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EPR: Instrumental Methods (Biological Magnetic Resonance)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306478641 |
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Electron magnetic resonance spectroscopy is undergoing something akin to a renaissance that is attributable to advances in microwave circuitry and signal processing software. EPR: Instrumental Methods is a textbook that brings the reader up to date on these advances and their role in providing better experimental techniques for biological magnetic resonance. Chapters in this book guide the reader from basic principles of spectrometer design through the advanced methods that are providing new vistas in disciplines such as oximetry, imaging, and structural biology. Key Features: Spectrometer design, particularly at low frequencies (below X-band), Design of spectrometer components unique to ENDOR and ESEEM, Optimization of EMR spectrometer sensitivity spanning many octaves, Algorithmic approach to spectral parameterization, Application of Fourier Methods to polymer conformation, oximetry, and imaging.
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Instrumental Analysis in the Biological Sciences
M. Gordon , and R. Macrae Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0751401110 |
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Instrumental Analysis in the Biological Sciences
M. Gordon Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MU4QKI |
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Exploring Geographical Information Systems, 2nd Edition
Nicholas Chrisman Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471314250 |
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Uses case studies to examine the various applications of each type of geographic information.Customer Reviews:
A refreshing perspective.......2004-12-14
An excellent second book for learning GIS.......2003-05-18
Outstanding high-level overview.......2000-01-18
The comment from the reader from Hong Kong is completely off-target. Did this person really read this book?
A pathetic attempt to cover the subject........1998-10-14
Excellent overview of Geographic Information Systems.......1997-07-27
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Ether-Technology: A Rational Approach to Gravity Control
Rho Sigma Manufacturer: Adventures Unlimited Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0932813348 |
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a disappointing manual for ether huffing.......2000-09-02
A Historical Introduction.......2000-04-20
It offers a fairly comprehensive summary of the subject matter throughout, with a quote-worthy forward by astronaut Edgar C. Mitchell. If you are interested in antigravitation, this is an excellent compendium of accumulated knowladge and history on the subject.
- Louis
A great overview of basic electrogravitic theory.......2000-01-24
The anonymous "Rho Sigma" (come on, it's not that hard to work out) brings us a brilliant compendium of devices and electrogravitic theory. Many of the illustrations within the book have been on a number of T T Brown websites without me even knowing it! The quality is superb, offering a balanced slice of the development of overunity and UFO physics. Anyone else know that one of Brown's electrogravitic motors provided an overunity of over 100,000:1?
One or two gripes - why call the Searl Effect Generator an "Ether Vortex Turbine" and then describe them as if they were two separate devices in the foreword and contents of the book? Having met Searl personally, I am pretty sure that he never referred to the SEG as such.
These aside, it offers some interesting details about the subject, and would be good for anyone interested in Brown's time spent with Agnew Bahnson too. Don't expect ancient lost secrets or Do-It-Yourself UFO instructions, but a savvy reader with this book will certainly be helped along the way to an understanding of the link between electricity and gravitation. It is extremely good value, and well worth adding to your scientific library.
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Ether-Technology: A Rational Approach to Gravity-Control
Manufacturer: Rho Sigma ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FCECHK |
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)
Ivan Turgenev Manufacturer: Penguin Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0140445226 |
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A lesson.......2004-09-19
Turgenev, sportsman and ardent liberal.......2003-11-18
The most profound sketch to my mind is "Yermolay and the Millers Wife" which relates the harsh treatment doled out to a beautiful serf woman merely because she wants to get married, and a close second is "Bezhin Lea" about a group of boys telling ghost stories around a fire as they tend a herd of horses grazing at night. The former sketch pefectly conveys what absolute power the landowners have over every aspect of the serfs life and the latter sketch perfectly conveys how the serfs pass down their own particular brand of wisdom from one generation to the next. Perhaps the most famous sketch however is "Khor and Kalinych" which juxtaposes two kinds of serfs--one resigned to his lot and the other who despite his status as serf finds his own kind of freedom by wandering the countryside. "Kasyan and the Beautiful Lands" is perhaps the most unusual story as it presents a sage-like man who speaks as though he were a living oracle. Deprived of education the serfs remain in thrall not only to the landowners but to ignorance as well; nonetheless there is a beauty and tragic grace in the voices of these serfs that remains in memory long after you have read these sketches. The sketches are complex and layered enough to invite you back to them again and again.
