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This comprehensive and extensively classroom-tested biophysics textbook is a complete introduction to the physical principles underlying biological processes and their applications to the life sciences and medicine. The foundations of natural processes are placed on a firm footing before showing how their consequences can be explored in a wide range of biosystems. The goal is to develop the readers’ intuition, understanding, and facility for creative analysis that are frequently required to grapple with problems involving complex living organisms. Topics cover all scales, encompassing the application of statics, fluid dynamics, acoustics, electromagnetism, light, radiation physics, thermod...
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Autobiography of an ex-army officer who went to Hawaii to make his fortune in sugar. While some of the book discusses the sugar industry, mostly it is the author's discourse on life and society in Hawaii in the 1870s. The photographs show members of the Royal family, and some local pictures of less exalted native personalities.