de

News from the John W. Kluge Center: Happening TOMORROW: Fergus Bordewich on Congress at War

Tomorrow, join the John W. Kluge Center for an Author Salon with Fergus M. Bordewich on Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America.

Get your free tickets here.

On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Fergus M. Bordewich will be interviewed by Becky Brasington Clark, director of the Library of Congress Publishing Office about the role of Congress during the Civil War.

A reception will follow the discussion.

Get your free tickets here.

The event is free, but tickets are recommended. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov






de

News from the John W. Kluge Center:Join us for a Conversation on the Future of Democracy with Yuval Levin

On May 13, join the John W. Kluge Center for the first in our Conversations on the Future of Democracy series featuring Yuval Levin, who will be discussing his new book, A Time to Build, a look at the critical importance of formative institutions in society, their deterioration in recent decades, and practical steps to begin addressing the problem.

Find the event on May 13 at the Library’s showcase for everything you can access while the doors are closed: Library of Congress: Engage!

And sign up for a free ticket to get a reminder when the event happens.

Yuval Levin is a distinguished scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies. Levin is also the editor-in-chief of National Affairs.

Also, we’ve got a packed schedule of virtual events lined up, so stay tuned for more.




de

Amre confident of Mumbai Indians chances

Mumbai Indians assistant coach Praveen Amre on the challenge of the second Indian Premier League season and his team's chances.




de

Gurugram school boy commits suicide after girl levels allegations on him on Instagram

The 17-year-old boy committed suicide in Gurugram`s upscale building after a girl made serious allegations against him on Instagram.




de

Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra put under section 80G; donations to trust exempted from income tax

The Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has been created for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The 15-member trust was constituted by the Modi government, after the Supreme Court's verdict on November 9 settled the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.




de

NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra govt over deaths of migrant workers in Aurangabad train mishap, seeks details

Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports, the Commission has directed State Chief Secretary and District Magistrate of Aurangabad to submit a detailed report within four weeks.




de

No hike in school fees in academic year 2020-21: Maharashtra Education Department

Giving a big relief to parents during the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis, the Maharashtra Education Department has announced that there will be no hike in school fees in the academic year 2020-21.




de

Man commits suicide after killing wife, minor son in Bikaner

The incident occurred in the Jasrasar police station area, where the man, identified as Suresh, allegedly thrashed his wife Suman (35) and an 11-year-old son in a fit of rage over some issue on Friday night.




de

Migrants resort to violence in Gujarat's Surat, pelt stones at police, damage vehicles; 50 detained

The incident took place in Mora village near the industrial town of Hazira.




de

Bois Locker Room: Petition filed in Delhi HC seeks SIT, CBI probe in the case

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High Court on Saturday (May 9, 2020) seeking a SIT or CBI investigation into the case related to 'Bois Locker Room' social media group, in which nearly 22 teenage boys allegedly shared objectionable pictures of minor girls and discussed about raping women.




de

Yogi Adityanath reviews COVID-19 situation in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday (May 9) stressed on the need to understand the "chemistry of corona while administering its treatment".




de

Riyaz Naikoo encounter: Private mobile phones restored in Kashmir, internet remains suspended

The situation in the valley, which has been witnessing lockdown since the third week of March due to COVID-19 pandemic, was generally calm barring a few local protests in some villages of Pulwama in south Kashmir.




de

Protests in Visakhapatnam over gas leak incident, locals demand closure of LG Polymers chemical plant

The incident took place even as state Director General of Police DG Sawang was inspecting the vapour leak spot and talking to the management on the measures taken to restore normalcy.




de

Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin claims responsibility for Handwara attack, says 'India has upper hand' — Video

Almost five days after the encounter operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara that claimed lives of five security personnel including a decorate officer, the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen, headed by Syed Salahuddin, has reportedly claimed the responsibility.




de

Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?


