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This book reviews progress in the techniques used to characterize polymers and highlights the areas of research that have been made possible. Novel techniques, such as scanning tunnelling and atomic force microscopy are introduced, along with experimental advances in well established techniques such as infrared spectroscopy. Instrumentation currently available is reviewed and recent developments in structural techniques are described, with the aim of presenting the current state of the art in a selection of areas.

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New Approaches to Polymer Materials
Gennadii Efremovich Zaikov
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New Commercial Polymers, 2
H.-G. Elias
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New Fibres (Ellis Horwood Series in Polymer Science and Technology)

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New Fibres (Ellis Horwood Series in Polymer Science and Technology)
Tatsuya Hongu , and Glyn O. Phillips
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New Insights into Membrane Science and Technology: Polymeric and Biofunctional Membranes, Volume 8 (Membrane Science and Technology)

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New Insights into Membrane Science and Technology: Polymeric and Biofunctional Membranes, Volume 8 (Membrane Science and Technology)

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Membrane techniques provide a broad science and technology base. Although there are several books in the traditional membrane field, there is a great need for a highly comprehensive book. This refereed book covers materials from highly respected researchers. This title is highly multidisciplinary in nature and should be extremely valuable to scientists and engineers involved in a variety of activities. Students and faculty members around the world will find this title to be an excellent reference book.

- Invited contributions from leading researchers in the field.
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- Aims to fill market gap for a highly comprehensive book containing advances in both synthetic and biofunctional/bimimetic membranes.

New Monomers and Polymers (Polymer Science and Technology Series)

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New Monomers and Polymers (Polymer Science and Technology Series)

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New Polymer Technology for Auto Body Exteriors (Aiche Symposium Series)

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New Polymer Technology for Auto Body Exteriors (Aiche Symposium Series)
W. R. Schmeal
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New Polymeric Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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New Polymeric Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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The book consists of contributions from friends and associates of Professor Frank E. Karasz at a Symposium held in honor of his 70th birthday. The general theme is "New Polymeric Materials" and the book is organized into several sub-topics including, New Opto-electronic Polymers, New Bio Medical Polymers, New Polymers in Nano-technology, and New Instrumental Technologies for Polymer Characterization. The book is unique in bringing together leaders in the field active in the latest developments of new polymers for advanced technological applications. In addition Professor Karasz is one of the true giants in the field of opto-electronic polymers used as Light Emitting Diodes (LED's) and is one of the principal architects in providing the current understanding of the thermodynamic principles of polymer blending. A volume celebrating Professor Karasz's achievements would have wide appeal to the international community.

New Polymeric Materials: 5th Annual UNESCO School & IUPAC Conference (Macromolecular Symposia)

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New Polymeric Materials: 5th Annual UNESCO School & IUPAC Conference (Macromolecular Symposia)

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The UNESCO School and Conference on Macromolecules & Materials Science is held annually in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Leading scientists from various fields of macromolecular science are invited to give tutorials at the UNESCO School and informative plenaries at the conference. The exposure to new ideas and advanced concepts in macromolecular science is of great importance for South Africa students and senior staff alike coming from different universities and research institutions.

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Conference held May 2003, San Francisco, California.

The Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining continued the tradition of providing an open forum for the presentation, discussion, and development of innovative algorithms, software, and theories for data mining applications and data intensive computation. This year's invited speakers highlighted new trends in algorithm development, discussed new trends and challenges for data mining from an industrial perspective, revealed important issues in both the monitoring and mining of network data streams, and exposed important mathematical and computational problems that arise in protecting privacy during transactional database mining and analysis. A workshop on counter-terrorism and security was held for the first time.

This proceedings includes 21 research papers; 14 were accepted as poster presentations, and seven were accepted as student papers from the conference.

