Heat and Thermodynamics, Module 2, RealTime Physics: Active Learning Laboratories

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This computer-based lab manual contains experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, E&M, and optics using hardware and software designed to enhance readers' understanding of calculus-based physics concepts. It uses an active learning cycle, including concept overviews, hypothesis-testing, prediction-making, and investigations.

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Changed opinion of this publication.......1999-02-16

On reading further -- each chapter has been exended to include later trades (1990 - 93) and some strategic changes to the approaches are suggested. The book is interesting reading, some of the comments are good (amusing) but not always helpful in trading. The discussion of SP500 futures should deter many a would-be trader, I would think.

Reissue of the authors other book on OEX........1999-02-11

If you have a copy of "Taking Profit from the OEX" by Arthur Darack then just re-read it. This book, supposedly published in 1995, is just a re-hash of the previous book. Even the chapter headings have the same name, and the same content. If nothing has changed since the first one (198?) then why change the title. Stan Graham

Great book!.......1998-08-03

After reading this book on trading the OEX, I had a better insight as to how this instrument works. Personally, I'm still considering whether or not I should start trading the OEX. This book helped me a lot in my decision. If you have any interest in OEX trading, you should start by readin this book.

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Commercial satellite activities have undergone enormous growth in the last decades, and so has the complexity of the legal framework within which these activities have to be carried out. Because of the international character of satellite activities, this legal framework has often been established on an international or regional level, through institutions such as the European Union, the International Telecommunications Union, the World Trade Organisation and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations. It is not an easy task to obtain a complete picture of this legal framework. For this reason, it was considered opportune to assemble all relevant legal texts and materials established by these institutions into one book. As telecommunications is currently the most important commercial application of satellites, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the main part of the book is dedicated to this application, simply because of the fact that the legal framework is furthest developed. However, relevant texts and materials for the three other commercial satellite activities -- broadcasting, remote sensing and navigation -- have also been included. This book is a very valuable tool for all those involved in the European satellite business or for those who want to get involved in it, whether they are lawyers or non-lawyers; everyone is affected by the laws and regulations governing this field and everyone should be aware of the limitations these laws and regulations might impose.

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A state-of-the-art reference, Metal Nanoparticles offers the latest research on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanoparticles. Following an introduction of structural, optical, electronic, and electrochemical properties of nanoparticles, the book elaborates on nanoclusters, hyper-Raleigh scattering, nanoarrays, and several applications including single electron devices, chemical sensors, biomolecule sensors, and DNA detection. The text emphasizes how size, shape, and surface chemistry affect particle performance throughout. Topics include synthesis and formation of nanoclusters, nanosphere lithography, modeling of nanoparticle optical properties, and biomolecule sensors.

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Biological membranes have long been identified as key elements in a wide variety of cellular processes including cell defense communication, photosynthesis, signal transduction, and motility; thus they emerge as primary targets in both basic and applied research. This book brings together in a single volume the most recent views of experts in the area of protein–lipid interactions, providing an overview of the advances that have been achieved in the field in recent years, from very basic aspects to specialized technological applications. Topics include the application of X-ray and neutron diffraction, infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy, and high-resolution NMR to the understanding of the specific interactions between lipids and proteins within biological membranes, their structural relationships, and the implications for the biological functions that they mediate. Also covered in this volume are the insertion of proteins and peptides into the membrane and the concomitant formation of definite lipid domains within the membrane.

