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Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis
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Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis is written by experts in the measurement of radioactivity. The book describes the broad scope of analytical methods available and instructs the reader on how to select the proper technique. It is intended as a practical manual for research which requires the accurate measurement of radioactivity at all levels, from the low levels encountered in the environment to the high levels measured in radioisotope research. This book contains sample preparation procedures, recommendations on steps to follow, necessary calculations, computer controlled analysis, and high sample throughput techniques. Each chapter includes practical techniques for application to nuclear safety, nuclear safeguards, environmental analysis, weapons disarmament, and assays required for research in biomedicine and agriculture.
The fundamentals of radioactivity properties, radionuclide decay, and methods of detection are included to provide the basis for a thorough understanding of the analytical procedures described in the book. Therefore, the
Handbook can also be used as a teaching text.
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* Includes sample preparation techniques for matrices such as soil, air, plant, water, animal tissue, and surface swipes
* Provides procedures and guidelines for the analysis of commonly encountered natural and man-made environmental radionuclides
* Covers high-sample-throughput microplate techniques and multi-detector scintillation proximity assay methods
* Describes the time-saving techniques of computer protocol-controlled automatic activity analysis
* Discusses absolute activity measurement methods for meeting scientific reporting requirements
* Presents the latest methods of rapid electronic radionuclide imaging
* Written by experts in the measurement of radioactivity
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Very Practical Reference.......2001-02-22
We have used successfully the "Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis" as a reference for training courses on Liquid Scintillation Analysis. The material in the book has been useful for course participants from a wide spectrum of fields including the biochemical, nuclear and environmental sciences, and health physics. The sections on Semiconductor Detectors for those interested in radiation spectral analysis, and Radionuclide Imaging for researchers using electronic autoradiography in the biosciences are also packed with lots of practical information. The book is highly recommended as a reference for anyone who uses radioisotopes as tracers in research or must analyze radioisotopes in all types of media including low-levels in the environment.
A Practical Reference.......2000-04-15
The text is very readable. Many illustrations and tables throughout the book provide useful information. Hundreds of cited references and state-of-the-art concepts and procedures are included. Even the most experienced and knowledgeable scientists in the field should find the book useful. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in the absolute activity analysis of radionuclides used in research or low levels of radioactivity encountered in the environment.
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Handbook of Infrared Standards II: with Spectral Coverage between
Guy Guelachvili , and
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This timely compilation of infrared standards has been developed for use by infrared researchers in chemistry, physics, engineering, astrophysics, and laser and atmospheric sciences. Providing maps of closely spaced molecular spectra along with their measured wavenumbers between 1.4vm and 4vm, this handbook will complement the 1986 Handbook of Infrared Standards that included special coverage between 3 and 2600vm. It will serve as a necessary reference for all researchers conducting spectroscopic investigations in the near-infrared region.
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- Provides all new spectral coverage between 1.4vm and 4vm
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Handbook of Infrared Standards: With Spectral Maps and Transition Assignments Between 3 and 2600 x gmm
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The development of infrared standards is an ongoing process in laboratories throughout the world. This handbook provides lists of standards based on spectra of easily available molecular species, from the upper end of the microwave region to the near infrared.
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* The Introduction contains tables of saturated absorption spectroscopy data and heterodyne frequency measurements; The main body includes, in an easily accessible format:
* Spectral maps
* Wavenumber tables
* Transition assignments
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China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them. Within this framework we find intrigue, adventure, murder, warfare, romance ... in a connected series of fascinating individual tales, told in the suspenseful manner of the traditional storyteller.
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compelling story but poor translation.......2007-09-27
I'm only in the middle of the second book (out of 4), so take my review with that in mind.
The biggest problem I have is that the English translaction is extremely poor. It is not the content I'm complaining about, but the writing. It is so lousy that it will take away from your enjoyment of the story.
The story is compelling but there is a few things that bothered me about it:
1) whenever the main character (of the moment) gets in big trouble, his predicament is always bailed out by some incredible coincidence that his assailant (or antagonist at the moment) is actually a friend or knows a friend of his. It is ALWAYS like that, throughout the book.
2) the characters in the book, whether they are righteous or unrighteous, always get lauded as heroes. You can have a despicable character and yet he is respected among his peers...why? Maybe it is a cultural phenomena that I am not aware of.
anyways, I'm going to finish the entire series and see what happens.
Entertaining but not as good as Three Kingdoms.......2007-08-23
This book was a lot of fun to read. Having also read Three Kingdoms I have to say I enjoyed that book more but this one was still great. It's full of adventure and colorful characters. Sometimes the events building up to a new dramatic event are too drawn out but for the most part this book has hard to put down.
Full of adventure, will keep you reading!.......2006-10-26
I couldn't believe this story was written in the 13th century! The structure read like a modern novel. You won't be disappointed with the adventures that these characters get into. It is also a nice insight into ancient Chinese thought about political legitimacy and virtue. While very gory at times, this book really shows you how the ancient chinese thought. The morals are also applicable to today.
