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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Vol. 49. S. M. Faber, E. van Dishoeck, J. Kormendy, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. $86.00 (593 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-0949-9 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science. J.-P. Lasota, ed. Integrated Science and Technology Program 1. Springer, New York, 2011. $179.00 (357 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1657-5 Buy at Amazon

Cosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics. S. Giani, C. Leroy, P. G. Rancoita, eds. Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Radiation Interaction, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications 6. Proc. conf., Como, Italy, Oct. 2010. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $210.00 (645 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4329-02-6 Buy at Amazon

Deep-Sky Companions: The Secret Deep. S. J. O’Meara. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $48.00 (483 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19876-9 Buy at Amazon

The Exoplanet Handbook. M. Perryman. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $80.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76559-6 Buy at Amazon

Radio Pulsars: An Astrophysical Key to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. M. Burgay et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1357. Proc. conf., Chia (Sardinia), Italy, Oct. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $157.00 paper (376 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0915-6 Buy at Amazon

The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons. D. M. Kipping. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-22268-9 Buy at Amazon

Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars II: Shining Examples and Common Inhabitants. F. Kerschbaum. T Lebzelter, R. F. Wing, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 445. Proc. conf., Vienna, Aug. 2010. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011. $77.00 (633 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-770-4 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Atomic Physics: An Overview. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, D. Guéry-Odelin. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $98.00, $48.00 paper (767 pp.). ISBN 978-981-277-496-5, ISBN 978-981-277-497-2 paperBuy at Amazon

Biomechanics of the Brain. K. Miller, ed. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9996-2 Buy at Amazon

Essentials of Functional MRI. P. W. Stroman. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $79.95 paper (295 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-1878-7 Buy at Amazon

Practical Biomedical Signal Analysis Using MATLAB®. K. J. Blinowska, J. Żygierewicz. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $99.95 (294 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-1202-0 Buy at Amazon

Polymer Translocation. M. Muthukumar. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $99.95 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-7516-8 Buy at Amazon

Phase Transitions in Machine Learning. L. Saitta, A. Giordana, A. Cornuéjols. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $90.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76391-2 Buy at Amazon

Adventures in Cosmology. D. Goodstein, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $86.00 (410 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4313-85-8 Buy at Amazon

Cosmic Paradoxes. J. A. Gonzalo. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $72.00, 34.00 paper (134 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4355-61-2, ISBN 978-981-4355-11-7 paper Buy at Amazon

Einstein’s Theory: A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained. Ø. Grøn, A. Næss. Springer, New York, 2011. $79.95 (341 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0705-8 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Anisotropic Geometrodynamics. S. Siparov. Series on Knots and Everything 47. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $120.00 (303 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4340-83-0 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Cosmology: A Fundamental Description of the Universe. M. Bojowald. Lecture Notes in Physics 835. Springer, New York, 2011. $89.95 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8275-9 Buy at Amazon

Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-Time: A New Approach to Unifying Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. L. Nottale. Imperial College Press, London, 2011. $170.00 (742 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-650-9 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear RF Circuits and Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzers: Interactive Measurement and Design Technologies. P. Roblin. The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $125.00 (283 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88995-7 Buy at Amazon

Engineering Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation. I. S. F. Jones. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $85.00, $40.00 paper (170 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51602-0, ISBN 978-0-521-73159-1 paper Buy at Amazon

The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change. R. Garnaut. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $34.95 paper (222 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-69168-1 Buy at Amazon

The Inquisition of Climate Science. J. L. Powell. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2011. $27.95 (232 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-15718-6 Buy at Amazon

Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow. R. B. Laughlin. Basic Books, New York, 2011. $24.99 (224 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02219-9 Buy at Amazon

Hydrodynamic Instabilities. F. Charru (translated from French by P. de Forcrand-Millard). Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics 37. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $125.00, $65.00 paper (391 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76926-6, ISBN 978-0-521-14351-6 paper Buy at Amazon

The Dynamic Magnetosphere. W. Liu, M. Fujimoto, eds. IAGA Special Sopron Book Series 3. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (368 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0500-5 Buy at Amazon

The Earth’s Magnetic Interior. E. Petrov-ský, E. Herrero-Bervera, T. Harinarayana, D. Ivers, eds. IAGA Special Sopron Books Series 1. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (445 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0322-3 Buy at Amazon

Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences. G. R. Keller, C. Baru, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $130.00 (374 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89715-0 Buy at Amazon

Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle: Principles and Mechanisms. R. G. Williams, M. J. Follows. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $73.00 (404 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-84369-0 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Lakes. Vol. 2: Lakes as Oscillators. K. Hutter, Y. Wang, I. P. Chubarenko. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $279.00 (646 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19111-4 Buy at Amazon

Sulfur in Magmas and Melts: Its Im-portance for Natural and Technical Processes. H. Behrens, J. D. Webster, eds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 73. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO, and Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, VA, 2011. $40.00 paper (578 pp.). ISBN 978-0-939950-87-4 Buy at Amazon

Einstein on the Road. J. Eisinger. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2011. $25.00 (219 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-460-9 Buy at Amazon

Eruptions That Shook the World. C. Oppenheimer. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $30.00 (392 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-64112-8 Buy at Amazon

Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research. 2nd ed. C. Whitbeck. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011 [1998]. $125.00, $65.00 paper (414 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-89797-6, ISBN 978-0-521-72398-5 paper Buy at Amazon

