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Liquid Crystalline and Mesomorphic Polymers (Partially Ordered Systems)
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With contributions by internationally renowned researchers, this book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in a new class of liquid-crystalline compounds. The book begins with discussions of the theoretical aspects of cholesteric phase formation in polymers. The next part discusses recent work on polymers with mesogenic side groups (their molecular architecture, phase behavior, and dynamics in external fields, as well as their properties in mixtures with low-mass liquid crystals). The final group of chapters deals with mesomorphic systems that do not contain mesomorphic groups (for example, derivatives of polyorganophosphasenes, cellulose, and graphitizable carbons), as well as polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal films (which have important practical applications), and the new and exotic bowl-shaped liquid-crystal materials. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in polymer science, liquid-crystal research, and materials science.
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Mesomorphic Order in Polymers and Polymerization in Liquid Crystalline
Alexandre (ed) Blumstein
Manufacturer: Blumstein, Alexandre (ed). Mesomorphic Order in Polymers and Polymerization in Liquid Crystalline Media. A Syposium sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., at the 174th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, IL, 29-30 August 1977. (ACS Symposium Series 74.) Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1978. Hardcover. 264pp. VG+, clean and tight / Soiled dj.
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waste of money.......2005-09-26
Only the questions with answers in text have solutions. Solutions not complete enough to help if you are having trouble with the concept. Very disappointing, big waste of money. Useless. Wish I could return it
Book Description
Regression students will appreciate this best-seller's modern, practical approach and its use of real-life problems. The third edition offers a significant shift in emphasis from calculation to interpretation, by replacing computational formulas with computer printouts in SAS®. It highlights the role of the computer in contemporary statistics with numerous printouts and exercises that can be solved with the computer. Appropriate for statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, psychology, sociology, business, and industrial engineering students or anyone who intends to use regression analysis in their work, this text offers a traditional structure with a modern flavor. The authors emphasize model development; the intuitive logic and assumptions that underlie the techniques covered as well as the purposes, advantages and disadvantages, and valid interpretations of those techniques.
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Just numbers and formulas.......2007-07-15
This book is really difficult to understand because there are no real explanation. There are a ton of symbols and formulas that are not explained at all. Mostly, this book just shows how certain formulas were derived from others. Our prof did not like this book either, so she gave us her own notes...but even as reference, it is terrible!
Very confusing.......2006-12-26
I am lucky that I had such a great professor for my statistics class. Unfortunately, although he's great at teaching the material in class, he doesn't have great acumen in choosing textbooks. This book honestly made me way more confused than I otherwise would have been and is one of the worst textbooks I've ever had. First, the layout jams a lot of formulas without giving you enough specifics on how and when to apply them. Second, the authors have a talent for making straight forward stuff confusing.
Case in point is the section on assumptions about error distributions that need to be satisfied in order to do most regression analysis. Among those assumptions are equal variance and normality. These are not hard to represent in a diagram. Yet the diagram the authors provide shows an example of a case in which some, but not all, of the assumptions are violated. Furthermore, it doesn't say in the caption which ones are violated and which ones are not. In fact, it doesn't even mention in the caption that there are some violations. There's a short line in the text that tells you that. It would have been much clearer to present either a picture of a case in which all assumptions are violated, or one in which no assumptions are violated. And it would have been tremendously helpful to make that clear in the caption. As a caveat, I should mention that I used the second edition instead of the third, so this particular diagram may have been changed. But my classmates who used the third edition despised it as much as I did, so I suspect that many of my comments still apply.
I ended up finding a similar book in the library by Terry Dielman and using that instead. That book covered basically the same material but was far better organized and practical.
Not that great.......2004-09-08
I was surprised when I took this class that I did not like this book. All of my epid profs highly recommended this text. You have to flip back and forth when you are doing the problems because they list the SAS output that you need once in one chapter. I know it saves space, but this can get maddening. I did not find the examples clearly written at all-the lack of fit test, and some of the stuff about partial F tests could have used a few more sentences.
No, I cannot write a glowing review of the text, but the only reason for the second star is because I also had a terrible instructor for this course. Perhaps if Dr. Kleinbaum had taught this to me, I would have a different perspective of this book. However, I was pretty much teaching myself this material, and this book is not designed for that.
