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Animal Body Fluids and Their Regulation
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Animal body fluids are a vital aspect of physiology. Life depends on the satisfactory functioning of protoplasm, and the functioning of protoplasm is in its turn dependent on its being bathed by a suitable medium. Animal Body Fluids and their Regulation is designed to introduce the student to some of the reasons why the composition of the bathing medium is so important and to the manner in which it is maintained. Examples are given to show how the problems involved in maintenance vary with the environment, and to show the nature of the solution of these problems adopted by most of the major groups of animals.
In recent years a considerable volume of research has been devoted to studying the relationship between the physiology of animals and their particular environments. As a result there has been an increasing emphasis placed on physiology in scholarship and introductory university courses. Some aspects of the subject, for example vertebrate respiration and nervous conduction, have been comprehensively summarized in books at this level. Animal body fluids and their regulation, however, has not so far been satisfactorily covered. This book fills an important gap and should be especially useful to scholarship candidates and first year university students.
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The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting (2nd Edition)
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This revised and thoroughly updated edition maintains and develops the two major themes of the first edition. First is the connection between fault and earthquake mechanics, including fault scaling laws, the nature of fault populations, and how these result from the processes of fault growth and interaction. Second is the central role of the rate-state friction laws in earthquake mechanics, which provide a unifying framework within which a wide range of faulting phenomena can be interpreted.
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The Bible of Faulting.......2006-07-24
Prof. Scholz of Columbia summarizes the science of rock mechanics.
This book is the easiest way to gain a first foothold in the physics of how faults behave. In fact, as far as I know, it may be the only way, short of attempting a PhD in geophysics. I've read it (and hope I remember at least a fraction of its contents), used it in class, and even given away a copy or two to students.
If only more scientists could write as well. As a side light, Chris has also written a book for the general reader on the excitement of discovering the tectonics of Africa, Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari, which I highly recommend.
Faultless book on faults?.......2003-09-02
Christopher Scholz has written a welcome update to the classic 1990 edition of his book, and if you thought that Crustal Deformation was a field where nothing exciting happens, think again! Substantial chunks of the book have been re-written and re-organized to bring the text bang up-to-date with the cutting edge of tectonics and rock mechanics research.
The beauty of this book is that Scholz, along with his students and research associates, basically has been the cutting edge of research in this field for the past 30 years. The book therefore reads as a guide to the evolution of ideas and a personal memoir of scientific exploration, while allowing the reader to follow the same thought processes, and more fully understand what we currently think regarding these subjects.
The text is a monograph, quite different from the usual condescending tone found in textbooks, and can be understood and appreciated by readers of widely differing abilities, from interested laymen to fellow researchers. Thorough explanations are given for each topic, with examples taken from actual scientific papers, putting the reader in touch with the original papers, a glaring omission in many other textbooks. The language is never more complicated than it needs to be, and Scholz's straight-forward explanations and no-nonsense style make comprehension almost too easy, leaving the reader a real feeling that one has learned something at the end, which will come as a breath of fresh air to any student that has suffered through a horribly dull and irrelevent lecture, only to remain scratching their head at the end.
The book is a tribute to the intellect and longeivity of the man's career, blessed as he is with a happy knack for being proven "right" by the passing of time, and continuing accumulation of research results. A classic text, and again, a must-read for anyone with a desire to know more about the planet we live on.
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Faulting, Friction and Earthquake Mechanics (Pageoph Topical Voumes)
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What is entanglement? Its a quantum process that connects two particles (say, photons of light) in such a way that changes to one of the particles are reflectedinstantlyin the other, even if theyre light-years apart. Why do we care? The possibilities read like something out of science fiction: Communications devices that could span the stars Codes that simply cannot be broken lest the very laws of physics be overturned Computers that dwarf todays machines in speed and power Teleportation And lots more. In Quantum Entanglement, veteran science writer Brian Clegg has written an exceptionally readable account of entanglement, its history, and its application. Whether youre a popular science fan, or just someone interested in the marvelous possibilities coming down the quantum road, you will find much to marvel, illuminate, and delight.
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Basic Quantum Science.......2007-07-19
If you have ever really wondered what quantum mechanics is really all about, and you have a deep distrust of Ramtha, then this is a great little book. You can get clear explanation of some of the weirdest parts of Q and some of the most exciting.
