Selected Letters on Evolution and Origin of Species

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Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at one of the most powerful and revolutionary ideas in the history of mankind, the theory of evolution. It traces the development of this momentous idea in an autobiographical essay, letters, and notebook excerpts by the theory's originator.

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Recommendation From a Pre-Med Student.......1999-05-04

I recommend this autobiography to anyone interested in any field of science, or anyone who wants to read about one of the most influential men of all time. It is a very well written autobiography, and is easy to follow. It contains material to catch the interest of anyone form the biological scientist in the field to the average person making up their summer reading list. For the student that has taken any biology class that talked about Darwin, it adds an entire new dimension to his theories when you feel like you know a part of the man by reading his very words. I would recommend this autobiography, to anyone who wants to read a well-written autobiography about the life of an extraordinary scientist and man.

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The problem of greenhouse gas (particularly carbon dioxide) release during power generation in fixed and mobile systems is widely acknowledged. Fuel cells are electrochemical devices offering clean and efficient energy production by the direct conversion of gaseous fuel into electricity. As such, they are under active study for commercial stationary power generation, residential applications and in transportation. The control of fuel cell systems under a variety of environmental conditions and over a wide operating range is a crucial factor in making them viable for extensive use in every-day technology.

In Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems the application of fuel cells in automotive powertrains is emphasized because of the significance of the contribution to global CO ₂ emissions made by ground vehicle propulsion and because of the challenge presented by the accompanying control problems. The authors’ comprehensive control-oriented approach provides:

• An overview of the underlying physical principles and the main control objectives and difficulties associated with the implementation of fuel cell systems.

• System-level dynamic models derived from the physical principles of the processes involved.

• Formulation, in-depth analysis and detailed control design for two critical control problems, namely, the control of the cathode oxygen supply for a high-pressure direct hydrogen fuel cell system and control of the anode hydrogen supply from a natural gas fuel processor system.

• Multivariable controllers that attenuate restraints resulting from lack of sensor fidelity or actuator authority.

• Real-time observers for stack variables that confer redundancy in fault detection processes.

• Examples of the assistance of control analysis in fuel cell redesign and performance improvement.

• Downloadable SIMULINK® model of a fuel cell for immediate use supplemented by sample MATLAB® files with which to run it and reproduce some of the book plots.

Primarily intended for researchers and students with a control background looking to expand their knowledge of fuel cell technology, Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems will also appeal to practicing fuel cell engineers through the simplicity of its models and the application of control algorithms in concrete case studies. The thorough coverage of control design will be of benefit to scientists dealing with the electrochemical, materials and fluid-dynamic aspects of fuel cells.

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Review for Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems : Principles, Modeling, Analysis and Feedback Design.......2006-03-24

A complete book that give to the reader the methodology
to model and understand the fuel cell dynamics and control.
The companion software allows deep insight of the modelling and control problem, and the "what-if" analysis.

Very poor book.......2005-11-16

This is a book with a series of simplifications and assumptions. I thought that it would help me deal with real control problems of fuel cell power systems. Instead it deals with only linearized models that can be easily solved by applying modern control theory.It is less than an introductory book really poor written.

Electrochemistry: Principles, Methods, and Applications (Oxford Science Publications)

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Electrochemistry: Principles, Methods, and Applications (Oxford Science Publications)
Christopher M. A. Brett , and Ana Maria Oliveira Brett
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ASIN: 0198553889

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This comprehensive book describes modern electrochemistry, from fundamental principles to the methods that can be used to study electrode and electrochemical processes, and finally, at the wide-ranging applications in sensors, industry, corrosion, and bioelectrochemistry. The breadth of coverage ensures that this volume will be valuable not only to undergraduate and graduate students, but also to research workers.

Chemical Thermodynamics: Principles and Applications: Principles and Applications

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Chemical Thermodynamics: Principles and Applications: Principles and Applications
J. Bevan Ott , and Juliana Boerio-Goates
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Chemical Thermodynamics: Advanced Applications: Advanced Applications

ASIN: 0125309902

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Chemical Thermodynamics: Principles and Applications presents a thorough development of the principles of thermodynamics--an old
science to which the authors include the most modern applications, along with those of importance in developing the science and those of
historical interest. The text is written in an informal but rigorous style, including ancedotes about some of the great thermodynamicists (with some of whom the authors have had a personal relationship), and focuses on "real" systems in the discussion and figures, in contrast to the generic examples that are often used in other textbooks.
The book provides a basic review of thermodynamic principles, equations, and applications of broad interest. It covers the development of thermodynamics as one of the pre-eminent examples of an exact science. A discussion of the standard state that emphasizes its significance and usefulness is also included, as well as a more rigorous and indepth treatment of thermodynamics and discussions of a wider variety of applications than are found in more broadly based physical chemistry undergraduate textbooks.
Combined with its companion book, Chemical Thermodynamics: Advanced Applications, the practicing scientist will have a complete reference set detailing chemical thermodynamics.

