Urban areas comprise various environments and show high heterogeneity in many respects, they are highly dynamic in time and space and at the same time of greatest influence on connected and even tele-connected regions due to their great economic importance. Urban remote sensing is therefore of great importance, yet as manifold as its study area: Urban analyses are performed with all available spaceborne sensor types and at the same time they are one of the most relevant fields for airborne remote sensing.
Several books on urban remote sensing have been published during the past 10 years, each taking a different perspective. Researching, Writing, and Publishing Local History. The book provides practical guidelines for the layman who is interested in researching, writing, and publishing local history. Two standards considered to be essential to the writing of local history are ethics and competence.
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They have perceived the apparent certainty of geometrical propositions as an intimation that an equally secure knowledge can be had on a subject of the greatest practical concern, viz. They also have sought to find-as is their wont-reasons for that certainty. This search has given rise to the theoretical and historical issues magisterially reviewed in this book by Lorenzo Magnani.
Despite their diversity, all three can be said to share a trait that is rarely emphasized and which Magnani brings out in full force in his study of Kant. Chapter 2 is called "Geometry: An enterprising scholar might even try to make a similar point with regard to Husserl, whose views on the establishment of objectivity and science appear to fit geometry better than any other branch of knowledge.
This book provides current coverage of the present state of libraries and publishing in the United States and abroad. It has almost 1, entries and is divided into two sections. The first section is an alphabetical listing of countries from around the world. Each entry provides data about the political and economic condition of the country,…. Includes six reports related to book trade statistics, including prices of U. This book presents annotations of approximately multicultural picture books published between and Annotations and accompanying grade levels in the book are arranged alphabetically within geographic sections.
After an introduction, chapters and their geographic subdivisions in the book are 1 Asia and the Pacific Japan and…. Most of us sometimes have to face a student asking: In my case 'this' would typically be a topic in general relativity. After thinking about it for quite a while, and consulting candidate texts again and again, a few days later I usually end up saying: In the unlikely event that the student comes back without changing the topic, there follows quite a bit of explaining on a blackboard over the following weeks.
From now on I will say: As far as Isham's book is concerned, 'this' in the student's question above can stand for any topic in theoretical physics which touches upon differential geometry and I can only think of very few which do not. A student who has mastered the notions presented in the book will have a solid basis to continue into specialized topics. I am not aware of any other book which would be as useful as this one in terms of the spectrum of topics covered, stopping at the right place to get sufficient introductory insight.
According to the publisher , these lecture notes are the content of an introductory course on differential geometry which is taken by first-year theoretical physics PhD students, or by students attending the one-year MSc course 'Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces' at Imperial College, London.
The volume is divided into six chapters: It is a sad reflection on current. This reprint, hitherto unnoticed, is of interest for the reception of Copernicus' work. This article reproduces the text and presents some research on Brucaeus, who was Tycho Brahe's teacher in Rostock. His biography and his scientific achievements are outlined. The PRM organizations in Europe: The European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine mainly dedicated to defining the ethical issues in rehabilitation and finding strategies for better educational approaches in rehabilitation.
To support the knowledge, we have in Europe 7 main journals dedicated to Rehabilitation with a growing impact factor. In conclusion, PRM activity in Europe is not limited to the official border but in the network included eastern countries and Mediterranean area. The clinical field of competence: According to the complexity of disabling health conditions, PRM also refers to prevention and maintenance and provides information to the patients and other caregivers.
The rehabilitation process according to the so-called rehabilitation cycle including an assessment and definition of the individual rehabilitation goals, assignment to the rehabilitation program evaluation of individual outcomes. PRM physicians treat a wide spectrum of diseases and take a transversal across most of the medical specialties. They also focus on many functional problems such as immobilization, spasticity, pain syndromes, communication disorders, and others. The latter is based on the ICF conceptual framework, and obtained through functional evaluations and scales: They include a wide range of treatments, including medicines, physical therapies, exercises, education and many others.
Standardized PRM programs are available for many diseases and functional problems. In most cases rehabilitation is performed in multi-professional teams working in a collaborative way, as well as with other disciplines under the leadership of a PRM physician and it is a patient-centered approach. Outcomes of PRM interventions and programs, showed reduction of impairments in body functions, activity limitations. Knowledge and skills of PRM physicians. In the context of the White Book of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine PRM in Europe, this paper deals with the fundamentals of PRM from a physiological perspective, looking at the human mechanisms both physical and behavioral which are at the base of PRM physicians' work.
