J. M. D. COEY was Professor Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, where he led the Magnetism and Spin Electronics group. An authority on magnetism and its applications, his awards include the inaugural Gold Medal of the Royal Irish Academy, the Charles Chree Medal of the Institute of Physics and the Max Born medal of the German Physical Society.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Magnetostatics; 3. Magnetism of electrons; 4. Magnetism of localized electrons on the atom; 5. Ferromagnetism and exchange; 6. Antiferromagnetism and other magnetic order; 7. Micromagnetism, domains and hysteresis; 8. Nanoscale magnetism; 9. Magnetic resonance and spin dynamics; 10. Magnetotransport and topology; 11. Experimental methods; 12. Magnetic materials; 13. Applications of soft magnets; 14. Applications of hard magnets; 15. Spin electronics and magnetic recording; 16. Special topics; 17. Appendices: Appendix A. Notation; Appendix B. Units and dimensions; Appendix C. Vector and trigonometric relations; Appendix D. Demagnetizing factors for ellipsoids of revolution; Appendix E. Field, magnetization and susceptibility; Appendix F. Quantum mechanical operators; Appendix G. Reduced magnetization of ferromagnets; Appendix H. Crystal field and anisotropy; Appendix I. Crystallographic point groups; Appendix J. Magnetic point groups.

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