Citizen Newhouse: Portrait Of A Media Merchant

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Stranger than Fiction.......2000-04-23

An enormous undertaking, with awesome research, and a comfortable easy read doesn't improve either the personality of or the aura that has surrounded Si Newhouse since his college years. Ms. Felsenthal's portrayal of this self-concerned, thoughtless print media mogul is written with sharp, honest and precise clarity. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and this author has neatly recorded it all. The print fraternity will not like this one!

Honest Reporting Never Goes Unpunished.......2000-04-13

Carol Felsenthal has made all the right moves in research, writing and having published the excellent biography CITIZEN NEWSHOUSE. She interviewed hundreds of people, came up with a strong story line and kept it up hundreds of pages later. Alas, this readable study of a publisher broke an unwritten rule in the business of publishing writers: don't write about us. When finished, Viking accepted her work then, violating its contract, said it wouldn't publish it because "people we know are on every page." It was left to Seven Stories to pick it up. While Ms. Felsenthal didn't have a fatwa issued against her, any freedom-respecting reader should buy a copy to support those who challenge the powers that be simply by writing the truth.

As If She were there.......2000-03-30

This lady has an astounding way of taking you to the moment! The research is awesome and the ability to create the incidents, characteristics, and responses is eerie! It WAS just as Ms. Felsenthal writes.....it was like re-reading a part of my past. This lady's talent is quite remarkable when one considers she's written a page-turner about a somewhat prickly, eccentric, even though very privileged guy!

A critical look at a man and his media empire.......1999-04-12

This book tells a saga that engages its readers, enticing them to read on and find out what happens next. I never cease to be amazed at the lives led by those with the resources of the world at their disposal. And these are the people who decide what you and I will read, hear, and see. Powerful people like Si Newhouse expose the lives of others in their magazines and newspapers, but they resist any attempt to shine that same light on themselves. I found _Citizen Newhouse_ to be a real page-turner, a book I couldn't put down. I wanted to see: Would Si run the company into the ground? Would Donald again come to the rescue? Would hard-working editors get sacked as soon as Newhouse put his name on their companies? _Citizen Newhouse_ is a fascinating read. Anyone who enjoys good nonfiction written in a clean, journalistic style will enjoy this book.

atrocious book on noxious publisher.......1999-01-01

A crime to have cut trees for this tripe. Poor grammar; confusuing; gossipy gushing; zero insights into their business affairs; zero facts on thier affairs & escapades; packed with trivial facts

Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant

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Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant
Carol Felsenthal
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NW9S3K

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Delightful photographs--including a hilarious one of the legendary Yankees manager gazing into a baseball as though it were a crystal ball--enliven virtually every page of this affectionate portrait of the man who led the Bronx Bombers to ten pennants between 1948 and 1960. Sports historian Richard Bak does a nice job of capturing Stengel's folksy charm, as well as his strategic abilities and shrewd eye for talent. Inserts such as "Stengelese: A Selected Glossary" add to the fun.

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Questioning underlying values in SF.......2002-11-13

This book stars from the position that Science Fiction is a reflection and reinforcement of cultural and political assumptions:

"Cultural production is not a neutral sphere, just innocent entertainment. Moreover, the artefacts of cultural production are thoroughly ideological, bound up with political discourse, struggles, agendas and policies." (p.46)

I'm sure that many SF fans would be initially bewildered at the analysis of Deep Space Nine, Space: Above and Beyond and Independence Day amongst others contained in this work. Yet each is closely argued.

The examination of the Borg as an enemy is eye-opening:

"the Borg represent the opposite of the Thatcher principle. Where the prime minister thought there was no society, only individuals, to our eyes the Borg appear to have only society and no individuals. They/it are the embodiment of the Western fantasy of communism/socialism, as well as virtually all Asian cultures, especially Muslims in their current incarnation."
(p.77)

The writers are not afraid to draw attention to the similarities of the bad guys as aliens and the designated bad guys here on Planet Earth. Independence Day in particular is taken apart for the blatant propaganda it was. The purpose behind it is made clear:

"America is a consciously created artefact, as is its self-image. The manufacture of this self-image must be sustained through its cultural products to imprint itself on a heterogeneous population, to forge them into a choherent body by passing them through not just a social melting-pot but an ideological forge."
(p.36, quoting Ziauddin Sardar).

