Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends, Volume I (Polymer Thermodynamics Library , Vol 1)

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Thermodynamics is an indispensable tool for developing a large and growing fraction of new polymers and polymer blends. These two volumes show the researcher how thermodynamics can be used to rank polymer pairs in order of immiscibility, including the search for suitable chemical structure of compatibilizers. Because of the great current commercial interest in this most dynamic sector of the polymer industry, there is high interest in studying their physical and mechanical properties, their structures, and the processes of their formation and manufacture. These Books are dedicated to Analysis of the Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends. Thermodynamic behavior of blends determines the compatibility of the components, their morphological features, rheological behavior, and microphase structures. As a result, the most important physical and mechanical characteristics of blends can be identified. The information in these two volumes will be useful to all those involved in polymer research, development, analysis and advanced process engineering.

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This book's introduction features a humorous story of a man with a line of people behind him, who explains to his boss, "I can't find an efficient algorithm, but neither can all these famous people." This man illustrates an important quality of a class of problems, namely, the NP-complete problems: if you can prove that a problem is in this class, then it has no known polynomial-time solution that is guaranteed to work in general. This quality implies that the problem is difficult to deal with in practice.

The focus of this book is to teach the reader how to identify, deal with, and understand the essence of NP-complete problems; Computers and Intractability does all of those things effectively. In a readable yet mathematically rigorous manner, the book covers topics such as how to prove that a given problem is NP-complete and how to cope with NP-complete problems. (There is even a chapter on advanced topics, with numerous references.) Computers and Intractability also contains a list of more than 300 problems--most of which are known to be NP-complete--with comments and references.

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comprehensive book for NP-completeness.......2007-09-21

The book is excellent in explaining NP-completeness problem. Take it as a reference if you would like to do research in this field.

Published in 1979 and still the best.......2007-06-16

This is a rare example of a textbook where the authors actually go to the trouble of considering the fact that the intended reader is a non-expert. Published in 1979 and still the best.

Arrived in time, good condition.......2006-02-24

The book arrived in time, in good condition, and adequate packing.

A Beautiful Book on a Beautiful Subject.......2005-12-11

This is among the most eloquently written books that I have ever read in my life. Highly recommended.

This is the Bible for NP-Complete research.......2005-10-07

I most like the fact that a good number of problems reduced to NP-Complete or NP-Hard are listed. I would like someday to see a compiled list of the reductions involved included in one text, but it's not likely that I ever will. It would be nice to see an updated version, but this describes the theory very, very nicely.

This is a must have for any serious computer scientist.

Computers and Intractability a Guide to the Theory of Np-Completeness

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Computers and Intractability a Guide to the Theory of Np-Completeness
Michael R. & Johnson, David S. Garey
Manufacturer: Freeman
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ASIN: B000LZDZ4M

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A companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture, is long overdue. Chapters by leading authorities discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting new critical approaches.

The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics)

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Not a manual.
Brilliant and witty
If you want some action!

The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics)
Ovid
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ASIN: 0375761179
Release Date: 2002-10-08

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In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic elegy. In lyrical, irreverent English, he reveals love’s timeless dilemmas and Ovid’s enduring brilliance as both poet and cultural critic.

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Not a manual........2005-05-05

Publius Ovidius Naso was born in 43 B.C. and died in 18 A.D.
Augustus banished him for unknown reasons to Tomi, a barren place near the coast of the Black Sea.
Another famous work. Scholars agree that it's his best achievement. Ovid is a master in describing feminin emotions ( see also 'Heroides').
It would be wrong to see 'The Art of Love' as some sort of a manual. It's a parody of the poetical manuals that existed in his time.

Brilliant and witty.......2003-07-11

I read the Duane Humphries translation. His preface is superbly written, so one would hope that his translation possesses similar flair. Since I don't read Latin, I cannot attest to his accuracy.

He observes in his preface the commonalities between Ovid's scene and that of our contemporary world. You will get a strong sense of a society that was very similar to that of our own.

If you want some action!.......1999-11-16

This is one of the best books that i have read on "love".Intellectual eroticism always gives a sophisticated veneer to less lofty primordial sexual impulses.Throws new light on the Roman decadence and hedonistic society.So if you want to take a journey and delve into the very essense of Ovid's eroticism and human sexuality or just learn to show some 'love' read this book.

The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

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The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

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Ovid and his Love Poetry (Classical Literature and Society series)

ASIN: 019927777X

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The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love), which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.

Ovid: The Art of Love and Other Poems (Loeb Classical Library No. 232)

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Ovid: The Art of Love and Other Poems (Loeb Classical Library No. 232)
Ovid
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ASIN: 0674992555

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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.

Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

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Fascinating Insights.......2001-03-03

I read this book as a part of a review of Roman Literature. I have to say, of almost all I have, Ovid's "The Art Of Love" gives the most insight into life in ancient Rome. It is also extremely funny, with jokes that still make you laugh after all these years. Of course the advice given is hardly usable today, but it is so well written, it deserves to be read by anyone interested in the art of love.

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Ovid: The Art of Love
Ovid; Rolfe (Translator) Humphries
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPXFW6

Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

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Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Ovid
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Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

ASIN: 0521466237

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This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters, as Ovid imagined them, exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers, Paris and Helen of Troy, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe. Interest in Ovid has never been more lively than it is today, and this book will have much to offer students at all levels. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these "double" letters. It complements Peter E. Knox's selection of the single epistles in the same series.

The Love Books of Ovid (The Loves, The Art of Love, Love's Cure, and The Art of Beauty)

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The Love Books of Ovid (The Loves, The Art of Love, Love's Cure, and The Art of Beauty)
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ASIN: 1420927418

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'The Love Books of Ovid' is a combination of four books of the Roman poet's verse translated into prose. This volume includes 'Amores' or 'The Loves', 'Ars Amatoria' or 'The Art of Love', 'Remedia Amoris' or 'Love's Cure', and 'Medicamina Faciei Feminae' or 'The Art of Beauty'. Considered to be a master of the elegy form of poetry, Ovid, is faithfully represented here in this English prose translation. Students of classical literature and fans of romantic poetry will both delight in this volume of works by Ovid.

The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose (Middle Ages Series)

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The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose (Middle Ages Series)
Peter Lewis Allen
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Ovid's Art of Love: Classic Rules of Seduction

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Ovid's Art of Love: Classic Rules of Seduction

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ASIN: 1572700505

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"If you are a girl or man who does not know the art of loving, you will learn how to love by hearing this book. It takes art to steer boats easily with sail and oar; it takes art to drive chariots smoothly; it takes art also to guide love." So begins Ovid's 2000-year-old version of The Rules - Ovid's Art of Love: Classic Rules of Seduction. Often called the world's first psychologist of love and sexual behavior, Ovid influenced many people throughout history. He was Chaucer's favorite poet. He showed up in Shakespeare's first poem, "Venus and Adonis," and in A Midsummer's Night's Dream. Joseph Campbell, Edith Hamilton, and Thomas Bulfinch all cite his importance in relating the stories of classical mythology. His understanding of male and female sexual psychology also influenced Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, and Sigmund Freud. Despite Ovid's influence and notoriety, his translated works were banned in the United States until 1960 when courts relaxed their censorship of sexually oriented literature. This prose translation is a detailed portrait of Roman social life ... though listeners will discover many contemporary parallels. With poetic wit and sophistication, Ovid uses case studies from mythology to illustrate practical techniques for "Seducing a Woman" and "Holding a Man." Join accomplished lovers throughout the ages who have boasted, "Ovid was my teacher." 2 cassettes.

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Makes modern sex guides obsolete.......2004-03-04

How many of you recall how, back in the 1970s, the Supreme Court decided that our founding fathers really meant freedom of the press and of speech to include the most pornographic materials on news stands for children to see and purchase. Remember all those sex manuals that suddenly proliferated: The Sensuous This and That, Where to Pick Up Men/Women and What To Do With Them Later? Well, back around the first century CE a chap named Ovid had anticipated them all with his "Art of Love." And that was literally in the Year 1.

Augustus, head of one of the most corrupt empires ever, went on a morality kick, had the book banned, and sent Ovid into exile. In fact, the United States also tried to keep the book out of this country up to 1960. And now in 2004 you can hear it read with perfect enunciation and seriousness by Martin Jarvis on two Audio Partners tapes (21050).

The first part is addressed to the men, the second (to keep things fair, Ovid explains) to the women. Now many people confuse his purpose just as they do that of Machiavelli in "The Prince." Neither man is advocating what he writes as a way of life. He is merely describing how humans have always acted and saying that if you wish to do these things, you might as well do them right. (I know some will disagree with me when it comes to Ovid, but to each his own opinion.)

Using metaphors drawn from chariot racing, navigating, and mythical tales, Ovid describes in great details where to meet the opposite sex, how to attract them, how to keep them interested when out of bed, and how to act when in bed. Yes, being a man, he tends to be very patronizing when discussing female reactions in the men's section; but he is quite sympathetic to women when addressing them in the second section.

Definitely not to be used for junior high school book reports, this reading will not only amuse you and surprise you (my gosh, it's so modern!) but perhaps also give you a deeper insight from a man who did it all about 2000 years ago.

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THE ART OF LOVE
Ovid
Manufacturer: Stravon Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H57KWE

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