From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales June 10, 2007
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From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales
Thomas J. Maccarone, Robert P. Fender, Luis C. Ho, «From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales»
Springer | ISBN: 1402040849 | 1 edition (March 3, 2006) | 288 pages | PDF | 4.5 Mb
This volume brings together contributions from many of the world’s leading authorities on black hole accretion. The papers within represent part of a new movement to make use of the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes and to bring together the knowledge gained from the two approaches. The topics discussed here run the gamut of the state of the art in black hole observational and theoretical work-variability, spectroscopy, disk-jet connections, and multi-wavelength campaigns on black holes are all covered. Reprinted from ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
Chemical Compounds – 3 Volume Set June 2, 2007
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Chemical Compounds – 3 Volume Set
Neil Schlager, «Chemical Compounds (3 Volume Set)»
U·X·L (Gale) | ISBN: 1414401507 | 1 edition (June 9, 2006) | 888 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
Chemical Compounds complements U·X·L® ’s award-winning Chemical Elements set by offering information on the ways in which different chemical elements combine to form commonly used chemical compounds, such as water, ammonia and aspirin. The four-color set starts with an overview in each volume that defines what a chemical compound actually is — including the difference between a mixture and a compound — and the difference between organic and inorganic compounds. It also defines acids, bases, salts, oxides and coordination compounds. Chemical Compounds includes 180 entries on both organic and inorganic compounds and also features a general historical overview of major discoveries and the notable scientists who made them.
First Miracle Drugs: How Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine June 2, 2007
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First Miracle Drugs: How Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine
John E. Lesch, «The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine»
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 019518775X | 1 edition (September 28, 2006) | 376 pages | PDF | 2.3 Mb
In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines were not penicillin and antibiotics, but sulfonamides, or sulfa drugs. The sulfa drugs preceded penicillin by almost a decade, and during World War II they carried the main therapeutic burden in both military and civilian medicine. Their success stimulated a rapid expansion of research and production in the international pharmaceutical industry, raised expectations of medicine, and accelerated the appearance of new and powerful medicines based on research. The latter development created new regulatory dilemmas and unanticipated therapeutic problems. The sulfa drugs also proved extraordinarily fruitful as starting points for new drugs or classes of drugs, both for bacterial infections and for a number of important non-infectious diseases. This book examines this breakthrough in medicine, pharmacy, and science in three parts. Part I shows that an industrial research setting was crucial to the success of the revolution in therapeutics that emerged from medicinal chemistry. Part II shows how national differences shaped the reception of the sulfa drugs in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. The author uses press coverage of the day to explore popular perceptions of the dramatic changes taking place in medicine. Part III documents the impact of the sulfa drugs on the American effort in World War II. It also shows how researchers came to an understanding of how the sulfa drugs worked, adding a new theoretical dimension to the science of pharmacology and at the same time providing a basis for the discovery of new medicinal drugs in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. A concluding chapter summarizes the transforming impact of the sulfa drugs on twentieth-century medicine, tracing the therapeutic revolution from the initial breakthrough in the 1930s to the current search for effective treatments for AIDS and the new horizons opened up by the human genome project and stem cell research.
Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics May 2, 2007
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Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics
S. Gibilisco ,”Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics “
TAB Books | ISBN / ASIN:0071410104 | 2002 | 365 pages | PDF | 1.6MB
This well-written book is not an introduction to robotics–there is no “history” article, and no article titled “Robot” or “Robotics”–but it is likely to be a useful reference for students and hobbyists. Summing Up: Recommended.
Robotics contains elements of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. One of the challenges in reading a robotics text or entering the field as a hobbyist is the variety of concepts and terminology one must know. This book, a “how things work” for the robotics field, provides about 400 brief articles explaining concepts from “acoustic proximity sensor” to “zooming.” Some entries are very short; “Guidance System,” for example, requires only two sentences and refers to other articles. A longer article like “Logic Gate” is a page and a half long, including a diagram and table. Most topics are technical, but some are philosophical, such as “Jungian World Theory.”
