Kinetics of Homogeneous Multistep Reactions (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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Hardbound. This book addresses primarily the chemist and engineer in industrial research and process development, where competitive pressures put a premium on scale-up by large factors to cut development time. To be safe, such scale-up should be based on "fundamental" kinetics, that is, mathematics that reflect the elementary steps of which the reactions consist. The book forges fundamental kinetics into a practical tool by presenting new effective methods for elucidation of mechanisms and reduction of mathematical complexity without unacceptable sacrifice in accuracy.
For elucidation of pathways and networks, the book provides a host of new rules relating typical network configurations to observable kinetic behavior. Any configuration producing behavior contrary to observation cannot be correct, so incorrect networks can be rejected by whole classes instead of one by one. For modeling, the book provides general equations and algorithms applicable t

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John Steinbeck was never content to repeat himself, and his restless search for new forms and fresh subject matter is fully evident in the books of his later years. This volume collects four novels that exhibit the full range of his gift, along with a travel book that has become one of his most enduringly popular works.

In The Wayward Bus (1947), Steinbeck leads a group of ill-matched passengers representing a spectrum of social types and classes, stranded by a washed-out bridge, on a circuitous journey that exposes cruelties, self-deceptions, and unsuspected moral strengths. The tone ranges from boisterous comedy to trenchant satirical observation of postwar America. Burning Bright (1950), an allegory set against shifting backgrounds (circus, sea, farm) and revolving around the fear of sterility and the desire for self-perpetuation, marks Steinbeck's involvement with the drama in its fusion of the forms of novel and play.

Sweet Thursday (1954) marks Steinbeck's return, in a mood of sometimes frothy comedy, to the characters and milieu of his earlier Cannery Row. A love story set against the background of the local brothel, the Bear Flag, Sweet Thursday is for all its intimations of melancholy one of the most lighthearted of Steinbeck's books. It was subsequently adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein into their musical Pipe Dream. Steinbeck's final novel, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) is set in an old Long Island whaling town modeled on Sag Harbor, where he had been spending time since 1953. The book breaks new ground in its depiction of the crass commercialism of contemporary America, and its impact on a protagonist with traditionalist values who is appalled but finally tempted by the encroaching sleaziness.

Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) was Steinbeck's last published book. A record of his experiences and observations as he drove around America in a pickup truck, accompanied by his standard poodle Charley, it is filled with engaging, often humorous description and comes to a powerful climax in an encounter with racist demonstrators in New Orleans.

Robert DeMott, co-editor, is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University and the author of Steinbeck's Typewriter, an award-winning book of critical essays. Brian Railsback, co-editor, is dean of the Honors College at Western Carolina University and the author of Parallel Expeditions: Charles Darwin and the Art of John Steinbeck.

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Fititng Conclusion to Series.......2007-04-12

This volume is up to the LOA's customary magnificient standards. This is not Steinbeck's best work (although I persist in viewing "Sweet Thursday" as under-valued), but still worth every penny.
Steinbeck fans should have this on their shelves. DeMott's previous editorial work on The Grapes of Wrath establishes him as the editor of choice for any edition, and these Library of America editions are becoming, justifiably, the "standard" texts.

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How Sweet it is
No canning on cannery row
not a worthy sequel to cannery row.
The soul faded with the sardines...
Cannery Row II

Sweet Thursday (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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How Sweet it is.......2007-09-10

A nice follow up to the infamous Cannery Row. The characters are not quite as vivid as in Cannery row but still a nice easy read and it is good to see how some of the characters progressed.