By looking at how the US dominated popular culture presents "aliens", "others" and "enemies" we can learn a lot about unspoken, assumed and underlying values. What this book shows is that "Western" society is neither as tolerant or sophisticated as some would like to imagine.

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an academic tired of bad academics.......2003-02-27

In a word, this book is a mess. Methodologically suspect and theoretically uninformed, it relies on antiquated Orientalist assumptions of essential cultural identity and unchanging social forms to make the multifarious sources it cites all sound the same, which is too bad, because it is the only English-language 'scholarship' available at present on many of the topics covered. A wasted opportunity that makes me sad and mad.

Japan Pop! Fascinating and entertaining.......2001-01-10

For anyone who has noticed the ubiquity of anime, sushi shops, Japanese style and other aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides a welcome and readable introduction to what Japanese popular culture is and where it comes from. I particularly liked the chapters on music but I probably learned more about Japanese culture and the mind set behind it from the chapters on television and anime. This book explains not only that there is a Japanese poular culture, but why it is the way it is. Highly recommended.

Very poor introduction to the subject.......2000-12-07

Claiming to be a book which bridges the divide between the worlds of academia and populism, Japan Pop! gets off to a poor start with an absurdly high cover price likely to put it out of reach of the casual J-Pop Culture fan. The price might have been justified had this been a glossy, photo-packed book, but seems ludicrous given that it is merely a collection of 17 essays. The essays dwell on four major areas of contemporary J-Pop Culture: music, manga and animation, TV & film and the popularity of J-Pop Culture outside of the country. It comes as little surprise that Mark Schilling's contribution, about the Tora-san character in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo (It's Tough Being a Man) film series, is the most interesting - not necessarily because of the topic, but because Schilling is the only contributor who is a writer of any repute. The majority of these essays are written by academics and it shows: footnotes abound, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers get analysed to the nth degree and claims are made that "Sailor Moon's rearrangement of the traditional superhero myth bears hints of not only a new social order, but also the kind of moral struggles, alliances, and identities that may create and accompany it." The book also contains a number of confidence-sapping factual errors (example: Osaka band Shonen Knife "started playing in the mid-1980s" which is not true, they started playing in December 1981). Schilling's Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture (Weatherhill) remains the definitive starting point for those seeking a good, accessible introduction to the subject; Japan Pop! is only for the otaku completist, and a wealthy one at that.

fascinating read.......2000-09-21

A fascinating and enjoyable read. "Japan pop" gave me a fresh and informitive insight into Japans modern culture and and in to the psychology of its people. Loved this book and I highly recommed it. ray brooks

A "must" for students of Japanese studies & popular culture........2000-08-06

Japan Pop! considers various forms of Japanese popular culture, from pop music and animated cartoons to films and television. The result is an analysis of Japanese society, cultural identity, and daily life which provide absorbing surveys into Japanese psychology. A 'must' for any college-level student of Japanese studies.

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Here's the book you need to prepare for Cisco's CCNA exam, 640-801.

This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's Cisco certification candidates. In addition to the engaging and accessible instructional approach that has earned author Todd Lammle the "Best Study Guide Author" award in CertCities Readers' Choice Awards for two consecutive years, this updated fifth edition provides:

In-depth coverage of every CCNA exam objective
Expanded IP addressing and subnetting coverage
More detailed information on EIGRP and OSPF
Leading-edge exam preparation software

Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:

Network planning & designing
Implementation & operation
LAN and WAN troubleshooting
Communications technology

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A great overview.......2007-07-30

This book has consistently been one of the most accessible overviews of the CCNA material. I have been using these books since the 3rd edition and I have yet to be disappointed. Although the book may not go into as much depth as some of the other books on the market, it presents the ideas in a very clear language. If you are looking to get a good idea of how IP networks are put together and a basic introduciton to configuring cisco routers, this book will be a huge help.

Todd Lamle Rocks.......2007-07-15

I am preparing for my CCNA and I am so happy to have this book to prep me for my Exams.
Todd knows exactly how to dissect the difficult topics. I've been putting off taking the exam for 4 years now. With this book I've got the confidence and knowledge I need to ace it!

Thank you Todd

M. Charles

Great to begin with.......2007-05-24

My advice would be to start with this book first, then move onto CCNA Cisco press. Todd Lammle wrote this book as if you where setting in a class and learning from an instructor, some of the basic information that you need to know for exam will be covered in his text that can be easily be pick up by using his book. The only problem with this book is that he doesn't cover everything on the exam; as stated by the other reviewer. Cisco press is going to give you everything you need; but with dry content. The Cisco press content is not that bad if you start off with Sybex.

