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New concepts for gaging, inspection, checking, machine vision, and
robotic testing. Includes guidelines for installing complex
electronic and computerized systems and a directory of commercially
availalbe computer software, as well as distributors' names and
addresses. Annotation copyright Book News
Government deficits, the spiraling imbalance of trade,
inconsistencies in foreign policy, illegal immigration,
unemployment, the decay of our cities, the abuse of the
environment, the staggering cost of elections, and the piracy of
special interest groups-these problems and a host of others have
led thoughtful citizens to question whether our polit
This book is a primer for debate about the fitness of the American
political system as it moves toward the twenty-first century. It
focuses on structural matters: the electoral process and the major
institutions of the federal government and how they interact.
Barking Mad taps into the British passion for dogs by bringing
together a unique collection of extraordinary, touching and
sometimes bizarre but true stories covering sporting dogs (and
hounds) military mascots, eccentric companions, war heroes and
Royal dogs. Many of the best and most intriguing stories, which
date back to the early nineteenth century, have been discovered in
long-forgotten books and magazines, but all reflect our enduring
passion for man's best friend. Stories include everything from the
Labrador that saved its master from drowning to the hound that
spent years travelling unaccompanied across Britain by train, and
the pooch that carried a penny to the local bakery every day to buy
its own cakes. Beautifully illustrated by Nicola L. Robinson this
book is a wonderful anthology for all who love man's best friend.
Originally published in 1984, this volume examines the consequences
of increasing energy prices on agricultural production. It
discusses whether it is possible to use agriculture to produce
energy without endangering the food supply for the highly populated
areas of the devloping world. Analyzing the global consquences of
the 'food energy nexus' at the turn of the millenium it asks
whether there will be a good crisis in those same developing
countries which have suffered from the energy crisis. The editors
and contributors are high-level specialists of global modelling in
energy and agriculture and decision makers involved in food and
agriculture planning in the developing world.
Government deficits, the spiraling imbalance of trade,
inconsistencies in foreign policy, illegal immigration,
unemployment, the decay of our cities, the abuse of the
environment, the staggering cost of elections, and the piracy of
special interest groups-these problems and a host of others have
led thoughtful citizens to question whether our polit
This book is a primer for debate about the fitness of the American
political system as it moves toward the twenty-first century. It
focuses on structural matters: the electoral process, the major
institutions of the federal government and how they interact, and
what we can do when they perform ineffectively or abuse their
powers. Part 1 presents a
Most of what is written these days about young black men and women
emphasizes incarceration and mortality rates, teen pregnancy, drug
use, and domestic strife. This collection of sixteen
autobiographical essays by African-Americans, Africans in America,
Afro-Caribbean and biracial college students who have tackled
significant obstacles to achieve success and degrees of
self-understanding offers a broader, more hopeful portrait of the
adolescent experiences of minority youth. Here are emotionally
honest and reflective stories of economic hardship, racial bias,
loneliness, and anger--but also of positive role models, spiritual
awakening, perseverance, and racial pride.
In these essays, students explore the process of self-discovery and
the realization of cultural identity. The pieces are accompanied by
commentary from prominent African-American scholars, such as
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs and Peter C. Murrell, Jr. Together they create
a vivid portrait of what it is like to grow up as a black person in
America, and offer a springboard to current debates about
self-discovery, cultural identity and assimilation.
Often raw and painful, always honest and affecting, this
collection of personal stories written by young people stands as an
eloquent tribute to the courage of today's youth and to the power
of their own words.
Originally published in 1984, this volume examines the consequences
of increasing energy prices on agricultural production. It
discusses whether it is possible to use agriculture to produce
energy without endangering the food supply for the highly populated
areas of the devloping world. Analyzing the global consquences of
the 'food energy nexus' at the turn of the millenium it asks
whether there will be a good crisis in those same developing
countries which have suffered from the energy crisis. The editors
and contributors are high-level specialists of global modelling in
energy and agriculture and decision makers involved in food and
agriculture planning in the developing world.
Articles which survey and map out the increasingly significant
discipline of medievalism; and explore its numerous aspects. This
latest volume of Studies in Medievalism further explores
definitions of the field, complementing its landmark predecessor.
