Wizards of the Coast
Extraits
Agendas jeunesse
Agenda Dungeons & Dragons. Edition 2022-2023
Un agenda collector de "Dungeons and Dragons" 2022-2023 avec des informations insolites sur les héros et protagonistes de ce jeu culte et de nombreux dessins. Cet agenda contient également un répertoire, un emploi du temps. Depuis plus de 40 ans, Dungeons and dragons a réuni plus de 15 millions de joueurs de jeu de rôle dans le monde. Ce jeu, crée par Gary Gygax et Dave Arnessen en 1974, est une référence pour toute une génération.
06/2022
Bretagne
De Erquy à Lancieux : plages, criques, pointes. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Une balade estivale sur le littoral du Nord Bretagne dans les Côtes d'Armor, à la découverte des criques, des plages, des pointes. De la Côte de Penthièvre à Erquy et de la Côte d' Emeraude à Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer et Lancieux. A summer walk on the coast of North Brittany in the Côtes d'Armor discovering coves and beaches. From the Penthièvre coast to Erquy and from the Emerald Coast to Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer and Lancieux.
09/2021
calendrier de l'avent
Donjons et Dragons : le Calendrier de l'avent officiel !
Pensé pour les joueurs, ce calendrier de l'avent vous invite à passer un mois de décembre ludique et plein de surprises. Que vous soyez Loyal Bon ou Chaotique Mauvais, si vous avez un jour joué à D&D, ce calendrier de l'avent est l'accessoire qui vous aidera à franchir toutes les portes, affronter les plus horribles monstres et trouver les plus beaux trésors cachés du mois de décembre !
10/2023
Non classé
The Cost-Benefit of Measles Immunization
In view of the importance of measles and the scarcity of resources in developing countries a cost-benefit study of measles immunization was carried out in the Southern Province of Zambia. It was concluded that economic benefits can only be expected from a measles immunization programme in urban areas with 24 hours electricity supply while in rural areas it would be an additional economic burden. Less thermolabile measles vaccines and/or a more reliable cold chain might make the extension of measles vaccination programmes to rural areas more economic.
12/1979
Mondes fantastiques
Magic The Gathering. L'éveil des sentinelles
Retrouvez dans ce livre magnifique les principaux héros et héroines de Magic, les créatures les plus saisissantes, les hauts lieux les plus impressionnants ! Voici une encyclopédie visuelle complète.
10/2021
Musique classique
Songs of Love. 12 Romances. 12 Lieder. Soprano (tenor) and piano.
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920. Songs of Love was first published in 1904. No evidence survives of any public performance in Kashperova's lifetime although it is very likely that they were performed at her regular 'musical evenings at home on Tuesdays' mentioned in her Memoirs. The transparency of the piano writing strongly suggests that she would accompany herself singing. Kashperova, by all accounts, possessed a fine voice, and in the summer of 1906 she decided 'to learn from the artistry', as she put it, of the tenor Raimond von Zur-Mühlen who was widely celebrated for having developed (with Clara Schumann) the Lieder-Abend tradition. His summer-schools on the Baltic coast were frequented by aspiring singers from all over Europe, even Japan and India. Kashperova herself was responsible for the poetic lyrics of Songs of Love (in both Russian and German), which may well have emerged from her own bittersweet experience of life and love ; she was not to marry until 1916 at the age of forty-four. That Kashperova is the author of both the music and the lyrics of Songs of Love would suggest that they express very personal sentiments. Instrumentation : soprano (tenor) and piano
12/2023
Science-fiction
Les Lames du chasseur Tome 3 : Les deux Epées
Pour les vingt ans de L'Elfe noir, l'éditeur américain Wizards of the Coast a réédité la saga de Drizzt dans l'ordre chronologique. Transitions, suivi de la trilogie Les Lames du Chasseur dont voici le dernier tome dans une nouvelle traduction, font directement suite à La Légende de Drizzt. L'épine dorsale du monde une fois de plus menacée... Tandis que Castelmithral est assiégé et Nesmé prise, la puissante Lunargent elle-même se prépare à affronter la guerre. Jusqu'à présent, Drizzt a dû se battre seul. Cependant, alors que le conflit semble se diriger vers une conclusion sanglante, le Chasseur devra trouver des alliés, anciens et nouveaux, ou mourir avec le reste du Nord civilisé.
