""Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale."" Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious--during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred ye[...]

The chemistry, physics, and electron energy structure of simple atoms, molecules, and ideal crystals are fairly well understood, predictable, and no longer considered overly complex. The linear and, in particular, nonlinear optical properties are more challenging.[...]

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resou[...]

This book provides a coherent, clear, and uniform presentation of structural, genetic, molecular, and biochemical information available for the ZP domain and ZPDC-proteins.[...]

This book provides an overview on what researchers have learned about unfolded peptides and how this knowledge facilitates the understanding of (a) the folding process, (b) the binding of ligands to receptor molecules and (c) peptide self-aggregation. In this context different experimental, theoreti[...]