Oxidative/Energy Metabolism in Neurodegenerative Disorders (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

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With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, "infrared forcing," popularly known as the "greenhouse effect," has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, describes recent findings, and also considers the arguments of skeptics who doubt that global warming is a threat. Suggesting that the effects of global warming can be seen in the melting of glaciers and the dying of coral reefs, the work summarizes the potential impact on human health and on plants and animals worldwide. Concluding with possible solutions, the book contains one of the most comprehensive bibliographies on the subject. A growing field of study with a rapidly expanding literature, global warming should be of interest to everyone on Earth. Evidence of the greenhouse effect, due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other trace gases, has been accumulating for a quarter century. This book covers both research from scientific journals and newspaper and magazine reports of present-day evidence. The book will be a valuable resource for individuals concerned with the environment as well as for students of environmental sciences, meteorology, and earth sciences.

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The Global Warming Desk Reference
Bruce Elliott Johansen
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The recent development of high power lasers, delivering femtosecond pulses of intensities up to 10 ²⁰ W/cm ², has led to the discovery of new phenomena in laser interactions with matter. At these enormous laser intensities, atoms and molecules are exposed to extreme conditions and new phenomena occur, such as very rapid multiphoton ionization of the atomic system, the emission by these systems of very high order harmonics of the exciting laser light, the Coulomb explosion of molecules, and the acceleration of electrons close to the velocity of light. These phenomena generate new behaviour of bulk matter in intense laser fields, with great potential for wide ranging applications which include the study of ultra-fast process, the development of high-frequency lasers and the investigation of the properties of plasmas and condensed matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. In particular, the concept of `fast ignitor' approach to inertial confinement fusion (I.C.F.) has been proposed, which is based on the separation of the compression and the ignition phases in laser-driven ICF.
The papers published in this book cover all the main aspects of laser interactions with atoms, solids and plasmas at high intensities. We hope that they will provide scientists from various disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the subject, and a self-contained source from which to pursue a systematic study of the field.

Coherence Phenomena in Atoms and Molecules in Laser Fields (NATO Science Series: B:)

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Multiphoton Processes (Springer Series on Atoms and Plasmas, Vol 2)

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P. Lambropoulos
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Multiphoton Processes in Atoms

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Multiphoton Processes in Atoms (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics)

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Multiphoton Processes in Atoms (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics)
N.B. Delone , and V.P. Krainov
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Multiphoton Processes in Atoms in intense laser-light fields is gaining ground as a spectroscopic diagnostic tool. The authors present descriptions of processes occurring in atoms under the action of strong electromagnetic radiation, in particular, the shift, broadening, and mixing of atomic states. The topics include tunneling ionization, above-threshold ionization, ionization of multiply charged ions, resonance-enhanced ionization, super-intense radiation fields, and properties of Rydberg states strongly perturbed by laser radiation.

Multiphoton processes: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multiphoton Processes, Paris, France, September, 24-28, 1990

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Multiphoton Processes: Proceedings of the International Conference Universite Laval, Ste. Foy, Quebec, Canada 25-30 June 1993 (Optics and Photonics,)

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Multiphoton Processes: Proceedings of the International Conference Universite Laval, Ste. Foy, Quebec, Canada 25-30 June 1993 (Optics and Photonics,)
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Photon and Electron Collisions with Atoms and Molecules (Physics of Atoms and Molecules)

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Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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Super-intense laser pulses produce electric field strength peak values of the order of 10 ¹⁶-10 ¹⁸ W/cm ² in the infrared. The interaction of such fields with an atomic system (atom, molecule, cluster, etc.) gives rise to highly non-linear processes such as the emission of very fast ions or the production of coherent X-radiation. Such processes have important applications in many different fields, such as biology or nuclear fusion.
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the double ionisation of complex atoms;
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stabilisation and relativistic effects in super-strong fields;
Rydberg atoms and strong field coherent control.

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For travelers, history has a way of appearing crystallized. It's all too easy, when visiting someone else's country, to discern the links between the ideas of the past and the way people live now. And in Justin Cartwright's Leading the Cheers, London ad man Dan Silas is happy to make such links. British by birth, he attended high school briefly in Michigan, then returned to his native soil. Now his class has asked him to be the keynote speaker at their 30th reunion. Dan is in just the right mood to make such a trip; he's recently sold his wildly successful agency and broken up with his young girlfriend. "What carried me far in advertising was a glib up-to-dateness, and its roots obviously go back a long way. It is this cheapness which I am endeavouring to slough off. I will avail myself, without cynicism, of the offer to buy a commemorative brick from the old high school."

For Dan, America has come to represent a kind of lost, earnest innocence: you can practically hear the fife-and-drum music in the background as he rolls into town for the reunion. No less rosy are his memories of his best friend, Gary, and his high-school sweetheart, Gloria, with whom he first coupled on Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello on a class field trip. "In my memory, Gloria and Monticello are for ever joined." But now she claims he fathered a daughter that fateful afternoon, a daughter who's been murdered by a serial killer. Meanwhile, Gary has gone off the deep end, convinced he's an Ojibway Indian and leading ceremonies in a tipi in his mom's backyard. Dan's attempt to reconcile his Edenic memories with the bitter realities wrought by 30 years of history yield a singularly woeful comic novel. At times Justin Cartwright's narrative seems filigreed with ideas and ironies; at other times it seems concerned, quite simply, with one man who learns that his "version of what goes on is certainly faulty." --Claire Dederer

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After Dan Silas's advertising company is bought out, his invitation to his thirty-year high school reunion arrives with perfect timing, and he leaves London to return to the small Michigan town he has not seen since 1968. With wit, humor, and compassion, Whitbread Award-winner and Booker Prize-nominee Justin Cartwright takes Dan through the mounting stages of both culture shock and mid-life crisis. Back in Michigan, he discovers his best friend now believes he is a reincarnated Shawnee Indian and his high school sweetheart claims she had a daughter by him - who has just been murdered by the Hollybush's new celebrity, a small-town serial killer. With brilliantly evoked characters and crackling dialogue, Leading the Cheers comically explores what people want out of life - and what they get instead.

