Modification and Blending of Synthetic and Natural Macromolecules: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Modification and Blending of Synthetic ... II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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The book provides a unique collection of 15 contributions by 15 internationally recognized scientists performing intensive research activity on the preparation and characterization of complex and multiphase materials based on macromolecules as well as on the evaluation and simulation of structure/properties relations. The topic is assuming a general increasing importance as providing a highly sustainable and modern approach to the present and future development of the important area of materials science and technology. The scientific route along the successive contributions goes from the controlled preparation of functional MM both by innovative polymerization reactions and preformed polymers modification (intramacromolecular complexity), to their combination with other MMs and materials to give blends and composites where new properties are conveniently achieved by morphologic complexity. The synergic behaviour of the different components in these last is obtained by reactive processing producing the necessary interfacial adhesion. Even if most examples deal with man-made MMs, biopolymers are also included. The various chapters provide in most cases an exhaustive fundamental description assisted by an up- to-date and broad list of relevant references. The book is therefore an excellent informative and formative instrument for those involved in complex materials preparation and application in research and industry.

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This book is devoted to the physical theory of the biological evolution. The theory is based on macrothermodynamics, i.e., the hierarchic thermodynamics of complex systems. The results of the studies presented in the book allow one to state that the peculiarities of the evolution of living beings as well as the peculiarities of the chemical evolution, can be explained without the concepts of the dynamical self-organization and the dissipative structures.

According to the second law, the tendency of the evolution of biological systems on chemical and supramolecular levels can be determined by studying the effect of thermodynamical self-organization (self-assembly). The criterion for estimating the evolutionary development of supramolecular structures of biosystems (biotissues) is given by the variation of the specific Gibbs function of their formation. During the processes of ontogenesis, philogenisis, and biological evolution in general, the specific supramolecular component of the Gibbs function of a biosystem, that is quasi-closed thermodynamically and kinetically, tends to a relative minimum. The value of this minimum is a characteric of the given biosystem surrounded by the environment.

The non-stationary theoretical model presented in the monograph explains the reasons causing the variations in the chemical composition and structure of living beings in the course of ontogenesis, philogenesis, and the evolution in general. It also allows to find out the rules determining the variations in the composition and structure of a biosystem during its adaptation to the external conditions.

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A Book of Historical Proportions.......2006-06-20

This is a monumental book! It is the first-ever published book to put forward a workable Gibbs free energy theory of evolution. By comparison, Erwin Schrodinger, in his famous little 1944 book "What is Life", tells us that had he been writing for physicists, he would have made use of the concept of free energy [G] but judged it too difficult for the general audience. Not so with Gladyshev. While most other evolution-related books fumble around, haphazardly, with the quantity `entropy' [S], i.e. the dissipation of useful energy, as though it were the key to all existence, Gladyshev digs into the heart of the matter which is unquestionably the Gibbs free energy function [G = H - TS], i.e. the measure of a system's energy allotment available to do work. As many know, in any biological system, work can be defined as any activity energetically equivalent to lifting a weight through a distance of gravitational height. In this direction, from page 38 we are told: "The value of the change in the Gibbs free energy corresponding to the formation of some human society (a thermodynamic system) can be estimated by calculating the work that is to be produced in order to build the structure of that society." These are revolutionary statements. This is thermodynamics on the human scale. Excellent book!!!

New approach to understanding phenomena of life.......1999-04-02

Life in the Universe originated and is evolving in accordance with the general laws of nature, specifically, the law of temporal hierarchies and the second law of thermodynamics. Now the are new results which confirm this statement. New articles: "On Thermodynamics, Entropy and Evolution of Biological Systems: What is Life from a Physical Chemist's Viewpoint", Journal "ENTROPY", 1, 1999 - http://www.endeav.org/evolut/entropy/ and "Thermodynamics Theory of Biological Evolution and Aging. Experimental Conformation for Theory" - http://www.endeav.org/evolut/text/ttbea . One can see that theory has the reliable conformation. Full information is at the site http://www.endeav.org/evolut . I like the contents of my book. Unfortunately the quality of publishing is bad.

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Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.

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The Complete Arabian Nights in a single edition

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good.......2007-06-13

condition of book is really good, but its dimensions are smaller than i expected.

Excellent.......2006-11-02

Richard Burton's narration is fantastic, the accompanying music adds to the mood, and the selection of tales is also good.

