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This book will be the last one in a series of 4 books issued yearly
as a deliverable of the research school established within the
European Network of Excellence CMA (for Complex Metallic Alloys).
It is written by reputed experts in the fields of metal physics,
surface physics and chemistry, metallurgy and process engineering,
combining expertise found inside as well as outside the network.
The CMA network focuses on the huge group of largely unknown
multinary alloys and compounds formed with crystal structures based
on giant unit cells containing clusters, with many tens up to more
than thousand atoms per unit cell. In these phases, for many
phenomena, the physical length scales are substantially smaller
than the unit-cell dimension. Hence, these materials offer unique
combinations of properties, which are mutually excluded in
conventional materials: metallic electric conductivity combined
with low thermal conductivity, combination of good light absorption
with high-temperature stability, combination of high metallic
hardness with reduced wetting by liquids, electrical and thermal
resistance tuneable by composition variation, excellent resistance
to corrosion, reduced cold-welding and adhesion, enhanced hydrogen
storage capacity and light absorption, etc. The series of books
will concentrate on: development of fundamental knowledge with the
aim of understanding materials phenomena, technologies associated
with the production, transformation and processing of
knowledge-based multifunctional materials, surface engineering,
support for new materials development and new knowledge-based
higher performance materials for macro-scale applications.
This book is the third in a series of 4 books issued yearly as a
deliverable of the research school established within the European
Network of Excellence CMA (for Complex Metallic Alloys). It is
written by reputed experts in the fields of surface physics and
chemistry, metallurgy and process engineering, combining expertise
found inside as well as outside the network.The CMA network focuses
on the huge group of largely unknown multinary alloys and compounds
formed with crystal structures based on giant unit cells containing
clusters, with many tens or up to more than thousand atoms per unit
cell. In these phases, for many phenomena, the physical length
scales are substantially smaller than the unit-cell dimension.
Hence, these materials offer unique combinations of properties,
which are mutually excluded in conventional materials: metallic
electric conductivity combined with low thermal conductivity,
combination of good light absorption with high-temperature
stability, combination of high metallic hardness with reduced
wetting by liquids, electrical and thermal resistance tuneable by
composition variation, excellent resistance to corrosion, reduced
cold-welding and adhesion, enhanced hydrogen storage capacity and
light absorption, etc.The series of books will concentrate on:
development of fundamental knowledge with the aim of understanding
materials phenomena, technologies associated with the production,
transformation and processing of knowledge-based multifunctional
materials, surface engineering, support for new materials
development and new knowledge-based higher performance materials
for macro-scale applications.
Complex metal alloys (CMAs) comprise a huge group of largely
unknown alloys and compounds, where many phases are formed with
crystal structures based on giant unit cells containing atom
clusters, ranging from tens of to more than thousand atoms per unit
cell. In these phases, for many phenomena, the physical length
scales are substantially smaller than the unit-cell dimension.
Hence, these materials offer unique combinations of properties
which are mutually exclusive in conventional materials, such as
metallic electric conductivity combined with low thermal
conductivity, good light absorption with high-temperature
stability, high metallic hardness with reduced wetting by liquids,
etc.This book is the second of a series of books issued yearly as a
deliverable to the European Community of the School established
within the European Network of Excellence CMA. Written by reputed
experts in the fields of metal physics, surface physics, surface
chemistry, metallurgy, and process engineering, this book brings
together expertise found inside as well as outside the network to
provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge
in CMAs.
Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything
in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented
collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and
prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A
pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and
scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false
expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When
viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbanity and
approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed.
Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology,
and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian
realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an
absolutely essential text for instructors. This powerful
combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary
arts from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti will be
enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience. A Choice
Outstanding Academic Book."
If it can be said that Native culture is hidden behind the facade
of mainstream America, there is a facet of that culture hidden even
to many Native Americans. One of today's generation of outstanding
Native writers, Esther Belin is an urban Indian. Raised in the
city, she speaks with an entirely different voice from that of her
reservation kindred as she expresses herself on subjects of urban
alienation, racism, sexism, substance abuse, and cultural
estrangement. In this bold new collection of poems, Belin presents
a startling vision of urban California--particularly Los
Angeles--contrasted with Navajo life in the Four Corners region.
She presents aspects of Din, life and history not normally seen by
readers accustomed to accounts written by Navajos brought up on the
reservation. Her work reveals a difference in experience but a
similarity in outlook. Belin's poems put familiar cultural forms in
a new context, as Coyote "struts down east 14th / feeling good /
looking good / feeling the brown." Her character Ruby dramatizes
the gritty reality of a Native woman's life ("I laugh / sit / smoke
a Virginia Slim / and talk to the spirits"). Her use of Dine
language and poignant descriptions of family life will remind some
of Joy Harjo's work, but with every turn of the page, readers will
know that Belin is making her own mark on Native American
literature. "From the Belly of My Beauty" is also a ceremony of
affirmation and renewal for those Native Americans affected by the
Federal Indian Relocation Program of the 1950s and '60s, with its
attempts to "assimilate" them into the American mainstream. They
have survived by remembering who they were and where they came
from. And they have survived so that they might bear witness, as
Esther Belin so powerfully does. Belin holds American culture
accountable for failing to treat its indigenous peoples with
respect, but speaks for the ability of Native culture to survive
and provide hope, even for mixed-blood or urban Indians. She is
living proof that Native culture thrives wherever its people are
found.
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