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Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 52 in the series, is
the definitive resource for authoritative reviews of work in
physical organic chemistry. It aims to provide a valuable source of
information that is ideal not only for physical organic chemists
applying their expertise to both novel and traditional problems,
but also for non-specialists across diverse areas who identify a
physical organic component in their approach to research. Its
hallmark is a quantitative, molecular level understanding of
phenomena across a diverse range of disciplines.
'one of the year's most exciting releases' - The Herald China is
building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of
hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet
freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras
employ the latest facial recognition technology. Through flagrant
cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive
scale, bullied Western tech companies and academics (though many
have been willing accomplices) and intimidated critics worldwide.
In doing so, it has become a model for aspiring dictators
everywhere. Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the
Chinese surveillance state, showing how it has been driven by the
enigmatic Xi Jinping, now effectively president for life, and how
it impacts the daily lives of Chinese citizens, particularly
dissidents and those from ethnic minorities. Supporting interviews
and first-hand accounts from those whose lives have been turned
upside down or worse highlight the chilling and ruthless efficiency
with which the government can now act. The book also considers the
wider implications for the rest of the world. How to deal with an
increasingly strident, aggressive Beijing is one of the biggest
challenges facing the West in what has become a technological Cold
War.
This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage
of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style. The
fourth edition, broadly updated and developed throughout, includes
a brand-new chapter providing a broader overview to the topic for
general reading, and presents fresh materials on air pollution
modelling, mitigation and control, tailored to the needs of both
amateur and specialist users. Retaining a quantitative perspective,
the covered topics include: gaseous and particulate air pollutants,
measurement techniques, meteorology and modelling, area sources,
mobile sources, indoor air, effects on plants, materials, humans
and animals, impact on climate change and ozone profiles and air
quality legislations. This edition also includes a final chapter
covering a suite of sampling and laboratory practical experiments
that can be used for either classroom teachings, or as part of
research projects. As with previous editions, the book is aimed to
serve as a useful reading resource for upper-level undergraduate
and postgraduate courses specialising in air pollution, with
dedicated case studies at the end of each chapter, as well as a
list of revision questions provided at the end as a complementary
section.
For decades, the United States has led the effort to stem the
spread of nuclear weapons, both among potential adversaries and
among its allies and partners. The current state of deterrence and
of the nonproliferation regime, however, is open to many doubts.
What happens if the nonproliferation regime should break down
altogether? What happens if extended deterrence should fail, and
allies no longer believe in the credibility of the U.S. nuclear
umbrella? What happens when the world has not 9 but 11, 15, 18, or
even more nuclear powers? This study explores how such a world
might function and what it would mean for our present conceptions
of deterrence, for the place of the United States in the
international order, and for international order itself.
In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling,
modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to
infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through
multilayered conversations with individuals and groups traditional
storytellers, teachers, children he examines the dynamic nature of
oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its
use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational
conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning.
Offering storytelling as anancestral template of good teaching,
Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to
inform and transform classroom practice.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry series is the definitive
resource for authoritative reviews of work in physical organic
chemistry. It aims to provide a valuable source of information not
only for physical organic chemists applying their expertise to both
novel and traditional problems, but also for non-specialists across
diverse areas who identify a physical organic component in their
approach to research. Its hallmark is a quantitative, molecular
level understanding of phenomena across a diverse range of
disciplines.
In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling,
modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to
infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through
multilayered conversations with individuals and groups-traditional
storytellers, teachers, children-he examines the dynamic nature of
oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its
use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational
conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning.
Offering storytelling as an "ancestral template" of good teaching,
Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to
inform and transform classroom practice.
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Lois Pritchard is a GP at the Llangandida Health Centre, as a
salaried partner with Drs Robert Smith and Iwan James. She also
works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM)
clinic. Currently single, despite the attentions of her many
admirers, she is, by her own admission, `not very good with
relationships'. Starting guitar lessons on her 40th birthday does
not become the release she hopes from life's vicissitudes. When her
estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, Lois
must look to something far more radical to sort out her personal
life. Meanwhile, her patients' stories provide some welcome relief:
a man who regrets the Pinocchio face he had tattooed on his
genitals; a prescription drug addict who plans to sue his previous
doctors for failing to refuse him the drugs he demanded; a health
campaigner who vows to starve herself to death if her demands are
not met; and a man who resorts to desperate measures after being
driven mad by his neighbours' cats.
This book analyzes George Orwell's politics and their reception
across both sides of the Atlantic. It considers Orwell's place in
the politics of his native Britain and his reception in the USA,
where he has had some of his most fervent emulators, exegetists,
and detractors. Written by an ex "teenage Maoist" from Liverpool,
UK, who now lives and writes in New York, the book points out how
often the different strands of opinion derive from "ancestral"
ideological struggles within the Communist/Trotskyist movement in
the 30's, and how these often overlook or indeed consciously ignore
the indigenous British politics and sociology that did so much to
influence Orwell's political and literary development. It examines
in the modern era what Orwell did in his-the seductions of
simplistic and absolutist ideologies for some intellectuals,
especially in their reactions to Orwell himself.
WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally
bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving
book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a
crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by
community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible
imprint. Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and
Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when
their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An
odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with
miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences
that have some unexpected results. Fast-forward, their son
Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick
schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant
son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters
Felicia's life at a typically inopportune moment, the book's
exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is
revealed.
