Robert Hodgson

Francis is clever, successful and really rather nice, but he has a problem.He has no idea how women think. He doesn't know when they love him or why they sometimes hate him. So he turns to science for the answer and develops his own theory of how men and women react with each other.His theory guides him through tortured adolescence and into perplexing manhood but fails to predict the outcome of his intense, passionate but mostly hapless relationships.His quest to find the ultimate "oxygen" woman combines small triumphs with an unending litany of catastrophes until he is finally faced with the awful truth.It's a story about how men try to make sense of women, and mostly fail.Francis's story brings together the belief systems of all the people in his life and compels him to choose between them. It forces him to confront the question of whether his own theory is based on scientific rigor or is no better than the superstitions that he so despises.It offers an alternative view of the concept of manhood in the 21st century and examines the conflicting patterns of life's seeming predictability and spontaneity in a funny, thoughtful and at times, cringingly embarrassing story.Oh...and it's a comedy."Does for science what Nick Hornby's High-Fidelity did for music."BestForBooks

Chemistry

Charles W. Hedrick

[This] book acquaints the beginner with the topic of gnosticism and early Christianity and presents to the specialist some of the new frontiers their colleagues are exploring. For the beginner there is a concise introduction to gnosticism. It covers the issues of origin, literature, leading ideas, and possible links with early Christianity. Each contributor has prepared a preface to his or her paper that points to its salient features and explains how the essay fits into the overall subject of the book. --from the Preface

Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early Christianity

Jai Prakash Agrawal

Organic Chemistry of Explosives is the first text to bring together the essential methods and routes used for the synthesis of organic explosives in a single volume. Assuming no prior knowledge, the book discusses everything from the simplest mixed acid nitration of toluene, to the complex synthesis of highly energetic caged nitro compounds. Reviews laboratory and industrial methods, which can be used to introduce aliphatic C-nitro, aromatic C-nitro, N-nitro, and nitrate ester functionality into organic compounds Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each synthetic method or route, with scope, limitations, substrate compatibility and other important considerations Features numerous examples in the form of text, reaction diagrams, and tables.

Organic Chemistry of Explosives

Stefano Arduini

Revised version. These essays study the grand paradox of similarity and difference from four different methodological standpoints: rhetoric, epistemology, semiotics, and culture. Paperback. 6 x 9 in. 542 pages

Proceedings of the International Conference on Similarity and Translation : Bible House, New York City, May 31-June 1, 2001

Similarity and Difference in Translation

Paul A. Soukup

Eighteen experts from a wide variety of academic and professional fields engage key questions in a series of thought-provoking essays that define the emerging field of new media Bible translating, and how the biblical message will be communicated in the culture and media of the 21st century.

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