Invitation to Contemporary Physics

The three authors present seven areas of modern physics: lasers, superconductivity, symmetry, chaos, birth and death of stars, particles, cosmology. The emphasis is on understanding of the basic principles, without an overload of technical details. Written in congenial language for the (alert and determined) general reader. Useful as a text for a general survey course. Paper edition (unseen), $28. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR