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Book Fiat Flux

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  • Author : William D. Lindsey
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2014-05-01
  • ISBN : 1610755251
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Fiat Flux written by William D. Lindsey and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and Bachelor's medical practice. Bachelor was an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in literature, science, nature, politics, and religion, and he became a self-professed freethinker in the 1870s. He was driven by a concept he called "fiat flux," an awareness of the "rapid flight of time" that motivated him to treat the people around him and the world itself as precious and fleeting. He wrote occasional pieces for a local newspaper, bringing his unusually enlightened perspectives to the subjects of women's rights, capital punishment, the role of religion in politics, and the domination of the American political system by economic elite in the 1890s. These essays, along with family letters and the original diary entries, are included here for an uncommon glimpse into the life of a country doctor in nineteenth-century Arkansas.

Book Fiat Flux

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  • Author : Wilson R. Bachelor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Fiat Flux written by Wilson R. Bachelor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plant Metabolic Networks

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  • Author : Jörg Schwender
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2009-06-12
  • ISBN : 0387787453
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Plant Metabolic Networks written by Jörg Schwender and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants are the basis for human nutrition and of increasing interest for the chemical industry as a source of chemical feed stocks. Fuels derived from plant biomass will increasingly replace fossil fuels in the future. In order to increase crop productivity, design new plant products, and create new energy crops, there is need for methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of metabolism which are able to guide the rational re-design of metabolic networks. In this book, recent advances in qualitative and quantitative analysis of metabolism are summarized to give an overview of the current state of knowledge. Principles of the analysis of network structure, flux analysis, and kinetic modeling are described. Analytical methods necessary to produce the data needed for metabolic flux analysis and for kinetic modeling are described. The analysis of larger metabolic networks is only possible by using computer assistance. Therefore each chapter of the book shall also describe software available for this purpose.

Book Fiat Flux

Download or read book Fiat Flux written by Lóránd Hegyi and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2012 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 marque le cinquantième anniversaire du premier Festival Fluxus qui se déroula à Wiesbaden, RFA. Autour de la figure tutélaire et controversée qu'était George Maciunas, des artistes d'origine et de pratique diverses essayèrent de bousculer les lignes de démarcation entre arts visuels et arts vivants, entre art et vie, entre éthique et esthétique. Le Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, fort des donations Vicky Rémy et François et Ninon Robelin, riches en oeuvres Fluxus, fait la tentative de rendre compte de la complexité et de la " nébulosité " d'un courant, d'un mouvement, puisant ses énergies tant dans la musique novatrice de John Cage, la philosophie Zen, le gag, que le positionnement idéologique. Fiat Flux, la nébuleuse Fluxus 1962-1978 oscille entre rigueur historique et aléas d'un parcours où se côtoient l'art du presque-rien, le document, l'installation spectaculaire ; où voisinent imprimés, films, objets et sons. Fiat Flux, la nébuleuse Fluxus 1962-1978 ne se veut pas apologétique de Fluxus. Au contraire, elle montre une diversité d'approches de la part d'artistes dont la relation avec Fluxus et son mentor se décline depuis la plus grande adhésion jusqu'à sa remise en cause conflictuelle en passant par le passage-éclair. Exposer Fluxus pour un Musée, c'est à la fois faire le travail raisonné du compte-rendu de ce qui fut considéré comme une des avant-gardes artistiques au XXP siècle tout en prenant conscience du risque que Fluxus puisse encore échapper à une nomenclature préétablie. " Fluxus se donnait pour but le voyage. Hélas ! C'est devenu un art ". Willem de Ridder.

