Darren Smith – författare

Chapter one focuses on the growing interest in intermetallic compounds based on uranium. Recent research activities have finally led to the crystallisation of new concepts in actinide magnetism which, together with the large amount of experimental work are reviewed in this chapter.

The last few decades have witnessed quite an extraordinary development in magnetic recording technology. In the near future magnetic recording technology will have an enormous growth potential, one of it's main aims being the further reduction in the peripheral device sizes while maintaining an increase in capacity. Chapter two deals with the magnetism and materials aspects of hard disk media which are the most prominent type of mass storage today, due to their low cost, high speed and relatively high storage capacity.

Magnets based on rare earth elements are unequalled with regard to coercivity and maximum energy production. Considerable progress has been made in the development of rare earth based permanent magnets which goes hand in hand with a better understanding of the physical properties and especially the magnetism of the underlying class of materials. Chapter three presents a survey of the physical principles involved with this technique and how these can be applied advantageously to the study of strongly ferromagnetic materials.

The final chapter is devoted to inelastic neutron scattering when applied to study the crystal field interaction in lanthanide compounds. Included in this review is a description of how this technique is complementary to various other modern and conventional techniques.

What if you find the woman of your dreams and are then diagnosed with degenerating blindness? What if this could mean that you may never see your unborn baby''s face?

In this entertaining and engaging love story, The Fade follows the life of Patrick Bryce. A sales trader by profession and working on the West Coast Patrick finds himself forced East after a buyout that leaves him in New York City alone, single and suffering from numerous lifestyle founded neuroses. It is then that he meets Olivia, a brash and overconfident local and her bitter cat, Tinsel. Their touching and unique love affair runs before learning to walk and soon they are cohabiting and pregnant, an unplanned yet welcome event for both before Patrick is diagnosed as a having a variant of Stargardt''s Disease, a strain that causes complete blindness leading him to embark on a journey of rediscovery.

A darkly comedic novel that rings true again and again with a pitch perfect commentary on the Hollywood fame game.Michael Cuomo, Star/Producer of the award-winning feature film, Happy New Year

In 1982 Max Hammond was thrust into the spotlight, a star of the teen movies written and directed by his mentor Robert Cowley.

Thirty years later and Max is a nobody, a has-been waiting tables in a West Village bistro. But when Cowley dies, and his funeral fast becomes the A-list Hollywood event of the year, Max is given the option to stay in the shadows or to walk back into the limelight once more.