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Zeller, Ludwig. The eye on fire: Poems, September 1998-March 1999 = Imágenes en el ojo llameante : septiembre 1998-marzo 1999. Victoria, B.C: Ekstasis Editions, 2007.
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W, Smith D., ed. Optical network technology. London: Chapman & Hall, 1995.
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Saleh, Bahaa E. A. Fundamentals of photonics. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley Interscience, 2007.
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Ramaswami, Rajiv. Optical networks: A practical perspective. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002.
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Translator, Ludwig Zeller; A. F. Moritz;. The Eye on Fire (Imagenes en el ojo llameante. Ekstasis Editions, 2007.
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Steigmann, David J. Fiber symmetry. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198567783.003.0005.
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Gowar, John. Optical Communication Systems (Optoelectronics). 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1993.
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Gowar, John. Optical Communication Systems (Optoelectronics). Prentice Hall, 1993.
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Cheng, Russell. Embedded Distributions: Two Numerical Examples. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198505044.003.0007.
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This chapter illustrates use of (i) the score statistic and (ii) a goodness-of-fit statistic to test if an embedded model provides an adequate fit, in the latter case with critical values calculated by bootstrapping. Also illustrated is (iii) calculation of parameter confidence intervals and CDF confidence bands using both asymptotic theory and bootstrapping, and (iv) use of profile log-likelihood plots to display the form of the maximized log-likelihood and scatterplots for checking convergence to normality of estimated parameter distributions. Two different data sets are analysed. In the first, the generalized extreme value (GEVMin) distribution and its embedded model the simple extreme value (EVMin) are fitted to Kevlar-fibre breaking strength data. In the second sample, the four-parameter Burr XII distribution, its three-parameter embedded models, the GEVMin, Type II generalized logistic and Pareto and two-parameter embedded models, the EVMin and shifted exponential, are fitted to carbon-fibre strength data and compared.
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Solymar, Laszlo. Getting the Message. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863007.001.0001.
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Laszlo Solymar’s book is quite unique in the sense that it is the only one that covers all the major developments in the history of telecommunications for the past 4,000 years, like fire signals, the mechanical telegraph, the electrical telegraph, telephony, optical fibres, fax, satellites, mobile phones, the Internet, the digital revolution, the role of computers, and also some long-forgotten technologies like news broadcasting by a devoted telephone network. It tells the technical aspects of the story but also how it affects people and society; e.g.it discusses the effect of the electric telegraph on war and diplomacy, how thanks to the telegraph Kitchener could preserve the Cairo-to-Cape Town red band for the British Empire, or more recent events like the effect of deregulation upon the monopoly of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). A number of anecdotes are told, e.g. how one murderer was caught by telegraphy when he arrived at Paddington Station and how another murderer was caught by wireless telegraphy when tried to escape by boat from Britain to Canada. The last chapter is concerned with the future: how the future was envisaged in the past and how we imagine the future of telecommunications now.
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McDuff, Dusa, and Dietmar Salamon. Symplectic fibrations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794899.003.0007.
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This chapter begins with a general discussion of symplectic fibrations and symplectic forms on the total space. The next section describes in detail symplectic 2-sphere bundles over Riemann surfaces. Subsequent sections develop the notions of symplectic connection and holonomy, explain the Sternberg–Weinstein universal construction for fibre bundles, discuss Seidel’s construction of generalized Dehn twists, and introduce the Guillemin–Lerman–Sternberg coupling form. The final section studies Hamiltonian fibrations.
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Wilsey, Brian J. Factors Maintaining and Regulating Grassland Structure and Function. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744511.003.0003.
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Intrinsic disturbances are processes that have occurred on an evolutionary time scale, and include fire, wind-damage, digging or burrowing by fossorial mammals, defoliation, and trampling by native large mammals. Grassland species evolved with intrinsic disturbances, and they can be important in maintaining grassland community structure and functioning. Adaptations to fire include short herbaceous stature, high allocation belowground, ability to resprout, and smoke-induced seed germination. Fire interacts with grazing because grazing reduces litter (fuel) load, and fires affect forage quality. Plants can tolerate some level of herbivory in most grasslands. Adaptations that enable grassland plants to resist grazing are similar to plant adaptations to fire. Drought can affect grasslands at a variety of time scales. Vegetative reproduction can allow rapid recolonization after droughts have ended. Plowing is the most common disturbance affecting grasslands, and it has been used to transform native grasslands into crop fields and simplified pasture.
