Foundation of Quantum Chromodynamics: an Introduction to Perturbative Methods in Gauge Theories

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This volume develops the techniques of perturbative QCD in great pedagogical detail starting with field theory. Aside from extensive treatments of the renormalization group technique, the operator product expansion formalism and their applications to short-distance reactions, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to gauge theories. Examples and exercises are provided to amplify the discussions on important topics. This is an ideal textbook on the subject of quantum chromodynamics and is essential for researchers and graduate students in high energy physics, nuclear physics and mathematical physics.

Introduction to Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure (Oxford Chemistry Primers, 37)

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Introduction to Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure (Oxford Chemistry Primers, 37)
P. A. Cox
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Chemistry students need a basic understanding of quantum theory and its applications to atomic and molecularstructure and spectroscopy. This book develops the basic concepts needed as background, and discusses atomic structure but not molecular applications. The first two chapters are concerned with the basic ideas and problems of wave-particle duality, the nature of wavefunction, and its statistical interpretation. Chapter 3 discusses some important applications of Schrodinger's equation to chemically relevant situations. Chapters 4 and 5 deal respectively with the hydrogen atom, and with the structure of many electron atoms and the periodic table of elements. The emphasis throughout is on the physical concepts and their concrete application. The required background in mathematics is elementary calculus and the properties of trigonometric and exponential functions, but not complex numbers. Necessary concepts of classical physics are developed as required.

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Clear and great insights into Quantum theory.......2000-08-16

Clear and great insights into Quantum theory

From the very begining I had feelings to read and get clear insights into what is this quantum theory about. This book gave me full satisfaction. I liked it so much that I almost wrote the full book in my notebook, so that I may read it again and again ! (I had borrowed it from Chicago Public Libray).

The book's hallmark I feel is the simple on the dot language and comments that clears any doubts you may have. What I also liked is that it begins with the concept by first introducing the classical mechanics model and then emerging into quantum model.

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Atomic Spectroscopy provides a comprehensive discussion on the general approach to the theory of atomic spectra, based on the use of the Lagrangian canonical formalism. This approach is developed and applied to explain the hydrogenic hyperfine structure associated with the nucleus motion, its finite mass, and spin. The non-relativistic or relativistic, spin or spin-free particle approximations can be used as a starting point of general approach. The special attention is paid to the theory of Lamb shift formation. The formulae for hydrogenic spectrum including the account of Lamb shift are written in simple analytical form. The book is of interest to specialists, graduate and postgraduate students, who are involved into the experimental and theoretical research in the field of modern atomic spectroscopy.

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Introduction to Modern Physics

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The purpose of this book is to present the qualitative results of microscopic phyics. The quautum theory and the theory of special relativity are introduced with care using elementary calculus. Their application to the study of the structure of the atom and of the atomic nuclei contributes the bulk of the discussion. This book is designed to broaden the mastery of physics with applications.

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This is the first Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Largely ignored for centuries because of doubts about its authorship and its subject matter, once considered distasteful, it is surprisingly relevant to many current interests. Lois Potter's valuable edition gives a full exposition of contemporary claims as to authorship and genre, discussing all the elements of collaborative writing - not only the two authors themselves but their historical, theatrical and literary contexts. She argues that, complex as the collaboration process was, the end product can be discussed as a coherent work because of and not despite the circumstances of its production. Potter supplies new information on sources and, drawing on her extensive experience as a theatre critic, discusses the play's afterlife and compares a number of recent stagings of the play. 'Potter's The Two Noble Kinsmen...shows how, even in the case of a play with a comparatively limited performance history, understanding of performance can inform every aspect of an edition...as usual with the Arden series, it is the amplitude and intelligence of the commentary that is so striking.' Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement

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HIPPOLITA. Sir, farewell; repeat my wishes To our great Lord, of whose succes I dare not Make any timerous question; yet I wish him Exces and overflow of power, and't might be, To dure ill-dealing fortune: speede to him, Store never hurtes good Gouernours.

