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This self-contained text describes breakthroughs in our understanding of the structure and interactions of elementary particles. It provides students of theoretical or experimental physics with the background material to grasp the significance of these developments.
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Would have been great if only..........2002-01-27
This is a very good treatment of particle physics. Unfortunately, its one of those textbooks where exercises are dispersed throughout the text and which form an integral part of the pedagogy. In other words, the reader must work through the problems as they appear in the book as subsequent material is based upon it; not to do the exercies will result in an incomplete and fragmented exposure to the material. Some might like that approach but I personally find it irritating and slows down the reading. As I mentioned its a very well written expose of particle physics but it could have been great if its format had been more traditional.
Best book for preparing for a test in particle physics.......2002-01-01
I love this book, mostly because this book told me very well about how to do every kind of particle physics problems.
Before you read it, you needn't have much background in Quantum Field Theory (while it should be quite good to read this book before studying QFT), and you can get almost all ideas of High Energy Physics in an aspect of phenomenology.
If you wanna prepare for a professional particle physics test (such as a PhD Qualification test), for sure this book is the best one to read --- you can pass any kind of these tests if you concentrate more than 2 days on this book.
And even you are not worrying about any test, this book is very good for a beginner to know particle physics quantitatively.
Do yourself a favour!.......2000-07-12
If you are a grad student in high energy/nuclear/heavy ion physics, experimental or theoretical, do yourself a favour and buy this book. It starts really from the begining (scalar fields, spinors, dirac equation, propagators) and slowly but steadily reaches the point of gauge field theory, QCD, partons, electroweak interactions , spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Weinberg-Salam model. Dont expect to find anything rigorous about renormalization. Chapter 7 has some calculations about running coupling constants etc. but most of it is intuitive (describing rather than proving) in order to give you a glimpse about these matters and serve as a tool for later chapters. Although I knew the basics of Quantum Field Theory before I read this book, it helped me understand topics like deep inelastic scattering, parton distribution functions, scaling, weak interactions,spontaneous symmetry breaking. Caution: It is not a Quantum Field Theory book, it is a particle physics book. If you are looking for gribov anomalies,ward-takahashi identities, and renormalization of the weinberg-salam model and stuff like that then this is not the place to find it. The book is about particles and their interactions. Its purpose is to prepare the serious student for more rigorous Quantum Field Theory books and give him/her the big picture of the standard model (the forest) rather than the little details of field theory (the tree). I strongly recommend it to any student in the field. The language is clear and the concepts are easy to follow. Its a down to earth approach trying to explain things in a clear cut manner rather than confusing the student with "big words" and terminology. A nice suplement to this book is the book by Chris Quigg (...huge number of references). In short, this book is worth its money ! Buy it !
excellent.......2000-05-20
Excellent introduction to Particle Physics. Q and L should be accessible to anyone with one semester of a standard quantum mechanics course.
As for graduate students, I'd offer that Q and L is as good a book to fall back on in a graduate particle physics course as is Griffith's book is in a Jackson Electrodynamics course.
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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1897 edition by the University Press, Cambridge.
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By systematically covering both the Heisenberg and Schrödinger realizations, the book emphasizes the essential principles of quantum mechanics, which remain hidden within the usual derivations of the wave equation. Moreover, this presentation not only covers the material which is traditionally presented in textbooks, but also is especially suitable for introducing the spin, i.e., the most important quantum observable. This emphasis on spin paves the way for a presentation of recent quantum-mechanical concepts such as entanglement and decoherence, and to recent applications including cryptography, teleportation and quantum computation.
"I am very impressed with Dr. Bes' approach to the subject, the clarity of his exposition, and the timeliness of the examples, many of which are taken from the most recent developments of the "old-new" field of quantum mechanics" (
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The best quantum introduction.......2006-03-28
I've used the text as an introduction to quantum mechanics in electronic engineering and the results were great. The book is certainly concise, mathematical preliminaries are short and useful, and the approach is simple but the scope is important. It is very axiomatic and from a few principles I could solve the problems of the Schaum Edition devoted to Quantum Mechanics without reading the theoretical part. I've read several books introducing quantum mechanics, and I consider this was the best.
Do not waste your money.......2006-01-10
They call this book "concise" and they aren't kidding. An example is the section on addition of angular momentum: its one page. An amazing 4 and a half pages is devoted to the harmonic oscillator! The bottom line of this book is that its far too "concise". It seems like it was thrown together in a single weekend. If you already know quantum mechanics and are looking for mastery or deeper understanding, or just a review, there isn't enough here to get that. On the other hand, if you're learning QM for the first time, this book is completely worthless. In the end its unfortunate because I think the author has a talent for explanation, he should have taken the time to write a solid book that wasn't concise but useful.
