Contemporary Physics, Volume 58, Issue 2 (2017)

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Bringing quantum mechanics to life: from Schrödinger’s cat to Schrödinger’s microbe
Zhang-qi Yin & Tongcang Li
Pages: 119-139
Published online: 05 Jan 2017
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Coherent X-ray imaging across length scales
P. R. T. Munro
Pages: 140-159
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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The history of star formation in the universe
A. J. Barger
Pages: 160-175
Published online: 02 Feb 2017
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Physics of cancer: the new adventure of physicists against cancer
A review of Physics of cancer, by Claudia Tanja. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Pages: 176-178
Published online: 25 Feb 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Fluid dynamics, by Peter S. Bernard
Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate
Norman Riley
Page: 179
Published online: 29 Nov 2016
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A course in lens design, by Chris Velzel
Scope: reference. Level: specialist, postgraduate
Peter Török
Pages: 179-180
Published online: 10 Feb 2017
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Biophysics of DNA, by Alexander Vologodskii
Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduates and above
Manuel Vogel
Pages: 180-181
Published online: 29 Nov 2016
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Handbook of granular materials, edited by Scott V. Franklin and Mark D. Shattuck
Scope: book. Level: advanced undergraduate, graduate student, researcher
Andrew Resnick
Page: 181
Published online: 29 Nov 2016
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Fundamentals of fluorescence microscopy: exploring life with light, by Partha Pratim Mondal and Alberto Diaspro
Scope: textbook. Level: professional physicists and biologists, postgraduates, undergraduates
Peter V. E. McClintock
Pages: 181-182
Published online: 12 Dec 2016
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From photons to Higgs: a story of light (2nd edition), by Moo-Young Han
Scope: text book. Level: postgraduate, teacher
Peter J. Bussey
Pages: 182-183
Published online: 30 Nov 2016
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Microphysics of atmospheric phenomena, by Boris M. Smirnov
Scope: monograph. Level: specialist, physicists
K. Alan Shore
Page: 183
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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Tunable micro-optics, edited by Hans Zappe and Claudia Duppe
Scope: monograph. Level: specialist, scientist
K. Alan Shore
Pages: 183-184
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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Maxwell’s enduring legacy: a scientific history of the Cavendish laboratory, by Malcolm Longair
Scope: monograph. Level: physicists, general
K. Alan Shore
Pages: 184-186
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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Particle physics in the LHC era, by G. Barr, R. Devenish, R. Walczak and T. Weidberg
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate.
Lewis Ryder
Page: 186
Published online: 18 Jan 2017
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Book Review
Seismic amplitude: an interpreter’s handbook, by Rob Simm and Mike Bacon
Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers. Scope: review
Carlos Medel-Vera
Pages: 186-187
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Eyes on the sky: a spectrum of telescopes, by Francis Graham-Smith
Scope: monograph. Level: general readership
Manuel Vogel
Pages: 187-188
Published online: 15 Feb 2017
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Book Review
The physics of solids, by J. B. Ketterson
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career research
A. H. Harker
Page: 188
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Fundamentals and applications of magnetic materials, by Kannan M. Krishnan
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher
A. H. Harker
Pages: 188-189
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Challenges and goals for accelerators in the xxi century, edited by Oliver Bruning and Stephen Myers
Scope: review. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist, engineers
Robert Appleby
Pages: 189-190
Published online: 06 Mar 2017
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Nonlinear optics: principles and applications, by Karsten Rottwitt and Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg
Scope: monograph. Level: early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers
Mario Bertolotti
Page: 190
Published online: 22 Feb 2017
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Book Review
The expanding universe: a primer on relativistic cosmology, by W. D. Heacox
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
Robert Sinclair MacKay (FRS)
Pages: 190-193
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Astrophysics in a nutshell (2nd edition), by Dan Maoz
Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate
Manuel Vogel
Page: 193
Published online: 15 Feb 2017
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Microscopy: a very short introduction, by Terence Allen
Scope: review, edited book. Level: general readership, non-specialists, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher, specialist, scientist, engineers
Ahmed A. Al-Tabbakh
Pages: 193-196
Published online: 22 Feb 2017
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Visible and invisible – the wonders of light phenomena, by Olmes Bisi
Scope: general interest. Level: general readership
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
Page: 196
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Colour: how we see it and how we use it, by Michael Mark Woolfson
Scope: monograph. Level: general readership
Manuel Vogel
Page: 197
Published online: 16 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Group theory in a nutshell for physicists, by A. Zee
Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher
Stephen J. Blundell
Pages: 197-198
Published online: 28 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Handbook of crystal growth, 2nd edition: Fundamentals IA: thermodynamics and kinetics & Fundamentals IB: transport and stability (two book set), edited by T. Nishinaga
Scope: handbook. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher
M. P. Gururajan
Page: 198
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Space physics: an introduction, by C. T. Russell, J. G. Luhmann and R. J. Strangeway
Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduates
B. Ishak
Page: 199
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
An introduction to graphene plasmonics, by P. A. D. Gonçalves and N. M. R. Peres
Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, specialist, scientist
Peter J. Dobson
Pages: 199-200
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Novel optical nanoprobes for chemical and biological analysis, by L. Chen, Y. Wang, X. Fu, and L. Chen
Scope: reference. Level: specialist
Peter J. Dobson
Page: 200
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Biomagnetics: principles and applications of biomagnetic stimulation and imaging, edited by Shoogo Ueno and Masaki Sekino
Scope: reference. Level: specialist
B. Ishak
Pages: 200-201
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Spectra of atoms and molecules (3rd edition), by Peter F. Bernath
Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate
B. Ishak
Pages: 201-202
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Excitations in organic solids, by Vladimir M. Agranovich
Scope: monograph. Level: advanced undergraduate
Kishan Menghrajani
Page: 202
Published online: 22 Feb 2017
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Book Review
International young physicists tournament: problems and solutions 2014, edited by S. Wang and W. Gao
Scope: guide, article collection. Level: undergraduate, teacher
Ken Zetie
Pages: 202-203
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
Optical tweezers: principles and applications, by Philip H. Jones, Onofrio M. Maragò, and Giovanni Volpe
Scope: manual, handbook, guide. Level: advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, teacher
Andrew Resnick
Page: 203
Published online: 17 Feb 2017
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Book Review
A superfluid universe, by K. Huang
Scope: monograph. Level: researcher
Stephen J. Blundell
Pages: 203-204
Published online: 01 Mar 2017
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Book Review
Fashion, faith and fantasy in the new physics of the universe, by Roger Penrose
Scope: general interest. Level: general readership, specialist
J. Rogel-Salazar
Pages: 204-205
Published online: 25 Feb 2017
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Images of time: mind, science and reality, by George Jaroszkiewicz
Scope: monograph. Level: pre-university, undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, early career researcher, researcher, teacher
G. W. Gibbons
Pages: 205-206
Published online: 22 Feb 2017
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