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Starch in the Bioeconomy
By Jean-Luc Wertz, Bénédicte Goffin. 2021
Starch is the most widespread and abundant reserve carbohydrate in plants and is unique in that it can be used…
for the production of food, materials in bio-based products, and energy. Starch in the Bioeconomy covers the structure, biosynthesis, biodegradation, properties, and applications of starch in the context of the bioeconomy. The book Describes the present state of cognition of the starch granule Discusses physicochemical aspects and digestibility Considers physical, chemical, and biochemical processes to yield a variety of starch substrates Examines starch-based products including bioethanol, plastics, and composites and their use in various sectors including food, materials and energy Covers the valorization of starch as a pillar of the bioeconomy The book is aimed at researchers and industry professionals focused on the development of starch science, technology, and economics. Built on a reliable and well-documented base of information, the book presents the paths that remain to be taken to decipher this still mysterious resource that has contributed so much to the rise of humanity.Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to survivors of multiple genocides…
and periods of violence, including the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Despite efforts for accountability, the terrain of justice has been uneven and, in many cases, impunity remains. How can citizens respond to such ongoing trauma? Within frameworks of transitional justice, what does this tell us about the possibility of recovery and repair? Turning to the lived experience of survivors and family members of victims of genocide and violence, Natasha Zaretsky argues for the ongoing significance of cultural memory as a response to trauma and injustice, as revealed through testimonies and public protests. Even if such repair may be inevitably liminal and incomplete, their acts seeking such repair also yield spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery. Author website (www.natashazaretsky.com)Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
By Laurie Greene. 2021
The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city…
as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland)
By Bob Harris, David Allan, Rosalind Carr, James J. Caudle, Rhona Brown, Jacqueline Jenkinson, Ralph McLean, Corey Andrews, Martyn Powell. 2021
Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly,…
or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume—the first full-length study of the subject in fifty years—examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting-places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, this volume offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
By Timothy Williams. 2021
Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology,…
anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity.Alternative Realities (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture)
By Carl Plantinga. 2021
From their very inception, movies have served two seemingly contradictory purposes. On one hand, they transport us to fantastical worlds…
and display mind-boggling special effects. On the other, they can document actual events and immerse us in scenarios that feel so realistic, we might forget we are watching a work of fiction. Alternative Realities explores how these distinctions between cinematic fantasy and filmic realism are more porous than we might think. Through a close analysis of CGI-heavy blockbusters like Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy, it considers how even popular fantasies are grounded in emotional and social realities. Conversely, it examines how mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap satirically call attention to the highly stylized techniques documentarians use to depict reality. Alternative Realities takes us on a journey through many different genres of film, from the dream-like and subjective realities depicted in movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memento, to the astonishing twists of movies like Shutter Island and The Matrix, which leave viewers in a state of epistemic uncertainty. Ultimately, it shows us how the power of cinema comes from the unique way it fuses together the objective and the subjective, the fantastical and the everyday.Arrebatos carnales II (Arrebatos carnales #Volumen 2)
By Francisco Martín Moreno. 2020
Una vez más, el autor nos hace disfrutar de la historia de México conociendo sus entresijos carnales y sus pasiones.…
