Coastal Environments: An Introduction to the Physical, Ecological, and Cultural Systems of Coastlines

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This original volume draws on the author's own research experiences in Ireland, Britain, France, Canada, and the United States to present a guide of coastal environments for applications of shoreline and environmental management. Topics include: long-term development of coasts, water supply and waste disposal, energy resources and coastal water management, coastal water management for recreation, coastal management of storm hazards, and managing world sea-level rise.

Coastal Environments: An Introduction to the Physical, Ecological and Cultural Systems of Coastlines

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Coastal Environments: An Introduction to the Physical, Ecological and Cultural Systems of Coastlines
R.W.G. Carter
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The field of chemistry covered in this book covers all but two of the d-block transition metals in groups 5-10. More than 4000 compounds are discussed and about 2500 references are cited. Metal-metal bonds of orders 0.5 to 4 are found in these compounds. An extensive, critical review and discussion of preparations, reactions, bonding, and physical properties for all classes of compounds is given. The various chapters have been written by fourteen experts.

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BONDS BETWEEN ATOMS
Alan Holden
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Metal derivatives of compounds related to the azo dyes: Part I. The nature of the coordination bond between the azo group and the metal atom in lakes of ... elements to form lakes with azo dyes

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Metal derivatives of compounds related to the azo dyes: Part I. The nature of the coordination bond between the azo group and the metal atom in lakes of ... elements to form lakes with azo dyes
Theodore Henry Dexter
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ASIN: B0007G632Q

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In the last two decades remarkable progress has been made in understanding and describing tunneling processes in complex systems in terms of classical trajectories. This book introduces recent concepts and achievements with particular emphasis on a dynamical formulation and relations to specific systems in mesoscopic, molecular, atomic and nuclear physics. Advanced imaginary time techniques, e.g. for decay rates and tunnel splittings, are discussed in the first part. The second part covers current developments for wave-packet tunneling in real-time, and the third part describes thermodynamical and nonequilibrium approaches for barrier transmission in dissipative systems.

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Quantum Theory of Tunneling
Mohsen Razavy
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ASIN: 9812380191

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of quantum tunneling, stressing the basic physics underlying the applications. The topics addressed include exponential and nonexponential decay processes and the application of scattering theory to tunneling problems. In addition to the Schrödinger equation approach, the path integral, Heisenberg's equations and the phase space method are all used to study the motion of a particle under the barrier. Extensions to the multidimensional cases and tunneling of particles with internal degrees of freedom are also considered. Furthermore, recent advances concerning time delay and tunneling times and some of the problems associated with their measurement are also discussed. Finally, some examples of tunneling in atomic, molecular, nuclear and condensed matter physics are presented.

Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena and Coherence in Superconducting Networks: Frascati, Italy 2-5 March 1995

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Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena and Coherence in Superconducting Networks: Frascati, Italy 2-5 March 1995

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Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling and Its Applications

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Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling and Its Applications
D. K. Roy
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Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization - QTM '94 (NATO Science Series E:)

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Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization - QTM '94 (NATO Science Series E:)

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ASIN: 0792337751

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The phenomenon of quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM) may be destined to play a significant role within the next two decades in limiting the density of information storage in magnetic systems. Recent advances, indeed, indicate that this limit may well be reached even earlier. One of the most controversial issues in the field is how to establish reliable criteria to determine whether experimental results do indeed reveal manifestations of QTM. Much progress on this issue is reported here.
Audience: While some articles are tutorial in nature, the book is primarily directed to those already working on QTM, no matter what their background.

Selective Spectroscopy of Single Molecules (Springer Series in Chemical Physics)

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Selective Spectroscopy of Single Molecules (Springer Series in Chemical Physics)
Igor Osad'ko
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ASIN: 3540441018

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This book is a comprehensive guide to the theory of optical band shape of guest-molecule-doped crystals, polymers and glasses. The dynamics of a single molecule, measured with the help of a train of photons emitted at random time moments, is a main subject of the book. The dynamics is calculated with the help of quantum-mechanical methods and equations for the density matrix of the system consisting of a single chromophore interacting with light, phonons and non-equilibrium tunneling systems of polymers and glasses. A dynamical theory for one- and two-photon counting methods used in single molecule spectroscopy is presented. Photon bunching and antibunching, jumps of optical lines, and quantum trajectories of various types are further topics addressed. This is the first book to present a detailed theoretical basis for single molecule spectroscopy. It also describes numerous experimental applications of the theory.

