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Elin Wagner's Alarm Clock - Katarina Leppanen - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Elin Wagner's Alarm Clock - Katarina Leppanen - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This book analyses the ideas of the Swedish journalist, feminist, and literary author Elin Wägner (1882-1949), as conveyed in her book Väckarklocka (1941), in a European feminist context. This context is presented in terms of three elements. Firstly, the German sociologist/educationalist Mathilde Vaerting and her sociology of power played an important role in Wägner''s development of a theory of matriarchy. Secondly, the influence of the Austrian feminist Rosa Mayreder and her theory of masculine civilization and feminine culture are analyzed in relation to Wägner''s development of what might be called an early ecological feminism. Thirdly, the mainly unknown Women''s Organization for World Order (WOWO) is presented. 0s and 1930s, which wanted to strengthen women''s position and confidence as political citizens by providing them with a historical past where women ruled (matriarchy). Thereby they not only reinvented a past, but also revitalized the emergence or eternity of patriarchy. These women discussed the possibility of women offering an alternative to the prevailing order. A special analysis is made of Mayreder''s and Wägner''s way of discussing what woman is and in what ways she can challenge the system. Both argued that women ought to have the same rights and duties as men, but that this should not require them to adapt to the distorted male system. This study argues that this position, easily characterized as "essentialist" in modern feminist terms, is in fact functional and strongly emancipatory in its time and context. In this reevaluation of Väckarklocka Katarina Leppänen has established this important Swedish novel as a text central to the development of the feminist movement. Elin Wägner''s Alarm Clock is a book suitable for students of Swedish Literature and European Feminism.

DKK 901.00
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Clock & Watch Companies 1700s-2000s - Steven R. Mallory - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Clock & Watch Companies 1700s-2000s - Steven R. Mallory - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This two-volume set is an essential reference work dedicated to clock companies that have kept time for us from the late 1600s through the early 2000s. The comprehensive text explores mechanical and electric clock companies; clock retail and part supplier firms; clock related foundry companies; clock label printers; and trademarks, trade names, and brand names. Volume One covers several hundred companies with biographical entries and histories, augmented with over 400 trademarks and lists of their trade names. Clock companies from the U.S. and 20 countries around the globe are discussed. Volume Two contains appendices including clock trade names that cross-reference trademarks, trade names, and brand names alphabetically by text and symbols to the company using them; clock patent time lines; production time lines encompassing over 4,000 company names with dates in business and addresses; and more. This is an absolute must-have for collectors, clock enthusiasts, and those who adore the essence of time.

DKK 786.00
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The Sexual Alarm System - Judith Leavitt - Bog - Jason Aronson Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Sexual Alarm System - Judith Leavitt - Bog - Jason Aronson Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Sexual Alarm System: Women’s Unwanted Response to Sexual Intimacy and How to Overcome It by Judith Leavitt explores the shield that develops around many women’s bodies to protect them from real and perceived sexual intrusions and dangers. From a young age, women are socialized to regard their sexuality as something that puts them in danger. However, the Sexual Alarm System interferes with a woman’s ability to be sexual when she wants to be. Leavitt discusses how the Alarm functions, how it develops, what triggers it, and how it interferes with a woman’s ability to be sexual in an intimate partnership. In addition, this book presents specific body exercises for therapists to give to women to work through this Alarm and to develop the ability to enjoy their sexuality.

DKK 786.00
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Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster - Chris Mckay - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster - Chris Mckay - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book covers the history of ''Big Ben'', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up to the celebrations of the Great Clock''s 150th anniversary in 2009.The book begins by taking the reader through a typical visit to the Clock Tower, and then begins the history of the palace of Westminster, covering the fire of 1834, the building of the New Houses of Parliament and development of the clock and the bells, going into detail on their design and installation. The book covers the famous cracking of the current bell Big Ben in 1859, with sketches of all the characters involved, the two world wars, and the disaster of 1976. The book ends with a detailed technical description of the clock mechanism.The book is richly illustrated, and will appeal not only to clockmakers and horologists, but to bell enthusiasts, and those with an interest in our rich Victorian heritage.

