Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin

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The remote Colorado Plateau and Great Basin portions of the Intermountain West are areas of spectacular natural beauty and diversity. Due to inaccessibility, however, scientific study of many aspects of the region's natural history has lagged.

Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin provides an up-to-date summary of the region's geology, climates, and biology, including thorough treatments of the area's insects, fish, and reptiles. Also discussed are the ecology and distribution of prehistoric human cultures in the region; how modern humans have used (and abused) resources in the Intermountain West; and the impact of post-Pleistocene environmental changes on genetics of disjunct populations of conifer trees.

Written by a diverse group of acknowledged experts, Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin offers invaluable background information for all students and resource managers who want to work in or visit the Intermountain West.

Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin.: An article from: American Antiquity

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Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin.: An article from: American Antiquity
David Rhode
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Title: Natural History of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin.
Author: David Rhode
Publication: American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: v61 Issue: n2 Page: p428(3)

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Studies in Montia L., Claytonia L. and allied genera (Abstracts of Uppsala dissertations from the Faculty of Science)
Örjan Nilsson
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Moon Handbooks: Vancouver is the only guide you'll need to enjoy this cosmopolitan city surrounded by snowcapped peaks and the sparkling waters of the Pacific Ocean. Including detailed coverage of nearby Victoria, this second edition spotlights city sights, including Vancouver's lively China Town and acclaimed Museum of Anthropology, and details activities, like biking, kayaking, and skiing. You'll also find eclectic restaurants serving Pacific Northwest cuisine, fresh seafood, British-style pub grub, and more, plus accommodations for all budgets, from five-star waterfront hotels to quiet backwoods campsites.

British Columbia Handbook: Including Vancouver, Victoria, and the Canadian Rockies (Moon Handbooks : British Columbia)

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British Columbia Handbook: Including Vancouver, Victoria, and the Canadian Rockies (Moon Handbooks : British Columbia)
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A reliable guide is essential when venturing off into the 948,596 square kilometers that make up British Columbia, and Moon's Handbook is the guide of choice. Covering recreation, accommodations, food, transportation, and sights for Southwestern, Central, and Northern British Columbia, Vancouver and Vancouver Island, plus the Rocky Mountains, Okanagan Valley, and the Kootenays, it's an exceptionally valuable tome of information. Whether you're looking for a sophisticated big city Vancouver holiday, going for high tea in Victoria, viewing Haida totem poles on the Queen Charlotte Islands, hiking the West Coast Trail, or canoeing the lakes in the Cariboo Mountains, the Moon Handbook is up-to-date and on the money. --Stephanie Gold

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British Columbia Handbook provides travelers with the best of the area's sophisticated modern cities and colonial charms as well as its pristine forests and waterways. The authors explore the national parks and lead readers to such delights as the Southern Gulf Islands and the Okanagan wine country.

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B.C. Handbook.......2006-07-18

Excellent book for travel to BC. We have used other Moon Books on travel and have been very pleased with all of them

A Great Help.......2004-01-14

This was the first of the Moon books I'd ever used and I was very impressed. There was a ton of useful information on general Canadian travel, but the bulk of the book is devoted to the various regions and the best of what there is to see and do. In places like Vancouver, where there are lots of museums, he discusses these; on Vancouver Island he tells all you'll need to know about water activities; in the Okanagan Valley he chooses his favorite wineries, etc. I'd been to BC previously, but visited a few great spots that I wouldn't have found without this book. The author concentrates on 3 or 4 places to stay and a similiar number of restaurants in each town and he has obviously done his research well as I couldn't find fault with the recommendations that cover all price ranges.

Also importantly, the book is very well organized and the maps were very helpful. I also liked the thorough bibliography.

My favourite guidebook for British Columbia.......2002-06-24

I know of no better book to my home province of British Columbia than this Moon guide. On my travels as a semi-retired geologist, I also carry copies of the Lonely Planet and Frommer's book and have reviewed both of them and others at Amazon.com, but Moon Handbooks British Columbia stands alone for its usefulness. The other books have their good points, but this one encapsulates everything one needs to enjoy the wonders of the province, whether it's their first trip or they live here. It covers every single corner of BC and is thorough and up to date.

