Electrocrystallization: Fundamentals of Nucleation and Growth
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    Electrocrystallization: Fundamentals of Nucleation and Growth
    Alexander Milchev
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    The book is an up-to-date introduction to the fundamentals of the initial stages of Electrocrystallization, which are dominated by nucleation and growth of the first clusters of the new phase. It offers a readable exposition of the topic, in simple terms, providing a detailed theoretical description of the phenomena involved. The most relevant aspects of the experimental studies of electrochemical nucleation and growth are considered, as well, including some important methods for acquiring and analyzing experimental results.

    Having specific properties quite different from those of bulk materials, these small, nano-clusters have always attracted considerable attention, and many sophisticated methods have been developed for cluster studies. In spite of this, information on small clusters can still be obtained by simple experiments, and the book shows that Electrocrystallization is unique in this respect. In this special case the phase change may be controlled experimentally by controlling the voltage and current, two simple and easily measurable electrical quantities. Certainly, this is what makes electrochemical systems an attractive object of study both from a scientific and from a practical point of view.

    Crystal Growth - From Fundamentals to Technology
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      The book contains 5 chapters with 19 contributions form internationally well acknowledged experts in various fields of crystal growth. The topics are ranging from fundamentals (thermodynamic of epitaxy growth, kinetics, morphology, modeling) to new crystal materials (carbon nanocrystals and nanotubes, biological crystals), to technology (Silicon Czochralski growth, oxide growth, III-IV epitaxy) and characterization (point defects, X-ray imaging, in-situ STM). It covers the treatment of bulk growth as well as epitaxy by anorganic and organic materials.
      Additives and Crystallization Processes: From Fundamentals to Applications
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        Keshra Sangwal
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        Crystal growth technology involves processes for the production of crystals essential for microelectronics, communication technologies, lasers and energy producing and energy saving technology. A deliberately added impurity is called an additive and in different industries these affect the process of crystal growth. Thus, understanding of interactions between additives and the crystallizing phases is important in different processes found in the lab, nature and in various industries.

        This book presents a generalized description of the mechanisms of action of additives during nucleation, growth and aggregation of crystals during crystallization and has received endorsement from the President of the International Organization for Crystal Growth. It is the first text devoted to the role of additives in different crystallization processes encountered in the lab, nature and in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, food and biofuels.

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        Crystal Growth Technology: From Fundamentals and Simulation to Large-scale Production
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              Perspectives on Inorganic, Organic, and Biological Crystal Growth: From Fundamentals to Applications: 13th International Summer School on Crystal Growth ... / Materials Physics and Applications)
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                      Until I Find You: A Novel
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                      John Irving
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                      At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can't forgive. Longtime Irving readers have stayed with him through a few hits and a miss or two, but this is an all-time low. We are accustomed to Irving's work as quirky, bizarre, and off-the-wall and have forgiven all by calling such high-jinks and characters "imaginative" or "absolutely original." The only thing original about this tome is the descent into soft porn.

                      Jack Burns, the hero of the tale, is four years old when it all begins. He is the illegitimate son of Daughter Alice, a tattoo artist and, guess what, daughter of a tattoo artist. She takes Jack on a pilgrimage to find his womanizing father, William, a church organist and "ink addict." By seeking out church organs and tattoo parlors, she expects to find him. She doesn't, and by now we have spent more than a hundred pages in Northern European cities doing an imitation of Groundhog Day. Same story, different day: a little prostitution for Alice, a few questions asked; alas, no daddy.

                      Alice and Jack return to Toronto so that Jack may enter a previously all-girls school, which will admit little boys for the first time. There begins another 200 pages of the girls and the teachers abusing Jack, over and over again. By now, he is five and is, for some unfathomable reason, eminently interesting to girls and women. His "friend" Emma keeps careful track of "the little guy," as she calls Jack's penis, looking for signs of life. The worst part of all this is that none of it is funny or sad or even clever. There are wrestling vignettes, of course, and prep school tedium, but no bears. Maybe bears would have saved it. There were funny parts in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well as poignant, horrific parts in both of those and other Irving novels. This story is flat. The voice never changes; it just drones on.

                      Jack becomes an actor. First, he is a boy in drag because he is so pretty, then he takes transvestite parts. He and Emma, now a published novelist, live together in LA, which provides endless opportunity for name-dropping. His career eventually takes off and he gets recognition and awards, but still no daddy. Irving, it turns out, never knew his father, either. Perhaps this exercise will exorcise that demon once and for all and Irving's next book will be about something more compelling than a little boy's penis and his trashy mother's antics. If you do make it through to the book's snapper of an ending, you deserve to find out what it is on your own. Call it a reward. --Valerie Ryan

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                      Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.

                      When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead – has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”

                      Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England – including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women – from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.

                      Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.

                      Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older – and when his mother dies – he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.

                      A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.

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                      John Irving has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar. Until I Find You is his eleventh novel. He lives in Vermont and Toronto.


