Technology, Engineering & Agriculture Books
Harvard University Press The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions
Book SynopsisScientific progress doesn’t always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn’t always the goal; finding questions often is. Sometimes we seek to strengthen conventional wisdom; sometimes to surprise it. What if we could rethink nurturing research, through policy and management, to harmonize with the nature of research?Trade ReviewEssential reading. By integrating the previous work of leading science and technology scholars, creating new terminology, concepts, and logical structures, and including concrete examples, these two eminent leaders make a compelling case for rethinking how we understand and nurture research to advance the public good. -- Laura Diaz Anadon, Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, University of CambridgeEnlightening and important. Narayanamurti and Tsao demolish long-accepted tenets of science and technology research by exposing flaws, misconceptions, and anachronisms, then propose a visionary new framework. Invaluable for anyone leading a research enterprise, recruiting talent, or devising new funding mechanisms. -- Nancy Andrews, former Dean of the Duke University School of MedicineA thought-provoking journey. By transcending widespread but limiting beliefs, The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions explores how to better understand research and unleash its potential. Highly recommended for all policy makers and leaders interested in improving the effectiveness of research and developing high-performing research institutions. -- Qi-Kun Xue, Director of the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information SciencesHighly accomplished researchers Narayanamurti and Tsao synthesize new and old ideas about how science and technology work together, sharing audacious insights that can improve research outcomes. This book will be a rewarding read for all who want to understand innovation and accelerate it. -- John P. Holdren, former Science Advisor to President Obama and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology PolicyA deep examination of how discoveries and innovations have happened in history, and [it] comes up with a set of methods on nurturing research in public-funded institutions and corporate labs. It is a book that is at once dense and insightful, to be read as much by the shop floor scientist as the CEO, by policymakers as much as university professors. -- Hari Pulakkat * Shaastra *A useful contribution to the study of scientific method and should be of considerable interest to anyone interested in the history and/or the philosophy of science (and technology). * The Complete Review *The book is a rigorous intellectual effort to make the reader aware of some of the most prominent and interesting frameworks of thinking about the development of science and technology that occurred during the 1990s and 2000s. The book should be seen as a manual to help people think about, design, and develop research activities through new conceptual frameworks, frameworks that give primacy neither to science nor to technology. -- Ozan Altan Altinok * Metascience *
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Princeton University Press Success through Failure
Book SynopsisTrade Review"From [Petroski's] vantage point, failures in design and construction present perfect teaching opportunities. They are object lessons in the history and practice and beauty of engineering."---Cornelia Dean, New York Times"The moral Petroski draws—success breeds hubris and catastrophe, failure nurtures humility and insight—is worth pondering." * Publishers Weekly *"Success through Failure is insightful and accessible."---J. M. Ottino, Nature"Petroski's main message deserves notice. He points out that failure is an inherent part of success when it comes to design and innovation, and failure can come in many forms."---Martin Ince, Times Higher Education Supplement"An excellent read." * Architectural Science Review *"This is a book about human nature in design settings and its role in the development of products and our built environment. . . . Ingenuity is explored as a pendulum that swings between success and failure, driven by design philosophy and practices in a given place and time." * Library Journal *"From ancient Roman engineers dismayed at the failure of stone-arch bridges to twenty-first-century American architects stunned by the collapse of the Twin Towers, designers have frequently learned valuable principles through hard tutelage. Lucid and concise, this study invites nonspecialists to share in the challenge of trial-and-error engineering."---Bryce Christensen, Booklist"Petroski tells iconic tales to demonstrate that mistakes are not obnoxious by-products of innovation but fundamental clues to the ideal." * Fast Company *"[An] engaging and readable book. . . . Petroski uses countless interesting case histories to show how failure motivates technological advancement. . . . I recommend you keep a copy of Petroski's book on hand and flip through it next time you're feeling seduced by success."---Steven Cass, IEEE Spectrum
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The Crowood Press Ltd Practical Watch Adjusting
Book SynopsisThis volume carries the reader into what is, undoubtedly, the most exacting and skillful aspect of all work on watches.
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Cornell University Press The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony
Book SynopsisThis study... makes a significant contribution to the literature of international political economy. The book also is a useful point of departure for further exploration by historians of finance, economics, and business. The data on capital flows alone constitute a valuable resource for all analysts.... The book is closely argued within the author''s established methodological framework. It engages the reader in lively argument. Michael R. Adamson ? Business History ReviewBetween 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-rich states, and efficient markets then placed that new money in cash-poor Third World economies.David Spiro has followed the money trail, and the story he tells contradicts the accepted beliefs. Most of the sudden Trade ReviewThe book provides a good panorama of the global situation after OPEC increased the price of oil in the early 1970s. No previous knowledge of the issue is required, as it is very well explained and the book is well organized. In addition it looks not only at the protagonist countries, the USA and Saudi Arabia, but also includes all the surrounding political actors, and the role they played regarding their own interests. -- Gabriela Cano * Journal of Energy Literature *This study... makes a significant contribution to the literature of international political economy. The book also is a useful point of departure for further exploration by historians of finance, economics, and business. The data on capital flows alone constitute a valuable resource for all analysts.... The book is closely argued within the author's established methodological framework. It engages the reader in lively argument. -- Michael R. Adamson * Business History Review *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Testing Aircraft Exploring Space An Illustrated
Book SynopsisBilstein goes on to describe NASA's recent planetary and extraplanetary exploration, as well as its less well-known research into the future of aeronautical design.Trade ReviewNo better introductory history of NACA and NASA exists. Choice 2003Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Foundations for Flight, 1915-1930 2. Aeronautics in Peace and War, 1930-1945 3. Jets, Sonic Speed, and Satellites, 1945-1958 4. On the Fringes of Space, 1958-1964 5. Dress Rehearsals, 1964-1969 6. Aerospace Dividends, 1969-1973 7. International Ventures, 1973-1980 8. Aircraft and Aerospace Craft, 1980-1989 9. The Post-Challenger Years, 1989-1990's 10. Toward Century 21 11. Retrospect and Prospect Notes on Reading Chronology Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Electronics The Life Story of a Technology
Book SynopsisElectronics relates the fascinating stories of how scientists and engineers created and commercialized such devices as the transistor, the Magnetron tube used to power microwave ovens, the CRT (cathode ray tube), the laser, the first integrated circuit, the microprocessor, and memory chips.Trade ReviewThis book will be very useful if you are involved in delivering courses, such as general studies, which attempt to make connections between science and society. If you ignore the plethora of names and acronyms, this book is a sobering account of the economics of the past development of the semiconductor devices which give us so much ease and delight today... Put this book in your school library. Read it if you teach, or aspire to teach, electronics or physics. It will give you a fresh perspective on how silk purses (such as iPods) can indeed be made from sows' ears (such as ICBM guidance systems). School Science Review This book will allow the reader to become familiar with some of the basics of the technology that surrounds us all and will lead to questions about what can and should happen next. Science Books and FilmsTable of ContentsPrefaceTimeline1. The Origins of Electronics, 1900-19502. From lubes to Semiconductors3. Microchips and Lasers4. The Peak Years5. The Triumph of Microelectronics6. ConclusionsGlossaryFurther ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Forest Ecosystems 2e
Book SynopsisA textbook in the field of forest ecology. It provides a survey of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests with an emphasis on ecological concepts across scales that range from global to landscape to microscopic. It is intended for advanced students of forest science, ecology, environmental studies, forest ecologists, foresters, and land managers.Trade ReviewIn this revised edition, Perry has added leading scientists Oren and Hart to the authorship of this large volume, the most comprehensive book on forest ecosystem ecology so far... The work is easily readable and very exciting... This well-written volume is a must read for graduate students, ecologists, and managers in forestry, ecosystem ecology, and forest management. Choice 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction1.1. Why Study Ecosystems?1.2. State of the World's Forests1.3. The Study of Nature: Balance and Flux1.4. A Brief Overview of the Book1.5. Summary2. Basic Terminology and Concepts2.1. Some Basic Concepts2.2. The Subdisciplines of Ecology2.3. The Nature of Systems2.4. Summary3. Forests as Part of the Global Ecosystem3.1. A Brief Look at the Global Ecosystem3.2. Ecosystem Services Provided by Forests3.3. Forests and Human Health3.4. Summary4. Major Forest Types and Their Climatic Controls4.1. The Influence of Climate on Forest Type4.2. Latitudinal Gradients in Forest Characteristics4.3. How Will Global Climate Change Affect the Distribution of Forests?4.4. Summary5. Local Variation in Community Type: The Landscape Mosaic5.1. A Case History5.2. Topoedaphic Influences on Vegetation Patterns5.3. The Emergent Landscape: Integration of Topography, Soils, and Disturbance5.4. Vegetation Classification5.5. Summary6. Change in Time: An Overview6.1. Earth Music6.2. Summary7. Disturbance in Forest Ecosystems7.1. The Complex Nature of Disturbance7.2. Fire7.3. Wind7.4. Tectonic Activity7.5. Flooding7.6. Invasive Species7.7. Summary8. Patterns and Mechanisms of Succession8.1. Historical Notes8.2. Compositional and Structural Change during Succession8.3. Mechanisms of Succession8.4. Ecosystem Changes during Succession8.5. The Emergent Landscape Revisited8.6. Summary9. The Structure of Local Ecosystems9.1. Forest Structure9.2. Habitat and Niche9.3. Food Webs: Pathways of Energy Flow within Ecosystems9.4. Niche Overlap and Diversification9.5. The Tradeoff between Dominance and Diversity9.6. Scales of Diversity9.7. Summary10. How Biodiversity Is Created and Maintained10.1. Forces That Generate and Maintain Diversity within Communities10.2. The Variation of Species Richness amongEnvironments10.3. Relationships between Forest Structure and the Diversity of Animals and Microbes10.4. Forces Producing Diversity in Trees and Other Forest Plants10.5. Summary11. The Biological Web: Interactions among Species11.1. The Structure of Relationships within Communities11.2. Interactions between Two Species: Basic Concepts11.3. Mutualisms11.4. Competition11.5. Higher-Order Interactions11.6. Summary12. Size-Density Relationships in Forests over Time and across Space12.1. Self-Thinning: An Orderly Process12.2. Size-Density Relationships in Forests: The Spatial Dimension12.3. Summary13. Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects of Species Interactions13.1. The Role of Biotic Interactions in Evolution13.2. Community and Ecosystem Genetics13.3. The Selection of Cooperation within Groups13.4. Summary14. Soil: The Fundamental Resource14.1. What Is Soil?14.2. The Soil Profile14.3. Physical Properties of Soils14.4. Chemical Properties of Soils14.5. Biological Properties of Soils14.6. Soil Development14.7. Soil Classification14.8. Summary15. Primary Productivity15.1. Light Capture and Gas Exchange in Canopies15.2. Respiration by Trees and Ecosystems15.3. Net Primary Productivity15.4. Carbon Allocation in Different Environments15.5. The Limiting Factors of the Environment15.6. Trees Are Not Prisoners of the Environment15.7. Productivity in the Twenty-first Century15.8. Summary16. Forest Nutrition16.1. The Essential Nutrients and Their Physiological Roles16.2. Nutrient Requirements and Limitations16.3. Diagnosing Nutrient Deficiencies16.4. The Concept of Relative Addition Rate16.5. Summary17. Biogeochemical Cycling: Nutrient Inputs to and Losses from Local Ecosystems17.1. An Overview of Nutrient Inputs to Local Ecosystems17.2. Atmospheric Inputs17.3. Inputs from Weathering of Primary Minerals17.4. Biological Nitrogen Fixation17.5. Nutrient Losses from Undisturbed Forests17.6. Nutrient Losses from Disturbed Forests17.7. Summary18. Biogeochemical Cycling: The Intrasystem Cycle18.1. Overview of the Intrasystem Nutrient Cycle18.2. The Contribution of Nutrient Cycling to Primary Productivity18.3. Detritus18.4. The Intratree Nutrient Cycle18.5. Throughfall and Stem Flow18.6. Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling: Some Basic Concepts18.7. Broad Patterns of Decomposition: The k Value18.8. Factors Controlling the Rate of Decomposition18.9. Effects of Food-Chain Interactions on Decomposition, Immobilization, and Mineralization18.10. Biodiversity Affects Decomposition18.11. A Closer Look at Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur Cycles18.12. Plant Uptake18.13. Nutrient Cycling through Succession18.14. Global Change and Nutrient Cycling18.15. Summary19. Herbivores in Forest Ecosystems19.1. Effects of Herbivory on Primary Productivity19.2. Factors Controlling Herbivores19.3. Coevolutionary Balance in Forests19.4. Summary20. Ecosystem Stability I: Introduction and Case Studies20.1. Stability of What?20.2. Resistance, Resilience, Robustness20.3. Pollution20.4. Degrading Forests through Mismanagement20.5. Loss of Bioregulation: Breaking the Links between Plants and Soils20.6. Loss of Bioregulation: Breaking the Top-Down Links20.7. Balls, Dancers, and Dances20.8. Summary21. Ecosystem Stability II: The Role of Biodiversity21.1. May's Paradox21.2. Intensive Forest Management Simplifies Natural Ecosystems21.3. Does Biodiversity Stabilize Ecosystems? Yes, But . . .21.4. Understanding Stabilization Requires Understanding Structure-Function Interactions21.5. Summary22. Ecosystem Stability III: Conserving Species22.1. Conserving Species Means Protecting Habitat22.2. What Kind of Habitat? A Matter of Balance22.3. Fine Filters, Coarse Filters, and Pluralism22.4. Viable Populations22.5. Landscape Patterns: Fragmentation, Variegation, and Permeation22.6. Summary23. The Future23.1. The Implications of Global Warming23.2. Maintaining Biological Diversity in Managed Forests23.3. Coda: The New and the Renewed23.4. SummaryBibliographyIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Service as Mandate How American LandGrant
Book SynopsisEstablished by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world. From their founding, land-grant schools have provided educational opportunities to millions, producing many of the nation's scientific, technical, and agricultural leaders and spawning countless technological and agricultural innovations. Nevertheless, their history has not always been smooth or without controversy or setbacks. These vital centers of learning and research have in fact been redefined and reconceptualized many times and today bear only a cursory resemblance to their original incarnations. The thirteen essays in this collection explor
£44.20
