TLDR. It outlines the origin of magnetic moments in atoms and how these moments can be affected by their local environment inside a crystal Blundell explores our understanding of electricity and magnetism, from the work of Galvani, Ampere, Faraday, and Tesla, and describes how Maxwell and Faraday's work led to the unification of electricity and magnetism--one of the most imaginative developments in theoretical physics Stephen Blundell-Magnetism in condensed matter-Oxford e ebook download as PDF