In its first section, essays by seven leading medievalists seeks to
determine precisely how tocharacterize the subjects of study, their
relationship to new and related fields, such as neomedievalism, and
their relevance to the middle ages, whose definition is itself a
matter of debate. Their observations and conclusions are then
tested in the articles second part of the book. Their topics
include the notion of progress over the last eighty or ninety years
in our perception of the middle ages; medievalism in Gustave Dore's
mid-nineteenth-century engravings of the Divine Comedy; the role of
music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films; cinematic
representations of the Holy Grail; the medieval courtly love
tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passionand The.Powerbook;
Eleanor of Aquitaine in twentieth-century histories; modern updates
of the Seven Deadly Sins; and Victorian spins on Jacques de
Voragine's Golden Legend. CONTRIBUTORS: Carla A. Arnell,Aida Audeh,
Jane Chance, Pamela Clements, Alain Corbellari, Roberta Davidson,
Michael Evans, Nickolas Haydock, Carol Jamison, Stephen Meyer, E.L.
Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Clare A. Simmons, Richard Utz, Veronica
Ortenberg West-Harling
The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin's fiction
and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging
indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which
human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her
work also delineates new ways of making sense of the "science" of
science fiction. The authors of this collection provide up-to-date
discussions of well-known works as well as more experimental
writings. Written in an accessible style, Legacies will appeal to
any readers interested in literature, science fiction and fantasy,
as well as specialists of science and technology studies,
philosophy of science, ethics, gender studies, indigenous studies
and posthumanism.
In the past twenty years, China has witnessed the flowering of an
independent documentary cinema characterized by a particular verite
aesthetic. Independent Chinese Documentary traces the roots of this
style back to the 1980s, and the gradual abandonment of
studio-based filmmaking, dominant during the Maoist era, for
shooting live and on location. Known in Chinese as xianchang - or
being on "the scene" - this documentary practice is partly
distinguished by its embrace of the contingent. Through a series of
synoptic case studies, this book considers the different ways in
which contingency manifests in independent Chinese documentary; the
practical and aesthetic challenges its mediation presents for
individual film directors; and the reasons for the quality's
significance, set against the backdrop of China's ongoing
postsocialist transition, and the consequences of this process for
the very act of documentary representation itself.
The rise of independent documentary film production is the most
radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This
book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary
in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang, or being
'on the scene'.
Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the
central theme of the ethics of medievalism. Ethics in post-medieval
responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume.
The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of
reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the
production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become
inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities,
and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism.
The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they
concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially
incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use
of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda,
disjuncturesfrom medieval literature to medievalist film in
portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf on horror
films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism
in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred
Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval
source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole
invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues
as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those
choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the
world around us. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson
University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Mary R. Bowman,
Harry Brown, Louise D'Arcens, Alison Gulley, Nickolas Haydock, Lisa
Hicks, Lesley E. Jacobs, Michael R. Kightley, Phillip Lindley,
Pascal J. Massie, Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley,
Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Jason Pitruzello, Nancy M. Resh, Carol L.
Robinson, Christopher Roman, M.J. Toswell.
