Reviews for Spot tests in inorganic analysis

The average rating for Spot tests in inorganic analysis based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-17 00:00:00 Matthew Campbell The Rates of exchange is a book of observations, sensations, and of language expanded by gestures and signs. It is also a univercity novel, but of a different kind. The kind where the univercity is placed in "another universe", where dialectical materialism has replaced logic. Reality in such universe may seem absurd, with people watching and denouncing each other for the crime of wrong thought or act, carefully self-censoring in order not to be accused of incorrect thoughts and meanings… And yet in a way it is just like today - you know what I mean - everyone being afraid to speak their minds for fear of being not politically correct enough? Only with far more spectacular punishments for incorrect behaviours :-). It is also a bit like what I remember from my childhood, or maybe rather from the stories of years before I was born, where in our best of all communistic fatherlands there were no rats, no prostitution (provided that you weren't looking), where people did not steal but things sometimes simply disappeared, and where everyone loved work so much that they sometimes even asked their bosses to work overtime (or else they would starve to death). This is the kind of place, that a plain, middle-aged, correct and a bit lonely linguistics professor Angus Petworth arrives to, for a cultural exchange trip, to give lectures on linguistics and to prove the flourishing relationships between this obscure country and British Council. The place is called Slaka. Our professor is assigned an english-speaking guide, whose duties include both guiding and watching him. He meets a former exchange student of unclear intentions, who seems to be everywhere where Petworths travel itinerary takes him, and a female writer who seems to like him rather more than everyone else… Petworth is good-hearted and a bit naive, and despite being warned that relationships in Slaka, specially those with women may be dangerous, gets deeper and deeper into local affiliations. The whole story is obviously designed as a satire on the hypocrisy of the system and maybe even on the naivety of the traveller who doesn't really comprehend what is going on around him. But I found the largest joy in the conversations, that turn into inspired monologues delivered by Petworths local contacts about life in general, and their dialectically challenged reality in particular.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-14 00:00:00 John Eagle This book could have been half the length. It's definitely very dated and consequently would not seem the least bit funny at the present time. I travelled to the USSR in the 80s and could relate to many of the descriptions but basically the plot never moved on - it went round in circles.