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Originally Part II of Physical Chemistry, Second Edition, and now published as its own volume, Matter in Equilibrium: Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics simultaneously develops the statistical molecular theory and the classical thermodynamic theory of the bulk properties of matter in a mutually reinforcing fashion. Despite presenting both a microscopic and macroscopic approach, this sophisticated text offers a rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics and allows professors to separate the two theories if desired. Packed with tables, graphs, and figures, it describes the equilibrium properties of bulk matter and develops the tools needed to study gases, solids, liquids, phase transformations, solutions of nonelectrolytes, and solutions of electrolytes. The book makes extensive use of computer simulations of molecular behavior and, where appropriate, uses experimental data to illustrate concepts and principles. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level courses, Matter in Equilibrium broadens and challenges student perspectives while offering valuable information to researchers.
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Excellent book........2007-09-22
This book is fantastic and is part of a 3 volume series. Ideal for the undergraduate and graduate student in engineering, physics, chemistry, and math. Concise and easy to read.
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Hydrodynamic Limits and Related Topics (Fields Institute Communications)
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This book presents the lecture notes and articles from the workshop on hydrodynamic limits held at The Fields Institute (Toronto). The first part of the book contains the notes from the mini-course given by Professor S. R. S. Varadhan. The second part contains research articles reviewing the diverse progress in the study of hydrodynamic limits and related areas. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and its techniques, including entropy and relative entropy methods, large deviation estimates, and techniques in nongradient systems. This book, especially the lectures of Part I, could be used as a text for an advanced graduate course in hydrodynamic limits and interacting particle systems.
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Topics in Statistical Mechanics (Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts)
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Building on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, this book presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. It begins with a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics considered from a unified viewpoint. After a brief revision of non-interacting systems, emphasis is laid on interacting systems. First, weakly interacting systems are considered, where the interest is in seeing how such interactions cause small deviations from the non-interacting case. Second, systems are examined where interactions lead to drastic changes, namely phase transitions. A number of specific examples are given, and these are unified within the Landau theory of phase transitions. The final chapter of the book looks at non-equilibrium systems and the way these evolve towards equilibrium. Here, fluctuations play a vital role, as is formalized in the Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem.
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A good supplement to standard SM textbooks.......2007-01-04
I used this book to enrich the examples in my lecture notes for statistical mechanics. It covers all topics in the standrad course for statistical mechanics, from thermodynamics to basics of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The author provides many examples to illusrate the theory. The style of presentation, especially, the mathematics, is not so formal like the one by K. Huang and is very readable. In my opinion, it is a useful referrence to students and teachers for the course of statistical mechanics.
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This book pays tribute to two pioneers in the field of Mathematical physics, Jiri Patera and Pavel Winternitz of the CRM. Each has contributed more than forty years to the subject of mathematical physics, particularly to the study of algebraic methods.
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From Phase Transitions to Chaos: Topics in Modern Statistical Physics
G. Gyorgyi ,
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Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics deals with the computer simulation of many-body systems in condensed-matter physics and related fields of physics, chemistry and beyond, to traffic flows, stock market fluctuations, etc.). Using random numbers generated by a computer, probability distributions are calculated, allowing the estimation of the thermodynamic properties of various systems. This book describes the theoretical background to several variants of these Monte Carlo methods and gives a systematic presentation from which newcomers can learn to perform such simulations and to analyze their results. This fourth edition has been updated and a new chapter on Monte Carlo simulation of quantum-mechanical problems has been added. To help students in their work a special web server has been installed to host programs and discussion groups (http://wwwcp.tphys.uni-heidelberg.de). Prof. Binder was the winner of the Berni J. Alder CECAM Award for Computational Physics 2001.
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A graduate level book (Review for the 4th edition).......2007-03-09
This is a nice little book written by two experts of the field. This edition is only an expanded version of earlier editions (by addition of two new chapters, the core of the book chapter 1 to 3 hasn't change at all). The book covers monte carlo techniques through various well-known examples (Ising model, random walk, percolation, self-avoiding random walk). I enjoyed reading the first 3 chapters of the book. In particular, chapter 3 guides the readers and gives them the chance to practice what they should have learned in previous chapter (through 53 exercises). The following 2 chapters (chapter 4 and 5) are not as nicely written. Moreover, there are some serious shortcoming in the book. (1) All codes are written in Fortran. While everyone who can program can easily understand the codes, Fortran belongs to the past and could have been ok for physics students during late 80's (first edition) but not for those at 2006. (2) The guide (chapter 3) should have been the last chapter and have covered subjects in chapters 4 and 5 (3) As I mentioned before, chapter 4 and 5 are not well-organized. (4) The book in general stresses too much on finite-size effects. However, it is an important subject and it tells us how we can scale our simulation result to more realistic cases. By my judgement, the book gives wrong impression about the degree of its importance.
I recommend graduate students who are serious about learning monte carlo methods to read Newman and Barkema book (Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics) instead since it provides a broader view about the subject. Although I highly recommend those who are interested in the subject to go through chapter 3. It is fun and very instructive.
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A Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Without the Assumption of Molecular Chaos
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This book presents the construction of an asymptotic technique for solving the Liouville equation, which is to some degree an analogue of the Enskog-Chapman technique for solving the Boltzmann equation. Because the assumption of molecular chaos has been given up at the outset, the macroscopic variables at a point, defined as arithmetic means of the corresponding microscopic variables inside a small neighborhood of the point, are random in general. They are the best candidates for the macroscopic variables for turbulent flows. The outcome of the asymptotic technique for the Liouville equation reveals some new terms showing the intricate interactions between the velocities and the internal energies of the turbulent fluid flows, which have been lost in the classical theory of BBGKY hierarchy.
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This book surveys and explains the mathematical methods and techniques used in the study of lattice models of polymers in solvents. The techniques include the self-avoiding walk and its related models including animal and tree graphs, surfaces and vesicles. The important feature in all these models in the contribution of conformational degrees of freedom to the free energy, and this leads on to the idea of a tricritical point. The book explores the theory of tricriticality showing how it can be used to interpret the limiting free energy and generating functions. Density function and pattern theorems are also discusssed and finally these ideas are applied to models of collapsing and adsorbing walks, to composite polygons and crumpling surfaces.
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THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE is a fictional tale of an American librarian who leaves Brooklyn to work for a relief organization in Africa that sends books on the backs of camels to forgotten villages. Her intentions are entirely pure but, when the bookmobile causes a feud among the nomadic tribe it aims to help, she realizes her good deeds may come with a high price.
The actual Camel Bookmobile made its first run almost a decade ago. Three dromedaries trudged through arid northeastern Kenya to bring a library to settlements so remote they had become nearly invisible. Lacking roads, clean water, and food, those who inhabited these villiages had never been to school much less held a book in their hands. The books that came to them were rare and precious gifts, allowing them to briefly escape the reality of squalor and destitution.
Appealing to the fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Bookseller of Kabul, The Camel Bookmobile captures a time and place that is unknown to many but relevant to all.
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A Moveable Feast.......2007-09-22
This book succeeds on a variety of levels. It is first of all enjoyable fiction. The factual quotes before chapters lend a bleak reality to the stark conditions of the environment wherein the story transpires. It is, however, the richness of the characterization that makes the novel soar. Each character sings in a proud triumphant voice, as the bookmobile enters, leaves and then returns to the complexity of African life.
beautiful!.......2007-07-02
It's been a long time since the characters in a story have continued to live on for me after I've finished the book. This is one of those stories. As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, I could both identify with Fi Sweeney and ponder the larger questions of what happens when one tries to bring progress to another culture. No easy answers, but lots to think about, long after you've finished reading.
Beautifully Accomplished........2007-06-09
I bought this book as a recommendation from a friend as he knew my interests and thought this would be perfect. I wasn't in the least bit disappointed. Hamilton unravels the tale of Fiona Sweeney, a modern librarian from the states, who has a mission and a goal: bringing education to the tribal peoples of Africa.
With multiple twists and turns to the plot that I didn't foresee when I first picked up the book, I was pleasantly surprised. Hamilton's writing is not only beautiful and captivating, but also brings forth a sense of importance. It's a book with awareness and a deep spiritual connection that left me with a 'united' feeling. I was both enamored and amused by the supporting cast, but also left with a feeling of kinship with Fi who has a strong belief in what she does. She's the type of woman who wont go down without a fight, strong but still emotional. She has a certain need to fulfill this mission and even when turned away, she is assertive and determined in her belief.
From the dusky, romantic setting of Africa to the sense of balance in Fi Sweeney's heart, this book was a delight. The awareness of the subject matter is brought into strong focus, yet still maintains a balance of wonderful writing. A true success.