Book Fiat Flux

Download or read book Fiat Flux written by Lóránd Hegyi and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of Sorts

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  • Author : Joseph A. Dane
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-06-06
  • ISBN : 0812203631
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Out of Sorts written by Joseph A. Dane and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attention to detail, Joseph A. Dane argues, we would find something else entirely: that a careful consideration of typography serves not as a material support to prevailing theories of print but, rather, as a recalcitrant counter-voice to them. In Out of Sorts Dane continues his examination of the ways in which the grand narratives of book history mask what we might actually learn by looking at books themselves. He considers the differences between internal and external evidence for the nature of the type used by Gutenberg and the curious disconnection between the two, and he explores how descriptions of typesetting devices from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been projected back onto the fifteenth to make the earlier period not more accessible but less. In subsequent chapters, he considers topics that include the modern mythologies of so-called gothic typefaces, the presence of nontypographical elements in typographical form, and the assumptions that underlie the electronic editions of a medieval poem or the visual representation of typographical history in nineteenth-century studies of the subject. Is Dane one of the most original or most traditional of historians of print? In Out of Sorts he demonstrates that it may well be possible to be both things at once.

Book User Level Workflow Design

Download or read book User Level Workflow Design written by Anna-Lena Lamprecht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuous trend in computer science to lift programming to higher abstraction levels increases scalability and opens programming to a wider public. In particular, service-oriented programming and the support of semantics-based frameworks make application development accessible to users with almost no programming expertise. This monograph establishes requirement-centric scientific workflow design as an instance of consequent constraint-driven development. Requirements formulated in terms of user-level constraints are automatically transformed into running applications using temporal logic-based synthesis technology. The impact of this approach is illustrated by applying it to four very different bioinformatics scenarios: phylogenetic analysis, the dedicated GeneFisher-P scenario, the FiatFlux-P scenario, and microarray data analyses.

Book Metabolomics

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  • Author : Wolfram Weckwerth
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-02-04
  • ISBN : 1597452440
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Metabolomics written by Wolfram Weckwerth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metabolomics: Methods and Protocols examines the state-of-the-art in metabolomic analysis. Leading researchers in the field present protocols for the application of complementary analytical methods, such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Metabolomics: Methods and Protocols contains forward-looking protocols, which provide the essential groundwork for future efforts in elucidating the structure of the unknowns detected in metabolomic studies.

Book Fiat Flux

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  • Author : Randall McLeod
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Fiat Flux written by Randall McLeod and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Family Practice

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  • Author : William D. Lindsey
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2020-04-15
  • ISBN : 161075686X
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book A Family Practice written by William D. Lindsey and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews. This study of four generations of Russell doctors is an historical study with a biographical thread running through it. The authors take a wide-ranging look at the meaning of intergenerational vocations and the role of family, the economy, and social issues on the evolution of medical education and practice in the United States.

Book Making Climate Lawyers

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  • Author : Kimberly K. Smith
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2024-04-11
  • ISBN : 0700636390
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Making Climate Lawyers written by Kimberly K. Smith and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did it take so long for American law schools to start teaching about climate change? Although most environmental law professors were aware of climate change by 1990, it took nearly fifteen years for them to incorporate the topic into their curriculum. In her innovative new work, Kimberly K. Smith explores how American environmental law professors have addressed climate change, identifying the barriers they faced, how they overcame them, and how they created “climate law” as a domain of legal specialization. Making Climate Lawyers explores the history of why American law schools were resistant to teaching about climate change and how that changed over the course of a forty-year period, resulting in law schools across the country incorporating climate change into their curricula, with many even establishing centers on the environment. Smith challenges dominant explanations of why the United States was slow to develop climate policy: it wasn’t just political opposition or short-sightedness. Creating climate legal professionals required changing the fundamentals of legal education. Based on dozens of interviews with faculty and students, Making Climate Lawyers fills a gap in the literature on the intellectual history of climate change, most of which focuses on the history of climate science. Smith focuses instead on how the climate problem fits (or doesn’t fit) into the structure of American law. She uses this story as a lens through which to understand both the transformation of legal education since the 1980s and the nature of climate change as a policy problem.

