Compact Stellar X-ray Sources (Cambridge Astrophysics)

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X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the last ten years new observational opportunities have led to an explosion of knowledge in this field. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the astrophysics of compact objects that emit X-rays. Sixteen chapters written by the foremost experts in the field cover the observations and the astrophysical interpretation of these objects. Topics covered include binary systems, gamma ray burst sources, soft gamma ray repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, super-soft sources, and enigmatic fast X-ray transients.

X-Ray Scattering from Soft-Matter Thin Films: Materials Science and Basic Research (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)

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X-Ray Scattering from Soft-Matter Thin Films: Materials Science and Basic Research (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
Metin Tolan
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Telos
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ASIN: 3540651829

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The properties of soft-matter thin films (e.g. liquid films, polymer coatings, Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers) nowadays play an important role in materials science. They are also very exciting with respect to fundamental questions: In thin films, liquids and polymers may be considered as trapped in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry. This confined geometry is expected to alter the properties and structures of these materials considerably. This volume is dedicated to the scattering of x-rays by soft-matter interfaces. X-ray scattering under grazing angles is the only tool to investigating these materials on atomic and mesoscopic length scales. A review of the field is presented with many examples.

Women Make the Best Salesmen: Isn't it Time You Started Using their Secrets?

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No feminine fluff
A worthy read by an inspiring author
A lesson for women in all careers!

Women Make the Best Salesmen: Isn't it Time You Started Using their Secrets?
Marion Luna Brem
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Cold Calling for Women: Opening Doors & Closing Sales
The 7 Greatest Truths About Successful Women
Nice Girls DO Get The Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results
Selling (Without Selling): 4 1/2 Steps to Success
The Accidental Salesperson: How to Take Control of Your Sales Career and Earn the Respect and Income You Deserve

ASIN: 0385511639
Release Date: 2005-05-17

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A thirty-year-old mother of two, Marion Luna Brem had just been given a death sentence: terminal cancer. She had no job. No health insurance. Her marriage would collapse under the stress of her treatment. And her most pressing concern: How do I pay next month’s rent?

Her first major “sale” was landing a job as a car salesman. Within two months she had become salesperson of the month and by the end of her first year, salesperson of the year. Four and a half years after selling her first car, Brem bought her own dealership, and in the next decade went on to open additional dealerships and businesses. She beat her cancer, too.

In Women Make the Best Salesmen, Brem reveals the top sales strategies she discovered, refined, and applied to build hermultimillion dollar enterprise. But, as she points out, we are all "salesmen" – whether we interviewing for a job or operating a register at a department store, trying to get our children into a special program or looking for a lifelong companion. And women, with their natural social skills and acute emotional antennae, have natural advantages both sexes can learn from.

Filled with unconventional wisdom and real-life lessons, Women Make the Best Salesmen is the essential guide to the art of selling yourself.

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No feminine fluff.......2006-07-12

This book is not an anti-male diatribe, nor is it sentimental gush. Marion Luna Brem's book provides incredibly practical advice useful to both genders. And yet she does not shy from her own femininity in her writing; she is not afraid to appeal to women's sensibilities or leverage their natural tendencies. Brem provides tips that are helpful in all aspects of life, since she claims that every relationship involves some kind of "sale," if not a literal one. Topics include utilizing the assets of others, first impressions, negotiating (which is all about relationship), and even styles of dress. This is a worthwhile read for women in a position to sell or promote any product, service, or cause. Men would be well advised to pick it up also.

A worthy read by an inspiring author.......2004-12-06

I am an entrepreneur who picked up this book because I know I am really always selling something..... and naturally I am attracted to a book about how another woman has excelled in selling.

Marion Luna Brem writes in a friendly, advice filled manner which covers many bases in sales from the simple to complex.

Right from the start she is teaching the reader a different way of thinking.

She asks the reader, "What are you selling?"

That single response was worth the price of the book. All sales people, all businesses, all entrepreneurs are selling "H-E-L-P." I sat with that for a while and thought... yes, she is right.

One favorite chapter was "12 Sure Ways to Increase Sales" which includes 3 of Marion's Principles which are simple, strategic and yes, within the chapter refreshingly expanded upon. In a nutshell, they are ask -always work beyond expectation; Get the Word Out; and Stay With It.)

The content is mostly based on selling a physical product, one at a time (like the author sells cars, one at a time to one customer at a time)the lessons could be applicable in other areas as well.

