Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: Separations and Processes (Acs Symposium Series)

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This book covers a broad range of topics involving supercritical carbon dioxide from theoretical studies to applications in separations, materials science and reactivity and catalysis.

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A FIRST COURSE IN MONTE CARLO shows you how to design, perform, and analyze the results of MC experiments based on independent replications, Markov chain MC, and MC optimization. The text emphasizes the variance-reducing techniques of importance sampling, stratified sampling, Rao-Blackwellization, control variates, antithetic variates, and quasi-random numbers. For solving optimization problems it describes several MC techniques, including simulated annealing, simulated tempering, swapping, stochastic tunneling, and genetic algorithms. Examples from many areas show how these techniques perform in practice. Hands-on exercises allow you to experience challenges encountered when solving real problems. An answer key to selected problems is included.

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Back in print: the elegant gift-edition slipcased of a vibrant, new complete Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible top Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespeare-the working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossaries and annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of the Norton Anthologies), this complete Shakespeare invites contemporary readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt's full introduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture, demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modern England-Shakespeare's family background and professional life, the Elizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequent centuries of Shakespeare textual editing.

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I can't believe I read the whole thing!.......2007-05-05

Initially, I had to buy this mammoth of a book for a college course covering Shakespeare's early commedies and histories. I've been fascinated with Shakespeare ever since I read Romeo and Juliet in high school, and my college studies merely increased that fascination. This book served me very well in the course; the introductions are extremely relevant to and informative about both the background of play and also the period in which it is written. I appreciate that the introductions are well-written and easy to understand. (Shakespeare is hard enough to understand without having to wade through a difficult introduction as well.) The footnotes are also excellent; they provide much needed explanations, descriptions, and definitions. There are also side notes with the more common words for archaic words used. I certainly wouldn't want to try to read Shakespeare without all the tools provided in this edition. Since college, I have spent nearly two years working my way through Shakespeare's works, and it has been extrememly gratifying. I like some plays better than others and find some plays easier to understand than others, but I couldn't be happier with the edition required back in college.

I would also like to add that the book is much sturdier than it seems, especially the tissue thin pages. This book was toted around in a backpack with me for a semester in college and has been most abusively treated since then. I've dropped it numerous times, had it sliding around in the trunk whenever I went on vacation, and toted it with me to many a doctor's appointment. My puppy tried to chew up the corner of it when I wasn't looking, and my husband spilled coffee on the open pages and down the side while I was reading. With the exception of a little wear on the corners of the cover, a coffee stain, and a few wrinkled pages, the book is in fine condition. I would have expected ripped or severly damaged pages from some of the things my book has endured, but all the pages are whole, which is remarkable considering how thin they are.

Overall, I think this book is a wonderful edition of Shakespeare's work for both the student and also the reader who just wants to improve his or her mind. I'm not some fancy college professor, but this book has served me equally well in my endeavors as a student and as a reader.

school use.......2007-04-13

At my university this book was used in the tragic/comedy Shakespeare English classes. I found it to be very useful as a resource.

Excellent Edition.......2006-11-12

If you are a college, student carrying this book around will be dreadful. I am almost done with my college career and I do not regret one bit having to buy this book. It is much more costly that the various other editions that exist. The Oxford edition is the best for any shakespeare course. The footnotes are exceedingly informative. It's as if you have an entire history lesson in each play. It greatly helped me in my shakepeare course. The pages are super thin and almost transparent so it's difficult to highlight or make marks in it. Although it is inconvenient to carry this book around it makes up for its burdensome structure by the knowledge you will attain from using this particular edition. Most editions don't have the proper footnotes, leaving its readers confused and learning nothing. I highly recomend this edition especially if you are an English or literature major. You could also try to buy indiviual "Folger Edition" plays or sonnets. Those are the best to use for a course as well.