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                      1 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2007-09-27

                      After having read a fair number of John Irving's earlier novels, I was disappointed with the cardboard characters in this one and the endless elaboration on pointless details. Not once did I get to feel any identification with the main characters. I literally struggled through the 500+ pages of the hardback version.
                      Apart from Toronto, Maine and LA, the book describes scenes in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Zurich and Mr Irving has gone through great pains to insert local insiders info, rendering the book into something of a tourist guide. The author indulges here in a writer's trick to add interestingness to the novel, which I found irritating.
                      The subject matter is fashionable, and only that, and as thin as the paper is was printed on.
                      I would not recommend this novel.

                      3 out of 5 stars Melancholic logorrhoea.......2007-08-10

                      I suspect that once you've reached a certain level of fame, publishers simply stop editing you. After all, whatever you write is destined to sell. Why rock the boat? It's clear that John Irving has reached that level. He's a great storyteller, and his characters are vibrant and interesting, but boy, is his latest novel, Until I Find You, in need of a decent edit.

                      The book presents an absorbing story which pivots around Jack Burns, a young actor and inevitable ladies man who spends his life unraveling the memories of his childhood. Irving cleverly presents us with a story in the first half which is presented as Jack Burn's childhood. It begins in 1969 with Jack and his mother Alice searching for his runaway father, the organist and tattoo junkie William Burns. The chase is entertaining enough as Alice and Jack go on a grand adventure which takes them through the brothels of Europe, tattoo parlours, and cafes. Jack's naïve perspective on the sometimes wild goings on is both charming and indicative of his later personality as he forms his own brand of understanding of the tawdry situation his mother puts him in. Although they remain close, they don't find William, and go back to Toronto so Jack can get an education at an all girls' school. As you might expect, his education is rather more extensive than a mother might like, and as his father's reputation has preceded him, Jack follows in his footsteps as he is regularly abused, coddled, and mentored into a combination of acting genius famous for his transvestite roles, and compulsive womanizer. As Jack ages, the plot line moves forward through Jack's almost accidental stardom, his long time friend Emma's fame as a writer, and above all, Jack's desire to find his father, and discover himself. All that is good, and there is much here to applaud, from the rich settings that Jack traverses, the well researched sense of place, the funky exploration of the world of tattooing and the interesting melding of the delicate with the rough. The book is populated with interesting damaged characters from Jack's mother Daughter Alice, the delicate Miss Wurtz at Jack's school to a host of dodgy and damaged tattoo artists, porn stars, wrestlers, crazy actresses, psychiatrists, a pregnant aerobics instructor and a few famous actors.

                      It's a great first draft. But there is so much extraneous material here. From the start of Jack's education, there's a continuum of catalogue-like name dropping that is beyond tedious. From the entire synopsis of the play Jack puts on at St Hilda's school, the complete plotline to Blade Runner, to a catalogue of Oscars won in various years, overviews of what various film stars were wearing at a number of both fictional and real events, the films Jack saw (complete with multi-paragraphed plotlines), to the complete story (so detailed as to be a story itself) of one of each of Jack's films; Irving spares his readers nothing.

                      Until I Find You never really achieves its promise, partly because it is so weighed down with irrelevancy, and the reader is therefore unable to give Jack the sympathy that such a myopically presented character deserves as he moves from 1969 to 2000. Clearly John Irving is a talented writer, whose extensive research is matched by his extensive knowledge. It's just a shame he doesn't have a trusted editor willing to insist that Irving cut the ridiculous quantity of fluff out of his latest tome. Jack is "a writer, , albeit one given to melancholic logorrhoea. A storyteller, if only out loud." (699). The same could be said for this Until I find You. The book simply doesn't realise its potential, either in terms of its characters or the force of its plot. Melancholic logorrhoea is an excellent description.

                      Magdalena Ball is the author of Sleep Before Evening
                      "There is so much beautiful writing here, soaring passages."

                      4 out of 5 stars What I found in this Irving novel........2007-08-06

                      John Irving has long been one of my favorite contemporary authors. Having begun reading him long ago with 'Garp', and later discovering the beautiful 'Owen Meaney', I've followed his novels for many years, without much disappointment.

                      Certainly, as is the case with many authors, there are some works by them you like, and some you don't. However, some of the criticism of others for this novel really surprises me, and seems underserved. No, this isn't my favorite of John Irving's books...but I didn't expect it to be.

                      'Until I Find You' is full of the usual themes that John Irving has explored in past novels...the only child raised by a strong-willed mother...feelings of inadequacy...loss of loved ones...etc. You cannot read a John Irving novel without seeing these recurring trends, although each of his novels are different, they do carry similar traits.

                      This story centers on Jack Burns, beginning at age four, holding the hand of his mother, Alice, as they search many North Sea towns and cities for Jack's decamped father, William...whom Alice seeks to make him 'own up to his responsibility to Jack.' A skilled, but fledgling, tattoo artist at the time, Alice plies her 'portable trade' around Europe to earn their keep, while she and Jack migrate from place to place on William's trail.

                      Years later, Jack (as an adult, and accomplished actor) finds the truth of this 'quest'...as he seeks out his own truth as to why his father was never present in his life.

                      Other reviews will offer more detail on the plot, and with 200+ such reviews to choose from, I'll refrain from rehashing what has already been said, and just offer my likes and dislikes:

                      Likes: I enjoyed the tone of this novel, as I have other Irving works. He writes in a very 'somber' way about love and loss, and typically avoids grand 'Hollywood' endings to his novels, even if this one is about a movie star. I enjoy how human John Irving can make his characters, by placing them in extraordinary AND ordinary circumstances, by making them face disappointment, regret, anger, and loss, just as we all do in life. In a day and age where 'thriller fiction' completely misses the boat of characterization, I'm happy to see John Irving will still indulge me. The story is detailed, rich in 'geography' of Amsterdam and other European cities; and full of the wit, insight, and unique visions of life that lovers of John Irving's novels have come to expect.

                      Dislikes: It's hard to detail my one and only real 'dislike' without giving away much of the plot. Suffice to say that Mr. Irving's protagonist, Jack, got an education far earlier than I was really comfortable reading about. C'est la vie...John Irving does not write 'Little Golden Books'....and even though what I have referred to here is a 'dislike', as a friend told me, 'Keep going, it's worth getting to the end.'

                      Overall, I really enjoyed this read as much as I enjoyed 'Fourth Hand', 'Widow for One Year' and many other Irving Books. I don't know that John Irving will ever captivate me as much as he did with Owen Meaney again, but...this is a fine addition to my John Irving novel collection.

                      1 out of 5 stars This Man is Delusional!.......2007-08-01

                      For an author that has been publishing books for 30+ years, you'd think he'd be able to create an identity of his own by now. But after his eleventh attempt, John Irving tries to write more like Dickens than ever.

                      The most obvious example: the length. Jesus Christ. If this book was any longer, I think I would have had a seizure and gone blind from irritation. I've heard him say while being interviewed, that a person either has the capacity to read long novels or doesn't. This is b.s. If the book is a good one, I don't care how long it is, I don't care if it's 5000 pages, I'll finish it. If the book is boring and indulgent, into the garbage it goes.

                      Second: the "peripheral" characters. Dickens was known for the endless amount of characters (mostly pointless) in his novels; so what does John Irving do? He puts about a thousand, trite characters in Until I Find You that have stupid names (Daughter Alice) and stupid tattoos (Rose of Jericho)... and they keep coming, and coming, and coming, and just when you thought he was finished, he throws in about a dozen more.

                      Third: the tone. Irving, no matter how modern and risque the plot, seems to write in a tightass, presumptuous, Victorian style. The main character in this book is an actor, a very famous one. The way Irving writes Hollywood, especially award-ceremonies, is completely ridiculous. I guess because he wrote one screenplay, he thinks he's got that field covered, as well.

                      I don't know what else to say. I'm just p.o.'d that I wasted so much time over this worthless book.

                      4 out of 5 stars Follow the yellow brick road..........2007-06-25

                      This was the first John Irving novel (800++ pages!) I have ever read.
                      Yes it is repetitive and thus boring at times, and yes the hero's mother is the queen of dysfunction and visits that dysfunction on her little boy. There were times that I wanted to just quit, but for some reason I kept going back. I love Jack, I love Emma, and I like the Wertz very much. By the end I wanted Jack, Emma (that sweet Honey Pie), Heather, and William to go on forever.
                      Until I Find You- A Novel
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                        UNTIL I FIND YOU, A NOVEL.
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                          UNTIL I FIND YOU, A NOVEL.
                          John. Irving
                          Manufacturer: Random House,
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Hardcover
                          ASIN: B000U5TRTU
                          In search of dad: a big, fat, heavily italicized new novel from John Irving.(Until I Find You: A Novel)(Book Review): An article from: The Weekly Standard
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                            In search of dad: a big, fat, heavily italicized new novel from John Irving.(Until I Find You: A Novel)(Book Review): An article from: The Weekly Standard
                            Priscilla M. Jensen
                            Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Digital
                            ASIN: B000B3DUJO
                            Release Date: 2005-08-17

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                            Title: In search of dad: a big, fat, heavily italicized new novel from John Irving.(Until I Find You: A Novel)(Book Review)
                            Author: Priscilla M. Jensen
                            Publication: The Weekly Standard (Magazine/Journal)
                            Date: August 8, 2005
                            Publisher: Thomson Gale
                            Volume: 10 Issue: 44 Page: 31(3)

                            Article Type: Book Review

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                            Set of 4 Standalone Novels By John Irving - The CIder House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, THe Fourth Hand, Until I Find You
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                              Set of 4 Standalone Novels By John Irving - The CIder House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, THe Fourth Hand, Until I Find You
                              John Irving
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Hardcover
                              ASIN: B000WBE8UU

                              Product Description

                              Set of 4 Standalone Novels By John Irving - The CIder House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, THe Fourth Hand, Until I Find You.

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