Updated and expanded, the classic guide to GC/MS helps chromatographers quickly learn to use this technique for analyzing and identifying compounds. After explaining the fundamentals, it discusses optimizing, tuning, using, and maintaining GC/MS equipment; explores advances in miniaturized and field-portable GC/MS systems and microfluidic components; and more. Complete with a CD-ROM, it covers applications in the environmental laboratory and in forensics, toxicology, and space science. Thi...

A time-tested, systematic approach to the buying and selling of complex research instrumentsSearching for the best laboratory instruments and systems can be a daunting and expensive task. A poorly selected instrument can dramatically affect results produced and indirectly affect research papers, the quality of student training, and an investigator's chances for advancement. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments offers the valuable insights of an analyt...

“What do you do if you are a teenage genius who has just been raped by your step-father, who has stolen a million dollars from your mother’s business?” You get revenge! If you are Christy O’ Hara, you trap yourself a husband, a genius college student, bring charges against your rapist, use your investigative business to prove his theft, and recover the money. When he strikes back you permanently eliminate the source. You start a family, move your business to Ireland, and start cleaning out...

Dr. Matthias Mort Samael, the Angel of Death, is seeking a psychiatric consultant to travel through time with him and keep him from falling apart while he does his hardest jobs. Dr. Susan Fernandez has an incurable brain stem cancer that he tells her can be healed by Raphaella, the Healing Archangel. Together they address the death of the Egyptian first born at Passover, then go on to treat the other great collections of death, such as the Inquisition, World War II, and Black Plague deaths...

Giant George and Little Leo is a heartfelt story about a giraffe and a leopard cub. George is huge. He towers over all the other giraffes, and they tease him because of his height. He has no friends, until one day, he rescues a baby leopard cub called Leo. Leo has gotten stuck in a tree. The leopards are so happy to have Leo safe and sound that they commit to protect the giraffes from any enemies, and George becomes a hero and finally has friends.