Computerized Quality Control: Programs for the Analytical Laboratory (Computers and Their Applications)

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It's not just test tubes and Bunsen burners anymore. Computers now rank at or near the top of the list of a chemist's most indispensable tools, and it's safe to say that no chemistry student will get very far without a good working knowledge of computers and the concepts of computer programming. Designed specifically to ensure undergraduate chemistry students have this basic proficiency, Computers and Their Applications to Chemistry introduces the fundamentals of computers, then builds a solid foundation in programming using the BASIC programming language and simple examples from chemistry. The author's straightforward approach moves smoothly from simple to complex ideas, from elementary input/output statements through data string manipulation and searching methods to graphics and numerical methods. The last two chapters discuss a variety of available software packages particularly useful in chemistry. Each chapter includes a number of solved examples followed by a set of review questions that reinforce and stimulate interest in the ideas presented.

Radioanalytical Chemistry (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)

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Radioanalytical Chemistry (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)
Juraj Tolgyessy
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Education and Teaching in Analytical Chemistry (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)

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Education and Teaching in Analytical Chemistry (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)
George Baiulescu
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Pavlovic Mining (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)

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Pavlovic Mining (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)
PAVLOVIC
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Stanford University. Computer Science Dept. Report

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Stanford University. Computer Science Dept. Report
Bruce G Buchanan
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From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows to spider webs, honeycombs, and the markings on animal coats, the visible world is full of patterns that can be described mathematically. Examining such readily observable phenomena, this book introduces readers to the beauty of nature as revealed by mathematics and the beauty of mathematics as revealed in nature.

Generously illustrated, written in an informal style, and replete with examples from everyday life, Mathematics in Nature is an excellent and undaunting introduction to the ideas and methods of mathematical modeling. It illustrates how mathematics can be used to formulate and solve puzzles observed in nature and to interpret the solutions. In the process, it teaches such topics as the art of estimation and the effects of scale, particularly what happens as things get bigger. Readers will develop an understanding of the symbiosis that exists between basic scientific principles and their mathematical expressions as well as a deeper appreciation for such natural phenomena as cloud formations, halos and glories, tree heights and leaf patterns, butterfly and moth wings, and even puddles and mud cracks.

Developed out of a university course, this book makes an ideal supplemental text for courses in applied mathematics and mathematical modeling. It will also appeal to mathematics educators and enthusiasts at all levels, and is designed so that it can be dipped into at leisure.

Professors: A supplementary Solutions Manual is available for this book. It is restricted to teachers using the text in courses. For information on how to obtain a copy, refer to: http://pup.princeton.edu/solutions.html

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excellent.......2007-05-15

Mathematics in Nature is an excellent resource for bringing a greater variety of patterns into the mathematical study of nature, as well as for
teaching students to think about describing natural phenomena mathematically.

OK for math nerds but bad for cool engineers.......2004-09-21

Like a fellow reviewer I read that biology would be discussed in the book, as far as I can tell after having nearly finished it there is almost none. As an engineer I had been exposed to much of the theory presented in the first few years of undergrad, the book must be intended for people with more of a math and less of a physics back ground.

Interesting observation: the author seems to think that any measurement with a protractor or angle derived from approximations is exact, yet measurements taken with a yard stick can only be accurate to a few feet and hardly worth doing math on.

Seeing beauty through numbers.......2004-02-04

For those of us who admire nature and see it as a product of processes both beautiful and rational, Adam's book is the perfect bedside long-termer for anyone more than casually interested in math or the intricate patterns in nature.

This book is chock full of ponderous examples of mathematical simplicity and complexity in nature, and reading it I was constantly reading only one topic and then putting the book down for days to think about and tinker with the question myself.

Good pictures, solid math (I prefer clean, modelistic equations to numerical approximations anyday), and a charming, conversational writing style make this book highly readable and highly inspiring in the way it makes you reexamine your perception of nature as unintegrated or inelegant. The very repetition of mathematical themes throughout nature - such as the omnipresent Golden Ration - proves otherwise.

For me, this is staying on my "constantly referenced" shelf.

Excellent.......2004-01-05

I disagree strongly with the previous reviewer. The book is well presented, with some lovely photos, and is nicely produced and attractive. The actual content of the book is equally good. Some of the material is familiar, but the author always seems to take a good fresh look at these topics so I still enjoyed them. There was some new material too, which I particularly enjoyed. This is an excellent book, and I hope that the negative review on Amazon will not discourage potential readers from buying a copy.

two thumbs down.......2004-01-04

The book rehashes familiar material involving estimation.
Unfortunately, no attempt is made to accompany this with
either error or sensitivity analysis. Thus the "conclusions"
drawn are so loose they may well not even be correct to a
single significant figure.
On top of this the steady stream of biblical quotes is
offputting and ungermane. Add to this a mind boggling
infelicity to begin chapter two and you have a real mess.
In terms of technique the author commits the beginner's

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The script of the complete play, parts one and two, with complete cast lists of the Royal Shakespeare Company production and eight pages of photos from the New York production.

