This book helps readers feel comfortable performing retrosynthetic analyses of target molecule synthesis and they will have a more secure understanding of organic chemistry reactions overall."--
Katie Maddison never wanted to learn how to kick a demon's ass, but now that she knows how, she is going to give it her all. Now, she isn't the newbie on the team, but rather one of the teachers. She is a demon hunter, a demon fighter ... Known as one of The Damned. But to stay in control, she has to work out her truce with Pandora who is constantly testing her patience. This time, Katie's desire to help others helps her find a valuable asset. A young blacksmith whose family might have the secret to weapons that can help change the war. The only problem? The government might want what she has, if they learn about it. Before Katie can do much, the team is informed of a major operation planned for the Western United States. An incursion that even Pandora is stressed about. Join Katie and Pandora as Hell learns what they have unleashed. Scroll back to the top, and click "Read for Free" or "Buy Now" and kick back for a fun supernatural action packed adventure that will have you yelling for the good guys, and laughing at the arguments between Katie and ... her. --- NOTE: This book contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, I don't suggest reading this book.
The weapons are being released, the military is sniffing around, and Katie is bitching up a storm about her lost Ferrari. Stephanie is helping the team move to a new location, and focusing her talents where she feels they will be best used. On the team. In New York, T'Chezz is starting a new effort to acquire information acquisition contacts. Otherwise known as spies and turncoats. One young woman is on a path to ignore life, thinking "My day couldn't possibly get worse." Bad choice of words. Now Katie and Pandora need to help her sort out her life before the last two options she has are research... Or death. And if that wasn't a big enough pain for Katie, the military comes calling for help. Scroll back to the top and click "Read for Free" or "Buy Now," and kick back for a fun supernatural action-packed adventure that will have you yelling for the good guys and laughing at the arguments between Katie and...her. --- NOTE: This book contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nonetheless. If this offends you, I suggest you don't this book.
Bridging the Gap Between Organic Chemistry Fundamentals and Advanced Synthesis Problems Introduction to Strategies of Organic Synthesis bridges the knowledge gap between sophomore-level organic chemistry and senior-level or graduate-level synthesis to help students more easily adjust to a synthetic chemistry mindset. Beginning with a thorough review of reagents, functional groups, and their reactions, this book prepares students to progress into advanced synthetic strategies. Major reactions are presented from a mechanistic perspective and then again from a synthetic chemist’s point of view to help students shift their thought patterns and teach them how to imagine the series of reactions needed to reach a desired target molecule. Success in organic synthesis requires not only familiarity with common reagents and functional group interconversions, but also a deep understanding of functional group behavior and reactivity. This book provides clear explanations of such reactivities and explicitly teaches students how to make logical disconnections of a target molecule. This new Second Edition of Introduction to Strategies for Organic Synthesis: Reviews fundamental organic chemistry concepts including functional group transformations, reagents, stereochemistry, and mechanisms Explores advanced topics including protective groups, synthetic equivalents, and transition-metal mediated coupling reactions Helps students envision forward reactions and backwards disconnections as a matter of routine Gives students confidence in performing retrosynthetic analyses of target molecules Includes fully-worked examples, literature-based problems, and over 450 chapter problems with detailed solutions Provides clear explanations in easy-to-follow, student-friendly language Focuses on the strategies of organic synthesis rather than a catalogue of reactions and modern reagents The prospect of organic synthesis can be daunting at the outset, but this book serves as a useful stepping stone to refresh existing knowledge of organic chemistry while introducing the general strategies of synthesis. Useful as both a textbook and a bench reference, this text provides value to graduate and advanced undergraduate students alike.
A Shapeshifter Urban Fantasy Action AdventureMina has sacrificed her freedom to save her friend, but that might not be enough to save her clan. The machinations of the faeries have been revealed finally, and Mina hoped her decision would spare her friends and clan from further suffering. Golden Oaks empties out as the Golden Claw wolves prepare for a war that seems inevitable. With a pack no longer an option, Mina's determined to prove she can still aid her clan, even if it means facing off against a new, dangerous enemy. Knowing someone's going to attack you isn't the same as knowing when or where. Mina thought she was prepared for what the faeries planned, but their scheme will push her to her breaking point. The young werewolf will face a fight for not only her life, but her very soul. Will Mina be able to defy her destiny?Go up and click Read Now to find out!
