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A simple presentation of the theoretical foundations of steady-state laser spectroscopy, this text helps students to apply theory to calculations with a systematic series of examples and exercises. Detailed derivations offer the opportunity to work out all results, and numerous references form a con... More

An essential overview of quantum information Information, whether inscribed as a mark on a stone tablet or encoded as a magnetic domain on a hard drive, must be stored in a physical object and thus made subject to the laws of physics. Traditionally, information processing such as computation occurr... More

How they lived in... Series: Easy-to-read books in which a historical settins are vividly described and for young readers.... More

Journey in Blue is an acclaimed fictional recreation of the life and works of the fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen by a rising star of contemporary Danish literature. In this remarkable novel, Stig Dalager takes the reader on a journey through the mind, body, spirit and works of one of the ... More

Jan Mayen is a volcanic island surrounded by the deep Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Seas. There, atmospheric and oceanic processes unleash potential energy that forces very dynamic interactions between sea and air. This unique geophysical focal point generates climatic variability in northern Eur... More

This volume constitutes the documentation of the advanced course on Analysis of Dynamical and Cognitive Systems, held during the Summer University of Southern Stockholm in Stockholm, Sweden in August 1993.The volume contains eight carefully revised full versions of the invited three-to-four hour pre... More

"A County of Culture" provides a detailed analysis of education reforms in twentieth-century rural China, and of how these reforms relate to larger processes of social, political, and economic transformation. Based on documents and life histories collected in Zouping, the book focuses on education a... More

This volume analyzes the First World War in light of the concept of "total war," particularly the systematic erosion of the distinction between the military and civilian spheres. Leading scholars from Europe and North America explore the efforts of soldiers and statesmen, industrialists and financie... More