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Laser Processing of Thin Films and Microstructures

Oxidation, Deposition and Etching of Insulators

By: Ian W. Boyd

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Laser Processing of Thin Films and Microstructures

Oxidation, Deposition and Etching of Insulators

By: Ian W. Boyd

This text aims at providing a comprehensive and up to date treatment of the new and rapidly expanding field of laser pro cessing of thin films, particularly, though by no means exclu sively, of recent progress in the dielectrics area. The volume covers all the major aspects of laser processing technology in general, from the background and history to its many potential applications, and from the theory to the necessary experimental considerations. It highlights and compares the vast array of processing conditions now available with intense photon beams, as well as the properties of the films and microstructures pro duced. Separate chapters deal with the fundamentals of laser interactions with matter, and with experimental considerations. Detailed consideration is also given to film deposition, nuclea tion and growth, oxidation and annealing, as well as selective and localized. etching and ablation, not only in terms of the various photon-induced processes, but also with respect to traditional as well as other competing new technologies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642831362

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9783642831362

Averting the Digital Dark Age

How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory

By: Ian Milligan

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Averting the Digital Dark Age

How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory

By: Ian Milligan

How the internet's memory infrastructure developed—averting a "digital dark age"—and introduced a golden age of historical memory. In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-lasting? Drawing on archival material from the Internet Archive and exclusive interviews, Ian Milligan's Averting the Digital Dark Age explores how Western society evolved from fearing a digital dark age to building the robust digital memory we rely on today. By the mid-1990s, the specter of a "digital dark age" haunted libraries, portending a bleak future with no historical record that threatened cyber obsolescence, deletion, and apathy. People around the world worked to solve this impending problem. In San Francisco, technology entrepreneur Brewster Kahle launched his scrappy nonprofit, Internet Archive, filling tape drives with internet content. Elsewhere, in Washington, Canberra, Ottawa, and Stockholm, librarians developed innovative new programs to safeguard digital heritage. Cataloging worries among librarians, technologists, futurists, and writers from WWII onward, through early practitioners, to an extended case study of how September 11 prompted institutions to preserve thousands of digital artifacts related to the attacks, Averting the Digital Dark Age explores how the web gained a long-lasting memory. By understanding this history, we can equip our society to better grapple with future internet shifts.

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JHU Press

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1421450143

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9781421450148

Of Apes and Ancestors

Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

By: Ian Hesketh

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Of Apes and Ancestors

Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

By: Ian Hesketh

Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape? In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin of Species. The Bishop of Oxford, "Soapy" Samuel Wilberforce, clashed swords with Darwin's most outspoken supporter, Thomas Henry Huxley. The latter's triumph, amid quips about apes and ancestry, has become a mythologized event, symbolizing the supposed war between science and Christianity. But did the debate really happen in this way? Of Apes and Ancestors argues that this one-dimensional interpretation was constructed and disseminated by Darwin's supporters, becoming an imagined victory in the struggle to overcome Anglican dogmatism. By reconstructing the Oxford debate and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin's hypothesis, with religious anxieties overlapping with a whole host of other cultural and scientific considerations. An absorbing study, Of Apes and Ancestors sheds light on the origins of a debate that continues, unresolved, to this day.

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153

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University of Toronto Press

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1442697113

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Helvetius

His Life and Place in the History of Educational Thought

By: Ian Cumming

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Helvetius

His Life and Place in the History of Educational Thought

By: Ian Cumming

Published in 1998, Helvetius is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.

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Routledge

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1135034303

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9781135034306

Manitoba Medicine

A Brief History

By: Ian Carr,Robert E. Beamish

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Manitoba Medicine

A Brief History

By: Ian Carr,Robert E. Beamish

For many Canadians, the state of our health care and medical system is at the top of the public agenda. By following the growth and development of modern medicine in one Canadian province, Manitoba Medicine provides an insight into where our present medical system came from and how it developed. Beginning with a description of some early Aboriginal healing practices and of the physicians of the Red River Settlement, Manitoba Medicine follows the struggles in the 1870s to establish what would become the first medical college and the first major hospitals in Western Canada. It chronicles the fight for public health in the 1920s, the development of health insurance and medicare after WWII, and medicine's role in fighting the 1950 Winnipeg Flood and the polio epidemic of the late 1950s. Manitoba Medicine also provides vivid accounts of many of the individuals who built Manitoba's medical system, including early educators like Swale Vincent, pioneering women physicians such as Charlotte Ross, important researchers like Bruce Chown, and colourful private practitioners such as Murrough O'Brien.

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Univ. of Manitoba Press

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0887553427

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9780887553424

Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah

By: Ian Douglas Wilson

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Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah

By: Ian Douglas Wilson

Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah investigates kingship in Judean discourse, particularly in the early Second Temple era. In doing so, it contributes to our knowledge of literature and literary culture in ancient Judah and also makes a significant contribution to questions of history and historiographical method in biblical studies.

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Oxford University Press

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0190499907

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The Chamberlains, the Churchills and Ireland, 1874-1922

By: Ian Chambers

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The Chamberlains, the Churchills and Ireland, 1874-1922

By: Ian Chambers

Winston Churchill and Austen Chamberlain both entered Parliament with inherited Unionist views. However, changing political circumstances in Britain and Ireland led them to change their stance and adopt policies that would have been anathema to their fathers.

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Cambria Press

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1934043311

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Book's by Ian W. Boyd

Laser Processing of Thin Films and Microstructures

Laser Processing of Thin Films and Microstructures

Averting the Digital Dark Age

Averting the Digital Dark Age

Of Apes and Ancestors

Of Apes and Ancestors

Helvetius

Helvetius

Manitoba Medicine

Manitoba Medicine

Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah

Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah

The Chamberlains, the Churchills and Ireland, 1874-1922

The Chamberlains, the Churchills and Ireland, 1874-1922

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