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Volume 1, Number 1, 1959C. N. Hinshelwood Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 O. R. Frisch Molecular beams . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16 R. J. Blin-Stoyle The structure of the atomic nucleus . . 17--34 L. Kellner Alexander von Humboldt and the organization of international collaboration in geophysical research 35--48 H. V. Beck The selection and design of experiments for alternating current teaching . . . . 49--55 Barbara E. Sabey Skidding friction The effect of hysteresis losses in tyre tread rubber 56--61 E. J. Wilson and J. D. H. Hughes Light sources using radioisotopes . . . 62--69 Anonymous A review of: ``\booktitleTurning points in physics'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--76 D. A. Emms A review of: \booktitle``Reading German for scientists'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
H. S. W. Massey Space research . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95 S. Tolansky Diamond. Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--111 D. Ter Haar Some recent developments in the many-body problem . . . . . . . . . . . 112--133 W. G. V. Rosser Electromagnetism as a second-order effect (I). The definition of the ampere 134--141 F. Lester Physical science for teachers in training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--146 Sir John Cockcroft Churchill College . . . . . . . . . . . 147--150 L. R. B. Elton A clearing house for physics students 151--153 Anonymous Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--158 Anonymous A review of: \booktitle``The spiritual crisis of the scientific age'' . . . . . 159--162 Anonymous A review of: ``\booktitleExploring the structure of matter'' . . . . . . . . . 163--168
D. R. Chick Plasma research . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--190 N. Feather A history of neutrons and nuclei. Part 1 191--203 J. G. Wilson Cosmic radiation: The primary particles 204--219 A. C. Crombie The scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and its consequences 220--229 D. G. Holloway The strength of glass . . . . . . . . . 230--235 John Scupham Television and the teaching of science 236--241 H. Lockett The science masters' association annual meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--244 Anonymous The Institute of Physics report on the teaching of mathematics to physicists (1959) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--247 Anonymous Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 Anonymous D.S.I.R. grants . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247 J. L. Lewis The physical science study committee (1) a survey of its publications . . . . . . 248--252 G. R. Noakes A review of: ``\booktitleHandbook of scientific instruments and apparatus'' 253--256
N. Feather A history of neutrons and nuclei. Part 2 257--266 The Rev. G. D. Yarnold Understanding surface tension . . . . . 267--275 S. Tolansky Diamond. Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--286 D. Naylor Primary cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--303 W. Siddall The 44th Physical Society Exhibition, 1960: (1) A visitor's impressions . . . 304--305 M. H. Wilson The 44th Physical Society Exhibition, 1960: (2) The physical society colour group's exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306 L. Essen The 44th Physical Society Exhibition, 1960: (3) Atomic clocks . . . . . . . . 306--307 D. A. Wright The 44th Physical Society Exhibition, 1960: (4) Recent advances in solid-state physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308 Henry F. Boulind The Physical Science Study Committee. (2) The Summer Institute courses . . . . 309--312 Anonymous The postgraduate training of physicists in British universities . . . . . . . . 313--314 G. R. Noakes Gulbenkian foundation reports . . . . . 315--317 Anonymous Science education in a scientific age 318--318 L. A. Woodward Essay Review: \booktitleAdvances in spectroscopy [edited by H. W. Thompson] 319--321 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--336
Abdus Salam Elementary particles . . . . . . . . . . 337--354 Arthur F. Kip Cyclotron resonance in solids . . . . . 355--369 H. Lipson X-ray crystallography --- A meeting place of the sciences . . . . . . . . . 370--384 D. F. Jephcott Magnetohydrodynamic waves . . . . . . . 385--389 Sir Lawrence Bragg Atoms and molecules: A Friday evening discourse delivered on November 20 1959 390--393 L. L. Green and H. Muirhead The Physical Society Conference on nuclear physics at Liverpool, March 1960 394--399 S. W. Hutcherson The preparatory schools science course at Denstone College, 1960 . . . . . . . 400--402 G. J. Bullen Research day at the Royal Institution. The Department of Physics, Birkbeck College, University of London . . . . . 403--405 Anonymous Optical design research at Imperial College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406 G. R. Noakes Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 407--409 Sir Arnold Plant Essay Review: \booktitleElectronic computers and their business applications [by A. J. Burton and R. J. Mills] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--416
A. H. Cottrell The metallic state . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432 Martin Johnson The clue to a stellar interior from apse motion of a binary orbit . . . . . . . . 433--444 C. A. Taylor Diffraction in three dimensions . . . . 445--452 W. G. V. Rosser Electromagnetism as a second-order effect (II). The electric and magnetic fields of a charge moving with uniform velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--466 H. Henderson Interference filters . . . . . . . . . . 467--478 K. Laybourn Who will teach? . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--482 L. F. Bates The Royal Society tercentenary celebrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--485 V. T. Saunders Medical electronics: Third International Conference and Exhibition . . . . . . . 486--494 N. Thompson Reports on progress in physics . . . . . 495--497 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--500
K. W. H. Stevens Masers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 Anonymous O.E.E.C. seminar on the use of television for the teaching of science 14--14 Anonymous The international scientific radio union 14--14 M. J. Poole The neutron booster . . . . . . . . . . 15--20 R. A. R. Tricker The sceptical physicist . . . . . . . . 21--30 W. D. Allen The tandem generator . . . . . . . . . . 31--38 Stephen White The physical science study committee (3) the planning and structure of the course 39--54 L. F. Bates Physics at the British Association, Cardiff meeting, 1960 . . . . . . . . . 55--58 W. S. C. Williams The nuclear physics meeting of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, Glasgow, September, 1960 . . . 59--62 V. T. Saunders Opening of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Widrith . . . . . . . . . 63--68 Anonymous International conference on physics education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70 E. J. Wenham Conference of the physical sciences section of the association of teachers in colleges and departments of education 71--72 G. R. Noakes Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 73--74 E. H. Linfoot A review of: ``\booktitleLa structure et l'evolution de l'univers'' . . . . . . . 75--77 Anonymous A review of: ``\booktitleThe special theory of relativity'' . . . . . . . . . 78--80
L. Rotherham Energy for the world's needs . . . . . . 81--92 L. Pearce Williams Faraday and the structure of matter . . 93--105 I. M. Stephenson Science in space . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114 G. R. Noakes Corso di aggiornamento . . . . . . . . . 115--115 J. V. Evans Radar astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--142 E. W. Lee Non-linear vibrations . . . . . . . . . 143--156 V. T. Saunders The Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, London, N.W.2 open days 22--23 September 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164
Sir Graham Sutton, C.B.E. Advancing fronts in meteorology . . . . 165--182 W. C. Nixon X-ray microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--197 E. H. Freitag The friction of solids . . . . . . . . . 198--216 Dr. E. W. J. Mitchell The physics of diamond . . . . . . . . . 217--222 D. Shoenberg Low temperature physics . . . . . . . . 223--230 G. R. N. Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 231--235 Anonymous Optics at Imperial College . . . . . . . 235--235 Anonymous The 45th annual exhibition of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237 H. Lockett The science masters' association annual meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--240 Anonymous D.S.I.R. grants and awards, 1961 . . . . 240--240 G. B. Cobbold A review of: \booktitle``Translation from Russian for scientists'' . . . . . 241--244
J. Mcaulay Science in civil defence . . . . . . . . 245--252 D. G. King-Hele Satellite orbits and their geophysical implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267 H. J. J. Braddick Interference spectroscopy . . . . . . . 268--276 R. E. Jennings The microtron . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--285 R. R. Birss Electromagnetic induction . . . . . . . 286--297 E. J. Wenham Physical science in the training college 298--301 P. J. Bateman Thermoelectric power generation . . . . 302--311 V. T. Saunders The National Chemical Laboratory . . . . 312--317 Anonymous Mathematics for physicists and engineers 318--318 Anonymous Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 319--320 W. G. V. Rosser A review of: ``\booktitleClassical electricity and magnetism'' . . . . . . 321--324 Otto Robert Frisch Book Review: \booktitleFrom dualism to unity in physics. By A. Landé (Cambridge University Press, 1960). Pp. xvi + 114 323--323
R. J. Blin-Stoyle Particles, field theory and force . . . 325--344 W. R. Harper Electrification following the contact of solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--359 P. Vigoureux The gyromagnetic ratio of the proton . . 360--366 J. M. A. Lenihan The scalpel and the spectroscope . . . . 367--380 G. R. N. Physics for grammar schools . . . . . . 381--381 Anonymous On the record . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384 M. B. Waldron A survey of research on the transuranic elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--402 Sister St. Joan of Arc The teaching of modern physics in schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--408
A. E. De Barr The applications of single crystals . . 409--422 G. M. Lewis Neutrino and antineutrino losses in nuclear processes . . . . . . . . . . . 423--427 R. D. Davies Radio emission from interstellar neutral hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--446 A. Von Engel The nature and properties of a plasma 447--462 G. W. Brown Accurate voltage reference systems . . . 463--471 J. Alan Chalmers The correspondence between a current-carrying coil and a magnetic dipole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--474 V. T. S. DSIR research establishments . . . . . . 475--478 G. R. N. Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 479--481 J. G. Powles Essay Review: The nucleus as it usually is. \booktitleThe Principles of Nuclear Magnetism, by A. Abragam . . . . . . . . 482--483 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--488
J. W. Martin Looking at metals: A lecture for schools 1--15 O. R. Frisch Time and relativity: Part I . . . . . . 16--27 W. G. V. Rosser Electromagnetism as a second order effect. Paper III. The Biot--Savart law 28--44 J. V. Jelley \vCerenkov radiation: Its origin, properties and applications . . . . . . 45--57 D. H. Parkinson Some aspects of the infra-red absorption spectra of semiconductors . . . . . . . 58--74 V. T. Saunders The Wool Industries Research Association 75--79 A. Salam The proceedings of the 1960 Annual International Conference on high energy physics at Rochester, N.Y. . . . . . . . 80--80
S. H. G. Stevens Clean air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90 M. H. Wilson and R. W. Brocklebank Colour and perception: The work of Edwin Land in the light of current concepts 91--111 D. W. G. Ballentyne Electroluminescence . . . . . . . . . . 112--124 Anonymous 1. Determination of wood density variation across tree growth rings by means of $ \beta $-particle absorption 125--133 V. T. Saunders The National Physical Laboratory: Solids at extremely high pressures . . . . . . 134--137 Anonymous The Institute of Physics and the Physical Society Conference on nuclear physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139 A. Nightingale Report on the fourth International Conference and Exhibition on Medical Electronics, New York, 1961 . . . . . . 140--144 Anonymous The Rutherford High Energy Laboratory of the National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--149 D. F. Gibbs Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151 M. V. Griffith The British Association meeting at Norwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--154 J. E. Geake Rutherford in Manchester . . . . . . . . 155--158 Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
M. J. Aitken Physics applied to archaeology --- Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--176 Anonymous The American Association of Physics Teachers: Demonstration experiments in physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176 D. M. Blow The molecular approach to biology . . . 177--193 O. R. Frisch Time and relativity: Part II . . . . . . 194--201 N. Pentland The diploma in technology: Courses in applied physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--211 Anonymous Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--216 P. L. Marsden The International Conference on Cosmic Rays and the Earth Storm, Kyoto, Japan. September 3--15, 1961 . . . . . . . . . 217--221 E. W. Lee Kyoto 1961. The international conference on magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--238 Anonymous The 46th annual exhibition of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society --- 15--19 January, 1962 . . . . 239--239 Anonymous Harwell Reactor School: Science masters course No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240 T. G. Pickavance A review of: ``\booktitleTechniques of high energy physics'' . . . . . . . . . 240--240
J. M. Ziman Electrons in metals: A short guide to the Fermi surface . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256 A. W. Crook Some physical aspects of lubrication and wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--271 R. W. Brocklebank Two international colour meetings . . . 272--277 J. Alan Chalmers The laws of electromagnetism and an electrostatic analogue . . . . . . . . . 278--285 K. G. Ramanathan Faraday's law of induction and the force on a body due to change in its magnetization in an electric field . . . 286--289 V. T. Saunders The NPL ``microwave mekometer'' . . . . 290--292 Anonymous The teaching of science and mathematics 292--292 V. T. Saunders DSIR research establishments: The Building Research Station, Garston . . . 293--296 V. T. Saunders The British Association Granada lectures 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298 E. B. Paul Masses of nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302 Anonymous High energy instrumentation . . . . . . 303--304 Anonymous Isotope separation . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--320
J. M. Ziman Electrons in metals: A short guide to the Fermi surface . . . . . . . . . . . 321--333 M. J. Aitken Physics applied to archaeology --- part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--352 E. J. Hay Electromagnetism for schools, based on M.K.S.A. units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--367 Uri Haber-Schaim The Physical Science Study Committee (4): The working session on physics teaching at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--374 R. Frith Ozone in the Earth's atmosphere . . . . 375--381 Gerd Buchdahl The philosophical basis of physics . . . 382--394 D. W. Harlow The Science Masters' Association annual meeting, Imperial College, 2nd to 5th January, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--397 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400
J. M. Ziman Electrons in metals: A short guide to the Fermi surface . . . . . . . . . . . 401--414 H. Barrell The metre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--434 D. E. J. Ingram Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--452 R. A. R. Tricker Amp\`ere as a contemporary physicist . . 453--468 V. T. Saunders The Royal Institution Christmas lectures, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--473 K. Mendelssohn Sciences in Communist China . . . . . . 474--476 J. G. Wilson Essay review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--480
J. M. Ziman Electrons in metals: A short guide to the Fermi surface . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 W. J. Comley Ultra high frequency acoustic waves . . 15--26 B. J. Mason The cloud chamber as a tool in cloud physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--48 D. F. Jephcott The Salzburg conference on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research (4th to 9th September, 1961) 49--54 Anonymous The Royal Society and research in schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 V. T. Saunders At the national physical laboratory open days, May 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72 N. Feather Rutherford at McGill . . . . . . . . . . 73--78 J. M. A. Lenihan Elementary particles . . . . . . . . . . 76--78 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
J. M. Ziman Electrons in metals: A short guide to the Fermi surface . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99 N. R. Howard The physical principles of semiconductor power rectifier operation . . . . . . . 100--112 L. Pearce Williams Amp\`ere's electrodynamic molecular model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123 L. Mackinnon Ultrasonic attenuation . . . . . . . . . 124--138 D. H. Martin Filling the spectroscopic gap between microwaves and the infra-red. Part I . . 139--153 A. W. Bright Essay Review: Applied electrostatics . . 154--155 Anonymous Science master course at the Harwell Reactor School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--160
Peter E. Glaser Thermal imaging techniques for high-temperature research . . . . . . . 161--175 J. E. Roberts Codes of practice for the use of ionizing radiations . . . . . . . . . . 176--186 D. H. Martin Filling the spectroscopic gap between microwaves and the infra-red. Part II 187--205 H. V. Beck Practical class work at the Cavendish Laboratory: A new approach . . . . . . . 206--220 A. S. Parasnis The production of a single slit diffraction pattern by reflection . . . 221--222 V. T. Saunders DSIR Research Establishments. The British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227 V. T. Saunders Some exhibits at the Royal Society conversazione, May 1962 . . . . . . . . 228--230 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--240
S. N. Ghosh and Sharda Nand Rocket spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . 241--255 J. Silcox The electron microscopy of thin metal foils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--277 W. H. McCrea The origin of the solar system . . . . . 278--290 V. T. Saunders At the national physical laboratory . . 291--292 V. T. Saunders DSIR research establishments . . . . . . 293--298 D. W. Harlow The Science Masters' Association annual meeting Manchester College of Science and Technology, 2nd to 5th January, 1963 299--303 Anonymous Emigration of scientists from the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305 K. Dolder Essay Review: The application of shock waves to research in chemistry and physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--308 Harold Heywood Solar furnaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--312 D. F. Gibbs Reports on progress in physics . . . . . 312--314 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320
F. E. Karasz Adiabatic calorimetry . . . . . . . . . 321--330 D. K. Thomas Some aspects of the physics of space research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--337 J. G. Powles Negative absolute temperatures and rotating temperatures . . . . . . . . . 338--355 D. F. Bacon and W. F. Nash Spark chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--372 Sister St. Joan of Arc An enquiry into the teaching of physical science in girls' grammar schools . . . 373--391 J. E. Geake Physics at the B.A. in Manchester --- 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--398 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
H. J. Pain Shock waves in a plasma . . . . . . . . 401--421 K. A. G. Mendelssohn Physical science in the twentieth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--434 C. Hilsum and P. G. R. King Some demonstrations of the properties of optical masers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--444 Gerald Holton On the teaching of physics as one of the basic sciences at University level --- Part I: Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . 445--452 R. C. Lyness The equivalence of Amp\`ere's Electrodynamic Law and that of Biot and Savart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--455 J. Alan Chalmers Taking the mystery out of Gauss's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--458 D. J. Sansom The magnetic field arising from a steady current flowing in a long straight conductor of rectangular cross-section 459--461 V. T. Saunders ``Harwell'' --- A film about the Atomic Energy Research Establishment . . . . . 462--462 V. T. Saunders At the National Chemical Laboratory open days, September 1962 . . . . . . . . . . 463--467 Anonymous Relativity and gravity . . . . . . . . . 468--472 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--480
Gerald Holton, Professor of Physics On the teaching of physics as one of the basic sciences at university level --- part II: Curriculum development . . . . 1--14 G. Burniston Brown A new treatment of diffraction . . . . . 15--27 L. Pearce Williams Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--37 D. E. Caro Physics courses in Victoria, Australia 38--49 Helen Bunton Looking forward in physics and chemistry teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51 Anonymous The Quiet Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--54 Anonymous Magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--58 Anonymous The Earth's environment . . . . . . . . 58--61 R. E. D. Bishop and V. T. Saunders The Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution on vibration . . . . . . . . 62--63 Anonymous `Communication in the modern world' . . 64--64 Anonymous The new radio telescope at the Mullard Observatory at Cambridge . . . . . . . . 65--66 V. T. Saunders At the national physical laboratory open days, May 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
Arthur L. Schawlow Optical and infra-red masers . . . . . . 81--102 Sir George Thomson Research in theory and practice . . . . 103--111 Nora E. Hill Demonstration of the properties of polarized light using a Michelson interferometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113 K. A. Pounds The Royal Society discussion on satellite Ariel, May 1963 . . . . . . . 114--116 V. T. Saunders At the national physical laboratory open days, May, 1963: The use of artificial satellites for relating time at distant points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119 Anonymous Recent research reports . . . . . . . . 120--121 V. T. Saunders DSIR research establishments: New physics division laboratories at the building research station, Garston . . . 122--131 V. T. Saunders At the national physical laboratory open days, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--136 Anonymous A review of: ``\booktitleProceedings of the International Conference on the Ionosphere'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137 G. D. Rochester Strange particles . . . . . . . . . . . 138--140 A. D. C. Grassie Apparatus drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 140--143 G. R. Noakes Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 144--147 Anonymous Problems facing university physics departments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--150 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
J. L. Olsen Strong magnetic fields . . . . . . . . . 161--179 R. M. Bull and W. F. Nash and B. C. Rastin Flash tube detectors . . . . . . . . . . 180--197 W. G. V. Rosser The Van Allen radiation zones I: The theory of trapping and the inner zone 198--211 J. M. A. Lenihan The Scottish Research Reactor Centre . . 212--216 V. T. Saunders Some exhibits at the Royal Society conversazione, 16th May, 1963 . . . . . 217--221 V. T. Saunders Post Office Research Station (Dollis Hill) open days, 12th and 13th September, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--226 V. T. Saunders Hydraulics research station open day, 11th September, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . 227--232 G. R. Noakes Films for science teachers . . . . . . . 233--234 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--240
Sir Harrie Massey Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 241--254 W. G. V. Rosser The Van Allen radiation zones . . . . . 255--269 A. T. G. Ferguson IBIS. A fast neutron time-of-flight system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--279 P. G. R. King Rotation detection with a `Ring-laser' 280--283 G. R. Noakes Elementary demonstrations: (1) Quantitative electrostatics . . . . . . 284--291 J. Alan Chalmers A difficulty in elementary electromagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292 J. C. Henderson Diffraction studies of dislocations in silicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295 V. T. Saunders Communication in the modern world . . . 296--297 D. W. Harlow The association for science education annual meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--301 Frank Oldham University reactions to changes in school physics teaching . . . . . . . . 302--303 W. E. Burcham Rutherford at Manchester, 1907--19 The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, Vol. 2. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963.) [Pp. 590] 105s . . . . . . 304--308 John C. Jennings, M.P. From inside Parliament (1): The Robbins report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--310 Austen Albu, M.P. From inside Parliament (2): The Robbins report and the Trend report . . . . . . 311--313 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320
W. Hume-Rothery Some notes on the structures of alloys of iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--347 E. H. S. Burhop The physics of elementary particles . . 348--358 J. S. Rowlinson The theory of liquids at equilibrium . . 359--376 N. J. Felici Contemporary electrostatics --- I: Physical background and applications . . 377--390 V. T. Saunders Particle size analysis . . . . . . . . . 391--393 W. Llowarch Schlieren methods . . . . . . . . . . . 394--397 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--400
Sir Nevill Mott On teaching quantum phenomena . . . . . 401--418 N. J. Felici Contemporary electrostatics --- II: Ionization charging and insulation . . . 419--437 Arthur Suddaby Transport processes in liquids . . . . . 438--456 Sir Harrie Massey Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 457--471 J. M. A. Lenihan Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 472--475 W. Bolton The association for science education: Physics teaching aids . . . . . . . . . 475--475 J. M. A. Lenihan The 48th annual exhibition of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, January 1964 . . . . . . . . . 476--477 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--480
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Anonymous Obituary: Sir George Paget Thomson, F.R.S. (1892--1975) . . . . . . . . . . i--iii W. V. Mayneord SI units in medical physics . . . . . . 1--12 Margaret F. Cracknell and Arthur P. Cracknell Applications of ultrasonics . . . . . . 13--44 T. Evans Diamonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--70 N. W. Grimes Crystal structures with asymmetric and off-centre atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--93 B. H. P. Rivett Operational research: (2) perspective and prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102 Sir Lawrence Bragg The development of X-ray analysis . . . 103--104 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107 Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
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F. E. Close Quarks, diquarks, tetraquarks, and pentaquarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78 H. M. Wiseman From Einstein's theorem to Bell's theorem: a history of quantum non-locality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 Michael Hartmann Minimal length scales for the existence of local temperature . . . . . . . . . . 89--102 J. Ambjòrn and J. Jurkiewicz and R. Loll The universe from scratch . . . . . . . 103--117 Joseph P. Conlon The string theory landscape: a tale of two hydras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--129
G. L. Klimchitskaya and V. M. Mostepanenko Experiment and theory in the Casimir effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144 Christopher A. Tout The triple-$ \alpha $ process and the origin of the elements . . . . . . . . . 145--155 Agustín Sánchez-Lavega `Planetodiversity': the variety of planets and planetary systems in the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--165 D. R. Matravers A history skirmish in physics . . . . . 167--170 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180
F. Rahman Superconducting detectors in astronomy 181--194 D. A. Battaglia and L. Stella Optimization through quantum annealing: theory and some applications . . . . . . 195--208 Patrick Voss-De Haan Physics and fingerprints . . . . . . . . 209--230 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
Fred S. Wouters The physics and biology of fluorescence microscopy in the life sciences . . . . 239--255 Jacob A. Dunningham Using quantum theory to improve measurement precision . . . . . . . . . 257--267 G. Compagno and R. Passante and F. Persico Edwin Power and the birth of dressed atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278 Kurt Jacobs and Daniel A. Steck A straightforward introduction to continuous quantum measurement . . . . . 279--303 Klaus-Peter Lieb and Juhani Keinonen Luminescence of ion-irradiated $ \alpha $-quartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--331 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--337
B. W. Shore and N. V. Vitanov Overdamping of coherently driven quantum systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--362 Robert Connon Smith Cataclysmic variables . . . . . . . . . 363--386 Jacob D. Bekenstein The modified Newtonian dynamics --- MOND and its implications for new physics . . 387--403 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--411
Chris Quigg Higgs bosons, electroweak symmetry breaking, and the physics of the Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Sougato Bose Quantum communication through spin chain dynamics: an introductory overview . . . 13--30 Sébastien Balibar Supersolidity and superfluidity . . . . 31--39 Michael Martin Nieto and John D. Anderson Search for a solution of the Pioneer anomaly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
D. Alf\`e and M. J. Gillan and G. D. Price Temperature and composition of the Earth's core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--80 Pablo Echenique Introduction to protein folding for physicists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--108 William D. Cochran and Michael Endl Hot Neptunes and super Earths . . . . . 109--117 Christopher Guy Essay Review: A tragic intellect or a tragedian? [review of \booktitleOppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by C. Thorpe, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2006, pp. 384, \pounds 24.00, hardback (ISBN 0-226-79845-3). Scope: sociological biography. Level: nonspecialist] . . . . 119--121 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--130
