X-Ray Diffraction

X-Ray Diffraction
Author: C. Suryanarayana
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1489901485

In this, the only book available to combine both theoretical and practical aspects of x-ray diffraction, the authors emphasize a "hands on" approach through experiments and examples based on actual laboratory data. Part I presents the basics of x-ray diffraction and explains its use in obtaining structural and chemical information. In Part II, eight experimental modules enable the students to gain an appreciation for what information can be obtained by x-ray diffraction and how to interpret it. Examples from all classes of materials -- metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and polymers -- are included. Diffraction patterns and Bragg angles are provided for students without diffractometers. 192 illustrations.

Schwann

Schwann
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 780
Release: 1989
Genre: Audiotapes
ISBN:

Close Up 1927-1933

Close Up 1927-1933
Author: James Donald
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691004633

Close Up was the first English-language journal of film theory. Published between 1927 and 1933, it billed itself as "the only magazine devoted to film as an art," promising readers "theory and analysis: no gossip." The journal was edited by the writer and filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson, the novelist Winifred Bryher, and the poet H. D., and it attracted contributions from such major figures as Dorothy Richardson, Sergei Eisenstein, and Man Ray. This anthology presents some of the liveliest and most important articles from the publication's short but influential history. The writing in Close Up was theoretically astute, politically incisive, open to emerging ideas from psychoanalysis, passionately committed to "pure cinema," and deeply critical of Hollywood and its European imitators. The articles collected here cover such subjects as women and film, "The Negro in Cinema," Russian and working-class cinema, and developments in film technology, including the much debated addition of sound. The contributors are a cosmopolitan cast, reflecting the journal's commitment to internationalism; Close Up was published from Switzerland, printed in England and France, and distributed in Paris, Berlin, London, New York, and Los Angeles. The editors of this volume present a substantial introduction and commentaries on the articles that set Close Up in historical and intellectual context. This is crucial reading for anyone interested in the origins of film theory and the relationship between cinema and modernism.

Thrilling Wonder Stories

Thrilling Wonder Stories
Author: Winston E. Engle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780979671814

They imagined new life, new worlds, new civilizations. They're the writers of STAR TREK(r), and THRILLING WONDER STORIES, the trade-paperback anthology revival of the classic 1929-55 pulp magazine, has stories by thirteen of them in its second volume! All-new stories by: DAVID GERROLD ("The Trouble with Tribbles") NORMAN SPINRAD ("The Doomsday Machine") LARRY NIVEN (the animated series' "The Slaver Weapon") MICHAEL REAVES (TNG's "Where No One Has Gone Before") and STEVE PERRY DIANE DUANE (TNG's "Where No One Has Gone Before") MELINDA M. SNODGRASS (TNG's "The Measure of a Man") DAVID R. GEORGE III (VOYAGER's "Prime Factors") and classic stories from JERRY SOHL ("The Corbomite Maneuver") RICHARD MATHESON ("The Enemy Within") HARLAN ELLISON(r) ("The City on the Edge of Forever") THEODORE STURGEON ("Amok Time") Plus "Arena" by FREDRIC BROWN, the basis of the TV episode, And an unproduced original series storyline by GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON ("The Man Trap") Also featured: MARC SCOTT ZICREE, novelist and writer of DS9's "Far Beyond the Stars," celebrates the literary writers who worked on big- and small-screen Trek. CRYSTAL ANN TAYLOR tells the behind-the-scenes story of "World Enough and Time," award-winning episode of Internet series STAR TREK: PHASE II with George Takei as Sulu. ADAM WEINER says "I Canna Change the Laws of Physics!" ...but the writers of Star Trek don't have that compunction! We take you inside Columbus of the Stars, a 1964 television series proposal by writer-director IB MELCHIOR (ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS) about a multinational starship crew visiting unexplored worlds... and how the pitch crossed paths with a writer-producer named Gene Roddenberry. Plus fun and surprising "Scientifacts" from JAMES TREFIL, and a look in "The Televisualizer" with SCOTT ASHLIN at a DVD box set of "Cult Camp Classics." Are they any of the three? Go with THRILLING WONDER STORIES, VOLUME 2 on a bold voyage to the frontiers of imagination! Illustrations with every story. Cover by Hugo and Chesley Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton. 252 pages. ("Star Trek" is a registered trademark of CBS Studios Inc. "Harlan Ellison" is a registered trademark of The Kilimanjaro Corporati

English as a Global Language

English as a Global Language
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107611806

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

Close Up: Cinema And Modernism

Close Up: Cinema And Modernism
Author: James Donald
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0304335169

Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making. This volume republishes articles from the journal, with an introduction and a commentary on the lives of, and complex relationships between, its writers and editors.

The Adult Learner

The Adult Learner
Author: Malcolm S. Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000072894

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 9th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include: Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field. The addition of two new chapters on diversity and inclusion in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner. An updated supporting website. This website for the 9th edition of The Adult Learner will provide basic instructor aids including a PowerPoint presentation for each chapter. Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

In Pursuit of Beauty

In Pursuit of Beauty
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 513
Release: 1986
Genre: Aesthetic movement (Art)
ISBN: 0870994689

"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.