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An indifferent reunion.......2001-06-12

Dan Silas is an successful English whom spent some of his golden and wild teenage years in Michigan attending high school. After 30 years he was invited back to deliver a reunion speech. On his journey back, he began to recollect his disremembered past.Everything seem too obscure now. He sort of 'lost' contact with everyone including his first love Gloria. However he kept remembering about a special incident involving Gloria in Thomas Jefferson's bed which occured during a faithful field trip.

A good attempt by Justin Cartwright. This novel is rather appealing but somewhat dark.An intriguing plot which conspire readers to be curious of what happen next? How's his reunion goes? Did he meet Gloria again? What did he missed out all these years?

Skip this one........2001-06-11

The author tries to get away with as little effort as possible. The story has no original plot or thougt, but are made up of stereotypical and rather stale characters that we all have met before in popular fiction and TV-dramas. His story and characters lack believeability and origiality (of course he made it in marketing - but decided to leave it because it was too shallow; of course she was a cheerlead - all his female encounters were the most disirable, etc., etc.) His description of Michigan and America shows many similarities to an exchangestudent's fond rendition of a youthfull encounter with America - not a deep understanding of the country. I am left with the feeling that the author had a basic idea for the book, took a two weeks trip to the United States, and filled in the blanks from what he observed. This renders the book without a proper framework to build a good story.

Entertaining, perceptive, intelligent.......2000-09-21

Leading the Cheers is a quick and entertaining read which manages to cover a lot of bases. Underlying the plotline is the revelation that we view the world through only one set of eyes - that our subjective picture of reality might be little more than a self-serving illusion.

Reviews praise the book as "hilarious" and "funny", whereas I'd probably say "amusing" or "ironic". Cartwright has an intelligent and sharp sense of humor, but it is definitely of drier/more ironic nature than is implied by these descriptions; this was not a book that made me laugh.

That said, this was a lively and compelling novel with interesting, well-developed characters and a good mix between plot and introspection. The storyline involves a successful British ad executive's return to Michigan, his childhood home, to attend his high school reunion. Although he has never questioned his interpretation of the events of his youth he suddenly finds himself faced with a number of questions. Things aren't always as they seem. Along the way we get some sharp insights on middle-American culture, Indian rituals, and the meaning of "success" and "failure".

A quirky cast of characters includes a lanky descendant of Northern European immigrants who following his nervous breakdown during his freshman year at Harvard channels the spirit of a long dead Native American called Pale Eagle; a serial killer serving a life sentence; and a group of former high school cheerleaders and jocks facing middle age stranded in their small-town environment.

Other reviewers have pointed out some factual inconsistencies, which I honestly would not have noticed. Regardless, I enjoyed Cartwright's eye for detail and well-crafted descriptions. A thought-provoking and original novel.

Recommended........2000-04-21

The inside dust jacket describes this book as "witty and often hilarious" with a "shocking denouement." I'm not sure I agree with any of those descriptions, but I nevertheless found the book moving and enjoyed it immensely. Very thought-provoking, with a number of interesting themes running throughout. I also agree with the "Literary Review" comment to the effect that this is a rare book about "the kind of America nobody (read: none of us upper-crust coastal snobby intellectuals) knows or cares about." I would certainly recommend it. With respect to the reviewer who commented on the apparent inconsistency between 1996 and 1998, it was my sense throughout that the book was taking place in 1996, not only because of the Clinton-Dole campaign, but because of other references as well. I would concede that a 28th-year reunion is somewhat odd, but I just don't recall Dan ever actually describing it as a 30-year reunion, although he does say that the class President has kept in pastoral touch with the class for "nearly 30 years." If in fact I missed the reference to a 30-year reunion, then I would agree that that is more than a minor flaw, given the importance placed on dates in the book.

The prodigal returns.......2000-03-22

Dan Silas spent his formative years in Hollybush, Michigan. Now resident in a committee run London executive estate, he finds his past calling back to him. Dan is to be a speaker at his high school reunion, thirty years after he's left. Called to speak because he's become something of a success in his home country, and because he's practically the only one of his high school chums to have really left. In the middle of a separation which hurts him less than it should, Dan's return to Hollybush makes him realise a few certain truths. Features of this introspection are the encroaching insanity of his friend, who has gone native under the name of Gary Pale Eagle, a sexual encounter in Jefferson's bed, and the revelation that he had a daughter, brutally murdered by a serial killer.

This is a very American novel. All aspects of American and western life come under a subtle but penetrating gaze. There is a discourse on Emerson's notion of self running throughout this novel. Cartwright, born a South African, presents an extremely vivid portrait of a contemporary English man. What better device than to set such a character out into America? Accent is very relevant to this novel, and accent is strong and flowing, mutable, a metaphor for self. Devastating declarations arise, and you feel horror on behalf of the narrator, who declines to comment, since such things are deigned to be self evident. Deprecating humour abounds too. Sometimes, 'Leading the Cheers' feels like the Coen Brothers' Fargo. A homely portrait of American life with engaging characters, mixed with pure horror. It all rings so true, despite the fact that it's mere composition. I've earflapped the pages which speak to me, so that I can find my way back to them in the future. Quite appropriately, it also involves the narrative tracking of a journey, with Gary Pale Eagle willing to steal for clues.

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