Andreas Brandhuber and Bill Spence and Gabriele Travaglini Twistor inspired methods in gauge theory and gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--142 Christine Silberhorn Detecting quantum light . . . . . . . . 143--156 J. Banerji Exploring fractional revivals and sub-Planck structures: a walk in phase space with Wigner and Kirkwood . . . . . 157--171 Peter Bussey Views over the terrain of physics . . . 173--176 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182
Jean-Jacques Greffet and Carsten Henkel Coherent thermal radiation . . . . . . . 183--194 S. F. King Neutrino mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--211 J. Thomas and P. Vahle Minos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--226 D. G. C. Jones The birth of modern physics . . . . . . 227--229 David Matravers Is there a theory of how to construct theories? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
Barbara A. Maher Environmental magnetism and climate change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--274 Stephen J. Blundell Molecular magnets . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290 Tom Melia Beethoven's Fifth `Sine'-phony: the science of harmony and discord . . . . . 291--295 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--306
Milan Palu\vs From nonlinearity to causality: statistical testing and inference of physical mechanisms underlying complex dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--348 L. Sudheendra and V. Moshnyaga and K. Samwer Metal--insulator transition and colossal magnetoresistance: relevance of electron--lattice coupling and electronic phase separation . . . . . . 349--364 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--374
Savas Georgiou and Demetrios Anglos and Costas Fotakis Photons in the service of our past: lasers in the preservation of cultural heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 M. Charlton and S. Jonsell and L. V. Jòrgensen and N. Madsen and D. P. van der Werf Antihydrogen for precision tests in physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--41 Jens Siewert and Carmelo Ferlito Mechanical erosion by flowing lava . . . 43--54 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
Roberto Trotta Bayes in the sky: Bayesian inference and model selection in cosmology . . . . . . 71--104 Oleg A. Godin Sound transmission through water--air interfaces: new insights into an old problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123 Jonathan P. Dowling Quantum optical metrology --- the lowdown on high-N00N states . . . . . . 125--143 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--156
Ko Van der Weele Granular gas dynamics: how Maxwell's demon rules in a non-equilibrium system 157--178 P. Agostini and L. F. DiMauro Atoms in high intensity mid-infrared pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197 W. Becker and H. Rottke Many-electron strong-field physics . . . 199--223 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--235
Ilia I. Roussev Eruptive events in the solar atmosphere: new insights from theory and $3$-D numerical modelling . . . . . . . . . . 237--254 P. D. Townsend and B. Yang and Y. Wang Luminescence detection of phase transitions, local environment and nanoparticle inclusions . . . . . . . . 255--280 G. Carosi and K. van Bibber and M. Pivovaroff The search for axions . . . . . . . . . 281--297 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311
Paul R. Berman Light scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--330 Russell Cowburn Laser surface authentication --- reading Nature's own security code . . . . . . . 331--342 F. E. Close Rumsfeld hadrons . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350 D. J. Whitehouse Nanometrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--374 E. Sheldon An overview of almost 20 years' research on cold fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--378 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390
Christopher V. Gabel Femtosecond lasers in biology: nanoscale surgery with ultrafast optics . . . . . 391--411 G. J. Milburn and M. J. Woolley Quantum nanoscience . . . . . . . . . . 413--433 Kurt Jacobs and Alireza Shabani Quantum feedback control: how to use verification theorems and viscosity solutions to find optimal protocols . . 435--448 Eric Sheldon A starring role for nuclear physics . . 449--453 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--467
Peter Knight Editor Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Issue of \em Contemporary Physics . . . 1--1 Professor F. Close \booktitleElementary particles (1960) by Abdus Salam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Abdus Salam Elementary particles . . . . . . . . . . 5--22 Dr. P. T. Greenland \booktitleThe development of quantum theory. Part 1. Formulation and interpretation (1964) by R. E. Peierls 23--23 R. E. Peierls The development of quantum theory . . . 25--35 Professor A. J. Leggett \booktitleElementary particle symmetries (1965) by T. W. B. Kibble . . . . . . . 37--37 T. W. B. Kibble Elementary particle symmetries . . . . . 39--55 Dr. P. W. Milonni \booktitleTake a photon \ldots (1965) by O. R. Frisch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57 O. R. Frisch Take a photon \ldots . . . . . . . . . . 59--67 Professor P. V. E. McClintock \booktitleThe Josephson effects (1969) by B. W. Petley . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69 B. W. Petley The Josephson effects . . . . . . . . . 71--90 Professor R. Joseph \booktitleGravitational radiation: the theoretical aspect (1972) by S. W. Hawking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 S. W. Hawking Gravitational radiation: the theoretical aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--102 Professor R. Joseph \booktitleThe black hole in astrophysics: the origin of the concept and its role (1974) by S. Chandrasekhar 103--103 S. Chandrasekhar The black hole in astrophysics: the origin of the concept and its role . . . 105--128 Professor R. Thompson \booktitleThe Rydberg constant (1974) by G. W. Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129 G. W. Series The Rydberg constant . . . . . . . . . . 131--150 Professor A. Fisher \booktitleSnow crystals (1982) by F. C. Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--151 F. C. Frank Snow crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--172 Professor F. Close \booktitleParticle substructure. A common theme of discovery in this century (1982) by W. K. H. Panofsky . . 173--173 W. K. H. Panofsky Particle substructure. A common theme of discovery in this century . . . . . . . 175--196 Professor A. Stefanovska \booktitleSoap, cells and statistics --- random patterns in two dimensions (1984) by D. Weaire and N. Rivier . . . . . . . 197--197 D. Weaire and N. Rivier Soap, cells and statistics --- random patterns in two dimensions . . . . . . . 199--239 Professor J. H. Eberly \booktitleSchrödinger's cat and her laboratory cousins (1984) by A. J. Leggett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241 A. J. Leggett Schrödinger's cat and her laboratory cousins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--258 Dr. P. W. Milonni \booktitleNothing's plenty. The vacuum in modern quantum field theory (1985) by I. J. R. Aitchison . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259 I. J. R. Aitchison Nothing's plenty. The vacuum in modern quantum field theory . . . . . . . . . . 261--319 Professor R. Thompson \booktitleMeasuring the quantum mechanical wave function, by M. G. Raymer (1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321 M. G. Raymer Measuring the quantum mechanical wave function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--335 Professor Martin Plenio \booktitleQuantum random walks: an introductory overview (2003) by J. Kempe 337--337 J. Kempe Quantum random walks: an introductory overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--359 Dr. P. W. Milonni \booktitleNegative refraction (2004) by J. B. Pendry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361 J. B. Pendry Negative refraction . . . . . . . . . . 363--374
Jiannis K. Pachos Manifestations of topological effects in graphene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--389 B. N. Murdin Far-infrared free-electron lasers and their applications . . . . . . . . . . . 391--406 Q-Han Park Optical antennas and plasmonics . . . . 407--423 Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--435
M. Vogel The anomalous magnetic moment of the electron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--452 David C. Roberts When superfluids are a drag . . . . . . 453--461 Makoto Tsubota Quantum turbulence: from superfluid helium to atomic Bose--Einstein condensates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--475 Eric Sheldon Two-and-a-half millennia of scientific endeavour and enlightenment . . . . . . 477--478 Peter J. Bussey Beauty and physics . . . . . . . . . . . 479--482 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--494
Christian Beck Generalised information and entropy measures in physics . . . . . . . . . . 495--510 Peter D. Ditlevsen Climate transitions on long timescales 511--532 B. Normand Frontiers in frustrated magnetism . . . 533--552 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--561
Lawrence M. Ward Physics of neural synchronisation mediated by stochastic resonance . . . . 563--574 Mark Hillery and Vladimír Bu\vzek Quantum machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--586 Mark D. Havey Freezing light with cold atoms . . . . . 587--599 Dr. Peter W. Milonni \booktitleLidar. Range-Resolved Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, in the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Vol. 102, edited by Claus Weitkamp, Scope: review. Level: specialist . . . . 601--602 Dr. B. W. James \booktitleBright Earth --- The Invention of Colour, by P. Ball, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 602--602 Dr. Keith Benedict \booktitleQuantum Field Theory of Non-Equilibrium States, by J. Rammer, Scope: textbook. Level: students . . . . 602--603 Dr. Shashank Virmani \booktitleField Theory --- A Path Integral Approach, by A. Das, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . 604--604 Professor David Matravers \booktitleThe Cosmic Microwave Background, by R. Durrer, Scope: textbook/reference text. Level: advanced 604--605 Professor R. A. Cairns \booktitlePlasma Physics and Fusion Energy, by J. Freidberg, Scope: monograph. Level: senior undergraduates, beginning postgraduates and researchers 605--606 Professor Geoff Hall \booktitlePerspectives on LHC Physics, edited by G. Kane and A. Pierce, Scope: survey of possible discoveries at the LHC, the detectors and experimental challenges. Level: graduate students and scientists interested in the LHC . . . . 606--607 Professor Ken Pounds \booktitleUltraviolet and X-ray Spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere, in Cambridge Astrophysics Series, by K. J. H. Phillips, U. Feldman and E. Landi, Scope: monograph. Level: students and senior researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608 Professor Stephen M. Barnett \booktitleElements of Quantum Information, edited by W. P. Schleich and H. Walther, Scope: overview and progress report. Level: specialist and non-specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608--609 Professor Stephen M. Barnett \booktitleLectures on Quantum Information, edited by D. Bruß and G. Leuchs, Scope: lectures. Level: students and undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610 Professor S. Stenholm \booktitleQuantum Gravity, by C. Rovelli, Scope: report. Level: advanced graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611 John McFarland \booktitleObserving the Moon: The Modern Astronomer's Guide, 2nd edition, by G. North, Scope: reference guide. Level: general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--611 Professor Chris Linton \booktitleWave Propagation. From Electrons to Photonic Crystals and Left-Handed Materials, by P. Marko\vs and C. M. Soukoulis, Scope: textbook. Level: final year undergraduates and first year postgraduates . . . . . . . . 611--612 Professor G. W. Gibbons \booktitleFunctional Integration: Action and Symmetries, by P. Cartier and C. DeWitt-Morette, Scope: supplement. Level: graduate level and above . . . . 612--613 Professor Peter R. Hobson \booktitleObserving the Sun with Coronado\TM Telescopes, by P. Pugh, Scope: introductory guide. Level: general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--613
Peter Knight 50 years at the forefront of Physics . . 615--616 Matthew A. B. Baker and Richard M. Berry An introduction to the physics of the bacterial flagellar motor: a nanoscale rotary electric motor . . . . . . . . . 617--632 Konstantinos Dimopoulos Where galaxies really come from . . . . 633--646 Robert W. Keyes Physics, and transistors in computers 647--651 Derry W. Jones Locating targets with waves: radar and sonar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--655 Jonathan Tennyson Is there anybody out there? . . . . . . 657--659 Dr. Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light, by E. Wolf, Scope: textbook and reference. Level: graduate and practising scientist/engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 661--662 Professor Eric Sheldon \booktitleAn Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics, by R. N. Boyd, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . 662--663 Dr. P. J. Bussey \booktitleQuantum Reflections, edited by J. Ellis and D. Amati, Scope: essays. Level: graduate and general academic physicist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--664 Dr. Simon Altmann \booktitle100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know, by J. D. Barrow, Scope: general knowledge. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--664 Dr. M. Jamil and Professor J. T. Rhee \booktitleQuark--Gluon Plasma, by K. Yagi, T. Hatsuda and Y. Miake, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--666 Eric Sheldon \booktitleSubatomic Physics, 3rd edition, by E. M. Henley and A. García, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--667 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleDynamical Systems, edited by A. Fathi and J.-C. Yoccoz, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 667--667 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleMathematical Tools for One-Dimensional Dynamics, E. de Faria and W. de Melo, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--668 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleQuantum Computing for Computer Scientists, N. S. Yanofsky and M. A. Manucci, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--669 Dr. D. G. C. Jones \booktitleThree Steps to the Universe, D. Garfinkle and R. Garfinkle, Scope: introductory. Level: general reader and undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--669 Professor Ian M. Ward \booktitlePolymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, 3rd edition, by J. M. G. Cowie and V. Arrighi, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--670 Professor John Carroll \booktitleEssentials of Photonics, 2nd edition, by A. Rogers, Scope: textbook covering classical photonic devices and systems. Level: undergraduate or introductory postgraduate courses . . . 670--671 Professor F. W. Taylor \booktitleMars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries, by M. Hotakainen, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader 671--671 Professor Eric Sheldon \booktitleColliders and Neutrinos: The Window into Physics beyond the Standard Model. Proceedings of the 2006 Theoretical Advanced Summer Institute (TASI-2006) Lectures, edited by S. Dawson and R. N. Mohapatra, Scope: advanced summer school proceedings. Level: postgraduate and specialist . . . 671--673 Matthew Foreman Short notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--673
Peter Knight Obituary notice of Vitaly Ginzburg . . . 1--1 Axel Hutt Oscillatory activity in excitable neural systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16 A. N. Vamivakas and M. Atatüre Photons and (artificial) atoms: an overview of optical spectroscopy techniques on quantum dots . . . . . . . 17--36 H. S. Margolis Optical frequency standards and clocks 37--58 Bob Coecke Quantum picturalism . . . . . . . . . . 59--83 Norman Dombey Essay Review: The first war of physics: \booktitleAtomic: the First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939--49, by J. Baggott. ISBN 978-1-84831-044-5 . . . . . . . . . 85--90 Professor R. C. Johnson and Dr M. Oi \booktitleNuclear Superfluidity. Pairing in Finite Systems, by D. M. Brink and R. A. Broglia, Scope: textbook. Level: specialist, postdoctoral and postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleThe Noisy Pendulum, by M. Gitterman, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, graduate and general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92 Dr. Matt Probert \booktitleComputational Physics of Carbon Nanotubes, by H. Rafii-Tabar, Scope: introduction/reference. Level: researchers and postgraduate . . . . . . 92--93 Dr. Anne Juel \booktitleMagneto-Fluid Dynamics. Fundamentals and Case Studies of Natural Phenomena, by P. Lorrain, F. Lorrain and S. Houle, Scope: introduction. Level: advanced undergraduates and postgraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94 Professor S. J. Blundell \booktitleThe Pursuit of Perfect Packing, by T. Aste and D. Weaire, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader, postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . 94--95 Professor S. J. Blundell \booktitleThe Earth: Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution, 6th edition, by Sir Harold Jeffreys, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 95--96
Graham Farmelo Did Dirac predict the positron? . . . . 97--101 Netta Cohen and Jordan H. Boyle Swimming at low Reynolds number: a beginners guide to undulatory locomotion 103--123 Andrew N. Jordan and Alexander N. Korotkov Uncollapsing the wavefunction by undoing quantum measurements . . . . . . . . . . 125--147 K. Blaum and Yu. N. Novikov and G. Werth Penning traps as a versatile tool for precise experiments in fundamental physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--175 Dr. Anne Juel \booktitleFree Surface Flows Under Gravity Compensated Conditions, by M. E. Dreyer, Scope: review. Level: postgraduates, researchers and specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--177 Professor Mark Fox \booktitleFundamentals of Photonic Crystal Guiding, by M. Skorobogatiy and J. Yang, Scope: text. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . . . . . . 177--178 Professor Mark Fox \booktitleSlow Light. Science and Applications, edited by J. B. Khurgin and R. S. Tucker, Scope: research monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178 Professor R. S. MacKay \booktitleFacts and Speculations in Cosmology, by J. V. Narlikar and G. Burbidge, Scope: interplay between observation and cosmological models. Level: generally accessible . . . . . . 178--180 Professor Ian M. Ward \booktitleElectron Microscopy of Polymers, in the series Springer Laboratory, by G. H. Michler, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 180--181 Professor N. C. Wickramasinghe \booktitleDust in the Universe --- Similarities and Differences, by K. S. Krishna Swamy, Scope: introduction. Level: graduate students . . . . . . . . 181--182 Professor D. Bailin \booktitleModern Quantum Field Theory: A Concise Introduction, by T. Banks, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . 182--183 Professor Richard Carter \booktitleThe Method of Moments in Electromagnetics, by W. C. Gibson, Scope: modelling of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. Level: postgraduate and professional . . 183--184 Dr. D. G. C. Jones \booktitleConcepts in Quantum Mechanics, by V. Swarup Mathur and S. Singh, Scope: comprehensive textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 184--184 Professor Allan Solomon \booktitleBoulevard of Broken Symmetries: Effective Field Theories of Condensed Matter, by A. M. J. Schakel, Scope: textbook and reference. Level: postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . 184--185 Dr. P. J. Bussey \booktitleQuantum Leap: From Dirac and Feynman, Across the Universe to Human Body and Mind, by V. Ivancevic and T. Ivancevic, Scope: monograph collection. Level: graduate student and professional research worker . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleChaos and Coarse Graining in Statistical Mechanics, by P. Castiglione, M. Falcioni, A. Lesne and A. Vulpiani, Scope: monograph. Level: professional physicists, researchers and Ph.D. students . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187 Dr. Tim Evans \booktitleDynamical Processes on Complex Networks, by A. Barrat, M. Barthélemy and A. Vespignani, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate students in any scientific disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188 Professor Chris Linton \booktitleA History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple, by T. Heidarzadeh, Scope: monograph. Level: educated lay person and science historians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleMissing Data in Longitudinal Studies: Strategies for Bayesian Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis, by M. J. Daniels and J. W. Hogan. Scope: research monograph. Level: professional statisticians and Ph.D. students . . . . 188--189 Professor Alan Michette \booktitleInteractions of Photons and Neutrons with Matter, by S.-H. Chen and M. Kotlarchyk, Scope: textbook. Level: beginning graduates and above, scientists working at synchroton and neutron facilities . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189 Dr. P. J. Bussey \booktitleFermilab: Physics, The Frontier and Megascience, by L. Hoddeson, A. Kolb and C. Westfall, Scope: historical. Level: general reader 190--190 Professor Stephen M. Barnett \booktitleHilbert Transforms, by F. W. King, Scope: reference/textbook. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--191 Dr. Ken Zetie \booktitleThe Language of Physics: A Foundation for University Study, by J. P. Cullerne and A. Machacek, Scope: undergraduate/pre-university textbook. Level: physics and engineering students 191--192
Salvatore Esposito The disappearance of Ettore Majorana: an analytic examination . . . . . . . . . . 193--209 Michelangelo L. Mangano The super-LHC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--231 S. M. Soskin and P. V. E. McClintock and T. M. Fromhold and I. A. Khovanov and R. Mannella Stochastic webs and quantum transport in superlattices: an introductory review 233--248 Darwin Palima and Jesper Glückstad Generalised phase contrast: microscopy, manipulation and more . . . . . . . . . 249--265 Derry W. Jones Titanic Hungarian refugee physicists . . 267--271 Derry W. Jones Lovelock: a sustaining life . . . . . . 273--276 Professor Chris Linton \booktitleA First Course in Continuum Mechanics, by O. Gonzalez and A. Stuart, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate and advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 277--277 Professor Peter R. Hobson \booktitleElectromagnetic Interactions and Hadronic Structure, edited by F. Close, S. Donnachie and G. Shore, Scope: reference. Level: graduate students and researchers in the field of particle physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278 J. Matthewman \booktitleA History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change, by B. Bolin, Scope: documentary. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleA Journey through Statistical Physics. Selecta of Jürg Fröhlich, edited by G. Felder, G. M. Graf and K. Hepp, Scope: monograph. Level: research . . . 279--280 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleQuantum Field Theory of Non-equilibrium States, by J. Rammer, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleHilbert Space Operators in Quantum Physics, 2nd edition, by J. Blank, P. Exner and M. Havlicek, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . 281--281 Professor David Matravers \booktitleEntangled World --- The Fascination of Quantum Information and Computation, edited by J. Audretsch (translator R. Ehrlich), Scope: popular science. Level: undergraduate with many parts for a general reader . . . . . . . 281--282 Professor D. G. C. Jones \booktitleCambridge Illustrated Handbook of Optoelectronics and Photonics, by S. Kasap, H. Ruda and Y. Boucher, Scope: comprehensive reference. Level: undergraduate and above . . . . . . . . 282--283 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleAn Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 6th edition, by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and above 283--283 Dr. G. Barton \booktitleAngular Momentum in Quantum Physics, by L. C. Biedenharn and J. D. Louck, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284 Professor S. J. Blundell \booktitleQuantum Theory of the Electron Liquid, by G. F. Giuliani and G. Vignale, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleMonsoon Dynamics, edited by J. Lighthill and R. Pearce, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 285--285 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleIntroduction to Nanoelectronics, by V. V. Mitin, V. A. Kochelap and M. A. Stroscio, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286 Professor K. Alan Shore \booktitleProgress in Nano-Electro-Optics VI, Springer Series in Optical Sciences, edited by M. Ohtsu, Scope: monograph. Level:specialist . . . 286--287 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleCosmic Perspectives, edited by S. K. Biswas, D. C. V. Mallik and C. V. Vishveshwara, Scope: review. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287 Dr. J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleThe Sun: A User's Manual, By C. Vita-Finzi, Scope: popular science. Level: general public . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Axel Kuhn and Daniel Ljunggren Cavity-based single-photon sources . . . 289--313 T. Cheng and Q. Su and R. Grobe Introductory review on quantum field theory with space--time resolution . . . 315--330 Jonathan J. Heckman F-theory and experiment . . . . . . . . 331--348 Sue Ion The world's nuclear future --- built on material success . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--364 Professor Mario Bertolotti \booktitleGeometrical and Trigonometric Optics, by E. L. Dereniak and T. D. Dereniak, Scope: textbook. Level: students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365 Professor Mario Bertolotti \booktitleTerahertz Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications, edited by S. L. Dexheimer, Scope: textbook. Level: beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366 Professor Barrie W. Jones \booktitleStrategies of Life Detection, edited by O. Botta, J. L. Bada, J. Gómez-Elvira, E. Javaux, F. Selsis and R Summons, Scope: workshop papers. Level: postgraduates/specialists/advanced hobbyists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleHandbook of Charged Particle Optics, 2nd edition, edited by J. Orloff, Scope: handbook/reference. Level: experts/advanced students . . . . 367--367 Professor J. R. Sambles \booktitleAperiodic Structures in Condensed Matter, by E. M. Barber, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate 367--369 Professor Eric Sheldon \booktitleNuclear and Particle Physics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, by B. R. Martin, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370 Dr. J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleClassical Mechanics and Relativity, by H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten, Scope: introductory. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371 Professor G. W. Gibbons \booktitleAntimatter, by F. Close, Scope: popular account. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Professor N. Riley \booktitleThe Detonation Phenomenon, by J. H. S. Lee, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373 Dr. A. H. Harker \booktitlePhysics and Applications of Negative Refractive Index Materials, by S. Anantha Ramakrishna and T. M. Grzegorczyk, Scope: introduction/reference. Level: newcomer to the field and above . . . . . . . . . 373--374 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleAdvanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, edited by J. Banhart, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral workers . . . . . . . . . . 374--374 Dr. Oleg Kolosov \booktitleBiophotonics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, edited by L. Pavesi and P. M. Fauchet, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate students in final year to academics . . 375--375 Professor Peter Kalmus \booktitlePlaying with Planets, by Gerard 't Hooft, Scope: popular science. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 375--376 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleA Group-Theoretical Approach to Quantum Optics, by A. B. Klimov and S. M. Chumakov, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced lecturer or researcher . . . . 376--377 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleQuantum Computing without Magic, by Zdzislaw Meglicki, Scope: textbook. Level: researchers and advanced students . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleInformation, Physics and Computation, by Marc Mézard and Andrea Montanari, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist researcher . . . . . . . . . 378--378 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics, by L. M. Sander, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate . . . . . . . . . 378--379 Professor D. G. C. Jones \booktitleQuantum Transport. Introduction to Nanoscience, by Y. V. Nazarov and Y. M. Blanter, Scope: general introduction. Level: postgraduate students and physicists . . 379--380 Professor S. J. Blundell \booktitleA Paradigm Called Magnetism, by S. Dattagupta, Scope: general introduction. Level: postgraduate . . . 380--380