The Moon guide is cleverly written and arranged to appeal to all budgets. The bulk of the text relates to towns and parks of BC, with informative coverage of everything from museums to fishing opportunities and wildlife viewing. Each section ends with details of the best places to stay and recommendations for dining. If you're camping out or RVing I'd suggest also getting a campground guide, but the Moon book suggests at least one campground in each town, each of which the author has obviously visited. Motels are also detailed, and over previous editions I'm yet to find fault with the author's choices. Ditto for bed and breakfasts and restaurants.

In my opinion, thois is definitely the best allround guidebook for British Columbia

Great, but previous edition better........2002-06-01

This is indeed a terrific guidebook for B.C. Previous editions, however, included Banff and Jasper National Parks, which admittedly are in Alberta, not B.C., but are usually included in Canadian Rockies travel itineraries. There's no excuse including Yoho (which is just over the border) but not Banff and Jasper, except to sell more books. So this is not an improvement.

Moon Handbooks rule!.......2001-09-27

I've used Moon Handbooks for years and they are simply the best! I have the Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Alberta, and now the British Columbia book, and I've never been disappointed. These books include the usual stuff, such as lodging, restaurants, and recreation, but they also include local history and cultural information that makes them far superior to most guides. Buy a Moon Handbook that covers the state you live in--you will be surprised at how much you can learn. If you're going traveling, they are indispensable.

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Dear Peaches,

America is perfect!

I love it here. I wish you could come visit -- we could go shopping on Market Street and you could meet all my new friends. And my new boyfriend. He looks exactly like Tobey Maguire (from Spider-Man, not Seabiscuit). We'll be the hottest couple at the Soirée!

I miss you!! xxxooo,
V.

Okay, so Vicenza isn't being totally honest with Peaches, her best friend back in Manila. But what fun is it being the new girl at snooty Grosvernor High? Or rooting through the Salvation Army for unholey cashmere sweaters? Or having culture-shocked, embarrassingly clueless parents? Maybe being Claude Caligari's ignored geometry partner is sort of fun, but Vicenza would rather be his girlfriend ... or at least his date to the annual fancy-schmancy Soirée d'Hiver. Instead, she's stuck going with scrawny family friend Freddie in an outlet-purchased, coupon-reduced dress that is nothing short of disaster!

But Vicenza won't be friendless, fashionless, or "fresh off the boat" for long -- it's only a matter of time before she sees what's right before her eyes, and her luck begins to change.

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...a 'fresh' addition to the de la Cruz collection.......2007-06-02

