Chemistry Books

Too many treatments of the lanthanides ends up with lists of data or a main focus on spin mulitiplisities and terms. I'm not sure how many there are that understands the last topic, and can apply it to anything. This book take a broader and more coherent view of the chemistry of the f-group. Many parts are eminent. And the only I could wish more of would a be some few extra sentences about the molecule orbitals in the actinide complexes, ...just to make it even smoother to read.

Scott and Kaltsoyannis have done a really fine job of preparing an entry-level textbook which deals with the chemistry of the lanthanide and actinide elements. It is written at a level suitable for advanced undergraduate and upward, and the authors are to be commended for their clear and concise explanations of some difficult concepts. This is a highly readable text that should be recommended to anyone wishing to obtain an overall picture of the physical and chemical trends within this often-neglected group of elements.

This book is a must for everybody who is working in the pharmaceutical industrie. A lot of information is given inside there to make a pharmaceutical production more secure and safer.

This volume is the revised edition of Ted Melzer's original work which had already become the "bible" of filtration separations when it was first released. It has been substantially updated to reflect recent trends in both filtration technologies, and the industry to which they have become an essential part. This book cannot be recommended highly enough as THE resource for subjects concerning filtration in the biopharmaceutical industry. It covers all important aspects and applications, from the theoretical, practical and regulatory viewpoints. The contributors are all highly respected figures from the industry, and from the key suppliers to it, and as such, present a wonderfully balanced view of just what is required to develop and manage a successful filtration process. Congratulations and thanks must go to Ted Melzer and Maik Jornitz for making this important contribution.

This is a very thorough publication dealing with fluoroplastics that are being processed by methods other than shaping the melt. The book has a good flow and describes very thoroughly fundamentals, properties and structure, monomers, their synthesis and properties, polymerization methods, processing and fabrication methods. Additional chapters discuss properties, applications, safety, disposal and recycling of this type of commercial fluoropolymers. At the end of the book, there are additional very useful data on polytetrafluoroethylene and polychlorotrifluoroethylene in the form of appendices as well as a large glossary. With the wealth of valuable information and data this book is one of a kind and a valuable resource for anyone seeking information on the subject.

With reference to table of content,& Auther working with company like Dupont(Pioneer in field of Polymer like P.T.F.E ) & my expierence in field of p.t.f.e.,I am very much sure that this book will satisfied all expectation of each concerned people

Fritz Haber was one of the great chemists. This biography, written by the son of one of his co-workers is magnificent in that it is thorough, informative, extremely well-researched, replete with references to additional literature.

Well worth reading by anyone interested by the First World War - the allies went into the war thinking that if worst came to worst, Germany would run out of nitrates, which were then the only known source for the nitrogen needed to make gunpowder, and ergo gunpowder, and be forced to surrender. Little did they reckon with Fritz Haber's genius - he devised a method to extract nitrogen out of the air - and the war tragically continued. Stoltzenberg devotes some thought to what sense this accomplishment made, but other authors may have devoted more pages to this subject. This book will appeal to any reader fascinated by German history, or by the history of chemistry.

This biography illuminates the life of one of the most gifted yet controversial figures of the 20th century. Haber was a pioneer in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and won the Nobel Prize for his synthesis of ammonia, a process essential for both fertilizer and explosives. Haber's work has helped feed billions of people, but he is often remembered for his role in the poison gas attacks of World War I. Despite his ardent patriotism, Haber, a jew by birth, was exiled from his homeland in 1933 by the Nazi party.

A very practical approach for system identification techniques Using Laguerre Models with an appropriated mathematical support

This book is really good make me understand the process of identification in a really easy language, a lot of practical examples with the proper mathematical support, excellent for process control and identification courses can be a good complement of the ljung's matlab toolbox.

I appreciate how Donald Rizzo explains the assortment of topics in his book. At first I considered I would be turned off to all the information to learn. I found how he explained cephalad, caudal, medial and lateral with much clearness. The examples of how to use each one was uncomplicated to learn from. The Integumentary System and Nervous System chapters were complex to a degree. This subject is not as easy as intro to biology. This book ranks high in my mind. Other recommendations.....

