Properties of Liquids and Solutions, 2nd Edition

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Properties of Liquids and Solutions Second Edition J.N. Murrell A.D. Jenkins University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Properties of Liquids and Solutions, Second edition, is a fully revised and updated edition of this popular text, providing a broad coverage of the physics and chemistry of the liquid state. In recent years there have been great developments in the understanding of intermolecular potentials and computer simulation of bulk properties, and these advances are reflected in the new material in this edition. Properties of Liquids and Solutions continues to bring together an up-to-date account of advances, as well as providing essential background information, in the study of the liquid state. Properties of Liquids and Solutions will continue to be an indispensable teaching text for lecturers and students in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical physics, materials science and environmental science.

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I agree with the other guy!.......2003-09-26

I had to bought this book for a class I'm attending. I first read the preview available for this book and I was kind of nervous to buy this book but I had no choice, it was necessary. The only thing I want to say is that book should not be consulted except if it is really necessary... There is virtually no links between the parts of chapters and even between the chapters. You never know what the author is trying to explain. The information is always partial, there is plenty of references to paliated this lack of usefull information. Nevertheless, I think that it is not to complicated to understand. This is mainly why I have deceided to give it 2 stars. I strongly not recommend this book to anyone: students, teachers and professionnals. There must be many better book out there! In fact, I don't think that any book can be worst. I haven't read all the book yet but I'm pretty sure that the last chapters won't be more exciting than the first half.

Holy cow! Over-rated!.......1998-03-23

This book was horrible. It was either too complex, or much too simplistic. There was no measure of explanation on the connections between the various subjects, and no tying in of the various concepts 'learned'... This was bad... DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

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Vol. 1 of Lars Hörmander's influential 4-volume treatise is a detailed exposition of the theory of distributions.

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"In order to illustrate the richness of the book: in my review of the 1983 edition [...] I gave a list of 20 subjects which were new compared to Hörmander's book of 1963. Most of these subjects concern important, basic and highly nontrivial theorems in analysis. Hörmander's treatment of these is extremely clear and efficient and often highly original. [...] Most of the exercises are witty, with an interesting point. The phrasing of both the exercises and the answers and hints is very careful [...] In all, the book can be highly recommended, both as a textbook for advanced students, and as background and reference for introductory courses on distributions and Fourier analysis."

J.J. Duistermaat in Mededelingen van het Wiskundig Genootschap

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the definitive guide to micro-local analysis.......2000-04-05

Hormander's four volume guide to linear partial differential operators is the definitive guide to smooth micro-local analysis from the man who invented a large fraction of it.

Micro-local analysis is an approach to the analysis of singularities of variable coefficient linear partial differential equations based on the use of the Fourier transform and of symplectic geometry. Ideas from Hamiltonian physics and quantum theory also feature heavily. The fact that the subject is a mixture of analysis and geometry makes it beautiful and powerful.

The four volume set is hard work and in some ways is more useful as a reference work than as a learning book but on the other hand, all the material is there and the books do reward the reader who is willing to spend the time to study them carefully.

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Due to popular demand this classic presentation of a vast amount on linear partial differential equations by a consummate master of the subject is now available as a study edition. The main change in this new edition is the inclusion of exercises with answers and hints. That is meant to emphasize that this volume can perfectly serve as a general course in modern analysis on a graduate student level and not only as a beginning of a specialised course in partial differential equations. In particular, it could also serve as an introduction to harmonic analysis. Exercises are given primarily to the sections of general interest. As in the revised printing of volume II, a number of minor flaws have also been corrected in this edition. Parallely this edition is still available as volume 256 of the Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. "... it is the best now available in print. ... All the theorems are there (among them the Schwartz kernel theorem), and all they have ... proofs." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society#1 "It certainly will be a classic for many years." Zentralblatt für Mathematik#2

The Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators I: Distribution Theory and Fourier Analysis

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The Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators I: Distribution Theory and Fourier Analysis

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The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.

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Brilliant stories from a literary fifth columnist.......2007-10-01

My favourite living author of the offbeat, macabre story is Joyce Carol Oates. This prolific woman, who can seemingly pen an entire novel while having a bath, has compiled a formidable opus of stories which Alberto Manguel appropriately describes as Black Water stories. I haven't read any of her many other types of novel and short story, but if I were handing out Nobel prizes, I would grab back any of the prizes handed out in the last twenty years (they seem to be awarded on the basis of some kind of quota system) and give it to Ms Oates. But before Joyce Carol Oates there was Shirley Jackson. We've all read The Lottery in high school, and even though I was intrigued and appalled by this story at the time, I didn't seek out more Jackson for a long time, partly I think because I thought my English teacher would approve. Just as well, because I think I am better able to appreciate her now that I am older and society and life in general has become more suspect for me.

