Author: Ian Jack
Publisher: Grove Press, Granta
Keywords: encounters, brief, granta
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1929001053
ISBN-13: 9781929001057

In Granta 75: Brief Encounters, the Irish poet Richard Murphy recalls his meetings with remarkable men, including W.H. Auden, J. R. Ackerley, and Theodore Roethke ("Why are you always praising Robert Lowell? I’m as mad as he is!"); Michael Mewshaw at last runs into his hero, Anthony Burgess; and Norman Lewis anatomizes his short, confusing, and terrifying career as an amateur spy in 1930s Arabia. The issue also features outstanding new fiction by John McGahern, Anne Enright, Jackie Kay, Paul Theroux, and Adam Mars-Jones; Alexander Stille’s encounter with Somali’s premier poet

Author: Ian Jack
Publisher: Granta UK
Keywords: reportage, classics, book, granta
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-09-28
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1862078157
ISBN-13: 9781862078154

Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta has championed the art and craft of reportage—journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist’s eye to form, and eyewitness reporting that reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. Featuring distinguished writers and reporters such as James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carré, Marilynne Robinson, and John Simpson, as well as new talents Elana Lappin, Suketu Mehta, and Wendell Steavenson, the book covers some of the signal events of our time, including the fall of Sai

Author: Ian Jack
Publisher: Granta Books
Keywords: journalism, reportage, book, granta
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 1998-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1862071934
ISBN-13: 9781862071933

This collection of journalism includes: John le Carre with the spy of the century in Switzerland; Ian Jack investigating the deaths on the Rock; John Simpson saving a soldier’s life in Tiananmen Square; Martha Gellhorn in Panama City after the US invasion; Richard Rayner with the looters in Hollywood; and James Fenton hitching a ride on a tank in Saigon.

Author: Y. Jack Ng
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: man, teacher, physicist, schwinger, julian
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1996-03
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 9810225326
ISBN-13: 9789810225322

In the post-quantum-mechanics era, few physicists, if any, have matched Julian Schwinger in contributions to and influence on the development of physics. A deep and provocative thinker, Schwinger left his indelible mark on all areas of theoretical physics; an eloquent lecturer and immensely successful mentor, he was gentle, intensely private, and known for being "modest about everything except his physics". This book is a collection of talks in memory of him by some of his contemporaries and his former students: A Klein, F Dyson, B DeWitt, W Kohn, D Saxon, P C Martin, K Johnson, S Dese

Author: Jack El-Hai
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: collects, minnesota
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 1992-09-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0873512804
ISBN-13: 9780873512800

Author: Jie Jack Li
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: name, reactions, comprehensive, homologation, part
Number of Pages: 719
Published: 2009-04-13
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 047008507X
ISBN-13: 9780470085073

"A valuable addition to the literature by any measure and surely will prove its merit in years to come. The new knowledge that arises with its help will be impressive and of great benefit to humankind." —From the Foreword by E. J. Corey, Nobel Prize Laureate An invaluable guide to name reactions and reagents for homologations Name Reactions for Homologations, Part I of Wiley’s Comprehensive Name Reactions series comprises a comprehensive treatise on name reactions for homologations. With contributions from world-recognized authorities in the field, this reference offer

Author: Jie Jack Li
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: synthetic, applications, mechanisms, detailed, reactions, collection, name
Number of Pages: 652
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3540300309
ISBN-13: 9783540300304

The third edition contains major improvements over the previous edition. In addition to updated references, each reaction is now supplemented with two to three representative examples in synthesis to showcase its synthetic utility. Biographical sketches for the chemists who discovered or developed those name reactions have been included. Furthemore, the subject index is significantly expanded. Different from other books on name reactions in organic chemistry, Name Reactions, A Collection of Detailed Reaction Mechanisms focuses on their mechanisms. It covers over 300 classical as well as cont