The biggest joy of the sketches is their casualness. Nothing is ever overly stated or stated in black and white but everything nonetheless appears clear as day. It seems at times as if Turgenev is the only enlightened soul in Russia and yet he is absolutely civil even when with a pernicious landowner because he innately knows what is right and he trusts that we know as well. Turgenev reminds me of Thoreau in his devotions which are equally divided between nature and the forwarding of liberal ideas. Though Pushkin and Lermontov both came before him Turgenev was the first Russian writer to achieve fame outside of Russia. Fathers and Sons is considered his masterpiece but these sketches stand as something unique in all of literature.
Lessons from a Master.......2002-06-18
Turgenev calls these 'sketches' rather than stories. It's a good distinction. More story writers should concentrate on their sketch pads. The sketches are of places and people in the rural south of Russia in the 1840s. Each is strung thematically on Turgenev's wandrings through the countryside while hunting for game birds. Each begins with a mention that he was hunting in a certain place. He goes into lovely thoughtful and surprising descriptions of the woods or marsh, the sky, the smells, the sounds, the light. Even in translation, these are exquisite. He speaks of shifting light shining through the leaves onto the forest floor, or unbreatheable noonday heat, or changing skies at the advent of a storm, a dawn, or a sunset; he calls up moments from your own life that you thought could not be shared with anyone who wasn't there and he makes you relive those moments as if he had been there with you.
For anyone who has spent time out of doors, these little Aldo Leopold nature essays standing alone would be reason enough to read the 'Sketches', but these are just hors d'uvre to his descriptions of the persons he meets while hunting. When sketching people, Turgenev does gracefully what Dickens tried to do and did clumsily; that is, he describes the physical characteristics of a person and gives you a fully formed description of their character as well, and he does this without sounding forced and without showing himself. (And you will burst out laughing at the sudden recognition that, indeed, someone does look 'like a root vegetable'.)
"Sketches" was published twice in Turgenev's lifetime and in the second edition he added to it. In the earlier sketches, Turgenev brings a character to life in a description; the character may speak a few words, and disappear from the scene, as people do in real life, leaving the reader to speculate what became of him. Yet, Turgenev has given us enough insight into the character that we think we know what probably happened next, and so the story is complete. These are elegant Aristotelian constructs with the action taking place offstage, and, oh elegance! with the final action taking place in the reader's imagination after the story has ended. If my description leaves you wondering, read them! (Would that I could spur you to act as Turgenev spurs his readers to think. Ah, but it's too much... .) This is what Turgenev does. He starts you thinking, but requires you to complete the story. In the later sketches Turgenev is just as deft in his descriptions, but perhaps to satisfy the market or his editors he adopts a more plot driven model. These later contributions can more truly be called stories rather than sketches. They are equally well-crafted, but they demand less of the reader. Curiously, they give us less as well.
The hunter's travels theme gives the collection an interrelatedness, almost like a picaresque novel. As in Huckleberry Finn or Don Quixote, neither the author nor the protagonist directly express opinions, but as stories accumulate the reader acquires the author's strong politicized view. We meet the aristocrats and peasants of rural Russia. The serf-holding system had been 'liberalized' in the early 19th century, but it is revealed as the unnamed slavery it was. Landlords control peasants' rights to marry; they name the persons to fill regional conscription quotas; they assign agricultural and residential alotments; and thoughtless and uncaring aristocrats use these powers carelessly or maliciously to destroy lives. Liberal aristocrats fare no better than traditional feudalists, as Turgenev details social reformers' well-meaning disasters which beggar both for the peasants and the bumbling aristocrats who direct them.
America often forgets that its civil war was part of a European pandemic of peasant revolts driven by the extended logic of the Enlightenment. As masters and slaves in the United States were struggling with the immorality of a divine order handed down from a prior age, the masters and servants in Europe did the same. The 1840s, 50s, and 60s were tumultuous times in central and eastern Europe. Turgenev, arrested and exiled in 1852 because of the 'Sketches', has an historical place akin to the American abolitionists of the same day, however, unlike Harriet Beecher Stowe, Turgenev draws his characters in three dimensions with humanity, with love and understanding even when he does not forgive them their moral failings. The 'Sketches' would be an interesting book to teach alongside Huckleberry Finn.
