Social Policy and Social Work: Critical Essays on the Welfare State. (Modern Applications of Social Work)

Politics & Social Sciences

Moroney, Robert

Politics & Government

Walter de Gruyter

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Spanish Language Use & Public Life in the U. S. A. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)

Elias, Olivarez

Anglo-American innovation (De Gruyter studies in organization)

Business & Money

Clark, Peter A.

Management & Leadership

Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape (Degruyter Studies in Organization)

Pasquale Gagliardi

Petrochronology is a rapidly emerging branch of Earth science that links time (ages or rates) with specific rock-forming processes and their physical conditions. It is founded in petrology and geochemistry, which define a petrogenetic context or delimit a specific process, to which chronometric data are then linked. This combination informs Earth`s petrogenetic processes better than petrology or geochronology alone. This volume and the accompanying short courses address three broad categories of inquiry.　Conceptual approaches chapters　include petrologic modeling of multi-component chemical and mineralogic systems, and development of methods that include diffusive alteration of mineral chemistry.　Methods chapters　address four main analytical techniques, specifically EPMA, LA-ICP-MS, SIMS and TIMS.　Mineral-specific chapters　explore applications to a wide range of minerals, including zircon (metamorphic, igneous, and detrital/Hadean), baddeleyite, REE minerals (monazite, allanite, xenotime and apatite), titanite, rutile, garnet, and major igneous minerals (olivine, plagioclase and pyroxenes). These applications mainly focus on metamorphic, igneous, or tectonic processes, but additionally elucidate fundamental transdisciplinary progress in addressing mechanisms of crystal growth, the chemical consequences of mineral growth kinetics, and how chemical transport and deformation affect chemically complex mineral composites. Most chapters further recommend areas of future research.

Petrochronology: Methods and Applications (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 83)

Science & Math

Kohn, Matthew J.

Engi, Martin

Lanari, Pierre

Earth Sciences

Volume 8 of Reviews in Mineralogy treats a Short Course in Kinetics, which brings together the fundamentals needed to explain field observations using kinetic data. It is hoped that this book may serve, not only as a reference for researchers dealing with the rates of geochemical processes, but also as a text in courses on geochemical kinetics.  The book is organized with a rough temperature gradient in mind, i.e. low temperature kinetics at the beginning and igneous kinetics at the end. However, the topics in each chapter are general enough that they can be applied often to any geochemical domain: sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous. The theory of kinetics operates at two complementary levels: the phenomenological and the atomistic. The former relies on macroscopic variables (e.g. temperature or concentrations) to describe the rates of reactions or the rates of transport; the latter relates the rates to the basic forces operating between the particular atomic or molecular species of any system. This book deals with both descriptions of the kinetics of geochemical processes.

Kinetics of Geochemical Processes (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 8)

Chemistry

Amphiboles: Petrology & Experimental Phase Relations

Amphiboles: Petrology and Experimental Phase Relations (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 9B)

Volume 16 of Reviews in Mineralogy inroduces to high-temperature stable isotope geochemistry and should provide an entry into the pertinent literature, as well as some understanding of the basic concepts and potential applications. The first three chapters focus on the theory and experimental data base for equilibrium, disequilibrium, and kinetics of stable isotope exchange reactions among geologically important minerals and fluids. The fourth chapter discusses the primordial oxygen isotope variations in the solar system prior to formation of the Earth, along with a discussion of isotopic anomalies in meteorites. The fifth chapter discusses isotopic variations in the Earth's mantle and the sixth chapter reviews the variations in the isotopic compositions of natural waters on our planet. In Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10, these isotopic constraints and concepts are applied to various facets of the origin and evolution of igneous rocks, bringing in much material on radiogenic isotopes as well, because these problems require a multi-dimensional attack for their solution. In Chapters 11 and 12, the problems of hydrothermal alteration by meteoric waters and ocean water are considered, together with discussions of the physics and chemistry of hydrothermal systems and the 18O/16O history of ocean water. Finally, in Chapters 13 and 14, these concepts are applied to problems of metamorphic petrology and ore deposits, particularly with respect to the origins of the fluids involved in those processes.

Stable Isotopes in High Temperature Geological Processes (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 16)

Volume 17 of Reviews in Mineralogy is based on a short course, entitled "Thermodynamic Modeling of Geological Materials: Minerals, Fluids amd Melts," October 22-25, 1987, at the Wickenburg Inn near Phoenix, Arizona.  Contents: Thermodynamic Analysis of Phase Equilibria in Simple Mineral SystemsModels of Crystalline solutionsThermodynamics of Multicomponent Systems Containing Several Solid SolutionsThermodynamic Model for Aqueous Solutions of Liquid-like DensityModels of Mineral Solubility in Concentrated Brines with Application to Field ObservationsCalculation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Species and the Solubilities of Minerals in Supercritical Electrolyte SolutionsIgneous FluidsOre Fluids: Magmatic to SupergeneThermodynamic Models of Molecular Fluids at the Elevated Pressures and Temperatures of Crustal MetamorphismMineral Solubilities and Speciation in Supercritical Metamorphic FluidsDevelopment of Models for Multicomponent Melts: Analysis of Synthetic SystemsModeling Magmatic Systems: Thermodynamic RelationsModeling Magmatic Systems: Petrologic Applications

Thermodynamic Modeling of Geologic Materials: Minerals, Fluids, and Melts (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 17)

Volume 24 of Reviews in Mineralogy attempted to bring together the basic data and fundamental theoretical constraints on magmatic processes with applications to specific problems in igneous petrology. The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) sponsored the short course on "Modern Methods of Igneous Petrolgy: Understanding Magmatic Processes" at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco, California in December 1990. It was organized by the editors, Jim Nicholls and Kelly Russell, and presented by the authors of this volume to about 80 participants in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Modern Methods of Igneous Petrology: Understanding Magmatic Processes (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 24)

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