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The flying beaver brothers : birds vs. bunnies
Ace and Bub's plans for a quiet vacation are put on hold when they are stranded on an island where their nemesis, Walter, has stirred up trouble between the birds and the rabbits.
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Marshall Hodgson's ideas on cores and modernity in Islam: a critique
Marshall Hodgson has been rightly admired for his vast contributions in the fields of both Islam and world history. Despite the many decades since the publication of his works on these topics, his ideas have largely survived the test of time and continue to be influential. There are two respects, however, in which Hodgson's ideas appear to have been fundamentally flawed—namely, his notion of cultural cores versus peripheries in the Islamic world, and his understanding of modernity. This article explores both of these themes.
Journal Article
The flying beaver brothers and the evil penguin plan
Two beavers thwart an evil plot by penguins who plan to turn Beaver Island into a frosty resort.
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Palladium(0)/Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization of 1,3-Enynes: Reaction Development and Mechanistic Analysis
Chapter 1. Synthesis of allenes by hydroalkylation of 1,3-enynes with ketones enabled by cooperative catalysis. A method for the synthesis of allenes by the addition of ketones to 1,3-enynes by cooperative Pd(0)Senphos/B(C6F5)3/NR3 catalysis is described. A wide range of aryl- and aliphatic ketones undergo addition to various 1,3-enynes in high yields at room temperature. Combined experimental and computational mechanistic investigations by Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, 31P and 11B NMR spectroscopic studies, kinetic studies, and isolation and characterization of the catalyst resting state are described. These mechanistic studies revealed an off-cycle resting state and rate-determining outer-sphere proton transfer mechanism. Chapter 2. (SenPhos)Pd(0)/Lewis acid-catalyzed endo-selective hydroalkoxylation of 1,3-enynes. A cooperative Pd(0)/Lewis acid catalytic system for the intramolecular endo-selective hydroalkoxylation of 1,3-enynes is described. The method allows the selective generation of medium-sized endocyclic enol ethers and bicyclic acetals. The method is applied to the first total synthesis of (±)-corypsoriol D and E. Mechanistic studies indicate a rate-determining reductive elimination immediately following the Pd-π-allyl resting state. The mechanism is corroborated by DFT calculations. Chapter 3. Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of an N-trifluoromethyl 1,4-azaborine ligand. The synthesis of an N-trifluoromethyl 1,4-azaborine and its elaboration into a phosphino-1,4-azaborine ligand is described. The ligand and its complex with Pd(0)/dba are structurally/computationally characterized and compared with their N-methyl analogues. The N-trifluoromethyl ligand proved more effective than its N-methyl and all-carbon analogues in the Au-catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-enynes. An investigation into the Pd-catalyzed etherification of aryl halides revealed a catalyst deactivation pathway unique to the phosphino-1,4-azaborine ligands.
Dissertation
The flying beaver brothers and the fishy business
Beavers Bub and Ace battle the Fish Stix corporation in an attempt to save their island's trees.
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Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History
This book has brought together some of the foremost scholars of South Asian and global history, who were colleagues and associates of Professor John F. Richards, to discuss themes that marked his work as a historian in an academic career of almost forty years. It encapsulates discussions under the rubric of 'frontiers' in multiple contexts. Frontier has often been conceived as a space of transformation marking new forms of economic organization, commodity trade, land settlement and state authority. The essays here underline the range of interests and approaches that marked Professor Richards' illustrious career - frontiers and state building; frontiers and environmental change; cultural frontiers; frontiers, trade and drugs; and frontiers and world history. The volume discusses issues from medieval to early modern South Asian history. It also reflects a concern for large-scale global processes and for the detailed specificities of each historical case as evident in Professor Richards' work.
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The flying beaver brothers and the mud-slinging moles
Ace and Bub stand up to nearsighted Captain Jo Jo and his crew of moles, who are stealing dirt from Beaver Island to make their own island home bigger.
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Slavery & South Asian history
[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent. -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible. Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker.
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The flying beaver brothers and the hot air baboons
Ace and Bub must stop a team of smooth-talking baboons from stealing Beaver Island's water to supply their water park.
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