BSAVA Manual of Reptiles (British Small Animal Veterinary Association)

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Incorporation of particular components with specialized properties allows one to tailor the end product's properties. For instance, the sensitivity, burning behavior, thermal or mechanical properties or stability of energetic materials can be affected and even controllably varied through incorporation of such ingredients. This book examines particle technologies as applied to energetic materials such as propellants and explosives, thus filling a void in the literature on this subject.

Following an introduction covering general features of energetic materials, the first section of this book describes methods of manufacturing particulate energetic materials, including size reduction, crystallization, atomization, particle formation using supercritical fluids and microencapsulation, agglomeration phenomena, special considerations in mixing explosive particles and the production of nanoparticles. The second section discusses the characterization of particulate materials. Techniques and methods such as particle size analysis, morphology elucidation and the determination of chemical and thermal properties are presented. The wettability of powders and rheological behavior of suspensions and solids are also considered. Furthermore, methods of determining the performance of particular energetic materials are described.

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Modern Models of Bonding and Delocalization Edited by Joel F. Liebman Arthur Greenberg In addition to describing modern views of bonding and delocalization, this volume presents the ways in which these have been deduced. For example, qualitative pictures of small rings often include the competing and now classic concepts of strain and aromaticity. Quantitative quantum chemical calculations provide topological views of molecular electron density, which in turn yield new descriptions and related insights.

Bonding Energetics in Organometallic Compounds (Acs Symposium Series)

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Bonding Energetics in Organometallic Compounds (Acs Symposium Series)

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The acquisition, analysis, and understanding of metal-ligand bond energy information in organometallic molecules is an active and important area of chemical research. This new volume presents a broad, up-to-date, and in-depth overview of the current state of knowledge in this field. It brings together carefully reviewed contributions from leading experimental researchers studying organometallic bonding energetics in the gas phase, in solution, and on well-characterized surfaces. The latest theoretical developments are also presented. In addition, an overview chapter provides an introduction to basic concepts and the various experimental methodologies employed, as well as an extensive bibliography of relevant review articles, textbooks, thermodynamic data compilations, and other source materials.

Chemical Applications of Atomic and Molecular Electrostatic Potentials: Reactivity, Structure, Scattering, and Energetics of Organic, Inorganic, and Biological Systems

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Chemical Applications of Atomic and Molecular Electrostatic Potentials: Reactivity, Structure, Scattering, and Energetics of Organic, Inorganic, and Biological Systems

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Chemical Bonding Models (Molecular Structure & Energetics)

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Chemical Bonding Models (Molecular Structure & Energetics)
Joel F. Liebman , and Arthur Greenberg
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Chemical Bonding Models, Volume 1, Molecular Structure and Energetics

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Helped me understand molecular structure and chemical bondin

Chemical Bonding Models, Volume 1, Molecular Structure and Energetics
Joel F. Liebman , Arthur Greenberg , and Edited by: J. F. Liebman
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Molecular Structure and Energetics Volume 1 Edited by Joel F. Liebman Arthur Greenberg This series has as its theme two of the most widespread, fundamental and important concepts in chemistry: molecular structure and energetics. The scope of the series ranges from species as elegantly simple as elemental boron and carbon to those as ill-defined, yet important, as atmospheric particulates; from rearrangements in clusters to the strain and aromaticity of organic molecules; from the energies of protonation of atoms and diatomic molecules to the binding of substrates to natural and synthetic enzymes. Each volume consists of chapters by leading specialists, and is focused on a common theme. Each essay provides a tutorial review which is generally in a form that blends theory and experiment as well as rigor and intuition. Volume 1, Chemical Bonding Molecules, examines nine topics in the fundamental, conceptual and theoretical framework of molecular structure and energetics. All the essays explicitly compare and interweave findings from experiment and from both calculational and qualitative theory.

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Helped me understand molecular structure and chemical bondin.......2001-07-09

After reading sections of this book I found it to explain certain terms very well. It helped me understand molecular and chemical bonding and how it applys to different things

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Chemical Energetics and the Curriculum
Prof. D. J. Millen
Manufacturer: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc.
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Chemical energetics and the curriculum,

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Chemical Energetics,
Nicholas J. Selley
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Chemical systems: Energetics, dynamics, structure (A Series of books in chemistry)

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Chemical systems: Energetics, dynamics, structure (A Series of books in chemistry)
J. Arthur Campbell
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unconventional, but effective.......2001-04-26

