Bioinstrumentation and Biosensors

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This reference text consists of contributed chapters by specialists directly carrying out research and development in this emerging field which joins advanced microelectronics with modern biotechnology. Chapters present novel biotechnology-based microelectronic instruments, such as those used for de

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A biosensor for cadmium based on bioconvective patterns (SuDoc NAS 1.15:103523)
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Finally a good PER-based textbook

Elements of Physics

Introductory Physics, Building Understanding
Jerold Touger
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For over two decades, physics education research has been transforming physics teaching and learning. Now in this new algebra-based introductory physics text, Jerry Touger taps this work to support new teaching methodologies in physics. Introductory Physics: Building Understanding recognizes that students learn better in guided active learning environments, engages students in a conceptual exploration of the physical phenomena before mathematical formalisms, and offers explicit guidance in using qualitative thinking to inform quantitative problem solving.

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Finally a good PER-based textbook.......2007-09-03

There are now a handful of introductory physics textbooks out there whose design reflect an awareness of research conducted by the physics education research (PER) community and which don't drastically reduce or alter the breadth of topics addressed in the standard curriculum.

Of these Touger's book is the most successful one I've seen, better than Knight or Cummings/Halliday, Resnick, Walker. I should say that I haven't yet taught out of it, but intend to next year. (I'm a high school physics teacher.)

The book has an excellent treatment of energy conservation and momentum conservation. It introduces stuff like circuits qualitatively first, then quantitatively. It also has a lot of check-your-understanding reading questions that are well formulated.

On the down side it's a bit busy in its design, and it tries to span a wide range of abilities in its problems and reading so when teaching from it one needs to be careful that assigned problems are appropriate for the students.

Compared to the standard intro physics book (Giancoli) this book is much better. Compared to harder texts (Tipler; Halliday, Resnick, Walker; Serway) it's not quite a substitute but probably an excellent supplement if the lecturer associated with the course is poor. Compared to Hewitt, it's more problem-solving focused, less descriptive. (I would also add "less infantilizing" though Hewitt fans might disagree.)

I think instructors and students really confused in their intro physics class should check this book out.

Elements of Physics.......2006-02-21

I'm taking a physics class as a general studies class and it's very difficult for me. I wanted a solutions manual to all practice problems at the end of the chapters. I didn't know that this manual only has solutions to selected problems (averaging 8-10 problems per chapter). BE AWARE YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANSWERS TO ALL PROBLEMS!!

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Jerold Touger
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question.......2006-08-08

does anyone know the difference between this 1.1 version and the 2005 version of Touger's Physics Text? I would very much appreciate a response. thanks

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Jerold Touger
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John Gardner shares a few interests and abilities with William F. Buckley. Like the erudite American writer, whose Blackie Oakes thrillers are a mainstay of spy fiction, Gardner is smart, well-educated, and a pleasure to read, even without a dictionary close at hand. Like Buckley, Gardner knows the ins and outs of the intelligence trade (he took over the James Bond franchise from the late Ian Fleming, and has penned 16 007 novels since Fleming's death). And like Buckley, whose Spytime focuses on the Kim Philby spy scandal that rocked Britain a generation ago, Gardner also goes back to the history books to take another look at the circle of young Cantabrigians who became spies for the Soviet Union. His Philby-like character is one Kit Palfrey, an infamous traitor who turns up one night while former intelligence operative Charlie Gauntlet is celebrating his wedding to Bex Olesker, a member of the London police antiterrorist branch. Charlie's out of the trade, but his instincts are still sharp, and when Palfrey convinces him that the five ancient scrolls he spirited out of Moscow's Lubianka prison and stored in a monastery in Scotland have vast implications for Christianity and perhaps for the future of the western world, he dusts off his old cloak and dagger and heads north.

