Principles of Environmental Physics, Second Edition

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Principles of Environmental Physics discusses the physical processes which determine how living organisms respond to their environment. The authors review the relevant basic physics and discuss radiation and heat exchange, and mass and momentum transfer; applying these principles to the heat balance of plants and animals and to the micrometereology of crops.

The new edition has been thoroughly revised, including further material on topics such as the effect of aerosol on solar radiation at the ground; transmission of radiation in crop stands; radiative properties; and remote sensing.

Thoroughly revised and up-dated edition of a highly successful textbook.

The latest information concerning the large scale effects of the breakdown of the ozone layer on plants and animals if fully dicussed.

Modern techniques, particularly remote sensing via satellites, are fully discussed.

Thoroughly revised and up-dated edition of a highly successful textbook
The latest information concerning the large scale effects of the breakdown of the ozone layer on plants and animals is fully discussed
Modern techniques, particularly remote sensing via satellites, are fully discussed

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Good reference to make you look smart at work.......2007-06-08

Okay, so this is not a great beach read, page turner, or anything you want on your coffee table. But it is nice book to have on your shelf in your office if you do work in environmental or climate science. In all honesty, I will probably never use 99% of the stuff that this book contains, but when I need an equation for heat or mass transport, radiation, etc., I usually find it in this book. It probably is most useful for those in satellite remote sensing and image processing or in environmental or climate modeling, as it contains a considerable amount of information on the effect of difference surfaces on radiation and wind patterns. The last two chapters contain detailed equations for crop micro-meteorology and sum up most of the principles in the book.

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Inadequate "Bio" in the "Biophysics"
An excellent introduction to Radiation Biophysics

Radiation Biophysics, Second Edition
Edward L. Alpen
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: 0120530856

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This newly revised and updated edition of Radiation Biophysics provides an in-depth description of the physics and chemistry of radiation and its effects on biological systems. Coverage begins with fundamental concepts of the physics of radiation and radioactivity, then progresses through the chemistry and biology of the interaction of radiation with living systems. The Second Edition of this highly praised text includes major revisions which reflect the rapid advances in the field. New material covers recent developments in the fields of carcinogenesis, DNA repair, molecular genetics, and the molecular biology of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. The book also includes extensive discussion of the practical impact of radiation on everyday life.

Key Features
* Covers the fundamentals of radiation physics in a manner that is understandable to students and professionals with a limited physics background
* Includes problem sets and exercises to aid both teachers and students
* Discusses radioactivity, internally deposited radionuclides, and dosimetry
* Analyzes the risks for occupational and non-occupational workers exposed to radiation sources

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Inadequate "Bio" in the "Biophysics".......2004-02-13

The major book on radiation biology / radiation biophysics has been Hall's "Radiobiology for the Radiologist" now in it's 5th edition. It would be nice to have an alternative to this, particularly since that one is so weighted toward radiation oncology and radiology. Alpen's "Radiation Biophysics" (1998, 2nd ed.) tries to be a more general alternative, but it fails because of some glaring omissions and a level of biological sophistication that is at least 15-20 years out of date. Here are a few examples.

