Silver-Halide Recording Materials: for Holography and Their Processing (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)

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Silver-Halide Recording Materials gives a detailed analysis of the theory, the characteristics, the manufacturing, and the processing methods of silver-halide materials used for the recording of holograms. Emphasis is placed on the selection of suitable silver-halide materials for conventional as well as special holographic applications. A detailed account of current developing and bleaching methods used in the production of silver-halide holograms is given. The author also supplies a large number of recipes for different types of processing baths. The text is complemented by a comprehensive list of references which will facilitate further study. The monograph will be suitable for courses in holography, where the student possesses some background knowledge about the general holographic process and the holographic technique.

The Physical Principles of Magneto-optical Recording

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A very good introduction on magneto-optical recording.

The Physical Principles of Magneto-optical Recording
Masud Mansuripur
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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This book covers the physics of magneto-optical recording, beginning with first principles, and working through to contemporary state-of-the-art topics. The first half of the book teaches the theory of diffraction using an original unified approach. It also covers the optics of multilayers, polarization optics, noise in photodetection, and thermal aspects. The second half of the book describes the basics of magnetism and magnetic materials, magneto-static field calculations, domains and domain walls, the mean-field theory, magnetization dynamics, the theory of coercivity, and the process of thermomagnetic recording. Numerous examples based on real-world problems encountered in the engineering design of magneto-optical media and systems will give the reader valuable insights into the science and technology of optical recording. Extensive problem sets are included.

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A very good introduction on magneto-optical recording........2006-06-09

The author is very good at giving an overall picture of the principles of magneto-optical recording. This is a very readable book and the pictures are awesome in explaining the concepts. I used this book to help me satisfy a term paper requirement for a graduate level course. Even though I am a newbie to the field of optics and magnetism, the book is self-contained enough for me to understand. A book highly recommended for anyone who wants to know what happens in your magneto-optical drive. It also includes review chapters on diffraction optics, Gaussian beams, and magnetism.

Optical Data Storage: Phase-change media and recording (Philips Research Book Series)

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Good overview of the field

Optical Data Storage: Phase-change media and recording (Philips Research Book Series)
Erwin R. Meinders , Andrei V. Mijiritskii , Liesbeth van Pieterson , and Matthias Wuttig
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ASIN: 1402042167

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Optical data storage represents a major chapter in the history of information storage and the invention of rewritable media has indisputably been an essential addition to the optical storage family. With the multiple overwrite feature, rewritable optical discs have found application in consumer DVD+RW video recorders, professional archiving systems and computer drives for data storage, replacing the floppy disc in the latter case.

Optical Data Storage provides an overview of the recording principles, materials aspects, and application areas of phase-change optical storage. Some theoretical background is given to familiarize the reader with the basics of the phase-change processes. Elements of data recording, including mark formation, eraseability, direct overwrite strategies, data quality and data stability, etc are explained and extensively discussed. A mark formation model is described and used throughout the whole book to back-up measurement results and support the discussed applications. Two major aspects – high-speed and dual-layer recording – are considered in depth and solutions to achieve higher performance are analyzed.

Optical Data Storage is aimed at a broad range of readers – from university teams studying the subject to industrial media manufacturers requiring insights into performance of rewritable optical media.

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Good overview of the field.......2007-08-25

I read this book on my way back from a conference in Colorado and I wasn't happy that Silicon Valley is so close to Colorado.
Intro and 5 chapters give full good overview of optical data storage and plenty of experimental data.
Book is very useful for students and engineers (optics, material sci., mechanics) and everybody who want to know how his/her DVD or CD is working.

High Density Digital Recording (NATO Science Series E:)

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High Density Digital Recording (NATO Science Series E:)

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ASIN: 0792320816

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This book deals with many aspects of high density digital recording. It begins with very basic concepts in magnetism and magneto-optics, then continues with the synthesis and physical properties of recording media, thin films and particulate media. More technological aspects of recording heads and their contact with the recording media are also discussed in subsequent chapters. The second part of the book is devoted to the magneto-optical properties of various recording media and to the engineering of magneto-optical recording.