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Building Military Dioramas Vol. V
Francois Verlinden
Manufacturer: Verlinden Publications
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This 5th installment in VP's popular Building Military Dioramas series features 9 new articles covering the art of making military dioramas & vignettes. Three new articles from the workshop at VP studios include Coffee with Milk, Please, a peaceful scene set in the Normandy countryside, Deadlock, a comprehensive urban diorama set on the Eastern Front in WWII, and Payback Time Afghanistan 2001, featuring the consequences of the new war on terrorism. Greg Cihlar is back again with 3 stunning new WWII themes, including a massive German industrial complex with lot's of action entitled Evacuation, Breakfast at the Front, a cold winter scene with the Tamiya Marder III, and Directions, an American M10 finding it's way through a frosty forest. Young Jin Won returns with another pair of figure-painting masterpieces, both taking place in Berlin, April 1945. The first detail-packed vignette entitled "Running Scared" animates a trio of Germans leaping from a quad 20mm Flakvierling 38, while the second, entitled From the Inside has another trio of desperate German soldiers taking cover within a destroyed house corner. Finally, newcomer Robert Dopp from Germany debuts with a spectacular Tiger track-repair scene appropriately entitled Minenschaden. This latest book again promises to inspire & amaze both novice and expert modelers, as well as non-modelers.

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Fascinating narratives by Benjamin of Tudela, Eldad the Danite, other scholars, merchants, pilgrims, etc. Illustrated.

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Just Amazing...first hand accounts.......2006-03-08

Do not buy this book for the editorial content, it is minimal. The first hand accounts provided by the travellers provide more than enough reason to buy this book. There are not many other diaries similar to the ones presented here.

Cannot be used by serious researcher!.......2003-04-26

Cannot be used as a source because of an incorrect translation, which distorts the histrography. Also there are other issues concerning the scholarship. It might could be saved if the editor and publishers were to redo the work. Perhaps grade school teachers could use the book in support of their lesson plans. Invest in both a better translated and written book.

Despite all the problems trying to enter this review, this book is excellent!.......2002-08-11