Super Book.......2003-12-19
I have used this book from first edition in the early 1980's in grad school to lastest edition in 2003. A very good book, designed to be used with statistical software. The authors understand the field and provide a thorough yet concise perspective of mainly regression and ANOVA models. An absolute must book for the applied statistician.
Excellent Introduction to Linear Regression.......2002-03-26
I used this book for a second level statistics course for my Master's degree in Epidemiology. I liked it!
All the underlying math you want to know is sitting on the pages, clearly explained though examples with computer output and graphs. I worked through the problems in the text without difficulty and reproduced their work. I understood what I was doing. Each chapter is followed by a series of problems. You probably want to get a solutions manual if you want to check your answers.
The material covered includes: Univariable and multivariable linear regression, correlations including multiple partial, ANOVA, ANCOVA, Polynomial Regression including orthogonal polynomials, dummy variables, selecting best regression equation, and introductions to repeated measures ANOVA, maximum likelihood methods, and logistic regression.
Now that I feel that I have these basics under control, I would like a book on "approaches" to data and dealing with "difficult" data. This book contains one chapter on regression diagnostics -- not enough. But I guess that is the next step....
Other readers have commented on other books addressing the same topic, unfortunately I have not read those other books. However, I am certain that you will learn from this book, and when you are done, you will be ready for more.
(Did I mention that I signed up for a course with Dr. Kleinbaum on analysis of matched data?)
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In the summer of 1943, Robert Kotlowitz, an indifferent premed student at Johns Hopkins University, was drafted into the army. "I told myself," he writes in his affecting memoir of World War II, "that it was better than being blatantly tossed out of college." In any event, he continues, "part of me, at eighteen, was eager to suffer the hazards and humiliations of war."
Hazards and humiliations he found in abundance. He was assigned to a company led by an inept captain and put to work in a Browning Automatic Rifle unit. In combat school at Fort Benning he learned that, in battle, such units had a life expectancy of eleven seconds. "That is not hyperbole," he adds wryly. "It is scientific fact." But Kotlowitz lived through the war, fueled by his hatred, as a Jew, for the German enemy, and burning with the patriotic fervor of a young man. Both his hatred and his fervor diminished as he endured battle, living close to the bone and watching as his comrades fell.
Kotlowitz writes with skill and mordant humor of the infantryman's life, of the incredible instinct to survive, of "the sounds ... never before heard, swelling over the noise of small-arms and machine-gun fire, of men's voices calling for help or screaming in pain or terror--our own men's voices, unrecognizable at first, weird in pitch and timbre." His fine memoir belongs on readers' shelves alongside such books as Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Paul Fussell's Doing Battle, primary documents of a terrible time. --Gregory McNamee
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in this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France, in which he--by playing dead--was the only one to survive. 208 pp. 15,000 print.
From the Hardcover edition.
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An Excellent and Effective ASTP Memoir.......2007-09-27
"Before Their Time" by Robert Kotlowitz. Subtitled: "A Memoir".
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York, 1997.
In 1943, Robert Kotlowitz was in the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) at the University of Maine when mounting casualties in the European Theater of Operation (ETO) required fresh men for the war. General George Marshall ordered the termination of ASTP program so as to release some 175,000 young soldiers to the battlefields of Europe. So, this young man from Baltimore found himself on the liner, "Argentina", at the city of Cherbourg, "...the old Norman city" in France. The soldiers of the 26th division, the old Yankee Division, had to climb down rope ladders, hanging on the hull of the ship, into Higgins boats below. The details of this relatively unimportant event... i.e. disembarkation, fill many pages in this small book of memories written many years after the war. In this small section, the recounts how his contemporaries reacted to the requirement of climbing down rope cargo nets into the boats below, and by so writing, analyzes those young men of the Yankee Division.
The author not only analyzes the men but also the 26th Division.
On page 8, he writes ...
"By 1944 there were no longer many true Yankees in the Yankee division. (O)ther ethnic and national groups had begun to infiltrate the roster:,, Italians, ... Armenians, Greeks" ... and so on. Then, Kotlowitz notes that there was "... a substantial cluster of despised WASPs, who didn't yet know that they were a symptom of the future, as well as a handful of isolated Jews, who were also despised; but the unlike the WASPs, the Jews were quite used to it".
The writing continues in this analytical tone until the day when his regiment, the 104th, was ordered to advance against the German lines. Almost everyone was killed or wounded. Kotlowitz was one of the few physically unharmed survivors; he spent the entire day under the sights of the Germans. He did not move and played dead. This affected his outlook on the war and on the army and on his future life. After this single day of terrible combat, where so many casualties were caused by incompetence, Private Kotlowitz was assigned to rear-echelon job. Safe for the duration. So, unlike many World War II memoirs, this book is not a bang-bang, shoot `em story. Rather, it is a sensitive and subtle analysis of the experiences of one American soldier.
Not Popular But His Story.......2007-07-12
For those of you considering this book, look past several of the one star ratings that others gave. I have been studying World War Two, with an emphasis on the European Theatre for well over 25 years. I have read tons of books written on the strategic and tactical level. I have read biographies and memoirs as well. Studs Turkell called this war "The Good War" and a book that he penned several years ago bears this same title, excellent book but not a good war by any stretch of the imagination.
As one of the victors of this global conflict we as Americans are so used to reading stories about a country gearing up for war, overcoming the odds and defeating the Axis powers and beating them back to within the borders of their own dark fascist countries. In the process of doing this, against popular belief, things did not always go well. Of the thousands of books available describing the chess game of men and machines that this war became, not many get deep into the platoon and squad levels or reveal the personalities and idiosyncrasies that existed. These subjects are often glossed over in favor of the "big picture". In the describing of strategic and tactical maneuverings of armies and equipment to achieve a planned objective the human element is usually absent.
What many readers don't understand is that the story that Robert Kotlowtiz describes to us is the experience that many a soldier had, especially replacement troops that were new to a theatre of operations. They went through training, landed on the continent and depending on which Division, Corps or Army they were to be attached to may have been slowly incorporated into the war. Many did not last long in combat when they did arrive. They were either killed, wounded or captured on their first day or week in action.
Unlike Dick Winters of the famed E Co., 506th P.I.R., 101st Airborne, Kotlowitz did not fight in Normandy or drop into Holland or endure the Ardennes or the Eagles Nest. He was in a green replacement division with no experience, and on his very first combat mission the world as he knew it came to an end. This story may seem tragic and unheard of and maybe a bit disappointing from a reader's point of view. But unless veterans like Robert Kotlowtiz tell their stories, we will never know what it was actually like. The official army "Green Back" histories although packed with detail and combat history writing do not describe the human emotion or personal mind-set of the individual combat soldier and the life that he had to endure.
I personally found the book riveting and could not put it down. Sure, since Kotlowitz eventually became a writer it reads well and in some areas may be a bit over some reader's heads. But these stories need to be told even if it's not to the sound of trumpets or victory parades. It's still a tale of personal victory.
Hard to understand.......2006-01-26
I never quite undestood what the author was trying to say. The more than half the book is about stateside training and meeting the other G.I.'s in his platoon but there is so little about combat. I was surprised that the time in combat was only about two or three days on the front line. I never did understand what happened to the author that took him out of combat. I understand there was some trauma from an intense day under fire. I never did figure out though why he was never sent back to the front. Many other G.I.'s went through days and weeks under fire and stayed up or returned to the front. I am compassionate to any front line soldier who fought in WWII but this book didn't seem to bring across to me what Mr. Kotlowitz went through.
Portrait of the Author as a 19 year old Rifleman.......2004-12-03
This is a strange book. The author later went on to write novels so it isn't too surprising that this book is not really a memoir but a psychoanalytic, stream of conciousness paean to the life shattering memory of the author's one and only day in combat. The last 50 pages or so describe his slow re-discovery of himself after the trauma. Do not expect a literal description of Army life or battle. While there are some stunningly concrete details in this book they are almost always used to anchor a mental state or emotion the author says he was feeling. I am somewhat skeptical of the ability to remember how one would have felt a half a century ago but then again I didn't live through World War Two. This book falls in the camp of "Crossing the Sauer" and "Roll Me Over'. A work for meditation and introspection on memory. loss and World War II.
