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High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’10. W. E. Nagel, D. B. Kröner, M. M. Resch, eds. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $149.00 (604 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-15747-9 Buy at Amazon

Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction. P. J. Nahin. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $29.95 (376 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14425-2 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Magnetic Measurements. S. Tumanski. Series in Sensors. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $169.95 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-2951-6 Buy at Amazon

International Conference on Magnetic Materials (ICMM-2010). A. Ghoshray, B. Bandyopadhyay, C. Mazumdar, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1347. Proc. conf., Kolkata, India, Oct. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $127.00 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0903-3 Buy at Amazon

Energy-Aware System Design: Algorithms and Architectures. C.-M. Kyung, S. Yoo, eds. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (291 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1678-0 Buy at Amazon

Nanotechnological Basis for Advanced Sensors. J. P. Reithmaier et al., eds. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Proc. inst., Sozopol, Bulgaria, May–June 2010. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2011. $269.00, $129.00 paper (582 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0902-7, ISBN 978-94-007-0905-8 paperBuy at Amazon

Proceedings of the Fourth Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization. N. Barsoum, J. F. Webb, P. Vasant, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1337. Proc. conf., Sarawak, Malaysia, Dec. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $143.00 paper (301 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0893-7 Buy at Amazon

Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels. J. McNerney, M. Cheek. AMACOM, New York, 2012. $27.95 (310 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8144-1372-2 Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Renewable Energy Technology. A. F. Zobaa, R. C. Bansal, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $270.00 (851 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4289-06-1 Buy at Amazon

Troubled Waters: Ocean Science and Governance. G. Holland, D. Pugh, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $50.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76581-7 Buy at Amazon

27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, 2010. Parts 1 and 2. D. A. Levin, I. J. Wysong, A. L. Garcia, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1333. Proc. symp., Pacific Grove, CA, July 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $398.00 (1405 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0889-0 Buy at Amazon

Elements of Computational Fluid Dynamics. J. D. Ramshaw. ICP Fluid Mechanics 2. Imperial College Press, London, 2011. $69.00, $32.00 paper (127 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-695-0, ISBN 978-1-84816-705-6 paper Buy at Amazon

Large-Scale Perturbations of Magnetohydrodynamic Regimes: Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Stability Theory. V. Zheligovsky. Lectures Notes in Physics 829. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $89.95 paper (330 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-18169-6 Buy at Amazon

Novel Trends in Rheology IV. M. Zatloukal, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1375. Proc. conf., Zlin, Czech Republic, July 2011. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $172.00 (336 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0935-4, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon

Geophysics in Mining and Environmental Protection. A. F. Idziak, R. Dubiel, eds. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (136 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19096-4 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Climate Modelling. T. Stocker. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (179 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00772-9 Buy at Amazon

Rock Fractures in Geological Processes. A. Gudmundsson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $80.00 (578 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86392-6 Buy at Amazon

Einstein Before Israel: Zionist Icon or Iconoclast? Z. Rosenkranz. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $35.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14412-2 Buy at Amazon

Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs. D. J. Albers, G. L. Alexanderson, eds. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. $35.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14829-8 Buy at Amazon

Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics: Horizons of Truth. M. Baaz et al., eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (515 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76144-4 Buy at Amazon

More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon. P. W. Anderson. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $78.00, $38.00 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4350-12-9, ISBN 978-981-4350-13-6 paper Buy at Amazon

Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science. M. C. Malley. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $21.95 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-976641-3 Buy at Amazon

Sources in the Development of Mathematics: Series and Products from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century. R. Roy. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00 (974 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-11470-7 Buy at Amazon

Soviet Robots in the Solar System: Mission Technologies and Discoveries. W. T. Huntress Jr., M. Y. Marov. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2011. $44.95 paper (453 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7897-4 Buy at Amazon

Weimer Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis. C. Carson, A. Kojevnikov, H. Trischler, eds. (translated from German by G. Geyer). Imperial College Press, London, and World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $150.00 (542 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4293-11-2 Buy at Amazon

Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry. F. D. McDaniel, B. L. Doyle, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1336. Proc. conf., Fort Worth, TX, Aug. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $246.00 (781 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0891-3 Buy at Amazon

Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis: Worked Out Problems and Solutions. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, F. Cadini. Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics 15. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $68.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4355-03-2 Buy at Amazon

Beam-Wave Interaction in Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Structures. 2nd ed. L. Schächter. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [1997]. $169.00 (441 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19847-2 Buy at Amazon

Confocal Raman Microscopy. T. Dieing, O. Hollricher, J. Toporski, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 158. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $169.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-12521-8 Buy at Amazon

Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Transition Metal Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications. P. Gütlich, E. Bill, A. X. Trautwein. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $259.00 (568 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88427-9, CD-ROM Buy at Amazon

Quantum Dynamic Imaging: Theoretical and Numerical Methods. A. D. Bandrauk, M. Ivanov, eds. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9490-5 Buy at Amazon

Reduced-Order Modelling for Flow Control. B. R. Noack, M. Morzyński, G. Tadmor, eds. CISM Courses and Lectures 528. Springer, New York, 2011. $209.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 978-3-7091-0757-7 Buy at Amazon

