Close packing and cracking

Abstract For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as every...

ANSI/NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 standard in context of the corrosion science and the forms of cracking that led to its development. Covers Usage, User Support, Documents, Laboratory tes...

Abstract Richard Sorge is one of history’s most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanizing, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy in ...

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dr...

This chapter describes one framework for teaching close reading to groups of learners. It proposes that learners focus on one narrative feature at a time—for example, time, space, ...

This chapter analyzes the impact of location in network evening newscasts. The background surrounding newscasters is one indicator of location. Correspondents appear close to the a...

Abstract This book presents an interdisciplinary theory of friendship that draws on psychological science, Aristotle’s theory, evolutionary science, attachment sc...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...