Jackson died when she was 48 years of age, a victim to depression, drink, amphetamines, and chocolate. She was married to a university professor and lived at a time when America was expanding and exporting its robust, cocksure culture to the world. All of the stories in The Lottery and Other Stories were published in the 1940s. New York City was the true capital of North America and fast becoming the capital of the world. In these stories the hypocrisy behind the blithe optimism and manifest destiny of American culture is deftly portrayed. Many conservative, nostalgic thinkers and politicians evoke this time as being a golden age, a time that our current debauched, rudderless culture should aspire to. Jackson, a literary fifth columnist, doesn't appear to have embraced any of it. She skewers the racism, sexism, materialism and violence of the times -the glitter turns out to have been cheap paint after all- and she does so in simple straight forward slice of life stories, and, more devastatingly, in allegorical, nightmarish tales -The Lottery, The Tooth, and The Daemon Lover, etc.

The Lottery -Its about atavism, superstition -about responding to the mystery, insecurity, and danger of life by making human sacrifices to the vulpine forces of nature in order to presumably save the majority through a kind of magical inoculation. This type of thinking is the antithesis of science. It is ancient, 'old brain' thinking and it shares a lot with some 'new age' thinking. I think it is also why we can sometimes justify sending our young people off to die in pointless wars in foreign countries. It is about unthinking adherence to ritual. It is about compartmentalizing our emotions and behaviour -allowing friendship and compassion to co-exist with murderous cruelty, in the same person, in the same community. The veneer of civilization is not that thick or that strong. Civilization is a modern, stylish bungalow, built over a deep, ancient dungeon, where savagery and perhaps evil still walks, and periodically comes up the damp winding staircase -witness the unspeakable atrocities on both sides of recent and current conflicts (e.g. Kosovo, Rwanda, Iraq.) No wonder this story generated the most mail of any story ever published in the New Yorker. It is truly disturbing. Bridge with the girls, or baseball and a few beers with boys wouldn't seem the same after reading this story.

Pointless ritualism.......2007-09-27

A fantastic critique of the pointlessness of rituals...such as meat-eating...racism...speciesism...homophobia.

The text is available for free on the internet...but Jackson should be in everyone's collection.

Always a pleaser...........2007-06-09

Shirley Jackson is currently one of my favorite authors. (And, incidentily always has been, since elementary school.) She is the author that everyone has some sort of familiarity with, unbeknownst to them. From The Lottery, to The Haunting of Hill House, to We Have Always Lived In the Castle, there is a sort of haunting timelessness in her work. No matter where you grew up, what your background, you will always find a common thread to link you to her world. And in her world, you will find, (if you pay attention) a parable to our times, a guessing game of "could it really?.." and, "did it ever?"... After all of these questions, you will find yourself answering, yes, yes it did...

"The Lottery" Rigged Against Women.......2005-12-03

In the society of Ms. Jackson's "The Lottery," the reader's initial reaction to the surface appearance of both the town and its people is a favorable one. She pictures a healthy and happy small town that is simply brimming with a robust sense of nature: "The morning of June 27th was clear and shiny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" The town seems centered on its annual lottery, an event which appears harmless enough, but as the story progresses, the reader learns the full and horrifying truth behind the lottery. The winner, chosen at random, is then ritually stoned to death by the willing participation of the town's inhabitants. Thus the "winner" is not a winner at all. With this ritualistic killing of one whose only misfortune is to pick the winning (losing?) paper, Ms. Jackson passes judgment on a society that seems to be full of the corn-fed Middle America types that abound in any painting by Norman Rockwell. It is the very ones who seem most like us that fill her tale with creepy horror.

The killing that terminates the plot may not have come as a surprise to the careful reader. Ms. Jackson drops hints from the second paragraph that this unnamed small town may have been the forerunner of the village that housed the robotic wives of The Stepford Wives. These delicate hints become obvious after multiple readings. The action begins with some little boys playing with pebbles and stones: "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones." One of the other boys "made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys." It is these stones which will be later used against poor Tessie Hutchinson, the woman who pulled the X-marked ticket. Ms. Jackson also makes a subtle stab at a society which is male dominant. As the boys play with their lethal collection of stones, the girls do little more than watch as they are forbidden by their gender to participate. It is only against the one female who dares to speak out against such a rigid anti-female society that the Lottery punishes with a ritualistic killing.