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby V1

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The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby V1
Charles Dickens
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ASIN: 1428650571

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In Two Volumes. Containing A Faithful Account Of The Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, And Complete Career Of The Nickleby Family.

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby V2

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The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby V2
Charles Dickens
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ASIN: 1428650547

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In Two Volumes. Containing A Faithful Account Of The Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, And Complete Career Of The Nickleby Family.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall
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The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens' works)

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The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens' works)
Charles Dickens
Manufacturer: Hurst & Co
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Everyman's Library No. 238

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Everyman's Library No. 238
Charles Dickens
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics)

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A Very Funny Dickens Novel
Dickens! Dickens!
Nicholas Nickleby: A Raucous Romp through Merrye Olde England!
Nicholas Nickleby
The moral and the immoral, guess who wins?

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens , and Michael Siberry
Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
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ASIN: 0140861831

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Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society.

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Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs. Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protegee Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis, and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife. Nicholas Nickleby's loose, haphazard progress harks back to the picaresque novels of the eighteenth century -- particularly those of Smollett and Fielding -- yet the novel's exuberant atmosphere of romance, adventure, and freedom is leavend by Dickens' awareness of social ills and financial and class insecurity.

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A Very Funny Dickens Novel.......2007-07-30

This is a very funny novel in some sections. Imagine an older Oliver Twist, about 19 or 20 or so, but handsome, and with a temper, and with a strong outgoing personality, and one who can act and do all kinds of things. He has lots of self confidence and a beautiful sister, and throw in an obnoxious and rich uncle and a dotty mother. Yes, it is very, very entertaining.

I bought the Wordsworth Classic version but would recommend the Penguin Classic version, and recommend that purchase highly. This is among Dickens's somewhat forgotten novel but still among his best. It is another masterpiece that brings together all of Dickens's writing skills with a great story. I would rate it slightly behind David Copperfield but it remains one of the most original and interesting of Dickens's novels somewhat on par with Oliver Twist.

As background information, I am in the process of reading most of Dickens's 22 novels and longer short stories, and set up a Listmania list. As a suggestion, avoid the Penguin Popular Classics with the plain green covers (I bought two). They fall apart and do not stand up to a read, especially books over 500 pages in length. The Regular Penguin Classics with the photo or painting on the front are excellent and some have maps and illustrations (drawings). The Wordsworth Classics are not as good, and some are illustrated.

A young Dickens at the age of 12 had the unenviable job of attaching labels 10 hours a day at the Warren's boot blacking factory. That experience shaped much of his writing career. Still in his teens he became a law clerk, then later in his twenties a journalist. The last job as a reporter led to the serialized writing of his novels. His works were social commentaries with larger than life characters, or colorful caricatures, living in the slums of London. He was a critic of poverty, social injustice, and the slow moving court system.

All of Dickens's experiences come together in his novels. The Pickwick Papers, his first novel, is mostly humorous. But the next one, Oliver Twist, is a dark novel set in the crime plagued streets of early 19th century London. Next in novel number three, he changes back to a more humorous novel which is the present work. This is a big novel, about 750 pages or so - but the pages fly by. The protagonists are Nicholas, who is almost 20, his sister Kate, a few years younger, and his uncle Ralph Nickleby. Their father has died and Nicholas and Kate come to London with their mother to seek aid from the wealthy uncle. The uncle finds them minimum paying jobs, and that creates a good story. It is a novel with many common features that we expect from Dickens with things such as a school where the children are beaten, but it has many funny parts and it is complicated by the uncle's financial dealings.

Having read many of Dickens's novels I still rate David Copperfield as best as a work of literature and rate Oliver Twist as close behind and a must read. The latter book was read by Queen Victoria and Karl Marx, and both enjoyed the read. The novel had a far reaching social impact. Nicholas Nickleby is another gem and well worth the read, but lacks the social bite of Oliver Twist, and lacks the enthusiasm of David Copperfield, but it is hilarious.

Dickens! Dickens!.......2006-12-29

Charles Dickens is my favorite author and this is another excellent story! I have all his books, and they are all well-written, entertaining and intellectual. I love how people are his subject and he is a master of words. Every person ought to read Dickens if only for the understanding of grammar you will receive.

Nicholas Nickleby: A Raucous Romp through Merrye Olde England!.......2006-10-02

Nicholas Nickleby was written in 1838-39 by Charles Dickens riding the crest of his monumental success from writing Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. The lengthy novel is filled with memorble characters, an exciting plot and the incredible genius of England's greatest novelists.
The story concerns the adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (the least interesting character in the book!, his sister Kate and his fatuous and longwinded mother the widow Mrs. Nickleby.
Nicholas works for a time in the infamous Dotheboys Hall for boys in Yorkshire. The schoolmaster is the evil Wackford Squeers, his odious wife and his ugly daughter Fanny who becomes infatuated with Nicholas. it is here that we meet the pathetic mentally challenged lad Smike who is assisted by Nicholas and along with him leaves the horrid school.
One of the most hilarious parts of the book deals with the time NN spent with the Vincent Crummles theatrical company. Dickens loved the theatre and loved to act in amateur theatricals.
Katle Nickleby is employed at the Madame Mantalini milliery shop and becomes a companion to a wealthy and ridiculous woman. She is pursued romantically by the scoundrel Sir Mulberry Hawk.
Dickens draws a vivid portrait of corrupt evil in the wicked uncle Ralph Nickleby a usurer whose wiles and schemes for fortune pull the many threads of the plot into a well woven plot that has a crackerjack ending as secrets are revealed and all ends well for the Nickleby family.
This is still in many ways an work of growth for the budding novelists.
It resembles a picaresque novel of the eighteenth century in following Nicholas and Kate through many scenes and situations. The genius of the novel lies in Dickens peerless ability to draw memorable characters that will live in the reader's mind long after the complicated plot machinations are forgotten.
The Penguin Edition is excellently edited with copious notes and a learned introduction. The original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne
are also included (Phiz). This is a pageturner which will entertain you for hours. It is a good novel to begin with if you have not read Dickens.
The Dickens world is filled with all those marvelous characters which shall live as long as literature. Great.

Nicholas Nickleby.......2006-01-28

This book is best, out of all the Dickens books. If you should just read one of Dicken's, it should be this one.This captures all of the suspense that he creates in any of his books. I reccomend this boook to anyone who is looking for a long and satisfying read.

The moral and the immoral, guess who wins? .......2005-09-14

Money versus virture, poverty set against wealth, hero against the ills of society, plus the combined forces of the duty to family and bond between sister and brother. Any Dickens novel will bring you the perfection of character, the ordinary individual through thought and deed becomes the extraordinary

Throw in a sarcasm still alive today, mainly through the use of superlatives which over emphasize the importance of "Lord somebody" and deftly turn these titled aristocrats from dieties of fortune into over inflated balloons. Dickens, in a time of Victorian sensibility, turned to an arsenal of adjectives for dealing with the long engrained antediluvian British nobility. Exquisite descriptions allowing the reader to visit each character as if you were in the literal sense, sitting in their living rooms observing their lives right down to the tea kettle whistle.

All Dickens novels are loaded with the stuff of glory, but never too far fetched that he can't drive home the plight of the impoverished, the cycles of poverty and the deep suffering he witnesses daily in the streets of London. What better way to emphasize injustice than to contrast sick and orphaned children with rich old misers?

Comparing his observations on injustice, you will find it relevant today, in a different guise perhaps, from Lord Somebody and his buffoons in parliament to our corporate welfare state and over saturated market economy.

How does one survive a world as cruel as one directed by a corrupt guardian uncle in the money lending business? Only Nicholas Nickelby can answer that. With nothing but youth on his side and a good upbringing in the country, Nicholas learns his values will need to be tested at the risk of his own safety and reputation. As he defends his character and the honor of his family, not to mention saving a few lives of those much worse off than he, he gains enough good karma to last several lifetimes as he follows his heart to the wealth that awaits him like a holy grail. Like any hero, he sets off a chain reaction of good luck for his family and aquaintances, until the book exhausts itself in becoming one riotous, joyous celebration of life. As one last task,Nicholas with all his honor, attracts the only one thing he is missing, an equally flawless damsel to be rescued from a cruel, self centered father.

Unlike his later works, this one is brimming with sweet hyperbolic idealism and exageration, like youthful optimism, it does not carry the same intimate character intropsection he develops later.

It is worth it to settle into this novel to witness the sharp black and white juxtapose of the good character versus corrupt.
Whereas Dickens balanced this with gray areas between rich and poor in other novels, this work is direct, simple and explicit in it's quest for moral ground. Wealth matches wealth of spirit and Dickens can make it infectious with his keen observations of human behavior and his absolute dedication to matching his words to his heart.

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The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
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Heron Complete Works the Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickley Centennial Collection (the life of adventures of nicholas nickleby)

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Heron Complete Works the Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickley Centennial Collection (the life of adventures of nicholas nickleby)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE and ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

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THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE and ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
Charles. Dickens
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