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Discusses peptide synthesis and application within the context of their importance to the pharmaceutical industry. This book explores the growth of information in peptide synthetic methods and the structure-activity relationships of synthetic polypeptides. It provides coverage of topics such as amide formation, deprotection, and others.

Volume 36 examines timely subjects such as multilinear regression, canonical correlation, and facor and principal component methods of analysis in the evaluation of retention data matrices, molecular recognition mechanisms in the liquid chromatographic separation of fullerenes, the latest techniques in the use of capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry for sequencing antisense oligonucleotides, and more.

New Rules tells the tale of the evolution of health care regulation over the last quarter century and examines the relationship between regulation and quality improvement. The authors outline ways to convert regulation from a meaningless waste of resources into a system that can truly help practitioners provide better care. And they offer bold recommAndations for change, with fourteen of their own prescriptions" for specific arenas of regulation.

Fragen und Antworten, die in den Jahren 1994 und 1995 von interessierten Lesern an die Karriereberatung der VDI nachrichten gestellt wurden und nicht nur auf die Ingenieurkarriere bezogen sind. Die aus der Beantwortung der Fragen hergeleiteten Regeln für das Verhalten von karrierewilligen Fach- und Führungskräften sind unerläßliche Hinweise für Berufseinsteiger, Karriere- oder Wechselwillige.

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Die Strafrechtsreform in der Weimarer Zeit / Schubert, Werner -- Entwürfe zu einem Deutschen Strafgesetzbuch Veröffentlicht auf Anordnung des Reichs-Justizministeriums (Berlin 1920) -- Österreichischer Gegenentwurf zu dem Allgemeinen Teil des Ersten Buches des Deutschen Strafgesetzentwurfes vom Jahre 1919 (Wien 1922) -- Amtlicher Entwurf eines Allgemeinen Deutschen Strafgesetzbuchs nebst Begründung - Veröffentlicht auf...

The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.

Written in tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It with philosophical clarity and literary power, this book opens with a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains of Montana, an island of high, craggy peaks, forest, meadows, and rushing streams, surrounded by the sweep of the high plains. A newly-bulldozed road and a planned timber sale jeopardize the wild character of the range and trigger the wide-ranging reflections of this remarkable book.

This is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder.

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Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason, t ruth and self, this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate survives despite the Enli...

This first in-depth treatment of Philip Schaff's analysis of religion in America examines the development of religion in the United States in the nineteenth century through the eyes of that period's foremost church historian.

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The proliferation of life-prolonging technology in recent years has made the controversy over the "right to die" and physician-assisted suicide one of the most explosive medical and ethical issues of our day. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine" has commanded front-page coverage for several years, while in 1994 Oregon passed a measure allowing the terminally ill to obtain lethal prescriptions for suicide, and other states have placed similar...

The law is one of the primary means through which sexuality is constructed, monitored and controlled. In this much needed book, Carl Stychin provides a critical examination of the relationship between law and sexual orientation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The author exposes the connection between the law and sexual control through an exploration of key questions of current interest and controversy. He examines the moti...

In recent years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as an approach to understanding sickness. Descriptions of the everyday situations of people with particular diseases, provide a commentary upon the nature of symptoms and upon the relation of the body to society. This approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by individuals and those who care for them. It emphasises t...

The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation. Penelope Corfield devotes a chapter each to lawyers, clerics and doctors and makes reference to many other professionals - teachers, apothec...

Understanding Economics" presents an interesting introduction to key economic ideas. The book clearly shows the relevance of economics to everyday situations. Examples are drawn from the internal workings of households, business firms and non-profit organizations. The book is user-friendly in both style and content and requires no prior knowledge of economics and minimal mathematics. With an emphasis on key microeconomic principles it is disti...

All buildings sealants once installed are exposed to environmental degradation factors which affect their performance over time and ultimately cause them to fail. Replacing failed sealant joints is time consuming and can be expensive, representing a substantial proportion of the overall building maintenance costs. Specifiers therefore increasingly need to know the predicted service life of a sealant in order to estimate the overall cost associ...

This is a clear guide to heritage legislation in the UK. It is set out in plain, non-legal language and will guide the planner, developer, architect or conservationist through the legislation, explaining the policy and procedures which govern the protection of historic buildings as well as providing clear explanations of the issues involved, including listing, planning appeals and grants.

This long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic.