Current Developments in Solid State NMR Spectroscopy

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This book presents some of the latest developments in solid state NMR with potential applications in both materials and biological science. The main emphasis is on a strong link between theory and experiment via numerical simulation of NMR spectra which play a pivotal role in the design and development of pulse schemes in solid state NMR. The papers focus on non-biological topics of solid state NMR spectroscopy making the book useful for scientists and advanced students in chemistry, physics, and materials science striving for deeper understanding of this topic and its application potential. Three invited reviews focus on developments in solid state NMR of quadrupolar nuclei, which are of high interest in areas like materials science and heterogeneous catalysis.

Multinuclear Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Inorganic Materials (Pergamon Materials Series)

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Multinuclear Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Inorganic Materials (Pergamon Materials Series)
Kenneth J.D. MacKenzie , and M.E. Smith
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Techniques of solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are constantly being extended to a more diverse range of materials, pressing into service an ever-expanding range of nuclides including some previously considered too intractable to provide usable results. At the same time, new developments in both hardware and software are being introduced and refined. This book covers the most important of these new developments.

With sections addressed to non-specialist researchers (providing accessible answers to the most common questions about the theory and practice of NMR asked by novices) as well as a more specialised and up-to-date treatment of the most important areas of inorganic materials research to which NMR has application, this book should be useful to NMR users whatever their level of expertise and whatever inorganic materials they wish to study.

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Solid State NMR of Polymers

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Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Inorganic Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Inorganic Materials (Acs Symposium Series)
John J. Fitzgerald
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This book strikes a balance between state-of-the-art solid-state NMR techniques and the applications of these techniques to problems in materials science. The applications focus on modern inorganic materials such as metal oxides, catalysts, zeolites, glasses, ceramics, semiconductors, ion conductors, superconductors, and composites. The book features chapters on multiple-quantum MAS NMR, dynamic-angle spinning NMR for quadrupolar nuclides, and two-dimensional NMR methods. It includes an introductory chapter that provides an a thorough and integrated overview of the field, complete with numerous references.

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Evolution is TRUE no matter WHAT you say! .......2007-05-12

I am not a biologist, but I have a degree and am a fairly well read guy. I found this book quite invigorating and accessible to non-scientists such as myself. One of the most striking things I have discovered about the vehement critiques of this book both at the Amazon website is the alarming degree of hatred and resentment that has been displayed by Gish's fellow scientists. Now, whether Gish is right or wrong is beside the point when one just considers how his attackers have chosen to respond to his book; using mere ad hominum tactics does not instill in me a sense of confidence in Gish's adversaries' actually knowing what they are talking about. After all, when one feels compelled to do nothing more than hurl insults at the author of a book instead of actually taking the time to engage the argument of the book, that tells me that the critic has an insecurity complex. And that is precisely what the majority of Gish's peers have done; they have basically said "How DARE he challenge Darwinian natural selection? " As the late Carl Sagan said so vociferously so many times, science is SUPPOSED to be an OPEN FORUM for discussion. No matter how smart a person is or what his or her credentials are, no one view is supposed to be categorically accepted or categorically rejected without due process. Categorically rejecting Gish's theory and trying to attack him personally tells me just how little so many of these "professional"scientists actually know about science.

Recently I read a critique about Michael Behe's book, who wrote about the Wistar Institute.