Universal, Timeless Storytelling.......2006-09-25

The Arabian Nights: Tales from A Thousand and One Nights -translated by Sir Richard F. Burton
Though the collection is incomplete (this edition contains only the "most famous and representative" tales from the entirety), the compendium outshines any expectation or foreknowledge of the stories and is choc with the marvelous wit of ancient Arabian storytelling. The stories have an underbidding theme all alike, good is good and evil is evil, Allah is all and always and man and manhood will be sundered, for without fail comes with the tail of every tale "the Destroyer of delights and Severer of societies, the Plunderer of palaces, and the Garnerer of graves." Reminding sundry-reader that, despite diamond caches and throes of love, all is vanity of vanity, and only the story will exist for aught. The structure of each of these stories is thematically similar: a poor man happens on a souterrain of riches, he is espied by someone of evil, foul play ensues, a moon of moons of a beauty entrances one and all, a jinn sneaks out of a signet ring, the enemy is bewitched, and the hero is consummated with love and gold. Or, the reverse. Or, the inverse. But what is unique to each of these stories is the complete freedom of happenstance. A man fishing in a pond nets a monkey. A marooned sailor flies with a giant bird to freedom. A man blind in one eye runs into another blind in one eye and they run into another blind in one eye. Ali-Babba overhears an eponymous password to a storehouse of plunder. Everything and anything goes. As well with the language, in "fairest favour and formous form," Sir Burton spares no joyance of neologism coined, alliteration aligned or rhyme rhymed. The text is bedight with proper consciousness of Shaharazad, "for interest fails in twice told tales," and "Words cannot undo the done," as we are gently and thematically reminded of the bookends: the murderous king and the maiden, Shaharazad's "fictitious" fight for survival. The stories that have so obviously leaked into our culture, Aladdin, Ali-Babba and the Forty Thieves, are so much richer, more profound, and less coddling than our cartooned interpretations (as is also the case with the Grimm and Andersen tales). In the end, it is obvious that nor King nor author nor Queen is the hero. None save the stories themselves and the love of the telling will live on.

Not for everybody...........2006-01-04

If you are looking for a book, where you can read and enjoy the stories... this is not for you. The way it is written, is so difficult to understand and there is no continuos flow in the book, which will make you so bored that you just want to stop reading.

A Children's Book not for Children-- Especially the PC Ones.......2005-11-24

The Nights were, until a week or so ago, another classic I wanted to dip into.

I somehow missed The Nights in my formal literary education.

It violates just about every left-wing-taboo.

Reading the Nights for pleasure, with Burton's help one commits the cardinal sins of Colonialism and Orientalism.

The tales themselves are consistently religious, sexist, racist, and xenophobic.

Before buying, I too knew the 'frame' for the tales: 'Shahrazade the clever woman tells stories to the King so he won't behead her', which is a rather reductive, feelgood soundbyte, perhaps, since what you don't hear is that the King has his beef with women because he and his brother both caught their wives in flagrante delicto with African slaves; about which Burton gives a useful gloss about said party's particular anatomical superiorty, replete with Burton's own first-hand real-world observations concerning this useful fact.

All that said, it's indeed easy to feel like the forgetful King, since Shahrazade's tales are not just tales, but tales within tales within tales. Her enchanting stories center on multiple characters, each with an oddball fate, each with their own uncanny stories to tell;and there are often characters in those stories that have stories. It's like a funhouse full of mirrors; but it's pleasant to get lost, as your consciousness of what part of Shahrazade's labrynth you're in falls away. Like the King, you just give in and enjoy the strange experience, and Shahrazad makes it to yet another dawn. The stories, in Burton's translation, read with a real Medieval romance kind of flavor, which I assume is endemic to the Nights and the period, and is not strictly representative of Burton's English tastes, despite his choice of peculiarly English diction.

The book itself is handsome and durable, like the rest of the Modern Library paperbacks. As a previoius reviewer has noted, this particular text is not a complete Nights. The Editor has chosen 'representative' tales to put in this collection.

The stories themselves are charming, but perhaps their palpable repetitiveness (even in a cherry-picked and abridged selection) slubbers the gloss of the supposed inventiveness of the remaining 975 or so stories.

A must for a serious reader who likes fresh air while they thumb their nose at Puritans.

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Magic personified in lyric story.......2000-04-18

Richard Francis Burton was essentially the first to produce an unexpurgated translation of this wonderful book of tales. Though Burton's English is often excessively stilted, Jack Zipes has quite handily adapted (and condensed from the original 10 volumes) this magical grouping of stories, as told by the enchanting Scheherazade, who tells the nightly tales to save her own life. A classic and must have for anyone's library.

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A lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in his 15th novel featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The two Navajo cops, one old and one young--who originally debuted in separate series but have been collaborating for many books now--are among the most engaging, fully human characters in crime fiction. As usual, Hillerman puts them to work in a suspenseful, satisfying tale that integrates a wealth of Navajo lore plus breathtaking evocations of the American Southwest, all delivered in prose as clear, clean, and easy-flowing as a mountain stream. Longtime readers will be delighted by several developments, including a prominent role for the appealing Officer Bernadette Manuelito and a glimpse at the phlegmatic Leaphorn's testy side. But Hillerman welcomes new arrivals as well, with enough exposition to get you oriented.

