Viscous Expectations

Viscous Expectations
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ISBN-10 : 098851706X
ISBN-13 : 9780988517066
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Synopsis Viscous Expectations by : Cara Judea Alhadeff

Orchestrating text and color photography through the lens of vulnerability, Cara Judea Alhadeff explores embodied democracy as the intersection of technology, aesthetics, eroticism, and ethnicity. She demonstrates the potential for social resistance and a rhizomatic reconceptualization of community rooted in difference--and a socio-erotic ethic of ambiguity that disrupts codified normalcy. Within the context of global corporatocracy, international development, the pharma-addictive health industry, petroleum-parenting, and arts-as-entertainment, she scrutinizes the emancipatory possibilities of social ecology, post-humanism, and the pedagogy of trauma. Confronting hegemonies of convenience culture, she lays the groundwork for a reticulated citizenry that requires theory-becoming-practice. Alhadeff's primary text and footnotes become parallel narratives, reflecting their intermedial content. As she integrates the personal and theoretical with the visual and textual, she mobilizes a comprehensive exploration of our bodies as contingent modes of relation. She cites philosophers and artists from Spinoza to Audre Lorde, Louise Bourgeois, and douard Glissant, who have explored collaborative and uncanny conditions of becoming vulnerable. In the context of multiple constituencies, creativity becomes a political imperative in which cognitive and somatic risk-taking gives voice to social justice.

The Viscous

The Viscous
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Publisher : punctum books
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781950192861
ISBN-13 : 1950192865
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Viscous by : Freddie Mason

Slime, goo, gunge, gloop, gels, sols, globules, jellies, emulsions, greases, soaps, syrups, glues, lubricants, liquid crystals, moulds, plasmas, and protoplasms - the viscous is not one thing, but rather a quality of resistance and flow, of stickiness and slipperiness. It is a state of matter that oozes into the gaps of our everyday existence, across age groups, between cultures and disciplines.Since the large-scale extraction of petroleum in the 19th century, the viscous has witnessed a proliferation in the variety of its forms. Mechanized industry required lubricants and oil distillation produced waste products that were refined to form Vaseline. From this age, new viscous forms and technologies emerged: products from plastic (and plastic explosives) to cosmetics, glycerine, asphalt, sexual lubrication, hydro- and aero-gels, and even anti-climb paint.Based on unique and wide-ranging research, The Viscous is the first major investigation of encounters with and possibilities of the viscous over the course of the last century, not simply as a material state, but also as an imaginative event. We enter into a story of matter at its most wayward, deviant, hesitant, and resistant.From asphalt lakes to industrial molasses tanks, from liquid crystals squirming in our screens to milk fetishes, The Viscous discloses gooeyness as a peculiarly modern phase of matter. "Everything oozes," as Beckett's Estragon famously proclaims in Waiting for Godot. Viscous dynamics are exposed as not only hugely various in a post-industrial age, but particularly useful ways of thinking, feeling, writing, and making in a time of ecological anxiety. Freddie Mason is a writer, researcher, and filmmaker living in London. He received his doctorate from the Royal College of art in 2019, on the history and futures of semi-states. Before The Viscous, he published Ada Kaleh (Little Island Press, 2016).

Roosevelts

Roosevelts
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 9780684801407
ISBN-13 : 068480140X
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Roosevelts by : Peter Collier

In the first joint portrait of the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park Roosevelts, Collier and Horowitz explore in compelling, often startling detail the familial rivalries that influenced the private and public lives of presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, their wives and children, and the political life of our nation. Photos.

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 994
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ISBN-10 : 9781119722489
ISBN-13 : 1119722489
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by : Theodore L. Bergman

With Wiley’s Enhanced E-Text, you get all the benefits of a downloadable, reflowable eBook with added resources to make your study time more effective. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer 8th Edition has been the gold standard of heat transfer pedagogy for many decades, with a commitment to continuous improvement by four authors’ with more than 150 years of combined experience in heat transfer education, research and practice. Applying the rigorous and systematic problem-solving methodology that this text pioneered an abundance of examples and problems reveal the richness and beauty of the discipline. This edition makes heat and mass transfer more approachable by giving additional emphasis to fundamental concepts, while highlighting the relevance of two of today’s most critical issues: energy and the environment.

