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The Container Principle

How a Box Changes the Way We Think

By: Alexander Klose

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The Container Principle

How a Box Changes the Way We Think

By: Alexander Klose

A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm. We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global currency. A container ship, sailing under the flag of one country but owned by a corporation headquartered in another, carrying auto parts from Japan, frozen fish from Vietnam, and rubber ducks from China, offers a vivid representation of the increasing, world-is-flat globalization of the international economy. In The Container Principle, Alexander Klose investigates the principle of the container and its effect on the way we live and think. Klose explores a series of “container situations” in their historical, political, and cultural contexts. He examines the container as a time capsule, sometimes breaking loose and washing up onshore to display an inventory of artifacts of our culture. He explains the “Matryoshka principle,” explores the history of land-water transport, and charts the three phases of container history. He examines the rise of logistics, the containerization of computing in the form of modularization and standardization, the architecture of container-like housing (citing both Le Corbusier and Malvina Reynolds's “Little Boxes”), and a range of artistic projects inspired by containers. Containerization, spreading from physical storage to organizational metaphors, Klose argues, signals a change in the fundamental order of thinking and things. It has become a principle.

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MIT Press

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0262328259

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The Lyotropic State of Matter

Molecular Physics and Living Matter Physics

By: Alexander G Petrov

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The Lyotropic State of Matter

Molecular Physics and Living Matter Physics

By: Alexander G Petrov

The lyotropic state of matter embraces highly concentrated solutions of soaps and detergents, as well as such biologically active substances as lipids, proteins, nucleic acids and lipopolysaccharides. Since some of the most important living lyotropic structures are biological membranes, their study is multidisciplinary, ranging from the molecular physics and physical chemistry of interfaces to living matter physics in general, and membrane biophysics in particular. Written for liquid crystal scientists who are not familiar with lyotropics and membranes, for membranologists who are not familiar with liquid crystal physics, and for experts in these fields, The Lyotropic State of Matter: Molecular Physics and Living Matter Physics presents both theory and experiment, and provides an overview of the state of the art in this exciting area of study.

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CRC Press

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905699638X

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Light Scattering Reviews 7

Radiative Transfer and Optical Properties of Atmosphere and Underlying Surface

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

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Light Scattering Reviews 7

Radiative Transfer and Optical Properties of Atmosphere and Underlying Surface

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

Light Scattering Reviews (vol.7) is aimed at the description of modern advances in radiative transfer and light scattering. The following topics will be considered: the general - purpose discrete - ordinate algorithm DISORT for radiative transfer, fast radiative transfer techniques, use of polarization in remote sensing, Markovian approach for radiative transfer in cloudy atmospheres, coherent and incoherent backscattering by turbid media and surfaces,advances in radiative transfer methods as used for luminiscence tomography, optical properties of aerosol, ice crystals, snow, and oceanic water. This volume will be a valuable addition to already published volumes 1-6 of Light Scattering Reviews.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642219071

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Light Scattering Reviews 4

Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

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Light Scattering Reviews 4

Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

This fourth volume of Light Scattering Reviews is composed of three parts. The ?rstpartisconcernedwiththeoreticalandexperimentalstudiesofsinglelightsc- tering by small nonspherical particles. Light scattering by small particles such as, for instance, droplets in the terrestrial clouds is a well understood area of physical optics. On the other hand, exact theoretical calculations of light scattering p- terns for most of nonspherical and irregularly shaped particles can be performed only for the restricted values of the size parameter, which is proportional to the ratio of the characteristic size of the particle to the wavelength?. For the large nonspherical particles, approximations are used (e. g. , ray optics). The exact th- retical techniques such as the T-matrix method cannot be used for extremely large particles, such as those in ice clouds, because then the size parameter in the v- iblex=2?a/???,wherea is the characteristic size (radius for spheres), and the associated numerical codes become unstable and produce wrong answers. Yet another problem is due to the fact that particles in many turbid media (e. g. , dust clouds) cannot be characterized by a single shape. Often, refractive indices also vary. Because of problems with theoretical calculations, experimental (i. e. , la- ratory) investigations are important for the characterization and understanding of the optical properties of such types of particles. The ?rst paper in this volume, written by B. Gustafson, is aimed at the descr- tionofscaledanalogueexperimentsinelectromagneticscattering.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354074276X

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Myths, Narratives and the Dilemma of Managerial Support

Organizational learning as an alternative?

By: Alexander Dreiling

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Myths, Narratives and the Dilemma of Managerial Support

Organizational learning as an alternative?

By: Alexander Dreiling

Alexander Dreiling investigates which information should be provided to management in order to prepare managers to make better decisions and act accordingly.