Book The Editorial Gaze

Download or read book The Editorial Gaze written by Paul Eggert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter what it seeks to represent? How does it condition the relationship between texts and readers? The different concerns shared by editors of a variety of genres, literary and otherwise, emerge here as constructive new approaches to the theory and practice of editing are explored. The essays make a concerted attempt to assess the implications of postmodern thought on one of the oldest and most fundamental cultural activities, editing The section on theory covers such important subjects as editorial responsibility, the death of the author, and the nature of the authorial voice. The practice section covers actual editing situations in various literary areas and in musicology, recorded music, and the preservation of oral literature. The multidisciplinary volume will find its readers among students of textual criticism, literature, music, and folklore as well as any readers of postmodern criticism.

Book Making Shakespeare

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  • Author : Tiffany Stern
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2004-07-31
  • ISBN : 1134363540
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Making Shakespeare written by Tiffany Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Shakespeare play actually is. Tiffany Stern reveals how London, the theatre, the actors and the way in which the plays were written and printed all affect the 'Shakespeare' that we now read. Concentrating on the instability and fluidity of Shakespeare's texts, her book discusses what happened to a manuscript between its first composition, its performance on stage and its printing, and identifies traces of the production system in the plays we read. She argues that the versions of Shakespeare that have come down to us have inevitably been formed by the contexts from which they emerged; being shaped by, for example, the way actors received and responded to their lines, the props and music used in the theatre, or the continual revision of plays by the playhouses and printers. Allowing a fuller understanding of the texts we read and perform, Making Shakespeare is the perfect introduction to issues of stage and page. A refreshingly clear, accessible read, this book will allow even those with no expert knowledge to begin to contextualize Shakespeare's plays for themselves, in ways both old and new.

Book Shakespeare s Names

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  • Author : Laurie Maguire
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2007-10-11
  • ISBN : 0199219974
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Names written by Laurie Maguire and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual and fascinating book convinces readers that names matter in Shakespeare's plays - and that playing with names is a serious business. The focus is Shakespeare - in particular, case-studies of Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida - but the book also shows what Shakespeare inherited and where the topic developed after him.

Book Bibliographical Analysis

Download or read book Bibliographical Analysis written by G. Thomas Tanselle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying printed books as physical objects can reveal not only how books were produced, but also how their design and layout features emerged and came to convey meanings. This concise and accessible introduction to analytical bibliography in its historical context explains in clear, non-specialist language how to find and analyze clues about a book's manufacture and how to examine the significance of a book's design. Written by one of the most eminent bibliographical and textual scholars working today, the book is both a practical guide to bibliographical research and a history of bibliography as a developing field of study. For all who use books, this is an ideal starting point for learning how to read the object along with the words.

Book Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing

Download or read book Facsimiles and the History of Shakespeare Editing written by Paul Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's plays and the increasing sophistication of facsimiles. While recent scholarship has offered a detailed account of how Shakespeare was edited in the eighteenth century, the parallel process of the 'exact' reproduction of his texts has been largely ignored. The author will explain how facsimiles moved during the eighteenth and nineteenth century from hand drawn, traced, and type facsimiles to the advent of photographical facsimiles in the mid nineteenth century. Facsimiles can be seen as a barometer of the reverence accorded to the idea of an authentic Shakespeare text, and also of the desire to possess, if not original texts, then reproductions of them.

Book A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts

Download or read book A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts written by Claire Loffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an unedited document, through to the established academic planning a team-enterprise, multi-volume re-editing of a canonical author. Explicitly, this Handbook does not aim to produce a linear treatise telling its readers how they 'should' edit. Instead, it provides them with a thematically ordered collection of insights drawn from the practical experiences of a symposium of editors. Many implicit areas of consensus on good practice in editing are recorded here, but there are also areas of legitimate disagreement to be charted. The Handbook draws together a diverse range of first person narratives detailing the approaches taken by different editors, with their accompanying rationales, and evaluations of the benefits and problems of their chosen methods. The collection's aim is to help readers to read modern editions more sensitively, and to make better-informed decisions in their own editorial projects.