Contaminant Hydrogeology (2nd Edition)

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Presents the theoretical background as well as the practical application of the latest technology for the investigation and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. Coverage of micropurging of wells prior to sampling; obtaining a ground water sample without a monitoring well; fingerprinting petroleum contamination in soil; soil and groundwater contamination from coal tar and related compounds; and contains a number of case histories showing the practical applications of the theory. A valuable reference for the working professional.

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Good reference, bad textbook.......2002-08-14

If all you need is a reference or a solution for a known problem related to contaminent hydrogelology, you can buy this book (although price seems a bit high for the value).

If you are looking for a good textbook to help you learn and understand hydrogeology - look somewhere else.

Contaminant Hydrogeology.......2001-11-09

The author does a good job of presenting the basic hydrogeologic principles (i.e., darcy's law, scalar, vector and tensor properties of hydraulic head and conductivity) needed to understand the subject matter without unneccessary overlap from his previous work Applied Hydrogeology. The book covers mass transport in saturated media, transformation and attenuation of solutes, vadose zone, multiphase flow, inorganic and organic chemcials in groundwater, monitoring and remediation. this is a well written text presenting the fundamentals but is not an exhaustive summary. I would definitely recommend this text.

Contaminant Hydrogeology.......2001-11-09

Contaminant Hydrogeology.......2000-09-20

Excellent book for introduction into contaminant hydrogeology; however, not very detailed on groundwater modeling and remediation. The section on Mass Transport is very easy to understand and well layed out. Would like to have seen more examples.

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Principles Of Contaminant Hydrogeology
PALMER
Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1566701694

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This second edition features new and expanded coverage of contaminant hydrogeologic investigations. It presents a practical approach to completing investigations for environmental compliance, emphasizing the use of geologic principles in assessment to move sites toward cleanup. Stressing the basics of collecting data that can withstand regulatory scrutiny and achieve remediation, Principles of Contaminant Hydrogeology, Second Edition demonstrates how to solve a client's site contamination problem while maximizing cost effectiveness. It focuses on small- and medium-sized firms, for which speed, accuracy, and cost are all crucial factors in the site assessment and closure process. Based on "real world" problems, the book takes you step-by-step through the investigation and includes client-consultant-regulator interaction, budgets, ethics, and data extrapolation for solving problems. It introduces concepts such as field logistics, drilling techniques, sampling protocols, contaminant movement, and remediation. Regulatory personnel, hydrogeological consultants, drilling contractors, remediation contractors, university instructors, and students will benefit from the wealth of information provided in this new edition.

Numerical Groundwater Modelling: Flow and Contaminant Migration

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Numerical Groundwater Modelling: Flow and Contaminant Migration
William C. Walton
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0873711963

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This valuable new book, with 2 programs on diskettes, will help practitioners in solving groundwater flow and contamination problems by integrating simulation techniques. The reader is expected to have knowledge of hydrogeology, and have access to books on groundwater hydrogeology. Two microcomputer programs, in compiled FORTRAN 77 with source codes for simulating quasi-three-dimensional groundwater flow and contaminant migration, are presented in this book. The numerical and analytical techniques incorporated in these programs are described in detail. Data entry has been simplified so that the user can run the programs without worrying about FORTRAN input file structures and editors. The basic requirements are a monitor, dot-matrix printer, and an IBM-PC or compatible computer running DOS Version 2.1 or compatible. Programs require a full 640K RAM (minus that used by DOS) for their operation.

$Contaminant transport in fractured chalk: laboratory and field experiments.: An article from: Ground Water$
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Contaminant transport in fractured chalk: laboratory and field experiments.: An article from: Ground Water
K. Witthuser , B. Reichert , and H. Hotzl
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Ground Water, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 7274 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Contaminant transport in fractured chalk: laboratory and field experiments.
Author: K. Witthuser
Publication: Ground Water (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41 Issue: 6 Page: 806(10)

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Contaminant Hydrogeology
Charles W. Jr. Fetter
Manufacturer: Macmillan Coll Div
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8RQ9Q

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Contaminant Hydrogeology
C.W. Fetter
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: B000OJ1FRY

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Contaminant Hydrogeology
Charles Fetter
Manufacturer: PROPHETONE
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ASIN: B000N5N36K

Continuing education manual on contaminant hydrogeology: Practical monitoring, protection and cleanup : presented on the occasion of the Annual Meeting ... October 25-28, 1993, Boston, Massachusetts

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Continuing education manual on contaminant hydrogeology: Practical monitoring, protection and cleanup : presented on the occasion of the Annual Meeting ... October 25-28, 1993, Boston, Massachusetts
Christopher M Palmer
Manufacturer: Geological Society of America
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Distribution of trichloroethylene and geologic controls on contaminant pathways near the Royal River, McKin Superfund Site area, Gray, Maine (SuDoc I 19.42/4:99-4125)

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Distribution of trichloroethylene and geologic controls on contaminant pathways near the Royal River, McKin Superfund Site area, Gray, Maine (SuDoc I 19.42/4:99-4125)
U.S. Geological Survey
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Branch of Information Services [distributor]
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Environmental organic chemistry applied to contaminant hydrogeology: Saint Paul, Minnesota, February 11-13, 1997

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Environmental organic chemistry applied to contaminant hydrogeology: Saint Paul, Minnesota, February 11-13, 1997
David K Kreamer
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Ta'i Chi.......2007-03-09

I use this book frequently, and find it answers my questions. It is very helpful when the instructor is not available.

Beginning T'Ai Chi .......2005-08-13

This book is excellent for beginners wanting to study the 24 form Yang T'Ai Chi. The drawings are most helpful. The descriptions of the drawings are easy to follow and execute. I would highly recommend the book.

The illustrations and the text are very easy to follow.......1999-02-07

The illustrations help show the flow of energy. The illustrations, together with the text, helps a beginning t'ai chi student proper form.

An excellent text for a solid foundation.

Clear and concise tutorial for the 24-form........1998-07-30

This light-weight handbook is a clearly illustrated and concisely written guide to the 24-movement Tai Chi Short Form. Recommended as an easy-to-understand workbook for those learning, or wishing to learn, this popular form of taijiquan.

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Beginning T'ai Chi
Tri Thong Dang
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
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ASIN: 0760716390

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Beginning T'ai Chi will give you the power to enrich your life both physically and spiritually. You'll be amazed at how this simplified method of a martial art form that is more than 800 years old can augment your sense of well-being, bring you inner peace and strength, and revitalize your energies.

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Around Athens
Central Athens
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Unique Lonely Planet Walking Tour
Index of all Streets & Sights
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Question to "K. R. Vrieze".......2006-05-15

I'm planning to go to Greece for 2 weeks in early June. What were the other 4 maps that you took and how would you rate them? I'm taking a Lonely Planet Guide and Berlitz Phrase Book with me. Plus will try to pick up a few phrases with the Pimsleur language CD.

Thanks in advance,
Roland Thomas

lots better, but works for downtown.......2006-04-18

I took five maps with me on a two-week trip to athens. This one rated 5th. If one is only going to be in the Plaka area, this one is OK. Lonely Planet Guide for Athens is superb. The map much less so. It is laminated so durability helped. detail not so great. some metro stations erroneously marked. useful streets not marked. Better than nothing, but there are better. Perhaps a new edition will improve (my copy was dated 2002 - sadly out of date.)

Late George Apley a Novel in the Form of a Memoir
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Quaint New England/Boston Brahmin culture...

Freedom's just another word for...

An Aging World and Man

It is a tragedy that this book is out of print...

The lifecycle of a gentleman

Late George Apley a Novel in the Form of a Memoir
John P. Marquand
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Sweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where only the city's wealthiest and most powerful congregate, this novel gives us-through the story of one family and its patriarch, the recently deceased George Apley-the portrait of an entire society in transition. Gently satirical and rich with drama, the novel moves from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression as it projects George Apley's world-and subtly reveals a life in which success and accomplishment mask disappointment and regret, a life of extreme and enviable privilege that is nonetheless an imperfect life.

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Quaint New England/Boston Brahmin culture... .......2007-05-04

You could call this a boring book about a boring guy, but underneath the stale and quaint New England/Boston Brahmin culture is actually a history that is quite remarkable. It was, after all, the Brahmins who built the state of Massachusetts on the back of shipping (the Old China Trade), mills, industry, investments and so forth. Almost every Massachusetts institution from the American Revolution to the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Transcendentalism was built upon, or came forth from, Boston Brahmin culture. It is an American story that should be told, and Marquand does it quite well. If you can get half way through, you will actually begin to see a very profound comedy/tragedy. Maybe, THE BEST piece of historical fiction I've ever read.

Freedom's just another word for..........2005-03-21

THE LATE GEORGE APLEY is not an action novel. Not much happens. It's the fictional biography of an upper class, proper, Bostonian man who lived in the late 1800's & early 1900's, as supposedly written by a friend after Apley's death at the urging of Apley's son, who has provided letters and other documents on which the story is purportedly based. The turning point in Apley's life occurs when, as a young man, he falls in love with a girl "not of the proper set", and is somehow (the text is vague here)forced by his family to relinquish her. Much of the rest of the book is some version of, "What if...", and "Where does one's obligation to oneself end and one's obligation to others begin?" I found this really interesting, because the same question is very relevant today. Today we marry whomever we choose, have children whenever we want (in or out of marriage), divorce whenever it seems called for, say whatever we feel like saying. Are we happier? That's the question Apley asks. It's a really good question.

An Aging World and Man.......2005-01-18

Mr. Marquand's book does an excellent job of tracing one man's psyche as he ages in a changing world. The mode of writing (little narration; heavy examination of letters written by the characters), was an interesting route to take. Overall, it was a pleasant read, although I cannot say excellent read.

One observation that I found problematic was which letters were including in the pseudo-biography. More of the letters appear to be letters that the late George Apley authored rather than received. Obviously, there is a bias to that that may have served a purpose of the author, but more than that, it seems that if a collection of letters were to exist, it would be the letters that Mr. Apley received, not authored.

In sum, this is a good book about a not entirely likeable person. The novel is easy to read. But what it most excels at is descibing an unfortunately not-quite-bygone era of elitism and entitlement- a community that believes its wealth is its gift as well as its burden; its work product as well as its rightful inheritance.

It is a tragedy that this book is out of print..........2003-02-21

John P. Marquand probably was one of the most successful authors of his day and this book, for which he won a Pulitzer prize was the start of his brilliant career. Unfortunately, with Marquand's death in 1960, he fell from favor with the academy who was itself enamoured with tales of life in a university and stories addressing issues of gender and sex. Marquand's stories about middle aged WASPs in Boston coping with trying to come to grips with their lives were no longer in fashion and sadly have not returned to the center place that they previously occupied.

This is a novel about manners and invokes the particular time and place of the WASP ascendency in America, just before the second World War. Marquand's hero is a representative of what used to be known as a "Boston Brahmin." Marquand handles Apley with a mixture of bemusement and foundness. He has clearly met George Apley's in his life and knows the type well. What would have been in less capable hands a mere characture, becomes a full portrait of what was at the time, a dying breed. Marquand sensed this and this provides the point of departure for the book.

