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Wisdom of the Martians of Science: In Their Own Words with Commentaries

The book comes as a follow-up to a previous title, The Martians of Science, which drew the profiles of these five scientists and presented their contributions to their fields of research. The aim of t...

Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics

This book deals with two major but different fields of condensed-matter physics, semiconductors and superconductors, starting from the consideration that the key particles of these materials, which ar...

Effective Field Theories

Francesco Riva reviews in 2016 Effective Field Theories.

Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

The volume provides an essential and pedagogical introduction to soft-collinear effective field theory (SCET), one of the low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of the Standard Model developed in ...

Quark–Gluon Plasma 5

As the fifth volume in a series on quark–gluon plasma (QGS), this text provides an update on the recent advances in theoretical and phenomenological studies of QGS.

Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality

Massimo Giovannini reviews in 2016 Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality.

Laser Experiments for Chemistry and Physics

The book provides an introduction to the characteristics and operation of lasers through laboratory experiments for undergraduate students in physics and chemistry.

Resummation and Renormalization in Effective Theories of Particle Physics

The book re-collects notes written by the authors for a course on finite-temperature quantum fields, and more specifically on the application of effective models of strong and electroweak interactions...

Holograms: A Cultural History

The book is a sort of biography of holograms, peculiar optical "objects" that have crossed the border of science to enter other cultural and anthropological fields, such as art, visual technology, pop...