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A gem of a play "Written by the memorable Worthies of their time".......2007-09-22

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"If this play do not keep
A little dull time from us, we perceive
Our losses fall so thick we must needs leave [that is, give up acting]."

The above is the last sentence found in the prologue of this extraordinary play (written and first performed circa 1613), rarely performed on stage. For centuries it has been the victim of constant speculation about its authorship. It was initially thought that this play was the result of a collaboration between dramatist Francis Beaumont (1584 to 1616) and playwright John Fletcher (1579 to 1625). However, it was much later recognized that it was actually the result of a collaboration between William Shakespeare (1564 to 1616) and Fletcher. (Fletcher also collaborated with Shakespeare on the play "Henry VIII" and the lost play "Cardenio.")

If you were to classify this play using the traditional classification scheme, it's a comedy. However, after reading it, I found that it's actually a "romantic tragicomedy." The plot is primarily based on Geoffrey Chaucer's (1343 to 1400) "The Knight's Tale" (the first tale in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales").

Briefly, two kinsmen and warriors, men of deep personal honor, are taken prisoner of war. From their prison window they see walking in a garden a beautiful and an astonishing women whom they both fall in love with. The play traces the tragic consequences of this moment and the destruction of their sacred friendship. Also, the subplot presents the story of the poor jailer's daughter who is driven mad by her infatuation with one of the kinsmen.

This play consists of 23 scenes with a brief prologue and an even briefer epilogue. It is thought that the five scenes of act one and the four scenes of act 5 (excluding scene 2) as well as some lines in other scenes were written by Shakespeare with the rest being written by Fletcher. Crunching the numbers, I found that about 40% of the play is due to Shakespeare and 60% is due to Fletcher. No doubt in the future these percentages will change.

What I found fascinating about this play is that it has strong elements of Shakespearean plays written before it. Especially prominent were elements of both "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

As well, you will notice the difference in writing styles between Shakespeare and Fletcher. The reader will see that Shakespeare was a "supreme" writer while Fletcher was a writer "at least major in his time."

The Oxford World's Classics edition of this play (published by Oxford University Press in 2002) has illustrations along with an excellent, helpful introduction. It even has an index!

Finally, after reading this play, I recommend listening to the audio compact disc by Arkangel Shakespeare that was published by The Audio Partners in 2006. It gives an effective and balanced performance. It may be the first unabridged audio recording of this play of its kind!!

In conclusion, the first sentence of this play's epilogue states:

"I would now ask ye how ye like the play?"

I liked it!! I speculate that any potential reader will like it also.

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A Rosetta Stone for Appreciating Shakespeare.......2001-10-26

The Two Noble Kinsmen was only partially written by Shakespeare. The primary author was John Fletcher, and Shakespeare seems to have been doing a rewrite more than a collaboration. As a result, you get two different styles of narration and development in the same story. The underlying tale follows very closely on the famous Knight's Tale from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. As a result, you get a three way perspective on Shakespeare that is not available elsewhere -- what his co-author did, what Chaucer did, and how Shakespeare handled similar problems in other plays.

Where the Knight's Tale was primarily a story about chivalry, love, and spirituality, The Two Noble Kinsmen is very much about psychology and human emotions. Like other plays that Shakespeare wrote, this one shows how conflicting emotions create problems when we cannot master ourselves. In this case, the two loving cousins, Palamon and Arcite, fall out over having been overwhelmed by love for the appearance of Emilia, Duke Theseus's sister. The play explores many ways that their fatal passion for Emilia might be quenched or diverted into more useful paths. The dilemma can only be resolved by the removal of one of them. This places Emilia in an awkward situation where she will wed one, but at the cost of the life of the other. She finds them both attractive, and is deeply uncomfortable with their mutual passion for her. In a parallel subplot, the jailer's daughter similarly falls in love with Palamon, putting her father's life and her own in jeopardy. Overcome with unrequited love, she becomes mad from realizing what she has done. Only by entering into her delusions is she able to reach out to others.

What most impressed me from reading this play is how much better Shakespeare was as a writer than either Chaucer or Fletcher. You can tell the parts that Shakespeare wrote because the language is so compact, so powerful, and so filled with relevant imagery. The tension is unremitting and makes you squirm.

By contrast, the Knight's Tale is one of the dullest stories you could possibly hope to read and admire for its virtuosity without experiencing much enjoyment. Although the same plot is developed, few emotions will be aroused in you. When Fletcher is writing in this play, the development is slow, the content lacks much emotion, and you find yourself reaching for a blue pencil to strike major sections as unnecessary.

In fact, this play would not be worth reading except for the exquisite development of the dilemmas that are created for Emilia. Her pain will be your pain, and you will want to escape from it as much as she does. In these sections, you will find some of Shakespeare's greatest writing.

I also was moved by the way several scenes explored the duality of cousinly friendship and affection occurring at the same time that lethal passions of love and jealousy are loose.

Although this play will probably not be among your 50 favorites, you will probably find that it will sharpen your appetite for and appreciation of Shakespeare's best works.

I also listened to Arkangel recording, and recommend it. The performances are fine, the voices are easy to distinguish, the music is magnificent, the singing adds to the mood nicely, and you will find your engagement in the play's action powerfully increased over reading the play.

When do you lose control over your emotions? What does it cost you? How could you regain control before harm is done?

May you find peaceful, positive solutions to all of your dilemmas!

an unsung masterpiece.......2001-07-04

I will be the first to admit this is not the "best" or the "greatest" play written by the bard, but it is still very worthy of his name, and incredibly beautiful! Kinsmen is a romance in the style of Shakespeare's other late plays, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest (my favorite). In many ways it reflects his earlier works, namely A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and The Tempest. It tells a wonderfully romantic story of two good friends who fall for the same girl (I know, sounds familiar, but trust me, it's a different take on the setup) in Athens. The poetry in it is lovely, the characters very well developed, and the plot is incredible. Many people haven't heard of this play as Shakespeare cowrote it with Fletcher, but belive me, it is still wonderful. Highly recomended.

The only recording and fortunately a good one from Arkangel.......2000-01-14

The Arkangel Shakespeare series being issued by Penguin Audio is now halfway through the plays and the surprise is that was given preference to the remaining more familiar works. Co-authored by Shakespeare and Fletcher, this play remains an odd man out for several reasons. Based fairly closely on the "Knight's Tale" from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," it tells of two cousins, who just after swearing eternal friendship in one of Duke Theseus' prisons immediately fall in love with the same woman, Emilia, and become bitter rivals for her affections. One of them, Arcite, is exiled but returns in disguise; the other, Palamon, escapes with the help of the Jailer's Daughter, who goes mad for love of him; and...well, see for yourself. Of the play's 23 scenes, 7 and part of an 8th are attributed to Shakespeare, a 9th doubtfully so, and the rest to John Fletcher, who was probably handed over to Shakespeare to learn the ropes as it were. The Shakespeare parts are easy to spot: they are nearly impossible to understand without a heavily annotated copy of the text open before you! Even more so than in his late plays like "Cymberline" and "Winter's Tale," the syntax is so complex, the thoughts so condensed, that one might (and has) compared his writing with the late Beethoven String Quartets. As one of the scholars quoted in the excellent Signet Classic paperback edition of this play comments, the play is most unShakespearean in that none of the characters change over the course of the play. And I should add the subplot of the Daughter's madness is never integrated into the main plot. One scene, in fact, is devoted entirely to the description of some minor characters and might have been influenced by a similar and much longer sequence in "Seven Against Thebes." In short, do not play this for a casual listen; but be prepared to be challenged. Look especially for echoes of the earlier all-Shakespearean plays. The nuptials of Theseus and Hippolyta recall the opening scenes of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the main plot that of "Two Gentlemen of Verona," the Daughter's madness of Ophelia, and so on. As for the actual recording, it would be difficult to better it! The voices of the two kinsmen (Johnathan Firth and Nigel Cooke) are easily distinguishable, Theseus (Geoffrey Whitehead) sounds advanced in years and noble, Emila (Helen Schlesinger) mature and alert, Hippolyta (Adjoa Andoh) vocally of African origins as perhaps befits the character, and all the rest as understandable as the text allows and "into" their roles. Thank you, Penguin, for this noble entry in a series that is getting better and better.

