Search results for “[Subject: radiation]”

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Atomic & Molecular"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins...

• Author(s): Wallace H. Tucker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsA brief, simple introduction to the theory of radiation and its application in astrophysics and a manual for researchers.The purpo...

• Author(s): Olga Kuchinskaya • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Safety & Security - General (See Also House & Home - SafetyLessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern haza...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): George Bekefi | Alan H. Barrett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - ElectromagnetismThe book describes the features that vibrations and waves of all sorts have in common and includes examples of m...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Frank Rosch • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalThis text book is conceived to meet the demand of state-of-the-art literature to teach the fundamentals as well as the...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Richard B. Adler | Lan Jen Chu | Robert M. Fano • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ElectricityThis book develops a consistent macroscopic theory of electromagnetism and discusses the relation between circu...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Gabrielle Hecht | Michel Callon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceHow it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) becam...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Tamara Loos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as ...

• Author(s): Tracie Matysik • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyReforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe be...

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): Mary V. Thompson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: African American & BlackGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuri...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Alison Martin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - HumanismIn this book, one of the foremost contemporary scholars in the fields of feminist thought and linguistics, explores the ...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Bella Grigoryan • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietRelations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformat...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and ac...

• Author(s): No Author • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Abraham Lincoln is the most frequently quoted United States President. In this fascinating co...

• Author(s): James Elkins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - RenaissancePerspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. I...

• Author(s): Petrus Liu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseKnown in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic...

• Author(s): Wayne Biddle • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: RadiationA comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding how radiation affects our everyday livesNuclear energy, X-rays, radon, cell phones . ....

• Author(s): Manly P. Hall • Publisher: Tarcher • Publisher Imprint: Tarcher • BISAC: Mind & BodyComplete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, The Secret Teachi...

• Author(s): Hafiz • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Middle EasternDaniel Ladinsky's unforgettable lyrical poems are inspired by the cherished verse of Hafiz, one of the greatest Sufi poets of all time. Perha...