Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia

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the spirit of Siberia.......2000-11-25

The hardcover book is a jewel: the pictures are absolutely beautiful, and the texts which accompany them is interesting. The excerpts from Valentin Rasputin's books on Lake Baikal are well chosen. It is extremely interesting to "meet" this controversial Russian author in the way we do through this book. He deserves praise for his environmental work, especially in such a country as Russia. The book definetely makes you wish to visit the place. It sounds loike a spiritual enriching experience, the lake seems alive...

Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback

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Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback
Bartle Bull
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New age Fake ethnic.......2002-09-07

Good, but I had trouble keeping up with the names of the white guys. Seems like someone is always leaving and someone is always arriving, the pictures only confuses me more, because I would try in vain to match up the name with a picture.

Beautifully written, funny, engaging, terrific reading!.......2000-08-03

Russia's Lake Baikal is the largest, deepest, oldest, and cleanest freshwater lake in the world. It's size is greater than all of five of the North American Great Lakes combined and home to more than 1,500 species of life known nowhere else in the world. Bartle Bull led the first expedition to ever circumnavigate Lake Baikal. While on this epic sojourn, he and his team mapped the devastating impact of human development and industry on this wild and pristine ecosystem. Around The Sacred Sea: Mongolia And Lake Baikal on Horseback is the incredible and riveting story of this valiant trek, an exploration of Baikal's history, ecology, and culture, and well as an informative and engaging survey of incredible and unique plant and animal life. Beautifully written, funny, occasionally suspenseful, Around The Sacred Sea is a unique, engaging, informative, exciting, page-turner of an uncommon, true-life adventure story, ideal reading for the armchair traveler and inspiring for the globe trotter set.

Buy this book.......2000-03-26

Around The Sacred Sea tells of the author's extrodinary feat of riding horseback completely around Lake Baikal.The book draws you in right from the prologue. Bartle Bull is an excellent writer, who not only describes in beautiful detail the sights, sounds, people and animals he and his friends encounter during the expedition, through his words he brings the reader along with him. I have never been even near Lake Baikal, but I feel like I have. There were moments of danger that had me flipping ahead in the book to make sure everything turned out alright. There were sad moments and there were drunk moments and there were irate moments and there were happy moments. And I felt every single one of them. The book is also illustrated with beautiful photographs taken during the adventure. I loved this book. This book is a must have for people anxious to take their own adventures, people who have any interest in Russia and Lake Baikal and for people who want to have adventures while they are safe and secure at home.

Atlas and Indentification Book of Pellagobionts of Lake Baikal (Guides and keys to identification of fauna and flora of Lake Baikal)

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Atlas and Indentification Book of Pellagobionts of Lake Baikal (Guides and keys to identification of fauna and flora of Lake Baikal)
O.A. Timoshkin
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Baikal

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Spectacular photobook of the famed Lake Baikal, "The Sacred Sea", the largest body of fresh water in the world, in the heart of Russia. Photos accompanied by quotations in Russian and German. Several of the pages fold-out to reveal spectacular, remote vistas.

Das grosse Sterben am Baikalsee: D. geheime Bericht e. hohen Funktionars uber d. Umweltkrise d. Sowjetunion

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Das grosse Sterben am Baikalsee: D. geheime Bericht e. hohen Funktionars uber d. Umweltkrise d. Sowjetunion
Boris Komarow
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Extreme Places - The Deepest Lake (Extreme Places)

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Extreme Places - The Deepest Lake (Extreme Places)
Kristine Hirschmann
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Siberia's Lake Baikal is not only the world's deepest lake; it is also the oldest and the cleanest, and it holds more fresh water than any other body. This book covers the geology, exploration, wildlife, and ecology of this remarkable natural feature.

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Irkutsk and Lake Baikal

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Lake Baikal

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Lake Baikal is the oldest lake and largest freshwater reservoir in the world. As a result of its exceptionally long geological history, the lake has been a theatre of evolution and speciation of organisms, and it currently harbors more species than any other lake in the world. Based on its unique nature, Lake Baikal was recently designated a World Heritage site and is regarded as a hotspot for evolution, speciation, and biodiversity. With its tremendously peculiar biota, Lake Baikal is now awaiting modern analytical approaches to the profound problems of speciation and evolution. In late autumn 1998 a symposium was held in Japan with the theme "Lake Baikal: A mirror in time and space for understanding global change processes" to bring together scientists from different disciplines who are studying Lake Baikal. Three international scientific associations: The BICER (Baikal International Center for Ecological Research), BDP (Baikal Drilling Project), and DIWPA (Diversitas Western Pacific and Asia) were involved in the organisation.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at this symposium. They are interdisciplinary in nature and bring together results from geology, paleontology, chemistry, biology, limnology and physics.

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Lake Baikal And It's Life
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Lake Baikal and Its Life (Monographiae Biologicae)

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Lake Baikal and Its Life (Monographiae Biologicae)
M. Kozhov
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The use of quantum chemistry for the quantitative prediction of molecular properties has long been frustrated by the technical difficulty of carrying out the needed computations. In the last decade there have been substantial advances in the formalism and computer hardware needed to carry out accurate calculations of molecular properties efficiently. These advances have been sufficient to make quantum chemical calculations a reliable tool for the quantitative interpretation of chemical phenomena and a guide to laboratory experiments. However, the success of these recent developments in computational quantum chemistry is not well known outside the community of practitioners. In order to make the larger community of chemical physicists aware of the current state of the subject, this self-contained volume of Advances in Chemical Physics surveys a number of the recent accomplishments in computational quantum chemistry.

