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Emulsification and Polymerization of Alkyd Resins (TOPICS IN APPLIED CHEMISTRY (Topics in Applied Chemistry)
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This original research, published here for the first time in book format, describes in detail an entirely new process for preparing emulsions and alkyd resin emulsions, leading to many applications, foremost among them the formulation of new paints. This research has also spawned the international field of alkyd and alkyd-hybrid miniemulsions. Pioneering technology is presented for the emulsification of alkyd resins and vegetable oils used in coatings, adhesives, and inks applications.
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Evolutionäre Spieltheorie: Grundlagen und neue Ansätze (Studies in Contemporary Economics)
Erwin Amann
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Die Theorie strategischen Handelns prägt die moderne sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung. Angesichts deren extremer Prämissen hat sich, ausgehend von biologischen Ansätzen zur Entwicklung der Arten, eine alternative Theorie zur Erklärung individuellen Verhaltens entwickelt. Die Evolutionäre Spieltheorie verzichtet auf die, empirisch fragwürdigen, Prämissen vollkommener Rationalität, vollkommener Information und perfekter Verhaltenskoordinierung. Diese werden durch die Annahme von Anpassungsprozessen, die der biologischen Evolution nachempfunden sind, ersetzt. Das Buch dokumentiert die Entstehung dieser Richtung und zeigt dem Leser die Möglichkeiten auf, die diese Theorie eröffnet.Das Werk zeichnet sich durch seine gute Verständlichkeit aus und eignet sich unter anderem dadurch für den Einsatz als studienbegleitendes Lehrbuch.
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A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.
Customer Reviews:
"Fatality Makes Us Invisible".......2007-05-12
This is not a sweet, comfortable tale. From the first sentence, we know what the center of the story is, and we learn how it unfolds - inevitably, with a sense of fatalism. The whole town knows what will happen, and they are powerless to stop it - in fact, in various ways, the collection of characters that inhabit the hot, fragrant, unnamed town on the Caribbean coast actually make a murder possible.
It is extremely hard to describe this novel. It is short, complex, disturbing, confusing. The murder victim almost sleepwalks through the novel, pale and haunted, until the last few pages detailing his horrible death. The story has flashbacks, hallucinations, dreams and visions. For those who do not love Latin American literature, it may be a difficult read. It is peopled with many characters who merely touch on each other's lives. The person who tells the story is a shadowy figure, more of an observer than truly involved in the story. The setting is vividly drawn - the scents and sounds of the town, and above all, the stench of death. The ending, though "foretold" by fate, still raises questions in the reader's mind. How, why did it happen? Well, simply because it had to.
What a book !!!.......2007-02-04
I do not know what to write in here! but you know something guys? once I woke up form this dream, I just said WooOOooW !!!!
it is one hell of a Caribbean Gospel !!!
typical example of garcía márquez's works.......2007-01-29
gabriel garcía márquez is, without a doubt, the most original author of our time. his style is seemingly simplistic, but one must pay close attention in order to fully comprehend the story, sometimes even putting the book down and reflecting for a second what has just happened.
this book is amazing, the story of santiago nasar is a very intriguing one, and all the mysteries surrounding his death are absolutely fascinating.
Marquez at his best.......2007-01-10
A tight narrative with all the imagery one would expect from Marquez. You won't know you are being led into the role of accomplice until your finished and lean back and ask the question, what was this book about. I recommend it to those who are sick of labored novels.
A tragedy beautifully rendered.......2006-11-18
In this faux journalistic tale, Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes about the lives of ordinary people in a small town along a navigable river. A well to do man with matrimony on his mind arrives and picks out the young lady of his desire. Marquez focuses in on the values of the people and their traditions as the wedding approaches. The man buys her a house on a hill in anticipation presumably that she will bear him many children and he will be a leading citizen of the town.
Such is the dream of this relatively fancy man from a bigger town.
The dream of the young woman who is to be the bride is a bit different. We cannot know for sure, but like young women everywhere she would prefer to marry for love. But how can a woman from a poor family that makes its living slaughtering pigs turn down such an offer?
She can't and yet because she does not fake the virginity with a red-stained sheet that could be hung out to dry on a clothes line the next morning for all to see, she allows circumstance to dictate her future. Her shamed brothers in essence do the same. They act because no one will stop them from acting.
Marquez tells the story as a journalist narrating an event from the past. The suspense in this short novel comes not from what happens to the man who stole the girl's virginity: we know that from the very beginning, but from the aftermath and from the details of how the events transpire. What is easy to miss (and I missed it at first) is that brothers who believe they are duty-bound to perform the honor killing really wish to be stopped. In this we see the old ideas of the society being reluctantly continued by the people. They know there is a better way, but because they are small town traditionalists, they are powerless by themselves. Note that the bishop comes but doesn't stop. The Church itself does not help is perhaps the symbolic meaning.
And why doesn't the town act to stop the murder? Why were they all indifferent? Do we say that something like the disgrace of one family and what they do about that disgrace is something for them to decide alone, and that we should take no action in the affair, that we should let events run their course?
Marquez makes it clear that just about everybody knew what was going to take place. I see this as a passive acceptance of a way of life imposed upon a people by ancient custom and tradition. This is the way of human nature in a traditional society. This is a tragedy foretold but not forestalled. And note that the tragedy happens to both the man who is murdered and to his family and to the murderers and the family of the murderers.
Is an honor killing right? Clearly the law will punish the murderers, the town's people know; but perhaps there will be some leniency from a jury or a magistrate considering the nature of the crime. And no doubt the philandering man who took advantage of the young woman deserves at least in part what will happen to him. I wonder, however, if the man had been a popular person, a younger person, would everyone have stood by and let him be slaughtered?
Note that the young woman herself had the power to name a name and she did. She could have refused. She could have lied.
Still another thing to note, and this reveals an unavoidable artificiality to the story: some women lose their hymen not through the act of intercourse, but through some sort of mishap or even through the normal rough and tumble course of growing up. There are many women who have lost their hymens who are nonetheless virgins. She could have claimed that something like that was the case. She may not have been believed but at least the man who had stolen her virginity would not have died.
Note too that Marquez is careful from the very beginning of the story to show us that Santiago Nasar was a womanizer and a man who would take advantage of the maid or the cook's daughter. In this way we are predisposed not to like him. Undoubtedly the town in general felt the same way. Clearly the young woman had been hurt by this man.
What Marquez has done in this short novel is examine a tragic event and show the reader not just the consequences but the entanglement of perspectives and values that led to the tragedy.
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Everything that has happenedor ever will happencan be found in the Book of Destiny, brother to the Sandman. The information contained on even a single page would be priceless, if mortals ever had the chance to see it. Now, an enigmatic stranger offers salvation to a lonely young woman in a plague-ravaged community when he announces that he has a page from the Book of Destiny. Suggested for mature readers.
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Disappointing Destiny.......2004-09-29
There are people that do Neil Gaiman's world well (Mike Carey and Jill Thompson are two that come quickly to mind). Alisa Kwitney, a former editor at Vertigo attempts to tell the story of our near-future where the bubonic plague has struck and killed off most of the world's population a la Stephen King's "The Stand." Narrated by Ruth, Kwitney's stand-in, the story wants to be a meditation on what it is like to live simply because one is alive. Into this mix (and to justify the comic) appears a "mysterious stranger" who has a book that contains a stolen page from Destiny's book. How the page was stolen, how it pertains to the plague and the previous plagues through the centuries, plus the random appearances of Destiny of the Endless become the bulk of this bulky sloppy book. There is a story in here SOMEWHERE, but Kwitney seems to confuse her shallows with her depths with characters who are obvious archetypes. We've seen this story before, better written, with more clarity and skill than Kwitney delivers. The fact of her familiarity through her editing work on (or near) the Vertigo books DOESN'T make her writer of greater insight into the Sandman's world, which is really why anyone would pick this book up in the first place. For a read on a character that steps out and stands alone without losing any of the magic of the world of Sandman and the Endless, try "The Furies," which follows the story of Lyta Hall, the distraught former mother and destructor of the Sandman. That story is handled with grace, creating a new and unique story which doesn't attempt to force the history of another writer's book into its own. Ultimately, "Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold" acts as a crass attempt to capitalize on the Vertigo character. In a better writer's hands, who knows? But in Kwitney's: you're destined to be disappointed.
