This announcement informs readers on how they can use, and participate in, the Lady's Museum Project (ladysmuseum.com). It discusses work completed forthcoming updates planned for teachers', scholars', students' use of this first critical edition Charlotte Lennox's Museum, as spring 2022.

John Van Vleck published his classic monograph “The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities” in 1932 while on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. In his later years, he worked on a second edition which unfortunately was never completed. After his death his wife Abigail gave his notes for the second edition to Chun Lin. These notes contain additions and other, mostly minor, chan...

Contaminant Geochemistry: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment combines the earth science fields of subsurface hydrology and environmental geochemistry and aims to provide a comprehensive background for students and researchers interested in protection and sustainable management of the subsurface environment. This book focuses on the upper part of the earth’s crust, covering...

First Edition “We are to admit no more causes of natural things” (as we are told by Newton) than “such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” This central theme is basic to the pursuit of science, and goes back to the principle known as Occam’s razor: “if presented with a choice between indifferent alternatives, then one ought to select the simplest one.” Unconsciously o...

The present volume is intended as a contribution to the theory of those systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environment, and which utilize the predictions of their models to control their present behavior. Systems of this type have a variety of properties which are unique to them, just as “closed-loop” systems have properties which make them different ...