It addresses all of the reviewers who complained that Gish did not present his case to his scientific colleagues but instead wrote a book for the general public & thereby bypassed his colleagues. Well, I have a question for you: how many of you Darwinists have heard of the Wistar Institute? I would imagine very few. I have read about it elsewhere in other books & have always found it curious that so few people are aware of this discussion from the late 1960s. What Wistar was was a forum that put together many of the world's best biologists together with the world's best mathmaticians. It was designed to prove the mathmatcial validity of Darwinian natural selection. It was, however, a complete distaster. The odds proved so enormous that Darwinism seemed to be mathmatically impossible. Wistar was thereby shoved into the closet & hidden because it was an embarrasment to the Darwinists. Now, I ask the question: was Wistar bad science(like so many evolutionists have called Gish's book?). If so, WHY? One thing is for certain; nobody can accuse the scientists involved in Wistar to be Creationists - they were atheists to a last man, for heaven's sake. It was most definetly not a conspiracy in which the outcome was jury-rigged. Now, for all I know, some reason may preclude mathmatics from being a reliable tool to use in discussions of Darwinian natural selection. But if so, it must be PROVED thus. To date, all I have read of this critique of Darwinism have been strawman arguments that state that: well, just because it is highly improbable does not mean it can't happen by chance. After all, what are the odds of getting a winning hand in a poker game? Arguments like these (most famously instituted by pro-Darwinians such as Doolittle) grossly miss the point. The point is not that it is highly improbable but rather that the odds are so astronomical as to make the plausibility impossible. Now, to give an example: according to the laws of quantum mechanics, if all of the atoms on the moon had exactly the same spin at exactly the same second, the moon COULD leave it's orbit from the earth. This is a probabalistic fact. However, the point is, it WON'T. Even though it is mathmatically possible, it is realistically impossible because the moon has too many atoms to make this feat plausible. The same goes for the odds of Darwinian evolution happening just so in the mere 4 & a half billion years (or so) that the earth has been around. Now, I ask the question, yea hardcore Darwinists: why is it that the Wistar Institute does not warrant even so much as a footnote on any collegiate or high school biology text in the world? After all, if it had shown so much as a shred of evidence that Darwinism was mathmatically acceptable, I GUARANTEE you that it would be in EVERY student's biological textbook and would be as familiar to the layman's vocabulary as Einstein's theory of Relativity. Is this not a double-standard? If the scientists at Wistar were wrong (they could have been) then they must be PROVEN wrong. However, after 30 years, as MIT theoretical physicist Gerald Schoeder has attested, the odds have if anything gone UP. I find it rather fascinating that the same neo-Darwinists who find their paradigm so mathematically credible do not stay up at night with dark thoughts about the moon leaving the orbit of the Earth. So, where am I going with this, you ask? Well, this is my point: if the scientific community is and was unwilling to accept the findings of it's own old-boy-club happy-as-can-be atheists, how in the world do you expect them to pay attention to a molecular biologist who dares to mention the dirty G word? I think that Gish deserves some slack on this one. That is, unless you believe in the double-standards that Sagan so vehemently wanted to jettison from the realm of science....

Quit slinging mud, and give an honest review........2006-05-16

Lets see, every unfavorable review I've read on this book has been written to Slam the Author with Ad Hoc arguments instead of presenting anything resembling a true scientific rebuttle. It seems appearent to me that those who don't like the book are forced to face their fears that there might truly be a God out there who is going to hold them accountable for their sins, and thus, they squirm, writhe, and spew out every angry, hateful, unfounded, foolish, and truly unscientific thought in their head.

They hate the book, and Author, because the Author favors Creationism, as does the fossil record (the undistorted one not taught in public schools). Their arguments are geared twards religion, even though the books topic is of scientific nature. Incedently, there is nothing that an Atheist thinks about, writes about, eats - sleeps - breaths -and p$$$s about, more than religion, namely Christianity. Atheism (in my opinion) is an obsession with religion, namely Christianity, though an Atheist will never be honest, or perceptive enough to realize their disfunctionality.

This book is well written, researched, outrighlty shows the falicies, and falsehoods of Evolution -in the words of the Evolutionists themselves. The pages are littered with references to actual evolutionary textbooks, written by devout Evolutionist. Their own words condemn them. That is what I find most interesting about this book -and I know it must gaul Evolutionists / Atheist something terrible!

I only wish that there were more illustrations, and diagrams detailing such things as (the anatomy of reptiles vs. amphibians vs. fish vs. birds vs. mamals). All in all, I find the book well researched, and well presented, but it takes more than a Jr. High reading ability to understand, assimilate, and enjoy it. Perhapps that's why most evolution supporters don't like it. The book requires a true, honest scientific mind to objectively read and understand it. Evolutionists are hypochritically looking at it through their own religious dogma.

