This book offers a non-standard introduction to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, approaching these topics from algebraic and geometric perspectives. Beginning with fundamental notions of quantum theory and the derivation of quantum probabilities from decoherence, it proceeds to prove the expression for the scattering matrix in terms of Green functions (LSZ formula), along with a similar expression for the inclusive scattering matrix.
by Chengzhi Chu, Matthew D. Coss, Phyllis N. Zhang
Transforming Hanzi Pedagogy in the Digital Age 电写时代的汉字教学 brings together expert researchers and practitioners to offer a coherent theoretical, empirical, pedagogical, and experiential justification for a shift in pedagogical focus from handwriting to e-writing in L2 Chinese pedagogy.
Nat Turner, Black Prophet is the fullest recounting to date of Turner’s uprising, and the first that takes his divine visions seriously. The book traces their emergence from the world of nineteenth-century Methodism, with its revivals, camp meetings, interracial churches and Black preachers.
In Primate Socioecology, Professor Lynne A. Isbell unravels the mystery of why some primates live alone while others live in pairs or groups. Her new approach diverges from the traditional focus on predation pressure as the main determinant of primate social organization to reveal deeper ecological causes of primate behavior.
The Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook is an illustrated handbook that explains how to design exhibitions and attractions successfully; contextualize contemporary exhibition design practice through its historical and theoretical underpinnings; and elevate understanding of one of the most rapidly evolving and trans-disciplinary creative disciplines.
A “social script” is a term sociologists use to describe the way people take actions based on cultural understanding that fits a recognizable pattern without anyone having to tell them what to do. In his book "After Tragedy Strikes", Beamish suggests this pattern in public reaction reflects what he calls the “trauma script.”
Good Boys, Bad Hombres examines the politics of empowerment and inclusion as aspects of youth control in schools. Showing how the promotion of an aspirational form of Latino masculinity is rooted in neoliberal multiculturalism, heteropatriarchy, and antiblackness, Michael V. Singh argues that new narratives and practices are necessary to reimagine Latino manhood in schools and beyond.
In her new collection A Piece of Good News, Katie Peterson, English professor and head of the creative writing program, explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure and shelter. The poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship and happiness. Katie Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, including the forthcoming Fog and Smoke (2024).
Art history professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice traces eight illustrated pages from a 13th-century Armenian manuscript that disappeared in 1920 to their purchase by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1995.
In her book Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indígena Ancestries, Susy J. Zepeda, an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers.
