Computer Simulation in Biology: A BASIC Introduction, 2nd Edition

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Offers a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to explain the development and use of computer models and simulators in biology. How to obtain equations for simple models and their utilization in generating simulation data is thoroughly covered and each chapter provides numerous helpful exercises. Also contains related software.

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This text is aimed at a one-term course taken by allied health and agricultural science students. It includes annotated reaction summary tables, solved in-chapter examples, integrated applications (industrial, medical, etc.) and essays that describe organic chemistry's impact on the economy, environment, and the quality of life.

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Your Students Will Actually Read It!.......2000-04-01

This book condenses what is usually a gruelling two-semester curriculum into a brief but thorough text that can be navigated in a single semester. Concepts are summarized in easy to understand color tables. Each chapter contains an interesting aside/biography to keep students awake and show that the knowledge has important applications. The periodic table of elements and lists of primary organic functional groups are summarized inside the hard cover for quick reference. A solutions manual for the homework problems is sold separately.

The CH-Pi Interaction: Evidence, Nature, and Consequences

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The CH-Pi Interaction: Evidence, Nature, and Consequences
Motohiro Nishio , Minoru Hirota , and Yoji Umezawa
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH
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ASIN: 0471252905

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A systematic exploration of the fascinating area of CH/p interaction-from the frontier of chemical research

The CH/p bond may be the weakest of the hydrogen bonds, but it has been found to play important roles in the physical, chemical, and biological properties of a variety of substances. This book offers a complete overview of the experimental basis, theoretical background, and nature of the CH/p interaction to facilitate a clearer common understanding of the interaction between CH bonds and p-systems. Featured topics include:
* Evidence and methods of detection
* Quantum chemical treatment of CH/p interaction
* Comparison with other types of weak molecular interactions
* Conformational consequences
* Chiroptical properties
* Selectivity in organic reactions
* Crystal structures of clathrates
* Inclusion compounds
* Interligand interactions in coordination chemistry
* Specific interactions in protein structures
* Prospects and possibilities for use in biochemistry and materials science

The CH/p Interaction makes an important contribution to the understanding of weak intermolecular forces and their potential value to the biochemical and pharmaceutical sciences. It will be welcomed by physical and synthetic organic chemists; structural chemists; and pharmaceutical and biochemists.

Stereochemical Control, Bonding and Steric Rearrangements (Stereochemistry of Organometallic and Inorganic Compounds)

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Stereochemical Control, Bonding and Steric Rearrangements (Stereochemistry of Organometallic and Inorganic Compounds)

Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Ltd
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Stereochemistry and Bonding in Inorganic Chemistry (Prentice-Hall international series in chemistry)

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Stereochemistry and Bonding in Inorganic Chemistry (Prentice-Hall international series in chemistry)
J.E. Fergusson
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Stereochemistry and Bonding (Structure and Bonding)

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Stereochemistry and Bonding (Structure and Bonding)

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Aimed at helping the physics student to develop a solid grasp of basic graduate-level material, this book presents worked solutions to a wide range of informative problems. These problems have been culled from the preliminary and general examinations created by the physics department at Princeton University for its graduate program. The authors, all students who have successfully completed the examinations, selected these problems on the basis of usefulness, interest, and originality, and have provided highly detailed solutions to each one. Their book will be a valuable resource not only to other students but to college physics teachers as well. The first four chapters pose problems in the areas of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, thereby serving as a review of material typically covered in undergraduate courses. Later chapters deal with material new to most first-year graduate students, challenging them on such topics as condensed matter, relativity and astrophysics, nuclear physics, elementary particles, and atomic and general physics.

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Um... will be looking on for another review book.......2007-09-07

I got this book so that I could do problems and sharpen my skills.

I just did some of the problems in this book, starting with number 1, the first question is "how would you throw the ball to attain the following motion". I answered the question "you throw it forward but with a counterclockwise spin".

I then looked at the solution, it derived velocity =.4 radius * angular velocity. While that is a true relationship, the question did not ask me to derive that relationship. Furthermore, that doesn't really seem to answer the original question, the angular velocity is however I spin the ball. The tangental velocity of that spin will obviously depend on that angular velocity which I threw the ball at.

These questions seem very vague, and the solutions seem to have really read into the question that was actually being asked. This doesn't seem like the right book for me. I want a book that asks "calculate the velocity:angular velocity ratio of the ball" as opposed to "how are you going to throw it". I'll probably be selling this book soon.

I seriously recommend looking at GRE practice exams or other sources before picking up this book. Rating: 2.5 stars

Helping in Qualifier Exam...........2006-03-01

This is a good book, which contains difficult and important problems in each part of physics. Problems are quite hard. One should attempt these problems after having a clear understanding of the subject matter. Don't look at the solutions first. Spend sometimes first solving the problem. Each problem is a collection of several short problems which are really important.
I strongly recommend this to anyone who is Preparing for Qualifier exam.

A classic.......2003-09-19

Thousands of physics graduate students can't be wrong. The problems in this book may be very challenging, but they include fully worked solutions. The topics cover a very broad range of physics, though the emphasis is on selection of interesting questions rather than comprehensive coverage.

A standard.......2000-04-01

This book is a must for anyone preparting for their Physics Candidacy exam. The advanced graduate students traditionally pass this book down to the incoming graduate students. Nice challenging probelms with clear solutions. Good luck studying for the exams!

