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An understanding of spectroscopic methods is a pre-requisite for students in chemistry and related disciplines from the undergraduate level onwards. Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods provides a firm introduction to common spectroscopic techniques and interpretation of spectra, and their application to inorganic-based systems.The approach taken is unashamedly aimed at the application of the techniques and interpretation of the spectra obtained. Worked examples, illustrative diagrams and references for a theoretical approach are provided throughout the book. Beginning with a introductory description of electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with matter, each subsequent chapter covers the physical basis of related spectroscopic methods (vibrational, resonance, UV-visible spectroscopy, mass spectrometry) and their applications typical in inorganic compounds. Each chapter ends with a number of set problems and short questions in the margin are given throughout the chapters to test the basic concepts. The final chapter offers an integrated approach to the identification of unknown materials - putting together the techniques discussed. This essential text for all undergraduate chemists will also benefit postgraduates in chemistry, and undergraduate and postgraduate students of biochemistry and the biomedical sciences.
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DK covers new ground with this series of unrivaled family reference titles. With full-color photographs and a fresh new look at favorite subjects, these remarkable books uncover the real story behind the natural phenomena that shape the world around us. See for Yourself: Energy explores everything from propulsion and meteors to the destructive forces of volcanoes and forest fires.
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The Web is notoriously unreliable, yet it is the first place many students look for information. How can students, teachers, parents, and librarians be certain that the information a Web site provides is accurate and age appropriate? In this unique book, experienced science educator Judith A. Bazler reviews hundreds of the most reliable earth science-related Web sites. Each review discusses the most appropriate grade level of the site, analyzes its accuracy and usefulness, and provides helpful hints for getting the most out of the resource. Sites are organized by topic, from "Air Movements" to "Wetlands," making it easy to locate the most useful sites. A handy summary presents the best places on the Web to find information on science museums, science centers, careers in the earth sciences, and supplies.
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Thermoinelasticity: Symposium East Kilbride, June 25-28, 1968
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From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a savagely witty, chillingly topical tale set in the tense moments of the Gulf War.
When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college town—all the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what it’s producing is a very nasty bug.
Navigating a plot that leads from his own backyard to Washington, D.C., to the Gulf, where his Army Reservist wife has been called to duty, Banks realizes he may be the only person who can stop the wholesale slaughtering of thousands of Americans. It’s a lesson in foreign policy he’ll never forget.
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Neal Stephenson is the author of The System Of The World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and other books and articles.
J. Frederick George is a historian and writer living in Paris.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Another Stephenson masterpiece.......2007-06-11
Stephenson's current day story is very thought provoking under current global circumstances. I enjoyed every page and delighted in every irony and found myself glued to the book for hours at a time.
Good mystery.......2007-03-12
The book is good as a lightweight mystery novel, shows much of Stephenson's excellent writing style, but I wouldn't put it in the same class as the Baroque Trilogy or Cryptonomicon
Great Suspense Novel, with lots of stuff between the lines.......2007-02-17
I should preface this review by saying that although I have read almost everything by Stephenson, this is my first exposure to George. And also this review contains "spoilers," so don't read past the "spoiler alert."
Having been a big fan of Neal, though, I found this novel to be much in keeping with his previous writing except that Neal actually is writing about modern times in a rather realistic way, which makes for a refreshing change. The characters have become somewhat more plausible, and as for me, I really appreciate that.
The real thrust of this novel is thankfully more than the typical cheap "regular guy takes on a terrorist outfit" but also to give a little realistic background to the world that that takes place in. In describing in some detail the decadent U.S. education system nowadays and how poorer nations around the world are rightfully taking advantage of an education system that too few Americans care about is worth the price of the novel. And how along with that influx of foreign technologists, intellectuals and students comes an influx of foreign politics and agendas, sometimes from very warlike or barbaric nations, this is where our story begins.
--SPOILER ALERT----SPOILER ALERT----SPOILER ALERT----SPOILER ALERT--
If I were Neal's lit professor, I would give him two critiques of this and other novels - not to say I didn't enjoy them. First would be that the plot development could be less obvious. Maybe it's from reading Neal's books before, but as soon as his Iraqi wrestling nemesis showed up I knew they were bound to wind up having an incredible one-on-one in the last 30 ppg or so. And the Russian smugglers were colorful but a bit implausible IMO.
