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BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology
AvSimon Baker,Caroline Griffiths
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
442 kr
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BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology, Fourth Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts-an ideal revision checklist-followed by a description of the subject that focuses on core information, with clear, simple diagrams that are easy for students to understand and recall in essays and exams. BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology, Fourth Edition, is fully up-to-date and covers:The Microbial WorldSystematicsMicrobiologyMicrobial GrowthMicrobial MetabolismProkaryotic DNA and RNA MetabolismIndustrial MicrobiologyEukaryotic Microbes: An OverviewThe Fungi and Related PhylaArchaeplastida, Excavata, Chromalveolata and AmoebozoaThe Viruses
George Condo
Painting Reconfigured
AvSimon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
566 kr
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The definitive monograph on the iconoclastic painter George Condo. With his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing and sculpting - bringing forms into the world in one way or another - ever since. With his 'fake' Old Masters, reconfigured Manets, impossibly intricate paintings that seem abstract only from a distance, fractured and multifaceted 'psychologically Cubist' portraits, and the orgiastic misdemeanours of a host of butlers, bankers and priests, Condo has invented, mastered and expanded not just one painterly language but an entire lexicon. Working closely with Condo, Simon Baker has combined biographical, chronological and thematic approaches to survey the artist's work and career to date. An introductory essay on Condo's contradictory nature and a chapter exploring his phenomenal early career are followed by three thematic chapters that look at the years from 1984 to the present, tracing Condo's systematic reconstruction of the techniques of painting, exploring his relationship to the concept of abstraction, and probing the darker side of his psychological iconography in drawing, painting, sculpture and writing. George Condo is the definitive monograph about a unique artist that will appeal to artists, art students and those with a general interest in art.
Issei Suda
AvSimon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
133 kr
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An illuminating introduction to little-known photographer Issei Suda, who captured the soul of Japan old and new. The work of Issei Suda (1940–2019) is distinct in contemporary avant-garde Japanese photography for its celebration of the beauty of the everyday. His black and white pictures reflect on apparent banality of urban life, capturing ‘the little surprises usually ignored in our world’: the shadow of a figure, the shapes of the street, the expressions on stranger's faces. Suda’s practice revealed the tensions between old and new Japan, juxtaposing the ingrained visual traditions of Japanese culture with the prevailing western vocabulary of fashion, advertising and leisure, as seen through his observant and tender lens. In Thames & Hudson's acclaimed Photofile series, this compact survey features sixty of Suda's best photographs. The Photofile SeriesPhotofile brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive, accessible, pocket-sized format. Handsome and collectable, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains over sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
How to be a Great Divorced Dad
Dads Can be Great Mothers Too If They Have to
AvSimon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
144 kr
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Leisure Myths and Mythmaking
AvTroy Glover,Simon Bakerm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2022
738 kr
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This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as mythsâ€”sometimes recognized, often less soâ€”that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an â€œabsent presenceâ€ in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape peopleâ€™s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate peopleâ€™s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change.
As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imaginationâ€”from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the â€œabsent presenceâ€ of myths and mythmaking in leisure research.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
Leisure Myths and Mythmaking
AvTroy Glover,Simon Bakerm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
738 kr
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This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as mythsâ€”sometimes recognized, often less soâ€”that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an â€œabsent presenceâ€ in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape peopleâ€™s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate peopleâ€™s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change.
As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imaginationâ€”from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the â€œabsent presenceâ€ of myths and mythmaking in leisure research.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
Leisure Myths and Mythmaking
AvBrett Lashua,Simon Bakerm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 054 kr
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This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an “absent presence” in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape people’s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate people’s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change.As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imagination—from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the “absent presence” of myths and mythmaking in leisure research.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
Leisure Myths and Mythmaking
AvBrett Lashua,Simon Bakerm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
624 kr
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This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an “absent presence” in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape people’s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate people’s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change.As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imagination—from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the “absent presence” of myths and mythmaking in leisure research.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology
AvCaroline Griffiths,Simon Baker
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
520 kr
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BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology, 4th edition, has been streamlined to concentrate on features that are unique to the microbial world, including viruses, making it a more effective resource for students. Information on pathogenesis will be placed within other sections rather than as a separate section. While retaining the Instant Notes philosophy of only covering core material, the text has been updated throughout and will include metagenomics, next generation sequencing, and more on industrial microbiology.
BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology
AvCaroline Griffiths,Simon Baker
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
520 kr
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BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology, 4th edition, has been streamlined to concentrate on features that are unique to the microbial world, including viruses, making it a more effective resource for students. Information on pathogenesis will be placed within other sections rather than as a separate section. While retaining the Instant Notes philosophy of only covering core material, the text has been updated throughout and will include metagenomics, next generation sequencing, and more on industrial microbiology.