Excellent.......2007-05-07

There isn't much more I can say about this book than has already been said. I used Todd's guide to help me pass the CCNA in 2000 and am using him again to recertify. Just an excellent book. Period.

Behind the Times........2007-04-10

Five years ago, I took a course on the CCNA exam, and the Sybex book was the standard course material. The Cisco books at that time were overly wordy, dry, and difficult to learn from. This seems to be the major reason Sybex became the textbook of choice for Cisco material. I had good success with that book and passed the test on the first try with little complications.

Then, a few months ago, I decided to go back and tackle the new CCNA exam and get certified again. Naturally, I went back to Sybex and bought this book. After a month of study, I felt I had fully grasped all the concepts in the book and began taking practice tests in preparation for the 640-801 exam. I was disappointed to find that I was repeatedly failing the practice tests. I spent some time reviewing and slowly came to realize that there are a variety of topics you will face on the new CCNA exams that aren't favored enough in the Sybex book. Frustrated, I went and picked up the Cisco Press: Official Exam Certification Library, which consists of the "CCNA Intro" and "CCNA ICND" books. I thought at first that having two books for this material was overkill. After several weeks of reading through these books, I am startled at how much raw content is in these two books that is directly relevant to the test. Even more obvious is how basic the Sybex course material is in comparison.

My personal experience is this: Cisco seems to have toughened up their exams quite a bit since they switched to the new CCNA exam, and Sybex doesn't seem to have kept up with this. Considering Sybex has also tried to squeeze the entire CCNP course material into a single book, when Cisco has four separate books for the same material, I'm not surprised that the CCNA book feels compressed. In particular, the areas I'm finding the biggest gaps between the two are as follows:

Cat 2950 Switch configuration - This is kept to a minimum in the Sybex book and only the most basic commands are offered.

General Routing Troubleshooting - A big theme in the practice tests I have taken thus far is the ability to properly troubleshoot various router setups. While the Sybex book gives you all the basic show commands and gives a very straightforward configuration for each topic, it simply isn't enough. There should have been several chapters dedicated purely to troubleshooting. The Cisco material did not provide dedicated chapters to troubleshooting either, but they take much longer to explain the topics than Sybex did.

Various Miscellaneous Topics - There are a variety of commands, terms, and concepts that I never saw until I started taking practice tests and picked up the Cisco Press CCNA Flash Cards book.

In closing, I will say that I like the way Todd Lammle writes. He is very easy to understand and Chapter 3 of this book (which covers IP subnetting) is a very well written chapter. This book is by no means "bad". It just isn't enough to pass the exam on it's own. If you have yet to purchase any material for the CCNA, I strongly recommend you spend the extra ten dollars and pick up the Official Exam Certification Library from Cisco Press. While it may be a little more difficult to read, it will be worth it when you go to take your test.

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Never before in paperback: A New York Times Notable Book-the life and times of the first Negro League star inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

Some say Satchel Paige was the greatest pitcher ever-and certainly his dazzling record of perhaps as many as 2,000 wins, first in the Negro Leagues and then in the integrated major leagues, ranks as one of the most remarkable athletic feats of the century. He also became famous for the advice he freely offered others, including the now legendary

"Don't look back, something might be gaining on you." Mark Ribowsky gives the best picture yet of life in the Negro Leagues as he brings to life a man whose act as a lovable eccentric with a golden arm masked a decidedly darker side as womanizer, hard drinker, and contract jumper always on the lookout for number one. Sporting News hailed Don't Look Back as "a fine and perceptive biography... that captures the essence of a complicated and terribly significant person."

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Excellent bio,seperating myth from stereotype.......2001-03-09

Satchel Paige is an enigmatic figure in american histroy. Mention his name, people inevitably think of the negro leagues,or thta terrible bingo long movie.In fact, Paige was ,in many repects, the first modern ballplayer. He played for a percentage of the gate, would only pitch a couple of innings in these contests,had no compuction about jumping from team to team{or country to country}The minstel show,stephifetchit aura that he calculated with the all too eager white press was, of course, a huge ruse. He was a sometimes bitter man{quite understandably so}He knew, instinctively, that he was the best pitcher in the world{although,curiosly, his peers voted Smokey Joe williams better in a 1950 vote in the Pittsburgh Courrier} He despsed the Jim Crow laws, and what he had to do to get around them. HIs civil rights stands were taken in the 20's 30's and 40's, when such things often meant death. He pitched for what might have been the greatest team of all time{the Pittsburgh crawfords of the early 30's] Dimaggio called him ethe toughest pitcher he ever hit against.All of these nuggets are in this book. Mr. Ribowsky did a fine job here. Paige is a figure who should be celebrated for what he was:an american original,a species often sighted but rarely seen. A wonderful book!

