Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life (Complex Adaptive Systems)

Book Description

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet.

Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

Book Description

Despite the central role anionic species have been shown to play in both mineralogical and biological processes, until now there have been no comprehensive references dealing exclusively with anionic coordination chemistry. Written by a group comprising pioneering researchers from the United States and Europe, Supramolecular Chemistry of Anions covers all theoretical and practical aspects of anion complexation, from thermodynamics and structure to catalysis and various applications. The authors begin with the 1967 discovery of halide inclusion by bicyclic diammonium receptors and trace the development of anion coordination chemistry through the most recent developments in the field. Topics covered in detail include:
* Pre-supramolecular anion chemistry
* Natural and artificial molecules that can act as anion receptors
* Preorganization and chemical design
* Structural, thermodynamic, electrochemical, and photochemical aspects of anion coordination
* Computer methods for receptor design and multiple host-guest relations
* Anion receptor catalysis and molecular recognition and transformation of nucleotides

Supramolecular Chemistry of Anions is a valuable professional resource for organic and inorganic chemists, analytical chemists, biotechnologists, pharmaceutical scientists, and environmental chemists. It also serves as an excellent graduate-level text for students of molecular recognition, catalysis, and biomimetic chemistry.

Molecular Electronics: Commercial Insights, Chemistry, Devices, Architecture and Programming

Average customer rating:

A waste of money
Great book!

Molecular Electronics: Commercial Insights, Chemistry, Devices, Architecture and Programming
James M. Tour
Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 9812382690

Book Description

This book presents an in-depth discussion on molecular electronics in an easy-to-understand manner, aiming at chemists, computer scientists, surface scientists, physicists, and applied mathematicians. Lighter overviews are provided for the science-minded layperson and the high tech entrepreneur in this nanoscale science. The author has included a detailed synthetic chemistry treasure chest, protocols of self-assembling routes for bottom-up fabrication atop silicon platforms, representative current-voltage and memory readouts from molecular devices, and overviews of present architectural and mathematical approaches to programming molecular computing machines. The investment and commercial insertion landscape is painted along with a "Who's Who" in the molecular electronics business space. Advice and forewarnings are provided in a practical yet witty manner for the aspiring academic corporate founder and the business CEO wannabe seeking to establish a high tech company while wading through the idiosyncratic morass of university personalities and university-owned intellectual property.

Customer Reviews:

A waste of money.......2005-06-16

This book is a tremendous disappointment. Don't be misled by its title, it is NOT a survey of the molecular electronics field. Instead, it's based on the very particular technology and experience of Prof. Tour and his colleagues.

The book's contents are primarily: (a) a very brief commentary on the nanotechnology business, based on Prof. Tour's experience, (b) a description of particular technology of Prof. Tour's start-up, and (c) detailed chemical synthesis protocols for compounds relevant mainly to Prof. Tour's company's technology. Part (c) is by far the longest segment of the book.

I was benchmarking for a possible VC investment in this field around the time this book was written. Prof. Tour's company was among those I looked at (albeit without any direct interaction with the company or Prof. Tour himself). On that basis, I'd suggest that his description of his start-up experience might not be particularly enlightening for others. The fact that it's described in a turgid and pompous style doesn't help, either.

Great book!.......2003-06-28

This book is great! Everyone should buy it! It combines both corporate and scientific information! This is a must-buy!

Cyclopropane Derived Reactive Intermediates (Updates from the Chemistry of the Functional Groups)

Average customer rating:

Cyclopropane Derived Reactive Intermediates (Updates from the Chemistry of the Functional Groups)
Gernot Boche , and H. M. Walborsky
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General & Reference | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0471927481

Electro-Organic Syntheses: Methods and Applications (Pt 1 : Oxidations)

Average customer rating:

Electro-Organic Syntheses: Methods and Applications (Pt 1 : Oxidations)
Shigeru Torii
Manufacturer: Vch Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Average customer rating:

Electrochemistry in Organic Synthesis
Jiri Volke , and Frantisek Liska
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General & Reference | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books

Book Description

The purpose of this book is to give a brief, yet profound and practical introduction to organic electrosynthesis. In the introductory chapter, the authors provide the theoretical foundations. They describe the instrumentation, including the properties of electrodes, the influence of solvent and of supporting electrolytes. Fundamentals of electrochemical reactions and properties of electroactive groups in the substrate are outlined with practical examples. Indirect electrochemical methods, recently developed, are also considered. The authors have vast experience from many years of research in electrochemistry. The book will be used as a reference book by advanced students and organic chemists.

