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Softcover. Etat : VG, covers have some rubbing. Illustrated blue wraps. xiii, 239 pages : charts. Contents: What is conservation? -- The objects of conservation -- Truth, objectivity and scientific conservation -- The decline of truth and objectivity -- A brief excursion into the real world -- From objects to subjects -- The reasons for conservation -- Sustainable conservation -- From theory to practice : a revolution of common sense. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and indexes.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good-. Very Good- in Wraps: shows mild rubbing and a hint of consequent soiling to the panels and with some bubbling and lifting of the vinyl overlay to the self-wraps; very mild wear to the extremities; a 1" split at the bottom of the front edge of the backstrip; some very faint smudging, thumbing, and soil spots to the outside edges of the text block; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A very good working copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and the other noted flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo (9.65 x 6.8 x 1 inches) . Translated by J. B. Sykes and J. S. Bell. Language: English. Weight: 35.3 ounces. The first English Edition was published in 1971. Paperback. This is an outstanding book. The former students of the great Russian physicist Lev Landau wrote a text based on his teaching and his papers, as well as on their own work. The result fits well in the magnificent Theoretical Physics course that carries the names of Landau and Lifshitz. There are differences between this text and the western analogues. Dirac equation is derived in a very elegant way using spinors, and the whole algebra of Dirac matrices becomes, in this way, much more natural, particularly, as one would expect, Lorentz invariance. The renormalization problem is treated in a very lucid way. The derivation of the Ward identities is very simple and amusing. High energy limits are treated in the Landau style, and well complements the more formal derivations based on the renormalization group. No book presents as many applications of quantum electrodynamics as this one. Several significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calcualtion of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magnetic field, the asymptotic form of the scattering amplitudes at high energies, inelastic scattering of electrons by hadrons, and the transformation of electron-positron pairs into hadrons. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xv, 652 pages Second Revised Edition; Eleventh Printing.

8vo (23.5x16.5cm), paperback, xvi + 348pp. Very good condition. Light wear, rubbed. Pictures available on request.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good+. Second Edition, Revised (1987) ; 12th Printing Thus (2009) . Very Good+ in Wraps: shows mild rubbing to the panels with a faint stress crease at the outside edge of the front panel, which wants to lift a little rather than lay flat; very mild wear to the lower front corner tip; the binding leans but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A bright, clean working copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and the other noted imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo (9.65 x 6.8 x 1.15 inches) . Translated by J. B. Sykes and W. H. Reid. Language: English. Weight: 32.4 ounces. The first English Edition was published in 1959. Paperback. This is an outstanding book. The former students of the great Russian physicist Lev Landau wrote a text based on his teaching and his papers, as well as on their own work. This is the most comprehensive introductory graduate or advanced undergraduate text in fluid mechanics available. It builds up from the fundamentals, often in a general way, to widespread applications, to technology and geophysics. New to this second edition are discussions on the universal dimensions similarity scaling for the laminar boundary layer equations and on the generalized vector field derivatives. In addition, new material on the generalized streamfunction treatment shows how streamfunction may be used in three-dimensional flows. Finally, a new Computational Fluid Dynamics chapter enables compulations of some simple flows and provides entry to more advanced literature. * Basic introduction to the subject of fluid mechanics, intended for undergraduate and beginning graduate students of science and engineering. * Includes topics of special interest for geophysicists and to engineers. * New and generalized treatment of similar laminar boundary layers, streamfunctions for three-dimensional flows, vector field derivatives, and gas dynamics. Also a new generalized treatment of boundary conditions in fluid mechanics, and expanded treatment of viscous flows. For those interested in learning more about turbulent flow, shockwaves, detonation, and more advanced topics in Fluid Dynamics for a course in the theory of supernovae. This book excellently and thoroughly covers these topics both in a mathematically sound and excellent way, as well as well-describing the phenomenology behind the explained topics. The book is simply, excellent, and most of the reviewers have already commented on the advantages of having a book that references thermodynamics very early on, that has solved example problems, and it covers a huge breadth of topics in excellent detail. I would not recommend this textbook to an undergraduate trying to learn fluid dynamics for the first time, unless they were very thorough and advanced in their coursework (probably a senior or junior level undergraduate looking to go on to study physics in graduate school). Excellent reference, excellent pedagogical writing style. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xii, 539 pages Second Revised Edition; Twelfth Printing.

Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. First English Edition; Twelfth Printing. First Edition (1981) ; 12th Printing Thus (2008) . Near Fine in Wraps: shows mild rubbing to the outside edges of the panels and corner tips, a couple tiny spots of soil to the lower fore-edge and faint shelf-soiling to the bottom edge of the text block; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A bright, clean working copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and the other noted imperfections. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo (9.75 x 6.75 x 1 inches) . Translated by J. B. Sykes and R. N. Franklin . Language: English. Weight: 27 ounces. The first English Edition was published in 1981 from the Russian text published in 1979. Paperback. This is an outstanding book. The former students of the great Russian physicist Lev Landau wrote a text based on his teaching and his papers, as well as on their own work. This is the most comprehensive introductory graduate or advanced undergraduate text in physical kinetics available. It builds up from the fundamentals, often in a general way, to widespread applications, to technology and geophysics. This volume is mainly concerned with a systematic development of the theory of plasmas, the authority being firmly rooted in the pioneering work of Landau. Corresponding results are also given for partially ionized plasmas, relativistic plasmas, degenerate or non-ideal plasmas and solid state plasmas. This is probably the best book written on the physical basis of (classical and quantum) kinetic phenomena. That said, the reader should be aware the book is written in the famous Landau style: derivations are carried out based on strong physical intuition and with minimum mathematical detailing and little rigour; much is expected from the reader. The rewards are high for those who (can) pursue the thing: you will be able to muse your collaborators by deriving all those nonlinear PDEs and at the same time to stand for or against recent experimental data by handwaving arguments (that depends a little bit on your brainware, too.). This book together with the Fluid Mechanics and the Electrodynamics of Continuous Media titles of the same series are almost everything you need to get a solid ground in the study of plasma physics. It explains in great detail and rigour the theory of the processes ocurring in several systems not in statistical equilibrium. The book opens with a complete account of the transport processes in gases not in equilibrium, certainly the most representative physical system not in equilibrium. The Boltzmann transport equation is derived in a general and elegant way in this chapter. After a second chapter which developes a mathematical technique called the diffusion approximation, the book discusses various processes occurring in several systems not in equilibrium, notably the processes occurring in plasmas. Other systems, such as insulators, quantum liquids, metals etc are discussed. In a final chapter, it developes the kinetics of phase transitions, in a magnific and concise form. Really this is a superb book, where the reader will learn with detail all these subjects. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xi, 452 pages.