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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Leann Elizabeth Griffiths
Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. A literary critic trained in science, Elizabeth Leane treats popular science writing as a distinct and significant genre, focusing particularly on five bestselling books: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, James Gleick's Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity, and Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Leane situates her examination of the texts within the heated interdisciplinary exchanges known as the 'Science Wars', focusing specifically on the disputed issue of the role of language in science. Her use of literary analysis reveals how popular science books function as sites for 'disciplinary skirmishes' as she uncovers the ways in which popularizers of science influence the public. In addition to their explicit discussion of scientific concepts, Leane argues, these authors employ subtle textual strategies that encode claims about the nature and status of scientific knowledge - claims that are all the more powerful because they are unacknowledged. Her book will change the way these texts are read, offering readers a fresh perspective on this highly visible and influential genre.
This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. A literary critic trained in science, Elizabeth Leane treats popular science writing as a distinct and significant genre, focusing particularly on five bestselling books: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, James Gleick's Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity, and Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Leane situates her examination of the texts within the heated interdisciplinary exchanges known as the 'Science Wars', focusing specifically on the disputed issue of the role of language in science. Her use of literary analysis reveals how popular science books function as sites for 'disciplinary skirmishes' as she uncovers the ways in which popularizers of science influence the public. In addition to their explicit discussion of scientific concepts, Leane argues, these authors employ subtle textual strategies that encode claims about the nature and status of scientific knowledge - claims that are all the more powerful because they are unacknowledged. Her book will change the way these texts are read, offering readers a fresh perspective on this highly visible and influential genre.
When Elizabeth Leanne found herself widowed before the age of 30, she truly did not believe she would survive, didn't want to survive in a world without Cam, her Junior High best friend. Soaring On Burnt Wings is an incredible memoir, which allows an intimate glimpse into their relationship long before the word cancer was ever uttered, how they proactively approached Cam's diagnosis, and a raw witness to the devastation losing him caused. Ultimately, it is a story of surviving against all odds, learning to fly in the darkest of moments and an absolute inspiration to anyone faced with loss of another, or almost more devastatingly, loss of themselves. Written to process her grief and solidify a love not even death could conquer, it quickly became apparent that while a tribute to their love, the lessons learned needed to be shared in order to offer others hope and a road map to navigate the unchartered waters of grief.
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after location. The endpoint of exploration's most famous 'race' between teams led by Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, the Pole has more recently become a favoured destination of 'extreme' tourists. Like the whole of Antarctica, '90 South' does not belong to any nation, but six national claims meet there, and for nearly sixty years the US has occupied the site with a series of scientific stations. The Pole is a deeply political place.In South Pole Elizabeth Leane explores the important challenges that this strange place poses to humanity. What is its lure? How and why should people live there? How can creative artists respond to its apparent blankness? What can it teach us about our planet and ourselves? Along the way, she considers the absurdities and banalities of human engagement with the Pole.Ranging from the ancient Greeks to the present, and featuring spectacular images of the South Pole, this book offers a fascinating history of the symbolic 'heart' of the Antarctic.
Space, Place, and Bestsellers
Lisa Fletcher; Elizabeth Leane
Cambridge University Press
2024
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From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs paratextual, textual, and site-based analysis of the spatiality of bestsellers and considers the centrality of geography to the commercial promise of these books. Space, Place, and Bestsellers provides analysis of the spatial logic of bestseller lists, evidence-rich accounts of the physical and digital retail sites through which bestsellers flow, and new interpretations of how affixing the label 'bestseller' individual authors and titles generates industrial, social, and textual effects. Through its multi-layered analysis, this Element offers a new model for studying the spatiality of popular fiction.
