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Graphene is, basically, a single atomic layer of graphite, an abundant mineral that is an allotrope of carbon that is made up of very tightly bonded carbon atoms organized into a hexagonal lattice. What makes graphene so special is its sp2 hybridization and very thin atomic thickness (of 0.345 Nm). These properties are what enable graphene to break so many records in terms of strength, electricity, and heat conduction (as well as many others). This book gathers valuable information about many advanced applications of graphene (electrical, optical, environmental, cells, capacitors, etc).

Driftet die Arbeitsgesellschaft immer mehr auseinander, ist ihr Zusammenhalt zunehmend gefährdet? Zentrale Befunde der soziologischen Arbeitsforschung wie »Entgrenzung«, »Prekarisierung« oder »Fragmentierung« legen dies nahe und weisen auf gesellschaftliche Fliehkräfte und Desintegration hin. Aktuelle Umbrüche durch Digitalisierung, sozial-ökologische Transformation und Corona-Krise scheinen soziale Spaltungen ebenfalls zu vertiefen, Polarisierungen zuzuspitzen und Zusammenhalt zu gefährden. Die Frage nach Arbeit und gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt ist vor diesem Hintergrund naheliegend, aber bislang innerhalb der soziologischen Zeitdiagnostik vernachlässigt. Sie wird in diesem Band erstmals von national wie international prominenten Forscherinnen und Forschern aus verschiedenen Perspektiven aufgegriffen und analysiert. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

This open-access book offers a critical appraisal, at the cross-section of theory and practice, of concepts of integration at work in education in diverse geopolitical settings. With chapters written by experts based in Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Mexico, Pakistan, the UK and the USA, the book includes discussion of regions of conflict, post-conflict and also non-conflict societies in which a cultural hegemony has developed strategies to “integrate” groups perceived as “other”. The book challenges the idea of “integration” in education considering how it relates to inclusion and exclusion and considers the extent to which integration can be empirically studied or evaluated. By accommodating a diversity of voices and perspectives, the structure of this book critically questions the underlying hegemonic Global North-shaped assumptions that have informed the integration debate. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Georg Arnhold Program.

L'économie solidaire est l'ensemble des activités contribuant à démocratiser l'économie à partir d'engagements citoyens : services de proximité, finances, commerce équitable, tourisme, monnaies sociales, circuits courts, énergies renouvelables, etc. Cet ouvrage présente de manière claire les principales références de cette réalité politique et économique. Un enjeu contemporain fondamental.

"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and 'lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire creativity in their students, to graduate students in MFA programs, to working poets who struggle with the aesthetic dilemmas Stein elucidates, and to teachers of poetry on any level." --- Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Arizona State University "Kevin Stein is the most astute poet-critic of his generation, and this is a crucial book, confronting the most vexing issues which poetry faces in a new century." ---David Wojahn, Virginia Commonwealth University At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates. Kevin Stein is Caterpillar Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Bradley University and has served as Illinois Poet Laureate since 2003, having assumed the position formerly held by Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism. digitalculturebooksis an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

Human capital is central to current debates about the sources of growth and divergence in the premodern economy. Apprenticeship, the key formal arrangement by which occupational skills were transferred in this period, has in the past often been associated with guild monopolies and exclusion, implying a drag on the accumulation of human capital. Several stimulating recent contributions have pointed to apprenticeship as a potentially important explanation for English or European advances in manufacturing and technology in the run up to industrialisation. In this paper, we explore mechanisms that helped improve quality among artisans. We focus on one in particular: the selection of training masters by apprentices.

We relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation — inquiring into what it means to live with and relate to things that can actively relate to us, and that relate to each other in ways that do not involve us at all. Case studies include Amazon's Alexa, the Internet of Things, Pokémon Go and Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner. Authors explore everything from the care work undertaken by objects, reciprocal human/machine learning, technological mediation as a form of control, and what it takes to reveal things that tend to be hidden and that often (by design) conceal the ways in which they use us. As a whole, Relating to Things is a collaborative philosophical inquiry into the nature and consequences of contemporary technological things. It is a design inquiry into the current nature of the artificial, and possibilities for how things might be otherwise. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Les rapports entre religion et politique sont, à nouveau et de manière insistante, à l'avant-plan des interrogations et des débats : crise du l'État national classique et de la forme-Nation ; interrogation, dans l'espace européen, sur la plausibilité d'une identité postnationale et la construction d'une nouvelle culture politique reconnaissant, à certaines conditions, la légitimité publique des traditions religieuses dans leur teneur éthique : revendications culturelles et identitaires des minorités… Autant de phénomènes qui désignent l'émergence d'un nouveau champ politique : celui de la socialisation des individus en régime de modernité avancée. C'est à ce champ nouveau que sont confrontés mouvements religieux et grandes traditions religieuses. Le propos de la session théologique 1992 de l'École des sciences philosophiques et religieuses des F.U.S.L., dont les contributions sont reprises dans le présent volume, est d'alimenter le dossier du nouveau rapport théologico-politique qui se cherche en ordonnant des points de vue divers - et parfois divergents - autour de la triade : individu-citoyen-croyant, sans oublier, d'un point de vue catholique, le pôle collectif et communautaire qu'est l'Église, avec ses héritages et ses interrogations.

