Product Description

Describes the properties of magnetic forces, the history of their applications, and the future uses being developed for them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #467376 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 334 pages

Review
Any book that has jacket blurbs from D. Allan Bromley, Leon Lederman (with pun) and Dave Barry has got to be worth investigating. For those who maintain a collection of books in the style of David Feldman's "When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?" (HarperCollins, 1992) or David Macaulay's "The Way Things Work" (Houghton Mifflin, 1988), this is another one for the shelf...Livingston has devoted much of his career to magnetism, first at General Electric as a physicist in the materials department and more recently as a senior lecturer in materials science at MIT. He also tells a good story...[T]he book is mostly a serious and comprehensive discussion of the field, carefully crafted for the nonspecialist...I highly recommend the book, both for enjoyable reading and as a valuable source of information on the history of magnetism. -- Frederick R. Fickett "Physics Today"