After a discussion on the development and evolution of PRM that leads to its unique and specific approach, the mechanisms considered include: PRM physicians are managers of people and resources; they manage patients and their caregivers, to teach and allow them to reach the best possible participation, also focusing on maintenance; they lead the team, with the aim to make it. A grounded theory methodology was used to analyze articles and book chapters describing the development and practice of school-based counseling in 25 different countries in order to identify the factors that affect development and practice.
An factor analytic framework was developed. Cultural Factors, National Needs, Larger…. Systematists argue that the importance of our work lies not only in the elucidation of evolutionary relationships, but also in the incorporation of evolutionary information into classifications and the use of these classifications by government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, professional scientists, and others interested in biodiversity. If this is true, and I think that it is, then synthetic publications that make our findings accessible to a wide audience, such as Christidis and Boles' new Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, may be among the most significant works that we publish.
The authors constitute a wide selection of researchers and practitioners from across Europe active in this field. It contains 29 chapters of very different sizes ranging between 2 pages Chapter 8 to 43 pages Chapter The book is structured in 5 different sections: Case studies; and 5. On the Internet, one can not only buy books but also obtain information about publishers and vendors, book reviews, authors, and other book -related information.
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Authors, Publishers and Politicians: This book describes the efforts made between and to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement and indicates the factors that caused such efforts to fail. The book reports the effects that the lack of a copyright agreement had on overall Anglo-American relations and on British and American writers and publishers. Children are naturally drawn to award-winning books. Those who work with children know that the appeal of these books often comes from the shiny gold, silver, or bronze seals affixed to the covers of these special books.
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Book Development in Bangladesh. Describes the historical development of book production in Bangladesh and discusses the situation in Bangladesh with regard to the economics of publishing , the relationship between publishing and library development, book distribution, copyright and translation, and book experts. Networks have been recently recognized as playing a central role in understanding a wide range of systems spanning diverse scientific domains such as physics and biology, economics, computer science and information technology.
Specific examples run from the structure of the Internet and the World Wide Web to the interconnections of finance agents and ecological food webs. These networked systems are generally made by many components whose microscopic interactions give rise to global structures characterized by emergent collective behaviour and complex topological properties. In this context the statistical physics approach finds a natural application since it attempts to explain the various large-scale statistical properties of networks in terms of local interactions governing the dynamical evolution of the constituent elements of the system.
It is not by chance then that many of the seminal papers in the field have been published in the physics literature, and have nevertheless made a considerable impact on other disciplines. Indeed, a truly interdisciplinary approach is required in order to understand each specific system of interest, leading to a very interesting cross-fertilization between different scientific areas defining the emergence of a new research field sometimes called network science.
The book of Dorogovtsev and Mendes is the first comprehensive monograph on this new scientific field. It provides a thorough presentation of the forefront research activities in the area of complex networks, with an extensive sampling of the disciplines involved and the kinds of problems that form the subject of inquiry. The book starts with a short introduction to graphs and network theory that introduces the tools and mathematical background needed for the rest of the book. The following part is devoted to an extensive presentation of the empirical analysis of real-world networks.
While for obvious reasons of space the authors cannot analyse in every detail all the. Reviews 10 children's books , published or reissued , about daily life, traditional culture, and schooling among Taos Pueblo, Zuni Pueblo, Navajo, Inuit, Guatemalan, and other Native peoples, as well as tales from Native American oral tradition, the life of a buffalo, and Cherokee and Athapascan historical fiction.
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This fundamental and in many respects encyclopedic page monograph was published as part of the "Mario Boella Series on Electromagnetism in Information and Communication" edited by P. The main purpose of the book is systematic exposition of several important aspects of the electromagnetic scattering theory along with the presentation of the requisite mathematical apparatus and illustrative numerical results.
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Here are two textbooks, both published by Springer and each roughly half devoted to cosmology—the large scale structure and evolution of the Universe. I can imagine a context not the same context in which each would be useful. And there the similarities largely end. The book is meant for use at the graduate level, probably the second year by US standards the authors are from Stockholm.