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Dickens's finest interpreter until after World War II

You can never go wrong with Chesterton

A delightful collection... (Vol. X of the series)

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Chesterton on Dickens Volume XV
G. K. Chesterton , and Alzina Stone Dale
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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ASIN: 0898702585

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Dickens's finest interpreter until after World War II.......2007-07-16

Written in 1906 and 1911 and bound as this affordable paperback, Chesterton's two volumes of Dickens criticism remain superb, and have seldom been bettered by the academic industry's vast output. Although Chesterton's addiction to paradox can challenge or annoy readers unfamiliar with his style, a brief immersion dispels the difficulty, and further reading yields a mine of insights into Dickens as man and writer unsurpassed even by the publication of J. Hillis Miller's pathbreaking book of 1958. And: whereas Miller enjoyed not only the advantages of time and distance but also his rigorous training in academic criticism and scholarship, Chesterton wrote "simply" as one of those invaluable late Victorian and Edwardian "men of letters." In addition, he took on Dickens during the first fifty years after his death in 1870, when criticizing "The Inimitable" meant jousting with a National Institution. Writing as what we would call an "amateur," Chesterton perceptively celebrates Dickens's virtues with a love unblinded by a shrewd awareness of Dickens's faults. Some readers may find Chesterton's orthodox Catholic world view annoying, particularly when it obtrudes itself occasionally into his prose. But as a "simple," lifelong "Bible" Christian, Dickens would almost certainly have considered a relgious point of departure a matter of course -- although he would also almost certainly have deplored Chesterton's occasional narrowness. Those who bear with him for a single chapter will almost certainly be seduced by his penetrating and thought-provoking analyses; amateur and professional Dickensians alike should find this volume a perfect introduction to a deeper understanding of the novels and the man.

You can never go wrong with Chesterton.......2007-07-04

You can never go wrong with Chesterton. Chesterton can help you think, even if you're not good at it.

A delightful collection... (Vol. X of the series).......2001-06-13

Chesterton lovers and lovers of poetry in the classical English forms will enjoy this collection of poems by one of the 20th century's greatest stylists, G.K. Chesterton.

After a section of juvenalia, the poems are arranged by broad subject. My only complaint with the volume is that it is not complete, and that Ignatius Press has not yet released Part 2 of the Collected Poetry.

But you will find many things in this volume in no other collection of Chesterton's poetry, including his poem about Notre Dame football. So if you enjoy Chesterton, or poetry, or both, check out this book.

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The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important.

G.K Chesterton

Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Inkling Books
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ASIN: 1587420147

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Here's a delightful collection of G. K. Chesterton quotes from 1900 to 1911, one for each day of the year--all selected by Chesterton himself. Every word of his 1912 classic is in this newly typeset edition. There are also newly created notes shedding light on events from his day that have been dimmed by the passage of time. In addition, there is a bibliography of sources and a detailed 17-page index to guide you to the quotes you need. Finally, there are several humorous sketches by Chesterton.

This book was previously published in the U.K. in 1911 as A Chesterton Calendar and in the U.S. in 1912 as The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton. It includes Chapter 13, "The Movable Feasts," which was left out of the U.S. edition.

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The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important........2007-01-17

This book serves two purposes. It is intended to be a daily devotional (like Oswald Chambers "My Utmost For His Highest"), focusing on G. K. Chesterton's wit and wisdom. The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important, as opposed to reading another person's second-guessings.

One good point is that it has moveable feasts in an appendix, like Lewis's "The Business of Heaven." A down point is that the book lacks an entry for Leap Day. This is a common mistake made by all devotionals I own, except for Chambers's. If you are smart enough to include the Roman Catholic feast days (which you would expect from Chesterton), then why can't you remember Leap Day? It is beyond me!

The second purpose of the book is an unintentional one. This book serves as a de-facto quote book. I love quote books, since they serve as random sampler for a person's thought. C. S. Lewis said, "The only use of selections is to deter those readers who will never appreciate the original, and thus save them from wasting their time on it, and to send all the others on the original as quickly as possible." (The Quotable Lewis, #447)

This book accomplishes both: it is a wonderful daily devotional, and it whets the appetite for more.

G.K Chesterton.......2006-03-15

I bought this book for my grandmother and she loves it. It's hard for her to sit and read for a lond piriod of time. This book is nice because it has one little reading for every day. I would highly recomend this book.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton)

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Chesterton's introduction cut from this edition
Chesterton on Dickens

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton)
G.K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Classic Books
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0742630218

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Written with intelligence and authority, these twenty-three essays provide an insight into the works of the literary genius of Charles Dickens.

Chesterton greatly admired Dickens as a social prophet and a defender of the common man. Here, he focuses both on the style and ideology of Dickens and provides the critical insight into his work with his characteristic perceptive generosity. Chesterton is still regarded by many as one of the most accomplished and perceptive critics of Dickens

As much about Chesterton's strongly held beliefs as about Dickens this volume is sure to inform and give pleasure to advocates of both writers.

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Chesterton's introduction cut from this edition.......2007-08-11

Chesterton is indeed at his best writing about Dickens. Before you buy this edition, be forewarned that the editors have cut almost 20pp. from Chesterton's introduction, leaving a mere 2pp.

Chesterton on Dickens.......2000-04-07

Chesterton is at his best in his criticism, and this is no exception. His novels show something o the Dickensian flare, but nowhere is he more apreciative of the master than here.

Charles Dickens (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton)

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Charles Dickens (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton)
G.K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Classic Books
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Binding: Library Binding

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Chesterton asserts that Dickens was a great man and a great writer in this fascinating literary biography. He competently defends Dickens against the charges that he exaggerated too much and examines his writing in careful relation to his life. Chesterton's insight into Dickens and his work is an excellent introduction to the writing of one of the most important literary figures of English Literature.

CHESTERTON ON DICKENS VOLUME. The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. XV

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CHESTERTON ON DICKENS VOLUME. The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. XV
G. K. Chesterton
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press,
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Chesterton on Dickens, Volume 15

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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Chesterton on Dickens, Volume 15
Gilbert Keith; Dale, Alzina Stone Chesterton
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KXAOEY

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