Right and Left Hemispheres of the Animal Brain: Cerebral Lateralization of Function (Monographs in Neuroscience)

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The quaternary rare-earth transition-metal borocarbides are a new class of magnetic superconductors, discovered in 1994. The book contains a detailed description of the theoretical approaches used to explain the properties of these systems, with their intriguing array of magnetic and superconducting properties. The borocarbides are located in their context among the other magnetic or superconducting systems, especially the magnetic superconductors, and the book shows how our understanding has grown impressively due to the combination of a wide range of high quality samples and advanced measurement techniques. A number of important aspects nevertheless remain to be investigated, and these are outlined especially in the last part of the book.

Fluctuational Superconductivity of Magnetic Systems (Research Reports in Physics)

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Fluctuational Superconductivity of Magnetic Systems (Research Reports in Physics)
M. A. Savchenko , and A. V. Stefanovich
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Handbook of Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Intermetallics

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Handbook of Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Intermetallics
Andrej Szytula , and Janusz Leciejewicz
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Rare-earth intermetallics, also known as lanthanide elements, play an important role in the study of magnetic materials and the development of semi- and super-conducting materials. This handbook provides an up-to-date compilation of crystallographic, physical, and magnetic data on rare-earth intermetallic compounds. Over 20 different structure types are described in detail with an emphasis on how crystal structure can affect magnetic properties. Theoretical models for magnetic interactions are described as well as the impact of crystal electric fields on transport properties, magneto crystalline anistropy and hyperfine interactions. This book provides materials scientists, engineers and physicists with all the critical information needed to use rare-earth intermetallics effectively in the development of new materials.

Improving the Properties of Permanent Magnets: A study of patents, patent applications and other literature

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Improving the Properties of Permanent Magnets: A study of patents, patent applications and other literature

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This book complements an earlier study of patents and patent applications by Marten Terpstra and Frits Andriessen published by Elsevier in 1989 and a book on Nd-Fe permanent magnets edited by I V Mitchell also published by Elsevier which was the result of a Commission of the European Communities workshop held in October 1984.

Internal Magnetic Properties in Rare Earth Metals and Compounds

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Internal Magnetic Properties in Rare Earth Metals and Compounds
Mikael Ekstrom
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Magnetic anisotropy and coercivity in rare-earth transition metal alloys: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Magnetic Anisotropy and Coercivity ... Alloys, 4 September 1998, Dresden, Germany

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Magnetic anisotropy and coercivity in rare-earth transition metal alloys: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Magnetic Anisotropy and Coercivity ... Alloys, 4 September 1998, Dresden, Germany

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Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Metals

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Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Metals

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Magnitoteplovye iavleniia v redkozemelnykh magnetikakh (Problemy nauki i tekhnicheskogo progressa)

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Magnitoteplovye iavleniia v redkozemelnykh magnetikakh (Problemy nauki i tekhnicheskogo progressa)
K. P Belov
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Nd-Fe Permanent Magnets: Their present and future applications (Eur, 9229)

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Nd-Fe Permanent Magnets: Their present and future applications (Eur, 9229)

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Rare Earth Magnetism: Structures and Excitations (International Series of Monographs on Physics)

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Rare Earth Magnetism: Structures and Excitations (International Series of Monographs on Physics)
Jens Jensen , and Allan R. Mackintosh
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This monograph presents a unified and coherent account of an important, focused area of rare-earth magnetism -- magnetic structures and excitations -- which both reflects the nature of the fundamental magnetic interactions and determines many of the characteristic properties of metals. The
authors concentrate on the essential principles and their applications to typical examples, generally restricting the discussion to the pure elements and considering alloys and compounds only when they are instructive in illuminating particular topics. Both authors have been involved for some time
in the effort that has been made in Denmark to study, both theoretically and experimentally, the magnetic structures and especially the excitations in the rare earths. This account of the subject represents the result of their experience, and it has been written in the hope that it will be useful
not only to those who have a special interest in rare-earth magnetism, but also to a wider audience of physicists and condensed matter scientists interested in the techniques and achievements of modern research in magnetism.

