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--Retained publisher information from the printed copy (the electronic edition is in the public domain in the country of publication).

--Corrected some palpable typos, including several botanical names.

--Moved all promotional material to the end of the book.

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--Text in italics is delimited by underscores.

--Subscripted numbers are preceded by an underscore, as in the formula for water “H_2O”.

--Superscripted numbers are preceded by a caret, as in “45^o”.

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