This comprehensive and progressive new text presents a variety of topics that are only briefly touched on in other books; this text provides a thorough introduction to the techniques of quantum field theory, which is the theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of field-like systems or, equivalently, of many-body systems. Covering topics such as Feynman diagrams and path integrals, the author emphasizes the path integral approach, the Wilsonian approach to renormalization, and the physics of non-abelian gauge theory. Banks provides a thorough treatment of groundbreaking topics such as quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, topics not typically covered in other introductory texts. The Standard Model of particle physics is also discussed in detail. Connections with condensed matter physics are explored, and there is a brief, but detailed, treatment of non-perturbative semi-classical methods. Ideal for graduate students in high-energy physics and condensed matter physics, the book contains many problems, which help students practice the key techniques of quantum field theory.

Andrew Bush directs this comedy which follows lifelong friends Kate (Mamrie Hart), Evie (Grace Helbig) and Charlie (Hannah Hart) as they put their worries aside to celebrate Kate's 30th birthday. Fed up with her boring job and luckless love life, Kate reluctantly agrees to let Evie and Charlie throw her a low-key party so they can all let off some steam. However, what's supposed to be a quiet celebration quickly gets out of hand as a number of old faces from the girls' past return to cause trouble once more.

Life goes on, dancing to a rhythm, a beat all its own. And the beat the author hears is much like Jazz Music-free-wheeling, going this way for a while, and then suddenly, without warning, the other way. All seemingly random, and yet strangely holding-together, forming moods. The poems in this collection are those beats, those moods, that rhythm, rendered into language-Jazz Language. TOM BANKS is a graduate of Indiana University with an English major. His work has appeared in "Collected Whispers" published by The International Library of Poetry and "The Northfield News," Northfield, Vermont. He lives in Taos, New Mexico, with his wife, Diane.