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Publisher Summary 1
Representing Asia from Taiwan and Japan, and the West from the US and Australia, political scientists examine political mechanics common to the six democracies that emerged in East Asia during the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the institutionalization of a stable and competitive party system. Their perspectives include electoral systems and party systems, the development of partisanship, and social structure and party support. Annotation 漏2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Publisher Summary 1
A coherent and self-contained account of macroscopic quantum phenomena for graduate students and researchers.
Publisher Summary 2
This book contains a coherent and self-contained account of macroscopic quantum phenomena, focusing on the central role played by macroscopic quantum tunneling. Beginning with an explanation of the nature and significance of the Schrödinger's cat concept, Shin Takagi introduces macroscopic quantum tunneling. He deals with typical examples in detail, elucidating how quantum mechanical coherence may be lost (so-called "decoherence") or how it may be maintained despite the effects of environment and measurement processes. Assuming only a knowledge of elementary quantum mechanics, this book emphasizes conceptual aspects rather than technical details.