Tessie Hutchinson is no angel of a woman. She is shrewish and is almost man-like in her attempts to break the gender barrier by speaking and acting in ways that the other townspeople disapprove. Tessie seems almost eager to join in the festivities as she crowds her way toward the mysterious black box that houses all the tickets. "Wouldn't have me leave m'dishes in the sink, now would you, Joe?" she asks.

Little by little it becomes increasingly clear that the object of the Lottery is to lose, not win. As the villagers begin to draw their tickets, Tessie thinks that another villager may have been given an unfair advantage; "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair," she shouts. Her husband Bill shows no sympathy for her as he responds, "Shut up, Tessie." Later Tessie yells, "There's Don and Eva. Make them take their chance!" Again Tessie moans, "It wasn't fair." It is this repetition of fair that suggests that deep down Tessie suspects that she will draw the losing ticket. Indeed, when Tessie does draw the ticket with the X, she shouts out in a vain attempt at sympathy, "It isn't fair, it isn't right." And then her friends and relatives kill her by stoning her in the Biblical way of death for adulterers. Even her little son Davey joins in with the killing of his mother.

In "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson portrays a society that looks much like ours on the outside, but in the killing of the scapegoat, she suggests that on the inside, we are perhaps much more like her friends than we might like to think.

Illuminating snapshots of life.......2005-09-11

Many people are familiar with the story "The Lottery," but it is just one of many incredible vignettes of life filling this collection. It is hard to understand today why "The Lottery" originally provoked such a strong reaction, yet it still packs a punch for first-time readers. While it does have aspects of horror, the remaining stories are basically literary. "Flower Garden" and "After You, My Dear Alphonse" deal with racism and would seem to be pretty bold statements for the time period (the book was published in 1948); the latter story seems particularly groundbreaking because of the unusual perspective it provides. "Charles" is a humorous yet illuminating look at the behavior of children, while "Afternoon in Linen" is an important statement on why children sometimes behave as they do. Jackson is at her best when describing the disenchanted adult. The helplessness of women is an important theme in many stories; many of the women described here feel helpless and subservient to their husbands, their neighbors, and their community. "Elizabeth" is a fairly long study of how one woman's wishes and dreams remain unfulfilled in later life. The housewife in "Got a Letter From Jimmy" is thoroughly exasperated by her husband's feelings, and since she cannot speak her mind to him, she is forced to fantasize about killing him. In "The Villager" a woman spontaneously chooses to become someone else entirely for a few minutes, and most of Jackson's heroines spend much time contemplating what could have been. In "Of Course," the fact that a new family has a few unorthodox views builds an unbreachable wall between brand-new neighbors. The women in these stories are always wondering what other people think about them and worrying about what others will say about them. Even when a group of women try to do something good to help the less fortunate, it backfires on them in "Come Dance With Me in Ireland." When a female character vacations with her husband in New York in "Pillar of Salt," she soon becomes "lost," afraid, and desperate to return home. "Colloquy" is the shortest story in the collection, but its protagonist speaks for most of Jackson's female characters when she asks whether she alone or the whole world has gone insane.

My favorite story here is "The Daemon Lover." Herein, Jackson offers one of the most poignant, touching looks at loneliness, desperation, and fragility I have ever read. In the story, we spend a day with the protagonist as she prepares for her wedding, having become engaged just the night before to a James Harris. It is a depressing yet beautiful story, and I actually rate it higher than "The Lottery." The character of James Harris actually flitters throughout several of these stories, a phantom of sorts haunting several of Jackson's more memorable female characters.

Jackson deals with very serious subjects, and the illumination provided by her unusual perspectives on life is vivid and poignant. When addressing racism, she shows how even an individual with the best of intentions and good will can still represent an unfortunate racist attitude. In speaking to morality and social values, she shows how hard it can be for an individual to go against tradition and the community to do what is right. She offers powerful insights on child (and adult) psychology. Even the couple of stories I did not really "get" offered insight into the living of life. Readers should not expect a book of horror stories when they pick up this book. The stories can be maudlin and even depressing, but they are philosophical, psychological, and sociological rather than creepy or spooky.

