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What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.
Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
- Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
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Not very helpful.......2007-03-07
This is one of those textbooks where if you already know what the author is trying to teach you, it's perfectly clear, and if you don't, it might as well be Greek. It may help as an adjunct to a textbook, but it is certainly not a 'crash course' that can stand alone. I was very disappointed and it is certainly not as advertised.
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All the essentials needed for successful ICP OES analyses.
Using a clear and comprehensive style, the author introduces practitioners to ICP emission spectrometry, covering the basics as well as information on the instrumentation, instructions on how to develop methods and numerous concrete examples.
The layout is extremely reader-friendly and well structured, with the author highlighting typical questions and problems, while also providing checklists and detailed instructions for implementation.
Thus, this book is not intended merely for the readers' own training and further education, but its sections on maintenance and troubleshooting also make it a reliable source for lab chemists.
Throughout, the author draws on his knowledge and experience gained over the last 20 years in developing spectrometers for a leading manufacturer and in training and advising users as a freelance consultant. Knowledge now available to all users of ICP OES.
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Practical Guide to ICP-MS (Practical Spectroscopy)
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Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy: Practices and Techniques
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ICP Emission Spectrometry: A Practical Guide
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Written by a field insider with more than 20 years of experience in the development and application of atomic spectroscopy instrumentation, the Practical Guide to ICP-MS offers key concepts and guidelines in a reader-friendly format that is superb for those with limited knowledge of the technique. This reference discusses the fundamental principles, analytical advantages, practical capabilities, and overall benefits of ICP-MS. It presents the most important selection criteria when evaluating commercial ICP-MS equipment and the most common application areas of ICP-MS such as the environmental, semiconductor, geochemical, clinical, nuclear, food, metallurgical, and petrochemical industries.
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don't waste your money.......2007-03-22
The book is an absolute rip off! the content is not even close to be considered basic. It fails to provide any help whatsoever for running an instrument and/or to familiarize undergrad students with the technique. The images, drawings and graphs are of extremely poor quality and rarely helpful. If you are trying to learn about the technique, this book will leave you more confused and with more questions than answers.
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Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences (AnTs) *)
John R. Dean
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ICP Emission Spectrometry: A Practical Guide
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The book provides an up-to-date account of inductively coupled plasmas and their use in atomic emission spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Specific applications of the use of these techniques are highlighted including applications in environmental, food and industrial analysis. It is written in a distance learning / open learning style; suitable for self study applications. It contains contain self-assessment and discussion questions, worked examples and case studies that allow the reader to test their understanding of the presented material.
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The physical properties of ultrasound, particularly its highly directional beam behaviour, and its complex interactions with human tissues, have led to its becoming a vitally important tool in both investigative and interventional medicine, and one that still has much exciting potential. This new edition of a well-received book treats the phenomenon of ultrasound in the context of medical and biological applications, systematically discussing fundamental physical principles and concepts. Rather than focusing on earlier treatments, based largely on the simplifications of geometrical acoustics, this bookn examines concepts of wave acoustics, introducing them in the very first chapter. Practical implications of these concepts are explored, first the generation and nature of acoustic fields, and then their formal descriptions and measurement. Real tissues attenuate and scatter ultrasound in ways that have interesting relationships to their physical chemistry, and the book includes coverage of these topics. Physical Principles of Medical Ultrasonics also includes critical accounts and discussions of the wide variety of diagnostic and investigative applications of ultrasound that are now becoming available in medicine and biology. The book also encompasses the biophysics of ultrasound, its practical applications to therapeutic and surgical objectives, and its implications in questions of hazards to both patient and operator.
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Kaon Physics
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In 1947, the first of what have come to be known as "strange particles" were detected. As the number and variety of these particles proliferated, physicists began to try to make sense of them. Some seemed to have masses about 900 times that of the electron, and existed in both charged and neutral varieties. These particles are now called kaons (or K mesons), and they have become the subject of some of the most exciting research in particle physics. Kaon Physics at the Turn of the Millennium presents cutting-edge papers by leading theorists and experimentalists that synthesize the current state of the field and suggest promising new directions for the future study of kaons.
Topics covered include the history of kaon physics, direct CP violation in kaon decays, time reversal violation, CPT studies, theoretical aspects of kaon physics, rare kaon decays, hyperon physics, charm: CP violation and mixing, the physics of B mesons, and future opportunities for kaon physics in the twenty-first century.
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Low and Intermediate Energy Kaon-Nucleon Physics
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Neutral Kaons (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
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The neutral K meson or neutral kaon, K0, and its antiparticle, K(bar)0, form a remarkable quantum-mechanical two-state system that has played an important role in the history of elementary particle physics. Indeed, ever since the discovery of K0 half a century ago, neutral kaons have been a rich source of unique and facinating phenomena associated with their production, decay and propagation in both vacuum and matter. This overview conveys the unique beauty of a quantum-mechanical system that contains so many of the aspects of modern physics.
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Physics at Kaon
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Nucleon Nucleon and Kaon Nucleon Scattering / Nukleon-Nukleon- und Kaon-Nukleon-Streuung
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Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battles at sea. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored.
