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Learn chemistry and succeed in your course with INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY and its accompanying technology! With numerous allied health-related applications, examples, boxes, and access to the online learning tool GOB ChemistryNow, this chemistry text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Explanations and examples show you the role of chemistry in your daily life. GOB ChemistryNOW will save you time and help you get a better grade by creating a personalized learning plan for you that targets your study needs and helps you to visual, practice, and master the material in the text.
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You will quickly gain a comprehensive understanding of chemistry with this new Sixth Edition of INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY. Using real-life applications and interactive technology tools, this text will show you how chemistry relates to health science. The thorough integration of online assessment and learning tools turns study time into experiences with chemistry--helping you gain true comprehension of chemical concepts. CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY will help dispel any fear you may have of chemistry as it helps you appreciate the role chemistry plays in our daily lives through a rich pedagogical structure and an accessible writing style with lucid explanations. In addition, Seager and Slabaugh's CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY provides greater support in both the problem-solving and critical-thinking skills needed to succeed in chemistry. By illustrating how this information will help your future career and providing important career information online, the authors help you set goals and focus on achieving them.
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Introductory Chemistry for Today (with ThomsonNOW 2-Semester Printed Access Card)
Spencer L. Seager , and
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You will quickly gain a comprehensive understanding of chemistry with this new Sixth Edition of INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY. Using real-life applications and interactive technology tools, this text will show you how chemistry relates to health science. The thorough integration of online assessment and learning tools turns study time into experiences with chemistry--helping you gain true comprehension of chemical concepts. CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY will help dispel any fear you may have of chemistry as it helps you appreciate the role chemistry plays in our daily lives through a rich pedagogical structure and an accessible writing style with lucid explanations. In addition, Seager and Slabaugh's CHEMISTRY FOR TODAY provides greater support in both the problem-solving and critical-thinking skills needed to succeed in chemistry. By illustrating how this information will help your future career and providing important career information online, the authors help you set goals and focus on achieving them.
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Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons
Christopher McGowan
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The DRAGON SEEKERS. How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin.
ASIN: 067420770X |
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Christopher McGowan sets out to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. He makes fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals while presenting topics that range from gigantism to intellect. In addition to exploring the natural history of the Mesozoic Era, McGowan draws on science and engineering concepts to explain curiosities such as the similarities between the aerodynamics of pteranodons and Spitfire planes.
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Knuckling down.......2006-12-01
You already know about the first seadragon, although you probably do not know you know.
Mary Anning, a girl of 11 or 12, found the first ichthyosaur to be recognized as an ancient reptile on an English beach in 1810. The tongue-twister "she sells seashells down by the sea shore" refers to her career as the first person to establish a commercial business in fossils as fossils (rather than as "dragons' teeth," which have been sold by Chinese druggists for centuries; they grind them to powder).
Although nowadays the examination of fossils is a recondite subject, the basic principles of the subject are rather easily understood -- and very commonly misunderstood.
Christopher MacGowan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum and an ichthyosaur specialist, says that much of the information specialists feed to the public about dinosaurs and their allies is far overstated. 'We can begin to understand extinct animals only by understanding living ones,' writes MacGowan. And we can never understand any extinct animal as well as we can know a living one.
Thus arguments over whether some or all dinosaurs were warm-blooded or did or did not care tenderly for their young are usually excessive.
MacGowan's approach is to ask what, in principle, a particular animal could have done, based on engineering constraints. Thus a comparison to a Spitfire fighter and its World War II opponent, the Messerschmidt 109, illustrates his inquiry into how well a pterosaur could have flown -- or perhaps merely glided.
'Dinosaurs, Spitfires & Seadragons' is an engaging approach to the endlessly fascinating topic of dinosaurs (and ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs and the first birds), because MacGowan invites the reader to understand these animals at the same level the experts do -- or, he implies, sometimes don't.
The sophistication of popular books about paleontology has evolved tremendously since the days of the adventurous but simplistic tales of Roy Chapman Andrews and his dinosaur eggs from the Gobi Desert in the 1920s. MacGowan pioneered in this elevated approach, for which all dino fans can be grateful. This 1991 book is a revision of his 1983 'The Successful Dragons.'
Explains the logic of the evidence.......2000-10-27
This book is a bit different. It examines the extent of what we know, or do not know, and on the basis of what evidence. The discussion of what we can tell from teeth, or marks on the bones, etc is the meat of the book. What we can tell with high confidence and what we cannot! Very interesting indeed, and he is not afraid to say "look, this is slender eveidence for such and such a theory."
