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In-Situ Spectroscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis
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Book Description
"Not using in-situ methods to examine catalytic processes is like studying a life with access only to the prenatal and postmortem states." This quote from the world renowned specialist in the field of in situ methods, Gabor A. Somorjai, clearly emphasizes the importance of these techniques in understanding heterogeneous catalysis - a type of chemical reaction used nowadays for most chemically produced supplies and fuels. Yet the fundamental mechanisms are often still not completely understood.
Many of the leading scientists in the field have contributed to this book which provides an overview of the most varied spectroscopic and related methods for studying catalytic structures and their functions during a chemical reaction. While primarily written for users of these methods, this is also a valuable aid to interpreting the phenomena observed. Indispensable for everyone working in the field.
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Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic one of pebbles, planets, and galaxies there is another world, strangely neglected by science since Isaac Newton. It is inhabited by pollen, DNA and viruses, not to mention globules of paint, shampoo, milk and chocolate. Smaller than molecules but bigger than atoms, its tiny denizens have one thing in common: they cannot keep still. Physicist Mark Haw tells the story of the discovery of this restless middle world 200 years ago; how it was ignored for so long, and how it spectacularly answered Einstein's most basic question about the nature of matter in the twentieth century. Despite this, science ignored it again until very recently. Haw reveals that today, understanding the weird, jiggling "mesoscale" has become central to nanotechnology, medicine and working out the origins of life.
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This quick reference book for the neonatal nurse practitioner covers Prenatal and Labor and Delivery, Delivery Room Management, and Neonatal Management, including NICU admission and common problems organized by body system. Most common neonatal diseases, health management strategies and interventions, and mathematical calculations are addressed. The information is presented in a succinct, user-friendly outline format, with additional resources at the end of each chapter. Appendices include AAP immunization guidelines and weight and temperature conversion charts.
Customer Reviews:
Another great Puzzle Book we read over and over........2006-11-19
I began buying Usborne Young Puzzle Books for my daughter two years ago, at age 4. She loves them all, and we re-read them constantly at her request, even now when she can read to herself. This book is one of her favorites; she enjoys the plot and the puzzles. The story is about a boy who, having studied Egypt in school recently, was invited to visit his aunt, an archeologist in Egypt. But when he arrives, he finds her missing and must using his wits to find the pyramid treasure before the dastardly villain. We highly recommend all 15 of the puzzle books by Susannah Leigh.
Great Fun.......2006-05-30
Each page of this book has a puzzle to solve- work your way through a maze, find what is different, look for something missing and so on. In addition to that there is an overall game of find the things on each page that are scattered around. It is like a "Where's Waldo" book only there is more to it than just finding one man or a few people in a crowded picture. In addition to that it is a story too.
All of the Usborne Young Puzzle books are great for young readers who like to challenge themselves. My daughter who is not a reader likes to sit on my lap and work through the puzzles as I read the bo ok. It is a fun and interesting read.
Customer Reviews:
My Son LOVES Puzzle Train!..........2003-03-20
This is our first encounter with the Puzzle Series. My 3.5 year old loves it. It really builds up an awareness to problem-solving and teaches one to pay close attention to detail.
As a parent educator, and former elementary school teacher, I think this book is exciting, with good illustrations, and most importantly gets kids interested in reading...over and over and over in our household.
Teresa
Customer Reviews:
usosbonrne book puzzle jungle.......2007-01-19
My children and there friends love theses books. Everytime they pick one up they always see something new. It is fun for them on their own and with us also.
A terrific puzzle workbook similar to Where's Waldo!.......1999-09-07
This is an entertaining workbook that teaches a child to focus, remember and identify items on colorful pages. The story is very entertaining and the skills developed here will lead to good study habits and strong attention to detail. My 6-year old and I laughed and had such fun as he found the items and solved the puzzles. Excellent busy work for a trip!
Book Description
Stephen G.Haw begins with the prehistoric civilisations of 4000 years ago, and from there to the centuries of China's silk trade. Some of the most significant inventions of the modern world were invented in China - paper, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. The author describes the glories of the Tang and Song dynasties which saw the creation of the great Chinese cities to the period of its decline and the efforts of Europe to subdue this giant land. It covers the tumult of the Chinese Revolution and the dramatic changes in political policies since the 1970s right up to the present day. It also looks at the handover of Hong Kong, the continuing difficulties of Taiwan and how China is emerging as the world's largest market. 'The author manages to get 2 million years into 300 pages - and he does it without gimmicks or colour pictures. An excellent addition to a series which is already invaluable. Whether you are travelling or not.' The Guardian 'In order to make the most of a visit to China such portable pocket-size guides as this are most useful.' The China Quarterly
Customer Reviews:
Crystal clear.......2007-07-03
Given that this book is intended for travellers, not for old China hands or Chinese scholars, I thought it did a great job. The ground it covers is immense, leaving no aspect untouched and describing key events in a balanced way. There's no histrionics or name calling. Careful readers would be able to have conversations with Chinese people in their own country without making too many faux pas or appearing either ignorant or full of propaganda--Western or otherwise. It was much more readable than J.A.G. Roberts' 'A Concise History of China,' and in fact tied up several loose ends left for me by that book. And by the way, I was born in China.
