Books by "Brian J. Reich"
6 books found
The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
The current volume continues the tradition of the Organic Syntheses series, providing carefully checked and edited experimental procedures that describe important synthetic methods, transformations, reagents, and synthetic building blocks or intermediates with demonstrated utility in organic synthesis. These significant and interesting procedures should prove worthwhile to many synthetic chemists working in increasingly diverse areas. A trusted guide for professionals in organic and medicinal chemistry in academia, government, and industries, including pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, and biotechnological products.
A summary of the career of Brian Vincent, a recognised expert in the field of colloid science, as well as an autobiographical summary of his impact on the field.
This book seeks to enhance our understanding of acids and bases by reviewing and analysing their behaviour in non-aqueous solvents. The behaviour is related where possible to that in water, but correlations and contrasts between solvents are also presented.
This accessible text provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of global grasslands. Grasslands are vast in their extent, with native and non-native grasslands now covering approximately 50% of the global terrestrial environment. They are also of vital importance to humans, providing essential ecosystem services and some of the most important areas for the production of food and fibre worldwide. It has been estimated that 60% of calories consumed by humans originate from grasses, and most grain consumed is produced in areas that were formerly grasslands or wetlands. Grasslands are also important because they are used to raise forage for livestock, represent a source of biofuels, sequester vast amounts of carbon, provide urban green-space, and hold vast amounts of biodiversity. Intact grasslands contain an incredibly fascinating set of plants, animals, and microbes that have interested several generations of biologists, generating pivotal studies to important theoretical questions in ecology. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis is on the organisms that dominate this environment although restoration, conservation, and experimental aspects are also considered.
“[A] well-informed account of the woman behind Mussolini’s rise to power... Margherita Sarfatti, an art critic and daughter of an influential Venetian Jewish family... became known as his ‘inspiratrice,’ directing his reading (Proudhon and Machiavelli, among others), bolstering his belief in his greatness, and helping him to mold his vision of a new Roman Empire. Though an ardent socialist, Sarfatti supported Italian involvement in WWI, an action that got her expelled from the Socialist Party. After the war, she and Mussolini worked together to forge the Fascist Party from two unlikely allies, the nationalists and socialists, and watched their creation grow to power, nourished by conditions of mass unemployment, street-fighting, and demagoguery given credibility by electoral success. Sarfatti, the authors contend, had ‘a far more flexible and inventive political imagination’ than Mussolini, and she was a central figure during these formative years — yet her affair with the dictator, and her influence, waned during the early 30’s. In 1938, in the face of Il Duce’s growing anti-Semitism, Sarfatti fled to Argentina with two suitcases full of jewels and modern art, treasures that she later parlayed into a position as one of the most important art collectors of the mid-century. She died in Italy in 1961... hers is a remarkable, sometimes tragic, tale.” — Kirkus “[A] carefully researched, highly detailed, and interesting... history of fascist Italy. Its authors, both with academic affiliations, have avoided the pitfalls of academese to produce an account that will be enjoyable to the general reader.” — Barbara Walden, Library Journal “A person of exceptional erudition and culture, Margherita Sarfatti (1880-1961) was the Italian dictator’s lover, political adviser and intellectual mentor, the authors show in their enlightening study... In their excellent biography of this difficult, dynamic, memorable woman, Cannistraro and Sullivan present aspects of her lover’s career not previously explored in detail: Mussolini’s experiences as a solider in WW I, his editorship of the socialist paper Avanti! and his active interest in creating a favorable international image of Fascist Italy.” — Publishers Weekly “Philip Cannistraro and Brian Sullivan have drawn on an extraordinary range of private papers and archives in order to write her biography. Besides the main plot of Sarfatti’s long involvement with Mussolini, their work contains a number of fascinating sub-plots. Their biography is important for the history of Italian Jews, socialism, feminism, the relationship between art and politics, Fascist propaganda and the image of Mussolini’s regime in the United States... it is hard not to be impressed by her energy, her boundless appetite for new knowledge and new experience, and her resilience in adversity... a fascinating biography of a remarkable woman.” — Adrian Lyttelton, The New York Review of Books “This long, detailed and deeply researched book... becomes less of a biography than an account of the development of Mussolini’s ideas, but with a new and original slant, never before explored... Margherita Sarfatti was a victim of her own making, corrupted by sexual obsession and a drive for power.” — Raleigh Trevelyan, The New York Times