Optical Near-Field Recording: Science and Technology (Advanced Texts in Physics)

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Optical Near-Field Recording: Science and Technology (Advanced Texts in Physics)
J. Tominaga , and T. Nakano
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ASIN: 354022128X

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This textbook is written for all those wishing to understand the concepts behind modern optical recording. It also paves the way towards the future science and technology beyond the optical diffraction limit. The important keyword here is "near-field optics," a regime whose promising characteristics will open the door to a new information optics. This unique book will be useful for all graduate students, scientists and engineers seeking to advance our understanding of optical near-field recording.

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The Physics of Optical Recording
K. Schwartz
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BEFORE UNDERWORLD, THE WAR RAGED ON....

For untold centuries, a secret conflict has been waged between two immortal rivals:

The vampires -- ageless aristocrats with a sensual appetite for blood and luxury. Among their ranks are the Death Dealers,an elite corps of the undead sworn to the destruction of their ancestral enemies....

The werewolves -- feral warriors capable of transforming into hellish beasts of unearthly power and ferocity. Once the faithful servants of the vampires, the savage lycans now fight toothand claw against their former masters.

Throughout history, the clandestine war has been fought in the shadows of the mortal world. And the seeds of this destructive conflict were sown long ago, when a courageous lycan daredto lose his heart to a beautiful vampire princess.

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Super Reader.......2007-08-07

This is your standard boy meets girl, girl gets incinerated by vampire father for breeding a super supernatural story. With a fun siege scene, and a sneaky statue. While 300 pages, not very dense at all, it won't take you long.

THE BEST (also the plot for the 3rd movie).......2007-02-14

This is one of the best novels that is derived from the movies I have ever read. THis book is truly its own. While everyone who has seen or read Underworld, you know that there was a war between the vampires nad lycans. The lycans served the vampires and were the slaves during the day. When Lucian and Sonya fall in love and Sonya gets pregnant things go horribly wrong! That is what we know from the movie.

In this book we get the full story and all its details with scenes that go to the present where Selene is in the middle of case with lycans and the finding of some of their experimental weapons. This book is also the base of the 3rd Underworld movie that is set to release in 2008.

Very good storyline, but the writing is long and boring.......2006-12-03

The story is great. I LOVE the idea of vampires being aristocratic and living in a very hierarchial society. However, there could have been a better author for this. The action sequences are great, but somebody else should have written them. It is mundane, kind of boring and the chapters went on too long. Other than that, I love the premise of Underworld. I think its genius. They should have gotten a better writer for this. I still recommend this book for people that are avid Underworld fans. If i wasnt a die hard Underworld fan I would have thrown this book aside well into the 2nd chapter.

BLOOD EMENY UNDERWORLD BOOK 2.......2006-08-11

VERY GOOD BOOK LOVED IT. IT ALMOST MATCH THE MOVIE OR THE MOVIE ALMOST MATCH THE BOOK. I LOVE MICHEAL AND SIERNA.

Book review for underworld, book 2 blood enemy.......2006-02-26

I enjoyed this book, being an underworld fan and all. It gave background on the vampires and lycans going back in time a ways. It reviels how Sonya and Lucian became lovers. If you are a fan of underworld, then this book is a must read. Only downfall...too short!!

Blood Enemies: Abominations of Cerilia (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition: Birthright, Campaign Accessory/3101)

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An excellent resource that deviates from the formula.

Blood Enemies: Abominations of Cerilia (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition: Birthright, Campaign Accessory/3101)
Dale Henson
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An excellent resource that deviates from the formula........1998-09-23

This book is not your standard Monster Manual. They have done an excellent job of giving each of the adversaries within a character of their own. It is rich with campaign ideas and helps to provide something that many D&D campaigns lack: repeating and interesting villains. All in all it is an excellent resource in an excellent product line.

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Blood Enemies
Glover Wright
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The bride of Messina;: Or, The enemy brothers, a tragedy with choruses. William Tell. Demetrius; or, The blood wedding in Moscow, a fragment

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The bride of Messina;: Or, The enemy brothers, a tragedy with choruses. William Tell. Demetrius; or, The blood wedding in Moscow, a fragment
Friedrich Schiller
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Mysteries Of Ancient Initiations: Evocations By Blood, The Rites Of Theurgy, and Christianity, The Enemy Of Blood

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Mysteries Of Ancient Initiations: Evocations By Blood, The Rites Of Theurgy, and Christianity, The Enemy Of Blood
Arthur Edward Waite
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THIS 14 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi, by Arthur Edward Waite. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593746.