The University of Alabama Press European Metals in Native Hands Rethinking Technological Change 16401683
Book SynopsisKathleen Ehrhardt's research addresses the early technological responses of the Late Protohistoric Illinois Indians, to European-introduced metal objects. In revealing actual Native practice, from material selection and procurement to ultimate discard, the author challenges technocentric explanations for Native material and cultural change.Trade ReviewThis is an impressive work, a benchmark study that has important implications for the way archaeologists look at the interaction between Natives and Europeans. - Marvin T. Smith, coauthor of Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
£23.36
Ohio University Press Apartheids Leviathan
Book SynopsisBeginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa’s economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation’s mining, manufacturing, and power generation.Trade ReviewFaeeza Ballim's timely work successfully explains the durability of [electricity utility] Eskom, offers some sense of why the backlash against Eskom (including assassination attempts) is mounting, and offers historians valuable tools for analyzing the relationship between electric power infrastructures and the state. * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *A fascinating and timely study of South Africa’s state corporations—in particular its national electricity provider Eskom—and their relationship to the (post)apartheid state. Drawing on meticulous historical research, Ballim powerfully revises existing accounts of state power in South Africa and speaks to urgent questions of energy politics and democratization in the present. -- Antina von Schnitzler, author of Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after ApartheidThe inevitable intertwining of power supply, politics and the market has been well explored. Yet in policy debates, one continues to hear calls for the separation of the three parts of the assemblage. Ballim takes up the issue in South Africa and captivatingly shows how calls for disentanglement obscure better insights. -- Richard Rottenburg, University of the WitwatersrandThe trouble of a timely book is that one is tempted to demand proposals and solutions to the current crisis. Apartheid’s Leviathan is not that book and that is perhaps one of its greatest strengths. Faeeza Ballim’s careful exposition of archival documents and valuable insights from first-hand interviews add a human character offering a useful contribution demanding us to reflect on Eskom in its broader historical context. -- Brian Kamanzi * Africa Is a Country *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg Chapter 2 The Taming of the Waterberg Chapter 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide Chapter 4 Contested Neoliberalism Chapter 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale Chapter 6 The Medupi Power Station Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Duke University Press The School of the Americas
Book SynopsisTransnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution.Trade Review“Lesley Gill has produced an in-depth exposé of the militaristic mentality, socioethnic tensions, and outrageous atrocities of the empire’s Praetorian Guard. Insightful and richly researched, a work of superior quality.”—Michael Parenti, author of The Terrorism Trap and The Assassination of Julius Caesar“Lesley Gill’s study of the premier military training operation in the Americas is a treasure trove of histories that will provoke a long overdue debate about the values and limits of U.S. engagement in the region.”—Robin Kirk, author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Colombia“Lesley Gill’s The School of the Americas is an ambitious book that provides the reader with a thorough analysis of the School of the Americas (SOA), and the effects of the SOA’s training on the trainees and on two Andean Communities.” -- Silvia Borzutzky * Latin American Research Review *“The notion of impunity which Lesley Gill develops with many insights has far-reaching ramifications and consequences. . . . Gill’s clarity appeals to our reason, love of truth, and common human decency. . .” -- Bill Griffin * Catholic Worker *“This book is a hugely impressive, detailed, and fascinating cultural history of jazz in Britain and should be recommended not only to cultural historians but also to historians of the Cold War, the British Left, and those interested in race relations and national identity in twentieth-century Britain.” -- James J. Nott * American Historical Review *"[B]reathtaking. . . . This book should make one proud to be in the same profession as its author and appalled at the implications of having a U.S. citizenship." -- Gavin Smith * Journal of Latin American Anthropology *"[I]n the wake of recent revelations that suspected terrorists captured by CIA and U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq have been deliberately hidden from the Red Cross, severely tortured and in some cases abused to death, this book remains immediately relevant. The questions at the heart of the controversy over the school -- is the U.S. military teaching the art of atrocity to Latin American soldiers, and do Americans bear responsibility for the horrors that many of the supposedly 'professionalized' graduates of the school have committed? -- take on new meaning as the United States engages in actions that bear a damning resemblance to the dirty wars fought in years past in Central and South America." -- Peter Kornbluh * Washington Post Book World *"Gill was able to examine the school's folkways and rhetoric, thanks to glasnost-like levels of administrative cooperation. Lessons in thinking in terms of how to 'kill and maim' opposition and to 'dehumanize' those who persist. Gill then traces the paths of various graduates of the school and links their activities directly to the torture and death of 'Latin American peasants, workers, students [and] human rights activists'--i.e., 'opposition.' " * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue: The Teflon Assassin xiii Introduction: The Military, Political Violence, and Impunity 1 1. Georgia Not on Their Minds 23 2. De-Mining Humanitarianism 43 3. Foot Soldiers of the U.S. Empire 59 4. Pathways to Power 90 5. Strategic Alliances 110 6. Human Wrongs and Rights 137 7. Disordering the Andes 163 8. Targeting the " School of Assassins" 198 Conclusion: The School of the Americas 233 Notes 245 References Cited 259 Index 271
£20.69
Duke University Press Territories of Difference
Book SynopsisIn Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such asTrade Review“[A] wonderful, demanding, and courageous book. . . . It offers a theoretically informed perspective on social movements in the global South, anchored in questions specific to these actors and in dialogue with them. With his book, Escobar contributes an innovative method to the study of social movements.” - Pierre Hamel, American Journal of Sociology“This book, magisterial in its command of an impressive range of theory and literature, is a provocative and cutting-edge guide to thinking about place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks. . . . [I]n the sheer power, depth, and complexity of the analysis and in the author’s ethical engagement and belief in the possibility of ‘worlds and knowledges otherwise,’ the book is a superb achievement.” - Peter Wade, Hispanic American Historical Review“Territories of Difference will become a classic . . . . [I]t is a mesmerizingly ambitious and provocative inquiry into social, cultural, biological, and economic life in the 21st century. It is also a highly original approach to the study of contemporary forms of domination and resistance that challenges Eurocentric conceptions of capitalist globalization and calls for alternatives to modernity.” - Ulrich Oslender, American Ethnologist“A wonderful, massive tour de force by one of today’s leading anthropologists. Arturo Escobar links his ethnography to a series of larger pressing debates about globalization and development, biology and nature, and social movements and network theory. The result is a book of astonishing virtuosity, range, and insight. It is nothing less than a model for the dense, interdisciplinary, polyglot theoretical analysis needed to understand experience anywhere in the world today.”—Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian and co-editor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics“Books, like wines, take time to mature and develop their full strength. Then they are a delight, and not just for specialists. Arturo Escobar’s eloquent, engaged, and extremely well informed narrative of the Afro-Colombian movements in their struggles to defend their territories and ways of life is, to my mind, the best book on social movements to have appeared in years. It combines, in a unique way, the minutely traced complexity of the struggles and their evolving contexts with much broader issues that appeal to and impact all of us, such as biodiversity, alternatives to development, sustainability of life on earth, and social and cognitive justice. We, academics, students, activists of social movements, cannot but be powerfully interpellated by this landmark book, and can only honor it by reading it attentively, as one savors a good wine.”—Boaventura de Sousa Santos, editor of Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies“Books, like wines, take time to mature and develop their full strength. Then they are a delight, and not just for specialists. Arturo Escobar’s eloquent, engaged, and extremely well informed narrative of the Afro-Colombian movements in their struggles to defend their territories and ways of life is, to my mind, the best book on social movements to have appeared in years. It combines, in a unique way, the minutely traced complexity of the struggles and their evolving contexts with much broader issues that appeal to and impact all of us, such as biodiversity, alternatives to development, sustainability of life on earth, and social and cognitive justice. We, academics, students, activists of social movements, cannot but be powerfully interpellated by this landmark book, and can only honor it by reading it attentively, as one savors a good wine.”—Boaventura de Sousa Santos, editor of Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies“The product of a lifetime of work on the pitfalls of development, Arturo Escobar’s new book is an engaging and engaged effort to bring together knowledge from Western academia and from Afro-Colombian activists. Through his own blend of discursive theory, he makes academia listen, in the words of one of his local interlocutors, to the ‘drumming’ of a place subjected to capital but resistant to it, brightly illuminating at once the geopolitics of knowledge and of modern empires.”—Fernando Coronil, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela“This book invites us all into alternative projects of world-making. Never losing sight of the forces pushing back at us or the colonizing power of Western thinking, Arturo Escobar marshals an extraordinary array of intellectual resources and social networks to galvanize hopeful action. He grounds his honest yet truly inspiring vision in the place-based knowledge and global activism of his longstanding collaborators, the and resilient and resourceful Afro-Colombian activists of the Pacific region.”—J. K. Gibson-Graham, authors of A Postcapitalist Politics and The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy“Arturo Escobar brings his signature commitments—a focus on the materiality of place, nature, and environmental politics, and a recognition of difference and the inescapable histories of coloniality—to an analysis of regional ecological and cultural struggles in Colombia. It is a singularly original contribution, both empirically and theoretically, which forces us to confront the real complexities of capitalism, identities, and political struggle. This book should be required reading for everyone interested in contemporary forms of globalization and economies, as well as the social movements organized against them.”—Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Territories of Difference will become a classic . . . . [I]t is a mesmerizingly ambitious and provocative inquiry into social, cultural, biological, and economic life in the 21st century. It is also a highly original approach to the study of contemporary forms of domination and resistance that challenges Eurocentric conceptions of capitalist globalization and calls for alternatives to modernity.” -- Ulrich Oslender * American Ethnologist *“[A] wonderful, demanding, and courageous book. . . . It offers a theoretically informed perspective on social movements in the global South, anchored in questions specific to these actors and in dialogue with them. With his book, Escobar contributes an innovative method to the study of social movements.” -- Pierre Hamel * American Journal of Sociology *“This book, magisterial in its command of an impressive range of theory and literature, is a provocative and cutting-edge guide to thinking about place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks. . . . [I]n the sheer power, depth, and complexity of the analysis and in the author’s ethical engagement and belief in the possibility of ‘worlds and knowledges otherwise,’ the book is a superb achievement.” -- Peter Wade * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Preface ix Acknolwedgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Place 27 2. Capital 69 3. Nature 111 4. Development 156 5. Identity 200 6. Networks 254 Conclusion 299 Notes 313 References Cited 381 Index 417
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Duke University Press Beautiful Data
Book Synopsis Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentalTrade Review"Overall... this is quite an interesting read, illustrating how a single idea (cybernetics) can permeate all walks of life, at least for a time." -- Alexander von Lünen * British Journal for the History of Science *"...Halpern’s brilliant and blow-by-blow exposition on the transformation of our sense and reason in Beautiful Data certainly enriches our critical and historical understanding of important parts of contemporary society. This book contributes to the fields of communication studies, media studies, and science, technology and society (STS), as well as the history of science." -- Yasuhito Abe * International Journal of Communication *"Bringing together the history of science with studies of media, affect, and aesthetics, Beautiful Data offers a compelling account of the epistemological infrastructures of the digital that have, since 1945, radically changed the ways we see, interpret, and think." -- Jessica Hurley * American Literature *"Beautiful Data is an innovative, informative and highly enjoyable read for those who often find themselves hovering between disciplinary fields, offering a reflective history of early cybernetics, art, design, psychology and political science. Halpern guides her readers gracefully thorugh a history of interactivity between humans and machines, the archive and the interface." -- Amanda Tully * Science & Technology Studies *"Beautiful Data will no doubt comprise a critical touchstone for future reflections on 'big data' and where it is taking us." -- Hallam Stevens * Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences *"Beautiful Data is a significant work of contemporary theory . . . [that] lends difficult, rich new insights to unthought histories of digital perception, and to possible futures we might not only long for but actively build." -- Jackie Orr * Isis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue. Speculating on Sense 1 Introduction. Dreams for Our Perceptual Present 9 1. Archiving. Temporality, Storage, and Interactivity in Cybernetics 39 2. Visualizing. Design, Communicative Objectivity, and the Interface 79 3. Rationalizing. Cognition, Time, and Logic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences 145 4. Governing. Designing Information and Reconfiguring Population circa 1959 199 Conclusion 239 Epilogue 251 Notes 271 Bibliography 307 Index 327
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University of Missouri Press Military Realism
Book SynopsisIn five case studies of US Army doctrine, Peter Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas - nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions - and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict.
£31.30
Haynes Publishing Group Honda CB250 CB400N Super Dreams 78 84
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Oregon State University Children of the Stars Indigenous Science
Book SynopsisWritten in a conversational style, Children of the Stars is an accessible story of success, of students who were supported and educated in culturally relevant ways and so overcame the limitations of an underfunded reservation school to reach (literal) great heights.
