WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon: A Public Health Perspective
WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon: A Public Health Perspective
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10.1080/00207230903556771
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2010-02
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D. Ting
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要编写一本关于水处理这样的经典主题的新教科书，而不产生一本只有表面差异的大部头是很困难的。但是弗兰克·R. Spellman成功了。这本书有这么多的显著特点，它很容易站在分开，和高，在其他书籍中对这个问题。斯佩尔曼有着不同寻常的学术背景。在获得环境工程硕士和博士学位之前，他曾攻读公共管理学士学位!这使他成为一名环境工程师，对真实的世界有着深刻的洞察力，在这个世界上，必须通过政治来做出改变。这本书的第一个“独特的销售主张”是，它的目的是使一个成熟的水处理专业出任何人几乎没有更多的正规教育比预科学校在基础科学和数学。为了实现这一几乎不可能的任务，斯派曼从最基本的基础开始处理一切，但以简单而清晰的步骤来完成，这些步骤相互遵循，具有最高的精度和最小的麻烦。因此，“水/废水数学运算”一章几乎是从教如何加1和1开始的。一张表很快就出现了，告诉门外汉多少英寸等于一英尺，多少毫升等于一升。斯派曼随后开始研究越来越重要的问题：流速、停留时间、化学剂量计算、生物工艺工程基础等。很快，您甚至没有意识到这一点，就会发现自己正在设计废水处理系统--这是您认为只有环境工程专业的研究生才能完成的工作。在教授研究生水处理系统设计课程时，本评论员经常发现，要向非工程学科的毕业生传达工程概念是非常困难的。斯派曼的书给出了几个线索，以执行平衡行为，而不被看到这样做!然而，这本书也有一些缺点，这些缺点应该在下一版中得到克服。漫画和照片都没有。这将加强斯派曼的解释，并预计在印度。更重要的是，因为斯佩尔曼不断用玩笑来刺激读者的胃口（“你知道吗？”），报价和俏皮话。照片自然会用它们所描述的现实来强调文字。他们会更快地让学生成为水处理专家。一个简短的介绍性文章的作者说，他已经撰写了，是的，55本书!如果说所有这些写作都产生了某种疲劳，那么这本书并没有表现出来，相反，这些写作渗透出了能量和热情。这位作家是个灵感之源。
It is difficult to write a new textbook on a classical subject like water treatment without producing a tome with merely cosmetic differences. But Frank R. Spellman has succeeded. This book has so many distinguishing features that it easily stands apart, and tall, in the midst of other books on this subject. Spellman has an unusual academic background. Before taking his MS and PhD degrees in environmental engineering he had read for a bachelor’s degree in public administration! This makes him an environmental engineer with insight into the real world where changes have to be made through politics. The first ‘unique selling proposition’ of the book is that it is designed to make a fullfledged water treatment professional out of anyone with little more formal education than preparatory schooling in basic sciences and mathematics. To achieve this near-impossible task Spellman treats everything from its bare-bone fundamentals onwards, but does so in easy and crisp steps which follow each other with a maximum of precision and minimum of fuss. So the chapter ‘Water/Wastewater Math Operations‘ begins almost with the teaching of how to add 1 and 1. A table quickly appears to tell the uninitiated how many inches make a foot and how many millilitres make a litre. Spellman then goes to bigger and bigger things: flow-rates, retention times, chemical dosage calculations, bioprocess engineering fundamentals, and so on. Soon, without even being conscious of it, one finds oneself making a wastewater treatment systems design – something one would have thought only a postgraduate in environmental engineering could achieve. In the course of teaching water treatment system design to students at postgraduate level, this reviewer has often found great difficulty in communicating engineering concepts to those who had graduated in non-engineering subjects. Spellman’s, book gives several clues to performing the balancing act without being seen doing it! Yet there are points against this book, which should be overcome through its next edition. Cartoons and photographs are absent. These would have strengthened Spellman’s explanation and would be expected in India. Even more so because Spellman keeps whetting the reader’s appetite with teasers (‘Do you know?’), quotations, and wisecracks. Photographs would naturally underline the words with the realities they describe. They would make a student into a water treatment specialist more swiftly. A short introductory piece on the author says he has authored, yes, 55 books! If all this writing has produced some fatigue, this book does not show it. Rather, the writing oozes energy and enthusiasm. This writer is a well of inspiration.