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Disasters at Sea (Disasters Up Close)

Lerner Publications, 2007

For thousands of years, the perils of the sea have claimed uncountable numbers of victims. Bad weather, rocks and icebergs, equipment failures, human error, and many more types of tragedies have all sent ships to watery graves. While modern technology has made sea-going vessels safer and rescues easier, there still are terrible disasters that...

Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín (Pitt Illuminations)

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013

Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Dueñas juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiacán, Mexico, and Medellín, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence,...

Cartoon Cool: How to Draw New Retro-Style Characters

Watson-Guptill, 2005

Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter’s lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes. Now there’s a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling author Christopher Hart shows...

Drawing the Human Head

Watson-Guptill, 1965

In 300 extraordinary drawings, Hogarth shows how to draw the head from every angle, age the face from infancy to old age, and delineate every feature and wrinkle.

About the Author

Burne Hogarth’s (1911–1996) remarkable career spanned over 60 years. He wore many hats in...

Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (American Philosophy Series)

Fordham University Press, 2004

In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics.

This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology....

The Noetics of Nature: Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)

Fordham University Press, 2013

Contemplative or "noetic" knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where "theoria physike," or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is seen to provide deeper...

Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics

Fordham University Press, 2018

Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the absence of sustained thought about race in postcolonial studies, as well as the lack...

$Electric Refractory Materials$

Electric Refractory Materials

CRC Press, 2000

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of electric refractory materials as exotic materials (i.e., metallic and semiconducting refractory materials) from fundamental properties to application in a wide variety of electronics. The metallic ceramics or metalloids are the transition metal carbides, nitrides, and diborides of...

Chromatographic Analysis of Environmental and Food Toxicants (Chromatographic Science, V. 77.)

CRC Press, 1998

. . .a practical collection. . .describing chromatographic methods for analyzing significant food and environmental contaminants and chronically toxic substances. The table of contents reflects the types of chemicals referenced in this volume. Shibamato focuses. . .concern on gathering adequate knowledge about uptake of substances where humans may...

Bioinorganic Catalysis

CRC Press, 1999

Catalysis has been an extremely important area within chemistry and has been well described over the course of the last few decades. Biocatalysis is a more recent branch of catalysis in which the catalyst and the process originate from the biological sciences and deals with enzymes. In the previous decade, a monograph dealing...

Sterile Filtration: A Practical Approach

CRC Press, 2000

This book focuses on sterilizing grade filters in the biopharmaceutical industry, emphasizing practical applications of universal and dependable operational protocols, integrity testing, and troubleshooting to streamline the production and preparation of pharmaceuticals.

Addresses the complexities of globalizing redundancy in...

Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Risk Assessment

CRC Press, 2001

Presents state-of-the-art regulatory cancer risk assessment models including a biologically based model for two-hit carcinogenesis and cell proliferation!

This book comprehensively reviews the various roles of genetic toxicology in human cancer risk assessment conducted by United States and worldwide regulatory...

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