Anatomy and Physiology Study Guide:Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi

Anatomy and Physiology(Flash Cards) by Alcamo Edward, isbn 1878576151

Donald C. Rizzo has done an excellent job in making this book. If you never took A&P in college, and you want to learn the subject on your own for whatever reason, this is the book to start with, hands down. It does exactly what the title implies; it covers the fundamentals without a lot of wordiness, making the material easier to retain. My point: you definitely learn the subject, and fast! The book is so easy to read, its like a novel. I simply couldn't put it down. By following the mantra to independent study and learning (repetition, repetition, repetition), I believe I am as competent in the subject as anyone who took one year of A&P (as far as the fundamentals go), due to the fact that the text is straightforward, concise, and well written. I haven't found a recognizable mistake in the text yet. I also recommend buying the study guide, which helps retention.

However, I consider this book a primer, because other textbooks I've examined, such as Thibodeau and Patton's "Anatomy & Physiology (5th)," and John W. Hole Jr.'s "Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology (6th)," explain the material in somewhat greater detail, with more to learn. But so do the A&P books used in medical school courses. The bottom line is this: once you have gotten the fundamentals from Rizzo's book stabilized in your memory, you can step up to the larger, more detailed texts, not just the two mentioned above, but even the texts used in medical school. That is what makes Rizzo's book an excellent primer to the subject.

This is a superb introduction to enzyme kinetics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as anyone who has ever taken an introductory biochemistry course. If everyone who is doing enzyme kinetics these days read this book, their experimental design would be far less sloppy, and results much more reliable. It is not nearly as comprehensive as Segel's book, but its pedagogical value is great. (The only objection I had is that authors style of exposition sometimes gets a bit too acerbic. But, after all, the author is English :)

The third edition of Cornish-Bowden's text provides a cogent exposition of the fundamentals of mathematical modeling and analysis of enzyme kinetics. With a focus on developing the basic principles that are applied in the field and development of instructive examples, this is a wonderful book for teaching or self-study. The text is clear and easily understood while remaining mainly self-contained in terms of necessary mathematical and physical concepts. In addition, it includes discussions on the historical development of key concepts, with several short bios of important figures such as Jacques Monod and Maud Menten. In sum, this book stands above others in the field in that it not only provides students and newcomers with the necessary background to assimilate and apply current research in the field, but also provides an interesting historical framework and examines the phylogeny of certain important equations and concepts. The result is a book that is a pleasure to read and learn from.

I had been looking for a book like this for quite a while...
This book is not for everyone.
It is a well written work that helps to understand the concept of High-Technology...
(if you think you have a good understanding... read it, you may be surprised)
An extensive analysis on the concepts, people and companies that make it happen.
Essential if you need to PROPERLY understand the concept of a High-technology company.
A must if you're into the High-Tech market, and are dead serious about it.

It's a big book... worth every page.

This is a great book for the millions of Americans and international professionals whose jobs and professional growth rely on the survival and growth of technology-intensive firms.

Eric Boland and Charles Hofer have made a significant contribution by addressing many paradoxes related to "high technology" firms. Unfortunately, the popular media has done a disservice by using the term `technology' and `information technology' interchangeably. Particularly noteworthy, therefore, is that these authors, bringing complimentary skills, give many lucid examples of technology-intensive firms that are not directly related to the computer or information technology.

Eric Boland helps us with his insight into the inner workings of high-tech firms, and Charles Hofer has added his life-long pioneering of strategic and techno-entrepreneurial perspectives. The two have also successfully bridged the chasm between the academic researchers in technology and innovation management, and the practitioner managers facing the day-to-day fire-fighting in their fast changing and increasingly globalizing high-tech firms.

Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter

In Galileo's Pendulum, Robert G. Newton provides a concise and fascinating discussion of how the accurate measure of time spurred mankind on to some of its most remarkable scientific discoveries. Newton begins his book by surveying the earliest attempts to measure time, beginning with the civilizations of the ancient Near East. The measuring of days, months, and years led to more complex endeavors to get a hold on time. But for Newton, the discovery by a young medical student named Galileo in 1581 of the time measuring properties of a swinging pendulum was the seminal event. That discovery provided scientist with a measuring means that enabled them to construct clocks and then watches, that became vital to the measuring of sound and light waves that eventually lead to quantum physics. Newton launches from Galileo's insight into an explanation of the inventions and intellectual ideas it gave birth to with an ease that compels the reader's attention as it must have the author's. Anyone wanting to understand the importance of time, not only to our routine daily lives but as the underpinning of many of the scientific discoveries that facilitate our lives and inspire us to dream about the secrets of the universe, is advised to read this book.