04/2011
Policiers
Gold Coast
Karen a tout ce dont on peut rêver, mais elle s’ennuie et son mari, le parrain Frank DiCilia, la trompe. Ce qu’elle, bien sûr, n’a pas le droit de faire, car « une épouse est fidèle à son mari, elle lui doit obéissance. C’est dans la Bible. » Eh oui ; c’est ça, d’avoir épousé un Sicilien. Mais voilà que Franck meurt, laissant à sa charmante veuve une véritable fortune. A une condition quand même : qu’elle ne se remette avec aucun autre homme, faute de quoi s’envoleront les voitures, les millions et surtout le palace baptisé Gold Coast. Roland, gangster givré et ambitieux, est chargé de vérifier la bonne conduite de Karen. Surgit alors Cal Maguire, ex-taulard opportuniste originaire de Detroit, plein de charme et jamais à court de combines. Bientôt, il tient le plan du siècle pour délester Karen de son argent… s’ils ne se font pas tous les deux trouer la peau avant.Après une première période western, Elmore Leonard s’est plongé dans le genre policier, souvent de façon satirique et mordante, avec un grand succès au cinéma (entre autres : Get Shorty, Jackie Brown, Hors d’atteinte, Killshot). Rivages a publié une trentaine de ses titres.Gold Coast a été adapté pour la télévision aux Etats-Unis en 1997 par Peter Weller.« Le coup d’œil nonchalamment satirique de Leonard sur le monde déjanté de la Gold Coast de Floride n’a pas d’équivalent dans le roman policier contemporain. »Washington Post« Fin, vachard, sombrement drôle. »Boston Globe
06/2010
Littérature française
Skeleton coast
Sur la face atlantique Namibienne, Skeleton Coast, champ de récifs noyé de brouillard et d'ossements de cétacés, est le cimetière de milliers de navires. Mais pas seulement. Richard Grangier y a élu refuge. Il recherche sa fille, médecin humanitaire, disparue en Afrique. Morte, prisonnière ou pire ? Dans la touffeur équatoriale, il s'embarque de savanes en forêts vierges, au coeur d'un trafic mortel sous contrôle de soldats de fortune et de politiciens corrompus.
03/2021
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
The Undergrowth of Science. Delusion, self-deception and human frailty
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in The Undergrowth of Science are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epidemic or mass-hysteria through a sober and respectable scientific community. When this happens the rules by which scientists normally govern their working lives are suddenly suspended. Sometimes these episodes are provoked by personal vanity, an unwillingness to acknowledge error or even contemplate the possibility that a hard-won success is a will o' the wisp; at other times they stem from loyalty to a respected and trusted guru, or even from patriotic pride; and, worst of ail, they may be a consequence of a political ideology which imposes its own interpretation on scientists' observations of the natural world. Unreason and credulity supervene, illusory phenomena are described and measured, and theories are developed to explain them - until suddenly, often for no single reason, the bubble bursts, leaving behind it a residue of acrimony, recrimination, embarrassment and ruined reputations.
Here, then, are radiations, measured with high precision yet existing only in the minds of those who observed them; the Russian water, which some thought might congeal the oceans: phantom diseases which called for heroic surgery; monkey testis implants that restored the sexual powers of ageing roués and of tired sheep; truths about genetics and about the nature of matter, perceptible only to Aryan scientists in the Third Reich or Marxist ideologues in the Soviet Union; and much more. The Undergrowth of Science explores, in terms accessible to the lay reader, the history of such episodes, up to our own time, in ail their absurdity, tragedy and pathos.
01/2000
Ethnologie
Glimpses of african cultures. Echos des cultures africaines, Edition bilingue français-anglais
This book covers various aspects of African traditional cultures that include: communication, marriage ceremonies, funerals, traditional rites, witchcraft, traditional cultural activities, and traditional beliefs. It will undoubtedly appeal to anyone who wants to understand better our African cultures. The reading of some of the stories will certainly raise existential questions about the nature of spirits, truth, and the place of God in the collective mind of the Africans. Some of the questions are the following: how is it possible that a human being has his double in an animal known as his totem ? How corne that, for people who do not believe in reincarnation, it is the chief who determines the future of the soul of the deceased ? In "Mourning habits in the West province of Cameroon," it appears that, if the soul is not taken care of, it will cause physical havoc in the society. Could there be a link between our souls and the physical elements of nature ? Is skull worshiping among the Bamileke merely a traditional practice or are they really able to communicate with their ancestors through the skulls ? What has led the Aghem people to firmly believe that lakes can physically move, that the dead live in their lakes, that children live in their pre-human state as caterpillars and may transform into reptiles when they are still babies ? What makes it possible for the human mind to communicate with animais, exchange messages as is shown in "How animais and things can speak and communicate in the Yambassa culture" ? Apart from the physical world as we know it, could there truly be a spiritual world that witches and wizards have access to and which system of values could this spiritual world be subjected to ? Every single paper of the more than 80 papers and squibs this book comprises is truly an invitation to explore further the untapped richness of African cultures.
