Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how changes in water's structure underlie most energetic transitions of form and motion on earth.
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| A Bestiary |
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SECTION I Water Riddles: Forging the Pathway |
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1 Surrounded by Mysteries |
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2 The Social Behavior of H2O |
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3 The Enigma of Interfacial Water |
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SECTION II The Hidden Life of Water |
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4 A Fourth Phase of Water? |
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5 Batteries Made from Water |
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6 Charging the Water Battery |
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7 Water: The Engine of Nature |
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SECTION III What Moves Water Moves the World |
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9 Brown's Dance: Energy-Driven Movements |
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10 Heat and Temperature: Throwing New Light on Thermal Darkness |
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11 Osmosis and Diffusion: They Don't Just Happen |
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SECTION IV Aqueous Forms in Nature |
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12 The Power of Protonated Water |
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13 Droplets and Bubbles: Siblings in the Water Family |
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14 Birth of a Bubble: A Passage to Maturity |
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15 Clouds from Coffee: The Remarkable Nature of Evaporation |
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16 Water Trampolines: Layering at the Water's Surface |
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SECTION V Summing Up: Unlocking Earthly Mysteries |
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18 The Secret Rules of Nature |
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| References |
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| Photo Credits |
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| Glossary |
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Professor Gerald Pollack is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal, WATER and is recognized as an international leader in science and engineering. The University of Washington Faculty chose Pollack, in 2008, to receive their highest annual distinction: the Faculty Lecturer Award. He was the 2012 recipient of the coveted Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics of dissipative systems. He has received an honorary doctorate from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named an Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Srpska Academy. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He recently received an NIH Director's Transformative R01 Award for his work on water, and maintains an active laboratory in Seattle.Pollack's interests have ranged broadly, from biological motion and cell biology to the interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His 1990 book, Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion, won an Excellence Award from the Society for Technical Communication; his subsequent book, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life, won that Society's Distinguished Award. Pollack is recognized worldwide as a dynamic speaker and a scientist willing to challenge any long-held dogma that does not fit the facts.
