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    <extent>516 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The new physics : a synthesis / Paul Davies -- The renaissance of general relativity / Clifford Will -- The inflationary universe / Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt -- The edge of spacetime / Stephen Hawking -- Quantum gravity / Chris Isham -- The new astrophysics / Malcolm Longair -- Condensed matter physics in less than three dimensions / David Thouless -- Critical point phenomena : universal physics at large length scales / Alastair Bruce and David Wallace -- Low temperature physics, superconductivity and superfluidity / Anthony Leggett -- Quantum optics / Peter Knight -- Physics of far-from-equilibrium systems and self-organisation / Gregoire Nicolis -- What is chaos, that we should be mindful of it? / Joseph Ford -- Conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics / Abner Shimony -- The quark structure of matter / Frank Close -- Grand unified theories / Howard Georgi -- Effective quantum field theories / Howard Georgi -- Gauge theories in particle physics / John Taylor -- Overview of particle physics / Abdus Salam</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Paul Davies</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index</note>
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