Jonathan P. Williams The astrophysical environment of the solar birthplace . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--396 Doreen Stoneham and Marshall Stoneham Beating the forger: authenticating ceramic antiquities . . . . . . . . . . 397--411 R. M. L. Evans Statistical physics of shear flow: a non-equilibrium problem . . . . . . . . 413--427 Derry W. Jones Sailing: saga and science . . . . . . . 429--431 Derry W. Jones Magnetic mines, molecular models and the mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--437 Dr. Aneta Stefanovska \booktitleThe Biophysical Basis of Excitability, by H. G. Fereira and M. W. Marshall, Scope: research. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--440 Professor J. R. Sambles \booktitleMicrostructural Randomness and Scaling in Mechanics of Materials, by M. Ostoja-Starzewski, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 440--440 Professor T. J. M. Boyd \booktitleLet there be Light, by A. Montwill and A. Breslin, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader, undergraduate, graduate physics students 440--441 Professor John E. Carroll \booktitleMetamaterials: Critique and Alternatives, by B. A. Munk, Scope: research monograph. Level: masters degree and above . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--444 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleSuperconductivity --- A very short introduction, by S. Blundell, Scope: scientific essay. Level: interested reader . . . . . . . . . . . 444--444 Dr. Chris Athorne \booktitleAlgebraic Theory of Differential Equations, edited by M. A. H. MacCallum and A. V. Mikhailov, Scope: workshop proceedings. Level: postgraduate/research level . . . . . . 444--445 Professor John J. Quenby \booktitleFoundations of High-Energy Astrophysics, by M. Vietri, Scope: textbook and reference. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446 Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleMicroscopic Chaos, Fractals and Transport in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 24, by R. Klages, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . 446--447 Dr. Tony Sudbery \booktitlePhysics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement, by K. Laws and A. Sugano, photographs by M. Swope and G. Schiavone, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader and undergraduate . . . . 447--448 Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleAn Introduction to Lagrangian Mechanics, by A. J. Brizard, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and graduate students . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448 Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleStochastic Resonance. From Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance to Stochastic Signal Quantization, by M. D. McDonnell, N. G. Stocks, C. E. M. Pearce and D. Abbott, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . 448--449 Dr. K. P. Zetie \booktitleStargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy, by P. E. Kinzer, Scope: introductory guide. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 449--450 Professor Mark Fox \booktitleSemiconductor Quantum Bits, edited by F. Henneberger and O. Benson, Scope: research monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . 450--450 Professor Allan Solomon \booktitleQuantum Hall Effects. Field Theoretical Approach and Related Topics, 2nd ed., by Z. F. Ezawa, Scope: encyclopedic compendium. Level: student and researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleThe Universe in a Helium Droplet, by G. E. Volovik, Scope: monograph. Level: research level . . . . 451--452 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitleAstrophysical Lasers, by V. Letokhov and S. Johansson, Scope: monograph. Level: research level . . . . 452--453 Dr. C. Böhmer \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity, by V. F. Mukhanov and S. Winitzki, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and graduate students, researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--453 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleNothing: A Very Short Introduction, by F. Close. Scope: scientific essay. Level: --- interested reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleRadial Basis Functions, by M. D. Buhmann, Scope: monograph. Level: general audience, mathematics theorists 454--454 Professor Geoffrey Duxbury \booktitleThe Jahn--Teller Effect, by I. B. Bersuker, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced/research . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455 Professor Peter Hobson \booktitlePolarization Holography, by L. Nikolova and P. S. Ramanujam, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 455--456 Professor Alan Martin \booktitleYou are Here: A Portable History of the Universe, by C. Potter, Scope: plain text. Level: general reader 456--456 Professor Ian D. Lawrie \booktitleApproaches to Quantum Gravity, edited by Daniele Oriti, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 457--457 Dr. Matt Probert \booktitleSymmetry and Condensed Matter Physics --- A Computational Approach, by M. El-Batanouny and F. Wooten, Scope: textbook. Level: active researcher at postgraduation and above . . . . . . . . 457--458 Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleThe Behaviour of Chemical Elements in Stars, by C. Jascheck and M. Jasheck, Scope: reference work. Level: postgraduate/specialist . . . . . . . . 458--459 Professor Ken Pounds \booktitleGalaxies: A Very Short Introduction, by J. Gribbin, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . 459--460 Professor David Matravers \booktitleFinding the Big Bang, edited by P. J. E. Peebles, L. A. Page, Jr. and R. B. Partridge, Scope: history of science. Level: general reader with an interest in cosmology to specialist in history or philosophy of science . . . . 460--463 Dr. J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleBose--Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases, 2nd ed., by C. J. Pethick and H. Smith. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate 463--463 Professor R. S. MacKay \booktitleThe Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Volume V, 1709--1713, edited by A. Rupert Hall and L. Tilling, Scope: reference. Level: specialist in history of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleSirius Matters, by N. Brosch, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduates, graduate students, amateur astronomers, educated public . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465 Professor S. J. Blundell \booktitleObserving the Night Sky with Binoculars, by S. J. O'Meara, Scope: popular astronomy. Level: general . . . 465--465 Professor Ilia I. Roussev \booktitleSolar and Stellar Magnetic Activity, by C. Schrijver and C. Zwaan, Scope: textbook. Level: specialist, postgraduate, graduate and undergraduate 466--466 Professor Ilia I. Roussev \booktitleCool Discs, Hot Flows: The Varying Faces of Accreting Compact Objects, edited by M. Axelsson, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: specialist, postgraduate and graduate 466--467 Dr. Robert C. Smith \booktitleAstrophysics Processes: The Physics of Astronomical Phenomena, by H. Bradt, Scope: textbook. Level: senior undergraduate/beginning postgraduate . . 467--467 Joshua R. Sangoro \booktitlePolymers, Liquids and Colloids in Electric Fields, edited by Y. Tsori and U. Steiner, Scope: textbook. Level: specialist and non-specialist . . . . . 467--468 Dr. S. C. Tiwari \booktitleFrom Quantum Cohomology to Integrable Systems, by M. A. Guest, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate, researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
Adriana Pálffy Nuclear effects in atomic transitions 471--496 Christopher C. Gerry and Jihane Mimih The parity operator in quantum optical metrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--511 Danilo Zavrtanik Ultra high energy cosmic rays . . . . . 513--529 P. J. Bussey Quantum quicksands . . . . . . . . . . . 531--534 Professor Ken Pounds \booktitleSpace Enterprise --- Living and Working Offworld in the 21st Century, by Philip R. Harris, Scope: source book. Level: general reader and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--535 Professor Ko van der Weele \booktitleThe Light/Dark Universe. Light from Galaxies, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, by J. M. Overduin and P. S. Wesson, Scope: monograph. Level: informed reader interested in astronomy 535--536 Professor Stig Stenholm \booktitlePhilosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, by H. Weyl. Source: monograph. Level. researchers and advanced students . . . . . . . . . . . 537--539 Emeritus Professor Derry W. Jones \booktitleTurbulence, by Giles Foden, Scope: wartime meteorology and fiction. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 539--540 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleFuture Spacecraft Propulsion Systems, 2nd ed., by P. A. Czysz and C. Bruno, Scope: electric rockets explained, IAC, propulsion space, spacecraft engines. Level: advanced students and experts on the field . . . 540--541 Professor Vlatko Vedral \booktitleQuantum Statistical Mechanics, by W. C. Schieve and L. P. Horwitz, Scope: basic theory, with applications from quantum optics to quantum gravity. Level: researchers and advanced students 541--542 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleQuantum Information, Oxford Master Series in Physics, by Stephen M. Barnett, Scope: quantum information, quantum computing and the foundations of quantum theory. Level: undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate . . . . . . . 542--543 Dr. Max Wallis \booktitleCosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science, by John D. Barrow, Scope: key concepts. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--544 Dr. M. Jamil \booktitleComputer Solutions in Physics: With Applications in Astrophysics, Biophysics, Differential Equations, and Engineering, by Steve VanWyk, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate students 544--545 Professor M. Bertolotti \booktitleWaves in Metamaterials, by L. Solymar and E. Shamonina, Scope: textbook. Level: researchers and advanced students . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleUniverse or Multiverse?, by Bernard Carr, Scope: review. Level: physicists and philosophers advanced undergraduate and above . . . . . . . . 546--550 Dr. Monica Pierri-Galvao \booktitleThe New Physics: For the Twenty-first Century, by Gordon Fraser, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 550--551 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleDynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures, by Rashmi C. Desai and Raymond Kapral, Scope: monograph. Level: professional physicists, researchers, Ph.D. students, advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . 551--552 Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleMeasured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, 3rd edition, by Ian Johnston, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--552 Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleBuilding Scientific Apparatus, 4th edition, by John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan and Sandra E. Greer, Scope: reference. Level: anyone using, designing, modifying or specifying scientific apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--553 Dr. Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleFundamentals of Medical Imaging, by Paul Suetens, Scope: textbook and reference. Level: undergraduate, graduate and practicing scientist/engineer . . . . . . . . . . . 553--554 Dr. Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleComputed Tomography: From Photon Statistics to Modern Cone-Beam CT, by Thorsten M. Buzug, Scope: textbook and reference. Level: graduate and practising scientist/engineer . . . 554--555 Dr. Peter W. Milonni \booktitleElectronic Noise and Fluctuations in Solids, by Sh. Kogan, Scope: general reader, postgraduate and specialist. Level: anyone interested in the theory of fluctuation phenomena . . 555--555 Professor Ken Pounds \booktitleFormation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges (IAU S245), Proceedings of the IAU Symposia and Colloquia, edited by Martin Bureau, E. Athanassoula, and Beatriz Barbuy Scope: wide-ranging review. Level: graduate students and active researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 556--556 Dr. Robert C. Smith Stellar Spectral Classification, by Richard O. Gray and Christopher J. Corbally, Scope: monograph and reference book. Level: advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists . . . . . 556--557 Professor N. C. Wickramasinghe An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust, by E. Krugel, Scope: textbook. Level: workers in the field of interstellar dust . . . . . . . . . . . 557--557 Dr. Manuel Vogel In Vivo Optical Imaging of Brain Function, 2nd ed., edited by Ron D. Frostig, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced graduate and postgraduate researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--558 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider, by D. Lincoln, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, undergraduate . . . . . . . 558--559 Dr. Matt Probert \booktitlePhysics Meets Mineralogy: Condensed-Matter Physics in Geosciences, edited by Hideo Aoki, Yasuhiko Syono and Russell J. Hemley, Scope: geophysicists, mineralogists, condensed matter physicists. Level: graduate level textbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--559 Professor Alan Martin \booktitleOrigins of Life in the Universe, by R. Jastrow and M. Rampino, Scope: illustrated text for non-science students. Level: general reader . . . . 559--560 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleEngineering the Guitar: Theory and Practice, by Richard Mark French, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate physicists and engineers, musicologists, guitar builders and players . . . . . . 560--561 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleIntroduction to Statistical Physics, 2nd ed., by Kerson Huang, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--561 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitlePlanetary Systems: Detection, Formation and Habitability of Extrasolar Planets, by M. Ollivier, T. Encrenaz, F. Roques, F. Selsis and F. Casoli, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate physicists and researchers 561--562 Matthew R. Foreman Short notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--563 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Joan Centrella and John Baker and Bernard Kelly and James van Meter Merging black holes . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Richard G. Carter Acceleration technologies for charged particles: an introduction . . . . . . . 15--41 Christopher Eling and Itzhak Fouxon and Yaron Oz Gravity and a geometrisation of turbulence: an intriguing correspondence 43--54 Keith A. Nugent The measurement of phase through the propagation of intensity: an introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69 Peter V. E. McClintock Quantum aspects of life . . . . . . . . 71--73 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleWaves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters, by Leo H. Holthuijsen, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75 Professor Mario Bertolotti \booktitleOptical Pattern Recognition, edited by F. T. S. Yu and S. Jutamulia, Scope: review. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76 Professor Mario Bertolotti \booktitleThe Essence of Dielectric Waveguides, by C. Yeh and F. Shimabukuro, Scope: overview. Level: researchers and students in optical communications, photonics and applied electromagnetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77 Dr. Matt Probert \booktitleElectronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods, by Richard M. Martin, Scope: graduate level textbook. Level: theoretical materials scientists/condensed matter physicists/computational chemists . . . 77--77 Dr. Edmund Tarleton \booktitleApplied Solid Mechanics, by P. Howell, G. Kozyreff and J. Ockendon, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate and advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 77--79 Dr. M. Jamil \booktitleAn Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators, by Mario Conte and William W. MacKay, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers 79--80 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleQuantum Mechanics with Basic Field Theory, by Bipin R. Desai, Scope: course book. Level: graduate . . . . . . 80--80 Professor Michael Belsley \booktitleMrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt and Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics, by Paul J. Nahin, Scope: general. Level: undergraduate . . 80--81 Dr. S. Tiwari \booktitleHilbert Space Methods in Quantum Mechanics, by Werner O. Amrein, Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate 81--82 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleThe Universe --- Order Without Design, by Carlos I. Calle, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . 82--83 Dr. A. M. Fox \booktitleMagnetism and Magnetic Materials, by J. M. D. Coey, Scope: handbook. Level: advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleDecoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information, by Vlatko Vedral, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85 Professor Eric Sheldon \booktitleAlex's Adventures in Numberland, by Alex Bellos, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86 Dr. Peter W. Milonni \booktitleStatistical Physics of Particles, by Mehran Kardar, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleQuantum Reality: Theory and Philosophy, by Jonathan Allday, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitlePerspectives in Computation, by Robert Geroch, Scope: theory of computation. Level: graduate and advanced undergraduate students, scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88 Dr. Amgad Salama \booktitleGeological Fluid Dynamics: Sub-Surface Flow and Reactions, by O. M. Phillips, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89 Dr. Robert C. Smith \booktitleThe Rotation of Sun and Stars, by J.-P. Rozelot and C. Neiner/\booktitlePhysics, Formation and Evolution of Rotating Stars, by A. Maeder, Scope: monograph and reference. Level: postgraduates and specialists/Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduates, specialists and advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91 Dr. Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleModern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics, by Carl S. Helrich, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate/postgraduate . . 91--92 Emeritus Massey Professor Marshall Stoneham \booktitleChirality at the Nanoscale, edited by David B. Amabilino, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate student/research scientist . . . . . . . 92--93 Richard Ellis \booktitleAstronomical Spectrographs and Their History, by John J. Hearnshaw, Scope: monograph. Level: science historians, general scientific, undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 John McFarland \booktitleThe Cambridge Double Star Atlas, by J. Mullaney and W. Tirion, Scope: handbook. Level: general reader and specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94 Emeritus Professor Derry W. Jones \booktitleSeeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, edited by Bill Bryson, Scope: articles on history, philosophy and a range of science. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 94--95 Dr. Manuel Vogel \booktitleIntroduction to Nuclear Science, by J. C. Bryan, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 95--96 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, by Peter Byrne, Scope: biography. Level: undergraduate physicist and philosopher and above . . 96--97 Professor John E. Carroll \booktitleSuperstrings and Other Things: A Guide to Physics, 2nd ed., by Carlos I. Calle, Scope: manual. Level: general scientific reader . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleBasics of Statistical Physics, by Harald J. W. Müller-Kirsten, Scope: textbook, monograph. Level: undergraduate and graduate students . . 97--98 Professor Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleConcepts in Thermal Physics, 2nd ed., by Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell, Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate and graduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleScientific Computing with Case Studies, by Dianne P. O'Leary, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate and early graduate students . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99 Dr. Amgad Salama \booktitleUnderstanding Fluid Flow, by Grae Worster, Scope: general interest. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Reiner Krücken Introduction to shell structure in exotic nuclei . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--120 Elena Pettinelli and Pier Matteo Barone and Elisabetta Mattei and Sebastian Emanuel Lauro Radio wave techniques for non-destructive archaeological investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130 Jonathan Keeling and Natalia G. Berloff Exciton--polariton condensation . . . . 131--151 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleDiscrete Mathematics: Proof, Structures, and Applications, 3rd edn., by Rowan Garnier and John Taylor, Scope: text-book. Level: undergraduate computer science students . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleThe Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems, by Mark Levi, Scope: handbook. Level: students, scientists, physicists, mathematicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleThe Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology, by Anil Ananthaswamy, Scope: synoptic picture of experimental modern astronomy, cosmology and particle physics. Level: general readers, A level and undergraduate physicists, specialists in other fields . . . . . . 155--155 Dr. Amgad Salama \booktitleGood Vibrations: The Physics of Music, by Barry Parker, Scope: textbook. Level: general reader . . . . 155--156 Professor J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleInterest Rates and Coupon Bonds in Quantum Finance, by Belal E. Baaquie, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--156 Professor S. J. Blundell \booktitleMicromagnetism and the Microstructure of Ferromagnetic Solids, by Helmut Kronmüller and Manfred Fähnle, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . 157--157 Professor Chris Linton \booktitleApplied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics, 2nd edn., by Michio Masujima, Scope: reference. Level: undergraduates, postgraduates, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--158 Professor Ian D. Lawrie \booktitleQuantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity, by L. Parker and D. Toms, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 158--159 Professor Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleUltracold Quantum Fields, by H. T. C. Stoof, K. B. Gubbels and D. B. M. Dickerscheid, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers, postgraduate physicists and senior undergraduates . . 159--159 John McFarland \booktitleTheory of Orbit Determination, by Andrea Milani and Giovanni F. Gronchi, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160 Mabrouk Benhamou \booktitleP. G. de Gennes' Impact on Science: Volume I, edited by Julien Bok, Jacques Prost and Françoise Brochard-Wyart, Scope: handbook. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161 Dr. M. Jamil \booktitleScientific Computation, by Gaston H. Gonnet and Ralf Scholl, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate level students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162 Dr. A. H. Harker \booktitleConcepts of Nanochemistry, by Ludovico Cademartiri and Geoffrey A. Ozin, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 162--162 Professor Allan Solomon \booktitleQuantum Measurement and Control, by H. M. Wiseman and G. J. Milburn, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and researcher . . . . . . 162--163 Dr. R. S. Shorter \booktitleAn Introduction to Relativity, by Jayant V. Narlikar, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate 163--164 Dr. R. S. Shorter \booktitleCremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest for Secrets of Stradivari, by Kameshwar C. Wali, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 164--164 Dr. Natalie L. Garrett \booktitleIntroduction to Physics in Modern Medicine, 2nd edn., by Suzanne Amador Kane, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165 Dr. Giovanni Volpe \booktitleDarwin Meets Einstein. On the Meaning of Science, by Frans W. Saris, Scope: popular account. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166 Professor J. R. Sambles \booktitleSymmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani, Scope: edited volume. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--168 Professor Vlatko Vedral \booktitleQuantum Processes, Systems, and Information, by Benjamin Schumacher and Michael Westmoreland, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate 168--168 Dr. A. H. Harker \booktitleUnderstanding Solid State Physics, by Sharon Ann Holgate, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 169--169 Dr. D. G. C. Jones \booktitleSemiconductor Devices for High-Speed Optoelectronics, by Giovanni Ghione, Scope: monograph and review. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate and early career researcher . . . . . . . . 169--170 Professor David Matravers \booktitleThe Primordial Density Perturbation: Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure, by David H. Lyth and Andrew R. Liddle, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 170--171 Professor Allan Solomon \booktitleNon-relativistic Quantum Theory: Dynamics, Symmetry and Geometry, by Kai S. Lam, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 171--171 Dr. Natalie L. Garrett \booktitleBiochemical Applications of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy, edited by Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Scope: edited book. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and researcher . . . . . . 171--172 Professor Peter R. Hobson \booktitleThe Large Hadron Collider: A Marvel of Technology, edited by Lyndon Evans, Scope: edited book. Level: general reader and non-specialists . . . 172--173 Assistant Professor Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleLinear Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Theory, by Marcus Pivato, Scope: monograph. Level: students in mathematics and physics, lecturers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174 Professor Thomas J. Bridges \booktitleSolitons, Instantons, and Twistors, by Maciej Dunajski, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher 174--175 Dr. Peter J. Bussey \booktitleCausality, Measurement Theory and the Differentiable Structure of Space--Time, by R. N. Sen, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 175--175 Professor J. R. Sambles \booktitleElectromagnetic Anisotropy and Bianisotropy: A Field Guide, by Tom G. Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, specialist . . . . . 176--177 Professor J. I. B. Wilson \booktitleSpectroscopy of Low Temperature Plasma, by V. N. Ochkin translated by S. Kittell, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 177--177 Emeritus Professor Derry W. Jones \booktitleOn Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science, by David Goodstein, Scope: twentieth century physics history and advice for scientists and administrators. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
J. Banerji The method of (not so) ordinary least squares: what can go wrong and how to fix them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--195 G. W. Gibbons and C. M. Warnick The geometry of sound rays in a wind . . 197--209 Javier Redondo and Andreas Ringwald Light shining through walls . . . . . . 211--236 J. Rogel-Salazar Essay Review: Improving science literacy: from atoms to galaxies. \booktitleFrom Atoms to Galaxies by Sadri Hassani . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237 Matthew R. Foreman Opus musicum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242 S. C. Tiwari Physical reality beyond the Standard Models: revolution in fundamental physics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248 Michael Belsley \booktitleTwo-dimensional Optical Spectroscopy, by Minhaeng Cho, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 249--250 Amgad Salama \booktitleAn Introduction to Modeling of Transport Processes, by Ashim Datta and Vineet Rakesh, Scope: reference. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251 Joseph Shamir \booktitleOptical Methods of Measurement: Wholefield Techniques, 2nd edn., by R. S. Sirohi, Scope: monograph and reference. Level: early career researcher and engineers . . . . . . . . 251--251 Tony Sudbery \booktitleQuantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, by Manjit Kumar, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 251--254 Manuel Vogel \booktitlePhysics of the Sun: A First Course, by D. J. Mullan, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduates . . . . 254--254 Michael Belsley \booktitleStatistical Mechanics: An Elementary Outline, revised edition, by Lahiri Avijit, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255 Jörg Bernhard Götte \booktitleIntermediate Spectral Theory and Quantum Dynamics, by C. R. de Oliveira, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 255--256 Yves Laberge \booktitleCracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics, by F. Melia, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 256--256 Mark Fox \booktitleIntroduction to Nanophotonics, Sergey V. Gaponenko, Scope: manual. Level: graduate students and researchers 257--257 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleMassive: The Hunt for the God Particle, by Ian Sample, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership and postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleKinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein's Relativity, by Alberto A. Martínez, Scope: biography and reference. Level: general readership, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258 M. Jamil \booktitleNuclear Reactions for Astrophysics: Principles, Calculation and Applications of Low-Energy Reactions, by Ian J. Thompson and Filomena M. Nunes, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers 259--259 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleFundamentals of Guided-Wave Optoelectronic Devices, by William S. C. Chang, Scope: reference. Level: graduate level students studying optoelectronic waveguide devices . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260 K. Alan Shore \booktitleAlgorithmic Cryptanalysis, by Antoine Joux, Scope: handbook/textbook. Level: undergraduate, graduate . . . . . 260--261 Anonymous Acceleration technologies for charged particles: an introduction . . . . . . . 263--263
Miles J. Padgett and Kevin O'Holleran and Robert P. King and Mark R. Dennis Knotted and tangled threads of darkness in light beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--279 G. H. C. New Nonlinear optics: the first 50 years . . 281--292 Roger Falcone and Chris Jacobsen and Janos Kirz and Stefano Marchesini and David Shapiro and John Spence New directions in X-ray microscopy . . . 293--318 Oleg L. Berman and Roman Ya. Kezerashvili and German V. Kolmakov Introduction to nonlinear phenomena in superfluid liquids and Bose--Einstein condensates: helium, semiconductors and graphene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--340 D. G. C. Jones Visions of discovery . . . . . . . . . . 341--343 F. W. Taylor Origin of planets . . . . . . . . . . . 345--347 Eric Sheldon Dark mysteries of the Universe . . . . . 349--354 Peter Holland A quantum of history . . . . . . . . . . 355--358 Peter J. Bussey Physics and poetry . . . . . . . . . . . 359--362 S. Sivakumar \booktitleQuantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications, 2nd edn., by Nouredine Zettili, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduates and advanced students . . 363--363 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleBose-Condensed Gases at Finite Temperatures, by Allan Griffin, Tetsuro Nikuni and Eugene Zaremba, Scope: review. Level: graduate and researcher 364--364 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleEverywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy, by Nick Huggett, Scope: reference. Level: popular science . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365 R. S. Shorter \booktitleGold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports, by John Eric Goff, Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists, teachers 365--365 Ingemar Bengtsson \booktitleFeynman Motives, by Matilde Marcolli, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--366 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitlePolarisation: Applications in Remote Sensing, by Shane Cloude, Scope: reference. Level: graduate and practising scientist/engineer . . . . . 366--367 Andrew Briggs \booktitleCrafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890--1926, by Suman Seth, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367 Danilo Zavrtanik \booktitleCP Violation, 2nd edn., by I. I. Bigi and A. I. Sanda, Scope: monograph. Level: early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368 M. Ogilvie \booktitleIntroduction to Statistical Field Theory, by E. Brézin, Scope: reference. Level: undergraduate . . . . 368--369 R. S. Shorter \booktitlePhysics of Sailing, by John Kimball, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369 R. S. Shorter \booktitleLighter Side of Adaptive Optics, by Robert K. Tyson, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . 370--370 Manuel Vogel \booktitleHandbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage, edited by A. G. Darrin and B. L. O'Leary, Scope: handbook. Level: experts . . . . . . . . 370--371 Manuel Vogel \booktitleObservational Cosmology, by S. Serjeant, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate students . . . . 371--371 K. Alan Shore \booktitleNonlinear Resonance Analysis: Theory, Computation, Applications, by Elena Kartashova, Scope: research monograph. Level: postgraduate and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleTurbulence in the Atmosphere, by John C. Wyngaard, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373 Peter W. Milonni \booktitleAstrophysics for Physicists, by Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, beginning postgraduate 373--374 John J. Quenby \booktitleAn Introduction to Particle Physics and the Standard Model, by Robert Mann, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 374--377 Mabrouk Benhamou \booktitleP. G. de Gennes' Impact on Science: Volume II, edited by Julien Bok, Jacques Prost and Françoise Brochard-Wyart, Scope: review. Level: researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 M. Jamil \booktitleHigh Energy Radiation from Black Holes: Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos, by Charles D. Dermer and Govind Menon, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and advanced researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379 Giovanni Volpe \booktitleOptical Tweezers: Methods and Applications, edited by Miles J. Padgett, Justin Molloy and David McGloin, Scope: edited book. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380 Murli Manohar Verma \booktitleThe Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to Physics, edited by G. W. Gibbons, E. P. S. Shellard and S. J. Rankin, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . 380--382 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleJudging Edward Teller, by Istvan Hargittai, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 382--383 Peter Holland \booktitleThe Stability of Matter in Quantum Mechanics, by E. H. Lieb and R. Seiringer, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
