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Thin-Layer Chromatography, Fourth Edition (Chromatographic Science)
Bernard Fried , and Joseph Sherma Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824702220 |
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The fourth edition of this work emphasizes the general practices and instrumentation involving TLC and HPTLC, as well as their applications based on compound types, while providing an understanding of the underlying theory necessary for optimizing these techniques. The book details up-to-date qualitative and quantitative densitometric experiments on organic dyes, lipids, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, organic acids, insecticides, and more.
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Thin-Layer Chromatography, Fourth Edition (Chromatographic Science)
Bernard Fried Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUGPD4 |
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Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics
Robert B. Banks Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691102856 |
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Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to score Olympic events.
Here Robert Banks presents a wide range of musings, both practical and entertaining, that have intrigued him and others: How tall can one grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? Which football player would have a better chance of breaking away--a small, speedy wide receiver or a huge, slow linebacker? Can California water shortages be alleviated by towing icebergs from Antarctica? What is the fastest the 100-meter dash will ever be run?
The book's twenty-four concise chapters, each centered on a real-world phenomenon, are presented in an informal and engaging manner. Banks shows how math and simple reasoning together may produce elegant models that explain everything from the federal debt to the proper technique for ski-jumping.
This book, which requires of its readers only a basic understanding of high school or college math, is for anyone fascinated by the workings of mathematics in our everyday lives, as well as its applications to what may be imagined. All will be rewarded with a myriad of interesting problems and the know-how to solve them.
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Some of the best applied mathematics problems around.......2002-07-06
E = ½ PG^2
While there is clearly a bit of poetic license being applied in the chapter, it does have many valid points and when the formula is applied to several economic entities, the results seem quite reasonable.
All teachers of mathematics are constantly in search of new problems to use in their courses. Students and instructors are collectively bored with the routine problems that seem to offer no new insights into what mathematics can be used for. In this book, you will find new uses for old mathematics that will make your creative hairs stand up straight.
Fun and informative; some clumsy writing.......2001-01-05
His topics do a lot of the work for him, though. For example, he spends a couple of chapters on the engineering problems associated with towing and melting a large iceberg to provide fresh water. It's neat to watch him make his way through one question after another: what's the great-circle distance from the Antarctic to Los Angeles? When you stop towing it, how long till it coasts to a stop? How do you melt it? Can you get useful energy out of the heat difference between it and its surroundings? Banks' ease with numbers is contagious, and reading this one can see just how powerful applied mathematics is, and how many questions you can ask--and answer.
However, it's not for everyone. I have a pure maths degree, and am not particularly scared of a differential equation, but I found myself skimming the innumerable equations and calculations. Which is OK: you can just let your eyes glaze over at the symbols and still pick up the narrative. You'll get the idea of what can be done; you just won't really understand how. But this is not really a book to teach people who don't already know these techniques. It's a fun book if you already like maths, and a terrific book if you enjoy engineering calculations, but it's not likely to make many converts.
One extra point I'd like to make: a couple of times, Banks brings up a really interesting idea that highlights very effectively just how powerful and surprising mathematics can be. My favourite is the calculation of the economic energy of a nation, which is an offshoot of Banks' analysis of the success of smaller nations at getting Olympic medals (interestingly, Cuba is by far the most successful Olympic nation according to his numbers). Let P be a nation's population in millions, and G the gross domestic product in billions of US dollars. Then E, the economic energy of a nation, is (PG^2)/2, or one half times P times G squared. This is analogous in form to the standard equation for kinetic energy, with population substituted for mass, and GDP for velocity. Banks goes on to present a whole series of analogies between the two fields, and calculates comparisons of economic power, energy and momentum for the US, Europe and elsewhere. It's a fascinating excursion.
I've only given the book three stars, partly because Banks' style, while endearing, is awfully clunky, and partly because the book has such a very narrow appeal. But if you know what a differential equation is, if you think it's interesting to try out calculations and compare results, and particularly if you enjoy seeing just what the engineering mindset can do, you should give this a try.
Adventures in applied mathematics.......1999-11-24
As the title says, this is a book on applied mathematics. To read and enjoy it you need to understand basic integral calculus and solutions to differential equations. There's also a smattering of algebra, trigonometry, and geometry.
One of the first things I noticed about the book is the breadth and scope of the topics. Banks does not live in a single corner of the world, but has obviously striven to sample a wide variety of mathematical applications in some remote corners of the world. There is, as the cover suggests, a mathematical treatment of towing icebergs, complete with cost and structural engineering analysis. This happens relatively close to the beginning of the book. Nearer the end of the book Banks has a chapter devoted to the science of waves in falling dominoes. In between is a wide selection of other topics, including quite a bit on exponential growth, both limited and unlimited, and its applications to lots of natural systems including alligator eggs, GNP, and deficit spending.
Banks does more than simply describe physical problems and write down their differential equations. He also does a good job of explaining the phenomena. Nor do integrals and differential equations describe all the problems. A significant portion of the book, for example, is devoted to statistics and related things like curve fitting.