A Collection of short stories for those who don't like them.......2001-12-06
Cor!.......2001-10-18
Examples: "He was a right pain to his peasant girls." "They felt right idiots." "He's not a gent, is he?" "Help us, mate." "Judge for yourself, mate." "He's the soul of kindness, he is." "Gavrila comprehended-like how to get out of the wood." The use of "'cos" for "because." The use of "gotta"--"And I've gotta tell you this."
And what was for me the last straw, in the story Bezhin Lea, "Cor!" and "Cor, stone me!"
If you like this kind of thing, you'll love the book. For Russian lit in translation, give me Constance Garnett (and her Edwardian diction--which works so well, perhaps because it seems natural in contrast to the forced quality on display in "Sketches") or else the current team of Pevear and Volokhonsky.
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Lines make it easy for little kids.......2007-01-16
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The trail drivers of Texas;: Interesting sketches of early cowboys and their experiences on the range and on the trail during the days that tried men's ... who fathered the cattle industry in Texas,
J. Marvin Hunter Manufacturer: Cokesbury press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000863ZCQ |
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The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0292730764 |
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"For 60 years, The Trail Drivers of Texas has been considered the most monumental single source on the old-time Texas trail drives north to Kansas and beyond....Because of its vast volume of raw material, expressed in the words of those who lived the life and rode the long miles, students of cattle industry history regard it with high respect, even awe."
Elmer Kelton, Dallas Morning News
"... the essential starting point for any study of Texas trail driving days. Walter Prescott Webb called it 'Absolutely the best source there is on the cattle trail ...'"
Basic Texas Books
These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texasthose rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real-life storiessome humorous, some chilling, some rambling, all interestingform an invaluable cornerstone to the literature, history, and folklore of Texas and the West. First published in the 1920s and reissued by the University of Texas Press in 1985, this classic work is now available in a handsome paperback edition that contains the full text, historical illustrations, and name index of the hardcover edition.
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Truly takes me back!.......2007-08-11
Lives spent on the trail punching cattle.......2006-01-14
Trail Drivers of Texas.......2005-04-20
First-hand accounts of TX trail drivers or their descendants.......1999-06-11
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A Hunter's Sketches
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1419101773 |
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Great Russian author Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was an avid hunter and nature lover and used his own experiences in the woods of his native Russia to pen A HUNTER'S SKETCHES (written in the period of 1852-1874). This work established his reputation as a foremost writer of his time. "Do you know, for instance, the delight of setting off before daybreak in spring? You come out on to the steps. . . . In the dark-grey sky stars are twinkling here and there; a damp breeze in faint gusts flies to meet you now and then; there is heard the secret, vague whispering of the night; the trees faintly rustle, wrapt in darkness. And now they put a rug in the cart, and lay a box with the samovar at your feet." -- from "The Forest And The Steppe"Download Description
Anyone who has chanced to pass from Bolkhov District into Zhizdra District must have been impressed by the striking difference between the race of people in the province of Orel and the population of the province of Kaluga. The peasant of Orel is not tall, is bent in figure, sullen and suspicious in his looks; he lives in wretched little hovels of aspen-wood, labours as a serf in the fields, and engages in no kind of trading, is miserably fed, and wears bast shoes.
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Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
John A. Lomax Manufacturer: Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PU3A6Q |
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Alabama bound: Family sketches of a long line of storytellers : the Jacks, Morgans, Wymans, Boyntons, Martins, Hunters, and Dearings
Melissa Dearing Jack Hurt Manufacturer: M.D.J. Hurt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006ESROG |
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ANITA BLAKE VAMPIRE HUNTER: THE FIRST DEATH #1 SAN DIEGO COMIC CON SKETCH VARIANT
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Manufacturer: Marvel Comics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Comic ASIN: B000V26UA6 |
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The bloody trail in Texas,: Sketches and narratives of Indian raids and atrocities on our frontier
J. Marvin Hunter Manufacturer: J. Marvin Hunter, Jr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007FRI6C |
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The Frontier Scout and Buffalo Hunter's Sketch Book
James A. Hanson Manufacturer: Chadron, Nebraska: Fur Press, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WXBPMC |
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