The Expectation Effect

The Expectation Effect
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781250827647
ISBN-13 : 1250827647
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Expectation Effect by : David Robson

“As David Robson makes plain in this compelling book, the way we think about the world can profoundly shape how we navigate it. Based in science and packed with smart advice, The Expectation Effect will expand your mind—and maybe even extend your life.” —Daniel Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you What you believe can make it so. You’ve heard of the placebo effect and how sugar pills can accelerate healing. But did you know that sham heart surgeries often work just as well as placing real stents? Or that people who think they’re particularly prone to cardiovascular disease are four times as likely to die from cardiac arrest? Such is the power and deadly importance of the expectation effect—how what we think will happen changes what does happen. Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes readers on a deep dive into the many life zones the expectation effect permeates. We see how people who believe stress is beneficial become more creative when placed under strain. We see how associating aging with wisdom can add seven plus years to your life. People say seeing is believing but, over and over, Robson proves that the converse is truer: believing is seeing. The Expectation Effect is not woo-woo. You cannot think your way into a pile of money or out of a cancer diagnosis. But just because magical thinking is nonsense doesn’t mean rational magic doesn’t exist. Pointing to accepted psychology and objective physiology, Robson gives us the practical takeaways we need to improve our fitness, productivity, intelligence, and happiness. Any reader who wants to take their fate into their own hands need only pick up this book.

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : UCD:31175024104575
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by : Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.

Advances in Geophysics

Advances in Geophysics
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Publisher : Academic Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780080568669
ISBN-13 : 0080568661
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Advances in Geophysics by :

From the Reviews of Previous Volumes"This series has provided workers in many fields with invaluable reference material and criticism."- SCIENCE PROGRESS"Should be on the bookshelf of every geophysicist."- PHYSICS TODAY"The entire series should be in the library of every group working in geophysics"- AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Cell Physiology Source Book

Cell Physiology Source Book
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Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages : 1272
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ISBN-10 : 0126569770
ISBN-13 : 9780126569773
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Cell Physiology Source Book by : Nicholas Sperelakis

This authoritative book gathers together a broad range of ideas and topics that define the field. It provides clear, concise, and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of cellular physiology from fundamental concepts to more advanced topics. The Third Edition contains substantial new material. Most chapters have been thoroughly reworked. The book includes chapters on important topics such as sensory transduction, the physiology of protozoa and bacteria, the regulation of cell division, and programmed cell death. Completely revised and updated - includes 8 new chapters on such topics as membrane structure, intracellular chloride regulation, transport, sensory receptors, pressure, and olfactory/taste receptors Includes broad coverage of both animal and plant cells Appendixes review basics of the propagation of action potentials, electricity, and cable properties Authored by leading experts in the field Clear, concise, comprehensive coverage of all aspects of cellular physiology from fundamental concepts to more advanced topics

The Anthropology of the Future

The Anthropology of the Future
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781108386340
ISBN-13 : 1108386342
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Anthropology of the Future by : Rebecca Bryant

Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the concept of 'orientations' as a way to study everyday life. It analyses six main orientations - anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope, and destiny - which represent different ways in which the future may affect our present. While orientations entail planning towards and imagining the future, they also often involve the collapse or exhaustion of those efforts: moments where hope may turn to apathy, frustrated planning to disillusion, and imagination to fatigue. By examining these orientations at different points, the authors argue for an anthropology that takes fuller account of the teleologies of action.

Mathematical Models in Applied Mechanics

Mathematical Models in Applied Mechanics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0198515596
ISBN-13 : 9780198515593
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Mathematical Models in Applied Mechanics by : Alan B. Tayler

This textbook demonstrates the power of mathematics in solving practical, scientific, and technical problems through mathematical modelling techniques. It has been designed specifically for final year undergraduate and graduate students, and springs from the author's extensive teachingexperience. The text is combined with twenty-one carefully ordered problems taken from real situations, and students are encouraged to develop the skill of constructing their own models of new situations.