A remarkable achievement.......2007-06-05
In The Camel Bookmobile, Masha Hamilton tackles important philosophical and cultural questions with sensitivity and grace. This book is anything but abstract, though. Librarian Fiona Sweeney; her Kenyan counterpart, Mr. Abasi; and especially the members of the Mididima tribe are complex, intelligent, passionate individuals whom we come to care about and root for, and whose fragile future assumes heartbreaking importance.
Not as good as the real thing!.......2007-05-31
Although the real Camel Book Drive that is a new and wonderful charity organization now going on in Africa is an exciting event that brings books to the people of that country, the novelization of the story is not as riveting. I struggle to see why other reviewers are raving about this boring and disastrous tale. Perhaps they feel the actual real story of the bookmobile merits giving the book flying colors. I was expecting so much more from this promising title and felt very misled by the descriptive blurb on the front inside jacket flap. I was expecting to hear how these books and authors were going to change the lives of these people, I was waiting to see how the people would react and wonder about the various stories that are brought to them across the dry dusty desert by a caravan of camels. Not so. We have one trip, the first trip, into one village, that soon causes trouble and disaster to the future of the camel book mobile. The entire rest of the book is one long affair with our heroine the librarian to straighten out the problem one villager has caused. The reader then has to suffer through the rest of the novel hearing about the trials and tribulations and petty social and family ordeals of the locals, instead of the promised literary input the books are supposedly suppose to create for these villages. I truly struggled to finish it and when I finally turned the last page I felt I had wasted the entire day that it took to read this slow and disappointing story.
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Conspiracy theories--everybody has one. The difference with this conspiracy is that it's all too real. David Baldacci's The Camel Club takes readers inside the Beltway as four unlikely misfits struggle not only to survive, but to save their president and their country from a plot that will lead to nuclear disaster.
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Conspiracy theories--everybody has one. The difference with this conspiracy is that it's all too real. David Baldacci's The Camel Club takes readers inside the Beltway as four unlikely misfits struggle not only to survive, but to save their president and their country from a plot that will lead to nuclear disaster.Bestselling BaldacciLast Man StandingThe WinnerTotal Control The Simple TruthAbsolute PowerSaving Faith
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Baldacci Outdoes himself!.......2007-10-04
This is a don't miss book. Not only has Baldacci created a plot with such twists and turns as to make the reader absolutely giddy, he has created characters that are at once believable and quite amusing. This page-turner grabs the reader from the first paragraph and keeps the reader turning pages until the last word.
The Camel Club plods like one.......2007-09-22
Nobody loves a conspiracy theory more than me. But not this one. Mainly because its not a thriller so much as a thinly disguised attempt to tell us we really are the Great Satan, and that Americans would be better off with a Socialist government, and that peace is attainable only if we give half of our wealth to the Muslims of the world.
First, the book. It seems that there's a conspiracy within Homeland Security, and that only 4 or 5 well placed people there can actually dupe the whole multi-billion dollar system. Ok. I've had to suspend belief beyond this chidish assumption, so let's soldier on. Then, we plod along for almost 400 pages, where we learn the following:
1. The world's resources should be doled out equally to the world's inhabitants like a plate of Grandma's tasty pastries, because she'll never make another one, and that's the only fair thing to do.
2. Good decent Muslims only came to hate us because of Iraq.
3. But for the first two points, there would be peace in the middle east.
4. Mentally deranged geniuses and hobos can save the world, without telling anyone.
5. Our government officials, gloating over our superiority, are kept from raining nuclear weapons on the world without provocation only by the slimmest of fortuitous events.
Good lord.
The Camel Club has an unnecessarily confusing beginning, a tediously, plodding middle and finishes so abruptly and implausibly we're left with the impression Balducci either tired of writing or his editors forced him into a timeline.
In the last 100 pages, we're introduced to new characters of such malicious, evil stupidity that the whole book could have been written about them. Here they are only used to bring some strange and bizarre ending.
In the Camel Club, we give Balducci virtually 600 pages of our precious time to prove why Americans are at fault for 9/11 because we really are the Great Satan. He does a terrible job, and ends up revealing the argument for the tragic parody it really is.
I've tried to like David Balducci. I really have. But really, this guy gets rich doing this? Please. And in the middle of a war yet. What an insulting time to display his insidious and childish sermonizing.
