The QC Laboratory Chemist: Plain and Simple

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This book details the critical industrial techniques and principles needed by analytical chemists, laboratory supervisors, and managers. Beginning with common mistakes and their impact, the text covers sample handling, basic volumetric and gravimetric principles, modern instrumental techniques, traditional wet methods, and regulatory issues such as calibration, treatment of data, documentation, development, validation, and failure investigation. The author gives full attention to regulations and the monographs of the USP. A practical "how-to" format streamlines readers' understanding of areas such as assay, content uniformity, dissolution, preservative challenge testing, impurity profiles, and plant process support testing.

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Authors Ita G. G. Kreft and Jan de Leeuw have provided the first accessible and practical guide to using multilevel models in social research. Multilevel approaches are becoming increasingly important in social, behavioral, and educational research and it is clear from recent developments that such models are seen as more realisticùand potentially more revealingùthan ordinary regression models. While other books describe these multilevel models in considerable detail none focus on the practical issues and potential problems of doing multilevel analyses that are covered in Introducing Multilevel Modeling. The authorsÆ approach is user-oriented, keeping formal mathematics and statistics to a minimum. Other key features include the use of worked examples using real data sets, analyzed using the leading computer package for multilevel modeling.

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An excellent theoretical introduction to Hierchical Linear Models.......2005-09-10

As a foreword, I am a 2nd year psychology graduate student with ANOVA and multiple regression experience.

That said, I've found this work to be clear, precise, and straight-forward in introducing the logic and concepts behind why one would wish to use a hiearchical linear model, as well as the foundation of said statistical design. The lack of emphasis on heavy math-based calculations will undoubtedly expedite training and use for those in the behavioral sciences. On that same note, formulae are interjected only when necessary and more often clarify than confuse a given point or concept.

The only drawback of this text might be imparting exactly how one performs HLM. There are other books on the market that, though more technical and/or less clear, provide the heavy emphasis on analysis that this book does not quite have.

Even so, I am firmly convinced that there is no better book for HLM in terms of laying out the theoretical foundation. An added bonus for me was the fact that ANOVA and regression are richly elaborated upon--a feature that many graduate students might appreciate as a refresher.

In short, I highly recommend this book.

Good intro Multilevel modeling - uses "Englishlike" language.......2004-12-21

I liked the "comman-man-language" used by the authors to explain Multilevel Modeling. The use of MLn software, which is nearly 50% of the book, was a damper. With the commercial world dominated by SAS and SPSS, I would have liked the authors to give the examples for use with SAS

User friendly!.......2001-05-11

This book is the best intro to the subject that I've seen. The authors minimize the use of notation, mathematics and the like, and invoke the reader's intuition by developing some good, concrete examples. They present those examples as datasets (accessible on the web), as "run" regressions (i.e. with parameter estimates and standard errors), and graphically.

They also demo how to "run" each of the examples on a PC, using the program MLn. If you don't use MLn (and I had never heard of it); this part of the book is less helpful. It would be great if, in an accompanying website perhaps, they were to demo the same analyses using other packages (e.g. SYSTAT, SAS and the like). But this book is really quite good, and a terrific addition to any applied social scientist's library.

reasonable overview of a burgeoning technique.......2000-04-06

When analysing data, the relationships between people that belong in the same classroom, live in the same street or suburb, are part of the same family or therapy group,etc., are often ignored. Multilevel or hierarchical linear modelling is a statistical technique for taking into account such dependencies, arranged in hierarchies (e.g., correlations between students within classrooms, correlations between classrooms within schools, correlations between schools within school districts). In other words, multilevel modeling techniques attempt to model the hierarchical relationships that are found in the real world. In the last 10 years or so there has been a growing number of books and software packages concerned with multilevel analyses. Introducing Multilevel Modeling is shorter and slightly less 'mathematical' than most and gives quite a good introduction to the subject. The book makes reference to the British MLn (MLWiN) computer program in its examples, whereas an introductory text arguably should have used the HLM program, for which a cutdown student version is available free. Taking group dependencies into account is extremely important, but unfortunately many researchers will be discouraged by the dry and heavy-going feel of these texts, which is so often the case with anything involving statistical theory. A highly approachable and readable book remains to be written, but Introducing Multilevel Modeling is probably the best of the current crop.

