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This article is a review of the book "Lehrbuch der Elektrochemie" by Gunther Wittstock, Bernd Speiser, and Julia Witt. The book is described as the first comprehensive German textbook on electrochemistry in many years. It covers a wide range of topics, including the basics of electrochemistry, techniques of electrochemistry, materials for electrochemistry, and applications of electrochemistry. The book is praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and inclusion of basic material necessary for understanding electrochemistry. The reviewer recommends the textbook for university-level courses and suggests that it is a valuable resource for anyone teaching electrochemistry. [Extracted from the article]

White dwarfs are a class of stars with unique physical properties. They present many challenging problems whose solution requires advanced theories of dense matter, state-of-the-art experimental techniques, and extensive computing efforts. New ground- and space-based observatories will soon provide an increasingly detailed view of white dwarf stars and reveal new phenomena that will challenge our models. This review is an introduction to the nature of white dwarfs, the physical processes that determine their structure and evolution, and the physical conditions they span. We discuss a wide variety of currently unsolved or partially resolved problems in their constitutive physics that are broadly related to equations of state, transport processes and opacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Again, the expansion of these chapters is dictated by significant advances and research efforts in these areas, particularly our knowledge of the links between metamorphism and deformation, and within the advances of estimating the timing and duration of metamorphism. Determination of pressure and temperature was only a section of the equilibrium chapter in the original edition; however, in the update, it has been given its own chapter. The next three chapters, as with the first edition, describe metamorphism of three lithological associations: pelitic rocks, basic igneous rocks and limestones. [Extracted from the article]

This is a delightful little book that captures many of the beauties of hydrogen bonding for high school and early college-going students, and yet it touches on some fairly advanced concepts. Armed with the chemical background in the early part of the book, it would not be difficult for a reader to appreciate that the hydrogen atom in chloroform is activated enough to function as a hydrogen bond donor. A good book triggers off many streams of thought in the mind of the reader and apart from young students of science who would really benefit from "The Hydrogen Bond. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Phase Diagrams and Heterogeneous Equilibria: A Practical Introduction," by Bruno Predel, Michael Hoch and Monte Pool with Felicitas Predel.