At Passages is Michael Palmer’s first book of poetry in seven years––and his first book with New Directions. A collection in seven parts, At Passages explores the “hum of the possible-to-say,” and, as its title suggests, delves particularly into the paths and meetings of language and meaning: “as much the unseen / as the visible / As much what has disappeared / as what remains.”

The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (ND, '95), is now available as a paperbook. In seven sections this gorgeous new book explores language and the "salt sea of autobiographies". His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban wold of late twentieth-century America".

Presents an overall survey of advances in high peak power solid lasers and reviews results in the interaction of high power laser pulses with various dielectric materials containing metal nanoparticles. This book presents the basics as well as the theory of a single crystal photo-elastic modulator.

Roy Saunders was the world's greatest legitimate safe cracker. Who said so? Well, Roy Saunders for one, but this claim was echoed by senior police officers, chief insurance surveyors, leading jewellers and hundreds of wealthy clients. As his exceptional skills became widely recognised, he travelled the world opening some of the toughest safes and strongrooms ever made. It all came to a sudden end with one typically brave and selfless act as he went to the aid of a police officer whose life was endangered. This is the story of how a once fiercely honest man, embittered by a losing battle...