Author: George Robert Rapp File Type: pdf Archaeomineralogy provides a wealth of information for mineralogists, geologists and archaeologists involved in archaeometric studies. The first edition was very well-received and praised for its systematic description of the rocks and minerals used throughout the world by our ancestors and for its excellent list of over 900 references, providing easy access to the fields of archaeomineralogy and geoarchaeology.This second edition of Archaeomineralogy takes an updated and expanded look at the human use of rocks and minerals from the Paleolithic through to the 18th century CE. It retains the structure and main themes of the original but has been revised and expanded with more than 200 new references within the text, a bibliography of additional references not included in the text, a dozen new figures (drawings and photos), coverage of many additional important mineral, rock, and gem materials, a broader geographic scope, particularly but not limited to Eastern Europe, and a more thorough review of early contributions to archaeomineralogy, especially those of Agricola. From reviews of the first edition crammed full of useful information, is well-balanced using both new and Old World examples of the archaeomaterials described. It also provides a broad, but of necessity, all too brief overview of the geological raw materials used in antiquity. -- Geoscientist provides much interesting discussion of how particular names came to be employed by archaeologists working in different regions of the world. much to offer for any geologist or archaeologist interested in minerals and rocks and how they have been used in the past. -- Mineralium Deposita a gem of a book, its strength is that it is encyclopedic in content, if not in layout, draws on a wealth of field experience and almost every sentence contains a nugget of information -- The Holocene

Author: Caridad Svich File Type: pdf span orphans 2 widows 2This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connectionoften tested, but never wholly severedacross multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring an introduction by Welsh playwright and director Ian Rowlands and essays by practitioners Zac Kline, Blair Baker, Neil Scharnick, Carla Melo, and Sherrine Azab, this wide-ranging, daring collection of plays refuses to pretend that the complex and thorny questions of existence are easily settled.span

Author: María Jesús Santesmases File Type: pdf This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (19361939), and oppressed by Francos dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillins voyages through time and across geographies professional, political and social were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillins lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s through the dictatorship to democratic transition explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance. **Review This is an excellent study on travelling concepts, material and practices that form the heart of modernity in the scientific culture that joins biology and medicine and pervades political, industrial, professional and popular domains. Focusing on Spain, as one of the national geographies which shared the process of knowing, making, using (and abusing) and firstly worship penicillin, it benefits from a dissective gaze to unravel the multiple layers of meaning associated to that scientific, therapeutic and symbolic object. Based on a thorough search in archives and the press, armed with a most pertinent critical bibliography and beautifully written the result is a magnificent work which illuminates the set of agents that participate in the circulation of penicillin and its significance for health, research and gender. (Esteban Rodriguez-Ocana, University of Granada, Spain) In this fast-paced account, Santesmases applies her detective-like archival skills to unearth the fascinating history of penicillin as miracle drug, research object, media phenomenon, commercial product, black market commodity, and global traveler in post-war Spain. Marshalling the tools of science studies, gender analysis, and critical historiography, Santesmases brilliantly expands our understanding of the important role of antibiotics not only in the history of medicine and public health, but also in the political economy of Spain during Francos dictatorship and the subsequent transition to democracy. (Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, University of California, San Francisco, USA) From the Back Cover This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (19361939), and oppressed by Francos dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillins voyages through time and across geographies professional, political and social were both material and symbolic. This powerful antimicrobial captivated the imagination of the general public, medical practice, science and industry, creating high expectations among patients, who at times experienced little or no effect. Penicillins lack of efficacy against some microbes fueled the search for new wonder drugs and sustained a decades-long research agenda built on the post-war concept of development through scientific and technological achievements. This historical reconstruction of the social life of penicillin between the 1940s and 1980s through the dictatorship to democratic transition explores political, public, medical, experimental and gender issues, and the rise of antibiotic resistance.

Author: Jared Pappas-Kelley File Type: pdf This book is about the destruction of art, both in terms of objects that have been destroyed - lost in fires, floods or vandalism - and the general concept of art operating through object and form. Through re-examinations of such events as the Momart warehouse fire in 2004 and the activities of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, the book proposes an idea of solvent form hinging on the dual meaning in the words solvent and solvency, whereby art, while attempting to make secure or fixed, simultaneously undoes and destroys through its inception. Ultimately, the book questions what is it that may be perceived in the destruction of art and how we understand it, and further how it might be linked to a more general failure. ollThe destruction of artllArt and permeable momentsllSolvent formllThe thing that is not a thingllThings lieEpilogueIndexlol