In Closing, I want to point out that those persons whove assigned one or two stars to this book, and used Ad Hoc arguments have truly helped the least amount of people, as opposed to those who've given their honest opinions. Check the numbers for yourselves, numbers don't lie. Meanwhile, if your reading ability is good, and above the average Evolutionist, than I suggest that you puruse this book before you decide to buy it to make certain that you'll really enjoy it. It is one of the best I've read, so far on the subject -and I do read all things critically, and so should you -researching what you read. Then, you'll understand just how absurd evolution really is, and why the FOSSILS STILL SAY "NO!!!!!"

Dear Travis.......2006-02-27

Einstein's Relativity theories have had so many holes poked in them that they're starting to look like Swiss cheese and we have Quantum Physics to thank for it. Please refrain from putting them in the same context.

Stupid and dishonest, typical for Gish.......2005-06-18

Gish recently retired, so let's take one last look at one of his most popular books, Evolution? The Fossils Say No! (ETFSN).

Throughout his creationist career, Gish was a prime example of the "lying for Jesus" strategy. ETFSN contains many examples of Gish's legendary dishonesty.

Let's start with Gish's ancient quotes and references. ETFSN, copyright 1995, has over 75 citations and/or quotations from 1970 or earlier! That's pathetic.

It also calls a 31-year old study on radiometric dating "recent." That's blatantly dishonest.

In debates in the '70s and `80s, Gish claimed that the geologic column is based on the assumption of evolution, but in 1982 Chris McGowan challenged him with a geology book written before Darwin had even been born, showing essentially the same geologic column used today. Faced with this evidence, Gish admitted his error and withdrew the argument. So, that seems reasonable. Gish made an innocent mistake, admitted the error, and withdrew the argument. End of story, right? Not quite. Despite having admitted that the argument was wrong, Gish continued using it in subsequent debates and included it again in ETFSN! That's contemptible.

Gish also makes numerous mistakes. For example, he insists that "fully functional" anatomical features, like feathers and wings, can't evolve step by step, and in fact would be completely useless in less than "fully functional" form. But recent fossil discoveries show ancient dinosaurs with very primitive feathers, little more than fuzzy hairs. Later there are dinosaurs with fluffy, not aerodynamic, feathers. Only much later do we finally find fully aerodynamic feathers on reptilian-looking birds. So fossils actually say YES to evolution!

Wings can exist in less than "fully functional" form, too. Richard Dawkins points out that some frogs use webbed feet for gliding, tree-snakes with flattened bodies can maneuver through the air, and some squirrels have flaps along their bodies for gliding. Not only are animals with half a wing common in nature, so are animals with a third of a wing, a fourth of a wing, or even less!

But even more critical than his many mistakes, Gish simply can't be trusted to tell the truth. Richard Trott reports a whole series of falsehoods by Gish during a 1994 talk at Rutgers. For example, Gish stated that there are no fossil precursors to the dinosaur Triceratops. In reality there are well known precursors, Monoclonius and Protoceratops, which appear in proper sequence in the fossil record and show the expected change in body size, number of horns, etc. Gish also indicated that all three ceratopsians were contemporaneous. In reality, Protoceratops came first, followed by Monoclonius, followed by Triceratops. Trott's article exposing Gish's falsehoods prompted a reply from Gish which contained still more dishonest statements!

Joyce Arthur reports another series of Gish falsehoods. In the 1979 version of ETFSN, Gish claimed that Dubois concealed his discovery of Wadjak Man for about 30 years. But in 1982 C. Loring Brace told Gish in a debate that Dubois had actually published, not one, but two reports about Wadjak Man shortly after its discovery. Nevertheless, Gish repeated the same falsehood in Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record (1985) and again in a 1992 debate with Karl Fezer. Fezer even provided Gish with the references for Dubois's publications on Wadjak Man, but Gish repeated the same falsehood yet again in ETFSN. Arthur pointed out Gish's falsehood again in 1996, but Gish repeated it yet again in a 1997 debate. Such blatant, repetitive dishonesty is simply contemptible.

