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The love proof [large print] / by Henry, Madeleine,author.(CARDINAL)805284;
"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and seeks to prove Block Theory, which considers space-time as an unchanging four-dimensional block in which past, present, and future occur simultaneously. Inspired by her connection with Jake, Sophie throws herself headfirst into her studies, determined to prove that those she loves belong together in all realities. Spanning decades, The Love Proof is an unusual and refreshing love story about connection, time, and intuition, urging us to listen to our hearts rather than our heads"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Science fiction.; Large print books.; Life change events; Women physicists; Blocks (Group theory); Physics; Loss (Psychology); Multiverse;
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The love proof : a novel / by Henry, Madeleine,author.(CARDINAL)805284;
"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and seeks to prove Block Theory, which considers space-time as an unchanging four-dimensional block in which past, present, and future occur simultaneously. Inspired by her connection with Jake, Sophie throws herself headfirst into her studies, determined to prove that those she loves belong together in all realities. Spanning decades, The Love Proof is an unusual and refreshing love story about connection, time, and intuition, urging us to listen to our hearts rather than our heads"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Science fiction.; Women scientists; First loves; Soul mates; Blocks (Group theory); Physics; Man-woman relationships; Loss (Psychology); Multiverse;
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Deep down things : the breathtaking beauty of particle physics / by Schumm, Bruce A.,1958-(CARDINAL)464196;
Introduction -- The true movers & shakers: the forces of nature -- The great reawakening: the modern physics revolution -- The marriage of relativity & quantum theory: relativistic quantum field theory -- Patterns in nature: the fundamental building blocks -- Mathematical patterns: lie groups -- The world within: internal symmetries -- Physics by pure thought: gauge theory -- The current paradigm: hidden symmetry, the standard model & the Higgs Boson -- Into the unknown: what lies ahead.
Subjects: Gauge fields (Physics); Particles (Nuclear physics); Quantum field theory.; Symmetry (Physics);
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No study without struggle : confronting settler colonialism in higher education / by Patel, Leigh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Study and struggle -- Settler colonialism -- Profit and debt -- Fugitive learning in a settler society -- The struggle to study is vulnerable -- Study groups and collective struggle: theories of transformation"Anytime higher education has widened itself for people who are normally blocked from higher education, political struggle has always been involved"--
Subjects: Education, Higher; Educational equalization; Social change; Social justice and education;
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Oh crap! potty training : everything modern parents need to know to do it once and do it right / by Glowacki, Jamie.(CARDINAL)410654;
"Jamie Glowacki--potty-training expert, Pied Piper of Poop, and author of the popular guide, Oh Crap! Potty Training--shares her proven 6-step plan to help you toilet train your preschooler quickly and successfully. Let Jamie Glowacki, potty-training expert and the popular "Pied Piper of Poop," show you how it's done. Her 6-step, proven process to get your toddler out of diapers and onto the toilet has already worked for tens of thousands of kids and their parents. Here's the good news: your child is probably ready to be potty trained EARLIER than you think (ideally, between 20-30 months), and it can be done FASTER than you expect (most kids get the basics in a few days--but Jamie's got you covered even if it takes a little longer). If you've ever said to yourself: ** How do I know if my kid is ready? ** Why won't my child poop in the potty? ** How do I avoid "potty power struggles"? ** How can I get their daycare provider on board? ** My kid was doing so well--why is he regressing? ** And what about nighttime?! Oh Crap! Potty Training can solve all of these (and other) common issues. This isn't theory, you're not bribing with candy, and there are no gimmicks. This is real-world, from-the-trenches potty training information--all the questions and all the ANSWERS you need to do it once and be done with diapers for good"--"Toilet-training expert Jamie Glowacki's self-published OH CRAP! POTTY TRAINING has sold more than 40,000 copies and has been the "dirty little secret" of moms on message boards and in parenting groups for years. Now, this proven, 6-step plan (called "theWHAT TO EXPECT of potty training books" for its comprehensive, no-nonsense voice) is available to the general trade audience for the first time"--