And he does not forget the social sciences, either. Banks touches on such subjects as how to start a football game, a better way to score the Olympics, how to calculate the economic energy of a nation, and how to reduce the population. I found these subjects quite interesting, though I think the linear curve fit he used in the section on scoring the Olympics stretches my imagination. [To me, the data look pretty random. Indeed, the correlation coefficient is only slightly more than 0.5 (see figure 8.1 and correlation coefficient after equation (8.1)). Still, Banks (as if driven by a preconceived objective) presses on and applies a linear regression from which he later derives key results for his scoring method.]
For the sports-minded among you Banks offers lots of examples of applied mathematics in the fields (pun intended) of baseball, golf, track, basketball, jumping rope, ski jumping, and the shot put. For example, did you know that a child jumping rope is swinging a curve called a troposkein? Furthermore, the troposkein is useful in vertical-axis wind turbines because the shape eliminates compression and bending forces. So the next time you see the kids jumping rope, tell them how to chant "one troposkein, two troposkein ..." instead. It will be an opportunity to teach them some mathematics as well as really impress their teachers.
Most of the sports examples involve problems with air. Air causes drag, which is usually a problem to be fought in sports, but it also causes lift, which can be either a problem (as in the hook and slice in your game of golf) or an advantage (as in your curve or knuckle ball in baseball). I particularly enjoyed the discussion of aerodynamics and its application to ski jumping. Seriously, this is one book you want to read before the next Olympics.
There are also brief forays into architecture, meteorites, and wave phenomena. Do you know why the Eiffel Tower looks the way it does? How about the Gateway arch in Saint Louis? If not, you can find the answers in chapter 13. Want to know when to run for cover if a large meteor is heading our way? Then read chapters 4 and 5. Ever wonder why a tsunami causes widespread destruction on land but does not seem to be even noticed by ships at sea? Then you won't want to miss chapter 21.
The constant theme throughout this book (though Banks never states it explicitly) is that mathematics is the universal language. Through its magic we understand and control our world.
In addition to being a great book for subject and clarity, the book also has a nice presentation. The equations are all numbered. Failure to number equations was a complaint I had about "The Story of root minus one," by Paul J. Nahin (Nahin, by the way, is quoted on the back cover). Banks is also a walking treasure chest of other references. If any of the subjects he touches upon interest you, then run (don't walk) to the bibliography. You will find lots of references there for further (usually more detailed) discussions and treatments of the subjects Bank's covers. The book is also pretty accurate. I found only minor typographical errors like the missing equal sign in equation (19.6) and a typo on table 20.2.
Another thing I liked about the book is the way Banks leaves lots of the derivations to the reader. Sometimes these derivations involve a page or two of scribbles (like the one for equation 17.22). The book also has problems and suggested research topics for students. This would be a great idea book for students in mathematics, physics, and engineering. About the only complaint I have is that the book's index is miserly. Use lots of yellow markers, dog-ear the pages, and you may want to have some sticky notes around as well when you read it.
So, if you love mathematics and especially applied mathematics I highly recommend this book. I guarantee you will enjoy it.
Duwayne Anderson Saint Helens November 23, 1999
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The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot
Robert Morgan , and Ron Powers Manufacturer: NAL Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0451205944 |
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Many who saw the 1990 Hollywood movie Memphis Belle think they know the story. But the real story had nothing to do with the movie-and it is told for the first time here, by the pilot who lived it. An emotionally moving tale, and a heartbreaking love story, this is an unforgettable memoir of a man who was born into a life of ease-and tested in the hardship of war.Customer Reviews:
A Complex Friend, Terrific Read.......2007-02-22
The Man who.......2006-04-23
The life and times of the first American pilot in WWII to survive 25 missions over Europe.......2005-10-18
What a Life!.......2005-06-20
Amazingly frank and personal autobiography.......2003-12-25
Having said that, however, I have no doubt Morgan felt them necessary to put the overall story into context, and they do that well. This makes the book perfect for youngsters or those with no understanding of the larger picture of WW II history, and thus provide this with a broader appeal.
But the meat of the story is Morgan himself. This is not "just" a story of a WW II bomber pilot, this is a wonderfully told story of Bob Morgan, the man, and a blushingly honest discussion of his many demons - his relationship with his departed mother, his father and siblings, his girlfriends, fiancees and wives, his crew (many of whom were fast friends), his superiors, and a terrific look at how he grew up, trained for war, matured as a commander, lived as a returning veteran, and overcame the evils of a pampered upbringing, and learned the value of hard work.
The details about his tour with the 8th Bomber Command were especially interesting, and his revelations about the WW II documentary about his aircraft will answer many questions for ardent Memphis Belle fans who always wondered how much of the 1943 documentary was real (apparently, not much), and also records what Morgan thought of the 1990 film with Matthew Modine (apparently, not much).
His tour in B-29s is also well discussed. This is very much a terrific human interest story which just happens to take place in flak-filled skies. It's certainly more Twelve O'Clock High, with its introspection, than it is Monte Merrick's Memphis Belle, with its cartoon heroics.
