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In the area of organic chemistry one major challenge we are
currently faced with is how to assemble potentially useful
molecules in new ways that generate molecular complexity and in
sequences that are as efficient as possible. Our efforts in this
regard, specifically for the preparation of amino containing
compounds incorporating an aromatic ring, are described in this
doctoral thesis. We discovered an interesting regioselectivity in
an intramolecular Heck reaction, which we studied for a series of
substrates that are unbiased in terms of the size of the newly
formed ring, where very high levels of selectivity in relation to
the new carbon-carbon bond are typically observed. DFT calculations
were performed to attempt to shed light on the reaction sequence.
This regioselective Heck reaction, combined with the reductive
removal of the temporary amino-protecting group, allowed us to
synthesize the Sceletium alkaloids: mesembrane, mesembranol and
mesembrine.
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have
increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular
society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for
contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious
politics ? graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency
to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary
contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to
integrate religion into a ?progressive? politics is not new.
Providing a comprehensive analysis of the Common Wealth movement,
this work seeks to bring together for the first time the religious
and political commitments of four of the leading thinkers in the
movement, bringing to light the significance of the relationships
between them.
This study examines at four interwar British radicals ? the
philosopher John Macmurray, the novelist and sexual theorist
Kenneth Ingram, the Science Fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, and the
Liberal M.P. Richard Acland ? and examines their attempts to
develop a socialism that whilst defending the achievements of the
secular age was also sensitive to the virtues of religious
traditions. Thus it considers Macmurray's attempt to draw on the
seemingly antagonistic traditions of Marxism and Christianity,
Ingram's long struggle to develop a Christian response to ?deviant?
sexual behaviour, Stapledon's exploration of a non-Christian
religious spirit, and Acland's journey from liberal atheist to
Christian socialist. It then follows the activities of all four in
the radical political movement founded by Acland in the midst of
the Second World War, Common Wealth, particularly focusing on the
positions they took in the serious battles over the function of
religion that convulsed the leadership of this body.
This work will be of great interest to scholars of political
theory, religious studies, social and political thought.
"The Art of Proof" is designed for a one-semester or two-quarter
course. A typical student will have studied calculus (perhaps also
linear algebra) with reasonable success. With an artful mixture of
chatty style and interesting examples, the student's previous
intuitive knowledge is placed on solid intellectual ground. The
topics covered include: integers, induction, algorithms, real
numbers, rational numbers, modular arithmetic, limits, and
uncountable sets. Methods, such as axiom, theorem and proof, are
taught while discussing the mathematics rather than in abstract
isolation. The book ends with short essays on further topics
suitable for seminar-style presentation by small teams of students,
either in class or in a mathematics club setting. These include:
continuity, cryptography, groups, complex numbers, ordinal number,
and generating functions.
In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive
Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and
colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media
by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret
Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques
Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis casts light
on how media-practical research forged common epistemic cause in
programs that stretched from 1930s interwar computing at MIT and
eugenics to the proliferation of seminars and laboratories in 1960s
Paris. This mobilization ushered forth new fields of study such as
structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology
while forming enduring intellectual affinities between the
humanities and informatics. With Code, Geoghegan offers a new
history of French theory and the digital humanities as
transcontinental and political endeavors linking interwar colonial
ethnography in Dutch Bali to French sciences in the throes of Cold
War-era decolonization and modernization.
What exactly is White Elephant Technology? White Elephant
Technology is any unusual invention past or present that fails in
the marketplace despite its innovative nature. From jeeps that fly
to tanks that shouldn’t; from a wave-powered boat that took over
three months to reach its destination to a jet-powered train that
shook itself apart, White Elephant Technology showcases each
inventor’s talent for creating something nobody asked for.