Demi-God.......2000-07-28

After reading this book, I am utterly convinced that Satchel Paige is as much of a baseball legend as a Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth. This book not only entertains but it fascinates, so much that I would'nt be suprised if someone mistook this biography for a peice of baseball folklore or a non fictitious work designed to capture the imaginations of baseball fans. This book portrays the life of Robert Leroy Satchel Paige in a most interesting way. In some cases he stands biggerthan life portrayed as a demi-god in the face of the gods of Major League Baseball and in some cases his mortality is revealed in the very midst of his immortality, and this is what makes this portrayal so unique.

DON'T LOOK BACK : SATCHEL PAIGE IN THE SHADOWS OF BASEBALL

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DON'T LOOK BACK : SATCHEL PAIGE IN THE SHADOWS OF BASEBALL
Mark Ribowsky
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NZB6EQ

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Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle.

It is through the words and thought of key black intellectuals, like Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, C. L. R. James, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and others, as well as movement activists like Malcolm X and Black Panthers, that vital new ideas emerged and circulated. Their most important achievement was to create and sustain a vibrant, black public sphere broadly critical of U.S. social, political, and civic inequality.

Finding racism hidden within the universalizing tones of reform-minded liberalism at home and global democratic imperatives abroad, race radicals alienated many who saw them as dangerous and separatist. Few wanted to hear their message then, or even now, and yet, as Singh argues, their passionate skepticism about the limits of U.S. democracy remains as indispensable to a meaningful reconstruction of racial equality and universal political ideals today as it ever was.

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A Work of Great Relevance and Urgency..........2004-06-05

In its simplest rendition, Black Is a Country is a work of hope that holds the potential to guide us out of our current state of racial dilemmas. Nikhil Singh points to the futility of relying on U.S. nationalist traditions in dismantling racism by illuminating the dialectic of race and nation, two concepts that have always been ineluctably intertwined, yet have largely remained fixed at opposite ends of the spectrum. Black intellectuals throughout the "long civil rights era" had articulated a vision of democracy that stretches beyond the parameters of American nationalism, and by doing so, they pointed to the failures of American universalism by shining light on the contradictions between American claims of universal democracy and the realities of systemic racial oppression. Recalling these bold visions and radical conceptions of democracy from the past, Singh ultimately suggests, will potentially lead us once again to "an effective antiracism" (14).
In framing his argument, Singh re-envisions a "long civil rights era" that defies the "King-centric" and universalist version that remains engraved in the annals of American history. This new framework accomplishes four things. First, it suggests that civil rights made up only one part of a much broader and expansive struggle. As Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized toward the end of his life, "justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from the fountains of political oratory" (13). Second, rather than emphasizing the March on Washington or the passage of the Civil Rights Act-two landmark occurrences that reinscribed the notion of American universalism-as the apex of the movement, it centers the formation and expansion of the black public sphere as the movement's most phenomenal achievement. Third, as had already been implied, the long civil rights era embraced a host of intellectuals and artists who experimented with a range of politics with the ultimate vision of forging an independent black radicalism. Far from recognizing American nationalism as the suitable arena to achieving democracy, these black leaders (who have tragically become overshadowed by the figure of an idolized Martin Luther King, Jr.) looked beyond national borders and tapped the wells of their radical imaginations to locate an independent and transformative conception of democracy. Finally, it illuminates a long, unbroken line of black radicalism that stretched from old intellectual sages like W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to young black nationalists like Stokely Carmichael and Amiri Baraka. This black radical tradition, although distracted by the repressive nature of McCarthyism and despite taking on different political guises, remained at heart one continuous struggle.
Simply put, Black Is a Country is a work of great urgency that forces us to seriously rethink the dialectic of race and nation, a concept that had for the most part been taken for granted by historians. It is a book that should be widely read and reread.

Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.(Book Review) : An article from: Journal of Southern History
Richard King
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Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.(Book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Robert Teigrob
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Patent attorneys: give more to NPR!

highly readable and entertaining

This book gives an entertaining & informative tour of the laboratories, institutes & beauty salons of science!