Swift Heavy Ions for Materials Engineering and Nanostructuring. D. K. Avasthi, G. K. Mehta. Springer Series in Materials Science 145. Capital, New Delhi, India, and Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2011. $129.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1228-7 Buy at Amazon

Biomimetics—Materials, Structures and Processes: Examples, Ideas and Case Studies. P. Gruber et al., eds. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (266 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-11933-0 Buy at Amazon

Casimir Physics. D. Dalvit, P. Milonni, D. Roberts, F. Rosa, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 834. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $89.95 paper (457 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20287-2 Buy at Amazon

Fracture and Life. B. Cotterell. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $125.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-282-2 Buy at Amazon

Inorganic 3D Structures. A. Vegas, ed. Structure and Bonding 138. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $259.00 (201 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20340-4 Buy at Amazon

Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media. P. Fantazzini, V. Bortolotti, J. Kärger, P. Galvosas, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1330. Proc. conf., Leipzig, Germany, Sept. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $124.00 paper (141 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0885-2 Buy at Amazon

Selected Semiconductor Research. M.-F. Li. Imperial College Press, London, 2011. $140.00 (508 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-406-2 Buy at Amazon

Symposium on the Superconducting Science and Technology of Ingot Niobium. G. R. Myneni, G. Ciovati, M. Stuart, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1352. Proc. symp., Newport News, VA, Sept. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $144.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0909-5 Buy at Amazon

Topics in Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience: From Controlling Light at the Nanoscale to Calculating Quantum Effects with Classical Electrodynamics. J. M. McMahon. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (199 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8248-3 Buy at Amazon

Zintl Ions: Principles and Recent Developments. T. F. Fässler, ed. Structure and Bonding 140. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $189.00 (156 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21180-5 Buy at Amazon

Zintl Phases: Principles and Recent Developments. T. F. Fässler, ed. Structure and Bonding 139. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $189.00 (164 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21149-2 Buy at Amazon

Cosmology, Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions. S. D. Odintsov, D. Sáez-Gómez, S. Xambó-Descamps, eds. Springer Proceedings in Physics 137. Proc. conf., Barcelona, Spain, Mar. 2010. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $259.00 (382 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19759-8 Buy at Amazon

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 92nd ed. W. M. Haynes, ed. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $149.95 (2656 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-5511-9 Buy at Amazon

Malaysia Annual Physics Conference 2010 (PERFIK-2010). T.-Y. Tou et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1328. Proc. conf., Damai Laut, Malaysia, Oct. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $153.00 paper (340 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0883-8 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life. H. Meyer-Ortmanns, S. Thurner, eds. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $79.95 (385 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-18136-8 Buy at Amazon

Behavior Dynamics in Media-Sharing Social Networks. H. V. Zhao, W. S. Lin, K. J. R. Liu. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $125.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19727-4 Buy at Amazon

Bifurcation and Chaos in Discontinuous and Continuous Systems. M. Fečkan. Nonlinear Physical Science. Higher Education Press, Beijing, and Springer, Berlin, 2011. $139.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-18268-6 Buy at Amazon

Delay-Coupled Complex Systems and Applications to Lasers. V. Flunkert. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (180 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20249-0 Buy at Amazon

Dynamics, Games and Science II. M. M. Peixoto, A. A. Pinto, D. A. Rand, eds. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics 2. Proc. conf., Braga, Portugal, Sept. 2008. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $219.00 (752 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-14787-6 Buy at Amazon

International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND 2010). V. In, P. Longhini, A. Palacios, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1339. Proc. conf., Lake Louise, AB, Canada, Sept. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $152.00 paper (326 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0894-4 Buy at Amazon

Markov Decision Processes with Applications to Finance. N. Bäuerle, U. Rieder. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $74.95 paper (388 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-18323-2 Buy at Amazon

Random Walks and Diffusions on Graphs and Databases: An Introduction. P. Blanchard, D. Volchenkov. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $124.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19591-4 Buy at Amazon

XXXIII Brazilian Workshop on Nuclear Physics. V. R. Vanin, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1351. Proc. wksp., Campos Do Jordão, Brazil, Sept. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $158.00 paper (416 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0908-8 Buy at Amazon

International Symposium on New Faces of Atomic Nuclei. W. Bentz, M. Oka, T. Otsuka, N. Yoshinaga, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1355. Proc. symp., Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $140.00 (301 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0913-2 Buy at Amazon

Second International Ulaanbaatar Conference on Nuclear Physics and Applications. D. Dashdorj, G. Mitchell, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1342. Proc. conf., Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $137.00 (142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0898-2 Buy at Amazon

Topical Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT 2010). R. Ford, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1338. Proc. wksp., Sudbury, Canada, Aug. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $138.00 (233 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0892-0 Buy at Amazon

Coherent Control of Four-Wave Mixing. Y. Zhang, Z. Nie, M. Xiao. Higher Education Press, Beijing, and Springer, Berlin, 2011. $179.00 (413 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19114-5 Buy at Amazon

Computational Analysis of the Human Eye with Applications. S. Dua, R. Acharya, E. Y. K. Ng, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $150.00 (458 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4340-29-8 Buy at Amazon

Digital Holographic Microscopy: Principles, Techniques, and Applications. M. K. Kim. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 162. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (237 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7792-2 Buy at Amazon