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The Island of Bicycle Dancers

A Novel

By: Jiro Adachi

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This is the coming-of-age story of twenty-year old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for a summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurika's friends back home have always joked that she is half-sushi/half kim-chi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her entree into New York life in the guise of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive. On one level this is a tale of mistaken love--Yurika falls hard for an attractive, but dangerous, Puerto Rican bicycle messenger nicknamed "Bone." But on another, deeper level, our heroine finds freedom in this new language, which to her "is like a huge octopus, very clever and sometimes hard to catch.

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Macmillan

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0312312466

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9780312312466

The Island of Bicycle Dancers

A Novel

By: Jiro Adachi

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The Island of Bicycle Dancers

A Novel

By: Jiro Adachi

Love, sex, death....and English as a foreign language. The Island of Bicycle Dancers is the coming-of-age-story of twenty-year-old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for a summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurika's friends back home have always joked that she is half-sushi/half-kim-chi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her introduction to New York life, the world of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive. On one level this is a splendid tale of mistaken love-Yurika falls hard for an attractive, but dangerous, Puerto Rican bicycle messenger nicknamed "Bone." But on another, deeper level, our heroine finds freedom in this new language, which to her "is like a huge octopus, very clever and sometimes hard to catch but with so many wild and beautiful writhing limbs.

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St. Martin's Press

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1429932260

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9781429932264

Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds

By: Jiro Tsuji

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Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds

By: Jiro Tsuji

Around 30 years ago the transition metal chemistry received great impulses. In the focus have been reactions of nickel and cobalt and herein especially their carbonyls. Also industrial processes have been developed. When the technical oxidation of ethylene with palladium chloride had been discovered, and a great number oflaboratory reactions, many groups have turned towards this subject. Apart from two important industrial processes - acetaldehyde and vinylacetate from ethylene - a great number of conversions and catalytic reactions with palladium compounds have been researched. Their mechanisms have been cleared up and have con tributed to a better understanding of the complex chemistry of palladium. Last but not least these reactions have also served for more understanding of organic transition metal compounds and catalyses in general. Numerous conventional reactions appear today in a different light. The effects of co-

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221

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642674755

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9783642674754

Palladium Reagents and Catalysts

New Perspectives for the 21st Century

By: Jiro Tsuji

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Palladium Reagents and Catalysts

New Perspectives for the 21st Century

By: Jiro Tsuji

Jiro Tsuji, one of the pioneers in this field of organic synthesis, provides synthetic organic chemists with a remarkable overview of the many applications of organopalladium chemistry. Tsuji discusses the recent developments in the field as well as the explosive growth over the last five years. Highlighting the most recent discoveries in this rapidly expanding field, the book; Focuses on new aspects of organopalladium chemistry, putting emphasis on synthetic applications Investigates the new perspectives on the synthetic uses of contemporary organopalladium chemistry This volume, together with Innovations in Organic Synthesis, Tsuji's previous title, provides complete coverage of over 40 years of organopalladium chemistry. Palladium Reagents and Catalysts: New Perspectives for the 21st Century is an essential reference source and companion for students, and both industrial and academic research chemists working in organic synthesis, particularly on synthesis of natural products and medicinal compounds. Those studying development of new synthetic methodology and organometallic chemistry will also find this book valuable.

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670

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470021195

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9780470021194

Transition Metal Reagents and Catalysts

Innovations in Organic Synthesis

By: Jiro Tsuji

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Transition Metal Reagents and Catalysts

Innovations in Organic Synthesis

By: Jiro Tsuji

Im Laufe der vergangenen 35 Jahre wurden unzahlige Synthesewege entwickelt, bei denen Ubergangsmetallkomplexe entweder als Reagenzien oder als Katalysatoren fungieren. Dieses Buch bietet besonders denjenigen Synthesechemikern interessante und moderne Einblicke, die bisher noch nicht mit den vielfaltigen Moglichkeiten der Organometallchemie mit Ubergangsmetallen vertraut sind. Zu wichtigen ubergangsmetallkatalysierten Reaktionen werden Anwendungsbeispiele diskutiert. (01/00)

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500

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471560278

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9780471560272

Book's by Jiro Adachi

The Island of Bicycle Dancers

The Island of Bicycle Dancers

The Island of Bicycle Dancers

The Island of Bicycle Dancers

Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds

Organic Synthesis with Palladium Compounds

Palladium Reagents and Catalysts

Palladium Reagents and Catalysts

Transition Metal Reagents and Catalysts

Transition Metal Reagents and Catalysts

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