This book began as a program of self-education. While teaching under graduate physical chemistry, I became progressively more dissatisfied with my approach to chemical kinetics. The solution to my problem was to write a detailed set of lecture notes which covered more material, in greater depth, than could be presented in undergraduate physical chemistry. These notes are the foundation upon which this book is built. My background led me to view chemical kinetics as closely related to transport phenomena. While the relationship of these topics is well known, it is often ignored, except for brief discussions of irreversible thermody namics. In fact, the physics underlying such apparently dissimilar processes as reaction and energy transfer is not so very different. The intermolecular potential is to transport what the potential-energy surface is to reactivity. Instead of beginning the sections devoted to chemical kinetics with a discussion of various theories, I have chosen to treat phenomenology and mechanism first. In this way the essential unity of kinetic arguments, whether applied to gas-phase or solution-phase reaction, can be emphasized. Theories of rate constants and of chemical dynamics are treated last, so that their strengths and weaknesses may be more clearly highlighted. The book is designed for students in their senior year or first year of graduate school. A year of undergraduate physical chemistry is essential preparation. While further exposure to chemical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, or molecular spectroscopy is an asset, it is not necessary.

Chemical Kinetics and Transport

Science & Math

Jordan, Peter

Chemistry

Springer

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what came to be known as the Commedia dell’Arte. The book contends that through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the Venice region, fusing ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in a provocative mix that had a truly mass appeal.  Rich with anecdotes, diary entries and literary – often ribald – comic passages, Peter Jordan's central argument has important implications for the study of Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what came to be known as the Commedia dell’Arte. The book contends that through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the Venice region, fusing ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in a provocative mix that had a truly mass appeal. Rich with anecdotes, diary entries and literary – often ribald – comic passages, Peter Jordan's central argument has important implications for the study of Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.

Schistosomiasis is a disease affecting over 200 million people in developing countries. It is caused by worms that need particular species of fresh water snails for completing their life cycle, and developments in Third World countries have spread and increased the severity of the disease. Dr Jordan describes a 15 year study on St Lucia, a mountainous Caribbean Island where isolated valleys provided ideal field laboratories for comparing the effects on transmission, the advantages and disadvantages of intensive snail control, environmental improvement (providing villages with water), and chemotherapy with newly available drugs. The project was staffed by a multidisciplinary team and their intensive programme led to successful control. This book describes the investigation, fully and readably. It will be valuable to all who work in the fields of tropical medicine, parasitology, epidemiology, community and environmental health, and vital to workers on schistosomiasis control in developing countries.

Schistosomiasis: The St Lucia Project

Medical Books

Cambridge University Press

This series of illustrated guides provides expert information on a wide variety of popular subjects. Each title is filled with beautiful color photographs, and accompanied by an authoritative text.

Mushroom Identifier (Illustrated Encyclopedia)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Lorenz Books

Anyone looking to explore the culinary variety made possible by savory mushrooms will want this stunning book with more than 600 color photographs. Learn to identify, collect, store and enjoy mushrooms in everything from dessert to main course.

Peter Jordan's Wild Mushroom Bible

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Anness

Essential techniques and imaginative ideas for drying and preserving mushrooms.

The Complete Book of Mushrooms

An authoritative photographic guide to edible (and poisonous) fungi found in Britain offers clear, practical information for the mushroom forager.

The Mushroom Guide & Identifer: An Expert Manual for Identifying, Picking and Using Edible Wild Mushrooms Found in Britain

Kilkenny, Neville

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape: The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty (Archaeology of Religion)

This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.

History

Ancient Civilizations

AltaMira Press

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Chemical Kinetics and Transport

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte

Schistosomiasis: The St Lucia Project

Mushroom Identifier (Illustrated Encyclopedia)

Peter Jordan's Wild Mushroom Bible

The Complete Book of Mushrooms

The Mushroom Guide & Identifer: An Expert Manual for Identifying, Picking and Using Edible Wild Mushrooms Found in Britain

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape: The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty (Archaeology of Religion)

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape: The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty (Archaeology of Religion)