Microscopes and Their Uses

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Microscopes and Their Uses
C. Marmasse
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Electron microscopes and their uses;: Types of electron microscopes, how they function and are used in physics, chemistry, metallurgy and the biological ... technical publications. Monograph B-1317)
J. A Becker
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Fibres: Their botanical sources; the methods of examining them under the microscope, and their treatment by the Ekman process. Illustrated with six coloured ... uses, (His New commercial plants and drugs)
Thomas Christy
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Microscope slide layers and their use in the determination of Phorate and its oxidation products by thin-layer densitometry
Karin E Klopping
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This classic work presents a cognitive-semiotic framework for understanding how maps work as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Explored are the ways in which the many representational choices inherent in mapping interact with information processing and knowledge construction, and how the resulting insights can be used to make informed symbolization and design decisions. A new preface to the paperback edition situates the book within the context of contemporary technologies. As the nature of maps continues to evolve, Alan MacEachren emphasizes the ongoing need to think systematically about the ways people interact with and use spatial information.

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Solid book, full of insight.......2001-11-01

This is an exceptionally thorough guide to map representation both in design and function. If you love maps or use them a lot in your work, this is a truly great book to own. It covers both functional and lexical mapping techniques from both visual perception/cognition and semiotic design perspectives. Pose any question about mapping and this book can probably help you find the answer to it. This book will especially please information designers/architects.

so you think you know cognitive-semiotic approaches to maps?.......2000-05-27

My copy of this book is now chock full of scribbles in the margin - not doodles, mind you, but ideas and questions for research in cartographic design. There are a few doodles, too, but they're doodles of maps. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and as such makes a great text for researchers, students, and folks who want to look at what the future of cartography could be...

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Measurement shapes scientific theories, characterises improvements in manufacturing processes and promotes efficient commerce. In concert with measurement is uncertainty, and students in science and engineering need to identify and quantify uncertainties in the measurements they make. This book introduces measurement and uncertainty to second and third year students of science and engineering. Its approach relies on the internationally recognised and recommended guidelines for calculating and expressing uncertainty (known by the acronym GUM). The statistics underpinning the methods are considered and worked examples and exercises are spread throughout the text. Detailed case studies based on typical undergraduate experiments are included to reinforce the principles described in the book. This guide is also useful to professionals in industry who are expected to know the contemporary methods in this increasingly important area. Additional online resources are available to support the book at www.cambridge.org/9780521605793.

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Highly recommended book for the application of GUM.......2007-10-02

The calculation of uncertainty is an important part of my research and I obtained a copy of the ISO Guide to the Measurement of Uncertainty to help me with my calculations. However, I found the ISO publication to be difficult to follow. Although the terms in the ISO publication are defined in the appendices, I still had difficulty applying it direction to my research.

Fortunately, I found this book, An Introduction to Uncertainty in Measurement: Using the GUM in my university library and it has been a tremendous help. The authors do a good job at walking the reader through the calculations needed for GUM and at providing examples. I found the book easy to read and easy to understand. There are several examples of applying GUM to measurements at the back of the book. Once I read this book, I went back and reread the ISO publication and this time, I found that I could understand how to apply it correctly.

I found this book to be very good, but it did lack a few things. The authors tend to repeat themselves in different chapters and I think that the book could have been better organized. Also, correlated sources of uncertainty are mentioned, but examples of how to address correlated sources are not provided in the book. Lastly, the examples which are given in the book are similar in nature and I would have preferred to see a wider range of examples given.

Overall, I strongly recommend this book if you are using GUM. However, I would like to see future editions address the organization of the book and the examples which are given.

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One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, masterfully portraying the fierce motives driving Medea's pursuit of vengeance for her husband's insult and betrayal. Authoritative Rex Warner translation.

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Great Buy!!.......2007-09-15

This book is an absolute bargain at this price and the shipping was super fast. This translation is great for younger readers and speaks to them in an easily understandable tongue.

Medea.......2006-09-01

Honestly reading this story overwhelmed me. Considering how short the play is, at the end I found myself mentally and emotionally exhausted. "Medea" explores many different themes that are still present in life today. Although I found her undying attachment to Jason annoying, I understood after reading the play how love and revenge can overpower ones mind. I felt as if Euripides toyed with the fact that women are both the weakest and the strongest in relationships. Medea's passion was overwhelming as a reader because I felt like it was a cry for attention rather than a true plea of lost love.