Subjects: Toilet training.;
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A lethal journey / by Penney, Elizabeth,author.(CARDINAL)415330;
Sofia Parker needs a summer break as badly as her children and husband and they find a wonderful diversion at a cabin on Lake Champlain. Joined by Sofia's Pinot Painter friends, Julie Butler and Marla Dixon, Sofia is reveling in the two week vacation until apparent tragedy strikes. Julie's kid brother, Ian, shows up at the Butler cabin for a surprise visit but then goes missing the next morning. With his clothes found on the dock, the group fears he may have gone for a swim alone during the night and then drowned. But that working theory quickly is undermined by the appearance of seedy characters in search of Ian and his personal effects. Has he been kidnapped or possibly even worse? Local authorities seem to think not, so it is up to Sofia and company to get to the bottom of the case. Concurrently, Sofia is wrestling with the twelfth block of the heirloom quilt bequeathed to her by her beloved grandmother.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Quilts; Missing persons;
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The power of minds at work : organizational intelligence in action / by Albrecht, Karl,1941-(CARDINAL)274787;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Albrecht's law -- Learned incapacity : how people collude to fail -- What is organizational intelligence? -- Strategic vision : every enterprise needs a theory -- Shared fate : the holodynamic organization -- Appetite for change : planned abandonment -- "Heart" : earning the discretionary energy -- Alignment and congruence : eliminating the contradictions -- Knowledge deployment : the "hive mind" -- Performance pressure : leadership with purpose -- Organization development : psychotherapy for the enterprise -- Psychotherapy for the enterprise.It's a fact: A group of intelligent people, when combined in an organization, will often yield collective stupidity! We've all seen intelligence blocked, squandered, and misused in the business world - but now writer and thinker Karl Albrecht introduces the concept of "OI" (Organizational Intelligence) and shows how an enterprise can mobilize and focus its collective brain power.
Subjects: Knowledge management.; Organizational learning.; Corporate culture.;
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Radioactivity : a history of a mysterious science / by Malley, Marjorie Caroline,1941-(CARDINAL)778320;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and indexes.A new science. The beginnings. The setting ; Rays and radiation ; Becquerel's discovery -- The Curies. Maria Skłodowska ; A consequential meeting ; New elements! -- Rutherford, Soddy, particles, and alchemy? Rutherford and the rays ; Where did the energy come from? ; Material rays? Discovery of the beta particle ; Thorium's rays ; Vanishing radioactivity ; Transmutation! ; A missed discovery ; Reactions ; Atomic energy? ; Tragedy ; More rays ; The alpha particle -- The radioactive Earth. The prospectors ; How old is the earth? ; A new property of matter? -- Speculations. Early theories ; Radioactivity and probability ; Kinetic models of the atom -- Radioactivity and chemistry. The rise of radiochemistry ; Radioactive genealogy ; Chemistry of the imponderable ; Inseparable radioelements ; Isotopes ; Displacement laws ; The end of the lines ; More isotopes -- Inside the atom. Building blocks ; Bombarding atoms ; The nuclear atom ; The nucleus and the periodic table ; The gamma rays ; Theories of the nucleus -- Sequel. War! ; Radioactivity during World War I ; From radioactivity to nuclear and particle physics -- Measuring and using radioactivity. Methods and instruments. Crucial choices ; Standardizing the measures ; Innovations ; Size, money, and machines -- Radioactivity, medicine, and life. Unpleasant surprises ; From burns to treatments ; Rays and other organisms ; Miracle cure? ; Radioactive spas ; Dangers in the laboratory -- New industries. Early industry ; Soaring demand and new institutions ; Paint that glowed in the dark ; A new poison ; Fission, bombs, and the uranium rush ; Radioactivity and the oil industry -- Beyond the story. Radioactivity's prime movers. Technology, resources, and professional changes ; Individuals ; Research groups ; Scientific ideals and culture ; Mentors and models ; Age, attitudes, and ambition ; Nationalism -- Radioactivity and timeless questions : the quest for understanding. Models and theories for radioactivity ; Patterns in radioactivity's development ; Radioactivity and ideas about change ; Radioactivity and ideas about matter and energy ; Radioactivity and ideas about continuity and discontinuity ; Eternal conundrums -- The imaginative appeal of a discovery. Mythological and romantic dimensions of radioactivity ; An ongoing task.