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3835091085

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Aggregates in Concrete

By: Mark Alexander,Sidney Mindess

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Aggregates in Concrete

By: Mark Alexander,Sidney Mindess

Bringing together in one volume the latest research and information, this book provides a detailed guide to the selection and use of aggregates in concrete. After an introduction defining the purpose and role of aggregates in concrete, the authors present an overview of aggregate sources and production techniques, followed by a detailed study of their physical, mechanical and chemical properties. This knowledge is then applied to the use of aggregates in both plastic and hardened concretes, and in the overall mix design. Special aggregates and their applications are discussed in detail, as are the current main specifications, standards and tests.

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CRC Press

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0203963695

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Theatre in Handwriting

Hamburg Prompt Book Practices, 1770s-1820s

By: Martin Jörg Schäfer,Alexander Weinstock

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Theatre in Handwriting

Hamburg Prompt Book Practices, 1770s-1820s

By: Martin Jörg Schäfer,Alexander Weinstock

In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revise the unfixed literary text within its theatrical context. Based on examples of the vast Hamburg »Theatre-Library« from the 1770s to 1820s, this study proposes a transdisciplinary approach towards handwritten artefacts in modern European theatre. Martin Jörg Schäfer and Alexander Weinstock examine the many-handed creation, handwritten transformation and often decades of use of prompt books in a time increasingly dominated by print. This perspective changes our notion of theatre history around 1800 as well as that of literature and authorship.

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transcript Verlag

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3839469651

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Difference and Orientation

An Alexander Kluge Reader

By: Alexander Kluge

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Difference and Orientation

An Alexander Kluge Reader

By: Alexander Kluge

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

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Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

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1501739220

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Birthplace with Buried Stones

Poems

By: Meena Alexander

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Birthplace with Buried Stones

Poems

By: Meena Alexander

With their intense lyricism, Meena Alexander's poems convey the fragmented experience of the traveler, for whom home is both everywhere and nowhere. The landscapes she evokes, whether walking a city street or reading Bashō in the Himalayas, hold echoes of otherness. Place becomes a palimpsest, composed of layer upon layer of memory, dream, and desire. There are poems of love and poems of war, the rippling effects of violence and dislocation, of love and its aftermath. The poems in Birthplace with Buried Stones range widely over time and place, from Alexander's native India to New York City. Uniquely attuned to life in a globalized world, Alexander's poetry is an apt guide, bringing us face to face with the power of a single moment and its capacity to evoke the unseen and unheard." -- back cover.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810152398

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9780810152397

Liposomes in Drug Delivery

By: Alexander T. Florence

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Liposomes in Drug Delivery

By: Alexander T. Florence

This book is an outcome of the conference on the liposomes in drug delivery: 21 years held in University of London, in 1990. It covers themes such as novel carrier systems, newer and potential responsive or pulsatile systems, or systems such as liposomes which have a longer pedigree.

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CRC Press

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371865265X

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Turning to Nature in Germany

Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940

By: John Alexander Williams

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Turning to Nature in Germany

Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940

By: John Alexander Williams

Turning to Nature in Germany traces the history of organized hiking, nudism, and conservation in the earlier twentieth century, showing how hundreds of thousands of Germans sought to find solutions to the nation's crises in nature

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Stanford University Press

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080470015X

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9780804700153

Preparative Organic Photochemistry

By: Alexander Schönberg

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Preparative Organic Photochemistry

By: Alexander Schönberg

(Abridged and translated) Organic photochemistry may be divided into three parts: theory which is the province of the physical chemist; instrumentation which requires the skill of both physicist and engineer; and preparation which falls within the sphere of the organic chemist. At one time the same person could cover all three fields without too much difficulty, but this has now become virtually impossible because the disciplines involved have expanded in both breadth and depth; it is there fore timely to have a separate treatment of preparative organic photo chemistry. There appears to be no review of the main photochemical reactions which includes the advances made in recent years available to the organic chemist working in the preparative field. An exception is the excellent "Photochemical Reactions" by C. R. MASSON, V. BOEKELHEIDE and W. A. NoYES JR., published in 1956, which gives a brief review of the reactions which are important in preparative organic photochemistry. The present monograph on the other hand seeks to provide a detailed survey for the chemist; the author does not set out to discuss every photo chemical reaction in the field of organic chemistry but he does include in addition to those of current interest in the preparative field some which are likely to be of interest in the future and which result in single end-products of known composition. The photochemical synthesis of highly polymerized products falls outside the scope of the work.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642879187

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9783642879180

Molecular Biology

By: Alexander McLennan

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Molecular Biology

By: Alexander McLennan

Textbook with descriptions on different topics on molecular biology. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts followed by a description of the subject that foccusses on core information with clear and simple diagrams that are easy for students to understand and recall in essays and exams.

