Glow Discharge Plasmas in Analytical Spectroscopy

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This multi-author, edited volume includes chapters which deal with both basic and highly complex applications. Glow discharge devices are now being used in very novel ways for the analysis of liquids and gases, including molecular species detection and identification, an area that was beyond the perceived scope of applicability just ten years ago. It is expected that the next decade will see a growth in the interest and application of glow discharge devices far surpassing the expectations of the last century.

Responding to the rapid growth in the field
Includes both GD-MS and GD-AES
In-depth coverage of applications
Co-edited by the top names in the field in Europe and US, with high calibre contributions from around the world

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"Glow discharge devices have been utilized as spectrochemical sources for over one hundred years, dating back to the earliest studies of atomic structures. It has only been during the last 40 years that they have been employed in the arena of chemical analysis. Glow Discharge Plasmas in Analytical Spectroscopy presents the state of the art in the use of these devices across a wide range of applications, including materials science, environmental analysis, and bioanalytical chemistry. Glow discharge devices are well known for their application in direct solids elemental analysis of metals and alloys by optical and mass spectrometries. These basic capabilities have been extended to the analysis of non-conducting materials such as glass and ceramics and the depth resolved analysis of all kinds of technical materials. This multi-author, edited volume includes chapters which deal with both basic and highly complex applications. Glow discharge devices are now being used in very novel ways for the analysis of liquids and gases, including molecular species detection and identification, an area that was beyond the perceived scope of applicability just ten years ago. It is expected that the next decade will see a growth in the interest and application of glow discharge devices far surpassing the expectations of the last century. "

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This classic book is the first comprehensive presentation of data, theory, and practice in attitude analysis. It was written by 33 senior technical staff members in the Spacecraft Attitude Department of the Computer Sciences Corporation and incorporates their experience in supporting more than 30 space missions. Because of the extensive cross-references, complete index, and 13 technical appendices, this book can be either a self teaching text, or a reference handbook.

Among its unique features are orthographic globe projections to eliminate confusion in vector drawings; discussions of common data anomalies, data validation, attitude hardware, and associated mathematical models; and a presentation of new geometrical procedures for mission analysis and attitude accuracy studies which can eliminate many complex simulations.

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Most authoritative and rigorous treatment of ACS I've seen........1999-07-23

Provides the only text I have seen on quaternion math and its relation to more traditional attitude matrices and Euler dynamics. The presentation allows algorithm generation without too much fuss, and it is rigorous but not to a fault. Definitely graduate level reference material for practicing ACS engineers. I have found it indispensable.

*The* authoritative text on the subject.......1999-07-07

This book is intended for technical professionals, who want an exhaustive mathematical and geometric reference to the techniques of spacecraft attitude determination and attitude control.

Although the book is a little old, the principles are still relevant, and there is simply no other comparable compilation.

An approach to attitude determination for a spin-stabilized spacecraft (IMP I) (NASA technical note)
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An approach to attitude determination for a spin-stabilized spacecraft (IMP I) (NASA technical note)
Ai-chʻün Fang
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A conceptual design for the attitude control and determination system for the Magnetosphere Imager spacecraft (NASA technical paper)
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A conceptual design for the attitude control and determination system for the Magnetosphere Imager spacecraft (NASA technical paper)
Michael E Polites
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A control design for the attitude control and determination system for the Magnetosphere Imager spacecraft (SuDoc NAS 1.60:3560)
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A control design for the attitude control and determination system for the Magnetosphere Imager spacecraft (SuDoc NAS 1.60:3560)
M. E. Polites
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Performance analysis of a GPS interferometric attitude determination system for a gravity gradient stabilized spacecraft (SuDoc NAS 1.26:188372)
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Performance analysis of a GPS interferometric attitude determination system for a gravity gradient stabilized spacecraft (SuDoc NAS 1.26:188372)
John C. Stoll
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Spacecraft attitude determination accuracy from mission experience (SuDoc NAS 1.15:104613)
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Spacecraft attitude determination accuracy from mission experience (SuDoc NAS 1.15:104613)
D. Brasoveanu
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Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control
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Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control
James R. Wertz
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Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control (ISBN: 9027712042)
James R. (ed.) Wertz
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Star pattern recognition and spacecraft attitude determination
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Star pattern recognition and spacecraft attitude determination
Thomas E Strikwerda
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Let this book become part of your library, and sell all your other editions of Chaucer.......2006-12-16

For whom is the Riverside Chaucer designed? Certainly, if you are a general interest reader encountering Chaucer for a single class (i.e. a survey of Middle English literature) then the Riverside is too large, expensive, and unnecessary. However, if you are an English major, scholar of Medieval literature, graduate student, et cetera, then the Riverside Chaucer is a must.

When you buy this book you can recycle your paperback editions that have just "The Canterbury Tales" or just "The Parliament of Fowls"; collected here are all the works ever written by Chaucer (including a few of dubious authorship). The Riverside is terrific for its sheer volume of its contents, especially as it contains works by Chaucer that are unavailable, or hard to find, as separate edition (particulary his translation of Boethius' "De Consolatione Philosophiae").

Other than serving as your "one-stop Chaucer shop" the Riverside should be celebrated for its elaborate and informative scholary notes. Footnotes, endnotes, indices of proper names, maps, a glossary, and information on pronunciation and verse round out this comprehensive edition. In summary, if you plan on encountering Chaucer more than the average students who takes perhaps a single class dealing with him, this is the edition for you. Those who decide to pursue scholarly work will need the Riverside, as it is THE edition from which Chaucer is cited in research.

The Granddaddy of all Daddies of English Literature.......2006-03-10

There are two questions at issue:

Why Chaucer? Why the Riverside?

First the second. If you are going to read Chaucer, this is the edition to get. It is the critical edition, which means this is the one that scholars quote from in their writings about Chaucer. This is the one any self-respecting Chaucer course will assign. This is the grown-up's edition of Chaucer. And beyond that, it's a great edition -- based on the inspired editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the notes and glosses that you need to link up to the most important backgrounds and criticism.

Also, the Riverside is the complete edition; it presents everything in the original Middle English. That means you get not only the Canterbury Tales, but also all the minor poems -- Troilus and Criseyde (honestly, his most moving poem), the so-called minor poems (the dream visions and lyrics) and Chaucer's translations. The paperback Riverside is also surprisingly easy to carry around.

As to the other question, why Chaucer? Perhaps because he is, as John Dryden called him, the "Father of English Poetry." Any serious student of English literature needs to start here (Shakespeare did!). Also, Chaucer is just supremely human, if that means having a supremely human sense of humor -- one that pokes fun at all the pretensions of our mortal state. At the same time he is capable of grasping after the utmost reaches of human feeling, both religious and romantic. A serious reading of Chaucer reminds a person that the human soul is not an invention of any region or time period of history. The laughter and the tears that are part of what his copyist Shakespeare later calls the "mortal coil" are all here.

Probably the best bargain of a book on all of amazon.com -- NO KIDDING.

As Chaucer himself said, "What is this world, What asketh man to have, Now with his love, now in his colde grave -- allone withouten any compaignye" -- only the Riverside Chaucer; lost on a desert island with no other companion -- this is the first book you would want to have with you and the last one.

Superb!.......2006-01-06

This is the best edition of Chaucer on the market, including all of his major works. If you're serious, this is the one to get.

sitting on the dock of a bay..........2005-12-03

To gauge Chaucer's merit as a poet and as a HUMAN is in our time demanding and therefore questionable. Velleity MAY yield amusement. I will quote Ezra Pound:

"Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books for ever. ... As to the relative merits of Chaucer and Shakespeare, English opinion has been bamboozled for centuries by a love of the stage, the glamour of the theatre, the love of bombastic rhetoric and of sentimentalizing over actors and actresses; these, plus the national laziness and unwillingness to make the least effort, have completely obscured the values."

Pound the iconoclast. He does however wake one up to something beyond conjecture:

"Chaucer wrote when reading was no disgrace... Chaucer really does comprehend the thought as well as the life of his time... The Wife of Bath's theology is not a mere smear... 'conseilling is nat comandement.' Chaucer wrote while England was still a part of Europe. He was more compendious than Dante. ...Chaucer uses French art, the art of Provence, the verse art come from the troubadours. He is La Grand Translateur. He had found a new language, he had it largely to himself, with the grand opportunity. Nothing spoiled, nothing worn out. Dante had had a similar opportunity, and taken it, with a look over his shoulder and a few Latin experiments. ...Chaucer and Shakespeare have both an insuperable courage in tackling any, but absolutely any, thing that arouses their interest..."

It goes on and on. One CAN trace the metamorphoses of English verse. Its origin is with Chaucer.

Well Worth the Price!.......2005-11-06

Can anyone argue that Chaucer's complete works *aren't* worth reading? The language is beautiful, a perfect blend of satirical humor and solemn reflection... and of course, no one can paint a portrait with words quite like the author of the Canterbury Tales.

The notes in the back provide more detail if a particular point interests you, but the footnotes on the page are sufficient to allow understanding. There's a reason that the Riverside Chaucer is *the* book that Chaucer students use.

If the footnotes aren't sufficient, I would advise actually learning to speak Middle English. It's more effort, but often by saying a word aloud its meaning (or at least its tone) become clearer. Chaucer's work is, after all, meant to be heard aloud, not to be read in a textbook.

The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer,: To which are appended poems attributed to Chaucer; (Publisher's lettering: British poets. Riverside edition. [v. 11-13])

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The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer,: To which are appended poems attributed to Chaucer; (Publisher's lettering: British poets. Riverside edition. [v. 11-13])
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Prologue From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Riverside Literature Series)

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The Prologue From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Riverside Literature Series)
Jr. Frank Jewett Mather
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Number 135 Riverside Literature Series THE PROLOGUE From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary Houghon Mifflin Company Boston, New York, and Chicago The Riverside Press Cambridge Contents of Part I INTRODUCTION I. Life of Chaucer II. Chaucer's Literary Development III. The Plan of the Canterbury Tales IV. The Genius of Chaucer V. Pronunciation and Metre THE CANTERBURY TALES: INTRODUCTORY NOTE THE PROLOGUE OF THE CANTERBURY TALES GLOSSARY

The Prologue, the Knight's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's Tale (Riverside Literature Series)

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The Prologue, the Knight's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's Tale (Riverside Literature Series)
Chaucer
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The Prologue, the Knight's tale, and the Nun's priest's tale (The Riverside literature series)

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The Prologue, the Knight's tale, and the Nun's priest's tale (The Riverside literature series)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Selections from the Tales of Canterbury, and short poems (Riverside editions)

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Selections from the Tales of Canterbury, and short poems (Riverside editions)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Benson Riverside Chaucer Third Edition Plus Text Letter

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Benson Riverside Chaucer Third Edition Plus Text Letter

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The Prologue From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Riverside Literature Series)
Jr. Frank Jewett Mather
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The Prologue from Chaucer's Tales; Edited with an Introduction and Glossary , The Riverside Literature Series

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The Prologue from Chaucer's Tales; Edited with an Introduction and Glossary , The Riverside Literature Series
Jr. Frank Jewett Mather
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Riverside Chaucer
Benson
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