Brilliant, concise and orginal!.......2005-04-23
The book is simple great, it covers both formulation of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg's and Schrödinger's, some problems, as the harmonic oscilator are cover in both points of view. The modern applications such as teletransportation, quantum cryptography and new interpretations of quantum mechanics (different from Copenhague's one) are introduced in a clever and concise way. The book is great for an introductory course but also as reference. Dr. Bès makes use of his amazing trajectory and intelligence in this book and develops a unique textbook.
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This novel text structures a one-semester course of introductory physics around the question: "Why do we believe in atoms and their properties?" Its theme is thus much of 19th and 20th century physics, but it also connects these topics to classical physics. The treatment emphasizes quantitative reasoning and analysis: how are the ideas of physics inferred from the data, and how are the data acquired? After a brief review of the basic terminology of mechanics, the book begins by introducing the atoms of chemistry: elements, compounds, chemical reactions, valence. It then turns to the physicist's hard- sphere atoms: ideal gases, pressure, temperature, viscosity. The first hint of subatomic structure comes from the discovery of the electron, and the discussion thus turns to electricity, magnetism, light, and x- rays. This leads in turn to waves and relativity. The internal structure of the atom (i.e. the nucleus) was discovered in the early part of the 20th century, and the book concludes with the modern insights into the atom: photons radioactivity, the particle/wave duality, quantum mechanics, the Bohr model, and closes the circle back to the chemist's atom with Moseley's law and the periodic table. A large number of problems, some of them based on computer spreadsheets, as well as laboratory exercises serve to clarify students' understanding.
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- An excellent book for an overview
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Modern Physics: An Introductory Text
Jeremy I. Pfeffer , and
Shlomo Nir
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This book originated from the need for a suitable student text for the course "An Introduction to Modern Physics" given at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This course is open to all students who have completed the standard first-year physics courses in mechanics, optics, electricity and magnetism. Its primary goal is to produce graduates who are - whatever their field of specialisation - "modern-physics-literate". The presentation of the course material emphasises the physical aspects of the phenomena.
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An excellent book for an overview.......2007-09-01
This book is not that available everywhere, may be for marketing reason. But this book is one of the best physics books I have read for an overview on the modern physics. It is so wonderfully arranged and compact that to find one thing you will not have to go through 5 chapters. Very coherent.
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The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. Through the tight lens of four months, Juliet Nicolson’s rich storytelling gifts rivet us with the sights, colors, and feelings of a bygone era. That summer of 1911 a new king was crowned and the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next. But perfection was not for all. Cracks in the social fabric were showing. The country was brought to a standstill by industrial strikes. Temperatures rose steadily to more than 100 degrees; by August deaths from heatstroke were too many for newspapers to report. Drawing on material from intimate and rarely seen sources and narrated through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals — among them a debutante, a choirboy, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler, and the Queen — The Perfect Summer is a vividly rendered glimpse of the twilight of the Edwardian era.
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Lightweight social history.......2007-09-16
Examination of the summer months of 1911, the Coronation Summer of King George V. The author's style can be somewhat plodding, and there a few noticable errors of fact. For example, Queen Mary's Aunt Augusta was nearly 89, not 85, in June of 1911. And I thought it was Harold Nicolson who owned the car nicknamed Green Archie, not Vita Sackville West? (Just two examples -- I don't want anyone to think I read the book looking for errors, but there are more than these.)
The book is interesting, yet somehow not very insightful. Despite a substantial biliography, the book gives an impression of being lightweight. Perhaps that's caused by its focus being somewhat more on the English aristocracy than the lower classes, although Ms. Nicolson does reveal some interesting tidbits about the poor, such as the cost of a funeral for an English working-class person, and about the rich, such as the fact that they were rather physically dirty people!
I can say with all honesty, while I didn't dislike this book and in fact found some parts of it very interesting, I am glad I borrowed a copy from the library rather than purchasing it.
Twilight of an Era.......2007-09-08
I found this a fascinating book, extremely well-written and a sharply-focused peek into a bygone era. For history buffs it is especially valable as not only the breaking up of a world which was never more to be, but the mindsets of various segments of a society which was to be turned u.pside-down by a war that decimated a generation. I highly recommend it.
OK, but...........2007-08-26
Not very 'deep'. Interesting, light, almost frivolous, view of 1911, and a good way to understand the differences and struggles of the various elements of post-Victorian society, but does not assess the year in the setting of post-Edwardian, and pre-WW I history, or the growing challenge of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany. R.K.Massey's "Dreadnought" or William Manchester's "The Last Lion" (Vol 2)do a better and deeper job of this.
