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Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a
comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher
Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original
informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of
Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology, The book goes
on to delineate the role this ontology plays in developing an
original account of individuation in the physical, biological and
psycho-social regimes. This is done, in part, through reading
Simondon with and against other figures in these fields such as
Merleau-Ponty and Stuart Kauffman. Additionally, Mills explores
Simondon's contribution to epistemology and invention, including an
analysis of his important theories of the image-cycle and
transindividuality. He also examines Simondon's influence on
several contemporary thinkers, including Bernard Stiegler and Bruno
Latour, before exploring the relevance of Simondon's work for
theorising contemporary media technology.
Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a
comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher
Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original
informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of
Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology, The book goes
on to delineate the role this ontology plays in developing an
original account of individuation in the physical, biological and
psycho-social regimes. This is done, in part, through reading
Simondon with and against other figures in these fields such as
Merleau-Ponty and Stuart Kauffman. Additionally, Mills explores
Simondon's contribution to epistemology and invention, including an
analysis of his important theories of the image-cycle and
transindividuality. He also examines Simondon's influence on
several contemporary thinkers, including Bernard Stiegler and Bruno
Latour, before exploring the relevance of Simondon's work for
theorising contemporary media technology.
The Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most
famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons. The Olympic
Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to
set sail. Of the three ships built, the first only lost the record
for being the largest because she was beaten by the second, and
they were both beaten by the third. The class was meant to secure
the White Star Line's reputation as the greatest shipping company
on earth. Instead, with the loss of both the Titanic and the
Britannic in their first year of service, it guaranteed White
Star's infamy. This unique book tells the extraordinary story of
these three extraordinary ships from the bottom up, starting with
their conception and construction (and later their modification)
and following their very different careers. Behind the technical
details of these magnificent ships lies a tragic human story - not
just of the lives lost aboard the Titanic and Britannic, but of the
designers pushing the limits beyond what was actually possible,
engineers unable to prepare for every twist of fate, and ship
owners and crew who truly believed a ship could be unsinkable. This
fascinating story is told with rare photographs, new
computer-generated recreations of the ships, and unique wreck
images that explore how well the ships were designed and built.
Simon Mills offers unparalleled access to shipbuilders Harland
& Wolff's specification book for the Olympic Class, including
original blueprints and - being made widely available for the first
time - large fold-out technical drawings showing how these
extensive plans were meant to be seen.
Winners and nominees of the 2013/14 Sustainable City Awards present
their case stories in a new collection, Sustainable Cities:
Inspirational Case Studies. These short, easy-to-read stories will
serve as an inspiration to others around the world in the quest to
make our cities more sustainable. The awards were established in
2001 by the City of London Corporation and aim to recognise and
reward organisations that have demonstrated excellence in
sustainable development. Sustainable Cities is published by
Greenleaf Publishing in association with the City of London.
A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of
Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company
in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan
city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between
English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly
and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages;
the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the
early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early
modern Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the
history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo, A Commerce
of Knowledge brings to light the connections between the seemingly
separate worlds, tracing the emergence of new kinds of philological
and archaeological enquiry in England back to a series of
real-world encounters between the chaplains and the scribes,
booksellers, priests, rabbis, and sheikhs they encountered in the
Ottoman Empire. Setting the careers of its protagonists against a
background of broader developments across Protestant and Catholic
Europe, Mills shows how the institutionalization of English
scholarship, and the later English attempt to influence the Eastern
Christian churches, were bound up with the international struggle
to establish a commercial foothold in the Levant. He argues that
these connections would endure until the shift of British
commercial and imperial interests to the Indian subcontinent in the
second half of the eighteenth century fostered new currents of
intellectual life at home.
Still today, in South Korea, many people pay for the services of
mudang - the intermediaries of Korea's syncretic folk religion. The
majority of mudang are called to the profession by gods; their
clients are individuals or small groups and they focus on the use
of spirit-power ('possession') for diagnosis and problem-solving.
There is, however, a tiny minority of mudang who are born or
adopted into the ritual life and who have no spirit-power. These
ritualists perform in large family groups, conducting rituals for
whole communities. They focus far more on the use of music, dance,
and song to provide healing experiences. In this book, Simon Mills
provides an in-depth analysis of the East Coast hereditary mudang
institution and its rhythm-oriented music, focusing particularly on
the Kim family of mudang - the government-appointed 'cultural
assets' for the genre. It is the first English language book to
study this tradition in any depth, using materials from fieldwork
(1999-2000) alongside interviews with two key family members, Kim
Junghee and Jo Jonghun. Throughout, Mills includes numerous quotes
from the ritualists themselves to help reveal their characters,
opinions and beliefs. He documents the family's history, the
decline of the hereditary mudang institution and its kinship
customs, and the family's changing relations towards 'outsiders'.
Mills also details ritual procedures, musical structures, playing
techniques, instruments, and learning methods both of the past and
present; as non-ritual musicians become increasingly aware of the
powerful ritual rhythms, the music is finding new life in
non-ritual settings. Downloadable audio resources featuring Kim,
Jo, and Mills accompanies the book, each track corresponding to the
equivalent chapter in the text.
Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way. But war intervened and in 1915 she was requisitioned as a hospital ship. Just one year later, while on her way to collect troops wounded in the Balkans campaign, she fell victim to a mine laid by a German U-boat and tragically sank in the middle of the Aegean Sea.
There her wreck lay, at a depth of 400 feet, until it was discovered 59 years later by legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau. In 1996 the wreck was bought by the author of this book, Simon Mills.
Exploring the Britannic tells the complete story of this enigmatic ship: her construction, launch and life, her fateful last voyage, and the historical findings resulting from the exploration of the well-preserved wreck over a period of 40 years. With remarkable sonar scans and many never before seen photographs of the wreck, plus fold-out sections of the original Harland & Wolff ship plans, not previously published in their entirety, Exploring the Britannic finally details how the mysteries surrounding the 100-year-old enigma were laid to rest, and what the future might also hold for her.
Testing IT provides a complete, off-the-shelf software testing
process framework for any testing practitioner who is looking to
research, implement, roll out, adopt, and maintain a software
testing process. It covers all aspects of testing for software
developed or modified in-house, modified or extended legacy
systems, and software developed by a third party. Software
professionals can customize the framework to match the testing
requirements of any organization, and six real-world testing case
studies are provided to show how other organizations have done
this. Packed with a series of real-world case studies, the book
also provides a comprehensive set of downloadable testing document
templates, proformas, and checklists to support the process of
customizing. This new edition demonstrates the role and use of
agile testing best practices and includes a specific agile case
study.
Winners and nominees of the 2013/14 Sustainable City Awards present
their case stories in a new collection, Sustainable Cities:
Inspirational Case Studies. These short, easy-to-read stories will
serve as an inspiration to others around the world in the quest to
make our cities more sustainable.The awards were established in
2001 by the City of London Corporation and aim to recognise and
reward organisations that have demonstrated excellence in
sustainable development. Sustainable Cities is published by
Greenleaf Publishing in association with the City of London.
Another title in GMM's highly successful QBase series, this time
focusing on the Primary FRCA (Fellowship of the Royal College of
Anaesthetists) with sets of examination papers the candidate can
use to revise and practice their MCQ technique. As always, the
self-learning experience is greatly enhanced by the free CD-ROM
containing the QBase examination software. This powerful program
allows the user to sit the pre-set exams as printed in the book, or
to create their own exams using questions drawn from the total pool
available on the CD-ROM. The program can either generate these
exams randomly (maintaining the same proportions of each subject as
the 'pre-set' exams), or the user can select any number of
questions in any subject area, to create their very own exam.
However the user chooses to set an exam, they can then mark,
analyse and store each attempt, and review and re-sit the same exam
at a later date, comparing their scores with previous attempts.
When re-sitting an exam, the user can also choose to 'shuffle' the
question stems A-E, so that they cannot simply remember patterns of
true and false answers. A final unique aspect of the program is
that it allows the user to select how confident they are of their
answer, and the program can then provide feedback on a user's
'guessing strategy'.
Despite being the largest of the legendary Olympic-class trio,
Britannic is often overlooked in comparison to Olympic and Titanic.
Launched on the eve of war in February 1914, Britannic would never
see service on the White Star Line's express service for which she
was built. Instead, His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic became
vital to the thousands of injured and sick troops who needed
transporting back to Britain from the Mediterranean theatre of war.
However, her life was cut short when she was suddenly wracked by a
mysterious explosion on 21 November 1916 and sank in less than an
hour - three times faster than her sister ship Titanic - and yet,
thanks to the improvements in safety heralded by the tragedy of her
sister, 1,032 of 1,062 on board survived. In this updated and
expanded edition of The Unseen Britannic, Simon Mills incorporates
previously unseen material to tell a tale of heroism in the First
World War and a remarkable ship, which is finally beginning to
emerge from the shadow of the Titanic.
The authoritative and comprehensive modern textbook on western
herbal medicine - now in its second edition This long-awaited
second edition of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy covers
all major aspects of herbal medicine from fundamental concepts,
traditional use and scientific research through to safety,
effective dosage and clinical applications. Written by herbal
practitioners with active experience in clinical practice,
education, manufacturing and research, the textbook is both
practical and evidence based. The focus, always, is on the
importance of tailoring the treatment to the individual case. New
insights are given into the herbal management of approxiately 100
modern ailments, including some of the most challenging medical
conditions, such as asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and other
complex autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, and there is
vibrant discussion around the contribution of phytotherapy in
general to modern health issues, including health ageing. Fully
referenced throughout, with more than 10, 000 citations, the book
is a core resource for students and practitioners of phytotherapy
and naturopathy and will be of value to all healthcare
professionals - pharmacists, doctors, nurses - with an interest in
herbal therapeutics. 50 evidence-based monographs, including 7 new
herbs Rational guidance to phytotherapeutic strategies in the
consulting room New appendices provide useful information on topics
such as herbal actions, dosage in children and reading and
interpreting herbal clinical trials Comprehensive revision of vital
safety data, including an extensive herb-drug interaction chart. 50
evidence-based monographs, including 7 new herbs Rational guidance
to phytotherapeutic strategies in the consulting room New
appendices provide useful information on topics such as herbal
actions, dosage in children and reading and interpreting herbal
clinical trials Comprehensive revision of vital safety data,
including an extensive herb-drug interaction chart.
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