The monks who are guarding the scrolls don't seem like the religious type to Charlie; they carry side arms, and he's seen them before in decidedly unholy circumstances. Meanwhile, his young bride is tracking the deadliest terrorist of them all: the Alchemist, a Carlos-the-Jackal type whose plot to kill the Russian president and his wife during an upcoming state visit to London has Bex and her colleagues racing against the clock to catch him. Gardner manages to tie the two main plots together in a smashing finale, but not before sprinkling his fast-moving thriller with erudition, quotations, and literary allusions so beloved by Buckley's fans. This clever novel will appeal to fans of John le Carré, Buckley, and Fleming. If it's your first Gardner, you'll be eager to search his large backlist for more of the same. --Jane Adams

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A Scribner Crime Novel

Internationally acclaimed crime writer John Gardner returns with a magnificent new cutting-edge thriller in the grand espionage tradition for which he is famous.

Charlie Gauntlet, a retired lawyer who was "something dodgy for the Foreign Office," is recently married to the much younger Rebecca "Bex" Olesker, a Detective Sergeant in the London Metropolitan Police's Anti-Terrorist Branch. Charlie has more or less come to terms with Bex's demanding and dangerous job, though it's hard for him to stay home when his young wife is on the front lines. Especially when she's facing Alchemist.

Who is Alchemist? Nobody seems to know, except that he's an unidentified hired assassin who strikes high-profile targets and demands a big payoff. If you have enough money and want somebody killed -- even a head of state -- he's your man. As Alchemist is described to Charlie, he's a "wizard soldier" who "walks on water, goes invisible, turns himself inside out like a reversible coat." He has had police all over the globe hopping around for the last decade and a half. Now, Bex may be the one to find him, but will she survive the encounter?

While Bex goes to Ireland, tracking a young woman lawyer who may lead her to Alchemist, Charlie takes a strange and perhaps perilous journey of his own. His unlikely guide is Britain's most infamous traitor, Kit Palfrey, who turns up on Charlie's doorstep with an intriguing tale of five ancient scrolls found in the bowels of Moscow's Lubianka prison. Are the scrolls authentic? If so, they could provide a new explanation for the Christian faith.

As Bex and her team converge to stop the assassination of a head of state in London, Charlie probes the mysteries of a remote monastery off the west coast of Scotland, where the sacred offices are not the only order of the day.

With style, wit, and page-turning tension, John Gardner's Day of Absolution builds to an electrifying conclusion as it examines some of life's most eternal questions.

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With his previous books, bestselling author John Gardner not only made himself a household name, he also earned the admiration and respect of the most discerning thriller aficionados -- his peers. Len Deighton christened Gardner "a master storyteller". Nelson DeMille likened his "tour de force" work to the compositions of a "maestro". To Charles McCarry, he is simply "incomparable.'' And now, with Day of Absolution, Gardner proves that he's only getting better. Charlie Gauntlet has just retired from a long career in espionage and married a young cop who specializes in anti-terrorism. While Charlie's wife heads to Ireland on the trail of the notorious assassin called Alchemist, Charlie finds himself embarking on a perilous journey of his own. Britain's most infamous traitor, Kit Palfrey, has inexplicably turned up on his doorstep, claiming to possess a cache of ancient scrolls written by a prostitute who knew Jesus. If they're authentic, they are certain to undermine the central tenets of Christianity. With parallel plots that race to an astonishing climax, John Gardner's latest work will take readers' breath away.

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John Gardner is Back!.......2000-09-13

John Gardner is wham-bam back on pedigree form with Day of Absolution, his best book since Werewolf Trace, Dancing Dodo, Complete State of Death, Every Night's a Bullfight (don't settle for 'The Director', the bowdlerised version) and Garden of Weapons (if you haven't read these books, you should get out more!). JG is the best - complex where Le Carre is merely complicated, out-detailing Deighton and, with his penetrating Greene-like insights into the human conditon, relegating the rest of the spy-hacks (with the exception of Eric Ambler)to also-rans. Read this book and then go back and enjoy the complete canon. JG is the spy writer's writer.

