An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a de...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a ...(展开全部)

Written for advanced undergraduates, physicists, and historians and philosophers of physics, this book tells the story of the development of our understanding of quantum phenomena through the extraordinary years of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rather than following the standard axiomatic approach, this book adopts a historical perspective, explaining clearl...(展开全部)

This text provides a thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. Beginning with a brief review of phase transitions in simple systems and of mean field theory, the text then goes on to introduce the core ideas of the renormalization group. Following chapters cover phase diagrams, fixed points, cross-over behaviour, finite-size scaling, per...(展开全部)

阿特·霍布森（Art Hobson）于1934年生于费城。他家于1946年搬迁到堪萨斯州曼哈顿城，在那里他发展出对长号和爵士乐的热情。1955年他从登顿（Denton）的北德州大学获得音乐学士学位，并在那里参加了著名的一点钟实验乐队演出。1955年至1957年，他应征入伍并在美国陆军乐队和驻欧美军第七军交响管弦乐队服务，后来在纽约市花了几个月时间想找一份稳定的音乐工作。他决定，换到另一个领域可能更好些。

Written for the non-science major, this text emphasizes modern physics and the scientific process-and engages students by drawing connections between physics and everyday experience. Hobson takes a conceptual approach, with an appropriate focus on quantitative skills. The Fifth Edition increases coverage of key environmental topics such as global warming and energy, and adds ne...(展开全部)

Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, sociology today is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding o...(展开全部)

利森?布伦特(Alison Blunt)是伦敦大学玛丽女皇学院地理系讲师。她的研究兴趣包括家乡与身份地理学、帝国旅行与家庭生活文化以及女性主义和后殖民时代地理学。她是《旅行、性别与帝国主义：玛丽?金斯利与西非))(Travel，Gender，and Imperialism：Mary Kinsleyand We5t Africa，Guilford，1994)的作者，《持不同政见者地理学：激进思想与实践导论》(Dissident Geography：an Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice，Prentice Hall，2000)的合著者，《书写妇女与空间：殖民与后殖民时代地理学))(Writing Women and Space：Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies，...(展开全部)