Decay

Author : James Knapp
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101184776

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State of Decay by James Knapp Pdf

View our feature on James Knapp’s State of Decay.Just because you're dead doesn't mean you're useless... A thrilling debut novel of a dystopian future populated by a new breed of zombie They call them revivors-technologically reanimated corpses-and away from the public eye they do humanity's dirtiest work. But FBI agent Nico Wachalowski has stumbled upon a conspiracy involving revivors being custom made to kill-and a startling truth about the existence of these undead slaves.

Author : Jonathan Maberry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442402362

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Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry Pdf

In post-apocalyptic America, Benny Imura and his friends set out into the great Rot & Ruin hoping to find a better future but are soon pitted against zombies, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland.

Author : Ghassan Hage
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022039

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Decay by Ghassan Hage Pdf

In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations—biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert

Author : Caitlin DeSilvey
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452953724

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Curated Decay by Caitlin DeSilvey Pdf

Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes. Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey’s travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures. An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies.

Author : Kavanagh,Michael D. Rich
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781977400130

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Truth Decay by Kavanagh,Michael D. Rich Pdf

Political and civil discourse in the United States is characterized by “Truth Decay,” defined as increasing disagreement about facts, a blurring of the line between opinion and fact, an increase in the relative volume of opinion compared with fact, and lowered trust in formerly respected sources of factual information. This report explores the causes and wide-ranging consequences of Truth Decay and proposes strategies for further action.

Author : Hans Petter Langtangen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319294391

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Finite Difference Computing with Exponential Decay Models by Hans Petter Langtangen Pdf

This text provides a very simple, initial introduction to the complete scientific computing pipeline: models, discretization, algorithms, programming, verification, and visualization. The pedagogical strategy is to use one case study – an ordinary differential equation describing exponential decay processes – to illustrate fundamental concepts in mathematics and computer science. The book is easy to read and only requires a command of one-variable calculus and some very basic knowledge about computer programming. Contrary to similar texts on numerical methods and programming, this text has a much stronger focus on implementation and teaches testing and software engineering in particular.

Author : Aleksandra Prica
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226811598

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Decay and Afterlife by Aleksandra Prica Pdf

Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth, highlighting their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings, she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history, from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising resemblances and resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.

Author : Alice V. Turkington
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780813723907

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Stone Decay in the Architectural Environment by Alice V. Turkington Pdf

Author : Julia Solis,Martina Gedeck,Bryan Papciak
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3791348191

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Stages of Decay by Julia Solis,Martina Gedeck,Bryan Papciak Pdf

Julia Solis's photographs of abandoned theaters from across the United States and Europe conjure the remaining magic of the decaying buildings and rooms, though the screenings and performances ceased long ago -- Back cover.

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628724943

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A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran Pdf

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

Author : Harry J. Lipkin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486151335

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Beta Decay for Pedestrians by Harry J. Lipkin Pdf

Graduate-level text presents aspects of beta decay that can be understood without formal theory, making a clear distinction between results dependent and independent of assumptions underlying the theory. 1962 edition.

Author : Ricardo Duchesne
Publisher : Black House Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1912759985

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Canada In Decay by Ricardo Duchesne Pdf

Canada In Decay is the first scholarly book questioning the undemocratic policy of mass immigration and racial diversification in Canada. The entire Canadian political establishment, the mainstream media and the academics, are all in harmonious unison with the banks and corporations, in promoting two myths to justify mass immigration. The first myth this book demolishes is the claim that immigration into Canada "enriches the country", by demonstrating that mass immigration is not only leading to Euro-Canadians becoming a small minority in their own homeland, but because of the disparity in the birth-rate, the Euro-Canadian population is likely to become almost extinct. The second myth this book demolishes is the regularly repeated claim that Canada is a "nation of immigrants" by demonstrating that Canada was founded by Indigenous Quebecois, Acadians, and English speakers. This book also exposes the rewriting of Canada's history in the media, schools, and universities, as an attempt to rob Euro-Canadians of their own history by inventing a past that conforms to the ideological goals of a future multiracial and multicultural Canada. Canada In Decay explains the origins of the ideology of immigrant multiculturalism and the inbuilt radicalizing nature of this ideology, and argues that the "theory of multicultural citizenship" is marred by a double standard which encourages minorities to affirm their collective cultural rights while Euro-Canadians are excluded from affirming theirs. "Canada In Decay is a bold, compelling, and often devastating deconstruction of the Left-Liberal narrative which has dominated Canadian politics since the 1970s. It is bound to put on the defensive both the politically correct Left and the globalist Right not just in Canada but across the entire western world." -- Grant Havers, author of Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique.

Author : Alex L. Shigo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Trees
ISBN : IND:30000099112934

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Tree Decay by Alex L. Shigo Pdf

The purpose of this publication is to clarify further the tree decay concept that expands the classical concept to include the orderly response of the tree to wounding and infection--compartmentalization-- and the orderly infection of wounds by many microorganisms.

Author : Theodore R. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Apple blue mold
ISBN : UIUC:30112019277018

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Relation of Bruising and Other Factors to Blue Mold Decay of Delicious Apples by Theodore R. Wright Pdf

Author : Hans Volker Klapdor-kleingrothaus
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1556 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814470551

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Seventy Years Of Double Beta Decay: From Nuclear Physics To Beyond-standard-model Particle Physics by Hans Volker Klapdor-kleingrothaus Pdf

In the last 20 years the disciplines of particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics and cosmology have grown together in an unprecedented way. A brilliant example is nuclear double beta decay, an extremely rare radioactive decay mode, which is one of the most exciting and important fields of research in particle physics at present and the flagship of non-accelerator particle physics.While already discussed in the 1930s, only in the 1980s was it understood that neutrinoless double beta decay can yield information on the Majorana mass of the neutrino, which has an impact on the structure of space-time. Today, double beta decay is indispensable for solving the problem of the neutrino mass spectrum and the structure of the neutrino mass matrix. The potential of double beta decay has also been extended such that it is now one of the most promising tools for probing beyond-the-standard-model particle physics, and gives access to energy scales beyond the potential of future accelerators.This book presents the breathtaking manner in which achievements in particle physics have been made from a nuclear physics process. Consisting of a 150-page highly factual overview of the field of double beta decay and a 1200-page collection of the most important original articles, the book outlines the development of double beta decay research — theoretical and experimental — from its humble beginnings until its most recent achievements, with its revolutionary consequences for the theory of particle physics. It further presents an outlook on the exciting future of the field.