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A Guide to Organophosphorus Chemistry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

A Guide to Organophosphorus Chemistry

Die organische Chemie des Phosphors - ein großes, äußerst lebendiges Forschungsfeld - umfaßt sowohl Verbindungen mit Kohlenstoff-Phosphor-Bindungen als auch organische Ester anorganischer Phosphorsäuren. Dieser Band behandelt die meisten phosphorhaltigen funktionellen Gruppen und daneben aktuelle Fragen wie z.B. ungewöhnliche Koordinationszustände, Heterocyclen, Anwendungen der 31P-NMR und andere spektroskopische Verfahren. Soweit bekannt, werden auch elektronische Reaktionsmechanismen und reaktive Intermediate diskutiert. Mit zahlreichen Literaturhinweisen! (03/00)

A Fire in Their Hearts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

A Fire in Their Hearts

In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience. The movement, founded in the 1880s, was dominated by Russian-speaking intellectuals, including Abraham Cahan, Mikhail Zametkin, and Chaim Zhitlovsky. Socialist leaders quickly found Yiddish essential to convey their message to the Jewish immigrant community, and they developed a remarkable public culture through lectures and social events, workers' education societies, Yiddish schools, and a press that found its strongest voice in the mass-circulation newspaper Forverts. Arguing agains...

Politics of Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Politics of Nature

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in...

Motives for Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Motives for Fiction

"For many serious readers," Robert Alter writes in his preface, "the novel still matters, and I have tried here to suggest some reasons why that should be so." In his wide-ranging discussion, Alter examines the imitation of reality in fiction to find out why mimesis has become problematic yet continues to engage us deeply as readers. Alter explores very different sorts of novels, from the self-conscious artifices of Sterne and Nabokov to what seem to be more realistic texts, such as those of Dickens, Flaubert, John Fowles, and the early Norman Mailer. Attention is also given to such individual critics as Edmund Wilson and Alfred Kazin and to current critical schools. In Alter's essays, a par...

P-stereogenic Ligands in Enantioselective Catalysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

P-stereogenic Ligands in Enantioselective Catalysis

P-stereogenic ligands were among the first to be used in asymmetric catalysis but synthetic difficulties and prejudices have hampered their development. However, continuous screening for new chiral ligands means that they can no longer be ignored and this rigorous reference source reflects their renaissance.The book is filled with many examples from recent primary literature. The synthetic chemist will easily be able to follow the preparation methods which are accompanied by a description of the challenges and limitations. Those working in homogenous catalysis, and wanting to increase their repertoire of ligands, will be able to establish which have already been used in each reaction and the...

Reverse Tradition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Reverse Tradition

Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures in examining a variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old. In this engaging book, Kiely not only juxtaposes familiar authors in unfamiliar ways; he proposes a countertradition of intertextuality and a way to release the genie of postmodernism from the bottleneck of the late twentieth century. Placing the reader's response at the crux, he offers arresting new readings by pairing, among others, Jorge Luis Borges with Mark Twain, and Maxine Hong Kingston with George Eliot. In the process, he tests and challenges common assumptions about transparency in nineteenth-century realism and a historical opacity in early and late postmodernism.

The Medicean Succession
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Medicean Succession

Cosimo dei Medici stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders, doubled his territory, attracted scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and dissipated fractious Florentine politics. These triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion, as Gregory Murry shows in this study of how Cosimo crafted his image as a sacral monarch.

The Arundel Lyrics. The Poems of Hugh Primas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The Arundel Lyrics. The Poems of Hugh Primas

This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. The collection is further augmented by verse as varied as Christmas poems and satires on the venality of the Roman Curia and immoral bishops.

Miniature Metropolis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Miniature Metropolis

Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.

Old Hatreds and Young Hopes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Old Hatreds and Young Hopes

In showing why the Carbonari conspiracy developed and how it was handled, the author has illuminated the workings of the political system of the Restoration--the structure and organization of its administration and political police and the operation of political justice in its courts.