Like so many stories about Galileo, his flash-of-inspiration about pendulums is an unverifiable legend, but it is a great one. Bored by mass in the cathedral of Pisa, he started watching the chandelier hanging from a long chain, and timing it with the best clock he had available, his own pulse. Maybe he wasn't the first one to notice this, or to wonder about it, but the pendulum blown by drafts took as long to swing back and forth whether it was making a big arc or a small one. The observation was not exactly true, and his means of measuring it were not exact, and maybe the whole thing didn't happen anyway. Nonetheless, Galileo did discover a secret about pendulums that has profoundly affected physics and the whole world ever since. In _Galileo's Pendulum; From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter_ (Harvard University Press), Roger G. Newton has started from this very first observation of a "simple harmonic oscillator" and briskly traced the concept up through quantum theory. The book contains some daunting math, which the author invites those so inclined to skip, but has scientific history and a summary of physics that is exhilarating and clear.

A simple harmonic oscillator (SHO) is only deceptively simple. It can be completely understood mathematically, but gives enough complexity in its variants to be eternally interesting. The most obvious SHO, the pendulum, has its most famous use in clocks, and there are four chapters here on the history of clock-making. It was Galileo himself who, having noticed the regularity of the pendulum swing, realized that a pendulum would be the perfect timer to regulate a clock. He himself designed an escapement for such a pendulum, but only after his death did the design get put into action. Pendulum clocks had their problems, as readers of _Longitude_ know. The coiled balance spring of clocks that could be used aboard ship has, via its elastic properties, the same oscillation potential as a pendulum. Eventually clocks were regulated by tuning forks; the tines of the fork, too, show SHO. Even better results came from electrically vibrating a quartz crystal at millions of times a second, another SHO. Crystals do slowly age, and their periodicity eventually varies, but electrons do not. Atomic clocks, which are more accurate even than the rotations and revolutions of the Earth which clocks are supposed to measure, are based on the frequency of electromagnetic waves emitted when cesium electrons are excited.

Having brought clocks into the quantum realm, the author goes back to trace the physics of oscillation. It was Isaac Newton with his laws of motion who explained why a pendulum acted the way it did, and enabled its motion to be mathematically evaluated. The movement and forces on a pendulum can be graphed, and show up as sinusoidal waves, which are observed all over the place in nature. Fourier discovered that time functions, even if they weren't sinusoidal, could be expressed as sums of different sinusoidal waves. Metaphorically, acoustical and electromagnetic phenomena could be reduced into summed pendulums. Michael Faraday originated the idea of the electromagnetic field, and James Maxwell put the field on a mathematical basis, with, of course, a sinusoidal foundation. Einstein rode an imaginary wave of light to come to his conclusions that reformulated the concepts of space and time. During the last part of the twentieth century, quantum electrodynamics showed that every constituent of matter can be regarded as quantum of different fields, and at the heart of quanta are, surprise, harmonic oscillators. _Galileo's Pendulum_ takes only thirty pages to go from Faraday to quantum electrodynamics, and there are other books to give deeper analysis of the history of physics. However, for the non-physicist, the author has provided a small history with the unique viewpoint of keeping pendulums in sight throughout. Readers will find this an excellent brief review of a surprisingly universal natural phenomenon.

I am a Chemistry graduate student, and purchased this book to review some basic concepts prior to the start of teaching duties. The text that I used as an undergraduate was quite poor, so I started reading a 30 year old text that my brother used in college and raved about -- a text written by Holtzclaw. Although this book was pretty good, the material was a little dated and non-SI units were used due to it's age. I looked for newer copies by this author, and stumbled upon this book. I have to say that this is the best undergraduate level general chemistry textbook that I have ever read. I'm actually learning stuff myself as I plow through it. The aspects of the book that I feel are very strong are:

- The writing style. The material is written at the perfect level -- informative, clear, with just enough examples to drive the salient points home. No fluff or self-induljent rambling.
- The organization of the chapters. The material is presented in a very logical manner, which builds as one gets deeper into the book. Material presented earlier on is expounded upon in later chapters as more advanced topics are covered.
- The example problems are well chosen to illustrate the points being discussed, without overwhelming the student with superfluous concepts. The problems are a fundamental part of the learning process of this text.

This is an exellent choice as a primary text for any general chemistry course, or as a supplemental reference for the awful books that you are required to read for your coursework. Due to the quality of the book, it is also well suited for self study. I highly reccommend it.

This book is very well written and very informative. All of the lessons are supported by excellent visual material. Granted, one needs to order whichever book is required by his or her college, but as far as chemistry books go this one is wonderful.