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Computational Materials Chemistry: Methods and Applications (Bioelectric Engineering)

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Computational Materials Chemistry: Methods and Applications (Bioelectric Engineering)

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This volume illustrates the contributions that modern techniques in simulation and modeling can make to materials chemistry research and the level of accuracy achievable. While new developments in simulation and modeling are discussed to some extent, the major emphasis is on applications to materials chemistry including in areas of surface chemistry, solid state chemistry, polymer chemistry and nanoscience. The phenomenal improvement in both theoretical methods and computer technology have made it possible for computational chemistry to achieve a new level of chemical accuracy that is providing significant insight into the effect of chemical reactivity on the behavior of materials and helping to design new materials.

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Computational Methods in Quantum Chemistry: Quantum Chemistry (World Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics, Vol. 5)

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Computational Methods in Quantum Chemistry: Quantum Chemistry (World Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics, Vol. 5)

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This book provides a comprehensive account, from first principles, of the methods of numerical quantum mechanics, beginning with formulations and fundamental postulates. The development continues with that of the Hamiltonian and angular momentum operators, and with methods of approximating the solutions of the Schroedinger equation with variational and perturbation methods.

Chapter 3 is a description of the Hartree-Fock self-consistent field method, which is developed systematically for atoms. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation is introduced, and the numerical methods presented one by one thereafter in a logically consistent way that should be accessible to undergraduates. These include LCAO, Hartree-Fock-SCF method for molecules, Roothaan LCAO-MO-SCF method, and electron correlation energy.

Chapter 4 is devoted to the more sophisticated computational methods in quantum chemistry, with an introduction to topics that include: the zero differential overlap approximation; Huckel MO theory of conjugated molecules; Pariser-Parr-Pople MO method; extended Huckel theory; neglect of differential overlap methods; invariance in space requirements; CNDO; INDO; NDDO; MINDO; MNDO; AM1; MNDO-PM3; SAM1; SINDO1; CNDO/S; PCILO,X?; and ab initio methods.

This is followed by an introduction to Moller-Plesset perturbation theory of many electrons, and coupled perturbed Hartree Fock theory, with a description of the coupled cluster method. Finally Chapter 5 applies these methods to problems of contemporary interest.

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Traditionally, new materials have been developed by empirically correlating their chemical composition, and the manufacturing processes used to form them, with their properties. Until recently, metallurgists have not used quantum theory for practical purposes. However, the development of modern density functional methods means that today, computational quantum mechanics can help engineers to identify and develop novel materials.

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Computational Quantum Mechanics for Materials Engineers will interest researchers and postgraduate students in materials science and engineering, solid-state physics and applied quantum mechanics.

Methods in Reaction Dynamics: Proceedings of the Mariapfarr Workshop (Lecture Notes in Chemistry)

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Methods in Reaction Dynamics: Proceedings of the Mariapfarr Workshop (Lecture Notes in Chemistry)

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Methods in Reaction Dynamics is a collection of lectures given at the 1999 Mariapfarr Workshop in Theoretical Chemistry. Arranged as a series of detailed reviews, it provides an overview of quantum mechanical techniques used to describe and simulate the dynamics and kinetics of elementary chemical reactions. The volume provides in-depth discussions of selected topics in Theoretical Chemistry, such as quantum methods in theoretical and computational reaction dynamics and kinetics; time-dependent, time-independent and mixed quantum-classical techniques. Some of the topics have not been reviewed before in detail.

Quantum Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, and Condensed Matter Theory and Computational Methods - Quantum Chemistry Symposium - No. 26 (Nal Methods)

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Quantum Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, and Condensed Matter Theory and Computational Methods - Quantum Chemistry Symposium - No. 26 (Nal Methods)
Per-Olov Löwdin
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Prominent multinational contributors present articles on condensed matter physics, quantum biology and quantum chemistry. Among the topics covered: reactive molecular collisions, density-functional theory, atomic and molecular phenomena in astrophysics, non-Born-Oppenheimer methods, thin films and surfaces.

Recent Advances in Density Functional Methods (Recent Advances in Computational Chemistry Vol. 1, Part II)

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Recent Advances in Density Functional Methods (Recent Advances in Computational Chemistry Vol. 1, Part II)

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Of all the different areas in computational chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) enjoys the most rapid development. Even at the level of the local density approximation (LDA), which is computationally less demanding, DFT can usually provide better answers than Hartree-Fock formalism for large systems such as clusters and solids. For atoms and molecules, the results from DFT often rival those obtained by ab initio quantum chemistry, partly because larger basis sets can be used. Such encouraging results have in turn stimulated workers to further investigate the formal theory as well as the computational methodology of DFT.

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In the last few years, much attention has been given by theoretical chemists to the development of more accurate model functionals and faster computational techniques including excited electronic states. The 8th International Conference on the Applications of Density Functional Theory to Chemistry and Physics, held in Rome, Italy, on 6-10 September 1999, gathered chemists and physicists to present and discuss state-of-the-art methodological developments and applications of density functional theory (DFT) to increasingly complex systems. The scientists shared their knowledge and experience in DFT, enabling them to face the challenges posed by the needs of high level modeling and simulation in their disciplines. The meeting was opened with an exciting lecture delivered by Nobel laureate W Kohn.

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