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Fractional Quantum Hall Effects

The fractional quantum Hall effect has been one of the most active areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics for nearly four decades, serving as a paradigm for unexpected and exotic emergent behavior arising from interactions. This book, featuring a collection of articles written by experts and a Foreword by Klaus von Klitzing, the discoverer of quantum Hall effect and winner of 1985 Nobel Prize in physics, aims to provide a coherent account of the exciting new developments and the current status of the field.Contents: <ul><li>Foreword (K von Klitzing)</li><li>Preface (B I Halperin and J K Jain)</li><li>Thirty Years of Composite Fermions and Beyond (J K Jain)</li><li>The Half-Full Landau Level (B I Halperin)</li><li>Probing Composite Fermions Near Half-Filled Landau Levels (M Shayegan)</li><li>Edge Probes of Topological Order (M Heiblum and D E Feldman)</li><li>Exploring Quantum Hall Physics at Ultra-Low Temperatures and at High Pressures (G A Csáthy)</li><li>Correlated Phases in ZnO-Based Heterostructures (J Falson and J H Smet)</li><li>Fractional Quantum Hall Effects in Graphene (C Dean, P Kim, J I A Li and A Young)</li><li>Wavefunctionology: The Special Structure of Certain Fractional Quantum Hall Wavefunctions (S H Simon)</li><li>Engineering Non-Abelian Quasi-Particles in Fractional Quantum Hall States — A Pedagogical Introduction (A Stern)</li><li>Fractional Quantum Hall States of Bosons: Properties and Prospects for Experimental Realization (N R Cooper)</li><li>Index</li></ul> Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in the current status of the field that has seen significant progress in the last 10 years.Berry Phase;Fermi Sea;Phase Tranistions;Particle Hole Symmetry;FQHE0Key Features:<ul><li>Useful for researchers as well as for newcomers and interested readers who wish to educate themselves on the current status of the field</li><li>Essential aspects of each chapter can be comprehended by any graduate student</li><li>First book to be published in this field in last ten years</li></ul>

A Passion for Physics

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0Contents: <ul><li>Preface</li><li>Part I:<ul><li>The Analytic and Unitary S Matrix (William R Frazer)</li><li>How Geoff Got Started? (James S Ball)</li><li>Interactions with Geoff Chew (Owen Chamberlain)</li><li>My Years with Professor Chew (Georgella Perry)</li><li>Complete Sets of Wave-packets (Francis E Low)</li><li>Salesman of Ideas (John Polkinghorne)</li><li>Thirty Years of One-Particle Exchange (Michael J Moravcsik)</li><li>Is There a ΔΔπ Problem? (Duane A Dicus and Vigdor L Teplitz)</li><li>My Experience with the S-Matrix Program (Steven Frautschi)</li><li>The S-Matrix Theory of Nuclear Forces (R Vinh Mau)</li><li>Quark Loops and Open Channels in Hadron Mass-Spectrum Dynamics (Louis A P Balázs)</li><li>What are the Quark and Gluon Poles? (Carleton DeTar)</li><li>The Pomeron Story (A Capella, Uday Sukhatme, Chung-I Tan & J Tran Thanh Van)</li><li>A Crucial Probe of the Confinement Mechanism in QCD: Linearly Rising Regge Trajectories (Carl Rosenzweig)</li><li>Composite Vector Mesons and String Models (Stanley Mandelstam)</li><li>From the Bootstrap to Superstrings (John H Schwartz)</li><li>The Ultimate Structure of Matter (Steven Weinberg)</li><li>On The Uniqueness of Physical Theories (David J Gross)</li><li>Renormalons and Phenomenology in QCD (Al H Mueller)</li><li>Stochastic Variables in Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories (G Veneziano)</li><li>Comments on Heavy Quark Decays and CP Violation (Ling-Lie Chau)</li><li>'Coups de Foudre et Passions' of Twelve Lively Years with Geoff (Denyse M Chew)</li><li>Topological Theory of Strong and Electroweak Interactions (Jerome Finkelstein)</li><li>Deducing T, C and P Invariance for Strong Interactions in Topological Particle Theory (C Edward Jones)</li><li>From Baryonium to Hexons (Basarab Nicolescu and V Poénaru)</li><li>Physics Reports: An Editorial Experiment (Maurice Jacob)</li><li>A Passion for Physics (Marvin L Goldberger)</li></ul></li><li>Part II:<ul><li>Bootstrap Physics: A Conversation with Geoffrey Chew (Fritjof Capra)</li></ul></li><li>List of Contributors</li><li>Publications of G Chew</li></ul> Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in particle physics.000

