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Our intent in producing this book was to provide a text that would be comprehensive enough for an introductory course in integrated optics, yet concise enough in its mathematical derivations to be easily readable by a practicing engineer who desires an overview of the field. The response to the first edition has indeed been gratifying; unusually strong demand has caused it to be sold out during the initial year of publication, thus providing us with an early opportunity to produce this updated and improved second edition. This development is fortunate, because integrated optics is a very rapidly progressing field, with significant new research being regularly reported. Hence, a new chapter (Chap. 17) has been added to review recent progress and to provide numerous additional references to the relevant technical literature. Also, thirty-five new problems for practice have been included to supplement those at the ends of chapters in the first edition. Chapters I through 16 are essentially unchanged, except for brief updating revisions and corrections of typographical errors. Because of the time limitations imposed by the need to provide an uninterrupted supply of this book to those using it as a course text, it has been possible to include new references and to briefly describe recent developments only in Chapter 17. However, we hope to provide details of this continuing progress in a future edition.

This volume includes representative items from James Fenimore Cooper's critical writings. The editor believes a compilation of this sort is valuable to the Cooper or American literature scholar because the ideas, themes, and theses often somewhat camouflaged in Cooper's fiction are expressed clearly here.

Henry Adams’ poetic reconstruction of the Middle Ages, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, is distinguished by the originality of its vision—more “real” than reality, more true and penetrating than the works of learned medievalists. Although, as Robert Mane interestingly details, Adams’ medieval scholarship was unreliable, it was never his intention to write either a scholarly treatise or a guidebook. The power, insight, and charm of the work lie in its intensely personal quality. Mane approaches Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by exploring Adams’ imaginative world and the influences that set him on the road to Chartres—his love of things Gothic, his literary approach to the study of architecture, the death of his wife, his reawakening to life in the South Seas, his deep attachment to Mrs. Cameron, and his travels through France. Mane’s brilliant study sheds new light both on Adams’ work and on the sources of its imaginative and emotional unity. -- Publisher.