bookshelf
MAURICE DEUL ’42
THOMAS H. LEE ’55
MARTIN BENJAMIN ’62
NEAL SINGER ’62
Discoverers of the 20th Century: Perfecting the Search
A Quiet Revolution
Ethics in Nursing: Cases, Principles, and Reasoning
Wonders of Nuclear Fusion: Creating an Ultimate Energy Source
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Discoverers of the 20th Century contains case histories of exploration triumphs and breakthrough concepts relating to geoscience and natural resources like gas and oil. It includes stories of early discoveries, landmark technologies and modern innovation, as told by authors with privileged glimpses into the critical processes. Chapter 12, “Methane from Coalbeds: A Reminiscence,” was written by Deul.
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Trafford Publishing
On the 13th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, five Vietnam veterans gather for a reunion. While reminiscing about the dangerous days of one of America’s longest and most costly wars, they agree that the nation has once again been plunged into an unwarranted conflict—this time in the Middle East, for some greedy reasons. Together, the former covert operatives begin formulating a strategy to eradicate government corruption and punish the rich oil executives who are responsible. The “phantom patriots,” as they call themselves, have but one goal—to take down prominent corruptors and put an end to their days of unrestrained wealth and control.
Oxford University Press
Ethics in Nursing provides practicing and student-nurses with an introduction to the identification and analysis of ethical issues that reflects both the special perspective of nursing and the value of systematic philosophical inquiry. New material on ethical theory in this fourth edition includes an illustrated explanation and defense of moral pluralism, a section on the ethics of care, and an expanded discussion of reflective equilibrium as a method of ethical reasoning. New topics include pandemics and care for SARS patients, elderly patients contemplating suicide, and workplace violence. Co-author Martin Benjamin is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
University of New Mexico Press
This book presents accessible descriptions of fusion machines with near-supernatural qualities. The ultimate goal of these large structures is to generate unlimited electrical energy from seawater, rather than from coal, oil, gas, wind, sun, hydro, or the fissioning of uranium atoms. Forces that physics has increasingly brought to heel—electricity, magnetism, and light—are being used to create plasmas hotter than the sun, fusing hydrogen atoms to release enormous amounts of energy under controlled conditions. The book was written to interest students in science, though more mature folks report finding it an up-todate primer on nuclear fusion as a possible energy source. The author has studied these machines for 16 years.