Note: Front Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of Microeconomic Tools -- 3. Indicators of Environmental and Economic Well-Being -- 4. Economic Growth and the Environment -- 5. Joint Production of Desirable and Undesirable Outputs -- 6. Estimating Environmental Performance -- 7. Public Goods and Bads -- 8. Externalities and Common Property Resources -- 9. Valuing Environmental Resources -- 10. Endangered Species -- 11. Interest Rates, Cost& -- #8211 -- Benefit Analysis, and Nonrenewable Resources -- 12. Renewable Resources -- 13. Transaction Costs and Institutional Choice -- 14. Retrospect and Future Prospects -- Answers to Selected End of Chapter Questions -- Bibliography.

Note: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Editors -- Editorial Board -- Part 1: Lehmann's Phosphor Cookbook and Phosphor Tables -- Section 1: Introduction -- Section 2: Phosphor Preparation -- Section 3: Purification of Some Starting Materials -- Section 4: Phosphor Data -- Section 5: Preparation of Phosphor Screens -- Part 2: Additional Developments -- Section 6: Phosphor Synthesis -- Section 7: Other Phosphor Data -- Section 8: Commercial Phosphors and Scintillators -- Appendices -- Back Cover.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- The Author -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Section 1: Crystalline Materials -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Physical Properties -- 1.2.1 Isotropic Crystals -- 1.2.2 Uniaxial Crystals -- 1.2.3 Biaxial Crystals -- 1.3 Optical Properties -- 1.3.1 Isotropic Crystals -- 1.3.2 Uniaxial Crystals -- 1.3.3 Biaxial Crystals -- 1.3.4 Dispersion Formulas for Refractive Index -- 1.3.5 Thermooptic Coefficients -- 1.4 Mechanical Properties -- 1.4.1 Elastic Constants -- 1.4.2 Elastic Moduli -- 1.4.3 Engineering Data -- 1.5 Thermal Properties -- 1.5.1 Melting Point, Heat Capacity, Thermal Expansion, Conductivity -- 1.5.2 Temperature Dependence of Heat Capacity for Selected Solids -- 1.5.3 Debye Temperature -- 1.6 Magnetooptic Properties -- 1.6.1 Diamagnetic Crystals -- 1.6.2 Paramagnetic Crystals -- 1.6.3 Ferromagnetic, Antiferromagnetic, and Ferrimagnetic Crystals -- 1.7 Electrooptic Properties -- 1.7.1 Linear Electrooptic Coefficients -- 1.7.2 Quadratic Electrooptic Materials -- 1.8 Elastrooptic Properties -- 1.8.1 Elastooptic Coefficients -- 1.8.2 Acoustooptic Materials -- 1.9 Nonlinear Optical Properties -- 1.9.1 Nonlinear Refractive Index -- 1.9.2 Two-Photon Absorption -- 1.9.3 Second Harmonic Generation Coefficients -- 1.9.4 Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Coefficients -- 1.9.5 Optical Phase Conjugation Materials -- Section 2: Glasses -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Commercial Optical Glasses -- 2.2.1 Optical Properties -- 2.2.2 Internal Transmittance -- 2.2.3 Mechanical Properties -- 2.2.4 Thermal Properties -- 2.3 Specialty Optical Glasses -- 2.3.1 Optical Properties -- 2.3.2 Mechanical Properties -- 2.3.3 Thermal Properties -- 2.4 Fused Silica -- 2.5 Fluoride Glasses -- 2.5.1 Fluorozirconate Glasses -- 2.5.2 Fluorohafnate Glasses -- 2.5.3 Other Fluoride Glasses -- 2.6 Chalcogenide Glasses. , 2.7 Magnetooptic Properties -- 2.7.1 Diamagnetic Glasses -- 2.7.2 Paramagnetic Glasses -- 2.8 Electrooptic Properties -- 2.9 Elastooptic Properties -- 2.10 Nonlinear Optical Properties -- 2.10.1 Nonlinear Refractive Index -- 2.10.2 Two-Photon Absorption -- 2.10.3 Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Coefficients -- 2.10.4 Brillouin Phase Conjugation -- 2.11 Special Glasses -- 2.11.1 Filter Glasses -- 2.11.2 Laser Glasses -- 2.11.3 Faraday Rotator Glasses -- 2.11.4 Gradient-Index Glasses -- 2.11.5 Mirror Substrate Glasses -- 2.11.6 Athermal Glasses -- 2.11.7 Acoustooptic Glasses -- 2.11.8 Abnormal Dispersion Glasses -- Section 3: Polymeric Materials -- 3.1 Optical Plastics -- 3.2 Index of Refraction -- 3.3 Nonlinear Optical Properties -- 3.4 Thermal Properties -- 3.5 Engineering Data -- Section 4: Metals -- 4.1 Physical Properties of Selected Metals -- 4.2 Optical Properties -- 4.3 Mechanical Properties -- 4.4 Thermal Properties -- 4.5 Mirror Substrate Materials -- Section 5: Liquids -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Water -- 5.2.1 Physical Properties -- 5.2.2 Absorption -- 5.2.3 Index of Refraction -- 5.3 Physical