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Akyüz, Yilmaz. Playing with Fire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797173.001.0001.
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From the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets, as well as for their residents to operate in international financial markets. Despite recurrent crises, liberalization has accelerated in the new millennium. Global financial integration of EDEs has been greatly facilitated by progressively looser US monetary policy, notably policies culminating in crises in the US and Europe and the ultra-easy monetary policies adopted in response. Not only have traditional cross-border financial linkages of EDEs deepened and their external balance sheets expanded rapidly, but also foreign presence in their domestic markets and the presence of their nationals in foreign markets have reached unprecedented proportions. As a result new channels have emerged for the transmission of financial shocks from global boom–bust cycles. Almost all EDEs are now vulnerable irrespective of their balance-of-payments, external debt, net foreign assets, and international reserves positions, although these play an important role in the way such shocks could impinge on them. This is a matter for concern since the multilateral system lacks mechanisms to prevent beggar-thy-neighbour policies in major advanced economies that exert strong impact on global economic and financial conditions or for orderly and equitable resolution of financial crises with international dimensions. This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of global financial linkages of EDEs and the vulnerabilities they entail, based on a rich set of data and information that have not been put together so far in the literature.
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Jacob, Happymon. Line on Fire. Edited by Sumit Ganguly and E. Sridharan. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489893.001.0001.
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The India–Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has witnessed repeated ceasefire violations (CFVs) over the past decade. Indeed, with relations between India and Pakistan degrading, CFVs have gone up exponentially. These CFVs have the potential to not only begin a crisis but also escalate an ongoing one. To make things worse, in the event of major violations, political leadership on either side often engage in high-pitched rhetoric some of which even have nuclear undertones. Using fresh empirical data and oral history evidence, this book explains the causes of CFVs on the J&K border and establishes a relationship between CFVs and crisis escalation between India and Pakistan. In doing so, the book further nuances the existing arguments about the escalatory dynamics between the two South Asian nuclear rivals. Furthermore, the book explains ceasefire violations using the concept of ‘autonomous military factors’.
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Rowlands, Mark. World on Fire. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197541890.001.0001.
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We face three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changing in ways that will have serious consequences for humans, and it may even profoundly affect the ability of the planet to support life. All around us, other species are disappearing at a rate between several hundred and several thousand times the normal background rate of extinction. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has wreaked social and economic havoc, is merely the latest model off a blossoming production line of newly emerging infectious diseases, many of which have the potential to be far worse. At the heart of these problems lies an ancient habit: eating animals. This habit is the most significant driver of species extinction and of newly emerging infectious diseases, and one of the most important drivers of climate change. This is a habit we can no longer afford to indulge. Breaking it will substantially reduce climate emissions. It will stem our insatiable hunger for land that is at the heart of both the problems of extinction and pestilence. Most importantly, breaking this habit will make available vast areas of land suitable for afforestation: the return of forests to where they once grew. Afforestation will significantly mitigate all three problems. But only if we stop eating animals will we have enough land for this strategy to work.
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Jacobs, Lawrence R. Democracy under Fire. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190877248.001.0001.
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How did democracy become so vulnerable in America? Donald Trump is a shrill warning of the political system's fragility, but he alone is not the problem. The vulnerability is broader and deeper — and looms still. Even before Trump ran for president, his disdain for the rules and norms of democracy and the US Constitution was well-known by many prominent Republicans who were unable to stop his nomination. Trump's presidency is the culmination of a series of political decisions since the late 18th century that ceded party nominations to small cliques of ideologues.
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Barno, David, and Nora Bensahel. Adaptation under Fire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672058.001.0001.
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Adaptation under Fire looks at the essential importance of military adaptation in winning wars. Every military must prepare for future wars despite inevitably having little confidence about the precise shape that those wars will take. As former US secretary of defense Robert Gates once noted, the United States has a perfect record in predicting the next war: “We have never once gotten it right.” Despite this uncertainty, military organizations still must make choices. They must determine the nature of doctrine they will need to fight effectively, the type of weaponry and equipment they must procure to defeat their potential foe, and the kind of leaders they must select and develop to guide the force to victory. Since the US military has global security responsibilities, it will have to make these choices without knowing when, where, or how the next war will unfold, or even who the enemy may be. It will need to adapt quickly and successfully in the face of the unexpected in order to prevail. The book starts by providing a framework for understanding adaptation and includes several historical examples of success and failure. The second part examines US military adaptation during the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and explains why certain forms of adaptation have proven so problematic. The final part argues that the US military must become more adaptable in order to successfully address the fast-changing security challenges of the 21st century, and concludes with some recommendations on how it should do so.