Schneider hereafter PS , on the other hand, begins with galaxies, and then alternates between cosmological topics of gradually increasing sophistication expanding universe to CMB fluctuations and additional galactic topics—clusters, quasars and all. Each is meant for a single semester class at the target level, and might be squeezed into a week term with elimination of some topics. PS is a hard cover translation from a German original, with colour used freely in astronomical images and graphs throughout, with fewer and less complex equations.
What can you expect to get if you buy one or both of these? Photocopy of old photo, taken from a book , Photocopy of old photo, taken from a book , Founders' Week Memorial Volume. Exact date of publication not known, but it was published before the First World War I. This book includes a chapter on the history of the Preston Retreat and historical photographs of the institution. The book is essentially an overview of IMRT techniques, discussing the history, the mathematical processes involved in the planning stages, the biological indices for evaluations, the off-line and on-line medical imaging that is required, the various IMRT delivery techniques available, positioning and motion verification, shielding and QA issues, and some clinical applications.
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Some clinical applications are also reviewed. The lack of details concerning the advantages of IMRT with respect to clinical outcome is. This report presents statistics that characterize transportation activities and data on other factors that affect transportation energy use. The 12 chapters of the 19th edition of the Data Book focus on various aspects of the transportation industry Carl will, with the help of his world class editorial board, maintain standards of scientific rigour whilst ensuring that research published is of the highest importance.
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Our grateful thanks and best wishes go to Professor Corrigan who has done a magnificent job for the journal during his five-year tenure. This book offers guidelines to emerging and would-be publishers , whether they plan to enter publishing as a career, a sideline, or a diversion. It stresses the business aspects of publishing and emphasizes the major housekeeping functions encountered in the business, except methods of sales and distribution.
Contents include "The Mechanics of…. This is an enjoyable book by a particle physicist of some distinction, who wrote several books on the theoretical aspects of his subject. He died soon after the book was finished. This book would seem a splendid tribute to his memory. The first five chapters are an excellent introduction to quantum mechanics from the viewpoint of a particle physicist.
A solid state physicist might include some other topics. The next three chapters give some feeling for the excitement of particle physics and describe some of the zoo of curious creatures discovered in the depths of particle accelerators, and the forces between them: The final chapter , 'Quantum Fields', is a tour de force.
The author has a light touch and a pleasant sense of humour. He does not attempt to explain everything he mentions, but he makes it very clear when he does not. These points are beautifully illustrated by the following extract from the final chapter p In fact, virtual particles are always in play.
Even a single real particle, moving along in isolation, can emit and reabsorb virtual particles over and over again. This has the effect of shifting the physical mass of the particle away from the 'bare' value that entered into the Hamiltonian. That shift inevitably turns out to be slightly infinite, and there is a whole technology for isolating and redefining away this and a few other infinities that are characteristic of renormalisable quantum field theories.
But we forebear to pursue these delicacies any further here. The publisher 's blurb describes this book as being suitable for popular science readers. Its level of mathematics would make it very heavy going for anyone who had not taken at least one course in mathematics at university. This is a book which can be strongly recommended as a. In the version of this Books and Arts originally published , the book title Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomy was incorrect; it should have read Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers. This has now been corrected.
Education and continuous professional development: To acquire the wide field of competence needed, specialists in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine have to undergo a well organised and appropriately structured training of adequate duration. In fact they are required to develop not only medical knowledge, but also competence in patient care, specific procedural skills, and attitudes towards interpersonal relationship and communication, profound understanding of the main principles of medical ethics and public health, ability to apply policies of care and prevention for disabled people, capacity to master strategies for reintegration of disabled people into society, apply principles of quality assurance and promote a practice-based continuous professional development.
This paper provides updated detailed information about the education and training of specialists, delivers recommendations concerning the standards required at a European level, in agreement with the UEMS rules of creating a Common Training Framework, that consists of a common set of knowledge, skills and competencies for postgraduate training.
The role of the European PRM Board is highlighted as a body aimed at ensuring the highest standards of medical training and health care across Europe and the harmonization of PRM physicians' qualifications. To this scope, the theoretical knowledge necessary for the practice of PRM specialty and the core competencies training outcomes to be achieved at the end of training have been established and the postgraduate PRM core curriculum has been added. Undergraduate training of medical students is also focused, being considered a mandatory element for the growth of both PRM specialty and the medical community as a whole, mainly in front of the future challenges of the ageing population and the increase of disability in our continent.