Properties of Selected Liquids -- 5.3.1 Thermal Conductivity -- 5.3.2 Viscosity -- 5.3.3 Surface Tension -- 5.3.4 Absorption -- 5.4 Index of Refraction -- 5.4.1 Organic Liquids -- 5.4.2 Inorganic Liquids -- 5.4.3 Calibration Liquids -- 5.4.4 Abnormal Dispersion Liquids -- 5.5 Nonlinear Optical Properties -- 5.5.1 Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections -- 5.5.2 Nonlinear Refraction -- 5.5.3 Kerr Constants -- 5.5.4 Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Coefficients -- 5.5.5 Stimulated Raman Scattering -- 5.5.6 Stimulated Brillouin Scattering -- 5.6 Magnetooptic Properties -- 5.6.1 Verdet Constants of Inorganic Liquids -- 5.6.2 Verdet Constants of Organic Liquids -- 5.6.3 Dispersion of the Verdet Constants -- 5.7 Commercial Optical Liquids -- Section 6: Gases. , 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Physical Properties of Selected Gases -- 6.3 Index of Refraction -- 6.4 Nonlinear Optical Properties -- 6.4.1 Nonlinear Refractive Index -- 6.4.2 Two-Photon Absorption -- 6.4.3 Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Coefficients -- 6.4.4 Stimulated Raman Scattering -- 6.4.5 Brillouin Phase Conjugation -- 6.5 Magnetooptic Properties -- 6.6 Atomic Resonance Filters -- Appendices -- Appendix I Safe Handling of Optical Materials -- Appendix II Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms, and Mineralogical or Common Names of Optical Materials -- Appendix III Abbreviations for Methods of Preparing Optical Materials and Thin Films -- Appendix IV Fundamental Physical Constants -- Appendix V Units and Conversion Factors -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- The Editor -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Section 1: Optical Crystals -- Section 2: Optical Glasses -- Section 3: Optical Plastics -- Section 4: Optical Liquids -- Section 5: Filter Materials -- Section 6: Linear Electrooptic Materials -- Section 7: Nonlinear Optical Materials -- 7.1. Organic and Inorganic Materials -- 7.2. Cluster-Insulator Composites -- Section 8: Nonlinear Optical Properties -- 8.1. Nonlinear Refractive Index -- 8.1.1. Inorganic Materials -- 8.1.2. Organic Materials -- 8.2. Two-Photon Absorption -- 8.2.1. Inorganic Materials -- 8.2.2. Organic Materials -- 8.3. Stimulated Raman and Brillouin Scattering -- Section 9: Magnetooptic Materials -- 9.1. Crystals and Glasses -- 9.2. Organic and Inorganic Liquids -- Section 10: Elastooptic Materials -- Section 11: Photorefractive Materials -- Section 12: Nonlinear Optical Phase Conjugation Materials -- Section 13: Gradient-Index Materials -- Section 14: Liquid Crystals -- Section 15: Diamond Optics -- Section 16: Laser Crystals -- Section 17: Laser Glasses -- 17.1. Bulk Glasses -- 17.2. Waveguide Glasses -- Section 18: Optical Waveguide Materials -- 18.1. Crystals -- 18.2. Glasses -- 18.3. Plastic Optical Fibers -- Section 19: Optical Coatings for High Power Lasers -- Appendix 1: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms, and Mineralogical or Common Names of Optical Materials -- Appendix 2: Abbreviations for Methods of Preparing Optical Materials and Thin Films -- Appendix 3: Designations of Russian Optical Glasses -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Splitting the infinitive -- Broken English -- NPL haiku -- Federalese -- Readability ratings -- A note on the game of refereeing -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tactics for the Game -- 2.1 Tactics for the Author -- 2.2 Tactics for the Referee -- 3. Conculsion -- Preparing scientific papers -- Commandments for the writer of a dissertation -- Prepartion of the Dissertion -- Selection of Opponents -- The Defence of the Dissertation -- Royalties: The Quatorze connection -- Perish, but publish! -- Clarification -- How to win arguments -- The Techniques of Argumentation -- The circular path -- The break-in or yeabut -- The crescendo -- The stutter -- The use of invective -- The syllogism -- The acceptance of a scientific idea -- On the reading of scientific papers -- Audience enemies numbers I to VI -- The use of small dogs in physics teaching -- Teaching -- Teacher evaluation -- Proclamation -- Free thinking -- A revised PhD comprehensive -- Syllabus for a detective story written by a physics professor -- Challenging experiments -- Images -- Mission statements -- The