Good Read.......2003-06-24
This is another book that I read only because I was made to in school. But I actualy enjoyed it. Kotlowitz has a great writting style. It gives you a good look into what war can be like.
It doesn't have as much action as some people maybe anticipating though. It does have some thriling parts but its not action packed. None the less though it's a good book. If you have never read any books on war before I would reccomend this as introductory book to the topic. Even if it isn't your usual book topic, Kotlowitz writes well enough to keep you intrested.
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Life story of controversial health care pioneer, Dr. Max Gerson, including his dietary and detox therapies for treating cancer and chronic disease, including his well-known coffee enema. Dr. Gerson was the first medical ecologist, making the connection between health and environment. Born in Germany, he practiced medicine there until 1933 and made his reputation by curing tuberculosis and other degenerative diseases. He cured Dr. Albert Schweitzer's Type wife of lung tuberculosis with his special diet. Moving to the U.S., he wrote a controversial book on the links between nutrition and cancer: A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases(1958), and practiced medicine until his death in 1959. Undaunted by attacks on his ideas, Dr. Gerson founded nutritional treatment centers in New York State for cancer and other illnesses. The Gerson Institute in San Diego, CA, and the Gerson Clinic in Mexico, both founded by his daughter, Charlotte Gerson, still thrive.
Customer Reviews:
A review relating to the book not the therapy.......2007-03-23
This is a book on the life and work of Dr. Max Gerson written by his grandson Howard Straus. It tells the story of Gerson from his boyhood in Wongrowitz, Germany through the years of his education in Breslau and his subsequent fame as medical practictoner, and curer of Tuberculosis throughout Europe. It then tells of his with the rise of the Nazis migration to New York establishing his practice , and coming to concentrate on curing cancer. The book claims that Gerson was the first true holistic physician who took into account the whole person and the environment in treating illness.
Straus relates how Gerson as a young man had cured himself from migraine by radically changing his diet, moving away from the salt and fat rich diet of processed food common at that time to one based on wholly organic and natural foods.
The cancer therapy of Gerson is controversial. One major story thread has to do with Gerson's persecution by the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. There is one especially moving chapter on Gerson's treatment of Johnny Gunther, the son of the well- known correspondent John Gunther who later wrote the book 'Death be not Proud' about his son's struggle. Gerson's treatment seemed to be working but then a hormone treatment was given which he initially opposed doing. This led to the decline in the young man's' condition, and his death. The genuine soul- searching displayed by Gerson are an indication that he was not simply a formula- driven - fanatic but a caring physician.
I have no way of evaluating the effectiveness of the Gerson treatment. It would seem however on the surface that were it the cure- all it is claimed to be it would have been universally adopted. I simply do not know.
I do know this is a very interesting book, a story of a pioneering physician who cared about healing and developed original methods for doing so.
Healing the Hopeless.......2004-07-22
Here is the story of an authentic struggler; of a man of strict discipline and iron will; of a humble server of Humanity and courageous and strong defender of his profound convictions.
With the historical contexts provided by writer Barbara Marinacci, Howard Straus leaves the realm of his academic field with the noble purpose of doing justice to his grandfather in a biography that ought to be required reading in more than one college subject.
Its reading is not only beneficial for anyone who is curious about knowledge, but also for those who take courses on the history of medicine, on nutrition, and even on the History of Europe of the beginning of the past century. Its reading certainly is indispensable in the field of the research of cancer as a specialized and highly lucrative industry.
The smoothly flowing account is organized in two parts on a chronological basis "The European Years" and "The American Years." It begins with the years Dr. Gerson lived in Europe because it was there, in Germany, where he was born in 1881. It ends in America because it was in the City of New York, in the American hemisphere, where he took refuge with his family in 1936, without knowledge of English, after he anticipated the imminent Nazi's barbarian affront against Humanity.
Without sacrificing details and without being boring, Straus describes the life of animosities, persecution, rejections, and reprisals that doctor Gerson faced on the part of the so-called medical class ? as well as an attempt to kill him with arsenic ?for having dared to dedicate the power of his genial intellect to finding a cure for patients who had been sentenced to a certain death that their physicians believed to be imminent.
