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Reading Paul Howard The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Reading Paul Howard The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices satirical modes cultural context and humour in Howard’s texts. The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture and it will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu Sigmund Freud Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida to critique this division building a theoretical platform from which to examine the significance of Howard’s work as an Irish comic and satirical writer. Addressing both the style and the substance of his work this text locates him in a tradition of Irish satirical writing that dates back to the Gaelic bards and it includes writers like Swift Wilde Flann O’Brien and Joyce. Through textual and contextual analysis this book makes the case for Howard as a significant and original voice in Irish writing whose fusion of the three traditional types of satire (Horatian Juvenalian and Menippean) has created a parallel Ireland that shines a satirical light on its real counterpart. As Freud suggests humour is a way of accessing aspects of the psyche that normative discourses cannot enunciate and Howard through the confessional voice of Ross offers a fictive truth on 20 years of Irish society a truth that is not accessed by discourse in the public sphere or by what could be termed literary or high cultural fiction. | Reading Paul Howard The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

GBP 130.00
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Laser Beam Shaping Theory and Techniques Second Edition

Laser Applications in Manufacturing

Laser Applications in Manufacturing

This book introduces the emerging areas of laser-based manufacturing such as additive manufacturing (AM) of metal matrix composites (MMCs) joining of hard-to-weld superalloys damage-free machining of fiber-reinforced composites surface properties enhancement using cladding techniques and modeling and simulation of laser beam manufacturing techniques. Laser Applications in Manufacturing provides a quick guide for researchers and academicians to recent advancements in the development of powder-based MMCs manufactured using AM technology. This book: shows recent developments in functionally graded sheets or laminates and fabrication of fiber-reinforced composite using sheet lamination printing lists recent developments in the joining of dissimilar materials in diverse applications such as hybrid structures and lightweight components for increased performance and functionality includes many recent developments in machining carbon fiber glass fiber and natural fiber composite laminates for investigations of delamination and surface quality characteristics showcases different aspects of surface alloying of miniature components hard and soft composite coating for various applications Laser Applications in Manufacturing is recommended for researchers working on fabrication of numerous new and novel materials. The book serves as a resource for scientists and engineers working in laser-based manufacturing techniques who want to learn about the most up-to-date research.

GBP 99.99
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Handbook of Laser-Based Sustainable Surface Modification and Manufacturing Techniques

Handbook of Laser-Based Sustainable Surface Modification and Manufacturing Techniques

This handbook provides an insight into the advancements in surface engineering methods addressing the microstructural features properties mechanisms of surface degradation failures and tribological performance of the components. Emphasis is placed on the use of laser cladding methods because they make it simple to deposit new classes of materials such nano-composites nanotubes and smart materials. Handbook of Laser-Based Sustainable Surface Modification and Manufacturing Techniques discusses the main mechanism behind the surface degradation of structural components in strenuous environments. It highlights the capacity of laser cladding to operate on a wide range of substrate materials and shapes as well as presents how laser cladding can offer new possibilities in the reconditioning of components and how in many cases these approaches are the only solution for economic efficiency. The handbook illustrates how the type of laser laser optics and the parameters of the process can be efficiently selected and thus the number of applications of laser cladding and its applications can be increased. The standard methods of testing used for various types of biomedical devices and tools as well as the advantages of combining laser cladding with simultaneous induction heating are described as well within this handbook. Features: Discusses the role of claddings fabricated with laser technique to withstand wear and corrosion Highlights the role of laser in the manufacturing of alloys and recent advancements in laser based additive manufacturing processes Presents the possibilities applications and challenges in laser surfacing Illustrates the post-treatments of powders and coatings and case studies related to laser surface technology Offers the standard methods of testing applied to various types of biomedical devices and tools Goes over the advantages of combining laser cladding with simultaneous induction heating The technical outcomes of these surface engineering methods are helpful for academics students and professionals who are working in this field as this enlightens their understanding of the performance of these latest processes. The audience is broad and multidisciplinary.