£17.95
ASM International ASM Handbook Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference on nonferrous metals and alloys. Provides detailed information on major alloy groups, with particular emphasis on aluminum, titanium, copper, and magnesium. New topics include recycling, superconductors, metal-matrix composites, and intermetallics.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Photonics Volume 2
Book SynopsisDiscusses the basic physical principles underlying the science and technology of nanophotonics, its materials and structures This volume presents nanophotonic structures and Materials. Nanophotonics is photonic science and technology that utilizes light/matter interactions on the nanoscale where researchers are discovering new phenomena and developing techniques that go well beyond what is possible with conventional photonics and electronics.The topics discussed in this volume are: Cavity Photonics; Cold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates; Displays; E-paper; Graphene; Integrated Photonics; Liquid Crystals; Metamaterials; Micro-and Nanostructure Fabrication; Nanomaterials; Nanotubes; Plasmonics; Quantum Dots; Spintronics; Thin Film Optics Comprehensive and accessible coverage ofthe whole of modern photonics Emphasizes processes and applications that specifically exploit photon attributes of light Deals with the rapidly advancing areaTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Preface xi 1 Silicon Photonics 1Wim Bogaerts 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Applications 1 1.3 Optical Functions 3 1.4 Silicon Photonics Technology 10 1.5 Conclusion 15 References 15 2 Cavity Photonics 21J.Mørk P. T. Kristensen P. Kaer M. Heuck Y. Yu and N. Gregersen 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 Cavity Fundamentals 22 2.3 Cavity-Based Switches 26 2.4 Emitters in Cavities 32 2.5 Nanocavity Lasers and LEDs 42 2.6 Summary 46 Acknowledgments 47 References 47 3 Metamaterials: State-of-the Art and Future Directions 53Natalia M. Litchinitser and Vladimir M. Shalaev 3.1 Introduction 53 3.2 Negative-Index Materials 54 3.3 Magnetic Metamaterials 59 3.4 Graded-Index Transition Metamaterials 62 3.5 Transformation Optics 70 3.6 Metasurfaces 75 References 78 4 Quantum Nanoplasmonics 85Mark I. Stockman 4.1 Introduction 85 4.2 Spaser and Nanoplasmonics with Gain 86 4.3 Adiabatic Hot-Electron Nanoscopy 118 Acknowledgments 125 References 125 5 Dielectric Photonic Crystals 133Robert H. Lipson 5.1 Introduction 133 5.2 Fundamentals 134 5.3 Fabrication Methods and Materials 145 5.4 Applications 154 5.5 Conclusions 159 References 159 6 Quantum Dots 169Stanley Tsao and Manijeh Razeghi 6.1 Introduction 169 6.2 Quantum Dots for Infrared Detection 175 6.3 Quantum Dot Growth 179 6.4 Device Fabrication and Measurement Procedures 184 6.5 Gallium Arsenide–Based Quantum Dot Detectors 186 6.6 Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Dot Detectors 198 6.7 Colloidal Quantum Dots 215 6.8 Conclusion 216 References 217 7 Magnetic Control of Spin in Molecular Photonics 221Eitan Ehrenfreund and Z. Valy Vardeny 7.1 Introduction 221 7.2 A Survey of the Magneto-Electroluminescence in OLEDs 222 7.3 Organic MEL at Small Magnetic Fields; Compass Effect 232 7.4 Magnetic Field Effect on Excited State Spectroscopies in Organic Semiconductor Films 236 7.5 Basic Quantum Mechanical Models Based on Spin-Mixing Manipulation by Magnetic Fields 246 7.6 Summary 254 Acknowledgments 255 References 255 8 Thin-Film Molecular Nanophotonics 261Tetsuzo Yoshimura 8.1 Introduction 261 8.2 Molecular Assembling for Nanoscale Tailored Structures 262 8.3 Molecular Layer Deposition 264 8.4 Organic Multiple Quantum Dots (MQDs) 267 8.5 Self-Organized Lightwave Network 283 8.6 Proposed Applications 292 8.7 Summary 305 References 305 9 Light-Harvesting Materials for Organic Electronics 311Damien Joly Juan Luis Delgado Carmen Atienza and Nazario Martın 9.1 Introduction 311 9.2 Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) in Artificial Photosynthetic Systems 313 9.3 Fullerenes for Organic Photovoltaics 323 9.4 Molecular Wires 330 9.5 Conclusions 335 Acknowledgments 335 References 33610 Recent Advances in Metal Oxide-Based Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production 343Bob C. Fitzmorris and Jin Z. Zhang 10.1 Introduction 343 10.2 Materials for PEC Hydrogen Production 346 10.3 Conclusion 362 References 363 11 Optical Control of Cold Atoms and Artificial Electromagnetism 371Gediminas Juzeliunas and Patrik Ohberg 11.1 Introduction 371 11.2 Atomic Bose–Einstein Condensates 372 11.3 Optical Forces on Atoms 376 References 393 Index 401
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Photonics Volume 3
Book SynopsisDiscusses the basic physical principles underlying the technology instrumentation of photonics This volume discusses photonics technology and instrumentation. The topics discussed in this volume are: Communication Networks; Data Buffers; Defense and Security Applications; Detectors; Fiber Opticsand Amplifiers; Green Photonics; Instrumentation and Metrology; Interferometers; Light-Harvesting Materials; Logic Devices; Optical Communications; Remote Sensing; Solar Energy; Solid-State Lighting; Wavelength Conversion Comprehensive and accessible coverage of the whole of modern photonics Emphasizes processes and applications that specifically exploit photon attributes of light Deals with the rapidly advancing area of modern optics Chapters are written by top scientists in their field Written for the graduate level student in physical sciences; Industrial and academic researchers in photonics, graduate students iTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Preface xi 1 Solid-State Lighting: Toward Smart and Ultraefficient Materials, Devices, Lamps, and Systems 1M. H. Crawford, J. J. Wierer, A. J. Fischer, G. T. Wang, D. D. Koleske, G. S. Subramania, M. E. Coltrin, R. F. Karlicek, Jr., and J. Y. Tsao 1.1 A Brief History of SSL, 1 1.2 Beyond the State-of-the-Art: Smart and Ultraefficient SSL, 10 1.3 Ultraefficient SSL Lighting: Toward Multicolor Semiconductor Electroluminescence, 21 1.4 Smart Solid-State Lighting: Toward Control of Flux and Spectra in Time and Space, 42 1.5 Summary and Conclusions, 46 Acknowledgments, 46 References, 47 2 Integrated Optics Using High Contrast Gratings 57Connie Chang-Hasnain and Weijian Yang 2.1 Introduction, 57 2.2 Physics of Near-Wavelength Grating, 58 2.3 Applications of HCGs, 77 2.4 Summary, 98 Acknowledgments, 98 References, 98 3 Plasmonic Crystals: Controlling Light with Periodically Structured Metal Films 107Wayne Dickson, Gregory A. Wurtz and Anatoly V. Zayats 3.1 Introduction, 107 3.2 Surface Plasmon Polaritons, 110 3.3 Basics of Surface Plasmon Polaritonic Crystals, 113 3.4 Polarization and Wavelength Management with Plasmonic Crystals, 120 3.5 Chirped Plasmonic Crystals: Broadband and Broadangle SPP Antennas Based on Plasmonic Crystals, 138 3.6 Active Control of Light with Plasmonic Crystals, 146 3.7 Conclusion, 160 Acknowledgments, 160 References, 160 4 Optical Holography 169Raymond K. Kostuk 4.1 Introduction, 169 4.2 Basic Concepts in Holography, 169 4.3 Hologram Analysis, 172 4.4 Hologram Geometries, 182 4.5 Holographic Recording Materials, 183 4.6 Digital Holography, 188 4.7 Computer Generated Holography, 193 4.8 Holographic Applications, 198 References, 208 5 Cloaking and Transformation Optics 215Martin W. McCall 5.1 Introduction, 215 5.2 Theoretical Underpinning, 217 5.3 The Carpet Cloak, 226 5.4 Conformal Cloaking, 232 5.5 Spacetime Cloaking, 234 5.6 Conclusion and Outlook: Beyond Optics, 243 Appendix 5.A: Technicalities, 244 Appendix 5.B: Vectors and Tensors in Flat Spacetime, 245 Appendix 5.C: Maxwell’s Equations and Constitutive Relations in Covariant Form, 247 References, 251 6 Photonic Data Buffers 253S. J. B. Yoo 6.1 Introduction, 253 6.2 Applications of Photonic Buffers, 254 6.3 Limitations of Electronics, 258 6.4 Photonic Buffer Technologies, 260 6.5 Integration Efforts, 278 6.6 Summary, 278 References, 278 7 Optical Forces, Trapping and Manipulation 287Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Alexander B. Stilgoe, Darryl Preece, Ann Bui, and Timo A. Nieminen 7.1 Introduction, 287 7.2 Theory of Optical Forces, 293 7.3 Theory of Optical Torques, 301 7.4 Measurement of Forces and Torques, 308 7.5 Calculation of Forces and Torques, 318 7.6 Conclusion, 329 References, 329 8 Optofluidics 341Lin Pang, H. Matthew Chen, Lindsay M. Freeman, and Yeshaiahu Fainman 8.1 Introduction, 341 8.2 Photonics with Fluid Manipulation, 342 8.3 Fluidic Sensing, 350 8.4 Fluidic Enabled Imaging, 353 8.5 Fluid Assisted Nanopatterning, 358 8.6 Conclusions and Outlook, 361 Acknowledgments, 362 References, 362 9 Nanoplasmonic Sensing for Nanomaterials Science 369Elin M. Larsson-Langhammer, Svetlana Syrenova, and Christoph Langhammer 9.1 Introduction, 369 9.2 Nanoplasmonic Sensing and Readout, 370 9.3 Inherent Limitations of Nanoplasmonic Sensors, 373 9.4 Direct Nanoplasmonic Sensing, 373 9.5 Indirect Nanoplasmonic Sensing, 374 9.6 Overview on Different Examples, 376 9.7 Discussion and Outlook, 396 References, 397 10 Laser Fabrication and Nanostructuring 403Cemal Esen and Andreas Ostendorf 10.1 Introduction, 403 10.2 Laser Systems for Nanostructuring, 404 10.3 Surface Structuring by Laser Ablation, 409 10.4 Generation of thin Films by Laser Ablation in Vacuum, 416 10.5 Generation of Nanoparticles by Laser Ablation in Liquids, 419 10.6 Laser Induced Volume Structures, 423 10.7 Direct Writing of Polymer Components via Two-Photon Polymerization, 426 10.8 Conclusion, 431 References, 432 11 Free Electron Lasers for Photonics Technology by Wiley 445George R. Neil and Gwyn P. Williams 11.1 Introduction, 445 11.2 Physical Principles, 446 11.3 Worldwide FEL Status, 462 11.4 Applications, 466 11.5 Summary and Conclusion, 471 References, 471 Index 477
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Optimal and Robust State Estimation
Book SynopsisA unified and systematic theoretical framework for solving problems related to finite impulse response (FIR) estimate Optimal and Robust State Estimation: Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and Kalman Approaches is a comprehensive investigation into batch state estimators and recursive forms. The work begins by introducing the reader to the state estimation approach and provides a brief historical overview. Next, the work discusses the specific properties of finite impulse response (FIR) state estimators. Further chapters give the basics of probability and stochastic processes, discuss the available linear and nonlinear state estimators, deal with optimal FIR filtering, and consider a limited memory batch and recursive algorithms. Other topics covered include solving the q-lag FIR smoothing problem, introducing the receding horizon (RH) FIR state estimation approach, and developing the theory of FIR state estimation under disturbances. The book closes by discussing thTable of Contents1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is System State? 2 1.1.1 Why and How do We Estimate State? 2 1.1.2 What Model to Estimate State? 3 1.1.3 What are Basic State Estimates in Discrete Time? 5 1.2 Properties of State Estimators 6 1.2.1 Structures and Types 6 1.2.2 Optimality 10 1.2.3 Unbiased Optimality (Maximum Likelihood) 11 1.2.4 Suboptimality 14 1.2.5 Unbiasedness 17 1.2.6 Deadbeat 17 1.2.7 Denoising (Noise Power Gain) 17 1.2.8 Stability 18 1.2.9 Robustness 18 1.2.10 Computational Complexity 19 1.2.11 Memory Use 20 1.3 More About FIR State Estimators 20 1.4 Historical Overview and Most Noticeable Works 21 1.5 Summary 26 1.6 Problems 27 2 Probability and Stochastic Processes 31 2.1 Random Variables 31 2.1.1 Moments and Cumulants 33 2.1.2 Product Moments 39 2.1.3 Vector Random Variables 41 2.1.4 Conditional Probability. Bayes’ Rule 42 2.1.5 Transformation of Random Variables 45 2.2 Stochastic Processes 47 2.2.1 Correlation Function 48 2.2.2 Power Spectral Density 51 2.2.3 Gaussian Processes 53 2.2.4 White Gaussian Noise 55 2.2.5 Markov Processes 57 2.3 Stochastic Differential Equation 60 2.3.1 Standard Stochastic Differential Equation 61 2.3.2 Itˆo and Stratonovich Stochastic Calculus 61 2.3.3 Diffusion Process Interpretation 62 2.3.4 Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov Equation 63 2.3.5 Langevin Equation 64 2.4 Summary 65 2.5 Problems 66 3 State Estimation 71 3.1 Lineal Stochastic Process in State Space 71 3.1.1 Continuous-Time Model 73 3.1.2 Discrete-Time Model 77 3.2 Methods of Linear State Estimation 81 3.2.1 Bayesian Estimator 82 3.2.2 Maximum Likelihood Estimator 85 3.2.3 Least Squares Estimator 86 3.2.4 Unbiased Estimator 87 3.2.5 Kalman Filtering Algorithm 88 3.2.6 Backward Kalman Filter 94 3.2.7 Alternative Forms of Kalman Filter 96 3.2.8 General Kalman Filter 98 3.2.9 Kalman-Bucy Filter 110 3.3 Linear Recursive Smoothing 113 3.3.1 Rauch-Tung-Striebel Algorithm 113 3.3.2 Bryson-Frazier Algorithm 114 3.3.3 Two-Filter (Forward-Backward) Smoothing 115 3.4 Nonlinear Models and Estimators 116 3.4.1 Extended Kalman Filter 117 3.4.2 Unscented Kalman Filter 119 3.4.3 Particle Filtering 122 3.5 Robust State Estimation 126 3.5.1 Robustified Kalman Filter 127 3.5.2 Robust Kalman Filter 128 3.5.3 H8 Filtering 131 3.5.4 Game Theory H8 Filter 132 3.6 Summary 133 3.7 Problems 134 4 Optimal FIR and Limited Memory Filtering 139 4.1 Extended State-Space Model 140 4.2 The a posteriori Optimal FIR Filter 142 4.2.1 Batch Estimate and Error Covariance 143 4.2.2 