This book should be purchased before visiting The Holy Land, October 16,
2004

Reviewer:Barbara Stienstra (Goshen, New York United States) - See all my
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This book should be purchased before visiting The Holy Land, taken there
when on a visit, and studied and applied while traversing the countryside
and cities! Chocked-full of wonderful and interesting genealogy and
grave-ology! A who's (located) where, when and why! Did you know: "From the river Hiddekel (Tigris) at the foot of the mountains of Ararat it is a
distance of four miles to the place where Noah's Ark rested, but Omar ben
al-Khatab took the ark from the two mountains and made it into a mosque for the Mohammedans." (Page 42) -Benjamin of Tudela. "Ninevah is in ruins...
(Page 42) noted in Benjamin of Tudela's day. In the land of Cush "There is
a people among them who like animals, eat of the herbs that grow on the banks of the Nile and in the fields. They go about naked, and have not the
intelligence of ordinary men. They cohabit with their sisters and anyone
they find. The climate is hot. When the men of Assuan make a raid into their land they take with them bread and wheat, dry grapes and figs, and throw the food to these people, who run after it. Thus they bring many of them back prisoners, and sell them in the land of Egypt..." (Page 61). Gee, when my husband Greg and I were in Aswan in 1995, we were lucky that this is no longer done as it would surely would have vexed us, and would have been most disconcerting! With regard to the "desert called Sahara", Benjamin states:
In this desert there are mountains of sand, and when the wind rises it
covers the caravans with sand and many die from suffocation."(Page 61). Alas we were in a sandstorm on The Giza Plateau, and it sounds as if we were lucky "to have survived" such treacheries! Petrachia of Ratisbon states of the Ararat terrain "...There is one high mountain, behind which there are four others, two of which are opposite the two others. The ark of Noah was carried between these mountains and could not get out. However, the ark is not there, for it is decayed." (Page 83). Hum, a totally different stance on the ark! Rabbi Jacob sheds more light on this fascinating story: " "..
Al-Kufa hwere is the city first destroyed during the generation of the flood Thence it is a day and a half's journey to Sura, and the tombs of the righteous...Four parasangs from Al-Kufa is the place where Noah entered the ark..." (Page 128.) With regard to another important "ark"(obviously, of the Covenant), Rabbi Jacob teaches us that "......there are tombs of the Kings and an ancient building called David's Sanctuary, directed towards the Temple,...They say it was built by David and was the place where the Ark was brought and kept by David till the Temple was built." (Page 11. This sounded familiar: "...the gates of Baghdad. They are a hundred cubits high and ten cubits wide. They are of polished copper and ornamented with figures so fashioned that no one can produce the like. A nail once fell out and no artificer is able to fix it again. Formerly the horses used to be startled back at the sight of the gates for, seeing the brightness of the gates, they perceived, as it were, other horses running towards them, whereby they took fright and started off. They, therefore, poured boiling vinegar over the gates, and thus deadened the brightness of the polished copper, so that the horses should enter. However, the polish of the copper is still partly to be perceived at the top, where no vinegar was poured.These gates were once
gates of Jerusalem..." (Page 81), thus recorded Petachia of Ratisbon. I deem it noteworthy, Meshullam Ben R. Menahem's description of the "treasure chambers":"...on the other side of the Nile there are three
great treasure chambers, like a city rising to a diamond point. These are
the pyramids, of which I have seen nothing so big, even in Rome. They are
very much higher than the foundation-base, and if a man stands on top of the pyramid in the middle and throws a stone, he cannot throw it outside the structure. They are built out of stones great beyond measure." (Page 167). A-men, to which my husband Greg and I can attest! I also learned: Isaac Chelo taught me "...Father of the Anakim. He was a giant even among giants, and there still remains to this day at Hebron a skeleton of enormous stature said to be that of one of these giants." (Page 135). Azuli gave the reader fodder for thought": "... and when we had gone out of the gate of the city and the coach was ready, I wished to make water, and got on to a heap of stones; but as it was a conspicuous place I went on a little further, and seeing on one side of the field a rather deep depression in the ground which I thought was terra firma, I jumped over the stone fence between and put one foot to the ground, but my foot and thigh sank right into the mud and dung; it appears it was a cesspool...I thought I was in great danger and nearly died there...Most of my clothes were in a mess and all spoilt and defiled and stinking, but God in His mercy put it into the mind of a Gentile to come at the sound of the noise, and he took me to his house where there was a water well and I took off my clothes and washed myself and my clothes, in order to remove the mess..." (Pages 346-347). This book had traces of Ripley's Believe-it or not" adventures: Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon in 1170-87 in an excerpt from his journey, stated Russia he went for six days on the River Dnieper. On the other side of the river he commenced his travels in the land of Kear. There they have no ships, but sew together ten extended horse hides, with a thong around the border; they then seat themselves on the hides, placing thereon also the wagons and all the luggage They then tie the thong which is on the border of the hides to the tails of the horses, who start swimming, and thus they pass over the water...They also put pieces of flesh under the saddle of a horse, which they ride and, urging on the animal, cause it to sweat. The flesh getting warm, they eat it
.."(page 65). The Rabbi goes on "They perceive and recognize (objects) at
more than a day's distance. (Ibid.) He continues with a story about the land of Khozaria, "There is a sea there on one side, from which there arises a great stench, whilst on the other side there is a sea which does not emit any offensive smell. There is about a day's journey between the two seas. If any individual passed the stinking sea he would die immediately. When the wind blows from the stinking sea to that not emitting any offensive smell many die. People only go there when the wind does not blow from it." (Page 66)..."He the then returned to Baghdad. There he was shown a flying camel. It is low, and its legs are slender; and if anybody wishes to ride on it he must tie himself to it lest he should fall off. The rider traverses in one day the ground over which a man on foot would have to take fifteen. It would be possible to go even swifter if the rider could only stand it. In one second the flying camel gallops a mile." (Page 80.)... "At Nineveh there was an elephant. Its head is not at all protruding. It is big eats about two wagon loads of straw at one time; its mouth is in its breast, and when it wants to eat it protrudes its lip (trunk) about two cubits, takes up with it the straw, and puts it into its mouth. When the sultan condemns anybody to
death they say to the elephant: this person is guilty. It then seizes him
with its lip, casts him aloft, and kills him. Whatever a human being does
with his hand it does with its lip; this is exceedingly strange and
marvellous. Upon the elephant's back is set a structure like a citadel
(howdah), within which there are twelve armed warriors; when the beast
stretches forth its lip they climb up, using it as a bridge." (Page 68.)
Another unbelievable statement from the said party can be found on page 86
"..A pleasing odour ascends fro his grave. This odour is smelt at the
distance of a mile from his grave."... Ions later, Meshullam Ben R. Menahem records: "...In the months of June, July and August the air is very bad in Alexandria, and this because an evil wind rages then called the borea which attacks people like the plague, God forbid! Or makes them blind so that for five or six months they cannot see at all. Therefore it is that in Alexandria many people are found whose eyes are diseased..." (Page 160). Much later on, Obadiah Da Bertinoro indicated ".. On the Nile I saw the large species of frog which the natives call El Timsah
(the crocodile); it is larger than a bear and spots are visible on its skin....(Page 223.) Lastly, if one were to play "Trivial Pursuit" this may be of interest to remember, as I had never heard of it, nor have any of my
co-erts: Azulai, arriving in Paris thee 22nd Kislev, 5538(December, 1777)
felt it necessary to relay: "There is a saying that never in the twenty-four hours is there an instant without a white horse, a monk and a prostitute at this spot. The city is of great beauty and everything is to be found in it, but all at a very high price, except prostitution, which is very cheap and openly displayed; there are said to be thirty thousand public prostitutes inscribed on the registers, without counting the thousands who are not public and offered to all comers..."(Page 350.) And here is a message from David Reubeni, which transcends time!
"I was in Pisa in the house of R. Jechiel, his old grandmother Sarah, who
was a wealthy and wise woman, had told me, `I see that thou art angry all
thy days; if thou wilt avoid this anger thou wilt prosper in all thy days,'and she gave me a great Bible as a gift, and wrote at the beginning of thebook, `Anger not and thou shalt prosper."...A message for THIS GENERATION!
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History of Geography.......2001-12-10

