Cornelius Vanderbilt

作者：  郭光远著

出版社：时代文艺出版社,2013

简介：这是一部非凡的历史小说。小说描绘了二战末期，为躲避步步逼近的苏联军队，德国东部的大批难民纷纷逃离家乡，当德国难民奋力超过俄国的前进部队涌向西方时，德国纳粹党人造成的残忍景象，并准确捕捉到了那个悲剧时代给人们带来的痛苦以及由战争造成的使人失掉人性的凄凉。

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简介：In this third edition of Cytochrome P450: Structure, Mechanism, and Biochemistry, Dr. Paul Ortiz de Montellano has brought together a group of new authors as well as authors from previous editions to produce a timely volume that will be of considerable interest to a broad array of P450 researchers. The explosion of discovery of CYP (cytochrome P450) genes through genome analysis鈥攎ore than 3500 to date鈥攑rovides the more than 10,000 scientists around the world who study these monooxygenases a rich source of interesting and important research problems. Many have remained central elements over the 18 years that span the three editions of this book, including mechanisms of catalysis, oxygen activation and inhibition, gene regulation, and P450 structure. Each new edition updates our knowledge of such central issues in the study of P450s, emphasizing the timeliness of this newest volume. In this newest edition, we find that the newest discussion of P450 structure includes information of bacterial (soluble) P450s interwoven with that of eukaryotic (membrane bound) of this superfamily, highlighting the newest developments in this area. The complete battery of human P450s is now known and summarized in the new edition. In addition, general overviews of plant P450s and those from microbes contained within this newest edition provide a broader view of P450 diversity than seen in earlier editions. Each of these three editions should be on bookshelves of laboratories studying P450s. The third edition of Cytochrome P450: Structure, Mechanism, and Biochemistry provides an opportunity to judge progress in many key areas of P450 research while at the same time learn of new directions in the field. It is an excellent and most useful volume. Dr. Michael R. Waterman, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN The third edition of Cytochrome P450: Structure, Mechanism, and Biochemistry provides an exceptionally fine summary of our present knowledge of the remarkable hemoprotein often called "nature鈥檚 most versatile biological catalyst." Edited by Paul Ortiz de Montellano, with chapters by many of the world鈥檚 experts in this rapidly developing field, this edition includes major advances in the past decade such as the crystal structure of membrane-bound forms of the enzyme and evidence for multiple species of activated oxygen, based in part on the use of radical clocks and computational approaches. The sequences of several thousand P450s are now known, and recent progress in understanding the properties and functions of those in the microbial and plant worlds, as well as the better known mammalian isozymes, is now included. The versatility of cytochrome P450 includes the ability to metabolize innumerable substrates of both physiological and xenobiotic importance, and to be markedly altered in activity by a wide variety of inducers and inhibitors. Accordingly, this new edition will be invaluable to scientists in fields as diverse as biochemistry, chemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, pharmacology, and toxicology. M. J. Coon, Victor C. Vaughan Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry, Emeritus, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

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简介：Originally published in 1980, this text, now in its fifth edition, has had a leisurely update schedule so that changes could be thoughtfully planned. This time-tested text is intended as a text/resource for medical, dental, physical therapy, and other health sciences students undergoing their first exposure to the topic. The new edition, four years in the works, includes new clinical correlations and summaries; a more practical approach to the musculoskeletal system emphasizing the action and use of muscles in daily activities; new color photos for surface anatomy; medical imaging information; interactive case studies and multiple-choice questions; and new art. The two included CD-ROMs contain interactive case studies; USMLE-style review questions; and 3-D models of MRI images, which generate layered, rotatable anatomical illustrations. The work of authors Moore (emeritus, U. of Toronto) and Dalley (Vanderbilt U. School of Medicine) was augmented by contributions from Anne M.R. Agur (U. of Toronto). Annotation 漏2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Traffic:why we drive the way we do(and what it says about us)

