At the sharp end : uncovering the work of five contemporary dramatists / / Peter Billingham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464518603321
• Autore: Billingham Peter <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 1-4081-4770-X; 1-4081-4769-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Collana: Plays and Playwrights
• Disciplina: 822.91409
• Soggetti: English drama - 20th century - History and criticism; Dramatists, English - 20th century; Electronic books.
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 POINTING AT SHARP ENDS - AN INTRODUCTION; Sharpening Up: Reading and Using At the Sharp End; 1956: Look Back in Nostalgia?; 2006: Looking Forward - in Expectation?; Revisiting My Route; Time Zones; 2 DAVID EDGAR; Interview with David Edgar; Speaking in Tongues - Politics, Race and Cultural Identity in the Plays of David Edgar; 3 DAVID GREIG; Interview with David Greig; Inhabitants of the Tide Mark: Towards a New Political Poetics in the Plays of David Greig; 4 MARK RAVENHILL; Interview with Mark Ravenhill; 'We all need stories so that we can get by' - Sex, Shopping and Postmodern Politics in the Plays of Mark Ravenhill5 TIM ETCHELLS AND FORCED ENTERTAINMENT; Interview with Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment; Falling and Floating in Sheffield - Drunks, Dancers and Late-night Bus Rides: Themes and Strategies in the Work of Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment; 6 TANIKA GUPTA; Interview with Tanika Gupta; Navigating a Journey Through a Fragile Land - Themes in the Plays of Tanika Gupta; CONCLUSION: SHARPENING POINTS; A Short List of Recommended Further Reading and Indicative Websites
• Sommario/riassunto: What value does theatre have in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century? How has theatre responded to the challenge of remaining relevant in the media-saturated world of today? These are the questions that underpin this stimulating study of some of the leading dramatists of contemporary British theatre. At the Sharp End sets the scene examining how the forces that created a revolution in theatre fifty years ago have been replaced by a new wave of political and social issues. It goes on to explore the ways in which five key writers have sought to reflect and wrestle with the changi

Green's function estimates for lattice Schrödinger operators and applications / / J. Bourgain

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826528403321
• Autore: Bourgain Jean <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-4008-3714-6; 0-691-12098-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Collana: Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; Number 158
• Classificazione: 33.06
• Disciplina: 515.3/9
• Soggetti: Schrödinger operator; Green's functions; Hamiltonian systems; Evolution equations
• 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 at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Transfer Matrix and Lyapounov Exponent -- Chapter 3. Herman's Subharmonicity Method -- Chapter 4. Estimates on Subharmonic Functions -- Chapter 5. LDT for Shift Model -- Chapter 6. Avalanche Principle in SL2(R) -- Chapter 7. Consequences for Lyapounov Exponent, IDS, and Green's Function -- Chapter 8. Refinements -- Chapter 9. Some Facts about Semialgebraic Sets -- ; Chapter 10. Localization -- Chapter 11. Generalization to Certain Long-Range Models -- Chapter 12. Lyapounov Exponent and Spectrum -- Chapter 13. Point Spectrum in Multifrequency Models at Small Disorder -- Chapter 14. A Matrix-Valued Cartan-Type Theorem -- Chapter 15. Application to Jacobi Matrices Associated with Skew Shifts -- Chapter 16. Application to the Kicked Rotor Problem -- Chapter 17. Quasi-Periodic Localization on the Zd-lattice (d > 1) -- Chapter 18. An Approach to Melnikov's Theorem on Persistency of Nonresonant Lower Dimension Tori -- Chapter 19. Application to the Construction of Quasi-Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations -- Chapter 20. Construction of Quasi-Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations -- Appendix
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents an overview of recent developments in the area of localization for quasi-periodic lattice Schrödinger operators and the theory of quasi-periodicity in Hamiltonian evolution equations. The physical motivation of these models extends back to the works of Rudolph Peierls and Douglas R. Hofstadter, and the models themselves have been a focus of mathematical research for two decades. Jean Bourgain here sets forth the results and techniques that have been discovered in the last few years. He puts special emphasis on so-called "non-perturbative" methods and the important role of subharmonic function theory and semi-algebraic set methods. He describes various applications to the theory of differential equations and dynamical systems, in particular to the quantum kicked rotor and KAM theory for nonlinear Hamiltonian evolution equations. Intended primarily for graduate students and researchers in the general area of dynamical systems and mathematical physics, the book provides a coherent account of a large body of work that is presently scattered in the literature. It does so in a refreshingly contained manner that seeks to convey the present technological "state of the art."

