Linda J. Beckman is a Professor and Co-Coordinator of the Clinical Health Emphasis Area at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles. She is an Action Editor of the Psychological Issues Section of the Pro-Choice Forum website and Co-Chair of the Reproductive Issues Taskforce of the Society for the Psychology of Women. She has served as Associate Editor of the Psychology of Women Quarterly and is the author of numerous articles on women’s issues and reproductive health. S. Marie Harvey is the Director of the Research Program on Women’s Health at the Center for the Study of Woman, University of Oregon and Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at Oregon State University. Her current research interests focus on the acceptability of reproductive technologies; the prevention of HIV/STIs among high-risk women, men and couples; and the influence of relationship factors on sexual risk-taking. Marie currently serves as Principal Investigator on “Women’s Acceptability of the Vaginal Diaphragm,” a three year study recently funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.
From the reviews: <p> This book is a translation of a German undergraduate textbook on Materials Science. a ] The presentation and layout of the book is flawless, and the book has a nice coloured hard cover. a ] aims at presenting an introduction to the physical basis of materials science. a ] can be used as a a ~biblea (TM) for anyone working in the field of metallurgy. ... Especially in view of the vast amount of well-presented information on metallurgical aspects, this book is to be recommended for students or even researchers in this field. (Dirk Poelman, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (3), 2005) <p> Gottstein a ] aims to assist readers to understand material behavior by covering the field of knowledge from atomistic mechanisms to physical and mechanical properties. a ] At the end there is an appropriate list of references a ] and a very comprehensive index. The book is very well written and presented, and most of the illustrations are of good quality. a ] Useful to graduate students, researchers, and faculty. An excellent acquisition for academic or industrial libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (T.Z. Kattamis, CHOICE, Vol. 42 (5), January, 2005) <p> In this vivid and comprehensible introduction to materials science, the author expands the modern concepts of metal physics a ] . Written for engineering students and working engineers with little previous knowledge of solid-state physics, this textbook enables the reader to study more specialized and fundamental literature of materials science. Dozens of illustrative photographs a ] aid developing a firm appreciation of this complex topic. Hard-to-grasp terms such as a~texturesa (TM) are lucidly explained. a ] This excellent book makes material science more transparent. (Zeitschrift fA1/4r Kristallographie, Issue 10, 2004) <p>