作者：  范德比尔特(Tom Vanderbilt)著;饶伟立译

出版社：大块文化出版股份有限公司,2009

简介： 是馬路消息，也是馬路知識 不只是交通問題，更是人性問題 不管是走路的或開車的 保自己的命，也保別人的命 　　我們都認為自己的駕駛技術比別人好，男人肯定也比女人會開車。在步行時，我們認為汽車總是橫衝直撞；而當坐上駕駛座，又覺得行人走路不看路。我們要求提升汽車的安全性能，只為追求更快的速度，而越安全的車，卻越容易引發危險的駕駛行為。在路上，我們依賴不完美的人類計算能力，來分辨危險和安全的事物。我們總覺得大卡車上全都是危險駕駛，小客車的我們卻又在他們附近以更不安全的方式行車。我們認為無標誌圓環比十字路口來得危險，或是越高速的道路越危險，雖然事實正好相反。我們認為人行道適合騎乘自行車或機車，即使你不僅容易撞到行人，更容易被大車撞。我們不讓小孩走路上學，雖然開車出門其實更加危險。我們改用免手持式手機，但又花上更多時間接聽電話，並在車內做其他同樣危險的事。即使一眼望去路上空無人車，我們仍在紅燈前停車，之後卻沿途超速趕路。我們認為休旅車比較安全，卻又以危險的方式駕駛這些車輛。我們緊緊跟隨前方車輛，剝奪了任何緩衝空間，但又盲目地相信前方車輛永遠不會緊急煞車……這些都是「馬路學」，在馬路的世界，你得隨時預期超出預期的事。世界因交通而形成，瞭解人性，比你瞭解車子更為迫切而重要。 　　「道路憤怒」是不是有助於提升社會的整體利益？大多數車禍是不是發生在晴朗且乾燥的日子裡？我們是不是常誤以為其他車道上的車速比較快？你能不能依據一個國家的貪腐程度，推論該國民眾的駕駛行為？以上問題的答案都是肯定的。你現在是不是感到非常驚訝？但范德比爾特在這本探索交通現象的書中，還提出了更多有趣的問題。 　　藉由詳盡的研究，以及和各國交通專家與官員的深入訪談，本書深入分析日常生活中的交通活動，並以各種複雜的物理，心理和科技因素，闡釋交通系統的運作方式、駕駛人的行車模式，以及這些事物中的人性面向。范德比爾特討論了令人們誤認為自己擁有優越駕駛技術的各種知覺限制和認知機制。他說明了為什麼行人保護措施常會引發更多車禍。他指出了看似危險而混亂的無號誌圓環，除了具備提升道路安全的功用之外，還可紓解過度擁擠的車流。他發現了哪些人比較容易對哪些人鳴按喇叭，以及這些現象的原因。他解釋了塞車的形成原因，梳理了人們追求交通安全的意外後果，甚至統整了駕駛人在停車場上最常犯的各種錯誤。 　　汽車是現代社會不可或缺的一個部份；不論我們是不是將它視為自由的象徵，或是雜亂市郊的病徵，我們駕駛的汽車和我們的行車模式，都能被用來定義我們的社會角色。正如范德比爾特所示，人類的駕駛行為，是解析人類心靈運作和人際關係互動的最佳稜鏡。從根本上而言，本書關切的焦點，不只是人類的駕駛行為，更是這隱藏這些行為之後的人性。本書將會改變我們看待自己和周遭世界的方式，說不定還能讓我們成為更好的駕駛人。誰知道呢？ < TOP>

