Magnetism in the nineties

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Preface. Amorphous magnetic materials - a history (R. Hasegawa). Some application of NMR to the study of magnetically-ordered materials with emphasis on the short-range order in ( Fe-B )-based crystalline and amorphous alloys (Y.D. Zhang et al). Rare earth-cobalt permanent magnets (K.J. Strnat and R.M.W. Strnat). Neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnets (J.F. Herbst and J.J. Croat). Permanent magnet materials based on tetragonal rare earth compounds of the type RFe 12-x M x (K.H.J. Buschow). Magnetic properties of the Kondo lattice (C. Lacroix). Rare earth intermetallics (D. Gignoux and D. Schmitt). Valence fluctuation and heavy fermion behaviour in rare earth and actinide based compounds (D.T. Adroja and S.K. Malik). Neutron scattering of lanthanide materials (R.M. Moon and R.M. Nicklow). Neutron scattering studies of magnetic properties of actinide systems (G.H. Lander and G. Aeppli). Giant magnetostriction materials (N.C. Koon, C.M. Williams and B.N. Das). Experimental study of Ce-based heavy-fermion compounds (F. Steglich). Uranium-based heavy-fermion superconductors: an experimental survey (A. De Visser and J.J.M. Franse). Normal state magnetism of the high T c cuprate superconductors (D.C. Johnston). Ab-initio calculations of the electronic structure of impurities and alloys of ferromagnetic transition metals (P.H. Dederichs et al). Theory of itinerant electron magnetism (T. Moriya). The random field Ising model (D.P. Belanger and A.P. Young). Quenching of spin fluctuations by high magnetic fields (K. Ikeda et al). Magnetic properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors (W.J.M. de Jonge and H.J.M. Swagten). The Invar problem (E.F. Wassermann). High energy spectroscopies and magnetism (R.J.H. Kappert, H.R. Borsje and J.C. Fuggle). Spontaneous nuclear magnetic ordering in copper and silver at nano- and picokelvin temperatures (P. Hakonen, O.V. Lounasmaa and A. Oja). Magnetic recording materials since 1975 (G. Bate). Magnetooptics (J.F. Dillon, Jr.). SMOKE (S.D. Bader). Behavior of vertical-Bloch-line chains of hard domains in garnet bubble films (B.S. Han). Metastibility in epitaxial magnetic metal films (G.A. Prinz). Surface magnetism (U. Gradman). Electronic structure theory of surface, interface and thin-film magnetism (A.J. Freeman and R.-Q. Wu). The ferromagnetism of ultrathin films from two to three dimensions (D.L. Mills). Theory of magnetic multilayers. Exchange interactions and transport properties (J. Mathon). Nonlinear dynamics of coupled systems near magnetic phase transitions of the 'order-order' type (V.I. Ozhogin and V.L. Preobrazhenskii). Properties, units and constants in magnetism (L.J. Swartzendruber). Author index. Subject index.