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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences. C.E. CASTRO: Environmental Dehalogenation-Chemistry and Mechanism M.J. KENNISH: Trace Metal-Sediment Dynamics in Estuaries: Pollution Assessment R.D. VINEBROOKE AND R. CULLIMORE: Natural Organic Matter and the Bound Water Concept in Aquatic Ecosystems

Experiment and Phenomenology: Experimental Determination of Phase Diagrams; G. Inden. Phenomenological Calculations of Phase-Equilibria; A.P. Miodownik. Diffuse Scattering Determination of Short Range Order in Alloys; W. Schweika. Electronic Approach to Stability and Transformations: The Energetics of Ordered Intermetallic Alloys; R.E. Watson, et al. Quantum Theory of Structure; J. Hafner. First Principles Theory of Disordered Alloys and Alloy Phase Stability; G.M. Stocks, et al. Statics of Alloy Transformations: Monte Carlo Simulations of Alloy Phase Transformations; K. Binder. The Cluster Variation Method and Some Applications; A. Finel. The Direct Monte Carlo Method for Calculating Alloy Phases; J.S. Faulkner, et al. Kinetics and Dynamics of Alloy Transformations: Morphology Transformations in Ordering and Phase Separating Materials; A.G. Khachaturyan, et al. Alloys Under External Forcing; G. Martin, P. Bellon. 43 additional articles. Index.

Quantum Kinetic Equations; H. Spohn. Microscopic Derivation of Hydrodynamics with Phase Transition in a Plasma Model; G.L. Sewell. Ferromagnetism in Itinerant Electron Systems; H. Tasaki. Homogeneity in the Ground State of the Two-Dimensional Falicov-Kimabll Model; T. Kennedy. Diffusive Limit of the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion; R. Esposito, et al. Weak Coupling Limit; L.J. Landau. Limit Laws for Recurrence Times in Expanding Maps of an Interval; P. Collet. Stochastic Geometric Aspects of Some Quantum Spin Chains; B. Nachtergaele. The Species Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process; E.R. Speer. How to Reconstruct a Heat Bath; B. Kümmerer. Interacting Particle Systems on Non-Commutative Spaces; T. Matsui. Non-Self-Averaging Effects in Sums of Random Variables, Spin Glasses, Random Maps, and Random Walks; B. Derrida. Quantum Adiabatic Evolution; A. Joye, C.E. Pfister. 48 additional articles. Index.

Resonator Designs for High Brightness Solid-State Lasers; G. Cerullo et al. Defining and Measuring Laser Beam Quality; A.E. Siegman. Model-Locked Solid-State Lasers; A.I. Ferguson, G.P.A. Malcolm. High Power Rod, Slab, and Tube Lasers; U. Wittrock. Solid-State Laser Materials; G. Huber. Quantum Confined Semiconductor Lasers; R. Cingolani. Diode Pumped Solid-State Lasers; R.L. Byer. Generation of Visible Light with Diode Pumped Solid-State Lasers; K.J. Boller, et al. High Power Diode Lasers; C. Hanke. Efficient Narrowband Optical Parametric Oscillators of Beta-Barium-Borate and Lithium-Triborate; A. Fix, et al. Travelling Wave Parametric Generation of Highly Coherent Femtosecond Pulses Tunable from 750 to 3000 nm; G.P. Banfi, et al. Frequency Conversion of PS-Pulses; R. Beigang, A. Nebel. Quasi-Three-Level Lasers; T.Y. Fan. Er, Tm, Ho; P. Minguzzi, et al. 9 additional articles. Index.

Computer Simulation of Sedimentary Cover Evolution; S.E. Medvedev. Numerical Simulation of Pore Fluid Movements in the Upper Rotliegend of the North German Depression; J. Springer, G. Schwab. Modeling of Subsidence, Temperature, and Maturity in the North German Basin; A. Berthold, K. Menschner. Differential Compaction and Structural Genesis; H. Dietrich. Dissolution and Cememtation in Basin Simulation; R. Ondrak, U. Bayer. The Use of Fision Track Measurements in Basin Modeling; P.K. Jensen, et al. Mass-Balanced Reconstruction of Paleogeology; W.W. Hay, C.N. Wold. The Simulation of Large-Scale Sedimentary Structures; P.A. Dowd. A Quantitative Basin Analysis System for Petroleum Exploration; S. Cao et al. Well-Log Imaging and its Application to Geologic Interpretation; L. Huang, et al. An Integrated Approach to Basin Analysis and Mineral Exploration; D.F. Merriam, et al. 8 additional articles. Index.