Average customer rating:

Electrochemistry of organic compounds,
A. P Tomilov
Manufacturer: Halsted Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Electroorganic Chemistry As a New Tool in Organic Synthesis (Reactivity and Structure)

Average customer rating:

Electroorganic Chemistry As a New Tool in Organic Synthesis (Reactivity and Structure)
T. Shono
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Average customer rating:

Electroorganic Reduction Synthesis
Sigeru Torii
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General & Reference | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This two-volume book presents everything you need to know about modern electroorganic reduction methods, covering all important organic substance classes, such as aldehydes, olefins, aromatic and halogenated compounds. Besides a plethora of modern reaction methods, it also treats such other important aspects as product selectivity, types of electrolysis cells and effects of additives. With its clear structure and its focus on synthetic methods, this is a source of high quality information for every chemist working in this field.

From the Contents:
Electrochemical Reduction and Product Selectivity
Electroreduction of Aldehydes, Ketones, Acids, Esters and Acids Anhydride
Electroreductive Reaction of Olefins
Electroreductive Reaction of Aromatic Compounds
Electroreduction of Nitrogen Compounds
Electroreduction of Sulfur, Selenium, and Tellurium Compounds
Electroreduction of Halogenated Compounds
Electroreduction of Alcohols, Ethers, and Esters
Electroreduction of Organic Compounds Involving Group IIIA, IVA, VA, IB and IIB Elements
Electroreduction of Organometallic Compounds
Indirect Electroreduction Using Metal Complex Redox and Organic Redox Mediators
Electrogenerated Base-Assisted Conversion
Electropolymerization

Average customer rating:

Electroorganic Synthesis

Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General & Reference | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0824785843

Book Description

Baizer (1914-1988) was the foremost internationally recognized authority on organic electrosynthesis. In this festschrift , derived from a memorial symposium held in Montreal, May 1990, as part of the 177th meeting of the Electrochemical Society, and also marking the 25th anniversary of electroorgan

Handbook of Thermodynamic Diagrams, Volume 1: Organic Compounds C1 to C4 (Library of Physico-Chemical Property Data)

Average customer rating:

Handbook of Thermodynamic Diagrams, Volume 1: Organic Compounds C1 to C4 (Library of Physico-Chemical Property Data)
Carl L. Yaws
Manufacturer: Gulf Professional Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General & Reference | Chemistry | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Engineering | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0884158578

Book Description

Modeling Tools for Environmental Engineers and Scientists enables environmental professionals, faculty, and students with minimal computer programming skills to develop computer-based mathematical models for natural and engineered environmental systems. The author illustrates how commercially available syntax-free authoring software can be adapted to create customized, high-level models of environmental phenomena in groundwater, soil, aquatic, and atmospheric systems, and in engineered reactors. This book includes a review of mathematical modeling and fundamental concepts such as material balance, reactor configurations, and fate and transport of environmental contaminants. It illustrates, using numerous examples, how mathematical and dynamic modeling software can be applied in analyzing and simulating natural and engineered environmental systems. The tools and examples included are applicable to a wide range of problems, both in the classroom and in the field.

Average customer rating:

Note: this review is of Heuet's adaptation, not the original book

The Holy Grail

A Worthy Investment

my favorite book

Learning to swim-- my first Proust reading experience

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III -The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained (Vintage)
Marcel Proust
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Classics | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Proust, Marcel | ( P ) | Authors, A-Z | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (Vintage)

Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (Remembrance of Things Past)

Remembrance of Things Past; Volume 2 Part 2: Within a Budding Grove (Remembrance of Things Past)

The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)

ASIN: 039471184X
Release Date: 1982-08-12

Amazon.com

Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sorrows. Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own adolescence and adulthood, democratically dividing his experiences among the narrator and a sprawling cast of characters. Who else has ever decanted life into such ornate, knowing, wrought-iron sentences? Who has subjected love to such merciless microscopy, discriminating between the tiniest variations of desire and self-delusion? Who else has produced a grief-stricken record of time's erosion that can also make you laugh for entire pages? The answer to all these questions is: nobody.

Book Description

The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.

Customer Reviews:

Note: this review is of Heuet's adaptation, not the original book.......2006-10-17

Stephane Heuet, Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove, vol. I (ComicsLit, 2000)

Heuet continues his ambitious adaptation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past with the first part of Within a Budding Grove. Our narrator is growing up, and the focus of this volume is a trip to the seaside, meeting some people, getting in touch with old friends, always silently reflecting on both his memories of the past (of course) and the social consciousness of the world around him. If you liked the first one, you'll like this one as well. ***

The Holy Grail.......2006-08-10

Very well....I'm finally, after years of putting it off, writing a review of a work of Art that can't be reviewed in any meaningful sense of the term, a work of Art that approaches the sacred. As another reviewer puts it, if you think you have read literature with "depths" before, this opus will make ANYTHING you've ever read seem, in comparison, like one of those vapid books one picks up at airports during layovers. It is a work by which other novels, poems, paintings are to be judged rather than the other way around. In fact, after reading Proust, one can immediately tell if other "great writers" have read him almost from the start. Recent Booker Prize winning John Banville's The Sea is a good example of this.