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简介：New edition of a text on pleural disease that provides a focused perspective on pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management. Topics include clinical manifestations and diagnostic tests; undiagnosed pleural effusion; various disease states and their pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management; pleural thickening; diagnostic and therapeutic thoracentesis, pleural biopsy, and tube thoracostomy; and drainage systems. New information includes changes in management tactics, as well as pleural effusions due to diseases of the heart, in obstetrics and gynecology, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and as complications to bone marrow transplantation, drowning, and rupture of a mediastinal cyst. Light is a physician associated with the pulmonary divisions of Vanderbilt U. and Saint Thomas Hospital. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介："A significant contribution to our understanding of minor parties and party system change. The authors develop a new theory and provide strong empirical evidence in support of it. They show that the Perot's candidacy has had a strong and lasting impact on partisan competition in elections. ---Paul Herrnson, Director, Center for American Politics and Citizenship Professor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland "Powerfully persuasive in its exhaustive research, Three's a Crowd may surprise many by revealing the long- ignored but pivotal impact of Perot voters on every national election since 1992." ---Clay Mulford, Jones Day and General Counsel to the 1992 Perot Presidential Campaign and to the Reform Party. "Rapaport and Stone have written an engaging and important book. They bring fresh perspectives, interesting data, and much good sense to this project. Three's a Crowd is fundamentally about political change, which will, in turn, change how scholars and pundits think of Ross Perot in particular, and third parties in general." ---John G. Geer, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and Editor of The Journal of Politics "The definitive analysis of the Perot movement, its role in the 1994 GOP victory, and the emergence of an enduring governing majority." ---L. Sandy Maisel, Director, Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs, Colby College Three's a Crowd begins with the simple insight that third parties are creatures of the American two-party system, and derive their support from the failures of the Democratic and Republican parties. While third parties flash briefly in the gaps left by those failures, they nevertheless follow a familiar pattern: a sensation in one election, a disappointment in the next. Rapoport and Stone conclude that this steep arc results from one or both major parties successfully absorbing the third party's constituency. In the first election, the third party raises new issues and defines new constituencies; in the second, the major parties move in on the new territory. But in appropriating the third party's constituents, the major parties open themselves up to change. This is what the authors call the "dynamic of third parties." The Perot campaign exemplified this effect in 1992 and 1996. Political observers of contemporary electoral politics missed the significance of Perot's independent campaign for the presidency in 1992. Rapoport and Stone, who had unfettered-and unparalleled-access to the Perot political machine, show how his run perfectly embodies the third-party dynamic. Yet until now no one has considered the aftermath of the Perot movement through that lens. For anyone who seeks to understand the workings of our stubbornly two-party structure, this eagerly awaited and definitive analysis will shed new light on the role of third parties in the American political system.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This introductory textbook focuses on topics that are most relevant for beginning students of audiology as well as those planning careers in speech pathology and special education. In this third edition, Bess (hearing and speech sciences, Vanderbilt U.) and Humes (speech and hearing sciences, Indiana U.) add 50 new vignettes enhancing key concepts and offering practical classroom experiments. The new edition also contains current data on auditory pathologies and updated coverage of newborn hearing screenings, hearing aid evaluation and selection, education of the hearing impaired, and deaf culture. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Designed for students in audiology, speech-language pathology and special education, this introductory level text begins with an emphasis on the fundamentals and then guides students to more complex topics. The logical sequential organization parallels curricula of most audiology courses to facilitate the learning process. Designed to accent contemporary perspectives, the Third Edition is fully updated with revised content, new references and suggested readings, up-to-date images, added vignettes in many chapters, and a companion Website (http://connection.LWW.com/go/bess).  

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简介：Meshfree approximation methods are a relatively new area of research, and there are only a few books covering it at present. Whereas other works focus almost entirely on theoretical aspects or applications in the engineering field, this book provides the salient theoretical results needed for a basic understanding of meshfree approximation methods. The emphasis here is on a hands-on approach that includes MATLAB routines for all basic operations. Meshfree approximation methods, such as radial basis function and moving least squares method, are discussed from a scattered data approximation and partial differential equations point of view. A good balance is supplied between the necessary theory and implementation in terms of many MATLAB programs, with examples and applications to illustrate key points. Used as class notes for graduate courses at Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Vanderbilt University, this book will appeal to both mathematics and engineering graduate students.