Importantly, none of these inventions are speculative. Each one was
built, field tested and worked more or less as planned (except when
it killed its creator). Although success is highly prized, failure
has a lot to teach us, especially when you realise it’s the rule
and not the exception. Still, no one has undertaken a survey of
failed inventions despite history being littered with them …
until now. White Elephant Technology corrects this oversight in an
entertaining, respectful and occasionally humorous manner, proving
that failure is not only as fascinating as success but is also the
purest expression of the human condition.
This book is about the interplay between algebraic topology and
the theory of infinite discrete groups. It is a hugely important
contribution to the field of topological and geometric group
theory, and is bound to become a standard reference in the field.
To keep the length reasonable and the focus clear, the author
assumes the reader knows or can easily learn the necessary algebra,
but wants to see the topology done in detail. The central subject
of the book is the theory of ends. Here the author adopts a new
algebraic approach which is geometric in spirit.
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Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917
and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their
airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more
enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the
future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean
liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and
even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been
scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of
how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of
dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of
four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going
despite the obstacles thrown in their way - until the Navy
deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme
crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth
from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first
time, what really happened can be revealed.
These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development
of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth
century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in
Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate to focus
instead on previously neglected areas such as the role of the
Scottish Enlightenment and early Irish socialism and conservatism.
A wide range of original primary sources are used from pamphlets to
journalism, devotional tracts to poetry.
Now in its fourth edition, Political Ideologies: An Introduction
continues to be the best introductory textbook for students of
political ideologies. Completely revised and updated throughout,
this edition features: A comprehensive introduction to all of the
most important ideologies Brand new chapters on multiculturalism,
anarchism, and the growing influence of religion on politics More
contemporary examples of twenty-first-century iterations of
liberalism, socialism, conservatism, fascism, green political
theory, nationalism, and feminism Enhanced discussion of the end of
ideology debates and emerging theories of ideological formation Six
new contributors. Accessible and packed with both historical and
contemporary examples, this is the most useful textbooks for
scholars and students of political ideologies. The contributors to
this volume have all taught or carried out research at the School
of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy of Queen's
University, Belfast, or have close research connections with the
School.
In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have
increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular
society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for
contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious
politics - graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency
to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary
contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to
integrate religion into a 'progressive' politics is not new.
Providing a comprehensive analysis of the Common Wealth movement,
this work seeks to bring together for the first time the religious
and political commitments of four of the leading thinkers in the
movement, bringing to light the significance of the relationships
between them. This study examines at four interwar British radicals
- the philosopher John Macmurray, the novelist and sexual theorist
Kenneth Ingram, the Science Fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, and the
Liberal M.P. Richard Acland - and examines their attempts to
develop a socialism that whilst defending the achievements of the
secular age was also sensitive to the virtues of religious
traditions. Thus it considers Macmurray's attempt to draw on the
seemingly antagonistic traditions of Marxism and Christianity,
Ingram's long struggle to develop a Christian response to 'deviant'
sexual behaviour, Stapledon's exploration of a non-Christian
religious spirit, and Acland's journey from liberal atheist to
Christian socialist. It then follows the activities of all four in
the radical political movement founded by Acland in the midst of
the Second World War, Common Wealth, particularly focusing on the
positions they took in the serious battles over the function of
religion that convulsed the leadership of this body. This work will
be of great interest to scholars of political theory, religious
studies, social and political thought.
This is a reissue of an influential text that was first published
in 1987, to which the author has added an introduction reflecting
on the work twenty years after publication. The grounding
assumption of the book is that an element of utopianism is a
necessity in any political thinking, and that a self-conscious
utopianism can generate a richer level of theory and practice. The
text then follows the chequered career of utopianism in the Marxist
tradition, arguing that Marxism has been unable to do without a
utopian dimension but for various reasons has often resisted
acknowledging this fact. It examines the origins of the Marxist
critique of utopianism, and the various ways, either covertly or
overtly, in which the utopian was reinserted into the tradition. It
looks at the utopian socialist predecessors of Marxism, the
ambiguous critique of the utopian developed by Marx and Engels, the
complex debate over utopianism in the Second International, the
authoritarian socialism that emerged in the Soviet bloc, and the
consciously utopian thought of Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf
Bahro, and Andre Gorz. Throughout, the book seeks to combine
rigorous scholarship with a commitment to a utopian frame of mind.
