Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV shows, arguing that these portrayals typically have the effect of cementing dominant assumptions about motherhood in place—or, less often, of disrupting those assumptions, causing us to ask whether…
Un ouvrage fondamental de la gastronomie française Extrait : "« Depuis que j'ai publié mon Pâtissier royal parisien, dont deux parties ont été séparées pour former ce nouveau traité, j'ai de beaucoup augmenté et embelli cette intéressante partie du froid, par de nouvelles entrées dont l'élégance atteste le goût du jour. »" Référence incontournable pour tous les passionnés d…
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in sig…
Uno dei primi compiti di una madre è quello di nutrire il suo piccolo. Dopo il parto, il neonato viene appoggiato sul seno, e subito comincia a succhiare, prima il colostro e poi il latte. E nella nursery di ogni reparto di maternità si comincia a controllare quanto ha mangiato il nuovo nato, e quanto è cresciuto. Ha inizio la lunga e gloriosa carriera della Madre Nutrice. Questo libro ci ra…
The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction Fragrancehas long been used tomarkwho is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanas weavesa brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning thatoffers a critical, alternate history of South Asiafrom an American Bangladeshi Musli…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Numerical solution of differential equations using Euler and second order Runge-Kutta methods -- 1.1. Euler solution of differential equation -- 1.2. Second order Runge-Kutta solution of the differential equation2. Motion under constant …
"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: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Concept of infinite-space dyadic Green functions -- 1.2. Examples of linear operators -- 1.3. Linear electromagnetism -- 1.4. Solution approaches -- 1.5. Organization of the monograph2. Isotropic and biisotropic medi…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Classification of gas discharges -- 1.3. Summarypart I. Ionization -- 2. Foundations from gas dynamics -- 2.1. The atom, the molecule, and excited states -- 2.2. The statistics of a gas -- 2.3. Kinet…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Oscillation and wave -- 1.2. Oscillation due to elastic force -- 1.3. Frequency domain analysis of oscillation -- 1.4. Wave2. Wave equations and solutions -- 2.1. Wave equation -- 2.2. Wave solutions3. Basic properti…