The Embedding Book

The Embedding

Ian Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British SF in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Deep in the Brazilian jungle, an isolated tribe face eviction from their ancestral lands - and the psychedelic fungus that makes their religious language possible. In a British laboratory, a brilliant linguist conducts cutting-edge experiments - but does his search for answers come at too high a cost? And in the ultimate test of linguistics, First Contact presents a challenge unlike any humanity has faced before . . . Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, The Embedding immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic of SF.

The Embedding Method for Electronic Structure

Annotation The embedding method is a powerful theoretical and computational technique relevant to many technologically and scientifically important problems. Encompassing important and topical problems in, for example, surface and interface electronic structure, adsorption, the physics of nanostructures, molecular electronics, plasmonics and photonics it has become an important tool for researchers in these fields. More recently it has also been extended into the time domain. This book provides a thorough review of the method which can be used as either an accessible starting point for those wishing to understand and use the method, or as a single reference source for those already applying it in their research.

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