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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry
No full textThe Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry by David W. Ball, John W. Hill, and Rhonda J. Scott is for the one-semester General, Organic and Biological Chemistry course. The authors designed this textbook from the ground up to meet the needs of a one-semester course. It is 20 chapters in length and approximately 350-400 pages; just the right breadth and depth for instructors to teach and students to grasp. In addition, The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry is written not by one chemist, but THREE chemistry professors with specific, complimentary research and teaching areas. David W. Ball’s specialty is physical chemistry, John W. Hill’s is organic chemistry, and finally, Rhonda J. Scott’s background is in enzyme and peptide chemistry. These three authors have the expertise to identify and present only the most important material for students to learn in the GOB Chemistry course. These experienced authors have ensured their text has ample in-text examples, and ”Test Yourself“ questions following the examples so students can immediately check their comprehension. The end-of-chapter exercises will be paired, with one answered in the back of the text so homework can easily be assigned and self-checked. The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry by David W. Ball, John W. Hill, and Rhonda J. Scott is the right text for you and your students if you are looking for a GOB textbook with just the right amount of coverage without overdoing the concepts and overwhelming your students. The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry by David W. Ball, John W. Hill, and Rhonda J. Scott is for the one-semester General, Organic and Biological Chemistry course. The authors designed this textbook from the ground up to meet the needs of a one-semester course. It is 20 chapters in length and approximately 350-400 pages; just the right breadth and depth for instructors to teach and students to grasp.Chapter 1: Chemistry, Matter, and Measurement Chapter 2: Elements, Atoms, and the Periodic Table Chapter 3: Ionic Bonding and Simple Ionic Compounds Chapter 4: Covalent Bonding and Simple Molecular Compounds Chapter 5: Introduction to Chemical Reactions Chapter 6: Quantities in Chemical Reactions Chapter 7: Energy and Chemical Processes Chapter 8: Solids, Liquids, and Gases Chapter 9: Solutions Chapter 10: Acids and Bases Chapter 11: Nuclear Chemistry Chapter 12: Organic Chemistry: Alkanes and Halogenated Hydrocarbons Chapter 13: Unsaturated and Aromatic Hydrocarbons Chapter 14: Organic Compounds of Oxygen Chapter 15: Organic Acids and Bases and Some of Their Derivatives Chapter 16: Carbohydrates Chapter 17: Lipids Chapter 18: Amino Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes Chapter 19: Nucleic Acids Chapter 20: Energy Metabolis
Introductory Chemistry
No full textThis is the textbook for CHEM 105 at Liberty University.
David W. Ball of Cleveland State University brings his new survey of general chemistry text, Introductory Chemistry, to the market with a fresh theme that will be sure to hold student interest: Chemistry is Everywhere. Introductory Chemistry is intended for a one-semester introductory or preparatory chemistry course. Throughout the chapters, David presents two features that reinforce the theme of the textbook, that chemistry is everywhere.https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/textbooks/1002/thumbnail.jp
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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textLetter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textLetter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The agential fork : the hidden consequences of agency for plenitude in David Lewis' thesis of genuine modal realism
No full textIn this dissertation, I argue that David Lewis' abductive argument for Genuine Modal Realism (GMR) has the unwelcome, and hidden, implication of being unable to
accommodate agent causation theories of free will. This is because of his formulation of plenitude, which basically says that every way that a world or a part of a world could be is the way that some world, or part of some world is. This formulation tacitly assumes
that chance and nomological principles are sufficient to account for everything that happens at worlds. However, agent causation theories argue that free will is neither reducible to chance nor determined by physics. My argument recasts a fork argument made by Andrew Beedle. I proceed by arguing that chance-based principles evince an ontologically distinct kind of modality than agent causation principles. However,
plenitude only accounts for the physics/chance-based kind of modality. There is no similar principle of plenitude that can be given for agential modality that does not
collapse into the chance-based principle. But even if such a principle could be found, it would violate the doctrine in GMR that claims worlds are causally isolated. If no agential plenitude principle can be found and there is agential modality, then plenitude fails. If there is no agency at our world, and Lewis’ original formulation of plenitude is correct, then GMR implies no agency at any
world. This is the fork: If there is agency and GMR holds, then either plenitude fails, or isolation fails. But if there is no agency, and GMR holds, then there is no agency at any possible world. The latter prong is too strong a claim for an abductive argument like GMR. The
former proves that GMR cannot accommodate agent-causation theories. GMR loses its neutrality either way, to its detriment
Book Reviews
No full textJames M. Merrill. The USA: A Short History of the American Republic. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Pp. vii, 380. 4.95; Moses Rischin, ed., Immigration and the American Tradition. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976. 456 pp., Index. 3.25. Review by Martin V. Melosi of Texas A&M University.
David E. Kyvig, ed. FDR's America. St. Charles, Missouri: Forum Press, 1976. 183 pp., bibliography. 6.95. Review by David L. Nass of Southwest Minnesota State University.
Stephen E. Ambrose. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy, 1938-1976. Revised Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Pp. 390. 2.95. Review by George D. King of the University of Minnesota.
Richard O. Davies. The Age of Asphalt: The Automobile, the Freeway, and the Condition of Metropolitan America. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Pp. xii, 139. 3.95. Review by Robert A. Calvert of Texas A&M University.
Ronald J. Grele, ed. Envelopes of Sound: Six Practitioners Discuss the Method, Theory and Practice of Oral History and Oral Testimony. Chicago: Precendent Publishing, Inc., 1975. 154 pp. + two 1-hour cassette tapes. Book, 13.95. Review by Sally Allen of Hampshire College.
Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen. Karl Marx: Man and Fighter. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1976. Pp. xii, 492. $4.95. Review by Larry D. Wilcox of the University of Toledo
The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, v. 1.0
No full textAre you looking for a new GOB Chemistry book that is designed specifically for the GOB course? Well, you\u27ve found one.
The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry by David W. Ball, John W. Hill, and Rhonda J. Scott is a new textbook offering for the one-semester GOB Chemistry course. The authors designed this book from the ground up to meet the needs of a one-semester course. It is 20 chapters in length and approximately 350-400 pages; just the right breadth and depth for instructors to teach and students to grasp.
In addition, The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry is written not by one chemist, but THREE chemistry professors with specific, complimentary research and teaching areas. David W. Ball’s specialty is physical chemistry, John W. Hill’s is organic chemistry, and finally, Rhonda J. Scott’s background is in enzyme and peptide chemistry. These three authors have the expertise to identify and present only the most important material for students to learn in the GOB Chemistry course.
These experienced authors have ensured their text has ample in-text examples, and ”Test Yourself“ questions following the examples so students can immediately check their comprehension. The end-of-chapter exercises will be paired, with one answered in the back of the text so homework can easily be assigned and self-checked.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/scichem_bks/1001/thumbnail.jp
Introductory Chemistry, v. 1.0
No full textDavid W. Ball of Cleveland State University brings his new survey of general chemistry text, Introductory Chemistry, to the market with a fresh theme that will be sure to hold student interest: Chemistry is Everywhere. Introductory Chemistry is intended for a one-semester introductory or preparatory chemistry course. Throughout the chapters, David presents two features that reinforce the theme of the textbook, that chemistry is everywhere. The first is the boxed feature titled, appropriately, ”Chemistry is Everywhere“. This feature takes a topic of the chapter and demonstrates how this topic shows up in everyday life. In the introductory chapter, ”Chemistry is Everywhere“ focuses on the personal hygiene products that students may use every morning: toothpaste, soap, shampoo among others. These products are chemicals, aren’t they? This book explores some of the chemical reactions like the ones that give students clean and healthy teeth, and shiny hair. This feature makes it clear to students that chemistry is, indeed, everywhere, and it will promote student retention in what is sometimes considered an intimidating course. The second boxed feature focuses on chemistry that students likely indulge in every day: eating and drinking. In the ”Food and Drink App“, David discusses how the chemistry of the chapter applies to things that students eat and drink every day. Carbonated beverages depend on the behavior of gases, foods contain acids and bases, and everyone actually eats certain rocks. (Yikes!) Cooking, eating, drinking, metabolism — all chemical processes students are involved with all the time. These features allow students to see the things we interact with every day in a new light — as chemistry.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/scichem_bks/1002/thumbnail.jp
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