Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds : Theory and Applications in Inorganic Chemistry (Volume A)

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The most comprehensive guide to infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic and coordination compounds--now fully revised and updated

Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds has always provided fundamental theories of vibrational spectroscopy in a condensed form and their applications to inorganic and coordination compounds. The Fifth Edition continues to cover these theories and applications, which have been updated by adding many new topics, figures, tables, and references.

Part A of this two-volume work describes basic theories of normal vibrations including the method of normal coordinate analysis, resonance Raman spectroscopy, and vibrational analysis of crystals in clear and precise terms, and applies them to relatively simple inorganic compounds while leaving the applications to larger and more complex systems to Part B. This new edition
* Incorporates new topics such as the correlation method, lattice vibrations, ceramic superconductors, and carbon clusters such as buckminsterfullerene
* Offers numerous references to the recent research in the field
* Reviews significant new literature on the subject
* Provides many infrared and Raman spectral charts of typical compounds
* Features 116 illustrations
* Contains appendices consisting of tables, charts, and supplementary information

Used independently or in combination with Part B, this is an excellent textbook for graduate-level course work, and the most comprehensive reference book available for researchers in the fields of vibrational spectroscopy, inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry.

Also Available: Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds, 5th Edition, Part B: Applications in Coordination, Organometallic, and Bioinorganic Chemistry, 1997 0-471-16392-9

Analytical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy

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Analytical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy
Michael J. Pelletier
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With comprehensive coverage, Applications of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy provides practitioners of SERS with a resource of current applications described by experts in each area to guide their own applications of this technology. This book covers both the traditional applications in chemical and biochemical research as well as commercial applications in the areas of environmental science, forensics, and pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. It emphasizes the hot-topic areas of homeland security and medical applications. Offering groundwork for future application development, this text is essential for analytical chemists involved in trace chemical analysis and those companies selling SERS products.

Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and Chemical Applications (Ellis Horwood Series in Analytical Chemistry)

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Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds : Applications in Coordination, Organometallic, and Bioinorganic Chemistry (Volume B)

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Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds : Applications in Coordination, Organometallic, and Bioinorganic Chemistry (Volume B)
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Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds (2 Volume Set)

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The most comprehensive guide to infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic and coordination compounds-now fully revised and updated

This book has served as the definitive guide to infrared and Raman spectroscopy of inorganic and coordination compounds from the time of its first publication in 1963. The Fifth Edition consists of two self-contained volumes: Part A describes basic theories of normal vibrations and their applications to relatively simple inorganic compounds, while Part B extends them to larger and more complex systems-coordination compounds, organometallic compounds, and bioinorganic compounds.

Part B shows how one can deduce structural and bonding information from vibrational spectra. For this purpose, the compounds have been classified into each structural type, their vibrational frequencies and band assignments listed, and typical infrared/Raman spectra illustrated. Special emphasis has been placed on metal-ligand vibrations that appear in the low-frequency region. This new edition
* Incorporates new topics, including complexes of carbon dioxide and dihydrogen and metal complex-DNA interactions
* Offers many references to the latest research in the field
* Reviews all important new results obtained on the subject
* Provides many infrared and Raman spectral charts of typical compounds
* Features 156 illustrations

This is the best reference book for researchers and graduate students in this field today.

Also Available: Infrared and Raman Spectra of Inorganic and Coordination Compounds, 5th Edition, Part A: Theory and Applications in Inorganic Chemistry, 1997 0-471-16394-5

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spectroscopy infrarred y raman.......1999-10-30

lo nesecito para teminar mi tesis en compuestos nafthalocianine and porfhirine of vanadyl with substitucion phenyl sobre surface de cooper kind mirrow .please before 3 nov. 1999

Proceedings of Biomedical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy: 25-26 January 1999 San Jose, California (Spie Series Volume 3608: Progress in Biomedical Optics)

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The detection of single molecules opens up new horizons in analytical chemistry, biology and medicine. This discipline, which belongs to the expanding field of nanoscience, has been rapidly emerging over the last ten years.
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Vibrational Spectroscopy: Methods and Applications (Ellis Horwood Series in Analytical Chemistry)

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"Eve's Seed is a bestseller waiting to be discovered: a package of sex, science, and species' vanity nicely wrapped in sparkling prose."--Joyce Appleby, Los Angeles Times

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In this provocative reinterpretation of the human experience, noted historian Robert S. McElvaine bridges the gap between evolutionary biology and history to create a new approach he terms "biohistory". Here for the first time he presents a startlingly fresh thesis: misperceptions about sexual difference and procreative power have, along with misleading sexual metaphors, been the major forces in history. In a bold departure from the methods of conventional history, McElvaine draws on a wide range of sources, from biology, anthropology, archaeology, mythology, religion, and popular culture, to show how the interplay between our evolutionary heritage and changing environments has shaped the course of history, from hunter-gatherers to the contemporary world. Doubly controversial for its method and its contention that "prehistoric" developments devalued men, subordinated women and continue to misshape our lives, Eve's Seed is sure to engender debate.

