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"There is a continuing demand for up to date organic &
bio-organic chemistry undergraduate textbooks. This well planned
text builds upon a successful existing work and adds content
relevant to biomolecules and biological activity". -Professor
Philip Page, Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry University of
East Anglia, UK "Introduces the key concepts of organic chemistry
in a succinct and clear way". -Andre Cobb, KCL, UK Reactions in
biochemistry can be explained by an understanding of fundamental
organic chemistry principles and reactions. This paradigm is
extended to biochemical principles and to myriad biomolecules.
Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach provides a framework
for understanding various topics of biochemistry, including the
chemical behavior of biomolecules, enzyme activity, and more. It
goes beyond mere memorization. Using several techniques to develop
a relational understanding, including homework, this text helps
students fully grasp and better correlate the essential organic
chemistry concepts with those concepts at the root of biochemistry.
The goal is to better understand the fundamental principles of
biochemistry. Features: Presents a review chapter of fundamental
organic chemistry principles and reactions. Presents and explains
the fundamental principles of biochemistry using principles and
common reactions of organic chemistry. Discusses enzymes, proteins,
fatty acids, lipids, vitamins, hormones, nucleic acids and other
biomolecules by comparing and contrasting them with the organic
chemistry reactions that constitute the foundation of these classes
of biomolecules. Discusses the organic synthesis and reactions of
amino acids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and other biomolecules.
"There is a continuing demand for up to date organic &
bio-organic chemistry undergraduate textbooks. This well planned
text builds upon a successful existing work and adds content
relevant to biomolecules and biological activity". -Professor
Philip Page, Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry University of
East Anglia, UK "Introduces the key concepts of organic chemistry
in a succinct and clear way". -Andre Cobb, KCL, UK Reactions in
biochemistry can be explained by an understanding of fundamental
organic chemistry principles and reactions. This paradigm is
extended to biochemical principles and to myriad biomolecules.
Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach provides a framework
for understanding various topics of biochemistry, including the
chemical behavior of biomolecules, enzyme activity, and more. It
goes beyond mere memorization. Using several techniques to develop
a relational understanding, including homework, this text helps
students fully grasp and better correlate the essential organic
chemistry concepts with those concepts at the root of biochemistry.
The goal is to better understand the fundamental principles of
biochemistry. Features: Presents a review chapter of fundamental
organic chemistry principles and reactions. Presents and explains
the fundamental principles of biochemistry using principles and
common reactions of organic chemistry. Discusses enzymes, proteins,
fatty acids, lipids, vitamins, hormones, nucleic acids and other
biomolecules by comparing and contrasting them with the organic
chemistry reactions that constitute the foundation of these classes
of biomolecules. Discusses the organic synthesis and reactions of
amino acids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and other biomolecules.
Based on the premise that many, if not most, reactions in organic
chemistry can be explained by variations of fundamental acid-base
concepts, Organic Chemistry: An Acid-Base Approach provides a
framework for understanding the subject that goes beyond mere
memorization. Using several techniques to develop a relational
understanding, it helps students fully grasp the essential concepts
at the root of organic chemistry. This new edition was rewritten
largely with the feedback of students in mind and is also based on
the author's classroom experiences using the previous editions.
Highlights of the Third Edition Include: Extensively revised
chapters that improve the presentation of material. Features the
contributions of more than 65 scientists, highlighting the
diversity in organic chemistry. Features the current work of over
30 organic chemists, highlighting the diversity in organic
chemistry. Many new reactions are featured that are important in
modern organic chemistry. Video lectures are provided in a .mov
format, accessible online as a 'built-in' ancillary for the book.
The homework is available online, gratis to all users. The third
edition of Organic Chemistry: An Acid-Base Approach constitutes a
significant improvement upon a unique introductory technique to
organic chemistry. The reactions and mechanisms it covers are the
most fundamental concepts in organic chemistry that are applied to
industry, biological chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology,
and pharmacy. Using an illustrated conceptual approach rather than
presenting sets of principles and theories to memorize, it gives
students a more concrete understanding of the material.