A Fine Story.......2000-04-22
While this collection seemed to skimp on details in a few places, it was a nice read for someone still wanting more Sandman stories. However, the art is very nice, and appropriate for such a dark tale.
a collection of DC's three-part prestige mini series.......2000-04-06
Written by Alisa Kwitney, this book is beautifully painted by, Kent Williams, the cover art and framing sequence artist, Michael Zulli in part one, Scott Hampton in part two and Revecca Guay in part three. This time, Kent renders his works mainly with pencils and watercolor washes.
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Three of Garcia Marquez's classic short novels--Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold--available in one volume.
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Gabo is great from the beginning.......2004-03-01
LEAF STORM:
'Leaf Storm' is known as the first novella published by Gabriel García Márquez. And from this debut is possible to see how big he would become one day. This book tells a very simple story that acquires multiple levels as it is told.
After the death of an infamous doctor of Macondo his only friends, this friend's daughter and her son gather to the funerals. The dead man is known as the devil and everyone hates him. His death made the city very happy. As the story is unfolded, we learn why he's so hated and how come the threesome ended up there to mourn him.
Using multiple points of views, Gabo gives the three protagonists chances to speak to themselves and we can find out how dreadful is to each of one be there. The writer is able to switch the point of view, and also the language --after all, a little boy does not speak as an old man. This is one of the remarkable qualities of this wonderful novella.
This is the very first time that the imaginary place Macondo appears in Gabo's story and it became a seminal place of his stories --among them the masterpiece 'A Hundred years of solitude'.
Two out of three ain't bad........2003-03-04
The less said about 'Leaf Storm,' the better, I think. It was Garcia Marquez's first piece of long fiction, written in his twenties, and the truth is, it's not very good. Actually, it's pretty bad. It's overwritten in that 'bad Faulkner' way, and it lacks anything that would make for an interesting story--compelling characters, powerful conflicts, interesting ideas--none of these are to be found therein. It feels as if it should have received quite a bit of revision before publication. As it stands, its only real value is as an embryonic draft of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
'No One Writes to the Colonel,' on the other hand, is a truly excellent story. It's a slow, meditative piece with very little action, chronicling a month or so in the life of the title character and his wife in a stagnant Colombian town as he waits in vain for the pension, which he has been owed for fifteen years, to arrive in the mail. Although it's a subdued story saturated with sorrow and regret, it also features a strong undercurrent of hope which cannot be extinguished. The Colonel is an inspiring character, and, after One Hundred Years of Solitude, his story is my favorite thing I've read by Garcia Marquez. Apparently there's been a movie made of it, but I have no desire to see it.
'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' is also very good. It tells of the events surrounding and leading up to a brutal murder which ultimately implicates an entire town. Featuring the recollections of dozens of characters who were involved in the event, peripherally or seriously, it weaves a mesmerizing web of small events that all happen just the wrong way. The death is indeed 'foretold;' it could easily have been prevented by just about anyone in the story, yet somehow, no one does. In spite of knowing what's going to happen from the beginning, the story remains riveting, and even suspenseful, throughout. Don't miss it.