Subjects: Radioactivity.;
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Insight : the surprising truth about how others see us, how we see ourselves, and why the answers matter more than we think / by Eurich, Tasha,author.(CARDINAL)612479;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The meta-skill of the twenty-first century -- Part I. Roadblocks and building blocks : The anatomy of self-awareness: the seven pillars of insight -- Blindspots: the invisible inner roadblocks to insight -- The cult of self: the sinister societal roadblock to insight -- Part II. Internal self-awareness: myths and truths : Thinking isn't knowledge: the four follies of introspection -- Internal self-awareness tools that really work -- Part III. External self-awareness: myths and truths : The truth we rarely hear: from mirror to prism -- Receiving, reflecting on, and responding to difficult or surprising feedback -- Part IV. The bigger picture : How leaders build self-aware teams and organizations -- Surviving and thriving in a delusional world -- Appendices : What are your values? -- What are your passions? -- What are your aspirations? -- What is your ideal environment? -- What are your strengths and weaknesses? -- What is your impact on others? -- Do you have unknown unknowns? -- Are you a member of the cult of self? -- How humble are you? -- What is your need for absolute truth? -- How often do you ruminate? -- Do you have a learn-well or do-well mind-set? -- How much feedback are you getting? -- Free 360 feedback resources."The first definitive book on the science of self-awareness, Insight is a fascinating journey into everyone's favorite topic: themselves. Do you understand who you really are? Or how others really see you? We all know people with a stunning lack of self-awareness--but how often do we consider whether we might have the same problem? Research shows that self-awareness is the meta-skill of the 21st century--the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. Unfortunately, we are remarkably poor judges of ourselves and how we come across, and it's rare to get candid, objective feedback from colleagues, employees, and even friends and family. Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and work in the Fortune 500 world, organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich shatters conventional assumptions about what it takes to truly know ourselves--like why introspection isn't a bullet train to insight, how experience is the enemy of self-knowledge, and just how far others will go to avoid telling us the truth about ourselves. Through stories of people who've made dramatic gains in self-awareness, she offers surprising secrets, techniques and strategies to help readers do the same - and therefore improve their work performance, career satisfaction, leadership potential, relationships, and more"--Provided by publisher.Research shows that self-awareness--knowing who we are and how others see us--is the foundation for strong leadership, smart choices, and lasting relationships. Without it, it's almost impossible to master the skills most critical for career and business success today. Yet most of us don't see ourselves as clearly as we could, and it's rare to get candid feedack about what we're doing well, and where we could stand to improve.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Self-consciousness (Awareness); Self-knowledge, Theory of.; Interpersonal relations.; Success in business.; Leadership.;
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Biochemistry for dummies / by Moore, John T.,1947-(CARDINAL)484054; Langley, Richard.(CARDINAL)544781;
5: Protein structure and function -- Primary structure: the structure level all proteins have -- Building a protein: outlining the process -- Organizing the amino acids -- Example: the primary structure of insulin -- Secondary structure: a structure level most proteins have -- A-helix -- B-pleated sheet -- B-turns and the Q-loops -- Tertiary structure: a structure level many proteins have -- Quaternary structure: a structure level some proteins have -- Dissecting a protein for study -- Separating proteins within a cell and purifying them -- Digging into the details: uncovering a protein's amino acid sequence -- 6: Enzymes kinetics: getting there faster -- Enzyme classification: the best catalyst for the job -- Up one, down one: oxidoreductases -- You don't belong here: transferases -- Water does it again: hydrolases -- Taking it apart: lyases -- Shuffling the deck: isomerases -- Putting it together: ligases -- Enzymes as catalysts: when fast is not fast enough -- Models of catalysis: lock and key versus induced-fit -- All about kinetics -- Enzyme assays: fixed time and kinetic -- Rate determination: how fast is fast? -- Measuring enzyme behavior: the Michaelis-Menten equation -- Ideal applications -- Realistic applications -- Here we go again: Lineweaver-Burk plots -- Enzyme inhibition: slowing it down-- Competitive inhibition -- Noncompetitive inhibition -- Graphing inhibition -- Enzyme regulation -- Allosteric control -- Multiple enzyme forms -- Covalent modification -- Proteolytic activation -- Part 3: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, And More -- 7: What we crave: carbohydrates -- Properties of carbohydrates -- They contain one or more chiral carbons -- They have multiple chiral centers -- Sweet topic: monosaccharides -- Most stable monosaccharide structures: pyranose and furanose forms -- Chemical properties of monosaccharides -- Derivatives of the monosaccharides -- Most common monosaccharides -- Beginning of life: ribose and deoxyribose -- Sugars joining hands: oligosaccharides -- Keeping it simple: disaccharides -- Starch and cellulose: polysaccharides -- 8: Lipids and membranes -- Lovely lipids: an overview -- Fatty subject: triglycerides -- Properties and structures of fats -- Cleaning up: breaking down a triglyceride -- No simpletons here: complex lipids -- Phosphoglycerides -- Sphingolipids -- Sphingophospholipids -- Membranes: the bipolar and the bilayer -- Crossing the wall: membrane transport -- Pumps -- Channels -- Steroids: pumping up -- Prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes: mopping up --9: Nucleic acids and the code of life -- Nucleotides: the guts of DNA and RNA -- Reservoir of genetic info: nitrogen bases -- Sweet side of life: the sugars -- Sour side of life: phosphoric acid -- Tracing the process: from nucleoside to nucleotide to nucleic acid -- First reaction: nitrogen base + 5-carbon sugar = nucleoside -- Second reaction: phosphoric acid + nucleoside = nucleotide -- Third reaction: nucleotide becomes nucleic acid -- Primer on nucleic acids -- DNA and RNA in the grand scheme of life -- Nucleic acid structure -- 10: Vitamins and nutrients -- More than one-a-day: basics of vitamins -- To B or not to B: B complex vitamins -- Vitamin B1 (thiamine) -- Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) -- Vitamin B3 (niacin) -- Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) -- Biotin -- Folic acid -- Pantothenic acid -- Wonders of vitamin B12 -- Vitamin A -- Vitamin D -- Vitamin E -- Vitamin K -- Vitamin C -- 11: Be Quiet: Hormones -- Structures of some key hormones -- Proteins -- Steroids -- Amines -- Beyond and after: prohormones -- Proinsulin -- Angiotensinogen -- Fight or flight: hormone function -- Opening the letter: hormonal action -- Models of hormonal action -- Part 4: Bioenergetics And Pathways -- 12: Life and energy -- ATP: the energy pony express -- ATP and free energy -- ATP as an energy transporter -- It's relative: molecules related to ATP -- Nucleoside triphosphate family -- As easy as 1, 2, 3: AMP, ADP, and ATP -- Where it all comes from -- 13: ATP: body's monetary system -- Metabolism I: glycolysis -- Glucose: where it all starts -- Miles per gallon? Energy efficiency -- Going in reverse: gluconeogenesis -- Alcoholic fermentation: we'll drink to that -- Metabolism II: citric acid (Krebs) cycle -- Let's get started: synthesis of acetyl-CoA -- Three's a crowd: tricarboxylic acids -- Just a little gas: oxidation decarboxylation -- Production of succinate and GTP -- Oxaloacetate regeneration -- Amino acids as energy sources -- Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation -- Electron transport system -- Script: oxidative phosphorylation -- Play: proposed mechanisms -- Box office: ATP production -- Involving the fats: B-oxidation cycle -- Not so heavenly bodies: ketone bodies -- Investing in the future: biosynthesis -- Fatty acids -- Membrane lipids -- Amino acids -- 14: Smelly biochemistry: nitrogen in biological systems -- Ring in the nitrogen: purine -- Biosyntheis of purine -- How much will it cost? -- Pyrimidine synthesis -- First step: carbamoyl phosphate -- Next step: orotate -- Last step: cytidine -- Back to the beginning: catabolism -- Nucleotide catabolism -- Amino acid catabolism -- Heme catabolism -- Process of elimination: the urea cycle -- Amino acids once again -- Metabolic disorders -- Gout -- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome -- Albinism -- Alkaptonuria -- Phenylketonuria --Introduction -- About this book -- Conventions used in this book -- Icons used in this book -- What you're not to read -- Foolish assumptions -- How this book is organized -- Part 1: Setting The Stage: Basic Biochemistry Concepts -- Part 2: Meat Of Biochemistry: Proteins -- Part 3: Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, And More -- Part 4: Bioenergetics And Pathways -- Part 5: Genetics: Why We Are What We Are -- Part 6: Part Of Tens -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Setting The Stage: Basic Biochemistry Concepts -- 1: Biochemistry: what you need to know and why -- Why biochemistry? -- What is biochemistry and where does it take place? -- Types of living cells -- Prokaryotes -- Eukaryotes -- Animal cells and how they work -- Brief look at plant cells -- 2: Dive in: water chemistry -- Fundamentals of H2O -- Let's get wet! physical properties of water -- Water's most important biochemical role: the solvent -- Hydrogen ion concentration: acids and bases -- Achieving equilibrium -- Sour and bitter numbers: the