Recursive Forms 145 4.2.3 System Identification 149 4.3 The a posteriori Optimal Unbiased FIR Filter 149 4.3.1 Batch OUFIR-I Estimate and Error Covariance 150 4.3.2 Recursive Forms for OUFIR-I Filter 151 4.3.3 Batch OUFIR-II Estimate and Error Covariance 153 4.3.4 Recursion Forms for OUFIR-II Filter 154 4.4 Maximum Likelihood FIR Estimator 158 4.4.1 ML-I FIR Filtering Estimate 158 4.4.2 Equivalence of ML-I FIR and OUFIR Filters 159 4.4.3 ML-II FIR Filtering Estimate 162 4.4.4 Properties of ML FIR State Estimators 163 4.5 The a priori FIR Filters 164 4.5.1 The a priori Optimal FIR Filter 164 4.5.2 The a priori Optimal Unbiased FIR Filter 165 4.6 Limited Memory Filtering 165 4.6.1 Batch Limited Memory Filter 166 4.6.2 Iterative LMF Algorithm using Recursions 168 4.7 Continuous-Time Optimal FIR Filter 169 4.7.1 Optimal Impulse Response 169 4.7.2 Differential Equation Form 171 4.8 Extended a posteriori OFIR Filtering 172 4.9 Properties of FIR State Estimators 174 4.10 Summary 179 4.11 Problems 182 5 Optimal FIR Smoothing 187 5.1 Introduction 187 5.2 Smoothing Problem 188 5.3 Forward Filter/Forward Model q-lag OFIR Smoothing 189 5.3.1 Batch Smoothing Estimate 190 5.3.2 Error Covariance 193 5.4 Backward OFIR Filtering 195 5.4.1 Backward State-Space Model 195 5.4.2 Batch Estimate 196 5.4.3 Recursive Estimate and Error Covariance 198 5.5 Backward Filter/Backward Model g-lag OFIR Smoother 202 5.5.1 Batch Smoothing Estimate 203 5.5.2 Error Covariance 204 5.6 Forward Filter/Backward Model q-Lag OFIR Smoother 205 5.6.1 Batch Smoothing Estimate 205 5.6.2 Error Covariance 208 5.7 Backward Filter/Forward Model q-Lag OFIR Smoother 208 5.7.1 Batch Smoothing Estimate 208 5.7.2 Error Covariance 211 5.8 Two-Filter q-lag OFIR Smoother 213 5.9 q-Lag ML FIR Smoothing 214 5.9.1 Batch q-lag ML FIR Estimate 215 5.9.2 Error Covariance 216 5.10 Summary 216 5.11 Problems 217 6 Unbiased FIR State Estimation 221 6.1 Introduction 221 6.2 The a posteriori UFIR Filter 222 6.2.1 Batch Form 222 6.2.2 Iterative Algorithm Using Recursions 224 6.2.3 Recursive Error Covariance 226 6.2.4 Optimal Averaging Horizon 228 6.3 Backward a posteriori UFIR Filter 234 6.3.1 Batch Form 235 6.3.2 Recursions and Iterative Algorithm 236 6.3.3 Recursive Error Covariance 239 6.4 The q-lag UFIR Smoother 240 6.4.1 Batch and Recursive Forms 240 6.4.2 Error Covariance 242 6.4.3 Equivalence of UFIR Smoothers 244 6.5 State Estimation using Polynomial Models 245 6.5.1 Problems Solved with UFIR Structures 246 6.5.2 The p-shift UFIR Filter 247 6.5.3 Filtering of Polynomial Models 250 6.5.4 Discrete Shmaliy Moments 252 6.5.5 Smoothing Filtering and Smoothing 252 6.5.6 Generalized Savitzky-Golay Filter 254 6.5.7 Predictive Filtering and Prediction 255 6.6 UFIR State Estimation under Colored Noise 256 6.6.1 Colored Measurement Noise 256 6.6.2 Colored Process Noise 259 6.7 Extended UFIR Filtering 262 6.7.1 First-Order Extended UFIR Filter 263 6.7.2 Second-Order Extended UFIR Filter 263 6.8 Robustness of UFIR Filter 266 6.8.1 Errors in Noise Covariances and Weighted Matrices 268 6.8.2 Model Errors 271 6.8.3 Temporary Uncertainties 274 6.9 Implementation of Polynomial UFIR Filters 276 6.9.1 Filter Structures in z-Domain 276 6.9.2 Transfer Function in DFT Domain 282 6.10 Summary 287 6.11 Problems 288 7 FIR Prediction and Receding Horizon Filtering 295 7.1 Introduction 295 7.2 Prediction Strategies 296 7.2.1 Kalman Predictor 296 7.3 Extended Predictive State-Space Model 298 7.4 UFIR Predictor 298 7.4.1 Batch UFIR Predictor 299 7.4.2 Iterative Algorithm using Recursions 299 7.4.3 Recursive Error Covariance 303 7.5 Optimal FIR Predictor 304 7.5.1 Batch Estimate and Error Covariance 305 7.5.2 Recursive Forms and Iterative Algorithm 306 7.6 Receding Horizon FIR Filtering 308 7.6.1 MVF-I Filter for Stationary Processes 309 7.6.2 MVF-II Filter for Nonstationary Processes 311 7.7 Maximum Likelihood FIR Predictor 313 7.7.1 ML-I FIR Predictor 314 7.7.2 ML-II FIR Predictor 315 7.8 Extended OFIR Prediction 315 7.9 Summary 317 7.10 Problems 318 8 Robust FIR State Estimation under Disturbances 323 8.1 Extended Models under Disturbances 324 8.2 The a posteriori H2 FIR Filtering 326 8.2.1 H2-OFIR Filter 328 8.2.2 Optimal Unbiased H2 FIR Filter 330 8.2.3 Suboptimal H2 FIR Filtering Algorithms 336 8.3 H2 FIR Prediction 338 8.3.1 H2-OFIR Predictor 339 8.3.2 Bias-constrained H2-OUFIR Predictor 341 8.3.3 Suboptimal H2 FIR Predictive Algorithms 341 8.3.4 Receding Horizon H2-MVF Filter 343 8.4 H8 FIR State Estimation 344 8.4.1 The a posteriori H8 FIR Filter 346 8.4.2 H8 FIR Predictor 350 8.5 H2{H8 FIR Filter and Predictor 354 8.6 Generalized H2 FIR State Estimation 355 8.6.1 Energy-to-Peak Lemma 355 8.6.2 L2-to-L8 FIR Filter and Predictor 359 8.7 L1 FIR State Estimation 362 8.7.1 Peak-to-Peak Lemma 363 8.7.2 L8-to-L8 FIR Filtering and Prediction 365 8.8 Game Theory FIR State Estimation 367 8.8.1 The a posteriori Energy-to-Power FIR Filter 368 8.8.2 Energy-to-Power FIR Predictor 370 8.9 Recursive Computation of Robust FIR Estimates 371 8.9.1 Uncontrolled Processes 372 8.9.2 Controlled Processes 372 8.10 FIR Smoothing under Disturbances 374 8.11 Summary 374 8.12 Problems 376 9 Robust FIR State Estimation for Uncertain Systems 379 9.1 Extended Models for Uncertain Systems 380 9.2 The a posteriori H2 FIR Filtering 386 9.2.1 H2-OFIR Filter 387 9.2.2 Bias-constrained H2-OFIR Filter 392 9.3 H2 FIR Prediction 394 9.3.1 Optimal H2 FIR Predictor 395 9.3.2 Bias-constrained H2-OUFIR Predictor 399 9.4 Suboptimal H2 FIR Structures using LMI 400 9.4.1 Suboptimal H2 FIR Filter 401 9.4.2 Bias-Constrained Suboptimal H2 FIR Filter 402 9.4.3 Suboptimal H2 FIR Predictor 403 9.4.4 Bias-Constrained Suboptimal H2 FIR Predictor 404 9.5 H8 FIR State Estimation for Uncertain Systems 405 9.5.1 The a posteriori H8 FIR Filter 405 9.5.2 H8 FIR Predictor 407 9.6 Hybrid H2{H8 FIR Structures 410 9.7 Generalized H2 FIR Structures for Uncertain Systems 411 9.7.1 The a posteriori L2-to-L8 FIR Filter 412 9.7.2 L2-to-L8 FIR Predictor 414 9.8 Robust L1 FIR Structures for Uncertain Systems 416 9.8.1 The a posteriori L8-to-L8 FIR Filter 417 9.8.2 L8-to-L8 FIR Predictor 417 9.9 Summary 418 9.10 Problems 419 10 Advanced Topics in FIR State Estimation 423 10.1 Distributed Filtering over Networks 423 10.1.1 Consensus in Measurements 424 10.1.2 Consensus in Estimates 429 10.2 Optimal Fusion Filtering under Correlated Noise 433 10.2.1 Error Covariances under Cross Correlation 436 10.3 Hybrid Kalman/UFIR Filter Structures 438 10.3.1 Fusing Estimates with Probabilistic Weights 438 10.3.2 Fusing Kalman and Weighted UFIR Estimates 442 10.4 Estimation under Delayed and Missing Data 444 10.4.1 Deterministic Delays and Missing Data 445 10.4.2 Randomly Delayed and Missing Data 449 10.5 Summary 453 10.6 Problems 454 11 Applications of FIR State Estimators 457 11.1 UFIR Filtering and Prediction of Clock States 458 11.1.1 Clock Model 458 11.1.2 Clock State Estimation over GPS-Based TIE Data 459 11.1.3 Master Clock Error Prediction 460 11.2 Suboptimal Clock Synchronization 463 11.2.1 Clock Digital Synchronization Loop 463 11.3 Localization over WSNs Using Particle/UFIR Filter 468 11.3.1 Sample Impoverishment Issue 470 11.3.2 Hybrid Particle/UFIR Filter 471 11.4 Self-localization over RFID Tag Grids 473 11.4.1 State Space Localization Problem 474 11.4.2 Localization Performance 476 11.5 INS/UWB-Based Quadrotor Localization 478 11.5.1 Quadrotor State Space Model under CMN 479 11.5.2 Localization Performance 481 11.6 Processing of Biosignals 481 11.6.1 ECG Signal Denoising using UFIR Smoothing 482 11.6.2 EMG Envelope Extraction using UFIR Filter 484 11.7 Summary 487 11.8 Problems 488 A Matrix Forms and Relationships 489 A.1 Derivatives 489 A.2 Matrix Identities 489 A.3 Special Matrices 490 A.4 Equations and Inequalities 491 A.5 Linear Matrix Inequalities 493 B Norms 495 B.1 Vector Norms 495 B.2 Matrix Norms 496 B.3 Signal Norms 497 B.4 System Norms 499 References 501
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Johns Hopkins University Press Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps
Book SynopsisIn documenting these events, Foster offers a broader understanding of the difficulties in sexually integrating any workplace, even when the organization approaches the situation with as positive an outlook and as strong a motivation as did NASA.Trade Review"This book is the first one to examine seriously how women finally joined the NASA astronaut corps... Rich in documentary sources and strengthened by oral histories, this book offers memorable stories illustrating the texture of this significant transition." (Margaret A. Weitekamp, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beyond Rosie the Riveter2. Wilma Deering Meets Captain Janeway3. ''The Damn Crazy Things!''4. Making Space5. ''The Strange Ones''6. Defying Gravity7. ''NASA Sutra''8. Uninvited HeroicsEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Aha Moment
Book SynopsisAs Jones shows, it can often pay to take an absurd idea seriously.Trade ReviewThe Aha! Moment is not bogged down with scientific detail and tech talk; in fact, it asks a multitude of absurd questions meant to promote innovative and logical brainstorming. Jones gives dozens of examples from his own body of work... While his examples dominate more than half of the book, they are intriguing and stimulating, acting as a means to promote creativity in fellow scientists and artists. -- Aimee Jodoin Foreword Reviews A top pick not to be limited to science holdings, this will reach many a general-interest reader with its fascinating, readable and lively insights. Midwest Book Review David Jones sees himself as the court jester of science and, as with jesters of old, he is allowed to say things that other mortals might think but dare not speak... Most of the book is an eclectic blend of Jones the chemist and Daedalus the mad scientist and together they make entertaining reading. You'd be mad not to buy it -- John Emsley Chemistry World A practical blueprint to bolster one's own creative process, a treasure map to innovative insights. -- Bob Grant The Scientist A fascinating insight into one man's never-ending search for ideas. -- Jessica Griggs New ScientistTable of ContentsPreface: Creativity in My Career1. A Theory of Creativity2. The Creative Environment3. Thoughts on the Random Ideas Generator4. Intuition and Odd Notions5. Creativity in Scientific Papers6. Heat and Gravity7. Astronomical Musings8. Rotating Things9. Explosions and Fuses10. Tricks with Optics11. Properties of Materials12. Physical Phenomena I Have Noticed13. Odd Notions I Have Played With14. Literary Information15. Inventions We Need but Don't Have16. A List of Silly Questions17. A Short Guide to Being CreativeNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Elements of Physical Hydrology
Book SynopsisThoughtfully illustrated, carefully written, and covering a broad spectrum of topics, this classic text clarifies a subject that is often misunderstood and oversimplified.Trade ReviewThis well-illustrated (in three colors), reasonably priced volume is a worthwhile acquisition. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface1. The Science of Hydrology2. Precipitation and Evapotranspiration3. The Basis for Analysis in Physical Hydrology: Principles of Fluid Dynamics4. Open Channel Hydraulics5. Catchment Hydrology: Streams and Floods6. Groundwater Hydraulic7. Groundwater Hydrology8. Water in the Unsaturated Zone9. Ecohydrology: Interactions between Hydrological Processes and the Biota10. Catchment Hydrology: The Hillslope-Stream Continuum11. Water, Climate, Energy, and FoodAppendixes1. Units, Dimensions, and Conversions2. Properties of Water3. Basic Statistics in HydrologyAnswers to Example ProblemsGlossaryReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press International Wildlife Management
Book SynopsisA call for wildlife conservationists to transcend the boundaries of locality, share best practices, and unite with a common voice to influence global policy. Habitat loss, disease management, predator-human conflict, illegal tradethese are among the many conservation challenges faced by wildlife experts around the world. But how wildlife professionals approach these issues has historically been geographically fragmented. By providing a broad perspective on issues faced by wildlife on an international scale, the authors of International Wildlife Management make vital connections, drawing attention to underlying causes and strategies for mitigation that may look surprisingly similar from Montana to Zimbabwe. Bringing together wildlife professionals from around the globe to discuss shared challenges, International Wildlife Management examines widespread patterns of wildlife loss covers key conservation strategies, including species reintroduction, community engagement, and wildlife commTrade ReviewAs one who often finds himself reading news reports, commentary, and other material on a wide range of wildlife conservation issues, many of which seem mind-bogglingly perplexing in their complexity and – from an amateur's perspective – wholly beyond human capability to solve, I am very excited to see such a book as this now available that can provide not only an insight into how wildlife management professionals approach such challenges, but also that potential solutions are not only possible but are in fact already being tested and implemented in the field.—Johannes E. Riutta, The Well-Read NaturalistInternational Wildlife Management is an excellent book containing 16 chapters, including a 6 page index.—John A. Bissonette, Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, Journal of Wildlife ManagementTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. International Wildlife: A Global PerspectiveJohn L. Koprowski, Paul R. Krausman, Dun Wang2. Culture, Values, and Governance: Foundations to Systems of Global Wildlife ConservationRonald J. Regan, Shane P. Mahoney, Basile van Havre, Colman O Criodain, Deborah M. Hahn3. Invasive Species: The Challenges of Nonnative Species Establishment and Spread to Native Wildlife PopulationsSandro Bertolino, Lucas A. Wauters, Adriano Martinoli4. Appreciation, Encouragement, and Rating of Wildlife and Nature Conservation on Private LandsDelwin E. Benson, Wouter van Hoven, Yves Lecocq, Bob van den Brink5. Habitat Loss and FragmentationHsiang Ling Chen, Gabrielle Beca, Mauro Galetti, Chiachun Tsai, Wei Hua Xu, Jing Jing Zhang, Patrick Zollner6. Consequences of Climate Change for Wildlife Marta A. Jarzyna, Victoria L. Atkin Dahm, Benjamin Zuckerberg, William F. Porter7. Global Energy Sprawl: Scale and SolutionsJoseph M. Kiesecker, David E. Naugle8. Wildlife Disease Management in the Global ContextSamantha M. Wisely9. The Effects of Wildlife-Based EcotourismWalt Anderson, Marissa C. G. Altmann10. Carnivores, Coexistence, and Conservation in the AnthropoceneDavid Christianson, Menna Jones11. Moving Animals in the Right Direction: Making Conservation Translocation an Effective ToolRonald R. Swaisgood, Carlos Ruiz-Miranda12. Poaching, Illegal Wildlife Trade, and Bushmeat Hunting in India and South AsiaShekhar K. Niraj, Shreya Sethi, S. P. Goyal, Amar N. Choudhary13. Management of Migratory Wildlife and Others Influenced by BorderlandsAndrea Santangeli, Shambhu Paudel14. International Organizations and Programs for Wildlife ConservationJohn F. Organ, Gonzalo Medina-Vogel, Tsuyoshi Yoshida15. Local Approaches and Community-Based ConservationJohn L. Koprowski, José F. González-Maya, Diego A. Zárrate-Charry, Uday R. Sharma, Craig Spencer16. Getting Involved: Advice for Students and Wildlife ProfessionalsRobert A. McCleery, Julie T. Shapiro, Karen Bailey, Thomas K. FrazerIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Energizing Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisHow the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture. In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decade's oil shocks, Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across different sectors of society, from presidents, policy experts, and environmentalists to filmmakers, economists, and oil futures traders. He shows how the dominant meanings ascribed to the 1970s energy crisis helped to energize neoliberal visions of renewed abundance and power through free market values and approaches to energy. Deeply researched in federal archives, expert discourse, and popular culture, Energizing Neoliberalism demonstrates the central role that energy crisis narratives played in America's neoliberal turn. Wellum traces the roots of the crisis to the consumption practices and cultural narratives spTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Energy in CrisisChapter 1. "Is America Running Out of Gas?": Assembling the Energy CrisisChapter 2. "A Time to Choose": Interpreting the Energy CrisisChapter 3. "A Vibrant National Preoccupation": The Energy Conservation Ethic and Market ForcesChapter 4. "Put Your Foot on the Pedal": Contesting Conservation in Seventies Car CinemaChapter 5. "Markets Born of Shocks": NYMEX Oil Futures, Financialization, and Neoliberal NarrativesEpilogue. Enduring CrisisNotesBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wine Flavour Chemistry
Book SynopsisWine Flavour Chemistry brings together a vast wealth of information describing components of wine, their underlying chemistry and their possible role in the taste, smell and overall perception. It includes both table wines and fortified wines, such as Sherry, Port and the newly added Madeira, as well as other special wines.Trade Review“This book is a delight to read. It is well produced, contains a wealth of detailed and interesting information, and good use is made of figures and, especially, tables. The authors are clearly very enthusiastic about their subject and the book is so well-written one can open it anywhere, start reading, and be instantly captivated. This book is essential reading for any chemist interested in wine (and who is not?) or in flavour chemistry in general.” (Chromatographia, 1 August 2013)Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition xv Preface to the First Edition xvii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Scope of the book 1 1.2 Historical background 2 1.3 Wine flavour 3 1.4 Wine colour 6 1.5 Vinification 6 1.5.1 Vinification process 8 Pre-fermentation 9 Fermentation 15 Post-fermentation 17 1.5.2 Red wines 22 Pre-fermentation 22 Fermentation 23 Post-fermentation 24 1.5.3 White wines 25 Pre-fermentation 26 Fermentation 27 Post-fermentation 28 1.5.4 Specialized wines 28 Rosé wines 28 Wines made from organically farmed grapes 29 Wines with added resin 30 Wines with low alcohol content 31 Sweet wines 31 Sparkling wine in Champagne 32 Sparkling wine by other methods 33 Wines by carbonic maceration 34 Wines by thermovinification 34 Wines matured Sur Lie 35 1.5.5 Fortified wines 35 Port wine 36 Sherry 38 Madeira 40 1.6 Physiological effects 42 1.6.1 Attributed negative effects 43 1.6.2 Wine ethyl alcohol (ethanol) 43 1.6.3 Effects of phenols 45 Resveratrol 46 Bibliography 48 2 Grape Varieties and Growing Regions 53 2.1 Wine grapes 53 2.2 Vine plant characteristics 56 2.3 Soil, climate and ripeness 57 2.3.1 Soil 57 2.3.2 Climate 58 2.3.3 Ripeness 64 2.4 Grape growing regions of the world 65 2.4.1 World wine production 65 2.4.2 Regions 66 2.5 Chemical composition of grapes, must and finished wines 71 2.5.1 Grapes and must 71 2.5.2 Finished wine 79 2.6 Quality control and classification of wines 79 2.6.1 France 79 2.6.2 Germany 82 2.6.3 Italy 83 2.6.4 Spain 84 2.6.5 Australia 84 2.6.6 USA 85 2.6.7 Quality control systems in the European Union 86 Bibliography 87 3 Basic Taste and Stimulant Components 89 3.1 Introduction 89 3.2 Basic taste perception 90 3.2.1 Role of taste 90 3.2.2 Taste perception mechanism 91 3.3 Ethyl alcohol 92 3.3.1 Measurement of ethyl alcohol content in wines 93 3.3.2 Measurement of sugar content in musts and wines 94 Brix scale 94 Baumé and Oeschele scales 96 Prediction of alcohol content in the finished wine 96 3.3.3 Sugar content of grapes and must 97 3.3.4 Chaptalization 98 3.4 Acidity 99 3.4.1 Contents of organic acids 100 3.4.2 Measurement of acid content 104 3.4.3 Acid taste 105 3.5 Sweetness 109 3.5.1 Chemical structure of sugars 109 3.5.2 Content/sweetness 109 3.6 Bitterness, astringency and mouthfeel 113 3.6.1 Basic chemistry 113 Non-flavanoids 113 Flavan-3-ols 114 Flavonoids 116 Anthocyanins 117 3.6.2 Basic technology 118 Location of polyphenols in grapes 118 Use of the term ‘tannins’ and their classification 119 Grape tannins 120 Quantifying methods 121 HPLC measurements 122 Other methods 123 Analyses in grapes and during wine-making 124 3.6.3 Bitter constituents 127 White wines 127 Red wines 127 3.6.4 Astringency 127 3.6.5 Mouthfeel 128 3.7 Colouring matter 129 3.7.1 Colour of red wines 129 3.7.2 Colour of white wines 132 3.8 Other constituents 134 3.8.1 Sulfur dioxide 134 Basic chemistry 135 Technical use 135 Taste effects 136 3.8.2 Carbon dioxide 136 Formation and handling of CO 2 137 Sensory factors 137 3.8.3 Oxygen 138 Basic chemistry 138 Oxygen content in wines 139 Effect of oxygen on wine 141 3.9 Changes in maturation 142 3.9.1 ‘In-barrel’ ageing 143 Vats 143 Extraction from barrels 144 Oxidation in barrels 145 3.9.2 ‘In-bottle’ ageing 146 3.9.3 Oxidation–reduction (redox) potential 146 General 147 Nernst equation 147 Redox potentials in wine 148 Redox potentials during vinification 149 Bibliography 150 4 Volatile Components 155 4.1 General 155 4.1.1 Sensory perception 156 4.1.2 Partition coefficients 158 4.1.3 Threshold flavour/odour levels 161 Units 163 Consistency of threshold odour levels 164 Threshold level difference between sniffing and tasting 164 Threshold levels in solutions of dissolved substances in water and in beverages 166 Relationship of threshold values to partition coefficients 168 Volatile compound concentration in the vapour phase 170 4.1.4 Flavour/odour descriptions 173 Use of word descriptions 173 Intensity of flavour/odour 175 4.2 Volatile compounds detected in wines 175 4.2.1 Types of aroma in volatile compounds 178 4.2.2 Stereochemical effects in aroma volatile compounds 180 4.3 Contents and sensory evaluation data 180 4.3.1 Esters 180 Structure 181 Presence in wines 181 Flavour characteristics 182 4.3.2 Aldehydes 189 Presence in wine 189 Flavour characteristics 190 4.3.3 Ketones 190 Presence in wines 190 Flavour characteristics 190 4.3.4 Acetals 196 4.3.5 Alcohols 197 Presence in wines 197 Flavour characteristics 201 4.3.6 Lactones and furanones 201 Molecular structures 201 Presence in wines 205 Flavour characteristics 207 4.3.7 Acids 207 Presence in wines 207 Flavour characterisitcs 208 4.3.8 Nitrogeneous compounds 208 4.3.9 Phenols 209 Presence in wines 209 Flavour characteristics 209 4.3.10 Terpenes 209 Chemical structure 209 Presence in grapes/wines 213 Flavour characteristics 215 4.3.11 Pyrazines 216 Chemical structure 216 Presence in grapes/wines 216 Flavour characteristics 216 4.3.12 Sulfur compounds 219 Chemical structure 219 Presence in wines 219 Flavour characteristics 220 4.4 Changes during maturation 221 4.4.1 Fermentation and storage of wines ‘in-vat (tank)’ and ‘in-barrel (cask)’ 221 Fermentation 221 Storage 222 4.4.2 ‘In-bottle’ ageing 224 Changes in ester content 225 Substances produced by carbohydrate degradation 225 Sulfur compounds 225 Changes in terpenoids 225 Formation of substances from carotene breakdown 226 4.5 Aroma detection and quantification 227 4.5.1 Gas chromatography 227 4.5.2 Sample preparation 228 4.5.3 Olfactometry 230 4.6 Chemical structure and physical properties 231 Bibliography 231 5 Wine Tasting Procedures and Overall Wine Flavour 239 5.1 Wine tasting 239 5.2 Wine tasting procedure 241 5.2.1 Tasting glass 241 5.2.2 Serving 243 5.2.3 Visual 243 5.2.4 Smell 244 5.2.5 Flavour 246 5.2.6 Interactions 247 5.2.7 Astringency 248 5.2.8 Judging the wine 249 5.2.9 Reasons for wine tasting 250 Sensory analysis 250 Quality tastings 251 Identifying wines by tasting 251 Sensory analyses used in research 252 Consumer tasting 252 Analytical tasting 253 5.2.10 Wine tasting information and analysis 254 Statistical analysis 254 5.3 Factors influencing sensory perception 256 5.3.1 Threshold and sensitivity 257 5.3.2 Vocabulary 258 5.4 Balance of taste sensations in wine 258 5.5 Wine aromas 259 5.5.1 Odour/aroma classification 261 5.5.2 Aroma/odour characteristics of wines from particular grape varieties 262 5.5.3 Variants in Cabernet Sauvignon wine flavour 270 5.5.4 Variants of Chardonnay wine flavour 271 5.5.5 Flavour description of some other commercial wines 273 5.5.6 Off-odours and taints 274 Cork taint 275 Mousiness 278 Ethylphenols 279 5.6 Wine and food flavour 279 5.7 Aroma indices and statistical methods 282 5.7.1 Flavour unit concept 282 5.7.2 Odour activity unit 284 5.7.3 Multivariate and other statistical procedures 285 Bibliography 288 6 Sherry, Port and Madeira 291 6.1 Introduction 291 6.1.1 Sherry introduction 291 6.1.2 Port introduction 292 6.1.3 Madeira introduction 292 6.1.4 Comparisons between fortified wines 293 6.1.5 Ethyl alcohol – sensory effect 294 6.1.6 Ethyl alcohol – chemical effect 295 6.1.7 Sweetness 295 6.2 Sherry 295 6.2.1 Wine producers 296 6.2.2 Commercial wine styles 296 6.2.3 Wine writers’ comments 297 6.2.4 Grapes and must 297 6.2.5 Base wine 298 6.2.6 Maturation 299 6.2.7 Maturation changes under flor 299 6.2.8 Maturation changes without flor 301 6.2.9 Maturation with and without flor 302 6.2.10 Volatile compounds 302 6.2.11 Changes during maturation in phenolic compound content 309 6.3 Port wine 311 6.3.1 Port wine producers 311 6.3.2 Commercial Port wine styles 312 6.3.3 Wine writers’ comments 313 6.3.4 Grapes and must 314 6.3.5 Fermentation and base Port wine 315 6.3.6 Port wine compared to red table wine 317 6.3.7 Maturation 318 6.3.8 Colour changes during maturation 318 6.3.9 Volatile changes during maturation 322 6.4 Madeira 327 6.4.1 Madeira wine producers 327 6.4.2 Commercial Madeira wine styles 327 6.4.3 Wine writers’ comments 328 6.4.4 Sensory properties 328 6.4.5 Grapes and must 328 6.4.6 Base wines maturation 329 6.4.7 Volatile compounds 330 Bibliography 335 7 Formation Pathways in Vinification 341 7.1 Introduction 341 7.2 Process variables in vinification 342 7.2.1 Grapes 342 7.2.2 Yeast strain 344 7.2.3 Malo-lactic organisms 347 7.2.4 Temperature 347 Standard operating temperature 347 Thermovinification 348 7.2.5 Clarification procedures 349 7.2.6 Nutrient medium in fermentation 349 7.2.7 Maceration 351 7.3 Production of ethyl alcohol 351 7.4 Production of individual groups of compounds 352 7.4.1 Esters 352 7.4.2 Aldehydes 353 7.4.3 Ketones 354 7.4.4 Acetals 354 7.4.5 Higher alcohols 355 7.4.6 Furanones and lactones 356 7.4.7 Acids 357 7.4.8 Amines 357 7.4.9 Phenols (volatile) 357 7.4.10 Terpenes 359 7.4.11 Pyrazines 360 7.4.12 Sulfur compounds 360 7.5 Noble Rot 362 Bibliography 364 Appendix I 367 I. 1 Chemical formulae nomenclature 367 I.. 1 Nomenclature for a homologous series of compounds (Greek number/word system) 367 I.1. 2 System for substituent groups (derivatives) 368 I.1. 3 System for substituting in long-chain compounds 368 I.1. 4 System for characterizing esters 368 I.1. 5 System for characterizing unsaturated compounds 369 I.1. 6 Systems for esters, thiols and thio-compounds 369 I.1. 7 Miscellaneous IUPAC recommendations 369 I.1. 8 Alternative chemical names 369 I.1. 9 Numbering systems for ring compounds 370 I.1.10 Trivial and common names for derivative alkanes and other compounds 370 I.1. 11 General 371 I. 2 Stereochemistry 371 I.2. 1 Enantiomers 371 Optical activity 372 Chirality 373 Occurrence of enantiomers 375 I.. 2 Geometrical (stereo-) isomers 375 I.2. 3 Tautomerism 376 I. 3 Chemistry of the oxidation of organic compounds 377 I.3. 1 Auto- and enzymatic oxidation of lipids 378 I.3. 2 Oxidation–reduction of alkyl alcohols and aldehydes 379 I.. 3 Oxidation of phenolic compounds 380 Oxidation of procyanidins 383 Oxidation of non-flavanoid phenolic compounds 383 General 384 I.3.4 Oxidation–reduction (redox) potentials 384 I. 4 Estimation of partition coefficients of volatile compounds in air/water 386 I. 5 Grape varieties and cultivars 389 Appendix II 395 II. 1 Units 395 II.2 Data sources 395 Tables of molecular formulae, weight and physical properties for each group of volatile compounds found in wine –Volatile esters 396 –Volatile aldehydes 399 –Volatile ketones 400 –Volatile alcohols 401 –Volatile furanones/lactones 402 –Volatile acids 403 –Volatile phenols 404 –Volatile terpenes 404 –Volatile methoxy pyrazines 405 –Volatile sulfur compounds 405 Index 407