04/2011
Beaux arts
New worlds
"New Worlds" presents a selection of five outstanding nautical atlases known as portolan charts, or "portalans".These historic documents are the work of eminent scholars from Majorca, Lisbon, Le Havre, and Amsterdam. Cartographers by trade, and sometimes also skilled illuminators, they mapped what was the most probable imago mundi for their time, each exemplar crafting a fascinating visual chronicle. Jean-Yves Sarazin, head of Charts and Maps at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, scrutinizes thèse charts or atlases, and situates them in the great history of European discoveries and voyages from the early 14th to the late 17th century, from the Portuguese reconnaissance of the coasts of Africa, through the adventures of Columbus,Vespucci, and Magellan, to the Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Australia.The book's many colour reproductions are alive with picturesque details: camel caravans in the heart ofAsia, Portuguese andArab ships sailing in the Indian Ocean, wild beasts or chimaera, countless exotic plants, naval battles, and not least the frequent strangeness of the indigenous people.
10/2012
Archéologie
Etudes sur l'histoire et l'archéologie de Lydie de la période proto-lydienne à la fin de l'Antiquité. Textes en français et anglais
Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
02/2023
Science-fiction
Les wizards L'intégrale
Contraint de rejoindre une Académie de magie pour apprendre à contrôler ses pouvoirs, Killian se retrouve loin de sa vie d'avant pour affronter cette épreuve. Cette organisation deviendra le bouclier qui protège l'humanité et changera la vie de bien des magiciens... Voyageant à travers le monde pour débusquer ses ennemis, il prendra peu à peu conscience de la beauté de la magie malgré les dangers qui se dressent face à lui. pourra-t-il, aidé de ses amis, briser le plus impitoyable complot que la Terre ait jamais connu ?
10/2020
Mondes fantastiques
Magic The Gathering. Légendes
Retrouvez dans ce livre magnifique les créatures et figures les plus saisissantes de Magic ! Parcourez les différents univers de Magic, comme Ravnica, Dominaria, Alara, Theros, Ixalan) et retrouvez leurs créatures et figures mythiques, comme Rakdos, Teysa Karlov, Tomik Vrona, Emmara Tandris, Lazav.
10/2021
Musique, danse
West Coast Jazz
-"La West Coast, qu'est-ce que c'est ?" (Lee Konitz). -"C'est une étiquette, rien de plus." (Hampton Hawes). -"Ca a été un pur accident." (Chet Baker). L'appellation "Jazz West Coast" a toujours posé problème - entre autres à ceux qui l'avaient créée. D'abord rejetée, avec plus ou moins de violence, l'étiquette a finalement été acceptée, de guerre lasse. "On a toujours besoin d'un label", reconnaissait Shelly Manne. Apposer une estampille n'est pas difficile ; les problèmes surgissent dès lors qu'il s'agit de préciser ce qu'elle est supposée recouvrir. Car le jazz évolue à la façon d'un fleuve. Un nombre plus ou moins grand de courants se mêlent partiellement pour en former un nouveau. Dans le jazz, chaque mouvement, chaque tendance a une origine et une postérité qui rendent illusoire tout découpage strict des périodes et des styles. Renonçant à clore les limites, dans le temps et l'espace, d'un certain jazz, le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de quelques-uns des orchestres et des musiciens qui ont fait la musique des années cinquante en Californie. Une musique qui, le temps d'une décennie, s'est prêtée à toutes les audaces. Du jazz, seuls les disques portent témoignage. Et si ce livre existe, c'est grâce au plaisir que nous procurent toujours ceux qui furent gravés à Hollywood, Los Angeles ou San Francisco à partir de 1950.
09/2015
Monographies
Hilma af Klint. The Five Notebook 1
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the "Friday Group", also known as "The Five". They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and séances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called "The High Ones". In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with "The Five", aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Temple. This commission, which engaged the artist from 1906 to 1915, changed the course of her life. In 1908, Rudolf Steiner, leader of the German Theosophical Society, held several lectures in Stockholm. He also visited af Klint's studio and saw some of the early Paintings for the Temple. In 1913, Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society, which af Klint joined in 1920 and remained a member for the rest of her life.