- Although the revolutions in molecular biology and in signal transduction were late in penetrating the field of radiation biology, this kind of information has made its way into other texts but it is largely absent and mishandled in Alpen's book. While p53 is pitiably mentioned (an engineer or physicist is unlikely to understand Alpen's textual description, a diagram would have been more useful to cut through the jargon), absent are important regulators like ATM, Rb, and egr-1, and a mechanistic description of how all this fits in together.
- Woefully brief and out of date is Alpen's discussion on biological modifiers of radiation sensitivity, e.g., the chemical WR2721 is described as having "limited value," citing studies from 1980, but this drug (also known as Amifostine) is in current clinical use today (2003) for radiation therapy of head & neck cancer and other tumors. In addition, missing is a decade of work on growth factors and cytokines that act as radiation protectors and radiation sensitzers.
- While other books devote an entire chapter to the "oxygen effect," Alpen devotes only couple pages to this topic, failing to discuss how hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen concentration) in tissues makes them radioresistant.
- While other books devote entire chapters to how the cell cycle influences radiation sensitivity, Alpen devotes only one and half paragraphs to this topic.
- Discussion of the biological basis of "fractionation" is totally inadequate. This is where radiation exposure is broken up a little bit at a time, in relatively small doses spread out over a longer period, rather than at a high dose all at once. The ultimate extension of this is something called "brachytheraphy" which gives local, continuous low dosing by implanting "radioactive seeds" right into a tumor. Brachytherapy has emerged as a common treatment for prostate cancer, for example. Conceptually, brachytherapy ties in several aspects of radiation biophysics, including the use of radioactive isotopes, but it is nowhere to be found in this book.

While Alpen does a reasonably good job at describing physical phenomena and at deriving equations, and the book is very well-written, the shallowness of biological information really hurts the overall effort. If one is interested in a book purely devoted to radiation physics, Khan's 1994 "The Physics of Radiation Physics" should be considered. However, anyone interested in books that REALLY cover the biological background in great detail should get Travis' 1989 "Primer of Medical Radiobiology" which is still in its 2nd edition but is nevertheless fine for it's strong, classic biomedical emphasis (the modern stuff will undoubtedly appear in the 3rd edition, which is still in the works), or again, go to Hall's very well-rounded classic.

An excellent introduction to Radiation Biophysics.......2000-04-02

This is an excellent book which everyone interested in radiation biophysics must have have read. The book has 16 chapters. In the first 6 the emphasis is on physics. In the following 10 chapters, the models for cell survival and the effect of radiation on tissue structures and organisms are discussed in great detail. A must for anyone interested in and trying to understand the "biological" background of radiation protection and radiotherapy.

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Engineers encounter particles in a variety of systems. The particles are either naturally present or engineered into these systems. In either case these particles often significantly affect the behavior of such systems. This book provides a framework for analyzing these dispersed phase systems and describes how to synthesize the behavior of the population particles and their environment from the behavior of single particles in their local environments.

Population balances are of key relevance to a very diverse group of scientists, including astrophysicists, high-energy physicists, geophysicists, colloid chemists, biophysicists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, and meteorologists. Chemical engineers have put population balances to most use, with applications in the areas of crystallization; gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, and solid-liquid dispersions; liquid membrane systems; fluidized bed reactors; aerosol reactors; and microbial cultures.

Ramkrishna provides a clear and general treatment of population balances with emphasis on their wide range of applicability. New insight into population balance models incorporating random particle growth, dynamic morphological structure, and complex multivariate formulations with a clear exposition of their mathematical derivation is presented. Population Balances provides the only available treatment of the solution of inverse problems essential for identification of population balance models for breakage and aggregation processes, particle nucleation, growth processes, and more. This book is especially useful for process engineers interested in the simulation and control of particulate systems. Additionally, comprehensive treatment of the stochastic formulation of small systems provides for the modeling of stochastic systems with promising new areas of applications such as the design of sterilization systems and radiation treatment of cancerous tumors.

Outstanding features:

A clear and general treatment of population balances with emphasis on their wide range of applicability. Thus all processes involving solid-fluid and liquid-liquid dispersions, biological populations, etc. are encompassed.
Provides new insight into population balance models incorporating random particle growth, dynamic morphological structure, and complex multivariate formulations with a clear exposition of their mathematical derivation.
Presents a wide range of solution techniques, Monte Carlo simulation methods with a lucid exposition of their origin and scope for enhancing computational efficiency.
An account of self-similar solutions of population balance equations and their significance to the treatment of data on particulate systems.
The only available treatment of the solution of inverse problems essential for identification of population balance models for breakage and aggregation processes, particle nucleation and growth processes and so on.
A comprehensive treatment of the stochastic formulation of small systems with several new applications.