rank order on campus -- Budget -- The university hierarchy-who's on top? -- View from the bottom -- On the problem of innovation -- The Dreistein case -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton's Nobel Award (1947) -- Hypothesis -- Finagle's laws -- First Law -- Second Law -- Third Law -- Fourth Law -- The Law of the Too Solid Goof -- Advice To Experimenters -- Descent of man -- Literacy in an age of technology -- How to live with the Philistines -- The Wife -- Other Scientists -- Humanists -- Officialdom -- A Philistine asks for equal time -- In Some Respects, Pragmatic -- We Wire the Lamps -- Physicists Need Philistines -- Brain drain -- Pan's pipes -- Seventeenth-century recognition of resonance. , Demon theory of friction -- Natural-science viva, c 1890 -- Physics instructor -- Influential textbooks : The Feynman lectures on physics -- A lecture to a lady on Thornson's reflecting galvanometer -- European atom -- Error bars -- The British high energy physics community -- All Power to Particles -- The future European harmonic pendulum -- Report of a working party appointed by The Arts Research Council -- The Future European Programme -- Finance and Manpower -- High Intensity Machine in Britain -- Summary and Conclusion -- The fluttering. spiralling flight of cyclotron evolution -- E O Lawrence, driver -- Ten commandments of electrical safety -- hv -- Tea-tirne with Rutherford -- Pauli in Heaven -- Physikalisches Lied -- Tracking the elusive quark -- Spin-orbit coupling -- Reference frames -- Space -- The Einstein and the Eddington -- Einstein's philosophy of science -- Relativity -- R W Wood-improviser -- The 40-ft Spectrograph -- Schuster's library -- Captain DeKhotinsky -- My anecdotage: Apocryphal tales -- The diabolical heating scheme of J C Maxwell -- Proof by induction -- Stauffer's law of the entropy of change -- International Court of Scientific Nomenclature Rival claims of scientists: Celsius vs McKie -- Before the Lord President of the International Court -- mμ-an spticist's lament -- The King who kept his 0 °C -- Name for unit radian frequency -- On the mathematics of committees, boards and panels -- The "legal' value of π -- Science in double dactyls -- Hymne to Hymen -- Resolution of the paradox -- A philosophical puppet play -- Saving time: a commentary -- Could the earth run backward? -- Twixt earth and sky with matter-horns -- Astronomical funding -- O, telescope! -- Planetoid for sale -- Celsius-the astronomer -- The satellite question -- Astronomical abberation -- Creation of the Universe: a modest proposal. , Request for supplement to UCF Grant #000-00-00000-001 'Creation of the Universe' -- Background -- Progress to Date -- Supplement -- Prospective Budget -- Salaries -- Monitoring Equipment and Misc. -- Creation -- stressing the astronauts -- On the spot? -- Cocking a Snootnik at Sputnik -- Still in the galaxy -- Astronomers discover ethyl alcohol in interstellar space-News item -- A damsel in distress -- The Surpris'd Lady -- Chemical history is shaped by a maker of wine bottles -- To err is human . . . -- A chemical hoax -- On the substitution Rule and the Theory of Types -- References -- Professionalism-to the end -- The purist -- The ant -- Fellowshipmanship -- A concise manual on how to be a specialist without studying -- The Approach to General Practitioners -- Mannerization I -- The Presentation of the Diagnosis -- Fellowshipmanship and the specialist -- Mannerzation II -- General Rules -- Outline of evolution as dimly recalled from college education -- Struthiomimus -- The dinosaur -- R W Wood -- The dry-rot of our academic biology -- Name dropping -- Pollution -- Modelling the cat falling -- References -- The speed of the deer fly -- References -- Designer genes: a new look in fish genetics -- Curve fitting -- Competitive interactions between neotropical pollinators and Africanized honev bees -- Biorhythm: imitation of science -- On being blinded with science -- Being a ruthless enquiry into scientific methods, complete with 29 genuine references and a learned footnote -- References -- That thing will never work -- Errors and myopia -- Extracts from Modern Geography c1740 -- Section IV-Containing some amazing geographical paradoxes -- Continental drip -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Acknowledgments.