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Super-Resolved Imaging: Geometrical and Diffraction Approaches. Z. Zalevsky, ed. Springer Briefs in Physics. Springer, New York, 2011. $49.95 paper (105 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-0832-1 Buy at Amazon

Advanced Materials and Processing 2010. Y. F. Zhang, C. W. Su, H. Xia, P. F. Xiao, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $140.00 (344 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4322-78-2 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Materials Research. Vol. 41. D. R. Clarke, ed. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2011. $240.00 (451 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1741-6 Buy at Amazon

Dynamical Heterogeneities in Glasses, Colloids and Granular Media. L. Berthier et al. International Series of Monographs on Physics 150. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $135.00 (450 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-969147-0 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Laser Materials Processing: Theory and Experiment. G. G. Gladush, I. Smurov. Springer Series in Materials Science 146. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $169.00 (534 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-19242-5 Buy at Amazon

Surfaces and Interfaces of Electronic Materials. L. J. Brillson. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2010. $155.00 (570 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40915-0 Buy at Amazon

Understanding Nanomaterials. M. S. Johal. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $59.95 paper (307 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-7310-2 Buy at Amazon

Viscoelastic Behavior of Rubbery Materials. C. M. Roland. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $98.50 (332 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957157-4 Buy at Amazon

An Engineer’s Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession. H. Petroski. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $21.99 (360 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01506-7 Buy at Amazon

Modern Trends in Physics Research. L. M. El Nadi, ed. Conference Proceedings 998. Proc. conf., Cairo, Egypt, Apr. 2008. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $147.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4317-50-4 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

From Nuclei to Stars: Festschrift in Honor of Gerald E. Brown. S. Lee, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $145.00 (487 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4329-08-8 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear Structure in China 2010. H.-B. Bai, J. Meng, E.-G. Zhao, S.-G. Zhou, eds. Proc. conf., Chi-Feng, Inner Mongolia, China, July 2010. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $108.00 (278 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4360-64-7 Buy at Amazon

Progress in Nanophotonics 1. M. Ohtsu, ed. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $129.00 (236 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-17480-3 Buy at Amazon

Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing. L. Lellouch et al., eds. École de Physique des Houches 93. Proc. sch., Les Houches, France, Aug. 2009. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $85.50 (729 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-969160-9 Buy at Amazon

Symmetry and the Standard Model: Mathematics and Particle Physics. M. Robinson. Springer, New York, 2011. $109.00 (327 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-8266-7 Buy at Amazon

Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows Astronum-2010. N. V. Pogorelov, E. Audit, G. P. Zank, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 444. Proc. conf., San Diego, CA, June 2010. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011. $77.00 (300 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-768-1 Buy at Amazon

Plasma Scattering of Electromagnetic Radiation: Theory and Measurement Techniques. 2nd ed. D. H. Froula, S. H. Glenzer, N. C. Luhmann Jr, J. Sheffield. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2011 [1975]. $149.95 (497 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-374877-5 Buy at Amazon

About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang. A. Frank. Free Press, New York, 2011. $26.00 (406 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4391-6959-9 Buy at Amazon

The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions. A. Rosenberg. W. W. Norton, New York, 2011. $25.95 (352 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-08023-0 Buy at Amazon

The Best American Science Writing 2011. R. Skloot, F. Skloot, eds. Ecco/HarperCollins, NY, 2011. $14.99 paper (327 pp.). ISBN 978-0-06-209124-6 Buy at Amazon

Gliding for Gold: The Physics of Winter Sports. M. Denny. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2011. $65.00, $30.00 paper (189 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0214-7, ISBN 978-1-4214-0215-4 paperBuy at Amazon

How We See the Sky: A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night. T. Hockey. U. Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011. $60.00, $20.00 paper (239 pp.). ISBN 978-0-226-34576-5, ISBN 978-0-226-34577-2 paper Buy at Amazon

The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe. Updated ed. C. Impey. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011 [2007]. $24.99 paper (393 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-17384-1 Buy at Amazon

The Manga Guide to the Universe. K. Ishikawa, K. Kawabata, Verte Corp (translated from Japanese by A. Rusoff). No Starch Press, San Francisco, 2011 [2008]. $19.95 paper (239 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59327-267-8 Buy at Amazon

Models. Behaving. Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life. E. Derman. Free Press, New York, 2011. $26.00 (231 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4391-6498-3 Buy at Amazon

The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics. C. A. Pickover. Sterling, New York, 2011. $29.95 (527 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4027-7861-2 Buy at Amazon

Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything. M. Wertheim. Walker, New York, 2011. $27.00 (323 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8027-1513-5 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Processes. W. Schommers. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2011. $98.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-656-1 Buy at Amazon

Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction. 2nd ed. K. W. Plaxco, M. Gross. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD, 2011 [2006]. $75.00, $30.00 paper (330 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0095-2, ISBN 978-1-4214-0096-9 paper Buy at Amazon

Earth and Space Science: Making Connections in Education and Public Outreach. J. B. Jensen, J. G. Manning, M. G. Gibbs, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 443. Proc. conf., Boulder, CO, July–Aug. 2010. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011. $77.00 (493 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-766-7 Buy at Amazon

First Steps in Random Walks: From Tools to Applications. J. Klafter, I. M. Sokolov. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011. $72.95 (152 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-923486-8 Buy at Amazon

Statistical Physics of Liquids at Freezing and Beyond. S. P. Das. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2011. $130.00 (566 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-85839-7 Buy at Amazon

Analytical Mechanics for Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. O. D. Johns. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2011 [2006]. $89.95 (629 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-100162-8 Buy at Amazon

Commonly Asked Questions in Thermodynamics. M. J. Assael et al. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $39.95 paper (346 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-8695-9 Buy at Amazon

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The New Millennium Edition. Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands. Basic Books, New York, 2011 [2010, reissued]. $40.00 paper (560 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02493-3 Buy at Amazon

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The New Millennium Edition. Vol. 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands. Basic Books, New York, 2011 [2010, reissued]. $40.00 paper (592 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02494-0 Buy at Amazon

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The New Millennium Edition. Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands. Basic Books, New York, 2011 [2010, reissued]. $40.00 paper (400 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02501-5 Buy at Amazon

A First Course in Numerical Methods. U. M. Ascher, C. Greif. Computational Science and Engineering. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2011. $95.00 paper (552 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898719-97-0 Buy at Amazon

Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics. P. E. Powers. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2011. $79.95 (311 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-9351-3 Buy at Amazon

General Relativity Without Calculus: A Concise Introduction to the Geometry of Relativity. J. Natário. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, 2011. $49.95 (126 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-21451-6 Buy at Amazon