Euripides' "Medea" although short, is very intense and filled with many emotions. I was lucky enough to see an amazing performance of this play. If done thoughtfully, it can engage you to the point where you sympathize with Medea and are annoyed by her at the same time.

medea.......2006-09-01

I thought Medea was pretty interesting to read, especially since I found it difficult to decide whether I supported Medea's decisions throughout the play. So much to go through just to inflict pain on her former husband Jason! I understood her reasoning for revenge, which was fueled by hurt and grief, and enjoyed the fact that unlike most women in ancient Athens, Medea took action when she was wronged. Like the women in the Chorus, I supported Medea. However, when Medea goes as far as to kill her own children, I was disappointed that Medea found Jason's agony to be more important than the lives of her own two sons. Overall, I enjoyed reading Medea, though I would have liked to have known if any guilt managed to catch up to Medea afterwards.

medea.......2006-08-30

In Medea by Euripides, Medea formulates a plan to destroy her husband and his new wife, the princess. Euripides is able to convey to the reader the distress and anger that Medea has within her. Her anger is seen as she is willing to sacrifice her own children so that her plan to kill her husband is followed through with. The reader may become frustrated with her as she almost seems heinous and can be considered the villain. Medea is different from many women because of her strong will and determination. Most women would be filled with sorrow, but instead, Medea plans out her revenge instead of crying her eyes out. She uses however, this soft spot in women to put her plan into action by begging the king for an extended stay in the city, and she succeeds. Medea shows the power and guile of women.

An Inner questioning.......2006-08-28

Euripide's "Medea" certainly has an interesting plotline similar to that of many drama series and movies of today: man falls in love with woman who saved his life, man and woman marry + have kids, man has affair with a king's daughter, wife seeks revenge (Medea= unhappy wife, Jason= cheating hubby).

What makes this story different from the cheesy revenge stories of today is that Euripides, like other Ancient Greek writers, brings in the question of what is morally right or wrong according to the Greek gods who treasure obeyance and trust, more than anything. So! In "Medea," where Jason denies the life-saving help he received from Medea and disobeys her by having an affair with a higher-class person...and Medea is extremely pained by Jason and performs the most inhumane revenge, who is MORE wrong? To rephrase this question... to what extent of inhumanity is a revenge valid/morally right for the oh-so-important Greek gods to accept?

Throughout the book, it was very difficult for me to support either Medea, who is extremely suffering from her husband's affair that she could kill herself, or Jason, who just wants to get away from his wife to start a new, higher-class life with his children. However, I think that it is this inner conflict of who to A. sympathize with emotionally or B. support because he or she is "justified/right", that makes the reader really question his or her viewpoint of extreme situations, making this book sincerely amazing.

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

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daring, resonant, horrific, and (duh) mythical
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Euripides
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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ASIN: 0140449299
Release Date: 2003-04-29

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Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford.

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daring, resonant, horrific, and (duh) mythical.......2006-08-30

I, too, was surprised how relevant and easily modern the issues presented in 'Medea' could be. I mean, gender, power, betrayal and revenge are universal and timeless, but Euripides' Medea is breaking all the rules: she's constantly exploding into feminist manifestos, seeking to (figuratively) neuter herself one moment and irradiating torrid womanpower the next, and spitefully slaughters her own family with impunity. In comparison to such a powerful character, the rest of the characters seem mere shades with vague wills and blurred senses of human values- except, perhaps, for Jason, who is so convinced of his own sexual superiority that he doesn't grasp what's going on until it's too late.

The whole thing seemed rather mythic to me, though not immediately because it's an ancient Greek fable with Furies and sun-gods and pervertedly creative murder weapons. I feel that the sheer amount of catharsis in the plotline (which, according to the notes, Euripides practically invented) makes it almost rudimentary and sensationalized. Why does Euripides (figuratively) transform the multifaceted Medea into a demon, rather than allowing her humanity and complexity to show through, perhaps even affirm her demonic actions? It's more daring to deify Medea, which is perhaps why the play seems to smack of modernity. But (to me, anyway) this seems to carve Medea into an archetype, lessening the value of the human realities of the play. It finishes like an allegory, and I think that limits it.

Strength of a Woman.......2006-08-29

Euripides' Medea is a story about a woman's heartbreak and the revenge she consequently seeks on her husband. After her spouse takes another wife Medea is torn apart, unable to distinguish right from wrong. She plots to kill the new wife and eventually Medea murders her own children, all in order to spite her former lover.
Euripides expresses the power of passion without reason especially when it comes to love. Medea is willing to kill her own children out of despair, although they are the only people she really has. She has feelings of trepidation before killing the children, revealing her humanity, but appears triumphant after completing the murders. She appears at the top of a building at the end of the show which is usually reserved for divine appearances (intro), which is a metaphor for Medea's strength and even her unyielding brutality, qualities that many deities were believed to possess.
I really enjoyed this play because of Euripides' representation of the woman. Although tragic, Medea's dramatic actions express her passion, stubbornness, power, as well as her godliness and simultaneous humanity.

