Author: Alan Kehew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781979477826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Young attorney Libby Burke is worried about making partner at her Chicago law firm when she receives a call from a grief-stricken woman whose son just died of leukemia. The woman suspects chemicals from a nearby manufacturing plant to be the cause. When Libby finds out that two other young children have also died of cancer in the same neighborhood, she files a lawsuit against the company. Proving the case will be another matter though. With the help of geologist Paul Hannon, she methodically gathers medical and scientific evidence in spite of anonymous threats, assaults, and even the murder of a person connected to the case. As she prepares for a second trial after the judge has thrown out the case for the first time, Libby lacks the conclusive evidence she needs to win. Her career and justice for three heartbroken families hang in the balance.
Invisible
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623889X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Science is said to be on the verge of achieving the ancient dream of making objects invisible. Invisible is a biography of an idea, tied to the history of science over the "longue duree." Taking in Plato to today s science, Ball shows us that the stories we have told about invisibility are not in fact about technical capability but about power, sex, concealment, morality, and corruption. Precisely because they refer to matters that lie beyond our senses, unseen beings and worlds have long been a repository for hopes, fears, and suppressed desires. Ideas of invisibility are, like all ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own potential and weaknesses. Invisible presents the first comprehensive survey of the roles that the idea of invisibility has played throughout time and culture. This territory takes us from medieval grimoires to cutting-edge nanotechnology, from fairy tales to telecommunications, from camouflage to early cinematography, and from beliefs about ghosts to the dawn of nuclear physics and the discovery of dark energy. Invisible reveals what our age-old fantasies about what lurks unseen, and whether we can enter that realm ourselves, truly say about us. "
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623889X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Science is said to be on the verge of achieving the ancient dream of making objects invisible. Invisible is a biography of an idea, tied to the history of science over the "longue duree." Taking in Plato to today s science, Ball shows us that the stories we have told about invisibility are not in fact about technical capability but about power, sex, concealment, morality, and corruption. Precisely because they refer to matters that lie beyond our senses, unseen beings and worlds have long been a repository for hopes, fears, and suppressed desires. Ideas of invisibility are, like all ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own potential and weaknesses. Invisible presents the first comprehensive survey of the roles that the idea of invisibility has played throughout time and culture. This territory takes us from medieval grimoires to cutting-edge nanotechnology, from fairy tales to telecommunications, from camouflage to early cinematography, and from beliefs about ghosts to the dawn of nuclear physics and the discovery of dark energy. Invisible reveals what our age-old fantasies about what lurks unseen, and whether we can enter that realm ourselves, truly say about us. "
Danger in the Field
Author: Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134651031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The nature of qualitative inquiry means that researchers constantly have to deal with the unexpected, and all too often this means coping with the presence of danger or risk. This innovative and lively analysis of danger in various qualitative research settings is drawn from researchers' reflexive accounts of their own encounters with 'danger'. An original take on the ever-popular topic of the ethics of research, this pioneering book expands the common sense use of the term to encompass not just physical danger, but emotional, ethical and professional danger too, with the authors paying special attention to the gendered forms of danger implicit in the research process. From the physical danger of researching the night club 'bouncer' scene to the ethical dangers of participant observation in an old people's home, these international contributions provide researchers and students with thought provoking insights into the importance of a well chosen research design.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134651031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The nature of qualitative inquiry means that researchers constantly have to deal with the unexpected, and all too often this means coping with the presence of danger or risk. This innovative and lively analysis of danger in various qualitative research settings is drawn from researchers' reflexive accounts of their own encounters with 'danger'. An original take on the ever-popular topic of the ethics of research, this pioneering book expands the common sense use of the term to encompass not just physical danger, but emotional, ethical and professional danger too, with the authors paying special attention to the gendered forms of danger implicit in the research process. From the physical danger of researching the night club 'bouncer' scene to the ethical dangers of participant observation in an old people's home, these international contributions provide researchers and students with thought provoking insights into the importance of a well chosen research design.
Mind and Religion
Author: Harvey Whitehouse
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759106192
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759106192
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.
Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World
Author: Stephen Hutchings
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000538214
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000538214
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.
The Clarity Removes Stupidity That Sucks
Author: Anup Mandal
Publisher: StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9360703354
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
About the Book: What is reality? What is clarity? How to shape human life and wellbeing? These three are the most fundamental, eternal, and universal questions of humankind. Human life is an intrinsic organic unity of all three questions and their dimensions. Purposeful and joyful living is impossible without deep understanding of this organic unity which is mainly controlled and influenced by intrinsic laws or phenomena— the invisible driving force of human reality and flow of life. The essence of clarity: clear, clean, and neutral understanding of reality. Clarity creates value and shapes better life. Stupidity destroys value and sucks life. Stupidity is the source of all human miseries in individual's life, society, country, and the world at large. Clarity is the secret power to transform humankind. For the first time in history, this book has tried specifically and exclusively to explain, and highlight the essence, relevance, and significance of intrinsic laws to discover the power of clarity to shape mind, better life, and human wellbeing—health, happiness, and contentment This book is timeless, universal, relevant, and extremely useful for all people across the cultures and countries of the world for profound clarity to ensure living rightly and completely.
Publisher: StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9360703354
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
About the Book: What is reality? What is clarity? How to shape human life and wellbeing? These three are the most fundamental, eternal, and universal questions of humankind. Human life is an intrinsic organic unity of all three questions and their dimensions. Purposeful and joyful living is impossible without deep understanding of this organic unity which is mainly controlled and influenced by intrinsic laws or phenomena— the invisible driving force of human reality and flow of life. The essence of clarity: clear, clean, and neutral understanding of reality. Clarity creates value and shapes better life. Stupidity destroys value and sucks life. Stupidity is the source of all human miseries in individual's life, society, country, and the world at large. Clarity is the secret power to transform humankind. For the first time in history, this book has tried specifically and exclusively to explain, and highlight the essence, relevance, and significance of intrinsic laws to discover the power of clarity to shape mind, better life, and human wellbeing—health, happiness, and contentment This book is timeless, universal, relevant, and extremely useful for all people across the cultures and countries of the world for profound clarity to ensure living rightly and completely.
English Mechanic and Mirror of Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Author: Institution of Electrical Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
Book Description
Vols. for 1970-79 include an annual special issue called IEE reviews.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1528
Book Description
Vols. for 1970-79 include an annual special issue called IEE reviews.
Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
Includes the Society's list of officers, members, and associates.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
Includes the Society's list of officers, members, and associates.
Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Author: Institution of Electrical Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
Heretic of Set
Author: J. Steven York
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101161965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Seeking his father's murderer, the warrior Anok has joined the Cult of Set. Tainted by dark sorcery, he begins a perilous journey across the desert to a city of outlaw sorcerers in order to control his magic before it consumes his soul.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101161965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Seeking his father's murderer, the warrior Anok has joined the Cult of Set. Tainted by dark sorcery, he begins a perilous journey across the desert to a city of outlaw sorcerers in order to control his magic before it consumes his soul.