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C. 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
J. K. Wright Non-linear Optics . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
P. Vigoureux Electric units and atomic constants . . 15--25
Sir Harrie Massey Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 26--48
J. M. A. Lenihan Macmillan--Eothen `Cinette' film loops 49--49
A. Appleton The soft X-ray emission spectra of
metals and alloys . . . . . . . . . . . 50--67
L. G. Parry Elementary science teaching in New South
Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--72
K. W. Keohane Essay Review: \booktitleReports on
progress in physics, vol. XXVII, 1964 73--75
C. W. Haworth Reports on progress in physics, vol.
XXVI, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--80
O. R. Frisch Nuclei and nuclear reactions . . . . . . 81--93
S. N. Postnikov The friction of metals . . . . . . . . . 94--111
David Tabor Large-scale properties of matter . . . . 112--128
R. E. Peierls The development of quantum theory. Part
I. Formulation and interpretation . . . 129--139
U. W. Arndt Automation in the laboratory . . . . . . 140--146
Sir John Cockcroft The role of government in scientific
research and development . . . . . . . . 147--151
O. S. Heavens Quantum electronics . . . . . . . . . . 152--154
O. R. Frisch Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to the theory of relativity, by A. V.
Rosser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160
Sir Lawrence Bragg The history of X-ray analysis . . . . . 161--171
Sir Harrie Massey Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 172--191
R. E. Peierls The development of quantum theory . . . 192--205
Sir Harold Hartley The scientific work of Sir Humphry Davy 206--216
E. Mendoza Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--224
R. P. Tye Thermal conductivity: Recent
developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229
V. T. Saunders Radio research: A report on the 1964
open days at the radio research station,
Ditton Park, Slough . . . . . . . . . . 230--236
J. M. A. Lenihan Contemporary reading . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
Sir Harrie Massey Space travel and exploration V. Lunar
and planetary probes --- meteorology and
communications --- geodesy and
navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--260
E. W. Lee Nottingham 1964. The international
conference on magnetism . . . . . . . . 261--273
P. A. Egelstaff and
P. Schofield The structure and thermal motion of
simple liquids --- I . . . . . . . . . . 274--284
A. W. Lawrence Gyroscopes used in inertial navigation 285--298
D. W. Harlow The association for science education
annual meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Anonymous A new concept in courses for teachers of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--320
Sir Harrie Massey Space travel and exploration . . . . . . 321--337
D. Ter Haar On the origin of cosmic rays . . . . . . 338--348
J. G. Morley Crystal growth in glass . . . . . . . . 349--364
J. W. Tucker Relaxation processes in paramagnetic
crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--380
V. T. Saunders Road traffic and safety . . . . . . . . 381--384
V. T. Saunders Building research . . . . . . . . . . . 385--389
V. T. Saunders Some exhibits at the Royal Society
conversazione, 1964 . . . . . . . . . . 390--395
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--400
H. P. Palmer High resolution studies in radio
astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--420
Albert D. Frost Astronomy at radio frequencies . . . . . 421--435
T. W. B. Kibble Elementary particle symmetries . . . . . 436--452
P. A. Egelstaff and
P. Schofield Structure and thermal motion of simple
liquids--II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--464
D. Ter Haar Wolfgang Pauli 1900--1958 . . . . . . . 465--471
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--480
Anonymous The organization of civil science in the
United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
D. J. E. Ingram Nuclear magnetic resonance (part I) . . 13--28
N. Feather The physical basis of Newtonian
mechanics (Part I) . . . . . . . . . . . 29--44
O. R. Frisch Take a photon \ldots . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
W. J. Wilkinson The new science teaching as seen in
terms of educational and psychological
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--56
J. Alan Chalmers A logical sequence of ideas in
electromagnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
V. T. Saunders Basic physics at the National Physical
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--65
V. T. Saunders At the National Physical Laboratory open
days, 19th and 20th may, 1965 . . . . . 66--69
R. J. Blin-Stoyle Congr\`es international de physique
nucléaire (Paris). July 1964. Volumes I
and II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80
A. D. C. Grassie and
J. E. Spice and
A. Gerrard Introducing the Boltzmann distribution 81--102
D. J. E. Ingram Nuclear magnetic resonance (part II) . . 103--121
N. Feather The physical basis of Newtonian
mechanics. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . 122--134
A. C. Rose-Innes The new superconductors . . . . . . . . 135--151
R. Brown and
D. L. Gardiner Physics at school. A small-scale
investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--157
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--160
P. Halligey The evolution of MKS electrical units:
Effects on the teaching of electricity 161--173
I. G. Austin Solids under very high pressure . . . . 174--191
G. A. Saunders The electron pair theory of
superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 192--209
W. Bolton Teaching photoelectricity . . . . . . . 210--216
R. F. Powell Modern techniques for the measurement of
the thermal conductivity of metals . . . 217--227
Anonymous Reports on progress in physics, vol.
XXVIII, 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
Anonymous The collected papers of Lord Rutherford
of Nelson. Vol. III --- The Cavendish
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Anonymous The crystalline state . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Robert Weinstock On introducing the Boltzmann
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--234
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
M. F. Hoyaux Plasma physics and its applications . . 241--260
Marc Odier A simple photographic method for
studying motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--277
W. M. Lomer Neutron spectroscopy of solids --- Part
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--293
N. Feather `Factors of ignorance' and the
rationalized M.K.S.A. system of units 294--303
L. F. Bates The study of magnetism . . . . . . . . . 304--307
F. Oldham The education of professional physicists 307--309
Anonymous The metric system and S.I. units . . . . 309--312
G. R. Noakes Annual report of the Advisory Council on
Scientific Policy 1963--64 . . . . . . . 313--313
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--320
F. I. G. Rawlins The place of physics in the fine arts 321--330
K. Mendelssohn Dewar at the Royal Institution . . . . . 331--342
L. Essen The measurement of time and frequency 343--349
P. Vigoureux Errors of observation and systematic
errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--357
Sir Lawrence Bragg The Royal Institution lectures in
science for members of the
administrative class of the civil
service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--361
C. W. Oatley Mechanical and electrical oscillations;
transient and alternating electric
currents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--391
K. A. Macfadyen The physics of musical sounds . . . . . 392--394
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--400
W. M. Lomer Neutron spectroscopy of solids --- part
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--418
P. G. H. Sandars Magnetic charge . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--429
S. H. Hall The magnetic field of the ionospheric
dynamo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430--439
P. Vigoureux Radiation pressure . . . . . . . . . . . 440--446
D. Ter Haar Adiabatic invariance and adiabatic
invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--458
V. T. Saunders At the national physical laboratory open
days, 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--467
J. Alan Chalmers The difference between a
current-carrying coil and a permanent
magnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472
A. H. Cottrell Strength of materials: A foreword
introducing the contemporary physics
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
W. O. Alexander The simple economics of rivalries
between materials . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19
N. Kurti Spins and cryogenics . . . . . . . . . . 21--40
F. A. Vick, O.B.E. Explorations in atomic energy . . . . . 41--61
B. J. Mason, D.Sc., F.R.S. The meteorological office --- today and
tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--85
W. C. A. Hutchinson Angular momentum --- an experiment to
illustrate its conservation . . . . . . 87--93
W. F. Nash Proceedings of the ninth international
conference on cosmic rays . . . . . . . 95--100
K. J. Barnes High energy physics and elementary
particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--103
Anonymous Reports on progress in physics, vol.
XXIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--112
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
W. D. Biggs Properties of materials: The engineering
designer's point of view . . . . . . . . 113--126
T. S. Littler The ear and hearing . . . . . . . . . . 127--151
A. E. Ennos Holography and its applications . . . . 153--170
D. E. Cartwright Modern studies of wind-generated ocean
waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--183
D. H. Trevena The behaviour of liquids under tension 185--195
R. Mansfield Application of the Argand diagram to
magneto-conductivity effects . . . . . . 197--202
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
T. Broom Creep and fatigue of engineering
materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
D. H. Parkinson High magnetic fields . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
A. H. Cook The absolute determination of the
acceleration due to gravity . . . . . . 251--266
B. J. Hinde and
D. I. Gaunt Microseisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--283
J. Malinowski Properties of photoexcited holes in
silver bromide crystals . . . . . . . . 285--301
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--312
A. Kelly High strength materials . . . . . . . . 313--329
Zden\vek Kopal Recent explorations of the Moon by
spacecraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--356
M. S. Longair Quasi-stellar radio sources . . . . . . 357--372
A. W. Merrison NINA --- the 4 GeV electron synchrotron
of the Science Research Council . . . . 373--384
C. D. Mee Recent measurements of the
magneto-optical properties of some
garnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--400
R. H. Tredgold Space-charge conduction . . . . . . . . 401--411
L. F. Bates Essay Review: An essay in exposition.
\booktitleMagnetism in Solids, by D. H.
Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415
E. W. Lee The physics exhibition 1967 . . . . . . 417--420
E. R. Pike The French Physical Society's 1967
exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--425
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--432
A. A. Wells Fracture in engineering design . . . . . 433--445
S. H. Hall Measuring magnetic fields in space . . . 447--458
Arthur P. Cracknell Magnetic groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--473
R. J. L. Popplewell Some topics of current interest in
infrared spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . 475--487
R. Kaischew and
E. Budevski Surface processes in
electrocrystallization . . . . . . . . . 489--516
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--528
H. G. Gibbs and
D. W. Saunders Engineering with polymeric materials . . 529--560
A. C. Chamberlain Radioactive aerosols and vapours . . . . 561--581
N. E. Cusack The physics of liquid metals . . . . . . 583--606
G. Dearnaley Solid-state radiation detectors . . . . 607--626
D. A. Greenwood Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--628
Sir George Thomson The early history of electron
diffraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
H. I. S. Thirlaway Diagnosing underground explosions and
earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
N. C. McGill The apparent shape of rapidly moving
objects in special relativity . . . . . 33--48
G. E. Stedman Green's functions . . . . . . . . . . . 49--69
B. Crossland and
A. S. Bahrani Fundamentals, of explosive welding . . . 71--87
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
David S. Betts Helium isotope refrigeration . . . . . . 97--114
B. J. Hopkins Ultra-high vacua . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--135
L. F. Bates Anisotropy, defects, impurities and
ripple a short report on the
international congress on magnetism,
1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
W. G. Van Dorn Tsunamis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--164
M. F. Hoyaux Plasma phenomena and the solid state . . 165--196
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
H. Barrell A short history of measurement standards
at the National Physical Laboratory . . 205--226
A. H. Cook A new determination of the constant of
gravitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--238
S. F. Mason Optical activity and molecular
dissymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--256
E. W. Palmer and
J. F. Verrill Diffraction gratings . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
Ludwig Bewilogua and
Christel Gladun Condensed rare gases . . . . . . . . . . 277--300
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309
T. S. Littler The physical and analytical properties
of the ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--332
V. E. Cosslett The high-voltage electron microscope . . 333--354
V. L. Ginzburg The problem of high temperature
superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374
M. W. Thompson The channelling of particles in crystals 375--398
John R. Baker American physics curriculum projects . . 399--415
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--421
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--422
W. Deryck Chesterman Geophysical exploration of the ocean
floor using acoustic methods . . . . . . 423--446
M. T. Watkins The shaping of metals . . . . . . . . . 447--474
K. D. Leaver Thin ferromagnetic films . . . . . . . . 475--499
E. W. Lee The physics exhibition, 1968 . . . . . . 501--504
R. A. R. Tricker Electricity and matter . . . . . . . . . 505--508
Gerd Buchdahl The nature of physics . . . . . . . . . 509--510
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--518
Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519
D. A. O'Connor The Mössbauer effect . . . . . . . . . . 521--535
D. H. Trevena Elastic liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--548
A. W. B. Taylor The microscopic theory of
superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 549--564
D. Taylor Smith Physics and sea-floor minerals . . . . . 565--585
N. J. Skinner The electrojet phenomenon . . . . . . . 587--602
P. B. Fellgett Far infra-red spectrology . . . . . . . 603--604
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--614
Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--615
J. B. Adams Progress towards a nuclear fusion
reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
H. Niewodnicza\'nski The Institute of Nuclear Physics,
Cracow, and its recent investigations in
nuclear reactions . . . . . . . . . . . 21--47
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Clusters in liquid metals . . . . . . . 49--58
Alan J. Walton and
Alan G. Woodruff A kinetic liquid-simulator . . . . . . . 59--70
W. C. Nixon Scanning electron microscopy . . . . . . 71--96
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
R. W. Davidge Mechanical properties of ceramic
materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--124
N. F. Mott Conduction and switching in
non-crystalline materials . . . . . . . 125--138
B. W. Petley The Josephson effects . . . . . . . . . 139--158
R. G. F. Taylor and
A. J. Pointon Microwave ultrasonics . . . . . . . . . 159--178
J. H. Fremlin Relativity and the lever problem . . . . 179--180
Alan J. Walton Archimedes' principle in gases . . . . . 181--186
R. A. R. Tricker Classical electromagnetism and
relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--189
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--203
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Roger Parsons Electrolysis and simple cells . . . . . 205--220
R. M. Hill Electrical conduction in discontinuous
metal films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--240
David S. Betts Quantum fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--262
L. Davies and
J. L. Wilson Flight through the air at very high
speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--276
L. N. Large Ion implantation: A new method of doping
semiconductors --- I . . . . . . . . . . 277--298
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--302
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
B. L. Smith Critical point phenomena . . . . . . . . 305--329
A. W. Bright and
B. Makin Modern electrostatic generators . . . . 331--353
N. B. Brandt and
N. I. Ginzburg Superconductivity at high pressures . . 355--386
K. I. Mayne Polarized electron beams . . . . . . . . 387--412
W. G. Ferrier The zone plate and its role in
holography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--436
D. Melville The physics exhibition, 1969 . . . . . . 437--442
B. L. Smith Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Ronald F. Scott The physics and mechanics of soil . . . 449--472
David Turnbull Under what conditions can a glass be
formed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--488
Alan J. Walton Bulk and surface transport in liquids
--- An introductory treatment . . . . . 489--504
L. N. Large Ion implantation: A new method of doping
semiconductors --- II . . . . . . . . . 505--531
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--534
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--536
M. S. Khaikin and
M. Kumar Magnetic surface levels . . . . . . . . 537--557
Peter J. Webster Heusler alloys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--577
R. W. Powell Thermal conductivity: A review of some
important developments . . . . . . . . . 579--600
D. H. Trevena Ultrasonic waves in liquids . . . . . . 601--614
Marc Odier Neoncinegraphy in the teaching of
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--626
G. E. Stedman Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--634
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--636
Brian R. Pamplin Negative differential conductivity
effects in semiconductors . . . . . . . 1--19
J. G. Simmons Applications of amorphous semiconductors
in electronic devices . . . . . . . . . 21--41
R. Meredith Fibrous polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
J. Strnad A note on the Trouton--Noble experiment 59--64
D. J. Craik The magnetic domain structures of small
crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--97
R. Loudon Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--104
D. R. Bates Reactions in the ionosphere . . . . . . 105--124
B. L. Smith Inert gas crystals . . . . . . . . . . . 125--149
E. Markland Fluidics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--172
D. Vernon Morgan and
Dirck Van Vliet Charged particle tracks in solids . . . 173--193
S. J. Edwards A review of the theories of X-ray
satellite lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
Professor L. F. Bates A new departure in conference reports.
Conference Booklet No. 1. \em High
Magnetic Fields and their Applications:
Nottingham 1969. (The Institute of
Physics and The Physical Society, 1969.)
[Pp. vi + 168] 441, 5s.Od. . . . . . . . 201--203
Richard J. L. Popplewell \booktitleElectronic and vibrational
spectra of molecules. Edited by V.
Skobel'tsyn. (Consultants Bureau (Plenum
Press), 1968.) [Pp. vii + 217.]
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Specialist\slash postgraduate . . . . . 205--207
Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
H. N. Southworth Field-ion microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 209--226
A. E. Owen Semiconducting glasses part 1: Glass as
an electronic conductor . . . . . . . . 227--255
A. E. Owen Semiconducting glasses part II:
Properties and interpretation . . . . . 257--286
D. H. Smith Electrical and magnetic units in the
syst\`eme international . . . . . . . . 287--300
L. F. Bates The introduction of SI in magnetism . . 301--306
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--310
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
Geoffrey Gee The glassy state in polymers . . . . . . 313--334
E. H. S. Burhop Exotic atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--358
J. Byrne The radioactivity of free neutrons . . . 359--386
G. B. Gechele and
F. Coccioli Future polymer applications . . . . . . 387--402
D. Melville The physics exhibition, 1970 . . . . . . 403--407
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--422
K. N. R. Taylor The rare-earth metals . . . . . . . . . 423--454
I. G. Austin and
D. Elwell Magnetic semiconductors . . . . . . . . 455--476
B. J. Mason The role of satellites in observing and
forecasting the weather . . . . . . . . 477--496
J. A. Jope The absorption of X-rays . . . . . . . . 497--508
P. A. Atkinson and
S. J. Edwards Doppler observations of ionospheric
disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--515
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M. S. Tite The impact of the natural sciences on
archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--539
H. B. Gilbody Atomic collision phenomena in
gases--come modern aspects . . . . . . . 541--558
R. H. S. Winterton Van der Waals forces . . . . . . . . . . 559--574
J. D. Lawson Some attributes of real and virtual
photons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--580
P. G. Wright Entropy and disorder . . . . . . . . . . 581--588
C. Maxwell Cade and
Boris V. Barlow Thermography: Imaging in the far
infrared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589--608
H. Lipson Notes on recent progress. X-ray and
electron crystallography . . . . . . . . 609--612
L. F. Bates \booktitleMagnetism as a growth-point
subject. An essay review of magnetism
and metallurgy. Edited by A. Berkowitz
and Kneller (Academic Press, 1970) . . . 613--618
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J. E. Field Brittle fracture: Its study and
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L. R. G. Treloar Rubber elasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
R. G. A. Knott Plasma diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74
B. H. Crawford and
H. Ikeda The physics of vision in vertebrates . . 75--97
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B. L. Smith Applications of the inert gases . . . . 105--132
J. B. Hasted Water and `polywater' . . . . . . . . . 133--152
D. S. Betts Helium isotope quantum fluid mixtures 153--178
E. A. Mason and
P. G. Wright Graham's laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--186
J. Strnad The gravity-induced electric field . . . 187--191
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Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208
T. L. Blundell and
E. Dodson and
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M. Vijayan The structure of a protein hormone,
insulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--228
K. H. Ruddock The physics of colour vision . . . . . . 229--256
A. E. Hughes Exploring solids with far infrared
radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--282
R. Figgins Inelastic light scattering in liquids:
Brillouin scattering . . . . . . . . . . 283--297
Tom Beer Particle precipitation at auroral
heights: Ground-based observations . . . 299--310
G. R. Noakes The Bragg Medal and Prize of the
Institute of Physics and the Physical
Society, 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--312
G. T. Meaden Conduction electron scattering and the
resistance of the magnetic elements . . 313--337
W. G. Hoover and
M. Rossj Statistical theories of melting . . . . 339--356
R. H. Brown Measuring the angular diameters of stars 357--377
M. V. Penston Star formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394
S. R. Woolley Stellar movement . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--409
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
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Boris V. Barlow Hydrostatic bearings for the World's
great telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--436
David J. De Rosier The reconstruction of three-dimensional
images from electron micrographs . . . . 437--452
B. W. Petley Towards a quantum voltage standard . . . 453--470
D. J. Adams Cosmic X-ray astronomy . . . . . . . . . 471--493
J. A. Catterall Superconducting materials and their
engineering applications . . . . . . . . 495--514
D. Melville The physics exhibition, 1971 . . . . . . 515--520
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Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--522
R. A. Smith Lasers and light scattering . . . . . . 523--536
Sir Harrie Massey Atom-atom and atom-ion collisions: I.
Collisions between neutral atoms in
which no excitation occurs . . . . . . . 537--558
B. Crossland Friction welding . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--574
N. D. Lisgarten and
J. R. Sambles and
L. M. Skinner Vapour pressure over curved surfaces ---
the Kelvin equation . . . . . . . . . . 575--593
R. D. Present Non-additive interactions . . . . . . . 595--602
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J. T. Finch The study of virus structures by X-ray
diffraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
R. Diamond Some contemporary developments in the
techniques of protein crystallography 23--43
J. M. Baker and
E. R. Davies and
T. Rs. Reddy Detailed mapping of atomic positions
using electron nuclear double resonance
(endor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--59
V. P. Chechev and
Ya M. Kramarovsky Are the fundamental constants constant? 61--74
I. R. Kenyon Bubble Chamber Film Analysis . . . . . . 75--104
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J. A. Lee and
M. B. Waldron Recent progress in actinide research . . 113--133
Sir Harrie Massey Atom-atom and atom-ion collisions: II.
Collisions between atoms and ions in
which no excitation occurs-symmetrical
charge transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--158
R. F. Powell Recent developments in the use of the
thermoelectric power of metals and
alloys as a research tool . . . . . . . 159--177
A. C. Chamberlain and
S. A. Penkett Atmospheric pollution--present trends
and future problems . . . . . . . . . . 179--198
S. G. Christov Electron currents through barriers
between two metals . . . . . . . . . . . 199--222
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
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B. Bates and
C. D. McKeith Ultraviolet emission from the stars . . 225--246
Tom Beer Atmospheric waves and the ionosphere . . 247--271
S. W. Hawking Gravitational radiation: The theoretical
aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--282
Peter S. Aplin Gravitational radiation experiments . . 283--293
J. M. A. Lenihan What is bio-engineering? . . . . . . . . 295--309
Anonymous Sir James Chadwick, C.H., LL.D., F.R.S.:
80th birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--310
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D. Shoenberg Metallic electrons in magnetic fields:
Part I. Electronic structure and
electron dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . 321--354
Boris V. Barlow and
R. S. Read High-speed rotating devices . . . . . . 355--374
Sir Harrie Massey Atom-atom and atom-ion collisions. III.