There was a time when fourteen-year-old Vicenza "V" Esmeralda Rodriguez Arambullo lived a life that most girls only dream of, complete with servants, chauffeurs, unlimited shopping sprees to all of the great designer stores - Chanel and Burberry included - and luxurious, tres expensive haircuts. But that was back in Manila. Back, during a time, when her family had more money than they could count. Her mother, the owner of a booming restaurant in which the Manila president ate at herself, and her father, a businessman with all the right connections. But then, inexplicably, everything was different. Suddenly, Vicenza's parents, who always seemed quite content in their Manila dwellings, abruptly decide to leave for America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," where countless opportunities will come their way. Unfortunately, here we are, months later, and things aren't going as smoothly as the Ambrullo family originally hoped. Sure, Chips Ahoy cookies are dirt cheap here in the States, but everything else is fairly expensive, including the rent on their home. Vicenza doesn't have it easy either. Luckily her problems don't really revolve around money, instead, they revolve around your typical, run-of-the-mill dilemmas, like being the new girl. As a brainiac, Vicenza didn't have any trouble landing a great scholarship to Grosvernor High School. Surviving there is another story. Every girl is blonde and beautiful, with money oozing out of their pores, and private planes to jet them off to the South of France whenever they feel like a little topless sun-bathing. Basically, everyone is beyond snooty, and refuse to even give Vicenza the time of day. After all, no one swathed in Gucci would ever dream of hanging with a girl who spends her afternoons working at the Sears cafeteria her mother set-up, or rifling through the sales racks at the Salvation Army, searching for a cashmere sweater that is devoid of holes. But all that changes when Vicenza meets Isobel Saint-Pierre, a French math wiz, with a love for the offbeat. Isobel becomes Vicenza's solace, and confidant, something that she hasn't had since she left her best friend, Peaches, behind in Manila. And even though she and Peaches confer through e-mail, everything Vicenza says is a lie, trying to make her life sound better in America. But then things actually do get better, when Vicenza meets Claude Caligari. Claude is the most gorgeous boy Vicenza has ever seen - aside from Tobey McGuire - and she's determined to get him to ask her to Grosvernor's yearly Soiree d'Hiver, a beyond fancy dance that gives everyone the chance to dress up in expensive gowns, and dance the night away. Unfortunately, Vicenza is nothing more than a clueless geometry partner to Claude. Someone he ignores three days a week, as he speaks over the teacher, and manages to earn the lowest geometry grades Vicenza has ever seen. Still, Vicenza finds him dreamy, and, with a little help, she believes she'll be able to snag the guy of her dreams. But when she learns that the flirty fox is harboring a girlfriend, Vicenza sees her chance quickly slipping through her grasp. And it will only be through a little self-realization that she'll be able to see what's truly lying right before her eyes.

Immigration is such a large part of today's society. However, we rarely get to see the effects of immigrating to a new culture through the eyes of a present-day teenager. Melissa de la Cruz seems to have embraced that idea within the pages of FRESH OFF THE BOAT, and turned it into a fun, inspirational, humorous learning experience. Vicenza is reminiscent of Meg Cabot's Mia Thermopolis - of THE PRINCESS DIARIES. She's awkward, and attempting to fit in at a new school. Of course, there is one extreme difference between the two, Vicenza is an immigrant, learning to navigate the streets of San Francisco, and find her niche in the American world. Vicenza isn't your typical teenage protagonist. She spends much of her time with her head buried in a book, and is hardworking. Not everything is handed to her on a silver platter, and she does what she can to please the people around her. Sure, Vicenza likes guy-watching, and gossip fests, but she's more brainy than many, and is quite goal-oriented and determined. She must contend with her lottery-obsessed parents, who seems to be in the midst of the biggest culture-shock of their lives, and is often made fun of by her wealthier classmates, yet she never really lets the ridicule get her down. Her relationship with Isobel Saint-Pierre is one of the aspects of FRESH OFF THE BOAT that adds a humorous touch to an otherwise sensitive, slightly harsh subject. Isobel is quirky and cool, and could care less what anyone thinks of her. She's obsessed with lycra, and feathers, and rides - dangerously, I might add - all over the place atop a Vespa. Isobel is like Vicenza's rock. She's supportive and carefree, and honestly cares about Vicenza, and any problems she may encounter. While Peaches was Vicenza's best friend for years in Manila, the reader may notice that her relationship with Isobel is much stronger, simply because she doesn't feel the need to lie about her social standing to her, as she does with Peaches. Together, Vicenza and Isobel make an indomitable pair, as the two work side-by-side to adjust to the harsh realities and rules the United States has to offer. Riddled with humorous episodes, and interesting flashbacks to Vicenza's days in Manila; along with a few very unexpected revelations, FRESH OFF THE BOAT is a FRESH addition to the de la Cruz collection.

