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    Published by Heinemann Educational Books Limited, London, 1977

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    soft cover. Condition: very good. first edition. Grand In-8° broché, pagination de 293 à 567 - Articles originaux : La Psychiatrie en Israël - A propos de la psychiatrie israélienne : particularités et épidémiologie - L'image de la maladie mentale dans la tradition juive - La psychanalyse en Israël : repères historiques - Le syndrome des survivants : revue générale - Les villages collectifs : remarques sur la pathologie de l'enfant et la thérapie familiale - Le problème de la migration et de l'acculturation en Israël - Alyah et adolescence : répercussions réciproques . - II : Documents cliniques III : Actualité Psychiatriques - En 1925, quelques psychiatres et psychanalystes parisiens formèrent un groupe d'études autour de Adrien Borel (qui est resté comme le psychanalyste de Georges Bataille et Michel Leiris), H. et O. Codet - Angelo Hesnard - Eugène Minkowski - Françoise Minkowska - E. Pichon - P. Schiff - Il s'agissait essentiellement de confronter les points de vue psychanalytiques qui à cette époque, peu après la première guerre mondiale, avaient conquis droit de cité en France - et les points de vue psychiatriques. Les discussions du Groupe, ardentes et approfondies, furent alors publiées dans les premiers tomes de l'Evolution Psychiatrique (alors chez Payot) - Plus tard la revue fut publiée par Maloine, Chahine puis d'Artray. Le Groupe s'augmenta rapidement et admit en son sein des psychanalystes de grande renommée (Morgenstern - Rudolph Loewenstein qui fut le psychanalyste de Lacan - Sacha Nacht - Pierre Male - Charles Odier - Julien Rouart - Raymond de Saussure - Daniel Lagache - Favez-Boutonnier - Serge Lebovici - René Diatkine - Jacques Lacan - P.C. Racamier Charles Brisset .) et des psychiatres connus par leurs travaux de psychiatrie clinique, de psychopathologie, ou leurs affinités avec la psychologie des profondeurs ou la phénoménologie (Ceillier - Georges Daumezon - Deshaies - Dublineau - Duchêne - Henri Ey - Sven Follin - Fouquet - Laboucarié - Lanteri-Laura - Mignot - Montassut - Pichot - Tosquelles .) qui vinrent en grand nombre participer aux travaux de la Société et publièrent d'importants articles dans sa revue. Certains de tendance plus nettement sociopsychologique ou sociopsychiatrique (Le Guillant - Sivadon - Veil .), ou d'autres orientés sur les problèmes de neuropathologie ou de pathologie générale dans leurs rapports avec la pathologie mentale (Ajuriaguerra - Angelergues - Baruk - Blanc - Dongier - Guiraud - Hécaen - Koupernik - Nayrac - Tusques .).

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    Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Good dust jacket. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1970. Fine condition in a bright and shiny but only Good dust jacket. The rear panel of the jacket is missing two edge pieces that each measure approx. 1 inch by 2.75 inches. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Sharp corners. Square and tight. All pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently seldom, if ever read. Illustrated with numerous diagrams. Equations. 7 appendicies. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original dark gray cloth, with gilt-stamping over a black panel on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. From a 2007 review by dharmaraja: "5 stars. Seeking the overlap between wave optics and quantum mechanics. Optics ramified historically into three major paradigms: rays, waves, and photons. While exposing these three, the generic undergraduate textbook on optics can spare little space for the delicate issue of the transition between them. The thoughtful student who stops to think about it may sometimes notice that one must cross over a dark crevasse in passing from waves to photons. For example, I can mention a paradox concerning spin angular momentum. Quantum mechanics teaches us that the photon carries a spin of one unit parallel (or antiparallel) to its direction of propagation. But symmetry considerations in the wave picture imply that a circularly polarized infinite plane wave -- a common classical analog of a photon -- cannot carry any such component of spin angular momentum. The text of Joseph Simmons and Mark Guttmann is a thoroughly fresh and original approach to the theoretical foundations of optics at the undergraduate level. The special, distinctive focus here is on the quantum mechanical nature of light. While it does not get into the quantum field theory of photons, it moves in that direction by developing the Schrodinger equation of a single photon in free space. Although this book was published 37 years ago, nothing in it is obsolete because the authors stick to ageless fundamentals. This book was obviously crafted with great care and is a true gem -- it is lucid, concise, with pleasant, not-too-hard chapter ending problems, and well-designed, informative appendices. 4th year undergrads (in physics and math) and 1st year grad students should be able to understand it: the level is similar to that of the optics text by G. R. Fowles. But the scope is narrower than that of Fowles, or other generic optics texts, in that it is focused on: a) the analytical theory, and b) the free-EM field. Because of a) and b), two items are largely missing: a) the hardware of optics, such as lenses, microscopes, spectroscopes, and lasers, and b) interactions with charged particles, or, equivalently, the optics of material media (birefringence, etc.) It contains many standard topics that would be found in an advanced undergrad text, such as the matrix theory of ray optics, Fresnel-Kirchoff Diffraction theory, and conservation laws of energy and of linear momentum. As is typical of all topics in this book, I found that these familiar topics are handled in a fresh, elegant, and succinct way so it was not tiresome for me to encounter them again. There are many treasures waiting to be discovered in this book. I'll merely mention three of them: 1) a whole chapter devoted to the Stokes parameters; 2) another where the authors use the polarization states of a light wave as a springboard to develop much of the foundations of quantum mechanics--an amazing performance! ; and 3) the spin paradox I mentioned at the start of this review is beautifully resolved in the final chapter. Having read the book cover-to-cover, and having attempted most of the problems, I found, among its many other virtues, a very low frequency of typos or errors. I am sorry to see that it has gone out of print. Good people at Dover Pubs., please listen up: this is an outstanding candidate just crying out to become a reprint and join the illustrious ranks of Dover optics books by Fowles, Ditchburn, Wood, Michelson, and others. I believe optics enthusiasts with a strong theoretical bent would find, as I did, that it is richly rewarding.". 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xi, 279pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). NOT a library discard (illustrator).

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The problem of counting the number of self-avoiding polygons on a square grid, - therbytheirperimeterortheirenclosedarea,is aproblemthatis soeasytostate that, at rst sight, it seems surprising that it hasn't been solved. It is however perhaps the simplest member of a large class of such problems that have resisted all attempts at their exact solution. These are all problems that are easy to state and look as if they should be solvable. They include percolation, in its various forms, the Ising model of ferromagnetism, polyomino enumeration, Potts models and many others. These models are of intrinsic interest to mathematicians and mathematical physicists, but can also be applied to many other areas, including economics, the social sciences, the biological sciences and even to traf c models. It is the widespread applicab- ity of these models to interesting phenomena that makes them so deserving of our attention. Here however we restrict our attention to the mathematical aspects. Here we are concerned with collecting together most of what is known about polygons, and the closely related problems of polyominoes. We describe what is known, taking care to distinguish between what has been proved, and what is c- tainlytrue,but has notbeenproved. Theearlierchaptersfocusonwhatis knownand on why the problems have not been solved, culminating in a proof of unsolvability, in a certain sense. The next chapters describe a range of numerical and theoretical methods and tools for extracting as much information about the problem as possible, in some cases permittingexactconjecturesto be made.

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    Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The problem of counting the number of self-avoiding polygons on a square grid, - therbytheirperimeterortheirenclosedarea,is aproblemthatis soeasytostate that, at rst sight, it seems surprising that it hasn't been solved. It is however perhaps the simplest member of a large class of such problems that have resisted all attempts at their exact solution. These are all problems that are easy to state and look as if they should be solvable. They include percolation, in its various forms, the Ising model of ferromagnetism, polyomino enumeration, Potts models and many others. These models are of intrinsic interest to mathematicians and mathematical physicists, but can also be applied to many other areas, including economics, the social sciences, the biological sciences and even to traf c models. It is the widespread applicab- ity of these models to interesting phenomena that makes them so deserving of our attention. Here however we restrict our attention to the mathematical aspects. Here we are concerned with collecting together most of what is known about polygons, and the closely related problems of polyominoes. We describe what is known, taking care to distinguish between what has been proved, and what is c- tainlytrue,but has notbeenproved. Theearlierchaptersfocusonwhatis knownand on why the problems have not been solved, culminating in a proof of unsolvability, in a certain sense. The next chapters describe a range of numerical and theoretical methods and tools for extracting as much information about the problem as possible, in some cases permittingexactconjecturesto be made.