Collisions involving excitation
transfer, spin exchange or
depolarization, without internal energy
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--392
Thomas O. Paine Man's future in space . . . . . . . . . 393--401
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W. J. Jones On the use of a Fabry--Pérot
interferometer for the study of Raman
spectra of gases under high resolution 419--439
W. Hayes Spectroscopy with a synchrotron light
source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--456
K. F. Canter Slow positrons in rare gases . . . . . . 457--478
C. Henderson Molecules in space . . . . . . . . . . . 479--499
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500
L. F. Bates ``A great man who did good things''
[Review of \booktitleRutherford:
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Mark Oliphant (Elsevier, 1972). [Pp. xii
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R. Golub and
J. M. Pendlebury The electric dipole moment of the
neutron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--558
R. S. Irani The thermodynamics and mechanisms of
ordering systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--583
G. H. A. Cole The internal structure of planetary
bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--600
L. F. Bates A link between past and present in
European magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . 601--614
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--617
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--618
G. V. Groves The structure of the atmosphere up to
150 kilometre . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
A. W. Bright and
B. Makin The electrical propulsion of space
vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
G. Fielder The geology of the Moon . . . . . . . . 39--54
R. G. F. Taylor and
H. A. H. Boot Pyroelectric image tubes . . . . . . . . 55--87
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
L. F. Bates Essay Review: An American study of
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R. Berman Heat conductivity of non-metallic
crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
D. Eagland The colloidal state . . . . . . . . . . 119--148
G. A. Saunders Semimetals and narrow gap semiconductors 149--166
G. Cocconi The CERN intersecting storage rings and
strong interactions at high energies . . 167--186
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R. F. Pearson Application of magneto-optic effects in
magnetic materials . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
M. C. Frazer The dynamo problem and the geomagnetic
field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--228
H. Rishbeth Physics and chemistry of the ionosphere 229--249
K. A. R. Mitchell Low-energy electron diffraction . . . . 251--271
L. F. Bates The study and maintenance of physical
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--277
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--286
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Young S. Kim The search for quarks in terrestrial
matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--318
Tom Beer The equatorial ionosphere . . . . . . . 319--327
John L. Bahr Photoelectron spectroscopy . . . . . . . 329--355
J. B. Hasted Electron scattering spectroscopy . . . . 357--387
S. Chandrasekhar P. A. M. Dirac on his seventieth
birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--394
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--398
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
N. F. Mott Metal-insulator transitions . . . . . . 401--413
V. Valkovi\'c X-ray emission spectroscopy --- Part I 415--438
V. Valkovi\'c X-ray emission spectroscopy --- part II 439--462
R. M. Lemmon Prebiological synthesis . . . . . . . . 463--477
L. F. Bates A new American compilation of physics
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--481
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--495
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--496
Sir Harrie Massey Inelastic collisions . . . . . . . . . . 497--512
J. C. Rivi\`ere Auger electron spectroscopy . . . . . . 513--539
W. J. Megaw The background atmospheric aerosol . . . 541--557
S. M. Hamberger The development of high temperature
plasma physics in the last decade . . . 559--573
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--587
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--588
S. Chandrasekhar The black hole in astrophysics: The
origin of the concept and its role . . . 1--24
D. P. Jackson and
D. V. Morgan Computer modelling of collision
processes in solids . . . . . . . . . . 25--48
G. W. Series The Rydberg constant . . . . . . . . . . 49--68
M. Shott Physics in the open university . . . . . 69--85
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Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
J. J. Quenby Recent progress in cosmic ray physics 97--120
J. E. Geake The physics of lunar and planetary
surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--158
Jacob N. Israelachvili The nature of van der Waals forces . . . 159--178
R. S. Pease and
D. R. Willson International collaboration in research
on controlled thermonuclear fusion . . . 179--192
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
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G. Backenstoss and
J. Zakrzewski Exotic bound states of strange hadrons 197--225
David S. Betts Pomeranchuk cooling by adiabatic
solidification of helium-3 . . . . . . . 227--247
S. J. Swithenby Magnetometry at liquid helium
temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--269
V. I. Little and
M. A. Cutter and
P. Y. Key and
R. G. Harrison Scattering of light from light induced
periodic structures . . . . . . . . . . 271--298
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--300
R. C. Brown The surface tension of liquids . . . . . 301--327
W. J. G. Beynon Incoherent scatter sounding of the
ionosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--352
O. V. Lounasmaa The superfluid phases of liquid$^3$ He 353--374
R. G. Jordan Electrotransport in solid metal systems 375--400
J. M. Charap The physicist's conception of nature . . 401--404
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--408
J. G. Powles Liquids --- the awkward in-between . . . 409--425
N. D. Twiddy The steady-state flowing afterglow
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--444
M. J. Shaw Penning ionization . . . . . . . . . . . 445--464
L. Rotherham Nuclear power systems --- some
principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--478
H. S. Lipson Scientific papers of Arthur Holly
Compton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
G. R. Bishop Science policy and co-operative research
in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--482
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Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--500
W. Deryck Chesterman The ocean floor . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--516
J. S. Hardman and
B. A. Lilley The study of powder compaction
mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--536
R. P. Williams A convolution and Fourier-transform
approach to paraxial optics . . . . . . 537--552
K. H. Ruddock From theoretical physics to biology . . 553--558
W. H. McCrea Physics in debate . . . . . . . . . . . 559--561
L. F. Bates Domain wall pinning . . . . . . . . . . 562--564
N. Feather Chadwick's neutron . . . . . . . . . . . 565--572
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--597
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--598
R. D. Blandford and
M. J. Rees Extragalactic double radio sources ---
the current observational and
theoretical position . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
G. Peach The width of spectral lines . . . . . . 17--34
Geoffrey Allen Polymeric materials . . . . . . . . . . 35--49
P. F. Browne Aspects of stellar evolution reappraised 51--68
W. Hayes Scattering of light by solids . . . . . 69--91
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Anonymous Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--100
E. H. Putley The hall effect and its applications . . 101--126
B. W. Dale Mössbauer spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . 127--146
Malcolm A. D. Fluendy Reactive scattering of molecular beams 147--172
D. H. Perkins Neutrinos and nucleon structure . . . . 173--205
W. H. McCrea Trigger for disaster . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
S. E. Hunt Technology arising from high energy
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Norman Feather The Cavendish Laboratory ---
aristocrat's playground to people's
workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
Anonymous Book reviews: Reviews by Professor John
Lenihan, Glasgow University . . . . . . 215--218
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
D. Vernon Morgan Recent advances in surface studies: Ion
beam analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--241
D. Ter Haar Pulsars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--256
Tom Beer Whispering galleries . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
D. J. Bradley Some recent advances in lasers and
opto-electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--286
O. C. Jones Optical radiation scales . . . . . . . . 287--310
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--315
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
K. H. Ruddock Visual form perception . . . . . . . . . 317--348
Denzil Taylor Smith The sea: A physical resource bonanza? 349--374
A. E. Bell and
A. D. Caplin Dilute transition metal alloys and the
Kondo problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--394
A. H. Cook The importance of precise measurement in
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--408
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--411
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
F. J. M. Parley The anomalous magnetic moment of the
muon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--441
J. S. Anderson and
J. L. Hutchison The study of long range order in
hexagonal barium ferrite layer
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--467
B. H. Briggs Ionospheric irregularities and radio
scintillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--488
Norman Feather Twice thirty years of physics . . . . . 489--498
Brian Bowers Charles Wheatstone --- experimental
philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--512
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--515
Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--516
C. M. Hurd Asymmetric scattering of electrons in
metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--532
B. J. Mason The GARP Atlantic tropical experiment 533--546
C. A. Bates and
P. H. Wood Magnetic moments and their interaction
in insulating crystals . . . . . . . . . 547--560
R. D. Enoch Magnetic domain studies on yttrium iron
garnet using an infrared image converter 561--573
A. Stratton Operational research: (I) its origins
and development in government service 575--588
W. H. McCrea, F.R.S. Greenwich Observatory . . . . . . . . . 589--590
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Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--611
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
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D. H. Trevena The stretching and superheating of
liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
G. F. J. Garlick Infrared to visible light conversion . . 127--144
J. P. Killingbeck The use of pocket electronic calculators
in scientific work . . . . . . . . . . . 145--168
Sir Peter Kent Oil from beneath Britain's seas . . . . 169--172
D. Weaire The structure of amorphous solids . . . 173--191
L. F. Bates The bases of authority for our symbols
and units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
Noman Feather Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the
Royal Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
R. D. Enoch Magnetic bubbles . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--202
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--208
C. I. Coleman and
A. Boksenberg Image intensifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 209--236
K. T. Dolder Crossed beam experiments . . . . . . . . 237--248
D. F. G. Durão and
J. H. Whitelaw Instantaneous velocity and temperature
measurements in oscillating diffusion
flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--274
J. J. Davies Optically-detected magnetic resonance
and its applications . . . . . . . . . . 275--294
A. H. Cook Quantum gravity: An Oxford symposium . . 295--296
K. Parker Peaceful nuclear explosions --- the
state of the art . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--305
Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
Dennis Shaw Physics in the prevention and detection
of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--330
A. J. Berlinsky Organic metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--354
P. Komarek Superconductivity in technology . . . . 355--386
P. S. Allen Internal hyperfine fields in magnetic
solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--402
J. G. Wilson Nuclear tracks in solids . . . . . . . . 403--404
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--409
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--410
G. L. Squires The scattering of thermal neutrons by
crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--441
D. W. O. Heddle Resonances in optical excitation
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--460
C. Bowlt Thermally stimulated effects in
dielectrics and their application to
radiation dosimetry . . . . . . . . . . 461--482
H. Rishbeth EISCAT: A new project for studying the
high latitude ionosphere . . . . . . . . 483--489
W. Brunsdon Yapp Essay Review: Nuclear Energy and the
Environment. \booktitleCombined Effects
of Radioactive, Chemical and Thermal
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M. E. Clarke and
J. B. Gardner Refrigeration with expansion turbines 507--528
O. S. Heavens Some recent developments in gas lasers 529--552
P. Mansfield Proton spin imaging by nuclear magnetic
resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--576
A. H. Cook Measurement of distances to the Moon and
artificial satellites . . . . . . . . . 577--598
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609
Anonymous Book received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--610
R. Morrell `Zero-gravity' physics --- the Spacelab
project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
B. V. Barlow Ground based low light astronomy . . . . 23--46
P. J. Grundy Magnetic bubbles and their observation
in the electron microscope . . . . . . . 47--72
A. J. Croft Scientific aids for the blind . . . . . 73--80
D. H. Martin Probing solids and liquids (part 1) . . 81--98
L. F. Bates Essay Review: New growth points in
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J. A. Ratcliffe The magnetosphere . . . . . . . . . . . 165--182
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J. P. Killingbeck Some applications of programmable
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Martin R. Parker The physics of magnetic separation . . . 279--306
Tom Beer Tropical meteorology . . . . . . . . . . 307--314
H. Bondi Nigel Calder: `The key to the universe' 315--316
J. S. Rowlinson The hydrogen bond . . . . . . . . . . . 317--318
D. C. Leslie Pulsed fusion reactors . . . . . . . . . 319--319
W. Brunsdon Yapp Science versus pollution . . . . . . . . 320--320
Professor M. M. R. Williams A review of: ``The JET project: Design
proposal for the Joint European Torus,
Commission of the European Communities,
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D. G. Gadian Nuclear magnetic resonance in living
tissue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--372
P. Haasen Precipitation hardening for mechanical
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A. H. Cook Standards of measurement and the
structure of physical knowledge . . . . 393--409
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M. Pepper An introduction to silicon inversion
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N. J. Skinner Recent geophysical studies of the Kenya
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Malcolm J. Cooper Compton scattering and electron momentum 489--517
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B. V. Barlow Hypersensitizing processes in
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William C. Stwalley Long-range molecules . . . . . . . . . . 65--80
W. H. McCrea Faces of the universe . . . . . . . . . 81--82
E. H. S. Burhop The strong interaction . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Boris v. Barlow Remote sensing of the environment . . . 85--86
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Anonymous Obituary Professor L. F. Bates . . . . . 97--98
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Stanford R. Ovshinsky and
David Adler Local structure, bonding, and electronic
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E. Jakeman and
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Colin J. Thompson The statistical mechanics of phase
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A. S. Borovik-Romanov and
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J. C. Lehmann Iodine, a test molecule in modern
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Hermann Bondi As much of cosmology as is possible . . 487--488
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W. E. Burcham Nuclei and particles . . . . . . . . . . 571--572
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Stig Stenholm Laser-induced multiphoton transitions 37--54
A. P. Cracknell and
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W. Brunsdon Yapp Contemporary pollution . . . . . . . . . 83--84
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Roger W. Hockney The large parallel computer and
university research . . . . . . . . . . 149--185
B. K. Tanner Antiferromagnetic domains . . . . . . . 187--210
C. A. Murray An astronomer's view of the pole . . . . 211--226
Sir Nevill Mott Nobel prizes in science . . . . . . . . 227--228
G. R. Noakes Einstein. a centenary volume . . . . . . 229--230
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J. G. Morley Composite materials: Designing for
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F. E. Close The new particles and their significance 293--313
B. J. Mason Weather forecasting as a problem in
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Sir Nevill Mott The electron-hole liquid . . . . . . . . 337--338
W. H. McCrea Observational and theoretical astronomy 339--341
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R. J. Blin-Stoyle The nucleus as a laboratory . . . . . . 377--399
J. H. Leck Ultra-high vacuum measurement . . . . . 401--415
G. L. Kulcinski Fusion reactors: Their challenge to
materials scientists . . . . . . . . . . 417--447
G. Pfister New aspects of electronic properties of
amorphous selenium and its use in
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M. Motz Some recent advances in optics . . . . . 481--482
Michael Pepper Semiconductor physics . . . . . . . . . 483--485
Margaret Gowing Essay Review: \booktitleMy life:
Recollections of a Nobel laureate, by
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A. M. Stoneham The theory of defects in solids . . . . 535--545
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R. L. Nelson Nuclear power at a turning point . . . . 569--571
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O. R. Frisch and
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O. P. Nagpal The sources of atmospheric gravity waves 593--609
J. Klein The self-diffusion of polymers . . . . . 611--629
C. J. Latimer Recent experiments involving highly
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Margaret Gowing ``\ldots I have always lived very much
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B. K. Tanner Experimental magnetism . . . . . . . . . 657--659
Maurice Goldsmith Is there hope \ldots? . . . . . . . . . 659--660
W. H. McCrea The theory of rotating stars . . . . . . 660--661
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Sir Rudolf Peierls Model-making in physics . . . . . . . . 3--17
R. G. Harrison and
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R. W. Cahn Metallic glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--75
R. J. Araujo Photochromism in glasses containing
silver halides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84
Sir Alan Cottrell, F.R.S. Structural stability in physics . . . . 85--86
W. E. Burcham, F.R.S. The forces of nature . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
A. D. Caplin Clear as crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
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Martin J. Rees Gravitational collapse and cosmology . . 99--120
I. Gutzow Induced crystallization of glass-forming
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C. A. Taylor Architectural acoustics . . . . . . . . 139--158
J. Iliopoulos Unified theories of elementary particle
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G. H. A. Cole Notions of space and time . . . . . . . 185--186
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John W. Vorreiter Cryogenic systems for spacecraft . . . . 201--217
C. M. Bhandari and
D. M. Rowe Silicon--germanium alloys as
high-temperature thermoelectric
materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--242
I. Gutzow Induced crystallization of glass-forming
systems: A case of transient
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T. F. Smith and
T. R. Finlayson Superconductivity and lattice
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K. Kendall Sticky solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--297
W. E. Burcham, F.R.S. The matter of physics . . . . . . . . . 299--301
Sir Alan Cottrell, F.R.S. Effects of high-speed strain . . . . . . 301--302
W. H. McCrea, F.R.S. Gravitation in waves . . . . . . . . . . 302--305
Sir Arthur Vick Need for contemporary physics . . . . . 305--308
William C. Saslaw A layman's guide to the new universe . . 308--310
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A. P. French The international commission on physics
education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--344
E. T. Hall Advances in carbon dating using high
energy mass spectrometers . . . . . . . 345--358
Zden\vek Kopal Planetary exploration by spacecraft . . 359--380
B. J. Mason The atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter . . 381--399
W. T. Welford Laser speckle and surface roughness . . 401--412
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S. Chandrasekhar The general theory of relativity: The
first thirty years . . . . . . . . . . . 429--449
W. Hayes Self-trapping of electronic excitations
and radiolysis of ionic solids . . . . . 451--461
M. F. H. Schuurmans The fluorescence of atoms near a glass
surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--482
J. E. Lynn Helios: The new Harwell electron linear
accelerator, and its scientific
programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--500
R. J. Nicholas Quantum transport in semiconductors . . 501--521
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Arthur Vick Dr. Kurt Mendelssohn, F.R.S. . . . . . . 539--540
S. Svanberg Lasers as probes for air and sea . . . . 541--576
C. Domb and
E. Stoll and
T. Schneider Percolation clusters . . . . . . . . . . 577--592
J. M. Hammersley and
D. J. A. Welsh Percolation theory and its ramifications 593--605
B. W. Petley The ubiquitous SQUID . . . . . . . . . . 607--630
K. F. Smith Essay Review: Ultra-cold neutrons . . . 631--650
H. B. G. Casimir Essay Review: \booktitlePeter Kapitza,
by H. B. G. Casimir . . . . . . . . . . 651--653
Margaret Gowing Atoms of war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653--656
Charles A. Taylor Light delight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--657
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V. E. Cosslett The development of electron microscopy
and related techniques at the Cavendish
Laboratory, Cambridge, 1946--79 part 1
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D. A. Swift The electrical discharge . . . . . . . . 37--60
P. K. Carroll and
E. T. Kennedy Laser-produced plasmas . . . . . . . . . 61--96
C. Bowlt The use of radioisotopes in medical
diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--115
Anjan Bhattacharyya A tunnelling-state model for the
specific heat capacity and thermal
conductivity of amorphous materials at
low temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
Dr. S. A. Penkett Something in the air . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
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V. E. Cosslett The development of electron microscopy
and related techniques at the Cavendish
Laboratory, Cambridge, 1946--79 (part
II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--182
E. J. N. Wilson The design and commissioning of large
particle accelerators . . . . . . . . . 183--213
David Tabor Solid surfaces: Their atomic, electronic
and macroscopic properties . . . . . . . 215--234
J. E. M. Goldsmith and
J. E. Lawler Optogalvanic spectroscopy . . . . . . . 235--248
Sir Nevill Mott Essay Review: \booktitleElectrons at the
Fermi surface. A Festschrift to honour
Professor David Shoenberg, edited by M.
Springford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Boris V. Barlow The art of sensorship . . . . . . . . . 250--252
B. J. Carr A weight-watcher's guide to the galaxy 252--254
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R. F. W. Pease Electron beam lithography . . . . . . . 265--290
Peter Landshoff The large electron positron collider
(LEP) for particle physics . . . . . . . 291--298
J. C. Macgillivray and
M. S. Feld Superradiance in atoms and molecules . . 299--310
D. B. Lightenrerg Quantum chromodynamics . . . . . . . . . 311--334
D. J. Blutndell Earthquake hazard and risk mitigation 335--347
F. R. Farmer The assessment of risk in relation to
major hazards, with particular reference
to nuclear reactors . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
P. E. Hodgson Essay Review: Heavy ions.
\booktitleNuclear Reactions with Heavy
Ions, by Reiner Bass. \booktitleHeavy
Ion Collisions, edited by R. Bock.
\booktitleDeep Inelastic and Fusion
Reactions with Heavy Ions, edited by W.
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P. C. W. Davies On clusters and conferences . . . . . . 364--366
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Victor F. Weisskopf The formation of Cooper pairs and the
nature of superconducting currents . . . 375--395
G. H. A. Cole Aspects of the physics of planetary
interiors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--424
G. D. Rochester and
K. E. Turver Cosmic rays of ultra-high energy . . . . 425--450
L. Kay Nicholson The neutron spin-echo spectrometer: A
new high resolution technique in neutron
scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--475
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G. W. Series Thirty years of optical pumping . . . . 487--509
P. E. Hodgson Nuclear charge and matter distributions 511--532
F. Graham Smith New prospects for astronomy . . . . . . 533--544
T. E. Allibone Power in the Year 2000. Some
reminiscences and forecasts . . . . . . 545--558
G. H. A. Cole Essay Review: Inside information.
\booktitleThe Interiors of the Planets,
by A. H. Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--560
Dr. B. J. T. Jones The spacious firmament . . . . . . . . . 560--562
Dr. A. Gilchrist A wind in season . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--564
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Kun Huang Lattice relaxation and multiphonon
transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--612
U. P. Johari The spectrum of ice . . . . . . . . . . 613--642
Richard A. Anthes Tropical cyclones: Structure, computer
simulation models, and operational
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--680
Margaret Gowing Essay Review: Oppenheimer and Los
Alamos. \booktitleRobert Oppenheimer:
Letters and Recollections, edited by
Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner.