A modern suprise.......2006-08-23

I was pleasantly surprised when I was reading "Medea". About halfway through the play, I realized that the themes of revenge, depression, and female empowerment are still relevant. Infidelity and vengeance are things witnessed everyday: in movies, in the news, maybe even in our own lives. This string of themes proves further that human kind hasn't changed too much.
Though I did have some problems with the plot and some of the overdramatics. Medea revealed to the audience a vulnerable, passionate woman who has a bit of a drama problem and needs just a little too much attention. I think any reader can appreciate the pain she suffered and the disgusting way people in power dealt with her. But is there a line being far over-stepped by killing one's own children just to make a man feel guilty?
Though there is some undeniable hyperbole, it is a story a reader or audience member can empathize, and is totally plausible in a modern setting.

surprisingly modern.......2006-08-23

Having read a decent amount of classical poems and plays, I drew from previous experience and started "Medea" with the expectation of appreciating but not neccessarily loving it. But "Medea" pleasantly surprised me with its timeless story of a woman's revenge driven by her own selfish pride and the disgusting lengths she goes to hurt her husband. I found myself completely fascinated by Medea's manipulative antics and sociopathic tendencies. This play has definitely conquered time and remains thrilling a couple thousand years later with themes like betrayal, justice and honor which are still prevalent in modern stories. As a crime show junkie, I constantly drew parallels from recent story lines on a million shows on television to Medea's chilling story. I highly recommend this play.

Great Collection.......2004-11-15

I think this is one of the better compilations I've seen. I've really been impressed with all of the Oxford World's Classics series. The information given in the Introduction as well as the maps and reference materials mentioned are very helpful. In addition I like having the notes listed at the end of the compilation rather then interspersed, I find it less distracting that way. A must have for any Greek Literature Scholar.

Euripides' Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder

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Euripides' Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder
Emily A. McDermott
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Euripides, Volume I. Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea (Loeb Classical Library No. 12)

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Euripides, Volume I. Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea (Loeb Classical Library No. 12)
Euripides , and David Kovacs
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Euripides of Athens (ca. 485-406 BCE), famous in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations, wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these, eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included with his works) have come down to us from antiquity. In this first volume of a new Loeb edition of Euripides David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text of three plays and an accurate and graceful translation with explanatory notes.

Alcestis is the story of a woman who agrees, in order to save her husband's life, to die in his place. Medea is a tragedy of revenge in which Medea kills her own children, as well as their father's new wife, to punish him for his desertion. The volume begins with Cyclops, a satyr play—the only complete example of this genre to survive. Each play is preceded by an introduction.

In a general introduction Kovacs demonstrates that the biographical tradition about Euripides—parts of which view him as a subverter of morality, religion, and art—cannot be relied on. He argues that this tradition has often furnished the unacknowledged starting point for interpretation, and that the way is now clear for an unprejudiced consideration of the plays themselves.

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More Amazonian bungling!.......2006-11-18

Yet again the folks at Amazon have bungled matters. The other "review" of this book is in fact a review of (or a puff for) the Penn series of translations of Greek tragedy, not of Euripides' "Selected Fragmentary Plays," a scholarly edition offering Greek texts, English translations, and detailed notes on several of Euripides' fragmentary plays. It should also noted that the book in question is the recently published---and long-awaited---second volume of a work whose first volume appeared in 1995. Eventually, there will be a Loeb Classical Library edition of the major fragments of Euripides, but it is unlikely to replace these volumes of Collard et al., for their very full notes will remain invaluable.

a return to classics.......2003-04-02

I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as Medea--it settled an argument too on how it 'originally' ended.

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Medea (Plus Four Other Plays)
Jean Anouilh , Luce Klein , and Arthur Klein
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MEDEA AND OTHER PLAYS
EURIPIDES
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Medea and Other Plays
Euripides
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Medea and Other Plays
Euripides; Philip Vellacott trans.
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Medea And Other Plays - Medea; Hecabe; Electra; Heracles

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Medea And Other Plays - Medea; Hecabe; Electra; Heracles
Philip Euripides; Translated with an introduction by Vellacott
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Seneca: Medea (Classical Texts)

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A broken marriage, love turned to vengeful anger, children caught in the middle - the story of Medea has strong contemporary resonances. Wider questions are raised within the play: can the origins of this disaster be discerned in the backgrounds and previous experiences of Medea and Jason? What kind of universe is this in which such an evil can occur? Seneca's writing is by turns both highly allusive and ferociously explicit, a suitable style for this highly-charged play. This edition concentrates on literary and thematic aspects of the play, and seeks to place it in its literary and historical context in the first century AD.

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