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This fascinating and diverse selection of essays from the Royal Institution provides a glimpse of some of the most exciting research from today's scientific community. The essays are wide-ranging, addressing topics such as the global increase in asthma and allergies, the phenomenon called El Nino, a... More

What is the smallest thing we can see? The fundamental limit on the size of an object that can be visualized with a light microscope is typically about half a micrometer. In this book of articles based on recent Evening Discourses at the Royal Institution, Akira Tonomura explains how electron waves ... More

Three centuries ago, the Zandu Wars split the races of man, elf, gnome, dwarf, and troll. The Elves of Dundalk knew little of the horrors that plagued their lands, but the ancient Spellmaker Flint did not forget. After his death, he leaves the legacy of the Hearthstone Sword to his adopted fifteen-y... More

This second volume deals with the electronic structure and bonding in solids, and then focuses on several important classes of inorganic compounds. These include materials in which the emphasis is on their electronic properties, such as low-dimensional solids, superconductors, and metal-cluster comp... More

This book describes a family of state-of-the-art numerical and semi-analytical techniques for determining stress intensity factors for cracks; the quantities which determine and control the fatigue life of engineering components. Fatigue problems are dominated by behaviour of the crack when it is sh... More

Much of our present knowledge of the universe has come from observations made over the centuries with ever more powerful telescopes, operating from isolated mountain tops. But the Hubble Space Telescope, the first to be launched into space, is revolutionizing our ability to picture and understand th... More

The First Pan-China Conference on Differential Equations was held in Kunming, China in June of 1997. Researchers from around the world attended-including representatives from the US, Canada, and the Netherlands-but the majority of the speakers hailed from China and Hong Kong. This volume contains th... More

The idea that materials can be designed to satisfy specific performance requirements is relatively new. With high-performance composites, however, the entire process of designing and fabricating a part can be worked out before manufacturing. The purpose of this book is to present an integrated appro... More