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The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of
the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the
human-environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that
human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state,
with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central
ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself. How should the
social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed
by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski
argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions
about the social: to understand it as the product of a dynamic
planet, self-organizing over deep time. They outline 'planetary
social thought' a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life
with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they
show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when
looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the
world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended
on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our
home planet. Presenting a social theory of the planetary, this book
will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in
humanity's relation to the changing Earth.
Contents: Additional Papers. Preface. Conference Steering Committee. Foreword: Stadia and Arena Through the Ages. Part 1 Development and Planning. Part 2 Risk Management and Safety. Part 3: Structural Design and Construction. Part 4: Services and Environmental Design. Part 5: New Stadia Projects in the United Kingdom. Part 6: Successful Stadia Projects Around the World. Author Index. Subject Index.
This edition of Korea Briefing, the fourth in the series, is issued
in conjunction with The Asia Society's Festival of Korea, a
yearlong, nationwide celebration of Korean history, culture, and
contemporary life.
Clear, rigorous definitions of mathematical terms are crucial to
good scientific and technical writing-and to understanding the
writings of others. Scientists, engineers, mathematicians,
economists, technical writers, computer programmers, along with
teachers, professors, and students, all have the occasional-if not
frequent-need for comprehensible, working definitions of
mathematical expressions. To meet that need, CRC Press proudly
introduces its Dictionary of Analysis, Calculus, and Differential
Equations - the first published volume in the CRC Comprehensive
Dictionary of Mathematics. More than three years in development,
top academics and professionals from prestigious institutions
around the world bring you more than 2,500 detailed definitions,
written in a clear, readable style and complete with alternative
meanings, and related references.
Reviewing the domestic politics, foreign relations, and economies
of North and South Korea, this book covers South Korea's security
ties with the United States, the history of the South Korean press
over the past 30 years, and the difficulties Korean women face in a
traditional society.
Published in conjunction with The Asia Society's Festival of Korea,
this expanded issue of Korea Briefing provides historical insight
into Korea, with retrospective chapters on politics and economics,
and illuminates Korea's cultural heritage through chapters on
music, dance, and literature. In addition, the political and
economic chapters treat events of the past year, outlining the
challenges and possibilities facing Kim Young-sam, the newly
elected South Korean president. Another chapter examines the
implications for U.S. policy toward Korea of Bill Clinton's
election to the U.S. presidency. A chapter by the editor describing
the U.S. outlook toward Korea is balanced by a chapter on the
changes in Korean perspectives on the United States since the
Korean War. The Korean American community's struggles in the United
States are explored in a chapter that addresses the aftereffects of
the Los Angeles riots in the broader context of issues facing the
Korean American community.
In this third annual volume in the Korea Briefing series, experts
analyze key aspects of contemporary Korean society. Included this
year is an in-depth assessment of North Korea as well as chapters
on politics, economics, women's issues, security on the Korean
peninsula, and the development of the Korean press.
Clear, rigorous definitions of mathematical terms are crucial to good scientific and technical writing-and to understanding the writings of others. Scientists, engineers, mathematicians, economists, technical writers, computer programmers, along with teachers, professors, and students, all have the occasional-if not frequent-need for comprehensible, working definitions of mathematical expressions. To meet that need, CRC Press proudly introduces its Dictionary of Analysis, Calculus, and Differential Equations - the first published volume in the CRC Comprehensive Dictionary of Mathematics. More than three years in development, top academics and professionals from prestigious institutions around the world bring you more than 2,500 detailed definitions, written in a clear, readable style and complete with alternative meanings, and related references.
The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of
the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the
human-environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that
human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state,
with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central
ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself. How should the
social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed
by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski
argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions
about the social: to understand it as the product of a dynamic
planet, self-organizing over deep time. They outline 'planetary
social thought' a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life
with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they
show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when
looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the
world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended
on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our
home planet. Presenting a social theory of the planetary, this book
will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in
humanity's relation to the changing Earth.
Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of
infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and
syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across
the globe and spanning millennia. A multidisciplinary group of
prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between
sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated
gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women
and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the
pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving
victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not
unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history
remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject
across more than two thousand years of human history. Following
asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of
evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2
addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases
first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from
bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing
surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and
its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different
ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists,
the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a
pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain.
Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University
of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
1 D. Schwahn: Critical to Mean Field Crossover in Polymer Blends.-
2 K.F. Freed, J. Dudowicz: Influence of Monomer Molecular Structure
on the Miscibility of Polymer Blends.- 3 N. Clarke: Effect of Shear
Flow on Polymer Blends.-
Since the time our first book Fault Diagnosis in Dynamic Systems:
The ory and Applications was published in 1989 by Prentice Hall,
there has been a surge in interest in research and applications
into reliable methods for diag nosing faults in complex systems.
The first book sold more than 1,200 copies and has become the main
text in fault diagnosis for dynamic systems. This book will follow
on this excellent record by focusing on some of the advances in
this subject, by introducing new concepts in research and new
application topics. The work cannot provide an exhaustive
discussion of all the recent research in fault diagnosis for
dynamic systems, but nevertheless serves to sample some of the
major issues. It has been valuable once again to have the
co-operation of experts throughout the world working in industry,
gov emment establishments and academic institutions in writing the
individual chapters. Sometimes dynamical systems have associated
numerical models available in state space or in frequency domain
format. When model infor mation is available, the quantitative
model-based approach to fault diagnosis can be taken, using the
mathematical model to generate analytically redun dant alternatives
to the measured signals. When this approach is used, it becomes
important to try to understand the limitations of the mathematical
models i. e., the extent to which model parameter variations occur
and the effect of changing the systems point of operation."
