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Any research that uses new organic chemicals, or ones that are not
commercially available, will at some time require the synthesis of
such compounds. Therefore, organic synthesis is important in many
areas of both applied and academic research, from chemistry to
biology, biochemistry, and materials science. The third edition of
a bestseller, Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry is a guide that
explains the basic techniques of organic chemistry, presenting the
necessary information for readers to carry out widely used modern
organic synthesis reactions.This book is written for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students as well as industrial organic
chemists, particularly those involved in pharmaceutical,
agrochemical, and other areas of fine chemical research. It
provides the novice or nonspecialist with the often
difficult-to-find information on reagent properties needed to
perform general techniques. With over 80 years combined experience
training and developing organic research chemists in industry and
academia, the authors offer sufficient guidance for researchers to
perform reactions under conditions that give the highest chance of
success, including the appropriate precautions to take and proper
experimental protocols. The text also covers the following topics:
Record keeping and equipment Solvent purification and reagent
preparation Using gases and working with vacuum pumps Purification,
including crystallization and distillation Small-scale and
large-scale reactions Characterization, including NMR spectra,
melting point and boiling point, and microanalysis Efficient ways
to find information in the chemical literature With fully updated
text and all newly drawn figures, the third edition provides a
powerful tool for building the knowledge on the most up-to-date
techniques commonly used in organic synthesis.
This book addresses the factors that have led to the lackluster
economic performance of the oil MENA region, despite the wealth of
its vast natural resource. It offers a radical policy
recommendation as a way out. Using data from a wide variety of
sources, it analyzes the major problems that confront the
governments of the MENA region, and make the case why the status
quo is unsustainable. Recently, Algeria has shown that people will
tire of the status quo and will demand wholesale changes. At the
core of the problem of corruption, rent seeking, waste, and lack of
economic diversification, is the presence of oil and its control by
the state. But oil by itself should help, not hinder MENA's
economic development. While historically, oil revenues may have
contributed to the maintenance of corrupt institutions and rent
seeking among oil-rich nations, the mere presence of such valuable
natural resources need not be the problem. It argues for a plan to
empower citizens and invert the power relationship, so that the
citizen's voices matter. For the spirit of the Arab Spring to be
successful, the region must adopt significant institutional changes
that embrace the rule of law, transparency, democratic
accountability, and the protection of human and private rights.
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Paradise Lost (Hardcover)
John Milton; Edited by John Leonard; Introduction by John Leonard; Notes by John Leonard; Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
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Paradise Lost (Paperback, Revised)
John Milton; Edited by John Leonard; Introduction by John Leonard
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‘Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n …’ In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties – blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution – Paradise Lost’s apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to ‘justify the ways of God to men’, or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. John Leonard’s revised edition of Paradise Lost contains full notes, elucidating Milton’s biblical, classical and historical allusions and discussing his vivid, highly original use of language and blank verse.
Any research that uses new organic chemicals, or ones that are
not commercially available, will at some time require the synthesis
of such compounds. Therefore, organic synthesis is important in
many areas of both applied and academic research, from chemistry to
biology, biochemistry, and materials science. The third edition of
a bestseller, Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry is a guide that
explains the basic techniques of organic chemistry, presenting the
necessary information for readers to carry out widely used modern
organic synthesis reactions.
This book is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate
students as well as industrial organic chemists, particularly those
involved in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and other areas of fine
chemical research. It provides the novice or nonspecialist with the
often difficult-to-find information on reagent properties needed to
perform general techniques. With over 80 years combined experience
training and developing organic research chemists in industry and
academia, the authors offer sufficient guidance for researchers to
perform reactions under conditions that give the highest chance of
success, including the appropriate precautions to take and proper
experimental protocols. The text also covers the following
topics:
- Record keeping and equipment
- Solvent purification and reagent preparation
- Using gases and working with vacuum pumps
- Purification, including crystallization and distillation
- Small-scale and large-scale reactions
- Characterization, including NMR spectra, melting point and
boiling point, and microanalysis
- Efficient ways to find information in the chemical
literature
With fully updated text and all newly drawn figures, the third
edition provides a powerful tool for building the knowledge on the
most up-to-date techniques commonly used in organic synthesis.