In a 1983 PBS broadcast, Gish dismissed the significance of the similarity of chimp and human proteins, claiming that some bullfrog proteins were more similar to human proteins than chimp proteins were. Asked to identify the specific proteins, Gish promised to do so, claiming that he had them in his records, but he never produced them, including in ETFSN. In fact, there were no such proteins. Gish simply made them up.

Gish has such a poor reputation, that even other creationists frequently just ignore him. For example, in 1985 Gish classified Java Man, Peking Man, and ER 1470 as clearly ape; but in 1992 Lubenow classified all three as clearly human!

Gish recently retired from the ICR, which worked hand in hand with Gish in spreading falsehoods. The ICR promotes and sells Gish's trashy books, including his comic book "Have You Been Brainwashed?" The ICR continued selling the original version for at least nine more years after Gish himself admitted that it contained numerous errors. The ICR is still selling a revised, 1994 version, but even the revised version still contains some of the same errors as the original! So who is brainwashing whom???

These examples (and many others) show how dishonest Gish is and help explain why creationists publish their ideas in oral debates and lectures, or in popular books like ETFSN, not in professional science journals. In debates, if Gish is caught in a falsehood in front of one audience, that doesn't prevent him from repeating the same falsehood in front of other audiences. And in books like ETFSN, Gish knows he can get away with lying, because most creationists aren't likely to check his statements. Such blatant dishonesty can't survive the peer-review process of professional science journals, however, which is why creationists like Gish never publish their creationist trash there.

The book of lies~!.......2004-11-21

Shame on Gish. He once again throws together a manipulative pack of lies and distortions (and he knows it), with no factual evidence supporting his obsured ideas. I just can't see how this disgusting man still holds any bit of sway with anybody, but then again I've never undergone the misfortune of being brainwashed by a fundie church. Shame on you Gish, SHAME ON YOU~!

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Evolution : Fossils Still Say No
Duane T. Gish
Manufacturer: Master Books
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In a blend of theory and real-life applications, this book presents a comprehensive introduction to electricity that's tailored specifically for future HVAC technicians. Coverage places a strong emphasis on troubleshooting and discusses such topics as electron theory; magnetism; Ohm's law and the electric circuit; series circuits; parallel and series parallel circuits; electric meters; batteries and electromotive force; alternating current; electrical safety; capacitance and inductance; electrical power and energy; transformers; phase shift and power factor; electric motors; motor-starting circuits; control devices; semiconductor devices; air-conditioning circuits; refrigeration circuits; troubleshooting; gas-furnace controls; conditioned air delivery; electrical symbols common to air-conditioning systems; and powers of ten. For practicing HVAC technicians and those interested in basic electricity.

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good deal for the price.......2007-01-07

It doesn't get any better than this book for such low price, buy it you wont regret it.

Mathematics review for health physics technicians

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Mathematics review for health physics technicians
K. Paul Steinmeyer
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excellent refresher book.......2001-02-08

This book is used at my place of business for training new employees. It has proven itself to be an excellent refresher for those employees who want to regain the knowledge of basic math through pre-calculus.

Physical science - Level I (Longman technician series)

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Physical science - Level I (Longman technician series)
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Physical Science for Technicians
W. Bolton
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Physical science for technicians 1
Randall McMullan
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Physics for Electronics Technicians
Bureau of Naval Personnel
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Physics for Electronics Technicians - NAVPERS 10095 (Navy Training Courses)

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Physics for Electronics Technicians - NAVPERS 10095 (Navy Training Courses)

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Physics for Technicians: A Systems Approach

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Physics for Technicians: A Systems Approach

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When Beauty (a dreamy-looking bloodhound) is 17 she finds a shaggy dog crone spinning and pricks her paw, setting off a curse. The whole palace falls asleep until a brave collie prince comes along to give Beauty that magic awakening sniff, lick, and at last a kiss.

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