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THIS 14 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi, by Arthur Edward Waite. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593746.

Three Plays In One Volume: the Bride Of Messina, Or The Enemy Brothers; William Tell; Demetrius, Or The Blood Wedding In Moscow

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Three Plays In One Volume: the Bride Of Messina, Or The Enemy Brothers; William Tell; Demetrius, Or The Blood Wedding In Moscow
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WAY OUT: Ennui; Knowledge is Power; Snail's Pace; X for Expendable; Blood Lands; Blunder Enlightening; Honorable Enemies

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WAY OUT: Ennui; Knowledge is Power; Snail's Pace; X for Expendable; Blood Lands; Blunder Enlightening; Honorable Enemies

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What a find!
More of a Whydunit than a Whodunit
Good characters, reasonably good mystery, fun
A very winding road
We all need Rebus - he makes our lives look so uncomplicated

A Question of Blood
Ian Rankin
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Given his contempt for authority, his tendency to pursue investigative avenues of his own choosing, and his habitually ornery manner, it's a wonder that John Rebus hasn't been booted unceremoniously from his job as an Edinburgh cop. He certainly tempts that fate again in A Question of Blood, which finds him and his younger partner, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, trying to close the case of a withdrawn ex-soldier named Lee Herdman, who apparently shot three teenage boys at a Scottish private school, leaving two of them dead, before turning the pistol on himself.

"There's no mystery," Siobhan insists at the start of this 14th Rebus novel (following Resurrection Men). "Herdman lost his marbles, that's all." However, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Rebus, who'd once sought entry into the same elite regiment in which Herdman served (but ultimately cracked under psychological interrogation), thinks there's more motive than mania behind this classroom slaughter. Perhaps something to do with the gunman's role in a 1995 mission to salvage a downed military helicopter, or with Teri Cotter, a 15-year-old "Goth" who broadcasts her bedroom life over the Internet, yet keeps private her relationship with the haunted Herdman. Rebus's doubts about the murder-suicide theory are deepened with the appearance of two tight-lipped army investigators, and by the peculiar behavior of James Bell, the boy who was only wounded during Herdman's firing spree and whose politician father hopes to use that tragedy as ammo in the campaign against widespread gun ownership. But the detective inspector's focus on this inquiry is susceptible to diversion, both by an internal police probe into his role in the burning death of a small-time crook who'd been stalking Siobhan, and by the fact that Rebus--who shies away from any family contacts--was related to one of Herdman's victims.

Now middle-aged and on the downward slope of his pugnacity (the high point may have come in 1997's Black and Blue), Rebus has become the engine of his own obsolescence. Overexposure to criminals has left him better at understanding them than his colleagues, and he only worsens his career standing by fighting other people's battles for them, especially Siobhan, who risks learning too many lessons from her mentor. To watch Rebus subvert police conventions and fend of personal demons (that latter struggle mirrored in A Question of Blood by Herdman's own) is worth the admission to this consistently ambitious series. --J. Kingston Pierce

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When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17-year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. Army investigators show up to snoop around the scene of the crime, and links between the killer and a local group of "Goths" (a morbid clique of black-clad teens who listen to heavy metal music) begin to surface. But just as Rebus finds himself in the thick of the murder inquiry, he's threatened with suspension from the police force: a man who had been menacing his partner and friend, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, dies in the same house fire that has left Rebus with horrible, painful burns. Rebus is immediately suspected of foul play. Now Rebus is faced with two harrowing missions: He must get to the root of the boarding school killing even as he tries to clear his own name.

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When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17 year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school, Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. Army investigators show up to snoop around the scene of the crime, and links between the killer and a local group of "Goths" (a morbid clique of black-clad teens who listen to heavy metal music) begin to surface. But just as Rebus finds himself in the thick of the murder inquiry, he's threatened with suspension from the police force: a man who had been menacing his partner and friend, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke, dies in the same house fire that leaves Rebus with horrible, painful burns, and Rebus is immediately suspected of foul play. Now Rebus is faced with two harrowing missions: he must get to the root of the boarding school killing even as he tries to clear his own name.

