Frontiers of High Pressure Research II: Application of High Pressure to Low-Dimensional Novel Electronic Materials (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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The book contains research results on interesting, novel electronic materials and the influence of dimensionality on their properties. The materials covered include carbon nanotubes, polymeric fullerenes, colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials, molecular solids, semiconductors, 2-D impurity states, quantum dots, and high temperature superconductors. Material synthesis at high pressure as well as new developments in experimental techniques and novel experiments are emphasized.
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Research Frontiers in Magnetochemistry

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Designed to accompany Numerical Recipes in Pascal the example book provides listings of demonstration programs (source code) that illustrate the use of each Pascal procedure found in the main book. This book will be a valuable aid to users wishing to incorporate Pascal programs into their own applications programs and to conduct simple validation tests. The programs found in this book are different from the original example book in Pascal (which will be phased out). Furthermore, they are not compatible with the Pascal programs found in the appendix of the original (FORTRAN) version of Numerical Recipes. The Pascal appendix is being dropped from the FORTRAN book with the publication of Numerical Recipes in Pascal. The revised example diskette contains the machine-readable source code for the programs found in the revised example book. (It only contains the programs; it does not contain any text found in the book.) N.B. The diskette that accompanies the revised example book replaces the extant Numerical Recipes Example Diskette (Pascal). The revised diskette is only compatible with the programs listed in the revised example book.

Numerical Recipes in Pascal (First Edition): The Art of Scientific Computing

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Numerical Receips in Pascal
Among the very best!
routines and more routines
Collections of algorithms still needed
good but not really useful

Numerical Recipes in Pascal (First Edition): The Art of Scientific Computing
William H. Press , Brian P. Flannery , Saul A. Teukolsky , and William T. Vetterling
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This version of the first edition of Numerical Recipes contains the original 200 routines translated into Pascal along with the tutorial text. In a single volume, Numerical Recipes in Pascal provides lucid, easy-to-read discussions of the most important practical numerical techniques for science and engineering. The programs contained in this book are also available as machine-readable code on the Numerical Recipes Code CD-ROM with Windows/Macintosh Single Screen License.

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Numerical Receips in Pascal.......2007-05-06

Important book. Well defined algorithems. Great spectra of problems solved.
Unfortunately the authors overtook the programming stile from Kernigan, which ist C-based and not structured. The programming stile from Wirth would have made the book to a big clasic.

Among the very best!.......2003-07-17

Numerical Recipes (and N.R. in Pascal) is among my most-used reference books. This is not merely a book to help programmers shortcut through horrific number-crunching code. It is also a well-written text on the theory and practice of numerical methods. I can't imagine doing my job without it!

routines and more routines.......2001-07-05

If you ever had to program a complicated numerical algorithm, such as SVD decomposition, Bessel functions, eigensystems or Fourier transform, you will know how useful this book is. All those problems, and many others, are presented, the theory is explained and the full code of a routine, which solves it, is given. This version brings the codes in Pascal, but there are versions for FORTRAN, C++ and Basic. If you need any routine, you just have to "cut and paste" it from the book into your program.

Collections of algorithms still needed.......2000-01-31

In my work, I routinely write statistical programs which require algorithnms such as are contained in books like this. I own this book and the 1st and 2nd editions of Numerical Recipes in C. I had hoped that a 2nd edition for Pascal would be available. If publishers pay attention to the previous reviewer, I fear it will not be forthcoming. While I can not attest to the value of most of the algorithms contained in this book, those which I needed worked very well indeed and the surrounding discussions were enlightening and often witty. For those of us who need to write stand-alone programs for the great unwashed, piecing together routines from standard packages which require a knowledge of the package (and presumeably of what you are doing) is not an option. In those situations, a book such as this is indispensible.

good but not really useful.......1999-03-29

The algorithms given and explained in this book are good, but nowadays most of them are contained in any standard numerical software (such as Matlab).

Numerical Recipes in Pascal (Revised) Examples Macintosh Disk Version 1.0: The Art of Scientific Computing

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Numerical Recipes in Pascal (Revised) Examples Macintosh Disk Version 1.0: The Art of Scientific Computing
William H. Press , Brian P. Flannery , Saul A. Teukolsky , William T. Vetterling , Annette Capel , and Wendy Sharp
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This revised example diskette for the Macintosh contains the test programs found in the revised Pascal example book (0521 376750). As with the diskette for the main text, the programs are supplied in source code for manipulation and incorporation by users into their own programs. (Requires the corresponding Numerical Recipes diskette to run).

