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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce large-format hardcover housed in a sturdy decorative slipcase, 32 x 31 x 3 cm, 212 pages, illustrated throughout in full colour, gilt page edges, NOT ex-library. Weight 2.45kg / 5.4lbs (please note: extra shipping will be required). Gentle handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. Slipcase shows short creases, a bit of rubbing; short portion of the lower edge reinforced with transparent tape. -- Contents: Treasures of Eureka Prologue; What Is EPR Spectroscopy?; 1. Foundations of the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- E.K. [Yevgeny] Zavoisky: Pioneer of the EPR Spectroscopy; Short Biography of Zavoisky by N.E. Zavoiskaya; EPR Spectroscopy from the Bird's Eye View; Basics of the EPR Spectroscopy [EPR Phenomenon; Electron Spin; G-Tensor; Zero-Field Splitting and Fine Structure & Hyperfine Structure of EPR Spectra; Spin-Spin Interaction Between Two Paramagnetic Particles; Thermal Equilibrium Populations of Energy Levels; Paramagnetic Relaxation; Shape of Continuous-Wave EPR Spectra; Time-Resolved Continuous-Wave EPR Experiments; Pulse EPR Experiments; Free Induction Decay; Primary & Stimulated Electron Spin Echo; Two-Dimensional EPR Spectra; Electron-Electron & Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance; Indirect EPR Detection]; 2. Zavoisky Award Holders 1991-2008 [Interviews & Memoirs & Remembrance]; 3. Pioneering Applications of the EPR Spectroscopy [Diamond: The Inside Story; Energetics of the Future; Quantum Magnetism; Imagine Supramolecular Materials; Solar Energy Conversion; Magnetic Nanodevices; New Lasers on Demand; Creating Better Purification Materials; Guest Molecules in Organic Crystals; Jump to Future; First Step; Magic Atomic Cage; Creating Quantum Chips; New Measure of Nanostructures; Nanotechnology Ancestor; On the Way to Molecular Gadgets; Watching Molecule Transformation; Better Technologies: Fast, Solvent Free & Accurate; In War and Peace; Inside Degradable Plastics; Memory on a Molecular Level: From Mechanically and Photolytically Excited Molecules to Photosynthetic Proteins; Shape-shifting in Molecular World; Most Important Biochemical Process on Earth; Can Quality of Life on Earth Depend on Behavior of One Electron?; Energy Transfer; Mastering Sustainable Energy (Light-Induced Water-Splitting in Nature: Electronic Structure of the Manganese Cluster in Photosystem II); In Search of Non-Fossil Fuels (Understanding the Active Site of [FeFe] Hydrogenase: Basis for a Biohydrogen Technology); Exploring Matter Beyond X-ray (Distance Measurements in Nanoscale by Pulse Electron Double Resonance Dipolar Spectroscopy); Live Exploration of Protein Systems (Aggregates of Peptide Antibiotics as Studied by Pulse Electron Double Resonance); How Antibiotics Work (Localization of Antibiotic Peptides in the Membranes); Uncovering True Purpose of Cholesterol (Water Concentration Profile in Biological Membranes); Life at Super Low Cosmic Temperature (Protein Dynamics at the Nanometer Range of Distances at Low and Cryogenic Temperatures); Measuring Oxygen Content (Clinical Applications of in Vivo EPR: EPR Oximetry); Rapid Dosimetry in Emergency (Use of EPR for Dosimetry After the Potential Exposure of Large Numbers of People to Doses of Radiation That Are Potentially Life Threatening); How EPR Images Can Help Cure Cancer (Oxygen Imaging in Animals); Making Sure Drugs Do the Job (EPR Monitoring of Drug Delivery Processes); Anticancer Therapy (Ribonucleotide Reductase: A Free Radical Enzyme); How to Set Beer Due Date (Flavor Stability in Beer); Food Quality Control (Quality Control of Vegetable Oil Using EPR); Fighting Free Radicals (Antioxidants in Wines); Effective Measure of Industrial Radiation (EPR Alanine Dosimeter); Who Used Fire 1,500,000 Years Ago? (Dating Archaeological and Geological Materials)]; Subject Index; References and Suggestions for Further Reading; Epilogue.