In the middle decades of the 19th century (also known as the "History century"), the archives opened to historical research in Italy as well, starting to raise new awareness on the importance of documentary sources from the Medieval and Modern Ages. The network of State Archives was organised gradually; however, before and after the Unification of Italy, cities, "municipal" scholars and their networks of relationships, as well as city archives and institutions, remained a dominant element. Using classification essays and a series of researches on individual citizen contexts from the whole Italian Peninsula, this volume explores the variety and richness of this transformation, in the country’s centre and in the suburbs.

This book was prepared with the purpose of facilitating the understanding of a relevant dimension of the contemporary metamorphosis of the world of work: the emerging, complex, heterogeneous, dynamic and blurred constellation of work activities mediated by digital platforms. This specific variety of process digitization is designated here by the name digitrab, an acronym for digital work.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In an era where ‘social innovation’ is often used as a buzzword, this book challenges readers to rethink its true potential for addressing the systemic roots of our most pressing social and environmental crises. The authors present a practical and visionary approach to social innovation and provide a comprehensive set of tools and strategies for transformative change, rooted in a critical and emancipatory perspective. By balancing rigorous theoretical insights with actionable strategies, the book empowers and inspires readers in their efforts to confront social and environmental injustices and build the skills needed to drive meaningful and effective social change. This is a call to action for anyone seeking to challenge the status quo and push the boundaries of what is possible in creating a just and sustainable world.

The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.

Les impacts environnementaux et sanitaires de la pollution atmosphérique constituent une question d’intérêt public. Dès lors on comprend toute l’attention qu’il convient d’accorder aux actions publiques censées améliorer la qualité de l’air. Dans la perception des risques et leurs mises sur agenda par les pouvoirs publics, les instruments élaborés par les institutions internationales exercent un rôle important. En France, depuis les années 1970, on observe des changements substantiels dans la définition et le contenu de la politique publique de lutte contre la pollution de l’air, mais le cadrage de la gouvernance de la qualité de l’air oublie et ignore des politiques qui permettraient que chacun puisse respirer un air qui ne nuise pas à sa santé. Un ouvrage utile pour ceux qui recherchent une synthèse des connaissances sur ce domaine d’action publique et qui veulent porter une réflexion sur une question sanitaire d’importance.

"Este libro busca compartir los resultados del trabajo de investigación-acción participativa que realiza el Grupo de Acciones Públicas (GAP) de la Universidad del Rosario, como parte de un esfuerzo de fortalecimiento de la educación legal clínica y el litigio estratégico en derechos humanos, donde la agenda para Colombia y América Latina es muy amplia, así como las necesidades de formación jurídica de calidad. Así mismo, este libro da cuenta de los avances en materia legal clínica y litigio estratégico del GAP, en el período 2009-2013, como continuación del ejercicio que inició en el 2009, al presentar un primer balance de sus casos clínicos en la obra Educación Legal Clínica y Defensa de los derechos humanos: casos paradigmáticos del Grupo de Acciones Públicas –GAP– (Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2009). Según se ha establecido en los encuentros nacionales e internacionales sobre clínicas jurídicas, la sistematización y realización de publicaciones sobre el quehacer de las clínicas jurídicas es el insumo necesario para la formación de nuevas clínicas y el fortalecimiento de las existentes. Una característica importante de esta propuesta es que en su construcción participaron los supervisores del grupo y los estudiantes de la clínica, con lo cual se propuso una forma diferente de reflexionar y analizar la labor del grupo alrededor de la determinación de los casos paradigmáticos, la definición de una agenda temática, el diseño de estrategias de litigio, el abordaje de la investigación formativa y, así mismo, el desarrollo de habilidades de argumentación y escritura académica."