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A guide to all aspects of tablet and capsule machine instrumentation in pharmaceutical research, development and production.In order to produce a satisfactory tablet or capsule it is necessary to combine a sound formulation with a proper control of the tabletting or capsule filling process. These considerations involve the need to make accurate measurements and this text provides a practical guide to the techniques and applications of instrumentation used to make these measurements.This text provides a sound understanding of the principles and techniques involved, and of how data generated by instrumented machines can be applied to problems in pharmaceutical research, development and manufacture.It encompasses major advances in instrumentation methodology as well as in both tablet presses and capsule filling equipment. In particular there are new methods of measurement, the feeding of the output of instrumentation into computers has become routine, and instrumentation techniques have been expanded to tablet press simulators, automatic press control and capsule filling equipment. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Henry Mcleish, Anton Muscatelli, Ian Sommerville, David Earnshaw, Gordon Beveridge, Steve Chapman, Francis Grant Ogilvie, John Stuart Archer, Ruth Aylett, John M. Ball, James R. Barr, Oliver Penrose, Colin Mcwilliam, James Dunbar-Nasmith. Excerpt:Professor Anton Muscatelli FRSA FRSE AcSS Professor Vito Antonio "Anton" Muscatelli FRSA FRSE AcSS (born 1962 in Italy) is the Principal of the University of Glasgow and one of the United Kingdom's leading economists. Early life Anton Muscatelli was born on 1 January 1962 in Italy to Ambrogio and Rosellina Muscatelli. His father, who was head of a shipping company, relocated the family first to Holland and then to Glasgow. Anton was educated at The High School of Glasgow , at the time a publicly-funded grammar school, and the University of Glasgow , where he graduated M.A. (Hons) in Political Economy (1984) and took a Ph.D. in Economics (1989). He was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1984-1992, and Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy from 1992 until 2007. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2000 to 2004, and Vice-Principal (Strategy, Budgeting and Advancement) from 2004 until 2007. Career Professor Muscatelli has been a consultant to the World Bank and the European Commission , and was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Secretary of State for Scotland from 1998-2000. Since 2007, he has been an adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on monetary policy, and in 2008 he was appointed to chair an independent expert group for the Calman Commission on Devolution, set up by the Scottish Parliament and led by the Chancellor of the University of Glasgow , Sir Kenneth Calman . This includes experts from the UK, Europe, and... ... Read more

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Three of Ibsen's best known plays. ... Read more

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Not as many plays as I hoped for
The description of this purchase said the volume included about 6 or more of Ibsen's works. However, upon recieving the book I discovered only 3 of Ibsen's works were included. I was buying the book for the main play of "A Doll House" but I was looking forward to having the other plays as well. Nice printing, just not as many plays as expected.

Mediocre edition - not worth the price
While "Penguin Classics" are generally reliable when it comes to editions, paper-type, or publications in general, with Ibsen's masterful plays, it falls pitifully short in terms of collection. This collection gives us three plays - one less than the usual four per collection that can be found. While this may overall seem like quite a bit, it is not, in fact, worth much.

Yes, "A Doll's House" is still the intriguing, fascinating play it always is. As a play, "A Doll's House" is highly recommended. Just don't get it HERE. Why? Well, mostly because of what ELSE is offered. The first play here is the strange, confusing "League of Youth". It unfortunately did not reach Ibsen's level of mastery as found in the later plays. Too many characters and nothing particularly interesting just had the play stop and stall.

While all of Ibsen's plays are worth purchasing (if only for study), the problem here is the edition. For the same price (or less), one can get "A Doll's House" with much better plays with four per collection. A personal recommendation is that of Oxford's World Classics, mostly due to the presence of the incredible "Ghosts". Signet Classics also has an edition, for those who want something cheap and easy, though it has "The Wild Duck" (not as good as "Ghosts", but still so much better than "League of Youth"). Both editions also have "Hedda Gabler" and "The Master Builder". When given a choice between four plays or three, four is preferred, especially when they are the better works.

Turn elsewhere.

Doll's house is an interesting play
In this interesting play, Henrik Ibsen sets up a scenario of a marriedcouple with three children that seem to have a good relationship with eachother. This couple is Nora and Helmer (called Torvald by Nora). They alwaysseem to have romantic conversations with each other, but soon, we learnthat years ago Nora had to take a loan from Nils Krogstad, in order to payoff a lifesaving medical treatment for Helmer. He doesn't know this andthinks that the money came from Nora's father, who has passedaway.

