| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Amorphous Magnets | p. 2 |
| General Information and Definitions | p. 5 |
| Ferromagnet | |
| Ferrimagnet | |
| Amorphous Magnets with Canted (Noncollinear) Spin Structures | |
| Hamiltonians and Exchange Interactions | p. 13 |
| The Stricture of Amorphous Magnets | p. 22 |
| Statistical Description of the Structure | |
| Pair Correlation Function | |
| Structural Model | |
| Mean Field Theory and Fundamental Magnetic Properties | p. 37 |
| Statistical Thermodynanics | p. 38 |
| Simple Paramagnet | p. 42 |
| Mean Field Approximation | p. 46 |
| Crystalline Ferromagnets | |
| A Simple Model of Amorphous Magnets and Nonuniform Distribution of Local Fields | |
| Amorphous Ferrimagnets in the Mean Field Approximation | p. 56 |
| Phase Diagram | p. 62 |
| Antiferromagnetism | p. 66 |
| Ferrimagnetism | p. 74 |
| Anisotropy Energy, Bloch Wall and Coercivity | p. 80 |
| Spin Excitations, Frustration and Dilution | p. 91 |
| General Theory of Spin Excitations in Ferromagnets | p. 92 |
| Spin Waves in Ferromagnets | p. 97 |
| Crystalline Ferromagnets | |
| Amorphous Ferromagnets | |
| Thermodynamics of Ferromagnets | p. 105 |
| Discussion on the Existence of Amorphous Antiferromagnets | p. 110 |
| Misfit and Frustration | p. 116 |
| Spin Glass Phase | p. 121 |
| Diluted Ferromagnets | p. 128 |
| Phase Diagram near Critical Concentration | p. 135 |
| 3d Metallic Magnetism | p. 141 |
| Tight Binding Approximation | p. 143 |
| Ideal Crystal | |
| Structurally Disordered System | |
| Density of States | p. 150 |
| Ideal Crystal | |
| Structurally Disordered System | |
| Electron-Electron Correlation | p. 158 |
| The Hubbard Model | p. 162 |
| Ferromagnetic States | p. 168 |
| Some Fundamental Properties in the Hartree-Fock Approximation | p. 175 |
| Paramagnetic Susceptibility and Transition Temperature | |
| Weak Ferromagnet; Wohlfarth Theory | |
| Comparison with Landau Theory | |
| Remarks | |
| Spin Fluctuations | p. 184 |
| Spin Waves | |
| Fluctuation | |
| 4f Magnetism | p. 193 |
| Indirect Exchange interaction | p. 194 |
| Free Electrons | |
| Disordered Systems | |
| Crystal Electric Field | p. 202 |
| Ideal Crystal | |
| Amorphous System | |
| Effects of Random Anisotropy at T=0 K | p. 209 |
| Dominant Random Anisotropy | |
| Finite Exchange interact ions | |
| Coercivity | p. 215 |
| Ferromagnetism and Sperimagnetism | p. 220 |
| Ferromagnetism | |
| Sperimagnetism of Amorphous R[subscript 1-x]Co[subscript x] Compounds (R=Heavy Rare Earths) | |
| Spin Excitations | p. 227 |
| Magnetism of Amorphous Alloys | p. 235 |
| Saturation Moment | p. 236 |
| Curie Temperature | p. 241 |
| Some Aspects of Amorphous Ferromagnetism | p. 249 |
| Rhodes-Wohlfarth Plot | |
| Reduced Magnetization Curve | |
| Spin Waves | |
| Random Anisotropy and Magnetism | p. 261 |
| Strong or Weak Itinerant Magnetism | p. 269 |
| Amorphous Ferrimagnets (1) | p. 275 |
| On the Mean-Field Argument | |
| Effective-Field Approximation | |
| Amorphous Ferrimagnetic Insulators | |
| Amorphous Ferrimagnets (2) | p. 287 |
| The Approach to Saturation Magnetization | |
| Related Phenomena | p. 295 |
| Transport Phenomena | |
| Ziman Theory in Liquid Metals | p. 297 |
| Electrical Conduction in Amorphous Solids | p. 304 |
| Resistivity Minimum | p. 312 |
| Kondo-type Effect | |
| Structural Effect | |
| Magnetic Diffraction Model | |
| On the Experimental Results | |
| Structural Stability of Metallic Glasses | p. 328 |
| Critical Phenomena | p. 335 |
| Landau Theory of Phase Transition | p. 337 |
| Scaling Concept and Scaling Relations | p. 345 |
| Inverse Paramagnetic Susceptibility and Arrott Plot | p. 352 |
| Critical Exponents | p. 359 |
| Bibliography | p. 365 |
| Index | p. 371 |
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