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Collected here in one volume are six works that represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished and admired of American writers. They explore the private worlds of our "Gilded Age." A once free-spirited American woman in Paris tries to extricate herself from her marriage to a French aristocrat in "Madame de Treymes." A divorced mother finds herself in a strange romantic triangle in "The Mother's Recompense." Repressed passions smolder in small town New England in the classic "Ethan Frome," a tale of unhappy marriage and desperate love which erupts in an act of shattering violence, and in "Summer," which Wharton called the "hot 'Ethan.'" Also included here are "Old New York," four linked novellas set in succeeding decades from the 1840s to the 1870s, Wharton's renowned autobiography "A Backward Glance," and "Life and I," a fascinating autobiographical fragment published here for the first time.

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Short novels of society.......2007-03-22

In a way, Edith Wharton was at her best in her novellas -- her stories are lean, taut and emotionally deep. And "Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings" explores views on love, sex, marriage, the conventions of the 19th and early 20th century, and even her own life. They're not just fascinating, but beautifully written.

"Ethan Frome" is the male half of a loveless marriage, with the fretful, fussy Zeena. Then Zeena's lovely cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, and she brings out a happier, more passionate side of Ethan. But when Mattie is sent away, Ethan must make a decision. He knows he can't stay in his horrible marriage, so will he run away with Mattie? The choice they make will affect all three lives.

"Summer" shocked the 1917 public, with its frank-for-its-time look at a young woman's sexual awakening. It takes place in the New England village of North Dormer, where the young librarian Charity lives. But when Charity falls in love with an upper-class young rake named Lucius, she finds herself pregnant and unmarried -- a destructive combination in the 1900s. There's only one respectable way out.

"The Mother's Recompense" explores the difficulties of Kate Clephane, who abandoned her husband and daughter, and now lives as an unhappy divorcee on the Riviera. She's unexpectedly invited back, to attend her daughter's wedding -- only to find that her daughter's fiancee is one of Kate's ex-lovers. Now Kate has to wrestle her own regrets and jealousies, to figure out whether to tell her daughter the truth.

"Madame De Treymes" is a sort of Henry Jamesian novella, taking place in early twentieth-century Paris. It follows the unhappy lives abroad of two Americans -- the miserable Fanny Frisbee is married to a nasty aristocrat, and living in Paris. As a knight on a white horse, her friend John is trying to convince her to divorce her hubby and marry him...

"Old New York" is a collection of four novellas, exploring different facets of, well, Old New York -- family strife, adultery, illegitimate children, and a young man's inner changes. And "A Backward Glance" is totally different -- Wharton's autobiography, describing not only her life, but her friendships with the artists of the day, and the inspirations for her rich fiction.

Edith Wharton gave unvarnished looks at social conventions throughout her career -- she doesn't judge, she just tells it how it was, whether she's talking about the Roaring 20s or the uptight Victorian era. Divorce was almost unthinkable, affairs scandalous if revealed, and women had the cards stacked against them in matters of love, marriage and sex.

So her works are even better when you set them in context, full of characters who were totally unlike her. Some were male, some timid and naive, some disgraced (she herself was divorced, though this didn't hurt her socially), and some completely broken by society's dictates. Few of her characters are much like Wharton, but she gets inside their heads and makes them entirely believable.

Wharton's formal, often poetic writing style makes these stories all the richer. They're rich with light, smells, sounds and the swirl of nature, even in a city. But it's offset by the starkness of her stories -- if she took a hard look at hypocrises and social conventions, she didn't flinch from showing what happened to those that transgressed. It's realistic, but a bit depressing.

Doomed love and personal reflection are what makes up a lot of "Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings," a magnificent collection of her shorter books. Sad and beautiful, gripping and classic.

Ethan Frome.......2003-11-07

Ethan Frome is a man that has never been able to make decisions for himself. When he married his wife Zeena it the fact that she made a good companion for the situation with his mother. Their relationship was good at first but it slowly started to die when zeena became sickly. He always did what would be best for other people, but when zeena's cousin came to live with them he took time to see her because Mattie made him feel good about himself. Ethan has been in the same place all of his life and never found a true love. Then mattie came and for once ethan stopped looking at what would be best and started looking for that wonderful feeling.

quick to read but still has a twisted plot.......1999-11-16

I had to read this in under two hours for a literary project and I was very pleased to discover an author who managed to write such a constant yet emotional plot in less than 100 pages. It still hasn't dawned on me whether or not Durham was sensible in his choice. I will be writing a full analysis this week so if ever you need help, email me, and I'd be glad to be of service. Good read for the intellectually stimulating conversationalists.

Ethan Frome & Summer (Modern Library Classics)

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Tragic love

Ethan Frome & Summer (Modern Library Classics)
Edith Wharton
Manufacturer: Modern Library
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ASIN: 0375757287
Release Date: 2001-05-08

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This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This text includes newly commissioned notes.

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Tragic love.......2005-04-10

In a way, Edith Wharton was at her best in her novellas -- her stories are lean, taut and emotionally deep. That's what "Summer" and "Ethan Frome" have in common, as they look at love, sex, marriage and the conventions of the 1800s. Put together, these novellas are utterly fascinating.

"Ethan Frome" is the male half of a loveless marriage, with the fretful, fussy Zeena. Then Zeena's lovely cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, and she brings out a happier, more passionate side of Ethan. But when Mattie is sent away, Ethan must make a decision. He knows he can't stay in his horrible marriage, so will he run away with Mattie? Or will something worse happen?

"Summer" shocked the 1917 public, with its frank-for-its-time look at a young woman's sexual awakening. It takes place in the New England village of North Dormer, where the young librarian Charity lives. But when Charity falls in love with an upper-class young rake named Lucius, she finds herself pregnant and unmarried -- a destructive combination in the 1900s.

Edith Wharton gave unvarnished looks at social conventions throughout her career -- she doesn't judge, she just tells it how it was, whether she's talking about the Roaring 20s or the uptight Victorian era. Divorce was almost unthinkable, affairs scandalous if revealed, and women had the cards stacked against them in matters of love, marriage and sex.

Both novellas also display Wharton's talent for writing characters who were totally unlike her, especially working-class heroes. Charity is an uneducated, naive, rough-mannered young woman, while Ethan is... well, male. Neither is much like Wharton, but she gets inside their heads and makes them entirely believable.

Wharton's formal writing style is offset by the starkness of her stories -- if she took a hard look at Victorian social conventions, she didn't flinch from showing what happened to those that transgressed. (I'll give you a hint -- neither novella has a smooching-lovers-ride-off-into-the-sunset finale) It's realistic, but a bit depressing.

"Summer" and "Ethan Frome" are both tales of love doomed by social conventions, and also two of Wharton's best stories. Sad and beautiful, gripping and classic.

Ethan Frome and Summer (New Riverside Editions)

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Ethan Frome and Summer (New Riverside Editions)
Edith Wharton , Denise D. Knight , and Paul Lauter
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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ASIN: 0618300120

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Edith Wharton herself drew many connections between her two novellas—Ethan Frome and Summer—which address the consequences of forbidden sexual passion and the tragedy of thwarted dreams. While Wharton continues to be one of the most frequently taught American writers, this New Riverside Edition volume is the first to pair these texts along with supporting critical and contextual materials. Supplementary materials include related writing about the Berkshires, essays about cultural norms in New England, and critical essays.

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Tragic love.......2005-04-30

4 Titles By Edith Wharton : Ethan Frome The Custom of the Country Summer The Age of Innocence

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4 Titles By Edith Wharton : Ethan Frome The Custom of the Country Summer The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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Anthology of American Literature Volumes B + C 5th Ed + Wharton Ethan Frome Summer

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Anthology of American Literature Volumes B + C 5th Ed + Wharton Ethan Frome Summer
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Paul Lauter
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ETHAN FROME AND SUMMER
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Ethan Frome and Summer [Constable Edith Wharton]

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