Download or read book A Gravity s Rainbow Companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."

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Download or read book Progress in Inorganic Chemistry written by Kenneth D. Karlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cutting edge of scientific reporting . . . PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world ofinorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in InorganicChemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respectedavenue for exchanging innovative research. This series providesinorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum forcritical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area ofthe discipline. With contributions from internationally renownedchemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-rangingexamination of the changing face of the field, providing atantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science. "This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth,but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." -Journal of the American Chemical Society "[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelfof the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of originalpapers on inorganic chemistry." -Chemistry in Britain CONTENTS OF VOLUME 54 * Atomlike Building Units of Adjustable Character: Solid-State andSolution Routes to Manipulating Hexanuclear Transition MetalChalcohalide Clusters (Eric J. Welch and Jeffrey R. Long) * Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Characterization,Physical Properties, and Applications (J. Daniel Bryan and DanielR. Gamelin) * Stereochemical Aspects of Metal Xanthane Complexes: MolecularStructures and Supramolecular Self-Assembly (Edward R. T. Tiekinkand Ionel Haiduc) * Trivalent Uranium: A Versatile Species for Molecular Activation(Ilia Korobkov and Sandro Gambarotta) * Comparison of the Chemical Biology of NO and HNO: An InorganicPerspective (Katrina M. Miranda and David A. Wink) * Alterations of Nucleobase pKa Values upon Metal Coordination:Origins and Consequences (Bernhard Lippert) * Functionalization of Myoglobin (Yoshihito Watanabe and TakashiHayashi)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Essays written by John Hawthorne and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

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Download or read book Absolute Generality written by Agustín Rayo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to quantify over absolutely all there is? Or must all of our quantifiers range over a less-than-all-inclusive domain? It has commonly been thought that the question of absolute generality is intimately connected with the set-theoretic antinomies. But the topic of absolute generality has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. It has become increasingly apparent that its ramifications extend well beyond the foundations of set theory. Connections include semanticindeterminacy, logical consequence, higher-order languages, and metaphysics.Rayo and Uzquiano present for the first time a collection of essays on absolute generality. These newly commissioned articles -- written by an impressive array of international scholars -- draw the reader into the forefront of contemporary research on the subject. The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction by the editors draws ahelpful map of the philosophical terrain.

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Download or read book Moral Appraisability written by Ishtiyaque Haji and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a central question of moral philosophy, addressing whether we are morally responsible for certain kinds of actions, intentional omissions, and the consequences deriving therefrom. Addressing a range of little-discussed topics and forging crucial connections between moral theory and moral responsibility, Moral Appraisability is vital reading for students and scholars of moral philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of law.

Download or read book Progress in Inorganic Chemistry written by Kenneth D. Karlin and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cutting edge of scientific reporting . . . PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected avenue for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science. "This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." -Journal of the American Chemical Society "[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." -Chemistry in Britain CONTENTS OF VOLUME 53 * Main Group Dithiocarbamate Complex (Peter J. Heard) * Transition Metal Dithiocarbamates-1978-2003 (Graeme Hogarth)

Download or read book Special Interest written by Terry M. Moe and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, to the point that it is virtually impossible to get even the worst teachers out of the classroom? And why, after more than a quarter century of costly education reform, have the schools proven so resistant to change and so difficult to improve? In this path-breaking book, Terry M. Moe demonstrates that the answers to these questions have a great deal to do with teachers unions—which are by far the most powerful forces in American education and use their power to promote their own special interests at the expense of what is best for kids. Despite their importance, the teachers unions have barely been studied. Special Interest fills that gap with an extraordinary analysis that is at once brilliant and kaleidoscopic—shedding new light on their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its vast consequences for American education. The bottom line is simple but devastating: as long as the teachers unions remain powerful, the nation's schools will never be organized to provide kids with the most effective education possible. Moe sees light at the end of the tunnel, however, due to two major transformations. One is political, the other technological, and the combination is destined to weaken the unions considerably in the coming years—loosening their special-interest grip and opening up a new era in which America's schools can finally be organized in the best interests of children.

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