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Ross, Andrew. Bird on Fire. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199828265.001.0001.
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Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places like Portland, Seattle, and New York that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing their responsibility to address climate change.
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Dowdall, Alex. Communities under Fire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856115.001.0001.
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Communities under Fire rewrites the history of the Western Front from the perspective of its civilian inhabitants. Between 1914 and 1918, the fighting passed through some of Europe’s most populated and industrialised regions. Large French towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment, military occupation, and considerable material hardships. Many fled for the safety of the French interior, but others lived under fire for much of the war, ensuring the Western Front remained a joint civil-military space. Communities under Fire explores the wartime experiences of civilians on both sides of the Western Front, and uncovers how urban communities responded to the dramatic impact of industrialized war. It discusses how war shaped civilians’ personal and collective identities, and explores how the experiences of military violence, occupation, and forced displacement structured the attitudes of civilians at the front towards the nation. It argues that that the direct experiences of war shaped both personal and collective identities, placing civilians at the Western Front at the forefront of a broader process of wartime militarization. This development had wide-ranging social impacts, as civilians in towns at the Western Front felt their experiences marked them out as members of ‘communities under fire’ inhabiting distinct positions within wartime French society, and entitled them to privileged treatment. This book explains the multiple ways by which urban residents responded to, were changed by, succumbed to, or survived the enormous pressures of life in a warzone.
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Farriss, Nancy. Tongues of Fire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190884109.001.0001.
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Language and translation governed the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule. Spanish missionaries collaborated with indigenous intellectuals to communicate the gospel in dozens of local languages that had previously lacked grammars, dictionaries, or alphabetic script. The major challenge to translators, more serious than the absence of written aids or the great diversity of languages and their phonetic and syntactical complexity, was the vast cultural difference between the two worlds. The lexical gaps that frustrated the search for equivalence in conveying fundamental Christian doctrines derived from cultural gaps that separated European experiences and concepts from those of the Indians. This study focuses on the Otomangue languages of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, especially Zapotec, and relates their role in the Dominican evangelizing program to the larger frame of culture contact in postconquest Mesoamerica. Fine-grained analysis of translated texts is used to reveal the rhetorical strategies of missionary discourse and combines with an examination of language contact in different social contexts. A major aim is to spotlight the role of the native elites in shaping what emerged as a new form of Christianity. As translators, chief catechists, and parish administrators they made evangelization in many respects an indigenous enterprise and the Mexican church it created an indigenous church.
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Holub, Joan. ¿Qué fue la Fiebre del Oro? 2016.
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Holub, Joan, and Tim Tomkinson. Que Fue La Fiebre Del Oro? Turtleback Books, 2016.
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Han, Chang Dae. Rheology and Processing of Polymeric Materials: Volume 2: Polymer Processing. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195187830.001.0001.
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Volume 2 presents the fundamental principles related to polymer processign operations including the processing of thermoplastic polymers and thermosets. The objective of this volume is not to provide recipies that necessarily guarantee better product quality. Rather, emphasis is placed on presenting a fundamental approach to effectively analyze processing operations. The specific polymer processing operations for thermoplastics include plasticating single-screw extrusion, morphology evolution during compounding of polymer blends, compatibilization of immiscible polymer blends, wire coating extrusion, fiber spinning, tubular film blowing, coextrusion, and thermoplastic foam extrusion. The specific polymer processing operations for thermosets include reaction injection molding, pultrusion of fiber-reinforced thermosets, and compression molding of thermoset composites.
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.001.0001.
