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The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles
by Josh KunIn 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with horns and v... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
by Josh KunRanging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun insists that America is not a single chorus of many voices folded into one, b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Black and Brown in Los Angeles
by Laura Pulido • Josh KunBlack and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control: The Middle East and the Balkans, 1870–1914 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance)
This book revisits an important chapter of financial history in the Middle East and the Balkans from 1870 1914. During this period, capital flows in the form of sovereign debt increased rapidly throughout the region. The spiral of heavy government borrowing eventually culminated in defaults on forei... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Keywords #11)
by Walter Johnson • Andrew Ross • Lisa Nakamura • Angela D. Dillard • George Lipsitz • Sunaina Maira • Nikhil Pal Singh • E. Patrick Johnson • Timothy Mitchell • Carla L. Peterson • George J. Sanchez • Ashley Dawson • Josh Kun • Caleb Smith • Kandice Chuh • Lisa Lowe • Ann Cvetkovich • Christopher Newfield • George Yúdice • Alys Eve Weinbaum • Brian T. Edwards • Leerom Medovoi • Lauren Berlant • Junaid Rana • Erin Manning • Cynthia G. Franklin • Julie Sze • Scott Herring • Christina B. Hanhardt • Rebecca Wanzo • Juana María Rodríguez • Marc Bousquet • Laura Briggs • Sandra M. Gustafson • Erica Kohl-Arenas • Kevin K. Gaines • Henry Yu • David Kazanjian • Dean Spade • Siobhan B. Somerville • Crystal Parikh • Lee Bebout • Rebecca Hill • Jack Halberstam • Kirsten Silva Gruesz • Eric Lott • David F. Ruccio • Marlene L. Daut • Kyla Schuller • Jentery Sayers • Robert McRuer • Matthew Frye Jacobson • Alyshia Gálvez • Kembrew McLeod • Daniel Martinez HoSang • Valerie Rohy • Joseph Lowndes • Amaranth Borsuk • Robert Fanuzzi • John Kuo Wei Tchen • Lauren Klein • Miriam Posner • Tara McPherson • Jodi Melamed • Vermonja R. Alston • Stephanie Smallwood • J. Kēhaulani Kauanui • June Wayee Chau • Oneka LaBennett • Tavia Nyong’oIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Carbon Nanomaterials: Modeling Design And Applications (Advances in Materials Science and Engineering)
by Kun ZhouCarbon Nanomaterials: Modeling, Design, and Applications provides an in-depth review and analysis of the most popular carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene and novel carbon nanomaterial-based membranes and thin films, with emphasis on their modeling, design and appli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Functionalities and Applications
by Kun ZhouThis book focuses on the advances of additive manufacturing in the applications of wearable electronics, energy storage, biomedical implants and devices, drug delivery, and technologies for 4D printing, large-scale printing, and ceramics printing. It provides timely insights into the materials, func... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Additive Manufacturing Technology: Design, Optimization, and Modeling
by Kun ZhouAdditive Manufacturing Technology Highly comprehensive resource covering all key aspects of the current developments of additive manufacturing Additive Manufacturing Technology: Design, Optimization, and Modeling provides comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the latest advances in various additiv... More
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Language: ENGCopyright: 2014
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Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison
by Jeff Coen • John ChaseNo one did political corruption quite like Rod Blagojevich. The 40th governor of Illinois made international headlines in 2008 when he was roused from his bed and arrested by the FBI at his Chicago home. He was accused of running the state government as a criminal racket and, most shockingly, caught... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Victorian Woodturnings and Woodwork (Dover Architecture)
by Blumer • Kuhn Stair Co.Reproduced from a rare original, this 1893 catalog offers nearly 800 detailed and authentic illustrations of superior-quality woodturnings and woodwork. In addition to its conventional examples, it features varied and unusual models of the Victorian style, including stairs, stair railings and balust... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Image and Graphics: 11th International Conference, ICIG 2021, Haikou, China, August 6–8, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12889)
This three-volume set LNCS 12888, 12898, and 12890 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2021, held in Haikou, China, in August 2021.* The 198 full papers presented were selected from 421 submissions and focus on advances... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Image and Graphics: 11th International Conference, ICIG 2021, Haikou, China, August 6–8, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12888)
