The New Accounting Manual: A Guide to the Documentation Process : 1999 Cumulative Supplement

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REFRESHING NEW TAKE ON THE RAT RACE "Harriet Steps Off The Wheel" speaks to the millions of working women (and men) struggling with feelings of inadequacy, depression and burnout while trying to meet all the demands on their time. Written as a fable, with hamsters as characters, the story depicts Harriets search for an answer to put her life back in balance from time management courses to exercise to massive To Do lists she tries it all but nothing really changes. Then one day a mysterious stranger, Calliope, teaches her the secret to creating a life that works and the powerful word to make it happen!

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It's So True.......2005-09-05

For those who are on the business wheel, you'll enjoy a fun outlook on how someone else copes with the challenges day to day.

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The book is designed as an astrophysics textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of Interstellar Matter. It is aimed primarily at those undertaking postgraduate courses, or those doing advanced projects as part of honors undergraduate courses in physics or astrophysics. It should also provide a handy reference to the field for astrophysics faculty and other researchers who are not necessarily experts in this particular subdiscipline. The objective of Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe is to show how physics can be applied to the understanding and diagnosis of the phase structure, the physical conditions, and the chemical make-up and evolution of the interstellar medium. Consistent with the authors' lecture and course experience, here a systematic approach has been adopted to assist the development of the reader's insight into the physics underlying the subject.

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A good supplemental read.......2005-12-26

Another reviewer pointed out the shear amount of typos in this text book, so that remains relevant. I also echo the lack of pedagogical effectiveness, for which I do not necessarily blame the authors --- when is the last time you actually have encountered a pedagogically effective textbook? Although the discussions of physical concepts are probably not as deep or helpful as other textbooks considered to be of more pedagogical nature, what I find valuable in this textbook is the up-to-date reference and the connections made between the various astrophysical phenomena that might escape attention when being bogged down into the details of interpreting what physics says about a particular ISM question. As a student I used Spitzer and Osterbrock and found them to be pedagogically more effective, but when I picked up this textbook, I was also pleased about seeing how things that I learned from the other texts fit into a larger, more up-to-date astrophysical context. For that I think the book deserves a spot as a reference in any graduate level ISM course.

Another terrible book, like Osterbrock.......2004-05-16

This is another of the books I had to use for my graduate ISM course. I dont know what the problem is, but every book Ive read on the ISM was terrible at explaining things (because confusion in this subject is very easy), and none of them have an INDEX thats worth a crap. So dont expect to be able to do the homework problems in there.

Dopita is written a little better than Osterbrock, and there isnt the ridiculous amount of tables strewn within the text, but its not MUCH better.

Topical, but lots of typos.......2003-11-05

I used this as my textbook when teaching a graduate course on the interstellar medium. It has good explanations of a lot of current material, and includes some very detailed derivations for the advanced or interested reader. However, a lot of the basics are glossed over or not clearly explained - this book really needs to go hand in hand with Spitzer's "Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium" to provide a complete picture. In any case, the big problem with this book is the ridiculous number of errors and typos (I and my students found over 100). This would just be annoying if all these errors were minor things like spelling mistakes. However, many of the errors are catastrophic, e.g. explaining spectroscopic notation but getting the labels all wrong, errors in the derivation of atomic levels, a calculation of cooling timescales which is wrong by a factor of 10^5, etc etc. This proved a very frustrating experience for me and for my students. Unless a second edition comes out with all these mistakes corrected, next time I will likely use this book for reference, but not recommend it to the students, so as to spare them this pain.

The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies: Proceedings of the 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium "The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies", Zermatt, ... 2003 (Springer Proceedings in Physics)

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The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies: Proceedings of the 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt-Symposium "The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies", Zermatt, ... 2003 (Springer Proceedings in Physics)

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The Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt symposium is a well established series of conferences, occurring on a 5-year cycle, on the dense interstellar medium and related topics. The main results constitute valuable proceedings that offer everyone working in this field an authoritative and comprehensive source of reference.

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Dust and Molecules in Evolved Stars

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ASIN: 079235009X

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Dust and molecules are found in a large variety of astrophysical environments, in particular in the circumstellar material ejected by evolved stars. This book brings together the leading astronomers and astrophysicists in the field of molecular astrophysics and stellar physics to discuss the important issues of dust and molecular formation, the role of solids in circumstellar environments, molecules as probes of circumstellar parameters, the stellar contribution to the enrichment of the Galaxy, and the latest observational data in various wavelength domains, in partiular in the infrared with results from the Infrared Space Observatory. The astrophysical senarios include late-type stars, novae, Wolf-Rayet stars, Luminous Blue Variables and supernovae.
Audience: Researchers and graduate students in the fields of stellar physics, stellar evolution and astrochemistry.