With his careful research and daring innovations, Gerson made those galens look bad when he brought many of them back to health ? something they could not forgive him for.
In the course of doing research for this book, Straus had the support not only of his relatives and of former patients of his grandfather, but had also the benefit of abundant clinical files, handwritten notes, Gerson's formal and personal correspondence and of the book the intrepid physician got to publish: A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases (1958). Reference is made also to the numerous articles that this pioneer of holistic and alternative medicine wrote, as well as to the many that the entities that tried to discredit him, systematically refused to publish.
Although the justified pride with which the author describes his grandfather's odyssey in scientific research and in his unconventional practice of medicine is evident, the fact that he allows to see personality traits of him that could seem negative, at least at first glance, such as his rigid discipline and self esteem, is no less evident.
Moreover, plenty of evidence is shown pertaining to the role of some well known organizations to sabotage Gerson's work, that is, of entities which historically have reaped lucrative benefits from the fact that cancer is deemed an incurable disease. Within this context, Gerson told one of his patients in a letter in October 1954, that his "main opponent" was Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, whose name the American Association for Cancer Research has dropped recently from one of its awards.
When he learned that his physician and friend died of chronic pneumonia in March 1959, his compatriot, patient, and colleague, Albert Schweitzer, said about Gerson that he was "one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine." Read this book and you will see why.
J. Ortiz
San Juan, P. R.
A book one should share.......2004-03-30
After talking with Howard (the Author) during business, he piqued my interest in his new book. He sold me a copy and I read it in a few weeks, and I was very impressed. This book opened my eyes to a lot of things, mostly things that I already knew, but never quite pieced together like that. (You ever get that? Know something but have it never really hit you?) the practice with Nutrition, the way doctors behave it all sadly made so much sense.
This book is a tragedy in my opinion, a man constantly shot down for his efforts. But we should all learn from his example, Dr. Gersons efforts are not in vain for his legacy lives on in this book.
More on the book however, I love many of the metaphors and vocabulary used IE "The Exodus of the Ants". Also, the book contains information that should be in everyone's thoughts. Now the reason it took a few weeks to read is it drags along toward the middle (as biographies tend to do). Taking a break solves this, reflecting on the information you've read for a while then starting it up again.
I put it in my great book category, and have already lent it to many friends.
The Name All Should Know.......2002-09-07
This book is extremely well wrote. You will be entertained from the very begining as you are hurdled through the multiple emotions of ones mans struggle to be able to truely heal all who have illness. The book tells the life story of an incredible healer and doctor and his nutritional and detoxifying diet therapy that he found was able to cure some forms of degenerative disease and benefit many other far reaching illnesses such as cancer. It is the story of a heroic man full of passionate veracity who was able to escape persecution from Hitler and the orthodox establishments that found him a threat to their standard treatments of disease. Yet today people do not have the knowledge of Max Gerson's treatment in order to make their own decision about their health and the treatments they would choose for any disease they might have.
Thank God Howard Straus wrote this book!
I think it is time that the story the American Medical Establishment and Pharmaceutical Companies have been hushing the last 40 years or more be told. Max Gerson is a genius that has worked next to all the greats of medicine. His concepts were early for his time. Now is the time that his treatment methods should be accepted, publicized and used mainstream as an alternative choice for those who would prefer something beyond pharmacy pills, surgery and radiation.
A GREAT BOOK.......2002-08-05
This book is a wonderful and informative read. I found the storyline
portions to be riveting, especially the story of Dr. Max's escape from
the Nazis. Additionally fascinating were the historical facts of
Dr. Max's discoveries and disease-curing results and how they were
received by the mainstream medical establishments in Europe and USA.
The author's writing style is superb and very enjoyable to read.
I think that all readers will find the book interesting and will enjoy
learning Dr. Max's scientific & personal history and will recognize
the repeated chord the AMA strikes with regard to Dr. Max & the Gerson
diet. Also if readers follow recent health news & studies, they
have already seen many scientific studies
converging on the basic truths of Dr. Max's discoveries.
I strongly recommend this book and have bought copies for many friends
and relatives, and my primary-care MD... But in the
meantime, please buy your own copy and read it. It's a great book.
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