Great read.......2000-08-27

Recently retired Foreign Office employee Charlie Gauntlet marries Metropolitan Police Detective Bex Olesker. Since she works in the Anti-terrorist Branch, Charlie has had a difficult adjustment because his former job has taught him how dangerous her work is.

Bex's latest case involves the deadly, legendary Alchemist, a wizard who has eluded police around the world for more than a decade. As Bex follows her lead, traitor Kit Palfrey visits Charlie with a tale about ancient Christian scrolls found in Moscow. While Bex journeys to Ireland, Charlie travels to Scotland to substantiate the scrolls that allegedly provide a new light on the last days of Jesus. However, neither Charlie nor Bex realize that their two divergent cases will soon intercede at a point that could leave both of them dead.

DAY OF ABSOLUTION is a great thriller that expeditiously combines elements from espionage, political, police procedural, and religion into a classy tale. The story line is fast-paced, filled with action while containing two major subplots that cleverly blend into a wonderful climax. The lead characters are fully drawn and the assassin is shadowy enough to seem real. This novel proves that John Gardner is the Man.

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A compulsive reading

Death of a Misanthrope

Somewhat Touching

Absolution: A Novel
Olaf Olafsson
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In his spellbinding first novel, acclaimed Icelandic author Olaf Olafsson takes us inside the mind of a man haunted by the crime he willed half a century earlier.

Expatriate businessman Peter Peterson left behind the trappings of a seemingly charmed life: a vast fortune, two children, and a stately Park Avenue address. But he also left behind another legacy: a secret from long ago that shadowed his accomplishments and estranged him from his loved ones—a crime of passion, committed in the throes of unrequited love, that became a lifetime’s burden. Yet when Peter is forced to confront the consequences of his actions, an unexpected turn of events shakes the very foundation of his past. Spanning a boyhood in Iceland to the Nazi occupation of Denmark to modern-day Manhattan, Absolution calls up Dostoevsky and Ibsen as it masterfully plumbs the darkest corners of a sinister mind and a wounded heart.

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A compulsive reading.......2007-03-21

Peter Peterson is an embittered man. He is mistrustful towards his son Helgi and his daughter Gudrun because he thinks that they are after his money. Now an elderly man he is confronted with the memories of his life. He was brought up in the gentry quarter of Reykjavik, followed his first love to Copenhagen during the Second World War and then went to live to New York.
Time and again he remembers what he calls his "little crime" but this remains a mystery until the end of the novel. Like a murderer compelled to visit the site of his crime because he feels that his first love was clouded by betrayal and a harrowing revenge which poisoned his soul for the rest of his life. Did Peter Petersen really betray anybody? Who was the victim of his revenge?
Excellently written with a carefully engineered plot, the reader is pulled into the story - with its numerous flashbacks which are interwoven into the present day - until the very end.

Death of a Misanthrope.......2004-10-16

The thin story contained in this slim novel is contained in a rather lame and unnecessary framing device. A translator is asked by a lawyer friend to skim a handwritten manuscript and tell him if it has any bearing on an estate the lawyer is executor for. The translator is soon drawn into the confessional memoir of wealthy New York businessman Peter Peterson. This could have stood on its own, and the introduction of the translator only creates clutter in getting to the meat of the matter. The memoir is the work of a dying man, wealthy in a material sense, but spiritually bereft (quite the cliche). An Icelandic emigre during World War II, he spent the following 50 or so years manipulating people, accumulating wealth, becoming a wine connoisseur, playing out a loveless marriage over three decades, fathering two children he can summon little (if any) warmth or feeling toward, and generally greeting his fellow man with a skeptical eye. This final document of his life is split between reminisces on these aspects of his life and his desire for absolution in the matter of a crime he committed as a young man during the war in Denmark.

