1968Best.-Nr. PH-272New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1968. Classic monograph on linear wave phenomena in bounded plasmas focuses on finding solutions of electromagnetic field equations in ionized gases and plasmas. Includes methods of treating radiation and propagation in bounded plasma configurations. 144 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Inscribed and signed to the noted physicist Petr Beckmann on front endpaper. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. PH-274Wilmington California: Kneat Kompany 1992. Classic scholarly text presents a comprehensive alternative to Einstein's questionable special theory- an ether gauge theory which offers an unparalled common-sense explanation of the experimental data. The new theory is distinguished by a return to time simultaneously even though clocks can run at different rates; the replacement of the Lorentz transformations with gauge transformations; a unification of the electromagnetic and gravitational forces; a clear explanation of the source of inertia; a consistent explanation of the physics underlying the equivalence principle. 232 pgs. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Dustjacket in mylar. Minimal shelfwear. Scarce. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kneat Kompany Hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. PH-278New York: Cambridge University Press 1995. Comprehensive classic highly acclaimed advanced level reference text presents a detailed overview of physics of condensed matter systems and establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter based on symmetries and conservation laws. Includes coverage of structure and properties of materials with different symmetries; spatial dimensionality and microscopic interactions in determining the nature of phase transitions; critical phenomena and renormalization group methods; generalized elasticity; hydrodynamics; topological defects; mean-field theory; dynamics: correlation and response; walls kinks and solitons; etc. 699 pp. Illustrated. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. PH-282New York: John Wiley & Sons 1981. Classic text presents a detailed monograph covering the uncoventional hidden asumptions prejudices presuppositions and points of semantic confusion underlying the nature of the General Theory of Relativity. 174 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Wiley & Sons Hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. PH-286Reading Mass.: Addison Wesley 1997. Comprehensive text presents a close connection between the shorter classical periodic orbits and the partially resolved quantum fluctuations in the level density and response of an autonomous finite quantum system. Covers topicson experimental manifestations of quantum shell structure; Strutinsky's energy theorem; Gutzwiller's trace formula; zeta function techniques; diffractive orbits; etc. 444 pgs. Illustrated. Top of spine slightly bumped. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Addison Wesley Hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. PH-285Carnegie Institute of Washington 1985. Classic comprehensive text presents tables of Jacobians for one-component systems of unit mass and of variable mass and for binary systems of unit mass and of variable total mass by means of which relations can be obtained between the thermodynamic quantities and their first derivatives. 294 pgs. Illustrated. Slight rubbing to corners; minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carnegie Institute of Washington Paperback
1989Best.-Nr. PH-289New York: Springer-Verlag 1989. Comprehensive text presents an integrated in-depth treatment of nonequilibrium statistical physics based on the methods of correlation functions and memory kernels. Topics covered include: hydrodynamic long time tails; dynamical scaling laws for critical phenomena; classical results of kinetic and transport theories; electron localization in random potentials; chemical reactions; nonlinear phenomenological theories; chaos; general microscopic nonlinear response theory; etc. 290 pgs. Illustrated with 39 figures. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Springer-Verlag Hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. PH-290Chichester U.K.: Ellis Horwood Ltd. 1989. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed coverage of the full Maxwell's equations governing electromagnetic phenomena including topics on electrostatics and megnetostatics; theory of wave guides; nature and properties of electromagnetic radiation; special theory of relativity; relativistic electrodynamics and the Lorentz transformation of the electromagnetic fields; Noether's theorem; etc. 640 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ellis Horwood Ltd. Hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. PH-300Englewood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice Hall 1989. Comprehensive reference text presents detailed coverage of transport in crystal potential gradients and density-of-states gradients for nonuniform materials; transport and scattering processes in the relaxation time approximation; analysis of quasi-chemical reactions and mass-action laws for impurity and defect interactions; energy band diagrams and space charge regions for heterostructures metal-semiconductor and metal insulator-semiconductor contacts; the use of chemical potential energy electrochemical potential energy quasiFermi energy in carrier distributions; etc. 354 pgs. Illustrated. Small slight scuff to upper spine edge. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Prentice Hall Hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. PH-298New York: Oxford University Press 1995. Classic comprehensive text written by a world renown theoretical physicist presents a detailed development and examination of the quaternionic generalization of standard complex quantum mechanics including coverage of general formalism; nonrelativistic and relativistic quaternionic quantum mechanics; multiparticle topics; methods for time development; etc. 586 pgs. Illustrated. Gilt spine and front cover. Virtually no shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford University Press Hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. PH-307Reading Mass.: Addison Wesley 1995. Comprehensive conference text presents contributed state-of-the-art technical reviews by leading international scientists covering topics on: neutron stars white dwarfs and supernovae; neutrino astrophysics; nuclear processes; atomic and optical processes in stellar matter; helioseismology; palnetary sciences; high-pressure metal physics; condensed matter plasmas; complex fluids and solids; laser and shock compressed plasmas; magnetic reconnection; positron plasmas; etc. 503 pgs.Illustrated. Lower front corner slightly bumped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Addison Wesley Hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. PH-316London England: Academic Press 1982. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed topics covering canonical formalism and quantization; classical equations of motion; symmetries and conservation laws; interactions of photons and atoms; path-dependent electrodynamics; theorems in vector analysis; etc. 191 pgs. Illustrated. Gilt spine and front cover. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press Hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. PH-315Dedham Massachusettes: Artech House 1985. Comprehensive reference text contains detailed topics covering mathematics of decibel scale; electromagnetics; transmission lines; insertion loss power gain and return loss; Smith chart; impedence matching; noise; microwave tubes; microwave solid-state devices; miniature transmission lines; antennas; radar systems; satellite communications; electronic warfare; manufacturing active microwave devices; microwaves and health sciences; microwaves and television; etc. 356 pgs. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Artech House Hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. PH-321New York: Academic Press 1981. Classic text presents a detailed interdisciplinary monograph dealing with signal recovery including topics covering physical measurement systems; deconvolution in signal space; Jannson algorithm; deconvolution tests and examples; signal space and frequancy space; deconvolution and intensities; etc. 158 pgs. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press Hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. HS-35Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press 1983. Classic comprehensive text presents a distinctive collection of essays discussions and personal descriptions of evolution based on discussions at the may 1980 International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois. Primary focus of this text is on the development of cosmic-ray physics and quantum field theory in the 1930's and 1940's drawing on research conducted in the U.S. Japan Great Britain Germany France and the USSR. Major contributors include: J.Schwinger V.F.Weisskopf S.Hayakawa C.D.Anderson Paul A.M. Dirac W.E.Lamb B.B.Rossi R.E.Marshak G.Bernardini etc. 412 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. PH-320Dordrecht Holland: D.Reidel 1986. Classic comprehensive self-contained text covers detailed topics on field and gauge theories; general relativity and cosmology; quantum filed theory in curved spacetime; grand unified theories; inflation and other features of the early universe; quantum gravity; simple working model of quantum cosmology; appendices covering spacetime symmetries differential forms renormalization and group theory. 468 pgs. Illustrated with diagrams and 140 worked examples. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D.Reidel Hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. PH-241New York: John Wiley & Sons 1969. Classic text presents detailed topics including elements os statistical mechanics; the Liouville equation and distribution functions; formal development of kinetic equations and their relation to fluid dynamics; derivations and properties of the Boltzmann Fokker-Planck Krook-Bhatnager-Gross and related equations; solution and further properties of the Boltzmann equation the approach to equilibrium; etc. 397 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's nameplate on rear endpaper. Corners slightly bumped; minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Wiley & Sons Hardcover
