David L Andrews: 13 books
Making Sport Great Again
The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, *Making Sport Great Again *introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism’s conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces. On...
Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white...
by David L Andrews, David S Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This book provides a broad introductory survey of this remarkable field, aiming to establish and clearly differentiate its physical principles, and also to provide a snapshot portrait of many of the most prominent current applications. Primary emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of the...
Structured Light and Its Applications
An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
New possibilities have recently emerged for producing optical beams with complex and intricate structures, and for the non-contact optical manipulation of matter. Structured Light and Its Applications fully describes the electromagnetic theory, optical properties, methods and applications associated...
by David L. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book provides a fresh, photon‐based description of modern molecular spectroscopy and photophysics, with applications drawn from chemistry, biology, physics and materials science. The concise and detailed approach includes some of the most recent devel
Photonics, Volume 1
Fundamentals of Photonics and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Covers modern photonics accessibly and discusses the basic physical principles underlying all the applications and technology of photonics.
This volume covers the basic physical principles underlying the technology and all applications of photonics from statistical optics to quantum optics....
Photonics, Volume 4
Biomedical Photonics, Spectroscopy, and Microscopy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Discusses the basic physical principles underlying Biomedical Photonics, spectroscopy and microscopy
This volume discusses biomedical photonics, spectroscopy and microscopy, the basic physical principles underlying the technology and its applications. The topics discussed in this volume are:...
Photonics, Volume 3
Photonics Technology and Instrumentation
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Discusses the basic physical principles underlying the technology instrumentation of photonics
This volume discusses photonics technology and instrumentation. The topics discussed in this volume are: Communication Networks; Data Buffers; Defense and Security Applications; Detectors; Fiber Optics...
Photonics, Volume 2
Nanophotonic Structures and Materials
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Discusses the basic physical principles underlying the science and technology of nanophotonics, its materials and structures
This volume presents nanophotonic structures and Materials. Nanophotonics is photonic science and technology that utilizes light/matter interactions on the nanoscale...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
Chimpanzee Rights
The Philosophers’ Brief
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
While...