Crystal Chemistry of High-Tc Superconducting Copper Oxides (Springer Series in Materials Science)

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This work contains the results of a research project on new electronics based on high temperature superconductors. This research project was performed by Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan and was partly financed by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. As is stated in the overview of the researches on high temperature superconducting electronics, in the early days, it was the target of concentration to achieve higher temperatures and well defined superconducting translation in the sintered specimens. Interests rapidly shifted into measuring magnetic transition, to get better crystallinity in thin film specimens. The apparatuses employed were rather limited such as the simple sputtering method and electron beam coevaporation system. Apparatuses and technologies for both fabrication and characterization could be depended on, however, but did not permit researchers to proceed further in those days. After 3 years, the situation has been very much improved both in apparatuses and technologies for preparation and characterization. Now multilayered structures are intensively used experiments to examine every aspect such as composition, crystallinity, surface degradation, morphology, electric and magnetic properties, epitaxy especially for heterostructure etc. Many important knowledge and results which are useful and valuable for future development of high temperature superconducting electronics have been accumulated in this work.

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This book explores the fascinating field of high-temperature superconductivity. Basic concepts–including experimental techniques and theoretical issues–are discussed in a clear, systematic manner. In addition, the most recent research results in the measurements, materials synthesis and processing, and characterization of physical properties of high-temperature superconductors are presented. Researchers and students alike can use this book as a comprehensive introduction not only to superconductivity but also to materials-related research in electromagnetic ceramics.

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Materials Science Studies of High-Temperature Superconducting Ceramic Oxides

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This is a ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A833533. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Herein is presented the results of a comprehensive program of research aimed at understanding the materials science and the mechanistic physics of high-temperature superconducting oxides. This comprehensive research program has identified the materials properties that are consistently associated with high-Tc superconductors and has shown that the mechanism that gives rise to the phenomenon of high-Tc superconductivity is associated with bound holes that are due to charge-transfer excitations at high frequency. The latter are a result of the high internal electric field present in high-Tc materials, owing to the asymmetry of the crystal structure. The interaction of bound holes with free electrons and the interaction of local spin fluctuations with the spin of free electrons generate a charge density wave and a spin density wave that cause Cooper pairing.

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The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia—with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.’s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he’d rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal.

An unlucky grad student just got himself killed in a robbery gone bad. And as lowly drug lieutenant Harold Jenks races with the killer out of the alley, a light goes off in his head: He’ll steal the dead kid’s identity. Now Jenks, who once lorded it over seven square blocks in East St. Louis, is headed due west. With a .32 in his pocket, a 9mm Glock taped across his back, and a rap sheet nearly as long as Finnegans Wake, he’s cruising the halls of academia as Eastern Oklahoma U’s newest grad student, looking for action and hoping he can stay one couplet ahead of his violent past.

While this new bad boy on campus makes mincemeat of his metaphors, across campus visiting professor Jay Morgan has a more pressing problem: What to do about the dead coed in his bed. The professor’s no killer, but try telling that to private eye Deke Stubbs. With the professor on the lam and Stubbs hot on his trail, more trouble blows into town. Now, as St. Louis drug boss Red Zach and his minions converge on Fumbee, Oklahoma, looking for a consignment of missing cocaine, the bullets start flying faster than the zingers at a faculty hate fest. For Morgan and Jenks, now desperate fugitives from poetic justice, survival means learning new skills—and learning fast. Because if they find out they’re bottom-of-the-class, that means they’re already dead.

Featuring the sleaziest, sorriest, and most captivating group of criminal lowlifes, sexed-up academics, poets, and rappers ever to collide in one crime novel, The Pistol Poets speeds deliriously to its electrifying payoff.

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An unlucky grad student just got himself killed in a robbery gone bad. And as lowly drug lieutenant Harold Jenks races with the killer out of the alley, a light goes off in his head: He'll steal the dead kid's identity. Now Jenks, who once lorded it over seven square blocks in East St. Louis, is headed due west. With a .32 in his pocket, a 9mm Glock taped across his back, and a rap sheet nearly as long as Finnegans Wake, he's cruising the halls of academia as Eastern Oklahoma U's newest grad student, looking for action and hoping he can stay one couplet ahead of his violent past.

While this new bad boy on campus makes mincemeat of his metaphors, across campus visiting professor Jay Morgan has a more pressing problem: What to do about the dead coed in his bed. The professor's no killer, but try telling that to private eye Deke Stubbs. With the professor on the lam and Stubbs hot on his trail, more trouble blows into town. Now, as St. Louis drug boss Red Zach and his minions converge on Fumbee, Oklahoma, looking for a consignment of missing cocaine, the bullets start flying faster than the zingers at a faculty hate fest. For Morgan and Jenks, now desperate fugitives from poetic justice, survival means learning new skills -- and learning fast. Because if they find out they're bottom-of-the-class, that means they're already dead.

