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Examination of the early literature attests to the fact that the
study of copolymerization was initiated when polymer science was in
its infancy. It has continued to grow to a subject of major
importance and has been a source of interest to both academic and
industrialist alike. The wide spectrum of structures and properties
available in the statistical copolymer has made this a fruitful
field of exploration, but one particular and more restricted form
which has held its own fascination for many is the limiting case of
the strictly alternating copolymer. This is formed, in the ideal
situation, when two monomers in a reaction mixture add
consecutively to create a polymer chain with a regular {ABABAB}
structure, irrespective of the monomer feed ratio. When this
happens the resulting copolymer will always have the same
composition, a feature which can be advantageous but also somewhat
restrictive, as the ability to vary the properties is then limited.
Within a series entitled Speciality Polymers it seems appropriate
then to deal with this subject, particularly as no previous attempt
has been made to draw together the various facets of alternating
copolymerization into one volume. It also seems timely to present a
more unified picture of the subject which will also illustrate the
progress made.
This book demonstrates the usefulness of tools from statistical
mechanics for biology. It includes the new tendencies in topics
like membranes, vesicles, microtubules, molecular motors, DNA,
protein folding, phase transitions in biological systems,
evolution, population dynamics, neural systems and biological
oscillators, with special emphasis on the importance of statistical
mechanics in their development. The book addresses researchers and
graduate students.
Dit boek beschrijft hoe efficiënt behandeÂlen binnen de GGZ
mogelijk is als hulpvraÂgers en hulpverleners vanuit een gedeelde
visie samen beslissen over de te bieden zorg. In dit boek leer je
stapsgewijs – van aanmelding tot afronding van de behanÂdeling
– hoe je de principes van gedeelde besluitvorming met hulp van
het DialoogÂmodel kunt toepassen in de praktijk. Efficiënt
behandelen in de GGZ vraagt om goed afgestemde samenwerking en
volÂdoende wederzijds vertrouwen. Samen duiÂdelijk krijgen wat
speelt, wat nodig is en wie dat op welke manier kan bieden en
daarÂover samen beslissen, daar draait het om. Gedeelde
besluitvorming is dus niet alleen de juiste behandelvorm koppelen
aan de juiste diagnose. Vanaf aanmelding tot afronding zijn er
talloze momenten waarop je als behandelaar – al dan niet bewust
– keuzes maakt en beslissingen neemt over je rol, positie,
attitude en inbreng. Datzelfde geldt voor hulpvragers. Als deze
keuzes en beslissingen goed op elkaar aansluiten, is de kans op een
gunstig resultaat het grootst. Zo samen optrekken, biedt alle
betrokkenen de meeste voldoening. Het Praktijkboek gedeelde
besluitvorming in de GGZ richt zich op het hanteren van dagelijkse
praktijksituaties. Deze komen in elk hoofdstuk ruimschoots aan bod,
geïllustreerd met afbeeldingen en aanÂgevuld met handige formats.
Je leest hoe gedeelde besluitvorming helpt om je kenÂnis en
expertise en die van de hulpvrager optimaal te benutten. Het
Dialoogmodel wordt hierbij als hulpmiddel ingezet. Dit model
verbindt en integreert de visies en verhalen van hulpvragers en
betrokken behandelaren via dialoog op basis van een goede
werkrelatie. Jac Maurer werkte tot zijn pensionering als klinisch
psycholoog/psychotherapeut in de volwassen-, kinder- en jeugdzorg
in de GGZ. Daarbij was hij lid van wetenschapsÂcommissies en
vervulde hij de rol van P-opleider. George Westermann is kinder- en
jeugdÂpsychiater/psychotherapeut. Daarnaast is hij opleider
kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie en medisch manager bij Zuyderland GGZ.
Hij is internationaal wetenschappelijk actief op het gebied van
gedeelde besluitvorming.
While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl
zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the "author of new
departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a
humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." In Mydriasis,
the author proves himself to be precisely that as he takes us on a
phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions.
Dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision, Le Cl zio's richly
poetic prose composes a mesmerizing song and a dizzying exploration
of the universe--a universe not unlike the abysses explored by the
highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet Henri Michaux. Michaux is, in
fact, at the heart of To the Icebergs. Fascinated by his writing,
Le Cl zio includes Michaux's 'poem of the poem', 'Iniji', thereby
allowing the poet's voice to emerge by itself. What follows is much
more than a simple analysis of the poem; rather, it is an act of
complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and
elevation of the work. Written originally in the 1970s and now
translated into English for the first time, these two brief,
incisive and haunting texts will further strengthen the reputation
of one of the world's greatest and most visionary living writers.
Examination of the early literature attests to the fact that the
study of copolymerization was initiated when polymer science was in
its infancy. It has continued to grow to a subject of major
importance and has been a source of interest to both academic and
industrialist alike. The wide spectrum of structures and properties
available in the statistical copolymer has made this a fruitful
field of exploration, but one particular and more restricted form
which has held its own fascination for many is the limiting case of
the strictly alternating copolymer. This is formed, in the ideal
situation, when two monomers in a reaction mixture add
consecutively to create a polymer chain with a regular {ABABAB}
structure, irrespective of the monomer feed ratio. When this
happens the resulting copolymer will always have the same
composition, a feature which can be advantageous but also somewhat
restrictive, as the ability to vary the properties is then limited.
