1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143032803321

Titolo

Electrical Engineering, 2007 ICEE '07, International Conference on / / IEEE

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, NJ : , : IEEE, , 2007

ISBN

1-5090-8502-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

621.3

Soggetti

Electrical engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020126803321

Titolo

Ecosystems and Land Use Changes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 2005

ISBN

1-118-66598-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 441 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Geophysical monograph ; ; 154

Disciplina

551.1

Soggetti

Core-mantle boundary

Orogeny

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Section 1. Tectonics, Structure Geology, Regional Geophysics -- Section 2. Geochemistry, Geochronology, and Xenolith Studies -- Section 3. Controlled Source Seismic Studies -- Section 4. Passive Source Seismic Studies -- Section 5. Synthesis Papers.

Sommario/riassunto

Two dozen papers from a June 2003 interdisciplinary conference in



Santa Fe, New Mexico synthesize the current understanding of the causes and consequences of land use change, from such perspectives as hydrology, public health, ecology, and social science. They cover the multiple ecosystem responses to land-use change; observing, forecasting, and hindcasting land-use change; and regional case studies of ecosystem interactions with land-use change. The goal is to urge decision makers to consider the full range of economic, social, and ecosystem consequences of land use change. There is no index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132637503321

Autore

Ketabgian Tamara Siroone

Titolo

The lives of machines : the industrial imaginary in Victorian literature and culture / / Tamara Ketabgian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2011]

©2001

ISBN

9780472900350

0472900358

9780472051403

0472051407

9780472071401

0472071408

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS015000LIT000000LIT004120

Disciplina

820.9/356

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and technology - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Machinery in literature

Machinery - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Technology - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Human parts and prosthetic networks : the Victorian factory and



mesmeric forces -- Animal machine -- "Melancholy mad elephants" : affect and the animal machine in Hard times -- Brute appetites : labor and leisure in Mary Barton and early Victorian Manchester -- Psychic forces : steam, water, and mechanical perception in The mill on the floss -- "A musical steam engine" : sympathy, technique, and industrial commaunity.

Sommario/riassunto

Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that "let off steam" or feel "under pressure." The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely human and affecting than the nonhuman. Tamara Ketabgian explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. Treating British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, this study examines forms of feeling and community that combine the vital and the mechanical, the human and the nonhuman, in surprisingly hybrid and productive alliances. Challenging accounts of industrial alienation that still persist, the author defines mechanical character and feeling not as erasures or negations of self, but as robust and nuanced entities in their own right. The Lives of Machines thus offers an alternate cultural history that traces sympathies between humans, animals, and machines in novels and nonfiction about factory work as well as in other unexpected literary sites and genres, whether domestic, scientific, musical, or philosophical. Ketabgian historicizes a model of affect and community that continues to inform recent theories of technology, psychology, and the posthuman. The Lives of Machines will be of interest to students of British literature and history, history of science and of technology, novel studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodern cultural studies.