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简介：Macro practice in social work, in the formulation of authors Ellis (U. of Tennessee), Mallory (Vanderbilt U.), Gould (Vanderbilt U.), and Shatila (Tennessee Department of Children's Services) are activities related to supervision, professional training, program writing, and similar realms. In this text, they offer step-by-step guidelines for completing a range of macro tasks that may be unfamiliar to the practitioner. They present 17 chapters organized into four units covering assessment, planning, and preparation for organizations and communities; effective communication for agencies, groups, and communities; effective recruiting and hiring; and effective financial management and fundraising. Annotation 漏2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Medina (philosophy, Vanderbilt U.) arranges his material in chapters on communication and speech acts; meaning, sense, and interpretation; indeterminacy and language learning; linguistic creativity and relativism; speakers, linguistic communities, and histories of use; and language and identity. Within these themes he discusses a range of topics including two traditions in philosophy of language, neo-empiricist and hermeneutic approaches to linguistic understanding, enculturation and shared intentionality, the sociology of language, conversation analysis, metaphor, linguistic relativism, and interpellation and censorship, among others. Annotation 漏2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：In 1962 a revolutionary book hit the New York Times best-seller list where it stayed for twenty-six weeks. That book was Sex and the Single Girl and its author, Helen Gurley Brown, hasn't stopped communicating - intimately - with millions of women ever since through her other best-selling books and as editor in chief of Cosmopolitan. Following Sex and the Single Girl's phenomenal success, it was only a short time before Ms. Brown, with no previous magazine experience, turned the then-ailing and aging (one hundred years old) Cosmopolitan into the premiere women's magazine in America (number six among all magazines in newsstand sales) and the number-one young women's magazine in the world (twenty-eight international editions), each edited for and in celebration of Ms. Brown's creation, That Cosmopolitan Girl, the woman who loves men and children but doesn't want to live through other people; she wants to achieve on her own. In The Late. Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50, Ms. Brown describes in her distinctive voice what it's like to grow old - NOT gracefully but resourcefully and energetically, what you can expect during the process and what you can do to make it rewarding. The book is divided into twelve informative chapters that range from emotional security, marriage, money, sex, beauty and clothes to food, exercise, health, doctors, work and the importance of each as one. grows older. Ms. Brown shares her own knowledge along with extensive research. Various chapters contain nearly noncaloric (but satisfying) recipes; up-to-the-minute news on fiber, alcohol, vitamins and their impact on health; beauty tips from Raquel Welch, Ali MacGraw, Lauren Hutton, Joan Rivers, Diane von Furstenberg, Judith Krantz, Gloria Vanderbilt and many other great-looking women not still in their twenties or thirties. (Don't ever tease your hair. Use warm teabags. for puffy eyes. Whole-egg mayonnaise will shine up dull hair. Fall in love, as often as you can get your hands on a love' object. Never give in to the idea that aging is the pits!). Ms. Brown talks freely about the joys and sorrows of her own life, shares her medical experiences (CAT scan, shingles, hysterectomy, cosmetic surgery). She acknowledges it would be pleasant to eschew diet and exercise (haven't we earned the right to relax and enjoy life?) but says that. decision would be unthinkable for a woman who wants to stay "young" and beautiful. She offers sensible, palatable ways to stay trim and eat sumptuously. A noted surgeon answers questions about cosmetic surgery. Ms. Brown extols the joy of sex at any age, strongly suggests you keep it in your life, tells how to find it again if it's gone and enhance whatever is left. The Late Show is crammed with practical, innovative advice and insights from a life lived to the hilt. sensually, healthfully, successfully and presented in the same clear voice that is Ms. Brown's and Cosmo's signature. The Late Show can help any woman face this time of her life with verve, clout and self-reliance - sans depression - even if there's not a man around. If the best is not "still to come, " at least what's here this minute can be made terrific through application of the wisdom of this book.

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简介： 本書簡介 兩百多年來，男女老幼在華爾街參與一場資本主義的搶錢大賽，有人發財，也有人破財。許多人重蹈前人的覆轍，但是歷代也都有贏家誕生。本書引人入勝、極富知識性，作者把華爾街崛起及成為世界金融之都的過程，鉅細靡遺地呈現在眾人面前，無論是喜愛歷史的人、紙上談兵的投資人、金融從業人員、當沖投機客，都能從中獲益良多。 華爾街原本是蠻荒地區，是一個貿易站朝北的防線。當時的貨幣僅限於黃金、白銀及印地安人的貝殼串珠。如今，華爾街儼然是全球金融市場的化身，所謂的貨幣大多是電腦螢幕上的數字而已。美國證券業從業人員超過三百萬人，華爾街可以稱得上權可敵國。一條不起眼的小條如何成為喊水會結凍的金融重鎮？約翰?葛登在這本層次豐富的金融史中，讓一些銀行家、股票經紀人、夢想家及偷拐搶騙的惡棍現身說法，生動鮮活地訴說他們當年打造華爾街的事蹟。 紐約市因勢利導成為全球最大的港口，發現紐約的荷蘭人更賦予她歷久彌新的賺錢欲望。為了追求財富，紐約人齊聚在華爾街的街燈及路樹下買賣股票。美國國土向西延伸後，運河及鐵路公司也到華爾街籌措資金，後來，華爾街更吸引製造業的駐足。二十世紀初，美國成為全球最強大的經濟體。在美國財經發展史上，華爾街功不可沒，更證明亞當?史密斯（Adam Smith）的理論：有一隻看不見的手，讓個人在追求本身經濟利益的同時，也創造了集體的財富。 這場已有兩百多年的世紀搶錢大賽，透過約翰?葛登的生花妙筆，許多要角躍然紙上，包括華爾街第一位投機客李特（Jacob Little）；華爾街最厲害的謀士凡德比特（Commodore Vanderbilt）；「全球最有錢的女士」葛琳（Hetty Green），她深怕自己沒有錢；美國最具影響力的銀行業鉅子摩根（J. P. Morgan），他兩度力挽狂瀾，化解美國政府都束手無策的經濟危機；紐約證券交易所總裁惠特尼（Richard Whitney），此人惡名昭彰；莫瑞爾（Charles E. Merrill），美國商界主流因他才認識華爾街，他也讓兩者脫胎換骨；從開國元勳漢彌爾頓（Alexander Hamilton）到垃圾債券大王邁爾肯（Michael Milken），華爾街的眾生百相可以看到冒險、勇氣、貪婪、愛國心、權力、天才，甚至偶爾愚不可及的行徑。 華爾街精采無比的過去，終於找到一位相得益彰的傳記作家為她作傳。越來越多美國人投資股市之際，本書以生動有趣的筆調，讓讀者了解華爾街如何成為美國人的生活重心之一。 < TOP>