When reading one of Larry Wos' books one is often surprised to find a complete lack of rigor when discussing a topic such as automated reasoning that is usually made extremely rigorous by the computer scientists, logicians, and mathematicians who have developed the subject over the past 50 years. At first my reaction to this was one of disappointment and disbelief (i.e. where's the beef?); but then I quickly began to realize that this book may end up being one of the most influential I've ever read, for the simple reason that it is written by a man who clearly loves the subject and has both inspired me and made it quite convenient (by including the source code for Otter and emphasizing the language Otter understands throughout the book) for me to begin my journey through the fascinating country. Indeed, unlike most academic authors who fear their reputation will suffer if they write on anything that does not require scores of new symbols, Larry seems to be saying that it is not about the book and its ideas, but more about Otter and an invitation to explore a vast new world that experimenting with Otter represents. To accomplish this, the only new symbolism you will see in this book is that needed to create an input file for Otter to process. Thus, Larry's approach is quite hands-on/empirical rather than theoretical. With that said, I think this book is ideal for anyone who has formally studied automated reasoning and is ready to experiement with an automated-reasoning program, such as Otter, whose code is supplied on the CD Rom accompanying the book. I myself had spent the latter half of 2000 pouring through Jean Gallier's "Logic For Computer Science: An Introduction to Automated Theorem Proving", and it was from reading this that I became interested in the field. Had I not read that text, I do not think I would have been prepared to fully understand what Larry was trying to convey, especially in Chapter 3: Automated Reasoning in Full. Thus if you have little or no experience with logic and automated deduction systems, I suggest supplementing this text with either Nissanke's logic text, Ben Ari's, or any introductory book that explains resolution and unification in full (Gallier's book I consider an academic masterpiece, but it is also a graduate text and hence contains *much* more than you really need). Personally, I believe that anyone who makes significant contributions to this field in the future will do so using a combination of theory and experimentation. Moreover, if you are thinking of playing with Otter out of curiosity of how it will solve your favorite puzzle, you will not appreciate the solution (proof) nearly as much if you had some formal exposure to logic behind you. Best wishes, and happy experimenting!

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

In CliffsNotes on Snow Falling on Cedars, you explore David Guterson's bestselling novel, in which a murder trial forces the residents of an island in the Pacific Northwest to revisit the time in history when both the Japanese and Japanese-Americans were discriminated against. The novel explores the effects of war, the difficulties of race, and the mystery of human motivation in a story that's a combination murder mystery, courtroom drama, and tragic love story.

Summaries and commentaries guide you through the novel, and critical essays help you understand the author's narrative techniques, use of details, and symbolism. Other features that help you study include

A section on the life and background of David Guterson
A section on the historical background of the novel
A character list
Additional critical essays on the role of gender and use of duality in the novel
Review questions and essay topics

Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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A useful, if somewhat annoying (to me) guide.......2006-11-01

There are some very good points about this guide, and one point that made me want to tear it in half; I will try to describe it so that the reader can make their own decision.

I think that Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel was a so-so book. I found it uninvolving, and I cannot see why one would bother reading it when there are so many excellent non-fiction works on the themes. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston wrote a classic book on the internment called Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment. Mary Matsuda Gruene wrote another book: Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps, and she has a bibliography listing many other books about the Japanese-American experience. Matsuda, incidentally, came from a family of strawberry farmers living on an island in the Puget Sound. People interested in the lives of fisherfolk can read HUNGRY OCEAN, THE: A SWORDBOAT CAPTAIN'S JOURNEY, Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, The Lives of Men, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (P.S.), etc.

Having warned of my basic lack of enthusiasm, the majority of the Cliff Notes is a competent and useful guide. One of the best parts of the guide is that Wasowski has provided lists explaining a variety of terms, including boating, fishing, contemporary slang, Japanese words, etc. I hope that the authors of some other guides will take a lesson.

I think that there are two missing themes. One is the position of women in the family. Some people will not find it odd that Carl and Kabuo feel little need to consult their wives when making decisions that affect their entire family, but some people today will find strange; it was much more common during the period when this is set than it is today. Guterson cannot really address that directly, but I think it would help if it were in this guide. The other issue, which neither the guide nor Guterson seem to recognize is that Etta does the same thing to her son, Carl, that she does to Kabuo: she deprives him of the opportunity to make his living on land his family owned. If Kabuo feels strongly about land that his family owned for seven years, how might Carl feel about land that has been in the family for several generations?

On the minus side is a vehement objection which I am certain many literary students will not understand. Wasowski commments the "Some question Guterson's style ... or else they think he just didn't succeed in what he attempted to do." He responds to the criticism: "Most readers tend to recognize that prejudice on either side of a relationship can lead to misunderstandings and that someone living with one foot in two different cultures is not fully part of either."

