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Writing Plague - Alfred Thomas - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Writing Plague - Alfred Thomas - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "plague writing" from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human "software" (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern "plague" fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and fantasies and displace them onto the threatening "other," Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today''s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

DKK 901.00
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Media Capitalism - Thomas Klikauer - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Media Capitalism - Thomas Klikauer - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book argues that media and capitalism no longer exist as separated entities, and posits three reasons why one can no longer exist without the other. Firstly, mass media have become indispensable to capitalism due to the media''s ability to sell the commodities of mass consumerism. Media capitalism also creates pro-capital attitudes among a target population and establishes an ideological hegemony. Thirdly, media capitalism provides mass deception to hide the pathologies of capitalism, which include mass poverty, rising inequalities, and the acceleration of global warming. To illuminate this, the book''s historical chapter traces the emergence of media capitalism. Its subsequent chapters show how media capitalism has infiltrated the public sphere, society, schools, universities, the world of work and finally, democracy. The book concludes by outlining how societies can transition from media capitalism to a post-media- capitalist society.

DKK 986.00
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A Dynamical Perspective on the ?4 Model - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

A Dynamical Perspective on the ?4 Model - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a careful selection of the most important developments of the \phi^4 model, offering a judicious summary of this model with a view to future prospects and the challenges ahead. Over the past four decades, the \phi^4 model has been the basis for a broad array of developments in the physics and mathematics of nonlinear waves. From kinks to breathers, from continuum media to discrete lattices, from collisions of solitary waves to spectral properties, and from deterministic to stochastic models of \phi^4 (and \phi^6, \phi^8, \phi^12 variants more recently), this dynamical model has served as an excellent test bed for formulating and testing the ideas of nonlinear science and solitary waves.

DKK 986.00
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An Asian Woman's Religious Journey with Thomas Merton - Jung Eun Sophia Park - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

An Asian Woman's Religious Journey with Thomas Merton - Jung Eun Sophia Park - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her true self through the writings of Thomas Merton. Approaching Merton as an Asian immigrant feminist in the postcolonial era, Park''s perspective is a unique one, and in this dance sometimes it is her and sometimes Merton who leads. Throughout, Eastern and Western spirituality are organically woven together in reflection on Merton''s narratives and in the examination of late capitalism, poverty, beauty, and violence. These reflections are insightful, provocative, and illuminating, particularly with regard to his androcentric spirituality, especially as it relates to his relationships with women.

DKK 901.00
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Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism - Laurence B. Mccullough - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG -

Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism - Laurence B. Mccullough - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG -

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival’s professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography. Preceded by his privately published and circulated Medical Jurisprudence of 1794, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) published Medical Ethics in 1803, the first book thus titled in the global histories of medicine and medical ethics. From his days as a student at the Warrington Academy and the medical schools of the universities of Edinburgh and Leyden, Percival steeped himself in the scientific method of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). McCullough shows how Percival became a Baconian moral scientist committed to Baconian deism and Dissent. Percival also drew on and significantly expanded the work of his predecessor in professional ethics in medicine, John Gregory (1724-1773). The result is that Percival should be credited with co-inventing professionalism in medicine with Gregory. To aid and encourage future scholarship, this book brings together the first time three essential Percival texts, Medical Jurisprudence, Medical Ethics, and Extracts from the Medical Ethics of Dr. Percival of 1823, the bridge from Medical Ethics to the 1847 Code of Medical Ethics on the American Medical Association. To support comparative reading, this book provides concordances of Medical Jurisprudence to Medical Ethics and of Medical Ethics to Extracts. Finally, this book includes the first Chronology of Percival’s life and works.

DKK 986.00
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Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism - Laurence B. Mccullough - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG -

Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism - Laurence B. Mccullough - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG -

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival''s professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography. Preceded by his privately published and circulated Medical Jurisprudence of 1794, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) published Medical Ethics in 1803, the first book thus titled in the global histories of medicine and medical ethics. From his days as a student at the Warrington Academy and the medical schools of the universities of Edinburgh and Leyden, Percival steeped himself in the scientific method of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). McCullough shows how Percival became a Baconian moral scientist committed to Baconian deism and Dissent. Percival also drew on and significantly expanded the work of his predecessor in professional ethics in medicine, John Gregory (1724-1773). The result is that Percival should be credited with co-inventing professionalism in medicine with Gregory. To aid and encourage future scholarship, this book brings together the first time three essential Percival texts, Medical Jurisprudence , Medical Ethics , and Extracts from the Medical Ethics of Dr. Percival of 1823, the bridge from Medical Ethics to the 1847 Code of Medical Ethics on the American Medical Association. To support comparative reading, this book provides concordances of Medical Jurisprudence to Medical Ethics and of Medical Ethics to Extracts . Finally, this book includes the first Chronology of Percival''s life and works.

