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  • 21 Oct 2020
    Electronic Structure Basic Theory and Practical Methods. Second Edition
    Richard M. Martin

    Why do we need a second edition? An Author’s Explanation

    Why would anyone write a new edition of a book that is still selling after many years? The explanations of the basic theory in the first edition are still valid, and the methods are still the ones that are most widely used. However I still felt an update was required. Richard M. Martin, author ofElectronic Structure Basic Theory and Practical Methods. Second Edition gives his personal reasons for updating the original edition (2004)

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  • 1 Nov 2017
    Photograph of Marie Curie. From ACJC-Curie and Joliot-Curie fund, with permission.

    Marie Curie at 150: ‘Natural Radioactivity’

    November 7th 2017 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867 – 1934), the only woman to ever be awarded two Nobel prizes. Here we reproduce Chapter 4 from Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics, 2006 Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)’ by author Abraham Pais.

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  • 28 Oct 2016

    Into the Intro – Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

    Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Beatrice Rehl, editor of Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present, tells us more...

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  • 28 Oct 2016

    Into the Intro – The Ancient City

    An introduction from Commisioning Editor Michael Sharp The ancient Greek and Roman worlds were defined by their cities. Ancient Greece actually comprised a large collection of cities, some of which founded offshoots across the Eastern and Western Mediterranean and into the Black Sea region, and it was in these cities that the foundations of Western […]

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  • 10 Oct 2016
    Huma Shah, Kevin Warwick

    Into the Intro – Turing’s Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown

    Turing's Imitation Game, commonly known as the Turing Test, is fundamental to the science of artificial intelligence. Involving an interrogator conversing with hidden identities, both human and machine, the test strikes at the heart of any questions about the capacity of machines to behave as humans. Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah, authors of 'Turing's Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown', tell us more....

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  • 4 Oct 2016
    Lewis and Barnes
    Geraint Lewis, Luke Barnes

    Into the Intro: A Fortunate Universe

    An Introduction from Senior Commissioning Editor, Vince Higgs Fine-tuning in physics and cosmology explores the realisation that if the Universe had even slightly different initial properties, then the world, and life as we know it, would probably never have come into being. This new book by Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes examines how different fine-tuning […]

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  • 16 Mar 2016
    Why Quark Rhymes with Pork
    N. David Mermin

    Into the Intro: Why Quark Rhymes with Pork

    We go Into the Intro of David Mermin's Why Quark Rhymes with Pork (2016), a hilarious and insightful account from a world renowned physicist.

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  • 27 Jan 2016
    Photograph of the heading of Corporate Social Entrepreneurship by Christine A Hemingway

    Into the Intro: Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

    We go Into the Intro of Christine A Hemingway's Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: Integrity Within (2014).

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