This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage
of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style. The
fourth edition, broadly updated and developed throughout, includes
a brand-new chapter providing a broader overview to the topic for
general reading, and presents fresh materials on air pollution
modelling, mitigation and control, tailored to the needs of both
amateur and specialist users. Retaining a quantitative perspective,
the covered topics include: gaseous and particulate air pollutants,
measurement techniques, meteorology and modelling, area sources,
mobile sources, indoor air, effects on plants, materials, humans
and animals, impact on climate change and ozone profiles and air
quality legislations. This edition also includes a final chapter
covering a suite of sampling and laboratory practical experiments
that can be used for either classroom teachings, or as part of
research projects. As with previous editions, the book is aimed to
serve as a useful reading resource for upper-level undergraduate
and postgraduate courses specialising in air pollution, with
dedicated case studies at the end of each chapter, as well as a
list of revision questions provided at the end as a complementary
section.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 55, presents the
latest reviews of recent work in physical organic chemistry. The
book provides a valuable source of information that is ideal not
only for physical organic chemists applying their expertise to both
novel and traditional problems, but also for non-specialists across
diverse areas who identify a physical organic component in their
approach to research. The book's hallmark is its quantitative,
molecular level understanding of phenomena across a diverse range
of disciplines.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 54, presents the
latest reviews of recent work in physical organic chemistry. The
book provides a valuable source of information that is ideal not
only for physical organic chemists applying their expertise to both
novel and traditional problems, but also for non-specialists across
diverse areas who identify a physical organic component in their
approach to research. Its hallmark is a quantitative, molecular
level understanding of phenomena across a diverse range of
disciplines.
Weighed down by his responsibilities - from diagnosing personality
disorders to deciding who can hold a gun licence - Iwan doubts his
ability to make decisions about the lives of others when he may
need more than a little help himself. Incontinent old ladies, men
with eagle tattoos, traumatised widowers - Iwan's patients cause
him both empathy and dismay, as he tries to do his best in a world
of limited time and budgetary constraints, and in which there are
no easy answers. His feelings for his partners also cause him
grief: something more than friendship for the sympathetic Dr Lois
Pritchard, and not a little frustration at the prankish and
obstructive Dr Robert Smith. Iwan's cycling trips with his friend
Arthur provide some welcome relief, but even the landscape is
imbued with his patients' distress. As we explore the phantoms from
Iwan's past, we too begin to feel compassion for The Bad Doctor,
and ask what is the dividing line between patient and provider?
Wry, comic, graphic, from the humdrum to the tragic, his patients'
stories are the spokes that make Iwan's wheels go round, as all
humanity, it seems, passes through his surgery door. Ian Williams
is the author of Sick Notes, a weekly comic strip in The Guardian
about the state of the NHS. The Bad Doctor was highly commended in
the Primary Healthcare category of the British Medical Association
Medical Books Awards 2015.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 51, the latest
release in the series, is the definitive resource for authoritative
reviews of work in physical organic chemistry. It provides a
valuable source of information for not only physical organic
chemists applying their expertise to both novel and traditional
problems, but also for non-specialists across diverse areas who
identify a physical organic component in their approach to
research. Its hallmark is a quantitative, molecular level
understanding of phenomena across a diverse range of disciplines.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry series of volumes is the
definitive resource for authoritative reviews of work in physical
organic chemistry. It aims to provide a valuable source of
information not only for physical organic chemists applying their
expertise to both novel and traditional problems but also for
non-specialists across diverse areas who identify a physical
organic component in their approach to research. Its hallmark is
quantitative, molecular level understanding of phenomena across a
diverse range of disciplines.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry provides the chemical
community with authoritative and critical assessments of the many
aspects of physical organic chemistry. The field is a rapidly
developing one, with results and methodologies finding application
from biology to solid-state physics.
Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 53, presents the
latest reviews of recent work in physical organic chemistry. It
provides a valuable source of information that is ideal not only
for physical organic chemists applying their expertise to both
novel and traditional problems, but also for non-specialists across
diverse areas who identify a physical organic component in their
approach to research. Its hallmark is a quantitative, molecular
level understanding of phenomena across a diverse range of
disciplines. Chapters in this updated release include Theoretical
models for activation and reaction energies in chemical reactions,
Chiral induction in asymmetric dual catalysis, and The transition
state.
"Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry" provides the chemical
community with authoritative and critical assessments of the many
aspects of physical organic chemistry. The field is a rapidly
developing one, with results and methodologies finding application
from biology to solid-state physics.
Reviews the application of quantitative and mathematical methods
toward understanding chemical problemsCovers organic,
organometallic, bioorganic, enzymes and materials topics
WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally
bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving
book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a
crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by
community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible
imprint. Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and
Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when
their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An
odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with
miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences
that have some unexpected results. Fast-forward, their son
Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick
schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant
son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters
Felicia's life at a typically inopportune moment, the book's
exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is
revealed.
Network and Connections in Legal History examines networks of
lawyers, legislators and litigators, and how they shaped legal
development in Britain and the world. It explores how particular
networks of lawyers - from Scotland to East Florida and India -
shaped the culture of the forums in which they operated, and how
personal connections could be crucial in pressuring the legislature
to institute reform - as with twentieth century feminist campaigns.
It explores the transmission of legal ideas; what happened to those
ideas was not predetermined, but when new connections were made,
they could assume a new life. In some cases, new thinkers made
intellectual connections not previously conceived, in others it was
the new purposes to which ideas and practices were applied which
made them adapt. This book shows how networks and connections
between people and places have shaped the way that legal ideas and
practices are transmitted across time and space.
The poems in Ian Williams's Personals are jittery, plaintive, and
decidedly fresh. They are almost-love poems, voiced through a
startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to
the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail.
Williams pays beautiful homage to traditional poetic forms:
ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets, while
simultaneously showcasing his own inventiveness and linguistic
dexterity through the creation of brand new forms: poems that spin
into indeterminacy, poems that don't end. With a deft hand and
playful ear, Williams entices the reader to stumble alongside his
characters as they search, again and again, for intimacy, for
touch, for each other.
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