New concepts for gaging, inspection, checking, machine vision, and
robotic testing. Includes guidelines for installing complex
electronic and computerized systems and a directory of commercially
availalbe computer software, as well as distributors' names and
addresses. Annotation copyright Book News
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of
scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those
who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its
cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about
them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or
theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume
aims to provide such a framework, by calling into question the
problematic yet commonly accepted vocabulary used in Medievalism
Studies. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field,
define and exemplify in a lively and accessible style the essential
terms used when speaking of the later reception of medieval
culture. The terms: Archive, Authenticity, Authority, Christianity,
Co-disciplinarity, Continuity, Feast, Genealogy, Gesture, Gothic,
Heresy, Humor, Lingua, Love, Memory, Middle, Modernity, Monument,
Myth, Play, Presentism, Primitive, Purity, Reenactment, Resonance,
Simulacrum, Spectacle, Transfer, Trauma, Troubadour Elizabeth Emery
is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at Montclair State
University (Montclair, NJ, USA); Richard Utz is Chair and Professor
of Medievalism Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and
Communication at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA, USA). Contributors:
Nadia Altschul, Martin Arnold, Kathleen Biddick, William C. Calin,
Martha Carlin, Pam Clements, Michael Cramer, Louise D'Arcens,
Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Vincent Ferre, Matthew Fisher, Karl
Fugelso, Jonathan Hsy, Amy S. Kaufman, Nadia Margolis, David
Matthews,Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberly, Kevin Moberly, Gwendolyn
Morgan, Laura Morowitz, Kevin D. Murphy, Nils Holger Petersen, Lisa
Reilly, Edward Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Juanita Feros Ruys, Tom
Shippey, Clare A. Simmons, Zrinka Stahuljak, M. Jane Toswell,
Richard Utz, Angela Jane Weisl.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with
business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate
culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with
escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the
present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore
precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted,
appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval
interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book,
contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing
specific case studies with broader investigations of the
discipline's motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's
racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the
treatment of womenin medievalist film. The book also includes a
spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the
topic neomedievalism. Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert,
Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnnFitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan,
Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent
Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J.
Toswell, J. Ruben Valdes Miyares
Providing a practical and accessible guide, this book enables
readers to quickly build up knowledge and understanding of
toxicology applications taking the reader from basic theory to an
advanced basics level dealing with specific issues like pesticides,
alcohol, and cigarettes. Focuses on toxicological risk assessment
of chemical and environmental compounds Addresses the similarities
and differences between USA and EU regulatory requirements Contains
self-test questions and a summary of the key points in each chapter
Concludes with a listing of online resources on toxicology and risk
assessment Features enhanced content of video in ebook versions,
based on the author s training webinars
Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers is a modern,
graduate-level text on data analysis techniques for physical
science and engineering students as well as working scientists and
engineers. Edward Robinson emphasizes the principles behind various
techniques so that practitioners can adapt them to their own
problems, or develop new techniques when necessary. Robinson
divides the book into three sections. The first section covers
basic concepts in probability and includes a chapter on Monte Carlo
methods with an extended discussion of Markov chain Monte Carlo
sampling. The second section introduces statistics and then
develops tools for fitting models to data, comparing and
contrasting techniques from both frequentist and Bayesian
perspectives. The final section is devoted to methods for analyzing
sequences of data, such as correlation functions, periodograms, and
image reconstruction. While it goes beyond elementary statistics,
the text is self-contained and accessible to readers from a wide
variety of backgrounds. Specialized mathematical topics are
included in an appendix. Based on a graduate course on data
analysis that the author has taught for many years, and couched in
the looser, workaday language of scientists and engineers who
wrestle directly with data, this book is ideal for courses on data
analysis and a valuable resource for students, instructors, and
practitioners in the physical sciences and engineering. * In-depth
discussion of data analysis for scientists and engineers * Coverage
of both frequentist and Bayesian approaches to data analysis *
Extensive look at analysis techniques for time-series data and
images * Detailed exploration of linear and nonlinear modeling of
data * Emphasis on error analysis * Instructor's manual (available
only to professors)
Working on a musical is exciting for students, teachers, and the
entire middle school community! As the first musical theater book
especially for middle school productions, The Magic of Middle
School Musicals provides a step-by-step guide for success. Bobetsky
approaches planning and producing musicals in the context of a
curricular unit of study and includes strategies for assessing
student learning. Dr. Victor V. Bobetsky, a former New York City
middle school music teacher, begins with advice on how to select a
musical, obtain copyright permission, and arrange the music for
middle school voices. He discusses strategies for teaching the
music in the choral classroom, auditioning, casting, and rehearsal
procedures. Practical suggestions show directors how to work with
student actors, create choreography, and manage scenery, set
design, costumes, lighting, and more. The Magic of Middle School
Musicals gives music teachers the information and confidence they
need to artistically adapt musicals from the American repertoire to
the middle school level so that teachers, students, and audiences
can experience and enjoy this unique, familiar, and musically
expressive genre!
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