Time in Quantum Mechanics. Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Time in Quantum Mechanics. Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ASIN: 3540734724

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The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum theory. This book describes the problems, and the attempts and achievements in defining, formalizing and measuring different time quantities in quantum theory, such as the parametric (clock) time, tunneling times, decay times, dwell times, delay times, arrival times or jump times. This multi-authored book, written as an introductory guide for newcomers to the subject, as well as a useful source of information for the expert, covers many of the open questions. After the brief historical overview in the introduction, 12 contributions are devoted to conceptual and theoretical investigations as well as experimental issues in quantum-mechanical time measurements. This novel monograph should attract physicists as well as philosophers of science working in the foundations of quantum physics. For this revised second edition, all chapters have been updated and extended where appropriate.

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Tunneling in Complex Systems

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Quantum theory of Josephson radiation, (Progress in quantum electronics)

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Quantum theory of Josephson radiation, (Progress in quantum electronics)
D Rogovin
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Studies of quantum mechanical tunneling effects in one-dimensional, periodic potentials

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Studies of quantum mechanical tunneling effects in one-dimensional, periodic potentials
Craig L Andrews
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1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy. For Jock McLeish, being a Republican is something he has to cure himself of, every bit as much as his alcoholism and his Sado-Masochistic fantasizing, if he is to become a human being again. 1982, Janine explores themes of male need and inadequacy through the lonely, darkly comic, alcohol-fueled fantasies of its protagonist. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock.

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Wow........2007-03-21

This is a powerful and unusual novel. I'm surprised that Gray isn't more widely known. His writing is challenging but rewarding.

Wonderfully Different.......2004-09-06

The story behind 1982 Janine's publication is a suitably rabelasian fable in its own right. Upon original publication, the novel displeased critics who had previously praised Gray, as Anthony Burgess (though not as harshly as Gray's supporters would have you believe; see Homage to QWERTYUIOP for the proof) and led the terminally 'politcally correct' and others of their ilk to outrightly condemn it. The latter mob were fussing over nothing. Gray has described this as his favourite among his novels. It is certainly one of the 'big three' (together with, of course, Lanark and Poor Things) in Gray's oeuvre, and while it does not scale the heights that Lanark did (which Gray wrote over almost twenty years), it is still a great achievement in its own right.

It has all the typographical pyrotechnics Unlikely Stories, Mostly had, which are always to the point, and never mere exercises in chaotic artlessness certain types would have you believe they are. This is most true of the famous 'breakdown chapter', which Irvine Welsh has difplagged time and time again. Jock McLeish is the Holy Fool, living on fragments of memory, alcohol and sex fantasies, leading up to a confrontation with God and a decision to take his own life by the horns and work as if he was living in the early days of a better nation. Neither Jonathan Coe or the late B.S. Johnson (the latter was almost Gray's equal; the former tries to be) could match this novel's achievements, depth and honesty. The introduction by Will Self (in the new Canongate edition) is good reading, too. Buy.

Demonstrably Demented.......2003-12-18

I have a headache. This book was one of the most bittersweet reads I can remember: a page where I'm engrossed, followed by a page where I'm grossed out (by the author's style, not the content). I'm open to all sorts of subtle and not-so-subtle literary devices, and Alasdair Gray's 1982 JANINE embarks on a journey of writing creativity with all the tenderness of a sledgehammer.

The premise of Gray's story is interesting: a burned-out, middle-aged businessman drowning his sorrows in a shabby motel room while concocting a series of farfetched sexual fantasies--all in an effort to smother the overwhelming dreariness of his actual life. A plot dripping with existentialism, to be sure, and Gray's furious (often unreadable) style creates a mood of despair and frustration that conjures up enough alcohol-induced pink elephants to fill the San Diego Zoo. Yet the style also works against the story, as it becomes redundant to the point where its impact is lost. And as an aside, Gray's (through his protagonist) preoccupation with white silk blouses and button-down denim skirts became downright annoying. I would have preferred to have seen a little spandex, myself.

