Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, and detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of 'Junk', Gillian Whiteley rethinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture. She does this through an illustrated exploration of particular materials, key moments and locations and the telling of a panoply of trash narratives. Found and ephemeral mater…
Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her -- glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards -- as well as on canvas. She produced between five and ten thousand paintings, including her mos…
Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of 'archaeological' and 'artistic' material culture, looking especially at the ways in which objects and h…
The SIRT Diet shows how to incorporate tasty SIRT superfoods into your daily routine and how these foods can help burn fat, increase muscle definition and boost health. The world of nutrition has been revolutionized by the discovery of a chemical compound naturally found in certain fruits and vegetables called 'sirtuins.' These chemicals control the way our bodies deal with fat and sugar, help…
Lose up to 14 lbs in just 4 weeks! By dieting for only two days a week you can have the bikini body you've always dreamed of – fast. With over 140 mouth-watering and filling recipes, all under 500 calories, bestselling diet author Jacqueline Whitehart is the answer to your dieting prayers. The 5:2 Bikini Diet offers a new and fresh approach to the Intermittent Fasting phenomenon that will g…
"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction2. The Sakharov conditions -- 3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model -- 3.1. The axial anomaly -- 3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number -- 3.3. Winding number and non…
"Version: 20220401"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: A pedagogical introduction to electroweak baryogenesis.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. The Sakharov conditions3. Baryon number violation in the Standard Model -- 3.1. The axial anomaly -- 3.2. The Chern-Simons form, baryon number violation, and the winding number -- 3.3. Winding number and non-abelian gauge grou…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Data analysis basics -- 8.1. Data-taking -- 8.2. Object definition and selection -- 8.3. Event selection -- 8.4. Observables -- 8.5. Performance optimisation -- 8.6. Estimating backgrounds and uncertainties9. Resonance searches -- 9.1. Types of resonance -- 9.2. Anatomy of a diphoton resonance search -- 9.3. Jet resonanc…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20)1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Current directions -- 4. Outlook.Following the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, particle physics has entered its most exciting and crucial period for over 50 years. In this book, I first summarise our current understanding of particle physics, and why this knowledge…
Los cementerios, además del fervor religioso que despiertan popularmente por ser los lugares donde la gente rinde el arraigado y sagrado culto de visitar los restos de los muertos, también adquieren –por su historia, simbolismo y riqueza construida– protagonismo como componentes del patrimonio cultural de las urbes.Cargados de historia, pues de la suya propia derivan relatos particulares,…