Jung's Psychology as a Spiritual Practice and Way of Life considers
the pioneering depth-psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, primarily as a
sage of world-class stature. The authors focus on Jung as an
archetypal wisdom teacher, in three important respects: (1) in the
post-modern West, primarily in interaction with Friedrich Nietzsche
and his Thus Spake Zarathustra and also with theologian Paul
Tillich and Zen master Karlfried Graf Durckheim; (2) in his deep
spiritual kinship with the timeless universality of Lao-tze and his
classic The Tao Te Ching; and (3) in consideration of the future
prospects of Jung's psychology in mind/body medicine, especially
neuroscience, and in dialogue with quantum speculation. This book
contends that Jung's psychology is not primarily a form of
psychotherapy in the conventional sense but essentially a dynamic
"religious philosophical system" constituting a spiritual practice
and way of life. The dialogue format suggests not only Jung's own
dialogue or "confrontation" with the Unconscious but also his
generally unacknowledged spiritual affinity with the central
Western philosophical tradition, a tradition stemming from Socrates
and Plato and their devotion to the task of "living the questions."
The Bible For Dummies (9781119293507) was previously published as
The Bible For Dummies (9780764552960). While this version features
a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the
prior release and should not be considered a new or updated
product. Discover the world s all-time bestseller in an entirely
new light Ninety percent of Americans own a copy of the Bible, and
while it's the most widely read book, it's also the least
understood. Regardless of your religion, understanding the Bible
brings much of Western art, literature, and public discourse into
greater focus from Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" painting to
the Wachowski brothers' The Matrix movies. People have historically
turned to religion to deal with tragedy and change, and with the
right insight, the Bible can be an accessible, helpful guide to
life's big questions. The Bible For Dummies appeals to people of
all faiths, as well as those who don't practice any particular
religion, by providing interfaith coverage of the entire Bible and
the often fascinating background information that makes the Bible
come alive. You'll find answers to such questions as: * Where did
the Bible come from? * Who wrote the Bible? * How is the Bible put
together? Follow the history of the Bible from its beginning
thousands of years ago as tattered scrolls to its status as the
bestseller of all time. The Bible For Dummies covers these topics
and more: * Ten people in the Bible you should know * The Hebrew
Bible * The Apocrypha's hidden treasures * What's new about the New
Testament * Israel's wisdom, literature, and love poetry * The
Bible's enduring influence * The prophets: more than fortunetellers
Whether you're interested in broadening your spiritual horizons,
uncovering the symbolism of Western culture, or gaining a deeper
understanding of the book you grew up reading, The Bible For
Dummies has all the information you need to navigate this ancient
and fascinating book.
Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative
investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides
a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture,
politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of easiest
of writers to read his full contribution has not been widely
acknowledged. Block developed a complex conceptual framework, and
presented this in a prose style which many have found to verge on
the impenetrable.
In this critical and accessible introduction to one of the most
fascinating thinkers of the twentieth century, Vincent Geoghegan
unravels much of the mystery of the man and his ideas.
Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture, politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of easiest of writers to read his full contribution has not been widely acknowledged. Block developed a complex conceptual framework, and presented this in a prose style which many have found to verge on the impenetrable. In this critical and accessible introduction to one of the most fascinating thinkers of the twentieth century, Vincent Geoghegan unravels much of the mystery of the man and his ideas.
These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development
of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth
century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in
Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate to focus
instead on previously neglected areas such as the role of the
Scottish Enlightenment and early Irish socialism and conservatism.
A wide range of original primary sources are used from pamphlets to
journalism, devotional tracts to poetry.
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