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2010; AIP Publishing; Volume: 63; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.3463632

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earthquake and tectonic studies

GeophysicsSection:ChooseTop of pageGeophysics <<History and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... Arrays and Array Methods in Global Seismology. Y. J. Gu, ed. Springer, New York, 2010. $109.00 (273 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3679-7 Geophysical Hazards: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness. T. Beer, ed. International Year of Planet Earth. Springer, New York, 2010. $129.00 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3235-5 Introduction to Numerical Geodynamic Modelling. T. V. Gerya. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $70.00 (345 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-88754-0 Landform—Structure, Evolution, Process Control: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Landform Organised by the Research Training Group 437. J.-C. Otto, R. Dikau, eds. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 115. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $149.00 (258 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-75760-3 Stochastic Physics and Climate Modelling. T. Palmer, P. Williams, eds. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $150.00 (480 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76105-5History and philosophySection:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophy <<Instrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda. J. Mueller. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $27.95 (319 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-538136-8 The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid. P. S. Rudman. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2010. $26.00 (248 pp.). ISBN 978-1-59102-773-7 Cosmic Noise: A History of Early Radio Astronomy. W. T. Sullivan III. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2009. $140.00 (542 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76524-4 Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926. S. Seth. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. $32.00 (378 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01373-4 Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. S. S. Schweber. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009 [2008, reissued]. $18.95 paper (412 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-03452-5 Erich Hückel (1896–1980): From Physics to Quantum Chemistry. A. Karachalios (translated from German by A. M. Hentschel). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 283. Springer, New York, 2010. $139.00 (200 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-3559-2 Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Definitive ed. J. Huxley. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010 [1942]. $35.00 paper (770 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-51366-1 From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of Physics. R. G. Newton. Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010 [2007, reissued]. $17.95 paper (340 pp.). ISBN 978-0-674-03487-7 The Great Ocean of Truth: Memories of “Hudson-70”, the First Circumnavigation of the Americas. P. Wadhams. Melrose Books/Melrose Press, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2009. $25.85 paper (378 pp.). ISBN 978-1-907040-30-6 Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere. C. Carson. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $80.00 (541 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-82170-4 The Life of Stars: The Controversial Inception and Emergence of the Theory of Stellar Structure. G. Shaviv. Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jersusalem, and Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (504 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02087-2 Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan. G. A. Cowan. U. New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2010. $27.95 (175 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8263-4870-8 On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science. D. Goodstein. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010. $22.95 (168 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-13966-1 Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites. M. Brück. Springer, New York, 2009. $129.00 (277 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2472-5Instrumentation and techniquesSection:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn... <<Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... LACAME 2008. J. Desimoni et al., eds. Proc. conf., La Plata, Argentina, Nov. 2008. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $189.00 (280 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-10763-4 Materials Science with Ion Beams. H. Bernas, ed. Topics in Applied Physics 116. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $209.00 (376 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-88788-1 The Physics of Metrology: All About Instruments, from Trundle Wheels to Atomic Clocks. A. J. Hebra. Springer, New York, 2010. $139.00 (383 pp.). ISBN 978-3-211-78380-1 Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology. Vol. 2: Medical Applications of Accelerators. A. W. Chao, W. Chou, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2009. $108.00 (312 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4299-34-3 Single Molecule Spectroscopy in Chemistry, Physics and Biology: Nobel Symposium. A. Gräslund, R. Rigler, J. Widengren, eds. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 96. Proc. symp., Stockholm, June 2008. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $179.00 (572 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02596-9 Solid-State Spectroscopy: An Introduction. 2nd ed. H. Kuzmany. Springer, Berlin, 2009 [1998]. $99.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01478-9 WIRMS 2009: 5th International Workshop on Infrared Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Accelerator Based Sources. A. Predoi-Cross, B. E. Billing-hurst, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1214. Proc. wksp., Banff, AB, Canada, Sept. 