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For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect companion to reading his ever popular A Sand County Almanac. Winning numerous awards, this comprehensive account of his life story is dynamic and readable, written in the context of the history of American conservation and illustrated with historic photographs. Marybeth Lorbiecki has now enriched A Fierce Green Fire in a way no other biography on Leopold has, adding numerous chapters on the ripple effects of his ideas, books, ecological vision, land ethic, and Shack, as well as of the ecological contributions of his children, graduate students, contemporary scholars, and organizations--and the wilderness lands he helped preserve. Lorbiecki weaves these stories and factual information into the biography in a compelling way that keeps both lay and academic readers engaged. In the introduction to this edition, Lorbiecki makes it clear how much better our lives are because Leopold lived and why today we so radically need what he left us to bring about paradigm shifts in our ethical, economic, and cultural thinking. Instead of losing relevance, Leopold's legacy has gained ever more necessity and traction in the face of contemporary national and world challenges, such as species loss and climate change. Even the phenological studies he started at as a hobby are proving valuable, showing the climatic shifts that have occurred at the Shack lands since the 1930s, recognized by the plants and animals.
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Mercati, Flavio. Best Matching: Technical Details. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789475.003.0005.
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The best matching procedure described in Chapter 4 is equivalent to the introduction of a principal fibre bundle in configuration space. Essentially one introduces a one-dimensional gauge connection on the time axis, which is a representation of the Euclidean group of rotations and translations (or, possibly, the similarity group which includes dilatations). To accommodate temporal relationalism, the variational principle needs to be invariant under reparametrizations. The simplest way to realize this in point–particle mechanics is to use Jacobi’s reformulation of Mapertuis’ principle. The chapter concludes with the relational reformulation of the Newtonian N-body problem (and its scale-invariant variant).
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Solymar, L., D. Walsh, and R. R. A. Syms. Lasers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829942.003.0012.
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Two-state and three-state systems are introduced. The properties of gaseous, solid state, and dye lasers are discussed and particular attention is devoted to semiconductor lasers. Reducing the dimensions leading to wells, wires, and dots is shown to have advantages. Quantum cascade lasers working in the THz region are discussed. The phenomena of Q switching, cavity dumping, and mode locking are explained. Parametric oscillators and optical fibre amplifiers are discussed. Masers are briefly mentioned. Laser noise is discussed. Awide variety of applications are mentioned. The curious phenomenon of laser cooling is explained. The basic principles of holographic recording and display are described.
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McDuff, Dusa, and Dietmar Salamon. Constructing symplectic manifolds. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794899.003.0008.
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This chapter examines various ways to construct symplectic manifolds and submanifolds. It begins by studying blowing up and down in both the complex and the symplectic contexts. The next section is devoted to a discussion of fibre connected sums and describes Gompf’s construction of symplectic four-manifolds with arbitrary fundamental group. The chapter also contains an exposition of Gromov’s telescope construction, which shows that for open manifolds the h-principle rules and the inclusion of the space of symplectic forms into the space of nondegenerate 2-forms is a homotopy equivalence. The final section outlines Donaldson’s construction of codimension two symplectic submanifolds and explains the associated decompositions of the ambient manifold.
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Evaluación de las estrategias innovadoras para el control de Aedes aegypti: desafíos para su introducción y evaluación del impacto. Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275320969.
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[Introducción]. La historia del control de las enfermedades transmitidas por vectores en las Américas es muy extensa y las evidencias muestran lo exitosos que fueron varios programas en el pasado. El control de la fiebre amarilla y el paludismo en Cuba y Panamá bajo la dirección de William Gorgas (1901-1910), la eliminación de Anopheles gambiae en el Brasil (1940), la eliminación de Aedes aegypti entre 1950 y 1960 auspiciada por la OPS y dirigida por Fred Soper, la eliminación de la transmisión de la enfermedad de Chagas por Triatoma infestans en el Brasil y el Uruguay y la reciente eliminación de la oncocercosis de 11 de los 13 focos endémicos en Colombia, Ecuador, México y Guatemala (2013-2016) son ejemplos recientes de intervenciones que combinaron el uso de insecticidas, la ingeniería sanitaria y la disponibilidad de vacunas o medicamentos efectivos, apoyados por la participación comunitaria y otros métodos de control…
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Levy, Daniel S. Manhattan Phoenix. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195382372.001.0001.
