Refined Ray Tracing inside Single- and Double-Curvatured Concave Surfaces by Balamati Choudhury
English | PDF | 2016 | 76 Pages | ISBN : 9812878076 | 7.3 MB
This book describes the ray tracing effects inside different quadric surfaces. Analytical surface modeling is a priori requirement for electromagnetic (EM) analysis over aerospace platforms. Although numerically-specified surfaces and even non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) can be used for modeling such surfaces, for most practical EM applications, it is sufficient to model them as quadric surface patches and the hybrids thereof.
James Zeigler, "Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism "
English | ISBN: 1496802381 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. While the discourse of anticommunism added the leverage of national security to the moral claims of the civil rights movement, the proliferation of Red Scare rhetoric also imposed limits on the socioeconomic changes necessary for real equality.
Charles Altieri, "Reckoning with the Imagination: Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Literary Experience"
English | ISBN: 0801456703 | 2015 | 280 pages | PDF | 1532 KB
Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the notion of "surface reading." While sympathetic to these efforts, Charles Altieri believes they ultimately fall short because too often they fail to account for the values that engage literary texts in the social world. In Reckoning with the Imagination, Altieri argues for a reconsideration of the Kantian tradition of Idealist ethics, which he believes can restore much of the power of the arguments for the role of aesthetics in art. Altieri finds a perspective for that restoration in a reading of Wittgenstein's later work that stresses Wittgenstein's parallel criticisms of the spirit of empiricism.
Reciprocity Laws: From Euler to Eisenstein by Franz Lemmermeyer
English | PDF | 2000 | 503 Pages | ISBN : 3540669574 | 46.6 MB
This book is about the development of reciprocity laws, starting from conjectures of Euler and discussing the contributions of Legendre, Gauss, Dirichlet, Jacobi, and Eisenstein. Readers knowledgeable in basic algebraic number theory and Galois theory will find detailed discussions of the reciprocity laws for quadratic, cubic, quartic, sextic and octic residues, rational reciprocity laws, and Eisensteins reciprocity law. An extensive bibliography will particularly appeal to readers interested in the history of reciprocity laws or in the current research in this area.
Recent Advances in Edible Fats and Oils Technology:
Processing, Health Implications, Economic and Environmental Impact
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811651124 | 496 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care By Cindy Patton (ed.)
2010 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0816670188 | PDF | 9 MB
From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical clinic's central activity has changed since Michel Foucualt's Birth of the Clinic. Indebted to that work, but recognizing the gap between what the modern clinic hoped to be and what it has become, Rebirth of the Clinic explores medical practices that shed light on the fraught relationship between medical systems, practitioners, and patients. Combining theory, history, and ethnography, the contributors to this volume ground today's clinic in a larger scheme of power relations, identifying the cultural, political, and economic pressures that frame clinical relationships, including the instrumentalist definition of health, actuarial-based medical practices, and patient self-help movements, which simultaneously hem in and create the conditions under which agents creatively change ideas of illness and treatment. From threatened community health centers in poor African American locales to innovative nursing practices among the marginally housed citizens of Canada's poorest urban neighborhood, this volume addresses not just the who, what, where, and how of place-specific clinical practices, but also sets these local experiences against a theoretical backdrop that links them to the power of modern medicine in shaping fundamental life experiences. Contributors: Christine Ceci, U of Alberta; Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook U; Suzanne Fraser, Monash U; John Liesch, Simon Fraser U; Jenna Loyd, CUNY; Annemarie Mol, U of Amsterdam; Mary Ellen Purkis, U of Victoria.
Erhard Steiniger, "Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949"
English | ISBN: 1784386189 | 2021 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 34 MB + 14 MB
Covers fighting in Russia, the Baltics and East Prussia, as well as the author's ordeal as a Prisoner of War in Siberia, accompanied by more than one hundred previously unpublished photographs.
Ardel Haefele-Thomas, "Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity"
English | 2012 | pages: 210 | ISBN: 0708324649 | PDF | 1,9 mb
In Queer Others in Victorian Gothic, Ardel Haefele-Thomas examines a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gothic novels, short stories, and films through the lens of queer cultural studies. In some of these works, as Haefele-Thomas demonstrates, the author or filmmaker fully intended to explore the complicated landscape of queer sexuality and gender identity.In most, however, the author or filmmaker's intentions are unclear.
Quantum Physics for Beginners: Understand Simply and Practically How Everything Works Thanks to Quantum
Physics and How You Can Apply It in Everyday Life
English | 2022 | ASIN: B09TPJZ13Z | 232 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action by Amy Jo Murray and Kevin Durrheim
English | September 5, 2019 | ISBN: 1108421377, 1108432204 | 310 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB
Qualitative Studies of Silence brings together influential qualitative researchers from across the social sciences and humanities who have sought to understand the power of what remains unsaid, both psychologically and socially. Each chapter identifies one or more signs of silence and explains how these can form the basis of a rigorous qualitative investigation. The authors also demonstrate how silences operate in our private and collective lives by fulfilling psychological, relational, institutional, and ideological functions. The book contains multiple disciplinary perspectives and presents analyses of wide-ranging topics, such as medical consultations, whistleblowers, silence in court, omission-as-propaganda, trauma survivors, the silence of war museums, racism in the Americas, gendered silences, paid domestic labour, the undocumented student movement, and the Nazi past. This collection shows how such qualitative studies can reveal and contribute to understanding the unsaid as social action.