1978Best.-Nr. PH-243Amsterdam The Netherlands: North-Holland 1978. Classic comprehensive reference text is a completely new revised and updated version of the author's previous book "Intoduction to S-Matrix Theory". Includes detailed topics on general S-Matrix formalism; macroscopic causality and physical-region analyticity properties of S-Matrix; unitarity discontinuity formulae and space-time description of processes; various approaches to S-Matrix theory; axiomatic field theory and the S-Matrix: microcausality and macrocausality; Hermitian analyticity crossing and the spin statistics theorem in S-Matrix theory; etc. 284 pgs. Illustrated. Small stamp on front endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- Professional Library. North-Holland Hardcover
1968Best.-Nr. PH-245Washigton D.C.: Naval Research Laboratory 1968. Comprehensive reference text presents a tabulation of spectral lines below 2000 angstroms and includes the first 18 elements hydrogen through argon. Text is divided into two sections: section 1 gives the lines by spectrum arranged by element and within each spectrum the lines are arranged in order of increasing wavelength; section 2 is the finding list. 354 pgs. Lower corner of rear cover dented and creased including several text pages towards the end of the book. Does not adversely affect the text. Minimal shelfwear. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Naval Research Laboratory Hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. PH-237U.K.: Institute of Physics 1998. Comprehensive text by one of Russia's preeminant physicists presents a unified approach to the theory of those electromagnetic instabilities which are inherent in plasmas within toroidal confinement systems such as tokomaks. Provides a fundamental treatment of the equilibrium theory of such plasmas and the theory of internal MHD magnetohydrodynamic modes in cylindrical plasmas and the effects of toroidicity and high plasma pressures. Includes topics in plasma pressure anisotropy; theory of semicollisional drift-MDH modes; interaction of high-energy particles with MDH modes; resistive-wall mode instability; toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes; MDH modes in collisionless and neoclassical regimes; etc. 462 pgs. Illustrated. Lower corners slightly bumped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Institute of Physics Hardcover
1970Best.-Nr. PH-119Poland: Pergamon Press 1970. Classic text presents the microscopic theory of superconductivity and superfluidity including thermodynamics collective oscillations the Bose and Fermi superfluid theory of the ground state etc. 237 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket has a chunk missing on lower rear edge; in mylar. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. PH-65Holland: D.Reidel 1982. Text focuses on decision-making aspects of pattern recognition by providing a broad spectrum of methodologies including: geometric statistical fuzzy syntactic graph-theoretic and hybrid approaches. Topics include: statistical methods and clustering techniques probabilistic relaxation Markovian and connectionist models computational geometry structural and hybrid methods knowledge-based recognition techniques and machine vision. 576 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Signed and inscribed by one of the authors on endpaper and title page. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D.Reidel Hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. PH-198New York: Academic Press 1981. Comprehensive text presents a qualitative and quantitative treatment of the physical principles and operating characteristics of solar cell devices. Topics covered include physics and materials properties basic to photovoltaic energy conversion; solar cell materials and structures; homojunction solar cells; semiconductor-semiconductor heterojunction cells; surface-barrier solar cells; etc. 332 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name on front endpapers. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press Hardcover
Best.-Nr. PH-140New York: Gordon & Breach 1961. Classic text contains detailed topics in the method of Fock functionals; the method of functionals and Fermi statistics; equations for the functional of state; the generating functional for probability amplitudes; etc. 79 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. Minor shelfwear. Prior owner's name whited-out on front endpaper. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gordon & Breach Hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. PH-2Oxford U.K.: Pergamon Press 1979. Classic comprehensive corrected edition of this two-part set of volume 4 Landau & Lifshitz series contains detailed topics covering photons; bosons; fermions; particles in an external field; radiation; scattering of radiation; scattering matrix; invariant perturbation theory; interaction of electrons and photons; exact propagators and vertex parts; radiative corrections; asymptotic formulae of quantum electrodynamics; dynamic symmetry of hadrons; electrodynamics of hadrons; weak interactions; etc. 616 pgs. collectively. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. ISBN for Part 2 is 0080171753. Corrected Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pergamon Press Hardcover