1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996212683003316

Autore

Kurrer Karl-Eugen

Titolo

The history of the theory of structures [[electronic resource] ] : from arch analysis to computational mechanics / / Karl-Eugen Kurrer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Ernst & Sohn, c2008

ISBN

3-433-60134-8

1-282-46102-8

9786612461026

3-433-60016-3

3-433-60017-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (854 p.)

Disciplina

624

624.1709

Soggetti

Structural analysis (Engineering) - History

Engineering

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

THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF STRUCTURES; Foreword; Preface; Preface to the first, German edition; CONTENTS; 1 The tasks and aims of a historical study of theory of structures; 2 Learning from the history of structural analysis: 11 introductory essays; 3 The first fundamental engineering science disciplines: theory of structures and applied mechanics; 4 From masonry arch to elastic arch; 5 The beginnings of a theory of structures; 6 The discipline-formation period of theory of structures; 7 From construction with iron to modern structural steelwork

8 Member analysis conquers the third dimension: the spatial framework9 Reinforced concrete's influence on theory of structures; 10 From classical to modern theory of structures; 11 Twelve scientific controversies in mechanics and theory of structures; 12 Perspectives for theory of structures; Brief biographies; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the evolution of theory of structures and strength of materials - the development of the geometrical thinking of the



Renaissance to become the fundamental engineering science discipline rooted in classical mechanics. Starting with the strength experiments of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo, the author examines the emergence of individual structural analysis methods and their formation into theory of structures in the 19th century. For the first time, a book of this kind outlines the development from classical theory of structures to the structural mechanics and computational mec

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791474303321

Autore

Taussig Michael T

Titolo

My cocaine museum [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Taussig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004

ISBN

0-226-79015-0

1-282-64648-6

9786612646485

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Carpenter Lectures

Disciplina

986.1/53

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) - Social conditions

Indians of South America - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) - Economic conditions

Indians, Treatment of - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca)

Slavery - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca) - History

Gold mines and mining - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca)

Cocaine industry - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca)

Drug traffic - Colombia - Santa María (Cauca)

Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) Social conditions

Santa María (Cauca, Colombia) Economic conditions

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 (p. 319-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note: A User's Guide -- Gold -- My Cocaine Museum -- Color -- Heat -- Wind & Weather -- Rain -- Boredom -- Diving -- Water in Water -- Julio Arboleda's Stone --



Mines -- Entropy -- Moonshine -- The Accursed Share -- A Dog Growls -- The Coast Is No Longer Boring -- Paramilitary Lover -- Cement & Speed -- Miasma -- Swamp -- The Right to Be Lazy -- Beaches -- Lightning -- Bocanegra -- Stone -- Evil Eye -- Gorgon -- Gorgona -- Islands -- Underwater Mountains -- Sloth -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.