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The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson
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Teh Scary.......2006-06-08

Being assigned to read 'The Lottery: And Other Stories' as part of a university english course, I read most of it in the course of a day. The nightmares I had that night caused me to go without sleep for at least two days afterwards. I can still remember the dread wrapping itself around my mind as it realized what was happening in the small town of 'The Lottery.' I have yet to find an author that matches Shirley Jackson's talent in horror.

A few gems in here.............2006-04-21

I loved the title story and a couple of other ones. But some of the stories seemed pointless and I would get to the end and be....huh? Like it just ended mid-writing. Some were boring. But there are some great ones in between the bad.

A RARE GEM.......2005-11-08

Shirley Jackson is a rare treasure whose work is on par with such exceptional short story writers as John Cheever and J.D. Sallinger.

Jackson's stories on the surface may seem like simple tales of domestic life, but she is one of the slyest observors of the quiet desperation that envelops most lives. She may lead you to believe you know how a story will conclude, then she delivers a twist that may very well cause you to gasp.

A "Lottery" Without a Payoff.......2005-08-08

It's like Roald Dahl without the ironic endings. Or any endings, for that matter. The stories just stop and leave you with a quizzical, slightly annoyed grimace. However, they are well-written, finely observed character studies -- snapshots of quiet desperation detailing the sometimes funny, often contemptible minutiae of human behavior. (If Jackson were around today, she'd probably be the star writer on "Curb Your Enthusiasm.")

There are a few satisfying tales -- the title piece (though a little more predictable post-"Twilight Zone" than it must have been when originally published), "After You, My Dear Alphonse," "Charles" and "Colloquy" -- not coincidentally, the only narratives with some sort of punchline. Meanwhile, there are others I might refer to when trying to illustrate a certain archetype, but that doesn't translate to literary fulfillment.

Full of surprises.......2005-06-03

Shirley Jackson is a wonderfully creative writer and once again she proves it with this fine collection. Many of the stories contain so many twists that you will be left thinking of the outcome - or what you believe it to be - a long time after you put the book down.

The Lottery and Other Stories (The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, The Quality Paperback Book Club)

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The Lottery and Other Stories (The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, The Quality Paperback Book Club)
Shirley Jackson
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The Lottery and Seven Other Stories (Audio Editions)

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The Lottery and Seven Other Stories (Audio Editions)
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Who can forget the first time they heard the story? Considered one of the masterpieces of American literature, "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. Since then it has become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. Powerful and haunting, subtle and horrifying, the tale demonstrates Shirley Jackson's mastery of storytelling. This one-of-a-kind audio collection, from the only anthology published during the author's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with seven other equally unique stories. Jackson reveals the hidden evils of the human mind and society in these compelling stories. Carol Stewart, an award-winning reader, combines her extensive background as a voice talent for audiobooks with her deft sense of delivery, tone, and pacing to illuminate Jackson's uncommon characters and storytelling artistry. Winner of the 1998 Publishers Weekly "Listen Up Award" for short stories, "chosen for content, narration, production values, packaging...demonstrates the vitality of what this still-growing industry has to offer." 2 cassettes.

Curious Lottery and Other Tales of Russian Justice (Short Story Index Reprint)

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Curious Lottery and Other Tales of Russian Justice (Short Story Index Reprint)
Walter Duranty
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The Lottery and Other Stories, the Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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The Marked One, the Lottery Ticket and Eleven Other Stories

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The Marked One, the Lottery Ticket and Eleven Other Stories
JACOB PICARD
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Gaming in the U.S. - a ten-year comparison. (includes related article) (Gaming) (Cover Story): An article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly

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Gaming in the U.S. - a ten-year comparison. (includes related article) (Gaming) (Cover Story): An article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly
Gary K. Vallen
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This digital document is an article from Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly, published by Cornell University on December 1, 1993. The length of the article is 5772 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The expansion of state lotteries and the rapid proliferation of gaming centers in American Indian reservations has led to the growth of legalized gambling in the US. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 has permitted American Indian Tribes to establish their own gaming without government intervention. In addition, state lotteries have contributed more than $20 million annually to much needed state-government revenue.

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Title: Gaming in the U.S. - a ten-year comparison. (includes related article) (Gaming) (Cover Story)
Author: Gary K. Vallen
Publication: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1993
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Luck of the draw: Charles Sanders knows a doc can't always pick his patients.(Cover story) : An article from: Business North Carolina

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Luck of the draw: Charles Sanders knows a doc can't always pick his patients.(Cover story) : An article from: Business North Carolina
Tim Gray
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Date: March 1, 2006
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The Lottery and Other Stories

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