Ominous cracks

Did Europe’s ‘age of catastrophe’ (1914–1945) represent a break with the past or did it amplify the tensions of the preceding era? Was it a ‘parenthesis’ or a ‘revelation’? Histori...

This chapter focuses on the abolitionist movement and the rise of physical sensation as a rhetorical theme. It interprets the term “image” in its post-nineteenth-century sense as i...

Like melody in general, rock melody is understood to have a hierarchical “grouping structure,” with sub-phrases combining into phrases and then into larger units. A fundamental iss...

Description Deals with direct observations of different physical characteristics; dislocation level; clip bands; striations, voids and micro cracks, time dependent d...

Chapter 2 investigates Boudica’s status as the wife of a client king and the lifestyle of her Iceni. Dio labels Boudica as a queen, using a Roman term with political implications t...

Description STP 1360 provides advanced state-of-the-art techniques for predicting fracture and fatigue, as well as applications and engineering problem solving in a ...