The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools examines cultural
recognition and the struggle for identity in America's schools. In
particular, the contributing authors focus on the recognition and
misrecognition as antagonistic cultural forces that work to shape,
and at times distort identity. What surfaces throughout the
chapters are two lessons to be learned in relation to identity. The
first lesson is that identities and the acts attributed to them are
always forming and re-forming in relation to historically specific
contexts, and these contexts are political in nature, i.e., defined
by issues of diversity such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual
orientation, gender, and economics. The second lesson presented by
the authors is that identity forms in and across intimate and
social contexts, over long periods of time. The historical timing
of identity formation cannot simply be dictated by discourse. The
identities posited by any particular discourse become important and
a part of everyday life based on the intersection of social
histories and social actors. Importantly, the social-cultural use
of identities leads to another way of conceptualizing histories,
personhoods, cultures, and their distributions over social and
political groups.
Dewey's Democracy and Education Revisited focuses on democratic
schools/democratic education and the work of teacher and leader
practitioners in the new millennium, taking into consideration the
complex and dynamic nature of preparing leaders for changing roles
in schools amidst the challenges of standards and accountability,
the No Child Left Behind Act, licensure/certification issues,
increasing diversity, issues of social justice, shifting
demographics, and the myriad of social issues that make democratic
leadership necessary. The book presents a collection of
contemporary discourses that reconsider the relationship of
democracy as a political ideology and American ideal (i.e., Dewey's
progressivist ideas) and education as the foundation of preparing
democratic citizens in America. Jenlink takes the reader into a
reflective and critical examination of Dewey's ideas on democratic
education, set forth in the classic philosophy text, Democracy and
Education. Each chapter draws the reader into a discussion of the
salient and relevant points Dewey argued, and juxtaposes Dewey's
points with the issues challenging educators today, in particular
focusing on the challenge of fostering democratic education and
leadership for America's schools.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism
are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare,
elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared
between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling
collection.
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem "captures the counterculture of the
sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan
Baez, Haight-Ashbury. "The White Album "covers the revolutionary
politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and
early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black
Panthers, and Hollywood. "Salvador" is a riveting look at the
social and political landscape of civil war. "Miami" exposes the
secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from
the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In "After Henry "Didion reports
on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The
eight essays in "Political Fictions"-on censorship in the media,
Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among
others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in
"Where I Was From "Didion shows that California was never the land
of the golden dream.
Geoff Johns's epic JSA run continues as the JSA take some time off!
But not everyone is enjoying the trip... The JSA have taken some
time off, spending the weekend in St. Roch for Mardi Gras. But not
everyone is enjoying the trip, especially Hourman. And what starts
off as a social gathering ends with bloodshed as Hawkman hits the
scene. The Winged Warriors actions will shock everyone! JSA by
Geoff Johns Book Five contains Hawkman #23-25, and JSA #46-58!
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The Reason of Job (Hardcover)
Scott R Cherry; Foreword by Wissam Al-Aethawi, John Leonard
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R1,597
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The Reason of Job (Paperback)
Scott R Cherry; Foreword by Wissam Al-Aethawi, John Leonard
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Flight to Bogota tells the incredible story of one of the most
infamous episodes in English sporting history, when a group of
British footballers turned their backs on club and country before
the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado in Colombia. It was a
rebellion led by first-choice England centre-half Neil Franklin.
The book charts how the players were secretly lured away from
Britain, amid Franklin's strident complaints of 'serfdom' in
English football, their brief struggles to adapt to Colombian life
and the fallout once they humiliatingly returned home to face the
wrath of club and country. This escapade was a personal failure for
Franklin and left his career in tatters. But the players'
vociferous defence of their behaviour enlightened a shocked nation
about how clubs mistreated footballers. Ultimately, it led to
reforms that would financially benefit future footballing
generations, but hopes of vast riches proved nothing more than an
illusion for Franklin and his fellow 'football bandits' as they
embarked on their 'Flight to Bogota'.
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