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A Good Start.......2006-08-08

Being aware myself that men talk about their seed when it would be more accurate to talk about their pollen I was intrigued to come across such an extensive theory based on this very mistaken metaphor.
This book is a great read and certainly we need to understand human nature and include it in our understanding of our history and ourselves today. McElvaine makes a good first stab at this and I will not repeat his argument again but point out a few important errors.

The faults with the book concern the biology, both the factual errors and the lack of real exploration. The descriptions of the mating behavior of primates are not fully correct, especially regarding gorillas - the silverback has a very small penis and testicles and little interest in sex except when a female is ovulating which means at intervals of three to four years, hardly comparable to humans. McElvaine also says that animals rarely kill members of their own species but Dian Fossey stated that 25% of gorilla mortality was due to the male gorilla - he kills both other males and infants if he ousts a resident male.

The biggest error is that apes are, in fact, not matrilineal. In chimpanzees and bonobos the males remain for life in their natal group and the females leave at puberty. This is most likely the case for hominids and humans ie human females have hardly ever been matilineal and had the benefit of this base for kin or female-female bonding.

McElvaine makes a big case for human 'mounting' behavior which may be valid but amongst other primate species there is no universal evidence for it correlating directly with dominance and submission. Sometimes the dominant individual is mounted, sometimes females mount their female 'friends', sometimes a presentation is a way to give an olfactory signal by a dominant. Also, presentations that are submissive are very different from the upright, assertive, four-square stance of a female soliciting a copulation.

These errors do not greatly undermine any of the arguments but do show that when we are going to use biology in an argument we need to know more than just a little biology. The fact that human males have nearly always spent their whole life with kin when females have had to join a new group to breed is an enormously important factor in the repression of human females and the dominance of men and masculine values - including men fighting over possession of such females. Looking at primate behavior tends to show that the roots of some of our behavior were very deep and strong well before agriculture came along.

Also, even if we do think more about the male/female spectrum of human nature there may well be a number of males at the masculine end of the spectrum who are not striving to be anything other than they naturally are - ie are extreme males who simply have little or no capacity for feminine values. If these are the dangerous males then the best we can do is to stop allowing them and their virtual 100% masculinity to be the role models for the more average male - or even the average human.

McElvaine's points about the false metaphors we use, male-biased language and attitudes, misogyny, a male creator, the belittling of feminine values and behaviors and the impossible way men try to be 'notawoman' are certainly strong and in many ways obvious when pointed out. And it is surely foolish to think that such a lop-sided species can hope for anything other than toppling over in the mightiest of Falls.

McElvaine offers a few ideas about how we might be able to overcome our maladaptive proclivities but it is an enormous task both to recognize our human errors and for men to ever overcome their maladaptive inheritance and genuinely not feel so much contempt for the feminine in human nature. It is hard to imagine the necessary changes coming any time soon.

A highly recommended read and hopefully it will open up essential further explorations in this area.

What a great insight!.......2005-10-12

This book has been especially useful for a university paper I was working on. It passed some time since that but the concepts I read are still fresh in my memory, since it were concepts I've been suspicious for a long time. One might think that the author forced a note in affirming the male dominance is caused by the male "impotence", but if you take an impartial look you'll find he is right. Don't get me wrong: I have no problems in beeing a man, but I'm honest enough to recognize that the western world is based on a patriarchal figure, on a concept of a man that needs constantly to prove to himself and to others that he is no woman, that he is not a sissy or a gay - wich is even worse -, but, on the contrary, that he is a real macho, a sex machine that can "score" as many women as he wants since they are so inferior that they get completely overwhelmed by his mere presence. It's sad but it's the reality.
Fortunately, things are changing. In Spain we had notice of the first girl (she's 16) that joined a senior male soccer team as an advancee. In Germany, Angela Merkel is the first woman to be nominated chancelor. In the great majority of western countries, the armed forces do accept equally male and female recruits.
It reminds me the movie of 007 "Goldeneye", when the Admiral said to M (a woman) that she didn't had the "balls" to stand in face of the situation, to wich she replied that she had the advantage of not having to be thinking with them all the time...
It would be nice if in the future our leaders will think less with the "balls" and more with the brains...