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 In 2002, Link (medicine, Vanderbilt U.) and LaBaer (medicine, Harvard U.), along with Philip Andrews (U. of Michigan) started the course to provide an intensive hands-on introduction to identifying, sequencing, and studying proteins. Each year, 16 students are selected to perform actual procedures and interpret the data. This laboratory manual contains step-by-step protocols for conducting most of the experiments they have taught over the first six years. Notes are included about techniques and specific product numbers to help students reproduce the experiments in their own laboratories. Annotation 漏2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Based on a popular course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, this new manual assembles cutting鈥揺dge protocols, helpful hints, and lecture notes to teach researchers from a variety of disciplines the essential methods of proteomics. It provides well鈥搃llustrated descriptions of experimental procedures, detailed protocols involving state鈥搊f鈥搕he鈥揳rt instrumentation, and lists of recommended Web sites and reading material. It can be used as the basis for a course or as a detailed bench manual, and is indispensable for those performing proteomic experiments.  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Noble shows how "black rage" grows out of inmate subculture and prison culture to increase violence in prisons.Noble's thesis is that African-American inmates transport "black rage" into the prison subculture, which significantly affects prison violence rates. He finds previous studies superficial and raises the bar for future examinations by proposing a sensitive and taboo theory to explain the strong racial patterns observed in prison victimization. Noble's work supports the importation theory of the inmate subculture proposed by Irwin and Cressey. He builds on their theory by advocating for the inclusion of race and other cultural factors concerning the inmate and staff populations into predicative models. He concludes that prisons with greater racial disparities between the inmate and staff populations experience higher staff assault rates.   Publisher Summary 2 The exclusion of Black perspectives on criminology, argues Noble (sociology, Vanderbilt U.) obscures some very real connections between race and crime. In this study he looks at the connections between Black rage--an exacerbated state of anger produced by "the irresistible temptation to attribute African-American problems to a history of White racist oppression"--and prison violence. He empirically examines the influence of the racial identity of inmates and guards in cases of institutional violence, suggesting that the hiring of more minority guards may serve to decrease prison violence. Annotation 漏2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：Lipsey (public policy, Vanderbilt U.) and Wilson (criminology and criminal justice, U. of Maryland) describe a form of survey research in which research reports rather than people are surveyed. They explain the strengths and weaknesses of the technique and how to select relevant research studies, to code their various characteristics and quantitative findings, and to analyze and describe their collective results in a valid and useful manner. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：This book is an exposition of the theoretical foundations of hyperbolic manifolds. It is intended to be used both as a textbook and as a reference. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with hyperbolic geometry and discrete groups. The main results are the characterization of hyperbolic reflection groups and Euclidean crystallographic groups. The second part is devoted to the theory of hyperbolic manifolds. The main results are Mostow鈥檚 rigidity theorem and the determination of the global geometry of hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume. The third part integrates the first two parts in a development of the theory of hyperbolic orbifolds. The main result is Poincare芦s fundamental polyhedron theorem. The exposition if at the level of a second year graduate student with particular emphasis placed on readability and completeness of argument. After reading this book, the reader will have the necessary background to study the current research on hyperbolic manifolds. The second edition is a thorough revision of the first edition that embodies hundreds of changes, corrections, and additions, including over sixty new lemmas, theorems, and corollaries. The new main results are Schl\卢afli鈥檚 differential formula and the $n$-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet theorem. John G. Ratcliffe is a Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University.