Colonel Morgan is to be commended for his bravery in baring his soul to the rest of us, for trying to make sense of his life in a way that we can all learn, for admitting to the hurt he has caused others, and allowing us to relate to his own hurts. He was a courageous man at 23 - he had to be - but now, of his own accord, I think he is even braver in his 80s for writing this thoroughly inspirational book.
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The: Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot
Robert Morgan Manufacturer: New American Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N78ZCU |
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No Justice No Peace
Brenda , M Hampton Manufacturer: Voices Books & Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0976141086 |
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The Lou is heading for a storm. After the judicial system fails to keep him behind bars, Kiley Jacoby Abrams in How Can I Be Down?, can be described as a weapon of mass destruction. Almost ten years later, he's made his way back home and searches for the ones who deceived him and plotted to bring him down. Staying on the right track, this time around, is not on his agenda. When Quincy's release date is near, due to the detective's screw-ups that led to his arrest, all hell is going to break loose. Without no justice, there certainly won't be no peace. Desmon, Kiley's now fifteen-year-old son, is determined to make sure there is no peace. He's furious about the life that was chosen for him, but continues to follow in his father's footsteps. Unable to keep his own self out of trouble, Kiley's life is bound to take a turn for the worst. His trust and love for women continue to be his downfall, but will he allow it to bring him down once again? He'll realize the power of his freedom, but by then, it just might be too late. About the author: Brenda M. Hampton is making waves in the African American literary world with her bold and addictive style of writing. Being the versatile writer that she is, her novels include: No Justice No Peace, How Can I Be Down?, Two's Enough Three's A Crowd, My Way Or No Way, Change Don't Always Come, and SLICK by Black Pearl Books, Inc.Download Description
St. Louis is heading for a storm. After the judicial system fails to keep him behind bars, Kiley Jacoby Abrams in How Can I Be Down?, can be described as a weapon of mass destruction. Almost ten years later, he's made his way back home and searches for the ones who deceived him and plotted to bring him down. Staying on the right track, this time around, is not on his agenda. When Quincy's release date is near, due to the detective's screw-ups that led to his arrest, all hell is going to break loose. Without no justice, there won't be no peace. Desmon, Kiley's now fifteen year old son, is determinted to make sure there is no peace. He's furious about the life that was chosen for him, but continues to follow in his father's footsteps. Unable to keep his own self out of trouble, Kiley's life is bound to take a turn for the worst. His trust and love for women continue to be his downfall, but will he allow it to bring him down once again? He'll realize the power of his freedom, but by then, it just might be too late.Customer Reviews:
somewhat disappointing.......2006-01-18
That Sexy Kiley Jacoby !!!!! .......2005-08-30
NOTHING LESS THAN THE BEST.......2005-08-19
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Don't Start None, Won't Be None.............2005-07-12
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ANNO QUADRAGESIMO SEXTO: GEORGII III. REGIS: CAP. LXXXVI: AN ACT FOR ENABLING HIS MAJESTY TO GRANT THE CASTLE OF NORWICH, TOGETHER WITH THE COMMON GAOL, CASTLE HILL, AND CERTAIN LAND ADJACENT THERETO, IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, AND FOR VESTING THE SAME IN HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE SAID COUNTY, FOR THE USE THEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES RELATING THERETO (12TH JULY 1806).
No author. Manufacturer: George Eyre & Andrew Strahan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M4W0HK |
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Freedom for the Captives: How Love Is Rebuilding Lives in Spain (Peace and Justice Series, No 5)
Jose Gallardo Manufacturer: Herald Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0836134745 |
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International Criminal Justic and Children, No Peace Without Justice
Manufacturer: Innocenti Reasearch Center ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OMQ0LC |
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Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1
John; Santoni, Ronald E.; et al Immerwahr Manufacturer: Journal for Peace and Justice Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UFBRRK |
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Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2
Nancy S.; Spagnolo, John; et al Barrett Manufacturer: Journal for Peace and Justice Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UF65DG |
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Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1
Diana; Wirkus, Brenda A.; McGovern, Arthur F.; et al Pearce Manufacturer: Journal for Peace and Justice Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UFBRF2 |
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New Patriot: Peace, Democracy, Environment, Social and Economic Justice: Vol. 4, No. 3 May-june 1991
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No Justice, No Peace
Arnold Stapler Manufacturer: Word Association Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1891231162 |
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No Justice, No Peace is the shocking true story of three young Black men who were the victims of one of the most heinous instances of police brutality in Western Pennsylvania history.Usually police cases like this one are swept under the rug. Or, if they are contested, the police usually walked away from it. But not this time. Leon Grey, the father of one of the youths, was so outraged by the beating his son Devon and Devon's two cousins took from the Clairton policed that we waged a four year battle in pursuit of justice. It was a crusade that would take Grey to the FBI, a federal Grand Jury, the courthouse, the streets, the edge of despair...and finally, the pinnacle of joy.
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No Justice, No Peace: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion From a Black/Women's Perspective
Wilmette Brown Manufacturer: Wages for Housework Campaign ProductGroup: Book Binding: Pamphlet ASIN: B000MPM7D6 |
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