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VISUAL RHETORIC SERIES, Edited by MARGUERITE HELMERS | "In HAPTIC VISIONS, Valerie Hanson provides a careful and far-reaching study of the discourses and practices of nanotechnology, but its implications are not limited to the case example at hand, which is fascinating in its own right and deserves to be read by students and researchers who are interested in the rhetorical dynamics of science. Hanson's original and insightful analysis of the contexts surrounding the scanning tunneling microscope also opens new ways of thinking about visuals, about visual production and reception, and about the role of persuasion in scientific knowledge-making. This book is a must-read for anyone with interests in the overlapping areas of rhetoric, science, and the visual." -STUART SELBER, The Pennsylvania State University | "We see by touching, we touch by seeing. This used to be true only metaphorically. Nanotechnology and other contemporary technosciences produce knowledge and employ instruments that render touch visible, literally. Valerie Hanson's HAPTIC VISIONS: RHETORICS OF THE DIGITAL IMAGE, INFORMATION, AND NANOTECHNOLOGY explores the new ways of relating ourselves to the world and participating in what we observe. Original in its approach and insightful in its analysis, Haptic Visions forges new connections between rhetoric, visual culture studies, and the philosophy of technoscience." -ALFRED NORDMANN, Institut für Philosophie,Technische Universität Darmstadt and the University of South Carolina. | "Valerie Hanson scans the nooks and crannies of the human scale language and images with which nanoscale science has begun to translate an extraordinarily small, strange, and promising new point of view on matter and energy. The result is a tour de force analysis of the rhetorical layer of nanoscience. HAPTIC VISIONS is a must read users' guide for understanding the emerging but often invisible nanoscale technological revolution that will transform our planet in ways that we literally cannot envision." -RICHARD DOYLE, The Pennsylvania State University | VALERIE HANSON is Associate Professor of Writing in the School of Liberal Arts at Philadelphia University. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of science and design. She has published articles on the rhetoric of nanotechnology in journals such as Science Communication and Science as Culture. She has been a fellow in an interdisciplinary research group at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Center for Interdisciplinary Research) at the University of Bielefeld (Germany).

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Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links between physics and biology. These links result from an intense research activity in the past years at the interface between those two disciplines. This book describes some of the most recent progresses at this interface: from instrumental progresses used in biology to the mechanical description of a cell, to molecular motors, from brain activity mechanisms to auditory or sensory perception. Many fields are covered from the molecular to the scale at the organ level. A few biological notions are exposed in the first chapter that may help to access the biological aspects of the others. In the end this book may interest people passionate in science, from the simple amateur to the advanced researcher level.

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Product Description: Part of the Wiley-Royal Microscopical Society Series, this book discusses the rapidly developing cutting-edge field of low-voltage microscopy, a field that has only recently emerged due to the rapid developments in the electron optics design and image processing...read more

Product Description: The current edition of Video Microscopy has been totally revised to reflect the advances in the tools for electronic imaging, processing, recording, and analysis, as well as applications that are being made in video microscopy and related modes of electronic imaging...read more

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Product Description: The Human Body Close-up provides a spectacular close-up visual explanation of the human body and how it works. The book is organised as follows: BUILDING BLOCKS; ON THE SURFACE; THE SKELETON; MUSCLES; THE SENSES; THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; RESPIRATION; BLOOD AND CIRCULATION; THE IMMUNE SYSTEM; CHEMICAL MESSENGERS; FUELLING THE BODY; REPRODUCTION; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT...read more

Product Description: Nanoscience and nanotechnology is an exciting and vibrant field of research. This new handbook, intended for researchers, engineers and advanced graduate students in all areas of nanoscience, is written by eminent scientists and experts who are pushing the forefront of instrumentation and developing key techniques for the study of atomic structural, optical and electronic properties of nanostructured semiconductor materials...read more

Product Description: "Characterization of Microstructures by Analytical Electron Microscopy (AEM)" describes the basic concepts and operative techniques of AEM. It focuses on the study of phase transformations and dislocation in deformation by AEM. Further, the book also presents the physical concepts and mathematic analysis for diffraction and crystallography using numerous examples, such as the quantitative prediction of the orientation relationships in phase transformations...read more

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Product Description: Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is the enabling tool for nano(bio)technology, which has opened new vistas in many interdisciplinary research areas. Concomitant with the developments in SPM instrumentation and techniques are new and previously unthought-of opportunities in materials nanofabrication and characterisation...read more