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简介：Biotransport: Principles and Applications is written primarily for biomedical engineering and bioengineering students at the introductory level, but should prove useful for anyone interested in quantitative analysis of transport in living systems.聽 It is important that bioengineering students be exposed to the principles and subtleties of transport phenomena within the context of problems that arise in living systems.聽 These tend to have constitutive properties, compositions, and geometries that are quite distinct from those of typical inanimate systems.聽 The book derives its genesis from a novel Engineering Research Center (ERC) in Bioengineering Educational Technologies sponsored by the National Science Foundation.聽 This ERC was a multi-institutional consortium among Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Texas and Harvard/MIT Universities (VaNTH) based on collaboration among bioengineers, learning scientists and learning technologists. An objective was to develop state-of-the-art learning materials for students in bioengineering.聽 This text is an outgrowth of the VaNTH ERC and was designed with dual objectives: to provide a coherent and concise pedagogical exposition of biotransport that includes the domains of fluid, heat and mass flows, and to present a guide for teaching and studying in the "How People Learn" (HPL) framework, with appropriate supporting materials for students and teachers.聽 There is no other text that meets the latter objective.聽 The text is designed for use in either a traditional didactic course or in an active learning environment in which a course is organized around a series of open ended challenge problems.聽 The main portion of the text presents enduring concepts and analogies that form the foundations of biotransport.聽 Sections on biofluid, bioheat and biomass transport are further subdivided into chapters that progressively cover principles and applications of biotransport fundamentals, macroscopic biotransport, 1-D steady and unsteady state transport, and general multidimensional microscopic transport. Biotransport: Principles and Applications should serve as a clear and effective resource for students to learn the basic components of biotransport, so that class time can be freed to allow student-faculty interactions which focus on development of skills in adaptive thinking and solving open ended problems.聽 The text provides numerous example problems with detailed numerical solutions to help students learn effectively during self study.聽 Intermediate steps in derivations are included to make it easier for students to follow.聽 The text includes extensive examples of various learning challenges that have been written by the authors for use in their own biotransport courses.聽 Chapter summaries, review questions and over 230 problems are included at the end of chapters.

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简介：In Self-Interviews, James Dickey speaks thoughtfully and with candor of his life as a poet. He recalls how poetry came to be his career, tracing its growing importance in his life from his youth in Georgia through his years overseas with the Air Force, as a student at Vanderbilt, as a teacher, and as a successful advertising executive. He also tells of haw he rewarked the life around him into poetry, of the fleeting impressions and lingering thoughts that were the seeds of some of his finest poems

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简介：This introductory textbook focuses on topics that are most relevant for beginning students of audiology as well as those planning careers in speech pathology and special education. In this third edition, Bess (hearing and speech sciences, Vanderbilt U.) and Humes (speech and hearing sciences, Indiana U.) add 50 new vignettes enhancing key concepts and offering practical classroom experiments. The new edition also contains current data on auditory pathologies and updated coverage of newborn hearing screenings, hearing aid evaluation and selection, education of the hearing impaired, and deaf culture. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history''s first billionaire and the patriarch of America''s most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul 'etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have' (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller''s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world''s richest man by creating America''s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded 'the Octopus' by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America. Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation''s history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay. While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller''s misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light. John D. Rockefeller''s story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller''s life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow''s signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves. 作者简介： TITAN,Ron Chernow''s first book,The House of Morgan,won the National Book Award,the Ambassador Award for the year''s best study of American culture,and was named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the century by the Modern Library.His second book,The Warburgs,won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993 and was also selected by the American Library Association as one of that year''s best nonfiction books.In reviewing his recent collection of essays,The elegant and architect of monumental histories as we''ve seen in decades”and chose the paperback original as one of the year''s Notable Books.