Richard B. Bernstein Knihy

Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen.In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered , R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American Revolution, the framing and adoption of state and federal constitutions, and the key concepts and problems--among them independence, federalism, equality, slavery, and the separation of church and state--that both shaped andcircumscribed the founders' achievements as the United States sought its place in the world.

KlappentextDieses Buch handelt von den molekularen Mechanismen elementarer chemischer Reaktionen. Ziel ist es, chemische Reaktivität und physikalische Umwandlungsprozesse auf der Basis eines fundamentalen, mikroskopischen Standpunkts zu verstehen, angefangen von Atom-Atom-Wechselwirkungen bis hin zur molekularen Beschreibung der Katalyse. Besonderer Wert wird dabei auf die Herausarbeitung der Phänomene und ihre begrifflichen Interpretationen gelegt. Folgende Themen werden behandelt: Die Dynamik molekularer Stöße, zwischenmolekulare Potentiale und Potentialhyperflächen, Molekularstrahl- und Ionenstrahl-Streuung, „direkte“ und „komplexe“ Reaktionsabläufe, Zustandsselektion der Reaktanden und Zustandsanalyse von Produkten, die Energieaufteilung nach dem Stoß und deren Analyse mittels der Informationstheorie, Photofragmentation und Multiphoton-Dissoziation, Energieübertragung in elektronische, Schwingungs- und Rotationsfreiheitsgrade, chemische Laser und Laserchemie, van der Waals-Moleküle und Cluster, Wechselwirkungen und Reaktionen von Molekülen an Oberflächen, stereospezifische Dynamik.