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Product Description: One of the landmarks in the history of human thought. This is a reprint of the famous English translation, with an extraordinary running commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch of the first four volumes of the Mecanique Celeste. The fifth volume, in the original French, contains mainly historical material and completes the four volumes of the Bowditch annotated translation...read more

Product Description: Capillarity phenomena are all about us; anyone who has seen a drop of dew on a plant leaf or the spray from a waterfall has observed them. Apart from their frequently remarked poetic qualities, phenomena of this sort are so familiar as to escape special notice...read more

Product Description: History of thought on molecular origins of surface phenomena offers a critical and detailed examination and assessment of modern theories, focusing on statistical mechanics and application of results in mean-field approximation to model systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

With gruesome ghouls and spooky ghosts, spiteful goblins and mysterious spirits, this collection of traditional tales is sometimes funny and sometimes frightening.