Publications
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Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
(2015)
Autobiographical memory plays a key role in psychological well-being, and the field has been investigated from multiple perspectives for over thirty years. One large body of research has examined the basic mechanisms and ...
Heavy Quark Physics
(2000)
Understanding the physics of heavy quarks gives physicists a unique opportunity to test the predictions of quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model. This introductory text begins with a review of the Standard Model, ...
An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
(2007)
The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise yet accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions and the ...
An Introduction to Regge Theory and High Energy Physics
(1977)
This book presents an extended introduction to the theory of hadrons, the elementary particles that occur in the atomic nucleus. The main emphasis is on the theory of the complex angular momentum plane 'Regge theory'. In ...
Renormalization
(1984)
Many numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics are made possible by exploiting the discovery that simplifications can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This ...
Spin in Particle Physics
(2001)
Motivated by dramatic developments in the field, this book provides a thorough introduction to spin and its role in elementary particle physics. Starting with a simple pedagogical introduction to spin and its relativistic ...
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960
(2022)
This book explores how an international health statistics system was built and implemented as statistical practices developed in public health schools (Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College), intergovernmental ...
Normative Reasons: Between Reasoning and Explanation
(2022)
Reasons matter greatly to us in both ordinary and theoretical contexts, being connected to two fundamental normative concerns: figuring out what we should do and what attitudes to have, and understanding the duties and ...
Preference Change
(2024)
For most of its history, decision theory has investigated the rational choices of humans under the assumption of static preferences. Human preferences, however, change. In recent years, decision theory has increasingly ...
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992
(2022)
How did the Bank of England manage sterling crises? This book steps into the shoes of the Bank’s foreign exchange dealers to show how foreign exchange intervention worked in practice. The author reviews the history of ...
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
(2021)
Knowing Women is an ethnography on friendship, desire, and same-sex intimacy among urban, working-class women in southern Ghana. The intersectional analysis of these women’s life narratives situates them in relation to ...
Understanding Accountability in Democratic Governance
(2023)
This book comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in democratic governance. The electoral punishment of the incumbents, parliamentary control of government, and sanctions in case ...
Philosophy of Developmental Biology
(2022)
The history of developmental biology is interwoven with debates as to whether mechanistic explanations of development are possible or whether alternative explanatory principles or even vital forces need to be assumed. In ...
Big Data and Global Trade Law
(2021)
This collection explores the relevance of global trade law for data, big data and cross-border data flows. Contributing authors from different disciplines including law, economics and political science analyze developments ...
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
(2023)
Peer review is supposed to ensure that published work, in philosophy and in other disciplines, meets high standards of rigor and interest. But many people fear that it no longer is fit to play this role. This Element ...
Particle Detectors, Second Edition
(2008)
Elementary particles can be identified through various techniques, depending on the purpose of the measurement and which relevant quantities, such as time, energy, and spatial coordinates, have to be measured. Detectors ...
Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions
(2014)
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal dissipation that it cannot be seen as made ...
The Lund Model
(1998)
The Lund model, inspired by quantum chromodynamics, has provided a promising approach to the dynamics of quark and gluon interactions. Starting with a brief reprise of basic concepts in relativity, quantum mechanics of ...
Non-Perturbative Field Theory
(2010)
Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book gives a pedagogical exposition of non-perturbative methods in relativistic quantum field theory and introduces the reader to modern research in theoretical ...
Dynamics of Charged Particles and their Radiation Field
(2004)
This book provides a self-contained and systematic introduction to classical electron theory and its quantization, non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics. The first half of the book covers the classical theory. It discusses ...
Supersymmetric Solitons
(2009)
In the last decade methods and techniques based on supersymmetry have provided deep insights in quantum chromodynamics and other non-supersymmetric gauge theories at strong coupling. This book summarizes major advances in ...
Electroweak Theory
(2007)
The electroweak theory unifies two basic forces of nature: the weak force and electromagnetism. This is a concise introduction to the structure of the electroweak theory and its applications. It describes the structure and ...
Introduction to Quantum Fields on a Lattice
(2003)
This book provides a concise introduction to quantum fields on a lattice: a precise and non-perturbative definition of quantum field theory obtained by replacing continuous space-time by a discrete set of points on a ...
Methods of Contemporary Gauge Theory
(2002)
This book introduces the quantum theory of gauge fields, emphasising four non-perturbative methods which have important applications: path integrals, lattice gauge theories, the 1/N expansion, and reduced matrix models. ...
Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory
(2009)
Bringing together the key ideas from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and powerful methodology from quantum field theory, this 2008 book captures the essence of nonequilibrium quantum field theory. Beginning with the ...
Weak Scale Supersymmetry
(2007)
Supersymmetric models of particle physics predict new superpartner matter states for each particle in the Standard Model. These superpartners will have wide ranging implications, from cosmology to observations at high ...
QCD as a Theory of Hadrons
(2005)
This 2004 book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The text introduces the basic theory of QCD and its historical development, covering ...
Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory
(2016)
Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive and comprehensive textbook of fundamental and theoretical physics describes the quest to ...
Mathematics of Quantization and Quantum Fields
(2013)
Unifying topics that are scattered throughout the literature, this book offers a definitive review of mathematical aspects of quantization and quantum field theory. It presents both basic and advanced topics of quantum ...
Strong Interactions of Hadrons at High Energies
(2009)
Vladimir Gribov was one of the founding fathers of high-energy elementary particle physics. This volume derives from a graduate lecture course he delivered in the 1970s. It provides graduate students and researchers with ...
The power of standards
(2019)
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to ...
Gift Exchange
(2019)
Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources ...
The Myth of Piers Plowman
(2014)
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative ...
Personalized medicine, individual choice and the common good
(2018)
law; medicine; medico legal; bioethics and health law; ethics; philosophy
The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human Rights
(2022)
Debates on the human-rights implications of new and emerging technologies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the complex issues involved. This volume provides that framework, bringing ...
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
(2021)
Offering an innovative perspective on debates concerning embodiment
in the early modern period, Alanna Skuse examines diverse
kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and
amputation to facial ...
Unity of Science
(2021)
Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. ...
Unequal Family Lives
(2018)
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically ...
Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
(2013)
Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms ...
Chapter 12 Huh? What? – A first survey in 21 languages
(2013)
Introduction A comparison of conversation in twenty-one languages from around the world reveals commonalities and differences in the way that people do open-class other-initiation of repair (Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks, ...