Introduction to Health Physics
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  • New edition marred by typos and awkward editing
  • Useful general text on radiation protection and safety
Introduction to Health Physics
Herman Cember
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This edition continues to provide students with a basic understanding of the biophysical bases of radiation, radiation safety standards, and the key factors in radiation protection. Now includes new coverage of non-ionizing radiation-laser and microwaves, computer use in dose calculation and dose limit recommendations. Emphasizes a problem-solving approach that will serve students into their clinical careers.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars New edition marred by typos and awkward editing.......1998-11-01

This new edition of the classic text is a disappointment, and it's use as a textbook is not recommended.

For this 3d edition, the list of typographical errors compiled by colleagues and myself stands at four pages and growing. Errors can be found in the text, the chapter problems, and their solutions. Other solutions which are not clearly wrong may inexplicably differ from your own solution at the second significant digit.

Formulae are rarely derived from first principles. One exception is the change in wavelength for a photon undergoing Compton scattering from an electron, but, even here, a crucial equation (the relativistic energy invariant) is conspicuously omitted, without which the final equation cannot be derived. The text does not even mention relativity in discussing Compton scattering. (The index does reference "Relatively effects" (sic) at pp. 4-11.)

Equations and formulae contain, at times, an unnecessary proliferation of multiplication signs and units which obscures the underlying physical principles and the simplicity of the equations themselves. Students are better served by a clear mathematical presentation of the underlying physics, rather than being dropped into the middle of an obscure equation made even more so by the inclusion of several constants whose only purpose is to make the units work out. While any text on this subject must deal with the unavoidability of old and new units, my suggestion is to derive the formulae from first principles and deal with the units issue (which, after all, only amounts to including appropriate conversion factors) separately as examples or chapter problems.

Finally, the multiplication sign, "x", should be reserved for arithmetic and scientific notation, not symbolic mathematical equations. See, e.g., Equations (3.10), (4.31), (10.17), (10.32), etc., as examples where the multiplication sign is unnecessary. The text also uses the multiplication sign even where numerical values are already set off by parentheses. The text's overuse of the multiplication sign gives the text a grade-schoolish flavor.

4 out of 5 stars Useful general text on radiation protection and safety.......1998-01-02

In over 25 years since its first edition, this classic textbook has been used to train countless professionals in the fundamentals of radiation protection and safety. This third edition of Cember's work incorporates several fundamental changes in radiation protection standards and methodologies adopted since publication of the second edition in 1983. The third edition has also been expanded to include more recent safety standards for radiofrequency and microwave exposure.

This textbook is useful for an upper division undergraduate or first graduate course in radiological protection, health physics, or radiation safety. Each chapter is accompanied by a useful set of problems and suggested readings. Unfortunately, many of the readings and references cited are either out of print or difficult to find.
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                    The great crooner Tony Bennett, in the most famous song about San Francisco, left his heart in this remarkable city. And O. Henry, the famed short-story writer, accurately states: East is East "and West is San Francisco." More than Los Angeles, San Francisco is the epitome of the West Coast, as the city seems to encourage people to "do their own thing."
                    San Francisco: A Photographic Tour is a visual tour of San Francisco's fabulous landscapes. The beauty of the natural and architectural sights is a large part of what makes this metropolis so unique. Its unusual topography of roller-coaster hills allows breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and its numerous lush parks from almost any location. Visited are the city's most treasured landmarks: the cable cars, the charming Victorian houses, and the Golden Gate Bridge, as well as the Transamerica Corporation building, the pyramidal tower that is a trademark of its skyline. And there are the famed neighborhoods: the elite Nob Hill; kooky and eccentric Haight-Ashbury—epicenter of the hippie counterculture of the 1960's; Fisherman's Wharf with its smells of fresh cooked crabs and hot sourdough bread; North Beach with its kitschy theaters, jazz clubs, and Italian restaurants; and of course, the city's famed Chinatown—the world's largest Chinese community outside Asia—with its narrow alleys, curio shops, and restaurants and dim-sum parlors.
                    These and many more points of interest await the reader. With its dazzling photos by Carol M. Highsmith and lucid text by Ted Landphair, San Francisco: A Photographic Tour makes an excellent gift for anyone who has visited or wishes to visit what may well be the world's favorite city.