The gradual revelation of this crime is the main element of suspense in the book, as the events leading up to it are sparingly and exactly doled out. These also help to partially explain why he became the distasteful and misanthropic adult he describes himself as being. About halfway through, it becomes clear what the crime is, and why it causes his nightmares at the end of his life. The other element of suspense is derived from the "will he or won't he" question of whether he will reach out to and possibly reconcile with his son before dying. Peterson is not a likeable character and for much of the book it's hard to care about him or the decisions that have led to him living friendless and alone with a Cambodian housekeeper. His boyhood years in Reykjavik are idyllic enough, but his entire character is then formed out of a single betrayal in his late teens. Ultimately, one is hard-pressed to care too much about what happens to a man who has managed to inflict so much pain on those close to him over the course of his life. There is a twist ending which is reminiscent of someone like Roald Dahl, but it's not enough to save the book.

Somewhat Touching.......2004-03-03

"For I fear death, I am afraid of the end, the nothingness and perplexity."

Peter Peterson a wealthy businessman and wine connossieur from Iceland is tormented living out his last days in New York. Besides the fear that his undeserving children will acquire his estate, there is his repetitive obsession with a crime of passion he believes he committed sometime back in his youth in Denmark. This crime brings him constant nightmares and cold sweats in his awakening and sleeping hours for they never leave him.

His constant companion is his Cambodian girlfriend who takes care of him, does all the chores and hardly leaves his side. This is a touching story that will keep Mr. Olafsson's fans on the brink of anxiety.

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not the batman I enjoy.......2004-06-09

Maybe it's just the more recent Batman comics, but it seems like any Batman volume I pick up is depressing. This book is especially dark and depressing. I can handle a dark, brooding, crime-fighting Batman, but the Batman in this volume is just obsessed to the point of danger. He refuses to see anything but his own point of view. He won't even consider another point of view, because he believes that his view of the world is less biased than anyone else's. He is not an enjoyable character.

In this book, he is hunting a woman who, as part of a protest against Wayne Enterprises, set off a bomb several years before that killed a lot of people. Batman turns hunting her into his own crusade, partially because of the deaths and partially because, it seems, his ego is continually hurt by the fact that she eludes him for so long. The artwork looks lovely, but I just can't like the story. I haven't read a lot of Batman comics, but this doesn't seem like a prime example of them.

It's the ending that loses me.......2004-01-20

I was into the story, loved the art, the dialogue, and the angst, and.....the thrust of the conflict between the Children of Maya and The Bat peters out into inanity. I liked everything but that. The final two pages, with Batman still an indominatble spirit, flawed but resolute, I liked. In fact, every since Frank Miller's, "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", I've been in love with the character. He's a superhero without superhero powers and his internal dialogues has been as intruiging as any of the external problems he's faced. In "Absolution" we have a story that gives full power to the internal angst that Batman faces in his lifelong struggle against the predators among us. Unfortunately, the climax depends on an apparent suicidal destructive act by the villian which resolves nothing except a need for plot development. It's not bad, it could have been so-so much better.

Unexpected.......2003-12-22

One would think that a great author like Jean Marc Dematteis would write a reasonable Batman story. It was a surprise that the end result was not something to be proud of. Dematteis has been a long standing author of Spider-Man and in his prime wrote the thought provoking storylines that slowly careened more to the psychological. You would think that this work right for a character like Batman. Surprisingly, it doesn't.

The story picks up with a hellbent, vengeful Batman searching for the bomber of a Wayne Enterprises building that killed many people. It takes Batman 10 years to get to the killer, but of course, you know he ends up there. One surprise is that Batman throughout his years never showcased a vengeful feel to his personality that would fuel his rage for such long a time. The story here falls to being more incredulous in that sense.

The other part is that when he does finally reach up to his prey, he is so relentless that he does not believe in redemption and he is intent on making the bomber pay for what she did, though throughout her life that person has completely changed and has become a nun healping thousands in an impoverished land.

Simply, said, this is not Batman. You wonder what Dematteis had in mind while scribing this down, but it's a pity that his theme and the Batman character didn't work. I believe that if given the chance, another story by him would give us a better tale. I don't know if that's going to happen in the near future though.

Thoughtful and thought-provoking Batman.......2003-11-30

This book really cemented my fondness for J.M. Dematteis as a comic writer. Much like his 1988 Martian Manhunter mini-series, this graphic novel taps into serious metaphysical questions that undergird the very possibility of a character like Batman. It is less an action book (although there is plenty of that) than a psychological drama with chilling implications for people who choose to live life in the cold light of reason. There is an implication of a "right" path here that perhaps can only belong to the innocent - and Batman is not among that number.

On a wholly other front, Dematteis clearly understands his medium, and Ashmore's art compliments the story perfectly. Pages go by without words, but the story is more complete for trusting the art.

This is a book I would put in the hands of a comics skeptic as an example of what is possible within the medium, even within a superhero book, beyond the typical bash-em mindlessness so many associate with the genre.

Nice Artwork Can't Redeem This Story.......2003-03-23

Sometimes the problem with graphic novels is that writers tend to put a mythos that is contradicted to some extent in other stories, thus breakng a continuity in the Batman mythos. This is an example of such an outcome for if one was to compare this story to the graphic novel "The Chalice", two very different Batmans emerge.

I am going to avoid recaping the story, because it is so thin and easily decernable, that any hint would leave a possible reader disinetersted from the beggining. Aftyer all, some other readers may like this slow moving, illogical story.

The major problems in this book is that Batman is a little slow on the up-take in trying to catch a killer who killed some of his employess ten years before. Obvious clues (what little the authors developed) are seemly dismissed. Further, the idea of logic is mentioned several times, just so many illogical conclusions are drawn. Though I think the writers were trying to develop an existential search in Batman, they largely failed. The tension just isn't there.

The last great Batman graphic novels (not counting re-prints such as Dark Victory, etc) are from the period (1986-1992) which produced such great work as , "Year One", The Dark Knight Returns", "The Killing Joke", "Night Cries", "The Birth of the Demon", "Arkum Asylum", and "Digital Justice.", etc. Since that time, the monthly magazines have produced the biggest "hits" and some of their repints have been re-introduced into prestige hardbound formats.

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Absolution: A Novel of Suspense
Caro Ramsay
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It's been twenty years since Police Detective Alan McAlpine has set foot in Patrickhill Station-and more than twenty years since he fell forever in love with the mute, faceless woman he called Anna as she lay dying in Glasgow's Western Infirmary. Daily, he'd watched over her, and they had begun to communicate with each other, she by moving her wounded fingers. Her fingers could not tell the sad, unseasoned police cadet her name, however, or name for him the father of her newborn baby girl or identify the assailants who had flung the acid in her once incomparably beautiful face. Or tell him how she'd smuggled a cache of uncut diamonds into Scotland.

Now McAlpine is back in Patrickhill, where he's been summoned to head up the investigation of a disturbing murder case. Two women-their arms outstretched, their legs together and feet crossed at the ankle-have already died at the hands of a man the press has tagged the Crucifixion Killer. More gruesomely, the third victim will also have been violently disfigured when her body turns up in Whistler's Lane, coincidentally (perhaps) the scene of an equally brutal murder four years earlier.

The face of another woman, though-a strikingly beautiful young woman, blonde-has taken hold of McAlpine's consciousness, and soon the consequences of a case cold for two decades are commanding-and dangerously thwarting-the course of his team's current, already desperate investigation.

As crimes in the present intersect with iniquities committed in the past, the mystery in this steely, piercing, psychological thriller is as gripping as its twists are surprising. And absolution proves to be extreme.

Caro Ramsay was born and educated in Glasgow. She has been writing stories since she was five years old, developing a keen interest in crime fiction and a passion for the genre that lead her to write Absolution, her first novel.

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