Second critique would be that the usual Neal method of taking some fairly interesting feature of a character or whatever and turning up the volume of it just past the threshold of plausibility has grown thin for me. One example: the episode where our protagonist is playing football in a cornfield of dreams with your classic American farmboy giants, this is just one example of where he ventures into the land of cheese. And to me it was just a matter of how you handle it. That scene, of playing that great American pastime in a great midwestern cornfield with a couple great American farmboys of uncommonly huge stature; well, a little more subtlety would have been nice, because there really is nothing wrong with the picture, but the colors are too bright and the resolution is low. I felt like there should have been some red, white and blue fireworks or something in there.
But that is just a critique, because I still massively enjoyed the novel, and I still think that Neal has communicated a general grasp of foreign politics and the political bureaucracy that this book is named after. This "cobweb" idea is in fact all-pervasive in American life; and extends itself well beyond politics. It is the general palette of tactics that the entrenched I guess have always used against challengers in politics, business, or anywhere there is bureaucracy and entrenched administration. It is also a chief tactic used by a political party that emphasizes tactical thinking to subject any opponent so naive as to rely on ideals, for more than the last 30 years in the United States.
A Neal Stepehson primer.......2007-01-10
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (2002) propelled him to fame with a fast-paced techno-thriller. Cobweb, written jointly with J. Frederick George is set before that book and also written before and now published. However, Cobweb is a fine work, a real page-turner which segues between scenes in a much smoother and more purposeful way than Cryptonomicon. The main characters are credible, the plot redolent of conspiracy, cover-ups and as usual with Stephenson, a healthy contempt for bureaucracy. Cobweb is a precursor to Interface, another fine work, both best described as being in the techno-thriller genre but they can stand alone without detriment, one to the other. I highly recommend Cobweb and suggest readers cut their teeth on this book before proceeding to Stephenson's later works.
Free to be Wry..........2006-08-18
This was a great read; a standard thriller plot done with Stephenson's gift for being wonderfully discursive. A staple theme of Stephenson's work is an exploration of the power of an individual to change the world. Here a deputy county sheriff manages to do what many more powerful individuals could not. But what makes this a stand-out book is the humor--the author cannot resist the urge to comment on the absurdities of power politics and he is genuinely funny. And, if the 9/11 commission report is to be believed, Stephenson hit the nail on the head in his portrayal of our government's intelligence apparatus.
Yet, despite dysfunctional governmental agencies and the intrigue of shallow bureaucrats; it all boils down to protecting one's own. In Stephenson's world a quick thinking and honest individual will always prevail--that is a world in which I feel comfortable.
Now, just a note: The ostensibly Mormon Vandeventers' involvement with alcohol is about as likely as the Muslim characters roasting a pig on a spit. Nor would any BYU students be found in the only bar in Provo, Utah. Just isn't done... Wouldn't be prudent.
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CREEPY, CRAWLY
CRITTERS -- YUCK!
Poor Todd. First he has to give up his room for an old friend of his father's who's visiting. Then his valuable baseball card collection is stolen. Now Mr. Merlin says the class is going to be studying spiders. Todd hates spiders.
But then Mr. Merlin tells the Third-Grade Detectives that a spider's web may help catch the thief. Maybe spiders aren't so bad after all.
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My kids love these books!!.......2003-05-12
My kids love George Edward Stanley's Third Grade Detectives. Now, all they talk about is solving mysteries with science, just like forensic scientists do. They can't get enough of these great books.
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INTERESTING, CHALLENGING TEXT ON SPINOZA.......2006-09-08
Baruch Spinoza is one of the best known 17th century thinkers, as his philosophy of secularism was far ahead of his time. This book aims to create the world at the time through conversations with Baruch and through depiction of the meanders of his life.
His community was of Spanish/Portuguese Jews who fled to Holland. There we know that Baruch was excomungated from the Jewish community, but it is not clear why. Baruch's philophy empashized pure reason as a way to achieve salvation, and not the major religions of the time. His questioning of the existence of a deity were too much for his time, and the book presents such occurences by imagining such a situation.
This is an interesting book, but I am not sure this would be a good intro duction to Spinoza. There is too much that the book takes for granted that the reader knows; this book is recommended to those familiar with Spinoza's philosophy and wanting a better feel for what it must have been like at the time to hold such thoughts. Not for the beginner.
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What was the truth about Penny?
Nurse Alexandra Dobbs met a distinguished Dutch doctor, Taro van Dresselhuys, when he asked her to help with Penny, a teenager with amnesia. Before long, Alexandra had fallen in love with Taro -- and Penny did, too.
