About this title: This clearly illustrated explanation the basic principles of crystals may be used as a text or supplementary sourcebook by high-school students (for which it was originally written), students at the junior college or undergraduate level, or the general reader with an interest in science.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. Ex-library. This is the paperback edition re-bound in hardcover library binding. With normal shelf wear. Otherwise in great condition. Free tracking for all domestic orders. If specific item description desired feel free to contact us. 100% guaranteed (Just let us know and we'll make it right) Express, Expedited and International shipping available upon request on items that don't offer it =) read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. Good Mass Market Paperback, moderate cover wear, moderate spine creasing, pages lightly yellowed with no writing writing inside front cover also staining on page edges. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light shelf wear. Minor discoloration to wraps. Solid copy with tight binding and clean pages. read more
Description: Good; 1960. 0385094302. LCCN: 60-5932, drawing and photo illustrated-aged, come cover wear and discoloration from handling/storage-corner tips of front cover are missing; Paperback; Anchor Books: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; Garden City, N. Y.; 16mo 6"-7" tall; 320 pages; , read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: DoubleDay
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. Ex-Library---319 pgs. Ex-library. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Garden City, New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1982-08-17
ISBN-13:9780262580502ISBN:0262580500
Description: Fair. Moderate shelf/edge wear. Former library copy with the usual stamps/stickers/markings, laminated covers. Light dirt soiling along the sides. Spine splitted between pages 272-273. Text unmarked. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday-Anchor
Date Published: 1960
Description: Text is clean and bright. This is a nice copy. Binding is tight and square. Ex-library copy with typical markings and attachments. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Description: First Edition. 12mo., 320pp., paperback. Covers lightly soiled and tanned around the edges, spine tanned with tail dampstained, small stain on textblock upper edge, last 100 pages intermittently soiled at lower edge. read more
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Anchor, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Cover Art. Good. No Jacket. Vintage Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Previous owners signature on the front cover corner and the first blank. The cover has some wear... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MiT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780262580502ISBN:0262580500
Description: Good+ Stain on side of book. Small bend on front cover. Previous owner's name on inside front cover. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. This clearly illustrated explanation the basic principles of crystals may be used as a text or supplementary sourcebook by high-school students (for which it was originally written), students at the junior college or undergraduate level, or the general reader with an interest in science. read more
"Until A.P. Chemistry in high school I still wanted to become some sort of scientist. The political outrage consequent upon the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and my changing views about S.E. Asia hadn't yet constituted themselves into an ethical conviction that changing foreign policy took priority over everything else. But things were headed that way and Mr. Greene's Chem class pretty much closed the door on further science classes until fulfilling the requirement later on in college.
Greene was a short, squat man, probably in his thirties, probably even a neighbor as I'd see him walking down Belle Plaine, our street, occasionally. He always wore a rumpled white shirt, tie and dark slacks. His hobbies were glass-blowing, which he'd do during our lab sessions, and watching Star Trek episodes, the contents of which he'd relate to us regularly. On his implied recommendation, I watched one episode, an unfortunate one in which Kirk was battling a guy in a lizard suit who was throwing paper mache rocks at him. I didn't bother with Star Trek again until reruns in at my college, the alma mater of Ensign Chechov.
My big problem in Chem, other than Greene not seeming very concerned about teaching anything, was the lab. My skills must have been terrible as my results never confirmed or even much correlated with what our textbook was explaining. Of course, it did enter my mind that perhaps some grand deception was going on, that learning how to fudge data so it corresponded to theory, the usual practice in class, was a step in terrestrial pacification and control being exercised by the unseen aliens amongst us. In any case, I didn't fudge my data and got nothing from the lab sessions but a sense of incompetence and a lowered g.p.a.
The grand exception to my general dislike for chemistry was our unit about crystals. Here we were assigned Holden's book and told to follow his instructions to grow our own crystals. I picked an easy one, alum as I recall, and for a change it actually turned out the way it was supposed to. That little exercise and reading the book behind it constituted the swan song of my career as a scientist."
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