Pretty useless little book; buy something else instead........2006-01-12
I have simply placed my copy in the recycling bin.
Stephen Haw writes as if he is a college student intent on presenting a complete outline, but never quite fills in the body of work.
He is very confused and confusing about questions of minority peoples vs. Han. The Han are frequently referred to as "Chinese", which makes it pretty clear that he sees Han as the true indigenous people of china, and everybody else as mere immigrants. This would make more sense if he regarded china as that country east and south od the great wall, but he also manages to somehow include all of the present political borders as true china. One can only wonder why he dosen't also take chunks of Burma, Laos, and Vietnam where the Han population is at least equal to that of Yunnan.
On the tibet question, he referrs to the chinese military invasion of 1951 as a "re-occupation". The cultural revolution Haw summarizes on a couple of pages as some kind of weak political idea gone badly astray. A bit odd, when most scholars today recognize it as a period of genocide where at least a million completely innocent men women and children were put to death, with millions more tortured and maimed for life.
One can only conclude that the author's history is little more than a warmed over apologia for the present market-driven caipitalist dictatorship currently still running China proper and the "occupied" territories of its Himalayan and Mongolian neighbors.
Just a starting point.......2005-12-09
You can't honestly learn a lot about a nation with an ancient civilization and a vast land area in 250 pages. Thus, Haw's small book, A Traveller's History of China, must be approached with caution. It can't replace a larger volume, nor can it do justice to China.
For that, you could read many Chinese classics themselves, Needham's 6-volume "Science and Civilization in China" or the works of John King Fairbank. You could go to Jasper Becker's 'The Chinese' or Winchester's 'River at the Center of the World' to read up on modern China.
But, before you do any of this, you might want some context; a little basic information on the dynasties, the land, and the languages. Haw's little book isn't a bad jumping off place for such an effort. Start with it, just don't stop with it.
Flat, fuzzy and flawed.......2003-10-26
There is not much positive that I can say about this compilation of dates, names and places. I found it uninspired and dull. After the enjoyable volume about India in the same series, this contribution was a real letdown.
For the most part, Mr. Haw wrote a political history of China with the obligatory excursions into Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism (and, I have to say, a very apt comparison of Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism on page 87). Chinese literature is not mentioned in a single line - not even the world-class poetry of the Tang era. Apparently, the author wrote a "cultural history" of China before this book and incorporated part of it here. How can that be?
The condensation of about 3,600 years of Chinese civilization into 250 pages does not serve the subject well. Generalizations and vapid statements abound. Causes of developments are rarely explained, and more questions arise than are answered. For example when Haw writes about the south of China during the Song dynasty around AD 1000: "The south of China, formerly sparsely populated and poorly developed, had by this time advanced to a much higher economic level, largely as a result of considerable settlement by Chinese from the north."(113) Advanced, by what means? A much higher economic level, what is that exactly? What is "considerable"? Why does settlement advance an economy and how?
Economics are not the strength of Mr. Haw. Sometimes he misses obvious links - for example the interrelated economics of tea and opium in the Opium Wars, so well explained in Simon Winchester's "The River at the Center of the World." At other times he rehashes the babble of local Chinese newspapers, like the assertion that "China will almost certainly become the world's largest economy during the next decade."(248) I did the math when I heard this fairy tale for the first time while I worked in Shanghai. If China grows by 7% every year, and the US by 2.5%, China's GDP will reach 19% of the US GDP in 2010. In 2032, China will have reached 50% of the US GDP. Please send me an email to get the calculation on an EXCEL sheet if you don't believe the numbers.
The author seems a bit infatuated with Communist propaganda, too. The Tian An Men massacre is the "Tianan Men Incident" - it does not get any more politically correct in the PRC than this. Even more embarrassing is the fact that he trumpets the party line by saying that soldiers killed in self-defense ("it seems likely that troops were attacked with petrol bombs and possibly other weapons before they opened fire"(199)) and then sets off 400 killed civilians against "some 600 military fatalities" (199).
Another favorite idea of the Communist regime in China, which Mr. Haw parrots, is that "the general level of education in China is probably still too low for any genuinely democratic system to be successful: as many as a quarter of the population remain illiterate or semi-literate."(199) In reply to that I can say that there are democracies that continue to function even if more than HALF of the population do not participate in the process of voting, i.e. remain politically illiterate or semi-literate.
Finally, Mr. Haw is one awful storyteller. How can anyone NOT elaborate on a summary description like this: "In 1870 there was a dreadful incident in Tianjin, sparked off by the stupid behaviour of the French consul, as a result of which he and his assistant were murdered by a mob..."(170)? Give me the details, pleeeease!