Erika Sorocco
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The Big Move.......2006-08-14

Vicenza is having a hard time adjusting to life in San Francisco. She was unfairly torn from her well-off life and friend in Manila, Philippines, and forced to emigrate to California, where she now shops at the Salvation Army, works in her family's cafeteria in Sears on the weekends, and is ignored by the snooty girls at her new school. Her life gets so bad that she actually goes to the movies with her family on a Friday night. Finally, V, as her friends call her, befriends Isobel, the French exchange student, who helps V see that if the other girls don't want her, she doesn't want them, and also helps Vincenza snag the boy she wants. With excellently written characters and sprinkled with emails of her new "glamorous" (fictional) life to her friend back home in Manila, this book will be relatable for any girl who has ever felt out of place.

From Rich to Poor.......2006-05-29

Vicenza's family moves to California from Manila, hoping to start a better life after a family friend embezzles all their money; but it gets a lot worse. At Vicenza's new school, Grosvernor High, she gets picked on for not wearing the newest fashion trends. Her only friend Isobel doesn't wear the newest fashions but styles of her own and still look hot in it. Vicenza's family television shoe video smuggling gets caught by the police,and is shut down. Now her family suffers with money and have to work extra hard at their cafeteria to earn more money. Once things calm down, Vicenza makes the top five slut list at Grosvernor School, as the number one slut after she is caught in the bathroom with Whitney's boyfriend Claude Caligari. Vicenza goes on her first date with Paul, a boy who works at Sears, after the aproval of her parents. They already knew him from their cafeteria, so they easily accepted the date. It was at the movies when Vicenza got her first kiss during the Stephen King Movie. I recommend this book for teens or adults who are fit for a wild narrative of a foreign teen.

The book Fresh Off the Boat is realistic fiction. In this book there are stores like Sears, Mc Donalds, Outback Steakhouse,and Hechts, and movies like Stephen King and Bruce Almighty. There are also television shows like American Idol, The Real World, Fear Factor, and Primetime Live. More realistic themes in this novel are the trends. From ballroom-dancing to foxtrot, cha-cha, and the tango. Another realistic part in this book is how the characters in this book talk, act, and dress, like the teenagers actually do in real life middle and high schools. Everyone in Grosvernor High dresses in the newest trends, or at least the middle class and rich teens did. If you weren't seen in the latest trends or styles, then you are considered invisible.

Vicenza parents were way over protective when it came to shopping, boys, cell phones, looks, and being totally cool. They gave Vicenza a cell phone but only because everyday they want to find out what time Vicenza was going to get to the cafe from school. Also when she was picking out a dress for the Montclair Academy-Grosvernor School for Girls Annual Soiree'd'Hiver. Vicenza's mom picked out a flashback to the 1980's dress, wtih three layers of ruffles, alternates pink and black, and has a butt bow. Instead of a more mature drees like a strapless mini dress with sparkes or a formal tank and frilly mini skirt.

Whitney, Georgia, and Trish the popular Grosvernor girls did anything to pick on anyone who didn't dress in the latest trends,were recieving more attention then they were, or did anything really bad to humiliate themselves. Like when Vicenza was having trouble balancing a ball on a paddle they mimicked her all day, causing her to hide in the bathroom for the next class period. Or like when Vicenza got caught in the bathroom with Claude, Whitney's boyfriend, and they posted her name on a website, www.topfiveslutsatgrosvernorschool.com, as the number one slut at Grosvernor School for Girls. When Claude asked Isobel and Vicenza to tutor him in Geometry so he could stay captain of the lacrosse team, he was spending more time with them than Whitney. So she called them Claude's "loser girl study group," or the L.G.S.G., as Isobel and Vicenza called it.

Fresh Off the Boat was a very well written realistic fiction book for teens or young adults. Whitney, Georgia, and Trish did anything they could to make sure everyone uncool stayed uncool and invisible. Even Vicenza's parents kept her from being cool, they never let her wear mini skirts or shop at the botiques for the hottest new trends. Instead Viecnza steadily worked at her families cafeteria business at Sears to occupy her social life, that she didn't have. Since she moved to America her life became a nightmare.