Finally, the problems of continuing. Staley's book discusses these individuals, but it actually has a broader scope. Both the title and the subtitle are not quite appropriate. The emphasis on Albert Michelson is evident in the Index: The book exhibits a composite character because it includes and expands upon four articles that Staley had published earlier on Michelson, relativity, and the co-creation of modern and classical physics. Hence the book is partly a bridging work; it ambitiously connects areas in the history of physics, from the s until Staley identifies how diverse interests produced crossfertilization, and how various disciplinary boundaries were crossed.
He wants to discuss material culture, experiment, and theory, all on the same footing. Every page of the introduction seems to quadruple the scope; he writes about individuals and communities, consolidation and diversification, power and weakness, memory and neglect, the cultural and the material, the classical and the modern, and the absolute and the relative. The PRM specialty in the healthcare system and society. Several documents and reports by WHO and the UN call for the worldwide strengthening of rehabilitation as a key health strategy of the 21st century. Therefore, further implementation of PRM in healthcare systems is crucial.
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Many aspects need to be considered when implementing PRM in a health system. Since PRM should be provided along the whole continuum of care, a specific phase model has been developed. Those phases depend on patients' functional needs as well as on temporal aspects of a health condition: The following phases are described in the paper: Regular triage and reassessment to assign the patient to the appropriate level and setting of rehabilitation care is mandatory.
Therefore, rehabilitation services should be stratified and organized in networks, in order to allow for the best possible care adapted to the individual's needs and goals, over the continuum of care. Providing correct PRM services requires good planning of service delivery, capacity building and resource allocation. The needed resources are human with complex multi-professional teams , technical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, equipment for performing complementary diagnostic means, rehabilitation technology and assistive devices , and financial.
Decisions on the allocation of the usually limited resources require a reasoned process and clear and fair criteria. Principles of clinical governance must be respected, and appropriate competencies are required. Disease prevention primary, secondary and tertiary , health maintenance and support in chronic conditions as well as global health promotion.
This is a bit misleading: But the book does aim for the kind of breadth and generality that one would expect from an introduction to the subject, and it serves well as a compact overview of the issues, views, arguments, and counter-arguments that have shaped the contemporary philosophical debate on laws of nature. Almost no important facet of the debate goes untouched. There are chapters or sections on: This is an impressive range of topics, especially considering that they are all treated in only pages.
One result is that not all of them are treated with as. Gateway to the unknown presents us with a broad ranging account not only of the kinds of models used in scientific inquiry but the different ways in which they are put to work in different contexts of investigation, specifically physics and psychology. It does this in 16 chapters divided over six sections that deal with practical issues regarding knowledge acquisition and with modeling as it relates to traditional debates in philosophy of science such as realism, the nature of explanation and the role of experiment.
The work brings together many ideas published in essays that appeared in other places. As a collection it covers a lot of ground and in doing so presents not just an account of modeling but a broader philosophy of science in the bargain, one that addresses many of the questions that plague not only the role of models but also the status of entities, theories, causes and inductive inference. Progress in the fields of integrated optics and fiber optics is continuing at a rapid pace.
Recognizing this trend, the goal of the author is to provide an introductory textbook on time-harmonic electromagnetic theory, with an emphasis on optical rather than microwave technologies. The book is appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate course. Each chapter includes examples of problems. The book focuses on several areas of prime importance to intergrated optics.
These include dielectric waveguide analysis, couple-mode thoery, Bragg scattering, and prism coupling There is very little coverage of active components such as electro-optic modulators and switches. The author assumes the reader has a working knowledge of vector calculus and is familiar with Maxwell's equations.
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Although ostensibly a festschrift for Gabriele Veneziano, this book also marks an important step in the historical study of string theory, featuring several excellent chapters on the earliest period of string theory, as it emerged from the study of strong interaction physics and dual resonance models. Veneziano is often crowned 'the father of string theory' since it was he who discovered the amplitude that led to the dual resonance models that then led to string theory in something like the form we know it today though not immediately into a quantum theory of gravity.
However, as the historical articles in this book make plain, Veneziano was but a small albeit vital component in the creation of string theory. This pamphlet briefly answers some of the questions concerning the writing and publishing of children's books. What the writer needs to know, special techniques, how to submit a manuscript, what happens to a manuscript at a publishing house, and a listing of our books that may be useful for writers of children's books are discussed.