DKK 986.00
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The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney - Andrew Hodgson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney - Andrew Hodgson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book attends to four poets - John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney - whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception, and experience: each poet responds with unusual commitment to the Romantic idea of art as personal expression. The book looks closely at the vitality and intricacy of the poets'' language, the personal candour of their subject matter, and their sense, obdurate but persuasive, of their own strangeness. As it traces the tact and imagination with which each of the four writers realises the possibilities of individualism in lyric, it affirms the vibrancy of their contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry.

DKK 689.00
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The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney - Andrew Hodgson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney - Andrew Hodgson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book attends to four poets - John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney - whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception, and experience: each poet responds with unusual commitment to the Romantic idea of art as personal expression. The book looks closely at the vitality and intricacy of the poets'' language, the personal candour of their subject matter, and their sense, obdurate but persuasive, of their own strangeness. As it traces the tact and imagination with which each of the four writers realises the possibilities of individualism in lyric, it affirms the vibrancy of their contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry.

DKK 689.00
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Light Science - Thomas D. Rossing - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Light Science - Thomas D. Rossing - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Intended for students in the visual arts and for others with an interest in art, but with no prior knowledge of physics, this book presents the science behind what and how we see. The approach emphasises phenomena rather than mathematical theories and the joy of discovery rather than the drudgery of derivations. The text includes numerous problems, and suggestions for simple experiments, and also considers such questions as why the sky is blue, how mirrors and prisms affect the colour of light, how compact disks work, and what visual illusions can tell us about the nature of perception. It goes on to discuss such topics as the optics of the eye and camera, the different sources of light, photography and holography, colour in printing and painting, as well as computer imaging and processing.

DKK 434.00
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Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638–1649 - Lori Rogers Stokes - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638–1649 - Lori Rogers Stokes - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a revolutionary new reading of manuscript records left by puritan minister Thomas Shepard in Cambridge, Massachusetts that have been studied for decades as his on-the-spot recording of oral relations of faith delivered by candidates for church membership. This book proves that these records are not relations, but Shepard''s personal record of sessions of trial-meetings with candidates still working out their spiritual seeking. New transcriptions of the original manuscript records, and corresponding never-before-published writing by Shepard, dispel much of the confusion produced by the published transcriptions. Close-readings of the manuscripts, contrasted with the published transcriptions, set the stage for a new understanding of puritan spiritual preparation in Shepard''s Cambridge church. The book concludes with a challenge to the negative reading of the women''s records that is central to established scholarship, revealing their powerful, confident spiritual identities and voices.

DKK 434.00
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Thomas-Fermi Model for Mesons and Noise Subtraction Techniques in Lattice QCD - Suman Baral - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Thomas-Fermi Model for Mesons and Noise Subtraction Techniques in Lattice QCD - Suman Baral - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This thesis make significant contributions to both the numerical and analytical aspects of particle physics, reducing the noise associated with matrix calculations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and modeling multi-quark mesonic matters that could be used to investigate particles previously unseen in nature. Several methods are developed that can reduce the statistical uncertainty in the extraction of hard-to-detect lattice QCD signals from disconnected diagrams. The most promising technique beats competing methods by 1700 percent, leading to a potential decrease in the computation time of quark loop quantities by an order of magnitude. This not only increases efficiency but also works for QCD matrices with almost-zero eigenvalues, a region where most QCD algorithms break down. This thesis also develops analytical solutions used to investigate exotic particles, specifically the Thomas-Fermi quark model, giving insight into possible new states formed from mesonic matter. The main benefit of this model is that it can work for a large number of quarks which is currently almost impossible with lattice QCD. Patterns of single-quark energies are observed which give the first a priori indication that stable octa-quark and hexadeca-quark versions of the charmed and bottom Z-meson exist.