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
AvSimon Baker
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
132 kr
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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid. From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth of the age of the 'Caesars', the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion. At the heart of this account are the dynamic, complex but flawed characters of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of these distant, legendary figures, Simon Baker looks beyond the dusty, toga-clad caricatures and explores their real motivations and ambitions, intrigues and rivalries. The superb narrative, full of energy and imagination, is a brilliant distillation of the latest scholarship and a wonderfully evocative account of Ancient Rome.
Overlapping Iterated Function Systems from the Perspective of Metric Number Theory
AvSimon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
1 005 kr
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In this paper we develop a new approach for studying overlapping iterated function systems. This approach is inspired by a famous result due to Khintchine from Diophantine approximation which shows that for a family of limsup sets, their Lebesgue measure is determined by the convergence or divergence of naturally occurring volume sums. For many parameterised families of overlapping iterated function systems, we prove that a typical member will exhibit similar Khintchine like behaviour. Families of iterated function systems that our results apply to include those arising from Bernoulli convolutions, the {0, 1, 3} problem, and affine contractions with varying translation parameter. As a by-product of our analysis we obtain new proofs of some well known results due to Solomyak on the absolute continuity of Bernoulli convolutions, and when the attractor in the {0, 1, 3} problem has positive Lebesgue measure.For each t ? [0, 1] we let ?t be the iterated function system given by ?t := ?1(x) = x 2 , ?2(x) = x + 1 2 , ?3(x) = x + t 2 , ?4(x) = x +1+ t 2 .We prove that either ?t contains an exact overlap, or we observe Khintchine like behaviour. Our analysis shows that by studying the metric properties of limsup sets, we can distinguish between the overlapping behaviour of iterated function systems in a way that is not available to us by simply studying properties of self-similar measures.Last of all, we introduce a property of an iterated function system that we call being consistently separated with respect to a measure. We prove that this property implies that the pushforward of the measure is absolutely continuous. We include several explicit examples of consistently separated iterated function systems.
The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection
AvShoair Mavlian,Simon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
434 kr
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
The Rise and Fall of An Empire
AvSimon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
166 kr
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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid. From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth of the age of the 'Caesars', the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion. At the heart of this account are the dynamic, complex but flawed characters of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of these distant, legendary figures, Simon Baker looks beyond the dusty, toga-clad caricatures and explores their real motivations and ambitions, intrigues and rivalries. The superb narrative, full of energy and imagination, is a brilliant distillation of the latest scholarship and a wonderfully evocative account of Ancient Rome.
Sakiko Nomura
Tender is the Night
AvSimon Baker,Enrique Juncosam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
592 kr
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This definitive monograph celebrates the stunning work of an esteemed Japanese photographer known for her intimate and atmospheric black-and-white portraits.Sakiko Nomura’s images explore themes of sensuality, identity, and solitude with striking emotional depth. A protégé of Nobuyoshi Araki, she captures the human form in raw, vulnerable states, focusing on the interplay of light and shadow to evoke stillness, introspection, and desire. Her subjects, often youthful and alluring, reveal the power and tension of erotic desire with remarkable tenderness. As a woman photographing both male and female nudes, Nomura’s work challenges traditional Japanese stereotypes, offering a fresh perspective on intimacy and the human experience.This book features a rich selection of Nomura’s most evocative work, showcasing her fluid, rhythmic brushstrokes of light and shadow. Her compositions blur the line between subtle eroticism and contemplative beauty, capturing personal moments that resonate universally.Elegant and alluring, this monograph is an essential addition for admirers of Japanese photography, women photographers, and contemporary erotic art, and offers a compelling invitation to explore the forces of desire, vulnerability, and human connection through the lens of one of Japan’s most captivating contemporary photographers.
Science/Fiction
AvGiovanni Aloi,Victoria Areshevam. fl.
Häftad, Franska
467 kr
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Science/Fiction: A Non-History of Plants
AvGiovanni Aloi,Victoria Areshevam. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
471 kr
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents
AvDawn Ades,Simon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
428 kr
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Surrealism, History and Revolution
AvSimon Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
930 kr
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This book is a new account of the surrealist movement in France between the two world wars. It examines the uses that surrealist artists and writers made of ideas and images associated with the French Revolution, describing a complex relationship between surrealism’s avant-garde revolt and its powerful sense of history and heritage. Focusing on both texts and images by key figures such as Louis Aragon, Georges Bataille, Jacques-André Boiffard, André Breton, Robert Desnos, Max Ernst, Max Morise, and Man Ray, this book situates surrealist material in the wider context of the literary and visual arts of the period through the theme of revolution. It raises important questions about the politics of representing French history, literary and political memorial spaces, monumental representations of the past and critical responses to them, imaginary portraiture and revolutionary spectatorship. The study shows that a full understanding of surrealism requires a detailed account of its attitude to revolution, and that understanding this surrealist concept of revolution means accounting for the complex historical imagination at its heart.

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Simon Baker – författare

BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology

George Condo

Issei Suda

How to be a Great Divorced Dad

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology

BIOS Instant Notes in Microbiology

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Overlapping Iterated Function Systems from the Perspective of Metric Number Theory

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Sakiko Nomura

Science/Fiction

Science/Fiction: A Non-History of Plants

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

Surrealism, History and Revolution

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