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What a find!.......2007-06-11

This is the first Ian Rankin novel I've read, but I'll make a point of reading them now. A really well designed mystery/police procedural by a Scottish author set in Edinburgh. The story begins with a school shooting, unfortunately an all too common event today, and not limited to the U.S. There was an earlier shooting in Scotland by a man who burst into a school, similar to Rankin's book. The actual shooting, as well as the whole gun control debate, are brought up in A Question of Blood, as well as other current issues U.S. readers will be familiar with, such as teenage gangs, the drug trade, Internet pornography and Goth kids, who might have stepped out of Columbine. The action is continuous and although there are a lot of characters and various subplots, you don't feel they get in the way of the story. Although the Scottish criminal justice system is somewhat different from the American, police and other personnel face similar problems. I found the book fascinating (I really hate that pseudo-word unputdownable) and recommend it to anyone who likes the mystery genre. Also on the school shooting theme, Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes, in a U.S. setting, is a good comparison read.

More of a Whydunit than a Whodunit.......2006-11-23

The novel starts with a murder suicide; an ex-SAS serviceman walks into a posh private school and kills two students, wounds another and then turns the gun on himself. The Question is why would the killer walk pass all the other students on the Quad, and down a hall to this specific room?

So begins another John Rebus novel, but this one is a different presenta- tion: it's split into seven sections (each representing a day of the week) and follows Rebus and company as they methodically follow the clues to the culmination of the inquiry. One of the victims turn out to be the son of John's cousin, who he hasn't spoken to in years, another the son of a judge; and the wounded child is the son of the local MSP (Member of Scottish Parliament). Are there any connections?

Once again John is in hot-water and suspended, why? Seems that a "villian" who has been harassing Siobhan, had turned up dead in a fire. John was last seen leaving a bar with the victim, hours before the fire. John has turned up at St. Leonard's with his hands in bandages, that he says are the result of a "scalding". Things don't look good for our anti-hero.

But we know that in the end, all things will turn our right enough so that John will be able to stay on the force and go on his un-merry way. What makes the book so good, is that nothing that happens along the way is a turnabout, or a HUH? Everything that happens and the way all of the characters follow the clues are realistic and make for a believable chronology. Rankin is a master at developing a plausible story from beginning to end.

Good characters, reasonably good mystery, fun.......2006-06-18

The strength of Rankin's works is the realistic outlook of John Rebus and Siobhan Clarke: in a society that operates by mechnical principle, they are purely organic and in fact feral, which is what keeps them devoted to truth (in a world where lies are publically rewarded) and allows them to solve mysteries with several layers of implication. Rankin's layering technique is flawless, and his mysteries relatively realistic and logical, which combined with actors who are likable characterizations of threads of thought required to find a balance between society and soul, make for a powerful and fun read. We the readers feel we could live in this world, and even more, we want to, since these characters fight the same quintessential adaptation-or-conflict seesaw we ourselves must undergo. For those who non-critically enjoy a solid mystery that feels as if it could happen in our newspapers, if not our world, Rankin has produced another treat.

A very winding road.......2005-06-27

It kept me hooked, but there were so many characters and scenarios
going on, it was a little confusing. No great payoff until the end. My friend guessed the ending by reading the back cover.

We all need Rebus - he makes our lives look so uncomplicated.......2005-05-02

Ian Rankin and his DI Rebus are soo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o good! And the Scottish locales are so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o well described! And these story plots are just the best - they aren't about crime; they are about wrestling with morals and ethics and questions about whether the end justifies the means in the big picture of police work. As always, there are at least three plots going on here, and the main thread is snatched from the headlines of real-life tragedy: school shootings. Our moody, sullen, irresistible Rebus has his hands full, as usual, and is in hot water with his superiors, as usual. That seems to be when he does his best work. There is an unusually heavy dose of coincidence in this particular book and it propels the book along at an artificial pace but Rankin has earned our (or at least my) trust and forgiveness. It is still a tale well told.

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11 Titles By Pike - Scavenger Hunt - Road to Nowhere - Witch - Monster - See You Later - The Last Vampire 2 Black Blood - The Eternal - Enemy - Spellbound - Die Softly - Bury Me Deep - Remember Me 2 the Return
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