Handbook of surface and nanometrology / / David J. Whitehouse

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464434903321
• Autore: Whitehouse D. J (David J.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 0-429-14069-X; 1-4200-8202-7
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (982 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WhitehouseD. J (David J.).
• Disciplina: 620/.440287
• Soggetti: Surfaces (Technology) - Measurement; Nanostructured materials; Metrology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Rev. ed. of: Handbook of surface metrology. c1994.; A Taylor & Francis book.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction-Surface and Nanometrology; Chapter 2. Characterization; Chapter 3. Processing, Operations, and Simulations; Chapter 4. Measurement Techniques; Chapter 5. Standardization-Traceability-Uncertainty; Chapter 6. Surfaces and Manufacture; Chapter 7. Surface Geometry and Its Importance in Function; Chapter 8. Surface Geometry, Scale of Size Effects, Nanometrology; Chapter 9. General Comments; Glossary; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: David Whitehouse, known as the father of digital metrology, helped pioneer the use of nanotechnology in surface science and surface metrology, and he continues to move the field forward. In this heavily revised and expanded edition, he addresses the many paradigm shifts occurring in the field. He explains the incorporation of physics to develop optimum solutions for manufacture and performance, and provides mechanical engineers with accessible explanations of essential concepts along with the higher mathematics that is now required of those working in the field. Emphasis is placed on systems w

Becoming yellow [[electronic resource] ] : a short history of racial thinking / / Michael Keevak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789811603321
• Autore: Keevak Michael <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-01212-X; 9786613012128; 1-4008-3860-6
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8009182/109033
• Soggetti: East Asians - Race identity; National characteristics, East Asian; Race awareness - Western countries - History - 18th century; Race awareness - Western countries - History - 19th century; Racism - Western countires - History - 18th century; Racism - Western countires - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: No Longer White -- Chapter 1. Before They Were Yellow -- Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Yellow -- Chapter 3. Nineteenth-Century Anthropology and the Measurement of "Mongolian" Skin Color -- Chapter 4. East Asian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Medicine -- Chapter 5. Yellow Peril -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific ; discourses on race. From the walls of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which depicted people of varying skin tones including yellow, to the phrase "yellow peril" at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe and America, Michael Keevak follows the development of perceptions about race and human difference. He indicates that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped with members of the Mongolian race, they began to be considered yellow. Demonstrating how a racial distinction took root in Europe and traveled internationally, Becoming Yellow weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.

The medieval idea of marriage / / Christopher N.L. Brooke

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247923103316
• Autore: Brooke Christopher <1927-2015.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 1-280-80185-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 325 p., [8] p. of plates )
• Disciplina: 306.8/1
• Soggetti: Marriage - History; Marriage - Religious aspects - Christianity - History; Marriage customs and rites, Medieval; Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences; Family & Marriage
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reprint of 1989 edition.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. 287-312) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This wide-ranging book offers fascinating insights into the nature of ; marriage in the Middle Ages, both in its social, political, legal, and religious aspects, and its treatment in contemporary art and literature. From such major topics as the role of the Church fathers and the Bible, and the practice and law of marriage, to the cult of celibacy and the relationship between marriage and architecture, Professor Brooke's illuminating study offers the most complete account of medieval marriage ever published. He draws on a remarkable group of case studies and sources, including the letters of Heloise and Abelard, the epics of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and the poetry of Chaucer, and concludes with a penetrating look at the Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyck.