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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

By: Lin Knutson

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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

By: Lin Knutson

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in exile from their home communities. During this process, they engage in psychological, physical, political, and social transitions through what Victor Turner and Makhail Bakhtin describe as carnivalesque identities. Using postcolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist, and African American theorists, Lin Knutson examines how Butler’s imagined genesis and history carry echoes of American history, slave history, debt slavery, and colonization.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666903116

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9781666903119

Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance

By: E. Lin

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Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance

By: E. Lin

Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.

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462

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Springer

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1137006501

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9781137006509

Perceptual Learning

How Experience Shapes Visual Perception

By: Barbara Dosher,Zhong-Lin Lu

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Perceptual Learning

How Experience Shapes Visual Perception

By: Barbara Dosher,Zhong-Lin Lu

A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain. Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called perceptual learning (in contrast to learning in the cognitive or motor domains), and it has become an active area of research of both theoretical and practical significance. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.

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521

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MIT Press

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0262360659

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9780262360654

The Polysiloxanes

By: James E. Mark,Dale W. Schaefer,Gui Lin

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The Polysiloxanes

By: James E. Mark,Dale W. Schaefer,Gui Lin

Polysiloxanes are the most studied inorganic and semi-inorganic polymers because of their many medical and commercial uses. The Si-O backbone endows polysiloxanes with intriguing properties: the strength of the Si-O bond imparts considerable thermal stability, and the nature of the bonding imparts low surface free energy. Prostheses, artificial organs, objects for facial reconstruction, vitreous substitutes in the eyes, and tubing take advantage of the stability and pliability of polysiloxanes. Artificial skin, contact lenses, and drug delivery systems utilize their high permeability. Such biomedical applications have led to biocompatibility studies on the interactions of polysiloxanes with proteins, and there has been interest in modifying these materials to improve their suitability for general biomedical application. Polysiloxanes examines novel aspects of polysiloxane science and engineering, including properties, work in progress, and important unsolved problems. The volume, with ten comprehensive chapters, examines the history, preparation and analysis, synthesis, characterization, and applications of these polymeric materials.

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296

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Oxford University Press

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0190266457

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9780190266455

Bone Grafts, Bone Graft Substitutes, and Biologics in Foot and Ankle Surgery, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America

By: Sheldon S. Lin

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Bone Grafts, Bone Graft Substitutes, and Biologics in Foot and Ankle Surgery, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America

By: Sheldon S. Lin

This issue of Fooot and Ankle Clinics will focus on Injectable rh-PDGF in collagen carrier for hindfoot fusion; Vancouver experience of rh-PDGF; B2-A polypeptide in foot ankle fusion; Adipose-derived msc in hindfoot fusion; Polyvinyl for hallux rigidis; New development of novel hammer toe and mt plate; Large BM Intra articular allograft; and many other articles surrounding bone grafts, bone graft substitutes, and biologics.

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233

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323477607

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9780323477604

Pursuing the Origin of Pathogenic Bacterial Species

By: Shu-Lin Liu

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Pursuing the Origin of Pathogenic Bacterial Species

By: Shu-Lin Liu

Microbes may become pathogenic and mankind develops antimicrobials and vaccines to fight with them, which may lead to an arms race as pathogens develop drug resistance and humans invent newer drugs, often ending up with uncontrollable infections. This book narrates the author’s journey pursuing the origin of pathogenic bacterial species, demonstrating through experiments that bacteria form new species by acquiring novel genes from surroundings and altering the genome for better fitness. If the newly acquired genes encode pathogenic traits, the originally benign bacteria may become new pathogens. To control pathogens, antimicrobials and vaccines are useful in many cases, but, in addition, book proposes a third strategy through the concept of herd resistance via enhancing the protective functions of intestinal microbiota, which will not trigger an arms race nor interfere with immune functions. This strategy can be generalized to a broad range of bacterial or viral pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2.

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250

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527587533

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9781527587533

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

By: Lin Knutson

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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance

Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance

Perceptual Learning

Perceptual Learning

The Polysiloxanes

The Polysiloxanes

Bone Grafts, Bone Graft Substitutes, and Biologics in Foot and Ankle Surgery, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America

Bone Grafts, Bone Graft Substitutes, and Biologics in Foot and Ankle Surgery, An Issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America

Pursuing the Origin of Pathogenic Bacterial Species

Pursuing the Origin of Pathogenic Bacterial Species

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

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