Jennifer C. Brookes Olfaction: the physics of how smell works? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--402 Nader Haghighipour Super-Earths: a new class of planetary bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--438 Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo Physical approaches to the dynamics of genetic circuits: a tutorial . . . . . . 439--464 D. Jou and L. Restuccia Mesoscopic transport equations and contemporary thermodynamics: an introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--474 David Bailin Double beta decay and all that . . . . . 475--478 Amgad Salama \booktitleHydroclimatology: Perspectives and Applications, by Marlyn L. Shelton, Scope: reference. Level: undergraduate 479--480 Eric Sheldon \booktitleExploring Fundamental Particles, by Lincoln Wolfenstein and João P. Silva, Scope: monograph, general interest. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, scientist . . . . . . . . 480--481 M. Jamil \booktitleQuantum Chromodynamics: Perturbative and Nonperturbative Aspects, by B. L. Ioffe, V. S. Fadin and L. N. Lipatov, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . 481--482 Ken Zetie \booktitleA Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy, by Pierre-Yves Bely, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists . . . . . . 482--482 Lewis Ryder \booktitleRelativity, Gravitation and Cosmology, by Robert J. A. Lambourne, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . 482--483 Peter Kalmus \booktitleNeutrino, by Frank Close, Scope: review. Level: general readership, undergraduate, postgraduate, teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484 Manuel Vogel \booktitleCosmochemistry, by Harry Y. McSween, Jr. and Gary R. Huss, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--484 Michael Belsley \booktitleSecond-Order Nonlinear Optical Characterization Techniques: An Introduction, by Thierry Verbiest, Koen Clays and Vincent Rodriguez, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate and researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--485 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleAdvanced Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, by John Dirk Walecka, Scope: manual. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleExperimental and Computational Techniques in Soft Condensed Matter Physics, edited by Jeffrey Olafsen, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers and postgraduate physicists . . . . . . . . 486--486 Mircea Dragoman \booktitleGravitation: Foundations and Frontiers, by T. Padmanabhan, Scope: review. Level: early career researcher 486--487 F. W. Taylor \booktitleAn Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres, by A. Sanchez-Lavega, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate 487--487 Stig Stenholm \booktitleA Kinetic View of Statistical Physics, by Pavel L. Krapivsky, Sidney Redner and Eli Ben-Naim, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher 488--488 Eric Sheldon \booktitleStellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, by Sean G. Ryan and Andrew J. Norton, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--489 R. Ellis \booktitleAn Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution, 2nd edn., by Dina Prialnik, Scope: monograph. Level: early career researcher, postgraduate, teacher . . . 490--490 M. Ogilvie \booktitleNon-Perturbative Field Theory --- From Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions, by Yitzhak Frishman and Jacob Sonnenschein, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 490--491 David Matravers \booktitleBayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences, edited by P. C. Gregory, Scope: text book, handbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 491--492 Andrew Resnick \booktitleNanoscopy and Multidimensional Optical Fluorescence Microscopy, edited by Alberto Diaspro, Scope: edited book, guide, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 492--492 A. H. Harker \booktitleStatistical and Thermal Physics with Computer Applications, by Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 492--493 R. Ellis \booktitleStellar Populations: Planning for the Next Decade, edited by G. Bruzual and S. Charlot . . . . . . . . . 493--493 K. Alan Shore \booktitleHandbook of Plastic Optics, edited by Stefan Baumer, Weinheim . . . 494--494 K. Alan Shore \booktitleCurrent-Driven Phenomena in Nanoelectronics, edited by Tamar Seideman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--495 K. Alan Shore \booktitleTwisted Photons: Application of Light with Orbital Angular Momentum, edited by Juan P. Torres and Lluis Torner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495 Timothy J. Sumner \booktitleParticle Dark Matter, edited by Gianfranco Bertone . . . . . . . . . 496--496 Allan I. Solomon \booktitleGroup Theory for the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond, by Ken J. Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--497 Ian Thompson \booktitleNIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, edited by Frank W. J. Olver, Daniel W. Lozier, Ronald F. Boisvert, Charles W. Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498 Simon Redfern \booktitleElementary Scattering Theory For X-ray and Neutron Users, by D. S. Sivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--498 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleFinitary Probabilistic Methods in Econophysics, by Ubaldo Garibaldi and Enrico Scalas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499 Yves Laberge \booktitleAn Illustrated Guide to Relativity, by Tatsu Takeuchi . . . . . 499--500 Andy Chia \booktitleIntroduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing, by Pieter Kok and Brendon W. Lovett . . . . 500--501 Giovanni Volpe \booktitleThe Inverted Bowl: Introductory Accounts of the Universe and its Life, by George H. A. Cole . . . 501--501 R. S. Shorter \booktitlePrinciples of Adaptive Optics, 3rd edn., by Robert K. Tyson . . . . . . 501--502 Salvatore Esposito \booktitlePhysics Over Easy: Breakfasts with Beth and Physics, 2nd edn., by Leonid V. Azároff . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503
Marcus D. Hughes and Bjoern Lekitsch and Jiddu A. Broersma and Winfried K. Hensinger Microfabricated ion traps . . . . . . . 505--529 Roee Ozeri The trapped-ion qubit tool box . . . . . 531--550 J. P. Marangos Introduction to the new science with X-ray free electron lasers . . . . . . . 551--569 Alexey Slunyaev and Ira Didenkulova and Efim Pelinovsky Rogue waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--590 Peter V. E. McClintock Essay Review: \booktitleRevolutions that made the Earth, by T. Lenton and A. Watson. ISBN 978-0-19-958704-9, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader with a science education . . . . . . . . . . . 591--593 Tony Sudbery \booktitleThe Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 595--595 Manuel Vogel \booktitleFusion: An Introduction to the Physics and Technology of Magnetic Confinement Fusion, 2nd edn., by W. M. Stacey, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . 595--596 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleAt the Leading Edge: The ATLAS and CMS LHC Experiments, edited by Dan Green, Scope: reference. Level: physicists, graduates in particle physics, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 596--597 Ingemar Bengtsson \booktitleClassical Measurements in Curved Space--Times, by Fernando de Felice, Scope: monograph. Level: early career researcher, researcher . . . . . 597--597 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleNumerical Relativity: Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer, by Th.W. Baumgarte and S. L. Shapiro, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates, researchers, teachers, specialists, scientists . . . . . . . . 598--599 Ken Zetie \booktitleMichael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction, by Frank A. J. L. James, Scope: biography, general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, teacher . . . . . . . . 599--599 K. Pounds \booktitleCoevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, edited by Luis C. Ho, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 599--600 Alan Phelps \booktitleComplex and Dusty Plasmas: From Laboratory to Space, edited by Vladimir E. Fortov and Gregor E. Morfill, Scope: edited monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 600--601 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleNumerical Solution of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, by John A. Trangenstein, Scope: review. Level: textbook for engineering students; engineering researchers, computer scientists . . . . 601--602 Jonathan Tennyson \booktitleExoplanet Atmospheres: Physical Processes, by Sara Seager, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 602--603 Christopher Gerry \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum Physics and Relativity, by Jacob Dunningham and Vlatko Vedral, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 603--604 Manuel Vogel \booktitleQuantum Computation and Quantum Information, by M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and above 604--605 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleEconophysics and Companies: Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks, by Hideaki Aoyama, Yoshi Fijiwara, Yuichi Ikeda, Hirishi Iyetomi and Wataru Souma, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--606 P. J. Bussey \booktitleHigher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology, by Helge Kragh, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--606 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleMethods of Wave Theory in Dispersive Media, by M. V. Kuzelev and A. A. Rukhadze, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers and experts, students and post-graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--607 Peter Hobson \booktitleOptoelectronic Devices: Design, Modeling, and Simulation, by Xun Li, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist and engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--608 Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleEnergy, the Subtle Concept, by Jennifer Coopersmith, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader with some scientific background . . . . . . . . . 608--609 P. J. Bussey \booktitleParticle Physics Experiments at High Energy Colliders, by John Hauptman, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610 Manuel Vogel \booktitleStorm and Cloud Dynamics, 2nd edn., by W. R. Cotton, G. H. Bryan and S. C. van den Heever, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced students and experts . . 610--611 Monica Pierri-Galvao \booktitleThe Dark Matter Problem, by Robert H. Sanders, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 611--611 S. Virmani \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum Statistical Mechanics, 2nd edn., by N. N. Bogolubov and N. N. Bogolubov, Jr., Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--612 S. Virmani \booktitleQuantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, 2nd edn., by A. Zee, Princeton, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--612 Bill Barnes \booktitleOptical Properties of Solids, 2nd edn, by Mark Fox, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 612--613 Derry W. Jones \booktitleSoap, Science and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals, by David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin, Scope: history of science with biographies. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 613--614 Vlatko Vedral \booktitleQuantum Physics: A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics, by John S. Townsend, Scope: reference. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--615 B. P. Kibble \booktitleReliability in Scientific Research: Improving the Dependability of Measurements, Calculations, Equipment, and Software, by I. R. Walker, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 615--616 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleHandbook of Photonics for Biomedical Science, edited by Valery V. Tuchin, Scope: handbook. Level: graduate and practising scientist/engineer . . . 616--617 Martin Counihan \booktitleMeteorite Craters and Impact Structures of the Earth, by Paul Hodge, Scope: reference. Level: general scientific readership . . . . . . . . . 617--617 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleHandbook of Biosensors and Biosensor Kinetics, by A. Sadana and N. Sadana, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--618 M. Jamil \booktitleNeutron Physics for Nuclear Reactors: Unpublished Writings by Enrico Fermi, edited by S. Esposito and O. Pisanti, Scope: monograph. Level: nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers and researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--619 Derry W. Jones \booktitleSuper Structures: The Science of Bridges, Buildings, Dams and Other Feats of Engineering, by Mark Denny, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate or general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--619 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleStatistical Mechanics, 3rd edn., by R. K. Pathria and P. D. Beale, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate or advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 619--620 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleHeisenberg's Quantum Mechanics, by Mohsen Razavy, Scope: advanced textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--621 D. G. C. Jones \booktitlePrinciples of Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Optics, by Paul R. Berman and Vladimir S. Malinovsky, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . 621--622 P. J. Bussey \booktitleThe Beautiful Invisible: Creativity, Imagination and Theoretical Physics, by Giovanni Vignale, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--623 Alan Michette \booktitleIntroduction to XAFS. A Practical Guide to X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy, by Grant Bunker, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 623--623 Thomas Peters \booktitleMathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, by E. de Faria and W. de Melo, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--624 John McFarland \booktitleAstrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950: Part A, edited by O. Gingerich, Scope: edited book. Level: pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher 624--625 S. C. Tiwari \booktitleEmmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem, by D. E. Neuenschwander, Scope: monograph. Level: senior undergraduate/graduate physics students 625--626 Do\uga Gürsoy \booktitleThe Science of Imaging: An Introduction, 2nd edn., by Graham Saxby, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . 626--626 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleParadigms of Combinatorial Optimization: Problems and New Approaches, edited by Vangelis T. Paschos, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, researcher, teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--627 David L. Andrews \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum Optics: From the Semi-Classical Approach to Quantized Light, by Gilbert Grynberg, Alain Aspect and Claude Fabre, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 627--628 Jörg Götte \booktitleQuantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory: A Mathematical Primer, by Jonathan Dimock, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 628--629 D. J. Miller \booktitleWhat are Gamma-Ray Bursts?, by Joshua S. Bloom, Scope: review. Level: non-specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--630 Thomas Peters \booktitleTurbulence and Shell Models, by P. D. Ditlevsen, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 630--631 Robert D. Joseph \booktitleHow Old is the Universe?, by David A. Weintraub, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 631--632 Alan Martin \booktitleQuantum Physics for Poets, by Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 632--632 Gerard Milburn \booktitleClassical and Quantum Information, by D. C. Marinescu and G. M. Marinescu, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--633 Martin Hendry \booktitleLectures on Gravitation, by Ashok Das, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher . . . . . . . . . . 633--634 Adriana Pálffy \booktitleThe Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments, by Jim Baggott, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--635 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleAdaptation in Dynamical Systems, by Ivan Tyukin, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: general reader, undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--635 Geoffrey Duxbury \booktitleConcepts and Methods of $2$D Infrared Spectroscopy, by Peter Hamm and Martin Zanni, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636--636 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Timothy C. Ralph and Tony G. Downes Relativistic quantum information and time machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Pablo Balenzuela and Holger Braun and Dante R. Chialvo The ghost of stochastic resonance: an introductory review . . . . . . . . . . 17--38 Derek Raine and Sarah Symons Problem-based learning: undergraduate physics by research . . . . . . . . . . 39--51 Eric Sheldon Essay Review: \booktitleNeutrino Physics, 2nd edn., by K. Zuber. ISN 978-1-4200-6471-1, Scope: textbook, review Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54 David Harris \booktitleWaves and Rays in Elastic Continua, by Michael A. Slawinski, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 55--55 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleOptical Interactions in Solids, 2nd edn, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56 Adolfo del Campo \booktitleFundamentals and New Frontiers of Bose--Einstein Condensation, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced graduate and postgraduate students and researchers 56--57 Amgad Salama \booktitleClassical Mechanics Illustrated by Modern Physics: 42 Problems with Solutions, Scope: reference. Level: undergraduate . . . . 57--57 M. Jamil \booktitleModern Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Revised Edition): Problems and Solutions Manual, Scope: manual. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . 58--58 P. J. Bussey \booktitleLawless Universe: Science and the Hunt for Reality, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader . . . . 58--59 B. Cowan \booktitleThermodynamics, by H. J. Kreuzer and Isaac Tamblyn, Scope: manual. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 59--60 Barrie W. Jones \booktitleFormation and Evolution of Exoplanets, edited by Rory Barnes, Scope: monograph. Level: scientist . . . 60--61 Manuel Vogel \booktitlePhysics of the Human Body, by Richard P. McCall, Scope: monograph/essay. Level: undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--69 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleNonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport, by Luis L. Bonilla and Stephen W. Teitsworth, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and specialists 61--62 Matt Probert \booktitleThermodynamic Properties of Solids: Experiment and Modeling, edited by Samrath L. Chaplot, Ranjan Mittal and Narayani Choudhury, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 62--63 Thomas Peters \booktitleAdvanced Mechanics and General Relativity, by J. Franklin, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . 63--64 R. S. MacKay \booktitleThe Dark Universe: Matter, Energy, and Gravity, edited by Mario Livio, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65 S. J. Blundell \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of Critical Phenomena: Mean Field, Fluctuations and Renormalization, 2nd edn., by Dimo I. Uzunov, Scope: research monograph. Level: early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 65--66 Ian Lawrie \booktitleCanonical Gravity and Applications: Cosmology, Black Holes, and Quantum Gravity, by M. Bojowald, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . 66--67 Vahan Senekerimyan \booktitleOptical Sensors: Basics and Applications, by J. Haus, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . 67--67 S. T. C. Siklos \booktitleExact Space--Times in Einstein's General Relativity, by Jerry B. Griffiths and Ji\vrí Podolský, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 67--69 K. Alan Shore \booktitleFiber Optics: Physics and Technology, by Fedor Mitschke, Scope: manual. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70 K. Alan Shore \booktitleNanoimaging, edited by Beth A. Goins and William T. Phillips, Scope: research monograph. Level: postgraduate and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71 Manuel Vogel \booktitleHeliophysics: Space Storms and Radiation: Causes and Effects, edited by C. J. Schrijver and G. L. Siscoe, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate and above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--71 Amgad Salama \booktitleFoundations of Environmental Physics: Understanding Energy Use and Human Impacts, by Kyle Forinash, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: undergraduate, teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72 S. Sivakumar \booktitleAn Introduction to Quantum Optics: Photon and Biphoton Physics, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers and lecturers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73 Nikolaos Kourkoumelis \booktitleResearch Methods for Science, by Michael P. Marder, Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 73--73 Hrant Ye. Seferyan \booktitleSupercontinuum Generation in Optical Fibers, edited by J. M. Dudley and J. R. Taylor, Scope: edited book, handbook, reference, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75 C. Isenberg \booktitleClassical Mechanics with Applications, by Porter Wear Johnson, Scope: general interest. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 75--76 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleRelativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis, IAU Symposium 261, edited by S. A. Klioner, P. K. Seidelmann and M. H. Soffel, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleQuantum Phase Transitions, 2nd edn., by S. Sachdev, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate or advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Thomas Peters \booktitleElements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, by H. Nishimori and G. Ortiz, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Vladimir García-Morales and Katharina Krischer The complex Ginzburg--Landau equation: an introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--95 Daniele Faccio Laser pulse analogues for gravity and analogue Hawking radiation . . . . . . . 97--112 John G. Learned and R.-P. Kudritzki and Sandip Pakvasa and A. Zee The Cepheid galactic Internet . . . . . 113--118 Luca Gammaitoni There's plenty of energy at the bottom (micro and nano scale nonlinear noise harvesting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135 Natalia B. Janson Non-linear dynamics of biological systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--168 S. Esposito \booktitleThe fisherman and his net: is Physics discovered or invented?, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--172 Manuel Vogel \booktitlePrinciples of Lasers, 5th edn., by O. Svelto, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate and above 173--173 B. Ishak and J. McFarland \booktitleIcy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263). Proceedings of the IAU Symposia and Colloquia, edited by J. A. Fernández, D. Lazarro, D. Prialnik and R. Schulz. Scope: wide-ranging review. Level: postgraduates and specialists . . 173--174 D. J. Miller \booktitleHigh Energy Astrophysics, 3rd edn., by Malcolm S. Longair, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 174--175 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleConcepts of Combinatorial Optimization, edited by Vangelis Th. Paschos, Scope: edited book. Level: researchers, practitioners, MSc or Ph.D. students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleIntroductory Statistical Thermodynamics, by Nils Dalarsson, Mariana Dalarsson and Leonardo Golubovic, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--176 Eric Sheldon \booktitlePrimordial Cosmology, by Giovanni Montani, Marco Valerio Battisti, Riccardo Benini and Giovanni Imponente, Scope: review, textbook. Level: researcher, specialist, scientist 176--177 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleKnocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate The Universe and the Modern World, by Lisa Randall, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader . . . . 178--178 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleApplications of Combinatorial Optimization, edited by Vangelis Th. Paschos, Scope: edited book. Level: researchers, practitioners, MSc or Ph.D. students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179 Thomas Peters \booktitleAdvanced Particle Physics, Volume I: Particles, Fields, and Quantum Electrodynamics, by O. M. Boyarkin. \booktitleAdvanced Particle Physics, Volume II: The Standard Model and Beyond, by O. M. Boyarkin. Scope: monograph. Level: graduate, Scope: monograph. Level graduate . . . . . . . 179--180 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleStochastic Transport in Complex Systems: From Molecules to Vehicles, by Andreas Schadschneider, Scope: review. Level: graduate students and specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181 D. G. C. Jones \booktitlePhysical Foundations of Quantum Electronics, by David Klyshko, edited by Maria Chekhova and Sergey Kulik, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182 Mircea Dragoman \booktitlePhysics of the Universe, by Mendel Sachs, Scope: review. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182 D. J. Miller \booktitleHow did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?, by Abraham Loeb, Scope: review. Level: non-specialists . . . . . 183--183 Nicholas Dimakis \booktitleComputational Nanoscience: Applications for Molecules, Clusters, and Solids, by Kálmán Varga and Joseph A. Driscoll, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computational physics, material science, and engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184 Andrew Resnick \booktitleRecent Advances in Spectroscopy: Theoretical, Astrophysical and Experimental Perspectives, edited by R. K. Chaudhuri, M. V. Mekkaden, A. V. Raveendran, A. Satya Narayanan, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . 184--185 Peter J. Bussey Physics at the Terascale, edited by I. Brock and T. Schörner-Sadenius, Scope: reference. Level: researcher . . . . . . 185--185 Benjamin J. Whitaker \booktitleIntroduction to Nonlinear Optics, by Geoffrey New, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 186--186 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleThe Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why The Universe is Not Designed for Us, by Victor J. Stenger, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 186--187 J. E. Carroll \booktitleFractional Calculus: An Introduction For Physicists, by Richard Herrmann, Scope: review. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188 Salvatore Esposito \booktitle50 Years of Anderson Localization, edited by Elihu Abrahams, Scope: edited book. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189 David Bailin \booktitleQuark--Gluon Plasma 4, edited by Rudolph C. Hwa and Xin-Nian Wang, Scope: edited book, monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190 R. G. Carter \booktitleField Computation for Accelerator Magnets: Analytical and Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Design and Optimization, by Stephan Russenschuck, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 190--191 Allan Solomon \booktitleSymmetries and Conservation Laws in Particle Physics: An Introduction to Group Theory for Particle Physicists, by Stephen Haywood, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher 191--192 G. M. Schütz \booktitleNon-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics, by Nimrod Moiseyev, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--192 Andrew Resnick \booktitleNew Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School, Volume 92, edited by Martine Ben Amar, Alain Goriely, Martin Michael Müller and Leticia Cugliandolo, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Arttu Rajantie Introduction to magnetic monopoles . . . 195--211 Thomas House Modelling epidemics on networks . . . . 213--225 Martine Chevrollier Radiation trapping and Lévy flights in atomic vapours: an introductory review 227--239 Norman Dombey \booktitleThe Infinity Puzzle, by F. Close, Scope: reference. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--245 Derry W. Jones Essay Review: Physics Letters: the Stokes--Thomson effect. \booktitleThe Correspondence between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs: Vols. 1 & 2, edited by D. B. Wilson, Scope: review. Level: final-year science undergraduate 247--250 Matthew R. Foreman \booktitleStatistical Signal Processing of Complex-Valued Data: The Theory of Improper and Noncircular Signals, by Peter J. Schreier and Louis L. Scharf, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252 Mabrouk Benhamou \booktitlePolymer Physics: From Suspension to Nanocomposites and Beyond, edited by Leszek A. Utracki and Alexander M. Jamieson, Scope: review. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253 Ken Zetie \booktitleRelativity for the Questioning Mind, by Daniel F. Styer, Scope: general interest. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 253--253 Xuetao Zhu \booktitleBasic Elements of Crystallography, by Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki and Teresa Szwacka, Scope: handbook, reference. Level: non-specialists, undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 253--254 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein --- Two Complementary Views, by S. Stenholm, Scope: general interest. Level: scientist . . . . . . . 254--255 Nikolaos Kourkoumelis \booktitleNanocomposite Particles for Bio-Applications: Materials and Bio-Interfaces, by Tito Trindade and Ana L. Daniel da Silva, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256 David Bailin Essay Review: The geese that never cackled. \booktitleSecret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park, by Asa Briggs. ISBN 978-1-84832-615-6, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . 256--262 Peter W. Milonni \booktitleScience at the Nanoscale: An Introductory Textbook, by C. W. Shong, S. C. Haur and A. T. S. Wee, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 262--262 S. J. Blundell \booktitleProperties of Perovskites and Other Oxides, by K. Alex Müller and Tom W. Kool, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263 Geoffrey Duxbury \booktitleAdvances in Infrared Photodetectors, edited by Sarath D. Gunapala, David R. Rhiger and Chennupatti Jagadish, Scope: monograph. Level: early career researcher . . . . . 263--264 A. H. Harker \booktitleWavefronts and Rays as Characteristics and Asymptotics, by A. Bóna and M. A. Slawinski, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 265--265 A. H. Harker \booktitleNanocomputing: Computational Physics for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, by James J. Y. Hsu, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266 K. A. Pounds \booktitleThe Expanding Universe: Astronomy's `Great Debate', 1900--1931, by Robert W. Smith, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership, non-specialists . . . . . . 266--267 Geoffrey Duxbury \booktitle$3$D Spectroscopy in Astronomy, edited by E. Mediavilla, S. Arribas, M. Roth, J. Cepa-Nogué and F. Cepa-Nogué, Scope: guide. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268 Bo Reipurth \booktitleStar Clusters: Basic Galactic Building Blocks Throughout Time and Space, IAU S266, edited by Richard de Grijs and Jacques Lépine, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 268--269 Chris Athorne \booktitleSolved Problems in Classical Mechanics: Analytical and Numerical Solutions with Comments, by O. L. de Lange and J. Pierrus, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 269--269 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleStochastic Control and Mathematical Modeling: Applications in Economics, by H. Morimoto, Scope: review. Level: advanced postgraduate or scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleOptically Pumped Atoms, by William Happer, Yuan-Yu Jau and Thad G. Walker, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 270--271 Matt Probert \booktitleEngineering Optimisation: An Introduction with Metaheuristic Applications, by Xin-She Yang, Scope: reference. Level:undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleSuperlattice to Nanoelectronics, by Raphael Tsu, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 272--273 David Bailin \booktitleAn Introduction to String Theory and D-Brane Dynamics: With Problems and Solutions, 2nd edn., by Richard J. Szabo, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 273--274 Giovanni Volpe \booktitleOptical Processes in Microparticles and Nanostructures, A Festschrift, dedicated to Richard Kounai Chang on his Retirement from Yale University, edited by Ali Serpengüzel and Andrew W. Poon, Scope: review. Level: practitioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275 Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleAstronomical Spectroscopy: An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra, 2nd edn., by Jonathan Tennyson. \booktitleAtomic Astrophysics and Spectroscopy, by Anil K. Pradhan and Sultana N. Nahar. Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate/postgraduate . . . . . . . 275--276 J. M. Sykes \booktitleThe Magnesium Civilisation: An Alternative New Source of Energy to Oil, by Takashi Yabe and Tatsuya Yamaji, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership and non-specialists . . . . . 276--277 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleFluid Mechanics: A Short Course for Physicists, by Gregory Falkovich, Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 277--278 A. Freise \booktitleOptical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, by W. Cai and V. Shalaev, Scope: handbook, review. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 278--279 A. M. Fox \booktitleFundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Materials Properties, 4th edn., by Peter Y. Yu and Manuel Cardona, Scope: manual. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280 Allan I. Solomon \booktitleApplications of Unitary Symmetry and Combinatorics, by James D. Louck, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280 A. H. Harker \booktitleNumerical Modeling in Materials Science and Engineering, Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, Vol. 32, by M. Rappaz, M. Bellet, and M. Deville, translated by R. Snyder, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 280--281 D. G. Bucknall \booktitleFunctional Supramolecular Architectures: For Organic Electronics and Nanotechnology, 2 Volume set, edited by P. Samor\`\i and F. Cacialli, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282 Adriana Pálffy \booktitleQuantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness, 2nd edn., by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283 Gerard Milburn \booktitleQuantum Engineering: Theory and Design of Quantum Coherent Structures, by A. M. Zagoskin, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 283--284 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleAdvances in Nanotechnology and the Environment, edited by Juyoung Kim, Scope: review. Level: researcher, specialist and scientist . . . . . . . . 284--285 John Sykes \booktitleElectrochemical Nanofabrication: Principles and Applications, edited by Di Wei, Scope: edited book. Level: early career researcher, researcher, specialist and scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleOptics of Nanomaterials, by Vladimir I. Gavrilenko, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, scientist and engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--287 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleRelativistic Quantum Physics: From Advanced Quantum Mechanics to Introductory Quantum Field Theory, by Tommy Ohlsson, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287 Manuel Vogel \booktitleElectricity and Magnetism, 2nd ed., by Edward Purcell, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 287--288 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleLasers in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Principles and Applications, by C. Fotakis, D. Anglos,V. Zafiropulos, S. Georgiou, and V. Tornari, Scope: edited book. Level: researchers, practitioners, postgraduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289 K. Alan Shore \booktitleOptical Measurement Techniques: Innovations for Industry and the Life Sciences, Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Vol. 136, by Kai-Erik Peiponen, Risto Mullylä and Alexander V. Priezzhev, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and beyond . . . . . . . . 289--289 K. Alan Shore \booktitleSemiconductor Quantum Optics, by Mackillo Kira and Stephan W. Koch, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate 289--290 P. T. Greenland \booktitleThe Mesoscopic Theory of Polymer Dynamics, 2nd edn., Springer Series in Chemical Physics, Vol. 95, by V. N. Pokrovskii, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291 F. W. Taylor \booktitleCollisional Line Broadening and Shifting of Atmospheric Gases: A Practical Guide for Line Shape Modelling by Current Semi-Classical Approaches, by J. Buldyreva, N. Lavrentiveva and V. Starikov, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291 R. S. MacKay \booktitleProbability on Graphs: Random Processes on Graphs and Lattices, by G. Grimmett, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 291--292 David Bailin \booktitleFast Car Physics, by Chuck Edmondson, Scope: general interest. Level: pre-university, undergraduate . . 292--293
Frank Close Higgs boson: beginning of the end or end of the beginning? . . . . . . . . . . . 295--300 R. F. O'Connell Radiation reaction: general approach and applications, especially to electrodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--313 Pasquale Di Bari An introduction to leptogenesis and neutrino properties . . . . . . . . . . 315--338 Andreja Gomboc Unveiling the secrets of gamma ray bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--355 Eric Sheldon \booktitleOur single UNIverse or a plethora of MULTIverses?, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--360 John Quenby \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of the Early Universe: Cosmological Perturbations and Inflation Theory, by Dimitry S. Gorbunov and Valery A. Rubakov, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduates and early career researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362 M. Jamil \booktitleFundamentals of Nuclear Models: Foundational Models, by David J. Rowe and John L. Wood, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers 363--363 Chris Linton \booktitleAn Introduction to Metamaterials and Waves in Composites, by B. Banerjee, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate and advanced undergraduate . . 363--364 Thomas Peters \booktitleModern Plasma Physics, Volume 1: Physical Kinetics of Turbulent Plasmas, by P. H. Diamond, S.-I. Itoh and K. Itoh, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365 Keith Benedict \booktitleUnderstanding Quantum Phase Transitions, edited by Lincoln Carr, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher and researcher 365--366 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleLight Propagation in Gain Media Media: Optical Amplifiers, by Malin Premaratne and Govind P. Agrawal, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and early career researcher . . . . . . . . 366--366 Thomas Peters \booktitleLectures on Dynamics of Stochastic Systems, by V. I. Klyatskin, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . 366--367 S. C. Tiwari \booktitleGribov-80 Memorial Volume: Quantum Chromodynamics and Beyond, edited by Yu. L. Dokshitzer, P. Lévai and J. Nyíri, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368 Milton W. Cole \booktitleIntroduction to Statistical Mechanics, by John Dirk Walecka, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368 Thomas Peters \booktitleField Theory of Non-Equilibrium Systems, by A. Kamenev, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . 368--369 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleFirst Steps in Random Walks: From Tools to Applications, by J. Klafter and I. M. Sokolov, Scope: review. Level: graduate students or scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--370 Fredric W. Taylor \booktitlePlanetary Crusts: Their Composition, Origin and Evolution, by Stuart Ross Taylor and Scott M. McLennan, Scope: monograph. Level: non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate and early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 370--371 Manuel Vogel \booktitleQuips, Quotes and Quanta: An Anecdotal History of Physics, 2nd edn, by Anton Z. Capri, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 371--371 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleThin-Film Optical Filters, 4th edition, by H. Angus Macleod, Scope: textbook. Level: researchers, specialists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 371--372 Stephen H. Ashworth \booktitleMolecular Quantum Mechanics, 5th edn, by Peter Atkins and Ronald Friedman, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373 M. Blamire \booktitleHandbook of Magnetic Materials, edited by K. H. J. Buschow, Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 373--374 S. C. Tiwari \booktitleFoundations of Perturbative QCD, by John Collins, Scope: textbook/monograph. Level: graduate students/researchers in high energy physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375 Manuel Vogel \booktitleRelativistic Celestial Mechanics of the Solar System, by Sergei Kopeikin, Michael Efroimsky and George Kaplan, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 375--376 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleNoise-Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences, by Luca Ridolfi, Paolo D'Odorico and Francesco Laio, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and specialists, general readers, undergraduates, postgraduates, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--376 Andrew Resnick \booktitleLife at the Nanoscale: Atomic Force Microscopy of Live Cells, edited by Yves Dufrêne, Scope: guide, handbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . 377--377 Andrew Resnick \booktitleAstronomical Optics and Elasticity Theory: Active Optics Methods, by G. R. Lemaitre, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 377--378 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleNanomedicine: Design and Applications of Magnetic Nanomaterials, Nanosensors and Nanosystems, by Vijay K. Varadan, Linfeng Chen and Jining Xie, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379 Andrew Resnick \booktitleIntroduction to Experimental Biophysics: Biological Methods for Physical Scientists, by Jay Nadeau, Scope: handbook, manual, reference. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, specialist, scientist . . . 379--379 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleCarbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics, by H.-S. Philip Wong and Deji Akinwande, Scope: monograph, reference, textbook. Level: non-specialist, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher . . . . . . . 379--380 Frazer R. Pearce \booktitleExtra-Solar Planets: The Detection, Formation, Evolution and Dynamics of Planetary Systems, edited by Bonnie Steves, Martin Hendry and Andrew C. Cameron, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--380 Frank Berkshire \booktitleReviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, Volume 3, edited by Heinz Georg Schuster, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 380--381 Jitesh S. B. Gajjar \booktitleHandbook of Compressible Aerodynamics, by Jean Délery, Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, engineers . . . . . . . . . 381--382 Nicholas Dimakis \booktitleIntroduction to Medical Imaging --- Physics, Engineering and Clinical Applications, by Nicholas Dimakis, Scope: medical imaging. Level: advanced undergraduates and graduate students in medical imaging and related disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383 Frank Berkshire \booktitleTheir Arrows Will Darken the Sun --- The Evolution and Science of Ballistics, by Mark Denny, Scope: general interest, guide. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduate, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--384 Nikolaos Kourkoumelis \booktitleQuantitative Understanding of Biosystems: An Introduction to Biophysics, by Thomas M. Nordlund, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 384--384 Jörg Götte \booktitleAnalytical Mechanics for Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edition, by Oliver Davies Johns, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--385 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleUltracold Gases and Quantum Information: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School in Singapore, edited by C. Miniatura, L-C. Kwek, M. Ducloy, B. Grémaud, B-G. Englert, L. F. Cugliandolo, A. Ekert and K. K. Phua, Scope: specialist. Level: postgraduate 385--386 A. M. Fox \booktitleManipulating Quantum Structures Using Laser Pulses, by Bruce W. Shore, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387 R. Tucker \booktitleCovariant Electrodynamics: A Concise Guide, by John M. Charap, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduates 387--387 Derry W. Jones \booktitleDrive and Curiosity: What Fuels the Passion, by Istvan Hargittai, Scope: recent history of scientists. Level: general reader and scientists . . 387--389 Charlie Ironside \booktitleMore is Different: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics, edited by N. Phuan Ong and Ravin N. Bhatt, Scope: review. Level: researcher . . . . . . . 389--389 Frank Berkshire \booktitleGliding for Gold: The Physics of Winter Sports, by Mark Denny, Scope: general interest, guide, monograph. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduate, teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--390 Catherine M. Wykes \booktitleIntroduction to Holography, by Vincent Toal, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--391 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleNanosensors: Physical, Chemical, and Biological, by Vinod Kumar Khanna, Scope: reference, review, text book. Level: general readership, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleQuantum Mechanics: Its Early Development and the Road to Entanglement and Beyond, by E. G. Steward, Scope: general science. Level: undergraduate 392--392 Thomas Peters \booktitleA Modern Introduction to Particle Physics, 3rd edition, by Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 393--393 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Quantum Vacuum: A Scientific and Philosophical Concept, from Electrodynamics to String Theory and the Geometry of the Microscopic World, by Luciano Boi, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleBlack Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines (2nd edition), by Jim Al-Khalili, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 394--394 S. J. Blundell \booktitleSuperconductivity in New Materials, Vol. 4, volume edited by Z. Fisk and H. R. Ott, Scope: edited book. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395 Allan I. Solomon \booktitleDynamical Symmetry, by Carl E. Wulfman, Scope: textbook. Level: post-graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--396 Amgad Salama \booktitleExploring Monte Carlo Methods, by William L. Dunn and J. Kenneth Shultis, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Valérie Messager and Robert Gilmore and Christophe Letellier Henri Poincaré and the principle of relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--415 Jeong San Kim and Gilad Gour and Barry C. Sanders Limitations to sharing entanglement . . 417--432 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleWhat is life?, Scope: review. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 433--435 D. J. Miller \booktitleYou are Wrong Mr Einstein! Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg and Feynman Discussing Quantum Mechanics, by Harald Fritzsch, Scope: general interest. Level: undergraduates and/or general readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--439 David Bucknall \booktitleSolid-State Spectroscopy: An Introduction, 2nd edn., by Hans Kuzmany, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, researchers, teachers, scientists and engineers . . . . . . . . 439--440 Marco Casazza \booktitleThermal Physics: Entropy and Free Energies, 2nd edn., by Joon Chang Lee, Scope: review. Level: undergraduates, postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers and teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleThe Physicist's World: The Story of Motion and the Limits to Knowledge, by Thomas Grissom, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 440--441 Christian G. Böhmer \booktitleThe Geometry of Physics: An Introduction, 3rd edn., by Theodore Frankel, Scope: review. Level: undergraduates and graduate students, researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--442 Thomas Peters \booktitleTurbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, 2nd edn., by P. Holmes, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers . . . . . 442--442 P. J. Bussey \booktitleCosmic Anger: Abdus Salam --- The First Muslim Nobel Scientist, by Gordon Fraser, Scope: biography. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 442--443 Manuel Vogel \booktitleOxford Dictionary of Astronomy, by Ian Ridpath, Scope: reference. Level: general readership . . 443--444 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleStatistical Physics of Liquids at Freezing and Beyond, by S. P. Das, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher and specialist . . . . . . . 444--445 Thomas Peters \booktitleAdvanced Solid State Physics, 2nd edn., by P. Phillips, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 445--445 Andrew Resnick \booktitleContinuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics: From Fundamental Concepts to Governing Equations, by Ellad B. Tadmor, Ronald E. Miller and Ryan S. Elliott, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 445--446 Thomas Peters \booktitleAdvanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory: A Lecture Course, by M. Shifman, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--447 Andrew Resnick \booktitlePhysics for Clinical Oncology, edited by Amen Sibtain, Scope: handbook. Level: teacher, specialist . . . . . . . 447--447 Monica Pierri-Galvao \booktitleNeutrino, by Frank Close, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader, undergraduate through professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448 Mark Fox \booktitleLuminescence Spectroscopy of Semiconductors, Ivan Pelant and Jan Valenta, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448 K. Alan Shore \booktitlePlasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits, edited by Sergei I. Bozhevolnyi, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 448--449 Andrew Resnick \booktitleViral Nanoparticles: Tools for Materials Science and Biomedicine, by Nicole Steinmetz and Marianne Manchester, Scope: guide, monograph, review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--449 D. J. Miller \booktitleCosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics, by S. Giani, C. Leroy and P. G. Rancoita, Scope: general interest, textbook. Level: pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher, scientist . . . 450--450 John I. B. Wilson \booktitleTokamaks, 4th edn., by John Wesson, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 450--451 David L. Andrews \booktitleTheory of Molecular Fluids Volume 2: Applications, by Christopher G. Gray, Keith E. Gubbins, and Christopher G. Joslin, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 451--452 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleScience: Image in Action (The Science and Culture Series: Astrophysics), edited by Bertrand Zavidovique and Giosu\`e Lo Bosco, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: students, researchers and academics . . 452--453 Manuel Vogel \booktitleAccelerator Physics, 3rd edn., by S. Y. Lee, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate students . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454 Derry W. Jones \booktitleMore and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon, by Philip W. Anderson, Scope: biography, edited book, review. Level: general readership but parts need physics background . . . . . 454--455 Peter Holland \booktitleA History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, by Olivier Darrigol, Scope: monograph. Level: Postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . 455--456 K. Alan Shore \booktitleStatistics for Imaging, Optics, and Photonics, (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics), by Peter Bajorski, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and professional . . . . . 456--456 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleAstronautics: The Physics of Space Flight, 2nd edn., by Ulrich Walter, Scope: textbook. Level: space industry professionals, postgraduates, senior undergraduates . . . . . . . . . 456--457 Thomas Peters \booktitlePhysics of the Atmosphere and Climate, 2nd edn., by M. L. Salby, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 457--458 Tony Leggett \booktitleThe Physics of Solar Cells, by Jenny Nelson, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, scientist . . . 458--459
Peter Becker The new kilogram definition based on counting the atoms in a$^{28}$ Si crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--479 David Bailin Essay Review: AdS/CFT goes viral. \booktitleString Theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale, edited by M. Dine, T. Banks, and S. Sachdev. ISBN 978-981-4350-51-8 . . . 481--483 S. C. Tiwari \booktitleSymmetry and geometry: pursuit of beauty in physics, Scope: textbook/monograph. Level Ph.D. students/researchers . . . . . . . . . . 485--490 Eric Sheldon \booktitleThe Universe in all its dimensions, Scope: review, textbook. Level: undergraduate and graduate students, scientists, general readership 491--494 Eric Sheldon \booktitleThe imprint of genius, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . 495--498 Keith A. Benedict \booktitleBasic Aspects of the Quantum Theory of Solids: Order and Elementary Excitations, by Daniel I. Khomskii, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate 499--500 Jeff Kuhn \booktitleSolar and Stellar Variability: Impact on Earth and Planets, IAU S264, by A. G. Kosovichev, A. H. Andrei and J-P Rozelot. Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 500--501 Peter W. Milonni \booktitleExploring Quantum Physics through Hands-On Projects, by D. Prutchi and S. R. Prutchi, Scope: general interest, guide, monograph. Level: pre-university, undergraduates, advanced undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . 501--502 Manuel Vogel \booktitleMechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves, by T. Bécherrawy, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503 P. T. Greenland \booktitleData Analysis for Physical Scientists Featuring Excel\reg, 2nd edn., by Les Kirkup, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduates, advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleGraphene: Carbon in Two Dimensions, by Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate students, researchers . . . . . . . . . 503--504 Thomas Peters \booktitleRelativistic Cosmology, by G. F. R. Ellis, R. Maartens and M. A. H. MacCallum, Scope: textbook. Level: graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleQuantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?, by Alastair M. Rae, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . 505--506 F. W. Taylor \booktitleTheory of Atmospheric Radiative Transfer: A Comprehensive Introduction, by Manfred Wendisch and Ping Yang, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 506--506 Mike Evans \booktitleMeteorites, Ice and Antarctica: A Personal Account, by William A. Cassidy, Scope: monograph/general interest. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--507 R. Ellis \booktitleStellar Magnetism, 2nd edn., by Leon Mestel, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, researchers, teachers, specialists, scientists . . . 507--508 Chris Pedder \booktitleMr Tompkins in Paperback, by George Gamow, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--509 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes: The Use of Rare-Earth Transition Metals, by Luiz Pereira, Scope: review. Level: advanced graduate and postgraduate, researchers, specialists . . . . . . . . 509--509 R. S. Shorter \booktitlePlant Physics, by Karl Niklas, Scope: textbook. Level: specialists, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--510 Ingemar Bengtsson \booktitleTopics in the Foundations of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation Theory, by David B. Malament, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researcher 510--511 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleAlbert Einstein Memorial Lectures, by Jacob D. Bekenstein and Raphael Mechoulam. Scope: edited book. Level: non-specialists . . . . . . . . . 511--512 R. S. Shorter \booktitleThe Wonders of Physics, 3rd edn., by Andrey Varlamov and Lev Aslamazov, Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, teachers . . . . . . . . 512--512 Thomas Peters \booktitleIntroduction to Black Hole Physics, by V. P. Frolov and A. Zelnikov, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--513 Lionel Wilson \booktitleThe Physics of Microdroplets, by Jean Berthier and Kenneth A. Brakke, Scope: review. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, researchers, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 513--514 David J. Miller \booktitleFrom Black Clouds to Black Holes, 3rd edn., by Jayant V. Narlikar, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists . . . . . . 514--515 Chandra Wickramasinghe \booktitleThe Universe: A Challenge to the Mind, by Jacques Vanier, Scope: general interest, textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515 M. Jamil \booktitleNuclear Medicine Physics, edited by J. J. De Lima, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students and researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516 Catherine M. Wykes \booktitleHandbook of Surface and Nanometrology, 2nd edn., by David J. Whitehouse, Scope: review. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, researchers, specialists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 516--517 John I. B. Wilson \booktitlePhysics of Radio-Frequency Plasmas, by Pascal Chabert and Nicholas Braithwaite, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduates, early career researchers, researchers, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--519 Mario Agio \booktitleAdvances in Atomic Physics: An Overview, by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and David Guéry-Odelin, Scope: monograph, text book. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, researchers, teachers, specialists, scientists . . . . . . . . 519--520 Chandra Wickramasinghe \booktitleAdventures in Cosmology, by David Goodstein, Scope: edited book. Level: advanced undergraduates . . . . . 520--520 David J. Miller \booktitleFrom Nuclei to Stars, edited by Sabine Lee, Scope: edited book. Level: specialists . . . . . . . . . . . 520--521 Andrew Resnick \booktitleFemtosecond Laser--Matter Interactions: Theory, Experiments, and Applications, by Eugene G. Gamaly, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, teachers, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--522 K. Alan Shore \booktitleFracture Nanomechanics, by Takayuki Kitamura, Hiroyuki Hirakata, Takashi Sumigawa and Takahiro Shimada, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--522 David Bailin \booktitlePerspectives on Supersymmetry II, Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics: Volume 21, edited by Gordon L. Kane, Scope: edited book. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 522--524 Mabrouk Benhamou \booktitlePolymer Viscoelasticity --- Basics, Molecular Theories, Experiments and Simulations, 2nd edn, by Yn-Hwang Lin, Scope: textbook. Level: researchers 524--524 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe Release of Thermonuclear Energy by Inertial Confinement: Ways Towards Ignition, by Friedwardt Winterberg, Scope: monograph. Level: scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 525--525 David J. Miller \booktitleExploding Superstars: Understanding Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts, by Alain Mazure and Stéphane Basa, Scope: general interest, textbook. Level: general readership, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, scientists . . . . . . . . 525--526 P. T. Greenland \booktitlePrinciples of Terahertz Science and Technology, by Yun-Shik Lee, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526--527 J. H. Eberly \booktitleStochastic Processes, by Richard F. Bass, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates, researchers . . . . . . . 527--527 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleCompound Semiconductor Photonics: Materials, Devices and Integration, by Chua Soo-Jin, Teng Jinghua and Aaron Danner, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--528 David J. Miller \booktitleThe Quantum Adventure: Does God Play Dice?, by Alex Montwill and Ann Breslin, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, undergraduates, teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--529 Manuel Vogel \booktitleFluid Flows to Black Holes: A Tribute to S. Chandrasekhar on His Birth Centenary, by D. J. Saikia and V. Trimble, Scope: biography. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 529--530 Thomas Peters \booktitleThe Mathematical Language of Quantum Theory: From Uncertainty to Entanglement, by T. Heinosaari and M. Ziman, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--530 Michael Belsley \booktitleLectures on Quantum Mechanics, 2nd edn, by Ashok Das, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--531 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleIntroduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, by John Dirk Walecka, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduates, teachers . . . . 531--532 R. S. Shorter \booktitleThe Fundamentals of Imaging: From Particles to Galaxies, by Michael Mark Woolfson, Scope: textbook. Level: General readership, pre-university, teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--532 David H. Coule \booktitleQuantum Gravity, 3rd edn, by Claus Kiefer, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduates, early career researchers, researchers . . . . 532--533 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleProbability, Random Processes, and Statistical Analysis, by H. Kobayashi, B. L. Mark and W. Turin, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate students, researchers, teachers . . . . 533--534 M. F. El-Amin \booktitleRotating Flow, by Peter Childs, Scope: review. Level: postgraduates, scientists, engineers . . 534--534 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleDisordered Semiconductors --- Physics and Applications, by Anatoly Popov, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--535 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleComputational Analysis of the Human Eye with Applications, by Sumeet Dua, Rajendra Acharya U. and E. Y. K. Ng, Scope: review. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, researchers, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--536 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleA Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors, by Daniel Fleisch, Scope: textbook. Level: pre-university, undergraduates, teachers, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--536 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleQuantum Bio-Informatics IV: From Quantum Information to Bio-Informatics, 1st edn, by Luigi Accardi Wolfgang Freudenberg and Masanori Ohya, Scope: review. Level: researchers in quantum information, bio-informatics and life science . . . . 537--537 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleSemiconductor Quantum Bits, edited by F. Henneberger and O. Benson, Scope: edited book. Level: researchers, theorists, postgraduate students . . . . 537--538 Allan I. Solomon \booktitleSupersymmetric Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction, by A. Gangopadhyaya, J. V. Mallow and C. Rasinariu, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 538--539 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleThe Thermodynamics of Quantum Yang--Mills Theory: Theory And Applications, by Ralf Hofmann, Scope: review. Level: researchers . . . . . . . 539--539 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleAtoms in Intense Laser Fields, by C. J. Joachain, N. J. Kylstra and R. M. Potvliege, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher, scientist . . 539--540 Gerard Milburn \booktitleEssentials of Hamiltonian Dynamics, by J. H. Lowenstein, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--541 Allan I. Solomon \booktitleA Brief Tour of Modern Quantum Mechanics, by Moshe Gitterman, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--542 Allan I. Solomon \booktitleClassical Mechanics, 5th edn., by Tom W. B. Kibble and Frank H. Berkshire, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542--543 Suresh Chandra Tiwari \booktitleThe Supersymmetric Dirac Equation: The Application to Hydrogenic Atoms, by Allen Hirshfeld, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduates . . . . 543--544 Peter R. Hobson \booktitlePrinciples of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection, 3rd edn., by Claude Leroy and Pier-Giorgio Rancoita, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduates, early career researchers, researchers, specialists, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 544--544 David Bucknall \booktitleIntroduction to the Theory of Thermal Neutron Scattering, 3rd edn., by G. L. Squires, Scope: textbook. Level: early career researchers, researchers, specialists, scientists . . . . . . . . 544--545 Manuel Vogel \booktitleFundamentals of Numerical Weather Prediction, by Jean Coiffier, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . 545--546 Manuel Vogel \booktitleA Philosophical Guide to Chance, by T. Handfield, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . 546--547 Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Louis Lyons Bayes and Frequentism: a particle physicist's perspective . . . . . . . . 1--16 Christophe Schinckus Introduction to econophysics: towards a new step in the evolution of physical sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32 A. G. Green An introduction to gauge-gravity duality and its application in condensed matter 33--48 D. G. C. Jones Many worlds make hard work . . . . . . . 49--51 Geoffrey Duxbury Reinventing molecular spectroscopy . . . 52--54 Chandra Wickramasinghe \booktitleCosmic Paradoxes, by Julio A. Gonzalo, Scope: general interest. Level: non-specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55 A. H. Harker \booktitleTime-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Concepts and Applications, by Carsten A. Ullrich, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher 55--56 S. J. Blundell \booktitleOrbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids, by E. Canadell, M.-L. Doublet and C. Iung, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 56--57 John I. B. Wilson \booktitlePrinciples of Plasma Physics for Engineers and Scientists, by Umran S. Inan and Marek Go\lkowski, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates, advanced undergraduates, early career researchers, teachers, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58 F. W. Taylor \booktitleGalileo, by J. L. Heilbron, Scope: monograph. Level: generalreaders 58--58 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThermodynamics, by S. Klein and G. Nellis, Scope: textbook. Level: students and engineers . . . . . . . . . 59--59 Manuel Vogel \booktitleBeyond the Stars: Our Origins and the Search for Life in The Universe, by P. Saraceno, Scope: general interest. Level:general readers . . . . . . . . . 59--60 Thomas Peters \booktitlePhysics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the Macroscopic World, 2nd ed., by B. Lautrup, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--60 Thomas Peters \booktitleChaos and Complexity in Astrophysics, by O. Regev, Scope: text-book. Level: graduate . . . . . . . 60--61 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleHandbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging, edited by Otmar Scherzer, Scope: handbook. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62 N. Riley \booktitleShock Wave-Boundary-Layer Interactions, edited by Holger Babinsky and John K. Harvey, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 62--63 Kavita Dorai \booktitleSignal Processing in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with Biomedical Applications, by Dzevad Belkic and Karen Belkic, Scope: review. Level:undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 63--64 Amgad Salama \booktitleIntroduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Physical and Numerical Aspects, 2nd edn., by B. Cushman-Roisin and J.-M. Beckers, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65 Marco Casazza \booktitlePierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science by Laurence Plévert, Scope: review. Level: general readership 65--66 Srinivasan Sivakumar \booktitleClassical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell, by Anupam Garg, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 66--66 Peter Holland \booktitleA Trajectory Description of Quantum Processes. I. Fundamentals: A Bohmian Perspective, by Á.S. Sanz and Á.S. Miret-Artés, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--67 Derry W. Jones \booktitlePrize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science, by Morton A. Myers, Scope: review. Level: general readers and scientists . . . . . 67--68 Peter J. Bussey \booktitlePhilosophy of Physics: Space and Time, by T. Maudlin, Scope: textbook. Level: teachers . . . . . . . 68--69 Natalie A. Starkey \booktitleThe Earth: Its Birth and Growth, 2nd edn., by Minoru Ozima, Jun Korenaga and Qing-Zhu Yin, Scope: general interest, textbook. Level: undergraduate,graduate, general readership, teachers . . . . . . . . . . 69--70 David J. Miller \booktitleInterpreting Newton: Critical Essays, edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, Scope:biography. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--70 David H. Coule \booktitleFoundations of Space and Time: Reflections on Quantum Gravity, edited by Jeff Murugan, Amanda Weltman and George F. R. Ellis, Scope:conference proceedings. Level: researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71 Thomas Peters \booktitleQuantum Information, Computation and Communication, by J. A. Jones and D. Jaksch, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 71--72 S. C. Tiwari \booktitleHiggs: The Invention and Discovery of the `God Particle', by J. Baggott, Scope: general interest. Level: generalreaders, non-specialists . . . . 72--73 Jorge O. Sofo \booktitleProblems in Solid State Physics with Solutions, by Fuxiang Han, Scope: guide. Level: postgraduate . . . 73--73 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleIntelligent Nanomaterials, edited by A. Tiwari, A. K. Mishra, H. Kobayashi and A. P. F. Turner. General interest. Level: non-specialists, early career researchers, teachers . . . . . . 74--74 David Bailin \booktitleABC of Physics: A Very Brief Guide, by Lev B. Okun, Scope: general interest. Level: non-specialists, early career researchers, teachers . . . . . . 74--75 Paul van Kampen \booktitleMagnetism: A Very Short Introduction, by Stephen Blundell, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleBiosensors and Molecular Technologies for Cancer Diagnostics, edited by Keith E. Herold and Avraham Rasooly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77 Mark Fox \booktitleQuantum Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, by Mark Beck, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate 77--77 B. Ishak \booktitleHeliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth, edited by C. J. Schrijver and G. L. Siscoe, Scope: advanced undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78 F. W. Taylor \booktitleEntropy and the Time Evolution of Macroscopic Systems, by Walter Grandy, Jr., Scope: textbook. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger Equation and Path Integral, 2nd edn., by Harald J. W. Müller-Kirsten, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79 B. Ishak and J. McFarland \booktitlePhysics of Comets, 3rd edn., by K. S. Krishna Swamy, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 79--80 Andrew Resnick \booktitleIntroduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2nd edn., by Constantine Pozrikidis, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleOptical Electronics: Self-Organized Integration and Applications, by Tetsuzo Yoshimura, Scope: monograph. Level: researchers, scientists, postgraduate students . . . 81--82 G. W. Gibbons \booktitleClassical Solutions in Quantum Field Theory: Solitons and Instantons in High Energy Physics, by E. J. Weinberg, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 82--83 Thomas Peters \booktitleAn Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, by R. Fitzpatrick, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 83--84 Manuel Vogel \booktitleEurope to the Stars, by G. Schilling and L. L. Christensen, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84 Andrew Resnick \booktitleDynamical Heterogeneities in Glasses, Colloids, and Granular Media, edited by Ludovic Berthier, Giulio Biroli, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Luca Cipelletti, Wim van Saarloos, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85 Enda McGlynn \booktitleZnO Nanostructures and Their Applications, edited by Xiao Wei Sun and Yi Yang, Scope: review, monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher,specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 85--86 G. W. Gibbons \booktitleThe Birth of String Theory, edited by Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo and Paolo Di Vecchia, Scope: review. Level: general readers, postgraduates,researchers . . . 86--87 Angie Ma \booktitleMechanics of the Cell, by David Boal, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 87--88 Adriana Palffy \booktitleThe Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, and Inventions, by József Illy, Scope: biography, general interest. Level: general readers . . . . 88--89 B. Ishak \booktitleCoronal Seismology: Waves and Oscillations in Stellar Coronae, by A. V. Stepanov, V. V. Zaitsev and V. M. Nakariakov, Scope: monograph. Level: early career researchers, researchers, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
G. B. Mindlin The physics of birdsong production . . . 91--96 P. T. Greenland \booktitleShould we eat Einstein's brain?, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe world of many worlds, Scope: edited book, monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--103 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleFundamentals of Attosecond Optics, by Zenghu Chang, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researchers, engineers 104--105 Matt Probert \booktitleHigh-Pressure Physics, edited by John Loveday. Scope: conference proceedings, edited book, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 M. Jamil \booktitleCompound Semiconductor Radiation Detectors: Series in Sensors, by Alan Owens, Scope: monograph. Level: graduate students, researchers . . . . . 105--106 Gunter M. Schütz \booktitleIntroduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications, by L. B. Castañeda, V. Arunachalam and S. Dharmaraja, Scope: textbook. Level: non-specialists, Advanced Undergraduates. Early career researchers, Engineers . . . . . . . . . 106--107 Alan Michette \booktitleX-Rays, Neutrons and Muons: Photons and Particles for Material Characterization, by Walter E. Fischer and Rudolf Morf, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher 107--107 B. Ishak \booktitlePulsar Astronomy, 4th edn., by A. Lyne and F. Graham-Smith, Scope: monograph. Level: Ph.D.s, post-docs and, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleReminiscences: A Journey Through Particle Physics, by Adrian Melissinos, Scope: biography. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 108--109 Dawn E. Leslie \booktitleStars: A Very Short Introduction, by Andrew King, Scope: guide, general interest. Level: general readers, non-specialists, pre-undergraduate, undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109 Thomas Peters \booktitleQuantum Optics, by G. S. Agarwal, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe International Atlas of Mars Exploration: The First Five Decades, Vol. 1, 1953 to 2003, Scope: general interest. Level: general readers 110--111 Manuel Vogel \booktitleA Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, 3rd edn., by Ian D. Lawrie, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates and above . . . . . . . . 111--112 Michael Belsley \booktitleUltracold Atoms in Optical Lattices: Simulating Quantum Many-Body Systems, by Maciej Lewenstein, Anna Sanpera and Ver\`onica Ahufinger, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, specialist . . . . . 112--113 David H. Coule \booktitleTime Reversibility, Computer Simulation, Algorithms, 2nd edn., by William G. Hoover and Carol G. Hoover, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher . . . 113--113 Alexander Korotkov \booktitleFluctuating Nonlinear Oscillators: From Nano-Mechanics to Quantum Superconducting Circuits, edited by Mark I. Dykman, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . 113--114 Juan A. Añel \booktitleFundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, by James C. McWilliams, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115 Enda McGlynn \booktitleElectron Paramagnetic Resonance of Transition Ions, Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences, by A. Abragam and B. Bleaney, Scope: textbook, monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 115--116 B. N. Murdin \booktitleQuantum Computing from the Ground Up, by Riley Tipton Perry, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 116--117 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleAdvances in Thin-Film Solar Cells, by I. M. Dharmadasa, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117 S. J. Blundell \booktitleCorrelated Electrons in Quantum Matter, by Peter Fulde, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 117--118 B. N. Murdin \booktitleSemiconductor Spintronics, by Jianbai Xia, Weikun Ge, Kai Chang, Scope: reference. Level: researcher . . 118--119 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleNetworks in Social Policy Problems, edited by Balázs Vedres and Marco Scotti, Scope: edited book. Level: general readers, researcher, scientist 119--120 Suresh Chandra Tiwari \booktitleThe Physics of Neutrinos, by V. Barger, D. Marfatia and K. Whisnant, Scope: review, monograph. Level: specialist, researcher, teacher . . . . 120--121 Matt Probert \booktitleComputer-Based Modelling of Novel Carbon Systems and Their Properties: Beyond Nanotubes, edited by L. Colombo and A. Fasolino, Scope: edited book, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--121 Tom Lancaster \booktitleDo We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics?, by Franck Laloë, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate to specialist . . . . . . 121--122 Marco Casazza \booktitleThe Weather Observer's Handbook, by Stephen Burt, Scope: handbook, manual, textbook. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-University, undergraduate, Postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist. engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--123 Jörg Götte \booktitlePrinciples of Nano-Optics, 2nd edn., by Lukas Novotny and Bert Hecht, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . 123--124 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleRelativity Made Relatively Easy, by Andrew M. Steane, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate. Advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124 Marco Casazza \booktitleNon-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Foundations and Applications, by Phyl Attard, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 124--125 Chih-Yueh Wang \booktitleDeath of Massive Stars (IAU S279): Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (IAU S279), edited by P. W. A. Roming, N. Kawai and E. Pian., Scope: conference proceeding. Level: postgraduate/specialist . . . . . . . . 125--126 G. W. Gibbons \booktitleBlack Holes, Cosmology and Extra Dimensions, by Kirill A. Bronnikov and Sergey G. Rubin, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 126--127 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe Theory of Probability, by Santosh S. Venkatesh, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . 127--127 Manuel Vogel \booktitleWhy You Hear What You Hear, Eric J. Heller, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership . . 127--128 B. Ishak \booktitleA General Relativity Workbook, by T. A. Moore, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates, lecturers . . . 128--129 B. Ishak \booktitleIllustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, by E. Dekker, Scope: monograph. Level: specialists . . . . . 129--130 Thomas Peters \booktitleLectures on Quantum Mechanics, by S. Weinberg, Scope: textbook. Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--131 Garth Jones \booktitleMathematical Structures of Quantum Mechanics, by Kow Lung Chang, Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 131--132 P. T. Greenland \booktitleApplied Bohmian Mechanics from Nanoscale Systems to Cosmology, edited by X. Oriols, J. Mompart, Scope: edited book. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . 132--133 R. S. Shorter \booktitleNiels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913--1925, by Helge Kragh, Scope: biography, general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133 Mark Nicol \booktitleMeasuring the Universe: A Multiwavelength Perspective, by George H. Rieke, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 133--134 Nikolaos Kourkoumelis \booktitleModern Diffraction Methods, edited by E. J. Mittemeijer and U. Welzel, Scope: edited book, handbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 134--135 Mabrouk Benhamou \booktitleAdvances in Carbon Nanomaterials: Science and Applications, by Nikos Tagmatarchis, Scope: edited book. Level: researchers . . . . . . . . 135--136 Robert Appleby \booktitleAccelerator Physics: Example Problems with Solutions, by William W. MacKay and Mario Conte, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 136--136 Adriana Palffy \booktitleQuantum Principles and Particles, by Walter M. Wilcox, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 136--137 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleLHC Physics, edited by T. Binoth, C. Buttar, P. J. Clark and E. W. N. Glover, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleEssentials of Electromagnetics for Engineering, by David A. De Wolf, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . 138--138 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Quantum Divide: Why Schrödinger's Cat is either Dead or Alive, by Christopher C. Gerry and Kimberley M. Bruno, Scope: general interest. Level: non-specialists, teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--139 B. Ishak \booktitleGamma-Ray Bursts, by C. Kouveliotou, R. A. M. J. Wijers and S. Woosley, Scope: monograph. Level: Ph.D.s, post-docs and specialists . . . 139--139 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitlePrinciples of Diffuse Light Propagation: Light Propagation in Tissues with Applications in Biology and Medicine, by Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140 K. Alan Shore \booktitleNanofabrication Using Focused Ion and Electron Beams: Principles and Applications, edited by Ivo Utke, Stanisislav Moshkalev and Phillip Russell, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Yukio Kawano Terahertz waves: a tool for condensed matter, the life sciences and astronomy 143--165 David Bailin \booktitleDiscrete symmetries and CP violation, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate and early career researcher 166--168 Andrew Resnick \booktitleBiomedical Nanosensors, edited by Joseph Irudayaraj, Scope: edited book, reference, review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 169--169 Andrew Resnick \booktitleModern Trends in Physics Research. Third International Conference on Modern Trends in Physics Research. Cairo, Egypt 6--10 April 2008, edited by Lotfia M. El Nadi, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleThermal Physics: Concepts and Practice, by Allen L. Wasserman, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, graduate students, lecturers . . . . . . 170--171 Lampros Nikolopoulos \booktitleQuantum Control of Molecular Processes, (Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition), by M. Shapiro and P. Brumer, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172 Andrew Resnick \booktitleThe Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas, by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech, Mario Weigand, translated by Storm Dunlop, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 172--172 Chih-Yueh Wang \booktitleFrom Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets (IAU S282): Essential Modelling Tools, edited by M. T. Richards and I. Hubeny. Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173 Manuel Vogel \booktitleEssentials of Heat Transfer: Principles, Materials, and Applications, by Massoud Kaviany, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduates, advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174 Manuel Vogel \booktitleFundamentals of Astrometry, by Jean Kovalevsky and P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduates and above . . . . . . . . 174--175 Thomas Peters \booktitleSelf-Organised Criticality: Theory, Models and Characterisation, by Gunnar Pruessner, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175 Tom Lancaster \booktitleEinstein's Physics: Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity --- Derived, Explained, and Appraised, by Ta-Pei Cheng, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176 T. J. M. Boyd \booktitleBasic Space Plasma Physics, by Wolfgang Baumjohann and Rudolf A. Treumann, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 176--177 David Bailin \booktitleGroup Theory for High Energy Physicists, by Mohammad Saleem and Muhammad Rafique, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178 B. Ishak \booktitleNeutrino Cosmology, by J. Lesgourgues, G. Mangano, G. Miele and S. Pastor, Scope: monograph. Level: early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179 R. Ellis \booktitleBinary Paths to Type Ia Supernovae Explosions, edited by Rosanne Di Stefano, Marina Orio and Maxwell Moe, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180 Charles Downing \booktitleAdvanced Quantum Mechanics: A Practical Guide, by Yuli V. Nazarov and Jeroen Danon, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
S. F. Huelga and M. B. Plenio Vibrations, quanta and biology . . . . . 181--207 David J. Miller Essay Review: The anatomy of a paradigm-shift. \booktitleThe Continental Drift Controversy, by Henry R. Frankel. ISBN 978-0-521-87507-3. Scope: monograph. Level: accessible and useful to all levels of reader, from general interest to specialist . . . . . 208--210 David Bailin \booktitleQuantum Field Theories in Two Dimensions: Collected Works of Alexei Zamolodchikov (in 2 Volumes), edited by Alexander Belavin, Yaroslav Pugai and Alexander Zamolodchikov, Scope: edited book. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . 211--212 Angie Ma \booktitleBiophysics: Searching for Principles, by William Bialek, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 212--213 B. Ishak \booktitleThe First Galaxies in the Universe, by Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, specialist . . 213--214 Manuel Vogel \booktitleAstrometry for Astrophysics: Methods, Models, and Applications, edited by William F. van Altena, Scope: edited book. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 214--214 Mark Fox \booktitleThe Handbook on Optical Constants of Metals: In Tables and Figures & The Handbook on Optical Constants of Semiconductors: In Tables and Figures, by Sadao Adachi, Scope: reference. Level: researcher . . . . . . 215--215 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleArtificial Human Sensors: Science and Applications, by Peter Wide, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,researcher, teacher, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216 Manuel Vogel \booktitleOur Magnetic Earth: The Science of Geomagnetism, by Ronald T. Merrill, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 216--217 Matt Probert \booktitleThe Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility, by Ruth E. Kastner, Scope: reference. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218 S. C. Tiwari \booktitleThe Angular Momentum of Light, by D. L. Andrews and M. Babiker, Scope: reference, edited book. Level: advanced undergraduate, researcher,teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219 Derry W. Jones \booktitleThe Long Road to Stockholm, The Story of MRI: An Autobiography, by Peter Mansfield, Scope: autobiography. Level: scientist, general reader . . . . 219--220 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleQuantum Concepts in Physics: An Alternative Approach to the Understanding of Quantum Mechanics, by Malcolm Longair, Scope: textbook. Level: teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . 220--221 Thomas Peters \booktitleNonequilibrium Many-Body Theory of Quantum Systems: A Modern Introduction, by G. Stefanucci and R. van Leeuwen, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--221 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, edited by R. Batterman, Scope: review, edited book. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 221--223 Joseph Eberly \booktitleReview of Modern Physics, by Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn, Scope: reference, textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224 Robert D. Joseph \booktitleIsaac Newton's Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology, by William L. Harper. Scope: review. Level: specialist 224--225 John Quenby \booktitleRelativistic Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei, edited by M. Boetttcher, D. E. Harris, and H. Krawczynski, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 225--226 Marco Casazza \booktitleSynergetic Agents, by Hermann Haken and Paul Levi, Scope: reference, monograph, manual, textbook. Level: non-specialists, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 226--227 Amgad Salama \booktitleContinuum Mechanics in the Earth Sciences, by William I. Newman, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227 Mabrouk Benhamou \booktitleTheory of Intermolecular Forces, by Anthony Stone, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228 D. C. Barber \booktitleCorrection Techniques in Emission Tomography, edited by Mohammad Dawood, Xiaoyi Jiang and Klaus Schäfers, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, specialist . . 228--229 M. Jamil \booktitleFusion, the Energy of the Universe, by Garry McCracken and Peter Stott, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230 David R. Matravers \booktitleThe Ballet of the Planets: A Mathematician's Musings on the Elegance of Planetary Motion, by Donald C. Benson, Scope: general interest. Level: pre-university, undergraduate . . . . . 230--231