Best Choice.......2006-10-12

I'd rather give this 4.5 stars, but I can't. As another reviewer said, one wants to not like this volume. It's expensive and there are some annoying things about it--for example, the paper is soooo thin you can practically read the recto on the verso--but it is all-around the edition I turn to most often. The Riverside (I'd judge it to be the other most commonly used anthology) is absolutely ungainly. Its paper is certainly better, but the thing is absolutely huge. Looks great on the shelf, but horrible to carry with you to class. I also dislike the Riverside's two column layout and system of notation, which puts notes and glosses at the bottom of the page without indicators in the text. The Norton puts glosses in the margin, which I find infinitely less disturbing and more likely to be helpful, and it numbers footnotes. It also uses a single-column layout, which I find much easier to read and allows a smaller paper size (same size as all the other Nortons out there, same Bible paper too) without a smaller font size. The introductions to the individual plays have been farmed out to some of the best in the biz, so it's not just Greenblatt's book. For what it's worth, his job on the introductory material in this volume matches the quality of what you expect from one of the leading figures in the field. What's more, the scholarly material is very readable and generally helpful. Yes, the take of that material is definitely influenced by new historicism and cultural materialism, but anything compiled in the last 20 years is likely to be similarly influenced. There is also some good theater history help here and some good old facts. If you have problems with the Oxford edition, then you'll have problems with this one. If you don't, then it should be fine. For what it's worth, I reallllly like that there are the three Lear texts. This is a volume than can just be read if you want to read Shakespeare. But it's also a book that will get you through the hard stuff and that is fit for scholarly work.

Bad Scholarship; Not as Good as Signet Classic.......2006-07-25

To begin, the Library Journal review above is ridiculous, in that it does not mention the 1972 Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare, which is far superior to this volume. Stephen Greenblatt's introduction in the Norton is largely irrelevant, and his book "Will in the World," a purported Shakespeare biography which contains various historical errors and loads of speculation (i.e, the book has been discredited), has caused me to dislike him and to distrust his New Historicist brand of "scholarship." Greenblatt's position as godfather and champion of New Historicism leads him to paint Shakespeare's immense ability as the product of sociocultural forces rather than native genius and a self-willed development as a writer. When Greenblatt discusses the sources of Shakespeare's inspiration, they are often stunningly banal and overly speculative. His father may have had a drinking problem; maybe he was one of the sources for Sir John Falstaff! True or not, such a theory doesn't explain or illuminate the marvel of literary creation that is Falstaff.

I have given the Norton two stars because it isn't completely horrible (it's hard to completely botch Shakespeare). But if you want the Bard, buy the Signet Classic volume of his complete works and Marjorie Garber's "Shakespeare After All," an illuminating companion to the plays. Leave Greenblatt alone.

The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Romances and Poems

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The last great plays

The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Romances and Poems
Katharine Eisaman Maus , Jean E. Howard , Walter Cohen , and William Shakespeare
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A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespeare—the working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossaries and annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of the Norton Anthologies), this edition of Shakespeare invites contemporary readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt's full introduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture, demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modern England—Shakespeare's family background and professional life, the Elizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequent centuries of Shakespeare textual editing.

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Nice for a Paperback.......2006-01-24

This is a very nice collection of all of Shakespeare's works. There's information about each play and there are footnotes on the bottom of the pages to help you out. The only problem I had with this book was the paper for the pages is a little too thin and I wish the glossary had more words Shakespeare used in his works. I highly recommend this book.

The last great plays .......2006-01-20

"The Winter's Tale"," Pericles" "Cymbeline" and " The Tempest" are generally classified as Romances. The Romance is taken to be a mixed form which has both tragic and comic elements. It usually concludes with a 'happy ending' a masque and a dance. But somehow the 'happy ending' is less harmonious than in the comedies. And there is a sense of a more forced complicated resolution.
The great Romances deal with the themes of Appearance and Reality, of Dream and Reality.
As in all Shakespeare they are rich in incredibly beautiful poetry which redeems them even when they touch upon the absurd.

The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Comedies

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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
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Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Stephen Greenblatt Walter Cohen
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The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, Second Edition: Comedies

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The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, Second Edition: Volume 2: Later Plays

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The Norton Shakespeare Based on the Oxford Edition.(Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review

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Paul Werstine
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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on July 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1118 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.

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Title: The Norton Shakespeare Based on the Oxford Edition.(Review)
Author: Paul Werstine
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1999
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 94 Issue: 3 Page: 783(2)

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