Deja vu.......2007-08-14
As I was born in 1925 much of what is described as occurring in 1911 was still in existence in my growing-up years. Class distictions were still "upstairs and downstairs" although the establishments were not as opulent as in 1911. My father, a rural general practitioner, was called in to treat the sick servants but had to go to the tradesmens entrance while the "county" would have specialists come down from London to treat them; this and many other things described in this book were still true in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War. I really enjoyed this book
Recaptures the summer of Edwardian/Georgian transition.......2007-08-07
The author, granddaughter of Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson, and daughter of Nigel Nicholson ("Portrait of a Marriage'), has written really two books in one. Her focus is the summer of 1911, when things were going swimmingly for the British and their empire. What a difference the next few years would make, with the advent of the Great War. The first half or so of the book focuses upon, what Morley Safer used to call, "everybody's favorite eccentrics" the British upper class. Here the emphasis is on shooting parties, the upcoming coronation of George V, debutants, weekend house parties at country homes, and basically filling all that time when one had virtually unlimited money and nothing much to do. I enjoyed this section very much, as I find this topic quite interesting. But then the focus and tone change in the second half of the book--the author concentrates her attention on some of the more unpleasant aspects of this period when one percent of the population owned 60% of the country. Those topics include the way of life of the lower classes (30% fell below the level of barest necessity); labor strikes and disruption; and the very deprived condition of those "in service" (who constituted 16% of the labor force). These disparities are so severe one wonders if the Great War actually foreclosed some manner of domestic insurrection. There is also interwoven throughout discussion of some of the technical changes that Britian was undergoing: airplanes; cinema; automobiles; and subways for example. The book is not meant as a scholarly treatment, although the author's bibliography indicates the substantial amount of research she has undertaken. Also helpful are a listing of the "dramatis personae" so you don't get confused as to who is who, and some helpful illustrations. The author's style is most pleasant to read and the book is quite informative. An interesting book on a very crucial period in British history.
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Just a Summer Romance
Ann M. Martin
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A Great Book.......2003-03-17
I still remember when I read this book in junior high school, and I'm getting ready to graduate this May from college, yet it still puts a smile on my face when I think about the book. It was one of those stories that you think could never happen to you, but it can, and it did happen to Melanie. I really enjoyed it, I suggest it to anyone looking for a lighthearted, good read. And for a little bit of a sequel, read "Eleven Kids, One Summer," which features Melanie, Justin and their families once again. But first, read "10 Kids No Pets."
So Good, So Good.......2003-02-16
This book was awesome. I never thought that Justin was a tv star. I was just as suprised as Melanie when I read the part about him being a star. It has all the things I'm looking for in a book. It has romance, twists, and it keeps you wanting to know more about their new found romance. I just wished it would have gave you a better picture of how their relationship worked out in the future. It needs a sequal.
Just a Summer Romance.......2001-06-10
I just read this book and i thought it was fantastic. I could relate to Melanie in so many ways. Justin is everything a guy should be because he was so sweet and kind and just a gentlemen. I knew something was odd with him going to "work" but i couldn't see it. Ann M. Martain it one of my favorite authors, so i knew this would be good. I hope theres a sequal coming.
BEST BOOK I READ SO FAR.......2001-06-07
I first read this book when i was in Junior High school in the 7th grade. I hated books, but one time i had to do a report in order to pass my class. The teacher gave us a few books and we had to pick one of them. I picked Just A Summer Romance because it looked intresting. I started to read the book, and from the first page i read i liked it. I liked it because it reflected my live. I loved that book so much that i read it in three days, i always read the book during math, spanish, social studies and english class, i use to wake up at three in the morning to read the book because i was wondering what would happen next. Now i'm a senior in High School and i still haven't forgotten about that love story.
I loved this book.......1999-07-27
I read this book when i was in 6th grade.i'am a junior in highschool now and still love the book.it really captures a true meaning of a first love.i thought the book was real romantic,and i thought justin was just a sweethart.melanie's character remided me of myself, of my first love.The book was so heart warming it was excelent it should become a movie i loved it.
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- Is this author working out of a cave or a former nun?
- ONE OF THE SLOWEST MOVING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ!
- I expected fun trash, not boring trash
- Grab your towel & sunscreen and head for the beach!
- The best looking forward to Van Wormer's next book
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Just for the Summer
Laura Van Wormer
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Who knew the Hamptons was such a hotbed of murder and corruption? In Laura Van Wormer's Just for the Summer, a favor for an old friend turns into a phantasmagoria of sex, money, and death. The protagonist in this tale of murder-most-financial is Mary Liz Scott, a gorgeous 32-year-old investment banker who comes to Long Island to help her godmother go through some financial records belonging to Mary Liz's late godfather. Faster than you can say "junk bond," Mary Liz encounters Julius, Claude, Buck, Charles, Randolph, and a host of other unsavory Hamptonites--all suspects in the death of a shady financier.
