The seventh edition of Vogel’s Qualitative Inorganic Analysis contains some new material, which has been added in response to readers’ comments. First of all, Chapter 5 was extended to include more on preliminary tests, dissolution and fusion of samples. This will help users who wish to tackle real samples – industrial, agricultural, environmental, etc. Furthermore, […]
You’ve heard the concept of christening a brand-new house? Making sure you’ve fucked in every possible corner—in the shower, on top of the washing machine, in the cedar closet, outside against the woodshed. (Oh, God, that woodshed.) Well, my man and I took this concept a step further. We wanted to fuck around the clock […]
Without venture capital, many of the companies whose technical innovations sparked the digital revolution would not exist. Venture investments funded these firms to develop their bright ideas into commercial products that created new business models and established whole new markets. In Investing in Dynamic Markets , Henry Kressel, a senior partner at multi-billion-dollar global investing […]
The preparation and publication of “ Raw Data †Is an Oxymoron has involved sustained collaboration over several years. I ’ d like to thank Jennie Jackson and the many contributors to the volume, in particular, for their thinking and their patience. Were the zillions of emails we exchanged ever collected into a book, it […]
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom […]
In the beginning, we were a handful of naive but eager and explorative young physicians of disparate training, background, and temperament. We joined together with a vision of doing whatever was necessary to find better ways to study the rheumatic diseases of childhood and adolescence, and to treat our patients more effectively in a comprehensive […]
Over the last decade or so, the World Wide Web has grown in scope from being a relatively simple information repository to becoming the first stop for many people when seeking entertainment, education, news, or business resources. Websites themselves need no longer be limited to a number of static pages containing text and perhaps simple […]
Synopsis: A former Secret Service agent turned high-tech entrepreneur, Kurt Ford couldn’t be more proud when his son Collin follows in his footsteps. But elation turns to despair when Collin is found dead in his apartment and the police rule the case a suicide. Knowing his son would never kill himself, Kurt searches for the […]
Neo fends off dozens of Agent Smith clones in a city park. Kevin Flynn confronts a thirty-years-younger avatar of himself in the Grid. Captain America’s sidekick rolls under a speeding truck in the nick of time to plant a bomb. Nightcrawler “bamfs†in and out of rooms, leaving behind a puff of smoke. James Bond […]
Once again, this now-classic textbook has been revised to keep it up-to-date with our evolving field. While the Internet and its protocols now dominate networking everywhere, we see continued evolution in the technology used to support the Internet, with switching at “layer 2†providing rich functionality and powerful tools for network management. The previous edition […]
It is always reinforcing and rewarding for an author when the publisher of a book requests another edition. I have now had this pleasure fi ve times aft er the fi rst edition of this atlas was published 34 years ago in 1975. Previous editions, as well as this edition, have benefi ted greatly by […]
Dragons still exist on the world of Oleskia, far to the North on a continent untouched by any race of mortal being they sleep. The world of transition goes on; dragons have passed into myth, a story for a child at bedtime. The dwarf lord of Thazdulrene has been told of their rumored existence, so […]