Featuring the sleaziest, sorriest, and most captivating group of criminal lowlifes, sexed-up academics, poets, and rappers ever to collide in one crime novel, The Pistol Poets speeds deliriously to its electrifying payoff.

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Not as funny as it thinks it is........2007-03-01

"The Pistol Poets" is one of those books I've had sitting around for a long time and just never got around to reading (similar to what Stephen King calls his "Someday Books"). I finally read it -- and it wasn't quite worth the wait.

"Poets" is like a three-headed monster made up of the college setting and academic backbiting/camaraderie/craziness of Richard Russo's "Straight Man," the thugs-with-greater-aspirations characters of Elmore Leonard, and a multithreaded plot that brings a disparate group of people together and has them slowly find each other, with bodies and violence littering their path (Bill Fitzhugh does this rather well).

The novel revolves around a midsized college in Oklahoma. A boozing, nomad poetry professor, Morgan, finds a student he was sleeping with dead next to him when he awakes one morning. A young black drug dealer, Jenks, steals the identity of someone whose murder he was involved in and tries to "better himself" by taking the man's courses at the school. A old ex-mobster in the witness protection program comes to Morgan for advice on his poems. A very Leonardesque kingpin arrives in town to get back his drugs, which Jenks took with him when he relocated. A shady private detective enters the mix, looking for the girl who ended up dead next to Morgan.

These characters make their way through the plot and end up in the finale in fairly predictable ways.

Gischler's comedy is often too broad to be funny. I laughed once -- when Jenks hilariously starts rapping in the poetry class. Otherwise, this verges into slapstick, and there's too much of an exertion to make things offbeat (the dean crossdressing, one professor nearly killing another by tossing a Joyce novel into the spokes of his bike, etc.).

The crime/violence elements don't fit neatly in with the comedy, and this starts to edge more toward the latter as the novel progresses. There are too many scenes where these normal, everyday people act like action heroes -- including one college student turning into the Terminator and killing a guy while naked on a motorcycle.

I wish Gischler had stuck with the comedy more. The crime plot becomes more than a little numbing after a while. Though I didn't think the comedy was all that effective, it certainly beats someone trying to imitate Elmore Leonard.

The sharpest bit of satire in this novel deals with Jenks. The school has a very small minority class, especially African-Americans. So even though Jenks is a horrendous student, the dean caters to him and demands that he be a visible representative of the school (simply to gain brownie points for having a black student). This could have really led to some funny commentary on the issue of race in academia, but Gischler unfortunately lets it slip away.

The biggest flaw in the plot is, of course, the poor student who ODs and ends up dead next to Morgan in his bed. The cops may be incompetent, sure, but if someone is seen with someone the night before she disappears, something tells me he will at least be questioned. When pretty young college students go missing from midsized colleges, it's national news -- her death is treated like a mere distraction.

Gischler's prose is oddly screenplay-like. He likes to break up his sentences (as in "It looked nice, long and black, tinted windows. Expensive"), which can become irritating. The writing tends to be simple, with simplistic and cliche composition, but it is a fast read, and the finale does build genuine momentum.

A decent plot with the potential of something funny is wasted with too many bullets and bodies.

Poetry and crime don't mix? Says who?.......2007-01-18

Several years ago I believed Crime fiction should have a serious tone. Serious carnage, serious people conducting serious business with serious outcomes. Sure, every now and then the hero or heroine could make a pithy comment or two, and occasionally you had a comic relief character whose sole purpose was to lighten the mood. But never, I thought, should Crime fiction be comedic and serious in equal measure, and it should DEFINITELY not be more comical than grave. Alas, the Old Me never read Pistol Poets. It would have blown all my rigid assumptions to smithereens.

Pistol Poets traces the dual stories of a discontented poetry professor and an exiled inner-city gangbanger as they adapt to small-town college life in amusing and wildly different ways. Drugs get involved, then guns, sex, lies, dead bodies, money, sleazy profs, gangsters and poetry. Poetry? Yes, Gischler manages to tell a story packed to the hilt with everything you want in a Crime novel (six bodies within the first 60 pages, if that gives you a clue) plus extra heaping gobs of comedy. Furthermore, he paints great visuals in every scene and weaves a strong plot filled throughout with suspense. His characters are expertly drawn and feel real, so much so that we have very little trouble believing the crazy things they do. Overall, he has both the mechanics AND the storytelling skills to make Poets a great read.

Now I'm not a poetry guy, but it does play a prominent part of these hilarious and messed-up characters' lives and yet Gischler makes it interesting enough that I wanted to keep reading. And read I did, finishing the book in only a few days. If you don't think Crime fiction can be funny, and if you don't think Poetry majors and backwoods towns can make you laugh, then you need to pick up Pistol Poets. If you already like your crime weighted with laughs, you'll get a fun time out of this book, too. Buy it ASAP.