Awesome!.......2006-03-09
I loved this book, it is fast, exciting and truly engaging! Even though it is a loooOOooong story, and the story grows to epic proportions in a not-too-organized fashion very quickly; it deserves five stars simply for its character and plot development, and how it carries over one hundred main characters without losing any story! This is for the unabridged & unexpurgated four volume set translated by Sidney Shapiro and issued by the Foreign Language Press.
Riveting epic about the 108 heroes of the Suikoden!.......2006-03-09
Outlaws of the Marsh is an absolutely engaging action-adventure experience! The characterizations are detailed and personal, and one never gets bored of their exploits. The translation (Sidney Shapiro) of this four volume, 2200 page novel is also very good, in some places it is downright hysterical! Never mind the spelling errors and such, the characters and the story more than make up for it.
Even today we can see this great Chinese Classic novel's influence on the next generation - as the Playstation video game console has put out about five role playing games based on this novel alone (the "Suikoden" video games). Yes, I would indeed say that Outlaws of the Marsh has withstood the test of time in its 700 years of existence.
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Also known as Hong Lou Meng, this is arguably China's greatest literary masterpiece. A chronicle of a noble family in the eighteenth century; but the splendor of enchanting gardens, pleasure pavilions, and daily life of the most sophisticated refinements hides the realities of decay and self-destruction.
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Haven't Finished, but I like what I see.......2007-07-28
First thought: THE POETRY RHYMES, OMG!!!!!
Second thought: Not the best story line so far, but when you're only on the first volume, you can't really assume much, can you?
Overall: Worth reading, and so far is the BEST translation.
A human subject that will never fade away.......2007-05-13
"A Dream of Red Mansions" is a story focusing on a high spiritual love story that happened in a noble family, but what it wants to speak is much far beyond a love story theme. The author's attempt is to depict a macro-viewed picture which leads us to the very deep insight of life itself in complexity and profoundity, and not another Chinese classic writer have been more successful at doing this than him. From innocent to sophisticated, from prosperous to desolate, from enthusiastic to disillusioned; a dream losing at some moment of life course could have been anyone of us' experience, even though we are not nobles. Because of the dream losing, we grew up. After growing up, a decision needs to be made for our lifestyle. Usually we make the decision not only at our own will, some other matters must be considered such as the expectation, pressure, and restriction from family (elders) and society, as well as the advantages they might offer us. So, most of us would go for the social mainstream. Only a few become malcontents by their nature and personalities. And it is the way where the character the book is centered at, Baoyu, put his fate toward on.
However, though Baoyu is unusual, his malcontent spirit was not awakened until he went through some unfortunate events, including the family's decline and the death of his beloved, Daiyu. So he is not a hero but another ordinary person. Like him, every character in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is ordinary, even they are perhaps attractive, strong-willed, kindhearted, or smart enough, not an exception to Daiyu, the most poetic, sentimental, and highly spiritual girl in the book. That is one of the reasons the readers always love this book so much, since all the characters have been fully humanized by the author's genius writing, they are not the fictional figures only, but like the real people living around us everyday.
The love story between Baoyu and Daiyu is some kind of an inevitable tragedy, because Daiyu is naturally a tragic person. Not only her orphan background, her sensitivity and self-defense, but her purity and dignity, made her hard to find a proper room to live on in the society she lives, probably not even today's. She died at a young age, and the death itself is a tragedy, but what if she did not die young? Sadly, no other ending it would have been but another tragedy for her to keep growing old and living in the earthly world. Her unique character made the source of suffering to her love relationship with Baoyu, but Baoyu's spiritual life could only have been fulfilled by this relationship, because of her incorruptible soul beauty. She is his only soul mate, even though her love never made him peaceful. So to speak, their love story is some kind of an inevitable tragedy. Her death caused a painful impact to him, and brought him to a very deep thought about life's meaning. He realized there is always something beyond our control no matter how hard we try, that's destiny; nothing we can do but be humble while we face something relating to the destiny. Consequently, some power derived from this losing and realizing process pushed him toward another lifestyle. At end, he chose becoming a monk, retiring from the mundaneness, including his responsibilities to the family and society. It might make the readers sad, but it is not a tragedy since it is a choice made after spiritual awakening.
A decision making after we realize something in question will lead us on the proper way to the proper lifestyle suiting us well. Every one may have a different choice from another's after going through some disillusion, we don't necessarily follow Baoyu, but we are still touched by his story. This is another great achievement the author made for "A Dream of Red Mansions"; he presented a life picture every reader can apply part of it to his own life. It is a very universal human subject that will never fade away all the times.
