TY - GEN AU - Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de TI - The physics of liquid crystals SN - 9780198517856 U1 - 530.429 PY - 1993/// CY - Oxford PB - Clarendon Press, N1 - Author index Subject index; 1. Liquid crystals: main types and properties 2. Long- and short- range order in nematics 3. Static distortions in a nematic single crystal 4. Defects and textures in nematics 5. Dynamical properties of nematics 6. Cholesterics 7. Macroscopic behavior of smectics and columnar phases 8. Dynamical properties of smectics and columnar phases 9. Defects in smectics and columnar phases 10. Phase transitions in smectics ER -