Treasure Your Exceptions : The Science and Life of William Bateson / / by Alan G. Cock, Donald R. Forsdyke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910584598903321
• Autore: Forsdyke Donald R.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• ISBN: 3-030-92099-2
• Edizione: [2nd ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (702 pages)
• Disciplina: 575.109; 576.5092
• Soggetti: Medical genetics; Medicine - History; Life sciences; Biology - Philosophy; Evolution (Biology); Biomaterials; Nucleic acids; Medical Genetics; History of Medicine; Life Sciences; Philosophy of Biology; Evolutionary Biology; Nucleic Acid
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Part I. Genesis of a Geneticist -- 1 A Cambridge Childhood (1861-1882 -- 2 From Virginia to the Aral Sea (1883-1889) -- 3 Galton -- 4 Variation (1890-1894) -- 5 Romanes -- 6 Reorientation and Controversy (1895-1899) -- 7 What Life May Be -- Part II. Mendelism -- 8 Rediscovery (1900-1901) -- 9 Mendel’s Bulldog (1902-1906) -- 10 Bateson’s Bulldog -- 11 On Course (1907-1908) -- 12 Darwin Centenary (1909) -- 13 Chromosomes -- Part III. The Innes Years -- 14 Passages (1910-1914) -- 15 Eugenics -- 16 War (1915-; 1919) -- 17 My Respectful Homage (1920-1922) -- 18 Limits Undetermined (1923-1926) -- Part IV. Politics -- 19 Butler -- 20 Pilgrimages -- 21 Kammerer -- 22 Science and Chauvinism -- 23 Degrees for Women -- Part V. Eclipse -- 24 Bashing -- 25 Epilogue -- Part VI. Further Rediscovery -- 26 The Third Base -- 27 Mendel Basics -- 28 Romanes, Bateson, and Darwin's "Weak Point" -- 29 Bateson's Residue: Oligonucleotide Disharmony -- Publications of WilliamBateson -- References and Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: William Bateson brought the work of Mendel (and much more) to the attention of the English-speaking world. He commanded the biological sciences in the decades after Darwin's death in 1882. To understand these years we must first understand Bateson. Through examination of the life of a major contributor to the turn-of-the-nineteenth-century revolution in biology, the authors reconcile the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins with the hierarchical thinking of Richard Goldschmidt and Stephen Jay Gould. Aided by Rebecca Saunders, Bateson invented much of the basic terminology of modern genetics and, when addressing Darwin's great problem – the origin of species, introduced the mysterious term "the residue." While the first edition of this work (2008) related "residue" to relative concentrations of bases in DNA, the second edition reveals this as reflecting fundamental differences in short strings of bases. Thus, the book has come to represent not only Bateson’s science and life, but also a revised history of the biosciences that is likely to be increasingly visited, both by scientists and by those who wish to fully understand contemporary debates on racial, eugenic and gender aspects of genetics. In a nutshell, the book describes what we, in modern terms, would call a "colossal intelligence failure." Mendel handed it to us "on a plate" in 1865 when Bateson was only 4. It took 35 years to "join the dots" with Bateson a primary joiner. Shrugged off by many 20th century scientists as a freak "blip" in what was really an orderly advance, the Mendel episode was but one of a succession of such "blips." Thus, a multiplicity of post-Mendelian "Mendels" emerge as the story of Bateson's life unfolds. Peter Harper in Human Genetics (2009): "This book puts the record straight and one is left with a feeling of admiration for Bateson as both a scientist and a man, and with no doubt that he, more than anyone else, waslargely responsible for the rapid progress in modern genetics during the first decade of the twentieth century." Michael J. Wade in Evolution (2009): "I strongly recommend this book for its information on an important central figure and for its bringing to life the several controversies at the origins of Genetics. It greatly illuminates the conceptual foundations of evolutionary genetics." Elof Axel Carlson in Quarterly Review of Biology (2009): "This volume will be of enormous benefit to historians of science who like to follow how ideas are born or die and why participants of different sides of each controversy held such rigid views of their own work and saw little merit in their competitor’s research." Joel S. Schwartz in Choice (2009): "This work includes key events in Bateson's career and is strengthened by discussion of the rediscovery of Mendelian principles by early 20th-century geneticists. Its basic premise is that Bateson was not merely one of the founders of genetics but played a pivotal role in the development of evolutionary biology by serving as the link between Victorian naturalists and early 20th-century biologists." Amitabh Joshi in Journal of Genetics (2010): "There is much in this book that I was not aware of, despite a formal training in genetics and a strong amateur interest in the history of biology.… It is certainly a book that any serious student of either genetics or evolution would greatly benefit from reading." .