It had to be a teenage crush. Yet Taro did little to discourage the girl, and when he began to side with Penny against her, Alexandra began to have suspicions about Penny . . .
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KOTTO: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
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Journalist-by-trade Lafcadio Hearn used his wanderer's eye and guileless, graceful style to provide elegant chronicles for an English-speaking world fascinated by the exotic sensibilities of Japan. He set himself apart from others who attempted to translate the life and culture of this island country through his ability to reveal the truth of his subjects artfully-flawlessly exemplifying the Japanese aesthetic through his voice, as well as through his tale. In Kotto, first published in 1902, Hearn placed classical fables next to his own discoveries (of a woman's diary, for example) and reflections on the timeless themes of life, death, and meaning, showcasing the simple beauty and ever-present spirituality that define the Japanese ideology. Bohemian and writer PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904) was born in Greece, raised in Ireland, and worked as newspaper reporter in the United States before decamping to Japan. He also wrote In Ghostly Japan (1899), and Kwaidan (1904).
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The Clue in the Cobweb (Dana Girls Mystery Stories)
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The Curse of the Cobweb Queen: An Otto & Uncle Tooth Adventure (Step into Reading, Step 3)
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The Alligator and His Uncle Tooth: A Novel of the Sea
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Illus. in full color. In the fourth Otto & Uncle Tooth adventure, the seafaring sleuths, along with Otto's spunky cousin Olivia, sneak into Mookey Swamp to retrieve a stolen pearl from the wicked Cobweb Queen and her Eenie Meanies.
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Excitement, Adventure - a review of "The Curse of the Cobweb Queen".......2006-11-19
If you haven't run across Uncle Tooth books before, you should know that they are fun mysteries geared for younger children (say 4 to 9 y.o.). In this tale, Uncle Tooth, Otto, and Olivia solve the mystery of the purloined pearl. How did it vanish from the train? Where could it have gone?
Answer: Turns out that the pearl is at the lair of the (spooky music here) Cobweb Queen, a villainess that Uncle Tooth has tussled with, and lost to, before!
As a reader/primer, I have to say that it is a good challenge for early readers. There is a great deal of dialog and whole pages of text; though I should add the print is still quite large. My own daughter is only six, and we cope with the amount of text by taking turns. Sometimes we alternate pages, and sometimes we take on the roles of the various characters. A sample of the text follows so you can judge for yourselves:
They stepped through the castle
entrance into a dark hallway.
There were things lying on the
ground - small, round, dark things.
"Eenie Meanies!" whispered Uncle Tooth.
Otto shuddered.
"You didn't tell me there were going to
be monsters," he said.
Uncle Tooth poked an Eenie Meanie
with his sword. It didn't move.
"They are the Cobweb Queen's
guards," he explained....
As to the previous reviewers comments that there is boy bashing, I have to laugh because I thought just the opposite. It seemed to me that Otto was rather condescending towards Olivia - just because she was a girl. He says things like: "Are you trying to be a detective or something?"
And in fact, when it comes to going to the island, Auntie Hick is portrayed as a wilting flower who can not contemplate such a venture and who must lay down and rest. And when little Olivia shows up at the docks, Otto asks her what she is doing there. When she answers that she wants to go along, Otto answers: "But you'll spoil everything!"
But that is okay, because in the end, Olivia saves the day... or at least saves Otto from a dungeon. So my take on the 'bashing' is that this book is making an effort to break down stereotypes, rather than to create them.
Four Stars. Good Read-aloud. In general, I think it is an early mystery book that most children would enjoy. In any case, a definite step up from other early readers: this one has excitement and a plot worthy of kids.
Very good book.......2006-02-13
My son loves the story and it is even OK for adults to read over and over and over. Also a good intro reader for my son.
Cobweb Queen not great.......2002-02-26
While my son and I loved the Pirate Ghost tale, we were disapointed when we got this one. The story is fairly openended, leaving you with an empty feeling but what bugged me most was the male bashing and slant that way. Otto's niece Olivia comes to visit and starts right in on him with insults like "You're a detective?" She always wins the arguements, she saves the day and the story is generally slanted toward making her look good and the boys bad. There were also lots of "stupid" and "dumb" references toward other characters in the book- the world has too many harsh words as it is. Not needed in a kid's bedtime story.
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The Cobweb
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A mighty novel of modern medicine, of its passion and intriques, and a doctor who fought to treat his patients as human beings.
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I love Nancy Drew!.......2001-09-07
Nancy must solve the mystery of missing famous woman and a jewel theft. Very good!
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