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Numerical Recipes Example Book (pascal)
et Al Vetterling
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C++ Recipes Examples
short subroutines

Numerical Recipes Example Book (Pascal)
William T. Vetterling
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This example book contains C++ source programs that exercise and demonstrate all of the subroutines, procedures, and functions in Numerical Recipes in C++. The book will be a valuable aid to readers wishing to incorporate Numerical Recipes procedures and subroutines into larger programs and to conduct simple validation tests. Each example program contains comments and is prefaced by a short description of what it does and of which Numerical Recipes routines it exercises. In cases where the demonstration programs require input data, those data are also supplied. In some cases, sample output is also shown.

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C++ Recipes Examples.......2006-11-03

Very good with Numerical Recipes. If you are experienced, it is good, if you are a fledgling, complement it with a beginers book. I recomend it.

short subroutines.......2006-02-26

The C++ source code given here can be useful if you are in a hurry to implement an algorithm given in the main Numerical Recipes book. One might consider that a CD of the source code would be more useful. But the examples are short subroutines. Manually typing in the code from the book should not be a big deal for any of you.

The example data sets used for inputs to some of the subroutines is also useful for unit testing.

Numerical Recipes in Pascal, The Art of Scientific Computing

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Numerical Recipes in Pascal, The Art of Scientific Computing
William H.(etc.) PRESS
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This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as
"high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently respectable middle-class world of Victorian England.

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The Hush That Succeeds The Tempest.

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Review the novel, or the edition?.......2004-04-30

It's unfortunate that opinions regarding the story, Braddon's style, and/or Victorian novels in general make the little star rankings lower for this particular edition. In fact, the edition is quite good; the introduction is superb, the footnotes are very useful for those of us who easily forget our Classical references, and the appendices are chock full of relevant information. Like the story or not, this edition is wonderful.

An OK story, but lackluster characters.......2003-06-12

The cover description of this novel grabbed my interest when I saw it in the bookstore, so I decided to give it a try. It's the first book I have struggled with in a while. And it's not because it's hard to read; far from it. The characters are, simply put, not interesting. I didn't care for a single one of them, not even the "detective" of the story, Robert Audley, or the "enchanting" and "mysterious" heroine herself, Lady Audley. There was some good bits of suspense, and a few bits of mystery, but because of the flat characters this really did little to compensate.

Hugely enjoyable.......2003-01-22

I read this for a Victorian literature class, and sandwiched as it was between the imposing density of Middlemarch and Dickens, it was a real holiday. "Lady Audley" was written for pure narrative pleasure, and it delivers big-time. I had no idea Victorian literature could be this tantalizing. It's really kind of trashy, falling into the sensational genre, but don't let that deter you - it'll keep you up at night AND provide the romantic bygone otherness of say, a Jane Austen novel. It's also an interesting window into Victorian femininity, undermining as it does the ideal of the passive angel in the house, and replacing her with a kind of femme fatale anti-heroine. (Everyone in my class enjoyed it, even the whingers who typically bemoan everything on the reading list.) A really good read.

The Case of the Missing Style.......2002-10-04

During Mary Elizabeth Braddon's lifetime, she was most famous for the convoluted plots she hatched, and she hatched a nestful, publishing more than eighty novels. (She was also famous for living what was then considered a 'scandalous' life, and for having many of the major characters in her books do the same.)

But when Thackery said, "If I could plot like Mrs. Braddon, I should be the greatest novelist in the world," I don't think he meant it as a compliment. I think he was saying that she herself would be a great novelist, if only she could WRITE!

That's the catch with this book, for example. The characters are memorable, the plot is extravagantly complex, the insights into what makes society tick, or not, are right on the money. But the writing style . . . well, to put it simply, there isn't any. No consistent Point of View. No deft turns of phrase. There isn't a sentence you'd care to quote anywhere in the book.

If only there had been a Hollywood in her day! She'd have been a great screenplay writer, where style doesn't matter. That's why the story makes good movies and TV specials, and that's why it has long since dropped out of sight as a book.

I sought it and read it because of a recent PBS 'Mystery!' presentation. It seemed so far ahead of its time in dealing with what we now call "Women's Issues" that I assumed-- wrongly, as it turns out-- that its disapearance from literary history was due to a backlash against its view of societal injustice. Well, that view was inserted by the people who wrote the screenplay for the BBC production that became the PBS special. It isn't in the book. The author totally condemns her central character and has no particular sympathy for her at all. It took a modern scriptwriter to discover that the story could be used as a metaphor for the oppression of women.