BENEFITS

(The benefits correspond to the features above in the same order)

This helps to find new applications of population balances and expanding the scope of their applications.
Provides directions for sophistication of population balance models to accommodate various complications not envisaged before.
Useful for process engineers interested in the simulation and control of particulate systems.
Of significance to the treatment of experimental data on dispersed phase systems.
Useful for process engineers interested in the simulation and control of particulate systems.
Develops the modeling of stochastic systems with promising new areas of applications (e.g., design of sterilization systems, radiation treatment of cancerous tumors).

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Must read for population balances.......2004-02-21

The book provides an excellent training of a tool of population balance modelling and its application. The tool has been introduced in a neat and clean manner exploiting the elegance of sound mathematical analysis and engineering applications. Though the book is difficult to read at first instance, it opens itself as one reads it again and again exploiting its full potential.

I think this is a must read for all the researchers exploiting the utility of Population Balances in almost all the research areas form Bio to Nano technology.

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Population Balances: Theory and Applications to Particulate Systems in Engineering
Doraiswami Ramkrishna
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHG6LQ

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You must read this book and let your heart be broken-New York Times Book Review

"One of the earliest recognitions in American literature of the existence of the very poor."-Michele Murray, National Observer

Suggested for course use in:
19th-century U.S. literature
Working-class studies

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) published 12 books and many serialized novels, stories, and essays.

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vivid tale of 1860's Welsh ironworkers in WVA mills.......2004-12-13

I read Life in the Iron Mills for a graduate English course on social-class-imagery in 18th & 19th cen Transatlantic (British and American) literature with Elisabeth Ceppi at Portland State. Ceppi asked us to read closely for the rhetoric of class attributes. There was much class-identifying-imagery to observe in Harding-Davis' 1860's rendering of the lives of impoverished Welsh miners transported into late-slave-era iron foundries of the American North. Mid-19th-cen feminist literature of this social-reform type is deeply informed by Protestant missionary enthusiasm to transform everyone into clean-living bourgeois church-goers. Thus Harding-Davis uses powerful polarities of dirt for workers, clean for bouregoisie, etc. It's so blunt and obvious that she could be accused of writing soap-opera ... as many of her mid-1800's female-writer colleagues were accused, sometimes justly. However her scenes of poverty, disease, and death in the mills are so heart-wrenching that her motives are clearly pure. Now that Tillie Olsen has rescued Harding-Davis' wonderful writing from obscurity, she is good to read for knowledge of American feminist writing history, for understanding of American class polarities in the ante-bellum era, and also for a true, scary story of life with the great unwashed.

Life in the Iron Mills (Bedford Cultural Editions)

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Harsh criticism mollified with traditional urbanity
Clarifying View of the early Twentieth Century

Life in the Iron Mills (Bedford Cultural Editions)
Rebecca Harding Davis
Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 031213360X

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This edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills together with a broad selection of thematically arranged historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration of a range of social and cultural issues vital to Davis's ninteenth century. Special attention is given to nineteenth century American discussions of work and social class, moral and social reform, the development of American art and industry, and the position of the woman writer. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Davis's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a generous selection of illustrations, and a selected bibliography make this volume the definitive scholarly edition of this classic work of industrial fiction.

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Wolfe, while Deborah watched him as a spaniel its master, bent over the furnace with his iron pole, unconscious of her scrutiny, only stopping to receive orders. Physically, Nature had promised the man but little. He had already lost the strength and instinct vigor of a man, his muscles were thin, his nerves weak, his face ( a meek, woman's face) haggard, yellow with consumption.

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Harsh criticism mollified with traditional urbanity.......2005-12-17

Davis's writing presents some problems. She masterfully details the harshness of factory labor and the consumption of the lives of workers brought about by the American industrialization and the advent of mass production in the nineteenth century, and the importance of this feat lies in the fact that she represented unwelcome immigrants to an audience otherwise unaware of the occurences detailed in her work. What I find trying about Davis's writing is her condescension to the subject, detailed in her introductory paragraphs which exemplify the distance between her as author and the characters that she details. The "birds-eye-view" represented in Davis's novel seems largely based on the moral superiority of the author, as she states disapproval of the actions of her protagonist(s), and assumes an air of moral and religious superiority. Perhaps I place too much emphasis on this aspect of her writing, but this is nonetheless an important aspect of this piece of social criticism, as Davis appeases an assumedly uninterested if not volatile audience by separating herself from the subject at hand. Both an accomplishment and a detriment to the purpose of this work, and ultimately problematic or even enigmatic.

Also important are the cultural backgrounds provided in this edition. Interviews with labor organizers and female factory workers, selections of legislation, writings by journalists. All very interesting, and all add greatly to the experience of reading Life in the Iron Mills and contextualizing the novel historically.

Clarifying View of the early Twentieth Century.......2001-02-11

I probably would have never picked this book up if I didn't have to read it for my writing class. But once I got through the introduction which was a little slow but informative I really enjoyed the rest of the book. The first story Life in the Iron Mills, in my opinion is an excellent description of what life must have been like for poor people in a iron factory town. If you like to read factual stories about the early twentieth century this is a must read for you. I hope that you get as much out of it as I have.

Rebecca Harding Davis Reader: Life in the Iron Mills (Pitt Poetry)

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Rebecca Harding Davis Reader: Life in the Iron Mills (Pitt Poetry)
Rebecca Harding Davis , and Jean Pfaelzer
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It

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The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It
James J. Davis
Manufacturer: Grosset and Dunlap
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H5BDIG

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The Iron Puddler: My Life In The Rolling Mills And What Came Of It
James J. Davis
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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ASIN: 1419167650

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"Life in these mills is a terrible life," the reformers say. "Men are ground down to scrap and are thrown out as wreckage." This may be so, but my life was spent in the mills and I failed to discover it. I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs. The gases, they say, will destroy a man's lungs, but I worked all day in the mills and had wind enough left to toot a clarinet in the band. I lusted for labor, I worked and I liked it. -from "Scene in a Rolling Mill" In 1921, JAMES JOHN DAVIS was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Warren Harding, and would go on to also serve Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. The next year, he published this gung-ho autobiography, a paean to the hard work and perseverance that fueled his rise to personal and professional success. Born in Wales, Davis (1873-1947) emigrated with his family to Pennsylvania, where he worked in the steel mills from the age of 11, acquiring the strength of character and learning the lessons in honor, duty, and honesty that would serve him well later in life, when from his position of prominence he was instrumental in eliminating the 12-hour workday, improving relations between labor and management, and establishing a prevocational school Mooseheart, Illinois, which young boys and girls were taught the fundamentals of industrial arts. A stalwart, hearty depiction of the American dream in action, The Iron Puddler is not merely one man's story, and a fascinating and inspiring one at that... it is a universal story of the integrity and industry that built America.

The Iron Peddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of it

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The Iron Peddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of it
James J davis
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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ASIN: B000R83WM8

Life In The Iron Mills And Other Stories

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Life In The Iron Mills And Other Stories
Rebecca Harding; Edited and with a Biographical Interpretation by Olsen, Tillie Davis
Manufacturer: Feminist Press/C.U.N.Y.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IWPA3M

Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories: Second Edition

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Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories: Second Edition
Rebecca Harding Davis; Editor-Tillie Olsen
Manufacturer: The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QYDBFQ

Life in the Iron Mills or The Korl Woman.

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Life in the Iron Mills or The Korl Woman.
Tillie]. Davis, Rebecca Harding. [OLSEN
Manufacturer: Old Westbury: Feminist Press,
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UFZH62

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Life in the Iron Mills, or The Korl Woman
Rebecca Harding Davis
Manufacturer: Feminist Press
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ASIN: B000O3T540

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