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available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Hearts of Oak
Noel Sainsbury
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Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study
of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical
questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the
world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book
identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young
people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in
extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of
reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature.
Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and
metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and
Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of
children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include:
Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown,
Lewis Carroll, Eoin Colfer, Gary Crew, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle,
Imme Dros, Sarah Ellis, Mem Fox, Zana Fraillon, Libby Gleeson,
Kenneth Grahame, Armin Greder, Sonya Hartnett, Tana Hoban, Judy
Horacek, Tove Jansson, Oliver Jeffers, Jon Klassen, Elaine
Konigsburg, Norman Lindsay, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robert
Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Jill Paton
Walsh, Philippa Pearce, Ivan Southall, William Steig, Shaun Tan,
Tarjei Vesaas, David Wiesner, Margaret Wild, Jacqueline Woodson and
many others.
Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short
stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty
Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of
the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's
literature. Ethics in British Children's Literature explores the
extent to which contemporary writing for children might be
considered philosophical, tackling ethical spheres relevant to and
arising from books for young people, such as naughtiness, good and
evil, family life, and environmental ethics. Rigorously engaging
with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through Kant
and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars
Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed
to engage young readers as moral agents.
Reference is a central topic in philosophy of language, and has
been the main focus of discussion about how language relates to the
world. R. M. Sainsbury sets out a new approach to the concept,
which promises to bring to an end some long-standing debates in
semantic theory. There is a single category of referring
expressions, all of which deserve essentially the same kind of
semantic treatment. Included in this category are both singular and
plural referring expressions ('Aristotle', 'The Pleiades'), complex
and non-complex referring expressions ('The President of the USA in
1970', 'Nixon'), and empty and non-empty referring expressions
('Vulcan', 'Neptune'). Referring expressions are to be described
semantically by a reference condition, rather than by being
associated with a referent. In arguing for these theses,
Sainsbury's book promises to end the fruitless oscillation between
Millian and descriptivist views. Millian views insist that every
name has a referent, and find it hard to give a good account of
names which appear not to have referents, or at least are not known
to do so, like ones introduced through error ('Vulcan'), ones where
it is disputed whether they have a bearer ('Patanjali') and ones
used in fiction. Descriptivist theories require that each name be
associated with some body of information. These theories fly in the
face of the fact names are useful precisely because there is often
no overlap of information among speakers and hearers. The
alternative position for which the book argues is firmly
non-descriptivist, though it also does not require a referent. A
much broader view can be taken of which expressions are referring
expressions: not just names and pronouns used demonstratively, but
also some complex expressions and some anaphoric uses of pronouns.
Sainsbury's approach brings reference into line with truth: no one
would think that a semantic theory should associate a sentence with
a truth value, but it is commonly held that a semantic theory
should associate a sentence with a truth condition, a condition
which an arbitrary state of the world would have to satisfy in
order to make the sentence true. The right analogy is that a
semantic theory should associate a referring expression with a
reference condition, a condition which an arbitrary object would
have to satisfy in order to be the expression's referent. Lucid and
accessible, and written with a minimum of technicality, Sainsbury's
book also includes a useful historical survey. It will be of
interest to those working in logic, mind, and metaphysics as well
as essential reading for philosophers of language.
Hardbound. This volume begins with two chapters concerned with the
chemistry of medium and large heterocyclic rings, including
lactones and lactams. This work also explores host-guest
relationships within macrocycles embodying oxygen and nitrogen
atoms. The authors responsible for bringing together recent
progress in the chemistry of this wide assembly of compounds are Dr
MacBride and his colleagues Drs Grayson and Kelly. Drs Ewing and
McKenzie then survey then survey recent advances in purine
chemistry and that of the attendant nucleosides. This chapter
naturally leads on to a focused survey of nucleosides and
nucleotides. Dr Cosstick contributed a chapter on these major
subject areas to the First Supplement and he agreed to review the
same subjects in this volume. Professor Pfleiderer is the world's
authority on pteridine chemistry and his chapter does more than
simply update work on these alkaloids. As a result of his intimate
knowledge this author is
Hardbound. In this volume, Drs. Parrick and Shaw have upgraded
their earlier chapter on pyridazines, cinnolines and Dr Hurst and
Dr McCullough have done the same for their chapters on the subjects
of pyrimidines and quinazolines and pyrazines, respectively. Dr
Bolton has contributed to this series several times before, but not
on the subject of phenazine, oxazine and thiazine sulfur dyes.
However, his wide experience in heterocyclic chemistry enabled him
to analyse recent progress in this area without difficulty and with
his customary skill. Professor Johne returns to one of his research
interests, quinazoline alkaloids, while Professor O'Shea completes
the volume with a timely review of six-membered rings with three or
more heteroatoms: triazines, tetrazines, pentazines and hexazines.
Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish
children's literature, this book examines the connections between
landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language
of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with
Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns
of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced
for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first
centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892,
when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish
independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter
1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of
demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving,
re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's
literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists
between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body
of work.
This volume deals with the chemistry of five-membered heterocycles
containing at least two nitrogen atoms, or those with one, or more,
nitrogens and one or more atoms from group 6 of the Peri tables. It
includes chapters on: oxadiazoles and thiadiazoles; five-memebered
heterocyclic compounds with four-heter-atoms in the ring;
five-membered rings containing two nitrogen atoms; and
five-membered heterocyclic compounds with three hetero-atoms in the
ring.
Hardbound. This volume has its core aspects of the chemistry of
pyrrole and pyridine, plus their benzo derivatives and reduced
forms. It begins with surveys of the natural occurrence,
characterization and synthesis of pyrrolidine and pyrrolizidine
alkaloids and progresses on to consider the structures of the new
indole alkaloids identified since 1985. Alkaloids of the tropane
type and those from plants of the Amaryllidacea family are surveyed
next, and a skillfully crafted review of recent work in the
porphyrin series is also featured.In the last two chapters the
emphasis changes slightly and a significant contribution is a
discussion of chemistry of the cyanine dyestuffs and that of their
allies.
Hardbound. The publication of this volume covers current work on
the syntheses and reactions of pyridines, quinolines and
isoquinolines. Also included are chapters (chapters 28, 30, 31 and
32) which review recent progress in the chemistry of the pyridine,
quinoline and isoquinoline alkaloids. The theoretical aspects of
pyridine chemistry, which were covered in a separate chapter
(chapter 23) in the 2nd Edition, are now incorporated into a
separate single chapter (chapter 24), without division.Recent
developments in the chemistry of six-membered heterocycles
containing a single phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, or bismuth atom
are also surveyed. Once again, the reader of Rodd will find this
volume extremely valuable since it provides a concise, yet
complete, survey of a major subject area of heterocyclic chemistry.
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Susan Sainsbury
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R676
Discovery Miles 6 760
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