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  • Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
  • Milton : Taylor & Francis Group
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781000421170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (237 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zanghellini, Aleardo Imaginative resistance, queer fiction and the law
    DDC: 306.76
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    Keywords: English fiction-20th century-History and criticism ; American fiction-20th century-History and criticism ; Homosexuality and literature ; Electronic books ; Geschichte 1946-1961 ; Geschichte 1946-1961 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Homosexualität ; Queer-Theorie
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Imaginative resistance in and beyond fiction -- 2. Same sex desire in Britain and the United States in the postwar years -- 3. Charles Jackson's The Fall of Valor (1946) -- 4. Gillian Freeman's The Leather Boys (1961) -- 5. Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt (1952) and The Talented Mr Ripley (1955) -- Conclusions -- Index.
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  • 2
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    ISBN: 9783030713935
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 830 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ayres, Robert U., 1932 - The history and future of technology
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Technology-History ; Technology-Social aspects ; Technology and civilization ; Electronic books ; Technik
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: Before the Industrial Revolution -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Fire and Water: Technologies Extending Nature -- 2.1 Bipedalism: Down from the Trees -- 2.2 Pottery, Cooking, and Mobility -- 2.3 Keeping the Dark at Bay -- 2.4 Pain, Anesthesia, and Surgery -- 2.5 Water Management and Farming -- 2.6 Agriculture -- 2.7 Extensions of the Legs: Mobility and Transport -- 3: Extensions of the Body -- 3.1 From Skin to Fibers -- 3.2 From Fibers to Fabrics and Clothing -- 3.3 From Caves to Walls to Settlements -- 3.4 From Teeth and Claws to Bows and Arrows -- 3.5 Metallurgy -- 3.6 Firearms and Explosives -- 4: Words and Music -- 4.1 Cave Art -- 4.2 Writing and Stories -- 4.3 Tokens, Numbers, Ideographs, Pictographs, and Cuneiform -- 4.4 Logography: Shift from Visual to Aural -- 4.5 The Alphabet: Segmentation of Sounds -- 4.6 Musical Notation -- 4.7 Musical Instruments -- 4.8 From Numbers to Arithmetic And Algebra -- 5: Printing, Movable Type, and Books -- 5.1 Precursors of Paper -- 5.2 Gutenberg, Movable Type, and the Bible -- 5.3 The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Knowledge -- Part II: The Age of Fossile Fuels -- 6: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Science -- 6.1 Money and Credit -- 6.2 Universities and "Higher Learning" -- 6.3 Alchemy and Chemistry -- 6.4 Magnetism and Electricity -- 6.5 Philosophy and Astronomy -- 6.6 Entropy, Complexity, and the Universe as a "Heat Engine" -- 7: The First Stage of Industrialization: Coking and Canals (1712-1820) -- 7.1 Coking and Iron Smelting -- 7.2 Coal and Canals -- 7.3 Foundations of Chemistry -- 7.4 The Alkali Industry and Soap Making -- 7.5 Phosphorus and "Safety Matches" -- 7.6 Rubber -- 8: Machine Tools and Mechanization -- 8.1 Attaching Metals: Welding, Soldering and Brazing, Riveting.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781000363128
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (181 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als MESEA Conference (11. : 2018 : Graz) Ethnicity and kinship in North American and European literatures
    DDC: 30.44/09407
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    Keywords: Ethnicity in literature-Congresses ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2018 ; Nordamerika ; Europa ; Literatur ; Ethnizität ; Ethnische Identität ; Verwandtschaft
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theorizing Kinship and Ethnicity in Contemporary North American and European Literature -- Kinship as Affective Belonging -- Theorizing the Intersections of Ethnicity and Kinship -- Emerging Themes -- Notes -- Work Cited -- Familiar/Familial Kinship -- 1 From Familiar to Familial: Gloria Anzaldúa's Queer Rhetorical Kinship -- What, Historically, is Ethos? -- Anzaldúa's Borderlands: Departing from "Standpoint," Arriving at "Confluence" -- Nepantla: An Art of Kinship through Poetic "Com-position" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 From China to Cuba, and Back: The Conundrums of Ethnic Identity and Kinship in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 In Praise of the Kitchen Poet: Cooking as Kinship in Ethnic Culinary Memoirs -- Home-Cooked Food: Enforcing Cultural Belonging or Creating Kinship? -- Kitchen Poets -- A Longing to Belong and "Be Long" -- Conclusion: Textual Kinship -- Note -- Works Cited -- Kinship States -- 4 Beyond Kinship and National Identity: Ika Hügel-Marshall's Daheim Unterwegs: Ein Deutsches Leben -- Introduction -- Racial Blackness in Postwar Germany -- Queered Belonging and Diasporic Consciousness -- "At Home on the Way" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Care, Intimacy, and Kinship: Rethinking Traditional Narratives of the Family in Adrian Tomine's "A Brief History of ... -- Introduction -- Reimagining Familiar and Familial Kinships -- Gendering Care and Kinship -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6 Narratives of Intimacy: Ethnic Nationalism, Kinship, and Sexuality in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature -- Transnational and Transethnic Sensibility as Reading Practice -- War and Post-War Divisions: Ethnic Nationalism and Kinship Relations.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781000347937
