"Clouds on the horizon": nineteenth-century origins and the old quantum theory -- 1913: the Bohr theory of the hydrogen atom -- Tyranny of data: atomic spectroscopy to 1925 -- After the war: quantum theory adrift; the correspondence princple -- At the creation: the "new quantum theory"--The origins of wave mechanics -- The end of certainty: uncertainty and indeterminism -- Formalism, part I. Transformation theory -- Formalism, part II. unitarity and Hilbert space -- Intrinisc spin, the exclusion principle, and statistics -- Angular momentum, symmetries, and conservation laws -- Scattering and reaction theory -- Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to 1940: the rise of particle physics -- Foundations and philosophy of quantum mechanics: interpretation and the measurement problem -- Nuclear physics: the first three decades -- Quantum theory and the birth of stellar astrophysics -- Atomic and molecular physics -- Condensed matter: solids and quantum liquids -- Epilogue

The story of thirty-two men who made the modern American era.

John Marshall (1755--1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions in cases like Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland are still part of the working discourse of constitutional law in America. Drawing on a new and definitive edition of Marshall's papers, R. Kent Newmyer combines engaging narrative with new historiographical insights in a fresh interpretation of John Marshall's life in the law. More than the summation of Marshall's legal and institutional accomplishments, Newmyer's impressive study captures the nuanced texture of the justice's reasoning, the complexity of his mature jurisprudence, and the affinities and tensions between his system of law and the transformative age in which he lived. It substantiates Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s view of Marshall as the most representative figure in American law.

A new edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts-a huge selection including both the well-known-Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero-and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The second is early Irish and Hiberno-Latin sources including early Irish dynastic poetry and numerous tales from the Ulster cycle and the third consists of Brittonic sources, mostly Welsh.