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An esteemed researcher and acclaimed popular author takes up the challenge of providing a clear, relatively brief, and fully up-to-date introduction to one of the most vital but notoriously difficult subjects in theoretical physics. A quantum field theory text for the twenty-first century, this book makes the essential tool of modern theoretical physics available to any student who has completed a course on quantum mechanics and is eager to go on.

Quantum field theory was invented to deal simultaneously with special relativity and quantum mechanics, the two greatest discoveries of early twentieth-century physics, but it has become increasingly important to many areas of physics. These days, physicists turn to quantum field theory to describe a multitude of phenomena.

Stressing critical ideas and insights, Zee uses numerous examples to lead students to a true conceptual understanding of quantum field theory--what it means and what it can do. He covers an unusually diverse range of topics, including various contemporary developments, while guiding readers through thoughtfully designed problems. In contrast to previous texts, Zee incorporates gravity from the outset and discusses the innovative use of quantum field theory in modern condensed matter theory.

Without a solid understanding of quantum field theory, no student can claim to have mastered contemporary theoretical physics. Offering a remarkably accessible conceptual introduction, this text will be widely welcomed and used.

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Quantum field theory in a nutshell.......2007-08-27

This book is really valuable since is capable to start from the basic concepts of quantum field theory and going up to the frontier of today's physics with some insights on string theory.

Overall the style is really charming, with an unassuming language but at the same time capable to highlight deep concepts.

An excellent book on the long last!.......2007-08-13

I belong to the enthusiastic laymans having enough curiosity and insistence to get acquainted with the results of modern sciences but lacking the mastery on advanced math and physics I had no chance so far to understand the basic roots of quantum field theory. I tried with several textbooks in my mother language and english too, but after reading the first pages I had to close them with a sigh: it is hopeless for me to get through the technical details and as a result I really could not see the forest for the trees. But at long last I got this book of A.Zee! I got through only the first section of it so far, but I now feel confidence to finish it regardless of the coming difficulties I'll have to meet underway. And what is more I have succeded in not only understanding the basic concepts but even solving some exercises attached to the text which Mr. Zee strongly proposed to do. It is worth to accept Mr. Zee's instructions, evidently he knows what he is doing. In my country we used to say: there are two types of experts. The ones who understand their field well, are doing it, the others, who do not, are teaching it. Mr. Zee belongs to a valuable third type: beeing a leading expert on his field he can teach it on an outstandig level at the same time. Many thanks to him for having written this excellent book.
A.Makay (Hungary)

Indispensable for Students of QFT.......2007-08-08

This book is more fun than any other QFT book I have read. The
comparisons to Feynman's writings made by several of the reviewers
seem quite apt. I was lucky enough to be in the Princeton vicinity when
the general viewpoint presented in this book was being cooked up by
an amazing gang of physicists. (That was in the mid 70's.) I will always
remember Tony as a happy-go-lucky guy, but a very serious physicist.
He really enjoyed what he was doing, and this book clearly shows
that he still does. His enthusiasm is quite infectious. This is not a
didactic or encyclopedic tome - serious students must read Weinberg's
set The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol. I (Quantum Theory of Fields)
(and succeeding volumes) and/or some of the other books mentioned
in the Amazon reviews. But I doubt that any other book will spark your
interest like this one does. Enjoy it - you probably will so much that you
won't want to slow down enough to do the problems. That's excusable - once.
If you want the full benefit, go back to the book later and do them.

"one of the most artistic and deepest books ever written on quantum field theory".......2007-02-20

Perhaps it is one of the most artistic and deepest books ever written on
quantum field theory. Deepest not in a sense of presenting tricky methods
and technical details of calculations but what is more important, in
presenting the ideas in all their essence. In fact A. Zee concentrates
mostly on the results rather than on methods and restrics himself the
barest possible level of the mathematical details which is sufficient for
understanding the most nontrivial results of QFT. The book is written so
nicely that the chance that reader will fall asleep reading it is not
higher than those one for really good detective. The scope of the
material covered on 500 pages is amaizing. In fact, no single really
interesting topic in QFT drops from the attention of the author. There are
many extremely positive reviews on amazon.com about the the book,
with which I
fully agree and it is not my intention to repeat the content of these
reviews. Rather I would like to attract attention to several things
which are not fully reflected in these reviews. First, I would like to
stress that the language of the book is very friendly and nonformal making
the reading extremely pleasant. Second thing which really striked me is a
lot of very deep and illuminating remarks which help quite a lot in
clarifying confusions arising when one follows the traditional
presentation of QFT. Let me give several examples:
On the page 109 A. Zee writes
"Did I speak of an electron going backward in time? Did I mumble about a
sea of negative energy electrons? This metaphorical language, when used by
brilliant minds, the likes of Dirac and Feynman, was avocative and
inspirational, but unfortunately confused generations of physics students
and physisists" This remark to the point is very useful and illuminating
even today because in many universities around the world the students are
still tought the nonexisting science called "relativistic quantum
mechanics". Taking this remark thoughtfully reader can avoid confusions
induced by the "historical" presentation of the QFT, which one can still
find even in many modern textbooks.
The other remark which I like concerns the chiral anomaly. On the page
244 A. Zee writes: "Well we would be very upset if the vector current is
not conserved....We wouldn't want our fermions to disappear into thin air or
pop out of nowhere"...this would mean the real anomaly..."On the other
hand, quite frankly, just between us friends, we won't get too upset if
quantum fluctuations violates axial current conservation. Who cares if the
axial charge is not constant in time?" This remark teaches reader that he
has carefully distinguish dangerous anomalies in the nature from
"anomalies induced by our minds". The number of such illuminating
comments is great and I can not quote all of them. Therefore, I finish
with the remark from the excelent chapter on supersymmetry: "I believe
that the development of supersymmetry was very much retarded by the fact
that until early 1970s, most field theorists, having grown up with Dirac
spinors had little knowledge of Weyl spinors" To appreciate this remark
the student should througthfully go through very good and short review of
Group Thery in Appendix B and chapters on Weil and Dirac spinors.
I recommend the book by Zee to everybody who wants to get clear idea what
is the good physics about.

Good for PhD's many years after.......2006-10-22

I want to say how at the top how much I really appreciate this book--it is the best I've seen on the subject--I really mean that. If you are like me, many years past graduation from graduate school and still having a mind left looking for what's up and what's the buzz all about in postmodern physics, this book is wonderfully written and reads as if you were in the classroom listening to Dr. Zee. Here you will see why subjects like the use of the Lagrangian formulation in physics are so important that nearly all of theoretical "new" physicists use it and how Feynman path integrals provide a deeper intuitive grasp of what quantum field theory really is. It will help you understand (1) what the vacuum is really all about, (2) quantum electrodynamics, and (3) the so called standard model of particle physics--quantum chromodynamics--so that you will have more than a basic grasp of what and why quarks and gluons and all that deeper stuff is really about. Most importantly it provides a refreshing view of what and why those infinities, symmetries, successes and failures of the theory are.

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
Author of many books

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In a range of work including novels of literary suspense that test both their protagonists' souls and their readers' nerves to the breaking point, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love. This volume includes the complete novels The Heart of the Matter and The Third Man, along with excerpts from ten other novels; short stories; selections from Greene's memoirs and travel writings; essays on English and American literature; and public statements on issues that range from repression in the Soviet Union to torture in Northern Ireland to the paradoxical virtue of disloyalty.

