Rays, Waves and Photons

Rays, Waves and PhotonsRays Waves and Photons presents the foundational concepts of optical science. Written by subject, each topic is presented in a standalone chapter with a brief historical foundation, current developments, and future predictions. This book will provide a useful resource for students, teachers, professionals, and general audiences interested in the complexity of optical phenomena and devices.

taxidermy’s uncanny appearance in Gothic and horror texts is a driving force in generating fear

Based on a long intellectual tradition – started by the Italian economists Giovanni Botero (1589) and Antonio Serra (1613) and later used in virtually all presently industrialised countries – Reinert shows that the country which exports increasing returns goods – e

the art of lavish yet legible handwriting is no longer being taught to schoolchildren or employed in daily life—much to the dismay of those who receive hastily scrawled love notes or try to decipher a doctor’s prescription

Many of them are cultivated

customisable and transformative such that it takes into cognisance the peculiarities that smallholder women in Africa face

Written in the 1930s

the essays consider an 'expanded field' of stereoscopic visual culture

Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here

using the consumer as an active co-designer and integrating the consumer into the design process at an early stage

the institutional networks

Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity

operations and impact of a large-scale Protestant mission in Ireland from its foundation during the famine into the early decades of the Irish Free State