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Fundamentals of Shallow Water Acoustics. B. Katsnelson, V. Petnikov, J. Lynch. The Underwater Acoustics Series. Springer, New York, 2012. $169.00 (540 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9776-0 Buy at Amazon

Ultrasonics: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications. 3rd ed. D. Ensminger, L. J. Bond. Mechanical Engineering. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012 [1988]. $199.95 (723 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8247-5889-9 Buy at Amazon

Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. M. Ossendrijver. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, 2012. $149.00 (615 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3781-9 Buy at Amazon

Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors. K. Davidson, R. M. Humphreys, eds. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 384. Springer, New York, 2012. $169.00 (329 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-2274-7 Buy at Amazon

Fifth Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects. D. Kilkenny, C. S. Jeffery, C. Koen, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 452. Proc. wksp., Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2011. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2012. $77.00 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-786-5 Buy at Amazon

The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier. A. Zichichi, ed. The Subnuclear Series 47. Proc. sch., Erice, Italy, Aug.–Sept. 2009. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $168.00 (520 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-11-8 Buy at Amazon

Workshop on Calculation of Double-Beta-Decay Matrix Elements (MEDEX ’11). O. Civitarese, I. Stekl, J. Suhonen, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1417. Proc. wksp., Prague, Czech Republic, June 2011. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $135.00 (164 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0994-1 Buy at Amazon

Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics. M. Capitelli, G. Colonna, A. D’Angola. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 66. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8181-3 Buy at Amazon

The Beauty of Everyday Mathematics. N. Herrmann (translated from German by M. Lohmann-Hinner). Copernicus Books/Springer, Berlin, 2012. $19.95 paper (138 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22103-3 Buy at Amazon

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World. I. Stewart. Basic Books, New York, 2012. $26.99 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02973-0 Buy at Amazon

Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life: Might We All Be Aliens? R. N. Boyd. Astronomers’ Universe. Springer, New York, 2012. $34.95 paper (215 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1331-8 Buy at Amazon

The Wonderful World of Relativity: A Precise Guide for the General Reader. A. M. Steane. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $34.95 (240 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-969461-7 Buy at Amazon

Advanced Quantum Mechanics: Materials and Photons. R. Dick. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, 2012. $119.00 (551 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8076-2 Buy at Amazon

A Brief Tour of Modern Quantum Mechanics. M. Gitterman. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $72.00 (130 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-22-4 Buy at Amazon

Lectures on Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. A. Das. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012 [2003]. $98.00 (527 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4374-38-5 Buy at Amazon

The Mathematical Language of Quantum Theory: From Uncertainty to Entanglement. T. Heinosaari, M. Ziman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $85.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19583-6 Buy at Amazon

Open Quantum Systems: Am Introduction. Á. Rivas, S. F. Huelga. Springer Briefs in Physics. Springer, New York, 2012. $49.95 paper (97 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23353-1 Buy at Amazon

Problems in Quantum Mechanics: With Solutions. E. d’Emilio, L. E. Picasso. Springer, Milan, Italy, 2011. $89.95 paper (354 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-2305-5 Buy at Amazon

Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise. S. K. Weiner. Belfer Center Studies in International Security. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. $54.00, $27.00 paper (358 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01565-3, ISBN 978-0-262-51588-7 paperBuy at Amazon

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. S. Harding, ed. Duke U. Press, Durham, NC, 2011. $99.95, $29.95 paper (476 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8223-4936-5, ISBN 978-0-8223-4957-0 paper Buy at Amazon

Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets. J.-P. Beaulieu, S. Dieters, G. Tinetti, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 450. Proc. conf., Paris, Nov. 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011. $77.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-782-7 Buy at Amazon

Solar Power Satellites. D. M. Flournoy. Springer Briefs in Space Development. Springer, New York, 2012. $49.95 paper (107 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1999-0 Buy at Amazon

Probability in Physics. Y. Ben-Menahem, M. Hemmo, eds. Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $99.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21328-1 Buy at Amazon

Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell. A. Garg. In a Nutshell. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012. $99.50 (675 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13018-7 Buy at Amazon

A Concise Introduction to Linear Algebra. G. Schay. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2012. $59.95 (330 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-8324-5 Buy at Amazon

Data Analysis for Physical Scientists: Featuring Excel. 2nd ed. L. Kirkup. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012 [2002]. $75.00 (510 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88372-6 Buy at Amazon

Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell. C. G. Tully. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $75.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13116-0 Buy at Amazon

Essential University Physics. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. R. Wolfson. Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, San Francisco, 2012 [2007]. $87.93 paper (329 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-70669-0 Buy at Amazon

Essential University Physics. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. R. Wolfson. Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, San Francisco, 2012 [2007]. $87.93 paper (456 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-70127-5 Buy at Amazon

Essentials of Hamiltonian Dynamics. J. H. Lowenstein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $60.00 (188 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00520-4 Buy at Amazon

From the Universe to the Elementary Particles: A First Introduction to Cosmology and the Fundamental Interactions. U. Ellwanger. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $59.95 (189 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-24374-5 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Nuclear Models: Foundational Models. D. J. Rowe, J. L. Wood. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $120.00, $75.00 paper (652 pp.). ISBN 978-981-256-955-4, ISBN 978-981-256-956-1 paper Buy at Amazon

Mechanics of the Cell. 2nd ed. D. Boal. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012 [2002]. $150.00, $80.00 paper (608 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-11376-2, ISBN 978-0-521-13069-1 paper Buy at Amazon

Numerical Approximation Methods. H. Cohen. Springer, New York, 2011. $84.95 (485 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9836-1 Buy at Amazon

Sears and Zemansky’s University Physics: With Modern Physics. 13th ed. H. D. Young, R. A. Freedman. Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, San Francisco, 2012 [2008]. $234.73 (1521 pp.). ISBN 978-0-321-69686-1 Buy at Amazon

String Theory and Particle Physics: An Introduction to String Phenomenology. L. E. Ibáñez, A. M. Uranga. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $80.00 (673 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51752-2 Buy at Amazon

Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Concepts and Applications. C. A. Ullrich. Oxford Graduate Texts. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2012. $82.99 (526 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-956302-9 Buy at Amazon

Antieigenvalue Analysis: With Applications to Numerical Analysis, Wavelets, Statistics, Quantum Mechanics, Finance and Optimization. K. Gustafson. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $89.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4366-28-1 Buy at Amazon

Front Tracking for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws. H. Holden, N. H. Risebro. Applied Mathematical Sciences 152. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [2007, reissued]. $74.95 paper (361 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-23910-6 Buy at Amazon

Hyperbolic Geometry and Applications in Quantum Chaos and Cosmology. J. Bolte, F. Steiner, eds. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 397. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $70.00 paper (272 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-61049-1 Buy at Amazon

Localization in Periodic Potentials: From Schrödinger Operators to the Gross–Pitaevskii Equation. D. E. Pelinovsky. London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 390. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $85.00 paper (398 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-62154-1 Buy at Amazon

The Mathematics of Diffusion. W.-M. Ni. CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 82. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $60.00 paper (110 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611971-96-5 Buy at Amazon

Methods and Tastes in Modern Continuum Mechanics: To the Memory of Donald E. Carlson. R. Fosdick, E. Fried, D. Tortorelli, eds. Springer, New York, 2011. $279.00 (818 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1883-8 Buy at Amazon

Regression Analysis Under A Priori Parameter Restrictions. P. S. Knopov, A. S. Korkhin. Springer Optimization and Its Applications 54. Springer, New York, 2012. $99.00 (234 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0573-3 Buy at Amazon

Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups. Vol. 2: Analytic Methods and Modern Applications. G. S. Chirikjian. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2012. $65.00 (433 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8176-4943-2 Buy at Amazon

Taylor Approximations for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. A. Jentzen, P. E. Kloeden. CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 83. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $77.00 paper (220 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-00-9 Buy at Amazon