Professor Sarah Sayce is Head of the School of Surveying at Kingston University in which capacity she is responsible for a suite of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and for the research programmes. She is a Chartered Surveyor and after some years in practice she moved into teaching and research. She has published widely on many aspects of commercial property from portfolio management to leisure property and sustainability. Judy Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Surveying at Kingston University where she is Field Leader fro the MSc in Real Estate. She lectures on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses specialising in property investment, valuations and IT applications. She is a Chartered Surveyor, joint author of Property Construction and Economics and is currently involved in researching a sustainable model of worth. Richard Cooper Richard Cooper is a Chartered Surveyor with experience in investment property analysis and appraisal for UK and Continental European property fund managers. He currently works for a UK based manager of pooled property funds. Piers Venmore-Rowland is a property appraisal and IT consultant and trainer. Having worked both as a stockbroker and as a Chartered Surveyor, he developed extensive property and financial knowledge. After some years in practice Piers become an academic and was Head of Department at City University before deciding to set up his own business. He is Visiting Professor at Kingston University.
The new book by Grigolini summarizes the state of the art in the field, but on the other hand it presents also an independent fresh approach to the whole problem. The main conclusion derived by the author is, that classical mechanics cannot be recovered from quantum mechanics by simple approximation. Their relation is much more complicated ... The book is warmly recommended to readers in physics or chemistry and to graduate students but also to researchers working in that field. W Ebeling Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 1995