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                    4 out of 5 stars Great Gift Bood.......2000-08-05

                    I have bought this book at least 4 times. It is a great book to give as a gift to anyone seeing SF for the first time. It gives them something to remember SF.
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                      From the Publisher San Francisco: A Photographic Tour is a visual tribute to San Francisco's remarkable features. The beauty of the natural and architectural sights is a large part of what makes this metropolis so unique. Its unusual topography of rollercoaster hills allows breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean, and its numerous lush parks make it one of the most verdant cities of its size in the world. Inside the pages of this book, readers are treated to photographs of the city's most treasured landmarks, including: the cable cars, the charming Victorian houses, and the Golden Gate Bridge, as well as the Transamerica Corporation building (the pyramidal tower that is a trademark of San Francisco's skyline). Also featured are the famed neighborhoods: the elite Nob Hill; kooky and eccentric Haight-Ashbury, epicenter of the 1960s counterculture; and the city's famed Chinatown - the world's largest Chinese community outside Asia - with its narrow alleys, curio shops, and restaurants and dim sum parlors. These and many more points of interest await the reader. With dazzling photos by Carol M. Highsmith and warm text by Ted Landphair, San Francisco: A Photographic Tour pays a loving tribute to one of the most picturesque and evocative cities in the world.

                      When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
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                      • The cover's neat too
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                      • This book is not appropriate for an elementary school
                      • Informational and well-written
                      • It was a sweet book and it was full of information.
                      When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
                      James Cross Giblin
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                      Compassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history—the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS—chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasting social, economic, and political implications, and how medical knowledge and treatments have advanced as a result of the crises they have occasioned. "A book that would serve well for reports, but it is also a fascinating read."—SLJ.

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                      5 out of 5 stars The cover's neat too.......2005-12-27

                      I read this book when I was in the sixth grade. While I read it for fun, it was also useful later in the year for school. Being an avid disease book reader, this is one of the best. It could have gone in to a tiny bit more detail on the the symptoms, but then again some people can't handle that much anyway.

                      3 out of 5 stars A Good Learning Book.......2003-10-26

                      As a 7th grader this book really helped understand a little more about the black death, small pox and AIDS. It doesnt go into much detail, but gives you a general feel.

                      4 out of 5 stars This book is not appropriate for an elementary school.......2003-01-30

                      The publisher says that this book is appropriate for grade 6-12. I disagree. While I feel the book is well written and informative - I strongly suggest that educators think twice before putting the book in an elementary school library.
                      Perhaps have it available in case an advanced 6th grader has a need for detailed information regarding the topics.
                      My 9 year old - 4th grade son brought the book home from school yesterday. While AIDS is an important subject for him to learn about - I do not feel that the details of specific high-risk sexual contact needs to be available to him at his age.
                      I feel the book would be more appropriate for grades 9-12.

                      5 out of 5 stars Informational and well-written.......2000-05-31

                      We read this book in class and it is an excellent source of information as well as interesting, and offers all points of view on each "plague" as well as the facts. Covers a lot on the little known parts, and victims of AIDS, and a short kind of Bio on Ryan White.

                      4 out of 5 stars It was a sweet book and it was full of information........1998-10-28

                      This book was fun to read and it was really easy to get a book report out of.
                      When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
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                        When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
                        Mary M. Burns
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                        This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on January 1, 1996. The length of the article is 366 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: When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
                        Author: Mary M. Burns
                        Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
                        Date: January 1, 1996
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                              ASIN: 0803228872

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                              Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and admiration in people everywhere. Rising four hundred feet from a massive two-story base, domed with gold-glazed tile and topped with a bronze statue of a pioneer sower of grain, it can be seen for miles on the plains. This most striking of statehouses, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920 and under construction for a decade, successfully embodies the union of art, architecture, and humanism.



                              A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol surveys in words and pictures the architectural achievement and the artists responsible for it. Frederick C. Luebke introduces the book with a history of the capitals and capitols of Nebraska. H. Keith Sawyers writes about Goodhue’s architectural vision, which was carried out by other artists after his death. David Murphy examines the contribution of Hartley Burr Alexander, the philosopher and anthropologist who developed the symbological details of Goodhue’s vision and invested the building’s many inscriptions with poetic elegance. Dale L. Gibbs considers Lee Lawrie’s sculpture, remarkably congruent with the general design. Joan Woodside and Betsy Gabb discuss the decorative art of the mosaicist, Hildreth Meiere. Norman Geske and Jon Nelson examine the capitol murals, painted by eight artists over four decades. And Robert C. Ripley allows the reader to see the building in its setting, as landscaped by Ernst Herminghaus. Lavishly illustrated and handsomely produced, A Harmony of the Arts presents the first survey in many years of Nebraska’s magnificent capitol and offers new ways of looking at it.

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