Mechanics of Swelling: From Clays to Living Cells and Tissues (Nato Asi Series. Series H, Cell Biology, Vol 64)

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Fluorescein angiography is being used extensively as a valuable aid to the study and treatment of various chorioretinal diseases. It has been responsible for some major advances in understanding the mechanisms of certain disease processes. For fluorescein angiography the patient is given an
intravenous injection of fluorescien dye and special photographs are taken of the back of the eye. The resulting images of the blood vessels enable diagnosis to be made for diseases as diverse as brain tumors and diabetes. This book describes in detail the requirements of a fluorescein angiography
clinic, the interpretation of a normal angiogram, the advantages of this particular investigation, and the classification of abnormal fluorescence. Chapters on the interpretation of diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy, and iris and anterior segment angiography are also included. The complications
of fluorecein angiography are comprehensively described together with the steps required for dealing with them. This book is aimed at ophthalmologists, neurosurgeons, and physicians working in diabetes clinics.

Fluorescein Angiography: Technique, Interpretation, and Application

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Fluorescein Angiography: Technique, Interpretation, and Application
Max Nanjiani
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Among the many technological and legal efforts being made to restore our environment, electrostatic technologies may well hold the solution to the cleaning of air, water and soil. Such technologies include non-thermal plasma processing - electron beam irradiation, electrical discharge, hybrid plasma systems. The book also contains descriptions of the industrial implementation of the technology for NO _x and SO ₂ removal using accelerated electrons. This technique has been implemented in three plants, built in China, Poland and Japan. Water pollution can be controlled and reduced by the use of ozone and UV irradiation. Soil pollution can be reduced by electrical methods and by using electrostatics to spray agricultural pesticides. Further articles cover the future of EHD systems in environmental protection, new aspects of ESD research, and industrial waste recycling technologies.

Physical Science with Modern Applications

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Physical Science with Modern Applications
Merken
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ASIN: 003096041X

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The main objective of this text is to present a clear and comprehensive introduction to major topics in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, oceanography, and meteorology. The appealing full-color presentation includes numerous applications of current interest and emphasizes science as a human endeavor pivotal to modern society. In this fifth edition, many new or revised full-color illustrations and photographs enliven scientific concepts and capture student interest. “Scientific Enterprise” sections highlight the interconnection of different sciences, helping students view the sciences as related parts of a whole.

Student's Guide for Physical Science: With Modern Applications (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series)

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Student's Guide for Physical Science: With Modern Applications (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series)
Maurice V., III Barnhill
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PHYSICAL SCIENCE WITH MODERN APPLICATIONS
MELVIN MERKEN
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Physical Science with Modern Applications
Mel Merken
Manufacturer: Saunders College Pub
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The best book ever!

A cherished book from my childhood

The Hodgepodge Book
Duncan Emrich
Manufacturer: Atheneum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0590072501

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The best book ever!.......2005-12-26

20 years ago I would sneak this book out of my older sister's room and sit on the floor of my bedroom enjoying the neat little tidbits and illustrations. I'm sure she noticed the drops of grape juice on the pages! Flash forward to Christmas Day 2005, I'm now 31, but the joy that came to my face the moment I opened the package and found this book staring back at me! DOn't know how or where she found it, certainly nowhere online, I've searched! this is a treasure that brought tears to my eyes! It will definitely be a family heirloom!

A cherished book from my childhood.......2003-07-04

As a child in the early 1970s, I attended C. H. Bird Elementary in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, a modern school with superb facilities and teachers (tip of the hat to Mr. Frank Peot, best teacher I ever had). Bird School had an outstanding library, and my first lengthy encounters with Beverly Cleary, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Charles Schulz were conducted there. But my favorite book in the entire library was "The Hodgepodge Book", filled with stories, jokes, games, and American folklore. I checked that book out countless times, fascinated with such things as advice on how to get rid of a sty (stand in the middle of a crossroads and recite "Sty, Sty, leave my eye; go to the next one passing by.") and the amazing knuckle calendar (to keep track of the long and short months of the year). I thought it was the greatest book in the world, and perhaps for that time and place, it was. This book reminds me of a time, long ago, when I was young, a East Coast city boy experiencing the rural Midwest for the first time. A time when playing hide & seek in a cornfield was an all-day event, and a 6-foot snowdrift was a welcome sight to a little boy's eyes. And not only a time, but a place: Sun Prairie (what a great name for a Midwest town!) was the sort of place where the arrival of spring was heralded by boys and girls getting their marbles out of storage and having intense playground marble competitions; a place of spelling bee champs (the 1974 state champ came from Bird School), annual corn festivals, free milk & peanut butter sandwiches in the lunch room, and fresh air and good people. It was sort of geeky, and completely "small town" . . . but nice. When I look back on it, Sun Prairie was the last chance I had to really be a kid, before moving again and facing the onset of junior high and all of the pressures involved. "The Hodgepodge Book" totally reflected that playful, comfortable, small-town spirit, and that's why I love it (and still read it) today. It took me literally years to find a copy, but it was worth the time and effort, and now it is one of my most prized possessions.

Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book of Early American Literature

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Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book of Early American Literature

Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography)

ASIN: 0271016914

The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His "Travels Through Life" Together with his Commonplace Book for 1789-1813

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His "Travels Through Life" Together with his Commonplace Book for 1789-1813
Benjamin Rush
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Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making

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Masterful!

Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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This, the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Commonplace Book and Notebook, which he kept during his middle twenties at the end of his studies at Oxford, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's achievement in the larger tradition of English critical and aesthetic thought. Not
merely the dandy and aesthete of modernist myth, Wilde was also a precocious and widely-read Victorian humanist. These documents, containing the records of his education and reading--quotations and paraphrases of other writers, and Wilde's own analytical and descriptive jottings, comments, and
fragmentary drafts--reveal how Wilde developed the synthesis of Hegelian idealism and Spencerian evolutionary theory that was to be a mainstay of his major critical and creative works. In addition, the editors provide a physical description of the manuscripts; historical evidence for dating; an
introduction that describes the intellectual influence of Wilde's parents and their circle in Dublin; and a commentary that identifies the sources in the notebooks and substantially reinterprets Wilde's criticism and fiction.

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Masterful!.......2005-03-11

There is undoubtedly very little scholarship in the field of Wilde studies that can compare to this work. Ellman's biography of Wilde is a classic, but this work, so little known, and so little referenced, is the first to offer an exhaustive view of Wilde's philosophical, literary, and scientific reading at Oxford. (I refer to the commentary that is included in the first section of this book preceding the edited material as that is where my comments mostly apply).

Smith and Helfand haved used Wilde's entries in his commonplace book and Oxford notebooks (1878-79) to demonstrate that his wide reading at Oxford was not isolated to that period of his life. A commonplace book, for the uninitiated, is not exactly a class notebook, but a serious repository of ideas that were written down and organized with the idea of improving upon them in future writing. This is what Wilde's commonplace book is. Smith and Helfand demonstrate how Wilde took many of these ideas with him into his later writings. It is a good example of a very traditional method of Bildung, or cultural and intellectual formation. For those who would read Wilde as a serious writer whose literary career followed a thread (many threads) from beginning to end, here is the book for you.

The erudition required for editing a book such as this, is a great task, one that the editors have accomplished with skill. This work was edited in the wake of queer studies, when the reductively mythical presentations of Wilde as gay martyr were annexed to the needs of a burgeoning academic community. It is perhaps due to this circumstance that little attention has been devoted to the scholar Oscar Wilde, and much more to Wilde hagiography. Smith and Helfand are concerned with Wilde's intellectual career, and they have contributed vitally to the recuperation of an identity smeared like an inkblot across the pages of intellectual history.

What is most formidable about this research is that it is not splattered with the ideas of poststructuralist writers, which would inevitably date the book. Smith and Helfand use the editing principles of Tanselle, but their commentary is derived from straightforward readings of original texts. It certainly destined to remain a classic in Wilde studies for a long time to come. Those interested in Foucault's concept of the technology of the self as history of writing practices may find this work helpful. Historians of evolution writing may be interested in the integration and arrangement of entries in the notebooks. Wilde wrote synthetically. He brought together ideas from Victorian writers as far afield as Spencer and Green, Huxley and Arnold, Darwin and Newman, etc. Many of Wilde's gretest aphorisms are located and his passion for the Greek Classics is present on nearly every page.

The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

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The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Kevin Berland
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 080782612X
Release Date: 2000-12-03

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William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America.

Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.

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Certain World
W.H. Auden
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 057109466X

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A rare treat

Commonplace Book
E. Forster
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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ASIN: 0804714223

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A rare treat.......2000-09-13

Forster is civilized in a way few people are or ever have been; it's a rare treat to peek into his personal scrapbook to read his favourite quotations and thoughts upon them.