Book Review.......2007-04-06
Totally outstanding dissertation on a most abstract area of quantum physics .
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Best left unread.......2006-12-21
I am afraid I have to agree with Dr Mbogo. I simply mistrust the accuracy of the author's explanations. He cannot, as Dr Mbogo points out, even get right the basic notions of Cantor's treatment of infinity, repeatedly referring to numbers other than whole numbers as "fractions" - see pp. 172, 173.
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A peek inside the engines of creation..........2006-12-01
Although this book has been justly criticized it remains nonetheless a serviceable examination of one of nature's most interesting phenomenon: quantum engtanglement.
Momentarily, the book's shortcomings, but first, it's strength.
Quantum entanglement is sort of the platypus of physics...so unlike the phenomenon around it that it forces us to ask essential questions about the nature of physics itself. As has been commonly discussed in other popular physics works, there are four fundamental forces of nature. Two of them operate at the macroscopic level being gravity and electromagnatism and the other two operate miscroscopically at the nuclear level being the strong and weak nuclear forces.
Significantly, each force has some type of distance limitation attached to it. So, to move a ball I have to somehow come into contact with it. Or likewise to move and electron I have to somehow sub atomicly come in to contact with it.
However, such is not the case with quantum entanglement where as Albert Einstein observed we see a "spooky action at a distance." In other words, when two particles have been mated they immedaitely assume like properties (in the case of sub atomic particles for example, a like spin or orientation). Once entangled, one has merely to effect the orientation of one partner to the mating to effect the other.
That's exactly the aspect of entanglement that made Einstein an ardent opponent of entanglement because ostensibly it seemed to violate his notions that light speed was the ultimate speed limit. Remember: in quantum entanglement effecting the orientation of one partner immediately effects the other partner. Einstein also saw as noxious the idea that this seemed to violate his notions of local action like me effecting a ball by somehow making contact with it.
While quantum entanglement is great stuff for science fiction plots, it has some basic limitations that seriously curtail its applications...all of which are discussed by Clegg. Most significantly, it's properly called a quantum effect because it is just that...something uniquely naturally peculiar to the sub atomic world. The reason is that when the mated particles are set free, their orientations can be changed by ANY examination...including those typically done by nature.
So, let's we were to recall Shroedinger's cat for another experiment (hopefully he's still alive!), and we were to want to entangle the entire cat. Our first biggest problem would be the natural interactions occuring between the cat and his environment between our attempt at entangling him and our attempt to unentangle him at the end of the process.
Significantly, this most important potential application of entanglement -- teleportation -- is touched upon by Clegg.
Also significantly, Clegg manages to cover the main entanglement issues as they exist at the time of his writing.
However, and this where his limitations show themselves. Though his book clearly has some very lucid moments and helpful discussion, it also contains some distracting segeways and inclusions of material put there perhaps most likely to pad the length of the manuscript. Also, the titling of the work as "The God Effect" seems nothing more than an attempt to create a provocative title to encourage book sales.
Even despite these limitations, the book is still on the whole well written and highly serviceable and undeniably discusses one of the most interesting phenomenon in nature. So, while this may be a good first book to read on the topic, by all means do not make it your last.
Great Read.......2006-08-12
If you are a physics major or well versed and well read on the subject this might not be the best book for you.
If you are someone interested in the subject but don't have a lot of time or brain power to get really deep into physics this is a great book for you.
Accessible, with deep yet clear examples, Clegg's book takes the reader on an interesting ride into physics, quantum entanglement and the possibilities.
I found this book to be a fun read and his explanations were direct and easily comprehendible. Most books on this subject can be dry and down right boring. This book is different in that it keeps the reader interested, educates and elucidates possibilities and ideas, and I learned a little bit about the social world of physics and the characters of that stage.
The only thing that did distract me was the title. Having nothing, or maybe everything, to do with "God", nor mentioning the phenomenon, I thought it a little off the mark. But it is a catchy title and if you let you mind wander the possibilities are definitely there.
Fun read!