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The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies. First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorably poignant.

Dubliners is an audio experience that will only grow in richness with each time you listen. The stories and performers are:

The Sisters • Frank McCourt
An Encounter • Patrick McCabe
Araby • Colm Meaney
Eveline • Dearbhla Molloy
After the Race • Dan O'Herlihy
Two Gallants • Malachy McCourt
The Boarding House • Donal Donnelly
A Little Cloud • Brendan Coyle
Counterparts • Jim Norton
Clay • Sorcha Cusack
A Painful Case • Ciaran Hinds
Ivy Day in the Committee Room • T.P. McKenna
A Mother • Fionnula Flanagan
Grace • Charles Keating
The Dead • Stephen Rea

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Joyce Is Meant to Be Read Aloud.......2007-10-04

James Joyce was absorbed by music, people, languages, acting and actors, and though an exile from his native country and city, his literary consciousness was forever embedded in Dublin. He had an unerring ear for Dublin dialogue.
At night I turn out the lights and listen to these CD's, to the cadences of the people talking, and to me these Dubliners endlessly gossiping are in the room with me. Joyce's narrative adroitness, his choice of words, his lyrical descriptions, and above all, his sense of place are brilliant facets of a genius.
Stephen Rea's sensitive reading of "The Dead" is worth the price of this set of fifteen stories read by fifteen different mostly Irish personalities. The characters in the stories live and breathe, become real. Joyce was meant to be read aloud. It's good talk, conversations that you become a part of.
In these stories Joyce is very accessible. In Finnegan's Wake he became Jackson Pollock--obscure and difficult. In "The Dead" you can feel, touch, hear, and taste the snow that is falling outside the house while inside two old sisters are giving their annual bright and cheery party. It's a story of tenderness, love, regrets, and lost lovers, but it is mainly full of life, good times, fellowship, and above all humanity.

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Dublin digitally discerned and declaimed.......2006-10-16

Handsomely produced, elegantly assembled, and consistently engrossing: these actors read the stories with appropriate sensitivity, wit, pathos, and distance. The detachment of Joyce in his "voice" on the page is re-created well. When I have taught students "Araby" or "The Boarding House," the chance to hear the language repeated as its author would have meant it to be rendered makes these stories come alive for a classroom six thousand miles and a century away from early 20c Dublin.

Although all of the stories succeed, those in the center of the book emerged when conveyed aloud most enlighteningly. Clay, A Mother, A Painful Case, and most of all Two Gallants, After the Race, and Counterparts all hit my ear with more force than they had when I had only read them. These stories are often overlooked compared to the others, but the skill that the actors brought to these more prosaic, less lively, and more nuanced examples of Joyce's careful craft deserve special acclaim. The packaging keeps the CDs securely in place, is itself compact and well-designed, fitting its outwardly austere & Edwardian yet subtly decorated and inviting contents.

Students, the curious newcomer, the experienced teacher, and those who read the book out of delight and not duty: all will benefit from the music on the page that by a technology Joyce himself spoke into at its early gramaphone stages is now digitally preserved so that those of us all over the world and a vastly changed world later can be entertained and instructed. I think JJ might have been pleased at this version of his pioneering, eloquent, yet accessible and moving, accounts of his imagined neighbors and municipal counterparts.

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Beautifully written but underwhelming
Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce
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Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.

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Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in Dubliners might be incidents from a draft of Portrait of the Artist, and many of the characters who figure in Ulysses have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.

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Irish Stew.......2007-09-07

Because "Ulysses" is so imposing with its epic length and pages of solid, tiny text I decided to get my feet wet with "Dubliners," which is not quite half the other's length. From what I read with "Dubliners", I'll have to give "Ulysses" a shot in the near future.

Normally I'd do an obligatory plot summary, but that would be a pointless exercise because A) There are 15 short stories that comprise the book and B) None of them really has a traditional "plot" to speak of. Rather, "Dubliners" is a serious of what we in modern parlance would call "character sketches." Think of it as each story being a portrait of some person or scene done in painstakingly vivid detail. Each story focuses on some small moment that often leads the character to discovering a melancholy truth about life.

The first stories focus on children encountering the harsh realities of the adult world--a priest dying and an encounter with a creepy, crazy old man--and then move on to teenage love and then more adult problems of marriage, family, and politics before a final meditation on death in the aptly-titled "The Dead."

The way Joyce captures the humanity of each character is so stunning; he taps into the soul of these people to expose the secrets, wishes, hopes, and fears that reside within each of us. It's hard not to see a part of yourself in one or more of these characters, almost as if Joyce knew you over 90 years ago better than you know yourself right now. Because while the technology may change, the human psyche remains the same.

The reason I can't give this four stars is that like any short story collection there's a fatigue that sets in upon reading "Dubliners." The longer the collection goes on, the more similarities can be seen in the characters and the situations, the descriptions and the dialog. It's like listening to an album of music and noting that song 10 sounds a lot like song 5, which sounds a lot like song 2. There's really no way to avoid that fatigue unless the writer uses a completely different style each time.

As well, reading a book written over 90 years ago that's set in Ireland can be a challenge for a modern (not quite 90) year old American. Footnotes and such can be helpful, but it also interrupts the flow of the reading.

Still, Joyce's uncanny knowledge of humanity is well worth any fatigue or nuisances.

That is all.

Beautifully written but underwhelming.......2007-07-31

I enjoyed four of the fifteen stories in this book immensely. The others were great for their prose, depiction of people at certain junctures in their life, and reflection of Dublin at the turn of the Century, but otherwise not compelling.

"The Dead," his most enduring and evocative piece of short fiction, did nothing for me. I loved A Little Cloud, Couterparts, A Painful Case, and Eveline.

I read the Barnes&Noble Classic edition. The maps at the beginning of each story added no value.

After reading this book I'm ready for some contemporary fiction.

Great Vignettes Of Dublin Life and A Great way to introduce yourself to James Joyce .......2007-03-30

Admittedly Joyce's better known works can seem quite daunting to the uninitiated but here in these short character sketches a reader can begin to understand what all fuss is about and enjoy some wonderfully written short stories in the bargain.

The stories are consistently good and from the very first where a young boy encounters the death of someone he knows for the first time the tales and the characters are engaging. Highly recommended !

Untitled.......2007-02-01

I don't really have anything thoughtful to say exept that after reading this book multiple times, I think that it is tight, but breathes, and is choreographed as best as a human being could do, and in that regard, it is very much like a Beatles album, and should be esteemed in like manner.

Frustratingly short short stories.......2007-01-05

I had given up on James Joyce after finding "Ulysses" too murky and disorienting. When I mentioned this to a young handsome literature student in a Dublin pub, he suggested I try "Dubliners" instead. When I got back home I checked a copy out of the library and found it hard to believe this collection of stories was written by the same man who confounded me before. I found each story almost instantly engaging (except the one about the election; too far removed from my modern American experience, I guess), and most seemed to end abruptly. This may be why another reviewer wrote that the stories had no climax, but I simply wanted more. I'm here on Amazon to buy a copy because I still want more.

So did Joyce write these stories and then hit the Absinthe before writing "Ulysses"? Or am I thinking of Oscar Wilde...?

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New, Unabridged on 5 CD's; Shrinkwrapped. Narrated by Ralph Cosham.

An award-winning reading of Joyce's fourteen accessible stories including 'The Dead'.

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