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This collection of highly original narrative poems is written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone and captures all the beauty and struggle of nascent America. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life, a life led in war and in the wilderness, and see the birth of a new nation. We track the bountiful animals and the great, undisturbed rivers. We stand beside Boone as he buries his brother, then his wife, and finds comfort in his friendship with a slave named Derry.
Praised for his originality, Maurice Manning is an exciting new voice in American poetry.

The darkest place I've ever been
did not require a name. It seemed
to be a gathering place for the lint
of the world. The bottom of a hollow
beneath two ridges, sunk like a stone.
The water was surely old, the dregs
of some ancient sea, but purified
by time, like a man made better by
his years, his old hurts absorbed into
his soul, his losses like a spring
in his breast.
-from "Born Again"

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black powder reading........2007-06-12

i am not a reader of poetry ...in general.... i stumbled across this at my local library and love it... i bought 4 copies from amazon and my friends are getting one.. gives you just a hint of the mind set of early frontier free thinking men (women)....

Creative Premise, Uneven Results. .......2006-01-03

I wanted to enjoy Maurice Manning's second book more than I actually did. While the premise of a series of poems based on Daniel Boone's life is fascinating, the poems themselves start to break down, about mid way through the book until they seem overly focused on delivering information as if Manning simply wanted to include more of the research and especially the letters section are just that, letters. It's less important, at least to me to stick to the historical facts alone, though historical figures can often be more interesting than any purely fictional characters. Anyway, the last few poems almost make up for the letters as the poems return back to actual poems. Read this collection for the first and last section of poems.

Don't be ridiculous--its good........2005-12-08

First of all, I don't think the intention was ever to be historical, so anyone expecting that will be sorely disappointed. It is a book of poetry that deals with human interactions with nature, etc. I wish I had time to be more thurough in this discription! Read it, though, even if you are just checking it out from the Library.

Fictional I know, but almost totally inaccurate - Save your money.......2005-10-04

I was disappointed with this book because although, I knew in advance that it is fictional poetry, most if the information it communicates about Daniel Boone is just completely inaccurate falsehoods. As a Boone descendant and historian, it was a disappointing read. The author appears to have written many things based solely on rumor without even doing any verifiable research. Otherwise he would not have written a lot of the stuff he wrote - good example; "D. Boone Kilt Bar on This Tree, 1760." Things he says about Boone and his faithful wife in that "poem" are untruths and writings such as this only perpetuate false rumors. I would love a book of poetry about Boone - this is not one. It is a book about some fictional character that bears very little if any resemblance to Daniel Boone the real person. The author of A Companion for Owls does not know Daniel Boone.

The Real McCoy.......2004-10-22

Perhaps I'm a dash sycophantic but, "A Companion for Owls" should contend for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. The previous reviewer must have abandoned his childhood fantasies long ago, because to give one star to this new volume points to a distinct lack of imagination. If at some point in your life you have not fantasized about being a Daniel Boone, an American alone on the frontier, surviving on wits and rifle alone, I pity you. There are few characters as quintessentially American as Boone, and Manning does a superb job issuing a voice to his persona. Because Boone spent so much of his life alone, there are great oppurtunities to fashion words for him, but also great peril if too many liberties are taken with the character. We all find a precious poetry in solitude, but rarely can it be translated to the page without it being cloying or inaccessible. Manning has found that solitude, but also a rustic sympathy that makes Boone terribly inviting. This volume is not dull. It is long, but also, comprehensive. It is prayer, memory, lamentation, regret, discovery, joy, selfishness, pain, humility, nature, urban encroachment, and most of the poems are great successes. Only 2 or 3 seem superfluous or misconceived. The end notes are a true joy. If every poet included such copious notes about their work people might not find poetry so impenetrable. And if every poet wrote verses so bright and well honed as Manning, they might not need end notes in the first place.

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A Commonplace Book
Charles P. Curtis
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

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Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Ann Moss
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198159080

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This is the first comprehensive study of the Renaissance commonplace-book. Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction to the rudiments of Latin to the specialized studies of leisure reading of their later years, the pupils of humanist schools were trained to use commonplace-books, which formed an immensely important element of Renaissance education. The common-place book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century. The book covers the Latin culture of Early Modern Europe and its vernacular counterparts and continuations, particularly in France. Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought is much more than an account of humanist classroom practice: it is a major work of cultural history.

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