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UNINA9910959207803321 |
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Women's studies on the edge / / edited by Joan Wallach Scott |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The impossibility of women's studies / Wendy Brown -- Feminism, institutionalism, and the idiom of failure / Robyn Wiegman -- Teaching and research in unavailable intersections / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Feminism, democracy, and empire : Islam and the War on Terror / Saba Mahmood -- Transfeminism and the future of gender / Gayle Salamon -- Discipline and vanish : feminism, the resistance to theory, and the politics of cultural studies / Ellen Rooney -- Sheftall with Evelynn M. Hammonds, whither black women's studies : interview / Beverly Guy -- Success and its failures / Biddy Martin. |
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Essays on the future of women's studies as an academic discipline. |
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UNINA9911006814103321 |
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Muller Siemon W (Siemon William), <1900-1970.> |
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Frozen in time : permafrost and engineering problems / / by Siemon Wm. Muller ; edited by Hugh M. French, Frederick E. Nelson ; sponsored by Technical Committee on Cold Regions Engineering |
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Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2008 |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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FrenchHugh M |
NelsonFrederick E |
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Building - Cold weather conditions |
Civil engineering - Cold weather conditions |
Frozen ground |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction; Permafrost Science; Permafrost and Engineering Problems; References; Select Bibliography; A Glossary of Permafrost Terms; Key to Glossary Sources; Index |
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Frozen in Time offers an advanced and unusually comprehensive treatment of permafrost science and associated engineering problems. The book is a previously unpublished work by Siemon W. Muller (1900-1970), author of the first English-language book about perennially frozen ground. Muller stopped working on the nearly completed manuscript in the early 1960s and, for reasons unknown, set it aside about the time of the First International Conference on Permafrost in 1963. The manuscript remained frozen for several decades, until eventually it was discovered in his files. Editors French and Nelson guided the manuscript through the last phase of revision, provided context through an interpretive introduction, and ushered it through publication. A comprehensive revision and update of the 1947 edition of Muller's classic, this book reads like a how-to manual for engineering personnel working in pioneering or primitive circumstances. Like its predecessor, the book reviews the large Russian-language body of literature devoted to permafrost, but also |
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covers work published in English. Topics include: basic scientific knowledge about perennially frozen ground and the engineering problems associated with it, the geography of permafrost, related elements of landscape science and ecology, periglacial geomorphology, and the physics of frozen ground. This book serves as a valuable historical document and is useful to anyone seeking basic knowledge about permafrost and appropriate methods for coping with associated engineering problems. |
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