1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395638603316

Autore

Bromfield M

Titolo

Advertisement [[electronic resource] ] : As there is hardly any thing of this world more deservingly welcome to mankinde, than health and long life .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : s.n., 1680]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet (2 p.)

Soggetti

Advertising - Drugs

Medicine - Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Broadsides17th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signed at end of text: M. Bromfield.

With a list of merchants, Mr. Henry Brome, Bookseller [and 19 others].

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793323803321

Autore

Wills David

Titolo

Killing times : the temporal technology of the death penalty / / David Wills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8232-8611-8

0-8232-8350-X

0-8232-8351-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Collana

Fordham scholarship online

Disciplina

364.66

Soggetti

Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects

Mortality - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life -- 2. The Time of the Trap Door -- 3. The Future Anterior of Blood -- 4. Spirit Wind -- 5. Drone Penalty -- 6 Lam Time -- Appendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or perverting, the machinery of time that is already attached to human existence. Time, Wills argues, functions for us in general as a prosthetic technology, but the application of the death penalty represents a new level of prosthetic intervention into what constitutes the human. Killing Times traces the logic of the death penalty across a range of sites. Starting with the legal cases whereby American courts have struggled to articulate what methods of execution constitute “cruel and unusual punishment,” Wills



goes on to show the ways that technologies of death have themselves evolved in conjunction with ideas of cruelty and instantaneity, from the development of the guillotine and the trap door for hanging, through the firing squad and the electric chair, through today’s controversies surrounding lethal injection. Responding to the legal system’s repeated recourse to storytelling—prosecutors’ and politicians’ endless recounting of the horrors of crimes—Wills gives a careful eye to the narrative, even fictive spaces that surround crime and punishment. Many of the controversies surrounding capital punishment, Wills argues, revolve around the complex temporality of the death penalty: how its instant works in conjunction with forms of suspension, or extension of time; how its seeming correlation between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated by a number of different discourses. By pinpointing the temporal technology that marks the death penalty, Wills is able to show capital punishment’s expansive reach, tracing the ways it has come to govern not only executions within the judicial system, but also the opposed but linked categories of the suicide bombing and drone warfare. In discussing the temporal technology of death, Wills elaborates the workings both of the terrorist who produces a simultaneity of crime and “punishment” that bypasses judicial process, and of the security state, in whose remote-control killings the time-space coordinates of “justice” are compressed and at the same time disappear into the black hole of secrecy. Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes the question of capital punishment beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813189403321

Autore

Makuuchi Keizou

Titolo

Radiation processing of polymer materials and its industrial applications / / Keizou  Makuuchi, Song Cheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011

ISBN

1-283-40120-7

9786613401205

1-118-16280-3

1-118-16279-X

1-118-16285-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (445 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChengSong

Disciplina

620.1/9204228

Soggetti

Polymers - Effect of radiation on

Radiation chemistry - Industrial applications

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

Radiation Processing of Polymer Materials and its Industrial Applications; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1: Basic Concepts of Radiation Processing; 1.1: Radiation Sources; 1.1.1: ?- Ray; 1.1.2: Electron Beam; 1.1.3: X-Ray; 1.2: Radiation Chemistry of Polymers; 1.2.1: Interactions of Ionizing Radiation with Polymers and Reactions Induced; 1.2.2: Different Responses to Radiation from Different Polymers; 1.3: Advantages and Disadvantages of Radiation Processing; 1.4: Engineering of Radiation Processing; 1.4.1: Materials Handling; 1.4.2: Radiation Dose and Dose Distribution; 1.4.3: Throughput

1.4.4: Temperature Rise1.4.5: Atmosphere; 1.4.6: Dose Rate; 1.4.7: Radiation Processing Cost; References; 2: Fundamentals of Radiation Crosslinking; 2.1: Radiation Chemistry of Crosslinking; 2.1.1: Types of Crosslinking; 2.1.2: Evidence of Crosslinking; 2.2: Crosslinking of Polymer; 2.2.1: Crosslinking of Semicrystalline Polymer; 2.2.1.1: Peroxide Crosslinking; 2.2.1.2: Silane Crosslinking; 2.2.1.3: Technical Comparison of Crosslinking Methods; 2.2.2: Crosslinking of Rubber; 2.2.2.1: Radiation Crosslinking Versus Sulfur Crosslinking

2.2.2.2: Radiation Crosslinking Versus Peroxide Crosslinking2.3:



Estimation of G Value of Crosslinking; 2.3.1: Charlesby-Pinner Method; 2.3.2: Modification of Charlesby-Pinner Equation; 2.3.3: Swelling and Elasticity Methods; 2.4: Factors Affecting Radiation Crosslinking; 2.4.1: Physical Nature of Polymer; 2.4.1.1: Glass-Transition Temperature; 2.4.1.2: Crystallinity; 2.4.2: Chemical Composition of Polymer; 2.4.2.1: Bond Energy; 2.4.2.2: Unsaturation; 2.4.2.3: Methyl Group; 2.4.2.4: Halogen Atom; 2.4.2.5: Phenyl Group; 2.4.2.6: Ester and Ether Bond; 2.4.2.7: Copolymer

2.4.2.8: Ethylene Copolymer2.4.2.9: Fluoropolymer; 2.4.2.10: Silicone Rubber; 2.4.2.11: Branching; 2.4.3: Molecular Weight and Molecular Weight Distribution; 2.4.4: Configuration; 2.4.4.1: Structural Isomerism; 2.4.4.2: Stereoisomerism; References; 3: Enhancement of Radiation Crosslinking; 3.1: Concept of Enhancement of Radiation Crosslinking; 3.2: Increasing Number of Polymer Radicals; 3.2.1: Sensitizer; 3.2.2: Postirradiation Heat Treatment; 3.3: Increasing Recombination of Polymer Radicals; 3.3.1: Compression; 3.3.2: High-Temperature Irradiation; 3.3.3: Plasticizer

3.3.4: Polyfunctional Monomer3.4: Filler Effect; 3.4.1: Modification of Superstructure; 3.4.2: Direct Bonding to Amorphous Polymers; 3.5: Hybrid Crosslinking; 3.6: Selection of Antioxidant; 3.7: Advanced Radiation Crosslinking; References; 4: Properties of Radiation Crosslinked Polymers; 4.1: Radiation Crosslinked Rubbers; 4.1.1: Radiation Crosslinking of Rubbers; 4.1.2: Properties of Radiation Crosslinked Rubbers with PFM; 4.1.3: Silicone Rubber; 4.1.4: Fluoroelastomer; 4.2: Radiation Crosslinked Plastics; 4.2.1: Physical Properties of Crosslinked Polymers at Room Temperature

4.2.1.1: Mechanical Properties

Sommario/riassunto

Up-to-date, comprehensive coverage on radiation-processed polymer materials and their applications Offering a unique perspective of the industrial and commercial applications of the radiation processing of polymers, this insightful reference examines the fundamental scientific principles and cutting-edge developments advancing this diverse field. Through a variety of case studies, detailed examples, and economic feasibility analysis, Radiation Processing of Polymer Materials and Its Industrial Applications systematically explains the commercially viable ways to process and use