Within a series entitled Speciality Polymers it seems appropriate
then to deal with this subject, particularly as no previous attempt
has been made to draw together the various facets of alternating
copolymerization into one volume. It also seems timely to present a
more unified picture of the subject which will also illustrate the
progress made.
Can a continuous growth of agriculture be achieved in the
sub-Sahara region without inducing irreversible damage to the
ecosystem? Until now, doubts have been expressed as to the actual
capacity of the soils to sustain a desirable increase of production
which can match the requirements of a fast-growing population.
Thirty years of investigation and a renewed comprehensive
interpretation of research data on soil fertility show that a
sustainable agriculture growth could be a practical possibility in
a savannah region.
This book demonstrates the usefulness of tools from statistical
mechanics for biology. It includes the new tendencies in topics
like membranes, vesicles, microtubules, molecular motors, DNA,
protein folding, phase transitions in biological systems,
evolution, population dynamics, neural systems and biological
oscillators, with special emphasis on the importance of statistical
mechanics in their development. The book addresses researchers and
graduate students.
Extensively revised and updated to keep abreast of recent advances,
Polymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Third Edition
continues to provide a broad-based, high-information text at an
introductory, reader-friendly level that illustrates the
multidisciplinary nature of polymer science. Adding or amending
roughly 50% of the material, this new edition strengthens its aim
to contribute a comprehensive treatment by offering a wide and
balanced selection of topics across all aspects of the chemistry
and physics of polymer science, from synthesis and physical
properties to applications. Although the basics of polymer science
remain unchanged, significant discoveries in the area of control
over molecular weight, macromolecular structure and architecture,
and the consequent ability to prepare materials with specific
properties receive extensive mention in the third edition. Expanded
chapters include controlled radical polymerizations, metallocene
chemistry, and the preparation of block and graft copolymers, as
well as multiarmed and dendritic structures. Reflecting the growth
of polymer applications in industry, the book presents detailed
examples to illustrate polymer use in electronic, biological, and
medical settings. The authors introduce new understandings of
rheological behavior and replace old and outmoded methods of
polymer characterization with new and up-to-date techniques. Also
new to this edition are a series of problems at the end of each
chapter that will test whether the reader has understood the
various points and in some cases expand on that knowledge. An
accompanying solutions manual is also available for qualifying
course adoptions. Offering the highest quality, comprehensive
coverage of polymer science in an affordable, accessible format,
Polymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Third Edition
continues to provide undergraduate and graduate students and
professors with the most complete and current coverage of modern
polymer science.
From master storyteller J. M. G. Le Clezio: winner of the Nobel
Prize in Literature. "A novel of intense beauty."--Review of
Contemporary Fiction The Prospector is the crowning achievement
from one of France's preeminent novelists and a work rich with
sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on
the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic
existence with his parents and beloved sister: sampling the
pleasures of privilege, exploring the constellations and tropical
flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the legendary
Unknown Corsair. But with his father's death, Alexis must leave his
childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and
shame. Years later, Alexis has become obsessed with the idea of
finding the Corsair's treasure and, through it, the lost magic and
opulence of his youth. He abandons job and family, setting off on a
quest that will take him from remote tropical islands to the hell
of World War I, and from a love affair with the elusive Ouma to a
momentous confrontation with the search that has consumed his life.
By turns harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, The Prospector
is "a parable of the human condition" (Le Monde) by one of the most
significant literary figures in the world today.
An explosion of interest in the application of cognitive psychology to the understanding of emotional disorders has prompted a second edition of this highly regarded book. Reviewing the work of the last decade, it looks at how emotion affects the following processes, and how they in turn contribute to emotional disorder: conscious and nonconscious processing; memory bias and memory deficits; attentional bias; schematic processing; judgements; and thoughts and images. The second edition provides in particular: - An exploration of abnormalities in cognitive processing
- Reviews of key papers that use experimental cognitive psychology to understand emotional disorders
- Descriptions of the authors’ own research in this area
- A theoretical model to explain the phenomena described
The book has been written for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate psychologists interested in cognitive models in abnormal psychology, for clinical psychologists using cognitive therapies, and for cognitive psychologists wishing to explore the interface between cognition and emotion. "Drs Williams, Watts, MacLeod, and Mathews are world leaders in experimental psychopathology … the authors synthesize these studies and those of other scholars, and show how the data can be accommodated by a revised version of their justly famous information-processing model of anxiety and depression. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to become conversant with cutting-edge theory and research on the cognitive aspects of anxiety and mood disorders. The first edition of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders was a masterpiece, and the second edition is even better than the first." Richard J. McNally, Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Glacial deposits provide a long-term record of climate and sea
level changes on Earth. Detailed study of sedimentary rocks
deposited during and immediately after glacial episodes is
paramount to accurate palaeoclimatic reconstructions and for our
understanding of global climatic and eustatic changes. This book
presents new information and interpretations of the ancient glacial
record, looking in particular at the Late Proterozoic and Late
Paleozoic eras. The influence of global tectonics on the origins
and distribution of ice masses and the character of glacial
deposits through geologic time is emphasised. Sequence
stratigraphic techniques are applied to glaciogenic successions,
and explanations for possible low-latitude glaciation during the
Late Proterozoic era and the association of carbonate deposits with
glaciogenic rocks are put forward. Early interglacial conditions,
represented by dark grey mudrocks and ice keel scour features are
discussed. These studies, from key workers in International
Geological Correlation Program Project 260, will aid the
understanding of the Earth's climatic history.
