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Bioethanol and Beyond
Bioethanol and Beyond: Advances in Production Process and Future Directions discusses the advances in the production process of bioethanol, ranging from first to fourth generation bioethanol. Bioethanol is currently applied besides simple fuels (biofuel): it is mixed with other fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, and used for generating renewable fuels, such as hydrogen. Advances in the industrial bioethanol (first and second generation) chain point towards the co-energy generation, in situ, and the possibility of generating outside the industry via energetic densification of the residues. A biorefinery is suggested as a strategy to use the industrial residues by amplifying the products port...
Between Past and Future
From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century.
Postfeminist Whiteness
Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.
Between Self and Community
Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts. Junehui Ahn details the conflicting and competing ways in which the ideologies of new personhood are enacted in actual everyday socialization contexts and reveals the confusions, dilemmas, and ruptures that occur when globally dominant ideals of childhood development are superimposed onto local experiences. Between Self and Community pays special attention to the way children, as active agents of socialization, create, construe, and sustain their own meanings of their personhood, thereby highlighting the dynamism children and their culturally rich peer world create in South Korea’s shifting socialization terrain.
Del paraíso ultramarino al infierno colonial
Esta historia sobre la temprana colonización de Virginia (siglos XVI-XVII) describe la evolución de estos territorios desde su concepción como un nuevo paraíso ultramarino, poniendo en relación las expectativas imperiales y la dinámica histórica del primer asentamiento inglés en el espacio norteamericano, hasta su transformación en un infierno colonial a causa de la resistencia de los nativos. Se analizan aquí la importancia de la literatura de viajes como motor de la expansión ultramarina inglesa, la construcción de representaciones (textuales y visuales) sobre la otredad indígena y el impacto cultural de la experiencia americana en la metrópoli, especialmente por la formulación de desarrollos intelectuales y literarios de alcance universal. Asimismo, el énfasis en la dimensión del conflicto interétnico revela una trama de debilidad, frustración, autoritarismo y violencia colonial, que se proyectó descarnadamente contra los indígenas –tal como evidencia la historia de Pocahontas– y también contra los colonos de común condición, que vieron ahogados sus sueños de emancipación en el Nuevo Mundo.
"Fuimos muy peores en vicios"
Las formas en que se representó la barbarie en el mundo occidental, entre la caída de Constantinopla y la Ilustración constituyen la exploración central de este libro. Con horizontes cronológicos y espaciales amplios, la obra analiza las formas en que textos e imágenes utilizaron la barbarie para dar cuenta de experiencias diversas: el conocimiento de pueblos otros, vecinos y distantes, el acercamiento a costumbres ajenas y la experiencia de violencias consideradas radicales, pero también la simplicidad, la inteligencia, el coraje y la solidaridad. Lejos de sugerir que la descripción y la valoración de la barbarie y los bárbaros permanecieron inalteradas durante tres siglos, la obra busca mostrar las transformaciones y adaptaciones de esos conceptos e imágenes para usos y contextos diversos. Sus aportes originales se asientan fundamentalmente a partir de dos características singulares: primero, un enfoque cronológico y espacial extenso; segundo, una atención especial al mundo de las imágenes, que no las considera meras ilustraciones.
Breast Tomosynthesis E-Book
The use of tomosynthesis in breast imaging is growing rapidly due to its superior ability to identify and characterize normal findings, benign lesions, and breast cancer, as well as its optimal performance with dense breast tissue. Providing unparalleled coverage of this breakthrough breast imaging modality, Breast Tomosynthesis explains how this new modality can lead to enhanced interpretation and better patient outcomes. This new reference is an indispensable guide for today's practitioner looking to keep abreast of the latest developments with correlative findings, practical interpretation tips, physics, and information on how tomosynthesis differs from conventional 2D FFDM mammography. O...
Handbook of Troubleshooting Plastics Processes
This handbook provides a framework for understanding how to characterize plastic manufacturing processes for use in troubleshooting problems. The 21 chapters are authored by well-known and experienced engineers who have specialized knowledge about the processes covered in this practical guide. From the Preface: “In every chapter, the process is described and the most common problems are discussed along with the root causes and potential technical solutions. Numerous case studies are provided that illustrate the troubleshooting process. Mark A. Spalding, The Dow Chemical Company
Polymerase Chain Reaction for Biomedical Applications
Do you want to know the details that should be taken into consideration in order to have accurate conventional and real-time PCR results? If so, this book is for you. Polymerase Chain Reaction for Biomedical Applications is a collection of chapters for both novice and experienced scientists and technologists aiming to address obtaining an optimized real-time PCR result, simultaneous processing of a large number of samples and assays, performing PCR and RT-PCR on cell lysate without extraction of DNA or RNA, detecting false-positive PCR results, detecting organisms in viral and microbial diseases and hospital environment, following safety assessments of food products, and using PCR for introduction of mutations. This is a must-have book for any PCR laboratory.
Reframing Luchino Visconti
Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italy's most reputed film authors. It meticulously researches Visconti's appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archaeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design. Yet it also investigates Visconti's cinematography in combination with his mise-en-scène in terms of staging, framing, mobile framing, and mirroring. Here not only aesthetic conventions from art but also those from silent and sound cinema have been clearly appropriated by Visconti and his crew. This book gives answers ...