To illustrate my point, here is the bland version of the Silk Road's impact on Rome (Stephen G. Haw, China, 2002: page 84): "The Silk Road, along which Chinese silks reached Rome, was the major channel of communication between the Far East and the West throughout the Han dynasty."
Here comes the spicy version: "The story of the western world's fascination with China dates back more than 2,000 years and it began with a product that still symbolizes the relationship - silk. The Chinese fabric spun into sensual, thin gauze first became familiar in Rome around 50 BC. Cleopatra, mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and queen of Egypt, was among the first to promote a fashion for transparent dresses in the exotic fabric. Despite the outrage of sartorial conservatives - the writer Seneca railed against the wearing of such dresses in the Roman capital, 'clad in which no woman could honestly swear she is not naked' - by the end of the fourth century, silk was a universal accoutrement in civilized society throughout the empire." (Joe Studwell, The China Dream, 2003: page 3).
the title mislead me, but book was excellent.......2003-10-17
Based on the title I was expecting a book organized around travel destinations with historical info on each destination. Now that I've read the book from cover to cover I've found it wasn't organized the way I expected, but I am very impressed with what the book delivers. It's essentially an excellent history of China, with various other items added on. Here's how I would describe the book now:
* A concise history of China from prehistoric times up to 2002, in 170 exceptionally well-written pages.
* 45 pages covering certain isolated topics (geography, minority peoples, status of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the Chinese language). Good basic stuff.
* A 30 page Historical Gazetteer that lists some 44 destinations (important cities, mountains, historical districts, etc.), with a brief description of each along with keys to the main text.
* A few helpful pages on timelines and dynasty dates.
The real gem is the history section. If you want one book that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Chinese history in a single comprehensive and well-balanced volume, this is your book.
Customer Reviews:
Great fun!.......2007-07-21
I love the Puzzle series of books from Usborne. They are a lot of fun to work through snuggled on the couch with your kids. They help develop problem solving skills and this one is a nice intro to people in your community. Find more at GrowingWithUsborne.com
The Best Puzzle Book.......2001-04-01
This book is about Katy and Tim and how they have to find the Puzzle Town party. They have to solve many puzzles to get there.
I liked this book because I liked finding my through the mazes and getting to the party and finding out who the balloon thief was. I have almost all the Puzzle books, and this one was the best! It was harder than Puzzle Mountain, Ocean, Planet and Jungle. Signed, SYDNEY
Customer Reviews:
Puzzle Dungeon.......2007-06-14
Like all the Usborne Puzzle books, this one was a hit with my three grandchildren aged between 5 and 7. The book is a combination of "Where's Waldo" type object searches, mazes and quest type puzzlers - all on a medieval dungeon theme. The books are meaty enough to keep the youngsters interested for plenty of re-readings. Well worth the price!
Lots of fun.......1999-12-17
Both my kids (7 and 4) immensely enjoyed this book and all the others in the series. We've made a habit of reading one every week or so, and they never tire of them, even when they know the answers.
My 5-year old loves it........1999-09-05
This is a favorite book of my 5-year old son. He never tires of the puzzles, in spite of the fact that he knows the answers to them all. He likes to look at the book by himself, as well as have it read to him. He has also enjoyed the other books in this series.
Puzzle Dungeon engages the imagination of youngsters........1998-02-14
Puzzle Dungeon challenges youngsters to pay attention to detail, analyse both verbal and visual dilemnas and find solutions. The illustrations by Brenda Haw are endlessly intriguing with humour and wit around every corner in each imaginatively constructed land/mindscape.
Four and Five year olds will need to be read to, but will find the tasks within their ambit; older youngsters (7-9) can do the reading themselves. Mazes, mirror-writing and verbal connundrums make this an ideal "long journey" book. Best of all children think they're reading a comic, while actually using advanced reasoning and logical thinking skills.
Good book.......1998-02-06
I read this with my 8 year old last night. We both enjoyed it.
Book Description
Every commercial artist and art student will want to include this collection of royalty-free clip art in their personal reference library. Here are 500 24-bit color images at 300 dpi of adult and juvenile male and female models, some in business dress, others in gym suits, or informal and vacation-style dress, all presented on white backgrounds for ease of use. Themed poses are deliberately expressive to help commercial artists get their message across. Models are shown conversing, perplexed, angry, amused, running, walking, exercising, and caught in hundreds more poses that fit brief commercial narrative scenes. The gallery includes families, romantic couples, medical people, business people, children, laborers, senior citizens, and musicians, among many others. Clip art images can be cropped or used as they are. Advice and instructions include placing computer images on backgrounds, splicing several images together, adding splashes of color, incorporating a company logo, and applying dramatic lighting effects. All models are professional, and all images are royalty-free.
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