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This comprehensive dictionary covers wastewater processes,
pollution control, and every major area of environmental
engineering used in industry. The alphabetically arranged entries
cover key terms used in daily communications and documentation in
all research and industrial activities. The several thousand key
technical terms are written in easy-to-understand, practical
language. The volume is an ideal reference for students and
practitioners.
Utah: Wild and Beautiful is a vivid portrayal of Utah's mesas,
deserts, sandstone canyons, and mountain ranges by photographer
Scott T. Smith of Utah. When Henry David Thoreau wrote that ?in
wildness is the preservation of the world, ? he might have been
writing about Utah, with its five national parks, seven national
monuments, thirteen wilderness areas. In Utah Wild and Beautiful,
Scott T. Smith offers us brilliantly colored, clear images of the
landscapes and landforms in the state where Brigham Young and his
lieutenants declared at the mouth of Emigrant Canyon on July 24,
1847, ?This is the Place.? In 158 photographs carefully selected
from 26 years of work, Scott shows you the home of some of the
world's most beautiful natural features: the grand sweep of Capitol
Reef National Park, the rugged Mesa Arch, a rippled slot canyon in
Grand Staircase?Escalante National Monument, and blood-red
paintbrush in Zion National Park.
This comprehensive dictionary covers wastewater processes,
pollution control, and every major area of environmental
engineering used in industry. The alphabetically arranged entries
cover key terms used in daily communications and documentation in
all research and industrial activities. The several thousand key
technical terms are written in easy-to-understand, practical
language. The volume is an ideal reference for students and
practitioners.
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while
they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman
ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and
sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and
cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero
genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for
engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity
(race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to
imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the
premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest
in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and
extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers
of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in
superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader
cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on
lesser-known characters-such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the
Silver Scorpion-as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the
protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic
uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy.
Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a
vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more
broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination
of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and
scholarship in popular culture. In addition to the editors, the
contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons,
Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later,
Lauren O'Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne
Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while
they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman
ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and
sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and
cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero
genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for
engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity
(race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to
imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the
premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest
in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and
extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers
of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in
superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader
cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on
lesser-known characters—such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the
Silver Scorpion—as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the
protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic
uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy.
Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a
vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more
broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination
of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and
scholarship in popular culture. In addition to the editors, the
contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons,
Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later,
Lauren O’Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne
Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.
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Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Paperback)
MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, …
bundle available
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R803
Discovery Miles 8 030
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes
the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The
volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team
with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and
MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide
range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book's first section,
featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a
new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the
potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic
disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and
reinvigorate literary scholarship-and the notion of the literary
text-for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating
essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that
graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health
professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic
practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and
other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex
challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian
Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating
graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and
the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics
form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine
community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and
scholarly works relevant to the field.
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