There is an increasing demand for dynamic systems to become safer, more reliable and more economical in operation. This requirement extends beyond the normally accepted safety-critical systems e.g., nuclear reactors, aircraft and many chemical processes, to systems such as autonomous vehicles and some process control systems where the system availability is vital. The field of fault diagnosis for dynamic systems (including fault detection and isolation) has become an important topic of research. Many applications of qualitative and quantitative modelling, statistical processing and neural networks are now being planned and developed in complex engineering systems. Issues of Fault Diagnosis for Dynamic Systems has been prepared by experts in fault detection and isolation (FDI) and fault diagnosis with wide ranging experience.Subjects featured include: - Real plant application studies; - Non-linear observer methods; - Robust approaches to FDI; - The use of parity equations; - Statistical process monitoring; - Qualitative modelling for diagnosis; - Parameter estimation approaches to FDI; - Fault diagnosis for descriptor systems; - FDI in inertial navigation; - Stuctured approaches to FDI; - Change detection methods; - Bio-medical studies. Researchers and industrial experts will appreciate the combination of practical issues and mathematical theory with many examples. Control engineers will profit from the application studies.
Chloe N Clark's Patterns of Orbit spans genres,
perspectives, and styles to articulate contemporary uncertainties
in a rapidly changing world. Steadily gazing into and across the
uncanny valley, Clark examines those jarring or subtle shifts in
familiar stories, writing light into dark, and offering slivers of
hope despite the longest of odds. Successfully navigating a potent
concoction of science fiction, folktale, and horror this collection
of literary, character driven stories combines the accumulated
forces and darker natures of those genre elements, unleashing the
terrors of alien fungi, forest demons, and interplanetary specters
upon her characters. However, while these characters, capable and
intelligent, face off against their prescribed monsters, it is
their existential misgivings on the state of their worlds or
conditions that will leave an indelible mark on the reader. An
impressive entry in the literary/genre hybrid canon, this
collection offers a satisfying read to the connoisseurs of both
genre and literary fiction. So, be bold. Take a swim through the
anti-gravity. You are sure to be captured by Patterns of
Orbit.
Driven by genocide, civil war, political instabilities, ethnic
and pastoral hostilities, the African Great Lakes Region, primarily
Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi, has
been overwhelmingly defined by conflict. Kenneth Omeje, Tricia
Redeker Hepner, and an international group of scholars, many from
the Great Lakes region, focus on the interlocking conflicts and
efforts toward peace in this multidisciplinary volume. These essays
present a range of debates and perspectives on the history and
politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and
external sources of both persistent tension and creative
peacebuilding. Taken together, the essays illustrate that no single
perspective or approach can adequately capture the dynamics of
conflict or offer successful strategies for sustainable peace in
the region.
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A Room of One's Own (Hardcover)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw, Stuart N. Clarke
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R2,266
R1,979
Discovery Miles 19 790
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A Room of One s Own, is one of Virginia Woolf s most influential
works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution
to the women s movement. This timely and important new edition
adopts the complete text of the first British edition published in
1929. * Features a comprehensive introduction detailing the process
and composition of Woolf s original essay and the evolution of its
subsequent publication history * The first comprehensive and
authoritative edition of this foundational text of the feminist
movement, and one of the most significant works in Woolf s own
canon * The only volume based on comparisons of each of the British
editions of A Room of One s Own that appeared in Woolf s lifetime *
Incorporates extensive explanatory notes which reveal the essay s
broader political, historical, social, and literary contexts *
Includes a comprehensive appendix highlighting variations between
each of the British editions that appeared in Woolf s lifetime and
the first American edition; alterations from Woolf s uncorrected
proofs; and current editorial emendations incorporated in this new
edition
With this sixth volume The Hogarth Press completes a major literary
undertaking - the publication of the complete essays of Virginia
Woolf. In this, the last decade of her life, Woolf wrote
distinguished literary essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve,
Gibbon and Horace Walpole. In addition, there are a number of more
political essays, such as 'Why Art To-Day Follows Politics', 'Women
Must Weep' (a cut-down version of Three Guineas and never before
reprinted), 'Royalty' (rejected by Picture Post in 1939 as 'an
attack on the Royal family, and on the institution of kingship in
this country'), 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', and even
'America, which I Have Never Seen...' ('['Americans are] the most
interesting people in the world - they face the future, not the
past'). In 'The Leaning Tower' (1940), Virginia Woolf faced the
future and looked forward to a more democratic post-war age: 'will
there be no more towers and no more classes and shall we stand,
without hedges between us, on the common ground?' Woolf stimulates
her readers to think for themselves, so she 'never forges
manifestos, issues guidelines, or gives instructions that must be
followed to the letter' (Maria DiBattista). In providing an
authoritative text, introduction and annotations to Virginia
Woolf's essays, Stuart N. Clarke has prepared a common ground - for
students, common readers and scholars alike - so that all can come
to Woolf without specialised knowledge.
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The Little Dipper
Billie N Clark
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R521
Discovery Miles 5 210
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There are significant pressures from climate change and air
pollution that forests currently face. This book aims to increase
understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to
mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment.
Itreconciles process-oriented research, long-term monitoring and
applied modeling through comprehensive forest ecosystem research.
Furthermore, it introduces "forest super sites for research for
integrating soil, plant and atmospheric sciences and monitoring. It
also provides mechanistic and policy-oriented modeling with
scientifically sound risk indications regarding atmospheric changes
and ecosystem services.
Identifies current knowledge gaps and emerging research
needsHighlights novel methodologies and integrated research
conceptsAssesses ecological meaning of investigations and
prioritizing research need"
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