Key Features
* Outlines the development of the principles of thermodynamics, including the most modern applications along with those of importance in developing the science and those of historical interest
* Provides a basic review of thermodynamic principles, equations, and applications of broad interest
* Treats thermodynamics as one of the preeminent examples of an exact science
* Provides a more rigorous and indepth treatment of thermodynamics and discussion of a wider variety of applications than are found in more
broadly based physical chemistry undergraduate textbooks
* Includes examples in the text and exercises and problems at the end of each chapter to assist the student in learning the subject
* Provides a complete set of references to all sources of data and to supplementary reading sources

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The Physical Principles of Magnetism
Allan H. Morrish
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Modern Magnetic Materials: Principles and Applications

ASIN: 078036029X

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The IEEE Press is pleased to reissue this essential book for understanding the basis of modern magnetic materials. Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, and antiferromagnetism are covered in an integrated manner -- unifying subject matter from physics, chemistry, metallurgy, and engineering. Magnetic phenomena are discussed both from an experimental and theoretical point of view. The underlying physical principles are presented first, followed by macroscopic or microscopic theories. Although quantum mechanical theories are given, a phenomenological approach is emphasized. More than half the book is devoted to a discussion of strongly coupled dipole systems, where the molecular field theory is emphasized.

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Electrochemical Engineering Principles,.......2007-07-03

Electrochemical Engineering Principles
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (October 1, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132490382
ISBN-13: 978-0132490382
this item,i want two books

Capillary Electrophoresis Guidebook: Principles, Operation, and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Capillary Electrophoresis Guidebook: Principles, Operation, and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology)
Kevin D. Altria
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Capillary Electrophoresis Guidebook offers both newcomers and experienced research workers hands-on guidance to performing capillary electrophoresis. It provides sufficient practical advice to permit you to develop and optimize your own separations, along with extensive troubleshooting sections to overcome practical difficulties.

The book contains operating instructions for standard commercially available instruments and includes guidelines for activities such as changing capillaries, method development, quantitative procedures, optimizing sensitivity, and the validation of methods. Review chapters written by leading experts discuss micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography, capillary gel electrophoresis, advanced sampling techniques, and electrochromatography. Important application areas such as the analysis of proteins, peptides, amino acids, pharmaceuticals, chiral compounds, and nucleic acids are also treated.

Electrochemistry: Principles & applications

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Electrochemistry: Principles & applications
Edmund C Potter
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Broadening Electrochemical Horizons: Principles and Illustration of Voltammetric and Related Techniques (Oxford Science Publications)

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Broadening Electrochemical Horizons: Principles and Illustration of Voltammetric and Related Techniques (Oxford Science Publications)
Alan M. Bond
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Electrochemistry is a well established discipline that has encompassed both applied and fundamental aspects of chemistry courses for nearly a century. In recent years, however, it has become obvious that even broader applications of this valuable technique are now available to advance knowledge and solve problems in organic, inorganic and biological chemistry. In this book, it is shown how a range of limitations that historically have restricted the use of voltammetric and related electrochemical techniques have been removed or minimised so that it is now possible to work in the gas and solid phases as well as the traditional liquid phase. Significant advances in theory, instrumentation and electrode design have also made the technique more user-friendly. The initial chapters of this book describe the basic theory and philosophy behind the modern, widespread use of voltammetric techniques. The later chapters provide examples of new areas of application and predict future possibilities for this exciting area.

Bioelectrochemistry of Biomacromolecules (Bioelectrochemistry: Principles and Practice)

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The Principles of Electrochemistry
Duncan A. MacInnes
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The mechanics of biological tissues is a multidisciplinary and rapidly expanding area of research. The book points to important directions combining mechanical sciences with the exciting new developments in biology.

It delivers state-of-the-art articles on:

Mechanics of tissues at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels.

Mechanobiology, with particular reference to growth, remodeling, repair and aging.

Experimental, microstructural and continuum mechanical perspectives with an emphasis on modelling, and simulating therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.

Implementation of mechanical models in numerical codes to provide a tool for the design and development of prostheses. Numerical models have the potential to greatly improve diagnostics and therapeutical procedures that involve tissue mechanics.

Modeling of Biological Materials (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)

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This interdisciplinary collection of surveys highlights the central role played by the mathematical modeling of mechanical properties having an effect on the biology, chemistry, and physics of living matter. One of the main goals of the book is to present—in a single, self-contained resource—topics that are widely scattered across the literature in a variety of journals having mutually nonintersecting communities of readers, such as applied mathematicians, engineers, biologists, and physicians.

Readers coming from diverse backgrounds are provided with basic modeling ideas and tools to address important problems in the medical and health sciences. Presented are appropriate models as well as their implementation through numerical and computer simulations, which may lead to potential technological innovations useful in medicine. Models are tested in realistic experiments, results are extracted analytically or numerically, and the success of the developed models is determined by comparing theoretical predictions and actual experimental findings.

Written in a user-friendly style that avoids cumbersome mathematical techniques and notation, each chapter examines theoretical and practical issues associated with a specific biomedical application
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* mechanical properties of biological materials—macroscopic and microscopic perspectives

* biochemical and biomechanical aspects of blood flow

* formation and growth of intracranial aneurysms

* modeling of natural tissue substitutes, including cardiovascular and biodegradable stents

* regulation of hemostatic system function

* mechanical properties of tumors, bones, and cell membranes

Modeling of Biological Materials may be used in interdisciplinary, introductory courses covering various biomechanical topics for graduate students in applied mathematics, engineering, and biomedicine. The surveys featured in the book will also be a lasting and valuable reference for a wide community of researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in the above-mentioned fields.

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This stellar collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy carries on in the tradition of its companion volume--the enduring classic Wandering Stars--breaking new ground with every story.

Trouble with mothers; invading aliens and demons; the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah... all these phenomena and more are tackled in these tales from a creative group of extraordinary writers. We go to the edges of the universe, finding humor, pain and humanity in the unlikeliest of places and situations. Filled with wit, vigor, and sharp insight, this is a fantastic feast for the imagination that will intrigue and delight everyone who picks it up, Jew and non-Jew alike.

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More fantasy stories than SF, but still entertaining.......2004-01-25

I must admit that I didn't enjoy this anthology as much as its 1974 predecessor, "Wandering Stars." Maybe that's because I read "Wandering Stars" way back in the 70s, when I was like a thirsty man in the desert, delighted to find anything F&SF with a Jewish theme. "More Wandering Stars" I just read for the first time this weekend, (somehow I missed it in 1981), and my expectations are now higher. Hence the four star rating -- it's a good read, but not as good as its predecessor.

There is very little science fiction here -- most of the pieces are more like fantasy, and some would be difficult to distinguish from ordinary Jewish folklore. I.B. Singer's "The Last Demon" is one of these, as is "The Celestial Orchestra" by Howard Schwartz, which is really a re-telling of a classic tale by the 18th-century Hasidic Rebbe, Nachman of Breslov.

Don't get me wrong -- there is some good speculative fiction included. I especially liked "Phyllis Gotlieb's "Tauf Aleph" (named after the last and first letters of the Hebrew alphabet), about a robot programmed with the entire corpus of Jewish knowledge and sent to the planet of the last Jew in the universe. (That one is definitely SF). In "Dress Rehearsal" by Harvey Jacobs, a group of aliens are learning English from a Jewish actor -- with humorous results, but you need to know some Yiddish to get the jokes. The same is true of Isaac Asimov's intro, where he slips into the Yinglish patois of his Jewish upbringing, to give us a tongue-in-cheek SF analysis of the Bible.

On the more serious side, there's "Warm Dark Places" by Horace L. Gold, which is a sort of sequel to his "Trouble With Water" in the previous "Stars" anthology. But, whereas "Trouble" is rather humorous, "Dark Places" is a creepy little tale. Then there's "Camps" by Jack ("Yankele") Dann, where a hospital patient keeps having nightmares about life in a concentration camp -- a place where he has never been, in this life at least... (Readers of my own books on cases of reincarnation from the Holocaust should note that Dann's story was published in 1979, only three years before my first case in 1981. I find that rather eerie.)

Quite a few of these stories require a modicum (or more) of knowledge about Jewish history and culture in order to understand the themes or, in some cases, the satire. "Leviticus: in the Ark" is one such, where a man is chosen each year to be locked in the Ark at the front of the synagogue where the Torah scrolls are kept. No, folks, there is NO such a ritual in Judaism, and never has been. The tale is an allegory for loss of faith. Ditto for "The Pagan Rabbi." In the case of "Forcing the End" by Hugh Nissenson, it helps to know the story of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai -- which Jack Dann has thoughtfully provided in his intro to the tale.

As for the rest of the stories, most of them didn't do it for me. Harlan Ellison's "Mom" was a hackneyed disappointment, because the "Jewish Mother" stereotype is so outdated and overworked. Then again, it was written in 1976. I find myself wondering what kind of stories today's Jewish SF writers might write. Maybe someday we'll see a third anthology, "Yet More Wandering Stars?"

Disappointing.......2000-12-08

After reading and enjoying Wandering Stars in its original published version many years ago, I was really looking forward to reading this sequel. However, I found that it did not live up to the promise of its predecessor.

Most of the stories were fantasy, rather than science fiction, and I'm not particularly fond of that genre. It was a definite letdown.

A fun sci-fi story collection.......2000-03-30

I enjoy science fiction short stories and I enjoy stories with a Jewish view, so this seemed like a perfect collection for me. It was. I found it interesting to see what these different writers, from Woody Allen to Isac Bashevis Singer and Harlan Ellison, came up with for a Jewish sci-fi story. As with any story collection some are better than others. Some basic knowledge of Judaism and Jewish history helps to understand some of the stories.

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