Trite tripe.......2004-06-04

This is a sad effort and sadder still that these ideas were published. The fact that any publisher believes that readers of social history would be interested in such a twisted analysis of the nature of man/woman and the development of societies is indeed sad. McElvaine is a longtime self promoting boor stuck in a jerkwater academic environment with way too much time for idle pondering. His imagination worked overdrive to produce this piece of fantasy. I guess if any of us had enough time on our hands we too could construct elaborate theories on the 'nature of things' and put enough of a self-loathing feminist slant on it to attract a fringe readership. That's what happened here. Don't waste your time. A disturbing aspect to this is that he's teaching the next generation of leaders.

Men are from women, not Mars.......2003-03-31

This is the book I've been looking for. It explains the world we're living in right now. And where we've been. This book really gets to the root of the basic problem: men arn't able to be men because we're afraid of our femininity. So we're half-men, and we're so [angry] at being half-men that we take it out on women. We blame them for it. That's it in a nutshell. And it all started thousands of years ago, with the agricultural revolution, when we lost our place in society. We were out of a job. And we've been playing catch-up ever since. And still are today: it's still going on. NOTE: I'm writing this on the 10th day of the insane war we're waging on Iraq. After reading this book, you'll understand why these insecure, infantile itiots mask their impotence by waging war. We are at this moment witnessing the catastrophic consequences of the hyper-masculinity that he talks about. As long as we define man as "not-a-woman," we're [stuck.]

Avoid At All Costs!!.......2002-11-07

Let me hopefully save you from having to plow through several hundred pages of bunk. Even though McElvaine takes issue with a few feminists along the way, this is basically a feminist work: McElvaine finds male malfeasance and female disadvantage in all places and times down through history.

Demonstrating how a little knowledge can be a dangerous things, he starts out by wading ankle deep into the currently trendy and sales-worthy waters of evolutionary psychology in attempting to write a history rooted in our evolved nature, but he never even distinghuishes in Darwin's theory between *natural* selection and *sexual* selection; indeed, the latter term is not to be found anywhere in the book. McElvaine's knowledge of things evolutionary wouldn't get him a passing grade in an easy 101 class. He has an entire chapter on sex differences, where he bends over backwards to minimize these and downplay their significance -- then he bases his whole crazy story throughout the rest of the book on rather Victorian stereotypes about the sexes, particularly the shortcomings of males; i.e., men are uncivilized aggressive beasts, whereas women are gentle nurturing angels. In short, masculine/male = bad, feminine/female = good. You know the drill. It's called sexism...I could easily go on -- there's that much which can be made fun of here -- but will end by asking a salient question not posed by the book: if human nature is unchanged over historic times, why even bother with the Rorschach test of the dim uncertain past and pre-history when attempting to get at what that nature is? Why not just observe current behavior?

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Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy provides the largest published collection of quotations pertaining to physics and astronomy. Some quotes are profound, others are wise, some are witty but none are frivolous. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from anti-matter to x-rays. This book can be read for pleasure or used as a handy reference by students, scientific readers, and the more general reader who is interested in who has said what on physics and astronomy.

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The best of its kind. Also the only one........2000-10-12

"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants. God does not play dice. All science is either physics or stamp collecting." And so on. If you are a physicist, you can probably cite from the top of your head a dozen more witty quotations attributed to some celebrity physicist. Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, for instance, seem to have been especially prolific in this area. But while there seems to be no shortage of resources scattered in books, journals and across the Internet, there is a surprising shortage of books containing collected quotations on physics. I might have missed some, but this is exactly the only one I know. There exist, however, more general dictionaries of scientific quotations like Mackay's.

Around 1800 quotations (estimated) - contributed not only by physicists, but also by several poets - are sorted by subject (black holes, chaos, experiment, neutrino, quantum theory etc.). Apart from this, two indices are provided: a subject by author index and an author by subject index. Apart from few quotations listed as "Unknown", they are usually provided with the source, including page number, and a generous list of over 800 references is included.

Strangely enough - or perhaps not for a pioneering work, as the compilers claim it to be - you will probably easily find several well-known quotations missing in the book. From the three I have started with, Newton's and Einstein's quotations are missing, and Rutherford's is misquoted. This, of course, cannot serve to diminish the meticulous work Mr. and Mrs. Gaither - none of them a physicist - had accomplished. I am wondering though if consulting some physicist might improve the end result. They are somewhat suspiciously missing in the acknowledgment.

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