Books produced since , held in the Library of Congress, have a very high acid content, hence a shorter life expectancy than prior- published volumes. A means of "deacidifying" books on a large, economically-viable scale is of great interest, particularly to the research library community, which stores millions of valuable, often irreplaceable documents.
The General Electric vacuum chamber used in deacidification tests serves a dual purpose. It creates an environment in which DEZ can do its job without presence of oxygen and also dries the books. After the drying phase, DEZ is introduced to the chamber as a paper-penetrating vapor. The complete process typically takes eight days, four days for vacuum drying and four days of book exposure to DEZ.
Accelerated aging tests showed that the process can extend paper life almost fourfold, even on color illustrations. Are university presses ready for their close-up? In a nod to Hollywood, a growing number of trade publishers are producing book trailers to promote new titles.
But do video teasers have a role in university-press publishing? What about longer formats? Based on an entirely unscientific poll of publicists at 25 university presses, the answer appears…. The Library Association of the City University of New York presents an annotated bibliography on the subject of small and alternative publishing. In the first section directories, indexes, catalogs, and reviews are briefly described. Book distributors for small publishers are listed next. The major portion of the bibliography is a listing of books…. Publishing and Journalism Careers.
If you like to work with words and notational symbols--or with describing, selecting, managing, and distributing the words and music of other people--then journalism or publishing as a whole may be your bailiwick. From Picas to Pixels: An Astro e- book. What to do when a publisher discontinues publishing a textbook? That was the dilemma we were presented with. Given that we know we have a high quality product that can contribute to student understanding of science in general and astronomy in particular, and that significant efforts had already been expended on the project, we decided to self- publish , even knowing that the challenges, and the gamble in terms of time and personal expense, were great.
Self publication provides an opportunity to produce an updated edition at great cost savings to studentssomething faculty often say is an important consideration in their choice of a book. We present the end result: The Discovering Astronomy Activities Manual will again be available. Details of the book , a sample chapter , and other information are available at discoveringastronomy weebly. An Astro e- Book. What happens when a publisher discontinues publishing a textbook?
That was the dilemma we were presented. Self publication provides an opportunity to produce an updated edition at great cost savings to students— something faculty often say is an important consideration in their choice of a book. We discuss the many significant challenges, the greatest of which is marketing. Details of the book , a sample chapter , and other information are available online. This book gives a clear exposition of quantum field theory at the graduate level and the contents could be covered in a two semester course or, with some effort, in a one semester course.
The book is well organized, and subtle issues are clearly explained. The margin notes are very useful, and the problems given at the end of each chapter are relevant and help the student gain an insight into the subject. The solutions to these problems are given in chapter Care is taken to keep the numerical factors and notation very clear.
Chapter 1 gives a clear overview and typical scales in high energy physics. Chapter 2 presents an excellent account of the Lorentz group and its representation. The decomposition of Lorentz tensors under SO 3 and the subsequent spinorial representations are introduced with clarity. Representations of 1-particle states using m2 and the Pauli Lubanski vector, although standard, are treated lucidly.
Classical field theory is introduced in chapter 3 and a careful treatment of the Noether theorem and the energy momentum tensor are given. After covering real and complex scalar fields, the author impressively introduces the Dirac spinor via the Weyl spinor; Abelian gauge theory is also introduced. Chapter 4 contains the essentials of free field quantization of real and complex scalar fields, Dirac fields and massless Weyl fields. After a brief discussion of the CPT theorem, the quantization of electromagnetic field is carried out both in radiation gauge and Lorentz gauge.
The presentation of the Gupta Bleuler method is particularly impressive; the margin notes on pages 85, and invaluable. Chapter 5 considers the essentials of perturbation theory. The derivation of the LSZ reduction formula for scalar field theory is clearly expressed. This book is a statistical compendium prepared and published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory under contract with the Office of Transportation Technologies in the Department of Energy. Designed for use as a desk-top reference, the data book represent NMR Imaging of Materials.
Magnetic resonance imaging MRI of materials is a field of increasing importance. Applications extend from fundamental science like the characterization of fluid transport in porous rock, catalyst pellets and hemodialysers into various fields of engineering for process optimization and product quality control. While the results of MRI imaging are being appreciated by a growing community, the methods of imaging are far more diverse for materials applications than for medical imaging of human beings.