\booktitleJ. Robert Oppenheimer,
``Shatterer of Worlds'', by Peter
Goodchild. \booktitleReminiscences of
Los Alamos, 1943--1945, edited by
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G. R. Noakes Interpretation and review . . . . . . . 687--689
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F. C. Frank Snow crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
W. K. H. Panofsky Particle substructure. A common theme of
discovery in this century . . . . . . . 23--44
Boris V. Barlow Space for the telescope. An account of
NASA's projected space telescope . . . . 45--63
Ian A. Shanks The physics and display applications of
liquid crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--91
W. H. McCrea Essay Review: The universe in a
nutshell. \booktitleCosmology, by Edward
R. Harrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
G. H. A. Cole The very earth did shake . . . . . . . . 95--96
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G. H. Kinchin Nuclear reactor safety: Physics and
engineering aspects . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
V. Dose Metastable hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . 129--140
Peter J. Ford Spin glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--168
M. Salomaa The mobility of negative ions in
superfluid $^3$He . . . . . . . . . . . 169--188
C. H. Llewellyn-smith Particle physics theory . . . . . . . . 189--190
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V. Radhakrishnan On the nature of pulsars . . . . . . . . 207--231
J. Geddes Chemical reactions of atoms with
molecules in colliding beams . . . . . . 233--255
David W. Hughes Comets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--283
A. F. Gibson Lasers for compression and fusion . . . 285--297
Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--306
Anonymous Books received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
B. J. Mason Personal reflections on 35 years of
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R. H. Williams The Schottky barrier problem . . . . . . 329--351
T. W. Conlon Doping surfaces with radioactive atoms
--- for research and industry . . . . . 353--369
S. J. Pennycook High resolution electron microscopy and
microanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--400
Anonymous Essay Review: \booktitleThe Isotropic
Universe, by D. R. Raine . . . . . . . . 401--402
P. C. W. Davies Testing the theory . . . . . . . . . . . 402--403
J. E. Paton The permissiveness of nature . . . . . . 403--405
T. W. B. Kibble The underlying unity . . . . . . . . . . 406--408
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D. J. Webb Tides and tidal energy . . . . . . . . . 419--442
M. Ishikawa Can magnetism and superconductivity
coexist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--468
C. M. Hurd Varieties of magnetic order in solids 469--493
P. E. Hodgson Heavy ion reactions . . . . . . . . . . 495--512
V. E. Cosslett Essay Review: Thirty-five years on.
\booktitleElectron Microscopy and
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W. H. McCrea Ether its comings and goings . . . . . . 515--516
A. D. Joffe Foreign invaders . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--519
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W. H. McCrea Recollections of Sir Arthur Eddington
O.M., F.R.S., 28 December 1882--22
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G. E. Bacon Neutron beams for the study of condensed
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Nevill Mott Professor Sir Harrie Massey . . . . . . 177--178
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M. G. Haines Tokamak physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--353
Robert F. C. Vessot Tests of gravitation and relativity . . 355--380
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David H. Foster Colour vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--497
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John O. Kessler Co-operative and concentrative phenomena
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K. P. Maher and
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A. I. Ferguson and
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R. J. Tayler Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
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L. J. Challis Physics in less than three dimensions 111--127
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R. C. Thompson Time for new standards? . . . . . . . . 131--134
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F. W. Taylor Of seaweed and sunsets . . . . . . . . . 177--179
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W. S. Steer Scanning microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
G. W. Gibbons Twistor theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
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R. Peierls Broken symmetries: (Dirac memorial
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P. Evesque Shaking dry powders and grains . . . . . 245--261
F. W. Taylor Remote sensing of the solar system . . . 263--266
P. E. Hodgson Nuclear physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--270
A. J. M. Garrett Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
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Anatole Abragam Nuclear ferromagnetism and ant
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Peter W. Milonni and
Mei-Li Shih Casimir forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--322
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D. Richards Motion and mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
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C. Jordan Solar physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
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T. E. Whall A plain man's guide to delta-doped
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S. W. H. Cowley Space plasma physics . . . . . . . . . . 383--384
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G. G. Ross A `theory of everything'? . . . . . . . 79--88
J. A. D. Matthew Some quasi-atomic effects in the solid
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Tom Kibble The final theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
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G. E. Satterthwaite Astronomical discovery . . . . . . . . . 147--150
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F. W. Taylor A history of science . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
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Paul Mandel Lasing without inversion: A useful
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Eshel Ben-Jacob From snowflake formation to growth of
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Edmund J. Copeland Inflation after the cosmic background
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S. P. Thompson The 2175 Å interstellar extinction
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L. H. Ryder General relativity comes of age . . . . 333--336
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Jonathan Tennyson and
Steven Miller H$_3^+$: from first principles to
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R. G. Keesing Newton in Context . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Max K. Wallis Fallible cometary scientists . . . . . . 119--122
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Duncan A. Bryant Electron acceleration in the aurora . . 165--179
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B. G. Yerozolimsky Free neutron decay . . . . . . . . . . . 191--208
P. T. Greenland The story of cold fusion . . . . . . . . 209--211
R. C. Smith The significance of COBE . . . . . . . . 213--215
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J. E. Thomas Measuring the position of moving atoms
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David A. Williams Cosmic chemistry: Molecules in space . . 269--283
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T. S. Monteiro Chaos in atomic physics . . . . . . . . 311--327
P. E. Hodgson Nuclear structure . . . . . . . . . . . 329--346
Mark A. Howson Magnetism of thin films and multilayers 347--359
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C. Bowlt Environmental radioactivity:
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D. Bailin One man's myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--405
N. H. March The liquid state . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Stephen M. Barnett A backward look at the future . . . . . 409--411
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W. R. Macgillivray The role of resonant laser radiation in
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B. W. Shore Examples of counter-intuitive physics 15--28
Michael G. Albrow The top quark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Roger J. Tayler Helium in the Universe . . . . . . . . . 37--48
R. Maartens The story of black holes . . . . . . . . 49--51
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R. T. Schumacher and
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Barry R. Holstein The Aharonov--Bohm effect and variations 93--102
Richard T. Hammond New fields in general relativity . . . . 103--114
M. J. Griffin Science for the layman . . . . . . . . . 115--116
R. G. Keesing Newton's alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
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Krzysztof Wódkiewicz Non-local and local ghost fields in
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Richard J. Hughes and
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M. Schauer Quantum cryptography . . . . . . . . . . 149--163
Simon J. D. Phoenix and
Paul D. Townsend Quantum cryptography: How to beat the
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P. E. Hodgson The ultimate technological fix? . . . . 197--200
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Michael Harris Light-field fluctuations in space and
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V. S. Letokhov Laser Maxwell's demon . . . . . . . . . 235--243
David L. T. Anderson The tropical ocean global atmosphere
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J. A. Jacobs The Earth's magnetic field . . . . . . . 267--277
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B. J. Mason Predictions of climate changes caused by
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D. Waxman Impact of computer algebra on physics 321--327
Edward H. Kerner How certain is the uncertainty
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A. D. Martin The structure of the proton . . . . . . 335--353
G. W. Gibbons Knots and quantum gravity . . . . . . . 355--356
R. S. Ellis The big bang for beginners . . . . . . . 357--357
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Professor P. L. Knight Rudolf Peierls (1907--1995) . . . . . . 375--375
Neil F. Johnson Electron correlations in mesoscopic
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R. V. Willstrop New developments in telescope design . . 389--410
R. S. Ellis Hubble Space Telescope observations of
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James F. Annett Unconventional superconductivity . . . . 423--437
J. J. Quenby The review of high-energy astrophysics 439--442
Cyril Isenberg The physics of bubbles . . . . . . . . . 443--444
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Keith Burnett Bose--Einstein condensation with
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C. N. Guy The second revolution in medical imaging 15--45
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M. Fink Time reversal in acoustics . . . . . . . 95--109
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Greg Watson Hall conductance as a topological
invariant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--143
D. A. Coley Genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
A. H. Harker Computer algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
E. J. Copeland Observing cosmic distances . . . . . . . 159--161
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Justin Wark Time-resolved X-ray diffraction . . . . 205--218
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Marcus V. Mesquita and
Aurea R. Vasconcellos and
Roberto Luzzi Complexity in biological systems . . . . 247--256
Tony Hey Richard Feynman and computation . . . . 257--265
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Klaus-Peter Lieb Thin film analysis with nuclear methods 385--413
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K. J. Kirk Nanomagnets for sensors and data storage 61--78
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Carlton M. Caves Predicting future duration from present
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Y. Kornyushin Application of the nuclear liquid drop
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D. Bailin And yet it moves . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
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F. W. Taylor The second greatest story ever told . . 239--241
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F. W. Taylor Measuring the universe . . . . . . . . . 323--325
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H. K. Cummins and
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Anthony Chefles Quantum state discrimination . . . . . . 401--424
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P. G. H. Sandars Electric dipole moments of charged
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David Bugg Thinking machines . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
P. E. Hodgson Einstein's religion . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
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Robert W. Cahn Intermetallics: New physics . . . . . . 365--375
P. G. Coleman Thirty years of gaseous positronics . . 377--379
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Barry M. Garraway and
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A. A. Watson Cosmic rays of the highest energies . . 181--195
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Richard J. Warburton Self-assembled semiconductor quantum
dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--364
N. I. Zheludev Nonlinear optics on the nanoscale . . . 365--377
D. G. Luchinsky Deterministic patterns of noise and the
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Timothy A. McKay When light goes astray: Gravitational
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P. E. Hodgson Alpha-particle clustering in nuclear
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Johannes Courtial Fractals in pixellated video feedback 137--143
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Ben Morgan Direct detection of WIMP dark matter . . 219--235
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Av Sergienko and
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Peter Bussey Nature in all its wonders . . . . . . . 357--360
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Ar Porter and
Sm Pickles Steering in computational science:
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Arttu Rajantie Defect formation in the early universe 485--502
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Cd Bertram Flow phenomena in floppy tubes . . . . . 45--60
Pa Hatherly Dr Where is everybody? . . . . . . . . . . 61--64
Julian Barbour Is nature supernatural? . . . . . . . . 65--69
Robert W. Cahn Nobel idiosyncracies: a review of
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Luis Dinís Brownian motion and gambling: from
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Richard S. Ellis Astrobiology: a respectable new science 159--162
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Ph Brax The Cosmological constant problem . . . 227--236
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Norman McCubbin Beauty in physics: the legacy of Paul
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Martin Bier Modelling processive motor proteins:
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Cj Isham Is it true; or is it false; or somewhere
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Derry W. Jones Remarkable physicists: from Galileo to
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Manuel Arrayás and
José L. Trueba Investigations of pre-breakdown
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Lawrence W. Jones Cosmic-ray physics in the space age . . 353--371
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William J. Munro and
Sean D. Barrett and
Pieter Kok An introduction to quantum information
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Yasser Omar Indistinguishable particles in quantum
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Fay Dowker Causal sets as discrete spacetime . . . 1--9
Hartmut Pilkuhn Klein--Gordon equation for atoms . . . . 11--24
B. T. H. Varcoe Testing special relativity using slow
light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32
Arjun Berera The warm inflationary universe . . . . . 33--49
E. Sheldon We delight in physics . . . . . . . . . 51--56
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F. E. Close Quarks, diquarks, tetraquarks, and
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H. M. Wiseman From Einstein's theorem to Bell's
theorem: a history of quantum
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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
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Christopher A. Tout The triple-$ \alpha $ process and the
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Agustín Sánchez-Lavega `Planetodiversity': the variety of
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D. A. Battaglia and
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Patrick Voss-De Haan Physics and fingerprints . . . . . . . . 209--230
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Fred S. Wouters The physics and biology of fluorescence
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Jacob A. Dunningham Using quantum theory to improve
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G. Compagno and
R. Passante and
F. Persico Edwin Power and the birth of dressed
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Kurt Jacobs and
Daniel A. Steck A straightforward introduction to
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Klaus-Peter Lieb and
Juhani Keinonen Luminescence of ion-irradiated $ \alpha
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B. W. Shore and
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Robert Connon Smith Cataclysmic variables . . . . . . . . . 363--386
Jacob D. Bekenstein The modified Newtonian dynamics --- MOND
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Chris Quigg Higgs bosons, electroweak symmetry
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Sougato Bose Quantum communication through spin chain
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Sébastien Balibar Supersolidity and superfluidity . . . . 31--39
Michael Martin Nieto and
John D. Anderson Search for a solution of the Pioneer
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D. Alf\`e and
M. J. Gillan and
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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
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Andreas Brandhuber and
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Christine Silberhorn Detecting quantum light . . . . . . . . 143--156
J. Banerji Exploring fractional revivals and
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Peter Bussey Views over the terrain of physics . . . 173--176
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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
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Barbara A. Maher Environmental magnetism and climate
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Stephen J. Blundell Molecular magnets . . . . . . . . . . . 275--290
Tom Melia Beethoven's Fifth `Sine'-phony: the
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Anonymous Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--306
Milan Palu\vs From nonlinearity to causality:
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physical mechanisms underlying complex
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L. Sudheendra and
V. Moshnyaga and
K. Samwer Metal--insulator transition and colossal
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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
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Jens Siewert and
Carmelo Ferlito Mechanical erosion by flowing lava . . . 43--54
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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
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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
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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
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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
Juan A. Añel The stratosphere: history and future a
century after its discovery: A review of
\booktitleThe Physics of the
Stratosphere, by Goody . . . . . . . . . 230--233
Ian D. Lawrie The emergent multiverse --- quantum
theory according to the Everett
interpretation: A review of
\booktitleThe Emergent Multiverse ---
Quantum Theory According to the Everett
Interpretation, by David Wallace . . . . 234--237
Chris Athorne Fundamental principles of classical
mechanics: a geometrical perspective: A
review of \booktitleFundamental
Principles of Classical Mechanics: A
Geometrical Perspective, by Kai S. Lam 238--241
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Modern Dynamics: A review of
\booktitleIntroduction to Modern
Dynamics: Chaos, Networks, Space and
Time by David D. Nolte . . . . . . . . . 242--245
Stephen J. Blundell The science and art of seeing: A review
of \booktitleThe Starry Sky Within:
Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in
Victorian Literature, by Anna Henchman 246--249
Eric Sheldon Albert Einstein's relativistic road
`less traveled': A review \booktitleThe
road to relativity: the history and
meaning of Einstein's `The Foundation of
General Relativity', by Albert Einstein
(Facsimile German Manuscript) and
foreword by John Stachel, with
annotations and commentary by Hanoch
Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn . . . . . . . . 250--254
Manuel Vogel \booktitleSuperconductors, by A. V.
Narlikar. Scope: monograph. Level:
postgraduates, researcher, scientist,
engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
Manuel Vogel \booktitleMasers and lasers, second
edition: an historical approach, by
Mario Bertolotti. Scope: monograph.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, researcher . . . . . . . . 255--256
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleSimulations of
oscillatory systems: with award-winning
software, physics of oscillations,
edited by Eugene I. Butikov Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher . . . . . 256--257
B. Ishak \booktitleThe story of collapsing stars:
black holes, naked singularities, and
the cosmic play of quantum gravity, by
Pankaj S. Joshi. Scope: general
interest. Level: specialist . . . . . . 257--257
B. Ishak \booktitleAn amateur's guide to
observing and imaging the heavens, by
Ian Morrison. Scope: guidebook. Level:
general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 258--258
B. Ishak \booktitleDynamics and evolution of
galactic nuclei, by David Merritt.
Scope: textbook. Level: specialist . . . 258--258
David Bailin \booktitleDifferential manifolds: a
basic approach for experimental
physicists, by Paul Baillon. Scope:
textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 259--259
K. Alan Shore \booktitleHandbook of silicon photonics,
edited by Laurent Vivien and Lorenzo
Pavesi. Scope: handbook, monograph,
reference. Level: researchers, early
career researchers, engineers . . . . . 260--261
K. Alan Shore \booktitleDynamics of quantum dot
lasers: effects of optical feedback and
external optical injection, by Christian
Otto. Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researchers, researchers,
specialist, engineers . . . . . . . . . 261--262
K. Alan Shore \booktitleNumerical methods in
photonics, by Andrei V. Lavrinenko,
Jesper Laegsgaard, Niles Gregersen,
Frank Schmidt, and Thomas Sondergaard.
Scope: textbook, monograph. Level:
researchers, engineers, early career
researchers, advanced undergraduates . . 262--262
Manuel Vogel \booktitleHandbook of accelerator
physics and engineering, by A. W. Chao,
K. H. Mess, M. Tigner and F. Zimmermann.
Scope: reference, handbook. Level:
researcher, specialist, scientist,
engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Stephen J. Blundell \booktitleTensor calculus for physics,
by Dwight E. Neuenschwander. Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 263--264
Nikolaos E. Myridis \booktitleStochastic processes: theory
for applications, by Robert G. Gallager.
Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate,
researcher, teacher . . . . . . . . . . 264--265
Peter V. E. McClintock \booktitlePhysics and biology: from
molecules to life, edited by Jean
François Allemand and Pierre Desbiolles.
Scope: edited book. Level: general
physicists, undergraduates,
postgraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
Peter J. Dobson \booktitleA laboratory course in
nanoscience and nanotechnology, by Dr
Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern. Scope: manual,
textbook. Level: general readership,
undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, teacher, scientist,
engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán \booktitleAn introduction to stochastic
dynamics, by Jinqiao Duan. Scope:
textbook. Level: postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher . . . . . 266--267
N. Riley \booktitleHenri Poincaré: a biography
through the daily papers, by Jean-Marc
Ginoux and Christian Gerini. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 267--268
Stephen J. Blundell \booktitleLecture notes on field theory
in condensed matter physics, by
Christopher Mudry. Scope: textbook.
Level: graduate . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Tom Lancaster \booktitlePhysics on your feet: Berkeley
graduate exam questions, by Dmitry
Budker and Alexander O. Sushkov. Scope:
textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
to specialist (advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, teacher, specialist) . . . . 269--269
Peter J. Dobson \booktitleIntroductory Quantum Mechanics
for Applied Nanotechnology, by Dae Mann
Kim. Scope: textbook. Level:
undergraduate and postgraduate . . . . . 269--270
A. H. Harker \booktitleThe basics of crystallography
and diffraction, (Fourth Edition), by
Christopher Hammond. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
early stage researcher . . . . . . . . . 270--270
Manuel Vogel \booktitleThermodynamics, kinetics, and
microphysics of clouds, by V. I.
Khvorostyanov and J. A. Curry. Scope:
monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher . . . . . 271--271
A. H. Harker \booktitleBioinspired photonics: optical
structures and systems inspired by
nature, by Viktoria Greanya. Scope:
guide. Level: non-specialists,
undergraduates, postgraduates . . . . . 271--272
Ignazio Licata \booktitleQuantum fractals: from
Heisenberg's uncertainty to Barnsley's
fractality, by Arkadiusz Jadczyk. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate,
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
David Bailin \booktitleGauge/gravity duality:
foundations and applications, by Martin
Ammon and Johanna Erdmenger. Scope:
textbook. Level: postgraduate . . . . . 274--275
Peter J. Dobson \booktitleThe current trends of optics
and photonics, edited by Cheng-Chung
Lee. Scope: monograph. Level:
postgraduate; early career researcher;
researcher; scientist; engineer . . . . 275--275
Thomas Peters \booktitlePhysical hydrodynamics, by
Etienne Guyon, Jean-Pierre Hulin, Luc
Petit, and Catalin D Mitescu. Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 276--276
A. H. Harker \booktitleElectrical conduction in
graphene and nanotubes, by Shigeji
Fujita and Akira Suzuki. Scope:
textbook. Level: postgraduate; early
career researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
Salvatore Esposito \booktitleHigher speculations: grand
theories and failed revolutions in
physics and cosmology, by Helge Kragh.
Scope: monograph. Level: general
readership, researcher, specialist,
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
K. Alan Shore \booktitleTelecommunication network
economics: from theory to applications,
by Patrick Maillé and Bruno Tuffin.
Scope: monograph. Level: specialist,
economists, engineers, early career
researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
K. Alan Shore \booktitleSoliton coding for secured
optical communication link, by Iraj
Sadegh Amiri, Sayed Ehsan Alavi and
Sevia Mahdaliza Idrus. Scope: monograph.
Level: specialist, engineers, early
career researchers . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
K. Alan Shore \booktitleThe Oxford handbook of soft
condensed matter, edited by Eugene M.
Terentjev and David A. Weitz. Scope:
handbook. Level: specialist, physicists,
engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
Michael Belsley \booktitleUltrafast spectroscopy:
quantum information and wavepackets, by
Joel Yuen-Zhou, Jacob J. Krich, Ivan
Kassal, Allan S. Johnson and Alán
Aspuru-Guzik. Scope: monograph. Level:
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, specialist . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Brian Cowan \booktitleIntroduction to statistical
physics, by João Paulo Casquilho and
Paulo Ivo Cortez Teixeira. Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
John M. Stewart \booktitleGeneral relativity and
gravitation: a centennial perspective,
by Abhay Ashtekar, Beverly K. Berger,
James Isenberg, Malcolm MacCallum.
Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
early career researcher, researcher . . 282--283
Stephen M. Barnett \booktitleGauge theories in particle
physics: a practical introduction,
fourth edition --- 2 volume set, by Ian
J. R. Aitchison and Anthony J. G. Hey.
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
undergraduate or postgraduate . . . . . 283--284
Anthony J. Leggett \booktitleNeutron interferometry:
lessons in experimental quantum
mechanics, wave-particle duality, and
entanglement (2nd edition), by Helmut
Rauch and Samuel A. Werner. Scope:
monograph. Level: researcher . . . . . . 284--285
Jock McOrist \booktitleSupersymmetric field theories,
by Sergio Cecotti. Scope: review. Level:
postgraduate student, early career
researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Peter Knight Professor Bob Joseph . . . . . . . . . . 287
Timothy J. Hollowood Copenhagen quantum mechanics . . . . . . 289
Ian J. Ford Maxwell's demon and the management of
ignorance in stochastic thermodynamics 309
Marco G. Genoni and
Ludovico Lami and
Alessio Serafini Conditional and unconditional Gaussian
quantum dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Rajiv V. Gavai The QCD critical point: an exciting
Odyssey in the Femto-world . . . . . . . 350
Nitin Jain and
Birgit Stiller and
Imran Khan and
Dominique Elser and
Christoph Marquardt and
Gerd Leuchs Attacks on practical quantum key
distribution systems (and how to prevent
them) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
M. Dalmonte and
S. Montangero Lattice gauge theory simulations in the
quantum information era . . . . . . . . 388
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleIdeal MHD, by
Jeffrey P. Freidberg . . . . . . . . . . 413
Juan A. Añel Essay Review: Atmospheric ozone:
historical background and
state-of-the-art: a review of
\booktitleOzone in the atmosphere: basic
principles, natural and human impacts,
by P. Fabian and M. Dameris . . . . . . 417
John Quenby Essay Review: \booktitleGod and the
multiverse by Victor J. Stenger . . . . 421
Mario Bertolotti Essay Review: \booktitleQuantum optics,
by John Garrison and Raymond Chiao . . . 426
David Bailin Essay Review: \booktitleWhy string
theory? by Joseph Conlon . . . . . . . . 433
Norman Dombey Essay Review: \booktitleBuilding the H
Bomb: a personal history, by Kenneth W
Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Jock McOrist Book Review: \booktitleScience
unshackled: how obscure, abstract,
seemingly useless scientific research
turned out to be the basis for modern
life, by C. Renee James . . . . . . . . 443
Amgad Salama Book Review: \booktitleThe principles of
thermodynamics, by N. D. Hari Dass . . . 443
L. A. A. Nikolopoulos Book Review: \booktitlePath integrals
and Hamiltonians: principles and methods
by Belal E. Baaquie . . . . . . . . . . 444
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleThe physics
companion, 2nd edition, by Anthony C.