Covers the fundamentals of organic chemistry Includes a test
yourself section with answers and complete explanations at the end
of each chapter Provides bibliographies for further reading, as
well as numerous graphs, charts, and examples Discusses all
critical topics of organic chemistry including conformations, acids
and bases and more Presents renowned author's classroom experiences
A Q&A Approach to Organic Chemistry is a book of leading
questions that begins with atomic orbitals and bonding. All
critical topics are covered, including bonding, nomenclature,
stereochemistry, conformations, acids and bases, oxidations,
reductions, substitution, elimination, acyl addition, acyl
substitution, enolate anion reactions, the Diels-Alder reaction and
sigmatropic rearrangements, aromatic chemistry, spectroscopy, amino
acids and proteins, and carbohydrates and nucleosides. All major
reactions are covered. Each chapter includes end-of-chapter
homework questions with the answer keys in an Appendix at the end
of the book. This book is envisioned to be a supplementary guide to
be used with virtually any available undergraduate organic
chemistry textbook. This book allows for a "self-guided" approach
that is useful as one studies for a coursework exam or as one
reviews organic chemistry for postgraduate exams. Key Features:
Allows a "self-guided tour" of organic chemistry Discusses all
important areas and fundamental reactions of organic chemistry
Classroom tested Useful as a study guide that will supplement most
organic chemistry textbooks Assists one in study for coursework
exams or allows one to review organic chemistry for postgraduate
exams Includes 21 chapters of leading questions that covers all
major topics and major reactions of organic chemistry
<div>The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with
the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian
mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an
application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary
historiography.</div>
Designed to supplement existing organic textbooks, Hybrid
Retrosynthesis presents a relatively simple approach to solving
synthesis problems, using a small library of basic reactions along
with the computer searching capabilities of Reaxys and SciFinder.
This clear, concise guide reviews the essential skills needed for
organic synthesis and retrosynthesis, expanding reader knowledge of
the foundational principles of these techniques, whilst supporting
their use via practical methodologies. Perfect for both graduate
and post-graduate students, Hybrid Retrosynthesis provides new
applied skills and tools to help during their organic synthesis
courses and future careers, whilst simultaneously acting as useful
resource for those setting tutorial and group problems, and as a
helpful go-to guide for organic chemists involved in either
industry or academia.
This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in
a simple, step-by-step fashion. Each unit includes short sections
of explanation with examples, followed by stimulating practice
exercises to complete in the book. Feedback and comment sections
follow each exercise to enable students to monitor their progress.
No previous background in semantics is assumed, as students begin
by discovering the value and fascination of the subject and then
move through all key topics in the field, including sense and
reference, simple logic, word meaning and interpersonal meaning.
New study guides and exercises have been added to the end of each
unit to help reinforce and test learning. A completely new unit on
non-literal language and metaphor, plus updates throughout the text
significantly expand the scope of the original edition to bring it
up-to-date with modern teaching of semantics for introductory
courses in linguistics as well as intermediate students.
"A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of
subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an
'evential hermeneutics' that takes as its starting point the
life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure
of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that
they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, which can
be explained as a subject realizing pre-existing possibilities.
Because such events introduce radically new possibilities by
transforming me and my world, Romano argues that they must be
understood as establishing a world rather than as happening in the
world."-Shane Mackinlay, Catholic Theological College, University
of Divinity, Melbourne
More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first
volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and
Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide
range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of
poststructuralist thought available to religious studies and
theology, especially in the areas of late medieval and early modern
mysticism. Though the second volume remained in fragments at the
time of his death, Michel de Certeau had the foresight to leave his
literary executor detailed instructions for its completion, which
formed the basis for the present work. Together, both volumes
solidify Certeau's place as a touchstone of twentieth-century
literature and philosophy, and continue his exploration of the
paradoxes of historiography; the construction of social reality
through practice, testimony, and belief; the theorization of speech
in angelology and glossolalia; and the interplay of prose and
poetry in discourses of the ineffable. This book will be of vital
interest to scholars in religious studies, theology, philosophy,
history, and literature.
Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism,
Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: aAs for myself, I could
imagine another Abraham.aFrom the experience of a summons that
surprises us and prompts the query aWho, me?a Derrida explores the
movement between growing up Jewish, abecoming Jewish, a and aJewish
beinga or existence. His essay aThe Other Abrahama appears here in
English for the first time. We no longer confront aJudaisma but
ajudeity, a multiple Judaisms and Jewishnesses, manifold ways of
being and writing as a Jewain Derridaas case, as a French-speaking
Algerian deprived of, then restored to French nationality in the
1940s. What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion
of aJewish identitya been written into and across Jewish
literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? Here
distinguished scholars address these questions, contrasting
Derridaas thought with philosophical predecessors such as
Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and tracing confluences
between deconstruction and Kabbalah. Derridaas relationship to the
universalist aspirations in contemporary theology is also
discussed, and his late autobiographical writings are evaluated.
This multifaceted volume aims to open the question of Jewishness,
above all, to hold it open as a question, though not one of
practical or theoretical identity. As much a contestation of
identity as a profound reflection on what it means today to seek,
elude, and finally to wrestle with the significance of abeing-jew,
a Judeities invites us to revisit the human condition in the
twenty-first century.
Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism,
Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: aAs for myself, I could
imagine another Abraham.aFrom the experience of a summons that
surprises us and prompts the query aWho, me?a Derrida explores the
movement between growing up Jewish, abecoming Jewish, a and aJewish
beinga or existence. His essay aThe Other Abrahama appears here in
English for the first time. We no longer confront aJudaisma but
ajudeity, a multiple Judaisms and Jewishnesses, manifold ways of
being and writing as a Jewain Derridaas case, as a French-speaking
Algerian deprived of, then restored to French nationality in the
1940s. What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion
of aJewish identitya been written into and across Jewish
literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? Here
distinguished scholars address these questions, contrasting
Derridaas thought with philosophical predecessors such as
Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and tracing confluences
between deconstruction and Kabbalah. Derridaas relationship to the
universalist aspirations in contemporary theology is also
discussed, and his late autobiographical writings are evaluated.
This multifaceted volume aims to open the question of Jewishness,
above all, to hold it open as a question, though not one of
practical or theoretical identity. As much a contestation of
identity as a profound reflection on what it means today to seek,
elude, and finally to wrestle with the significance of abeing-jew,
a Judeities invites us to revisit the human condition in the
twenty-first century.
“A genuinely innovative contribution to philosophical accounts of
subjectivity and temporality. Romano develops what he calls an
‘evential hermeneutics’ that takes as its starting point the
life-changing events that upend our world. He studies the structure
of these events in terms of the genuine change and novelty that
they open up, distinguishing them from mere occurrences, which can
be explained as a subject realizing pre-existing possibilities.
Because such events introduce radically new possibilities by
transforming me and my world, Romano argues that they must be
understood as establishing a world rather than as happening in the
world.”—Shane Mackinlay, Catholic Theological College,
University of Divinity, Melbourne
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into
what is left of a monotheistic religious spiritanotably, a
minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous.
Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy
deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and
reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working
through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida,
Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of
Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity
as hope. The areligion that provided the exit from religion, a as
he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It
is the announcement that counts, however, rather than any finality.
In this announcement there is a proximity to others and to what was
once called parousia. But parousia is no longer presence; it is no
longer the return of the Messiah. Rather, it is what is near us and
does not cease to open and to close, a presence deferred yet
imminent.In a demystified age where we are left with a vision of a
self-enclosed worldain which humans are no longer mortals facing an
immortal being, but entities whose lives are accompanied by the
time of their own declineaparousia stands as a question. Can we
venture the risk of a decentered perspective, such that the meaning
of the world can be found both inside and outside, within and
without our so-immanent world?The deconstruction of Christianity
that Nancy proposes is neither a game nor a strategy. It is an
invitation to imagine a strange faith that enacts the inadequation
of life to itself. Our lives overflow the self-contained boundaries
of their biological andsociological interpretations. Out of this
excess, wells up a fragile, overlooked meaning that is beyond both
confessionalism and humanism.
Organic Synthesis, Fourth Edition, provides a reaction-based
approach to this important branch of organic chemistry. Updated and
accessible, this eagerly-awaited revision offers a comprehensive
foundation for graduate students coming from disparate backgrounds
and knowledge levels, to provide them with critical working
knowledge of basic reactions, stereochemistry and conformational
principles. This reliable resource uniquely incorporates molecular
modeling content, problems, and visualizations, and includes
reaction examples and homework problems drawn from the latest in
the current literature. In the Fourth Edition, the organization of
the book has been improved to better serve students and professors
and accommodate important updates in the field. The first chapter
reviews basic retrosynthesis, conformations and stereochemistry.
The next three chapters provide an introduction to and a review of
functional group exchange reactions; these are followed by chapters
reviewing protecting groups, oxidation and reduction reactions and
reagents, hydroboration, selectivity in reactions. A separate
chapter discusses strategies of organic synthesis, and he book then
delves deeper in teaching the reactions required to actually
complete a synthesis. Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions using
both nucleophilic carbon reactions are presented, and then
electrophilic carbon reactions, followed by pericyclic reactions
and radical and carbene reactions. The important organometallic
reactions have been consolidated into a single chapter. Finally,
the chapter on combinatorial chemistry has been removed from the
strategies chapter and placed in a separate chapter, along with
valuable and forward-looking content on green organic chemistry,
process chemistry and continuous flow chemistry. Throughout the
text, Organic Synthesis, Fourth Edition utilizes Spartan-generated
molecular models, class tested content, and useful pedagogical
features to aid student study and retention, including Chapter
Review Questions, and Homework Problems. A full Solutions Manual is
also available online for qualified instructors, to support
teaching.
It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery
that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of
provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the
church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own
exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic
retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary
film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here
receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian
Michel de Certeau.
Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents
with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of
sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at
Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic
flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of
psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people
torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the
rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or
whom to believe.
At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director
of studies at the ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales,
Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which
have appeared in English translation as "The Practice of Everyday
Life, " "The Writing of History, " and "The Mystic Fable, Volume 1,
" the last of which is published by The University of Chicago
Press.
"Brilliant and innovative. . . . "The Possession at Loudun" is de
Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most
wonderful."--Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)
In the most comprehensive examination to date of Heidegger's
Nazism, Emmanuel Faye draws on previously unavailable materials to
paint a damning picture of Nazism's influence on the philosopher's
thought and politics.
In this provocative book, Faye uses excerpts from unpublished
seminars to show that Heidegger's philosophical writings are
fatally compromised by an adherence to National Socialist ideas. In
other documents, Faye finds expressions of racism and exterminatory
anti-Semitism.
Faye disputes the view of Heidegger as a naive, temporarily
disoriented academician and instead shows him to have been a
self-appointed "spiritual guide" for Nazism whose intentionality
was clear. Contrary to what some have written, Heidegger's Nazism
became even more radical after 1935, as Faye demonstrates. He
revisits Heidegger's masterwork, "Being and Time," and concludes
that in it Heidegger does not present a philosophy of individual
existence but rather a doctrine of radical self-sacrifice, where
individualization is allowed only for the purpose of heroism in
warfare. Faye's book was highly controversial when originally
published in France in 2005. Now available in Michael B. Smith's
fluid English translation, it is bound to awaken controversy in the
English-speaking world.
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