First Book in the Camel Club Series.......2007-08-26
David Baldacci attended law school at the University of Virginia, and went on to work as a trial lawyer, and later as a corporate lawyer, in Washington, D.C. He is now a full-time writer whose best selling novels include Absolute Power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth and Saving Faith. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.
The Camel Club could not be said to have a blossoming membership, in fact four forgotten and exccentric people is the sum total of the clubs membership. It exists close to Washington, D.C., has no power as such. The goal of the members is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions.
The aging leader of the group has no known past (recorded that is) and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night this group of four study wild conspiracy theories, current events and the machinations of the government of the day, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's politicians accountable to its citizens and after witnessing a shocking murder the Club is drawn headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation . . .
In the Camel Club the author paints a picture of the world that could be all too true in the future, with a few powerful people having the opportunity to stop the chaos.
Just curious..........2007-08-18
When Hemingway met with the man referred to as just the Arab in Frankfurt, were there any leftist talking points the Arab missed? I literally laughed when he said, "You have only 5% of the world's population but consume 25% of the energy." That was one of about twenty liberal talking points he managed to get out in about two pages. I felt embarrassed for the author after reading that exchange.
The Camel Club.......2007-08-09
Great characters - a story that spins and twist and is so well resolved in the end. I want to read about these four main charaters ("The Camel Club") again
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The Camel Club is a meeting place for the powerful movers and shakers, where men of influence come together to eat, drink, and exchange favors and information. Their power is all-reaching and their influence is such that the decisions they make could change the course of history. When a newcomer to the club decides to carry out his grand plan and is ready to take down every obstacle in his way, the fellow members of the club soon realize the situation has gotten out of hand.
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Baldacci Outdoes himself!.......2007-10-04
This is a don't miss book. Not only has Baldacci created a plot with such twists and turns as to make the reader absolutely giddy, he has created characters that are at once believable and quite amusing. This page-turner grabs the reader from the first paragraph and keeps the reader turning pages until the last word.
The Camel Club plods like one.......2007-09-22
Nobody loves a conspiracy theory more than me. But not this one. Mainly because its not a thriller so much as a thinly disguised attempt to tell us we really are the Great Satan, and that Americans would be better off with a Socialist government, and that peace is attainable only if we give half of our wealth to the Muslims of the world.
First, the book. It seems that there's a conspiracy within Homeland Security, and that only 4 or 5 well placed people there can actually dupe the whole multi-billion dollar system. Ok. I've had to suspend belief beyond this chidish assumption, so let's soldier on. Then, we plod along for almost 400 pages, where we learn the following:
1. The world's resources should be doled out equally to the world's inhabitants like a plate of Grandma's tasty pastries, because she'll never make another one, and that's the only fair thing to do.
2. Good decent Muslims only came to hate us because of Iraq.
3. But for the first two points, there would be peace in the middle east.
4. Mentally deranged geniuses and hobos can save the world, without telling anyone.
5. Our government officials, gloating over our superiority, are kept from raining nuclear weapons on the world without provocation only by the slimmest of fortuitous events.
Good lord.
The Camel Club has an unnecessarily confusing beginning, a tediously, plodding middle and finishes so abruptly and implausibly we're left with the impression Balducci either tired of writing or his editors forced him into a timeline.
In the last 100 pages, we're introduced to new characters of such malicious, evil stupidity that the whole book could have been written about them. Here they are only used to bring some strange and bizarre ending.
In the Camel Club, we give Balducci virtually 600 pages of our precious time to prove why Americans are at fault for 9/11 because we really are the Great Satan. He does a terrible job, and ends up revealing the argument for the tragic parody it really is.
I've tried to like David Balducci. I really have. But really, this guy gets rich doing this? Please. And in the middle of a war yet. What an insulting time to display his insidious and childish sermonizing.
First Book in the Camel Club Series.......2007-08-26
David Baldacci attended law school at the University of Virginia, and went on to work as a trial lawyer, and later as a corporate lawyer, in Washington, D.C. He is now a full-time writer whose best selling novels include Absolute Power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth and Saving Faith. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.
The Camel Club could not be said to have a blossoming membership, in fact four forgotten and exccentric people is the sum total of the clubs membership. It exists close to Washington, D.C., has no power as such. The goal of the members is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions.
The aging leader of the group has no known past (recorded that is) and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night this group of four study wild conspiracy theories, current events and the machinations of the government of the day, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's politicians accountable to its citizens and after witnessing a shocking murder the Club is drawn headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation . . .
In the Camel Club the author paints a picture of the world that could be all too true in the future, with a few powerful people having the opportunity to stop the chaos.
Just curious..........2007-08-18
When Hemingway met with the man referred to as just the Arab in Frankfurt, were there any leftist talking points the Arab missed? I literally laughed when he said, "You have only 5% of the world's population but consume 25% of the energy." That was one of about twenty liberal talking points he managed to get out in about two pages. I felt embarrassed for the author after reading that exchange.
The Camel Club.......2007-08-09
Great characters - a story that spins and twist and is so well resolved in the end. I want to read about these four main charaters ("The Camel Club") again
Customer Reviews:
It keeps you thinking ........2007-07-16
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
His knowledge of our government agencies is real .
He makes you use your thinking cap.
Clunky, clumsy, completely implausible... Where's Baldacci?.......2007-06-15
Mr. Baldacci has constructed another decent summertime read. Just be prepared to have your suspension of disbelief stretched (believe it or not, compassionate terrorists!) and you'll get to muscle through some truly clunky, clumsy dialogue. I could give you several examples, but as a general rule, Baldacci uses dialogue as his method of information delivery to the audience, rather than simple explanitory prose:
1) You'll encounter secret service agents that evidently need to explain the mundane details of their protocols to each other.
2) You'll hear a clerk at the Library of Congress explain the book viewing process in painstaking detail to a guy who goes there routinely. The other guy doesn't ask him to hurry up.
3) You'll meet a muslim woman who articulately explains at length the many wonderful virtues of Islam to a gum-smaking American woman who can barely form a coherent sentance and is distracted by the many infidelities she's about to commit...
You may roll your eyes. Probably more than once. If eye-rolling isn't your thing, you might just sigh and beg Mr. Baldacci to "GET ON WITH IT!"
There are a good number of interweaving plot lines, but the paper-thin characters can make it very easy to find onesself asking, "Who are we talking about again? Is this the blond guy from the NSA or the brown-haired guy from the CIA or the red-head guy from the PTA?"
Please don't expect a whole lot of action prior to Chapter 20. Or for a few chapters after that. At least the words are small and clip-clop along at a brisk pace.
If all this sounds like your kind of book, then The Camel Club could be worth a guilty-pleasure read.
Book Description
The #1 bestselling author ofThe Collectors and Simple Genius returns with STONE COLD...an unforgetable novel of revenge, conspiracy, and murder that brings a band of unlikely heroes face-to-face with their greatest threat.Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected by those who've crossed his path. Keeping a vigilant watch over our leaders in Washington, D.C., the Camel Club has won over some allies, but it has also earned formidable enemies-including those in power who will do anything to prevent Stone and his friends from uncovering the hidden, secret work of the government.Annabelle Conroy, an honorary member of the Camel Club, is also the greatest con artist of her generation. She has swindled forty million dollars from casino king Jerry Bagger, the man who murdered her mother. Now he's hot on her trail with only one goal in mind: Annabelle's death. But as Stone and the Camel Club circle the wagons to protect Annabelle, a new opponent, who makes Bagger's menace pale by comparison, suddenly arises.One by one, men from Stone's shadowy past are turning up dead. Behind this slaughter stands one man: Harry Finn. To almost all who know him, Finn is a doting father and loving husband who uses his skills behind the scenes to keep our nation safe. But the other face of Harry Finn is that of an unstoppable killer who inevitably sets his lethal bull's-eye on Oliver Stone. And with Finn, Stone may well have met his match.As Annabelle and the Camel Club fight for their lives, the twists and turns whipsaw, leading to a finale that is as explosive as it is shattering. And when buried secrets are at last violently resurrected, the members of the Camel Club left standing will be changed forever. With unrelenting pacing, stunning reversals, and two of the most compelling characters in modern fiction, STONE COLD is David Baldacci writing at his breathtaking best.
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3 DAVID BALDACCI Books: 1) - Simple Genius (Sean King and Michelle Maxwell)/ 2) - The Collectors (renegade CIA agent Roger Seagraves) / 3) - The Camel Club, in either Hard or Softcover, (See Seller Condition Comments), Shipped in one
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5 Book Set; the Camel Club; Wish You Well; the Simple Truth; Split Seond; Hour Game By David Baldacci.
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CAMEL CLUB
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