DKK 869.00
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Circadian Clock - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Circadian Clock - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

In this collection, the authors review temporal control of tissue homeostasis and repair by the circadian system. The molecular regulation of circadian timing has been well-characterized in several species as a highly conserved transcriptional feedback loop that maintains roughly 24-hour cellular periodicity. A current challenge is determining how the outputs of the master clock affect peripheral oscillators and numerous biological processes. A subsequent study seeks a more detailed understanding of the physiology and molecular mechanism underlying circadian changes in the plasma of glucose, which might allow for the identification of novel targets for the developing therapeutic approached to the diabetes and obesity diseases. Procambarus acanthophorus, a burrower crayfish, follows a nocturnal circadian rhythm due to the way it spends long periods of time building tunnels to reach the water table during the dry season. Therefore, it follows that this species must have a close relationship with soil. The authors suggest that soil might be an ecological factor with high perceived value, influencing ecological aspects, and physiological functions such as growth, reproduction, and organization of the circadian system. The genes involved in the maintenance of circadian rhythm and its impact on the immunological system are described as disruption of the circadian rhythm leads to significant alterations of the organism and is associated with several biological responses. In the concluding review, some of the most useful characteristics of zebrafish for studying the molecular, cellular, and behavioral aspects of the circadian clock system are described. Zebrafish have been established as an attractive vertebrate model for the examination of light signaling pathways and their impact on the cellular clock because zebrafish cellular clocks have an unusual attribute of being directly light responsive. Additionally, the molecular components of the mammalian and zebrafish cellular clocks are highly similar.

DKK 1034.00
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Funk the Clock - Rahsaan Mahadeo - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Funk the Clock - Rahsaan Mahadeo - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Funk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. Hence, this book is both an invitation and provocation for Black youth to give the finger to the hands of time, while inviting readers to follow their lead. In revealing how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how racism takes time, Rahsaan Mahadeo makes clear why conventional sociological theories of time are both empirically and theoretically unsustainable and more importantly, why they need to be funked up/with. Through his study of a youth center in Minneapolis, Mahadeo provides examples of Black youth constructing alternative temporalities that center their lived experiences and ensure their worldviews, tastes, and culture are most relevant and up to date. In their stories exists the potential to stretch the sociological imagination to make the familiar (i.e., time) strange. Funk the Clock forges new directions in the study of race and time by upending what we think we know about time, while centering Black youth as key collaborators in rewriting knowledge as we know it.

DKK 959.00
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A Systematic Approach to Strabismus - Virginia C. Karlsson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Systematic Approach to Strabismus - Virginia C. Karlsson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Written for the true beginner, the updated and revised second edition of A Systematic Approach to Strabismus examines the basic types of strabismus, ocular motility, ocular examination of pediatric patients, and extraocular muscle anatomy and functions. Unique features inside the Second Edition: - Uses practical and easy-to-follow “how to” instructions to offer fundamental education on the four parts of an eye exam: history, vision, sensory testing, and motor testing - Includes necessary information to successfully complete pediatric and strabismus eye exams - Highlights the order of testing in an effort to gather the most important information prior to a pediatric meltdown and to avoid "exam pollution" Having worked in both private practice and university settings, Virginia Karlsson brings over 30 years of experience with pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus to the pages of A Systematic Approach to Strabismus, Second Edition . Ophthalmic technologists, technicians, assistants, residents, and students will welcome this unique book into their education and career.

DKK 863.00
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A Sense of Place and Belonging - Klemens Karlsson - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

A Sense of Place and Belonging - Klemens Karlsson - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

A Sense of Place and Belonging examines a marginalized society, Chiang Tung (Keng Tung) in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar, between the dominant cultures of the Burmese, Chinese, and Siamese/Thai. Chiang Tung sits at the historic borderland known as the Golden Triangle, an area marked by drug trade, human trafficking, and civil war. Hiding a glorious literary and visual cultural tradition from the fourteenth century, Chiang Tung is remarkable for how well it has maintained its Buddhist culture in the turbulent history of war and forced resettlement that formed northern Southeast Asia. Klemens Karlsson examines the connection between the Buddhist traditions, the ancient cult of territory spirits—a cult of the earth, place, and village that forms a kind of religious map—and the monsoon culture of wet rice irrigation. Tying together myths and memories told by local people and written in local chronicles with the unique performance of the Songkran festival, which dramatizes a symbolic agreement between Tai Khuen people and the indigenous Lua/Lawa people, A Sense of Place and Belonging presents a historical, political, religious, and cultural context connecting the present with the past, the local with the global, and tradition with change and transformation.