GBP 150.00
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Laser-Matter Interaction for Radiation and Energy

Laser-Matter Interaction for Radiation and Energy

The interaction of high-power lasers with matter can generate Terahertz radiations that efficiently contribute to THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and also would replace X-rays in medical and security applications. When a short intense laser pulse ionizes a gas it may produce new frequencies even in VUV to XUV domain. The duration of XUV pulses can be confined down to the isolated attosecond pulse levels required to study the electronic re-arrangement and ultrafast processes. Another important aspect of laser-matter interaction is the laser thermonuclear fusion control where accelerated particles also find an efficient use. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics including Electromagnetic waves and lasers THz radiation using semiconducting materials / nanostructures / gases / plasmas Surface plasmon resonance THz radiation detection Particle acceleration technologies X-ray lasers High harmonics and attosecond lasers Laser based techniques of thermonuclear fusion Controlled fusion devices including NIF and ITER The book comprises of 11 chapters and every chapter starts with a lucid introduction to the main topic. Then sub-topics are sedulously discussed keeping in mind their basics methodology state-of-the-art and future perspective that will prove to be salutary for readers. High quality solved examples are appended to the chapters for their deep understanding and relevant applications. In view of the nature of the topics and their level of discussion this book is expected to have pre-eminent potential for researchers along with postgraduate and undergraduate students all over the world. | Laser-Matter Interaction for Radiation and Energy

GBP 150.00
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Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions Solid-Plasma-Solid Transformations at the Extreme Energy Density

Families

Families

In 'Families' Jane Howard informally visits many dozens of families and tries to discover what makes the best ones work so well. Families are not dying she finds although they are evolving in various ways. From the tightest-knit nuclear family or extended clan to the most fragile new commune the family in one guise or another remains everybody's most basic hold on reality. We may run away from our families as many do but no sooner do we escape than we find another one often very much like it. Sympathetically with immense thrust she crosses the continent to discover families' myths jokes and rituals. She leafs through their scrapbooks sits on their porches and takes part when she can in their feasts and celebrations. She talks to a father of eighteen several double first cousins stepchildren multiple godmothers an honorary relative of an Indian tribe and a nine-year-old boy who has no family but his mother. She sits with a matriarch on the front stoop of a ghetto house goes camping with a family in Mexico has Thanksgiving with another in Iowa and orders pizza with a Greek clan in Massachusetts. Howard reports on visits to conventional Southern and Jewish households and to innovative ones whose members lacking a common history plan on building common futures as if water were after all as thick as blood. She examines the notion that there are ways and ways of achieving kinship of which birth and marriage are only the most obvious. Millions of clans and families all over the United States continue to celebrate quarrel disband reunite and endure. Jane Howard makes us realize how our lives are interwoven both with the families we are born into and with those we invent as we go through life. 'Families' is compassionate provocative and profound. The paperback edition of this important work will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the study of familial bonds particularly sociologists anthropologists and psychologists.

GBP 110.00
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Textbook of Cosmetic Dermatology

Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing Interpretation and Impact

Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing Interpretation and Impact

This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949. Little scholarly attention has been devoted to how the original French-language source text made its way into languages other than English. This is a shocking omission given that many (but by no means all) other translations were based on the 1953 English translation by Howard M. Parshley which has been widely criticized by Beauvoir scholars for its omissions and careless attention to its philosophical implications. This volume seeks to fill this gap in scholarship with an innovative collection of essays that interrogate the ways that Beauvoir’s essay has shifted in meaning and significance as it has travelled across the globe. This volume brings together for the first time scholars from Translation Studies Literary Studies and Philosophical Studies and over half of it is dedicated to non-Western European engagements with Le Deuxième Sexe (including chapters on the Chinese Japanese Arabic Hungarian and Polish translations). As such this collection will be essential to any scholar of Beauvoir’s philosophy and its contributions to feminist discourses. | Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing Interpretation and Impact

GBP 120.00
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Ethnicities Media Health and Coping

Ethnicities Media Health and Coping

This book brings ethnicities into focus by presenting contemporary ethnic discourses that capture and highlight disjuncture within the concept of the idealized “globalizing” world. In recent years and despite many writings about globalization and the melding of differences there remain strong forces that continue to exacerbate ethnic differences in communication as well as other important areas. This volume addresses this phenomenon through research-based investigation of ethnic and racial issues and covers topics such as health issues networks media and coping. It captures key ethnicities including a growing Hispanic population native Americans Middle Easterners and Asian Americans. This book explores various topics including how ethnicity is defined in communication scholarship how Twitter has facilitated MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) cyber activism by cultivating collective indigenous identity and media framing of Latin American players in Major League Baseball in the United States and offers online experiment and content analysis using 185 participants of different races/ethnicities to examine bonding capital in coping and seeking support. Ethnicities: Media Health and Coping will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies race and ethnic studies media and cultural studies and sociology while also appealing to anyone interested in the research-based investigation of the communicative aspects of ethnic and racial issues. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications. | Ethnicities Media Health and Coping

GBP 130.00
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Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency Rhetoric and Media Frames

Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency Rhetoric and Media Frames

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama’s presidency with a focus on ethnicity gender and culture as they interact with communication. It examines Obama’s rhetorical strengths that also inform his visual rhetorical control and looks beyond Obama’s messaging to examine how the news framed his presidency. The book opens by exploring the racio-rhetorical humour applied by President Obama during his presidency. Chapters investigate topics such as Obama’s use of visual rhetoric how the media framed Obama using racialized lens and offer iconographical analysis of satires featured in The New Yorker that symbolized the politics of racial fear erupting prior to the start of Obama’s presidency. They also examine how the White House used YouTube messaging to rebuild the first lady Michelle Obama’s image in ways that became acceptable to a wider American public Obama’s rhetorical struggles to work within tensions created by the intersection of race and violence and analyze President Obama’s speeches at Tribal Nations Conferences. Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies political communication media and cultural studies race and ethnic studies and political science while also appealing to anyone interested in the communicative aspects of Obama’s presidency and American politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications. | Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency Rhetoric and Media Frames

GBP 130.00
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Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

This book captures Donald J. Trump’s presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency with a focus on race immigration xenophobia and social conflicts as they interact with communication. The book utilizes research data to capture critical moments of the presidency. Chapters examine metadiscourse during President Trump’s press events where he accused the media of “Nasty Question” and “Fake News” offer computational framing analysis to expose the communication of racism and xenophobia in US-Mexico cross-border wall discourses and provide critical textual analysis of select episodes of CW’s critically acclaimed TV show Jane the Virgin exposing how citizenship or lack thereof shapes one’s relationship to the state and surrounding communities. They also offer textual analysis to demonstrate how a predominantly White newsroom differs from a newsroom that is racially diverse against the backdrop of the coverage of two politically charged issues of Black Lives Matter and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and explore interdisciplinary concepts related to understanding immigrants’ and sojourners’ believability evaluation of disinformation. Donald J. Trump's Presidency will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies political communication media and cultural studies race and ethnic studies and political science while also appealing to anyone interested in the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency and American politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications. | Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

GBP 130.00
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Tribology in Sustainable Manufacturing

Geothermal Energy Utilization Technology and Financing

A Guide to Field Instrumentation in Geotechnics Principles Installation and Reading

Advanced Nanomaterials and Their Applications

Innovative Development in Micromanufacturing Processes

Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Processes Principles and Applications

Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Processes Principles and Applications

This reference text discusses fundamentals classification principles applications of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes in a single volume. The text discusses 3D printing techniques with the help of practical case studies covers rapid tooling using microwave sintering and ultrasonic assisted sintering process and covers different hybrid manufacturing techniques like cryo-MQL and textured cutting inserts. It covers important topics including green manufacturing ultrasonic assisted machining electro thermal based non-conventional machining processes metal based additive manufacturing LASER based additive manufacturing indirect rapid tooling and polymer based additive manufacturing. The book: Discusses additive and subtractive manufacturing processes in detail Covers hybrid manufacturing processes Provides life cycle analysis of conventional machining Discusses biomedical and industrial applications of additive manufacturing The text will be useful for senior undergraduate graduate students and academic researchers in areas including industrial and manufacturing engineering mechanical engineering and production engineering. Discussing the sustainability aspects of conventional machining in reducing carbon footprint of machining by adopting different hybrid and non-conventional machining processes this text will be useful for senior undergraduate graduate students and academic researchers in areas including industrial and manufacturing engineering mechanical engineering and production engineering. | Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Processes Principles and Applications

GBP 120.00
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Engineering Surveying

Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics