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Brian Bayly has noticed, and points out in the simplest terms, a
feature of the human mind that everybody enjoys but no-one else has
cottoned onto. When younger, he traveled in empty lands --- he led
the only party that has ever penetrated Antarctica's "Forbidden
Plateau." In this book he is in the midst of the human crowd but
still breaking new ground. Others have noticed separate details but
Bayly sees the whole elephant. Readers will learn something about
themselves and about what we enjoy, about Yasmin (with freckles)
and about Anju who makes bad coffee. The lively writing animates a
wholly serious and well-researched account of a source of pleasure
that should have been recognized decades ago. The little-noticed
effect pervades our lives and seems to reach down to the deepest
levels: if life goes beyond seeking material comfort, what else do
we hope tomorrow will bring? What motivates us to enrich our minds
and be different from chimpanzees? No expertise necessary! Any
readers over age fifteen will be able to see how this neglected
topic sheds light on their personal lives and on the hopes and
behavior of people at large.
How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do
you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure
that you and your family will receive the support you need? In
Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different
backgrounds and in different circumstances share their experiences
of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. They speak
from the heart about love and loss: 'I still find it hard to
believe that Alzheimer's has happened to us,' writes one
contributor, 'as if we were sent the wrong script.' The stories
told here vividly reflect the tragedy of dementia, the gravity of
loss, and instances of unsatisfactory diagnosis, treatment and
care. But they contain hope and optimism too: clear indications
that the quality of people's lives can be enhanced by sensitive
support services, by improved understanding of the impact of
dementia, by recognising the importance of valuing us all as human
beings, and by embracing and sustaining the connections between us.
This unique collection of personal accounts will be an engaging
read for anyone affected by dementia in a personal or professional
context, including relatives of people with dementia, social
workers, medical practitioners and care staff.
This book is the first to detail the chemical changes that occur in
deforming materials subjected to unequal compressions. While
thermodynamics provides, at the macroscopic level, an excellent
means of understanding and predicting the behavior of materials in
equilibrium and non-equilibrium states, much less is understood
about nonhydrostatic stress and interdiffusion at the chemical
level. Little is known, for example, about the chemistry of a state
resulting from a cylinder of deforming material being more strongly
compressed along its length than radially, a state of
non-equilibrium that remains no matter how ideal the cylinder's
condition in other respects. M. Brian Bayly here provides the
outline of a comprehensive approach to gaining a simplified and
unified understanding of such phenomena. The author's perspective
differs from those commonly found in the technical literature in
that he emphasizes two little-used equations that allow for a
description and clarification of viscous deformation at the
chemical level. Written at a level that will be accessible to many
non-specialists, this book requires only a fundamental
understanding of elementary mathematics, the nonhydrostatic stress
state, and chemical potential. Geochemists, petrologists,
structural geologists, and materials scientists will find Chemical
Change in Deforming Materials interesting and useful.
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