DKK 1158.00
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The King of the Great Clock Tower" and "A Full Moon in March" - W. B. Yeats - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

The King of the Great Clock Tower" and "A Full Moon in March" - W. B. Yeats - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

"It takes years to get my plays right." So Yeats informed Margot Ruddock on October 11, 1934, from Rome, where he had begun to redraft The King of the Great Clock Tower to give her a role to act. In June of that year Yeats had begun to rewrite his first prose version of the play before it had even been staged (it was performed most successfully at the Abbey Theatre from July 30 that summer). Two versions of The King of the Great Clock Tower (one in prose and one in verse) and a new play, A Full Moon in March , derived from the first, were to emerge from a period of gestation that had started early in November 1933. The composition of each play was fueled by Yeats''s intense feeling for a woman. Both were performers: Ninette de Valois elected only to dance on stage and not to speak; Margot Ruddock was an actress possessed of a rich contralto voice who preferred not to dance (despite Yeats''s most enduring description of her as his "sweet dancer"). Yeats devised strategies for each of his dance plays to meet these prescriptions. While admiration for de Valois''s artistry helped to shape the first play, the second for Ruddock was the product of a deepening personal infatuation. The structure and content of the two plays and the differences between them reflect the wholly different emotions that stimulated their creation. This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains manuscript materials for both the prose and verse renditions of The King of the Great Clock Tower and all of the drafts that resulted in A Full Moon in March . It also includes drafts of Yeats''s prefaces and program notes for the plays, as well as staging information and cast photographs of the production of The King of the Great Clock Tower at the Abbey.

DKK 951.00
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Handbook of Fire Control & Protection - Arun Kumar - Bog - SBS Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Handbook of Fire Control & Protection - Arun Kumar - Bog - SBS Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Fire Protection is the study and practice of mitigating unwanted effects of fires. It involves the study of behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of mitigating systems. This book is like a reference book on the said subject. An introduction to fire and fire typology is provided with focus on fire classes, flash fire, explosive material, wildlife, bushfire, oil field fire etc. An introductory overview of fire alarm systems is given with special emphasis on still alarm, fire alarm box, fire alarm control panel, fire alarm pull station and fire alarm notification appliances. The handbook also discusses briefly the issues related to fire detectors, heat detectors, smoke detectors, flame detectors, aspirated smoke detectors, distributed temperature sensing and thermal imaging cameras. The fire control, suppression and extinguishing systems are described with focus on notifier. Major Fire apparatus, equipment and tools are covered. It also covers dimensions of fire safety standards, fire safety, campus fire safety, fireproofing, firewall, firestop pillow, endothermic, intumescent, fire door, dry riser, cold fire product and list of EN standards. Select case studies of fire fighting college and companies are provided herein with special analysis of fire service education and training. It provides readers with details of history of firefighting, world-wide firefighting, global historic fires and list of films on firefighting, as appendices. Besides presenting a glossary of terms, this book provides a detailed bibliography and elaborate index.

DKK 968.00
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Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks - Qasim M. Chaudhari - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks - Qasim M. Chaudhari - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wireless sensor networks are set to play a key role in a wide range of civilian and military applications, with tiny sensors connected through wireless links performing various sensing, computing, communication, and control tasks in highly distributed systems. This book presents a critical element in the deployment of wireless sensor networks: the process of synchronization. It summarizes the most important clock synchronization protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks with special emphasis placed on deriving efficient clock offset estimation schemes and performance benchmarks. Graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science will find this a valuable resource, as will engineers who are interested in designing efficient clock synchronization algorithms and improving the performance of existing synchronization protocols.

DKK 985.00
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Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland - Matti Erasaari - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland - Matti Erasaari - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

''Clock time'', which denotes particular ways of valuing temporal duration, is typically associated with monetary worth or labour. From this follows so-called thrifty attitudes towards the passing of time, which is construed as a resource that can be ''wasted'' or ''saved''. Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland, however, presents comparative case studies of clock time in Fiji and Finland to reconsider the other values that it is capable of expressing, beyond monetary worth. By comparing two such dissimilar case studies - and drawing on examples as diverse as the Fijian hospitality industry and peripheral waiting and Finnish academic time management - Eräsaari foregrounds time''s capacity to act as a sign and measure of other values. By employing a unique anthropological and ethnographic methodology, he reveals the many ways in which clock time is deployed in value projects, as well as the complex conceptual work required to make it a vehicle of valuation.

DKK 795.00
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God's Clockmaker - John North - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

God's Clockmaker - John North - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God''s Clockmaker is a biography of England''s greatest medieval scientist, a man who solved major practical and theoretical problems to build an extraordinary and pioneering astronomical and astrological clock. Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336), the son of a blacksmith, was a brilliant mathematician with a genius for the practical solution of technical problems. Trained at Oxford, he became a monk and then abbot of the great abbey of St Albans, where he built his clock. Although as abbot he held great power, he was also a tragic figure, becoming a leper. His achievement, nevertheless, is a striking example of the sophistication of medieval science, based on knowledge handed down from the Greeks via the Arabs.

DKK 858.00
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