«Una prueba para demostrar que no me dejé impresionar por los comentarios adversos ni me importó que me llamaran irreverente, entre otros calificativos, por haberme atrevido a bajar de sus respectivos pedestales a los grandes protagonistas de la historia de México y por exhibirlos como figuras de carne y hueso con sus fortalezas y debilidades [...] Aquí está Arrebatos carnales II.» Francisco Martín Moreno regresa con grandes hombres y mujeres de la historia y sus amores. Para abrir apetito comienza con la Güera Rodríguez, mujer hermosa y estratega audaz, en amoríos con Iturbide; también nos lleva de la mano por la alcoba de Diego Rivera y sus múltiples amantes, mientras vemos de perfil a una Frida Kahlo rompiendo moldes; otra mirada dura de las pasiones es la de Isabel Motecuhzoma, hija del gran Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, para seguir con la entereza de doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez y cerrar, como una gran cereza, con los arrebatos de don Lázaro Cárdenas.Debajo de mi piel
By Mónica Salmón. 2020
«Mónica Salmón acompaña a su madre en la batalla contra el cáncer y, al compartirla en palabras, dignifica la pérdida…
y nos muestra la grandeza del amor filial.» MÓNICA LAVÍN «Un entrañable y solidario testimonio que nos enseña página a página que el cáncer es más un sinónimo de vida que de muerte. Mónica Salmón logra levantar el velo de la enfermedad más temida para mostrarnos el inagotable amor y valentía que realmente inspira.» BLAS VALDEZ «Debajo de mi piel es una experiencia que nos expone a la fragilidad de la vida, pero también nos recuerda la increíble fuerza del amor que yace en todos nosotros para dejarnos la importante lección de vivir y de nunca dejar de amar.» ERIC MANCEBOStreetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Critical Caribbean Studies)
By Ana-Maurine Lara. 2021
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans…
and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.Okta Administration: Implement enterprise-grade identity and access management for on-premises and cloud apps
By Lovisa Stenbacken Stjernlof, HenkJan De Vries. 2020
Plan, design, and implement identity and access management solutions with OktaKey FeaturesLearn how to use Okta for complete identity and…
access management in your organizationUse single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and life cycle management for enhanced securitySet up, manage, and audit API access policiesBook DescriptionIAM, short for identity and access management, is a set of policies and technologies for ensuring the security of an organization through careful role and access assignment for users and devices. With this book, you'll get up and running with Okta, an identity and access management (IAM) service that you can use for both employees and customers.Once you've understood how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, you'll learn about the Universal Directory, which covers how to integrate other directories and applications and set up groups and policies. As you make progress, the book explores Okta's single sign-on (SSO) feature and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. Finally, you will delve into API access management and discover how you can leverage Advanced Server Access for your cloud servers and Okta Access Gateway for your on-premises applications.By the end of this Okta book, you'll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use this book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.What you will learnUnderstand different types of users in Okta and how to place them in groupsSet up SSO and MFA rules to secure your IT environmentGet to grips with the basics of end-user functionality and customizationFind out how provisioning and synchronization with applications workExplore API management, Access Gateway, and Advanced Server AccessBecome well-versed in the terminology used by IAM professionalsWho this book is forIf you are an IT consultant, business decision-maker, system administrator, system and security engineer, or anyone who wishes to use Okta to plan, design, and implement identity and access management solutions, this book is for you. A basic understanding of authentication and authorization is necessary.Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood (Global Perspectives on Aging)
By Jessica C. Robbins. 2021
Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health-promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. In Poland, the meanings and ideals…
of these programs have become caught up in the sociocultural and political-economic changes that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations—most visibly, the transition from socialism to capitalism. Yet practices of active aging resonate with older forms of activity in late life in ways that exceed these narratives of progress. Moreover, some older Poles come to live valued, meaningful lives in old age despite threats to respect and dignity posed by illness and debility. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging in Poland, Jessica C. Robbins shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives. In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland, we see how memories and understandings of the Polish nation intersect with ideals and experiences of late life to produce forms of life that are not reducible to binary categories of health or illness, independence or dependence, or socialism or capitalism.FLAC and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics
By Christine Detournay. 1999
Sixty-five papers cover a wide range of topics from engineering applications to theoretical developments in the areas of embankment and…
slope stability, underground cavity design and mining; dynamic analysis, soil and structure interaction, and coupled processes and fluid flow.Arrebatos carnales III (Arrebatos carnales #Volumen 3)
By Francisco Martín Moreno. 2020
«Con la entrega de Arrebatos carnales III [...] doy por concluida la trilogía que me permitió ver a contraluz la…
vida amorosa de algunos personajes de la historia patria.» Con esta obra, Francisco Martín Moreno da por concluida su Trilogía Erótica de México, acogida con justificado entusiasmo por el público lector. ¿Por qué oscura razón la historia oficial ha subido a los grandes protagonistas de nuestra historia a enormes columnas de mármol blanco como si se tratara de figuras sacralizadas, santificadas, carentes de la menor pasión carnal? ¿Se trataba de proyectar la imagen impoluta de destacados actores de nuestro pasado o más bien observar su comportamiento en su más exquisita intimidad? El autor, un acucioso investigador de los acontecimientos que definieron nuestra actual realidad, descubrió el fuego, el idilio que consumía a Melchor Ocampo, uno de los padres de la Reforma en elsiglo xix; a Díaz Ordaz, el jefe del Ejecutivo que padeció los horrores del movimiento del 68; a Venustiano Carranza, uno de los supuestos inspiradores de la Constitución de 1917; a Felipe Carrillo Puerto, el gran líder henequenero, feroz enemigo de la esclavitud yucateca; sin olvidar la configuración psicológica de un influyente inquisidor del siglo xvii en México.Mujer y poder en el siglo XIX: La vida extraordinaria de Juana Catarina Romero, cacica de Tehuantepec
By Francie Chassen-López. 2020
«Juana Cata nunca se casó, así que fue libre, independiente y empresaria en una época en la que eso no…
era bien visto en una mujer.» Fuera de Oaxaca y, en particular, de su natal Tehuantepec, el nombre de Juana Catarina Romero es poco conocido. Si acaso detona alguna referencia, es como la supuesta "amante zapoteca" del joven Porfirio Díaz. Además de que este hecho nunca ha sido comprobado, se ha convertido en un mito que opaca una vida extraordinaria: la de una mujer de origen humilde, quien en su juventud fue vendedora ambulante de cigarrillos y espía del ejército liberal en la Guerra de Reforma, y quien, gracias a su tenacidad y habilidad política, llegó a ser una exitosa empresaria azucarera, una comerciante internacional y el árbitro de la sociedad tehuantepecana. Juana Cata tuvo una vida fuera de serie, entretejida con tres periodos cruciales de la historia de México: la ReformaLiberal, el porfirismo y la Revolución. Fue una mujer independiente que logró abrirse camino en un mundo dominado por los hombres, aunque su vida no estuvo exenta de contradicciones. Ella fue una impulsora de la modernidad, pero de una modernidad a la tehuantepecana, la cual unía el progreso, el catolicismo y las tradiciones zapotecas del istmo. El presente estudio es la biografía más completa de Juana Catarina Romero, sustentado en una investigación exhaustiva de muchos años. Al mismo tiempo que recrea la trayectoria de este sorprendente personaje -cómo una mujer humilde y analfabeta llegó a los altos rangos de la sociedad mexicana-, esta biografía proporciona una nueva perspectiva sobre la vida y el papel de las mujeres mexicanas en el siglo xix.This book covers the various processes of charge transfer in physics, chemistry and biology and shows the similarities and differences…
between them. It focuses on the physical mechanisms of the elementary processes to demonstrate their common physical nature.Los millonarios de la guerra: El expediente inédito de García Luna y sus socios
By Peniley Ramírez. 2020
«Peniley Ramírez ha escrito un estremecedor thriller de no ficción. Siempre creímos que la llamada guerra contra el narco había…
dejado sólo incontables víctimas y perdedores. Con rigor y profundidad, Peniley desvela quiénes -como el propio Genaro García Luna, su primer artífice- medraron con la #guerra# y se convirtieron en sus espurios, obscenos ganadores.» Jorge Volpi En diciembre de 2006, Felipe Calderón declaró la «guerra contra el narco»: una era de sangre y fuego que ha dejado cientos de miles de muertos... y cientos de millones de dólares para unos pocos. En esta investigación #realizada a lo largo de 8 años, en 4 países y con más de 17 mil documentos# la periodista Peniley Ramírez desnuda a quienes se han forrado de dinero gracias a esa industria: políticos, proveedores, brokers, espías, empresas de seguridad, asesores, mandos policiacos, jefes militares y mercaderes de armas y de humo. Genaro García Luna es sólo uno de ellos, casi el único que ha caído en desgracia. Este libro demuestra que su vida y obra ejemplifican todo un sistema, que persiste hasta hoy, en el que para ganar millones no se necesita ganar la «guerra».Stanley Kubrick Produces
