1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453570603321

Autore

Hosking Richard

Titolo

A dictionary of Japanese food : ingredients & culture / / Richard Hosking ; Naomichi Ishige, foreword

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, Japan : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-4629-0343-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IshigeNaomichi

Disciplina

641.5952/03

Soggetti

Cooking, Japanese - Japanese

Japanese language - English

Cooking, Japanese

English language - Japanese

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; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Pronunciation of Japanese; Japanese Writing; Arrangement of the Dictionary; Scientific Names; Japanese-English; English-Japanese; Appendices; 1. Chopsticks; 2. Katsuobushi; 3. The Kitchen and Its Utensils; 4. Kombu; 5. The Meal; 6. Miso; 7. Sake; 8. Salt; 9. Sansai; 10. Soy Sauce; 11. Sushi; 12. Tea; 13. The Tea Ceremony; 14. Umami and Flavor; 15. Vegetarianism; 16. Wasabi; 17. Was an bon Sugar; Recommended Reading; Works of Reference; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

At last, what every Westerner in a Japanese restaurant or market needs: the first truly comprehensive dictionary of Japanese food and ingredients.  Standard dictionaries can often mislead us--with akebia for akebi, sea cucumber for namako, plum for ume. Hosking's dictionary includes not only dishes and ingredients, everything from the delicate mitsuba leaf to the dreadful okoze fish: colorful appendices disclose such aspects of Japanese culture as the making of miso to the tea ceremony and the influence of vegetarianism. With Japanese-English and English-Japanese sections, A Di



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790377203321

Autore

Mialet Hélène

Titolo

Hawking incorporated [[electronic resource] ] : Stephen Hawking and the anthropology of the knowing subject / / Helene Mialet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-69967-1

9786613676658

0-226-52229-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

530.092

Soggetti

Communication in science

Mind and body

People with disabilities in science

Physicists - Great Britain

Self-help devices for people with disabilities

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Assistants and the Machines -- II. The Students -- III. The Diagrams -- IV. The Media -- V. The Reading Haw king's Presence. An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man -- VI. At the Beginning of Forever. Archiving Hawking -- VII. The Thinker. Hawking meets Hawking -- Conclusion-A Recurring Question. From Exemplum to Cipher -- Epilog -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are-or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of questions Hélène Mialet explores in this fascinating volume, as she focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking. Drawing on an extensive and in-depth series of interviews with Hawking, his assistants and colleagues, physicists, engineers, writers,



journalists, archivists, and artists, Mialet reconstructs the human, material, and machine-based networks that enable Hawking to live and work. She reveals how Hawking-who is often portrayed as the most singular, individual, rational, and bodiless of all-is in fact not only incorporated, materialized, and distributed in a complex nexus of machines and human beings like everyone else, but even more so. Each chapter focuses on a description of the functioning and coordination of different elements or media that create his presence, agency, identity, and competencies. Attentive to Hawking's daily activities, including his lecturing and scientific writing, Mialet's ethnographic analysis powerfully reassesses the notion of scientific genius and its associations with human singularity. This book will fascinate anyone interested in Stephen Hawking or an extraordinary life in science.