Just for the Summer is aptly named, in that it is ideal reading for anyone slightly stunned by too much fun in the sun. Neither the story, the characters, nor the mystery itself will prove too taxing, but certainly Van Wormer's tale of sex, death, and money among Long Island's upper crust will provide hours of breezy entertainment for those long summer days.
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Is this author working out of a cave or a former nun?.......2002-06-05
I actually laughed in places when I read her stiff attempts at pretending to be of this century. I don't need a lot of sexy stuff to keep me hooked, just a decently plotted story (no go) and a main character I can care about. I would kill this girl if she were my houseguest. It's almost worth the slow read to see the word "golly" written about a gay liason and "down there" referencing, well...you know.
ONE OF THE SLOWEST MOVING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ!.......2000-12-13
How did this book ever get published? It was the most boring thing that I've read this year. The entire book is about 474 pages. Just imagine wasting all that time for nothing. I believe that this novel should be considered general fiction and nothing more. There was some romance in it, but hardly any suspense. It just went on and on. The main characters went to about a thousand dinner parties and banquets. That took up about 75 pages in all! Nothing exciting happened at all until about page 250. But don't get me wrong, Laura Van Wormer is a good writer, because I'm reading "Talk" and loving it! Just trust me, save your money on "Just For The Summer."
Brad Stonecipher
I expected fun trash, not boring trash.......1999-07-10
I don't expect much in summer paperbacks, but I could not believe how this one dragged. How can someone take a story about murder, rich movie stars on vacation, and romance and end up with something so predictable, trite and boring? None of the characters were interesting or even distinguishable. Worse of all, the writing style was so dully flat that I felt like the author was whacking me on the head with each sentence. There is such a thing as excellent, entertaining trash that evokes emotion - Nora Roberts, Olivia Goldsmith, etc. The only reponse this book evoked was the realization that I wasted an afternoon.
Grab your towel & sunscreen and head for the beach!.......1999-03-20
Just for the Summer is a great read for the beach! Saturated with celebrities and juicy tidbits about the stars, this book was a tremendously fun read. I lost myself in the frolicking of the wealthy Hamptonites, putting the book down only to refresh my margarita!
The best looking forward to Van Wormer's next book.......1998-05-01
The story was so in tune with the Hamptons, you find yourself in in the cottage, on the beach, also turning pages wanting to see what happens next.
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Rica's Summer (Not Just Proms & Parties)
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Rica's two older sisters have all the luck. Tall, gorgeous, and confident, the second they hit the beach during family vacation, the boys come calling. Once again, Rica is left behind, on her own. But when a cute volleyball player shows an interest in Rica, things start to look up - until she and one of her sisters realize they have both been the targets of his affection. The sisters finally unite to plot their revenge. But when the plan leads to a beach party with underage drinking and fooling around, Rica finds herself in a frightening situation that's quickly spinning out of her control. Check out this infectious new series - with high interest plots and young female protagonists who face challenges common to teen girls, it's like life, only juicier!
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-08-17
Imagine being the youngest of three daughters. Your mother's pet name for you is Baby. No one expects that you have a life or even want one besides hanging out at home with dear old mom and dad. Meet Rica.
The summer camping trip is just beginning. Rica, her two older sisters, her mom and dad, aunt and uncle, plus one cousin and his friend are headed to their usual campground. Rica is determined that this summer it's going to be different. She is going to have fun and adventure.
Much to her amazement, the fun and adventure begins quite quickly and easily when she meets Stefan. At first it is just the casual glance and nod, but then, thanks to a heat-induced faint on the beach, Rica really has Stefan's attention.
The problem is that Rica's older sister, Michelle, seems to have his attention, too. Will the girls fight over him or realize what a creep he is being and join forces to teach him a lesson?
RICA'S SUMMER is one of the NOT JUST PROMS & PARTIES books by Patricia G. Penny. With its sibling rivalry, hot guys, and illegally obtained alcohol, it should be popular with teen girls. The author packs in plenty of action in the less than 140-page book, and also includes a message teens can't miss.
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Healing With Handmade Bread: From Start to Finish in Just Two Hours
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Delicious Bread and Inspiring Words.......2004-06-09
This book was written by a beautiful woman who has made it her goal in life to make others happy. Kathy writes in a manner that is simple and humble. Her style allows the reader to not only learn to make delicious bread, but understand the peace that Kathy feels when she makes and shares bread. I am a long-time bread maker and love these recipes. They have been perfected to the point where a novice can easily learn and an experienced bread maker can start to develop new recipes. This is not just a book for bread makers or just a book for those with cancer. Kathy's experience with cancer and her love of making handmade bread is an inspiration to anyone.
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