Antarctic Cities
Juan Francisco Salazar; Paul James; Elizabeth Leane; Liam Magee
University of Nebraska Press
2026
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Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack represents a keen way to teach the alphabet to developing children. Through word associations, rhyming schemes and pictorial representations, Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack promotes effective teaching technologies to advance the knowledge levels of students from pre-school through elementary school. From an Instructional Design standpoint Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack superbly promotes learning technology strategies adaptable to many of Gardner's Learning Styles, which places Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack on a pedestal. When considering platforms by which to advance basic learning and communication skills, teachers now have an exceptional new tool to aid them in their endeavors. Most notably, children will develop a personal relationship with Haystack, a courageous horse who has appeared in several other works. This character bonding boldly prompts young children to develop a relationship based on trustworthiness which can potentially last for many years...much in the way Dr. Seuss and Fred Rogers afforded those of us in "older" generations for several decades, making Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack a must read
Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack represents a keen way to teach the alphabet to developing children. Through word associations, rhyming schemes and pictorial representations, Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack promotes effective teaching technologies to advance the knowledge levels of students from pre-school through elementary school. From an Instructional Design standpoint Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack superbly promotes learning technology strategies adaptable to many of Gardner's Learning Styles, which places Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack on a pedestal. When considering platforms by which to advance basic learning and communication skills, teachers now have an exceptional new tool to aid them in their endeavors. Most notably, children will develop a personal relationship with Haystack, a courageous horse who has appeared in several other works. This character bonding boldly prompts young children to develop a relationship based on trustworthiness which can potentially last for many years...much in the way Dr. Seuss and Fred Rogers afforded those of us in "older" generations for several decades, making Learn Your ABC'S with Haystack a must read
Lean Sustainability
Elizabeth A. Cudney; Sandra L. Furterer; Chad M. Laux; Gaganpreet S. Hundal
TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2023
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While Lean principles have been around for decades, the practices have yet to keep current with the growing area of sustainability. This book provides an implementation approach to integrating Lean and sustainability principles toward a circular economy.Lean Sustainability: A Pathway to a Circular Economy illustrates an integrated Lean and sustainability approach that is applicable to manufacturing, healthcare, service, and other industries. This comprehensive approach will guide organizations toward a circular economy to drive competitive business practices further while being environmentally, socially, and economically responsible. The ebook version includes full color images.This book will help any industry practitioner interested in helping their business improve flow, reduce waste, and become more environmentally conscious.
Lean Sustainability
Elizabeth A. Cudney; Sandra L. Furterer; Chad M. Laux; Gaganpreet S. Hundal
TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2023
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While Lean principles have been around for decades, the practices have yet to keep current with the growing area of sustainability. This book provides an implementation approach to integrating Lean and sustainability principles toward a circular economy.Lean Sustainability: A Pathway to a Circular Economy illustrates an integrated Lean and sustainability approach that is applicable to manufacturing, healthcare, service, and other industries. This comprehensive approach will guide organizations toward a circular economy to drive competitive business practices further while being environmentally, socially, and economically responsible. The ebook version includes full color images.This book will help any industry practitioner interested in helping their business improve flow, reduce waste, and become more environmentally conscious.
Learn to Spell with Sparkle
Elizabeth a. Bixby
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Learn Love And Live: Memoirs, Stories, Fun and Families
Elizabeth Oliver Wooten
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Learn CINEMA 4D Studio R18 by Doing
Elizabeth Vt; Ravi Conor
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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CINEMA 4D, developed by MAXON Computer GmbH in Germany, is a popular 3D application for students, professionals, and hobbyists. Beginners and seasoned professionals choose CINEMA 4D for its fast, easy workflow, and solid reliability. If you want to create jaw-dropping 3D renders quickly and easily, CINEMA 4D is the choice for you. It is capable of modeling, texturing, lighting, animating, rigging, and rendering. Apart from this, CINEMA 4D has modules such as MoGraph, XPresso, Hair, Dynamics, and so on that allow you to create stunning animations and physics simulations. CINEMA 4D comes in five variants: a core CINEMA 4D Prime variant, a Broadcast variant with additional broadcast features, a Visualize variant for architectural design, and a Studio variant that includes everything. Also, there a is a Lite variant which comes packaged with Adobe After Effects. Learn CINEMA 4D Studio R18 by Doing: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, and Rendering textbook will walk you through the modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering techniques with CINEMA 4D Studio R18. This book offers a hands-on exercise based strategy for all those beginner