Since I often receive similar comments when I criticize "serious fiction", it is presumably necessary to point out that his response is a non sequitor, from the Latin "it does not follow", meaning "a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said." (Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002, online, Oct 31, 2006).

Whether or not one likes Guterson's style does not necessarily have anything to do with whether or not one understands the pressures of conflicting loyalties. One could understand perfectly and still not like Guterson's book. Themes are different from writing techniques. Perhaps Wasowski means to say that Guterson's development of the theme is so good, so novel, and so important as to make wading through his verbosity worthwhile. I wouldn't agree, but that at least would make sense.

A useful companion to the book, if not a great example of clarity in writing.

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars (Bloom's Guides)

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Exposing the Human Condition
well-written, poetic

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars (Bloom's Guides)

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This is the kind of book where you can smell and hear and see the fictional world the writer has created, so palpably does the atmosphere come through. Set on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound, in Washington, where everyone is either a fisherman or a berry farmer, the story is nominally about a murder trial. But since it's set in the 1950s, lingering memories of World War II, internment camps and racism helps fuel suspicion of a Japanese-American fisherman, a lifelong resident of the islands. It's a great story, but the primary pleasure of the book is Guterson's renderings of the people and the place.

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Ishmael Chambers, the one-man staff of the newspaper on San Piedro Island in Puget Sound, is covering the 1954 trial of a high school classmate accused of killing another classmate over a land dispute. Actor Peter Marinker--a stage veteran who has appeared in such movies as The Russia House and The Emerald Forest--takes us deep inside the world created by David Guterson in his award-winning 1994 novel. We learn the sensory details of life in a small fishing community; the emotional lives of people scarred inside and out by World War II; and the deep and unresolved prejudices toward the island's Japanese Americans, who were interned during the war--a tragedy that led to financial advantage for some islanders. Marinker deliberately but nimbly moves from the characters' distinctive voices to the poignant interior perspectives of the soulful, wounded Chambers as he tells a combination love story, murder mystery, and painful history lesson. (Running time: 15 hours, 10 cassettes) --Lou Schuler

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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collection, presents concise critical excerpts from Snow Falling on Cedars to provide a scholarly overview of the work. This comprehensive study guide also features "The Story Behind the Story," which details the conditions under which Snow Falling on Cedars was written. This title also includes a short biography on Guterson and a descriptive list of characters.

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Very good (somewhat) historical novel.......2007-08-05

This is not a fast paced read but it is so rich with detail of the characters and the places of its time you can almost feel you're there. The descriptions of the island of San Piedro sent me looking for it on a map of the Puget Sound area only to find there is no such place. I wish Mr. Guterson had included a glossary for the fishing jargon and the colloquialisms of northwest Washington of that time; that would have made it even more interesting for me.

Also a good cultural study of the interactions of Caucasian and non-Caucasian Americans and how much war influences and divides us such as we are experiencing now.

Awesome book!.......2007-07-30

I bought this book for my daughter to read for an honors English class. I read it first and had forgotten that I had watched the movie years ago. I absolutely was saturated by the story. I would recommend it for anyone!

Suspenseful and descriptive novel.......2007-07-14

During the time of Japanese Internment and WWII Japanese settlers strive to live in dignity, finding comfort relying on their old Japanese traditions and customs which ultimately left one white man who courted a Japanese woman broken hearted and another white man who tried to sell and enter into a contract a piece of land to Japanese in a mysterious demise whose trial is the focus of the novel. In the end though truth, heroism and rule of law prevailed over racism and jealousy.

Exposing the Human Condition.......2007-06-25

At its bare bones level, the literary genre here is a murder mystery in which the reader learns of events essentially through witness testimony as it is given in a courtroom trial. And this aspect of the story is quite good and well-crafted, in and by itself. But at a deeper level, the backdrop of time and place reveals the deeply ingrained prejudices and suspicions that Americans felt and directed against Japanese-Americans who were living in the American northwest in the WWII years following Pearl Harbor. Very effectively and in a non-judgmental way, the author spotlights this chapter in America's history when completely innocent Japanese-Americans were forced from their homes, uprooted from occupations and earning capabilities, experienced painful alienation in relationships within their communities and ultimately were interned in camps until war's end. Woven throughout, the human condition of bigotry is nakedly exposed but thankfully so are honor, grace and integrity.

well-written, poetic.......2007-06-05

Sensitive and well-written story that grips the reader. The descriptive passages and the character development are splendid. This novel works on so many levels: love story, mystery, courtroom drama, history. The book has a poetic feel that charms the reader.

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