|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing covers optimization
design, manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical properties,
acoustic properties, mass-transport properties and application
examples of PMs fabricated by selective laser melting additive
manufacturing technology. The book introduces the definition and
concept of pentamode metamaterials and then describes their
characterization, including manufacturing fidelity, mechanical
response, acoustic properties and so on. Final sections analyze
research situations, problems and applications of additive
manufacturing pentamode metamaterials.
This collection addresses the need for sustainable technologies
with reduced energy consumption and pollutants and the development
and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a
green environment and energy supply. Contributions focus on
energy-efficient technologies including innovative ore
beneficiation, smelting technologies, and recycling and waste heat
recovery, as well as emerging novel energy technologies. Papers
also cover various technological aspects of sustainable energy
ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce
thermal emissions, and reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse
emissions. Papers from the following symposia are presented in the
book: Energy Technologies and Carbon Dioxide Management Solar Cell
Silicon Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
|
Golden Age (Hardcover)
Wang Xiaobo; Translated by Yan Yan
|
R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the
Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Fills
the reader with aching poignancy, and yet makes them want to laugh
out loud' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans Twenty-one year old Wang
Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding
oxen, napping and dreaming of losing his virginity. His dreams come
true in the shape of the beautiful doctor Cheng Qinyang. So begins
the riotously funny story of their illicit love affair, the Party
officials who enjoy their forced confessions a little too much, and
Wang's life under the Communist regime: his misadventures as a
biology lecturer in a Beijing university, and his entanglements
with family, friends and lovers. Golden Age is an explosive,
subversive, wild and hilarious satire, featuring one of
literature's great protagonists, a sensation when it was published
in the 1990s and beloved today.
'Pleasure of Thinking is a very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's
unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour
serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in'
Ai Weiwei The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese
writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English
for the first time Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his
essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their
publication in the 1990s. Bringing together his thoughts on reading
and talking and silence in the Cultural Revolution, about the
irrepressible spirit of one beloved pig he met while an 'educated
youth', and about being operated on via a textbook, these essays
give a rare glimpse into a world rarely seen and discussed with
such honesty. Written with a light touch and with a wry sense of
humour, these are also the essays of a great literary talent,
grappling with sociology, sexuality and feminism, with the cultural
clash of living in the USA, and with Chinese sci-fi, the internet,
and beloved European writers like Bertrand Russell and Italo
Calvino. Electrifying, containing a razor-sharp wit and intellect,
this collection reveals the voice of a generation to
English-speaking readers for the very first time.
|
|