T.Brown

Fresh Off the Boat.......2005-12-19

Vicenza decides to lie in e-mails to her friend back in Manila named Peaches to impress her with details of her new life in America. Vicenza is a girl who came from Manila to America in hope to start a new life with the mother, father, and sister. When they get here they are forced to change and the go from high to low class in almost an instant. She pretends to have tons of friends and be popular when e-mailing her friend, although it is not true. She really only has one friend and no one really wants to talk to her. In the end, she ends up slowly telling Peaches the truth about her life and starts excepting the things that she has. This is a good book for people who like girly books because it was mainly about a teenage girls' life and how coming to America changes it.

When Vicenza comes to America her life begins to change drastically. Vicenza and her family start to shop at the Salvation Army when they moved here and they used to shop at the Neiman Marcus. Her mom used to own a big restaurant now she owns a mall worker's cafeteria slot. He father used to own a big business but now he owns a one-man shop.

She would lie in e-mails to Peaches telling her that her life was more glorious than it really was. At first she lied about going to the movies with popular girls, but really just went with her family. She also lied about buying clothes at the mall when she really got them from the Salvation Army. Vicenza lied about Claude, the popular boy, asking her the her school's annual Soiree when a geek named Freddie really did.

Vicenza only had one true friend at her school. Her only friend was a French girl named Isobel. They went everywhere together and were even in many classes together until Isobel got switched out because she was very very
smart. Isobel and Vicenza also got in trouble many times together like when they snuck out and went to Claude's house or a party.

This book is mainly about a girl whose life changes when she arrives in America, therefore I would recommend it to people who like the girly type of book. Fresh Off the Boat by Melissa De La Cruz was a very good book because it showed how w girl transitioned and strived to act popular although she really wasn't.

A good read!.......2005-12-14

This is a good book about a fourteen year old girl who came from the phillipines for her first year of high school. She goes through different changes and tries to adapt to the American lifestyle, and also by trying to be popular at school too. This is a good book if you want to read something good or just want to read about highschool life.

Pacific Migrant Labour, Class and Racism in New Zealand: Fresh Off the Boat (Research in Ethnic Relations)

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Pacific Migrant Labour, Class and Racism in New Zealand: Fresh Off the Boat (Research in Ethnic Relations)
Terrence Loomis
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Fresh Off the Boat
Melissa De La Cruz
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Fresh Off The Boat
Melissa De LA Cruz
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The world's oceans act as a reservoir, with the capacity to absorb and retain carbon dioxide. The air-sea exchange of carbon is driven by physico-chemical forces, photosynthesis, and respiration, and has an important influence on atmospheric composition. Variability in the ocean carbon cycle could therefore exert significant feedback effects during conditions of climate change. The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) is the first multidisciplinary program to directly address the interactions among the biology, chemistry, and physics of marine systems, with emphasis on the transport and transformations of carbon within the ocean and across its boundaries. This unique volume, written by an international panel of scientists, provides a synthesis of JGOFS science and its achievements to date. The authoritative chapters will be of great interest to readers seeking a current overview of the role of ocean processes in Earth system science and their wider implications for climate change.

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Until now, the literature has offered a rather limited approach to the use of fundamental kinetics and their application to catalytic reactions. Subsequently, this book spans the full range from fundamentals of kinetics and heterogeneous catalysis via modern experimental and theoretical results of model studies to their equivalent large-scale industrial production processes. The result is key knowledge for students at technical universities and professionals already working in industry.

"...such an enterprise will be of great value to the community, to professionals as well as graduate and undergraduate students attempting to move into the field of modern catalysis and kinetics. I strongly recommend you publish this book based on the proposal."
—Prof. Dr. G. A. Samorjai, University of California

"Both authors are well respected specialists, with a very long record of original top-quality work and an international reputation. A book from these authors will be considered an authoritative piece of work, I definitely support this project and I am looking forward to use the book when published."
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Practical Enzyme Kinetics provides a practical how-to guide for beginning students, technicians, and non-specialists for evaluating enzyme kinetics using common software packages to perform easy enzymatic analyses.