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Garland Science

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0415684161

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9780415684163

The Cyclopædia of Education. A Dictionary of Information for the Use of Teachers, School Officers, Parents, and Others

By: Henry Kiddle,Alexander Jacob Schem

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The Cyclopædia of Education. A Dictionary of Information for the Use of Teachers, School Officers, Parents, and Others

By: Henry Kiddle,Alexander Jacob Schem

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385558204

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9783385558205

End Times

The Death of the Fourth Estate

By: Alexander Cockburn,Jeffrey St. Clair

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End Times

The Death of the Fourth Estate

By: Alexander Cockburn,Jeffrey St. Clair

Muckrakers pronounce corporate journalism dead. Read all about it!

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AK Press

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1904859372

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9781904859376

Robust Perception from Optical Sensors for Reactive Behaviors in Autonomous Robotic Vehicles

By: Alexander Schaub

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Robust Perception from Optical Sensors for Reactive Behaviors in Autonomous Robotic Vehicles

By: Alexander Schaub

Alexander Schaub examines how a reactive instinctive behavior, similar to instinctive reactions as incorporated by living beings, can be achieved for intelligent mobile robots to extend the classic reasoning approaches. He identifies possible applications for reactive approaches, as they enable a fast response time, increase robustness and have a high abstraction ability, even though reactive methods are not universally applicable. The chosen applications are obstacle avoidance and relative positioning – which can also be utilized for navigation – and a combination of both. The implementation of reactive instinctive behaviors for the identified tasks is then validated in simulation together with real world experiments.

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3658190876

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Defining the Value of Spine Care

By: Jeffrey A. Rihn,Alexander R. Vaccaro,Todd J. Albert

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Defining the Value of Spine Care

By: Jeffrey A. Rihn,Alexander R. Vaccaro,Todd J. Albert

The book "Defining the Value of Spine Care" discuses the concepts of value-based spinal care to the spine care provider. The spinal care coverage and payment are linked increasingly to the value of care. Hence the spine care provider can easily understand the concepts of value in the context of spinal care, outcome measures and cost measures. Initial chapters provide detail information on understanding the value of spine care and definition of common terminology. This is followed by the use of process measures in measuring the quality of spine care and disease-specific health-related quality of life measures in lumbar degenerative disease and cervical degenerative disease. It also discusses the numerical rating scales, the quality-adjusted life year, decision tree analysis and simulation modeling in spine care, etc. The last few chapters explain about value-based evaluation of new spine-related technology, determining value with outcome measures in perspectives from each of the stakeholders of spine care delivery, developing value-based guidelines for the treatment of spinal disorders and comparative effectiveness research in spine care using SPORT. Spine care providers need to measure the quality and value of the treatment and provide tools necessary for understanding the task.

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JAYPEE BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

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9350906147

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9789350906149

Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry

By: Vladimir S. Saakov,Alexander I. Krivchenko,Eugene V. Rozengart,Irina G. Danilova

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Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry

By: Vladimir S. Saakov,Alexander I. Krivchenko,Eugene V. Rozengart,Irina G. Danilova

This book presents various examples of how advanced fluorescence and spectroscopic analytical methods can be used in combination with computer data processing to address different biochemical questions. The main focus is on evolutionary biochemistry and the description of biochemical and metabolic issues; specifically, the use of pulse amplitude modulated fluorescence (PAM) for the functional analysis of the cellular state, as well as results obtained by means of the derivative spectroscopy method characterizing structural reorganization of a cell under the influence of external factors, are discussed. The topics presented here will be of interest to biologists, geneticists, biophysicists and biochemists, as well as experts in analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry and radio chemistry and radio activation studies with protonen and alpha-particles. It also offers a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biological, physical and chemical disciplines whose work involves derivative spectrophotometry and PAM-fluorescence.

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Springer

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3319115960

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9783319115962

BIOS Instant Notes in Molecular Biology

By: Alexander McLennan,Andy Bates,Phil Turner,Michael White

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BIOS Instant Notes in Molecular Biology

By: Alexander McLennan,Andy Bates,Phil Turner,Michael White

Instant Notes in Molecular Biology, Fourth Edition is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts−an ideal revision checklist−followed by a description of the subject that focuses on core information, with clear, simple diagrams that are easy for students to understand and recall in essays and exams.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136160418

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9781136160417

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