Rekindling Memories of Childhood.......2007-01-11
I searched out this set because my teacher of Chinese medicine had told me that it was her favorite book as a teenager and that she still had the fondest memories of it - yet, she had never read it in English. When I gave it to her, she beamed, opened to a random page and said, "I know right where they are in the story although my English doesn't understand every word." When I saw her later she told me that her daughter was upset that she hadn't thought of this book for her mom as it brought her so much happiness!
worth reading.......2006-12-25
This is book tells the story of a clan which is in the run-down. It is centered in a young man, Baoyu, and all his "sisters".
Don't expect a story in the traditional point of view, I mean like greeks said: an introduction, a development and an end.
This does not follow this trend, well, one could say that it sort of has an introduction and an end as a matter of fact but this book must be read as is, just daily life in the Rong and Ning mansions. Do not expect either a very deep story or characters, it is kind of superficial in fact although there a lot of characters and their whereabouts and machinations are told.
It gives an insight though into what might have been the life in that land and in that time, keep in mind though that this still a book.
An overall enjoyable piece.
A Dream of Red Mansions.......2006-11-16
I am impressed with the story being in both Chinese and English.
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Out of print for more than 10 years, this exceptional book has become a rare item sought after by collectors for many years. This important limited edition reprint is inevitable and fulfills the growing need of new collectors for reliable and useful reference on the subject. The book is produced in Japan with the same high quality to ensure the superb feel of the original edition. Each copy is hand-numbered. It covers snuff bottles made of all the various precious materials and discussed the fundamentals of collecting and details of the symbolism, motifs, reign marks, and seals. Moreover, it includes extensive bibliography for further research.
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Simply Superb.......1998-09-28
I found this book as an early collector of Chinese Snuff Bottles, and I certainly do not think there could be a better source book for either early or indeed continuing collectors. It gave me the insight, history and breadth of knowledge that I was looking for. This book should be a must in every Snuff Bottle collectors armament.
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One of the loveliest objects to come from China's Imperial history is the snuff bottle--elegant, tactile, beautifully crafted, and above all small; it makes an ideal subject for collectors. This book clearly explains the history of snuff and its specialized bottles from the 17th century to the present in America, Europe, and China. For the novice, it provides fascinating background and descriptive information, and for the established collector it showcases over 650 diverse snuff bottles to study and admire through excellent color photographs. There are examples of glass, stone, porcelain, enamel, wood, ivory, amber and other bottles with distinctive interior and exterior decorations. Each bottle is fully described with a value range. This book shows that it is not necessary to be wealthy to own good snuff bottles, nor is it guaranteed that only wealthy collectors have the best ones. Be prepared to be delighted in this addictive collecting field.
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The fingers of pianists are broken for playing bourgeois music, teachers are humiliated and worse-the Cultural Revolution is in full fury on the mainland. Hong Kong is rife with rumors and riots. Nonetheless, Dimitri Johnston feels an affinity for China that is not shared by his wife. (She is not so taken with him either.) When he meets a young Chinese dancer, they become infatuated.
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Among the most beautiful of the world's art forms are Chinese snuff bottles, miniature bottle-shaped flasks, often of astounding intricacy and tactile appeal, which were made for court and subsequently popular use during the Qing Dynasty. Within the last 20 years or so, snuff bottles have been collected by an increasingly wide circle of enthusiasts. While recent research has led to a number of discussions of the topic, the collecting of snuff bottles remains an area within which the unwary may be trapped, particulary as the spectacular rise in value of these small items has proved a spur to the skilled faker. Illustrated with 24 full-colour and 16 black-and-white plates, this book serves as a useful and entertaining introduction to the collecting of snuff bottles. After tracing the history of snuff in Chinese culture, the author surveys the many styles of snuff bottles, dividing them by materials and methods of decoration used.
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This eye-popping book clearly and visually explores the history, types, and value ranges of Chinese snuff bottles from the 17th century to the present as no other book has. It concentrates mostly on affordable examples and explains how these can be just as important as their more expensive cousins. These small pretty objects are a reflection of the popularity of snuffing tobacco, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, the bottles are avidly collected for their beauty, variety, and high level of craftsmanship. Here, 340 diverse bottles of stone, glass, enamels, porcelain, and other materials are shown in beautiful color photographs. Once you have read the book, you'll want to touch the bottles; and once you've touched them, you'll want to own some. The problem then will be when to stop, if ever.
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Excellent.......1999-05-26
An absolutely neccesary edition to any TCM practitioner's library
An outstanding reference for herbalists........1999-02-17
An comprehensive catalogue of commercially available Chinese medicinal formulas. Includes detailed information on functions, applications, dosages, cautions, and ingredients for each formula. Chinese characters are included. For anyone interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine, this book is a must have.
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Book three in a four-book series for boys filled with adventure, mystery, and intrigue as three friends, Dan, Peter, and Shelby, seek to discover the hidden mystery of Eckert House.
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