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Multiagent System Technologies | 10th German Conference, MATES 2012, Trier Germany, October 10-12, 2012, Proceedings | Ingo J. Timm (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xii | Englisch | 2012 | Springer | EAN 9783642336898 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes | A. J. Guttmann | Taschenbuch | Lecture Notes in Physics | xix | Englisch | 2016 | Springer | EAN 9789401777124 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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    diverse. Dust Jacket Condition: erste. 1. Auflage. Verschiedene Formate und Bindungen, zwischen 57 und 896 S., Kl8°, 8° und 4°. (alle neuwertig, z. T. mit einigen Marker-Markierungen, deswegen red. Preis). Abgabe der 5 Titel nur zusammen. Als kostenlose Zugabe: Müller, Burkhard, Schlussstrich. Kritik des Christentums Mit Literatur etc., 1. bibliophil, wie neu. Sprache: dt. ca. 3000 Gramm. Buch.

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    32 SS. Das Exemplar leicht wasserrandig, aber an sich gut erhalten, alter getligter Stempel auf dem Titel. Bei Bedarf senden wir gerne Bilder dieses Titels via E-Mail. BITTE BEACHTEN: Leider kein Versand mehr möglich in das EU-Ausland, nur noch innerhalb Deutschlands und außerhalb der "Europäischen Union". Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 8°, Seiten am Rücken mit Papierstreifen verbunden.

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    Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The problem of counting the number of self-avoiding polygons on a square grid, - therbytheirperimeterortheirenclosedarea,is aproblemthatis soeasytostate that, at rst sight, it seems surprising that it hasn't been solved. It is however perhaps the simplest member of a large class of such problems that have resisted all attempts at their exact solution. These are all problems that are easy to state and look as if they should be solvable. They include percolation, in its various forms, the Ising model of ferromagnetism, polyomino enumeration, Potts models and many others. These models are of intrinsic interest to mathematicians and mathematical physicists, but can also be applied to many other areas, including economics, the social sciences, the biological sciences and even to traf c models. It is the widespread applicab- ity of these models to interesting phenomena that makes them so deserving of our attention. Here however we restrict our attention to the mathematical aspects. Here we are concerned with collecting together most of what is known about polygons, and the closely related problems of polyominoes. We describe what is known, taking care to distinguish between what has been proved, and what is c- tainlytrue,but has notbeenproved. Theearlierchaptersfocusonwhatis knownand on why the problems have not been solved, culminating in a proof of unsolvability, in a certain sense. The next chapters describe a range of numerical and theoretical methods and tools for extracting as much information about the problem as possible, in some cases permittingexactconjecturesto be made. 512 pp. Englisch.

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    Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The problem of counting the number of self-avoiding polygons on a square grid, - therbytheirperimeterortheirenclosedarea,is aproblemthatis soeasytostate that, at rst sight, it seems surprising that it hasn't been solved. It is however perhaps the simplest member of a large class of such problems that have resisted all attempts at their exact solution. These are all problems that are easy to state and look as if they should be solvable. They include percolation, in its various forms, the Ising model of ferromagnetism, polyomino enumeration, Potts models and many others. These models are of intrinsic interest to mathematicians and mathematical physicists, but can also be applied to many other areas, including economics, the social sciences, the biological sciences and even to traf c models. It is the widespread applicab- ity of these models to interesting phenomena that makes them so deserving of our attention. Here however we restrict our attention to the mathematical aspects. Here we are concerned with collecting together most of what is known about polygons, and the closely related problems of polyominoes. We describe what is known, taking care to distinguish between what has been proved, and what is c- tainlytrue,but has notbeenproved. Theearlierchaptersfocusonwhatis knownand on why the problems have not been solved, culminating in a proof of unsolvability, in a certain sense. The next chapters describe a range of numerical and theoretical methods and tools for extracting as much information about the problem as possible, in some cases permittingexactconjecturesto be made. 512 pp. Englisch.