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  • More Dead Ends and Detours

    En Route to Successful Total Synthesis

    by Miguel A. Sierra, Maria C. de la Torre, Fernando P. Cossio ...
    Success comes in many forms and in synthesis it can be a failure that results in their ultimate successful solutions. This long-awaited sequel to "Dead Ends and Detours" retains the proven concept while featuring over 20 new case studies of failed strategies and their (successful) solutions in natural product total synthesis. Additionally, computational models are used to discuss the problem in ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • Storytelling in Science and Literature

    by Mieke Bal, Roald Hoffmann, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language—and storytelling in particular—deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann explore ways in which science and rhetoric, politics and fiction, science and storytelling, and ethics and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Solids and Surfaces

    A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures

    by Roald Hoffmann ...
    This unique book shows how chemistry and physics come together in the solid state and on surfaces. Using a lively, graphic, descriptive approach, it teaches chemists the language that is necessary to understand the electronic structure of extended systems. And, at the same time, it demonstrates how a chemical, frontier-orbital, approach to solid state and surface bonding and reactivity may be ... Read more

    $77.00 USD

  • Chemistry as a Game of Molecular Construction

    The Bond-Click Way

    by Sason Shaik, Racheli Ben-Knaz Wakshlak, Usharani Dandamudi, Dina A. Sharon ...
    Chemistry as a Game of Molecular Construction: The Bond-Click Way utilizes an innovative and engaging approach to introduce students to the basic concepts and universal aspects of chemistry, with an emphasis on molecules’ beauty and their importance in our lives.• Offers a unique approach that portrays chemistry as a window into mankind’s material-chemical essence• Reveals the beauty of molecules ... Read more

    $99.00 USD

  • Beyond the Finite

    The Sublime in Art and Science

    by Roald Hoffmann, Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Beyond the Finite

    The Sublime in Art and Science

    by Roald Hoffmann, Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    by Ernest M Henley, Stephen D Ellis ...
    By year 1911 radioactivity had been discovered for over a decade, but its origin remained a mystery. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus and the subsequent discovery of the neutron by Chadwick started the field of subatomic physics — a quest for understanding the fundamental constituents of matter.This book reviews the important achievements in subatomic physics in the past century. The chapters ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics For Engineers

    by Signe Kjelstrup, Dick Bedeaux, Eivind Johannessen, Joachim Gross ...
    The book describes in a simple and practical way what non-equilibrium thermodynamics is and how it can add to engineering fields. It explains how to describe proper equations of transport, more precise than used so far, and how to use them to understand the waste of energy resources in central unit processes in the industry. It introduces the entropy balance as an additional equation to use, to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Dynamics of Chromatography

    Principles and Theory

    by J. Calvin Giddings ...
    This classic and bestselling landmark publication, originally published in 1965, examines the dynamic mechanisms, fundamental principles, and physical properties of various chromatographic procedures. It offers methods to characterize, identify, and predict chromatographic phenomena - providing strategies to select the most appropriate separation tools and techniques for specific applications in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • 50 Years of Anderson Localization

    by Elihu Abrahams ...
    In his groundbreaking paper “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices (1958)”, Philip W Anderson originated, described and developed the physical principles underlying the phenomenon of the localization of quantum objects due to disorder. Anderson's 1977 Nobel Prize citation featured that paper, which was fundamental for many subsequent developments in condensed matter physics and technical ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Bcs: 50 Years

    by Leon N Cooper, Dmitri Feldman ...
    Named a Top Five Book of 2011 by Physics Today, USA.'... the editors deserve praise for the selection of topics and for enlisting a distinguished set of authors. BCS: 50 Years is a successful attempt to capture the history of the development of superconductivity theory and its continuing impact. Any person curious about superconductivity will find something in this book to enjoy.'Physics TodayThe ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Handbook On Optical Constants Of Semiconductors, The: In Tables And Figures

    by Sadao Adachi ...
    Knowledge of the refractive indices and absorption coefficients of semiconductors is especially important in the design and analysis of optical and photonic devices. This book presents data on the optical constants of various elemental and compound semiconductors. A complete set of the optical constants of the semiconductors are presented in tabular and graphical forms over the entire photon ... Read more

    $79.99 USD