This three-volume set LNCS 12888, 12898, and 12890 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2021, held in Haikou, China, in August 2021.* The 198 full papers presented were selected from 421 submissions and focus on advances... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Image and Graphics: 11th International Conference, ICIG 2021, Haikou, China, August 6–8, 2021, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12890)
This three-volume set LNCS 12888, 12898, and 12890 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2021, held in Haikou, China, in August 2021.* The 198 full papers presented were selected from 421 submissions and focus on advances... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Modeling Markets
This book is about how models can be developed to represent demand and supply on markets, where the emphasis is on demand models. Its primary focus is on models that can be used by managers to support marketing decisions. The market environment is changing rapidly and constantly. Prior to the int... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Improving Global Health
by Barry B. Hughes • Jose Roberto Solorzano • Randall Kuhn • Cecilia Mosca Peterson • Dale S. RothmanImproving Global Health is the third in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human development: how development appears to be unfolding globally and locally, how we would like it to evolve, and ho... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Advanced Methods for Modeling Markets (International Series in Quantitative Marketing)
This volume presents advanced techniques to modeling markets, with a wide spectrum of topics, including advanced individual demand models, time series analysis, state space models, spatial models, structural models, mediation, models that specify competition and diffusion models. It is intended as ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
From Safety to Safety Science: The Evolution of Thinking and Practice
by Frank W. Guldenmund • Coen Van Gulijk • Paul Swuste • Jop Groeneweg • Saul Lemkowitz • Yvette Oostendorp • Walter ZwaardHow do accidents and disasters occur? How has knowledge of accident processes evolved? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the past century, with the number of accidents falling spectacularly within industry, aviation and road traffic. This progress has been gradual in the contex... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Location Privacy in Mobile Applications (SpringerBriefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks)
This book provides a comprehensive study of the state of the art in location privacy for mobile applications. It presents an integrated five-part framework for location privacy research, which includes the analysis of location privacy definitions, attacks and adversaries, location privacy protection... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Sound and Music Technology: Selected Papers from CSMT (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #761)
The book presents selected papers at the 8th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held in November 2020, at Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. CSMT is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on audio processing and understanding with bias on music and acoustic signals. The primary aim of the confere... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons Antenna (Modern Antenna)
This book investigates in detail some new spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) structures and their applications to antenna. It introduces the working principle and radiation characteristics of directional antenna, omnidirectional antenna, reconfigurable antenna and phase-mode antenna based on S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Statistical Foundations of Data Science (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series)
Statistical Foundations of Data Science gives a thorough introduction to commonly used statistical models, contemporary statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms, along with their mathematical insights and statistical theories. It aims to serve as a graduate-level textbook and a researc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Robust Multimodal Cognitive Load Measurement
This book explores robust multimodal cognitiveload measurement with physiological and behavioural modalities, which involve theeye, Galvanic Skin Response, speech, language, pen input, mouse movement andmultimodality fusions. Factors including stress, trust, and environmentalfactors such as illumin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGIFT 2016, held in May 2016 in Liverpool, UK. Smart grid is the next generation electric grid that enables efficient, intelligent, and economical power genera... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
MXenes and MXenes-based Composites: Processing and Applications (Engineering Materials)
by Ling Bing Kong • Tianshu Zhang • Kun Zhou • Zhuohao Xiao • Shuangchen Ruan • Wenxiu Que • Yin LiuIn this book, the authors cover the recent progress in the synthesis, characterization and application of various multi-layered carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides. Moreover, the processing and development of MXene-based composites are elaborated, focusing on their applications and performances as ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020