What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Renormalization Group and Condensed Matter Physics’

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Updated 26 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Renormalization Group and Condensed Matter Physics’

Authors: David Nelson & Grace H. Zhang 

Renormalization group ideas have had a major impact on condensed matter physics for more than a half century.

This book develops the theory and illustrates the broad applicability of the renormalization group to major problems in condensed matter physics.

Based on course materials developed and class-tested by the authors at Harvard University, the book will be especially useful for students, as well as researchers. 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Updated 15 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Environmental attorney Christen Civiletto relates how the major chemical kingpins of the 20th century relentlessly and indiscriminately laid waste to Niagara Falls in her eye-opening, harrowing, intimate new book, “Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls.”

Expertly interweaving environmental crime, history, and memoir, “Thundering Waters” exposes the astonishing story of exploitation and ongoing abuse lurking in the shadows of one of the world’s most treasured natural wonders.