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The University of North Carolina Press Landscape of Migration
Book SynopsisIn the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the March to the East. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.
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Duke University Press In the Shadow of the Palms
Book SynopsisWith In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to tropical deforestation and is a major driver of global warming. Situating the plant and the transformations it has brought within the context of West Papua’s volatile history of colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion, Chao traces how Marind attribute environmental destruction not just to humans, technologies, and capitalism but also to the volition and actions of the oil palm plant itself. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, Chao rethinks capitalist violence as a multispecies act. In the process, Chao centers hoTrade Review“[In the Shadow of the Palms] is a beautiful read, a brilliantly executed thesis. . . . [Chao’s] explanations of the Marind life-worlds are grounded thoroughly in lived-experience shared through cohabitation, active-listening, and situated entangled interaction.” -- Robert Wolfgramm * Pacific Circle Newsletter *"In the Shadow of the Palms is a brave, compelling piece of ethnographic work, cleverly structured and delightful in its elegant yet accessible prose, offering a new, powerful take on the longstanding issue of agribusiness expansion in Indonesia." -- Silvia Pergetti * ANUAC - Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale *"This is a brilliant book—beautifully written—based on rigorous and sensitive ethnography and sharp theoretical analysis that seamlessly blends ethnography with theory. Chao’s respect and admiration for her interlocutors shines through the text and brings to life Marinds kinship with sago and more-than-human becomings—and how this is under threat by the oil palm as an actor of multispecies violence. In the Shadow of the Palms is an important contribution to environmental anthropology and will be of interest to those interested in extractive agriculture, posthumanism, indigenous studies and settler colonialism, decolonising anthropology, political ecology and development studies—both within and beyond Southeast Asia and Papuan Oceania." -- Camelia Dewan * Anthropology Book Forum *"In the Shadow of the Palms offers a haunting and novel perspective on themes of dispossession and alienation wrought by the expansion of oil palm agribusiness in Indonesia. . . . In the Shadow of the Palms stands out for its courageous attempt to apprehend and translate the internal experience of the Marind community. Meticulous descriptions of interactions with various animal and plant species evidence a profound intersubjectivity of human and environment in the Marind world." -- Carter Beale * Forest and Society *"This was a story that needed to be told. A counter-narrative to the development agenda that promises a rosy future, without elaborating on the destruction and loss that it entails. . . . Chao's deeply thought-provoking and riveting tome is both theoretical and real, development economics and the anthropology of slow violence. It is a homage to an indigenous community with their own means of resistance—until they too finally fall prey to oil palm." -- Serina Rahman * Journal of Southeast Asian Economies *"In sum, this book is beautifully written, deeply researched, and deserves to be read widely. Not only by students and scholars of Indonesia, but for all those interested in Southeast Asia and environmental politics. In the Shadow of the Palms may well become a classic in both anthropological studies and studies of Southeast Asia. No mean feat for a first book." -- Tomas Cole * Asian Studies Review *“[In the Shadow of the Palms] is ethnographically rich, analytically incisive, and politically engaged. . . . Chao brings people, plants, and animals into a muddled assemblage to explore relationships, interdependencies, oppression, and generation with great effect. . . . This book will appeal greatly to scholars of more-than-human worlds and global capitalism.” -- Sebastian Antoine * Journal of Anthropological Society of Oxford *“As a reader, I laud Chao’s caring analysis and description; her eye for trouble—abu-abu—and her unrelenting commitment to thinking with rather than for the Marind. This accessible yet in-depth account of Marind ontologies, their fracturing, and their tentative remaking in the face of the oil palm is an important volume for diverse scholars and students in different fields, for instance those engaged with plantation ecologies, multispecies thought, and indigenous ontologies.” -- Irene van Oorschot * Etnofoor *“In the Shadow of the Palms represents, above all, a deeply ethical project—in the sense of giving voice to otherwise marginalised and silenced people; and ethical in its broader existential ambitions. This is a book we all need to read: it speaks to the current predicaments facing all of us.” -- Warwick Anderson * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"In the Shadow of the Palms is a wonderful book that will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and activists. This includes those whose work is specifically focused on the necrobiopolitics of the Plantationocene, as well as anyone who might be having trouble finding possibilities for hope in this moment of planetary undoing." -- Kevin Burke * American Ethnologist *"Chao has a superpower — her writing. ... You’d have to search long and hard for a book that better captures the ineluctable violence of our times, that makes the damage feel so poignant, so inexorable, so real." -- Danilyn Rutherford * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPrologue ix Introduction 1 1. Pressure Points 33 2. Living Maps 51 Interlude: Lost in the Plantation—The Dream of Yustinus Mahuze 75 3. Skin and Wetness 77 4. The Plastic Cassowary 95 Interlude: Metamorphosis—The Dream of Yosefus Samkakai 115 5. Sago Encounters 117 6. Oil Palm Counterpoint 143 Interlude: The Empty Sago Grove—The Dream of Agustinus Gebze 165 7. Time Has Come to Stop 167 8. Eaten by Oil Palm 183 Interlude: Black Waters of the Bian—The Dream of Elena Basik-Basik 201 Conclusions 203 Epilogue: Endings—The Author's Dream 219 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 227 References 269 Index 311
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Duke University Press Working Musicians
Book SynopsisTimothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the working composers, musicians, and engineers who create soundtracks for film, television, and video games.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Working Musicians 1 1. Group Production, the Collective Laborer, Supply Chains, and Fields 19 2. Creativity 48 3. Composers’ Labor 81 4. The Music Supply Chain after the Composer: Adding Value 119 5. Challenges 138 6. It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World 156 7. Neoliberalization as (Self-)Exploitation 177 8. “Thousands of Guys Like Me” 212 Notes 217 References 231 Index 245
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APress Wireless Network Simulation
Book SynopsisLearn to run your own simulation by working with model analysis, mathematical background, simulation output data, and most importantly, a network simulator for wireless technology. This book introduces the best practices of simulator use, the techniques for analyzing simulations with artificial agents and the integration with other technologies such as Power Line Communications (PLC).Network simulation is a key technique used to test the future behavior of a network. It''s a vital development component for the development of 5G, IoT, wireless sensor networks, and many more. This book explains the scope and evolution of the technology that has led to the development of dynamic systems such as Internet of Things and fog computing. You''ll focus on the ad hoc networks with stochastic behavior and dynamic nature, and the ns-3 simulator. These are useful open source tools for academics, researchers, students and engineers to deploy telTable of ContentsPart I: Simulation BasicsChapter 1: Network Simulation 3Synopsis: The first chapter shows a detailed explanation on simulation, kinds of simulation and the first look at the ns-3 simulator and its formal specification.1.1 Framework1.2 Simulation, models and their importance in research1.2.1 Types of Simulation Techniques1.3 Formal Systems Concepts1.4 Simulation and Emulation1.5 Network Simulators1.6 NS3 Simulator general features1.7 Formal Concepts and NS3Formal Specification1.8 Complementary ReadingsChapter 2: Wireless Networks and Ad hoc NetworksSynopsis: The second chapter shows the evolution on wireless networks and its capabilities on the computing and social systems, explain the new architectures and environments for distributed systems and a particularly case of the ad hoc networks. This chapter introduce theoretical and conceptual the wireless networks.2.1 Connectivity and Mobility Evolution2.2 History of Wireless Communication Technologies2.2.1 Computing Architecture with Wireless Networks2.2.2 Internet of Things (IoT)2.2.3 Fog Computing2.2.4 Edge Computing2.3 Mobile Clouds and Ad hoc Network2.4 Features and challenges of MANETs2.5 Wireless mesh networks and wireless sensor networks2.6 Cooperation in MANETs2.7 Routing Protocols2.7.1 Distance Vector and Link State Routing2.8 Social Clouds2.9 Manet Clusters2.10 Complementary ReadingsChapter 3: Experiment DesignSynopsis: the third chapter shows the steps and the best practices to design a simulation experiment, the assumptions, models and techniques for determine the factors, the experiments and the core of an simulation experiment. Is a theoretical chapter3.1 Design of Simulations Experiments3.2 Factorial designs3.3 Complementary ReadingsPart II: Network SimulatorChapter 4: Network Simulation using NS3Synopsis: The fourth chapter introduces the network simulator 3, his features, computational models, composition and computational structure with examples and detailed explanation of this module, code style and other toolkits useful on ns3 to deploy and run a simulation experiment.4.1 What is NS3?4.2 Relations between Abstractions on NS34.3 Code Style4.4 My First Network4.4.1 Running and Build other scripts4.5 Emulation on NS34.6 Animating the Simulation4.7 Scheduler4.8 Logging and tracing4.8.1 Trace helpers4.8.2 Using Command line Arguments4.9 ExercisesChapter 5: Analyses of ResultsSynopsis: The fifth chapter shows the importance of make a well analysis of results and the experiment outputs ,show the statistical techniques for evaluate the quality of data and how validate and verify if an experiment is successful or not5.1 Output data analysis for a single system5.1.1 Transient and steady state behavior of a stochastic process5.2 The random nature of the simulation output5.3 Types of simulation according to the output analysis5.3.1 Statistical analysis for terminating (or transient) simulations5.3.2 Statistical analysis for steady state parameters5.3.3 The replication deletion approach5.4 Complementary ReadingsPart III: Wireless Network Simulation on NS3Chapter 6: Manet Simulation on NS3Synopsis: The sixth chapter shows a detailed explanation with examples, abstractions descriptions, methods and computation models used to create an ad hoc network on ns-3, the second part of this chapter introduce the Agent based simulation (ABS) for ns-3 on a wireless ad hoc network and the analysis of results with this kind of techniques. The tool used is an application build on ns-3 that allows the use of agents with the simulator6.1 A simple Ad hoc network6.1.1 Wifi Model6.1.2 Node Abstractions6.1.3 Socket abstraction6.1.4 Plot6.1.5 Output6.2 Agent Based Simulation6.2.1 Description of the experiment6.2.2 Abstractions6.2.3 Tracing6.2.4 Run Simulation6.2.5 Analysis of Results6.2.6 Run and Analyze6.2.7 Results6.3 Complementary ReadingsChapter 7: Manets and PLC on NS3Synopsis: The Seventh chapter introduce the integration of wireless networks with other kind of technologies, in this case with the Power line communications PLC and how is possible create new node abstractions on the ns-3 simulator a combine different physical mediums to create a network and share services.7.1 Power Line Communication7.1.1 Fundamental Characteristics of the PLC Channel7.1.2 Deterministic Models of PLC Channel7.2 PLC Software for NS3 Simulation7.3 MANET and PLC Simulation7.4 Complementary ReadingsPart IV: AppendicesXSynopsis: The book includes three appendix: basic statistics, ns-3 installation, and OpenAi Gym framework instalation on ns-3 to allow the Agent Based Simulation (ABS)Appendix A: Basic StatisticsA.1 Random Variables and Random VectorsA.1.1 Random VariablesA.1.2 Probability Density FunctionsA.1.3 Random VectorA.1.4 IndependenceA.1.5 Expected ValueA.1.6 VarianceA.1.7 CovarianceA.1.8 Correlation CoefficientA.1.9 Binomial Random VariableA.1.10 Normal Random VariableA.1.11 Geometric Random VariableA.1.12 Uniform Random VariableAppendix B: NS3 InstallationAppendix C: ns3gym: OpenAI Gym integrationC.1 InstallationIndex