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The Portable Graham Greene.......2002-04-15

Most authors attempt to write stories that will impress upon the reader some idea or emotion in order to bring about change. Graham Greene writes stories that, rather than impose the idea upon the reader, pull a reaction out of the reader whether he wants to react or not. The stories he tells shock the reader and cause him to question how people or a situation could possibly be as it is. Often, the reader is a little disturbed and upset after reading Greene?s stories. There seems to be no point to them, but they shake the reader and draw out his feelings.
A prime example of Greene?s shock story is ?The End of the Party.? In only a few pages Greene sketches out two young boys, and immediately the reader sympathizes and almost loves them. And then at the end of the story, when one is dead and the other is left devastated and confused, one cannot help but feel devastation and confusion right along with Peter. There is no explanation as to why such a small fright killed Francis, or why Francis? fear still beats inside Peter?s chest, and so the reader feels ?off? and disturbed, and questions the whole story looking for some trace of meaning.
Apparent in his stories is the idea that life is precious and extremely valuable. ?The Wedding Reception? makes this point very bluntly and doesn?t leave much for the reader to guess at. At the end of the story Daintry simply states, ?A man?s dead. He?s irreplaceable too.? Even though this theme doesn?t seem apparent in ?A Shocking Accident,? it is present if one considers the confusion they have at Jerome?s tearless and emotionless response to the death of his father. And then again the puzzlement they experience as Jerome and later his bride-to-be ask about the pig. To the reader the accident is so trivial and senseless, and kills Jerome?s father long before his time, leaving a wasted life behind. The reactions of the reader should cause him to think about what devalues life so in the eyes of the characters.
This theme is again apparent in The Third Man. Harry Lime is willing to illegally distribute a watered down form of penicillin that kills people so that he can have a lot of money. As I read this, Lime?s complete lack of compassion for other humans struck me as hideous. I had a hard time accepting that anyone could be so cold and evil. However, Greene was able to draw me into the scene and make Lime?s cold-heartedness believable. As a matter of fact, Greene handles such hard to believe issues quite well. There is never a sense that the story is too far out to be true. His characters are vivid and his settings are real. I was transported quickly to the worlds of his stories, and was disappointed when I had to leave.
Greene?s style is smooth, yet not simple. The reader must pay attention to what is being read or he may miss important details and key events in the story. His plots are far from shallow, and a lot of wisdom and insight can be gathered from the things he writes. However, his Christianity is very low key. There are very few allusions to God and Christianity in his writing. However, I think that this is what gives depth to his writing; he is not displaying his values in neon lights. Rather they are a part of the story in the same way that they should be a part of a person.

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Portable Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Manufacturer: VIKING PRESS
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The Portable Graham Greene : Reminiscences + Fiction + Criticism + Commitments (THE WORLD'S MASTERPIECES - THE TREE OF LIFE BINDING)

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The Portable Graham Greene : Reminiscences + Fiction + Criticism + Commitments (THE WORLD'S MASTERPIECES - THE TREE OF LIFE BINDING)

Manufacturer: International Collectors Library
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Includes 43 stories from : Reminiscences (10), Fiction (14), Criticism (9), Commitments (10)

The Portable Graham Greene: Revised Edition (Viking Portable Library)

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The Portable Graham Greene: Revised Edition (Viking Portable Library)
Graham; Stratford, Philip Greene
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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THE PORTABLE GRAHAM GREENE Complete: The Heart of the Matter (with new chapter added in 1971) & The Third Man & self-contained sections from 8 other novels & 6 short stories & 9 critical essays & 10 uncommon public statements

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THE PORTABLE GRAHAM GREENE Complete: The Heart of the Matter (with new chapter added in 1971) & The Third Man & self-contained sections from 8 other novels & 6 short stories & 9 critical essays & 10 uncommon public statements

Manufacturer: Viking
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ASIN: B000G3HJI2

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The Portable Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Manufacturer: International Collector's Library
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The Portable Graham Greene
Philip Stratford Graham Greene
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: B000OJ39BE

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Portable Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Manufacturer: VIKING PRESS
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