 
Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of

Read More...




de

Intervention Library: Finding Interventions and Resources for Students and Teachers (IL:FIRST v1.0)


 Read More...




de

Companion to Women's and Gender Studies


 

A comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, featuring original contributions from leading experts from around the world

The Companion to Women's and Gender Studies is a comprehensive resource for students and scholars alike, exploring the central concepts, theories, themes, debates, and events in this dynamic field. Contributions from leading scholars and researchers cover a wide range of topics while providing



Read More...




de

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly, 7th Edition


 

The seventh edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, packed with new and updated information

In the Digital Age, marketing tactics seem to change on a day-to-day basis. As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media, the newest online videos, the latest mobile apps, and all the other high-tech influences can seem an almost impossible task. How can you keep



Read More...




de

Particles, fields, quanta: from quantum mechanics to the standard model of particle physics / Gerhard Ecker

Online Resource




de

The reality of time flow: local becoming in modern physics / Richard T.W. Arthur

Online Resource




de

Thermodynamics in the quantum regime: fundamental aspects and new directions / Felix Binder, Luis A. Correa, Christian Gogolin, Janet Anders, Gerardo Adesso, editors

Online Resource




de

Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Condensed Matter Physics: RACMP-2018: conference date, 12-13 October 2018: location, Kurukshetra, India / editors, R. K. Moudgil, Annu Sharma and Manish K. Kashyap

Online Resource




de

Proceedings of the Europe/Africa Conference Dresden 2017- Polymer Processing Society PPS: conference date, 27-29 June 2017: location, Dresden, Germany / editors, Udo Wagenknecht, Petra Pötschke, Sven Wiessner and Michael Gehde

Online Resource




de

Tensor-valued random fields for continuum physics / Anatoliy Malyarenko (Mälardalens Högskola, Sweden), Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Hayden Library - QC793.3.F5 M35 2019




de

Practicing the correspondence principle in the old quantum theory: a transformation through implementation / Martin Jähnert

Online Resource




de

Surface plasmon resonance sensors: a materials guide to design, characterization, optimization, and usage / Leiva Casemiro Oliveira, Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima, Carsten Thirstrup, Helmut Franz Neff

Online Resource




de

Photoassociation of ultracold CsYb molecules and determination of interspecies scattering lengths / Alexander Guttridge

Online Resource




de

Excursions in ill-condensed quantum matter: from amorphous topological insulators to fractional spins / Adhip Agarwala

Online Resource




de

The Quantum Mechanics Solver: How to Apply Quantum Theory to Modern Physics / by Jean-Louis Basdevant, Jean Dalibard

Online Resource




de

Beyond the dynamical universe: unifying block universe physics and time as experienced / Michael Silberstein, W.M. Stuckey, Timothy McDevitt (Elizabethtown College)

Hayden Library - QC174.13.S55 2018




de

The future of fusion energy / Jason Parisi, University of Oxford, UK, Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Hayden Library - QC791.P37 2019




de

Nanoparticle design and characterization for catalytic applications in sustainable chemistry / edited by Rafael Luque and Pepijn Prinsen

Online Resource




de

George Placzek: a nuclear physicist's odyssey / Aleš Gottvald (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Misha Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA)

Hayden Library - QC774.P53 G65 2018




de

Statistical physics of dense plasmas / Setsuo Ichimaru

Hayden Library - QC718.5.S78 I268 2018




de

Ether and modernity: the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century / edited by Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Hayden Library - QC177.E74 2018




de

DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2018: 18-22 December 2018, Hisar, Haryana, India / Editors, Arup Biswas, Veerendra K. Sharma and S. M. Yusuf

Online Resource




de

Classical field theory / Horatiu Nastase (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo)

Hayden Library - QC173.7.N37 2010




de

Magnonics / Abdellatif Akjouj [and six others]

Barker Library - QC176.A35 2019




de

Topological Orders with Spins and Fermions: Quantum Phases and Computation.

Online Resource




de

Disorder-Free Localization

Online Resource




de

Symmetry breaking in the standard model: a non-perturbative outlook / Franco Strocchi

Online Resource




de

Understanding surface scatter phenomena: a linear systems formulation / James E. Harvey

Online Resource




de

Fundamental aspects of asymptotic safety in quantum gravity / Zoë H. Slade

Online Resource




de

Handbook of particle detection and imaging / editors, Ivor Fleck, Maxim Titov, Claus Grupen, Irène Buvat

Online Resource




de

Zur Rheologie und den physikalischen Wechselwirkungen bei Zementsuspensionen.

Online Resource




de

A mathematical introduction to electronic structure theory: iterative solution of symmetric quasi-definite linear systems / Lin Lin (University of California, Berkeley, California), Jianfeng Lu (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

Online Resource




de

Defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equations / Benjamin Dodson (The Johns Hopkins University)

Hayden Library - QC174.26.W28 D63 2019




de

Diffraction optics of complex-structured periodic media: localized optical modes of spiral media / V.A. Belyakov

Online Resource




de

Theory of electronic and optical properties of atomically thin films of indium selenide Samuel J. Magorrian

Online Resource




de

Disorder-Free Localization / by Adam Smith

Online Resource