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Green Innovation in China: China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Lewis (Author)As the greatest coal-producing and consuming nation in the world, China would seem an unlikely haven for wind power. Yet the country now boasts a world-class industry that promises to make low-carbon technology more affordable and available to all. Conducting an empirical study of China's remarkable transition and the possibility of replicating their model elsewhere, Joanna I. Lewis adds greater depth to a theoretical understanding of China...

The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking

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Report copyright infringementby César Vega (Editor), Job Ubbink (Editor), Erik Van Der Linden (Editor)Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food's components, setting the stage for science-based cooking. In this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical and chemical properties of food. Using traditional and cutting-edge tools, ingredients, and tech...

Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice

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Report copyright infringementby Gyorgy Scrinis (Author)Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food--an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues this ideology has narrowed and in some cases distorted our appreciation of food quality, such that even highly processed foods may be percei...

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Charles Iklé (Author)"Mission accomplished," George Bush famously proclaimed in reference to the defeat of Saddam Hussein's military organization. However, as recent events in Iraq have once again demonstrated, it is much easier to start a war than it is to end it. Every War Must End, which Colin Powell credits in his autobiography with having shaped his thinking on how to end the first Gulf War, analyzes the many critical obstacles to ending a war--an asp...

Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization

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Report copyright infringementby Masamichi Inoue (Author)In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. The incident triggered a chain of protests by women's groups, teachers' associations, labor unions, reformist political parties, and various grassroots organizations across Okinawa prefecture. Reaction to the crime culminated in a rally attended by some 85,000 people, including business leaders and conservative politicians who had seldom raised their voices ag...

Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Smith (Author)Challenging commonly held biological, religious, and ethical beliefs, internationally well known historian of science Roger Smith boldly argues that human nature is not some "thing" awaiting discovery but is active in understanding itself. According to Smith, "being human" is a self-creation made possible through a reflective circle of thought and action, with a past and a future, and studying this "history" from a range of perspectives is f...

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Report copyright infringementby Baldomero Sánchez Pérez (Author)Este libro es un compendió de la realización de prácticas en el modulo de Sistemas Operativos Monopuesto. Está enfocado a la realización básica de prácticas de conocimiento sobre los contenidos y la adquisición de las habilidades, para poder incorporarse a un puesto de trabajo, en base a la familia profesional. Se tratan diferentes sistemas operativos en Linux: Fedora, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, alguna variante y Android...

Web Radio: Radio Production for Internet Streaming

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Priestman (Author)Anyone wanting to set up a low cost web radio station will benefit from the advice and information provided by this book. Not only will you gain technical and practical know-how to enable your station to go live, but also an appreciation of the legal and copyright implications of making radio, potentially for international audiences and in the rapidly evolving environment of the web. To succeed, your radio content will need to be careful...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Ward (Author)Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator's craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Peter Ward shows how composition can be learned, to enhance the quality of your work. Based on the author's ow...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Self (Author)This is the essential book reference for amplifier designers. Douglas Self covers all the design issues of noise, distortion, power supply rejection, protection, reliability, and layout. He describes advanced forms of compensation that give dramatically lower distortion. This edition is much expanded, and packed with new information. It is a must-have for audio power amplifier professionals and audiophiles, amateur constructors and anyone w...

Ableton Live 9: Create, Produce, Perform

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Robinson (Author)Learn how to create, produce, and perform your music at the next level by unlocking the power of Ableton Live 9. This book and web combination shows, if you get it right, exactly what Live can deliver.Engineered to follow Live's non-linear music environment, the book looks and feels like the program. Its unique format utilizes the terms and creative features of Live - tabs, keys, pointers, and labels--to help you learn the littlest things...

A13 Cruiser Mk.V Covenanter Tank A Technical History

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Report copyright infringementby P. M. Knight (Author)The Covenanter was intended to be the main equipment of the Armoured Divisions during the early years of the Second World War, and was a generally reliable tank that was well suited to its primary task of home defence. Due to a rather convoluted series of events, mainly involving material shortages, it would not see service overseas, and as Britain's strategic circumstances evolved it would increasingly be used as a training tank. If the Co...

