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Covers the engineering of complex nanostructures designed for
applications in the peculiar space environment Deeply illustrates
several examples of innovative manufacturing processes and creation
of new products for the realization of advanced nanotechnological
systems Identifies future efforts needed to further expand
nanotechnology in space Presents a market analysis encompassing the
whole area of strategic space-related applications
Sit back, light up, and enjoy. Newly in vogue, people are
rediscovering a relaxing pastime enjoyed for centuries. This book
is a compendium of cigar related "stuff," from the old cigars in
their original wrappers still ready to smoke to the fine humidors
that have kept them fresh for decades. Here is the breadth of
advertising, ashtrays, matchsafes, cigar boxes, dispensers, and
holders that have adorned homes and shops for 100 years and more.
This book follows the successful Antique Cigar Cutters and Lighters
by the same co-authors, who herein present more than 500 items in
clear, full-color photographs, with informative captions and a
current price guide. This book is custom designed for cigar
aficionados and those who appreciate antique advertising. It is a
welcome addition to the literature of tobacciana.
The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects
thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology
in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid
art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are
interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an
expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It
proposes an emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its
historical and theoretical foundations from the perspective of
artists, architects, designers, scientists, historians, and
theoreticians. Includes over 150 black and white images.
Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in
On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its
publication, aligning it with current developments in art and
science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art,
science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the
anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both
scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways
cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often
otherwise disconnected. United by Thompson's original exploration
of how physical forces propel and shape living and nonliving forms,
essays range from art, art history, and neuroscience to
architecture, design, and biology. Contributors explore how
translations are made from the discipline of biology to the
cultural arena. They reflect on how Thompson's study relates to the
current sciences of epigenesis, self-organization, biological
complex systems, and the expanded evolutionary synthesis.
Cross-disciplinary contributors explore the wide-ranging aesthetic
ramifications of these sciences. A timeline links the history of
evolutionary theory with cultural achievements, providing the
reader with a valuable resource.
Research in adsorption of gases by carbon nanomaterials has
experienced considerable growth in recent years, with increasing
interest for practical applications. Many research groups are now
producing or using such materials for gas adsorption, storage,
purification, and sensing. This book provides a selected overview
of some of the most interesting scientific results regarding the
outstanding properties of carbon nanomaterials for gas adsorption
and of interest both for basic research and technological
applications. Topics receiving special attention in this book
include storage of H, purification of H, storage of rare gases,
adsorption of organic vapors, gas trapping and separation, and
metrology of gas adsorption.
In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and
weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists
from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are
emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of
information overload and media saturation? What structures of power
and control operate over a self-organising system like the
internet?In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova
investigates the political dimension of the network culture in
which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication
and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and
politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in
cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media
culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within
the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. Network Culture
concludes that the nonlinear network dynamics that link different
modes of communication at different levels (from local radio to
satellite television, from the national press to the internet, from
broadcasting to rumours and conspiracy theories) provide the
conditions within which another politics can emerge. This other
politics, the book suggests, does not entail the production of a
new political discourse or ideology, but the invention of
micropolitical tactics able to stand up to new forms of social
control.
From the end of the Civil War until the explosive popularity of the
cigarette in the early twentieth century. the cigar was king. For
the pleasure and convience of cigar smokers a wide variety of
smoking accessories were manufactured, including cigar cutters and
lighters. The cutters range from simple vest pocket models to
ingenious mechanical contraptions that would occupy a prominent
place on the counter of the local tobacconist. In between are
beautifully sculpted Vienna bronze and wooden desk models. In many
cases these are combined with lighters, to offer the smoker
full-service convenience. The lighters range from alcohol dips to
electric devices. They are sometimes cast as stunning figures or
are elegantly formed lamps, using blown glass or pierced tin.
Beautiful color photographs document these wonderful objects,
accompanied by concise, informative descriptions. The text places
the cutters in their historical context and contains helpful
information. A value guide is included.
The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects
thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology
in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid
art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are
interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an
expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It
proposes an emergent field of biocreativity and outlines its
historical and theoretical foundations from the perspective of
artists, architects, designers, scientists, historians, and
theoreticians. Includes over 150 black and white images.
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Farewell, Ghosts (Paperback)
Nadia Terranova; Translated by Ann Goldstein
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R403
R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
Save R75 (19%)
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Art as Organism shows that the digital image was a rich and
expansive artistic medium of modernism. Linking its emergence to
the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by
Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s, Charissa
Terranova uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology,
the organism, feedback loops, emotions, and the Gestalt, along with
an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines.
Unearthing a forgotten narrative of modernism, one which charts the
influence that biology, General Systems Theory, and cybernetics had
on modern art, Terranova interprets new major art movements such as
the Bauhaus, Op Art, and Experiments in Art and Technology by
referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists,
electrical engineers, and computer scientists. From kinetic and
interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an
entire city, this book charts complex connections between visual
culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of
20th-century art.
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Crystal Clear (Paperback)
Rose Terranova Cirigliano; James Mounchere
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R321
Discovery Miles 3 210
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