What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream » (1)

At the age of forty-two, Wayne Fields set upon a sort of pilgrimage when he waded the near twenty-mile stretch of a small river in northern Michigan with fly rod in hand. He emerged with a beautiful and poignant memoir, a meditation on families and aging, and a whimsical response to what time, and streams, and those we care about bring into our lives.

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Five unique and elegantly detailed discussions of the three-body systems where the Coulom interaction plays a vital role, reaching into both nuclear and atomic physics through the theories and research of an international group of physicists. The specific papers in nuclear physics deal with the stationary-state formalisms and their applications to the proton-deuteron system, coordinate-space and wave function analysis, as well as time-dependent methods on the time-evolution operator. In the realm of atomic physics, theories are enacted by experimentation with laser beams and processes at energies above the three-particle breakup (ionization) threshold. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)