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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524903603321

Titolo

American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific / / edited by Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, New Hampshire : , : Dartmouth College Press, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

1-61168-848-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Collana

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies.

Disciplina

810.9/895

Soggetti

Transnationalism - United States

Culture in literature

Imperialism in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Literature and transnationalism - United States

American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism

United States Study and teaching

Asia In literature

Pacific Area In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction: Transnational American Studies and the Transpacific Imaginary; Part 1 | Transnational Practices: Outside/Inside American Studies; 1 | How Transnationalism Reconfigured the Field of American Studies: The Transnational/Dispora Complex; 2 | Post-Soviet American Studies; 3 | Transnationalism, Planetary Consciousness, and American Studies; Part 2 | Deep Maps, Postracial Imaginaries, Diasporized Networks, and Other Transnational Literary Assemblages; 4 | Transnational Mark Twain; 5 | Racial Memory and the Modern Borders of the Nation-State

6 | The Other Side of History, The Other Side of Fiction: Form and Genre in Susshu Foster's Atomik AztexPart 3 | Remapping the Transpacific Turn: From the Black Pacific and Oceanic Ecopoetics to Antipodean Transnationalisms; 7 | The Manchurian Philosopher: W. E.



B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific; 8 | Toward an Ecopoetics of Oceania: Worlding the Asia-Pacific Region as Space-Time Ecumence; 9 | Antipodean Transnationalism: The Empire Lies Athwart; 10 | Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of US Imperialism; Part 4 | Decolonizing Knowledge Production for the Pacific Century

11 | Geopolitics of Knowing/Understanding and American Studies: A Decolonial Argument or View from the Global South12 | Industries of Memory: The Vietnam War in Art; 13 | Chinamerica: Global Affairs and Planetary Consciousness; 14 | Negociating the Technological Empire: Cosmopolitics, Colonial Modernity, and Early Chinese American Autobiographical Writing; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The internationalization of American studies

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156310503321

Autore

Mangin Philippe

Titolo

Superconductivity : An introduction / / by Philippe Mangin, Rémi Kahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 379 p. 241 illus.)

Collana

Grenoble Sciences

Disciplina

530.41

Soggetti

Superconductivity

Superconductors

Optical materials

Microtechnology

Microelectromechanical systems

Optical Materials

Microsystems and MEMS

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 2. LONDON theory -- 3. The non-local PIPPARD equations -- 4. Thermodynamics of type I superconductors -- 5. The intermediate state of type I superconductors -- 6. Type II



superconductors -- 7. Fields and currents in type II superconductors - Models of the critical state -- 8. COOPER pairs -Principal results of BCS theory -- 9. Coherence and the flux quantum -- 10. The JOSEPHSON effect -- 11. Superconducting Quantum Interference Device "SQUID" -- 12. JOSEPHSON junctions in a magnetic field.

Sommario/riassunto

This book proposes a thorough introduction for a varied audience. The reader will master London theory and the Pippard equations, and go on to understand type I and type II superconductors (their thermodynamics, magnetic properties, vortex dynamics, current transport…), Cooper pairs and the results of BCS theory. By studying coherence and flux quantization he or she will be lead to the Josephson effect which, with the SQUID, is a good example of the applications. The reader can make up for any gaps in his knowledge with the use of the appendices, follow the logic behind each model, and assimilate completely the underlying concepts. Approximately 250 illustrations help in developing a thorough understanding. This volume is aimed towards masters and doctoral students, as well as advanced undergraduates, teachers and researchers at all levels coming from a broad range of subjects (chemistry, physics, mechanical and electrical engineering, materials science…). Engineers workingin industry will have a useful introduction to other more applied or specialized material. Philippe Mangin is emeritus professor of physics at Mines Nancy Graduate School of Science, Engineering and Management of the University of Lorraine, and researcher at the Jean Lamour Institute in France. He is the former director of both the French neutron scattering facility, Léon Brillouin Laboratory in Orsay, and the Material Physics Laboratory in Nancy, and has taught superconductivity to a broad audience, in particular to engineering students. Rémi Kahn is a retired senior research scientist of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-Saclay). He worked at the Léon Brillouin Laboratory and was in charge of the experimental areas of INB 101 (the Orphée research reactor). This work responded to the need to bring an accessible account suitable for a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers.