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Contemporary American Jewelry Design

The Phenomenon of Studio Goldsmithing When the history of art in the 1980s is written, much of it will be etched in gold. This is the time of the contemporary goldsmith, an artist who chooses to work in precious metals rather than oils or marble. The contemporary jeweler-as-artist has only recently become a re cognized force. With rare exceptions, the whole field is little more than thirty years old. But it is only within the past fifteen years that these jewelers have entered the jewelry mainstream. The phenomenon of contemporary goldsmithing embraces an eclectic group of artists, each with a unique vision, each taking a per sonal path to jewelry producing. They have as little relationship to the typical, mass-produced jewelry as a champagne maker has to a bottler of orange soda. They approach a piece of art, not a piece of metal. The work is personal and a perfect expression of the "back to the land" movement that spawned it. Many of these goldsmiths were looking not merely for a way to make a living but for a way to make a life that was worthy of living. Running a business while trying to remain a creative metalsmith at the same time is the ongoing challenge. The jeweler-artists have solved or resolved these often conflicting needs in slightly different ways and in a beautiful variety of techniques and styles. Their meth ods, their growth, and their work are discussed here.

16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
Publication Data Blauer, Ettagale. Contemporary American jewelry design /
Ettagale Blauer. p. Cm. ISBN 978-1-4757-4856-7 1. Jewelry—United States—
History—20th ...

Latin American Science Fiction

Theory and Practice

Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.

In the caseofBrazil, withfew exceptions,the focus on AngloAmerican SF
predominateduntil the late1980s.5 Braulio Tavares's annotated bibliography,
Fantastic, Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature Catalog (1991), published
bythe Biblioteca ...

Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry

The Lab as Contact Zone

Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards. They helped define the structure of Japanese scientific pedagogical and research system that lasted well into the post-World World II period of massive technological development, when it became one of the biggest providers of chemists and chemical engineers in the world next to Europe and the United States. In telling this story, Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry explores various sites of science education such as teaching laboratories and classrooms - where British and American teachers mingled with Japanese students - to shed new light on the lab as a site of global human encounter and intricate social relations that shaped scientific practice.

Chapter 1 is about Anglo American contact zoneswhere Japanese
studentsfromChōshu and Satsuma domains (han),without any experience in
Westernstyle scientific pedagogy, interacted withBritish and American teachers
and formed their ...

The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right

A Special Relationship of Hate

Since 1945 neo-Nazi and far right extremists on both sides of the Atlantic have developed rich cultures which regularly exchange ideas. Leading activists such as Colin Jordan and George Lincoln Rockwell have helped to establish what has become a complex web of marginalised extremism. This book examines the history of this milieu to the present day.

Abames, Richard, 47 accumulative extremism, 2, 5–6, 12–13, 23, 30, 32–3 Action
, 7 Adorno, Theodor, 91 affirmative action, 88 African Americans, 18, 47, 68, 69,
76–7, 79, 112–13 Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 49 Alexander, Peter, 69 Alfred P.

The Anglo-American Paper War

Debates about the New Republic, 1800–1825

The Paper War and the Development of Anglo-American Nationalisms, 1800-1825 offers fresh insight into the evolution of British and American nationalisms, the maturation of apologetics for slavery, and the early development of anti-Americanism, from approximately 1800 to 1830.

Inchiquin's. Letters. and. Anglo-American. Nationalism. A significant campaign in
the Paper War commenced with the appearance in 1810 of Inchiquin, the Jesuit's
Letters. Credited to 'some unknown foreigner', Inchiquin's Letters purported to ...

Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960–1975

Although Christopher Whyte's focus on the homoerotic dimensions of Morgan's
representations of Glasgow is certainly warranted, my analysis positions such
queer readings of space in Morgan's work as part of an overall project of
subversive, ...

Micro and Nano Fabrication

Tools and Processes

For Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) production, each product requires a unique process technology. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the tools necessary for fabricating MEMS/NEMS and the process technologies applied. Besides, it describes enabling technologies which are necessary for a successful production, i.e., wafer planarization and bonding, as well as contamination control.