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Use all the modern tools or stick with linear.......2005-02-13

If you do nonlinear analyses, you must also use residual graphs. They are much better than eyeballing whether a graph is linear or eyeballing if the data seem to fit a curve.
If you cannot do residual graphs, you should not use nonlinear analyses and stick with linear graphs, though even they are more dependable with the addition of a residual graph to check how well the data and equation fit. If you can do residuals, nonlinear analyses are faster, but not necessarily better in many cases. So, the reader should choose whether to use the author's method based on whether it is appropriate for their circumstances.

Modern?.......2005-01-08

The author has a view of how to analyse enzyme kinetic experiments that is very different from mine, but there are many who share his opinions, not mine, and many readers will find this an honourable and useful addition to the bookshelf. What the title means by "modern" is explained in the blurb: "With the advent of computers, linear transformations of models have become unnecessary -- Enzyme Kinetics does away with all linear transformations of enzyme kinetic models, advancing the use of nonlinear regression techniques." As I said, this view is not unique to the author, and those who share it will doubtless be glad to see the double-reciprocal plot and all the others consigned to the dustbin of history.

To me it is a case of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Yes, non-linear regression is a good step forward, but it needs to be applied with discretion, and it is dangerous to forget that even if computers are much better than humans at some tasks, they are worse at others. In particular, humans are much better than computers at noticing anomalies, but to do this they need something to look at, in other words a graph, and it is much easier to recognize an anomaly in the graph where the points ought to fall on a straight line than in one way they should fall on a curve.

Chemical kinetics (Topics in modern chemistry)

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Chemical kinetics (Topics in modern chemistry)
Gordon M Harris
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Chemical kinetics: A modern survey of gas reactions

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Chemical kinetics: A modern survey of gas reactions
John Edward Nicholas
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Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics: Modern Methods in Kinetics (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics: Modern Methods in Kinetics (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)
C. H. Bamford
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Femtosecond Real-Time Spectroscopy of Small Molecules and Clusters (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)

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Elmar Schreiber
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This book gives a detailed overview on this new and exciting field at the boundary of physics and chemistry.Laser-induced ultrafast molecuar dynamics is presented for many textbook-like examples of model molecules and clusters. Experimental results on phenomena like wave packet propagation, ultrafast photodissociation and femtosecond structural redistribution are presented and described theoretically.

Kinetic Phase Diagrams: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions (Studies in Modern Thermodynamics, No 10)

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Kinetic Phase Diagrams: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions (Studies in Modern Thermodynamics, No 10)
Z. Chvoj , and J. Sestak
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Modern Aspects of Diffusion-Controlled Reactions (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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Modern Aspects of Diffusion-Controlled Reactions (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)
E. Kotomin , and V. Kuzovkov
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This monograph deals with the effects of reactant spatial correlations arising in the course of basic bimolecular reactions describing defect recombination, energy transfer and exciton annihilation in condensed matter. These effects lead to the kinetics considered abnormal from the standard chemical kinetics point of view. Numerous bimolecular reaction regimes and conditions are analysed in detail. Special attention is paid to the development and numerous applications of a novel, many-point density (MPD) formalism, which is based on Kirkwood's superposition approximation used for decoupling three-particle correlation functions.

The book demonstrates that incorporation of the reaction-induced spatial correlations of similar reactants (e.g., vacancy-vacancy) leads to the development of an essentially non-Poisson spectrum of reactant density fluctuations. This can completely change the kinetics at longer times since it no longer obeys the law of mass action. The language of the correlation lengths and critical exponents similar to physics of critical phenomena is used instead. A relation between MPD theory and synergistics is discussed. The validity of the theorem giving a critical complexity for the two-step reactions exhibiting self-organization phenomena is questioned. Theoretical results are illustrated by numerous experimental data.

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Modern Chemical Kinetics
henry eyring
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Modern Chemical Kinetics
Henry and Eyring, Edward M. Eyring
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