Condensed concepts

I recently reread Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat by Hans Christian von Baeyer As a popular book, it provides a beaut...

Richard Flanagan is an esteemed Australian writer. My son recently gave our family a copy of Flanagan's recent book, Question 7 . It is...

  John Goodenough  was an amazing scientist. He made important contributions to our understanding of strongly correlated electron materials,...

  David Mermin has posted a preprint with the modest title, Autobiographical Notes of a Physicist There are many things I enjoyed and found...

The   podcast  episode where I talk about my book just came out. It is available on a range of platforms, listed   here , including   SoundC...

Oxford University Press has a nice podcast on Very Short Introductions.  In each episode, an author of a specific volume has 10-15 minutes ...

My book has finally been released by Amazon  in the USA. I don't like Amazon but it is cheap and you can avoid shipping charges. In Aust...

Hard copies of my book can now be purchased directly from Oxford University Press.   After a long wait and a lot of work, it was great to fi...

The good news is that if you read books on Kindle, my book Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction can now be purchased as an ...

The publication of my book has been delayed a couple of months. It is now due for release in February in the UK and May in the USA. It is av...

What are the most amazing things that we know about the physics of the universe? If you were to pick ten what would they be? I recently read...

  I am currently working on the proofs and index for Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction . It is wonderful to have got to th...

If you ever write a popular book about science I suggest you spend a lot of time honing your very last paragraph. If it is eloquent, grand, ...

 Here are my draft abstracts and keywords for the whole book and for chapters 6-10. Context and chapters 1-5 were given in the previous post...

I am pleased to announce that Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction is scheduled to be published on December 29. The manuscri...

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes  (1932-2007) was arguably the founder of soft matter as a research field, as recognized by  the Nobel Prize in Physi...

 I am on the lookout for good video resources about science that I can recommend to others, particularly non-scientists. By chance, I recent...

What is condensed matter physics about?  In his beautiful book, The Problems of Physics (originally published in 1987), Leggett has a nice ...

On friday I finally sent my draft manuscript for Condensed Matter Physics: A Very Short Introduction off to the publisher. Yay! At the end ...

 Most Ph.D. students and postdocs will end up employed outside academia and doing work that is not related to their current research. For th...