Helmer, who has just been named a manager of a bank, is alwaystreating Nora in such a sweet manner, such as "Is that my little larktwittering out there?" or calls by another bird's name. She always getslittle money from Helmer, but never gets large sums because Helmer isworried he thinks she doesn't know how to manage her money wisely. In thebeginning, Nora treats Helmer with overwhelming respect although Nora ishiding her loan that she is paying off on a regulaly with some of the moneyfrom Helmer. Nora doesn't want Helmer to think she took a loan since shethinks it could affect their relationship.

There are three othersupporting characters in this play: Dr. Rank, Nils Krogstad, and ChristineLinde. Dr. Rank is a friend of the family who is seriously ill. NilsKrogstad a worker at the bank, who is about to his job to a friend ofNora's, Christine Linde, a woman who recently moved back to the areabecause her husband died.

At the end of Act II, we find out Nora forgedher father's signature on the loan. Krogstad had written a letter to tellHelmer about the loan. Nora is worried that Helmer will read the letterKrogstad wrote.

This play is about a woman trying to understand hermarriage, and always wanting something wonderful to happen. With Helmer,she finally realizes that she isn't being treated the way she wants, andnothing wonderful seems to happen. Nora had no trouble making the decisionof leaving her family, but perhaps she would have had a hard timerecovering from this rare type of circumstance in this time and age.

Good Book, though not the absolute best...
As I very clearly stated above, this is a read-worthy book, though not my favorite or one of the best books that I have ever read.If you're in the mood for some feminist action or any politics, go ahead, pick up the book. This is, however, NOT a book for anyone who's looking for comedy. ... Read more

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An unabridged audio collection of the best of the best science fiction stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In Erosion, by Ian Creasey, A man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying Earth. In As Women Fight, by Sara Genge, a hunter, in a society of body-switchers, has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife s body. In A Story, with Beans, by Steven Gould, the role of religion in a dystopian future plagued with metal-eating bugs is considered. In Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance, by John Kessel, a monk, in the far future, steals the only copy of a set of plays from a repressive regime and uses this loot to free his people. In On the Human Plan, by Jay Lake, a mysterious alien visits a far-future, dying Earth in search of the death of Death. Set in the Jackaroo sequence, Crimes and Glory, by Paul McAuley, a detective chases a thief to recover alien technology that both aliens and humanity are desperate to recover. Set in the Lovecraftian Boojum universe, Mongoose by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, a vermin hunter and his tentacled assistant come on board a space station to hunt toves and raths. In Before My Last Breath, by Robert Reed, a geologist discovers a strange fossil in a coal mine that leads to the discovery of a peculiar graveyard. In The Island, by Peter Watts, a woman on a spaceship must decide whether to place a stargate near an alien society that will ultimately destroy it. Finally, This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Robert Charles Wilson, is an alternate American Civil War history in which the war was never fought, slavery gradually disappeared, and Uncle Tom s Cabin was never published. More than 9.5 hours on 8 CDs, read by Tom Dheere, Vanessa Hart, and J. P. Linton. ... Read more

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A collection of stories, compiled by a World Fantasy Award-winning anthologist and a Canadian scholar, displays the talents of William Gibson, Charles de Lint, Spider Robinson, and many other Canadian fantasy writers, and includes introductory essays and notes. ... Read more

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Canadian SF? Who knew?
This is a great collection of science fiction stories by Canadians, many of whom you will recognize as pioneers in the genre. The stories are entertaining and original, and the introduction is fun and educational. ... Read more

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Ibsen's last play in verse. ... Read more