How Apollo Flew to the Moon. Expanded ed. W. D. Woods. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2011 [2010]. $39.95 paper (555 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-7178-4 Buy at Amazon

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. D. Sobel. Walker, New York, 2011. $25.00 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8027-1793-1 Buy at Amazon

Quips, Quotes and Quanta: An Anecdotal History of Physics. 2nd ed. A. Z. Capri. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011 [2007]. $38.00 paper (238 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4343-47-3 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

Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America’s First Astronauts. C. Burgess. Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2011. $44.95 paper (371 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8404-3 Buy at Amazon

A Short History of Physics in the American Century. D. C. Cassidy. New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. $29.95 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-04936-9 Buy at Amazon

A Voyage Through Turbulence. P. A. Davidson, Y. Kaneda, K. Moffatt, K. R. Sreenivasan, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $99.00, $46.00 paper (434 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19868-4, ISBN 978-0-521-14931-0 paper Buy at Amazon

The 10th International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy. I. McNulty, C. Eyberger, B. Lai, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1365. Proc. conf., Chicago, Aug. 2010. AIP, Melville, NY, 2011. $184.00 paper (473 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0925-5 Buy at Amazon

Acoustical Imaging. Vol. 30. M. P. André, J. P. Jones, H. Lee, eds. Springer, New York, 2011. $259.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3254-6 Buy at Amazon

Handbook for Highly Charged Ion Spectroscopic Research. Y. Zou, R. Hutton, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $139.95 (456 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-7904-3 Buy at Amazon

Image Registration for Remote Sensing. J. Le Moigne, N. S. Netanyahu, R. D. Eastman, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $130.00 (484 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-51611-2 Buy at Amazon

Optical Techniques for Solid-State Materials Characterization. R. P. Prasankumar, A. J. Taylor, eds. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $129.95 (718 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-1537-3 Buy at Amazon

Single-Photon Imaging. P. Seitz, A. J. P. Theuwissen, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 160. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $169.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-18442-0 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Planetary Climate. R. T. Pierrehumbert. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $81.95 (652 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-86556-2 Buy at Amazon

A Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe: Selected Solutions. E. N. Economou. Springer Briefs in Physics. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011. $49.95 paper (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-20088-5 Buy at Amazon

Teaching Lab Science Courses Online: Resources for Best Practices, Tools, and Technology. L. Jeschofnig, P. Jeschofnig. Jossey-Bass/Wiley, San Francisco, 2011. $28.00 paper (176 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-60704-6 Buy at Amazon

Applications of Unitary Symmetry and Combinatorics. J. D. Louck. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $98.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4350-71-6 Buy at Amazon

Asymptotics in Dynamics, Geometry and PDEs; Generalized Borel Summation. Vol. 1. O. Costin, F. Fauvet, F. Menous, D. Sauzin, eds. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore 12: CRM Series 1. Proc. conf., Pisa, Italy, Oct. 2009. Edizioni Della Normale/Birkhäuser, Boston, 2011. $34.95 paper (260 pp.). ISBN 978-88-7642-374-1 Buy at Amazon

Boundary Element Methods in Engineering and Sciences. M. H. Aliabadi, P. H. Wen. Computational and Experimental Methods in Structures 4. Imperial College Press, London, 2011. $124.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-1-84816-579-3 Buy at Amazon

Damped Oscillations of Linear Systems: A Mathematical Introduction. K. Veselić. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2023. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $49.95 paper (209 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21334-2 Buy at Amazon

Disorder and Critical Phenomena Through Basic Probability Models. G. Giacomin. Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2025. Proc. sch., Saint-Flour, France, July 2010. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $49.95 paper (130 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21155-3 Buy at Amazon

Fixed-Point Algorithms for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering. H. H. Bauschke et al., eds. Springer Optimization and Its Applications 49. Springer, New York, 2011. $149.00 (402 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9568-1 Buy at Amazon

Geometry of the Fundamental Interactions: On Riemann’s Legacy to High Energy Physics and Cosmology. M. D. Maia. Springer, New York, 2011. $129.00 (179 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8272-8 Buy at Amazon

Geometry of Time-Spaces: Non-commutative Algebraic Geometry, Applied to Quantum Theory. O. A. Laudal. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $68.00 (143 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4343-34-3 Buy at Amazon

New Variational Techniques in Mathematical Physics. G. Capriz, G. Stampacchia, eds. CIME Summer Schools 63. Proc. sch., Bressanone, Italy, June 1973. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [1974, reissued]. $69.95 paper (420 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-10958-4 Buy at Amazon

Operators, Geometry and Quanta: Methods of Spectral Geometry in Quantum Field Theory. D. Fursaev, D. Vassilevich. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, 2011. $119.00 (286 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0204-2 Buy at Amazon

Principles of Multiscale Modeling. W. E. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $75.00 (466 pp.). ISBN 978-1-10709-654-7 Buy at Amazon

Reciprocity, Spatial Mapping and Time Reversal in Electromagnetics. 2nd ed. C. Altman, K. Suchy. Springer, New York, 2011 [1991]. $179.00 (317 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1529-5 Buy at Amazon

Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis. 6th ed. J. Jost. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, 2011 [2008]. $84.95 paper (611 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21297-0 Buy at Amazon

Wave Equations in Higher Dimensions. S.-H. Dong. Springer, New York, 2011. $169.00 (295 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1916-3 Buy at Amazon

Wavefronts and Rays as Characteristics and Asymptotics. A. Bóna, M. A. Slawinski. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $90.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4295-51-2 Buy at Amazon