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $107.00 (113 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0757-2 Materials science Section:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials science <<MiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... Basic Semiconductor Physics. 2nd ed. C. Hamaguchi. Springer, Berlin, 2010 [2001]. $99.00 (570 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03302-5 Bonds and Bands in Semiconductors. 2nd ed. J. C. Phillips, G. Lucovsky. Momentum Press, New York, 2010 [1973]. $89.95 (318 pp.). ISBN 978-1-60650-133-7 Diffuse X-Ray Scattering and Models of Disorder. T. R. Welberry. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography 16. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [2004, reissued]. $65.00 paper (266 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958381-2 Electronic Structure and Magnetism of 3d-Transition Metal Pnictides. K. Motizuki, H. Ido, T. Itoh, M. Morifuji. Springer Series in Materials Science 131. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (142 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03419-0 High-Temperature Superconductors. A. K. Saxena. Springer Series in Materials Science 125. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (223 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00711-8 Introduction to Space Charge Effects in Semiconductors. K. W. Böer. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 160. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (331 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02235-7 Introduction to Thermoelectricity. H. J. Goldsmid. Springer Series in Materials Science 121. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-00715-6 Laser-Surface Interactions for New Materials Production: Tailoring Structure and Properties. A. Miotello, P. M. Ossi, eds. Springer Series in Materials Science 130. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $159.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03306-3 The Science of Construction Materials. P. F. Hansen; O. M. Jensen, ed. (translated from Danish by O. M. Jensen, K. Aakjær). Springer, Berlin, 2009. $169.00 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-70897-1 Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library. Vol. 5: Non-Shock Initiation of Explosives. B. W. Asay, ed. Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $179.00 (614 pp.). ISBN 978-3-540-87952-7 Thermal Nanosystems and Nanomaterials. S. Volz, ed. Topics in Applied Physics 118. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $179.00 (587 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-04257-7MiscellaneousSection:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneous <<Nonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... Evaluating Measurement Accuracy: A Practical Approach. S. G. Rabinovich. Springer, New York, 2010. $129.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-1455-2 TIME — From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics. D. D. McCarthy, P. K. Seidelmann. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2009. $145.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-3-527-40780-4Nonlinear science and chaos Section:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha... <<Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... Probabilistic Boolean Networks: The Modeling and Control of Gene Regulatory Networks. I. Shmulevich, E. R. Dougherty. SIAM, Philadelphia, 2010. $59.00 paper (267 pp.). ISBN 978-0-898716-92-4 A Shock-Fitting Primer. M. D. Salas. Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Science Series. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $129.95 (400 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4398-0758-3, CD-ROM Nuclear physics Section:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physics <<Optics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... Isotope Effects: In the Chemical, Geological, and Bio Sciences. M. Wolfsberg, W. A. Van Hook, P. Paneth, L. P. N. Rebelo. Springer, New York, 2010. $199.00 (466 pp.). ISBN 978-90-481-2264-6 Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine. A. Dubnickova et al., eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1204. Proc. sch., Bratislava, Slovak Republic, July 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $149.00 (267 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0741-1Optics and photonics Section:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonics <<Particle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... The 2nd International Conference on Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science (ULIS 2009). A. Gamucci, A. Giulietti, L. Labate, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 1209. Proc. conf., Frascati (Rome), Italy, May 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2010. $119.00 (152 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0746-6 Fiber Optics: Physics and Technology. F. Mitschke. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $99.00 (301 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03702-3 Integrated Silicon Optoelectronics. 2nd ed. H. Zimmermann. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 148. Springer, Berlin, 2010 [2000]. $159.00 (385 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01520-5 Lens Design Fundamentals. 2nd ed. R. Kingslake, R. B. Johnson. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2010 [1978]. $99.95 (549 pp.). ISBN 978-0-12-374301-5 Modern Theory of Gratings: Resonant Scattering—Analysis Techniques and Phenomena. Y. K. Sirenko, S. Ström, eds. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 153. Springer, New York, 2010. $179.00 (390 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-1199-5 Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling. I. A. Sukhoivanov, I. V. Guryev. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 152. Springer, Berlin, 2009. $129.00 (242 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02645-4 Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science V. K. Yamanouchi, A. Giulietti, K. Ledingham, eds. Springer Series in Chemical Physics 98. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $129.00 (212 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-03824-2 Particle physics Section:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physics <<PopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... At the Leading Edge: The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments. D. Green, ed. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $120.00, $58.00 paper (436 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4277-61-7, ISBN 978-981-4304-67-2 paper Group Theory for the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond. K. J. Barnes. Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology, and Gravitation. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. $59.95 (241 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4200-7874-9 Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference. M. L. Marshak, ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 1182. Proc. conf., San Diego, CA, May 2009. AIP, Melville, NY, 2009. $399.00 (975 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7354-0723-7 Lepton Dipole Moments. B. L. Roberts, W. J. Marciano, eds. Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics 20. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $145.00 (757 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4271-83-7 The Little Book of String Theory. S. S. Gubser. Science Essentials. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010. $19.95 (174 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-14289-0 Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers. H. Fritzsch, ed. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics 40. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $105.00, $48.00 paper (449 pp.). ISBN 978-981-283-684-7, ISBN 978-981-4261-62-3 paper The Physics of the Quark–Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures. S. Sarkar, H. Satz, B. Sinha, eds. Lecture Notes in Physics 785. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $89.95 (369 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-02285-2 Quantum Chromodynamics: Perturbative and Nonperturbative Aspects. B. L. Ioffe, V. S. Fadin, L. N. Lipatov. Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology 30. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $180.00 (585 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-63148-8 Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice: An Introductory Presentation. C. Gattringer, C. B. Lang. Lecture Notes in Physics 788. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $89.95 (343 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-01849-7 Quark–Gluon Plasma 4. R. C. Hwa, X.-N. Wang, eds. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $118.00 (437 pp.). ISBN 978-981-4293-28-0 Self-Force and Inertia: Old Light on New Ideas. S. N. Lyle. Lecture Notes in Physics 796. Springer, Berlin, 2010. $89.95 (405 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-04784-8PopularizationsSection:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizations <<Space and planetary scien... Antimatter. F. Close. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010 [2009, reissued]. $12.95 paper (166 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-957887-0 The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution. H. Schlesinger. Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, New York, 2010. $25.99 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-0-06-144293-3 Cremona Violins: A Physicist’s Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari. K. C. Wali. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2010. $49.00, $35.00 paper (157 pp.). ISBN 978-981-279-109-2, ISBN 978-981-279-110-8 paper, DVD-ROM The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. A. Ananthaswamy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2010. $25.00 (322 pp.). ISBN 978-0-618-88468-1 Einstein’s Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. E. Gates. W. W. Norton, New York, 2010 [2009, reissued]. $16.95 paper (305 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-33801-0 From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time. S. Carroll. Dutton, New York, 2010. $26.95 (438 pp.). ISBN 978-0-525-95133-9 Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across America. D. S. Nickell. The Scientific Traveler. Rutgers U. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2010. $19.95 paper (258 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8135-4730-5 Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World. S. Perkowitz. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2010 [2007, reissued]. $18.95 paper (255 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-14281-6 In Praise of Science: Curiosity, Understanding, and Progress. S. Bais. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. $24.95 (192 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-01435-9 Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know. J. Bernstein. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010 [2008, reissued]. $19.99 paper (299 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-12637-3 The Physics of Soccer: Using Math and Science to Improve Your Game. D. Badiru. iUniverse, Bloomington, IN, 2010. $32.95, $22.95 paper (296 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4401-9226-5, ISBN 978-1-4401-9224-1 paper A User’s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty. D. Goldberg, J. Blomquist. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2010. $24.95 (296 pp.). ISBN 978-0-470-49651-0 Voyage to the Heart of Matter: The ATLAS Experiment at CERN. A. Radevsky, E. Sanders. Papadakis, Winterbourne, Berkshire, UK, 2009. $27.54 (8 pp.). ISBN 978-1-906506-06-3 pop-up book What If the Earth Had Two Moons? And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar System. N. F. Comins. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2010. $26.99 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-0-312-59892-1 A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey into the Physics of the LHC. G. F. Giudice. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2010. $45.00 (276 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-958191-7Space and planetary science Section:ChooseTop of pageGeophysicsHistory and philosophyInstrumentation and techn...Materials scienceMiscellaneousNonlinear science and cha...Nuclear physicsOptics and photonicsParticle physicsPopularizationsSpace and planetary scien... << At the Edge of the Solar System: Icy New Worlds Unveiled. A. Doressoundiram, E. Lellouch (translated from French by B. Mizon). Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Praxis/Springer, New York, 2010. $34.95 paper (205 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4419-0864-3© 2010 American Institute of Physics.