Great way to learn about the history of inventions

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They All Laughed... From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives
Ira Flatow
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An enlightening and fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky and accidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important inventions--by award-winning journalist Ira Flatow.

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Patent attorneys: give more to NPR!.......2007-09-28

Surprise: Ira Flatow is as smart as he sounds. This book is very well researched and very well written. Skinny as it is, the book gives a great summary of many famous inventions in a funny and accessible way. Overall, the book is a great homage to the times when the inventor was an eccentric guy in the garage. But I was shocked to find out how far the legends have gone from the real facts. Thanks Ira for setting the record straight.

highly readable and entertaining.......2007-02-18

This is a wonderful little history of inventions book. The writing is in a very reader-friendly style, and even slow readers (like me) will probably breeze through this book in no time. The author does a great job of choosing the most interesting inventions and stories to delve into. The only criticism I have is that the level of detail is often not very deep, i.e. there is typically more indepth coverage found on History Channel documentaries. In fairness though, the book provides a fast, interesting and enjoyable read, and it is likely that more detail would have detracted from those features. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the history of technology and invention.

This book gives an entertaining & informative tour of the laboratories, institutes & beauty salons of science!.......2006-10-22

They All Laughed... From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives
by Ira Flatow

Because of my ardent fascination for the history of science & technology, I have amassed a vast collection of books in this genre. Not only I am interested in the life stories of the scientists & inventors, I am also keen to find out how they went about in the pursuit of the original ideas behind their inventions.

I bought this particular one, which showcased lively, colourful stories about some common inventions & discoveries that had unusual beginnings. In fact, it gave some of the surprising revelations behind the world's great inventions:

- Ben Franklin's kite was never struck by lightning;
- Western Union laughed at Bell when he offered them the telephone. They thought it was a trivial toy;
- A melted candy bar led to the invention of the microwave oven;
- Scientists bounced Silly Putty around the halls of their laboratory years before anyone thought to sell it;
- The paper indutsry never would have existed with the wasp;
- The idea for transmitting messages by light (e.g. laser) dates back to the 1880s when Bell designed a contraption called the photophone;
- When Remington introduced the first typewriter, people saw no practical use for it;
- Thomas Edison was not the first to invent the light bulb;

Well, if you have that curiosity streak in you about the sheer eccentricity of the above inventions, just like I do, I guess you just have to go & get hold of this book. I can assure you, this book gives an entertaining & informative tour of the laboratories, institutes & beauty salons of science.

Great way to learn about the history of inventions.......2006-04-15

Great book - easy to read! Even 13 y.o. will enjoy it. It covers the history of most common inventions such as electricity, light bulb, submarine, fax, etc. If you think you already know it, think again. What you learned in school is not necessary the true, take for example Ben Franklin. You were told that he was the one who invented the electricity when he flew the kite and lightning struck it. Nice story for kids that has nothing to do with the real invention of electricity. The book gives historical background to all these inventions. It also tells about the schemes of inventions and legal battles between the inventors.
The book does not go too deep into the specifics of the inventions that makes it borring, but in the same time gives enough of information to get the big picture. I love it for the entertaining, engaging style and the true trivial splendor it spews forth in all directions.
Of course if you are inventor you probably know all of that and the book wouldn't be that big of a deal for you, but if you are not you should definitely read it!

Great History of Technology book.......2006-03-09

Excellent reading. It begins with the history of the invention of the lamp and goes all the way to the invention of the computer. Great historical references and a very unbiased view of the history of all inventions.
My favorite chapter is on the invention of the Television, which has not one but 5 inventors.
Great reading.

They All Laughed...: From the Light Bulbs to Lasers : The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives

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Tropospheric ozone is a regionally distributed air pollutant that adversely affects both humans and vegetation. Surface-Level Ozone Exposures and Their Effects on Vegetation focuses on the formation, distribution, and transport of surface-level ozone; the characterization of its exposures; the mechanisms and processes involved in its deposition and uptake by plants; and its effects on the growth of crops and forest trees. State-of-the-art information is presented and the methodology for studying its effects on vegetation is critically reviewed. This background material leads to a discussion of the approaches for developing an air quality standard that will provide protection from the adverse effects of ozone, as well as suggestions for future research directions. Researchers and professionals in the utility industry, oil industry, and government environmental agencies; university instructors; and students will find that this book is filled with information that can be used on a daily basis in their work and studies.

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