Solid-State Physics, Superconductivity: Electronic Structure of Highly Correlated Systems; L.M. Falicov, J.K. Freericks. Quantum Fluids: Unusual One-Electron States on the Surface of Liquid Helium; E. Baskin. Nuclear Physics: Nucleonic Superfluid; J.W. Clark, et al. Atoms and Molecules: Fock-Space Coupled Cluster Method; S.R. Hughes, U. Kaldor. Classical Fluids, Polymers, Plasmas: Fluids of Hard Convex Molecules; M.S. Wertheim. Lattice Theories, Phase Transitions: Line Tension at Wetting and Prewetting Transitions; B. Widom. Cellular Automata: Cellular Automata and Spread of Damage; C. Tsallis. Fundamental Quantum Mechanics: Hannay Angle in Classical Mechanics and its Gauge-Invariant Generalization; D. Kobe. 51 additional articles. Index.

Cell Colonies: Fractal Growth and Morphological Change in Bacterial Colony Formation; M. Matsushita, et al. Surfaces and Interfaces: Dynamic Scaling in Surface Growth Phenomena; F. Family. Diffusion Limited Aggregation, Viscous Fingering and Fracture: Ionic Concentration and Electric Field in Fractal Electrodeposition; M. Rosso, et al. Cellular Patterns: 2D Manifolds Arising from Local Interactions; H. Terrones, et al. Dynamical Systems: Order, Pattern Selection, and Noise in Low-Dimensional Systems; M. San Miguel. Self-Replication: Molecular Quasi-Species in Hopfield Replication Landscapes; P. Tarazona. Self-Organization: Effects of Noise on Self-Organized Critical Phenomena; A. Diaz-Guilera. Measurement and Characterization: The Practical Measurement of Fractal Parameters; E.H. Dooijes, Z.R. Struzik. 36 additional articles. Index.

The Nature of the Electronic Excited States of Molecular Systems; B. Di Bartolo. Properties of the Excited States of Complex Molecules; J. Reuss. Rate of Processes Involving Excited States; A.M. Stoneham. Excited States in Semiconductors; C. Klingshirn. Advances in the Characterization of Excited States of Luminescent Ions; G.F. Imbusch. Relaxed Excited States of Color Centers; G. Baldacchini. Properties of Highly Populated Excited States in Solids; F. Auzel. Advances in the Sensitization of Phosphors; B. Smets. Laser Spectroscopy inside Inhomogeneously Broadened Lines; M. MacFarlane. Excited-State Dynamics and Energy Transfer in Doped-Substituted Garnets; A. Brenier, et al. Studies of the Charge Transfer States of Certain Rare-Earth Activators in Yitrium and Lanthanum Oxysulfides; C.W. Struck, W.H. Fonger. The Jahn-Teller Effect in the Optical Spectra of Impurities; G. Viliani. 42 additional articles. Index.

X-Ray Scattering from Surfaces and Interfaces; R.A. Cowley. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy; H. Niehus. Atomistic Simulations of Surfaces and Interfaces; S. Foiles. Theory of Electron States at Surfaces and Interfaces; M. Schluter. Embedding for Surfaces and Interfaces; J.E. Inglesfield. Magnetic Phase Transitions at and Between Interfaces; B.L. Gyorffy, C. Walden. Surfaces and Magnetic Effects in Core Level Photoemission; P.J. Durham. Low Energy Ion Scattering at Extremely Low Ion Doses; R.G. van Welzenis, et al. X-Ray and Light Scattering Studies of Electrode Surfaces and Interfaces; C.A. Melendres. Point to Point Resolution in Scanning Auger Electron Spectroscopy at High-Energy Primary Beam Energies for Surface and Interface Analysis; A.G. Nassiopoulos, N.M. Glezos. Volume and Interfacial Properties of Metal/Rare Earth Oxide/Metal Structures; T. Wiktorczyk. The Real-Space Multiple-Scattering Theory; E.C. Sowa, et al. 10 additional articles. Index.