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Salubrious for those who do understand........2006-08-12
There has been a series of theoretical "culture wars" in the academy in the past quarter century, and these have taken their toll on the actual practice of reading literature qua literature, and not merely as the expression of some oppressive ideology, or simply the deplorable detritus left behind by dead European males. Academics have been so busy saying "18th century British imperialism is evil and it must stop now!" that they have not bothered to remember what a chiasmus is, what "structure" means, how allusion works, even what literary language itself is. Alter's book is a largely eirenic effort to redress these deficiencies by helping readers, both scholarly and lay, to relearn the techniques---sophisticated intellectual techniques, not easy cookie-cutter formulae---necessary to read literature with genuine appreciation and understanding. Literature is an almost inexhaustibly complex phenomenon and its comprehension requires the acquisition of accordingly complex skills. These skills, foreign to most modern students and difficult in themselves (far more difficult than a happy game of "spot the patriarchy") cannot be set forth by any author, no matter how gifted a prose stylist, in terms fit for a dunce. Jesus said that the poor will always be with us. I would add that the stupid, too, will always be with us. And also that American culture does little to nurture the intelligent or the stupid. No child left behind tends to mean every child left behind. It is a policy that panders to the lowest common denominator. It does not encourage the lesser mind to ascend; it deprives the fine mind of the challenges it requires to grow, and simultaneously encourages the weak mind to think its own weakness acceptable. All men and women are NOT created equal in intellectual capacity. Jefferson was talking about equality UNDER THE LAW, and he was a slaveowner anyway. (I realize I break the grand injunction "judge not," but then, can anyone REALLY gainsay me on this point?)
Robert Alter's book does not advertise itself as pleasurable reading, but aims to provide the reader with the painfully-acquired tools by which he or she may learn to derive true pleasure from literary language. Anyone who does not recognize this fact is succumbing to a standard American idea, one that holds that things are valuable only insofar as they are entertaining and easy. In point of fact, Alter is, as academics go, a VERY lucid and reader-friendly prose stylist. He's engaging, occasionally quite funny, and his range of reference is astonishing. His breadth of learning reminds one of Auerbach, Curtius, Wimsatt, Frye. These were scholars of unimpeachable erudition, quite unlike the over-specialized careerists that litter modern literature departments.
One MAY, then, if one has a modicum of intelligence, derive pleasure from learning these sophisticated techniques from a master like Alter. But even if one finds Alter's lessons hard, the results of a serious effort to engage with him and master the basic lessons he has to teach---the willingness to undergo that arduous labor of looking up a gorgeously expressive word like "efflorescence," the mere knowledge of which enriches not only the vocabulary, but the soul---will result in a new sensitivity to reading that WILL bring pleasure. Dr. Johnson said that a good book is always brings with it an element of pain for the reader, but that that pain is an essential part of its pleasure. The great philosopher Spinoza wrote, in what should be every American's new motto in this age of mindless convenience, "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
I do understand that much, and am the better for it. Do not listen to an adverse review of this book. Read this and Northrop Frye's out-of-fashion (read: useful) "The Educated Imagination" and rediscover how you belong to literature, and how literature belongs to you. And learn, American, how to THINK again. Thinking is hard work, and real reading requires constant and vigilant thought. This particular sort of hard intellectual work will also have the side effect of making you see devils everywhere. Read Shakespeare or Milton or Melville sensitively and then reconsider the existence of Ann Coulter. Then you will know the true face of evil. But isn't it better to be learned than foolish? Isn't it better to be free than brainwashed? Isn't it better to EARN your right to participate in civilization than to accuse the wisdom of the ages of being too unpleasantly difficult to be worth learning?
Books Are A Treasure For Some........2006-08-02
This book proves that reading is more than for research; it can be a source of real pleasure to lose yourself in a tempting novel or to learn from biographies about your heroes. When I chose this 'history' at a book sale, I was told it's a textbook. It does give sevreal theories about how we are able to read, but we are not told what to read. We are what we read. "You should make it a habit, when reading books, to attend more to the sense than to the words, to concentrate on the fruit rather than the foliage" was the advice from the 13th Century as it should be
today as well.
Writing requires a reader. Many authors have public appearances to read from their works. It was thought that listening to a text led the audience to buy the published piece. "Reading publicly was the best way for an author to acquire an audience. In fact, reading publicly was in itself a rudimentary form of publishing." Before I left Pulaski, our local celebrity/writer, Gregory Mcdonald read his poem for a group of us there for him to sign the books of his we already owned. We had no idea he had written a poem, of all things! He wrote in my A WORLD TOO WIDE "To an exciting future..."
In the movie, "Capote," we watched as Truman received a standing ovation when he read from a work in progress. Here in Knoxville, several local writers read from their new books; I've heard only one and disappointed that he had not acquired public-speaking skills and did not read as good as he wrote. There is a photo in this 'textbook' of Charles Dickens giving a reading. Back then, there were illustrated novels, like his A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Now, this type of using drawings or pictures throughout a book has revived, starting with Jack Finney's back-in-time stories. The first published books were world classics like "Everyman," Goethe's "Faust," and Ibsen's plays. Oscar Wilde is reported to have remarked, "I never read a book I must review...." It has been proven that singing and reading to can slow down the destruction of the brain cells which causes Alzheimer's disease; "if you can't think of what to do, sit and read to your loved one -- if you read poetry, it's almost like singing."
There have been censorship on certain books since time immemorial; Nazis used it at a public book burning of some American books. I remember when Salman Rushdie's THE SATANIC VERSES was burned and he had a death threat on his head by Islamic fundamentalists. "The parents who took the Hawkins County Public Schools to court in Tennessee in 1980... argued that an entire elementary school series, which included "Cinderella," "Goldilocks" and THE WIZARD OF OZ, violated their fundamentalist religious beliefs."
This book is a reasonable history not only of reading but also of common readers, the individuals who, through the ages, chose certain books over others...at times rescued forgotten titles from the past...." This is the story of their small triumphs...and of the manner in which these things came to pass. How it all happened is minutely chronicled in this book." Writers read mainly from their own works to entice the listener to desire to possess and read all of the book. There are book collectors who never read the books they obtain and yet they won't give them as gifts or share with others.
I Just Don't Understand.......2005-07-09
Who could look past the irony? A book entitled "The Pleasures of Reading" that is a nightmare to read. Here are just a few passages taken at random:
"The efflorescence of metaphor and the hesitations of syntax." (E flor escence !)
""The multiplication of metaphors goes hand in hand with a restless accretion of syntactic particles, as though an endless patience of accumulation were necessary to approach an object of thought that was intrinsically elusive." (A pleasure to read)
"The aspect of intentionality of allusion in contradistinction to intertextuality." (Ditto)
I did not search these examples out, and they are not an aberration. Every single paragraph of this travesty has sentences and phrases just like these.
Why do academics do this? They believe that a display of complicated vocabulary makes them relevant, and even more crazy interesting. Yes, Professor Alter, you have an impressive vocuabulary. Now, what exactly are you trying to say? And why, oh why! Is reading your text like being drilled by a dentist? Oh I forgot, being drilled by a dentist is "a pleasure".
The professor makes some thought-provoking points. For example, examining Robinson's Crusoe's obsession with safety and fortification. But the annoying effort to get to his points is so painful that it is excruciating.
The other three reviews here must have been written by his friends or even more likely, current students. I hate to be that cynical, but to describe this radically pedantic tome as a "pleasure to read" is like calling Mike Tyson an intellectually stimulating poet. Could someone of that opinion be just a person with a different opinion? Or a specific agenda?
Bottom Line: Unreadable. Unless of course your are in the professor's class in dire need of an "A". If you believe this judgment is too harsh, pick up this disaster and make up your own mind.
The pleasures of interpreting literature .......2004-11-17
Robert Alter is a lover of literature who reads and interprets it for pleasure. In this work he criticizes the academic practice of focusing on literary theory and babbling in abstract terms rather getting down to reading and enjoying the texts themselves. In this work he shows what he means by reading by reading some of the world 's great literature including the Bible, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Dickens. His book is structured into discussions of fundamental aspects of literature, character and its connection with reality, style, structure, allusion and what he calls 'perspective.'Alter is a brilliant ' close reader' and he continually illuminates the text in language which is clear and free of technical jargon. This is his conclusion," Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structured common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many- voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.
is this book really out of print??????????????????.......2003-01-09
I almost always underline/jot-notes-to-myself-in-the-margins when I read a book. This book, however, is so meticulously written, that I am breathless in the hand. My copy is spotless, just as Alter's polemic/ecstatic statement is without flaw. This book is endlessness, and I will let it inform me for the rest of my life.
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