This book is the first to describe novel measurement techniques of processes during laser-matter interaction using ultra-fast lasers. Targeted at both engineers and physicists, initial chapters address the working tools, the history of laser ultra-fast metrology, an overview of ultra-fast laser sources, and the fundamentals of laser radiation-matter interaction. Ultra-fast laser radiation is discussed in chapter 4, while further chapters describe the methodology of pump and probe in practice, as well as applications for pump and probe metrology in engineering, including spectroscopy and imaging techniques. Chapter 7 describes the perspectives for this new field of research and predicts the metrology of the future, showing new potential applications of laser sources and new detectors in combination with improved pump and probe methods.

This collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. Part 1 (Legislation) includes chapters on Parliament's emerging responsibilities for pre-legislative scrutiny of government Bills and for evaluating proposed legislation against explicit constitutional standards. The impact on legislation of the European Union and the growing influence of the House of Lords are also examined. Part 2 (Accountability) investigates how Parliament operates to scrutinise areas of executive action previously often shielded from effective parliamentary oversight, including national security, war-making powers and administrative justice. There are also chapters on parliamentary reform, including analysis of the House of Commons 'Wright reforms', parliamentary sovereignty, privilege and the European Convention on Human Rights, Euroscepticism, and parliamentary sovereignty and the regulation of lobbyists. The book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the work of Parliament and is aimed at legal academics, practitioners and political scientists.

Parliament and the Law (Second Edition) is an edited collection of essays, supported by the UK's Study of Parliament Group, including contributions by leading constitutional lawyers, political scientists and parliamentary officials. It provides a wide-ranging overview of the ways in which the law applies to, and impacts upon, the UK Parliament, and it considers how recent changes to the UK's constitutional arrangements have affected Parliament as an institution. It includes authoritative discussion of a number of issues of topical concern, such as: the operation of parliamentary privilege, the powers of Parliament's select committees, parliamentary scrutiny, devolution, English Votes for English Laws, Members' conduct and the governance of both Houses. It also contains chapters on financial scrutiny, parliamentary sovereignty, Parliament and human rights, and the administration of justice. Aimed mainly at legal academics, practitioners, and political scientists, it will also be of interest to anyone who is curious about the many fascinating ways in which the law interacts with and influences the work, the constitutional status and the procedural arrangements of the Westminster Parliament.

This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

THIS 82 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Alchemy and the Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190765.

1927. The editor's hope is that H.P.B.'s work will be made accessible to a greater number of students, since he believes in its original form is only so much undigestible material. Contents: What is the Secret Doctrine?; The (Al)chemical Achievements of the Ancients; Alchemy and the Alchemists; Modern Science and the Secret Doctrine; The Root of the Universe; The Cosmic Elements; Fire; The Atom; The Evolution of the Elements; and The Elements of Science. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.

THIS 42 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension, by Alexander Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459114X.

THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Alchemy and the Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190765.

1927. The editor's hope is that H.P.B.'s work will be made accessible to a greater number of students, since he believes in its original form is only so much undigestible material. Contents: What is the Secret Doctrine?; The (Al)chemical Achievements of the Ancients; Alchemy and the Alchemists; Modern Science and the Secret Doctrine; The Root of the Universe; The Cosmic Elements; Fire; The Atom; The Evolution of the Elements; and The Elements of Science. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension, by Alexander Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459114X.

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THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Alchemy and the Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766190765.

To understand the relation of human consciousness to the universe it is necessary to understand the scientific laws which govern the universe. This book gives to the students a clear explanation of them most recent discovery in regard to those laws and shows its bearing on the study of consciousness. Contents: Metaphysics; Occultism; The Astral Plane; Mathematics.

THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension, by Alexander Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459114X.

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THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy and the Fourth Dimension, by Alexander Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459114X.

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