This is no "light" read; the author's style requires the reader to pay close attention. Yet there is a literally unreadable chapter--when Jock, our protagonist, takes a bottle of sleeping pills on top of his fifth of whiskey--where my heart went out to the copy editor who had to tackle all the nonsensical and upside down prose. The author waits until the end of his story to tell us the intimate details of Jock's trials and tribulations, then gives us an anticlimactic ending in the form of a very weak epiphany that doesn't measure up to all of the madness running rampant through the preceding pages. So as I reach for the aspirin, I would like to believe that 1982 JANINE is a metaphorical Mae West: when it's good, it's very, very good--when it's bad, it's blathering nonsense.

--D. Mikels

Bondage--the ultimate solution...........2003-03-02

In "1982 Janine," the protagonist, Jock McLeish, an alcoholic security installations supervisor, indulges in sado-masochistic fetishistic fantasies in his lonely hotel room. The fantasies--which have been refined since childhood--involve a regular cast of characters: "Superb," --" a ripe housewife in her early 40s" sometimes known as Joan or Terry--a married woman whose affair inevitably leads to bondage, Max--Superb's ineffectual and cuckolded husband, and of course, Janine--she's shorter and slighter than Superb--and much more pliable. Other minor characters invented by Jock include: Big Momma (she likes to wear leather) Helga, von Strudel, Stroud, and Charlie--Superb's lover--he acts as Superb's instructor, and he likes to discipline.

Jock Mcleish amuses and distracts himself with the fantasies which can be rewound and replayed until they are perfected. Interspersed with these fantasies are glimpses of Jock's real, far-from-perfect life. Jock desperately squashes these painful memories with more fantasies and alcohol. Unfortunately, for Jock, his fanstasy women bear rather uncanny resemblances to the real women in his life, and Jock's fantasies occasionally slip into reality as the fantasy women repeat phrases and incidents from his past.

Fantasy allows Jock to create a world in which he maintains control, but his real life is flawed, full of mistakes, and laced with regrets. In reality, his sexual experiences are rather sparse--and that's putting it mildly, but he does lead a rich fantasy life, and it is through this other life, that Jock attempts to work through his unhappiness by creating a world in which he controls the players.

I loved this book--it was original, and written with bold, brilliant style. "1982 Janine" is a serious commentary on human sexuality--its functions and importance in life, and Jock represents the millions of lonely people who lead unsatisfying and lonely lives while drowning their sorrows with alcohol and trying desperately not to think about life--the mistakes they've made, and the regrets they nurse. No doubt "1982 Janine" is offensive to some, but to me, it was fresh, brave and funny--in a rather odd way. It is not pornographic as some critics claim, and the style reminded me quite a bit of James Joyce's "Ulysses."--displacedhuman--Amazon Reviewer--

Wonders and terrors.......1999-12-09

1982 Janine is set in the consciousness of a middle-aged inspector of security systems, holed up in a small Scottish hotel with a bottle of whisky, trying to have sexual fantasies. So far, so unpromising. The trouble is, his memories of his (far from satisfying) life keep getting in the way. And so the book continues, with Jock's baroque and teeth-gratingly embarrassing fantasies (big-breasted women in leather skirts, behaving badly) displaced more and more frequently by the shabby and unflattering truth - Jock is aware that he is a small, not very brave man who has spent his life making bad decision after bad decision. Eventually he swallows a bottle of sleeping pills. And that's not even the third last chapter, so I'm not spoiling anything for you. This is a brilliant novel - Gray's style is (as ever) classical, measured and almost pedantically correct, but it fits Jock as well as the three-piece suits he's worn since his college days. There are some barkingly insane typographical maneuvres in the wake of the pill-swallowing episode, but that's all just to set up what comes next. The comedy is grim and the sadness is awful, but there's real catharsis there for those who can appreciate it. My favourite of Gray's novels - leaner and tougher (if not as wild and ambitious) than Lanark, and less whimsical than much of his later work. The paperback edition is completed with his now-characteristic inclusion of snippets from the book's worst reviews.

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1982 Janine
Alasdair GRAY
Manufacturer: Viking
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Zaide: Histoire espagnole : index et releves statistiques etablis d'apres l'edition J. Anseaume Kreiter (Nizet, 1982)

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Zaide: Histoire espagnole : index et releves statistiques etablis d'apres l'edition J. Anseaume Kreiter (Nizet, 1982)
Janine Anseaume Kreiter
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1982 Janine
Alasdair Gray
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1982 Janine.
Alasdair Gray.
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1982, Janine
Alasdair Gray
Manufacturer: New York Viking 1984.
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