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Ceramics Science and Technology, Volume 3
Although ceramics have been known to mankind literally for millennia, research has never ceased. Apart from the classic uses as a bulk material in pottery, construction, and decoration, the latter half of the twentieth century saw an explosive growth of application fields, such as electrical and thermal insulators, wear-resistant bearings, surface coatings, lightweight armour, or aerospace materials. In addition to plain, hard solids, modern ceramics come in many new guises such as fabrics, ultrathin films, microstructures and hybrid composites. Built on the solid foundations laid down by the 20-volume series Materials Science and Technology, Ceramics Science and Technology picks out this exciting material class and illuminates it from all sides. Materials scientists, engineers, chemists, biochemists, physicists and medical researchers alike will find this work a treasure trove for a wide range of ceramics knowledge from theory and fundamentals to practical approaches and problem solutions.
Practicing Materiality
It is little wonder that relationships between things and humans are front-and-center in the contemporary social sciences, given the presence of technologies in every conceivable aspect of our lives. From Bruno Latour to Ian Hodder, anthropologists and archaeologists are embracing “thing theory” and the “ontological turn.” In Practicing Materiality, Ruth M. Van Dyke cautions that as anthropologists turn toward animals and things, they run the risk of turning away from people and intentional actions. Practicing Materiality focuses on the practical job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations, but with the firm retention of anthropocentrism. The philosophical discussio...
Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements
The growing presence of social media and computer use has caused significant changes to community engagement. With the ubiquity of these technologies, there is increasing engagement in social and political policies and changes. Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on relevant theoretical and practical frameworks regarding online communities and social media as agents of social and political change. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as computer use, online engagement, and collective action, this publication is an ideal resource for researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of social psychology, social network analysis, media studies, information systems, and political science.
Dead Soon Enough
'A gritty, politically charged mystery.' LA Times Juniper Song - private detective - has a talent for surveillance, and for knowing when a client isn't telling her the whole story. Rubina Gasparian, Song's latest client, is worried about her cousin, who just happens to be carrying her baby as a surrogate. Something tells her she's been hired to do more than just follow a heavily pregnant twenty-six-year-old around LA, and soon enough, Song finds herself caught in the dangerous underbelly of one of LA's biggest immigrant communities.
Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border
The Turkish-Syrian borderlands host almost half of the Syrian refugees, with an estimated 1.5 million people arriving in the area following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. This book investigates the ongoing negotiations of ethnicity, religion and state at the border, as refugees struggle to settle and to navigate their encounters with the Turkish state and with different sectarian groups. In particular, the book explores the situation in Antakya, the site of the ancient city of Antioch, the "cradle of civilizations", and now populated by diverse populations of Arab Alawites, Christians and Sunni-Turks. The book demonstrates that urban refugee encounters at the margins of the state reve...
Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey
"The Southeast Anatolia Region is one of the least developed parts of Turkey. For decades, development aid from the government and NGOs has been offered, with women in the area--particularly housewives--being invited to state-initiated opportunities for education and employment. But what is the impact of these 'empowerment programmes' and whose interests do they serve? This open access book draws on ethnographic research conducted in empowerment programmes for marginalized women, in order to understand how these projects operate and why they have failed. Based on interviews and observations, the book argues that everyday barriers in Turkey"s 'gendered regime' still impede women's potential, ...
Trusted Systems
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Trusted Systems, held in Beijing, China, in December 2010.The 23 contributed papers presented together with nine invited talks from a workshop, titled "Asian Lounge on Trust, Security and Privacy" were carefully selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in seven topical sections on implentation technology, security analysis, cryptographic aspects, mobile trusted systems, hardware security, attestation, and software protection.