No, I'm afraid that the reason for the book's disappearance from literary history is that it doesn't qualify as literature. Wilkie Collins' famous 'The Woman in White' explores basically the same theme, but does it with verve and style. In comparison, "Lady Audley's Secret" is flat and colorless. Any well-educated eighth grader could have done better.

I give the book three stars nevertheless, for its characters and plot-- which are fabulous, in both meanings of that word.

A Victorian Bestselling Novel That Still Fascinates Us.......2002-09-20

The 1860s in England saw the boom of "sensation novels" which is best represented by the gripping thrillers "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone," written by Wilkie Collins. Immediately after the success of the former one, Mary Elizabeth Braddon wrote "Lady Audley's Secret," which also became an instant bestseller, quickly making her a celebrity. But, in more than one sense, as you see later.

The story of Braddon's book is clearly inspired by Collins's "The Woman in White" (especially by Laura's story), but it is quite unfair to call "Lady Audley" a poor imitation. (And remember, Collins's story is also said to be based on a French book recording actual crime cases). Lady Audley takes a more defying view on the Victorians, roles of women in particular, and that's the real reason she was such a "sensation," and is again getting our attention now.

The story goes like this: Lucy, a governess without family, is loved by Sir Michael Audley, a rich landowner of Audley Court, Essex, and marries him to the chagrin of some people who look at her as an adventuress. No matter how people think, however, they are living happily.

In the meanwhile, George Talboys, after his long, hard days in Australia searching for goldmine, finally comes back to London, after many years, with money to make his wife happy. But when he encountered his old friend Robert Audley, nephew of Sir Michael, he accidentally knows that his beloved wife is no longer alive.

Those two seemingly unrelated events begin to get entangled after George's sudden missing. Robert starts his own investigation, as if beckoned by a fate, and he, collecting evidences, gradually comes to one inevitable conclusion.

And ... let me say this first; "Lady Audley" is an absorbing book, but absorbing not in the way a good detective story is. The "secret" in point is, one often mistakes, NOT the secret you can easily discover in the early stage of the plot. (You must wait to see the nature of Lady's secret at the end of the book, which is still controversial.) The story is melodramatic and sometimes predictable, but the real virtue of the book is the portrait of the strong-willed heroine, who dares to challenge the social codes of women in Victorian era.

The book is full of action that you might find in any potboilers, shocking for the comtemporary people, which includes: murder, arson, secret passage, blackmail, you name it. But the way Braddon handles them is always steady and well-controlled, and at some places they look unexpectedly modern, reading like a movie script, anticipating the cinematic treatment in the early 20th century (this had been made into films three times in silent-film days, and once on TV even in 2000) Her book has many flaws, surely, but should be never called dull.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, when she was working on this book, was living with John Maxwell, ambitious publisher in debt, and she was the main provider of income. While living together (and John was still married to another woman in asylum, which makes an interesting parallel with George Eliot), she wrote with a frantic speed. Through 1861-62, when she wrote "Lady Audley's Secret," -- and she was also writing for cheaper periodicals under false name! -- Braddon confesses that she wrote the Third Book (the final third part) of the "Lady Audley" in a fortnight. Considering the fact, the book is incredibly tight, and infallibly engaging.

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Lady Audley\'s Secret [EasyRead Edition]
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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It tells the story of Lady Audley who is young, beautiful, wicked, and manipulative.

Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context

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Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context

Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, journal editor and bestselling author of more than eighty novels during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a key figure in the Victorian literary scene. This volume brings together new essays from a variety of perspectives that illuminate both the richness of Braddon's oeuvre and the variety of critical approaches to it.

Best known as the author of Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, Braddon also wrote penny dreadfuls, realist novels, plays, short stories, reviews, and articles. The contributors move beyond her two most famous works and reflect a range of current issues and approaches, including gender, genre, imperialism, colonial reception, commodity culture, and publishing history.

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The divided woman: Identity and social systems in 'Lady Audley's Secret' and 'Mrs. Dalloway' (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Virginia Woolf) : (Dissertation)
Suzanne Scollo Brown
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Lady Audley's Secret (Large Print Edition): Lady Audley's Secret (Large Print Edition)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Lady Audley's Secret: Lady Audley's Secret

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Lady Audley's Secret: Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET
BRADDON
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Lady Audley's Secret
Elizabeth Mary Braddon
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Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Constance Cox
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