Many writers have tried to follow Hillerman's trail, setting murder mysteries in Native American cultural landscapes. Many do a fine job. But, as The Wailing Wind beautifully demonstrates, there's only one Tony Hillerman. In this book he's at the top of his game. --Nicholas H. Allison

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Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road—with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police—but it's the echoes of a long ago crime that call the legendary former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and his failure has haunted him ever since. But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. And the twisted threads of craven murders past and current may finally be coming together, thanks to secrets once moaned in torment on the desert wind.

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Hillerman.......2007-08-23

As with all the Tony Hillerman books, a good read, a great mystery, and fabulously accurate background that flows, unnoticed, into the story.

loved the book.......2007-01-28

I love the fact that this is a series of books with the same people. very good reading.

As allways, Hillerman writes a darn good tale.......2006-04-07

Time goes on and the protagonists Leaphorn and Chee are back for one more puzzling crime. Bernadette Manuelito has messed up a crime scene and Jim Chee is upset with her about it. Leaphorn is finding leads even though he is supposedly retired. The stories of Chee and Leaphorn weave together in a now predictable arc that has pretty much been used in every single Hillerman novel. But in the end, its nice to meet up with two interesting and engaging characters and its easy to overlook a tired plot device.

I have never understood why Hillerman didn't stretch his imagination a little more with these books. The strengths are 100% in the characters and the evocative interactions they have with one another. The mystery is just background noise after a while and takes a second seat to the Navaho country that unfolds throughout every book. I am allways reminded of 'Murder She Wrote' and how Angela Landsburry stumbels across one murder after another and how they are all wrapped up in similar regards. This is in my mind the only thing that holds Hillerman back from being a true master of his craft.

Gold has always brought trouble for the Dineh.......2006-03-06

Bernie is no longer feeling like the greenest rookie of the Navajo Tribal Police. She is finding Jim Chee hard to understand. She runs into an unconscious or dead man in a truck and calls it in. An ambulance is to arrive in less than an hour. It seems that the dead man is the nephew of a sheriff and that he had been killed by rifle shot.

Jim Chee feels incompetent around his former boss, Joe Leaphorn. Chee is not popular with the FBI. The FBI has been called into the investigation. The FBI is finding a problem with the crime scene conduct of Bernie Manuelito. She did not ascertain the cause of death. Cultural factors mitigated against her touching and moving the body. Bernie finds stickers and seed pods on the pants legs of the victim and seeks the advice of her uncle who is a sort of amateur ethnobiologist.

It seems that the victim had read records on ethnology and gold prospecting. An earlier murder may have been related to gold prospecting. Joe Leaphorn, now retired, believes that the earlier murder had not been solved properly. Bernie locates the site of the gold panning. Next she is shot at by a rifleman. Shooting at a cop is felony. Bernie calls Jim Chee to give him the probable location of the murder. She finds out that she has not been suspended from the force as she had believed.

Chee is rattled and forgets to apologize to Bernie for being so abrupt. Joe Leaphorn is contacted by Denton, the alleged murderer in the first incident, who asks him to find his missing wife. Denton asserts that his young and beautiful wife did love him. In gambling it is called looking for tells, signs, given off by the other players. In the oil lease business, and Denton was successful in it, a person has to have scepticism. In the adventure Jim Chee is falling in love with Bernadette Manuelito. In the end Bernie wants to get another job where she is not arresting people, but helping them.

"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud.".......2005-10-28

Rookie Navaho police officer Bernadette Manuelito is making her round when she spots what looks to be an abandoned truck. Upon closer inspection she finds what appears to be a drunk sleeping it off in the seat. Yep you guessed it when she touched him he was cold, dead cold.

All of our old palls from previous novels converge on the seen that turn out to be a homicide as the individual was shot in the back.

As the story progresses we get the thing that makes Hillerman, Hillerman; there are graphic descriptions of the landscape and weather. We also get a small indoctrination into the Navaho way as a shaman and an old man are interrogated. Yes and the is also a love interest or two as scene mostly through the eves of Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and suspect Wiley Denton of who seems to have misplaced his wife..

I suggest that just before you read this or while you are reading this that you also have a copy of the book "Hillerman Country: A Journey Through the Southwest with Tony Hillerman" It is a book filled with the pictures of the areas mentioned in this book (Including the torques mountain.)

You can tell that this book was written later on the series because the characters refer back to earlier times and other misters. The references are casual enough that if you had not read the other books you would not notice them.

As with most Hillerman novels the answer to the main riddle is usually immediately or soon figured out so we have fun finding out how long it will take the characters to catch up. Many a time different characters have clues and do not compare in time to act.

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"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud.".......2005-07-28

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