Fischer-Cripps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Richard Sebastian Shorter Book Review: \booktitlePhysics project
lab, by Paul Gluck and John King . . . . 445
Charles Downing Book Review: \booktitlePlasmonic effects
in metal-semiconductor nanostructures,
by Alexey A. Toropov and Tatiana V.
Shubina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleLaser measurement
technology: fundamentals and
applications, by Axel Donges and
Reinhard Noll . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Mark Nicol Book Review: \booktitleKepler and the
universe: how one man revolutionized
astronomy, by David K. Love . . . . . . 447
Mark Nicol Book Review: \booktitleAstrophysics and
the evolution of the universe, by
Leonard S. Kisslinger . . . . . . . . . 448
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleSmall scale
optics, by Preecha Yupapin and Jalil Ali 449
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleProperties of
materials, by P. F. Kelly . . . . . . . 449
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
optics for engineers, by William S. C.
Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear
super-resolution nano-optics and
applications, by Jingsong Wei . . . . . 451
Mark Davidson Book Review: \booktitleRelativistic
quantum mechanics, by Lawrence P.
Horwitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleQuantum phase
transitions in transverse field spin
models, by Amit Dutta, Gabriel Aeppli,
Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran,
Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Diptiman Sen . . 453
Tom Lancaster Book Review: \booktitleMany-body
physics, topology and geometry, by
Siddhartha Sen and Kumar Sankar Gupta 454
D. C. Barber Book Review: \booktitleEssential MATLAB
and Octave, by Jesus Rogel-Salazar . . . 455
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleDark energy, by
Miao Li, Xiao-Dong Li, Shuang Wang and
Yi Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleWaves and
oscillations in nature. An introduction,
by A. Satya Narayanan and Swapan K. Saha 456
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleElastic and
plastic deformation of carbon nanotubes,
by Hiroyuki Shima and Motohiro Sato . . 457
Timothy J. Proctor and
Viv Kendon Hybrid quantum computing with ancillas 459--476
A. D. K. Plato and
C. N. Hughes and
M. S. Kim Gravitational effects in quantum
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--495
Jennifer M. Gaskins A review of indirect searches for
particle dark matter . . . . . . . . . . 496--525
Pieter Kok Photonic quantum information processing 526--544
Sai Vinjanampathy and
Janet Anders Quantum thermodynamics . . . . . . . . . 545--579
Hanieh Fattahi Sub-cycle light transients for
attosecond, X-ray, four-dimensional
imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--595
Derry W. Jones Book Review: \booktitleBirds and frogs:
selected papers, 1990--2014, by Freeman
J. Dyson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--598
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleEssential
dynamics & relativity, by Peter J.
O'Donnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--601
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to the sun and stars, 2nd Edition, by
Simon F. Green and Mark H. Jones (eds.) 602--604
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleDifferentiability
and fractality in dynamics of physical
systems, by Ioan Merches and Maricel
Agop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--605
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
optics: a manual for the laboratory, by
G. F. C. Searle . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--606
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitlePlasma physics:
an introduction, by Richard Fitzpatrick 606--606
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
mechanics and applications in condensed
matter, by Carlo Di Castro and Roberto
Raimondi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--607
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitlePhotons in Fock
space and beyond (3 volumes), by
Reinhard Honegger and Alfred Rieckers 607--608
D. C. Barber Book Review: \booktitleTheoretical
foundations of digital imaging using
Matlab, by Leonid P. Yaroslavsky . . . . 608--609
David Bailin Book Review: \booktitleDe Sitter
invariant special relativity, by Mu-Lin
Yan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleLectures on
quantum mechanics (2nd edition), by
Steven Weinberg . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--610
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of
linear and generalized linear models, by
Alan Agresti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--611
Robert S. MacKay Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics
kept simple --- a molecular approach:
what is the driving force in the world
of molecules?, by Roland Kjellander . . 611--613
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleTerahertz
astronomy, by Christopher K. Walker . . 613--614
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleQuantitative
biomedical optics, by Irving J. Bigio
and Sergio Fantini . . . . . . . . . . . 614--615
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear
resonances, by S. Rajasekar and M. A. F.
Sanjuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--616
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
optomechanics, by W. P. Bowen and G. J.
Milburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--617
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleLaser physics:
from principles to practical work in the
lab, by Marc Eichhorn . . . . . . . . . 617--617
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Malcolm Fairbairn and
James L. Pinfold MoEDAL --- a new light on the
high-energy frontier . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
Daniel K. L. Oi and
Alex Ling and
James A. Grieve and
Thomas Jennewein and
Aline N. Dinkelaker and
Markus Krutzik Nanosatellites for quantum science and
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--52
S. Residori and
M. Onorato and
U. Bortolozzo and
F. T. Arecchi Rogue waves: a unique approach to
multidisciplinary physics . . . . . . . 53--69
A. N. Gorban and
I. V. Karlin Beyond Navier--Stokes equations:
capillarity of ideal gas . . . . . . . . 70--90
David Bailin Book Review: \booktitleDear Professor
Dyson, edited by Dwight E.
Neuenschwander . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleGoethe's
`Exposure of Newton's Theory': a polemic
on Newton's theory of light and colour,
translated by Michael Duck and Michael
Petry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--95
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
black hole physics, by Valeri P. Frolov
and Andrei Zelnikov . . . . . . . . . . 96--98
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleStatistics, data
mining, and machine learning in
astronomy: a practical Python guide for
the analysis of survey data, by Zeljko
Ivezi\'c, Andrew J. Connolly, Jacob T.
VanderPlas and Alexander Gray . . . . . 99--99
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleControlled
thermonuclear fusion, by Jean Louis
Bobin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe new cosmos,
by David J. Eicher . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
thermoelectricity, by Kamran Behnia . . 101--102
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleLight sources,
second edition: basics of lighting
technologies and applications, by
Spyridon Kitsinelis . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleFourier optics
and computational imaging, by Kedar
Khare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
David Bailin Book Review: \booktitleInflation and
string theory, by Daniel Baumann and
Liam McAllister . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleBrownian
ratchets: from statistical physics to
bio and nano-motors, by David Cubero and
Ferruccio Renzoni . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
physics: from quantum field theory to
classical mechanics, by Jun Ni . . . . . 105--106
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleStellar
explosions: hydrodynamics and
nucleosynthesis, by Jordi Jose . . . . . 106--107
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleThe foundations
of physical law, by Peter Rowlands . . . 107--108
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleGeodynamics (3rd
Edition), by Donald L. Turcotte . . . . 108--108
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleQuantum models of
cognition and decision, by Jerome R.
Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza . . . . . . 109--109
Tom Whyntie Book Review: \booktitleNext generation
experiments to measure the neutron
lifetime, edited by Susan J. Seestrom 109--110
Charles Downing Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the statistical physics of integrable
many-body systems, by Ladislav Samaj &
Zoltán Bajnok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Ian D. Lawrie Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the AdS/CFT correspondence, by H.
N\uastase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Tom Whyntie Book Review: \booktitleNew results and
actual problems in particle &
astroparticle physics and cosmology:
Proceedings of XXIXth International
Workshop on High Energy Physics, edited
by R. Ryutin, V. Petrov, and V. Kiselev 112--112
Tom Whyntie Book Review: \booktitleThe High
Luminosity Large Hadron Collider: the
new machine for illuminating the
mysteries of Universe, edited by O.
Brüning & L. Rossi . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
methods for geophysics and space
physics, by William I. Newman . . . . . 113--114
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleResearch on the
physics of cancer, edited by Bernard S.
Gertsman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleThe origin and
nature of life on earth: the emergence
of the fourth geosphere, by Eric Smith
and Harold J. Morowitz . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleAtoms and
molecules interacting with light, by
Peter van der Straten and Harold Metcalf 116--116
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleCrystallography:
a very short introduction, by A. M.
Glazer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Zhang-qi Yin and
Tongcang Li Bringing quantum mechanics to life: from
Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger's microbe 119--139
P. R. T. Munro Coherent X-ray imaging across length
scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--159
A. J. Barger The history of star formation in the
universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--175
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Physics of cancer: the new adventure of
physicists against cancer . . . . . . . 176--178
Norman Riley Book Review: \booktitleFluid dynamics,
by Peter S. Bernard . . . . . . . . . . 179--179
Peter Török Book Review: \booktitleA course in lens
design, by Chris Velzel . . . . . . . . 179--180
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleBiophysics of
DNA, by Alexander Vologodskii . . . . . 180--181
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
granular materials, edited by Scott V.
Franklin and Mark D. Shattuck . . . . . 181--181
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
fluorescence microscopy: exploring life
with light, by Partha Pratim Mondal and
Alberto Diaspro . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleFrom photons to
Higgs: a story of light (2nd edition),
by Moo-Young Han . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleMicrophysics of
atmospheric phenomena, by Boris M.
Smirnov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleTunable
micro-optics, edited by Hans Zappe and
Claudia Duppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleMaxwell's
enduring legacy: a scientific history of
the Cavendish laboratory, by Malcolm
Longair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--186
Lewis Ryder Book Review: \booktitleParticle physics
in the LHC era, by G. Barr, R. Devenish,
R. Walczak and T. Weidberg . . . . . . . 186--186
Carlos Medel-Vera Book Review: \booktitleSeismic
amplitude: an interpreter's handbook, by
Rob Simm and Mike Bacon . . . . . . . . 186--187
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleEyes on the sky:
a spectrum of telescopes, by Francis
Graham-Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
solids, by J. B. Ketterson . . . . . . . 188--188
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals and
applications of magnetic materials, by
Kannan M. Krishnan . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Robert Appleby Book Review: \booktitleChallenges and
goals for accelerators in the xxi
century, edited by Oliver Bruning and
Stephen Myers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear optics:
principles and applications, by Karsten
Rottwitt and Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg 190--190
Robert Sinclair Mackay (Frs) Book Review: \booktitleThe expanding
universe: a primer on relativistic
cosmology, by W. D. Heacox . . . . . . . 190--193
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleAstrophysics in a
nutshell (2nd edition), by Dan Maoz . . 193--193
Ahmed A. Al-Tabbakh Book Review: \booktitleMicroscopy: a
very short introduction, by Terence
Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Book Review: \booktitleVisible and
invisible --- the wonders of light
phenomena, by Olmes Bisi . . . . . . . . 196--196
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleColour: how we
see it and how we use it, by Michael
Mark Woolfson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleGroup theory in a
nutshell for physicists, by A. Zee . . . 197--198
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
crystal growth, 2nd edition:
Fundamentals IA: thermodynamics and
kinetics & Fundamentals IB: transport and
stability (two book set), edited by T.
Nishinaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleSpace physics: an
introduction, by C. T. Russell, J. G.
Luhmann and R. J. Strangeway . . . . . . 199--199
Peter J. Dobson Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to graphene plasmonics, by P. A. D.
Gonçalves and N. M. R. Peres . . . . . . 199--200
Peter J. Dobson Book Review: \booktitleNovel optical
nanoprobes for chemical and biological
analysis, by L. Chen, Y. Wang, X. Fu,
and L. Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--200
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleBiomagnetics:
principles and applications of
biomagnetic stimulation and imaging,
edited by Shoogo Ueno and Masaki Sekino 200--201
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleSpectra of atoms
and molecules (3rd edition), by Peter F.
Bernath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
Kishan Menghrajani Book Review: \booktitleExcitations in
organic solids, by Vladimir M.
Agranovich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Ken Zetie Book Review: \booktitleInternational
young physicists tournament: problems
and solutions 2014, edited by S. Wang
and W. Gao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleOptical tweezers:
principles and applications, by Philip
H. Jones, Onofrio M. Marag\`o, and
Giovanni Volpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleA superfluid
universe, by K. Huang . . . . . . . . . 203--204
J. Rogel-Salazar Book Review: \booktitleFashion, faith
and fantasy in the new physics of the
universe, by Roger Penrose . . . . . . . 204--205
G. W. Gibbons Book Review: \booktitleImages of time:
mind, science and reality, by George
Jaroszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Deniz Eroglu and
Jeroen S. W. Lamb and
Tiago Pereira Synchronisation of chaos and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--243
G. W. Ford The fluctuation--dissipation theorem . . 244--252
David Waxman The diffusion equation of random genetic
drift --- biology's analogue of the
Schrödinger equation? . . . . . . . . . . 253--261
Peter J. Bussey Flight from unreason . . . . . . . . . . 262--264
B. Ishak A review of \booktitleElectromagnetic
waves for thermonuclear fusion research,
by Ernesto Mazzucato . . . . . . . . . . 265--267
B. Ishak A review of \booktitleTo measure the
sky: an introduction to observational
astronomy, 2nd edition, by F. R. Chromey 268--270
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleRay tracing and
beyond: phase space methods in plasma
wave theory, by E. R. Tracy, A. J.
Brizard, A. S. Richardson and A. N.
Kaufman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleEntropy
demystified: the second law reduced to
plain common sense, 2nd edition, by
Arieh Ben-Naim . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
Francesco Caridi Book Review: \booktitleLaser-induced
breakdown spectroscopy: theory and
applications, edited by Sergio Musazzi
and Umberto Perini . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Francisco Falcone Book Review: \booktitleElectrical
properties of materials, ninth edition,
by Laszlo Solymar, Donald Walsh and
Richard R. A. Syms . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleAtlas of
meteorites, by M. M. Grady, G. Pratesi
and V. Moggi Cecchi . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
Andrew Resnick Book Review: Book Review:
\booktitleScientific explanation and
methodology of science, by Guichun Guo
and Chuang Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
G. W. Gibbons Book Review: \booktitleThe cosmic web:
mysterious architecture of the universe,
by J. Richard Gott . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Juan A. Añel Book Review: \booktitleCopernicus: a
very short introduction, by Owen
Gingerich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
C. A. Downing Book Review: \booktitleExactly solvable
models in many-body theory, by N. H.
March and G. G. N. Angilella . . . . . . 276--277
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleThe Cambridge
handbook of applied perception research,
edited by R. R. Hoffman, P. A. Hancock,
M. W. Scerbo, R. Parasuraman, and J. L.
Szalma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Gunter M. Schütz Book Review: \booktitleThe briefest
history of time: the history of
histories of time and the misconstrued
association between entropy and time, by
Arieh Ben-Naim . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleEssential radio
astronomy, by James J. Condon and Scott
M. Ransom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleParticles in the
coastal ocean, by D. R. Lynch, D. A.
Greenberg, A. Bilgili, D. J.
McGillicuddy Jr, J. P. Manning, and A.
L. Aretxabaleta . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleQuantum mechanics
I, the fundamentals, by Shanmuganathan
Rajasekar and Ramiah Velusamy . . . . . 280--280
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleQuantum mechanics
II, advanced topics, by Shanmuganathan
Rajasekar and Ramiah Velusamy . . . . . 280--281
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleStrong
light-matter coupling: from atoms to
solid-state systems, edited by Alexia
Auff\`eves, Dario Gerace, Maxime
Richard, Stefano Portolan, Marcelo França
Santos, Leong Chuan Kwek, and Christian
Miniatura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Book Review: \booktitleLearning
scientific programming with Python, by
Christian Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--284
R. Barry Johnson Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced
geometrical optics, by P. D. Lin . . . . 284--285
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleStrange glow: the
story of radiation, by Timothy J.
Jorgensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
Marco Casazza Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics
and statistical mechanics of
macromolecular systems, by Michael
Bachmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
B. K. Tanner All about science: philosophy, history,
sociology & communication, edited by
Maria Burguete and Lui Lam . . . . . . . 286--286
Thomas Peters Book Review: \booktitleThe structure of
complex networks: theory and
applications, by Ernesto Estrada . . . . 287--287
Matt Probert Book Review: \booktitle$2$D materials
for nanoelectronics, edited by Michel
Houssa, Athanasios Dimoulas, and
Alessandro Molle . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleCosmic rays and
particle physics, 2nd edition, by Thomas
K. Gaisser, Ralph Engel, and Elisa
Resconi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleDeep-sky
companions: the Caldwell objects, 2nd
edition, by S. J. O'Meara . . . . . . . 288--289
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleCosmic magnetic
fields, by Philip P. Kronberg . . . . . 289--290
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleThe dark side of
technology, by Peter Townsend . . . . . 290--291
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
modern magnetohydrodynamics, by Sébastien
Galtier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleTransport in
multilayered nanostructures: the dynamic
mean-field theory approach, 2nd edition,
by James K. Freericks . . . . . . . . . 292--293
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleOptical
compressive imaging, edited by Adrian
Stern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleNanowires:
building blocks for nanoscience and
nanotechnology, by A. Zhang, G. Zheng,
and C. Lieber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleBasic X-ray
scattering for soft matter, by W. H. de
Jeu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--295
Giovanni Volpe Book Review: \booktitleThe impact of
discovering life beyond Earth, edited by
S. J. Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleElectroweak
physics at the LHC, by M. U. Mozer . . . 296--296
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear
dynamics in biological systems, edited
by Jorge Carballido-Landeira and Bruno
Escribano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics: a
complete undergraduate course, by A. M.
Steane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
K. P. Zetie Book Review: \booktitleQuantum physics:
a first encounter, by V. Scarani, and
translated by Rachael Thew . . . . . . . 297--298
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitlePeregrinations
from physics to phylogeny: essays on the
occasion of Hao Bailin's 80th birthday,
edited by K. K. Phua and M. Ge . . . . . 298--299
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleSingular optics,
by G. J. Gbur . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleUltrafast
biophotonics, by P. Vasa and D. Mathur 300--300
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleFrom matter to
life: information and causality, edited
by S. I. Walker, P. C. W. Davies and G.
F. R. Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleCelestial
mechanics and astrodynamics: theory and
practice, by P. Gurfil and P. K.
Seidelmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301
Roy Howard Pervasive randomness in physics: an
introduction to its modelling and
spectral characterisation . . . . . . . 303--330
David L. Clements An introduction to the \em Planck
mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--348
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleITER physics, by
C. Wendell Horton, Jr. and Sadruddin
Benkadda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--352
B. Ishak A review of \booktitlePlanetesimals:
early differentiation and consequences
for planets, edited by L. T.
Elkins-Tanton and B. P. Weiss . . . . . 353--355
Javier Sánchez-Cañizares Book Review: \booktitleHow can physics
underlie the mind? Top-down causation in
the human context, by G. Ellis . . . . . 356--356
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleCosmology with
MATLAB, by D. Green . . . . . . . . . . 357--357
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleA student's
manual for a first course in general
relativity, by Robert B. Scott . . . . . 357--358
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to space plasma complexity, by Tom Tien
Sun Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359
K. P. Zetie Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
weirdness, by W. J. Mullin . . . . . . . 359--359
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleA fortunate
universe: life in a finely tuned cosmos,
by G. F. Lewis and L. A. Barnes . . . . 359--360
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleAttosecond
experiments on plasmonic nanostructures:
principles and experiments, by J. Schötz 360--361
Mark Nicol Book Review: \booktitlePractical optical
interferometry: imaging at visible and
infrared wavelengths, by David F.
Buscher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Frank Berkshire Book Review: \booktitleHow do you find
an exoplanet?, by J. A. Johnson . . . . 362--362
Frank Berkshire Book Review: \booktitleLectures on the
theory of water waves, edited by T. J.
Bridges, M. D. Groves and D. P. Nicholls 362--363
Frank Berkshire Book Review: \booktitleThe science of
the perfect swing, by P. Dewhurst . . . 363--363
Dr. Richard Sebastian Shorter Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
adaptive optics, 4th edition, by Robert
K. Tyson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--364
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleA lesson for the
future of our science: my testimony on
Lord Patrick M. S. Blackett, by A.
Zichichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--365
Matt Probert Book Review: \booktitleThe theory of
intermolecular forces, 2nd edition, by
A. Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365
Lewis Ryder Book Review: \booktitleTopological
quantum numbers in nonrelativistic
physics, by D. J. Thouless . . . . . . . 365--366
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleAsteroids:
astronomical and geological bodies, by
T. H. Burbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--368
Peter J. Dobson Book Review: \booktitlePhysics at the
biomolecular interface: fundamentals for
molecular targeted therapy, by A.
Fernández . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleThe structure and
dynamics of cities, by M. Barthelemy . . 369--370
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleA question and
answer guide to astronomy, 2nd edition,
by C. Christian and J-R. Roy . . . . . . 370--370
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleGravitational
lensing, by S. Dodelson . . . . . . . . 370--371
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
measurement, by P. Busch, P. J. Lahti,
J.-P. Pellonpää, and K. Ylinen . . . . . . 371--371
Ahmed A. Al-Tabbakh Book Review: \booktitleSymmetry in
crystallography: understanding the
international tables, by Paolo G.
Radaelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--373
Kelvin J. A. Ooi Book Review: \booktitleLight-matter
interaction: physics and engineering at
the nanoscale, 2nd edition, by J. Weiner
and F. Nunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Fredric W. Taylor Book Review: \booktitlePhysics of
radiation and climate, by Michael A. Box
and Gail P. Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--374
Muhammad Zubair Book Review: \booktitleFundamental and
applied nano-electromagnetics, edited by
A. Maffucci and S. A. Maksimenko . . . . 374--375
Marco Casazza Book Review: \booktitleFoundation of
statistical energy analysis in
vibroacoustics, by A. Le Bot . . . . . . 375--375
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleA primer on
quantum fluids, by C. F. Barenghi and N.
G. Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Carlos Medel-Vera Book Review: \booktitleComputational
seismology, by H. Igel . . . . . . . . . 376--376
Matt Probert Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
condensed matter physics, by M. L. Cohen
and S. G. Louie . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
David Bailin Book Review: \booktitleThe physical
world: an inspirational tour of
fundamental physics, by N. Manton and N.
Mee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379
Kavan Modi Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
stochastics, by Mou-Hsiung Chang . . . . 379--379
David Bailin Book Review: \booktitleA dictionary of
science, 7th edition, by J. Law . . . . 379--380
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleThe Earth's inner
core: revealed by observational
seismology, by H. Tkalcic . . . . . . . 380--380
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
cosmology, 2nd edition, by B. Ryden . . 381--381
Lewis Ryder Book Review: \booktitleBudapest
scientific: a guidebook, by István
Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai . . . . 381--381
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi--ebi
Ian Jack The $a$-theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Art Hobson Review and suggested resolution of the
problem of Schrödinger's cat . . . . . . 16--30
Andrea Cavalleri Photo-induced superconductivity . . . . 31--46
D. M. Villeneuve Attosecond science . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
David Bailin Clear as a Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67
Lewis Ryder A review of \booktitleWho cares about
particle physics? Making sense of the
Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider
and CERN, by Pauline Gagnon, and
\booktitleModern elementary particle
physics: explaining and extending the
standard model, 2nd edition, by Gordon
Kane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
B. Ishak A review of \booktitleSpectral atlas for
amateur astronomers, by R. Walker . . . 70--72
Fredric W. Taylor Book Review: \booktitleExoplanetary
atmospheres: theoretical concepts and
foundations, by K. Heng . . . . . . . . 73--73
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
mechanics, by Richard Fitzpatrick . . . 73--74
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
disordered systems, random processes and
some applications, edited by P. Contucci
and C. Giardina . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleFrom classical to
quantum fields, by L. Baulieu, J.
Iliopoulos and R. Sénéor . . . . . . . . . 74--75
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
planetary photometry, by M. K. Shepard 75--76
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleMacroscropic
electrodynamics: an introductory
graduate treatment, by W. Wilcox and C.
Thron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleTales of the
quantum: understanding physics' most
fundamental theory, by A. Hobson . . . . 77--78
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleLab-on-fiber
technology, edited by A. Cusano, M.
Consales, A. Crescitelli, and A.
Ricciardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Juan A. Añel Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced
computational fluid and aerodynamics, by
P. G. Tucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleHybrid phonons in
nanostructures, by B. K. Ridley . . . . 80--80
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleOptical microring
resonators: theory, techniques, and
applications, by V. Van . . . . . . . . 80--81
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleElectromagnetic
interactions, by S. D. Bosanac . . . . . 81--82
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to distributed optical fibre sensors, by
A. H. Hartog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Muhammad Zubair Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced free
space optics (FSO): a systems approach,
by Arun K. Majumdar . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Thomas Collier Book Review: \booktitleElectromagnetic
waves in complex systems: selected
theoretical and applied problems, edited
by Y. Sirenko and L. Velychko . . . . . 84--84
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe Oxford
handbook of the history of physics, by
J. Buchwald and R. Fox . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Thomas Peters Book Review: \booktitleChaotic dynamics:
fractals, tilings, and substitutions, by
G. R. Goodson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Frank Berkshire Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced
classical mechanics, by B. K. Bagchi . . 86--86
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleTotality --- the
great American eclipses of 2017 and
2024, by M. Littmann and F. Espenak . . 87--87
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleQuantum physics:
what everybody needs to know, by M. G.
Raymer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleMaterials for the
21st century, by D. Segal . . . . . . . 88--88
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of
nuclear and particle physics, by T. W.
Donnelly, J. A. Formaggio, B. R.
Holstein, R.G. Milner, and B. Surrow . . 89--89
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitlePractical
Bayesian inference: a primer for
physical scientists, by C. A. L.
Bailer-Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Kelvin J. A. Ooi Book Review: \booktitleThe wonderful
world of relativity: a precise guide for
the general reader, by A. Steane . . . . 90--90
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleGravity: a very
short introduction, by T. Clifton . . . 90--91
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleShattered
symmetry: group theory from the
eightfold way to the periodic table, by
P. Thyssen and A. Ceulemans . . . . . . 91--92
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe quantum
revolution in philosophy, by R. Healey 92--94
Gunter M. Schütz Book Review: \booktitleThermal transport
in low dimensions: from statistical
physics to nanoscale heat transfer,
edited by S. Lepri . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleThe gas dynamics
of explosions, by J. H. S. Lee . . . . . 94--95
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleThe lazy
universe: an introduction to the
principle of least action, by J.
Coopersmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Yee Sin Ang Book Review: \booktitleMass: the quest
to understand matter from Greek atoms to
quantum fields, by J. Baggott . . . . . 96--96
Yee Sin Ang Book Review: \booktitleAmorphous
semiconductors, by Sándor Kugler and
Koichi Shimakawa . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleSound propagation
through the Stochastic Ocean, by J. A.
Colosi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics of
natural systems: theory and applications
in geochemistry and environmental
science, 3rd edition, by G. Anderson . . 98--99
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleHydrogen storage
technology: materials and applications,
by L. Klebanoff . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa Book Review: \booktitleThe illustrated
wavelet transform handbook: introductory
theory and applications in science,
engineering, medicine and finance, 2nd
edition, by P. S. Addison . . . . . . . 100--100
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleThe standard
model in a nutshell, by D. Goldberg . . 100--101
Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa Book Review: \booktitleLectures on
light: nonlinear and quantum optics
using the density matrix, 2nd edition,
by S. C. Rand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Peter R. Hobson Book Review: \booktitleThe
photomultiplier handbook, by A. G.
Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleQuantum optics
and nanophotonics: lecture notes of the
Les Houches Summer School, edited by
Claude Fabre, Vahid Sandoghdar, Nicolas
Treps, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo . . . 102--103
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleSpectroscopy for
amateur astronomers, by M. F. M.
Trypsteen and R. Walker . . . . . . . . 103--103
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleWhat goes up
\ldots gravity and scientific method, by
P. Kosso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to X-ray physics, optics, and
applications, by C. A. MacDonald . . . . 104--105
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleGet funded: an
insider's guide to building an academic
research program, by R. J. Trew . . . . 105--106
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleNature's third
cycle: a story of sunspots, by A. R.
Choudhuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
C. D. White The double copy: gravity from gluons . . 109--125
Hugo Larocque and
Ido Kaminer and
Vincenzo Grillo and
Gerd Leuchs and
Miles J. Padgett and
Robert W. Boyd and
Mordechai Segev and
Ebrahim Karimi `Twisted' electrons . . . . . . . . . . 126--144
Stephen M. Barnett and
Matthias Sonnleitner The vacuum friction paradox and related
puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
Gerard Gilmore Gaia: $3$-dimensional census of the
Milky Way Galaxy . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173
Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca and
William Cruz-Santos and
Catherine McGeoch and
Marco Lanzagorta A cross-disciplinary introduction to
quantum annealing-based algorithms . . . 174--197
B. Ishak A review of \booktitleSupersymmetry and
string theory: beyond the standard
model, 2nd edition, by Michael Dine . . 198--200
G. W. Gibbons Book Review: \booktitleTheoretical
frontiers in black holes and cosmology:
theoretical perspectives in high energy
physics, edited by R. Kallosh and E.
Orazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Keith A. Benedict Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
topological quantum matter and quantum
computation, by Tudor D. Stanescu . . . 202--202
Marta Anna Sitek Book Review: \booktitleSoil mechanics
fundamentals, by Muni Budhu . . . . . . 202--203
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleWaves, particles,
and storms in geospace: a complex
interplay, edited by G. Balasis, I.
Daglis, and I. R. Mann . . . . . . . . . 203--203
Srinivasan Sivakumar Book Review: \booktitleMicrocavities, by
Alexey V. Kavokin, Jeremy J. Baumberg,
Guillaume Maupuech, and Fabrice P.
Laussy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleGenerating random
networks and graphs, by T. Coolen, A.
Annibale, and E. Roberts . . . . . . . . 204--205
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleThe atmosphere: a
very short introduction, by P. I. Palmer 205--205
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe conceptual
framework of quantum field theory, by A.
Duncan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleAn overview of
gravitational waves: theory, sources and
detection, edited by G. Auger and E.
Plagnol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleA student's guide
to dimensional analysis, by D. S. Lemons 207--207
Robert S. MacKay Book Review: \booktitleBeyond peaceful
co-existence: the emergence of space,
time and quantum, by I. Licata . . . . . 208--208
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleSuper-resolution
imaging in biomedicine, edited by A.
Diaspro and M. A. M. J. van Zandvoort 208--208
Michael Belsley Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
nonlinear optics, 2nd edition, by P. E.
Powers and J. W. Haus . . . . . . . . . 208--209
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitlePrecision
cosmology: the first half million years,
by B. J. T. Jones . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleAtoms, mechanics,
and probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's
statistico-mechanical writings --- an
exegesis, by O. Darrigol . . . . . . . . 210--211
Muhammad Zubair Book Review: \booktitlePhysics of
electronic materials: principles and
applications, by J. Rammer . . . . . . . 211--211
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleAtom projects:
events and people, by B. Ioffe . . . . . 211--212
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleThe origin of
mass: elementary particles and
fundamental symmetries, by J. Iliopoulos 212--213
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleThe pull of
history: human understanding of
magnetism and gravity through the ages,
by Y. Yamamoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleNatural
complexity: a modelling handbook by P.
Charbonneau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--214
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleThe Milky Way: an
insider's guide, by W. H. Waller . . . . 214--215
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleTelescopes: a
very short introduction, by Geoff
Cottrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleA concise guide
to communication in science &
engineering, by D. H. Foster . . . . . . 216--217
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleThe simple
physics of energy use, by P. Rez . . . . 217--218
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleData analysis
techniques for physical scientists, by
C. Pruneau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--218
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitlePhysical methods
for materials characterisation, 3rd
edition, by P. E. J. Flewitt and R. K.
Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Tom Lancaster Book Review: \booktitleThe last man who
knew everything: the life and times of
Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age,
by D. N. Schwartz . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
Oscar Rosas-Ortiz Book Review: \booktitleThe meaning of
the wave function: in search of the
ontology of quantum mechanics, by S. Gao 220--221
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleSymmetry, phase
modulation and nonlinear waves, by T. J.
Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleMicrorheology, by
E. M. Furst and T. M. Squires . . . . . 222--223
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleComplex networks:
principles, methods and applications, by
V. Latora, V. Nicosia, and G. Russo . . 223--224
F. W. Taylor Book Review: \booktitleThe paradoxes of
time travel, by Ryan Wasserman . . . . . 224--224
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleDeconstructing
cosmology, by R. H. Sanders . . . . . . 224--225
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleEmmy Noether's
wonderful theorem, revised and updated
edition, by D. E. Neunenschwander . . . 225--226
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleCalorimetry ---
energy measurements in particle physics,
2nd edition, by R. Wigmans . . . . . . . 226--227
Charlie Nation Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
statistical field theory: an
introduction to Schwinger's variational
method with Green's function
nanoapplications, graphene and
superconductivity, by N. J. M. Horing 227--227
Stefano Gherardini and
Shamik Gupta and
Stefano Ruffo Spontaneous synchronisation and
nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of
coupled phase oscillators . . . . . . . 229--250
Jason Kalirai Scientific discovery with the James Webb
Space Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--290
Christophe Couteau Spontaneous parametric down-conversion 291--304
Peter V. E. McClintock and
Igor Kh. Kaufman A review of \booktitleHandbook of Ion
Channels, by Jie Zheng and Matthew C.
Trudeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--307
B. Ishak High-energy-density physics: foundation
of inertial fusion and experimental
astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--310
Alan D. Martin Book Review: \booktitleThe black book of
quantum chromodynamics: a primer for the
LHC ERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
M. P. Gururajan Theory of dislocations, 3rd edition . . 312--313
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleSpin current, 2nd
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
Frank Berkshire Book Review: \booktitleA half-century of
physical asymptotics and other
diversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--315
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
nuclear reactor physics . . . . . . . . 315--316
D. C. Barber Book Review: \booktitleA guide to
mathematical methods for physicists with
problems and solutions . . . . . . . . . 316--316
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleNonequilibrium
statistical physics: a modern
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleMethods in
molecular biophysics: structure,
dynamics, function for biology and
medicine, 2nd edition . . . . . . . . . 317--318
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleInteracting
systems far from equilibrium: quantum
kinetic theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Miriam Aczel Book Review: \booktitleThe dialogues:
conversations about the nature of the
universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleElements of
slow-neutron scattering . . . . . . . . 319--320
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleTopological
aspects of condensed matter physics:
lecture notes of the Les Houches summer
school: Volume 103, August 2014 . . . . 320--321
Dr R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleWolf prize in
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleSurfing the
quantum world . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Francisco Caruso Book Review: \booktitleCan the laws of
Physics be unified? . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleThe Many Faces of
Maxwell, Dirac and Einstein Equations: A
Clifford Bundle Approach . . . . . . . . 323--323
Juan A. Añel Book Review: \booktitleBlockbuster
Science: The Real Science in Science
Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Matt Probert Book Review: \booktitleComputer
simulation of liquids, 2nd edition . . . 324--325
Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa Book Review: \booktitleNon-relativistic
quantum mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . 325--325
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleOrigins --- the
scientific story of Creation . . . . . . 325--326
G. W. Gibbons Book Review: \booktitleCosmic paradoxes,
2nd edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
Thomas Peters Book Review: \booktitleGravitation . . . 327--327
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleConcepts in
particle physics: a concise introduction
to the standard model . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleQuantum sense and
nonsense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Mark Nicol Book Review: \booktitleMathematics for
physics: an illustrated handbook . . . . 329--329
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitlePlasma physics
--- an introduction to laboratory,
space, and fusion plasmas, 2nd edition 329--330
Ricardo Heras Dirac quantisation condition: a
comprehensive review . . . . . . . . . . 331--355
M. R. Tarbutt Laser cooling of molecules . . . . . . . 356--376
David R. Bowler Building bridges: matching density
functional theory with experiment . . . 377--390
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleGravitational
waves volume 2: astrophysics and
cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleQuantum Reality 394--397
Gerry Gilmore Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
physics --- a very short introduction /
Theories of everything --- ideas in
profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleThe heroic age,
the creation of quantum mechanics,
1925--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Gary Gibbons Book Review: \booktitleAstrophysical
applications of gravitational lensing 400--400
Gary Gibbons Book Review: \booktitleThe cosmological
singularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--401
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleFrom interstellar
clouds to star-forming galaxies:
universal processes? . . . . . . . . . . 401--402
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleGalaxies at high
redshift and their evolution over cosmic
time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--402
Kishan Menghrajani Book Review: \booktitleFibre-optic
Fabry--Perot sensors: an introduction 402--403
Oscar Rosas-Ortiz Book Review: \booktitleNeutron
interferometry: lessons in experimental
quantum mechanics, wave-particle
duality, and entanglement, Second
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--405
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleModern classical
physics: optics, fluids, plasmas,
elasticity, relativity, and statistical
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleAstrophysics of
red supergiants . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Muhammad Zubair Book Review: \booktitleFractional
diffusion equations and anomalous
diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleGeophysical fluid
dynamics: understanding (almost)
everything with rotating shallow water
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--408
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleA student's guide
to dimensional analysis . . . . . . . . 408--408
Marco Casazza Book Review: \booktitleSignatures of the
artist: the vital imperfections that
make our universe habitable . . . . . . 409--409
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleShoot the Moon: a
complete guide to lunar imaging . . . . 409--410
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleQuantum physics:
what everyone needs to know . . . . . . 410--410
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleSkyrmions:
topological structures, properties, and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleString theory
methods for condensed matter physics . . 411--411
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
imaging and electron physics . . . . . . 411--412
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe age of
innocence. Nuclear physics between the
First and Second World Wars . . . . . . 413--413
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleOne of ten
billion Earths --- how we learn about
our planet's past and future from
distant exoplanets . . . . . . . . . . . 413--414
Francisco Caruso Book Review: \booktitlePrecise
dimensions: a history of units from
1791--2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--415
David L. Andrews Book Review: \booktitlePriest of nature:
the religious worlds of Isaac Newton . . 415--416
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleQuantum field
theory and condensed matter, an
introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleQuantum field
theory approach to condensed matter
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--417
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe quantum
measurement problem . . . . . . . . . . 417--418
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
imaging and electron physics . . . . . . 418--419
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleApplied
computational physics . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleRelativistic
many-body theory: a new
field-theoretical approach . . . . . . . 420--421
Chris Athorne Book Review: \booktitleFifty years of
mathematical physics: selected works of
Ludwig Fadeev . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleFirst ten years
of Hinode solar on-orbit observatory . . 422--422
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleEssential
classical mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 422--423
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to organic lasers . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424
Peter J. Dobson Book Review: \booktitleHandbook on the
physics and chemistry of rare earths,
Volume 52: Alloy systems and compounds
containing rare earth elements and
carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--424
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleModern techniques
of surface science, 3rd edition . . . . 424--425
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleHeliophysics:
active stars, their astrospheres, and
impacts on planetary environments . . . 425--425
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitlePhysics and
technology of sustainable energy . . . . 425--426
Oscar Rosas-Ortiz Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
interferometric gravitational wave
detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--428
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleGeometric and
Electronic Properties of
Graphene-Related Systems . . . . . . . . 428--428
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleThe classical
Stefan problem: basic concepts,
modelling and analysis with
quasi-analytical solutions and methods 428--429
Chris Athorne Book Review: \booktitleFractals in
probability and analysis . . . . . . . . 429--429
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitlePlanetary
habitability and stellar activity . . . 430--430
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleA review of
magnetism in carbon nanostructures . . . 430--431
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleQuantum field
theory for economics and finance . . . . 431--431
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleGeometric methods
in elastic theory of membranes in liquid
crystal phases, 2nd ed. . . . . . . . . 431--433
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleFinn's thermal
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--433
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleThe Lattice
Boltzmann equation . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleBerry phases in
electronic structure theory . . . . . . 434--435
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleOn the future:
prospects for humanity . . . . . . . . . 435--436
Thomas Peters Book Review: \booktitleA modern
introduction to dynamical systems . . . 436--437
Thomas Konrad and
Andrew Forbes Quantum mechanics and classical light 1--22
Kalevi Mattila and
Petri Väisänen Extragalactic background light:
inventory of light throughout the cosmic
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--44
Peter Coles A revolution in science: the eclipse
expeditions of 1919 . . . . . . . . . . 45--59
Juan A. Añel Essay Review: \booktitleReflections on
the Scientific Method at the beginning
of the twenty-first century . . . . . . 60--62
B. Ishak Essay Review: \booktitleThe exoplanet
handbook, 2nd edition . . . . . . . . . 63--65
Stephen J. Blundell Essay Review: \booktitleQuantum field
theory lectures of Sidney Coleman . . . 66--68
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleQuantum photonics 69--69
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleFacts and
mysteries in elementary particle physics 69--70
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleA philosophical
approach to quantum field theory . . . . 70--71
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleHolographic
quantum matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleTheory and
experiment in gravitational physics, 2nd
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
quantum physics and relativity, 2nd
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Frank Berkshire Book Review: \booktitleA bouquet of
Dyson --- and other reflections on
science and scientists . . . . . . . . . 73--74
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleUltracondensed
matter by dynamic compression . . . . . 74--75
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleQuantum scaling
in many-body systems: an approach to
quantum phase transitions, 2nd edition 75--76
Robert Sinclair MacKay Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
accelerator dynamics . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleFractional
calculus: an introduction for
physicists, 3rd edition . . . . . . . . 77--77
J. Rogel-Salazar Book Review: \booktitleHyperspace . . . 77--78
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleMarcel Grossmann
--- for the love of mathematics . . . . 78--79
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to quantum theory . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Mark Nicol Book Review: \booktitleThe astronomers'
magic envelope: an introduction to
astrophysics emphasizing general
principles and orders of magnitude . . . 80--80
Keith A. Benedict Book Review: \booktitleQuantum Monte
Carlo methods: algorithms for lattice
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Robert C. Smith Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
stellar evolution . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleSome critical
questions in biological physics: a
guided tour around the bugbears . . . . 82--83
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleSymmetry
Relationships between Crystal
Structures: Applications of
Crystallographic Group Theory in Crystal
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleGalileo unbound
--- a path across life, the universe and
everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Oscar Rosas-Ortiz Book Review: \booktitleLagrangian and
Hamiltonian dynamics . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleThe semiclassical
way to dynamics and spectroscopy . . . . 86--87
Jonathan Blakely Book Review: \booktitleReview of
application-driven quantum and
statistical physics, vol. 1: foundations 87--87
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleFrom my vast
repertoire \ldots Guido Altarelli's
legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleA student's guide
to Python for physical modeling . . . . 88--89
Tanveer A. Tabish Book Review: \booktitleElectron spin
interactions in chemistry and biology 89--89
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleThe Soviet atomic
project: how the Soviet Union obtained
the atomic bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Professor K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleFriction at the
atomic level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleMolecular
devices: an introduction to
technomimetics and its biological
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleGraphene
photonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleFrom micro to
macro: adventures of a wandering
physicist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleAnalytical
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleCollective
classical and quantum fields . . . . . . 95--96
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleEinstein for the
21st century. His legacy in science, art
and modern culture, edited by Peter L.
Galison, Gerald James Holton, and S. S.
