Publisher's Note: From A Black Perspective is the beginning manifestation of several collective dreams. Volume One, "The Blood," features five up and coming authors. As a whole, the project is a gathering of entertaining, inspirational, and educated voices modeled after the collective creative literary power of the long-celebrated Harlem Renaissance. From a Black Perspective is a celebration of the diversity within the black literary community. It serves as an antithesis to the notion that the black community is monolithic in our interests, values, political views, and the genres in which we write but rather a people as varied as the hues of our skin. This three-part anthology affords Rainbow Room Publishing, LLC to fulfill one of its primary objectives: providing a vehicle and platform to facilitate the publication of as many diverse and otherwise underrepresented voices as possible. Your support of this project further enables the publication of each contributing author's individual creative and publishing efforts while supporting numerous black voices. We invite you to embark with us on this three-part literary journey and encourage you to reserve space on your bookshelves for Volume Two, "The People," highlighting more talented writers as well as more individual works from each of these published authors in 2021 and Volume Three, "The Homeland" in 2022.
Publisher's Note: From a Black Perspective is the beginning manifestation of several collective dreams.Volume One, "The Blood," features five up-and-coming authors. As a whole, the project is a gathering ofentertaining, inspirational, and educated voices modeled after the collective creative literary power ofthe long-celebrated Harlem Renaissance.From a Black Perspective is a celebration of the diversity within the Black literary community. It serves asan antithesis to the notion that the Black community is monolithic in our interests, values, politicalviews, and the genres in which we write but rather a people as varied as the hues of our skin. This three-part anthology affords Rainbow Room Publishing, LLC to fulfill one of its primary objectives: providinga vehicle and platform to facilitate the publication of as many diverse and otherwise underrepresentedvoices as possible.Your support of this project further enables the publication of each contributing author's individualcreative and publishing efforts while supporting numerous Black voices. We invite you to embark with uson this three-part literary journey and encourage you to reserve space on your bookshelves for VolumeTwo, "The People," highlighting more talented writers as well as more individual works from each ofthese published authors in 2021 and Volume Three, "The Homeland" in 2022. Eddie S. PierceFounder & PublisherRainbow Room PublishingFor more information on Rainbow Room Publishing, LLC, our products and services visit: www.rainbowroompublishing.com
The second edition of this easy-to-understand pocket guide remains an invaluable tool for students, assistant practitioners and radiographers. Providing an accessible introduction to the subject in a reader-friendly format, it includes diagrams and photographs to support the text. Each chapter provides clear learning objectives and a series of MCQs to test reader assimilation of the material. The book opens with overviews of image production, basic mathematics and imaging physics, followed by detailed chapters on the physics relevant to producing diagnostic images using X-rays and digital technologies. The content has been updated throughout and includes a new chapter on CT imaging and additional material on radioactivity, dosimetry, and imaging display and manipulation. Clark’s Essential Physics in Imaging for Radiographers supports students in demonstrating an understanding of the fundamental definitions of physics applied to radiography ... all you need to know to pass your exams!
Setting off on foot from Winchester, Ken Haigh hikes across southern England, retracing one of the traditional routes that medieval pilgrims followed to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Walking in honour of his father, a staunch Anglican who passed away before they could begin their trip together, Haigh wonders: Is there a place in the modern secular world for pilgrimage? On his journey, he sorts through his own spiritual aimlessness while crossing paths with writers like Anthony Trollope, John Keats, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, and, of course, Geoffrey Chaucer. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part literary history, On Foot to Canterbury is engaging and delightful. “My father didn’t need this walk, not the way I do. For him it would have been a fun way to spend some time with his son. He had, I begin to realize, a talent for living in the moment... Perhaps a pilgrimage would help me find happiness. Perhaps I could walk my way into a better frame of mind, and somehow along the road to Canterbury I would find a new purpose for my life. It was worth a shot.” Audio edition from PRH available from Audible, Kobo, Google, and Apple Books.
A physicist with the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory recounts harrowing tales of radiation accidents and near-disasters, revealing the actual and potential consequences of the clumsiness, recklessness, and carelessness of fallible human beings. 56 illustrations.
This book presents a comprehensive review of a diverse range of subjects in physics written by physicists who have all been taught by or are associated with K C Hines. Ken Hines was a great mentor with far-reaching influence on his students who later went on to make outstanding contributions to physics in their careers. The papers provide significant insights into statistical physics, plasma physics from fluorescent lighting to quantum pair plasmas, cosmic ray physics, nuclear reactions, and many other fields. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Concerning Ken Hines... (358 KB). Contents: Resonant X-Ray Scattering and X-Ray Absorption: Closing the Circle? (Z Barnea et al.); The Screened Field of a Test Particle (R L Dewar); Aspects of Plasma Physics (R J Hosking); The Boltzmann Equation in Fluorescent Lamp Theory (G Lister); Pair Modes in Relativistic Quantum Plasmas (D B Melrose & J McOrist); Neutrons from the Galactic Centre (R R Volkas); Quaternions and Octonions in Nature (G C Joshi); Accretion onto the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of Our Galaxy (F Melia); and other papers. Readership: Academics and graduate students interested in physics.
By using the applications of physics concepts this book will challenge, motivate, and stimulate all your students. Written for Standard Grade, it is also used extensively for GCSE. · Each topic on a double-page spread including essential physics in summary form · Applies physics to the real world · Suitable for both Standard Grade Physics and GCSE courses with a physics content
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