I really liked this approach.
Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons.......2000-03-13
I thoroughly enjoyed this volume even though I am not really a dinosaur enthusiast. A little old (c. 1992), it is still a very readable and comprehensive text on the paleontology of dinosarus. The author covers recent findings regarding dinosaur skeletal structure and what it tells of lifestyle, their modes of locomotion and what it implies of thermoregulation, etc. The book would definitely be a valuable first line undergraduate textbook on the subject and on paleontology as a field of research. It also might interest an enthusiastic younger student even to the level of junior high as long as he or she was a reader with a sophisticated vocabulary or one with some knowledge of the discipline already.
For the person more than casually interested in dinosaurs!.......1998-11-12
This book is ideal for paleontology students or avid dinosaurphiles. Math is used extensively to demonstrate how dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures walked, ran, swam, flew, etc. The book gives a wonderful glimpse into how the hard science of paleontology is performed, instead of glossing over the math like many other popular books do. Once you finish this book, you will never look at dinosaurs the same way again.
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Crystallography of Modular Materials (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography)
Giovanni Ferraris ,
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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of theories and applications in the rapidly expanding field of the crystallography of modular materials. Molecules are the natural modules from which molecular crystalline structures are built. Most inorganic structures, however, are infinite arrays of atoms and some kinds of surrogate modules, e.g. co-ordination polyhedra, are usually used to describe them. In recent years the attention has been focused on complex modules as the basis for a systematic description of polytypes and homologous/polysomatic series (modular structures). This representation is applied to the modelling of unknown structures and understanding nanoscale defects and intergrowths in materials. The Order/Disorder (OD) theory is fundamental to developing a systematic theory of polytypism, dealing with those structures based on both ordered and disordered stacking of one or more layers. Twinning at both unit-cell and micro-scale, together with disorder, causes many problems, "demons", for computer-based methods of crystal structure determination. This book develops the theory of twinning with the inclusion of worked examples, converting the "demons" into useful indicators for unravelling crystal structure. In spite of the increasing use of the concepts of modular crystallography for characterising, understanding and tailoring technological crystalline materials, this is the first book to offer a unified treatment of the results, which are spread across many different journals and original papers published over the last twenty years.
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To make a Freudian slip on a banana peel .......2005-01-11
Freud did not see jokes as minor nonsense and insignificance. He saw them as deeper messages delivered to us from our unconscious. He saw them as telling the secrets about ourselves to ourselves and the world that we do not necessarily want to tell. He saw them as acts of aggression and as acts of self- defense. In fact Freud is one of the few theorists of jokes and laughter that the world has had. In my opinion while Freud's understanding of jokes is not exhaustive and all- comprehensive it does illuminate much about a certain kind of humor. And it does teach us something about ourselves which we had not really noticed before Freud taught it to us. Freud himself is of course a source of endless jokes today , but it is not wrong to say that at least some of these jokes should be about his great genius and ability to see and say where others before him did not.
Freud loosens up a little.......2000-10-31
The logic of Freud can sometimes be overbearing when he is dealing with the makings of a joke. However, he does at times seem to drop his guard, speak in easy to understand terms, and give information that can be understood. If anyone is pursuing comedy in any form, this book would be helpful, and will help you compare your analyzation of what you do with someone who knew very well how the human mind worked. I've applied several of his concepts on stage and have found them successful.
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Jokes and Their Relations
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Jokes and Their Relation to Society (Humor Research, 4)
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This volume presents a historical and sociological study of humor and jokes. It covers almost every continent and region in the world and also reaches back in time to medieval jokes in Europe and to jokes about the Melanesians in Ancient Greece.
It is a particularly rich study of ethnic jokes, political jokes, sick jokes and urban legends and is illustrated with many examples of these. Much of the basic theoretical framework is derived from the German polymath Max Weber and it has also been influenced by the line of thought that proceeds from Aristotle to Durkheim to structuralism but the general approach and findings are original and creative.
Multidisciplinary in nature, this volume will be of interest to scholars working in anthropology, sociology, folklore, social psychology, linguistics or literature as well as to historians and philosophers.
Christie Davies is Professor of Sociology at the University of Reading, England.
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Freud gradually noticed frequent presence of jokes in dreams and eventually gave the matter his attention, producing the instant (and witty) volume, divided into analytic, synthetic and theoretic aspects of the subject.
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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1415 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: What is happy, baby? (exhibition): or jokes and their relation to the work of Rodney Graham.
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