Howard Reiss has written BUSINESS STRESS RELIEF as a very useful gift for anyone in business. He has combined his real-life management experiences in three different careers with his unusual ability to see them from the humorous side of the desk. He wrote this book after conversations and lectures with many business people about how he used humor to relieve lots of stressful business situations. They often asked if he could organize them into a helpful book they could refer to when their stress levels at work were way too high. They were not looking for a joke book, just funny ideas to relieve tension. qualities in bookstores or on the Internet. Their requests became his inspiration to write this book. His experience is best summarized by what he wrote in the introduction: Humor must be tailored to each individual; because of the different ways that everyone perceives what is funny. But the principle is the same for all: when you imagine a business situation carried to a funny extreme, the real-life situation you're in always appears much less stressful

Outstanding text focuses on physical technique of thermodynamics, typical problem areas of understanding, and significance and use of thermodynamic potential. Mathematical apparatus, first law of thermodynamics, second law and entropy, ideal substances, some useful formulas, many other topics. 1965 edition.

A comprehensive textbook and reference for the study of the physics of ionized gases

The intent of this book is to provide deep physical insight into the behavior of gases containing atoms and molecules from which one or more electrons have been ionized. The study of these so-called plasmas begins with an overview of plasmas as they are found in nature and created in the laboratory. This serves as a prelude to a comprehensive study of plasmas, beginning with low temperature and "ideal" plasmas and extending to radiation and particle transport phenomena, the response of plasmas to external fields, and an insightful treatment of plasma waves, plasma instabilities, nonlinear phenomena in plasmas, and the study of plasma interactions with surfaces.

In all cases, the emphasis is on a clear and unified understanding of the basic physics that underlies all plasma phenomena. Thus, there are chapters on plasma behavior from the viewpoint of atomic and molecular physics, as well as on the macroscopic phenomena involved in physical kinetics of plasmas and the transport of radiation and of charged particles within plasmas. With this grounding in the fundamental physics of plasmas, the notoriously difficult subjects of nonlinear phenomena and of instabilities in plasmas are then treated with comprehensive clarity.