Museums must comply with a myriad of laws and ethical codes regulating virtually every aspect of their organization and operations. While some of these issues are common to businesses of all kinds, some apply to nonprofit organizations, and others are unique to the museum community. Museum Administration: Law and Practice explores the many areas of law applicable to museums, including governance, personnel, facilities, intellectual property, collections management, and fundraising. Designed as a textbook for use in connection with museums studies programs and law school courses, the book utilizes a "casebook" approach: relevant court decisions and other primary source materials illustrate and enliven the descriptive text. Study questions are included in each chapter so that readers can apply legal and ethical principles to museum-focused fact situations. A comprehensive but concise introductory text to the legal and ethical issues facing museums, Museum Administration: Law and Practice is also an authoritative resource for museum professionals and lawyers.

The importance of gauge theory for elementary particle physics is by now firmly established. Recent experiments have yielded con vincing evidence for the existence of intermediate bosons, the carriers of the electroweak gauge force, as well as for the presence of gluons, the carriers of the strong gauge force, in hadronic inter actions. For the gauge theory of strong interactions, however, a number of important theoretical problems remain to be definitely resolved. They include the quark confinement problem, the quantita tive study of the hadron mass spectrum as well as the role of topo logy in quantum gauge field theory. These problems require for their solution the development and application of non-perturbative methods in quantum gauge field theory. These problems, and their non-pertur bative analysis, formed the central interest of the 1983 Cargese summer institute on "Progress in Gauge Field Theory. " In this sense it was a natural sequel to the 1919 Cargese summer institute on "Recent Developments in Gauge Theories. " Lattice gauge theory provides a systematic framework for the investigation of non-perturbative quantum effects. Accordingly, a large number of lectures dealt with lattice gauge theory. Following a systematic introduction to the subject, the renormalization group method was developed both as a rigorous tool for fundamental questions, and in the block-spin formulation, the computations by Monte Carlo programs. A detailed analysis was presented of the problems encountered in computer simulations. Results obtained by this method on the mass spectrum were reviewed."

Mit dem vorliegenden Buch wird der Versuch unternommen, die von der Dresdener Elektronenstrukturgruppe in den letzten zehn Jahren gesammelten Erfahrungen bei der konkreten Durchfuhrung und Anwendung der Elektronentheorie der Metalle zu verdichten und weiterzugeben. Die Arbeiten ordnen sich in die Aufgabe ein, zum lang- fristigen Vorlauf einer systematischen und theoretisch fundierten Festkoerper- und Werkstofforschung beizutragen. Die Untersuchungen betreffen die elektronischen Eigenschaften reiner Metalle und geordneter Verbindungen sowie solche Stoerungen der idealen Kristallstruktur wie Punktdefekte, Phononen und Oberflachen. Die Dar- stellung entspricht dem Stand von 1978; die seitdem erzielten Ergebnisse konnten nur teilweise eingearbeitet werden, die Arbeiten zu ungeordneten, zu spinpolarisierten sowie zu endlichen Systemen wurden uberhaupt ausgelassen. Die erwahnte Gruppe ist aus dem ehemaligen Institut fur Theoretische Physik der Technischen Universitat Dresden hervorgegangen. Die Autoren dieses Buches arbeiten gegenwartig an ver- schiedenen Institutionen: Technische Universitat Dresden (M. Hietschold, W. John, 1. Mertig, E. Mrosan, R. Schoepke, P. Ziesche), Zentralinstitut fur Festkoerperphysik und Werkstofforschung Dresden der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (H. Eschrig, G. Lehmann), Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle (P. Rennert), Technische Hochschule Ilmenau (G. Paasch, von Februar 1977 bis August 1979 Martin-Luther- Universitat Halle), Technische Hochschule Karl-Marx-Stadt (M. Taut). An den erzielten Ergebnissen haben weitere Wissenschaftler, die ihre Diplom. bzw. Doktor- arbeiten an der Technischen Universitat Dresden im Rahmen der hier behandelten Problematik anferti'gten, ihren Anteil.