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Instabilities and Self-Organization in Materials: Volume I: Fundamentals of Nanoscience, Volume II: Applications in Materials Design and Nanotechnology

By Nasr Ghoniem (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles), Daniel Walgraef (Director of Research, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)

Quantitative Mineral Resource Assessments: An Integrated Approach

By Donald Singer (, U.S. Geological Survey), W. David Menzie (

Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy

By Shaul Mukamel

Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices

By Born, Kun

Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena

By Rodrigo Soto (Professor, Professor, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile)

Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids

By John Singleton

Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena

By Rodrigo Soto (Professor, Professor, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile)

The Tectonic Plates are Moving!

By Roy Livermore (Associate Lecturer, Associate Lecturer, The Open University)

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics

By Jed Z. Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology), Robert Fox (Emeritus Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford)

Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists

By Ian Glass (South African Astronomical Observatory)

The Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein - two complementary views

By Stig Stenholm (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)

Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life

By Richard A. L. Jones (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, UK)

Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History

By Klaus Hentschel (Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, History Department, Stuttgart University)

The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars

By Roger H. Stuewer (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota)

The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery

By Abraham Pais

Subtle is the Lord

By Abraham Pais

Time Reversal: An Autobiography

By Anatole Abragam (Professor, Professor, College de France), Anatole Abragam

Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe

By Helmut Satz (Professor, Professor, University of Bielefeld)

Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics

By Stephen M. Barnett, Paul M. Radmore

High-Resolution Electron Microscopy

By John C. H. Spence (Regents' Professor of Physics, Regents' Professor of Physics, Arizona State University)

The Solid State: From Superconductors to Superalloys

By Andre Guinier, Remi Jullien, W.J. Duffin

Correlations, Transformations, and Interactions in Organic Crystal Chemistry: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Organic Crystal Chemistry, Poznan-Rydzyna, Poland, 26-30 July 1992

By Derry Jones (Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Professor, University of Bradford), Andrzej Katrusiak (Doctor, Department of Crystal Chemistry, Doctor, Adam Mickiewicz Unive...

Theory of Defects in Solids: Electronic Structure of Defects in Insulators and Semiconductors

By A. M. Stoneham

Principles of Materials Characterization and Metrology

By Kannan M. Krishnan (Professor, Dept of Materials Science & Engineering, Adjunct Professor, Dept of Physics, Professor, University of Washington)

Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique: SPHERE)

Nature's Third Cycle: A Story of Sunspots

By Arnab Rai Choudhuri (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

Surfing the Quantum World

By Frank S. Levin (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Brown University)

The Wonderful World of Relativity: A precise guide for the general reader

By Andrew Steane (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

Quantum Optics

By John Garrison (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley), Raymond Chiao (Professor in the School of Natural Sciences and in the School of Engineering, University of California at Merced)