No canning on cannery row.......2007-05-15

Well, folks, a sequel is a sequel. By definition, it is less original, creative, surprising than the first instalment. Granted.
Apart from that it is more of the same enjoyable ramble through different levels of life. Of course mainly the lower ones. Can't see Steinbeck writing a society novel.
During WWII, excessive fishing has depleted the seas around Monterey, so now in this post war period, there is no fish to be canned in cannery row. The story is set around the survivors from part I, mainly Doc and Mack etc. Add Fauna and Suzy as delightful new characters, not to forget the Patron, Joseph and Mary. What a name.
I loved it. Steinbeck had a great sense of humour. His fun stories are so much better than the mythical ones, like e.g. East of Eden or Burning Bright. Yes, he dropped a bit in productivity and creativity in his last 2 decades.
Not quite surprisingly then, part of the 'plot' of 'CRII' is a writer's block of the main hero, Doc. (Whose real life model had by then died in a car accident, by the way!)
I would agree that the story drops off speed a bit in the last quarter, since the pedictable outcome takes a little long in coming together.
One more thought: is there any other Murakami fan (like me) around here? Don't you agree that the seer in the chapter about the hole in reality could have walked straight into a Murakami story 40 years later? (Maybe it is time to relate Murakami more to Steinbeck than to Kafka!!)

not a worthy sequel to cannery row........2007-03-12

this is not a worthy sequel to cannery row, which is about as wonderful a book as any american has produced. sweet thursday itself rises not much above the level of a tv sitcom. prostitution here is treated like a warm, light-hearted profession, pure television sitcom hooey. i wish mr steinbeck had let cannery row stand on its own; for, while sweet thurday is an okay light read, it adds nothing to, and can only diminish the pleasures stored in one's memory of the classic original story. don't miss out on cannery row, or tortilla flat (another classic in the same vein), but feel free to skip sweet thurday, which is pure fluff compared to those two wonderful works. this book was a steinbeck mistake. i guess we all make them.

The soul faded with the sardines..........2007-02-27

I like this novel, I really do, but I just don't like it as much as the original CANNERY ROW. There was a bohemian, free-spirited, atmosphere in the original that just doesn't come out here, or at least it is much more subdued. It apparently dwindled along with the sardines.

Part of the problem is that the novel thinks too much. That is also the problem with the main character, Doc. He stops living for the day and starts thinking too damn much. Unfortunately his thinking, and Steinbeck's, has an irritatingly Freudian mold to it. The upper, middle, and lower voices that Doc hears sounds a little too much like the superego, ego, and id. But then maybe serving through the war in a VD unit changed Doc. In any case, this Doc is no longer like the original inspiration, Ed Ricketts. Ricketts had a strong spiritual side to his nature. The only place you find that here is in the character of the Seer- a person that still lives for the day and close to the earth- and still sees-and believes in- visions. But then, he is an outsider among outsiders even on the Row.

All-in-all this novel has more in common with the cold grey 50's then it does the 30's and 40's. The spirit is there but it is a fading echo. Maybe Steinbeck consciously, or unconsciously, sensed the creeping soul death in the land and this book just reflected it. Still, compared to today, it is a laid-back oasis of nonconformity and humanity.

Cannery Row II.......2007-02-14

In every way except the title, "Sweet Thursday" is a sequel to "Cannery Row". Most of the characters return, with a few new additions to the Monterey, California community. John Steinbeck again proves to be a master of developing charcters in this work. As is the case with most sequels, the second is not as good as the original.

Having read all of Steinbeck's other works except one, I went into this book with certain expectations. Knowing the characters in this story from a previous work, I expected Steinbeck to further develop these characters. Doc continues to be the centerpiece of the story. With the other members of the community rallying to his aid, the plot centers on the attempt to attain Doc a love interest. The "Seer" adds an interesting element to the story, which acts as a device for Steinbeck to give less realistic traits to the characters. This entertaining aspect sets this work apart form "Cannery Row".

This is not Steinbeck's best work. When a writer has such a high standard of excellence, it is hard to write a "Grapes of Wrath" in every book. Fans of Steinbeck will enjoy this work.

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Sweet Thursday

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One night Mack lay back on his bed in the Palace Flop-house and he said "I ain't never satisfied with that book Cannery Row. I would of went about it different".

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SWEET THURSDAY
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John Steinbeck
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Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school's marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose." When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't cancel the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.

The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history, and God. --Tim Appelo

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Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.
This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious."
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"John Irving is an abundantly and even joyfully talented storyteller."
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A Book that Will Stay With Me.......2007-09-05

I read this book at the recommendation of a friend who said this was one of the top three novels she'd encountered, and I couldn't agree more! I would highly recommend this novel to anyone who wants to enjoy a richly written, inspiring and very satisfying "good read."

Fantastic Book!.......2007-08-26

Great book! This is so well written and refreshing. It has held my
interest and enabled me to picture everything Irving has written.

boring book.......2007-08-23

my son had 2 read this 4 school i think it was very boring and all over the place u cant make heads or tails where their going in this book also if schools have to seperate church & school this should not have to be read

Heroics by non heros amidst the banality of life.......2007-08-06

It was 4a.m. on a work day when I finished, closed, set the book down, and wept. Not just a tear, but buckets, the rest of the house asleep leaving no witnesses to this unexpected and potentially embarrassing event. Very uncharacteristic of me. I couldn't recall a similar reaction in all my reading ... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
This book on my short list of favorite (fictional) books - meaning books that I would actually read a second time (along with such unlikely books as Crime and Punishment (Dostoyefski), and The Name of The Rose (Umberto Eco), both of which I have read several times). I realize that individual preferences are intensely personal, but reading some of the other reviews I see that this particular book is one that evokes a passionate response by quite a few people (a number of people regard this as their favorite book). This usually points to the book's ability to touch on universal themes of the human condition. But it's not for everyone - personal preferences, you know. Irving is not a prolific author, but a disproportionate number of his books have been made into movies. This book was the basis for Simon Birch - an enjoyable but not great movie (much smaller in scope and theme than the book.)
Irving weaves a story where unlikely characters - in particular a small deformed boy with a squeaky voice - do unlikely things with unexpectedly good consequences. This book is the opposite of a heroic epic where the world is made better by the brave efforts of great people doing great things. In this book, small broken people stumble through life, playing, working, doing inconsequential things, but after it all, redemption comes in a single brief act that leaves a tiny corner of the earth much better than it would otherwise have been, and personal meaning in life is not in the banality of a life lived, but the unexpected opportunities at altruism.
As to why I wept, I'm still not sure. I certainly came to care about the characters. A sign of a good author. Irving's style is appealing - I like long stories since they give more opportunity for character development via embedded stories that don't necessarily advance the plot. Perhaps it was late and I was tired - like some other reviewers, I got to the point where I could not put the book down and had to finish reading it in a single go. I'd be interested to hear whether anyone else had a similar experience.

Irrelevant to me.......2007-08-04

I know most of you adore this book and definitely will think this review is not helpful, but I didn't like this book.

I believe the reason for this is that its satirical cuteness, which I think is the driving force, fails to cross the generation/culture cap and its appeal and irony is restricted to those who have a personal place in their minds for having experienced it in some way and can actually be personally relieved to deal with it in such a strange context as this book.

Owen Meany is definitely universal. I have a friend just like him, just as small and extrahumanly obsessed and strange (minus the religiousness, he can recite Old Norse poetry though). But much of this book just isn't.

It twists around the things which are important for America in a way that's so totally convincing and makes you see how innecessary and ridiculous it all is which is totally relieving if you actually have to hold on to and value those things because of some personal/cultural obligations. But if you've long ago dismissed them, religion and politics and great men and such, not in the teenager sort of way, but actually let them have no significance in your thought, then much of the appeal is just gone. That's my theory anyway.

Or said otherwise, it's like reading satire from some totally irrelevant historical period and geographical location. Like 1100's Turkish countryside or something. Even if you knew all about that place, if you didn't think like a person from there, it hardly appeals on a personal level.

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