It was published in hardback three years ago and is now offered as a paperback for nearly half the price. The text provides an introduction to MRI imaging of materials covering solid-state NMR spectroscopy, imaging methods for liquid and solid samples, and unusual MRI in terms of specialized approaches to spatial resolution such as an MRI surface scanner.
The book represents an excellent and thorough treatment which will help to grow research in materials MRI. But it may also be useful for medical students looking for a less formal discussion of solid-state NMR spectroscopy. The structure of this book is easy to perceive. The first three chapters cover an introduction, the fundamentals and methods of solid-state NMR spectroscopy. The book starts at the ground level where no previous knowledge about NMR is assumed. Chapter 4 discusses a wide variety of transformations beyond the Fourier transformation. In particular, the Hadamard transformation and the 'wavelet' transformation are missing from most related books.
This chapter also includes a description of noise-correlation spectroscopy, which promises the imaging of large objects without the need for extremely powerful radio-frequency transmitters. Chapters 5 and 6 cover basic imaging methods. The following chapter about the use of relaxation and. Radio frequency microelectromechanical system RF MEMS devices are microscale devices that achieve superior performance relative to other technologies by taking advantage of the accuracy, precision, materials, and miniaturization available through microfabrication.
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Reasons why students' work should be published , examples of what to publish , and types of software and hardware to facilitate publishing are reviewed. Students and non-specialists will welcome this book , which provides an entry into this fascinating realm at a level that can be enjoyed by an enterprising undergraduate. The first chapter introduces the Schwarzschild black hole and the various coordinate systems used for its description.
In four brief chapters 29 pages the authors then manage a clear presentation of the thermal properties of quantum fields in Rindler and Schwarzschild space that skirts the operator formalism of QFT. Two further chapters treat charged black holes and the stretched-horizon description of black hole electrodynamics.
Chapter 8, 'The Laws of Nature', explains how information is quantified, the quantum xerox principle and the entanglement entropy of black holes, with a detailed account of how this evolves as the hole evaporates. This sets the stage for a discussion of the black hole information puzzle and the complementarity principle in chapter 9. The pace heats up in the second part of the book , which in 48 pages sketches a variety of topics: This well-planned, stimulating and sometimes provocative book can be enthusiastically recommended.
Academic publishing is changing rapidly as a result of mutually dependent developments. Electronic publishing was born through the emergence of the Internet. The Internet has accelerated globalization, which in turn has enhanced the consolidation of commercial publishing houses and the collaboration between libraries. Old business models are being replaced by new business models, such as open access publishing.
The familiar print format is disappearing for journals and perhaps for books. This chapter presents an overview of these developments and addresses potential threats and opportunities to the parties involved in publishing. This book concerns the many lives of Hugh Everett's seminal work on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
As these many lives were spread over time, like layers, the reading of this book is like an archeological tour as well as an adventure in physics, its philosophy and history. In short, the story traces the lives of his work. The first life was around when Everett, a doctoral student under John Archibald Wheeler, wrote his dissertation at Princeton University and published it in the journal Review of Modern Physics. Despite the face value of such a proposal it drew little attention until the end of the s.
This was when the second life of Everett's work began. In Bryce DeWitt appealed to Everett's work while working on the quantization of general relativity creating what is now called the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Furthermore, DeWitt wanted give to Everett's work a wider audience than experts in quantum gravity. Supported by the editors of Physics Today a paper by himself presenting this interpretation as one of the possible ones for quantum mechanics triggered a heated debate on the subject in the periodical.
Together with this new life a layer beneath the original publication of the dissertation appeared. In contact with Everett, DeWitt discovered that the dissertation and paper had been an abridged version of a more consistently developed interpretation. The full version of the work was then published in with the enticing title, suggested by DeWitt, of "The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
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The role and function of the modern journal and book editor is also dealt with in detail. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field: The ever-evolving role of the editor is clearly elucidated in several historical reviews, and in the descriptions of the expectations for the future. A very striking aspect of this book is its extensive collection of bibliographic resources: All in all, the book is a treasure trove listing more than references, in addition to numerous webpage URLs embedded in the texts.
The book is designed to help the reader to understand current practices and norms in technical editing, and to help to take action in editing as well as in teaching and educating would-be editors. The audience for this book thus includes editors and teachers, but also writers, researchers and students. A deep reading of this book will result in a better understanding of the difference between full technical editing and its much narrower component so well known as copyediting, and will convince any prospective editor that editing should not be undertaken if the people involved do not master the art of precision and accuracy in technical as well as in human communication, do not possess the technical know how and computer.