An Action Adventure Fantasy Novel A cursed book, a web of spells, and magic she can't control are more trouble than Riette needs. Unfortunately, there's a powerful blonde mage who wants her powers too. Riette has been charged to save her country. It will burn to embers if she's not careful, but is she willing to die for that not to happen? Can she save her growing group, keep her secrets, and keep the madness of her magic in check? It may take a tall, dark, and unruly mage prisoner to help her. The question is... Are her problems ready for her? Go up and click 'Buy Today' or 'Read for Free' and join Riette and her Dark Mage.
The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
Renaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as "another self" and idealized a pair of friends as "one soul in two bodies." Laurie Shannon's Sovereign Amity puts this stress on the likeness of friends into context and offers a historical account of its place in English culture and politics. Shannon demonstrates that the likeness of sex and station urged in friendship enabled a civic parity not present in other social forms. Early modern friendship was nothing less than a utopian political discourse. It preceded the advent of liberal thought, and it made its case in the terms of gender, eroticism, counsel, and kingship. To show the power of friendship in early modernity, Shannon ranges widely among translations of classical essays; the works of Elizabeth I, Montaigne, Donne, and Bacon; and popular literature, to focus finally on the plays of Shakespeare. Her study will interest scholars of literature, history, gender, sexuality, and political thought, and anyone interested in a general account of the English Renaissance.
When the land of Vitan needs a savior, one will be born... Unfortunately, her people don't recognize the savior-they believe she just has an anger problem. However, Riette's problem isn't anger. It's passion. She's supposed to inherit the Elf land of Vitan, but what good is an inheritance if it has been destroyed? When her best friend's girlfriend and right hand's sister goes missing, Riette will start a quest to get her back and fix her land for good. The only other option is to die trying. Go up and click 'Buy Today' or 'Read for Free' and join Riette until the land is cleared... Or Destroyed.
A Vampire Action Adventure Urban Fantasy Novel Drugged, bound and bled. Whose bright idea was this? Aislinn's last encounter with the Druids didn't exactly go the way she had planned. Her opportunity for revenge was lost. And the opportunity to have her sister back from the dead is gone... But a greater peril is looming, and it threatens to consume them all. Black Magic. With the Atum Council dismissing the danger to their species, Aislinn must find the proof to convince them to act. But with the unleashing of dark magic and the corruption of ancient vampire blood, her search takes on a terrifying urgency. Will Aislinn's discoveries reveal the supernatural agents plotting to destroy them all? Will these revelations gain her the full measure of revenge and finally sate her blood rage? And if so, what will it cost her? Get up, go up and click READ NOW to find out.
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details of everyday life in the first fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, and sets this story into the rich social and historical context of West Coast America at the turn of the last century. In particular, Wilkie examines men’s coming-of-age experiences in a period when gender roles and relations were undergoing dramatic changes. Her innovative study illuminates shifting notions of masculinity and at the same time reveals new insights about the inner workings of fraternal orders and their role in American society.
This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the early twentieth century, she argues convincingly that the victims suffered from the same disease. A unique blend of historical epidemiology and sociology. —Katrina L. Kelner, Science. Meticulously researched...the author marshalls her arguments with clarity and persuasive force. —New Yorker
An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing approaches to Chaucer have rightly been considered as a catalyst for the elevation of English as a literary language and the birth of an English literary history. There is a tendency, however, when moving from Chaucer's self-professed poetic followers of this time to the philological approach associated with William Caxton and the 1532 Works, to pass over the literary careers of the English and Scots poets belonging to the intervening half-century: John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas. This volume redresses that neglect. Its close and comparative readings of these poets' stimulating but critically neglected dream visions and related first-person narratives reveal a spectrum of ideas of authorship: four distinct engagements with tradition and opportunity, united by their utilisation of a particular form. It regards authorship as a topic of invention, a discourse for appropriation, which is available to but not inevitable in late medieval and early modern writing. Overall, it facilitates newly focussed study of an often obscured literary-historical period, one with a heightened interest in the authors of the past - Chaucer, Lydgate, Petrarch, Virgil - but also an increasingly acute perception of the conditions of authorship in the present.
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