DKK 816.00
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Thomas-Fermi Model for Mesons and Noise Subtraction Techniques in Lattice QCD - Suman Baral - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Thomas-Fermi Model for Mesons and Noise Subtraction Techniques in Lattice QCD - Suman Baral - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This thesis make significant contributions to both the numerical and analytical aspects of particle physics, reducing the noise associated with matrix calculations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and modeling multi-quark mesonic matters that could be used to investigate particles previously unseen in nature. Several methods are developed that can reduce the statistical uncertainty in the extraction of hard-to-detect lattice QCD signals from disconnected diagrams. The most promising technique beats competing methods by 1700 percent, leading to a potential decrease in the computation time of quark loop quantities by an order of magnitude. This not only increases efficiency but also works for QCD matrices with almost-zero eigenvalues, a region where most QCD algorithms break down. This thesis also develops analytical solutions used to investigate exotic particles, specifically the Thomas-Fermi quark model, giving insight into possible new states formed from mesonic matter. The main benefit of this model is that it can work for a large number of quarks which is currently almost impossible with lattice QCD. Patterns of single-quark energies are observed which give the first a priori indication that stable octa-quark and hexadeca-quark versions of the charmed and bottom Z-meson exist.

DKK 816.00
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Test Bias in Employment Selection Testing - Thomas A. Stetz - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Test Bias in Employment Selection Testing - Thomas A. Stetz - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides students with a concise introduction to test bias from a psychometric point-of-view without statistics. It uses easy to understand graphs to explain complex technical approaches to test bias giving readers a highly sought-after knowledge enabling them to be better consumers of tests. Studies performed by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) consistently show that selection is a key competency for Human Resource (HR) professionals. Knowledge of test bias is a key component to effectively and legally performing this highly valued HR function. Unfortunately, test bias is rarely covered in HR classes or is presented in a highly technical manner geared to individuals with strong statistical and mathematical backgrounds. This book, requiring no previous statistical or mathematical knowledge, can be used as a supplemental textbook for any class that deals with selection, staffing, or measurement at the undergraduate or graduate level.

DKK 519.00
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Negotiating Fatherhood - Thomas Fletcher - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Negotiating Fatherhood - Thomas Fletcher - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the Leisure Studies Association''s Outstanding Book Prize This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they negotiate contemporary expectations of fatherhood and fulfill their own expectations of what it means to be a ''good'' father. There is little doubt that today''s fathers are responding to new expectations about fatherhood and fathering practices. The remote, detached, breadwinning father of the past, once lauded as a masculine ideal, has faded, and men are now expected to be ''involved'', ''intimate'', ''caring'' and ''domesticated'' fathers. Using a family practices lens and a case study of sport, Fletcher elucidates the changes and continuities in family and fathering practices in different historical periods and contexts. Negotiating Fatherhood will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in family and fathering practices, sport, leisure, and gender.

DKK 434.00
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Fitness Doping - Thomas Johansson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Fitness Doping - Thomas Johansson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society. Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories are formulated, and users come into contact with doping. They also explore users'' internalisation of particular values, practices and communications and analyse how this influences understandings of the self, health, gender and the body, as well as tying this into wider beliefs regarding individual freedom and the law. This insight into doping goes beyond elite and organised sports, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of sport, leisure studies, and gender and body politics.

DKK 646.00
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Information Dynamics - Thomas Dittrich - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Information Dynamics - Thomas Dittrich - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities. The central part analyzes dynamical processes as manifestations of information flows between microscopic and macroscopic scales and between systems and their environment. Quantum mechanics is interpreted as a reconstruction of mechanics based on fundamental limitations of information processing on the smallest scales. These become particularly manifest in quantum chaos and in quantum computing. Covering subjects such as causality, prediction, undecidability, chaos, and quantum randomness, the book also provides an information-theoretical view of predictability. More than 180 illustrations visualize the concepts and arguments. The book takes inspiration from the author''s graduate-level topical lecture but is also well suited for undergraduate studies and is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals.

DKK 604.00
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Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the senses (such as smell and touch) and emotions (such as disgust, pity, and shame) but also shape how people understood belief, narrative, and political agency. Epidemic thinking was not limited to medical inquiry or the narrow study of a particular disease. Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and other early modern writers understood that someone might be infected or transformed by the presence of others, through various kinds of exchange, or if exposed to certain ideas, practices, or environmental conditions. The discourse and concept of contagion provides a lens for understanding early modern theatrical performance, dramatic plots, and theater-going itself.

DKK 986.00
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Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the senses (such as smell and touch) and emotions (such as disgust, pity, and shame) but also shape how people understood belief, narrative, and political agency. Epidemic thinking was not limited to medical inquiry or the narrow study of a particular disease. Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and other early modern writers understood that someone might be infected or transformed by the presence of others, through various kinds of exchange, or if exposed to certain ideas, practices, or environmental conditions. The discourse and concept of contagion provides a lens for understanding early modern theatrical performance, dramatic plots, and theater-going itself.

DKK 986.00
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