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A practical workbook that bridges the gap between theory and practice in the nanotechnology field
Because nanosized particles possess unique properties, nanotechnology is rapidly becoming a major interest in engineering and science. Nanotechnology: Basic Calculations for Engineers and Scientists—a logical follow-up to the author’s previous text, Nanotechnology: Environmental Implications and Solutions—presents a practical overview of nanotechnology in a unique workbook format.

The author has developed nearly 300 problems that provide a clear understanding of this growing field in four distinct areas of study:

1. Chemistry fundamentals and principles
2. Particle technology
3. Applications
4. Environmental concerns

These problems have been carefully chosen to address the most important basic concepts, issues, and applications within each area, including such topics as patent evaluation, toxicology, particle dynamics, ventilation, risk assessment, and manufacturing. An introduction to quantum mechanics is also included in the Appendix. These stand-alone problems follow an orderly and logical progression designed to develop the reader’s technical understanding.

Reviews
“This is certain to become the pacesetter in the field, a text to benefit both students of all technical disciplines and practicing engineers and researchers.” ~Dr. Howard Beim, Professor of Chemistry, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

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This breakthrough handbook for mental health professionals and educators concerned with domestic violence offers practical, hands-on materials for conducting assessments and providing treatment that takes the entire family system into account. Rich with research that shows women are violent within relationships at rates equal to men, the book eschews the field’s reliance on traditional domestic violence theory and treatment, which favors violence intervention for men and victim services for women and ignores the dynamics of the majority of violent relationships. Hamel instead identifies measures and protocols that help practitioners make accurate assessments and then go on to carefully select the treatment modality and curricula for group, couples, and/or individual work that will help each couple break their particular cycle of violence.

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“This ground-breaking new book is a must-read for every practitioner, researcher, and student interested in partner abuse. The book presents a completely new approach to domestic violence: the gender-inclusive approach. Sound research has documented that both sexes play important roles in the causes and treatment of partner abuse, and this exciting book shows how. This book leads the way to making domestic-violence reduction a realistic goal, at last! This is the best book I have read on the topic of domestic violence treatment: combines a sound evidence base with creative clinical practice.” ~ Terrie Moffitt, PhD, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.

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It’s perhaps surprising that an instrument as seemingly simple as the telescope has had a large impact on human history, from changes in warfare to helping us understand our place in the cosmos. Watson, the astronomer in charge of Australia’s largest optical telescope and a science writer, provides a fine overview of the 400-year history of this invention. He’s strongest when discussing the people most responsible for moving the field of astronomy forward, controversies surrounding their inventions and the complexities of their lives. From Tycho Brahe, the brilliant early Danish astronomer, to locomotive builder Andrew Barclay, whose telescopes were so flawed that he was convinced Saturn looked “like a half-eaten apple,” Watson relates intriguing stories while providing them with a rich cultural context. While still interesting, the work is less compelling when Watson provides specifics about the physics and optics of telescopes. And with so much ground to cover, he rarely delves deeply and provides little if any new information. Yet gathering all of this material in one place and presenting it in such an engaging style is a considerable accomplishment. (from Publishers Weekly)

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每個人的內心都有黑暗的一面,這些無意識的潛在慾望可以說是我們內在的敵人.19世紀的精神科醫師佛洛伊德相信,透過夢的研究能探索人類最隱密的內心,驅除我們心中的惡魔.他並藉由夢的解析一書提出「夢是通往無意識的大道」之著名理論.從此為精神分析領域開啟了一扇新的視窗.Discovery Channel 將為您深入剖析夢的解析一書之內容,從中探索夢境的神奇力量,並介紹作者佛洛伊德的創作歷程及其傳奇的一生.佛洛伊德於書中所發表的許多創新觀念,在當時並沒有完全被世人接受,尤其是對於「性」的主張與理論最引人爭議,例如「嬰兒性幻想」就是他最重要的發現之一.然而到了21世紀,這位被尊稱為「精神分析之父」的著名醫師,其評價與影響又是如何呢?片中將有所解答…

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In his second large-format book about U.S. history, Evans extolls American moxie, that seemingly native mixture of initiative and luck that produced the Colt revolver, the FM radio, the Kodak camera, Mickey Mouse, and eBay. As a historian, Evans is less concerned with the inventive spark itself than with how it finds capital and markets. This approach allows fresh insights into familiar stories; we know that the Wright brothers flew, but not, perhaps, how they flirted with the French before selling their machine to the U.S. government. Evans favors “democratizers” who generated affordable mass culture; Henry Ford is his paragon. In the current era, he focusses on the ferment of Silicon Valley, as embodied by such innovators as Larry Page, the Google co-founder, who marvels that more people don’t work in technology, because “that’s the easiest way to change the world.” (from the New Yorker)