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In December 1835, former Mayor Philip Hone wrote in his diary how a vast fire raged across lower Manhattan, and how it “exceeded all description; the progress of the flames, like flashes of lightning, communicated in every direction, and a few minutes sufficed to level the lofty edifices on every side.” The fire devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing. Manhattan Phoenix explores the creation of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating Great Fire of 1835—a catastrophe that revealed how truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was—to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth, while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African American oysterman Thomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick who battled the blaze, and chronicles the work of the architect Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich. It discusses the career of the merchant Alexander Stewart, who constructed the first department store, follows the struggles of the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, and records the efforts of the engineer John Bloomfield Jervis, who brought clean water into homes. And this resurgence owed so much to the visionaries, such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who designed Central Park, creating the refuge that it remains to this day.
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Guillery, Ray. The pathways for perception. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806738.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 outlines some of the evidence on which the seemingly strong standard view has been based. The early discovery that ventral nerve roots of the spinal cord provide a motor output and dorsal nerve roots provide a sensory input supported the dichotomy of the standard view. Then as each sensory pathway was traced to the thalamus for relay to the cortex, the separate inputs from the sensory receptors—visual, auditory, gustatory, and so on—could be seen as providing the cortex with a ‘view’ of the world. The nature of this view became strikingly clear once investigators could understand (read) the messages that pass along the nerve fibres on the basis of very brief changes in membrane potentials, the action potentials. However, many branches given off by sensory fibres on their way to the thalamus remain unexplained on the standard view. These are important for the integrative sensorimotor view and their precise functional roles need to be defined.
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Kozelsky, Mara. Civilians in the Line of Fire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644710.003.0005.
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The siege of Sevastopol and the two most famous battles of the Crimean War (Battle of Balaklava and Battle of Inkerman) occurred in October and November of 1854. This chapter shows how the siege and the battles impacted the civilian population living in or near the war zone. It begins with discussion of military strategy, the defense of Sevastopol and scuttling of the Black Sea Fleet. It offers a reassessment of Menshikov. Most of the chapter describes the civilian experience, including civilian construction of parapets in Sevastopol, and the failed civilian defense of Balaklava (which occurred weeks before the famous battle by the same name), as well as the devastation of civilians and landscapes near the battle zone.
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Gentry, Caron E. A House Divided Now on Fire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190901264.003.0004.
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The violence against black people in the United States, as witnessed particularly in the shootings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of John Crawford III in Ohio, indicates the anxiety over the changing social order from white patriarchal to a more diversified locus of power. Therefore, it conducts a discourse analysis of texts, such as the Blue Lives Matter website, that reactively and defensively support the law enforcement community and refute the Black Lives Matter narrative. The discourse analysis reveals a level of anxiety that allows those within the police community to scapegoat the Black Lives Matter movement, further revealing the need of this particular community to maintain hegemonic race relations: thereby failing to recognize the vulnerability of black people in the United States.
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Buxton, Richard. Landscapes of the Cyclopes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744771.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the interrelationship between one general and one specific feature of Greek myth. The general feature concerns mythical homonyms. The specific feature concerns the landscapes within which ancient narrators located the Cyclopes. Attempts have often been made to differentiate between types of Cyclopes: the builders, the blacksmiths, and the pastoral ogres. As notable as the differences, however, are the overlaps. In particular, one constellation of symbols is shared by the blacksmiths and the ogres: this characterizes Etna as a place where fire and liquid coalesce. For the blacksmiths, such a coalescing is what forging metal implies. For the ogres, from Euripides and Theocritus to Virgil and Ovid, Etna’s streams of fire come increasingly to serve as a symbolically significant landscape. Consideration of this question also raises interesting issues about the place of Sicily as a whole in the Greek imaginaire.
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Esler, Karen J., Anna L. Jacobsen, and R. Brandon Pratt. Characteristics of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739135.003.0002.
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Modern mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs) are shaped by key ecosystem drivers that affect their function. The most important of these drivers are climate, topography, soils, and fire. There are important geographical, climatic, and fire histories that are crucial to understanding these systems. Mediterranean-type climate (MTC) is defined as a cool wet winter (winter-wet) and a warm dry summer, which is a unique pattern of seasonality and one that is rare globally. All of the MTC regions have nutrient-poor soils, particularly as related to nitrogen (N), and some also have extensive phosphorus-poor soils. There is considerable variation both within and between regions in their degree of nutrient impoverishment of soils. Through these shared ecosystem drivers, selection has operated within each ecosystem to shape the communities and the organisms within them. This has resulted in the communities and organisms displaying similar structures and processes.
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Farfan, Penny. “Fairy of Light”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190679699.003.0003.