A lesson for women in all careers!.......2004-05-26

The fact that this book is "paired" for sale with a book on dieting shows a real need for careerwomen to speak out loud and clear about their business and sales skills-rather than bow to society's images! Women show far too much humility about their talents and skills. If we want people to value our skills, we must first show that we value ourselves - by making sure our accomplishments are visible to targeted audiences. If we want people to hire us, buy from us, and invest in our companies, they have to know who we are, what we have accomplished and why they should do business with us! Self-promotion is not bragging. It is a valuable business tool that careerwomen must add to their strategies for success. (Review by: Marion E. Gold, author of the "Personal Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU" and "TOP COPS: Profiles of Women in Command."

The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton

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The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton
Eric M. Schlegel
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195148479

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Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We are in the midst of such a time right now, standing on the threshold of discovery in the young and remarkable field of X-ray astronomy. In The Restless Universe, astronomer Eric Schlegel offers readers an informative survey of this cutting-edge science. Two major space observatories launched in the last few years--NASA's Chandra and the European Newton--are now orbiting the Earth, sending back a gold mine of data on the X-ray universe. Schlegel, who has worked on the Chandra project for seven years, describes the building and launching of this space-based X-ray observatory. But the book goes far beyond the story of Chandra. What Schlegel provides here is the background a nonscientist would need to grasp the present and follow the future of X-ray astronomy. He looks at the relatively brief history of the field, the hardware used to detect X-rays, the satellites--past, present, and future--that have been or will be flown to collect the data, the way astronomers interpret this data, and, perhaps most important, the insights we have already learned as well as speculations about what we may soon discover. And throughout the book, Schlegel conveys the excitement of looking at the universe from the perspective brought by these new observatories and the sharper view they deliver. Drawing on observations obtained from Chandra, Newton, and previous X-ray observatories, The Restless Universe gives a first look at an exciting field which significantly enriches our understanding of the universe.

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detailed enough to be interesting.......2003-01-09

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author did not shy away
from trying to explain the physics in an understandable way
and succeeded. He also very clearly proved his points with
detailed examples. I did think the book was a little disorganized but overall highly recommend this book.

State of the Universe 2007: New Images, Discoveries, and Events (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)

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State of the Universe 2007: New Images, Discoveries, and Events (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)
Martin Ratcliffe
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ASIN: 0387341781

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The aim of State of the Universe 2007 (and subsequent volumes issued annually) is to provide an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every year in September in a format that will be suitable for an appeal to the Christmas market. The book will cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer term goals that astronomers and astrophysicists around the world are aiming for. The target is to capture the excitement and vibrancy of modern astronomical research. The book will present a complete list of the major announcements, discoveries and news items from each year, with the major ones being explained in detail through selected chapters being written by invited contributors who are at the forefront in those fields. The January meeting of the American Astronomical Society each year will be the major source of astronomical news for the following year’s volume, giving access to potential authors and contacts with public information officers of major observatories, space centers, etc.

The regular set features, which will appear every year, will include an annual chronological list of the latest discoveries announced during the previous twelve months; a review of the major news stories of the year with the main characters; a list of launches of major astronomical observatories/satellites during the past year; a list of planned future astronomical satellites; basic data on all astronomical observatories currently in operation with web links for the reader to dig deeper; list of anniversaries and landmarks; the latest from the BadAstronomy website by Dr Phil Plait, and the cartoon feature.

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A must have!.......2007-04-16

When I read about the book I was quite excited and when I received the book, a few days ago, I was not disappointed. The book has a part dedicated to brief news and other with in-depth articles about very interesting topics (gravitational waves and LIGO, supernova 1987A remnants, gamma ray bursts...) and appendixes with data about current and future telescopes and extrasolar planets. I have still not finished it, but it won't take me long to.

Only slight cons is that I expected it to cover 2006 news and, because editorial schedule, it covers march 2005 - march 2006. Then maybe State of the Universe 2007 was not the most proper or accurate title. Other con was that I expected glossy paper, and it's not, Mate astronomical pictures are not so spectacular, but I guess this way it's cheaper (and more ecologic?).

I hope next year will bring a new State of The Universe, and I sure will buy it,

Excelent Information.......2007-03-19

I read the Martin Radcliffe's book "State of the Universe 2007" and I think it was a good idea to write a book like this. It is informative, well documented, comprehensive and provides you a good vision of what is going on in the different areas of the Universe whicha are under investigation. I think he should publish it every year, to keep un up-to-date with the latest discoveries. We could collect them and follow up different researches and their results and novelties. Superb.

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The Universe in Gamma Rays

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ASIN: 3540678743

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Gamma-ray astronomy began in the mid-1960s with balloon satellite, and, at very high photon energies, also with ground-based instruments. However, the most significant progress was made in the last decade of the 20th century, when the tree satellite missions SIGMA, Compton, and Beppo-Sax gave a completely new picture of our Universe and made gamma-ray astronomy an integral part of astronomical research. This book, written by well-known experts, gives the first comprehensive presentation of this field of research, addressing both graduate students and researchers. Gamma-ray astronomy helps us to understand the most energetic processes and the most violent events in the Universe. After describing cosmic gamma-ray production and absorption, the instrumentation used in gamma-ray astronomy is explained. The main part of the book deals with astronomical results, including the somewhat surprising result that the gamma-ray sky is continuously changing.

Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields: With Applications to Stellar X-rays (International Series on Astronomy and Astrophysics, No 1)

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Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields: With Applications to Stellar X-rays (International Series on Astronomy and Astrophysics, No 1)
Eugene N. Parker
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Expanding upon the ideas first proposed in his seminal book Cosmical Magnetic Fields, Eugene N. Parker here offers the first in-depth treatment of the magnetohydrodynamic theory of spontaneous magnetic discontinuities. In detailing his theory of the spontaneous formation of tangential discontinuities (current sheets) in a magnetic field embedded in highly conducting plasma, Parker shows how it can be used to explain the activity of the external magnetic fields of planets, stars, interstellar gas clouds, and galaxies, as well as the magnetic fields in laboratory plasmas. Provocative and fascinating, Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields presents a bold new theory that will excite interest and discussion throughout the space physics community.

Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy

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Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy
Richard F. Hirsh
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Now in paperback, this book deals with the evolution of Xray astronomy during the initial phases of its development. The story commences in the late 1950S with the discovery of high-energy radiations from beyond the solar system, and is taken through to the point at which X-ray astronomers began exploring questions of broader interest in astronomy. In examining this early period, when scientists acquired fundamental data and the rudiments of theory, the author shows how technical progress, and public policy changes played important roles in advancing the subject. Three transformations of astronomy as a discipline are highlighted: the augmentation of purely optical observations; the emergence of federal funding as the dominant source of financial support; and the greatly altered size and structure of the research community.

X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School X Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Amsterdam, ... - October 3, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School X Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Amsterdam, ... - October 3, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ASIN: 3540655484

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This volume contains a comprehensive treatment of X-ray spectroscopy, as applied in astrophysics. It is presented in the form of extensive notes of lectures given by seven distinguished scientists at the Tenth Summer School of the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The subjects covered are: basic line and continuum radiation processes in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; atomic physics of collision- and radiation-dominated plasmas; X-ray spectroscopic observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX; future X-ray spectroscopy missions; X-ray optics, and X-ray spectroscopy instrumentation. The book, which will appeal to both researchers and graduate students, is timely in view of the scheduled launches of the big X-ray observatories AXAF and XMM in 1999.

Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Wallace Tucker , and Karen Tucker
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton
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An Acre of Glass: A History and Forecast of the Telescope

ASIN: 0674004973

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When the first X-ray detectors revealed many places in the universe that are too hot to be seen by optical and radio telescopes, pioneering X-ray astronomers realized they were onto something big. They knew that a large X-ray observatory must be created if they were ever to understand such astonishing phenomena as neutron stars, supernovas, black holes, and dark matter. What they could not know was how monumental in time, money, and effort this undertaking would be. Revealing the Universe tells the story of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

From the first proposal for a large X-ray telescope in 1970 to the deployment of Chandra by the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999, this book chronicles the technical feats, political struggles, and personal dramas that transformed an inspired vision into the world's supreme X-ray observatory. With an insider's knowledge and a storyteller's instincts, Wallace and Karen Tucker describe the immense challenges that this project posed for such high-tech industry giants as TRW, Eastman Kodak, and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (now Raytheon Optical Systems). Their portrayal of the role of NASA is itself an extraordinary case study of multibillion-dollar government decisionmaking, and a cautionary tale for future large space astronomy missions. Revealing the Universe is primarily the story of the men and women whose discoveries, skills, failures, and successes made the Chandra X-ray Observatory possible.

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Read This One - You Won't Regret It.......2002-03-20

It might be hard to believe that writing about the making of a telescope could make for a good book. This husband & wife team pulled it off wonderfully. "Revealing the Universe..." takes you easily (even for the novice) through some basic physics and the history of X-Ray astronomy. Then the authors get into the Chandra project proper and the going gets good. They take the reader through the often dramatic process of getting such a complicated and costly project through the cogs of bureaucracy and politics and the infinite patience and perseverence of those scientists and administrators who made the project happen. Among the most interesting parts of the book are the descriptions of the technological miracles the scientists had to perform to make Chandra a reality; the impossibly precise requiements for the mirrors, for example, stretch the imagination and make for great "mind trips". Reading through sections describing crucial "make-or-break" tests of the different components is intense, like watching Robert DeNiro in a great car chase scene. And then, first light...the thing works...just like it was designed...or better! Awesome!
"Revealing the Universe..." is excellent for those interested in astronomy as well as for those interested in expanding your mind with a good read.

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