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Less a biography than a comprehensive dossier on the espionage career of William Colby, this copiously detailed work comes from an author highly regarded as an intelligence historian. Careful and judicious, Prados never grandstands; instead, he seeks to understand the myriad controversies about CIA activity exposed by congressional investigations in 1975. Then the CIA director, Colby had a hand in unsavory skulduggery such as the so-called Phoenix program in Vietnam, which probably involved assassinations. Because he was a specialist in covert political action (having cut his espionage teeth influencing Italian politics), Colby also had a sense, argues Prados, of the serious political danger posed by the 1975 revelations to the CIA’s existence. In the author’s view, Colby, by cooperating with the investigations rather than defying them as Henry Kissinger preferred, likely preserved the organization from dismantlement. As a vehicle to larger issues (like CIA involvement in sundry coups), Prados’ dispassionate appraisals of Colby’s postings and activity will best attract readers with a natural interest in the nitty-gritty details rather than the sensational aspects of intelligence work. (From Booklist)

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Arousal is fundamental to all cognition. It is intuitively obvious, absolutely necessary, but what exactly is it? In Brain Arousal and Information Theory, Donald Pfaff presents a daring perspective on this long-standing puzzle. Pfaff argues that, beneath our mental functions and emotional dispositions, a primitive neuronal system governs arousal. Employing the simple but powerful framework of information theory, Pfaff revolutionizes our understanding of arousal systems in the brain.

Starting with a review of the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neurochemical components of arousal, Pfaff asks us to look at the gene networks and neural pathways underlying the brain’s arousal systems much as a design engineer would contemplate information systems. This allows Pfaff to postulate that there is a bilaterally symmetric, bipolar system universal among mammals that readies the animal or the human being to respond to stimuli, initiate voluntary locomotion, and react to emotional challenges. Applying his hypothesis to heightened states of arousal–sex and fear–Pfaff shows us how his theory opens new scientific approaches to understanding the structure of brain arousal.

A major synthesis of disparate data by a preeminent neuroscientist, Brain Arousal and Information Theory challenges current thinking about cognition and behavior. Whether you subscribe to Pfaff’s theory or not, this book will stimulate debate about the nature of arousal itself.

Reviews
” Donald Pfaff’s book is highly innovative. He addresses a classic problem in neurobiology which has lain fallow for decades. Central nervous system arousal is fundamental to emotional and cognition yet I don’t know of any other book or article that so thoroughly delineates the mechanisms and function of arousal in the brain. In addition to reviewing a huge body of neuroanatomical, neuropsychological and genetic data, Pfaff proposes a daring new theoretical approach based on information theory. Despite the technical nature of the book, Pfaff’s main points are easy to understand. Pfaff has virtuoso command of the literature and has given us a brilliant set of new thoughts.” ~ Dr. Helen Fisher, Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University.

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Who first discovered oxygen in the 1770s: English scientist Joseph Priestley or the French aristocrat Antoine Lavoisier? The question became a controversial one, as novelist and nonfiction author Jackson relates, at a time when France and England were enemies. Jackson (Leavenworth Train) shows that Priestley was the first to isolate oxygen, but didn’t realize what it was: British scientists still clung to the old “phlogiston” theory of burning, and Priestley called the gas “dephlogisticated air.” Lavoisier, who undoubtedly based his discoveries on conversations with Priestley, recognized that oxygen was a distinct gas and in the process revolutionized thinking on combustion. (He also developed the chemical nomenclature used today.) Both men met unhappy fates: Priestley, a vocal opponent of the power of both the king and the Church, saw his home burnt down by a mob and fled to America. The aristocratic Lavoisier (as Madison Smartt Bell also recounted in his recent Lavoisier in the Year One) was guillotined during the Terror, condemned with the words, “The Republic has no need of scientists.” Jackson offers a well-written and lavishly detailed account of a seminal period in the development of modern chemistry. (from Publishers Weekly)

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Miller, professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London, weaves two stories into one, making this scientific chronicle read like a novel. One story traces the steps whereby black holes came to be accepted in astrophysics as the way many stars end their lives.
The other story describes the bitter relations between Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (universally known as Chandra), who in 1935 provided the first mathematical description of what later came to be called black holes, and Sir Arthur Eddington, the most prominent astrophysicist of the time. Chandra presented his theory at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in January 1935. He had discussed the theory with Eddington, who had flirted with the same idea, and supposed that Eddington would support him. Instead Eddington rose at the same meeting to declare that “there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!” Eddington’s stature was such that his view prevailed. “The encounter cast a shadow over both their lives,” Miller writes, “and hindered progress in astrophysics for nearly half a century. (from Scientific American )

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Less concerned with what people choose to eat per se, Singer and Mason make a case for how people’s everyday food choices affect others’ lives. They describe in vivid detail how applying industrial processing principles to animal husbandry has led to cheap foods whose cost savings occur at the expense of animals raised for profit and for product. Using Wal-Mart as an example, they lay out how huge retailers wield enormous power over prices and compel those far up the chain of food production and distribution to make unhelpful decisions. They hold up for admiration a Kansas family that has turned vegan so as not to participate in this particular destructive cycle of animal and human exploitation. They also thoughtfully and critically examine the ethical pros and cons of eating meat in any form. Urban dwellers far removed from the source of the foods they eat will find Singer and Mason’s descriptions of food production more disturbing and violent than the quiet, attractive, plastic-wrapped displays in the local supermarket’s pristine meat case. (from booklist)

About Peter Singer
“No other living philosopher has had this kind of influence…” ~ the New York Time Book Review
“Mr. Singer’s influence extends to the world beyond the ivory tower partly because he writes with lucidity and quiet passion about genuinely pressing questions.” ~ The Economist

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