K. C. Yung and W. M. Wu and M. P. Pierpoint and F. V. Kusmartsev Introduction to graphene electronics --- a new era of digital transistors and devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--251 Norman Dombey Essay Review: Oppenheimer, the bomb and beyond, Scope: biography. Level: general readership [Review of \booktitleInside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk, London, Jonathon Cape, 2012, 818 pp., \pounds 30.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-224-06262-6] . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253 Philip Phillips \booktitleThe Physics of Dilute Magnetic Alloys, by Jun Kondo, translated by Shigeru Koikegami, Kosuke Odagiri, Kunihiko Yamaji and Takashi Yanagisawa, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate 254--254 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleBiomimetics in Photonics, edited by Olaf Karthaus, Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduate, postgraduate, scientist . . . . . . . . 254--255 Mark Fox \booktitleA Practical Guide to Optical Metrology for Thin Films, by Michael Quinten, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255 Ken Pounds \booktitleTime, Space, Stars and Man: The Story of the Big Bang, by Michael M. Woolfson. Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--256 Frank Berkshire \booktitleIntroduction to the Physics of Waves, by Tim Freegarde, Scope: textbook. Level: general readership, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleA Modern Course in the Quantum Theory of Solids, edited by Fuxiang Han, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate . . . 257--257 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleIntroduction to Mathematical Physics: Methods and Concepts, 2nd edn., by Chun Wa Wong, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258 Manuel Vogel \booktitleModern Physics: An Introductory Text, by Jeremy I. Pfeffer and Shlomo Nir, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259 Juan A. Añel \booktitleTuring: Pioneer of the Information Age, by B. Jack Copeland, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259 Robert Appleby \booktitleMeasurement Uncertainty and Probability, by Robin Willink, Scope: textbook. Level: specialist . . . . . . 259--260 B. Ishak and J. McFarland \booktitleAstrophysics from Antarctica, edited by Michael G. Burton, Xiangqun Cui and Nicholas F. H. Tothill, Scope: wide-ranging review. Level: postgraduates and specialists . . . . . 260--261 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleExploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers, by Victor Galitski, Boris Karnakov, Vladimir Kogan, and Victor Galitski, Jr., Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261 Michael Belsley \booktitleElectricity and Magnetism, by Edward M. Purcell and David J. Morin, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 261--262 David Bucknall \booktitleElectronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers, 2nd edn., International Series of Monographs on Physics 159, by William Barford, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 262--263 P. T. Greenland \booktitleTerahertz Physics, by R. A. Lewis, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263 A. H. Harker \booktitleComputational Methods for Electromagnetic Phenomena: Electrostatics in Solvation, Scattering and Electron Transport, by Cai Wei, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264 Andrew Resnick \booktitleEncyclopaedia of Medical Physics (2 Volume Set), edited by Slavik Tabakov, Franco Milano, Sven-Erik Strand, Cornelius Lewis and Perry Sprawls, Scope: reference, encyclopedia. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 264--265 Derry W. Jones \booktitleRadioactivity: A Very Short Introduction, by Claudio Tuniz, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader, preferably with physical science background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--266 A. J. Leggett \booktitleRevolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics, by David J. Griffiths, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university . . . . 266--266 David L. Andrews \booktitleLight--Matter Interaction: Physics and Engineering at the Nanoscale, by John Weiner and Frederico Nunes, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 267--268 William T. Coffey \booktitlePath Integrals for Stochastic Processes: An Introduction, by Horacio S. Wio, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 268--268 S. J. Blundell \booktitleField Theories of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd edn., by Eduardo Fradkin, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--269 H. Osborn \booktitleAn Introduction to Non-Perturbative Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, by Franco Strocchi, Scope: monograph. Level: scientist . . . . . . 269--269 Peter Holland \booktitleGauge Theories of Gravitation: A Reader with Commentaries, edited by Milutin Blagojevi\'c and Friedrich W. Hehl, Scope: edited book, reference, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . 269--270 Matt Probert \booktitleAtomistic Computer Simulations: A Practical Guide, by V. Brázdová and D. R. Bowler, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . 270--271 Dawn E. Leslie \booktitleThe Infinity Puzzle: The Personalities, Politics and Extraordinary Science Behind the Higgs Boson, by Frank Close. Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271 Manuel Vogel \booktitlePlanetary Systems and the Origins of Life, Cambridge Astrobiology (No. 3), edited by Ralph Pudritz, Paul Higgs and Jonathon Stone, Scope: edited book. Level: general readership . . . . 271--272
Martin McCall Transformation optics and cloaking . . . 273--286 Derry W. Jones \booktitleCrystallographic centenary celebration: the emergence of X-ray analysis, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general reader, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290 George Rowlands \booktitleAn Introduction to Stochastic Processes and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, revised edition, Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics: Volume 19, edited by Horacio S. Wio, Roberto R. Deza and Juan M. López, Scope: review. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . 291--291 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Theory of the Quantum World: Proceedings of the 25th Solvay Conference on Physics, edited by David Gross, Marc Henneaux and Alexander Sevrin, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 291--292 Manuel Vogel \booktitleEarth: Evolution of a Habitable World, 2nd edn., by J. I. Lunine, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292 Sergey Krotov \booktitleFirst Magnitude: A Book of the Bright Sky, by James B. Kaler, Scope: edited book, general interest. Level: general readership, pre-university, undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293 T. J. Sumner \booktitleDark Matter, Neutrinos and Our Solar System, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294 Francisco Caruso \booktitleOn Space and Time, Scope: edited book. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career research, research, teacher, specialist . . . . . 294--295 Gunter M. Schütz \booktitleExercises in Probability: A Guided Tour from Measure Theory to Random Processes, via Conditioning, 2nd edn., by L. Chaumont and M. Yor, Scope: guide. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 295--296 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleOrder and Disorder: Science Essentials for the Non-Scientist, by Myron Kaufman, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, teacher . . . 296--297 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleComputational Photonics: An Introduction With MATLAB, by Marek S. Wartak, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, practising scientists and engineers . . . . . . . . 297--297 K. Alan Shore \booktitleSilicon Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices, by M. Jamal Deen and P. K. Basu, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher . . . . 297--298 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleSimple Models of Magnetism, Oxford Graduate Texts, by Ralph Skomski, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299 Prashant Khare \booktitleTen Chapters in Turbulence, edited by Peter A. Davidson, Yukio Kaneda and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Scope: edited book, reference, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . 299--300 Charles A. Downing \booktitleTopics in Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations, by John Dirk Walecka, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 300--300 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleHandbook of $3$D Machine Vision: Optical Metrology and Imaging, Series in Optics and Optoelectronics, edited by Song Zhang, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301 K. Alan Shore \booktitleQuantum Cascade Lasers, by Jérôme Faist, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302 Edmund Tarleton \booktitleDislocations, Mesoscale Simulations and Plastic Flow, Oxford Series on Materials Modelling 5, by Ladislas Kubin, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 302--303 K. Alan Shore \booktitleElectromechanics and MEMS, by Thomas B. Jones and Nenad G. Nenadic, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303 Richard Shorter \booktitleTESLA: Inventor of the Electrical Age, by W. Bernard Carlson, Scope: biography. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304 Aniruddha Chakraborty \booktitleThe Wonderful World of Relativity: A Precise Guide for the General Reader, by Andrew M. Steane, Scope: review. Level: non-specialists 304--304 Richard Shorter \booktitleNight Vision: Exploring the Infrared Universe, by Michael Rowan-Robinson, Scope: general interest, textbook. Level: general readership, advanced undergraduate, teacher . . . . 304--305 R. Ellis \booktitleThe Life and Death of Stars, by Kenneth R. Lang, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306 Manuel Vogel \booktitleGravitation and Spacetime, 3rd edn., by Hans C. Ohanian and Remo Ruffini, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 306--306 L. M. Brown \booktitleStrengthening Mechanisms in Crystal Plasticity, by Ali Argon, Scope: review. Level: scientist, engineers . . 306--307 Thomas Peters \booktitleEinstein Gravity in a Nutshell, by A. Zee, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 307--308 Erling Riis \booktitleOptical Magnetometry, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 308--309 David L. Andrews \booktitleQuantum Physics and Linguistics: A Compositional, Diagrammatic Discourse, Scope: edited book, monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Roberto Fernández-García and Yannick Sonnefraud and Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez and Vincenzo Giannini and Stefan A. Maier Design considerations for near-field enhancement in optical antennas . . . . 1--11 Kevin H. Knuth Information-based physics: an observer-centric foundation . . . . . . 12--32 A. Härter and J. Hecker Denschlag Cold atom--ion experiments in hybrid traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--45 G. J. Milburn \booktitleQuantum Dissipative Systems, (Fourth edition), by Ulrich Weiss, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 46--47 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleNature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective (Revised Edition), by Shimon Malin, Scope: review. Level: non-specialists, undergraduate . . . . . 47--47 K. P. Zetie \booktitleTime Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space, by Allen Everett and Thomas Roman, Scope: general interest. Level: undergraduate, pre-university, teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48 Mark Fox \booktitleGeneralised Optomechanics and its Applications: Quantum Optical Properties of Generalised Optomechanical System, by Jin-Jin Li and Ka-Di Zhu, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . 48--48 Thomas Peters \booktitleModern Electrodynamics, by Andrew Zangwill, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleA Physicist's View of Matter and Mind, by Chandre Dharma-wardana, Scope: general interest. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50 Richard Ellis \booktitleThe Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology, by Malcolm S. Longair, Scope: monograph, reference, review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher . . . . 50--51 Tom Lancaster \booktitlePolarons, by David Emin, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51 Manuel Vogel \booktitlePhysical Mathematics, by Kevin Cahill, Scope: reference, text book. Level: advanced undergraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52 Peter J. Bussey \booktitle100 Years of Subatomic Physics, edited by Ernest M. Henley and Stephen D. Ellis, Scope: edited book. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53 Andrew Resnick \booktitleMathematical Topics in Fluid Mechanics --- Volumes 1 & 2, by Pierre-Louis Lions, Scope: monograph, review. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Hywel Owen and Ranald MacKay and Ken Peach and Susan Smith Hadron accelerators for radiotherapy . . 55--74 L. Wang and S. Gai The next generation mass storage devices --- Physical principles and current status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--93 M. V. Fedorov and N. I. Miklin Schmidt modes and entanglement . . . . . 94--109 David A. Burton and Adam Noble Aspects of electromagnetic radiation reaction in strong fields . . . . . . . 110--121 A. H. Harker \booktitleUnderstanding the Nanotechnology Revolution, by Edward L. Wolf and Manasa Medikonda, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122 S. Virmani \booktitleAn Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, by Robert H. Swendsen, Scope: text book. Level: non-specialists. Undergraduate. Postgraduate. Advanced undergraduate. Teacher. Scientist. Engineers . . . . . 122--123 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleOptochemical Nanosensors, edited by Andrea Cusano, Francisco J. Arregui, Michele Giordano and Antonello Cutolo, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 123--124 Michael Belsley \booktitleIntroduction to Quantum Information Science, by Vlatko Vedral, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125 A. H. Harker \booktitleComputational Methods for Physics, by Joel Franklin, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . 125--125 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleSpace, Time, & Stuff, by Frank Arntzenius, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate students, researchers . . . 126--126 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleModern Statistical Methods for Astronomy With R Applications, by Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu, Scope: reference. Level: advanced undergraduate, graduate, specialised . . 126--127 Chao Huan \booktitleSpin Current, edited by Sadamichi Maekawa, Sergio O. Valenzuela, Eiji Saitoh, and Takashi Kimura, Scope: monograph, review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 127--128 John M. Stewart \booktitleIntroduction to $ 3 + 1 $ Numerical Relativity, by Miguel Alcubierre, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . 128--129 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleSimple Brownian Diffusion, by Daniel Thomas Gillespie and Effrosyni Seitaridou, Scope: textbook. Level: senior undergraduate students, postgraduates, researchers . . . . . . . 129--129 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleNovel Superfluids: Vol. 1, edited by K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate students, researchers . . . 130--132 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleStatistical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences, by Adrian Bevan, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 132--133 Jock McOrist \booktitleGeometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, edited by Alexander Cardona, Iván Contreras and Andrés F. Reyes-Lega, Scope: conference proceedings, review. Level: postgraduate student, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133 B. Ishak \booktitleFoundations of Quantum Gravity, by James Lindesay, Scope: textbook. level: specialist . . . . . . 134--134 John M. Stewart \booktitleAdvanced General Relativity: Gravity Waves, Spinning Particles and Black Holes, by Claude Barrab\`es and Peter A. Hogan, Scope: textbook, review. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher 134--135 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleHerschel 400 Observing Guide, by Stephen James O'Meara, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 135--135 C. A. Downing \booktitleFoundation Mathematics for the Physical Sciences, by K. F. Riley and M. P. Hobson, Scope: textbook, solution manual. Level: first year undergraduate 136--136 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleNanotechnology for the Energy Challenge, edited by Javier Garcia-Martinez, Scope: monograph, reference, review. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 136--137 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleScience, Religion and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, by David Wilkinson, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138 D. W. Jones \booktitleUncorked: The Science of Champagne, Revised ed. by Gerard Liger-Belair, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher, scientist . . 138--139 Eric Sheldon \booktitleBehind the Scenes of the Universe: From the Higgs to Dark Matter, by Gianfranco Bertone. Scope: popular survey, general interest. Level: general readership, undergraduate, teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140 J. R. Sambles \booktitleTransmission Lines: Equivalent Circuits, Electromagnetic Theory and Photons, by Richard Collier, Scope: review. Level: undergraduates . . . . . 140--141 Rob Appleby \booktitleOscillations and Waves: An Introduction, by Richard Fitzpatrick, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 141--141 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleElectricity and Magnetism, Volume 1: Third Edition, Electricity and Magnetism, Volume 2: Third Edition, by B. I. Bleaney and B. Bleaney, Scope: textbook, Level: undergraduate . . . . . 141--142 D. C. Barber \booktitleWebb's Physics of Medical Imaging, (Second Edition), edited by M. Flower, Scope: textbook, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 142--143 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleComplex Dynamics of Glass-forming Liquids: A Mode-coupling Theory, by Wolfgang Götze, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 143--144 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleCosmic Masers --- From OH to Ho (IAU S287), edited by Roy S. Booth, Wouter H. T. Vlemmings and Elizabeth M. L. Humphreys. Scope: edited book. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--145 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleImaging Gaseous Detectors and their Applications, by Eugenio Nappi and Vladimir Peskov, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . 145--145 Peter Holland \booktitlePhysical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics, by A. Ian Murdoch, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 145--146 D. J. Miller \booktitleNuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter, by National Research Council, Scope: report, review. Level: administrators of nuclear physics research programmes, politicians, interested non-experts, physics students looking for an overview, postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--147 Geoffrey Duxbury \booktitleLaser-Based Measurements for Time and Frequency Domain Applications: A Handbook, by Pasquale Maddaloni, Marco Bellini, and Paolo De Natale, Scope: monograph, reference, review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148 David J. Miller \booktitleHandbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering, 2nd edition, by Alexander Wu Chao, Karl Hubert Mes, Maury Tigner and Frank Zimmermann, Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148 S. J. Blundell Professor \booktitleFrustrated Spin Systems, (2nd ed.), edited by H. T. Diep, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 148--149 Lachlan Marnham \booktitleQuantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, by Christopher G. Timpson, Scope: review, text book. Level: non-specialists, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . 149--149 Juan A. Añel \booktitleMesoscale-Convective Processes in the Atmosphere, by Robert J. Trapp, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher, teacher . . . . . . . . . . 149--150 Charles Downing \booktitleEssential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences & Student Solution Manual for Essential Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences, by K. F. Riley and M. P. Hobson, Scope: textbook, solution manual. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 150--151 N. Riley Professor \booktitleGranular Media; Between Fluid and Solid, by Bruno Andreotti, Yo\Hel Forterre and Olivier Pouliquen, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, researcher and specialist 151--152 S. J. Blundell Professor \booktitleStatistical Mechanics of Magnetic Excitations, From Spin Waves to Stripes and Checkerboards, by Enrico Rastelli, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--153 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium, 4th edition, by Jay M. Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko, Scope: general interest, text book. Level: pre-university, undergraduate . . . . . 153--153 H. Osborn \booktitleGauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, Fourth Edition, Volumes 1 & 2, by Ian Aitchison and Anthony Hey, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates, graduates . . . . . . . 154--154 Stig Stenholm \booktitleMathematics of Quantization and Quantum Fields, by Jan Derezi\'nski and Christian Gérard, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155 H. Osborn \booktitleThree-Particle Physics and Dispersion Relation Theory, by A. V. Anisovich, V. V. Anisovich, M. A. Matveev, V. A. Nikonov, J. Nyiri, and A. V. Sarantsev, Scope: monograph. Level: specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156 B. Ishak \booktitleString Theory and the Scientific Method, by Richard Dawid, Scope: general interest. Level: specialists, scientists . . . . . . . . 156--156
T. N. Palmer Lorenz, Gödel and Penrose: new perspectives on determinism and causality in fundamental physics . . . . 157--178 Constantino Tsallis An introduction to nonadditive entropies and a thermostatistical approach to inanimate and living matter . . . . . . 179--197 Matthew G. Walker and Abraham Loeb Is the universe simpler than $ \Lambda $CDM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--211 M. S. Child Quantum monodromy and molecular spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--221 Derry W. Jones \booktitleThe genesis of the Bohr atom, Scope: review. Level: general readership, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 222--225 Eric Sheldon \booktitleThe Higgs boson, its quantum-field interaction mechanism and its aftermath. Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, teacher . . . . . . . . 226--230 Norman Dombey \booktitleChurchill's Bomb: a hidden history of science, war and politics, Scope: history of science. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234 Ignazio Licata \booktitleIn search of the quantum oneness, Scope: review. Level: scientist 235--237 Eric Sheldon \booktitleThe nuclear astrophysics of star-shine, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, graduate, professional and specialist researcher, early career researcher . . . . . . . . 238--241 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleComplexity is complex, Scope: edited book. Level: general reader, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--245 Lachlan Marnham \booktitleConductor--Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions, edited by Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Nandini Trivedi, and James M. Valles, Jr., Scope: reference, review. Level: postgraduate, specialist, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--246 Mark Nicol \booktitlePhysical Principles of Remote Sensing, (3rd Edition), by W. G. Rees, Scope: handbook, text book. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher, engineers . . . 246--247 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleUltra-realistic Imaging: Advanced Techniques in Analogue and Digital Colour Holography, by Hans Bjelkhagen and David Brotherton-Ratcliffe, Scope: handbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 247--248 Prashant Khare \booktitlePhysics of Continuous Media: Problems and Solutions in Electromagnetism, Fluid Mechanics and MHD, by Grigory Vekstein, Scope: reference, text book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, teacher, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249 Mark Nicol \booktitlePlanetary Science: The Science of Planets around Stars, Second Edition, by George H. A. Cole and Michael M. Woolfson, Scope: general interest, text book. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, scientist, engineers . . 249--250 Tom Lancaster \booktitleAdvanced Mechanics: From Euler's Determinism to Arnold's Chaos, by S. G. Rajeev, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 250--250 Steven R. Spurgeon \booktitleExperimental Neutron Scattering, by B. T. M. Willis and C. J. Carlile, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleModern Particle Physics, by Mark Thomson, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 251--252 Thomas Peters \booktitleFundamental Planetary Science: Physics, Chemistry and Habitability, by Jack J. Lissauer and Imke de Pater, Scope: textbook, Level: undergraduate 252--252 Y. I. Salamin \booktitleSchrödinger's Killer App: Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer, by Jonathan P. Dowling, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--254 Dr. Monica Pierri-Galvao \booktitleBasic Concepts in Physics: From the Cosmos to Quarks, by Masud Chaichian, Hugo Perez Rojas and Anca Tureanu, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254 Ingemar Bengtsson \booktitleOn the Topology and Future Stability of the Universe, by Hans Ringström, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255 Manuel Vogel \booktitleExtreme physics: properties and behaviour of matter at extreme conditions, by Jeff Colvin and Jon Larsen, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 256--256 Mark Nicol \booktitleUnderstanding the Universe: An Inquiry Approach to Astronomy and the Nature of Scientific Research, by George Greenstein, Scope: text book. Level: pre-university, undergraduate, teacher 256--257 D. W. Jones \booktitleA Tale of Seven Elements, by Eric Scerri, Scope: accessible monograph. Level: undergraduate, general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258 Mark Fox \booktitleAtomic Physics: Precise Measurements and Ultracold Matter, by Massimo Inguscio and Leonardo Fallani, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 258--259 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleHandbook of Biophotonics: 3 Volume Set, edited by Jürgen Popp, Valery V. Tuchin, Arthur Chiou and Stefan H. Heinemann, Scope: handbook, reference. Level: specialist, scientist, engineers 259--259 Marco Casazza \booktitleThe Principle of the Common Cause, by Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Miklós Rédei and Lázló E. Szabó, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 260--260 Thomas Peters \booktitleEconophysics and Physical Economics, by Peter Richmond, Jürgen Mimkes and Stefan Hutzler, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate . . 260--261
M. G. Edmunds The Antikythera mechanism and the mechanical universe . . . . . . . . . . 263--285 F. Battista Single particle sources and quantum heat fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--301 Guy Ropars and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan and Albert Le Floch The sunstone and polarised skylight: ancient Viking navigational tools? . . . 302--317 A. E. Biondo and A. Pluchino and A. Rapisarda Micro and macro benefits of random investments in financial markets . . . . 318--334 Derry W. Jones \booktitleServing the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler, by Philip Ball, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 335--336 Derry W. Jones \booktitleCrystals in Glass: A Hidden Beauty, by E. D. Zanotto, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 336--337 K. Alan Shore \booktitleElectronic Processes in Non-crystalline Materials, (Second Edition), by N. F. Mott and E. A. Davis, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleStochastic Calculus and Differential Equations for Physics and Finance, by Joseph L. McCauley, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338 Mark Fox \booktitleQuantum Processes in Semiconductors, (Fifth Edition), by Brian K. Ridley, Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 338--339 Prashant Khare \booktitleA Student's Guide to Entropy, by Don S. Lemons, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, early stage postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleScientific Inference: Learning from Data, by Simon Vaughan, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 339--340 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe Physics of Quantum Mechanics, by James Binney and David Skinner, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate 340--341 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Physics of Reality: Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos, edited by Richard L. Amoroso, Louis H. Kauffman and Peter Rowlands, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleHow the Ray Gun Got Its Zap: Odd Excursions into Optics, by Stephen R. Wilk, Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--342 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleAstrobiology: A Very Short Introduction, by David C. Catling, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--344 K. Alan Shore \booktitleFunctional Differential Geometry, by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom with Will Farr, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . 344--344 K. Alan Shore \booktitleIntroduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials: From Electronic Structure to Quantum Transport, by Luis E. F. Foa Torres, Stephan Roche and Jean-Christophe Charlier, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345 B. Ishak \booktitleThe Physics and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei, by Hagai Netzer, Scope: monograph. Level: specialists . . 345--345 Chih-Yueh Wang \booktitleNeutron Stars and Pulsars (IAU S291): Challenges and Opportunities after 80 Years, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (IAU S279), edited by Joeri van Leeuwen., Scope: conference proceedings. Level: researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 346--347 B. Ishak \booktitleDark Matter and Cosmic Web Story, by Jaan Einasto, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--347 S. W. Lovesey \booktitlePerspectives on Spin Glasses, by Pierluigi Contucci and Cristian Giardin\`a, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348 Robert D. Joseph \booktitleMagnificent Principia: exploring Isaac Newton's masterpiece, by Colin Pask, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 348--349 Lampros Nikolopoulos \booktitleComputational Physics, 2nd Edition, by Jos Thijssen, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 349--350 Alan D. R. Phelps \booktitleWaves and Oscillations in Plasmas, by Hans L. Pécseli, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . 350--350 Ian D. Lawrie \booktitleBlack Holes --- New Horizons, edited by Sean Hayward, Scope: edited book. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . 350--351 Ignazio Licata \booktitleEnergy Science, Principles, Technologies and Impacts: Second Edition, by John Andrews and Nick Jelley, Scope: review. Level: general readership, undergraduate, early career researcher, teacher . . . . . . . . . . 351--352 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleIntroduction to Metal-nanoparticle Plasmonics, by Matthew Pelton and Garnett W. Bryant, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, researcher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 352--353 Alan D. R. Phelps \booktitlePlasma Research at the Limit: From the International Space Station to Applications on Earth, (with DVD-ROM), by Gregor Morfill, Yuri Baturin, and Vladimir Fortov. Scope: monograph. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 353--353 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleTopological Insulators and Topological Superconductors, by B. Andrei Bernevig with Taylor L. Hughes, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354 John M. Stewart \booktitleRelativistic Hydrodynamics, by Luciano Rezzolla and Olindo Zanotti, Scope: monograph, text book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 354--355 A. H. Harker \booktitleGraphene: A New Paradigm in Condensed Matter and Device Physics, by E. L. Wolf, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . 355--355 A. H. Harker \booktitlePhase Transitions: Modern Applications, (2nd edition), by Moshe Gitterman, Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--356 Richard Shorter \booktitleJames Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on His Life and Work, edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker, Scope: Review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 356--356 Thomas Peters \booktitleQuantum Mechanics, by Gennaro Auletta, Mauro Fortunato and Giorgio Parisi, Scope: text book. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 357--357 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleHow Big is Big and How Small is Small: The Sizes of Everything and Why, by Timothy Paul Smith, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, non-specialists, scientists, engineers 357--358 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe Science of Ocean Waves: Ripples, Tsunamis and Stormy Seas, by J. B. Zirker, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 358--359 Richard Shorter \booktitleAn Introduction to Mechanics, (2nd Edition), by Daniel Kleppner and Robert Kolenkow, Scope: review. Level: pre-university, undergraduate, teacher 359--359 Robert C. Smith \booktitleAstrophysical Techniques, Sixth Edition, by C. R. Kitchin, Scope: general interest, text book. Level: general readership, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher . . . . 359--360 D. G. C. Jones \booktitleThe Quantum World, by Michel Le Bellac and Alain Aspect, Scope: review. Level: advanced undergraduate 360--361 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Peter Knight Editorial --- International Year of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 M. V. Berry Nature's optics and our understanding of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--16 Tommaso Treu and Richard S. Ellis Gravitational Lensing: Einstein's unfinished symphony . . . . . . . . . . 17--34 M. J. Duff How fundamental are fundamental constants? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47 Levi P. Neukirch and A. Nick Vamivakas Nano-optomechanics with optically levitated nanoparticles . . . . . . . . 48--62 Richard C. Thompson Ion Coulomb crystals . . . . . . . . . . 63--79 David Bailin \booktitleMathematics is everything, maybe, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 80--84 William T. Coffey \booktitleA Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space, Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87 Charlie Ironside \booktitleComputational Photonics: An Introduction with MATLAB, by Marek S. Wartak, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88 Mario Bertolotti \booktitleHigh-order Harmonic Generation in Laser Plasma Plumes, by Rashid Ganeev, Scope: review. Level: early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89 Mark Nicol \booktitleMadame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research, by Tsai-Chien Chiang/translated by Tang-Fong Wong, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90 Chih-Yueh Wang \booktitleIntelligible Design: A Realistic Approach to the Philosophy and History of Science, by Julio A. Gonzalo and Manuel M. Carreira, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership, researcher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90 Keith A. Benedict \booktitleThe Physics of Nanoelectronics: Transport and Fluctuation Phenomena at Low Temperatures, by Tero T. Heikkilä, Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleEinstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed in Everyday Language, by Ira Mark Egdall, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91 Tom Lancaster \booktitleAn Introduction to Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena and Quantum Dissipation, A. O. Caldeira, Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 92--92 Mark Nicol \booktitleA Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Scope: review. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 92--93 H. Osborn \booktitleSymmetry and Fundamental Physics: Tom Kibble at 80, edited by Jerome Gauntlett, Scope: review. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94 Manuel Vogel \booktitleQuantum Social Science, by Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleFundamentals of Picoscience, edited by Klaus D. Sattler, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 95--95 Norman Dombey \booktitlePhysics and Our World: Reissue of the Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Victor F Weisskopf, Scope: history of science. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96 B. Ishak \booktitlePhysics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Dust Shells, by Hans-Peter Gail and Erwin Sedlmayr, Scope: text book. Level: specialist . . . . . . . . 97--97 H. Osborn \booktitleSymmetry Relationships between Crystal Structures: Applications of Crystallographic Group Theory in Crystal Chemistry, by Ulrich Müller, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98 Alexander Pikovski \booktitleBack-of-the-envelope Quantum Mechanics: With Extensions to Many-body Systems and Integrable PDEs, by Maxim Olshanii, Scope: textbook/supplementary text. Level: undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--98 Bob Joseph \booktitleThe Oxford Handbook of the history of physics, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox, Scope: reference. Level: general readership . . 98--99 S. J. Blundell \booktitle40 Years of Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless Theory, edited by Jorge V. José, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 99--100 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleOne Hundred Physics Visualisations Using Matlab, (With DVD-ROM), by Dan Green. Scope: Review. Level: Undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 100--100 B. Ishak \booktitleEssential Physics, by John Matolyak and Ajawad Haija, Scope: textbook. Level: pre-university . . . . 101--101 Thomas Peters \booktitleQuantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, by Matthew D. Schwartz, Scope: text Book. Level: postgraduate 101--102 B. Ishak \booktitleIntroduction to Elementary Particle Physics, (2nd Edition), by Alessandro Bettini, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, teacher . . . . . 102--102 David L. Andrews \booktitleFrom Photons to Higgs: A Story of Light, (2nd Edition), by Moo-Young Han. Scope: general interest. Level: non-specialists, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher, scientist . . . 102--103 K. Alan Shore \booktitleCeramic Lasers, by Akio Ikesue, Yan Lin Aung, and Voicu Lupei, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . 103--104 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleProbing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics: Physical, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives, edited by Diederik Aerts, Sven Aerts and Christian de Ronde, Scope: edited book. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104 Stephen Hull \booktitleTechniques in High Pressure Neutron Scattering, by Stefan Klotz, Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate 104--105 Brian Cowan \booktitleNuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the race for Atomic Weapons in World War II, by Kenneth D. McRae, Scope: review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 105--105 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleLasers and Electro-Optics: Fundamentals and Engineering, (2nd Edition), by Christopher C. Davis, Scope: text book. Level: undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, engineers . . . 105--106 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--108
Jim Al-Khalili Advances in optics in the medieval Islamic world . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122 Siegfried Weisenburger and Vahid Sandoghdar Light microscopy: an ongoing contemporary revolution . . . . . . . . 123--143 Svenja Ettl Introductory review on `Flying Triangulation': a motion-robust optical $3$D measurement principle . . . . . . . 144--158 Joshua Erlich An introduction to holographic QCD for nonspecialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--171 Maria Schuld and Ilya Sinayskiy and Francesco Petruccione An introduction to quantum machine learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--185 Natascha Kappeler Cantilevers for biological monitoring: opportunities for classical and quantum physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--201 John Quenby \booktitleMagnetohydrodynamics of the Sun, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . 202--205 Juan A. Añel \booktitleOn the importance of weather and climate change for our present and future energy needs, edited by Troccoli, Dubus and Ellen Haupt, Scope: edited book. Level: undergraduate, Non-specialists, Advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist, scientist, engineers, researcher . . . . . . . . . 206--208 Chih-Yueh Wang and Yuxiang Peng Extrasolar Planets . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213 Derry W. Jones \booktitleThe Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms, Scope: history reviews. Level: first-year science undergraduate or general reader . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219 S. C. Tiwari Demystifying the riddle of quantum physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--224 Eric Sheldon Essay Review: Nobel Lectures: Physics (2006--2010) [review of \booktitleNobel Lectures: Physics (2006--2010), edited by Lars Brink, Singapore, NJ, and London, World Scientific 2014, xii + 371 pp. ISBN 978-981-4612-67-8 (hardback), 978-9-81-461268-5 (paperback), 978-9-81-461270-08 (e-book)] . . . . . . 225--232 Manuel Vogel \booktitleLight --- The Physics of the Photon, by Ole Keller, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233 K. Alan Shore \booktitleIsochronous Systems, by Francesco Calogero, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleNonautonomous Dynamical Systems in the Life Sciences, edited by Peter E. Kloeden and Christian Pötzsche, Scope: edited book, monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 234--235 B. Ishak \booktitleElements of Mechanics, by P. F. Kelly, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236 Salvatore Esposito Auroral Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236 A. H. Harker \booktitleNonlinear Science: An Interactive Mathematica\TM Notebook, by David K. Campbell, Sebastian M. Marotta and Thomas A. Tanury, Scope: guide. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 236--237 A. H. Harker \booktitleSymmetry of Crystals and Molecules, by Mark Ladd, Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 237--238 Alan D. Martin \booktitleQuantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur, by Tom Lancaster and Stephen J. Blundell, Scope: review, text book. Level: general readership, undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 238--239 Gunter M. Schütz \booktitleThe Bethe Wavefunction, by Michel Gaudin, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist, specialist . . . 239--240 J. Rogel-Salazar \booktitleFractional Calculus: An Introduction for Physicists, (2nd Edition) by Richard Herrmann, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 240--240 Chih-Yueh Wang \booktitleMolecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies (IAU S292), edited by Tony Wong and Jürgen Ott. Scope: conference proceeding. Level: researcher/scientist . . . . . . . . . . 240--241 Richard Carter \booktitleEngines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators, (Revised and Expanded Edition), by Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242 Rob Appleby \booktitleBeam Dynamics in High Energy Particle Accelerators, by Andrzej Wolski, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . 242--243 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleImage processing and acquisition using Python, by Ravishankar Chityala and Sridevi Pudipeddi, Scope: textbook. Level: general readership, undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 243--243 Kavan Modi Thermal energy at the nanoscale . . . . 243--244 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleHandbook of Nano-optics and Nanophotonics --- 2 Volume Set, edited by Motoichi Ohtsu, Scope: reference, monograph, handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 244--245 Robert S. MacKay \booktitleLocal Activity Principle: The Cause of Complexity and Symmetry Breaking, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--246 Chandra Wickramasinghe \booktitleCOMETS! Visitors from Deep Space, by David J. Eicher, Scope: review, general interest. Level: general readership, undergraduate . . . . . . . 246--247
N. B. Narozhny and A. M. Fedotov Extreme light physics . . . . . . . . . 249--268 Peter Townsend The role of physics in shaping music . . 269--291 C. A. Lütken Introduction to the role of modular symmetries in graphene and other two-dimensional materials . . . . . . . 292--318 David E. Hanson and John L. Barber A new paradigm for the molecular basis of rubber elasticity . . . . . . . . . . 319--337 Jose Manuel Valverde Pattern-formation under acoustic driving forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--358 Sergey Nazarenko Wave turbulence . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--373 K. Alan Shore \booktitleFundamentals of Electro-optic Systems Design: Communications, Lidar, and Imaging, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376 A. J. Leggett \booktitleEinstein's Opponents: The Public Controversy about the Theory of Relativity in the 1920s, Scope: general interest, monograph. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378 B. Ishak \booktitleStellar Evolution Physics: Volume 2: Advanced Evolution of Single Stars, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduates and specialists . . . . . 379--380 Raymond F. Bishop \booktitleFoundations of quantum optics: a basis for the new quantum technologies, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early-career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384 Prashant Khare \booktitleFluid Dynamics: Part 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 385--387 Peter R. T. Munro \booktitleOptical Antennas, edited by Mario Agio and Andrea Al\`u, Scope: handbook, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 388--388 David L. Andrews \booktitleThe Quantum Theory of Nonlinear Optics, by Peter D. Drummond and Mark Hillery, Scope: reference, monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduate, researcher, scientist . . 388--389 D. G. C. Jones \booktitlePhotonics: technology for the Twenty First Century?, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate, postgraduate . . . 389--392 Joseph Eberly \booktitleNon-diffracting Waves, edited by Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa, Michel Zamboni-Rached, and Erasmo Recami, Scope: edited book. Level: early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--392 Richard Carter \booktitleReviews of Accelerator Science and Technology: Volume 5 --- Applications of Superconducting Technology to Accelerators, edited by Alexander W. Chao and Weiren Chou, Scope: review. Level: specialist, scientists, engineers . . . . . . . . . 392--393 Manuel Vogel \booktitleSea-level Science: Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis and Mean Sea-level Changes, by David Pugh and Philip Woodworth, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate 394--394 Brian Cowan \booktitleTranslational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance: Principles of Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR, by Paul T. Callaghan, Scope: monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--395 Peter Knight \booktitleQuantum Machines: Measurement and Control of Engineered Quantum Systems, edited by Michel Devoret, Benjamin Huard, Robert Schoelkopf, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 395--396 Derry W. Jones \booktitleThe Nature of the Hydrogen Bond: Outline of a Comprehensive Hydrogen Bond Theory, by Gastone Gilli and Paola Gilli, Scope: general interest. Level: scientist . . . . . . . 396--397 Thomas J. Bridges \booktitleHomogeneous, Isotropic Turbulence: Phenomenology, Renormalization, and Statistical Closures, by W. David McComb, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . 397--398 B. Ishak \booktitleDynamics of Galaxies, (2nd Edition), by Giuseppe Bertin, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 398--399 Chandra Wickramasinghe \booktitleAlien universe: Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and in the Cosmos, by Don Lincoln, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, undergraduate . . . . . . . 399--400 Manuel Vogel \booktitleTime in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales, by Gerard 't Hooft and Stefan Vandoren, translated by Saskia Eisberg-'t Hooft, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleFrom Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity: A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought, by Manfred Eigen, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate . . . . . 401--402 Derry W. Jones \booktitleWaves and Particles: Two Essays on Fundamental Physics, by Roger G. Newton, Scope: historical review. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 402--402 Chris Linton \booktitleElectromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Particle Groups: An Introduction, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . 402--403 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleWhat Does a Black Hole Look Like?, by Charles D. Bailyn, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404 Stephen J. Burns \booktitleThe Theory of Materials Failure, by Richard M. Christensen, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduates . . . . . . . . 404--404 Anonymous Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405
J. H. Eberly Shimony--Wolf states and hidden coherences in classical light . . . . . 407--416 Donald P. Umstadter All-laser-driven Thomson X-ray sources 417--431 Peter Wizinowich Adaptive optics in astronomy . . . . . . 432--450 T. Whyntie and H. Bithray and J. Cook and A. Coupe and D. Eddy and R. L. Fickling and J. McKenna and B. Parker and A. Paul and N. Shearer CERN@school: demonstrating physics with the Timepix detector . . . . . . . . . . 451--467 Ian G. Moss Higgs boson cosmology . . . . . . . . . 468--476 K. Alan Shore \booktitleNonlinear optics and photonics, Scope: monograph, textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479 Nikolaos Kourkoumelis \booktitleSpectroscopy for biosciences, Scope: edited book. Level: specialist 480--482 David L. Andrews \booktitleQuantum Physics of Light and Matter: A Modern Introduction to Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems, by Luca Salasnich, Scope: reference, textbook. Level: general readership, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate 483--483 B. Ishak \booktitlePlanetary rings: a post-equinox view, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, undergraduate and specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--486 David L. Andrews \booktitleLaser Spectroscopy 1: Basic Principles & Laser Spectroscopy 2: Experimental Techniques (5th edition), Scope: handbook, monograph, reference, text book. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 487--488 A. N. Dobrynin and S. W. Lovesey \booktitleShedding light on matter, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . 489--492 Giovanni Volpe \booktitleAn Introduction to Practical Laboratory Optics, by J. F. James, Scope: monograph, manual, guide. Level: early career researcher, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--495 Tom Lancaster \booktitleLectures on Classical Electrodynamics, by Berthold-Georg Englert, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . . . . . . . 496--496 A. J. Leggett \booktitlePhysics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduate/specialist . . . . . . . . 497--499 B. Ishak \booktitleNearest Star: The Surprising Science of our Sun, (2nd Edition), by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500 S. W. Lovesey \booktitleSolution Manual for Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition), by Ahmed Ishtiaq, Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin, Scope: manual. Level: undergraduate . . 501--501 Amgad Salama \booktitleNovel Porous Media Formulation for Multiphase Flow Conservation Equations, by William T Sha, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 501--502 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff that will Blow Your Mind, by Don Lincoln. Scope: general interest. Level: general reader . . . . 502--502 K. Alan Shore \booktitleModern Small Antennas, by Kyohei Fujimoto and Hisashi Morishita, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist, engineers, early career researchers . . 502--503 Derry W. Jones \booktitleThe Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small Transformed Our Lives, by Brian Clegg, Scope: general interest. Level: pre-university, undergraduate, general readership . . . 503--504 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleMind and Reality. The Space--Time Window, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--505 Peter R. Hobson \booktitleMeasurement Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook Electromagnetic, Optical, Radiation, Chemical, and Biomedical Measurement, by J. G. Webster and H. Eren, Scope: reference, handbook. Level: non-specialists, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 505--506 Peter J. Dobson \booktitleNanoantenna Plasmon-Enhanced Spectroscopies for Biotechnological Applications, edited by Marc Lamy de la Chapelle and Annemarie Pucci, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 506--506 Andrew Resnick \booktitleLie groups and Lie algebras for physicists, by Ashok Das and Susumu Okubo, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist . . . 506--507 K. Alan Shore \booktitleNonlinear Physics of Ecosystems, by Ehud Meron, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist, early career researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 507--508 Manuel Vogel \booktitleBlack Holes --- A Student Text, (3rd edition), by Derek Rain and Edwin Thomas, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate . . 508--508 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleProceedings of the Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson, edited by K. K. Phua, L. C. Kwek, N. P. Chang, and A. H. Chang, Scope: conference proceedings. Level: postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 508--509 Norman Riley \booktitleDouble-diffusive Convection, by Timour Radko, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 509--510 Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleA Certain Uncertainty. Nature's Random Ways, by Mark P. Silverman, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--510 Nigel John Mason \booktitleAn Introduction to Planets. Ours and Others; From Earth to Exoplanets, by Therese Encrenaz, Scope: guide, general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511
A. Kirk Nuclear fusion: bringing a star down to Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Dirk K. Morr Crossover from quantum to classical transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--45 Alexander Jesacher and Monika Ritsch-Marte Synthetic holography in microscopy: opportunities arising from advanced wavefront shaping . . . . . . . . . . . 46--59 David Jennings and Matthew Leifer No return to classical reality . . . . . 60--82 M. J. Duff $M$-history without the $M$ . . . . . . 83--85 Ignazio Licata Essay Review: The architecture of time. \booktitlePrinciples of Discrete Time Mechanics, by George Jaroszkiewicz, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 366 + 14 pp., \pounds 85.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-03429-7. Scope: monograph. Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--89 B. Ishak \booktitleStellar Evolution Physics --- Volume 1. Physical Processes in Stellar Interiors, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduates and specialists 90--92 Peter V. E. McClintock Essay Review: The origins of life on Earth. [\booktitleThe Search for our Cosmic Ancestry, by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Singapore, World Scientific, 2014, 216 pp. \pounds 25.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-981-4616-97-3, (hardcover) ISBN 978-981-4616-96-6, (e-book) 978-981-4616-99-7], Scope: review, monograph, general interest. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher 93--95 Enda McGlynn \booktitleCrystal Symmetry, Lattice Vibrations, and Optical Spectroscopy of Solids: A Group Theoretical Approach, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist & engineers . . . . 96--99 Peter J. Bussey Essay Review: Illumination on Information. \booktitleInformation and the Nature of Reality: from Physics to Metaphysics, edited by Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014,. 488 pp. \pounds 12.99 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-107-68453-9. Scope: edited book. Level: general readership, researcher 100--103 Gunter M. Schütz Faith and Science: Friend or Foe? . . . 104--109 B. Ishak \booktitleDeep-sky Companions: The Messier Objects, (2nd Edition), Scope: reference. Level: general readership . . 110--112 Peter W. Milonni \booktitleLasers: the first 50 years, Scope: review, general interest. Level: general readership, teacher, undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--116 Prashant Khare \booktitleIncompressible Flow, 4th Edition, by Ronald L. Panton, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, early stage postgraduate . . . . . . . . 117--118 Michael C. Ogilvie \booktitleDynamics of the standard model, 2nd edition, John F. Donoghue, Eugene Golowich and Barry R. Holstein, Scope: monograph, reference. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120 Richard Keesing \booktitleDiscrete or Continuous? The Quest for Fundamental Length in Physics, by Amit Hagar, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate. early career researcher, researcher . . 120--121 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitle$4$D visualization of matter: recent collected works of Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Laureate, by Nikolaos E. Myridis, Scope: anthology (article collection). Level: academics, researchers, postgraduates and specialists in: physical chemistry, biochemistry, chemical biology, biophysics, bioengineering, imaging, structural biology, cancer research . . 122--122 K. Alan Shore \booktitleTowards a new dimension: Exploring the Nanoscale, by Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . . . . . 122--124 K. Alan Shore \booktitleNanoscale microwave engineering: Optical control of nanodevices, by Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet and Jean Chazelas, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist . . 124--125 B. Ishak \booktitleAstrophysics Processes: The Physics of Astronomical Phenomena, by Hale Bradt, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 B. Ishak \booktitleAn Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology, (2nd Edition), edited by Mark H. Jones, Robert J. A. Lambourne, and Stephen Serjeant, Scope: textbook. Level: general readership, undergraduate 126--128 B. Ishak \booktitleGravitation and Spacetime, (3rd Edition), by Hans C. Ohanian and Remo Ruffini, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate . . 128--128 B. Ishak \booktitleAstrophysics Through Computation: With Mathematica$^{{\reg }}$ Support, by Brian Koberlein and David Meisel, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduates, graduate students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129 K. Alan Shore \booktitleQuantum Transport Calculations for Nanosystems, by Kenji Hirose and Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Scope: monograph. Level: specialist, researcher, early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130 K. Alan Shore \booktitleBiomedical Photonic Handbook, (3 Volumes), edited by Tuan Vo-Dinh, Scope: handbook. Level: specialist, engineers, early career researchers . . 130--131 K. Alan Shore \booktitleHistory of Modern Optics and Optoelectronics Development in China, edited by Fuxi Gan and Shouyun Tian, Scope: monograph. Level: general readership, engineers, early career researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132 Frank Close \booktitleParticle Accelerators: From Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy, by Ugo Amaldi, Scope: monograph, review, postgraduate. Level: general reader, undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist 132--134 Manuel Vogel \booktitleThe Formation of the Solar System: Theories Old and New, (2nd Edition), by Michael Woolfson, Scope: monograph, Level: general readership . . 134--135 Lynn E. Eberly and Joseph H. Eberly \booktitleBayesian Probability Theory: Applications in the Physical Science, by W. von der Linden, V. Dose and U. von Toussaint. Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists . . . . . . 135--136 Nigel John Mason \booktitleThe Science of Interstellar, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader, non specialist . . . . . . . . . 136--137 Nigel John Mason \booktitleElectrons in Molecules: From Basic Principles to Molecular Electronics, by Jean Pierre Launay and Michel Verdaguer, Scope: reference, textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138 G. J. Milburn \booktitleQuantum Measurement Theory and its Applications, by Kurt Jacobs, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 138--138 Salvatore Esposito \booktitleA Chorus of Bells and Other Scientific Inquiries, by Jeremy Bernstein, Scope: article collection. Level: postgraduate, teacher, scientist 139--139 Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleAn Introduction to Sparse Stochastic Processes, Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate, (early career) researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 139--140 A. H. Harker \booktitleMaterials Modelling using Density Functional Theory: Properties and Predictions, by Giustino Feliciano, Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early stage researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141 A. H. Harker \booktitleSemiconductors: Bonds and Bands, by David K. Ferry, Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 141--141 A. H. Harker \booktitlePhase transitions in materials, Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate; postgraduate, early stage researcher . . . . . . . . . 141--142 Robert D. Joseph \booktitleThe Universal Force: Gravity --- Creator of Worlds, Scope: monograph. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . 142--142 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleMid-Ocean Ridges, Scope: monograph. Level: undergraduates, graduate students, interdisciplinary researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143 B. Ishak \booktitleUnseen Cosmos: The Universe in Radio, Scope: reference, general interest. Level: general readership . . 143--144 B. Ishak \booktitleLiving with the Stars: how the human body is connected to the life cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars, Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . . . . . . 144--144 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleEssentials of in vivo Biomedical Imaging, edited by Simon R. Cherry, Ramsey D. Badawi and Jinyi Qi, Scope: edited book. Level: postgraduates, research scientists . . . 144--145 Michael Belsley \booktitleExperiments and Demonstrations in Physics Bar-llan Physics Laboratory (second edition), Scope: guide or manual. Level: undergraduate . . . . . . 145--146 B. Ishak \booktitleWhy we need nuclear power: the environmental case, Michael H. Fox, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014, 320 pp., \pounds 22.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-199-34457-4. Scope: general interest. Level: general readership . . 146--147 Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitleSuperfluid States of Matter, by Boris Egor Nikolay Svistunov, Egor Nikolay Babaev and Nikolay Prokof'ev, Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduates, research scientists . . . . . . . . . . 147--147 Eric Sheldon \booktitleRelativity: The Special and the General Theory, 100th Anniversary Edition, by Albert Einstein, Scope: general interest, edited book. Level: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 147--149 Peter J. Bussey \booktitleThe beauty of physics: patterns, principles and perspectives, Scope: general interest. Level: general reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
Hai-Jun Zhou The rock--paper--scissors game . . . . . 151--163 Clare Burrage and Edmund J. Copeland Using atom interferometry to detect dark energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--176 Chris Quigg Particle physics after the Higgs boson discovery: opportunities for the Large Hadron Collider . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--187 Hiroya Nakao Phase reduction approach to synchronisation of nonlinear oscillators 188--214 Stefan Schippers and A. L. David Kilcoyne and Ronald A. Phaneuf and Alfred Müller Photoionisation of ions with synchrotron radiation: from ions in space to atoms in cages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--229