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University of Toronto Press Harvesting State Support Institutional Change
Book SynopsisHarvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan’s Agricultural Sector 1. Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime 2. Toward a Local Perspective on Gradual Institutional Change 3. Institutional Change in Japanese Agricultural Support and Protection through the Local Lens Part Two: Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection over Time 4. Postwar Evolution of Support and Protection 5. Gradual Change and Increasing Institutional Ambiguity in Agricultural Support and Protection Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions 6. Different Local Manifestations of Macro-Level Change 7. Postwar Formation of Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources – Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection 8. Farmland Consolidation as a Social Process 9. Local Variations of Agricultural Entrepreneurship 10. Hamlet-Based Collective Farming and Village Institutions 11. Boundary Change: Decreasing Prospects for Comprehensive Local Institutional Agency Part Five: Conclusions 12. Renegotiating Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection 13. Institutional Change through the Local Lens Appendix A: Field Research Appendix B: Interviews Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press The Stuff of Soldiers
Book SynopsisThe Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of thingsfrom spoons to tanksto show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians.Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women''s particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting.Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier''s rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of tTrade ReviewWith this original approach—in itself an amazing achievement given the immense literature in this historical field—Brandon Schechteruses the material culture of the Red Army to trace the makeover of Soviet life and politics brought about by the war. * Foreign Affairs *The Stuff of Soldiers is a well-written, wide-ranging, novel approach for understanding the social and military history of the Soviet Army. [It] is an excellent addition to the historiography of the Great Patriotic War and to the general study of how material culture can reflect how soldiers and their societies have experienced war throughout time. * Journal of Military History *The Stuff of Soldiers has much to offer those with an affinity for cultural history studied through objects and for others who want a basic introduction to the quotidian of the Red Army during the Second World War... it takes the reader into the daily life of the Soviet soldier during the war in a way that no other work in the field does. * The Russian Review *Few, if any, thinkers have sought to view [the materiality of the human being] through the prism of an army, its weaponry, the environment it shaped and the objects its soldiers used, cherished or robbed. Brandon M. Schechter is the first to embark upon this intellectual adventure. * The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies *This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Soviet history and World War II but also to everyone interested in the experience of life during wartime. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Schechter's ability to analyze the everyday minutiae of soldiers' lives to tell both personal stories of what it meant to be a member of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War with careful attention placed on differing perspectives based on class, gender, and nationality, and a broader narrative of state-directed (if not always followed) social transformation is inspiring. * Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia *Given the author's lively and accessible style this is surely a work that will reach an audience outside of academia, while the deeply-researched and insightful content equally makes it an invaluable addition to scholars of both the Soviet Union and those interested more broadly in the history and legacies of the Second World War. * British Journal for Military History *A beautifully written, sweeping and nuanced history of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War through the lens of objects and material culture. The Stuff of Soldiers is not only a major contribution to the history of the war; it is also a stimulating attempt to overcome disciplinary boundaries and long-lasting debates about the Soviet project through an ethnographic focus on objects and practices of everyday life. * Cahiers du monde russe *Schechter elegantly intertwines individual stories, context, and analysis taking the reader to the most intimate parts of soldiers' everyday lives. The interested audience of this work will be very large, spanning individuals interested in military history broadly defined, in the history of the Soviet Union, and in material culture. * Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) *Brandon Schechter has written a tour-de-force volume that presents an innovative approach to the history of the Second World War in the Soviet Union. [O]ne of the main contributions of this work is Schechter's success in offering a new and fresh analysis of these sources from the perspective of material culture. * English Historical Review *Table of ContentsPrelude: Outgunned and Outmanned Acknowledgments List of Archival Sources and Their Abbreviations Terms and Abbreviations Explanatory Notes Introduction: Government Issue 1. The Soldier's Body: A Little Cog in a Giant War Machine 2. A Personal Banner: Life in Red Army Uniform 3. The State's Pot and the Soldier's Spoon: Rations in the Red Army 4. Cities of Earth, Cities of Rubble: The Spade and Red Army Landscaping 5. "A Weapon Is Your Honor and Conscience": Killing in the Red Army 6. The Thing-Bag: A Public-Private Place 7. Trophies of War: Red Army Soldiers Confront an Alien World of Goods Conclusion: Subjects and Objects Notes Index
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Cornell University Press In This Together
Book SynopsisIn This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of network climate actionthe idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices, our individual actions become collective ones that can eventually effect widespread change.Weaving examples of everyday climate-forward initiatives in with insights on behavioral and structural change, Krasny demonstrates how we can scale up the impact of our efforts through leveraging our community connections. Whether by inviting family, friends, or colleagues to a plant-rich meal or by becoming activists at climate nonprofits, we can forge the social norms and shared identities that can lead to change. With easy-to-follow dos and don''ts, In This Together shows us a practical and hopeful
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Stanford University Press A History of Fake Things on the Internet
Book SynopsisA Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true. Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT. Scheirer investigates the origins of Internet fakes, from early hoaxes that traversed the globe via Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), USENET, and a new messaging technology called email, to today's hyperrealistic, AI-generated Deepfakes. An expert in machine learning and recognition, Scheirer breaks down the technical advances that made new developments in digital deception possible, and shares behind-the-screens details of early Internet-era pranks that have become touchstones of hacker lore. His story introduces us to the visionaries and mischief-makers who first deployed digital fakery and continue to influence how digital manipulation works—and doesn't—today: computer hackers, digital artists, media forensics specialists, and AI researchers. Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather stem from human behavior, demonstrating our capacity for both creativity and destruction.Trade Review"There is something bold, perhaps reckless, in preaching serenity from the volcano's edge. But, as Scheirer points out, the doctored-evidence problem isn't new. Our oldest forms of recording—storytelling, writing, and painting—are laughably easy to hack. We've had to find ways to trust them nonetheless."—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker"The Internet is awash in disinformation and conspiracy theories, with AI-generated 'deepfakes' looming on the horizon. A History of Fake Things on the Internet explains how fakes of all kinds have been a central part of Internet history and culture from the beginning. It is essential reading for understanding how we got here and where we are headed."—Sean Lawson, coauthor of Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication"In this captivating book, Walter J. Scheirer artfully combines the skills of a cultural critic, historian, and computer scientist to explore the many facets of technological duplicity. Going beyond cliches, the book delves into an array of historical and contemporary cases involving computer hackers, digital artists, media forensics specialists, and AI researchers. By doing so, he unveils how exactly emergent media becomes the basis for myths, falsehoods, and trickery, and with what consequences."—Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous"By historicizing fakeness online, Walter J. Scheirer helps readers understand the very real consequences, contexts, and stakes of digital participation. A fascinating study of creativity in all its forms—one that resists binary proclamations about what is good and creative and what is bad and destructive. Instead, the book says yes in many directions."—Whitney Phillips, coauthor of You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape"Drawing on a framework developed by the pioneering anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in the 1960s, Scheirer argues that humanity always occupies 'two parallel timelines: the physical world (i.e., the historical timeline) and the myth cycle (i.e., a fictional timeline).' Both are indispensable: We are confined to reality, but we cannot confront facts (or even make sense of them) without the salve of fiction."—Becca Rothfeld, Washington PostTable of Contents1. Restyling Reality 2. On the Virtual Frontier of the Imagination 3. Photoshop Fantasies 4. Cheat Codes for Life 5. Speculative Sleuths 6. Virtualized Horror 7. Dreams of a Clairvoyant AI 8. Creative Spaces
£21.59
SPIE Press Photonics Rules of Thumb
Book SynopsisUpdated and expanded, the third edition of Photonics Rules of Thumb represents an evolving, idiosyncratic, and eclectic toolbox intended to allow any engineer, scientist, manager, marketeer, or technician (regardless of specialty) to make rapid and accurate guesses at solutions in a wide range of topics during system design, modeling, or fabrication. This book will help any electro-optics team to make quick assessments, generally requiring no more than a calculator, so that they can quickly find the right solution for a design problem.This book has been assembled to introduce anyone working in the optics and photonics community to a wide range of critical topics through simple calculations, graphics, equations, and explanations. Useful design principles and rules, simple-to-implement calculations, and numerous graphs and tables of important basic information allow you to rapidly pinpoint trouble spots, ask the right questions at meetings, and are perfect for quick checks of last-minute specifications or performance feature additions. Offering a convenient arrangement according to specialty, this unique reference spans the spectrum of photonics. Eighteen chapters cover optics, atmospherics, radiometry, focal plane arrays, degraded visual environments, economics, and photogrammetry, as well as technologies related to security and surveillance systems, infrared, lasers, electro-optics, phenomenologies, self-driving vehicles, and many others.