The Shakespeare/Fletcher version of the Chaucer tale........1999-06-11

In this play, Shakespeare is widely regarded as having authored most of Acts I and V whereas Fletcher did the rest. Other scholars have suggested a more even distribution of the writing. It is a tragi-comedy based on Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and takes place in Athens when Theseus ruled. Two Theban prisoners, Arcite and Palamon, see the sister-in-law of Theseus, Emily, and both fall in love with her. This causes a break in the friendship of the two cousins. In the last act they fight for the honor of Emily's hand. One significant difference from the Chaucer tale is the presence of the jailor's daughter who falls in love with Palamon. She goes a little mad from her unrequited love but is cured by a lower class man pretending to be Palamon. The play is rarely produced today and does not come up to the lofty standards of the other works of Shakespeare. In fact, I suspect that more people have read Chaucer's version than Shakespeare's and Fletcher's. Nevertheless, it is a play that an educated person should read.

Pericles/Cymbeline/The Two Noble Kinsmen (Signet Classics)

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William Shakespeare
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Three great works-one volume

The plays collected here follow: the journeys of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; the political and romantic betrayals of Cymbeline-a chieftain of ancient times; and a work based on Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale.

THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN (THE KITTREDGE SHAKESPEARS THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN)

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Pericles, Cymbeline, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)

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William Shakespeare
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Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare: Annotated Bibliographies of Edward II, Sir Thomas More, Cardenio, & the Two Noble Kinsmen (Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies)

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Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare: Annotated Bibliographies of Edward II, Sir Thomas More, Cardenio, & the Two Noble Kinsmen (Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies)
G. Harold Metz
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The Leopold Shakspere.The Poet's Works in Chronological Order from the Text of Professor Delius, with The Two Noble Kinsmen and Edward III, and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall. Illustrated.

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The Leopold Shakspere.The Poet's Works in Chronological Order from the Text of Professor Delius, with The Two Noble Kinsmen and Edward III, and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall. Illustrated.
William Shakespeare
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The Leopold Shakspere: The poet's works in chronological order from the text of Professor Delius, with "The two noble kinsmen" and "Edward III." And an introduction by F.J. Furnivall
William Shakespeare
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A LETTER ON SHAKESPERE'S AUTHORSHIP OF THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN AND ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SHAKESPERE'S STYLE AND THE SECRET OF HIS SUPREMACY.

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume III: A Catalogue of Music: The Tempest--The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Sonnets, The Poems, Commemorative Pieces, Anthologies

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume III: A Catalogue of Music: The Tempest--The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Sonnets, The Poems, Commemorative Pieces, Anthologies
Bryan N. S. Gooch , David Thatcher , and Charles Haywood
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A comprehensive and detailed documentation of all the published and unpublished music related to Shakespeare's life and work, this five-volume set constitutes an invaluable reference tool. Encompassing music from many countries, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present, the catalog
demonstrates the extent of Shakespeare's influence on culture throughout the world. The music listed includes operas, ballets, overtures, tone poems, songs, and various types of incidental music (for stage, radio, film, and television productions). Entries for each composition provide information on
voice and instrument requirements, publication history, and data on first performance. The first three volumes deal with music and musical stage-direction for the plays (arranged alphabetically) and with settings of the sonnets and narrative poems. The fourth volume contains indexes of Shakespeare's
titles and lines, the titles of compositions, and composers, arrangers, editors, librettists. The final volume provides an entirely new research aid: a selected, annotated bibliography of writings, in various languages, on the subject of Shakespeare and music.

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