Death in a Tweed Jacket.......2006-04-03

Mixing poetry with drugs, sex, and murder would not be the first thing to come to mind if you were thinking about writing crime fiction. And unless you're Victor Gischler, the results of such an abominable coupling would likely be a bad as it sounds. But if Gischler isn't the most talented new crime writer to hit the pages in the last few years, he is certainly the most bizarre. Of his three novels - five stars everyone - "The Pistol Poets" is the most blackly humorous - think a more evil Carl Hiaasen - certainly the most imaginative, and probably the best of the bunch.

Harold Jenks is a low-level drug dealer in the East St. Louis slums, a dead-ender with a long prison sentence the best outcome of his miserable life. When he and his partner kill a graduate student in a mugging gone bad, Jenks decides to swap identities, moving to a backwater east-Oklahoma University playing the role of budding poet Sherman Ellis. It is there he crosses paths with the pathetic Jay Morgan, a visiting professor of poetry at the fictitious East Oklahoma University, the cold and rainy redneck paradise providing an unusually whacky setting for Gischler's very own brand of graphic violence and raw sex told with tongue firmly implanted-in-cheek. Morgan is a slacker of summa cum laude caliber, a gypsy professor of poetry with perpetual writer's block, a connoisseur of undergraduate sex and hard alcohol. But a cranky department head and a cantankerous would-be poet are the least of Morgan's worries when a co-ed he was bedding turns up dead in his apartment. Convoluted for sure, but merely the underpinnings of a non-stop rush of manic academia as gory as it is zany. This may have the Fireside Poets doing synchronized rolls in their graves, but it sure is bloody good fun. Get educated - get Gischler.

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Not nearly as good as Gun Monkeys
Entertaining and Funny.
Damn good
It's good.......but.....it's not Gun Monkeys
EXCELLENT

The Pistol Poets
Victor Gischler
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ASIN: 0385337248
Release Date: 2004-02-03

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Not nearly as good as Gun Monkeys.......2005-07-15

I bought Mr. Gischler's debut effort, Gun Monkeys, on Amazon last month and enjoyed it so much I immediately went back and purchased his next two books, the first of which is Pistol Poets. I was extremely disappointed.

Yes, Mr. Gischler writes simple, choppy, hard-edged prose that is appealing and he is also pretty funny too, reminiscent of Elmore Leonard and Kinky Friedman, and Pistol Poets features both qualities but.........none of the characters were in the least sympathetic. Every last character was self-absorbed, amoral and made me slightly naseous. I could not identify with any of the novel's characters, much less like them, with the possible exception of one very minor character, but of course Gischler kills him, while the disgusting main characters walk scot-free. For me this turned what could have been another fun and funny read into a dismal experience.

My advice: if you don't need sympathetic protagonists then get this book because you will probably enjoy it. If you are like me and want someone you can identify with, or even like, you'll do better staying away from this book. The whole experience reminded me of having to read Kate Chopan's "The Awakening" in college, another depressing treatment of neurotics without any socially redeeming qualiites. Ugh.

Entertaining and Funny........2004-06-02

This book does call for considerable suspension of belief, but
fiction tends to call on us for that suspension; in this story,
the reader has to be ready to suspend a large amount of belief
and logic, but that said, this is a very entertaining and funny
book.
One point of the story is that we tend to expect the life of a
small-college professor, especially just a visiting prof., to
be rather one-dimensional and even dull. But this particular
prof. suddenly finds himself immersed in those famous trilogy
of high-living qualities, guns, drugs and sex.
He bounces from one problem to another, and along the way, his
friends and students get more and more involved, to the point
where they end up getting shot, beat up, robbed and generallly
knocked around, and the prof. himself seems only interested in
getting a little "action" with some women and in gaining some
employment.
It is difficult to describe crimes and violence and make it
seem funny, knowing as we do the horrible reality of it from
our reading and daily lives, but this author manages to do just
that. When you read some of these violent encounters, and meet
the vicious characters involved, it is hard to laugh, but laugh
we will.
With the multiple plots and characters moving along, the pace
is very good and fast, and the results are sometimes surprising.
Life in a small college town may not be like this, but this writer does make it all sound intriguing.
There are gangsters, drug dealers, college girls on the make,
professors who seem to have little interest in teaching, mysterious mobsters who are hiding out while writing poetry,
and more characters than we can almost keep track of, and they
are all interesting, and we can't help but want to keep reading
about them.
The author does a very nice job of maintaining a very high level
of interest, and most readers will keep wanting more.