The first time I read this work, about ten years ago, it was the ONLY thing I did, so enraptured was I. For a month, all I did was lie on my bed or, alternately, on the sofa downstairs and read, putting a dash mark at the end of one of the two-page paragraphs when I had to get up to eat or to check the mail or to feed my dog or to answer the phone or to get some shuteye, and then dive back in as soon as possible. - I don't use the term "dive" lightly - That's the only metaphor that comes close to expressing what it's like to read this book. You dive in and plunge deeper and deeper than you thought any Art could ever take you and, if you make it to the end, arise out of the deep cadences of philosophical reverie that constitute Proust's spellbinding meditations on love and time to behold a world rich and strange. - Proust truly does change your life. One never really recovers from reading him.

A few comments on what some of the other (serious) reviewers have said: 1) A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is not untranslatable and I don't know why exactly the English translation wasn't In Search of Lost Time instead of Remembrance of Things Past, taken, of course from the Shakespearian sonnet. But there it is. 2) I am in complete agreement with the reviewer who avers that unless you have been in love and suffered, which critic Harold Bloom remarks, commenting on Proust, means, eventually, everyone who has ever been in love, you will miss Proust's deepest apercus and regard them (as one reviewer does) as "silly."

I'm not sure what else I can say. I've probably go on too much already. If you are a true lover of Art in its highest sense, please pick up this Holy Grail of literature, even if you are intimidated, as many reviewers admit to being at first. For, as Proust says:

"Thus, it is in states of mind destined not to last that we make the irrevocable decisions of our lives."

Reading Proust is one of these decisions you won't regret

A Worthy Investment.......2006-07-12

Yes, it is long. Yes, the sentences are complex. Nonetheless, this novel is a worthy investment of one's efforts, because it isolates events that are so innately human that anyone who reads this novel will relate to it. Beyond just reading it because one feels obligated to do so as bibliophile, enjoy the greatest achievement of 20th-century France because it is witty, insightful, daring, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.

I recommend reading this novel quickly, rather than being bogged down by details that result in confusion or distraction. I read the novel in 15 weeks in a class at UC Berkeley, and have concluded that it must be read twice--once, to understand the plot and big ideas, and a second time to linger over the concepts that piqued one's interest the most. However, even if only reading it once, it is worth an investment of one's time and emotion.

my favorite book.......2006-02-15

so i was a berkeley english major who needed a class....i just happend to wander into a course on Proust.

it is my favorite book.

it is not light reading, it is for those who want to expericence one of the great novels in the cannon.

I ended up reading the first three volumes.
Swans way left me with satisfation. It is a senory trip in which insecurities and obession exsist without judment. It deals with much of the human psyche in all its forms.

As a lower income Latino male i could still find the univerals truths that bond me to other works that are outside of my personal experience.

It is a work that exsist outside of time, in constant senory experience.

Read it... then reread it.

Learning to swim-- my first Proust reading experience.......2005-10-21

Some time ago, I received the Vintage three-volume box set version of Remembrance as a gift. I had rashly mentioned to a friend that I wanted to read Proust and he took me at my word-- the heavy set arriving by mail and scaring me half to death. It took me a long time to get around to reading it, but I finally summoned up my courage and took down the first volume.

I have many thoughts on the books, and the experience of reading them was not always easy. I will summarize, however, by saying that I believe that I was amply rewarded for making the time and space free to tackle this piece.

It took me quite a while to let myself get into the prose. Although I found it immediately beautiful, haunting even, I struggled over the long complex sentences and the unusual structure. The only advice that I can give to the potential first-time reader is to stop trying to catch everything and let yourself swim along. Eventually if you stop fighting the structure, it really starts to work and you are drawn along with it to the point where you no longer experience it as difficult.

Where is the reward for the reader? There is a passage in the book where Proust is discussing how time flows in any given life. He argues that in order to capture time passing, the novelist generally is given to "wildly accelerating the beat of the pendulum, to transport the reader in a couple of minutes over ten, or twenty, or even thirty years." What I found the most amazing on my first reading of Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove was that remarkable sense of time in life that Proust is able to portray. He uses more than the wild leaps and jumps that he attributes to his generic novelist. He condenses time, extends it, shortens it and rearranges it. The array of memories along this life is beautiful, and the more beautiful for being so clearly anchored in a particular place in the life of the characters. I am not sure where he is going with all these people-- I will need to read the other books to find out. Still, I was actually content with these two books as a separate reading experience for this element of time passing alone.

I think that on balance if I had bought these books for myself, I would have chosen the Lydia Davis translation. This is based on conversations with friends who were reading the Davis translation at the same time that I was reading this edition. It sounds as though it is fresher, and more readable. However, I found this edition much more accessible than I had feared. Either the Montcrief edition has much less gingerbread prose than generally held, or Kilmarten really did a remarkable job of smoothing it out. I needed to arm myself with a dictionary while reading, since the two of them used some very obscure and/or archaic vocabulary. Although this was occasionally annoying, there were also times when I felt as though less specificity would have hurt the images that were being described.

Recommended, but not lightly.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books