... we are and how we got there. They have chosen topics that will inspire and
inform you, the reader, about the plentiful challenges and opportunities in this
field. v Having begun research and teaching in integrated circuits in the Foreward
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Polymer Macro- and Micro-Gel Beads: Fundamentals and Applications

Beads made from Egyptian faience have been excavated from grave deposits (c. 4000–3100 BC), together with beads of glazed steatite (a soft rock) and of se- precious stones such as turquoise, carnelian, quartz, and lapis lazuli. Information on these and many more ancient beads used for ornaments and jewelry, ritual ceremonies, as art artifacts and gifts for amorous women throughout history, and descriptions of the raw materials (e. g. , glass, bone, precious and other stones) and manufacturing technologies used for their production can be located in many references. Many books are devoted to the description of beads that are not of water-soluble polymer origin, techniques for their production, their art, value, and distribution, re?ecting the wealth of information existing in this ?eld of science and art. On the other hand, there are no books fully devoted to the fascinating topic of hydrocolloid (polymeric) beads and their unique applications. A few books c- tain scattered chapters and details on such topics, while emphasizing the possibility of locating fragments of information elsewhere; however, again, there is no book that is solely devoted to hydrocolloid beads and their versatile applications. In the meantime, the use of water-soluble hydrocolloid beads is on the rise in many ?elds, making a book that covers both past and novel applications of such beads, as well as their properties and ways in which to manipulate them, crucial.

Last, but not least, I wish to thank the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for being
my home and refuge for the last 20 years of very extensive research and teaching
. January 2010 Amos Nussinovitch Contents 1 Physical Properties of Beads and
 ...

Selected Topics in Micro/Nano-robotics for Biomedical Applications

Micro/Nano-robotics for Biomedical Applications features a system approach and incorporates modern methodologies in autonomous mobile robots for programmable and controllable micro/nano-robots aiming at biomedical applications. The book provides chapters of instructional materials in micro/nanorobotics for biomedical applications. The book features lecture units on micro/nanorobot components and techniques, including sensors, actuator, power supply, and micro/nano-fabrication and assembly. It also contains case studies on using micro/nano-robots in biomedical environments and in biomedicine, as well as a design example to conceptually develop a Vitamin-pill sized robot to enter human’s gastrointestinal tract. Laboratory modules to teach robot navigation and cooperation methods suitable to biomedical applications will be also provided based on existing simulation and robot platforms.

However, contrary to the large amount of teaching and learning materials on
large-scale medical robots, there is a general lack of learning materials on micro/
nanorobotics v in undergraduate education, and the national growth of the BME ...

Developing Chinese EFL Learners' Generic Competence

A Genre-based & Process Genre Approach

This work investigates the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ generic competence in reading, writing and translation within the particular Chinese classroom context. It provides a new perspective for the current teaching and research in reading, writing, translation within the EFL contexts and offers an insightful framework for pedagogical applications in language learning and teaching. Its findings will be extremely valuable not only in local situations, but also more generally in a wider regional and global context as well. The book employs a series of research tools, including pre-research and post-research questionnaires, pre-test and post-test of reading/writing/translation, multi-faceted writing portfolios (including reflection reports), textual analysis and in-depth interviews. It involves 209 participants from a primary university in Wuhan, among whom 171 are undergraduates and 38 are postgraduates. ​And it draws on the analysis of such varied multi-sourced data both qualitatively and quantitatively. Genre-based teaching is playing a critical role in initiating EFL learners into the discourse community of the target language. Developing EFL learners’ generic competence is viewed as the ultimate goal in the process of teaching and learning. This monograph effectively demonstrates that like genre-based English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogies, it is also possible to take advantage of already acquired genre knowledge for use in EFL learning contexts. It offers an impressive view of the direction in which genre-based applications are likely to take in the coming years.

Writing: A. Process. Genre. Approach. 4.1. Setting. Previous studies on the
teaching of reading with genre-based pedagogies are scarce. Most of the
researches on reading are done within the theoretical framework of schema
theory.