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (523 pages)
    Series Statement: Transportation Human Factors Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4832
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    Keywords: Automated vehicles ; Electronic books ; Automated vehicles ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editors -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Modelling -- Chapter 1 UCEID - The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Ecological Interface Design with User-Centred Design in a Novel Human Factors Method Applied to Automated Driving -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Why Use UCEID? -- 1.2 The UCEID Method -- 1.2.1 Literature Review -- 1.2.2 Data Collection -- 1.2.3 Thematic Analysis -- 1.2.4 Cognitive Work Analysis -- 1.2.5 Consolidation and Ideas Generation -- 1.2.6 Filtering and Checking -- 1.3 Methodological Considerations -- 1.3.1 Advantages -- 1.3.2 Disadvantages -- 1.3.3 Training and Application Time -- 1.3.4 Tools -- 1.4 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2 Using UCEID to Include the Excluded: An Autonomous Vehicle HMI Inclusive Design Case Study -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 This Case Study: Designing an HMI for Level 3/ 4 Autonomous Car Takeover -- 2.1.1.1 Ageing Population -- 2.1.1.2 Ageing and Capability Impairment -- 2.1.1.3 Ageing and Digital Technological Interface Capability -- 2.1.1.4 Inclusive Design -- 2.2 Approach and Activities -- 2.2.1 Overview of Explore and Evaluate Stage -- 2.2.2 Evaluate Activity: Generation and Processing of Requirements - Method -- 2.2.3 Evaluate Activity: Generation and Processing of Needs Lists - Results -- 2.2.4 Create Activity: Design Workshop 1 -- 2.2.4.1 Input -- 2.2.4.2 Activity -- 2.2.4.3 Results -- 2.2.5 Create Activity: Iterative Design Development -- 2.2.6 Evaluate Activity: Testing with Experts and Users - Overview -- 2.2.7 Create Activity: Design Workshop 2 -- 2.2.7.1 Input -- 2.2.7.2 Outputs -- 2.2.8 Create Activity: Final Concepts and Refinement -- 2.3 Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780429759406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (308 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: System design-Social aspects ; System design-Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Human factors research and practice, broadly defined, is relevant to designing for access and equity. This book will expand the discussion to specific themes of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. The book will educate readers about these ideas, promote additional research and practice, and guide future work.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: Inclusive Scholarship for Inclusive Systems -- Editors -- Contributors -- Section 1 Understanding and Supporting Healthy Communities -- Chapter 1 Human Systems Engineering for Societal Transformation: A Tale of Two Cities -- Chapter 2 Inclusive Decision-Making: Applying Human Factors Methods to Capture the Needs and Voices of Marginalized Populations -- Chapter 3 HFE in Underdeveloped Countries: How Do We Facilitate Equitable, Egalitarian, and Respectful Progress? -- Chapter 4 Researcher Reflections on Human Factors and Health Equity -- Chapter 5 The Intersection of Human Factors Engineering and Health Equity -- Chapter 6 Using Work Domain Analysis to Advocate for Social Justice: Meeting the Needs of Resource-Constrained Societies -- Section 2 Including and Empowering Diverse People -- Chapter 7 A Human Factors Engineer's Journey Into Enhancing LGBT Status in Academia -- Chapter 8 All Are Welcome but Terms and Conditions Apply -- Chapter 9 "Nothing About Us Without Us" Transforming Participatory Research and Ethics in Human Systems Engineering -- Chapter 10 Ergonomic Analysis of Working Conditions of a Recycler Community in Medellín, Colombia -- Chapter 11 Guiding Technology Design to Empower Older Adults to Actively Engage in Society -- Chapter 12 Inclusive Wearable Design: Developing a Set of Characteristics of Socially Acceptable BCI Devices for Women -- Section 3 Inspiring Strategies for an Inclusive Future -- Chapter 13 Automation, Work, and Racial Equity: How Human Systems Engineering Can Shape the Future of Work -- Chapter 14 The Learning Research and Development Center Summer Undergraduate Research Internship: A Diversity Internship in the Learning Sciences.
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