Evolution of Interstellar Dust and Related Topics: Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi : Course Ci (Proceedings of the International School of Physics)

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Evolution of Interstellar Dust and Related Topics: Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi : Course Ci (Proceedings of the International School of Physics)
A. Bonetti , and J. M. Greenberg
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An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust (Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust (Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Endrik Krugel
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ASIN: 1584887079

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Streamlining the extensive information from the original, highly acclaimed monograph, this new An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust provides a concise reference and overview of interstellar dust and the interstellar medium. Drawn from a graduate course taught by the author, a highly regarded figure in the field, this all-in-one book emphasizes astronomical formulae and astronomical problems to give a solid foundation for the further study of interstellar medium. Covering all phenomena associated with cosmic dust, this inclusive text eliminates the need to consult special physical literature by providing a comprehensive introduction in one source. The book addresses the absorption and scattering of dust, its creation in old stars, as well as emission, cohesion, and electrical charge. With strong attention to detail, the author facilitates a complete understanding from which to build a more versatile application and manipulation of the information. Providing insightful explanations for the utilization of many formulae, the author instructs in the effective investigation of astronomical objects for determining basic parameters. The book offers numerous figures displaying basic properties of dust such as optical constants, specific heat, and absorption and scattering coefficients making it accessible for the reader to apply these numbers to the problem at hand. There is an extensive section and comprehensive introduction to radiative transfer in a dusty medium with many practical pieces of advice and ample illustrations to guide astronomers wishing to implement radiative transfer code themselves. An unparalleled amount of astronomical information in an accessible and palatable resource, An Introduction to the Physics of Interstellar Dust provides the most complete foundational reference available on the subject.

Optics of Cosmic Dust (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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Optics of Cosmic Dust (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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ASIN: 1402008198

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Initially this book focuses on the chemical and morphological properties of dust particles, both cosmological and terrestrial, and some of techniques used to gain information. When light or other electromagnetic radiation interacts with dust or other particles it is scattered in all directions. The scattering interaction are relevant to many fields of science: dust affects communications, dust particles affect the output of aerosol monitors, and dust particles are an important astrophysical component, making up a large part of the dark matter in the universe. The electromagnetic forces exerted on these particles may play an important role in bringing the particles together to form larger astronomical bodies.Optics of Cosmic Dust describes what we currently know about cosmic dust, how we know it, and the research efforts undertaken to provide that knowledge. Areas treated include observational information, dust morphology and chemistry, light-scattering models, characterisation methodologies, and backscatter polarisation and dynamics. Suitable as an introductory text, the book is also a reference guide for the advanced researcher.

The Physics of Interstellar Dust (Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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ASIN: 0750308613

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Interstellar dust clouds catalyze simple chemical reactions, absorb, scatter, polarize, and re-radiate starlight, and form the building blocks for planet and stellar formation. Understanding this interstellar medium is then of primary importance in many areas of astronomy & astrophysics. This book provides a theoretical description of the fundamental physics of interstellar material, including a description of its composition, morphology, grain size and distribution, dynamics, dielectric permeability, radiation scattering and spectral features. Other chapters describe the surface chemistry, and role of dust in stellar formation, including the spectral behavior of protostars and dust around early stars.

The Role of Dust in Dense Regions of Interstellar Matter (Astrophysics & Space Science Library)

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The Role of Dust in Dense Regions of Interstellar Matter (Astrophysics & Space Science Library)

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Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles (Physics of Earth and Space Environments)

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Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles (Physics of Earth and Space Environments)
F. Borghese , P. Denti , and R. Saija
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The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by nonspherical particles has become an increasingly important research topic over the past 20 years. Instead of handling anisotropic particles of arbitrary shape, the authors consider the more amenable problem of aggregates of spherical particles. This is often a very satisfactory approach as the optical response of nonspherical particles depends more on their general symmetry and the quantity of refractive material than on the precise details of their shape. The book addresses a wide spectrum of applications, ranging from scattering properties of water droplets containing pollutants, atmospheric aerosols and ice crystals to the modeling of cosmic dust grains as aggregates.

In this extended second edition the authors have encompassed all the new topics arising from their recent studies of cosmic dust grains. Thus many chapters were deeply revised and new chapters were added. The new material spans

The description of the state of polarization of electromagnetic waves of general form

The conservation theorems of combined systems of fields and particles

The appropriate multipole expansion for waves of general wave vector and of general state of polarization

A number of new applications

The effects of radiation pressure and radiation torque on cosmic dust grains

A study of the morphology of cosmic dust grains and of the distribution and polarization of the electromagnetic field in the interior of aggregated dust grains

HC1 absorption toward Sagittarius B2 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:200000)

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HC1 absorption toward Sagittarius B2 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:200000)
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