This volume is certainly a must-own for Garcia Marquez fans. Combined with Collected Stories, it includes the entire body of his early short fiction--so don't buy Leaf Storm and Other Stories, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, Innocent Erdendira and Other Stories, or Chronicle of a Death Foretold. They're redundant. No sense flinging money out windows, eh? Cheers!
Great Affordable Collection.......2000-03-20
Here between the bounds of this paperback we have 3 very good translations of short novels from the hand of Marquez...although I have yet to fully grasp "Leaf Storm", it does offer to the reader a sort of prelude to "Macondo"...although don't expect the world to be potrayed as it was in "One Hundred years of Solitude". ...the 2nd novella "No One Writes Colonel" is a great read...here is everyday life, as the colonel awaits a letter...however it is the third novella, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" that drew me in, as a gripping page turner. Marquez holds our interest with his detailed account, even though we already know the outcome. It is a great collection and a good follow up if you have finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Highly recommended because in this edition you get al three works, whilst you could pay up to thrice as much if you pursued them seperately....
poor colonel.......2000-01-28
I read this novel which was written in spanish for part of my spanish A level course at school. I am now at university and have decided to do a topic about Garcia Marques as his work was so insperational to me. The novel portrays a poor mans strugle for survival and has a theme of poverty and deceipt running throughout the novel. The colonel is a symbol of hope whilst his wife is the complete opposite. The colonel waitsfor a letter that never arrives and at the end of the novel the colonel has to force himself to wake up to reality which is displayed by the ironic use of the word 'mierda' at the end of the novel. The imagery and language used in the novel is excellent and i would definatly recommend this novel.
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Squarebound prestige format comic book. Features Destiny of The Endless (created by Neil Gaiman). Book 2 of 3.
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Squarebound prestige format comic book. Features Destiny of The Endless (created by Neil Gaiman). Book 3 of 3.
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GradeSaver(TM) ClassicNotes are the ultimate study guides, written by Harvard students for students! Each note includes: * An author biography * An in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary * A short summary * A character list and related descriptions * A list of themes * A glossary * Historical context * Two academic essays * 100 quiz questions to improve test taking skills!
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The world's oldest living vampire assumes a mortal identity--and experiences a blazing passion for a woman that brings his tired heart back to life.
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The world's oldest living vampire assumes a mortal identity--and experiences a blazing passion for a woman that brings his tired heart back to life.
Customer Reviews:
Loved this entry to Holly's Upr series.......2007-07-29
I'd recommend the other "Midnight" books before you read this to give you background. It can be read as a stand alone, but the series builds to this point. The entire Upr ("Midnight" series) has just the right amount of well-developed storylines combined with sensuality to make these books a thoroughly enjoyable escapist read.
What a Read!.......2007-04-14
Emma Holly can do no wrong! I just discovered the author recently, and I am glad that I did. Courting Midnight is sensual and entertaining--perfect escape.
Emma Holly Fans Please Read.......2007-03-24
I am a huge Emma Holly fan and was excited to read some of her older work. I have to say this was not a favorite. It is not bad by any means, but it is also not what I was expecting from a Holly book. The characters are not written as well as they usually are and the love scenes are a bit boring-not typical Holly! I would suggest buying this book super-cheap (which is what I did), if you're curious, and saving the real money for a better Emma Holly book.
vampires.......2006-09-02
This book wasn't to my taste. Not funny enough, and I didn't like the charters enough to want to know them. Made it to the end and it is not a keeper.
I had high hopes for this one..........2006-07-13
But I was disappointed after the third chapter. The premise of a very old vamp taking on the identity of a dying human that he happens to resemble had some promise. I enjoyed the fantasy of the connection to the animals and the vamps powers...but then it takes on a Feehan-like quality with the human heroine our vamp connects to. She's slightly unusual, I'll give the author credit but I felt like the time and place didn't really come together in this one. It was surface level. Emma Holly writes well and I know I've enjoyed other books of hers more than this one. Ah well, on to the next one!
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