Amazon.com description: Product Description: This introductory textbook explains the basic theoretical principles of magnetism, providing a broad coverage of the subject and indicating directions of future research. While the book is meant primarily as a textbook for first-year graduate students and advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering, it can also be a reference for practicing engineers and physicists who work in the field of magnetism. It explains the basic theoretical principles on which much of this type of research is based, with special attention to some of the shortcomings and drawbacks. The book emphasizes the foundations of different subfields, but also explores the directions of the most recent research.