"From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964."
"J.M.G. Le Clezio, revelation of the literary year" ran the
headline of the "Paris Express" after last year's prizes had been
awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its
president used his double vote to give the prize to the older
candidate. Ten minutes later the Renaudot jury elected the
candidate they thought they might lose to the other prize. Most of
the literary sections ran their prize news putting the Renaudot
first, in order to feature the twenty-three-year-old discovery that
was rocking Paris literary circles.
What is "The Interrogation"? Most likely a myth without distinct
delineations. A very solitary young man, Adam Pollo, perhaps the
first man, perhaps the last, has a very remarkable interior
adventure. He concentrates and he discovers ways of being, ways of
seeing. He enters into animals, into a tree.... He has no business,
no distractions; he is at the complete disposal of life. All of
life, that is, except the society of his own species -- and so the
story ends.
"This is the next phase after the 'the new novel, '" wrote the
critics. Kafka they said; a direct descendant of Joyce, they said.
Beckett they said. Like nothing else, they said. One hundred
thousand Frenchmen bought it. They said it was strange and
beautiful. Finally the real voice of the young, said the critics.
"I like J. D. Salinger," said Mr. Le Clezio, and that was all he
said. His remarkable first book will soon be published all over the
world and much more will be said.
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In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little
madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the
physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as
feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our
lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain',
a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his
throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by
sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to
comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a
timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works
portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling
verbal dexterity and power.
This is an all-encompassing and exhaustive exposition of the theory
of infinite-dimensional Unitary Representations of Locally Compact
Groups and its generalization to representations of Banach
algebras. The presentation is detailed, accessible, and
self-contained (except for some elementary knowledge in algebra,
topology, and abstract measure theory). In the later chapters the
reader is brought to the frontiers of present-day knowledge in the
area of Mackey normal subgroup analysisand its generalization to
the context of Banach *-Algebraic Bundles.
This is an all-encompassing and exhaustive exposition of the theory
of infinite-dimensional Unitary Representations of Locally Compact
Groups and its generalization to representations of Banach
algebras. The presentation is detailed, accessible, and
self-contained (except for some elementary knowledge in algebra,
topology, and abstract measure theory). In the later chapters the
reader is brought to the frontiers of present-day knowledge in the
area of Mackey normal subgroup analysisand its generalization to
the context of Banach *-Algebraic Bundles.
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Such Fine Boys (Paperback)
Patrick Modiano; Translated by Mark Polizzotti; Foreword by J.M.G.Le Clezio
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent
schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school
student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the
troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this
mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely
crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert
School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege,
left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and
heroes, sports champions and good-hearted chums, the boys of
Valvert misbehave, run away, get expelled, and engage in various
forms of delinquency and disappearance. They emerge into adulthood
tragically damaged, still tethered to their adolescent selves,
powerless to escape the central loneliness of their lives in an
ever-darkening spiral of self-delusion and grim consequence. A
meditation on nostalgia, the pitfalls of privilege, and the
vicissitudes of fate, this book fully demonstrates the powerful mix
of sadness, mystery, wonder, and ominous danger that characterizes
Modiano's most rewarding fiction. Special feature: J. M. G. Le
Clezio's foreword, here in English for the first time, provides a
rare and insightful appreciation of one Nobel laureate by another.
Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le
Clezio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully
evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le
Clezio's haunting book takes us into the dream that was the
religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions
anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of
the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of
gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion
and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in
Mexico, Le Clezio also shows us those of the "barbarians" of the
north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec
frontier.
Finally, Le Clezio's book is a dream of the present, a
meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations--in their language,
in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own
destruction--moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud
and motivates Le Clezio in this book. His own deep identification
with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of
time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds
fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the
dream around.
"We are lucky to have in Le Clezio a writer of great quality who
brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of
the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of
ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they
are mysterious.""--Le Figaro"
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***J. M. G. Le Clezio is the Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for
Fiction*** On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the
young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents
and beloved sister - sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring
the onstellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure
buried long ago by the Unknown Corsair. But with his father's
death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh
world of privation and shame. Years later, Alexis has become
obsessed with the idea of finding the Corsair's treasure; and
through it, the lost magic and opulence of his youth. He abandons
job and family, setting off on a quest that will take him from the
remote tropical islands to the hell of the First World War, and
from a love affair with the mysterious Ouma to a momentous
confrontation with the search that has consumed his life. By turns
harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, The Prospector is a
'parable of the human condition' (Le Monde) by one of the most
significant literary figures in Europe today.
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