pH scale -- Calculating pOH -- Strong and weak: Bronsted-Lowry theory -- Buffers and pH control -- Identifying common physiological buffers -- Calculating a buffer's pH -- 3: Fun with carbon: organic chemistry -- Role of carbon in the study of life -- It's all in the numbers: carbon bonds -- Sticky chemistry: bond strengths -- Everybody has 'em: intermolecular forces -- Water-related interactions: both the lovers and the haters -- How bond strengths affect physical properties of substances -- Defining a molecule's reactivity: functional groups -- Hydrocarbons -- Functional groups with oxygen and sulfur -- Functional groups containing nitrogen -- Functional groups containing phosphorous -- Reactions of functional groups -- pH and functional groups -- Same content, different structure: isomerism -- Cis-trans isomers -- Chiral carbons -- Part 2: Meat Of Biochemistry: Proteins -- 4: Amino acids: the building blocks of protein -- General properties of amino acids -- Amino acids are positive and negative: the zwitterion formation -- Protonated? pH and the isoelectric point -- Asymmetry: chiral amino acids -- Magic 20 amino acids -- Nonpolar (hydrophobic) amino acids -- Polar and uncharged (hydrophilic) amino acids -- Acidic amino acids -- Basic amino acids -- Lest we forget: rarer amino acids -- Rudiments of amino acid interactions -- Intermolecular forces: how an amino acid reacts with other molecules -- Altering interactions by changing an amino acid's pH -- Combining amino acids: how it works -- Peptide bond and the dipeptide -- Tripeptide: adding an amino acid to a dipeptide --Part 5: Genetics: Why We Are What We Are -- 15: Photocopying DNA -- Let's do it again: replication -- DNA polymerases -- Current model of DNA replication -- Mechanisms of DNA repair -- Mutation: the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Restriction enzymes -- Mendel rolling over: recombinant DNA -- Patterns: determining DNA sequences -- Determining the base sequence -- Butler did it: forensic applications -- Genetic diseases and other DNA testing applications -- Sickle cell anemia -- Hemochromatosis -- Cystic fibrosis -- Hemophilia -- Tay-Sachs -- 16: Transcribe this! RNA transcription -- RNA polymerase requirements -- Making RNA: the basics -- Prokaryotic cells -- Eukaryotic cells -- To heck with Da Vinci: the genetic code -- Codons -- Alpha and omega -- Models of gene regulation -- Jacob-Monod (operon) model -- Regulation of eucaryotic genes -- 17: Translation: protein synthesis -- Hopefully not lost in translation -- Why translation is necessary -- Home, home in the ribosome -- Translation team -- Team captain: rRNA -- Here's the snap: mRNA -- Carrying the ball: tRNA -- Charging up the middle: amino acid activation -- Hooking up: protein synthesis -- Activation -- Initiation -- Elongation -- Termination -- Wobble hypothesis -- Variation in eukaryotic cells -- Ribosomes -- Initiator tRNA -- Initiation -- Elongation and termination -- Part 6: Part Of Tens -- 18: Ten great applications of biochemistry -- Ames test -- Pregnancy testing -- HIV testing -- Breast cancer testing -- Prenatal genetic testing -- PKU screening -- Genetically modified foods -- Genetic engineering -- Cloning -- Gene-replacement therapy -- 19: Ten biochemistry careers -- Research assistant -- Plant breeder -- Quality control analyst -- Clinical research associate -- Technical writer -- Biochemical development engineer -- Market research analyst -- Patent attorney -- Pharmaceutical sales -- Biostatistician -- Index.From the Publisher: Are you baffled by biochemistry? You're not the first, and you won't be the last. Here's the good news-you don't have to stay baffled! Biochemistry For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to get a handle on biochemistry, apply the science, raise your grades, and prepare yourself to ace any standardized test. This friendly, unintimidating guide presents an overview of the material covered in a typical college-level biochemistry course and makes biochemistry basics easy to understand. It explains all the topics and practical applications in plain English. From cell ultrastructure and carbohydrates to amino acids, proteins, and supramolecular structure, you'll identify biochemical structures and reactions, send your grades soaring, and start looking forward to your next class, instead of dreading it. Discover how to: Master biochemistry basics; Work through biochemistry problems; Prepare for standardized tests; Grasp amino acid and protein structures; Nail down enzyme terminology; Get a grip on the Michaelis-Menton equation; Load up on carbo knowledge; Crack the nucleic acid code; Learn to love lipids-but not too much; Master the ABCs of vitamins; Apply biochem in everyday life; Explore a career in the field. From water chemistry to protein synthesis Biochemistry For Dummies gives you the vital information, clear explanations, and important insights you need to increase your understanding and improve your performance on any biochemistry test.
Subjects: Biochemistry.;
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