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This chapter focuses on Loie Fuller’s Fire Dance to exemplify the interplay between performer and character as a central aspect of queer modernist performance that was foregrounded through the uncanny qualities of Fuller’s work. Charting Fire Dance from its origins in Fuller’s 1895 version of Salome through to its reworking as a solo and its reappearance in her autobiography, the chapter traces a queer genealogy of uncanny doubles that included Oscar Wilde, Salome, heretical witches, and new women in an incremental layering of queer and feminist resonances that flickered into view through Fuller’s experiment in illuminated dance. The uncanny in Fuller’s work thus emanated from an integral and coproductive relationship between modernist aesthetics and sexual queerness that intersected through her performing body in an intensification of the interplay between character and role, onstage and offstage, and representation and presence that was a crucial facet of queer modernist performance.
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Esler, Karen J., Anna L. Jacobsen, and R. Brandon Pratt. Organisms and their Interactions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739135.003.0003.
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Both animal and plant species exhibit adaptive traits related to features of mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs). For plants, the seasonality of the MTC has been an important factor in the evolution of plant phenological traits. Root adaptive traits that improve nutrient extraction from impoverished soils are present within MTC regions, including cluster roots, root nodules, and mycorrhizal symbioses. Fire has been an important driver of plant traits, such as smoke, charate, or heat-induced seed germination or seed release (i.e. serotiny), and post-fire flowering. Adaptive traits in animals include both physiological and behavioural traits. MTC regions have been used in the study of many ecological and evolutionary patterns, particularly as related to organismal adaptations to unique soil and substrates (edaphic communities) and interactions between plants and animals, such as plant–herbivore interactions, plant–pollinator interactions, and plant–seed disperser interactions. These interactions shape many plant and animal characters within MTC regions.
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Byrd, James P. A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190902797.001.0001.
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In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said both North and South “read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.” Lincoln quoted several biblical texts in this address—which, according to Frederick Douglass, “sounded more like a sermon than a state paper.” The Bible, as Lincoln’s famous speech illustrated, saturated the Civil War. This book offers the most thorough analysis yet of how Americans enlisted scripture to fight the Civil War. As this insightful narrative reveals, no book was more important to the Civil War than the Bible. From Massachusetts to Mississippi and beyond, the Bible was the nation’s most read and most respected book. It brought to mind sacred history and sacrifice. It presented a drama of salvation and damnation, of providence and judgment. It was also a book of war. Americans cited the Bible in addressing many wartime issues, including slavery, secession, patriotism, federal versus state authority, white supremacy, and violence. In scripture, both Union and Confederate soldiers found inspiration for dying and killing like never before in the nation’s history. With approximately 750,000 fatalities, the Civil War was the deadliest of the nation’s wars. Americans fought the Civil War with Bibles in hand, with both sides calling the war just and sacred. This is a book about how Americans enlisted the Bible in the nation’s most bloody, and arguably most biblically saturated war.
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Segal, David. Candy Floss, Cellulose, Sugars and Foods. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804079.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 describes conversion of cellulose to useful products in the 19th century (rayon, celluloid, guncotton) and the role of glucose in its chemical structure. The preparation of candy floss (cotton candy) is described and how the method is relevant to spinning synthetic fibres. The composition of sugar and the composition of foods is explained. In particular, the distinction among starch, sugar, carbohydrates, monosaccharides, and polysaccharides is made. Conversion of crops to bioethanol is described.
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Mann, Peter. Linear Algebra. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822370.003.0037.
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This chapter is key to the understanding of classical mechanics as a geometrical theory. It builds upon earlier chapters on calculus and linear algebra and frames theoretical physics in a new and useful language. Although some degree of mathematical knowledge is required (from the previous chapters), the focus of this chapter is to explain exactly what is going on, rather than give a full working knowledge of the subject. Such an approach is rare in this field, yet is ever so welcome to newcomers who are exposed to this material for the first time! The chapter discusses topology, manifolds, forms, interior products, pullback and pushforward, as well as tangent bundles, cotangent bundles, jet bundles and principle bundles. It also discusses vector fields, integral curves, flow, exterior derivatives and fibre derivatives. In addition, Lie derivatives, Lie brackets, Lie algebra, Lie–Poisson brackets, vertical space, horizontal space, groups and algebroids are explained.