"The Late George Apley is a bit of a pastische of privately printed books designed to memorialize a dearly departed loved one. This allows Marquand to use his frequently used flashback technique to describe the particulars of Apley's life. At times this provides Marquand with the opportunity to indulge in both high comedy and low drama, as is the case when Apley falls in love with a girl who is both Irish and Catholic. Although this enables some satire on the subject of the way Boston's elite viewed the Irish, it is also a source of regret that Apley, like so many characters in Marquand's books, did not make a different choice in life. Sentiments that as Jonathan Yardley has observed "are not just limited to the denizens of Backbay or Harvard Square."

The lifecycle of a gentleman.......2002-08-10

THE LATE GEORGE APLEY is a departure from my habitual choice of biographical reading, which is usually limited to real-life individuals who've stood astride human history. And George Apley of (merely) Boston is fictional.

Author John Marquand has invented a make-believe chronicler named Mr. Willing to tell the story of the latter's life long friend, George Apley (1866-1933). The biographer's source material is comprised primarily of his own recollections and numerous letters exchanged between Apley and friends and family over the decades. Willing begins with a brief account of George's ancestry, then proceeds through his subject's birth, boyhood, and years at Harvard and law school forward to his marriage, the birth of his children, then his sojourns in middle and old age.

The trouble with this novel is that it seems Marquand didn't have a clear vision of the point he was trying to make. On one hand, Willing's biography is sympathetic. He obviously admires Apley for being a loyal friend, loving husband and father, fair and considerate employer, principled gentleman, and patriotic American. Willing doesn't condemn his friend's gradual alienation from his children and a changing society as he ages. (What a surprise!) And his generally favorable bias doesn't prevent him from mentioning Apley's low opinion of the Irish, Catholics, and Jews, but he doesn't dwell upon these flaws - perhaps because he was of like mind. Taken at this face value, the book is a simple tribute to a good and upstanding life however unprepossessing it may have been.

On the other hand, without any obvious malice, Marquand (through Willing again) manages to convey the fact that Apley takes himself, his family name, his privileged class, and Boston way too seriously. Anything beyond the Boston city limits is held in a frank disregard verging on contempt. He fails to heed the words of an uncle who found it necessary to counsel: "Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn." Also, Marquand attributes to his fictional subject no great achievements on the national or world stage. Rather, George spends a lifetime attending the board meetings of charities, participating in "intelligent discussion" groups and clubs, dabbling in the minutiae of local politics, and dispensing unheeded advice to his offspring. Because of all this, I've decided that THE LATE GEORGE APLEY is, in the balance, more of a gentle satire than anything else. The thing is, it's too subtle for this 21st century reader. (Perhaps it was more appreciated in the year first published - 1936.) It's as if Marquand didn't love or hate the type of man or social class his subject represents with sufficient enough fervor to be truly effective at either.

At the very best, THE LATE GEORGE APLEY is an interesting description of the evolution of a gentleman and society of that time and place. I liked it to that extent, but was left with the nagging regret that my time would've been better spent reading a contemporary account of a real individual whose life had made ripples in a pond bigger than that of the city he or she lived in. Hmm, now where's my unread biography of Captain Kangaroo?

The Late George Apley, a Novel in the Form of a Memoir
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The Late George Apley, a Novel in the Form of a Memoir
John P. (John Phillips), 1893-1960 Marquand
Manufacturer: Time, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OMROXK

The Late George Apley. A novel in the form of a memoir. Large Print Edition .
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The Late George Apley. A novel in the form of a memoir. Large Print Edition .
John P. Marquand
Manufacturer: Maine Thorndike Press 1964.
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ASIN: B000LQPQYS

The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
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The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
John P (John Phillips) Marquand
Manufacturer: Modern Library c1940
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ASIN: B000ONX7US

THE LATE GEORGE APLEY, A NOVEL IN THE FORM OF A MEMOIR
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THE LATE GEORGE APLEY, A NOVEL IN THE FORM OF A MEMOIR
John P. Marquand
Manufacturer: New York The Modern Library 1940.
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The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
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The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
John P. Marquand
Manufacturer: Time Incorporated, NY
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