Paperback Books for Children. Nearly titles are included in "Paperback Books for Children," a guide for librarians and teachers published by the American Association of School Librarians. It is divided into the following sections: The book also contains an adult…. New branches of scientific disciplines often have a few paradigmatic models that serve as a testing ground for theories and a starting point for new inquiries. In the late s, one of these models found fertile ground in the growing field of econophysics: The two basic ingredients were the minority mechanism a large number of players have to choose one of two alternatives in each round, and the minority wins and limited rationality each player has a small set of decision rules, and chooses the more successful ones.
Combining these, one observes a phase transition between a crowded and an inefficient market phase, fat-tailed price distributions at the transition, and many other nontrivial effects. Now, seven years after the first paper, three of the key players—Damien Challet, Matteo Marsili and Yi-Cheng Zhang—have published a monograph that summarizes the current state of the science. The book consists of two parts: The first chapters of Part I give a well-written description of the motivation and the history behind the MG, and then go into the phenomenology and the mathematical treatment of the model.
The mathematics is outlined, but calculations are not carried out in great detail maybe they could have been included in an appendix.
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The first book in a 5- book manual on day camping focuses on summer day camp administration. The book defines day camps as organized group experiences in outdoor living on a day-by-day basis and under trained leadership. It includes a philosophy of day camping, noting benefits to the campers.
The book is divided into further chapters that describe…. All these topics are presented with authority and in great pedagogical style. I enjoy the book 's informal, even conversational, tone, which helps Carroll establish a good rapport with the reader. All in all, this is a very usable text that offers a modern, viable alternative to existing books.
My favourite part of the book is the first three chapters on differential geometry. The presentation of the mathematical formalism is crystal clear and very enjoyable, and it comes with a large number of helpful and attractive diagrams. Carroll's presentation of differential geometry is sophisticated but completely accessible, and it is quite broad.
It includes all the topics that might be considered elementary such as vectors and tensors, parallel transport, geodesics and curvature , but also a number of topics that might be considered advanced such as differential forms, nonmetric connections, torsion, Lie differentiation and Killing vectors. Another particularly successful chapter is the fourth, which presents the Einstein field equations.
These are first motivated in the usual way as the simplest tensorial generalization of Poisson's equation , but are then derived from a variational principle. This is done in the absence of the action's boundary term, whose inclusion would complicate matters and require machinery that Carroll does not introduce. What I like most about this chapter is that alternative theories of gravitation such as scalar-tensor theories and higher-dimensional versions of general relativity get a fairly detailed treatment.
Alternatives to general relativity are hardly ever discussed in textbooks, and this is a welcome initiative. The book 's next two chapters are devoted to black holes. Carroll's treatment of the Schwarzschild spacetime is very detailed and complete, but his. In humanities, there does not seem to be any good reason to privilege the academic journal over other venues. If the goal of humanities publishing is to spread new ideas, then it seems that creating a popular Internet blog would be the better choice.
However, the goal of humanities publishing is not just to spread new ideas, but to spread "good"…. It used to be that a book was published first as a hardcover, then as a lower-cost paperback. With increasingly tech-savvy consumers demanding instantaneous access to content in various formats, that publishing protocol has in the last decade changed to one in which the book in codex form often remains the focus, but digital "extras"….
Why Write Book Reviews? The pressure to publish or perish or, more recently, to be visible or vanish, marginalises a culture of critical reading and reflection that has historically been the province of book reviews. Today, book reviews are roundly rejected by academic bureaucrats as unimportant, easy to write and hence, easy to get published , mere summaries, uncritical…. We can say that he has found an efficient way to solve the usual dilemma in teaching this subject: The book is divided into three parts. In the first, covering five chapters of the 24 in the whole book , Newtonian physics and special relativity are reviewed.
This review is done in a manner that prepares the reader for the subsequent discussion of general relativity itself. The principle of relativity, the variational principle, the geometrical content of Newtonian theory and the main ideas behind special relativity are all presented. In general, this first part is quite standard, except for the emphasis on geometrical aspects, such as the employment of different coordinates in a physical problem, the consequences of specific geometries, such as that of a sphere, and the notion of a spacetime manifold.
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