Dendrimer Chemistry

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The unique structures and properties of dendrimers make them attractive for many applications, from drug delivery and antimicrobial agents to catalysis and as functional materials. Dendrimer Chemistry provides an overview of the latest advances in the synthesis of dendrimers and other complex dendritic architectures. The book focuses on established building block families for generating dendritic macromolecules, capitalizing on the evolution in the synthesis of dendrimers and other complex dendritic architectures. Systems covered range from dendritic polyesters and naturally occurring monomers to novel dendritic families. Each chapter starts with an introduction to the dendrimer family and its important features followed by information on the building blocks used to generate the dendrimers, their synthetic strategies and the resulting architectures. Chapters also cover the characterization and structural analysis, commercial availability and cutting-edge applications. Including forewords from leaders in the field, this will be a useful reference for postgraduate students and researchers in organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials science and macromolecular chemistry.

Wellbeing

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The concept of wellbeing is currently being explored globally, with policy makers debating how to use and measure wellbeing beyond the traditional means that focus upon material and economic indicators. This book details the contemporary research evidence base for health and wellbeing within the global context and discusses how this improved knowledge can be applied to both healthcare policy and practice. It discusses and analyses the many different but inter-facing arguments around wellbeing and its relevance in the modern world. Written by a multi-professional group of health and wellbeing academics who have extensive national and international experience across the statutory and non-statutory sectors, the book is essential reading for healthcare professionals and policy makers looking for a comprehensive and up-to-date summary of the latest research and practice in the field of wellbeing.

Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2012, The

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Welcome to the Neighborhood

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How to live with difference—not necessarily in peace, but with resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol—is a defining worry in America at this moment. The poets, fiction writers, and essayists (plus one graphic novelist) who contributed to Welcome to the Neighborhood don’t necessarily offer roadmaps to harmonious neighboring. Some of their narrators don’t even want to be neighbors. Maybe they grieve, or rage. Maybe they briefly find resolution or community. But they do approach the question of what it means to be neighbors, and how we should do it, with open minds and nuance. The many diverse contributors give this collection a depth beyond easy answers. Their attentions to the theme of neighborliness as an ongoing evolution offer hope to readers: possible pathways for rediscovering community, even just by way of a shared wish for it. The result is an enormously rich resource for the classroom and for anyone interested in reflecting on what it means to be American today, and how place and community play a part. Contributors include Leila Chatti, Rita Dove, Jonathan Escoffery, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Amina Gautier, Ross Gay, Mark Halliday, Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Sonya Larson, Dinty W. Moore, Robert Pinsky, Christine Schutt, and many more.

Plants in Science Fiction

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Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film. John Wyndham’s triffids, Algernon Blackwood’s willows and Han Kang’s sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations and inhabit our metaphors – but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in science fiction, and its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics and cultural life at large – questioning and shifting our understandings of institutions, nations, borders and boundaries; erecting and dismantling new visions of utopian and dystopian futures.

Barcelona

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This fully illustrated, edited volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The volume will contribute to the excavation of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period, although its primary focus will be on the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.

Time, Memory, Institution

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This collection is the first extended investigation of the relation between time and memory in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thought as a whole as well as the first to explore in depth the significance of his concept of institution. It brings the French phenomenologist’s views on the self and ontology into contemporary focus. Time, Memory, Institution argues that the self is not a self-contained or self-determining identity, as such, but is gathered out of a radical openness to what is not self, and that it gathers itself in a time that is not merely a given dimension, but folds back upon, gathers, and institutes itself. Access to previously unavailable texts, in particular Merleau-Ponty’s lectures on institution and expression, has presented scholars with new resources for thinking about time, memory, and history. These essays represent the best of this new direction in scholarship; they deepen our understanding of self and world in relation to time and memory; and they give occasion to reexamine Merleau-Ponty’s contribution and relevance to contemporary Continental philosophy. This volume is essential reading for scholars of phenomenology and French philosophy, as well as for the many readers across the arts, humanities, and social sciences who continue to draw insight and inspiration from Merleau-Ponty. Contributors : Elizabeth Behnke, Edward Casey, Véronique Fóti, Donald Landes, Kirsten Jacobson, Galen Johnson, Michael Kelly, Scott Marratto, Glen Mazis, Caterina Rea, John Russon, Robert Vallier, and Bernhard Waldenfels

Conservation’s Roots

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The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation’s Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.