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Chapters: Arthur Cain, Peter Dennis, Alexander Watt, Derek Ratcliffe, John L. Harper, J. Philip Grime, Sue Hartley, Mike Dilger, John Stanley Beard, James Parsons Burkitt, Peter J. Grubb, Simon Thirgood, Jane Smart,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur James Cain FRS (25 July 1921-20 August 1999) was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. Arthur James Cain was awarded an open scholarship in 1939 (Demyship) to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honors in zoology in 1941. Entering the British Army in December 1941, Cain was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (engineering) and was later transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (R.E.M.E.) on its formation. He was promoted to Captain in 1942. After leaving the military in November 1945 Cain returned to Oxford to pursue research in the Department of Zoology. He became a Departmental Demonstrator in October 1946, and received his M.A. in November 1947. From January 1949 until 1964 Cain was employed as University Demonstrator (now referred to as Lecturer) in Animal Taxonomy. Cain's main interests lay in evolutionary biology, ecological genetics, animal taxonomy and speciation. Though he conducted research with John Baker on the histochemistry of lipids, his main work lay in the field developed by E.B. Ford, namely, ecological genetics. With P.M. Sheppard, Cain studied the ecological genetics of colour and banding polymorphisms in snails. Cain and Sheppard's work on Cepaea nemoralis, one of the first studies to demonstrate natural selection by predators acting on a colour polymorphism, is now regarded as a classic. It generated a long series of further studies by Cain,...http://booksllc.net/?id=1599258 ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Peter James Shannon (born 1949 in Melbourne, Australia) is Australian ambassador to Austria. Shannon holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney. He is married and has one son. Apart from English, he speaks French and Bislama, a Melanesian creole language. Prior to his appointment as ambassador to Austria, Shannon was Assistant Secretary, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2002 - 2005). Amongst the other positions Shannon has held in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade are Assistant Secretary, Americas Branch (1999 - 2002), Deputy Legal Adviser, Legal Branch (1991 - 1992), Director, Multilateral Law Section (1989 - 1990) and Director, Law of the Sea Section (1984 - 1986). Abroad, Shannon has held a number of positions, including Minister and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Australian Embassy and Permanent Mission to UNESCO, Paris (1996 - 1999) and High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu (1992 - 1996). ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : James Clerk Maxwell, James Watt, Alexander Anderson, Peter Guthrie Tait, Eric Temple Bell, John Napier, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Muir, James Stirling, Robert Simson, Colin Maclaurin, James Gregory, John Sinclair, Andrew Russell Forsyth, John Playfair, David Gregory, Matthew Stewart, James Short, Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn, John Craig, John Keill, John Leslie, George Udny Yule. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : James Clerk Maxwell (13 juin 1831 à Édimbourg, en Écosse - 5 novembre 1879) est un physicien et mathématicien écossais. Il est principalement connu pour avoir unifié en un seul ensemble d'équations, les équations de Maxwell, l'électricité, le magnétisme et l'induction, en incluant une importante modification du théorème d'Ampère. Ce fut à l'époque le modèle le plus unifié de l'électromagnétisme. Il est également célèbre pour avoir interprété, dans un article en quatre parties publié dans Philosophical Magazine intitulé On Physical Lines of Force, la lumière comme étant un phénomène électromagnétique en s'appuyant sur les travaux de Michael Faraday. Il a notamment démontré que les champs électriques et magnétiques se propagent dans l'espace sous la forme d'une onde et à la vitesse de la lumière. Ces deux découvertes permirent d'importants travaux ultérieurs notamment en relativité restreinte et en mécanique quantique. Il a également développé la distribution de Maxwell, une méthode statistique de description de la théorie cinétique des gaz. Maxwell est considéré par de nombreux physiciens comme le scientifique du siècle ayant eu le plus d'influence au siècle. Ses contributions à la science sont considérées par certains comme aussi importantes que celles d'Isaac Newton ou d'Albert Einstein...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: James Innell Packer, John Stott, Carsten Peter Thiede, Alan Watts, Henry Scott Holland, Miroslav Volf, Arthur Peacocke, Charles Augustus Briggs, Nicholas Thomas Wright, Alister Mcgrath, Paul Van Buren, John A. T. Robinson, Thomas Pelham Dale, Henry Chadwick, Carter Heyward, Robert Henry Alexander Eames. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He wrote more than 25 books and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life, concepts and images of God and the non-material pursuit of happiness. In his books he relates his experience to scientific knowledge and to the teachings of Eastern and Western religion, spirituality and philosophy. Watts was born to middle class parents in the village of Chislehurst, Kent, England in the year 1915, living at 3 (now 5) Holbrook Lane. His father was a representative for the London office of the Michelin Tyre Company, his mother a housewife whose father had been a missionary. With modest financial means, they chose to live in pastoral surroundings and Alan, an only child, grew up playing at brookside, learning the names of wildflowers and butterflies. Probably because of the influence of his mother's religious family the Buchans, an interest in "ultimate things" seeped in. But it mixed with Alan's own interests in storybook fables and romantic tales of the mysterious Far East. Watts also later wrote of a mystical sort of vision he experienced while ill with a fever as a child. During this time he was influenced by Far Eastern landscape paintings and embroideries that had been given to his mother by missionaries returning from China. The few Chinese paintings Watts was able to see in England riveted him, and he wrote "...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Geared towards National Curriculum Key Stage 2, an introduction to the concept of food chains in the STRAIGHTFORWARD SCIENCE series.Includes a number of simple activities.Illustrated with colour photographs and art work. ... Read more