These poems comment on every-day life, with its rapid changes and its frequently amusing peculiarities and paradoxes. Over half of the poems are humorous, but many are serious. Almost all have regular rhyme and meter. The poems implicitly express the author's philosophy of life: enjoy our beautiful universe (it's the only one we've got), share a laugh, and try not to stub a toe on every passing chair. Have you ever had a computer ask you for a date, or tell you that you are deceased? Have you ever fallen in love in a laundromat? Do you find it hard to get going in the morning? Are you amused...

In an examination of the physical properties of high temperature superconductors, the topics discussed in this text include the electromagnetic response (penetration depth and surface resistance), local lattice distortions, the influence of vortex fluctuations and microstructure on macroscopic behaviour, effects of points defects generated by electron irradiation, the properties of superlattices, and the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter.

Aims to bring the reader up to date on transport phenomena, including electrical and thermal conductivity and infrared properties. In addition, electron tunnelling and the characteristics and applications of films are discussed.

This volume examines the effects of radiation, the magnetic vortex states and transformations and the effects of c-axis coupling on the transport properties. The isotope effect is reviewed, and interesting properties of the superconducting fullerenes are described.