01/2022
Non classé
RoferonÎ-A in Chronic Viral Hepatitis
Chronic liver infection due to viral hepatitis B and C is a major public health problem. Worldwide, an estimated 750 million people are carriers of these two viruses. Alpha-interferons, such as RoferonI-A, are currently the therapy of choice in chronic viral hepatitis B and C. They are effective in preventing disease progression and life-threatening sequelae : liver cirrhosis, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and variceal hemorrhage and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. On the other hand, discussion has been raised on the potentially enormous cost impact of these genetically engineered drugs in the treatment of an already costly disease. This study identifies and evaluates the long-term clinical and economic effects of RoferonI-A treatment in chronic viral hepatitis B and C over a time period of 10 to 20 years. Clinical and epidemiological data, as well as the detailed health care resource use and cost assessment, reflect the clinical and economic reality in Germany in 1993. A Markov model is used to predict the long-term clinical benefits of RoferonI-A therapy in terms of reduced morbidity and mortality. Based on this, direct costs, savings, and cost-effectiveness are analysed, including : RoferonI-A therapy initiation and follow-up, physician services, laboratory services, medicotechnical services, drug therapy, hospitalization as well as surgical interventions (liver transplantations).
06/1994
Philosophie
«Phädon», or «On the Immortality of the Soul»
This is the first modern translation of Moses Mendelssohn's classic work of 1767, the Phädon. It includes Mendelssohn's own introduction and appendix, as well as footnotes and explanatory introduction by David Shavin. (Charles Cullen's translation of 1789 is the only other extant translation.) The "modern Socrates" of the German classical period, Mendelssohn has created a beautiful translation and elaboration of Plato's Phädo led to a revolution in thought, and a subsequent renaissance in Germany. The debt of the German classical period to ancient Greece is embodied in Mendelssohn's Phädon, as is the promise of the American Revolution. The translation and accompanying notes recapture Mendelssohn's unique marriage of depth of thought and breadth of appeal.
12/2006
Informatique
USING STAROFFICE
- Make the most of the integrated StarOffice environment
- Create standard documents and templates quickly and easily with the AutoPilot wizards
- Export documents and graphics as HTML files and publish them on the Web
- Create professional-looking documents with styles and templates
- Streamline your workflow with automated functions, including AutoComplete, AutoFormat, and AutoCorrect
- Add hyperlinks and graphic objects to your documents
- Enhance text and presentation documents with special font and 3D effects, 3D graphics, and sounds
- Work with vector graphics and bitmapped images and use basic and advanced drawing functions
- Get connected and organized with StarMail and StarSchedule
- Customize every aspect of your StarOffice desktop
- Manage contacts with the built-in Address Book
- Automate your workflow by using macros
- Troubleshoot common and not-so-common problems when working on documents
- Install and manage StarOffice for multiple users
11/1999
Non classé
The Regulation of Rental Contracts in the Housing Market
In many countries (part of) the rental housing market is subject to regulations concerning determination of rent and security of tenure. The author provides fresh theoretical analysis of these measures by taking into account special features of the housing market, like indivisibility, mobility cost and incomplete contracts. The impact a rent ceiling has on contracting, the allocation of the housing stock, rationing cost and on rents in the free housing sector is examined. In some cases tenure laws provide for tenure security and rules for the updating of rent while leaving the initial rent for new leases freely negotiable. The analysis shows that the efficiency of the market could be improved through this type of regulation.
10/1991
Littérature étrangère
Ne pleure pas, mon enfant
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, né en 1938 est un écrivain kényan de langue kikuyu et de langue anglaise. Dramaturge, romancier, essayiste, il est notamment l'auteur de Secret Lives, Matigari, Wizard of the Crow et Dreams in a time of War.
10/2017
Publicité
Lürzer's Int'l Archive N° 5-6/2020, décembre 2020
Lürzer's Archive 5+6/2020, the final issue for 2020, is out now. It comprises a total of 131 print, 36 film campaigns and 15 examples of outstanding new digital work selected by the curator of this issue's Digital selection, Tiffany Rolfe, EVP Chief Creative Officer US at R/GA. The interview with her has the heading "I can't help but stay busy". For our main interview, we're talking to one of the most respected British creatives and currently D&AD President, Naresh Ramchandani. The interview with him is titled The chance to make the world more progressive. Finally, the cover of this issue is another masterpiece of the Bangkok based digital wizzards from Illusion, for agency Dentsu Redder and client Ho Chi Minh City.
02/2021
Sciences politiques
The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany
Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.