and intermediate users who want to master these techniques in CINEMA 4D. The units in this book take you step-by-step though the whole process. The strength of this book is that it teaches you modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering in an easy-to-understand language. Numerous hands-on exercises and practical challenges are included in the book to hone your skills. In the hands-on exercises, the content under the How we will proceed heading summarizes the approach you will take to compete the exercise. Moreover, the content under the What just happened heading explains the working of the instructions to give you better idea about the result. Every unit begins with the topics covered in that unit and every unit ends with a Quiz that allows you to assess the knowledge gained. As the readers move from hands-on exercise to hands-on exercise, they will be gaining robust knowledge about the CINEMA 4D modules. Practical challenges allow you to experiment with what you have learned in the unit. One chapter of the book presents a foundation of techniques to help you build custom textures, maps, and designs using Photoshop. More info: goo.gl/8T1hEi
Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today‘s increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive, accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless of what you call it, Lean accounting is a management accounting system that should be part of every worker‘s daily activities. The Controller as Lean Leader: A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System delineates the differences between cost accounting and cost management. It uses a story format to present a compilation of experiences; some good, some bad, and some humorous. The story follows a fictional manufacturing entity embarking on a Lean change management journey for the second time having failed at its first attempt at Lean implementation a few years earlier. As the story progresses, readers gain an understanding of what the company will do differently this time around to ensure it doesn‘t slip backward again as the transformation unfolds. Illustrates the various approaches to Lean implementation Explains Target Costing and describes how to use it to get your budget right the first time around Examines the concept of systems and the importance of defining values in your business Describes what the purpose of a Lean Human Resources (HR) system should be Introduces, with visuals, the little-known importance of the timing of the implementation and integration of the four integral parts of the Lean Cost Management System with the five Lean principles The main character, the Lean Controller, presents her ideas with visuals throughout the book. Discussions between the Lean controller and employees at various levels of the organization illustrate valuable lessons. The many faces of the Lean Controller as expressed thro
Implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout the Supply Chain
Elizabeth A. Cudney; Rodney Kestle
CRC Press
2018
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Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning the lean Six Sigma, however without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various circumstances the knowledge remains, at best, conjecture. Detailed examination of case studies that take real-world variables into account is the only way to truly master Lean Six Sigma.Providing a comprehensive Lean Six Sigma case study from start to finish, Implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout the Supply Chain: The Comprehensive and Transparent Case Study employs the Define—Measure—Analyze—Improve—Control (DMAIC) process used in today’s retail industry. Going far beyond the brief overview found in current texts, this interactive case study presents all of the data used by a team as they implement Lean Six Sigma in a distribution center. It details their decision-making rational, thus allowing the reader to extrapolate and implement the same analyses and conclusions in their own settings.The downloadable resources contain all of the numerous graphs, charts, tables, and data analyses provided in the text. It provides PowerPoint training slides and easily accessible data sets that correspond to the figures in the book, as well as a full Glossary and reference guide to commonly used Lean and Six Sigma terms.Providing a clear link between all of the Lean Six Sigma tools and their application in a real-world setting, indispensible training tool gives the all-important, rubber-meets-the-road understanding needed to start you on your Lean Six Sigma journey.
Implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout the Supply Chain
Elizabeth A. Cudney; Rodney Kestle
Productivity Press
2010
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Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning the lean Six Sigma, however without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various circumstances the knowledge remains, at best, conjecture. Detailed examination of case studies that take real-world variables into account is the only way to truly master Lean Six Sigma.Providing a comprehensive Lean Six Sigma case study from start to finish, Implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout the Supply Chain: The Comprehensive and Transparent Case Study employs the Define—Measure—Analyze—Improve—Control (DMAIC) process used in today’s retail industry. Going far beyond the brief overview found in current texts, this interactive case study presents all of the data used by a team as they implement Lean Six Sigma in a distribution center. It details their decision-making rational, thus allowing the reader to extrapolate and implement the same analyses and conclusions in their own settings.The downloadable resources contain all of the numerous graphs, charts, tables, and data analyses provided in the text. It provides PowerPoint training slides and easily accessible data sets that correspond to the figures in the book, as well as a full Glossary and reference guide to commonly used Lean and Six Sigma terms.Providing a clear link between all of the Lean Six Sigma tools and their application in a real-world setting, indispensible training tool gives the all-important, rubber-meets-the-road understanding needed to start you on your Lean Six Sigma journey.