From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half a chance of surviving the scourge, to the early nineteenth century, when the British conquered scurvy and successfully blockaded the French and defeated Napoleon, Scurvy is a medical detective story for the ages, the fascinating true story of how James Lind (the surgeon), James Cook (the mariner), and Gilbert Blane (the gentleman) worked separately to eliminate the dreaded affliction.
Scurvy is an evocative journey back to the era of wooden ships and sails, when the disease infiltrated every aspect of seafaring life: press gangs "recruit" mariners on the way home from a late night at the pub; a terrible voyage in search of riches ends with a hobbled fleet and half the crew heaved overboard; Cook majestically travels the South Seas but suffers an unimaginable fate. Brimming with tales of ships, sailors, and baffling bureaucracy, Scurvy is a rare mix of compelling history and classic adventure story.
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Fascinating social, Medical, and Historical Account on the Problem of Scurvy in the Age of Sail .......2007-04-05
I really enjoyed "Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail" by Stephen Brown. It was a fast-paced, easy-to-read, well written book about the effects of scurvy upon mariners (and world history) during the 16th-18th centuries.
I read "Scurvy" in a few hours. The book kept my interest all the way from the horrible description of scurvy's physical effects upon the human body to the individual stories about Lind, Cook, Blane, Nelson, and other historical figures who fill its pages.
"Scurvy" was full of information, both medically and historically, as well as socially. It provided a great deal of info on life on the sea during "The Age of Sail." It also easily explained the medical limitations and theories of the time, underscoring the human failings that prevented significant medical advancement. Finally, it provided rich accounts of people and events from European history that are truly interesting, making me want to learn more.
Perhaps its only failing is that it didn't cover Vitamin C in detail (or scurvy on land), though I admit that was not the draw of the book. The book was about a horrible disease that killed millions of sailors, how a few good men finally figured out how to prevent it, and what that meant to the world. Highly recommended.
reh.......2007-03-28
Well written. An interesting insite into life aboard sailing ships and the conditions endured by sailors and ignored by the admiralty in the age of sailing vessels.
Great Story - Some Lessons For Today .......2006-12-18
Finding and implementing a cure for scurvy on Naval vessels had the same impact on the fleet as the introduction of nuclear power did to the submarine fleet more than 200 years later.
The author does a great job of recreating the conditions on the naval ship of the era, where scurvy took a huge toll among the crew and left few unaffected. When added to the horrific hygene on the ships, a majority of the crew was doomed as the vessels undertook long voyages to farflung shores.
The search for a cure is a classic study in the behavior of large organizations over the centuries. It was not enough to discover and then rediscover the cure, it was required that the established "cures" be slowly overcome.
It is a very enjoyable and enlightening read. Highly recommended.
A Fascinating History.......2006-10-12
For those who are not familiar with life aboard long-distance sailing ships during the Age of Sail, this book is quite an eye-opener. The author pulls no punches when describing the dreadful living conditions that had to be endured by sailors and, he is particularly graphic in his descriptions of the horrible effects that scurvy had on those afflicted. He recounts the attempts made by certain key individuals to understand and cure the disease as well as the frustrating steps taken backwards when any significant progress that was made was set aside and ignored mainly due to the bureaucratic inertia that pervaded the British Royal Navy at the time. The writing style is clear, friendly and quite engaging such that the book is difficult to put down. This book would likely be of most interest to history buffs, medical history buffs and anyone interested in people's lives and times during the Age of Sail.
Yarrr!.......2006-08-02
This is an awesome book!
This book is about the overlooked details involving scurvy,
but goes into some great detail about life on a sailing vessel.
Read this book!
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The World's Greatest Surgeon
Daniel Moriarty
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Setting: Chicago. Cleaning toilets may seem like a boring and thankless job but not for Elandro Tirogallo, Maitre dÂ' of the MenÂ's Room at ChicagoÂ's Five Star Hotel—the Hotel Risque. Elandro is the consummate MenÂ's Room Attendant. One on his list of his ever-increasing duties is keeping Victoria, the local drag queen out of “menÂ's business.”
Soon two corpulent nuns, two who have never missed a meal, Srs. Disciplinata and Serenity, from Our Lady of Incarceration Catholic Church, arrive to “assess” the Tirogallo children, Barney and Pietro. Their meeting unfortunately leads to an unplanned visit to the neighborhood porno theater. Unexpectedly, their local bishop and “that Nazi lackey” of his, are out strolling near the theater and view with disdain the two sistersÂ' dalliance. The sistersÂ' mission, if they choose to accept it, is to duck the bishop, thus enhancing their chances of receiving the coveted “Teachers of the Year” award.
And ElandroÂ's life takes a new and exciting turn as he is mistaken for the “WorldÂ's Greatest Surgeon,” (WGS) (who is really the notorious womanizer, Dr. Orenby Hatch). When the Soviet Premier, Petrov (their inept leader), becomes terminally ill, a plot is “hatched” to secure the services of the WGS. Soviet operatives soon gather to plan and commit resources to kidnap the now cocky, Elandro Tirogallo. Is Elandro up to the job? You bet he is.
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