By James Fenwick. 2021
Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick’s role as a producer, and of the role of…
the producers he worked with throughout his career. It considers how he first emerged as a producer, how he developed the role, and how he ultimately used it to fashion himself a powerbase by the 1970s. It goes on to consider how Kubrick’s centralizing of power became a self-defeating strategy by the 1980s and 1990s, one that led him to struggle to move projects out of development and into active production. Making use of overlooked archival sources and uncovering newly discovered ‘lost’ Kubrick projects (The Cop Killer, Shark Safari, and The Perfect Marriage among them), as well as providing the first detailed overview of the World Assembly of Youth film, James Fenwick provides a comprehensive account of Kubrick’s life and career and of how he managed to obtain the level of control that he possessed by the 1970s. Along the way, the book traces the rapid changes taking place in the American film industry in the post-studio era, uncovering new perspectives about the rise of young independent producers, the operations of influential companies such as Seven Arts and United Artists, and the whole field of film marketing.Reino de cenizas (Trono de Cristal #Volumen 7)
By Sarah J. Maas. 2020
LA EXPLOSIVA CULMINACIÓN DE LA SERIE BESTSELLER DE THE NEW YORK TIMES, EN LA QUE AELIN LUCHARÁ POR SALVARSE A…
SÍ MISMA... Y POR LA PROMESA DE UN MUNDO MEJOR. LA BATALLA FINAL HA LLEGADO. Aelin Galathynius juró salvar a su pueblo... pero a un costo altísimo. Encerrada en un ataúd de metal por la reina de las hadas, Aelin debe reunir toda su voluntad para soportar meses de tortura. Saber que rendirse ante Maeve condenaría a todos a los que ama es lo único que la mantiene firme, pero su determinación se desvanece poco a poco con cada día que transcurre. Con Aelin capturada, sus amigos y aliados se dispersan por caminos distintos. Algunos lazos se volverán más fuertes, mientras que otros se romperán para siempre. Cuando los destinos se reúnan en el final, todos deberán luchar si desean que Erilea tenga alguna esperanza de salvación...Alas rotas
By Josefina Vázquez Mota. 2020
NO MAS SECRETOS SUCIOS NO MAS ENCUBRIMIENTOS ¿Cómo podemos prevenir el abuso y la violencia sexual contra niñas, niños y…
adolescentes? ¿Cómo escuchar a nuestras hijas y nuestros hijos? ¿Cómo podemos detectar síntomas de maltrato en ellas y ellos? ¿Cuáles son los pasos a seguir para denunciar? ¿Quiénes pueden ayudarnos en el proceso? ¿Cómo podemos empezar a curar las heridas y las cicatrices? Éstas y más preguntas se resolverón a lo largo de las capítulos de este libro, gracias a la intervención de las voces expertas de Moisés Laniado Kassin, Katina Medina Mora, Josefina Lira Plascencia, Francisco lbargüengoitia Ochoa, Marcos Pérez Esquer, María Beatriz Müler, Liliana Mora Espinosa, María del Rosario Alfaro Martínez, Denisse Meade Guaudry y María Cecilia López, bajo la coordinación de Josefina Vázquez Mota. Asimismo, las autores derriban tabúes y falsas creencias que usualmente acompañan al contexto del abuso infantil, producto de prejuicios sociales que minimizan el derecho de las víctimas a manifestarse y a redirigir su camino hacia una vida digna. Alas rotas es un libro que aborda un tema apremiante, doloroso, sí, pero que debemos de frenar de una vez par todas. Luchemos por una infancia y una adolescencia felices.Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
By Christopher Phillips. 2019
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of…
ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor in order to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players.Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest and most consequential fields for the introduction of numerical analysis. New technologies and methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to quantify the drafting and managing of players—replacing scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. Over the decades, scouting and scoring started looking increasingly similar. Scouts expressed their judgments in highly formulaic ways, using numerical grades and scientific instruments to evaluate players. Scorers drew on moral judgments, depended on human labor to maintain and correct data, and designed bureaucratic systems to make statistics appear reliable. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, the history of baseball reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science.A unique consideration of the role of quantitative measurement and human judgment, Scouting and Scoring provides an entirely fresh understanding of baseball by showing what the sport reveals about reliable knowledge in the modern world.