(Silvan S.) Schweber, Princeton, NJ,
Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN
978-0-691-17790-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleA student's guide
to atomic physics . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
tensor analysis in continuum mechanics,
1st edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleChern--Simons
(Super)gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleThe world
according to Quantum Mechanics; why the
laws of physics make perfect sense after
all, 2nd edition . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitlePhysical
perspectives on computation,
computational perspectives on physics 100--101
Muhammad Zubair Book Review: \booktitleMedical and
biological microwave sensors and systems 101--102
Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa Book Review: \booktitleTheoretical and
mathematical physics: problems and
solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--102
Ahmed A. Al-Tabbakh Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
electron optics: volume one: basic
geometrical optics & volume two: applied
geometrical optics . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleQuantum gravity
and the functional renormalization
group: the road towards asymptotic
safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleA student's guide
to general relativity/General
relativity, a concise introduction . . . 105--106
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleFireworks in a
dark universe, by Amir Levinson, London,
World Scientific Europe, 2018, 316 pp.,
\pounds 70.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-78634-511-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitlePhysics of
magnetic flux tubes, 2nd edition, by M.
Ryutova, Switzerland, Springer, 2018,
747 pp., \pounds 159.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-3-319-96360-0 . . . . . . . . 106--107
Gerry Gilmore Book Review: \booktitleOur Cosmic
Habitat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleGroup theory in
physics: a practitioner's guide . . . . 108--108
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleGroup theory in
solid state physics and photonics:
problem solving with Mathematica . . . . 108--109
Peter J. Dobson (retired) Book Review: \booktitleApplied thermal
measurements at the nanoscale: a
beginners guide to electrothermal
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--109
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleSurface and
interfacial forces, 2nd edition . . . . 109--110
Aaron Smith and
Volker Bromm Supermassive black holes in the early
universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--126
Jürgen Schnack Large magnetic molecules and what we
learn from them . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--144
John H. Wise Cosmic reionisation . . . . . . . . . . 145--163
Mark T. Mitchison Quantum thermal absorption machines:
refrigerators, engines and clocks . . . 164--187
Oscar Rosas-Ortiz Beyond the dynamical universe. Unifying
block universe physics and time as
experienced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--190
Peter J. Bussey Believing without seeing? . . . . . . . 191--194
Peter J. Bussey Philosophy of physics: quantum theory 195--196
B. Ishak The impact of binary stars on stellar
evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--196
Mario Bertolotti PT symmetry in quantum and classical
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Kavan Modi Quantum many-body physics in a nutshell 197--197
Kelvin J. A. Ooi Book Review: \booktitleThe wonders of
physics, 4th edition . . . . . . . . . . 197--198
Michael Belsley Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to quantum physics: a first course for
physicists, chemists, materials
scientists, and engineers . . . . . . . 198--199
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
quantum computation and information: a
comprehensive textbook . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Tanveer A. Tabish Book Review: \booktitleMemorial volume
on Abdus Salam's 90th birthday . . . . . 200--201
Tanveer A. Tabish Book Review: \booktitleApplied
nanophotonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Thomas Neukirch Book Review:
\booktitleMagnetohydrodynamics of
laboratory and astrophysical plasmas . . 202--202
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleUnderstanding
lasers: an entry level guide, 4th ed. 202--203
Tom Lancaster Book Review: \booktitleTheoretical fluid
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleThe story of
antimatter: matter's vanished twin . . . 204--204
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleSize really does
matter: the nanotechnology revolution 204--205
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
thermodynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleThe life, science
and times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov 206--207
Jonathan Tennyson Book Review: \booktitleA brief history
of astronomy and astrophysics . . . . . 207--207
Robert Appleby Book Review: \booktitleAccelerator
physics, 4th edition . . . . . . . . . . 208--208
Gerard Gilmore Book Review: \booktitleThe formative
years of relativity: the history and
meaning of Einstein's Princeton lectures 208--209
Rob Appleby Book Review: \booktitleBeams and
accelerators with MATLAB, (with
companion media pack) . . . . . . . . . 209--209
Gerry Gilmore Book Review: \booktitleGrand challenges
for science in the 21st century . . . . 210--210
Katherine Willetts and
Lance Farr and
Liberty Foreman From stellar composition to cancer
diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--225
Joschka Roffe Quantum error correction: an
introductory guide . . . . . . . . . . . 226--245
Tom Lancaster Skyrmions in magnetic materials . . . . 246--261
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
astrochemistry: chemical evolution from
interstellar clouds to star and planet
formation, by Yamamoto S., Japan,
Springer, 2018, 286 pp., \pounds 99.99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-4-431-54170-7 . . 262--262
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleMathematics for
physicists: introductory concepts and
methods, by A. Altland and J. von Delft,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 720 pp., \pounds 39.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-108-47122-0 . . . . . . . . 262--262
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
methods in science and engineering, 2nd
edition, by Selçuk S. Bayin, Hoboken, NJ,
Wiley, 2018, 864 pp., \pounds 125.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-111-9425-39-7 . . . 263--263
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleApplied symbolic
dynamics and chaos, 2nd edition, B. Hao
and W. Zheng, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 500 pp., \$168.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-981-323-642-4} . . 263--264
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleMichelson--Morley
experiments --- an enigma for physics
and the history of science, by Maurizio
Consoli and Alessandro Pluchino,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2018, 196
pp., \pounds 70.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-3278-18-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 264--265
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Book Review: \booktitleBiophotonics
science and technology, by Yin Yeh and
V. V. Krishnan, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 292 pp., \pounds 95.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-981-323-568-7 . . 265--266
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleRelativistic
quantum mechanics and quantum fields,
2nd edition, by W. Y. P. Hwang and T.-Y.
Wu, Singapore, World Scientific, 2018,
402 pp., \pounds 130.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-981-327-002-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
Jonathan Blakely Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to quantum optics and quantum
fluctuations, by P. W. Milonni, New
York, Oxford University Press, 2019, 544
pp., \pounds 65.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-0-19-921561-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleModern condensed
matter physics, S. M. Girvin and K.
Yang, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2019, 714 pp., \pounds 59.99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-13739-4 . . 268--268
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleClassical field
theory, by Hora\ctiu N\uastase,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 436 pp., \pounds 59.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-108-47701-7 . . . . . . . . 269--269
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleSolving Fermi's
paradox, by D. H. Forgan, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 426
pp., \pounds 120 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-107-16365-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 269--271
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleChaos in nature,
2nd edition, by Christophe Letellier,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2019, 436
pp., \pounds 130.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-12-0119-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleDo we really
understand quantum mechanics? 2nd
edition, by Franck Laloë, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp.
xviii + 530, \pounds 44.99 (hardback),
ISBN 978-1-108-47700-0 . . . . . . . . . 272--273
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleOptical effects
in solids, by David B. Tanner,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 12 + 400 pp., \pounds 64.99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-16014-9 . . 273--274
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleAsteroseismic
data analysis: foundations and
techniques, by Sarbani Basu and William
J. Chaplin, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 2017, 337 pp., \pounds
58.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-0-691-16292-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleTheory of groups
and symmetries: Finite groups, Lie
groups and Lie algebras, by A. P. Isaev
and V. A. Rubakov, World Scientific,
2019,458 pp., \pounds 121.00 (hardback),
ISBN 978-981-323-685-1 . . . . . . . . . 275--275
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleSolid state
physics, volume 68, edited by R. E.
Camley and R. L. Stamps, Cambridge, MA,
Academic Press, 2017, 182 pp., \pounds
161.50 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-12-811991-4. . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Juan A. Añel and
Alan Robock Book Review: \booktitleCrossing the red
line: the nuclear option, by G. E.
Marsh, Singapore, World Scientific,
2018, 252 pp., \$68.00, (hardback), ISBN
978-981-3276-82-6} . . . . . . . . . . . 276--276
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--278
Mankei Tsang Resolving starlight: a quantum
perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--298
Harvey R. Brown Everettian quantum mechanics . . . . . . 299--314
B. Ishak Essay Review: \booktitleThe atlas of
Mars: mapping its geography and geology,
edited by K. S. Coles, K. L. Tanaka & P.
R. Christensen, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 300 pp., \pounds
39.99, (hardback) ISBN:
978-1-107-03629-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleWaves: a very
short introduction, by Mike Goldsmith,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018,
\pounds 7.99 (paperback), 135 pp., ISBN
978-0-19-890378-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 318--318
Peter V. E. McClintock Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the theory of complex systems, by Stefan
Thurner, Rudolf Hanel and Peter Klimek,
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018,
431 pp., \pounds 49.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-19-882193-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleParticles, fields
and forces, by Wouter Schmitz,
Switzerland, Springer, 2019, xi + 322
pp., \pounds 59.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-3-030-12877-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 319--320
Thomas Peters Book Review: \booktitleData-driven
science and engineering: machine
learning, dynamical systems, and
control, by S. L. Brunton and J. N.
Kutz, 2019, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 472 pp., \pounds 49.99
(hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-42209-3 . . . 320--320
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleImaging optics,
by J. Braat and P. Török, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 984
pp., \pounds 79.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-108-42808-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 321--321
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleQuantum theory of
materials, by E. Kaxiras and J. D.
Joannopoulos, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 653 pp., \pounds
64.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-052-1117-11-1 321--322
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
quantum mechanics with MATLAB for atoms,
molecules, clusters and nanocrystals, by
J. R. Chelikowsky, Weinheim, Wiley-VCH
Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2018, 224 pp.,
\pounds 70.00 (paperback), ISBN:
978-3-527-40926-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleNo shadow of a
doubt, by D. Kennefick, Princeton,
Princeton University Press, 2019,416
pp., \pounds 24.00 (hardcover), ISBN
978-0-691-18386-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleTopology and
physics, by C. N. Yang, M. L. Ge and Y.
H. He, Singapore, World Scientific,
2019,232 pp., \$28.00 (paperback), ISBN
978-981-327-850-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleAntimatter, Frank
Close, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2018,166 pp., \pounds 8.99 (paperback),
ISBN 978-0-19-883191-4 . . . . . . . . . 324--325
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics:
fundamentals and engineering
applications, by W. C. Reynolds and P.
Colonna, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2018, 401 pp., \pounds 84.99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-521-86273-8 . . 325--325
Francisco Caruso Book Review: \booktitleNewton the
alchemist: science, enigma, and the
quest for nature's `secret fire', by
William R. Newman, Princeton and Oxford,
Princeton University Press, 2019, 560
pp., US\$159 or \pounds 30 (hardcover),
ISBN 978-0-691-17487-7} . . . . . . . . 326--327
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleTASI: 2016,
anticipating the next discoveries in
particle physics, edited by Rouven Essig
and Ian Low, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 623 pp., \pounds
175.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-981-3233-331 327--328
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleString fields,
higher spins and number theory, by
Polyakov Dimitri, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 170 pp., \$88.00
(hardcover), ISBN 978-981-3233-39-3} . . 328--329
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleGeorge Placzek
--- a nuclear physicist's Odyssey, by A.
Gottvald and M. Shifman, Singapore,
World Scientific, 2018, 369 pp., \pounds
85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-981-323-691-2 329--330
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleEncyclopedic
atlas of terrestrial impact craters,
edited by E. Flamini, M. Di Martino and
A. Coletta, Cham, Springer, 2019, 691
pp., \pounds 149.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-3-030-05449-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleA review of
modern ophthalmic optics, edited by José
Alonso, José A. Gómez-Pedrero and Juan A.
Quiroga, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2019, 546 pp., \pounds 65
(hardback), ISBN 978-1-107-11074-8 . . . 330--331
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleFormation of the
first black holes, edited by M. Latif
and D. Schleicher, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2019, 365 pp., \pounds
105.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-322-794-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Tanveer A. Tabish Book Review: \booktitleIntroductory
physics for biological scientists, by
Christof M. Aegerter, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2018, 451
pp., \pounds 54.99 (paperback), ISBN:
978-1-108-46650-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleClassical field
theory, by Joel Franklin, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2017, 216
pp., \pounds 49.85 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-107-18961-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to general relativity: spacetime and
geometry, by S. Carroll, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 513
pp., \pounds 49.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-110-8488-39-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleFinding our place
in the solar system: the scientific
story of the Copernican revolution, by
T. Timberlake and P. Wallace, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 378
pp., \pounds 29.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-107-18229-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Jonathan Blakely Book Review: \booktitleElectromagnetic
radiation, by R. R. Freeman, J. A. King,
and G. P. Lafyatis, 2019, Oxford, UK,
Oxford University Press, 640 pp.,
\pounds 50.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-019-8726-50-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleExploring
planetary climate, by R. D. Lorenz,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 320 pp., \pounds 42.99 (hardback),
ISBN 978-1-108-47154-1 . . . . . . . . . 335--335
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to radio astronomy, 4th edition, by B.
F. Burke, F. Graham-Smith and P. N.
Wilkinson, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 540 pp., \pounds
59.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-107-18941-6 335--336
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleQuantum fields:
from the Hubble to the Planck Scale, by
M. Kachelriess, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2017, 544 pp., \pounds
55 (hardback), ISBN 978-019-8802-87-7 336--336
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleSaturn in the
21st century, by K. H. Baines, F. M.
Flaser, N. Krupp and T. Stallard,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2018, 448 pp., \pounds 120.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-110-7106-77-2 . . . 337--337
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleNonlocal gravity,
by B. Mashoon, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2017, 256 pp., \pounds 65
(hardback), ISBN 978-019-8803-80-5 . . . 337--338
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleScalar field
cosmology, by Chervon, S., Fomin, I.,
Yurov, V., Yurov, A., Singapore, World
Scientific, 2019, 263 pp., \pounds 85.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-981-12-0507-1 . . . 338--339
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleElementary
particle physics, an intuitive
introduction, by Andrew J. Larkoski,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, xx + 488 pp., \pounds 45
(hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-49698-8 . . . 339--339
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleMagnetism and
magnetic materials, by J. M. D. Coey,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2018, 617 pp., \pounds 59.99
(paperback), ISBN 978-1-108-71751-9 . . 339--340
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleFeynman and his
physics: the life and science of an
extraordinary man, by Jörg Resag, Cham,
Springer, 2018, 319 pp., \pounds 24.99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-3-319-96835-3 . . 340--341
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleMercury: the view
after MESSENGER, edited by S. C.
Solomon, L. R. Nittler and B. J.
Anderson, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2018, 583 pp., \pounds
42.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-107-15445-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
R. S. MacKay Sustainable energy storage --- with hot
air, or cold air or liquid air . . . . . 1--11
Huayu Hu Seed and vacuum pair production in
strong laser field . . . . . . . . . . . 12--25
Philippe Lewalle and
Sreenath K. Manikandan and
Cyril Elouard and
Andrew N. Jordan Measuring fluorescence to track a
quantum emitter's state: a theory review 26--50
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
thermodynamics: an engineering approach,
by J. W. Daily, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 263 pages,
\pounds 72.99 (Hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-41531-6. Scope: textbook.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--51
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleParameter
estimation and inverse problems, 3rd
edition. R. C. Aster, B. Borchers and C.
H. Thurber, Cambridge, Elsevier, 2019,
404 pp., \pounds 76.95 (paperback),
ISBN: 978-0-12-804651-7. Scope:
monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate . . . . . . 51--52
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleAirless bodies of
the inner solar system, by J. A. Grier,
A. S. Rivkin, Cambridge, Elsevier, 2018,
283 pp., \pounds 76.95 (Paperback), ISBN
978-0-12-809279-8. Scope: monograph.
Level: postgraduate, advanced
undergraduate, early career researcher,
teacher, scientist . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitlePhase transitions
for beginners, by S. M. Stishov,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2018, 152
pp., \pounds 40 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-327-417-4. Scope: textbook.
Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 53--53
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleGroup theory for
physicists, 2nd edition, by Z. Ma,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2019, 655
pp., \pounds 115.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-327-738-0. Scope: monograph.
Level: researcher . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Juan A. Añel Book Review: \booktitleSelling science:
how to use business skills to win
support for scientific research, by
Steven Judge and Richard Lucas, London,
World Scientific, 2019, 98pp, \pounds
40.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-78634-572-1. Scope: general
interest. Level: general readership . . 54--54
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleMeteoroids:
sources of meteors on Earth and beyond,
dited by Galina O. Ryabova, David J.
Asher, and Margaret D. Campbell-Brown,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 318 pp., \pounds 110 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-110-8426-71-8. Scope: edited
book. Level: advanced undergraduates,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, specialist, scientist . . . 54--55
Fred Taylor Book Review: \booktitleMysteries of
Mars, by F. V. De Blasio, Berlin,
Springer-Praxis, 2019, 189 pp., \pounds
22.99 (paperback), ISBN:
978-3-319-74783-5. Scope: monograph.
Level: general . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Muhammad Mahmood Ali Book Review: \booktitleLightwave
communications, by G. C. Papen and R.
Blahut, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2019, 970 pp., \pounds 79.99
(hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-42756-2.
Scope: review, monograph, handbook,
guide, textbook. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher, teacher,
specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 55--56
John D. Clayton Book Review: \booktitleTensor-valued
random fields for continuum physics, 1st
edition, by Anatoliy Malyarenko and
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, Cambridge
Monographs on Mathematical Physics,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 310 pp., \$145 USD (hardback),
ISBN 978-1-108-42985-6. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate,
specialist} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--58
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
electricity and magnetism, by J. D.
Walecka, Singapore, World Scientific,
2018, 272 pp., \pounds 75 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-981-327-206-4, Scope: review.
Level: undergraduate. Specialist . . . . 58--59
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleLectures on
astrophysics, by S. Weinberg, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2020, 226
pp., \pounds 34.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-108-41507-1. Scope: textbook.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher, researcher. . . . . . . . . 59--60
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleGravity! The
quest for gravitational waves, by Pierre
Binêtruy, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2018, 245 pp., 19.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-0-19-879651-0. Scope:
monograph. Level: general readership . . 60--61
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleCosmic discovery:
the search, scope and heritage of
astronomy, by M. Harwit, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 348
pp., \pounds 34.99 (paperback), ISBN:
978-1-108-72204-9. Scope: monograph.
Level: general readership . . . . . . . 61--62
Stefano Scali Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
quantum mechanics, 3rd edition, by D.J.
Griffiths and D.F. Schroeter, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2018, 495
pp., \pounds 54.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-107-18963-8. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleNew perspectives
on Einstein's $ E = m c^2 $, World
scientific, by Y. S. Kim and M. E. Noz,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2018, 200
pp., \$78.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-981-3237-70-4. Scope: monograph.
Level: researcher, specialist,
scientist} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitlePhysics on
Ultracold quantum gases, by Y. Han, W.
Yi and W. Zhang, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 288, \$98.00
(Hardback), ISBN: 978-981-327-075-6.
Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
early career researcher, researcher,
specialist, scientist, engineers} . . . 63--64
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleSchrödinger's
mechanics: interpretation, by D. B.
Cook, Singapore, World Scientific, 2019,
196 pp., \pounds 69 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-78634-490-8. Scope: monograph;
Level: specialist . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Stefano Scali Book Review: \booktitleA guide to
mathematical methods for physicists ---
advanced topics and applications, by M.
Petrini, G. Pradisi, A. Zaffaroni,
London, World Scientific, 2018, 308 pp.,
\$48.00 (paperback), ISBN
978-1-78634-704-6. Scope: textbook.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleVibrations, 3rd
edition, by Balakumar Balachandran and
Edward B. Magrab, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2018, 723
pp., \pounds 87.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-42731-9. Scope: textbook,
reference. Level: undergraduate,
advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
teacher, engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
M. P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleA modern course
in transport phenomena, by D. C. Venerus
and H. C. Öttinger, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2018, 508
pp., \pounds 74.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-107-12920-7. Scope: reference,
textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, teacher, specialist,
scientist, engineers. . . . . . . . . . 66--67
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleNiels Bohr: a
very short introduction, by J. L.
Heilbron, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2020, 160 pp., \$11.95
(paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-881926-4.
Scope: general interest, biography.
Level: scientist} . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
G. J. Milburn The thermodynamics of clocks . . . . . . 69--95
Ben J. Powell Emergent particles and gauge fields in
quantum matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--131
Ofer Lahav Dark Energy: is it `just' Einstein's
Cosmological Constant $ \Lambda $? . . . 132--145
Stefano Scali Book Review: \booktitlePhysical
mathematics, 2nd edition, by Kevin
Cahill, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 757 pp., \pounds
64.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-108-47003-2. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher 146--146
Muhammad Mahmood Ali Book Review: \booktitleExperimental
methods for science and engineering
students: an introduction to the
analysis and presentation of data, 2nd
edition. L. Kirkup, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 239 pp., \pounds
37.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-41846-1. Scope: monograph,
handbook, guide, textbook. Level:
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher, teacher,
specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 146--147
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitle``X-ray
Microscopy'', by Chris Jacobsen,
Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University
Press, University Printing House, 2020,
\$135, 579 pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-07657-0.
Scope: Monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate student, graduate student} 147--148
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleWaves and rays in
seismology: answers to unasked
questions, 2nd edition, by Michael A.
Slawinski, Singapore, World Scientific,
2018, 576 pp., \pounds 140 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-981-3239-87-6. Scope:
monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate. . . . . . . 148--148
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
graphene-based nanomaterials: from
electronic structure to quantum
transport, 2nd edition, by Luis E. F.
Foa Torres, Stephan Roche and
Jean-Christophe Charlier, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2020, 15pp.
+ 461pp., \pounds 74.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-108-47699-7. Scope:
textbook. Level: early stage researcher,
postgraduate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
David C. Barber Book Review: \booktitleThe cosmic
mystery tour, by N. Mee, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2019, 207 pp., \pounds
16.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-019-8831-86-0. Scope: review. Level:
general readership . . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleThe essence of
crystallography, by Mark Ladd,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2020, 532
pp., \pounds 105 (hardback), ISBN:
978-178-6346315. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher. Scope: textbook . . . 150--150
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitlePhysics problems
for aspiring physical scientists and
engineers, by K. Riley, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 335
pp., \pounds 24.99 (paperback), ISBN:
978-1-1087-0130-3. Scope: reference.
Level: pre-university, undergraduate,
teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--151
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleLectures on the
infrared structure of gravity and gauge
theory, by A. Strominger, Princeton, New
Jersey, Princeton University Press,
2018, 200 pp., \pounds 41.95
(Paperback), ISBN 978-0-691-17973-5.
Scope: review. Level: postgraduate,
early career researcher, researcher,
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleCompetitive
physics: mechanics and waves, by J. Wang
and B. Ricardo, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 832 pp., \$68.00
(paperback), ISBN: 978-981-323-518-2.
Scope: general interest, textbook.
Level: general readership,
pre-university, undergraduate} . . . . . 152--153
James Millen and
Benjamin A. Stickler Quantum experiments with microscale
particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--168
U. E. Vincent and
O. Kolebaje Introduction to the dynamics of driven
nonlinear systems . . . . . . . . . . . 169--192
Nuriya Nurgalieva and
Renato Renner Testing quantum theory with thought
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--216
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleRed Dwarfs: their
geological, chemical, and biological
potential for life (2nd ed.) . . . . . . 217--217
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleStar maps:
history, artistry, and cartography, 3rd
edition, by N. Kanas, Switzerland,
Springer, 2019, 563 pp, \pounds 39.99
(hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-13612-3 . . . 217--217
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
optics, 7th edition --- 60th anniversary
edition, by M. Born and E. Wolf,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 992 pp., \pounds 54.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-108-47743-7 . . . . . . . . 217--218
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleQuantum concepts
in the social, ecological and biological
sciences, by F. Bagarello, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 300
pp., \pounds 59.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-49212-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Toni Shiroka Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics of
magnetizing materials and
superconductors, by Vladimir
Kozhevnikov, Boca Raton, CRC Press,
2019, 133 pp., \pounds 50.00 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-138-49993-5 . . . . . . . . 219--220
Toni Shiroka Book Review:
\booktitleApplication-driven quantum and
statistical physics: a short course for
future scientists and engineers, volume
2: equilibrium, by J. M. Gillet, London,
World Scientific, 2019, 314 pp., \$45.00
(paperback), ISBN: 978-178-6347-03-9} 220--221
Toni Shiroka Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
solid state physics, by A. Aharony and
O. Entin-Wohlman, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 640 pp., \$148.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-981-3272-24-8} . . 221--222
Robert S. MacKay Book Review: \booktitleModern
thermodynamics for chemists and
biochemists, by D. Sherwood and P.
Dalby, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2018, 912 pp., \pounds 45 (paperback),
ISBN: 978-0-19-878470-8 . . . . . . . . 222--223
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleTopological phase
transitions and new developments, by
Lars Brink, Mike Gunn, Jorge V Jose,
John Michael Kosterlitz and Kok Khoo
Phua, Singapore, World Scientific, 2018,
264 pp., \$78.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-327-133-3} . . . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleComplexity
science: an introduction, edited by M.
A. Peletier, R. A. van Santen, and E.
Steur, Singapore, World Scientific,
2019, 428 pp., \pounds 120.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-981-323-959-3 . . . 224--226
Francisco Caruso Book Review: \booktitleEther and
modernity, edited by J. Navarro, Oxford,
UK, Oxford University Press, 2018, 272
pp., \pounds 65.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-19-879725-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Jess McIver and
D. H. Shoemaker Discovering gravitational waves with
Advanced LIGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--255
D. R. White Hot and cold: defining and measuring
temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--276
Carl A. Campugan and
Kylie R. Dunning and
Kishan Dholakia Optical manipulation: a step change for
biomedical science . . . . . . . . . . . 277--294
Laura de la Torre and
Juan A. Añel Connections between the earth's
atmosphere and its magnetosphere . . . . 295--297
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleA student's guide
to the Schrödinger equation, by Daniel A.
Fleisch, Cambridge University Press,
2020, \$24.99 (Paperback), ISBN
978-1-108-81978-7. Scope: guide,
textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate} 298--298
Muhammad Mahmood Ali and
Gabriel Leen Book Review: \booktitleFrom photons to
atoms: the electromagnetic nature of
matter, by D. Funaro, Singapore, World
Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
2019, 296 pp., \pounds 95.00 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-981-12-0423-4. Scope:
reference, monograph, general interest.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher, researcher, teacher,
specialist, scientist, engineers . . . . 298--299
Robert S. MacKay Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
gamma-ray bursts, by Bing Zhang,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 579 pp., \$79.99 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-107-02761-9. Scope: monograph,
Level: researchers} . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleModified gravity:
progresses and outlook of theories,
numerical techniques and observational
tests, edited by Baojiu Li and Kazuya
Koyama, Singapore, World Scientific,
2019, 313 pp., \$98 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-327-399-3. Scope: review. Level:
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
Jonathan Tennyson Book Review: \booktitleThe crowd & the
cosmos: adventures in the Zooniverse, by
C. Lintott, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2019, 265 pp., \pounds 20
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-884222-4.
Scope: general interest. Level: general
readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--302
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleThe iodine
molecule: insights into intra- and
intermolecular perturbation in diatomic
molecules, by S. Lukashov, A. Petrov,
and A. Pravilov, Cham, Springer, 2018,
199 pp., \pounds 74.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-3-319-70071-7. Scope: review. Level:
researcher. Specialist. Scientist . . . 302--303
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleMeasurements,
mechanisms, and models of heat
transport, by A. M. Hofmeister,
Elsevier, 2018, 440 pp., \pounds 65.41
(paperback), ISBN 978-0-12-809981-0.
Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate,
researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 303--304
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleAstronomical
spectroscopy: an introduction to the
atomic and molecular physics of
astronomical spectroscopy, by J.
Tennyson, Singapore, World Scientific,
2019, 264 pp., \pounds 33.00
(paperback), ISBN 978-1-78634-707-7.
Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 304--304
Francisco Caruso Book Review: \booktitleThe Majorana
Case: letters, documents, testimonies,
by Erasmo Recami, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2020, 400 pp., \pounds 29.90
(paperback), ISBN 978-981-12-0769-3.
Scope: book, general interest. Level:
undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career research,
historian of science, teacher, and
specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleAbout stars:
their formation, evolution,
compositions, locations and companions,
by Michael M. Woolfson, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2019, \$78/\pounds 75
(hardback), \$38/\pounds 35 (paperback),
ISBN 978-1-78634-712-1 (hardback),
978-1-78634-725-1 (paperback). Scope:
textbook, with problems and specimen
answers. Level: Physics or Astronomy
students or professionals. . . . . . . . 305--307
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleThe sun today, by
Claudio Vita-Finzi, Cham, Switzerland,
Springer, 2018, 111 pp., \pounds 9.99
(paperback), ISBN 978-3-030-04078-9.
Scope: general interest. Level: general
readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleMolecules in
electromagnetic fields: from ultracold
physics to controlled chemistry, by R.
V. Krems, New York, Wiley, 2018, 384
pp., \pounds 110.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-118-17361-9. Scope: monograph.
Level: postgraduate, researcher,
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleStephen Hawking;
a memoir of friendship and physics, by
Leonard Mlodinow, New York, Allen Lane,
2020, 240 pp., \pounds 20.00 (Hardback),
ISBN: 978-0-241-41113-1. Scope:
biography, with added science. Level:
general readers, undergraduates, high
school students . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
David Cassidy Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to cold and ultracold chemistry: atoms,
molecules, ions and Rydbergs, by Jesús
Pérez Ríos, Cham, Springer, 2020, 267 pp.,
\pounds 59.99 (E-Book), ISBN:
978-3-030-55936-6. Scope: text book.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleSynthetic
spin-orbit coupling in cold atoms,
edited by Wei Zhang, Wei Li and Carlos
A. R. Sá Melo, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2018, 308 pp., \pounds 84.10
(hardback), ISBN: 978-981-327-252-1.
Scope: review. Level: early career
researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 310--310
Muhammad Mahmood Ali Book Review: \booktitleComputational
acoustics: theory and implementation, by
D. R. Bergman, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 2018,
296 pp., \pounds 99.95 (hardcover),
ISBN: 978-1-119-27728-6. Scope:
reference, guide, general interest,
textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, teacher, specialist,
scientist, engineers . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Christina Pospisil Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
space-time-matter: cosmology, particles
and waves in five dimensions, by P. S.
Wesson and J. M. Overduin, Singapore,
World Scientific, 2019, 262 pp., \pounds
85.00 (Hardback), ISBN:
978-981-323-577-9. Scope: review. Level:
early career researcher . . . . . . . . 311--312
Matt Probert Book Review: \booktitleElectronic
structure: basic theory and practical
methods, 2nd edition, by Richard M.
Martin, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2020, \pounds 64.99, ISBN
978-1-108-42990-0. Level: postgraduate,
early career researcher, researcher.
Scope: reference text . . . . . . . . . 312--312
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleOrigin and
evolution of the universe. From Big Bang
to exobiology, 2nd edition, edited by M.
A. Malkan and B. Zuckerman, Singapore,
World Scientific, 2020, xiv + 232 pp.,
\pounds 75 (hardback), \pounds 30
(softback), ISBN 978-981-12-0645-0.
Level: undergraduate, teacher. Scope:
guide, edited book . . . . . . . . . . . 312--313
Svetlana G. Lukishova and
Anatoly V. Masalov and
Victor N. Zadkov Icons of Russian Physics: From the
Lebedev Scientific School in Physics to
the Lebedev Physical Institute . . . . . 1--13
S. J. Rose and
P. W. Hatfield Astronomy Domine: advancing science with
a burning plasma . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--23
Elizabeth Laier English and
Ali Ashkhasi and
Peter Whibberley Distributing time by fibre . . . . . . . 24--38
Peter J. Bussey Multiverse --- physics or philosophy? 39--41
Chih-Yueh Wang Principia and Magnificent Principia . . 42--45
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: A modern approach to
teaching classical mechanics: A review
of \booktitleModern classical mechanics
by T. M. Helliwell and V. V. Sahakian,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2020, 704 pp., \pounds 56.00,
(hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-83497-1 . . . 46--49
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
graphene, 2nd edition, by Mikhail I.
Katsnelson, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge
University Press, 2020, 436 pp., \$84.99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-1-108-47164-0} . . 50--50
Christina Pospisil Book Review: \booktitleString theory in
a nutshell, 2nd edition, edited by Elias
Kiritsis, Princeton University Press,
2019, 888 pp., \$95 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-691-15579-1} . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitlePractical
alchemy: a memoir, Walter A. Harrison,
Hackensack, NJ, World Scientific, 2018,
176 pp., \$28.00 (paperback), ISBN:
978-981-327-831-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Miriam R. Aczel Book Review: \booktitleThe cosmos:
astronomy in the new millennium, 5th
edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleModern quantum
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Ingemar Bengtsson Book Review: \booktitleThe discovery of
cosmic voids by Laird A. Thompson,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2020, 290 pp., \pounds 39.99 (hardback),
ISBN 978-1-108-49113-6 . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleThe NASA Kepler
mission, edited by Steve B. Howell,
Bristol, IOP Publishing, 2020, 272 pp.,
\$190 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-7503-2294-2} . . . . . . . . . . . 55--55
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleQuantum space, y
Jim Baggott, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2018, \pounds 20.00 (hardback),
ISBN 978-0-19-880911-1 . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Jonathan Richard Gaunt Book Review: \booktitleCoherent states
in gauge theories and applications in
collider physics, by M. Greco, World
Scientific, 2019, 172 pp., \pounds 75
(Hardback), ISBN: 978-981-12-1389-2 . . 56--57
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to quantum optics: an open system
approach, by Perry Rice, Bristol, UK,
IoP Publishing, 2020, xii+225 pp. with
figures, \$95.00 (e-book), ISBN
978-0-7503-1713-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleElectromagnetic
waves and lasers, 2nd edition, by Wayne
D. Kimura, IOP Science, Bristol, UK,
2020, xv + 142 pp. with figures,
\$159.00 (paperback\slash hardback),
ISBN: 978-0-7503-3521-8} . . . . . . . . 58--58
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleSemiclassical and
stochastic gravity: quantum field
effects on curved spacetime, Bei-Lok B.
Hu and Enric Verdaguer, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2020, 614
pp., \pounds 155.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-0-521-19357-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleThe Bohr atom: a
guide, by Bruce Cameron Reed, Bristol,
IOP Science, 2020, 104 pp., \$159.00
(E-book), Online ISBN 978-0-7503-3611-6;
Print ISBN: 978-0-7503-3609-3} . . . . . 59--59
Alessandro De Angelis Book Review: \booktitleCosmic
messengers: the limits of astronomy in
an unruly universe, by Martin Harwit,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2021, 396 pp., \$32.00 (E-Book), ISBN:
978-1-108-90616-6} . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Jesus Rogel-Salazar Book Review: \booktitlePhysics of
digital photography, 2nd edition, by
Andy Rowlands, Bristol, UK, IOP Science,
2020, 165 pp., \$159.00 (E-Book), ISBN:
978-0-7503-2558-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Giovanni Volpe Book Review: \booktitleDon't be afraid
of physics: quantum mechanics,
relativity and cosmology for everyone,
by Ross Barrett and Pier Paolo Delsanto,
Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature,
2021, 293 pp., \pounds 17.99 (e-book),
ISBN 978-3-030-63409-4 . . . . . . . . . 61--62
B. Ishak Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
galaxy formation and evolution: from
primordial gas to present-day galaxies,
by Andrea Cimatti, Filippo Fraternali,
and Carlo Nipoti, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2019, 582 pages,
\$69.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-107-13476-8} . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleModern physics: a
critical approach, edited by Canio Noce,
Bristol, Institute of Physics
Publishing, 2020, 450 pp., \pounds 64
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7503-2676-6 . . 62--63
Mogadalai P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
statistics in the physical sciences, 3rd
edition, by Byron P. Roe, New York,
Springer Nature Switzerland, 2020, 285
pp., EUR 46 (e-book), ISBN:
978-3-030-53693-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
David Andrews Book Review: \booktitleMind and the
cosmic order: how the mind creates the
features & structure of all things, and
why this insight transforms physics, by
Charles Pinter, Springer, ISBN:
978-3-030-50083-2 (e-book) . . . . . . . 64--65
Nigel John Mason Book Review: \booktitlePlanetary
diversity: rocky planet processes and
their observational signatures, y
Elizabeth J. Tasker, Yuka Fujii,
Matthieu Laneuville, Cayman Unterborn,
Steven J. Desch and Hilairy E. Hartnett,
IOP Publishing, 2020, 266 pp., \$159.00
(e-book), ISBN: 978-0-7503-2140-2} . . . 65--66
N. E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleThe large-scale
structure of the Universe, by P. J. E.
Peebles, winner of the Nobel prize in
Physics, Princeton University Press,
2020, 448 pp., \pounds 50.00
(paperback), ISBN: 978-0-691-20983-8 . . 66--67
Dmitry V. Morozov and
Alessandro Casaburi and
Robert H. Hadfield Superconducting photon detectors . . . . 69--91
Pawe\l Jan Zuk A brief introduction to contemporary
electrokinetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--104
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleDo wave functions
jump? Perspectives of the work of
GianCarlo Ghirardi edited by Valia
Allori, Angelo Bassi, Detlef Dürr, and
Nino Zanghi, Cham, CH, Springer Nature
Switzerland, 2021, xv + 436 pp., \pounds
87.50 (hardcover), ISBN
978-3-0304-6776-0/ISBN 978-3-0304-6777-7
(e-book). Scope: article collection.
Level: early career researcher,
specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleThe neutrino
story: one tiny particle's grand role in
the cosmos by Rabindra N. Mohapatra,
Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2021,
xvi+222 pp., \pounds 17.99 (E-Book),
ISBN 978-3-0305-1846-2. Scope:
monograph, general interest. Level:
non-specialists, undergraduate,
specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 106--107
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleThe equations of
materials by Brian Cantor, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2020, 19 +
307pp., \pounds 59.99 (hardback),
\pounds 29.99 (paperback), ISBN
978-0-19-885187-5
(hbk)/978-0-19-885188-2 (pbk). Scope:
general interest. Level: pre-university,
undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Robert S. MacKay Book Review: \booktitleThe cosmic
microwave background, 2nd edition, by
Ruth Durrer, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge
University Press, 2021, 510 pp., \pounds
47.61 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-107-13522-2. Scope: textbook.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 107--108
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleParticle
detectors: fundamentals and applications
by Hermann Kolanoski and Norbert Wermes,
New York, Oxford University Press, 2020,
944 pp., \$100 (Hardback), ISBN
978-0-19-885836-2. Scope: monograph.
Level: graduate} . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--109
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
nuclear physics: structure and reactions
edited by R.K. Puri, J. Aichelin, S.
Gautam and R. Kumar, Springer Nature,
2020, 273 pp., \pounds 129.99
(hardback), ISBN 978-981-1590-61-0.
Scope: conference proceedings. Level:
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
the dark photon: a primer by Marco
Fabbrichesi, Emidio Gabrielli and Gaia
Lanfranchi, Cham, Springer Nature, 2021,
78 pp., \pounds 44.99 (paperback), ISBN:
978-3-030-62518-4. Scope: review. Level:
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--110
David J. Miller Book Review: \booktitleClassical
mechanics: a professor--student
collaboration edited by Mario
Campanelli, Bristol, IOP Science, 2020,
376 pp., \pounds 99.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-0-7503-2688-9. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . 110--111
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleSemiconductor
physics: principles, theory and
nanoscale by S. Tiwari, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2020, 19 + 803 pp.,
\pounds 65.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-19-875986-7. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, early postgraduate 111--112
Krista Halttunen Book Review: \booktitleThe advent of
relativity by Voldemar Smilga,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2021, 352
pp., \pounds 60.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-12-3114-8. Scope: monograph.
Level: pre-university . . . . . . . . . 112--112
H. Osborn Book Review: \booktitleFrom quarks to
pions: chiral symmetry and confinement
by M. Creutz, World Scientific, 2018,
216 pp., \pounds 75 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-322-923-5. Scope: monograph.
Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Book Review: \booktitleThe handbook of
medical image perception and techniques,
2nd edition, by E. Samei and E. A.
Krupinski, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge
University Press, 2018, 522 pp., \pounds
120.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-107-19488-5. Scope: handbook.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, teacher, specialist . . . . 113--114
Stefano Scali Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced quantum
condensed matter physics: one-body,
many-body, and topological perspectives
by Michael El-Batanouny, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2020,
\pounds 69.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-48084-0. Scope: reference,
textbook. Level: postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher . . . . . 114--115
Stefano Scali Book Review: \booktitleGroup theory for
physicists, 2nd edition, by Zhong-Qi Ma,
Hackensack, NJ, World Scientific, 2019,
656 pp., \pounds 115 (paperback), ISBN:
978-981-327-796-0. Scope: textbook.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleRelativistic
fluid dynamics in and out of
equilibrium: and applications to
relativistic nuclear collisions by Paul
Romatschke and Ulrike Romatschke,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2019, 204 pp., US\$140.00 (hardcover),
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-48368-1. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher,
specialist, scientist} . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
by Thorsten Wohland, Radek Machán, and
Sudipta Maiti, Bristol, IOP Publishing
Ltd, 2020, 300 pages, \$190.00, ISBN:
978-0-7503-2078-8. Scope: textbook,
handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
student, graduate student, researcher} 117--117
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleStigmatic optics
by Rafael G. González-Acuña and Héctor A.
Chaparro-Romo, Bristol, IOP Publishing
Ltd, 2020, 308 pages, \$190.00, ISBN-13:
978-0-7503-3461-7, ISBN-10:
0-7503-3461-4. Scope: textbook,
handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
student, graduate student, researcher} 117--118
R. S. Shorter Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
the Manhattan Project by Bruce Cameron
Reed, New York, Springer, Nature
Switzerland AG, 2021, 256 pp., \pounds
43.99 (e-book), ISBN: 978-3-030-61372-3.
Scope: general interest, textbook.
Level: general readership,
undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleElectrons in
motion: attosecond physics explores
fastest dynamics by F. Krausz,
Singapore, World Scientific, 2019, 536
pp., \$175 (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-12-0186-8. Scope: article
collection. Level: researcher,
specialist} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Tim Gershon Book Review:
\booktitleParticle--antiparticle
asymmetry in the meson system by Hiroaki
Aihara, IOP Science, 2020, \$190.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7503-3649-9,
\$159.00 (ebook), ISBN:
978-0-7503-3651-2. Scope: reference
material, appropriate for undergraduate
level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
A. C. Shotter Book Review: \booktitleEssentials of
nucleosynthesis and theoretical nuclear
astrophysics by Thomas Rauscher,
Bristol, IOP Science, 2020, \$190.00
(Hardback), 397 pp., ISBN
978-0-7503-1150-2. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher. Scope:
reference} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Giovanni Volpe Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
mechanics: entropy, order parameters,
and complexity 2nd edition, by James P.
Sethna, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2021, 496pp., \pounds 58.99 (paperback),
ISBN 978-0-19-886524-7. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, postgraduate,
advanced undergraduate . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Dr. Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleRelativity and
cosmology: volume 5 of modern classical
physics by Kip S. Thorne and Roger D.
Blandford, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 2021, 416 pp., \pounds
48 (softcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-20739-1.
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
the standard model and beyond: quantum
field theory, symmetries and
phenomenology by Stuart Raby, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2021,
xvi+619 pp., \pounds 60 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-108-49,419-9. Scope: textbook.
Level: postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
Mogadalai P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleContinuum
mechanics of solids by Lallit Anand and
Sanjay Govindjee, Oxford, UK, Oxford
University Press, 2020, 736 pp., \pounds
65.00 (hardback), ISBN:
978-0-19-886472-1. Scope: textbook.
Level: postgraduate, advanced
undergraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, teacher, engineers . . . . . 123--124
Samuel J. K. Barnes and
Aneta Stefanovska Physics of cellular energy metabolism 125--143
Sunil Kumar and
Manoj Kumar and
Amarjeet Singh Synthesis and characterization of iron
oxide nanoparticles (Fe$_2$O$_3$,
Fe$_3$O$_4$): a brief review . . . . . . 144--164
Eran Palti The swampland and string theory . . . . 165--179
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleGeneral
relativity: the essentials by Carlo
Rovelli, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2021, x+170 pp., \pounds 14.99
(paperback), ISBN 978-1-009-01369-7.
Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate . . 180--180
Peter J. Dobson Book Review: \booktitleOptical
materials, 2nd edition by Kelly Potter
and Joseph Simmons, USA, Elsevier, 2020,
530 pp., \pounds 125-\pounds 155
(paperback) (E-Book), ISBN:
978-0-12-818642-8. Scope: textbook.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
Physics, vol. 1 of \booktitleModern
Classical Physics by Kip S. Thorne and
Roger D. Blandford, Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 2021, xxii+384 pp.,
\pounds 40 (paperback), ISBN
978-0-691-20612-7. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate. Scope:
textbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Chih-Yueh Wang Book Review: \booktitleComputational
statistical physics by Lucas Böttcher and
Hans J. Herrmann, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2021, 257
pp., US\$59.99 (E-book), ISBN
978-1-108-84142-9}. {Scope}: textbook.
{Level}: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early-career researcher,
researcher, scientist, engineers . . . . 182--183
Nigel John Mason Book Review: \booktitleSpace science and
public engagement: 21st century
perspectives and opportunities by Amy
Kaminski, Elsevier, 2021, 298 pp.,
\${69.95~(E-Book)}, ISBN:
978-0-12-817390-9,
https://www.elsevier.com/books/space-science-and-public-engagement/kaminski/978-0-12-817390-9}. {Scope}: review. {Level}: general readership, non-specialists, pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers 183--184
M. Jamil Book Review: \booktitleExploring
classical mechanics: a collection of
350+ solved problems for students,
lecturers, and researchers, 2nd revised
and enlarged English edition by G. L.
Kotkin and V. G. Serbo, Oxford, UK,
Oxford University Press, 2020, 400 pp.,
\pounds 29.99 (E-Book), ISBN:
978-0-19-885379-4. Scope: monograph,
handbook, guide. Level: undergraduate,
advanced undergraduate, early career
researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics
and statistical mechanics. An
introduction for physicists and
engineers by Samya Zain, Bristol, IOP
Publishing, 2021, 372 pp., \pounds 99
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7503-3083-1,
978-0-7503-3081-7. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate, teacher, engineers . . . 185--185
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics:
principles characterising physical and
chemical processes, 5th edition by
Jurgen Honig, London, Elsevier, 2020,
\$190 (E-Book), ISBN:
978-0-12-821940-9}. {Scope}: textbook.
{Level}: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Mogadalai P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitleElasticity & fluid
dynamics, 1st edition by Kip S. Thorne
and Roger D. Blandford, Series: Volume 3
of Modern Classical Physics, Princeton,
USA, Princeton University Press, 2021,
450 pp.~(565-1014), 50 USD (paperback),
ISBN 978-0-691-20734-6. Scope:
reference, textbook. Level:
postgraduate, advanced undergraduate,
early career researcher, researcher,
teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . 186--187
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleSeven fundamental
concepts in spacetime physics by
Vesselin Petkov, Cham, CH, Springer
International Publishing, 2021, xix + 81
pp., \pounds 50 (paperback), ISBN:
978-3-030-75638-3. Scope: monograph.
Level: scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Songbo Xie and
J. H. Eberly Managing the three-party entanglement
challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--198
Xiangqian Jiang and
Andrew Henning Precision metrology: from bulk optics
towards metasurface optics . . . . . . . 199--216
M. S. Rider and
W. L. Barnes Something from nothing: linking
molecules with virtual light . . . . . . 217--232
Peter J. Bussey Resolving a paradox . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
Eric Howard Book Review: \booktitleThe quantum
universe: essays on quantum mechanics,
quantum cosmology, and physics in
general by James B. Hartle, Singapore,
World Scientific, 2021, 624 pp., \pounds
110.00~(E-Book), ISBN:
978-981-12-1634-3. Scope: edited book.
Level: early career researcher . . . . . 236--236
Matt Probert Book Review: \booktitleMachine learning
with neural networks: an introduction
for scientists and engineers by Bernhard
Mehlig, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge
University Press, 2021, 249 pp., \pounds
39.99 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-49493-9. Scope: monograph,
textbook. Level: postgraduate,
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Mogadalai P. Gururajan Book Review: \booktitlePhysics of
elasticity and crystal defects Oxford
series on materials modelling, by Adrian
P. Sutton, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2020, 288 pp., \pounds 45.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-886078-5.
Scope: monograph, textbook. Level:
advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
early career researcher, researcher,
teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . 237--238
Mohit Sharma Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
quantum nanotechnology: a problem
focused approach by Duncan G. Steel,
Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press,
2021, 370 pp., \pounds 65.00 (hardback),
ISBN 978-0-19-289507-3. Scope:
reference, review. Level: postgraduate,
early career researcher, researcher,
teacher, scientist, engineers . . . . . 238--239
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleCosmology's
century: an inside history of our modern
understanding of the universe Physics &
Astronomy, by P. J. E. Peebles, winner
of the Nobel prize in Physics,
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University
Press, 2020, 440 pp., \$28.00
(hardback), ISBN (e-book)
978-0-691-20166-5}. {Scope}: monograph.
{Level}: non-specialists, undergraduate,
advanced undergraduate, postgraduate,
researcher, teacher, specialist,
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Jack Reid Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
mathematical methods and problem-solving
tools for introductory physics (second
edition) by Joshua F. Whitney, Heather
M. Whitney, IOP Science, Bristol,
Institute of Physics Publishing, 2021,
\$120.00 (hardback), \$90.00 (e-book),
E-Book
(https://store.ioppublishing.org/page/detail/A-Handbook-of-Mathematical-Methods-and-ProblemSolving-Tools-for-Introductory-Physics-Second-Edition/?K=9780750333993), ISBN 978-0-7503-3399-3. Scope: handbook. Level: undergraduate 240--241
Michael Belsley Book Review: \booktitleUltrafast lasers
and optics for experimentalists by James
David Pickering, Bristol, UK, IOP
Science, 2021, 157 pp., ISBN
978-0-7503-3659-8. Scope: handbook.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
materials characterization and metrology
by Kannan M. Krishnan, Oxford, UK,
Oxford University Press, 2021, 20 + 849
pp., ISBN 978-0-19-883025-2 (hbk), ISBN
978-0-19-883026-9 (pbk). Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate, early
postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--242
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleNuclear materials
science, 2nd edition by Karl Whittle,
IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020, 218 pp., ISBN:
978-0-7503-2376-5 (ebook), ISBN:
978-0-7503-2374-1 (print). Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate, early
postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitlePrinciples of
physical Cosmology by P. J. E. Peebles,
winner of the Nobel prize in Physics,
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University
Press, 2020, 774 pp., \pounds 62.00
(e-book), ISBN 978-0-691-20672-1.
Princeton Series in Physics & Astronomy.
Scope: reference. Level:
non-specialists, advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, researcher, teacher,
specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Rufus Boyack Book Review: \booktitleElectrostatics of
conducting cylinders and spheres by John
Lekner, Melville, NY, AIP Publishing,
2021, 240 pp., \$135 (paperback),
https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735423350,
ISBN: 978-0-7354-2332-9}. {Scope}:
monograph. {Level}: scientist . . . . . 244--245
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleNuclear data ---
a primer by David G. Jenkins and John L.
Wood, Bristol, UK, IOP Publishing, 2021,
198 pp., USD 190 (hardcover), ISBN
978-0-7503-2672-8. Scope: textbook.
Level: advanced undergraduates and above 245--246
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleA random walk in
physics. Beyond black holes and
time-travels by Massimo Cencini, Andrea
Puglisi, Davide Vergni, and Angelo
Vulpiani, Springer Nature Switzerland
AG, 2021, 36.39 EUR (hardback), 224 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-72530-3. Scope: general
interest. Level: general readership,
undergraduate, teacher . . . . . . . . . 246--247
Frank F. Deppisch Book Review: \booktitleFoundations of
quantum cosmology by Martin Bojowald,
IOP Science, 2020, ISBN:
978-0-7503-2460-1 (E-Book). Scope:
monograph. Level: physics graduate . . . 247--247
Stephen J. Blundell Book Review: \booktitleTheory of simple
glasses: exact solutions in infinite
dimensions by Giorgio Parisi,
Pierfrancesco Urbani and Francesco
Zamponi, Cambridge University Press,
2020, 349 pages, \pounds 62.99
(hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-108-12049-4.
Level: researcher. Scope: textbook . . . 247--248
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleThe ideas of
particle physics by James Dodd and Ben
Gripaios, Cambridge University Press,
2020, \pounds 34.99 (paperback,
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/particle-physics-and-nuclear-physics/ideas-particle-physics-4th-edition?format=PB), ISBN 978-1-108-72740-2. Scope: review. Level: general readership, non-specialists, scientists 248--249
Matthias Keller Cavity-QED with single trapped ions . . 1--14
E. Chapman First light: switching on stars at the
dawn of time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--33
G. J. Milburn and
Sahar Basiri-Esfahani The physics of learning machines . . . . 34--60
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleSynchrotron
radiation: sources and applications to
the structural and electronic properties
of materials by D. Phil Woodruff,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2021, 450 pp., \pounds 74.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-316-99574-7. Scope:
monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher,
specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 61--61
Srinivasan Sivakumar Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
information processing, quantum
computing, and quantum error correction:
an engineering approach, 2nd edition by
Ivan Djordjevic, Elsevier, 2021, 838
pp., \$125.00 (paperback), ISBN
978-0-12-821987-4}. {Scope}: textbook.
{Level}: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Aras Beauty and
Laili Fitria Zulfa and
Iwan Book Review: \booktitleEntropy and free
energy in structural biology: From
thermodynamics to statistical mechanics
to computer simulation by Hagai
Meirovitch, Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2020,
396 pp., \pounds 80.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-367-40692-9. Scope: textbook.
Level: advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, researcher, scientist,
engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Jack Reid Book Review: \booktitleQuantum
mechanics: introduction to mathematical
formulation by Martin Pieper, Wiesbaden,
Springer International Publishing, 2021,
xiii + 33 pp., \pounds 19.99
(paperback), ISBN 978-3-658-32645-6.
Scope: guide. Level: general readership 63--63
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleTheory of the
spread of epidemics and movement ecology
of animals. An interdisciplinary
approach using methodologies of physics
and mathematics by V. M. (Nitant) Kenkre
and Luca Giuggioli, Cambridge, UK,
Cambridge University Press, 2021, 330
pp., \pounds 120 (hardback), ISBN:
978-1-108-84140-5. Scope: monograph.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher, researcher, specialist,
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
K. Alan Shore Book Review: \booktitleFundamental
properties of semiconductor nanowires
edited by Fukata Naoki and Rurali
Riccardo, Singapore, Springer
International Publishing, 2021, 454 pp.,
\pounds 87.50 (E-Book), ISBN
978-981-15-9049-8. Scope: monograph.
Level: postgraduate, early career
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Peter J. Bussey Book Review: \booktitleExofrontiers: big
questions in exoplanetary science edited
by N. Madhusudhan, Bristol, IOP
Publishing, 2021, xxi+ 287 pp., \pounds
108 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7503-1470-1.
Scope: article collection. Level:
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleDimensional
analysis: the great principle of
similitude by Jeffrey H. Williams,
Bristol, UK, IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021,
20 + 223 pp., \pounds 120 (hardback),
ISBN 978-0-7503-3653-6; \pounds 99
(e-book), ISBN 978-0-7503-3655-0. Scope:
textbook. Level: undergraduate . . . . . 66--67
Jack Reid Book Review: \booktitleThe ABCs of
High-Pressure Science by Sergei M.
Stishov, London, World Scientific
Publishing, 2021, \pounds 40.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78634-955-2.
Scope: reference. Level: general
readership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Nikolaos E. Myridis Book Review: \booktitleQuantitative
atomic-resolution electron microscopy by
Annick de Backer, Jarmo Fatermans,
Arnold A. den Dekker and Sandra van
Aert, vol. 217~ of Advances in Imaging &
Electron Physics, edited by Martin Hÿtch
and Peter W. Hawkes, Elsevier, 2021, 294
pp., EUR139.13 (e-book), ISBN
978-0-323-85093-3. Scope: article
collection. Level: researcher, scientist 67--69
Stephen H. Ashworth Book Review: \booktitleThe science of
learning physics by José P. Mestre and
Jennifer L. Docktor, Singapore, World
Scientific, 2021, 212 pp., \pounds 50.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-981-12-2654-0. Also
available as softback and ebook. Level:
teacher, specialist. Scope: review . . . 69--69
Aline Ramires Symmetry aspects of chiral
superconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--86
Xiaojuan Lian and
Yuelin Shi and
Shiyu Li and
Bingxin Ding and
Chenfei Hua and
Lei Wang Applications of MXene-based memristors
in neuromorphic intelligence
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--105
Masahito Ueda Spinor Bose--Einstein condensates . . . 106--115
S. Withington Quantum electronics for fundamental
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--137
Samuel Lellouch and
Kai Bongs and
Michael Holynski Using atom interferometry to measure
gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--155
Thomas J. Bridges Book Review: \booktitleMechanics of
fluid deformations in rigid body
rotations and plane channel F by Oleg V.
Troshkin, Singapore, World Scientific,
2021, 284 pp., \pounds 85 (hardback),
ISBN 978-981-1230-51-6. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher . . . . . 156--156
Michael Belsley Book Review: \booktitleVirtual and real
labs for introductory physics II:
optics, modern physics, and
electromagnetism by Daniel Erenso,
Bristol, UK, IOP Science, 2021, 380 pp.,
90EUR (hardback), ISBN
978-0-7503-3713-7. Scope: textbook.
Level: pre-university, undergraduate . . 156--157
Manuel Vogel Book Review: \booktitleString theory and
the real world: the visible sector, 2nd
edition by Gordon Kane, Bristol, UK, IOP
Publishing, 2021, 175 pp., \$50
(hardback); \$40 (ebook), ISBN:
978-0-7503-3581-2. Scope: monograph.
Level: general readership . . . . . . . 157--158
Andrew Resnick Book Review: \booktitleGravity, magnetic
and electromagnetic gradiometry:
strategic technologies in the 21st
century, 2nd edition by Alexey V.
Veryaskin, Bristol, IOP Publishing Ltd,
2021, 175 pp., \$125.00 (hardcover),
ISBN-13: 978-0-7503-3801-1, ISBN-10:
0-7503-3801-6. Scope: monograph. Level:
advanced undergraduate student, graduate
student, researcher} . . . . . . . . . . 158--159
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
polymer nanofibers edited by Anthony L.
Andrady and Saad A. Khan, Hoboken, NJ,
Wiley, 2022, xvi+408 pp., \pounds 133.99
(e-book), ISBN 978-1-119-26770-6. Scope:
edited book. Level: early career
researcher, researcher . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Holly Schofield and
Elena Boto and
Vishal Shah and
Ryan M. Hill and
James Osborne and
Molly Rea and
Cody Doyle and
Niall Holmes and
Richard Bowtell and
David Woolger and
Matthew J. Brookes Quantum enabled functional neuroimaging:
the why and how of
magnetoencephalography using optically
pumped magnetometers . . . . . . . . . . 161--179
David L. Clements Venus, phosphine and the possibility of
life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--199
Darryl Z. Seligman and
Amaya Moro-Martín Interstellar objects . . . . . . . . . . 200--232
Chris Quigg Advice to a lecturer . . . . . . . . . . 233--241
Peter J. Dobson Book Review: \booktitleBionanomaterials
for environmental and agricultural
applications edited by Ravindra Pratap
Singh and Kshitij RB Singh, Institute of
Physics Publishing Ltd, 2021, \pounds
120 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7503-3863-9.
Scope: review, reference. Level: general
readership, advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, scientist . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Aras Beauty and
Afnan Taqiyarrahman Book Review: \booktitleThe brain-bladder
axis in tissue growth and remodelling by
Roustem N. Miftahof and Christian J.
Cyron, Bristol, IOP Publishing, 2021,
175 pp., \$190 (hardback), \$159
(ebook), ISBN 978-0-7503-3567-6. Scope:
monograph. Level: general readership,
undergraduate, advanced undergraduate,
postgraduate, early career researcher,
researcher, specialist, scientist,
engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--243
Erin Ficrah Huda and
Suci Indah Putri Book Review: \booktitleTailored
functional oxide nanomaterials: from
design to multi-purpose applications
edited by Chiara Maccato and Davide
Barica, Weinheim, Wiley, 2022, 512 pp.,
\$156.35 (hardback), ISBN
978-3-527-34759-9. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher,
scientist, engineer} . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Nicholas Zutt Book Review: \booktitleCosmic analogies:
How natural systems emulate the universe
by Valerio Faraoni, London, World
Scientific, 2022, 262 pp., USD 98.00
(E-Book), ISBN 978-1-80061-342-3. Scope:
monograph. Level: undergraduate . . . . 244--245
Jack Reid Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
sound waves: music, instruments, and
sound equipment, second edition by Panos
Photinos, Bristol, IOP Science, 2021,
269 pp., \$50.00 (hardback), \$40.00
(e-book), ISBN: 978-0-7503-3539-3.
Scope: textbook. Level: undergraduate 245--245
S. Schiller Precision spectroscopy of molecular
hydrogen ions: an introduction . . . . . 247--279
Samuel D. Stranks Halide perovskite photovoltaics . . . . 280--304
A. T. Boothroyd Topological electronic bands in
crystalline solids . . . . . . . . . . . 305--327
Salvatore Esposito Book Review: \booktitleThe quantum
internet --- the second quantum
revolution by Peter P. Rohde, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2020,
344+xviii pp., \pounds 49.99 (hardback),
ISBN: 978-1-108-49145-7. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate,
researcher, specialist, engineers . . . 328--328
Jack Reid Book Review: \booktitleThermodynamics of
complex systems: principles and
applications by Vladimir N. Pokrovskii,
London, IOP Science, 2020, 321 pp.,
\$190.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-7503-3449-5. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate} . . . . . . . . . 329--329
Humaira and
Erin Ficrah Huda Book Review: \booktitleFlexible
supercapacitors: materials and
applications edited by Guozhen Shen,
Zheng Lou and Di Chen, Hoboken, Wiley,
2022, 331 pp., \$195.00 (hardback), ISBN
978-1-119-50616-4. Scope: textbook.
Level: undergraduate, advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher,
scientist, engineer} . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Francisco Falcone Book Review: \booktitlePrinted and
flexible sensor technology by Subhas
Mukhopadhyay and Anindya Nag, Bristol,
IOP Publishing, 2021, 300 pp., \$190.00
(hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7503-3439-6.
Scope: reference. Level: postgraduate} 330--331
Anla Fet Hardi and
Erin Ficrah Huda Book Review: \booktitleOrganic solar
cells: materials design, technology and
commercialization edited by Liming Ding,
Weinheim, Wiley, 2022, 720 pp., \$156.00
(hardback), ISBN 978-3-527-83366-5.
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, researcher,
scientist, engineer} . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
Toni Shiroka Book Review: \booktitleA journey into
reciprocal space: a crystallographer's
perspective, 2nd edition, by Anthony
Michael Glazer, IOP Science, Bristol,
2021, 274 pp., 145 Euro, ISBN:
978-0-7503-3875-2 (Hardback). Scope:
Textbook. Level: Undergraduate, advanced
Undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher . . . . . 332--333
Mario Bertolotti Book Review: \booktitleNanotechnology:
trends and future applications by
Muhammad Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Rafique
and Muhammad Sagir, Singapore, Springer
International Publishing, 2021, 143 pp.,
\$79.99 (e-Book), ISBN
978-981-15-9437-3. Scope: monograph.
Level: non-specialists} . . . . . . . . 333--333
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán Book Review: \booktitleSet theory and
its applications in physics and
computing by Yair Shapira, Singapore,
World Scientific, 2022, 480 pp., \pounds
100 (hardback), ISBN: 978-981-12-6177-0.
Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, postgraduate, early
career researcher, researcher,
specialist, scientist . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Nicholas Zutt Book Review: \booktitleDiscovering the
nature of light: the science and the
story by Norval Fortson, Seattle, USA,
University of Washington, 2022, 220 pp.,
68 USD (hardback), ISBN:
978-981-12-4959-4. Scope: general
interest. Level: general readership . . 334--335
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleEnergy materials
by Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Abingdon,
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022,
xv + 236 pp., \pounds 74.99 (e-book),
ISBN: 978-0-367-45736-5. Scope:
monograph. Level: postgraduate, advanced
undergraduate, early career researcher 335--336
Wandi Wandi and
Fani Mardianti Book Review: \booktitleCartoon physics:
a graphic novel guide to solving physics
problems by Scott Calvin and Kirin Emlet
Furst, Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2022, 273
pp., \pounds 31.99 (paperback), ISBN
978-1-138-59878-2. Scope: general
interest. Level: general readership,
undergraduate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
A. H. Harker Book Review: \booktitleThe physics of
phonons, 2nd edition by Gyaneshwar P.
Srivastava, Boca Raton, FL/Abingdon, UK,
CRC Press, 2023, xxi+434 pp., \pounds
180 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-367-68526-3.
Scope: monograph. Level: advanced
undergraduate, graduate, early stage
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--337
Mohit Sharma Book Review: \booktitleQuantum transport
in nanostructures and molecules: an
introduction to molecular electronics by
Colin John Lambert, Bristol, IOP
Publishing, 2021, 445 pp., \$190
(hardback), \$159 (e-book), ISBN:
978-0-7503-3639-0. Scope: review. Level:
researcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--339