Tomorrow's Air Force: Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey J. Smith (Author)Looking ahead to future airpower requirements, this engaging and ground-breaking book on the history and future of American combat airpower argues that the USAF must adapt to the changes that confront it or risk decline into irrelevance. To provide decision makers with the necessary analytical tools, Jeffrey J. Smith uses organizational modeling to help explain historical change in the USAF and to anticipate change in the future. While ...

Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel J. Goulding (Author)Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and updated throughout. It has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that ...

Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality

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Report copyright infringementby Don Ihde (Editor), Evan Selinger (Editor)". . . an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies. . . . [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to the work of four major figures is wholly suited to clarifying their unorthodox and consequently somewhat elusive philosophical positions." --Robert ScharffAlthough often absent from the considerations of philosophers, sociologi...

The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick McNaughton (Author)" . . . finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." --American Ethnologist"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading . . . " --Choice"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book . . . sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough . . . " --African Arts"McNaughton's Mande Blacksmiths is undeniably ...

Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Peden (Author), Sidonie Coryn (Illustrator)Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of ...

The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

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Report copyright infringementby David J. Bodenhamer (Editor), John Corrigan (Editor), Trevor M. Harris (Editor)Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS...

American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn

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Report copyright infringementby Hans Achterhuis (Editor)Introduces contemporary American philosophy of technology through six of its leading figures. The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this clear and concise introduction to the field--Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, Don Ihde, and Langdon Winner--represent a new, empirical direction in the philosophical study of technology that has developed mainly in North America. In place o...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Abel (Editor), Altman (Editor)The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to ...

The Market in Mind: How Financialization Is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine, and Innovation in Biotechnology

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Dennis Robinson (Author)A critical examination of translational medicine, when private risk is transferred to the public sector and university research teams become tech startups for global investors.A global shift has secretly transformed science and medicine. Starting in 2003, biomedical research in the West has been reshaped by the emergence of translational science and medicine--the idea that the aim of research is to translate findings as quickly as p...

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Endicott (Author), Edward Hagerman (Author)[The United States and Biological Warfare] is a major contribution to our understanding of the past involvement by the US and Japanese governments with BW, with important, crucial implications for the future. . . . Pieces of this story, including the Korean War allegations, have been told before, but never so authoritatively, and with such a convincing foundation in historical research. . . . This is a brave an...

Louisville & Nashville Steam Locomotives, 1968 Revised Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Richard E. Prince (Author)Louisville & Nashville Steam LocomotivesRevised 1968 EditionRichard E. PrinceA revised new edition of an encyclopedic study.For over one hundred years the steam locomotives provided the principal motive power on the Louisville & Nashville RR. During this period over 2000 different steam engines were owned by the Old Reliable." Thus begins Richard E. Princes encyclopedic study of the Louisville & Nashville's Steam Locomotive...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Parker Lamb (Author)Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mechanical engineering profession both grew directly out of the Industrial Revolution's need for sources of power beyond that of men and animals. Invented in England when coal mining was being developed, the practical steam engine eventually found numerous applications in transportati...

At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870

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Report copyright infringementby Richard F. Nation (Author)This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals the world as they saw it. For them, faith in local institutions reflected a distrust of distant markets and politicians. Localism saw its expression in the Democratic Party's anti-federal...

Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

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Report copyright infringementby James Morton Turner (Author), Paul S. Sutter (Foreword by), Paul S. Sutter (Editor) Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book PrizeFinalist for the 2023 Cundill History PrizeGold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, SustainabilityThe dirty work essential to a clean energy transition To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from s...

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Rheingold (Author)In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay.The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. I...

The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas W. Allen (Author), Dean Lueck (Author)The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests the implications of thos...

Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby Barry Blesser (Author), Linda-Ruth Salter (Author)How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under the balcony. The ...

In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

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Report copyright infringementby John Thackara (Author)How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, ...

Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Charis Thompson (Author)Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the "ontological choreography" at ART clinics--the dynamics by which technical, scientific, kin...

Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Michel Callon (Author), Pierre Lascoumes (Author), Yannick Barthe (Author)A call for a new form of democracy in which "hybrid forums" composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientifi...