This book contains Comprehensive Reviews of two books: ?From Eternity to Here? and ?The Big Picture?. The purpose of this series of books is to critically review some recent popular-science…

The Kirkwood-Buff Theory of Solutions: With Selected Applications to Solvation and Proteins presents the Kirkwood-Buff (KB) Theory of solution in a simple and didactic manner, making it understandable to those…

Covers entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. This book paves the way for readers to discover for themselves what entropy is, how it changes, and, most importantly, why it…

China has made remarkable yet uneven progress in social development. This book analyses China’s achievements and problems in social development from the perspective of social investment. Social investment has gained…

Starts out by presenting the evidence for hydrophilic interactions in biochemical processes and then goes on to describe the applications of the hydrophilic interactions in these processes, specifically protein folding…

The book presents a clear and unique approach to statistical thermodynamics based on Shannon’s measure of information, and provides applications to problems of interest in the life sciences.There is no…

This book tells the story of a whole field of research which went disastrously wrong in many different directions when the wrong tools were used and the wrong targets aimed…

Based on the theory of Kirkwood and Buff. This theory is a powerful and general tool to analyze, study and understand any type of mixtures from the molecular, or the…