InjuryInduced Release of Excitatory Amino Acids: Excitatory Amino Acid Release after Focal Cerebral Ischemia (R. Bullock et al.). The Role of Glutamatergic Receptor in Brain Injury: Dizocilpine (MK801) in Cerebral Ischemia (R.N. Auer). The Role of Monoamines in Brain Injury: Role of Nigrostriatal Projections in the Vulnerability of the Striatum (A. Buisson et al.). The Role of Steroids, Adenosine, GABA, and Acetylcholine in Brain Injury: The Role of Glucocorticoids in Ischemic Cell Death (J.N. Davis et al.). Intracellular Messengers and Brain Injury: Changes in Gene Expression after Transient Ischemia as Potential Markers for Excitotoxic Pathology (T.S. Nowak et al.). Blood Brain Barrier in Brain Injury: Ultrastructural Studies of Endothelium in NMDAInduced Excitotoxicity (S. Nag). Neurotransmitter Modulation of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. Neurotransmitters and Free Radical Mediated Injury. 51 additional articles. Index.

Lecturers: Quantum Symmetries in 2D Massive Field Theories; D. Bernard. On Knot and Manifold Invariants; R. Bott. The Metric Aspect of Noncommutative Geometry; A. Connes, J. Lott. Observables, Superselection Sectors, and Gauge Groups; C. Fredenhagen. Non-Compact WZW Conformal Field Theories; K. Gawedzki. S-Matrix Theory for Black Holes; G. 't Hooft. Whitman Theory for Integrable Systems and Topological Quantum Field Theories; I. Krichever. Quantum Groups in Lattice Models; V. Pasquier. Lagrangian Conformal Models; R. Stora. Seminar Speakers: Integrability Properties of the Collective String Field Theory; J. Avan. Correlational Functions of Local Operators in 2D Gravity Coupled to Minimal Matter; Vl.S. Dotsenko. W-Algebras and Langlands-Drinfeld Correspondence; E. Frenkel. Aspects of Quantizing Lorentz Symmetry; A. Schirrmacher. 11 additional articles. Index.

Formal Methods: A Reaction Theory and the Relation Between Widths and Energy Shifts; F.B. Malik. The Control of Chaos; B.A. Huberman. Classical and Quantum Fluids: Compressible RayleighBenard Convection in a Hard Disks System; D. Risso, P. Cordero. Positron Annihilation as a Probe of Localized States in Fluids; B.N. Miller. Electronic Systems, Atoms, and Molecules: Lower Bound Aspects of Fermion Density Functionals; J.K. Percus. Selfconsistent Semiclassical Mean Field; M. Casas, et al. High Tc Superconductivity: Search of Superconductivity in Metal Clusters; M. Barranco, et al. Stochastic Processes: Reactant Segregation; H.S. Wio, et al. Nuclear and Particle Physics: A Direct Approach to the Tamm-Dancoff Approximation; R.C. Bochicchio, H. Grinberg. Overview Talk: Some Considerations on the Greenhouse Effect and Related Problems; V.M. Canuto. 30 additional articles. Index.

The Theory of High-Tc Superconductivity (P.W. Anderson). Holes in the Quantum Antiferromagner (A. Auerbach, B.E. Larson). Slave Boson Approach to the One Dimensional tJ Model (T.K. Lee, Z. Wang). Universality of Behavior of Electrons on a Ring (F.V. Kusmartsev). Vector Mean Field Theory of Statistics (M.D. Johnson et al.). Superconducting and Magnetic Phase Boundaries in Doped Cu-Based Superconducting Oxides (Y. Gao et al.). Infrared Properties (Z. Schlesinger et al.). On Transport Properties of HTSC Oxides (M. Affronte, D. Pavuna). A Unified Approach to a Description of the Cuprate Superconductors (V.Z. Kresin et al.). ElectronHole Asymmetry (J.E. Hirsch). Properties and Superconductivity of Large Bipolarons (D. Emin). Topological Effects in Disordered Phase of Two-Dimensional Magnet (A.M. Tsvelik, M. Yu. Reizer). Current Status of Fermi Liquid Based Approaches to the Cuprates (K. Levin et al.). 55 additional articles. Index.

Background on Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- Thermodynamics and Crystal Growth of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Band Structure and Theory of Magnetic Interactions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Transport phenomena in Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- Experimental Studies of the d-d Exchange Interactions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Bound Magnetic Polarons in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Magnetooptic Properties of Wide Gap II1?xMnxVI Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- II-Fe-VI Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- Semimagnetic IV-VI Compound Semiconductors.- Semimagnetic Semiconductor Superlattices.- Magnetism of Fe-Based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.