11/1987
Histoire internationale
On the Border - The Otherness of God and the Multiplicity of the Religions
The Christian theology of religions at present faces a crisis. What precisely is the task of the theology of religions ? Does it merely consist in interpreting the non-Christian religions as steps, phases or contributions in the light of Christianity ? Has one from the theological side conceded the maximum to the non-Christian religions by acknowledging them as anonymous Christianity (Karl Rahner)? This study is an exploration on how one shall liberate the religion of the other from anonymity : how one shall leave the other with his/her own name. The model of thought employed in this study is gained through an analysis of the intercultural process of understanding, explained with instances from Africa and South America.
01/1994
Bretagne
Balade sur la Côte de Granit Rose : Trégastel, Ploumanac'h, Perros-Guirec. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Une balade estivale sur le littoral du Nord Bretagne dans les Côtes d'Armor, à la découverte de la Côte de Granit Rose. Trégastel avec son Ile Rénote très plaisante, Ploumanac'h avec ses chaos granitiques gargantuesques, roches empreintes de mystères qui nous font ressentir la puissance des éléments naturels. Perros-Guirec avec son port et sa jolie plage de Trestrignel. A summer walk on North Brittany coast (Côtes d'Armor, France), discovering the pink granite coast. Trégastel with its very pleasant Rénote island. Ploumanac'h with his gargantua granitic chaos, rocks footprints of mysteries that make us feel the power of natural elements. Perros-Guirec with its port and pretty beach of Trestrignel.
11/2021
Europe
Follow the coast . La Côte Atlantique de Knokke à San Sebastian
Le 1er juin 2019, a commencé une course-relais unique en son genre : la Mare Nostrum Run. Le but ? Longer en courant la totalité des côtes européennes, soit 89 000 km. Le parcours a été divisé en étapes de 100 km, chacune disputée par une équipe différente. Cet ouvrage est le souvenir physique de la première partie de ce fantastique périple, qui ralliait Knokke à San-Sebastian. Pour chaque étape, le lecteur apprend ce qu'il faut absolument voir sur place, les promenades à faire, les endroits à visiter, etc. Avec plus de 500 photos de paysages, Follow the Coast est un trésor visuel qui va bien au-delà du simple guide de voyage.
02/2022
Non classé
Conflict and Classification
The dialogues of the mid-Victorian novelist, Anthony Trollope, are particularly permeable to modern psycholinguistic terminology as used by the Palo Alto school, especially by Paul Watzlawick in Pragmatics of Human Communication. We have classified Trollope novels into pleasant and unpleasant, using Barchester Towers and He Knew He was Right as respective examples of normogenic personal and social conflict, and schizophrenia-induced hubris. We have cast seven dialogues in graphic form : first according to the semiotic system by Carlos E. Sluzki and Janet Beavin, and then in the more comprehensive form of Klaus Muderbach's Interaction Notation. The question is posed whether a semiotic notation can show differentiation between psychotic and normogenic behavior, with reflections on how to define each.
10/1991
Guides pratiques
The elbe cycle route
This guide describes the Elbe Cycle route which runs from the river's source in the Krkonose mountains on the Czech/Polish border to Cuxhaven, on the German North Sea coast. Possibly the easiest long-distance cycle route in Europe in terms of gradient, it visits a part of the continent that was mostly inaccessible to foreigners before the fall of Communism in 1989 and which has changed dramatically since opening up to visitors. On its gentle descent to the sea, the route passes through many small towns that were ignored during the Communist period but have now reemerged as medieval gems, as well as larger cities such as Prague, Dresden and Magdeburg which have been rebuilt and restored since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
03/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
Thinking about Physics
Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he believes, physicists haven't subjected their assumptions to thorough scrutiny. Newton's goal is to provide a framework within which the fundamental theories of modem physics can be explored, interpreted, and understood.
"Surely physics is more than a collection of experimental results, assembled to satisfy the curiosity of appreciative experts," Newton writes. Physics, according to Newton, has moved beyond the describing and naming of curious phenomena, which is the goal of some other branches of science. Physicists have spent a great part of the twentieth century searching for explanations of experimental findings. Newton agrees that experimental facts are vital to the study of physics, but only because they lead to the development of a theory that can explain them. Facts, he argues, should undergird theory.
Newton's explanatory sweep is both broad and deep. He covers such topics as quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, field theory, thermodynamics, the role of mathematics in physics, and the concepts of probability and causality. For Newton the fundamental entity in quantum theory is the field, from which physicists can explain the particle-like and wave-like properties that are observed in experiments. He grounds his explanations in the quantum field.
Although this is not designed as a standalone textbook, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and researchers. This is a clear, concise, up-to-date book about the concepts and theories that underlie the study of contemporary physics. Readers will find that they will become better-informed physicists and, therefore, better thinkers and problem solvers, too.
01/2000
