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Thoroughly updated, Introduction to Polymers, Third Edition
presents the science underpinning the synthesis, characterization
and properties of polymers. The material has been completely
reorganized and expanded to include important new topics and
provide a coherent platform for teaching and learning the
fundamental aspects of contemporary polymer science. New to the
Third EditionPart IThis first part covers newer developments in
polymer synthesis, includingliving radical polymerization,
catalytic chain transfer and free-radical ring-opening
polymerization, along with strategies for the synthesis of
conducting polymers, dendrimers, hyperbranched polymers and block
copolymers. Polymerization mechanisms have been made more explicit
by showing electron movements. Part IIIn this part, the authors
have added new topics on diffusion, solution behaviour of
polyelectrolytes and field-flow fractionation methods. They also
greatly expand coverage of spectroscopy, including UV visible,
Raman, infrared, NMR and mass spectroscopy. In addition, the Flory
Huggins theory for polymer solutions and their phase separation is
treated more rigorously. Part IIIA completely new, major topic in
this section is multicomponent polymer systems. The book also
incorporates new material on macromolecular dynamics and reptation,
liquid crystalline polymers and thermal analysis. Many of the
diagrams and micrographs have been updated to more clearly
highlight features of polymer morphology. Part IVThe last part of
the book contains major new sections on polymer composites, such as
nanocomposites, and electrical properties of polymers. Other new
topics include effects of chain entanglements, swelling of
elastomers, polymer fibres, impact behaviour and ductile fracture.
Coverage of rubber-toughening of brittle plastics has also been
revised and expanded.
Thoroughly updated, Introduction to Polymers, Third Edition
presents the science underpinning the synthesis, characterization
and properties of polymers. The material has been completely
reorganized and expanded to include important new topics and
provide a coherent platform for teaching and learning the
fundamental aspects of contemporary polymer science. New to the
Third Edition Part I This first part covers newer developments in
polymer synthesis, including 'living' radical polymerization,
catalytic chain transfer and free-radical ring-opening
polymerization, along with strategies for the synthesis of
conducting polymers, dendrimers, hyperbranched polymers and block
copolymers. Polymerization mechanisms have been made more explicit
by showing electron movements. Part II In this part, the authors
have added new topics on diffusion, solution behaviour of
polyelectrolytes and field-flow fractionation methods. They also
greatly expand coverage of spectroscopy, including UV visible,
Raman, infrared, NMR and mass spectroscopy. In addition, the
Flory-Huggins theory for polymer solutions and their phase
separation is treated more rigorously. Part III A completely new,
major topic in this section is multicomponent polymer systems. The
book also incorporates new material on macromolecular dynamics and
reptation, liquid crystalline polymers and thermal analysis. Many
of the diagrams and micrographs have been updated to more clearly
highlight features of polymer morphology. Part IV The last part of
the book contains major new sections on polymer composites, such as
nanocomposites, and electrical properties of polymers. Other new
topics include effects of chain entanglements, swelling of
elastomers, polymer fibres, impact behaviour and ductile fracture.
Coverage of rubber-toughening of brittle plastics has also been
revised and expanded. While this edition adds many new concepts,
the philosophy of the book remains unchanged. Largely
self-contained, the text fully derives most equations and
cross-references topics between chapters where appropriate. Each
chapter not only includes a list of further reading to help readers
expand their knowledge of the subject but also provides problem
sets to test understanding, particularly of numerical aspects.
"Sartre is a true post-colonial pioneer. His ethical and political
struggle against all forms of oppression and exploitation speak to
the problems of our own times with a rare courage and
cogency."
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and
American Literature Harvard University
Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this
collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely
powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen
essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect
relentlessly to bear on his own country's conduct in Algeria, and
by extension, the West's conduct in the Third World in general. The
tussle is not equal, and the western imperialists emerge at the
end, bloody, bruised and thoroughly chastened. Most startling of
all is Sartre's advocacy of violence as a legitimate response to
repression, motivated by his belief that freedom was the central
characteristic of being human. Whether one agrees with his every
conclusion or not, "Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism" shows a
philosopher passionately engaged in using philosophy as a force for
change in the world. An important influence on postcolonial thought
ever since, this book takes on added resonance in the light of the
West's most recent bout of interference in the non-Western world.
Studies on the First World War are plentiful but most tend to focus
on the combatants. This volume offers a new and highly original
perspective that shows the reader the civilian side of this
protracted and destructive war through a succession of "snapshots":
130 excerpts from leading American and Canadian newspapers provide
a collective portrait of life behind the battle lines, what is
often called the "second" front. Written principally by Paris-based
journalists, and intended for popular reading audiences, these
articles depict ordinary people in a way that still touches the
reader of today. They record eye-witness testimony of Paris under
aerial bombardment, the gutted cathedrals at Reims and Arras, the
cemeteries around Compiegne, the subterranean living quarters at
Cambrai, and the heart-breaking orphanages at Chambly. Introduced
and concluded by the editor, the volume also offers biographical
notes on some of the leadingjournalist contributors, maps to
familiarize readers with the geography of northern France, and
detailed subject and geographical indices. The volume ends with a
select bibliography of works on the subject of French civilian life
during the Great War.
No other attempt to explain French civil and military leadership
during the 1930s has been so gracefully written, so firmly based on
archival material, or so sensitive to French conditions and
purposes as "In Command of France." It combines a detailed survey
of French foreign policy during the Nazi period with a careful
examination of France's corresponding military planning and
preparation. France was under control, the author argues, and
credits the civilian and military command with more vision, more
determination, more competence than hitherto recognized.
Young introduces the reader to some of the leading
personalities of the day--Laval, Bonnet, Weygand, Petain, Gamelin,
Delbos, Cot, Daladier--soldiers and statesmen whose names have come
close to fading from our view. He outlines the problems and
alternatives that confronted them in the Nazi years--strikes,
lockouts, unemployment, inflating prices, devalued currency--and
finds that they failed not because of an absence of policy or
incompetence but because the problems they faced were
insuperable.
Studies on the First World War are plentiful but most tend to focus
on the combatants. This volume offers a new and highly original
perspective that shows the reader the civilian side of this
protracted and destructive war through a succession of "snapshots":
130 excerpts from leading American and Canadian newspapers provide
a collective portrait of life behind the battle lines, what is
often called the "second" front. Written principally by Paris-based
journalists, and intended for popular reading audiences, these
articles depict ordinary people in a way that still touches the
reader of today. They record eye-witness testimony of Paris under
aerial bombardment, the gutted cathedrals at Reims and Arras, the
cemeteries around Compiegne, the subterranean living quarters at
Cambrai, and the heart-breaking orphanages at Chambly. Introduced
and concluded by the editor, the volume also offers biographical
notes on some of the leadingjournalist contributors, maps to
familiarize readers with the geography of northern France, and
detailed subject and geographical indices. The volume ends with a
select bibliography of works on the subject of French civilian life
during the Great War.
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