Session 1 Elementary Excitations and Excitation Transport.- Picosecond Resolved Optically Driven Phonon Dynamics.- Relaxation and Propagation of High Frequency Phonons in Thin Crystalline Plates After Intense Laser Pumping.- Evolution in Real Time and Space of Short Polariton Pulses in Crystals.- Quasielastic Electronic Light Scattering in Semiconductors at Low Concentrations of Current Carriers.- Condensed Matter Science With Far Infra Red Free Electron Lasers (Abstract).- Nonequilibrium Terahertz Range Acoustic Phonons and Luminescence of Excitons in Semiconductors.- Session II Optical Properties of Surfaces and Interfaces.- Nonlinear Optical Studies of Molecular Adsorbates.- Enhancement of Exciton Transition Probabilities in Ultrathin Films of Cadmium Telluride.- Studies of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces by Three Wave Mixing Spectroscopy (Abstract).- Time-Resolved Resonant Reflection of Light.- Femtosecond Photoemission Studies of Image Potential and Electron Dynamics in Metals.- High Intensity, Ultrashort Pulse Laser Heated Solids.- Session III Optical Studies of Growth, Instabilities and Pattern Formation.- Control of Transversal Interactions in Nonlinear Optics: New Spatio-Temporal Effects in Nonlinear Wave Dynamics (Abstract).- Synchronization of Atomic Quantum Transitions by Light Pulses.- Chaos in Nonlinear Optics.- Self-Organizaiton and Spatio-Temporal Chaos in Phase-Locked Semiconductor Laser Arrays (Abstract).- Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics in Optical Neural Networks (Abstract).- Transitions Between Ordered and Disordered Solid-Melt Patterns Formed on Silicon by Continuous Laser Beams: Competition Between Electrodynamics and Thermodynamics.- Session IV Elementary Excitations and Excitation Transport.- Light Scattering in Oxide Superconductors.- Raman Scattering in High-Tc Superconductors YBa2Cu3Ox With Different Oxygen Contents.- Raman Scattering from High Temperature Superconductors.- Decay of Exciton Gratings in Anthracene: Anisotropy of Lowest Exciton Bands and Coexistence of Longpath and Shortpath Waveguide Modes.- Excitation Transport in Polymeric Solids.- Vibron Lifetimes in Molecular Crystals.- Session V Optical Properties of Critical Phenomena Random Systems, and Coherent Phenomena.- Anomalies of the Elastic Light Scattering at Phase Transitions in Crystals with Point Defects.- Dynamical Fluctuations in a Dipolar Glass.- Localization of Light in Random Media (Abstract).- Quantum Optic and Transient Effects of Excitonic Polaritons, and Properties of Phonoritons.- Nonclassical Field Correlations in Quantum Optics (Abstract).- Phase-Conjugated Wave Enhanced by Weak Localization of Exciton-Polaritons.- Session VI Nonlinear Optical Properties of Semiconductors Organics and Fibers.- The Historical Relationship Between Nonlinear Optics and Condensed Matter (Abstract).- Optical Nonlinearities Enhanced by Carrier Transport.- Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices for Optoelectronics (Abstract).- Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities of Surface Layers of Metals and Super- and Semiconductors Related to Electronic Structure and Crystal Symmetry.- Second Harmonic Generation in Optical Fibers.- Nonlinear Optical Probes of Glassy Polymers.- Session VII Quantum Wells.- Photoluminescence of Hot Electrons and Scattering Processes in Quantum-Well Structures.- High Resolution Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy Measurements of Exciton Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Well Structures.- Optical Spectroscopy in the Regime of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.- Geminate Recombination in MQW Structures in a Magnetic Field.- Investigation of Two-Electron-Hole Pair Resonances in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- Many Body Effects in Homogeneous Quasi 2D Electron-Hole Plasma in Undoped and Modulation Doped InGaAs Single Quantum Wells.- Session VIII Recent Significant Developments.- Pulsed Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy in Dense Colloids.- Waves on Corrugated Surfaces: K-Gaps and Enhanced Backscattering.- Black Hole Radiation: Can Vir...

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This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author, in the field of Italian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, literary theory, philosophy, and ethics. The author has collected an impressive group of scholars, including Ian Thomson, who has published a well-received biography of Levi in the UK (a US edition is due this year); Alexander Stille, who is a staff writer got the New Yorker as well as for the New York Times (he is also the author of Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism ); and David Mendel, who knew Levi and had an extensive correspondence with the Italian writer. There are four essays on Levi's complex and fertile theory of the 'Gray Zone' and further essays on the myriad aspects of this thought. This is an excellent collection with new perspectives and interpretations of the life and work of Primo Levi.