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Mann, Peter. Differential Geometry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822370.003.0038.
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This chapter is key to the understanding of classical mechanics as a geometrical theory. It builds upon earlier chapters on calculus and linear algebra and frames theoretical physics in a new and useful language. Although some degree ofmathematical knowledge is required (from the previous chapters), the focus of this chapter is to explain exactlywhat is going on, rather than give a full working knowledge of the subject. Such an approach is rare in this field, yet is ever so welcome to newcomers who are exposed to this material for the first time! The chapter discusses topology, manifolds, forms, interior products, pullback and pushforward, as well as tangent bundles, cotangent bundles, jet bundles and principle bundles. It also discusses vector fields, integral curves, flow, exterior derivatives and fibre derivatives. In addition, Lie derivatives, Lie brackets, Lie algebra, Lie–Poisson brackets, vertical space, horizontal space, groups and algebroids are explained.
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Henning, Tim. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797036.003.0001.
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Imagine you are standing in a hotel room and you are in panic. You believe that there is a fire in the hotel, and that in fact the corridor outside your door is in flames already. Looking out of the window, you realize that it might be possible to jump out and land safely in the canal beneath....
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Solymar, L., D. Walsh, and R. R. A. Syms. Dielectric materials. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829942.003.0010.
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The macroscopic and microscopic approaches to determining polarization are explained. The types of polarization, frequency response, and anomalous dispersion are discussed. The Debye equation for orientational polarization is derived. The concept of effective field is introduced. The dispersion equations for acoustic waves and for optical phonons are derived. The properties of piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, and ferroelectricity are discussed. The attenuation of optical fibres, the operation of a photocopier, and the ability of liquid crystals to rotate polarization are also discussed.
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Mann, Peter. Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822370.003.0021.
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This chapter focuses on autonomous geometrical mechanics, using the language of symplectic geometry. It discusses manifolds (including Kähler manifolds, Riemannian manifolds and Poisson manifolds), tangent bundles, cotangent bundles, vector fields, the Poincaré–Cartan 1-form and Darboux’s theorem. It covers symplectic transforms, the Marsden–Weinstein symplectic quotient, presymplectic and symplectic 2-forms, almost symplectic structures, symplectic leaves and foliation. It also discusses contact structures, musical isomorphisms and Arnold’s theorem, as well as integral invariants, Nambu structures, the Nambu bracket and the Lagrange bracket. It describes Poisson bi-vector fields, Poisson structures, the Lie–Poisson bracket and the Lie–Poisson reduction, as well as Lie algebra, the Lie bracket and Lie algebra homomorphisms. Other topics include Casimir functions, momentum maps, the Euler–Poincaré equation, fibre derivatives and the geodesic equation. The chapter concludes by looking at deformation quantisation of the Poisson algebra, using the Moyal bracket and C*-algebras to develop a quantum physics.
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Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Book Business: Edward Millington, Jacob Tonson, and Emerging Publishing Practices. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0014.
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A new generation of book publishers emerged after the Great Fire of London, occupying new spaces including ‘Little Britain’. Some publishers such as James Magnes and Richard Bentley became known for creating collections of popular plays and novels. The young Jacob Tonson collaborated with John Drdyen to create a series of six volumes of miscellanies featuring contemporary poets, and translations from the classics. Tonson also published Milton’s Paradise Lost in an illustrated folio edition
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Ezell, Margaret J. M. Shaping Public Opinion: Narrating National Events, Spreading the News, and Taking Sides. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0008.
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Upon the Restoration, several events of national importance occurred that were narrated and performed to shape public opinion, including the trials and executions of the regicides, the London plague, and the Great Fire of London. Poets and ministers interpreted these events either as God’s displeasure with England or, in Edmund Waller and John Dryden’s view, as God’s mercy. England’s difficulties in the Dutch Wars occasioned political satire, as in the series ‘Instructions to the Painter’ attributed to Andrew Marvell.
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Bocquet, Lydéric, David Quéré, Thomas A. Witten, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo, eds. Soft Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789352.001.0001.
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Many of the distinctive and useful phenomena of soft matter come from its interaction with interfaces. Examples are the peeling of a strip of adhesive tape or the coating of a surface or the curling of a fibre via capillary forces or the electrically driven ow along a microchannel, or the collapse of a porous sponge. These interfacial phenomena are distinct from the intrinsic behaviour of a soft material like a gel or a microemulsion. Yet many forms of interfacial phenomena can be understood via common principles valid for many forms of soft matter. Our goal in organizing this school was to give students a grasp of these common principles and their many ramifications and possibilities. The school comprised over fifty 90-minute lectures over four weeks in July 2013. Four four-lecture courses by Howard Stone, Michael Cates, David Nelson, and L. Mahadevan served as an anchor for the program. A number of shorter courses and seminars rounded out the school.This volume presents lecture notes prepared by the speakers and submitted for publication after the school. The lectures are grouped under two main themes: Hydrodynamics and interfaces, and Soft matter.
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Geslani, Marko. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190862886.003.0001.
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The introduction reviews the historiographic problem of the relation between fire sacrifice (yajña) and image worship (pūjā), which have traditionally been seen as opposing ritual structures serving to undergird the distinction of “Vedic” and “Hindu.” Against such an icono- and theocentric approach, it proposes a history of the priesthood in relation to royal power, centering on the relationship between the royal chaplain (purohita) and astrologer (sāṃvatsara) as a crucial, unexplored development in early Indian religion. In order to capture these historical developments, it outlines a method for the comparative study of ritual forms over time.
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Abraham, William J. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786511.003.0013.
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The author briefly examines why “special” divine action came under fire in the modern period, and suggests that the problems with the contemporary debate about divine action in analytic philosophy rest upon core mistakes made during the modern period resulting from a disconnection with the Christian tradition. He raises again the need to engage with the Christian tradition to see what dividends it might pay for the contemporary debate. After giving a retrospective of the contributions of each chapter in this volume, he calls for theologians to take up the project of the epistemology of theology while maintaining their theological boldness.
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Chapin, F. Stuart, Mark W. Oswood, Keith van Cleve, Leslie A. Viereck, and David L. Verbyla, eds. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195154313.001.0001.
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The boreal forest is the northern-most woodland biome, whose natural history is rooted in the influence of low temperature and high-latitude. Alaska's boreal forest is now warming as rapidly as the rest of Earth, providing an unprecedented look at how this cold-adapted, fire-prone forest adjusts to change. This volume synthesizes current understanding of the ecology of Alaska's boreal forests and describes their unique features in the context of circumpolar and global patterns. It tells how fire and climate contributed to the biome's current dynamics. As climate warms and permafrost (permanently frozen ground) thaws, the boreal forest may be on the cusp of a major change in state. The editors have gathered a remarkable set of contributors to discuss this swift environmental and biotic transformation. Their chapters cover the properties of the forest, the changes it is undergoing, and the challenges these alterations present to boreal forest managers. In the first section, the reader can absorb the geographic and historical context for understanding the boreal forest. The book then delves into the dynamics of plant and animal communities inhabiting this forest, and the biogeochemical processes that link these organisms. In the last section the authors explore landscape phenomena that operate at larger temporal and spatial scales and integrates the processes described in earlier sections. Much of the research on which this book is based results from the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Here is a synthesis of the substantial literature on Alaska's boreal forest that should be accessible to professional ecologists, students, and the interested public.
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Hempstead, Katherine. Uncovered. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190094157.001.0001.
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Abstract This book is a history of the insurance business and the regulation of that business in the United States. It begins by describing the early days of life, fire, and casualty insurance and the development of state regulation in the late nineteenth century, after a Supreme Court ruling exempted the insurance business from federal regulation. From the outset, insurers adopted a quasi-public persona, emphasized the social benefits of their work, and sought to control the terms by which they interacted with government. Early political leaders agreed that insurers played an important role in the largely voluntary social safety net. Yet insurance is a business, and over time, periodic crises in life, fire, health, auto, and liability insurance highlighted gaps between the coverage that insurers were willing to provide and what the public demanded. The Depression was an inflection point, after which the federal government began to assume a greater role in the provision of insurance. Insurers enthusiastically pursued the growing business of employee benefits. A Supreme Court decision in 1944 created an opportunity to undo the state-based system, but Congress instead chose to preserve the status quo. Yet there are significant constraints on the ability of state regulators to solve important problems in insurance markets, as was made clear by cyclical problems in auto and property markets. As the twentieth century progressed, insurers and government have become interdependent; government serves as a financial backstop and relies on the insurance industry to participate in markets, including many that are publicly funded.