723 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-0849-8, CD-ROM
Geostatistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists. S. McKillup, M. D. Dyar. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $90.00, $39.99 paper (396 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76322-6, ISBN 978-0-521-74656-4 paper
Green Chemistry: An Introductory Text. 2nd ed. M. Lancaster. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2010 [2002]. $59.95 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84755-873-2
Innovation in Industrial Research. P. de Souza. CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia, 2010. $40.00 paper (135 pp.). ISBN 978-0-643-09643-1
Introduction to Nanophotonics. S. V. Gaponenko. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $78.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76375-2
Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics: Special Relativity, Quantum and Statistical Physics. 2nd ed. C. M. Becchi, M. D’Elia. UNITEXT: Collana di Fisica e Astronomia. Springer, Milan, Italy, 2010 [2007]. $59.95 paper (185 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-1615-6
Physics: Concepts and Connections. 5th ed. A. Hobson. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, San Francisco, 2010 [2007]. $110.00 paper (435 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-66113-5
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know. R. A. Muller. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010. $49.50 (517 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13504-5
Primer on Optimal Control Theory. J. L. Speyer, D. H. Jacobson. Advances in Design and Control. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2010. $89.00 (307 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-94-8
Quantum Processes, Systems, and Information. B. Schumacher, M. D. Westmoreland. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $75.00 (469 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87534-9
Science at the Nanoscale: An Introductory Textbook. C. W. Shong, S. C. Haur, A. T. S. Wee. Pan Stanford, Singapore, 2010. $88.00 (214 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4241-03-8
Solid State Physics: Essential Concepts. D. W. Snoke. Addison-Wesley/Pearson, San Francsico, 2009. $120.40 (619 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8053-8664-6
Solved Problems in Classical Mechanics: Analytical and Numerical Solutions with Comments. O. L. de Lange, J. Pierrus. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $125.00, $60.00 paper (599 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958252-5, ISBN 978-0-19-958251-8 paper
Special Relativity: An Introduction with 200 Problems and Solutions. M. Tsamparlis. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $119.00 (595 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03836-5
What Is Quantum Mechanics? A Physics Adventure. 2nd ed. Transnational College of LEX (translated from Japanese by J. Nambu). Language Research Foundation, Cambridge, MA, 2009 [1996]. $29.95 paper (566 pp.). ISBN 978-0-9643504-4-1
Theory and mathematical methods
Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences: A Comparative Approach with Mathematica Support. P. C. Gregory. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010 [2005, reissued]. $60.00 paper (468 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-15012-5
Exact Methods in Low-Dimensional Statistical Physics and Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School (Les Houches 2008). Vol. 89. J. Jacobsen et al., eds. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $85.00 (624 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957461-2
Group Theory: A Physicist’s Survey. P. Ramond. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $70.00 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89603-0
Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group. P. Kopietz, L. Bartosch, F. Schütz. Lecture Notes in Physics 798. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $89.95 (375 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-05093-0
Introduction to the Mathematics of Subdivision Surfaces. L.-E. Andersson, N. F. Stewart. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2010. $75.00 (356 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-97-9
Line Groups in Physics: Theory and Applications to Nanotubes and Polymers. M. Damnjanović, I. Milošević. Lecture Notes in Physics 801. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $79.95 paper (194 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11171-6
Non-Perturbative Field Theory: From Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions. Y. Frishman, J. Sonnenschein. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $130.00 (436 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-66265-9
Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations—5. A. Y. Khrennikov, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1232. Proc. conf., Växjö, Sweden, June 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $164.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0777-0
Spectral Theory of Non-Commutative Harmonic Oscillators: An Introduction. A. Parmeggiani. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1992. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $59.95 paper (254 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11921-7