£73.60
University of Minnesota Press Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics
Book SynopsisA material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality. In Archaeologies of Touch, David Parisi offers the first full history of these increasingly vital technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics, and human–computer interfaces, Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information. With haptics becoming ever more central to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.Trade Review"Archaeologies of Touch weaves a careful history of haptic technology with a provocative analysis on the changing nature of how we recognize and measure touching. This allows David Parisi to provide the remarkable: a history of that which has always appeared just beyond our reach."—Phillip Thurtle, University of Washington"Archaeologies of Touch convincingly contextualizes recent forms of digital touch within an overarching history of psychophysiological and technological experimentation with the senses and sensory communication. David Parisi pulls together an impressive wealth of resources for scholars to understand how we ‘haptic subjects’ became haptic in the first place."—Mark Paterson, author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies"Parisi provides an engaging history of how humans have interacted with a range of electric and electronic technologies to understand and explore how the sensation of touch actually works, and how it can be simulated. The book effectively highlights the need for more critical analysis of haptic technology and its future. The book is exhaustively researched and includes useful explanatory notes and images."—CHOICE"Archaeologies of Touch is a fascinating reading about spectacular experiments, forgotten appliances and scientists who have partially come to the fore."—Svenska Dagbladet"Archaeologies of Touch is a significant achievement in media research. It is lucid, scrupulous, rigorously grounded, and exceedingly informed without ever getting mired in high theory or inconsequential historical asides."—Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association"Archaeologies of Touch is a work of deep erudition and study, carefully plotted, and written with penetrating insight, establishing Parisi at the vanguard of the developing field of haptic media studies."—Media Theory"This is a remarkable book, solidly documented and will potentially enlighten a vast number of people working with cultural and social technologies."—Neural"Filled with archival illustrations, schematics, and images of the various lesser known technologies and experimental research that demonstrate the long history of research of touch, Parisi’s Archaeologies of Touch is vital read for scholars concerned with all things haptic."—New Media and Society"In thoroughly tracing the connections between touch and technoscience, Parisi offers a powerful and timely argument that encourages a serious reconsideration of touch's technogenesis."—Configurations"Archaeologies of Touch is an ambitious book chock-full of fascinating experiments and anecdotes."—Technology and Culture Table of ContentsContentsPreface. Interrupting the Networked BodyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Haptic Interfaces and the Quest to Reinscribe TactilityInterface 1. The Electrotactile MachineInterface 2. The HapticInterface 3. The Tongue of the SkinInterface 4. Human–Machine Tactile CommunicationInterface 5. The Cultural Construction of Technologized TouchCoda. Haptics and the Reordering of the Mediated SensoriumNotesIndex
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the
Book SynopsisOffering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind itPlatforms are everywhere. From social media to chat, streaming, credit cards, and even bookstores, it seems like almost everything can be described as a platform. In The Platform Economy, Marc Steinberg argues that the “platformization” of capitalism has transformed everything, and it is imperative that we have a historically precise, robust understanding of this widespread concept. Taking Japan as the key site for global platformization, Steinberg delves into that nation’s unique technological and managerial trajectory, in the process systematically examining every facet of the elusive word platform. Among the untold stories revealed here is that of the 1999 iPhone precursor, the i-mode: the world’s first widespread mobile internet platform, which became a blueprint for Apple and Google’s later dominance of the mobile market. Steinberg also charts the rise of social gaming giants GREE and Mobage, chat tools KakaoTalk, WeChat, and LINE, and video streaming site Niconico Video, as well as the development of platform theory in Japan, as part of a wider transformation of managerial theory to account for platforms as mediators of cultural life. Analyzing platforms’ immense impact on contemporary media such as video streaming, music, and gaming, The Platform Economy fills in neglected parts of the platform story. In narrating the rise and fall of Japanese platforms, and the enduring legacy of Japanese platform theory, this book sheds light on contemporary tech titans like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Netflix, and their platform-mediated transformation of contemporary life—it is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand what capitalism is today and where it is headed.Trade Review"By relocating the origins of the platform economy to Japan’s consumer technology industries of the 1990s, Marc Steinberg offers a powerful intervention into current debates about platformization. This is a book that challenges us to think differently about the business and culture of digital media."—Ramon Lobato, author of Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution"Phenomenal. Marc Steinberg rewrites the history of the platform economy. Moving beyond an exclusive focus on Silicon Valley, he demonstrates that a crucial part of this history can be found in 1990s Japan. Steinberg deftly traces the emergence of platform theory and practices around Docomo’s i-mode, exploring intersections with U.S. and French discourse, and ending with the global markets forged by iOS and Android."—Thomas Poell, coauthor of The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World"The American tech giants monopolize our attention in daily life; they also tend to hog the attention in technology criticism. Marc Steinberg offers a more expansive and nuanced analysis, showing that the ‘platform’ story did not begin in Silicon Valley and is not likely to end there. A rigorous, illuminating book."—Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, author of Personal Stereo"The impressive feat of Steinberg’s book is that it allows both interpretations of platformization to emerge: a fairer crediting of Japanese theories and practices as well as a fuller questioning of global media industry dominance."—Film Quarterly"Readers in many disciplines seeking to better understand how the Android and Apple iOS, Netflix, Amazon, and myriad other everyday commercial experiences have come to be, and how they may change or adapt in ways that Silicon Valley will not necessarily lead, can look to The Platform Economy for global insights and a nuanced analysis of the way words and worlds have been formed, in part, through Japanese iterations of platforms and contents."—The Journal of Popular Culture"The Platform Economy adds a significant dimension to the study of platforms and urges us to think deeply about platformization, as well as the multidirectionality of cultural circulation more broadly."—Critical Inquiry"An important contribution for recapitulating certain concepts in management theory and reconstructing the discursive formation of the term ‘platform.’"—Journal of Japanese Studies Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Contents Discourse: A Platform Prelude2. Platform Typology: From Hardware to Contents3. The Japanese Genesis of Transactional Platform Theory4. Docomo’s i-mode and the Formatting of the Mobile Internet5. Platforms after i-mode: Dwango’s Niconico VideoConclusion: The Platformization of Regional Chat AppsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£20.69
Hanser Publications Polymer Processing: Principles and Modeling
Book SynopsisEngineering of polymers is not an easy exercise: with evolving technology, it often involves complex concepts and processes. This book is intended to provide the theoretical essentials: understanding of processes, a basis for the use of design software, and much more.The necessary physical concepts such as continuum mechanics, rheological behavior and measurement methods, and thermal science with its application to heating-cooling problems and implications for flow behavior are analyzed in detail. This knowledge is then applied to key processing methods, including single-screw extrusion and extrusion die flow, twin-screw extrusion and its applications, injection molding, calendering, and processes involving stretching.With many exercises with solutions offered throughout the book to reinforce the concepts presented, and extensive illustrations, this is an essential guide for mastering the art of plastics processing. Practical and didactic, Polymer Processing: Principles and Modeling is intended for engineers and technicians of the profession, as well as for advanced students in Polymer Science and Plastics Engineering.With the purchase of this book, you also receive a free personal access code to download the eBook.
£191.70
Getty Trust Publications Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to lore from the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend, the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue, form a paradigmatic class of walking “prime movers,” unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come.
£38.00
H.W. Wilson Publishing Co. Reference Shelf: Gene Editing & Genetic
Book SynopsisThe recent research into using the CRISPR gene-editing technology to change genetic coding in an organism’s DNA has generated tremendous public interest, but where is this technology going? In this issue of The Reference Shelf we look at gene editing and genetic engineering, drawing from periodicals, medical reports, and politics to see how this debate is progressing within popular culture. Issues investigated will include engineering new organisms, the potential for medical breakthroughs, the ethics of altering the human genome, and the campaign to bring back the dinosaurs.
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GMC Publications Biographic: Einstein
Book SynopsisMany people know that Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist who revolutionised modern science. What they may not know is that he only learnt to speak at four years old; that he was asked to become the President of Israel in 1952, but refused; or that he was under FBI surveillance for 22 years. This book presents an instant impression of his life with 50 irresistible facts converted into infographics to reveal the scientist behind the science.
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Haynes Publishing Group Seat Leon (Sept '05 to Sept '12) 55 to 62 reg
Book SynopsisEvery manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping down and rebuilding each vehicle in the Haynes Project Workshop. The practical step-by-step instructions and clear photos are easy to follow and provide information on maintenance, servicing, fault finding, the MoT, brakes, electrics and Haynes tips to make many tasks easier.
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Haynes Publishing Group Yamaha YZF-R125 (08 - 13)
Book SynopsisModels covered YZF-R125•124cc•08-13 Model history Introduced in 2008, the Yamaha YZF-R125 is a sport bike aimed squarely at the learner market. Its 125cc engine produces 11 kW (15 bhp), making it road-legal for learners. Its striking styling is unashamedly similar to the other R-series models such as the much larger-engined YZF-R1 and R6, and like those models it features a lightweight box frame and a cast aluminium swinging rear arm, giving class-leading handling.
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CABI Fermented Foods and Beverages
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CABI Electrical Weeding
Book SynopsisAs global agriculture faces mounting challenges from herbicide resistance, environmental degradation, and tightening regulations on chemical weed control, the search for sustainable alternatives has never been more urgent. Electrical Weeding: A Sustainable Alternative to Herbicides presents a groundbreaking, science-driven solution: using electricity to eliminate unwanted plants without the use of chemicals.This comprehensive book explores the principles, development, and application of electrical weed control - an approach that replaces herbicides with targeted high-voltage energy to destroy plant tissues from leaf to root. Drawing on decades of research, technological innovation, and field experience, the book offers a clear and accessible explanation of how electrocution affects plant biology, how electrical parameters influence efficacy, and how systems can be designed and deployed effectively in both agricultural and urban environments.Chapters cover the history of electrical weeding, the biological mechanism of plant death, soil and plant resistance dynamics, electrode configurations, safety protocols, and ecological impacts. The book also includes field trial results, cost comparisons with chemical methods, and a vision for the role of electrical weeding in sustainable farming systems.This book is an essential resource for farmers, researchers, agronomists, policymakers, and environmental advocates seeking viable, chemical-free weed-control strategies.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Real Agricultural Revolution: The
Book SynopsisAn investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award "This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted change on the ground to offer an incisive account of the complex technological, political and cultural developments which gave rise to some of the greatest changes in English farming history. It will stand as the key reference point for those with an interest in the history of agricultural change in Britain." Professor Mark Riley, University of Liverpool At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 British agriculture was largely powered by the muscles of men, women, and horses, and used mostly nineteenth-century technology to produce less than half of the country's temperate food. By 1985, less land and far fewer people were involved in farming, the power sources and technologies had been completely transformed, and the output of the country's agriculture had more than doubled. This is the story of the national farm, reflecting the efforts and experiences of 200,000 or so farmers and their families, together with the people they employed. But it is not the story of any individual one of them. We know too little about change at the individual farm level, although what happened varied considerably between farms and between different technologies. Based on an improbably-surviving archive of Farm Management Survey accounts, supported by oral histories from some of the farmers involved, this book explores the links between the production of new technologies, their transmission through knowledge networks, and their reception on individual farms. It contests the idea that rapid adoption of technology was inevitable, and reveals the unevenness, variability and complexity that lay beneath the smooth surface of the official statistics.Trade Review[An] excellent and coherent volume. [...] Highly recommended. -- CHOICEThis book does a wonderful job of combining historical statistics with personal recollections to create a clear and compelling case for the character of technological changes in English agriculture. [...] The authors have given us an excellent rebuttal to technological determinism, and raised a number of very important questions for other scholars to consider in their assessments of modernization. -- HISTORIA AGRARIAThe book is fascinating...for the illustration and illuminating details, both of national conditions and trends and more so from individual stories and responses. * JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS *This study sets the individual stories against the national statistics, and in doing so provides a framework for future work -- Nicola Verdon * Family & Community History *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Exploring Agricultural Change 2 The Organisation of Agricultural Science, 1935-85 3 Knowledge Networks in UK farming 1935-85 4 Agricultural Policy 1939-85 5 Dairy Farming 6 Land and Capital 7 Labour and Machinery 8 Specialisation and Expansion 9 The Declining Enterprises: Pigs and Poultry 10 Conclusions Bibliography Index
£24.69
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Recent Advances in Industrial and Applied
Book SynopsisThis open access book contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019). Written by top-level scientists recognized worldwide, the scientific contributions cover a wide range of cutting-edge topics of industrial and applied mathematics: mathematical modeling, industrial and environmental mathematics, mathematical biology and medicine, reduced-order modeling and cryptography. The book also includes an introductory chapter summarizing the main features of the congress. This is the first volume of a thematic series dedicated to research results presented at ICIAM 2019-Valencia Congress.Table of Contents1 M. Berger, Asteroid-Generated Tsunamis: A Review.- 2 A. Bermúdez, Some Case Studies in Environmental and Industrial Mathematics.- 3 Z. Cai et al., Hyperbolic Model Reduction for Kinetic Equations.- 4 A. Cohen et al., State Estimation - The Role of Reduced Models.- 5 C. Conca, Modelling Our Sense Of Smell.- 6 L. Edelstein-Keshet, Pattern formation inside living cells.- 7 M. Garzon et al., Efficient Algorithms for Tracking Moving Interfaces.- 8 K. Lauter, Private AI: Machine Learning on Encrypted Data.- 9 C. Le Bris, Mathematical approaches for contemporary materials science: Addressing defects in the microstructure.- 10 H. Leng et al., An iterative thresholding method for topology optimization for the Navier-Stokes flow.- 11 K. Sako, Cryptography and Digital Transformation.- 12 H. Suito et al., Numerical Study for Blood Flows in Thoracic Aorta.- 13 J.A.C. Weideman, Dynamics of Complex Singularities of Nonlinear PDEs: Analysis and Computation.
£33.24
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Modeling Reality with Mathematics
Book SynopsisSimulating the behavior of a human heart, predicting tomorrow's weather, optimizing the aerodynamics of a sailboat, finding the ideal cooking time for a hamburger: to solve these problems, cardiologists, meteorologists, sportsmen, and engineers can count on math help. This book will lead you to the discovery of a magical world, made up of equations, in which a huge variety of important problems for our life can find useful answers.Trade Review“By providing tools and current examples on modeling issues ... the book makes a contribution answering the becoming more and more prevalent presence of Mathematics in our daily lives. The examples come essentially from the physical and natural sciences, but the book can be relied on in other areas, including the humanities, aside seminal works on mathematical modeling ... . The journey consists in eight rigorous and enjoying chapters.” (Lisa Morhaim, zbMATH 1519.00001, 2023)Table of Contents1 The model, aka the magic box.- 2 Weather Forecast Models.- 3 Epidemics: the Mathematics of Contagion.- 4 Mathematical Hearth.- 5 Mathematics in the Wind.- 6 Flying on Sun Power.- 7 The taste for Mathematics.- 8 Conclusions.
£17.99