This book is a rare contribution to the history of Geography. Side by side, religious voyages and places description bring a lot of informations, impressions and pieces of old imaginary. Like Arabian and Cristian Middle Ages geographers, Jewish itineraires are an important source to understand simultaneous world conceptions and how nets of commerce and cultural relations were stablished around Mediterran Sea and Asia.

realy defrent.......2000-07-10

Have you read a book about jewish written by jewish, have you read a book about jewish written by who hate jewish, this book is realy defrent, simply is the truth about the history of jewish around the world, interesting, something you will never read in any others or even hear it from jewish, its a great novel and great book, highly recommended.

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An illuminating view of forensic science in fact and fiction. Underlines the relationship between detective fiction and the development of modern forensics. Begins with examples of chemistry at work in the novels of crime fiction writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L. Sayers. Recounts how the sleuthing techniques in detective fiction laid the foundation for the sophisticated analytical methods of modern forensic science. Relates case histories in which modern forensics played a keynote role.

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Info on out of stock book.......1999-06-04

This is my father's book. Several people have emailed me recently about getting copies. It is currently published by Oxford University Press, and they are considering a reprint. If you would like to contact them and encourage them to do a reprint, drop me an email. Andrew Gerber gerber@sni.net

Chemistry and Crime from Sherlock Holmes to Todays Courtroom

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Chemistry and Crime from Sherlock Holmes to Todays Courtroom

Manufacturer: American Chemical Society
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Binding: Paperback

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At a time when developing economies around the world are facing serious environmental problems, this companion volume to Economic Instruments for Environmental Management presents essential information on the applications of economic valuation to environment and development. It draws on a three-year collaborative effort involving research institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Authoritative studies review the range of valuation methods used in developing economies, their purposes, the problems encountered and the quality of the results. Topics covered include the value of wildlife viewing, the conservation of rainforests, mangroves and coral reefs, supplying rural water, and controlling urban air pollution. The analysis reveals important methodological and contextual factors, highlighting key lessons and ways of strengthening future valuations. Written to be accessible to non-economists, the book provides valuable source material for students and academics and for policy makers and professionals using valuation methods to frame policy.
Published in association with the United Nations Environment Programme.

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