Damn good.......2004-05-18

Gischler is a pro at making violence funny, without losing suspense or tension.

His second effort is assured, exciting, and features some of the most memorable characters in recent crime fiction.

If you like Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, James Crumley, Joe Lansdale, or Donald Westlake, then you must read Victor Gischler.

It's good.......but.....it's not Gun Monkeys.......2004-03-24

Maybe I was unfair with my high expectations for this book. If I had never read Gun Monkeys, I would have been pleasantly amused by the Pistol Poets, and might have looked for more from Victor Gischler, (but, frankly, not with a real effort). So, maybe I set myself up for failure because Gun Monkeys was so good. (It really is a great book!) So, I expected a book of at least the humor and "pathos" of GM. What I got was something that seemed more a "kooky kopy" of Dave Barry/Kinky Friedman/Carl Hiaasen, etc. Good writers, but they do the wacky mystery novel better than this - much better. I was disappointed.

Most characters are one dimensional, and fairly uninteresting, (with the exception of "Jones", the amatuer poet/mob boss). They have implausable and unbelievable things happen to them, not as a consequence of a believable chain of events, but just to keep the "kookiness" at a high level. About halfway through the novel I lost interest, and put it aside for about two weeks, which I almost never do with a book. Even Professor Jay Morgan, the protagonist, lost my sympathy towards the end. The book had great potential, and I suspect was the victim of editing rewrites - at least I hope that that was the case. I look forward to the next Gischler novel, but if it is no better than the Pistol Poets, it'll be my last. Well, at least in hardback :)

EXCELLENT.......2004-03-23

A few years ago I started reading mysteries on the internet. I found sites like Plots With Guns, The Thrilling Detective, and Judas. This is where I first heard of Victor Gischler. At that time he was writing a column for Plots With Guns called Hardboiled Dixie. And he had short stories all over the place.
Gun Monkeys was his first novel and worth the price of admission for the first paragraph alone. It was a wild ride and I couldn't wait for his next.
Last month The Pistol Poets was published. Was it worth the wait? HELL YES. Gischler has outdone himself.
What's the book about? Glad you asked.
Money
Drugs
Lust
Sex
Murder
And that's all in the first chapter.

Professor Jay Morgan: A "gypsy" on the academic circuit he teaches on a different campus from year to year. After finding a girl dead in his bed things go from bad to worse.

Harold Jenks: A drug dealer from St. Louis who wants a new life and after stealing a dead mans identity he might just get his wish.

Timothy Lancaster and Wayne DelPrego: Two poetry students who get caught up Jenks life and drug deal.

Ginny Conrad: A student reporter who gets more than she bargained for.

Fred Jones: Mysterious university benefactor who wants to be a poet.

And

Dele Stubbs: The craziest private eye you've ever read about.

There are parts of the novel that made me laugh out loud and other parts that left me sick with grief. In all honesty I hated to finish this book but couldn't put it down. Why? Because I knew that once finished I was going to have a long wait until the next Gischler novel is published.

Run to the bookstore and get this one Gischler is a genius, you won't be disappointed.

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Victor Gischler
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Book Description.......2007-07-08

The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia--with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front P.I.'s hunt for missing coeds and one desperate street-tough has to decide which he'd rather be: a live poet or a dead criminal.

An unlucky grad student just got himself killed in a robbery gone bad. And as lowly drug lieutenant Harold Jenks races with the killer out of the alley, a light goes off in his head: He'll steal the dead kid's identity. Now Jenks, who once lorded it over seven square blocks in East St. Louis, is headed due west. With a .32 in his pocket, a 9mm Glock taped across his back, and a rap sheet nearly as long as Finnegans Wake, he's cruising the halls of academia as Eastern Oklahoma U's newest grad student, looking for action and hoping he can stay one couplet ahead of his violent past.

While this new bad boy on campus makes mincemeat of his metaphors, across campus visiting professor Jay Morgan has a more pressing problem: What to do about the dead coed in his bed. The professor's no killer, but try telling that to private eye Deke Stubbs. With the professor on the lam and Stubbs hot on his trail, more trouble blows into town. Now, as St. Louis drug boss Red Zach and his minions converge on Fumbee, Oklahoma, looking for a consignment of missing cocaine, the bullets start flying faster than the zingers at a faculty hate fest. For Morgan and Jenks, now desperate fugitives from poetic justice, survival means learning new skills--and learning fast. Because if they find out they're bottom-of-the-class, that means they're already dead.

Featuring the sleaziest, sorriest, and most captivating group of criminal lowlifes, sexed-up academics, poets, and rappers ever to collide in one crime novel, The Pistol Poets speeds deliriously to its electrifying payoff.

The pistol of the beg, (Poet lore plays)

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K. M Čapek-Chod
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Victor Gischler
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