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Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy. M. J. Way, J. D. Scargle, K. M. Ali, A. N. Srivastava, eds. Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $99.95 (698 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-4173-0 Buy at Amazon

Cosmic Ray Diffusion in the Galaxy and Diffuse Gamma Emission. D. Gaggero. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (146 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-29948-3 Buy at Amazon

The Environments of the Sun and the Stars. J.-P. Rozelot, C. Neiner, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 857. Springer, Berlin, 2013. $59.95 paper (253 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30647-1 Buy at Amazon

How to Observe the Sun Safely. 2nd ed. L. Macdonald. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, 2012 [2002]. $34.95 paper (214 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3824-3 Buy at Amazon

Maser Sources in Astrophysics. M. Gray. Cambridge Astrophysics Series 50. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $120.00 (419 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-87980-4 Buy at Amazon

Plasma Astrophysics, Part II: Reconnection and Flares. B. V. Somov. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 392. Springer, New York, 2013. $229.00 (504 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-4294-3 Buy at Amazon

A Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays with ANITA-2. M. J. Mottram. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (143 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30031-8 Buy at Amazon

Coarse-Grained Modelling of DNA and DNA Self-Assembly. T. E. Ouldridge. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $129.00 (176 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30516-0 Buy at Amazon

Detection of Non-Amplified Genomic DNA. G. Spoto, R. Corradini, eds. Soft and Biological Matter. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2012. $179.00 (315 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-1225-6 Buy at Amazon

Plasma Medicine: Applications of Low-Temperature Gas Plasmas in Medicine and Biology. M. Laroussi, M. Kong, G. Morfill, W. Stolz, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $120.00 (346 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00643-0 Buy at Amazon

Webb’s Physics of Medical Imaging. 2nd ed. M. A. Flower, ed. Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012 [1988]. $89.95 (811 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-0573-0 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Vol. 63. M. A. Johnson, T. J. Martinez, P. S. Cremer, J. T. Groves. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2012. $89.00 (698 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1063-9 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Surface Reactions. A. P. J. Jansen. Lecture Notes in Physics 856. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $59.95 paper (254 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-29487-7 Buy at Amazon

Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production. R. van de Krol, M. Grätzel, eds. Electronic Materials: Science and Technology. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-1379-0 Buy at Amazon

Photoinduced Modifications of the Nonlinear Optical Response in Liquid Crystalline Azopolymers. R. Alicante. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, 2013. $129.00 (198 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-31755-2 Buy at Amazon

Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry II: An Overview of the Last Two Decades and Current Trends. J. Leszczynski, M. K. Shukla, eds. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2012. $229.00 (541 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-0922-5 Buy at Amazon

Computational Matrix Analysis. A. J. Laub. Other Titles in Applied Mathematics. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2012. $47.00 paper (154 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-20-7 Buy at Amazon

Modern Fortran in Practice. A. Markus. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $120.00, $44.99 paper (253 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-01790-0, ISBN 978-1-107-60347-9 paperBuy at Amazon

Solving PDEs in C++: Numerical Methods in a Unified Object-Oriented Approach. 2nd ed. Y. Shapira. Computational Science and Engineering. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2012 [2006]. $139.00 paper (776 pp.). ISBN 978-1-611972-16-0 Buy at Amazon

Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals. A. Overhauser. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2011. $260.00 (687 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40859-7 Buy at Amazon

Complex Plasmas and Colloidal Dispersions: Particle-Resolved Studies of Classical Liquids and Solids. A. Ivlev, H. Löwen, G. Morfill, C. P. Royall. Series in Soft Condensed Matter 5. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2012. $78.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4350-06-8 Buy at Amazon

Graphene: Carbon in Two Dimensions. M. I. Katsnelson. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $80.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-19540-9 Buy at Amazon

High-Temperature Superconductors. 2nd ed. A. K. Saxena. Springer Series in Materials Science 125. Springer, Berlin, 2012 [2010]. $179.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-28480-9 Buy at Amazon

Isotopes in Condensed Matter. V. G. Plekhanov. Springer Series in Materials Science 162. Springer, Berlin, 2013. $129.00 (290 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-28722-0 Buy at Amazon

Magnetoelectric Response in Low-Dimensional Frustrated Spin Sysems. S. Seki. Springer Theses. Springer, Tokyo, 2012. $129.00 (112 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-54090-8 Buy at Amazon

Magnonics: From Fundamentals to Applications. S. O. Demokritov, A. N. Slavin, eds. Topics in Applied Physics 125. Springer, Berlin, 2013. $169.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-30246-6 Buy at Amazon

Non-centrosymmetric Superconductors: Introduction and Overview. E. Bauer, M. Sigrist, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 847. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $89.95 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-24623-4 Buy at Amazon

The Geometry of Special Relativity. T. Dray. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2012. $34.95 (131 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-1047-0 Buy at Amazon

Advances in Mechanisms Design. J. Beran, M. Bílek, M. Hejnova, P. Zabka, eds. Mechanisms and Machine Science 8. Proc. conf., Liberec, Czech Republic, Sept. 2012. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2012. $259.00 (559 pp.). ISBN 978-94-007-5124-8 Buy at Amazon

Classical, Semi-classical and Quantum Noise. L. Cohen, H. V. Poor, M. O. Scully, eds. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (298 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-6623-0 Buy at Amazon

Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors. S. B. Boyd. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (226 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-9987-0 Buy at Amazon

Aeroelasticity: The Continuum Theory. A. V. Balakrishnan. Springer, New York, 2012. $129.00 (399 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3608-9 Buy at Amazon

Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics. J. Klapp et al., eds. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, 2012. $229.00 (517 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-17957-0 Buy at Amazon

Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding. S. Childress, A. Hosoi, W. W. Schultz, Z. J. Wang, eds. IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications 155. Springer, New York, 2012. $139.00 (313 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4614-3996-7 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Vol. 40. R. Jeanloz, K. H. Freeman, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2012. $94.00 (737 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-2040-9 Buy at Amazon

The Earth: Its Birth and Growth. 2nd ed. M. Ozima, J. Korenaga, Q.-Z. Yin. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2012. $95.00, $42.99 paper (150 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76025-6, ISBN 978-1-107-60076-8 paper Buy at Amazon

Earth System Processes and Disaster Management. R. Sinha, R. Ravindra, eds. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Berlin, 2013. $129.00 (244 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-28844-9 Buy at Amazon