MONOGRAPH

The classic monographs in chemistry and physics are the refined nearly perfect result of the many approximate journal articles on a given subject. Usually the lead scientist in any given field does the monograph by gathering all the relevant, however approximate and unrefined, journal pieces and condensing all that information in to a refined and scientifically precise book on the subject. Pauling's monographs were like that and Lipscomb's great work followed this process. And your monographs followed along these lines. Edited books are different...they are comprised of approximate and unrefined book chapters...some chapters are far removed from the title and theme of the edited book sometimes . Edited books are like mini-journal ithematic issues really. I want to do a "collected works" book comprised of my articles on carbon. I have asked Ashish Kumar at Apple Academic Press to go along with such a plan for a book. Ashish says that he publishes only new material and is not interested in such a book project. Such a book project would only be warranted, in reality, if one or more of my C models actually became true.