Peter Ring

"Crocodile" Charlie Kingmore has an urgent need to find the secret of unified teams, productive people, and human happiness at work. So he embarks on a quest. It's that or give up on his dreams for his own success. If you work for a living, work with other people, or ever need to inspire and lead those around you, then Charlie's journey for the answer can be your journey, too. Join authors John Kolm and Peter Ring, two of the world's leading practitioners in productivity improvement, on Crocodile Charlie's six-month quest around Australia to find real results. Share in the expertise of industry leaders such as Toyota, Alcoa, Pfizer, Cisco, Michelin, IBM, Hitachi, the Food and Drug Administration, and the State Department - all clients of John and Peter's company Team Results USA and the basis of Charlie's adventures. If you have tried all the mundane approaches and are still looking for something more, maybe it's time you discovered... The Holy Grail.

It is the aim of this book to describe in concise form our present theoretical understanding of the nuclear many-body problem. The presen­ tation of the enormous amount of material that has accumulated in this field over the last few decades may be divided into two broad categories: One can either concentrate on the physical phenomena, such as the single-particle excitations, rotations, vibrations, or large-amplitude collec­ tive motion, and treat each of them using a variety of theoretical methods; or one may stress the methodology and technical aspects of the different theories that have been used to describe the nucleus. We have chosen the second avenue. The structure of this book is thus dictated by the different methods used-Hartree-Fock theory, time-dependent Hartree-Fock the­ ory, generator coordinates, boson expansions, etc. -rather than by the physical subjects. Many of the present theories have, of course, already been presented in other textbooks. In order to be able to give a more rounded picture, we shall either briefly review such topics (as in the case of the liquid drop or the shell model) or try to give more updated versions (as in the cases of rotations or the random phase approximation). Our essential aim, however, is to present the more modern theories-such as boson expansions, genera­ tor coordinates, time-dependent Hartree-Fock, semiclassical theories, etc. -which have either never been seen, or at best had little detailed treat­ ment in, book form.