Tag: Material

September 26, 2023

Drying of Aromatic Plant Material for Natural Perfumes

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by Pise Viplav Hari
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103232502X | 115 pages | True PDF | 7.03 MB
Drying of Aromatic Plant Material for Natural Perfumes provides readers with a deep understanding of the fascinating world of aromatic plants, drying, extraction and perfumery. It covers the significance and global demand of essential oils, a glimpse of plant histology, secretion and storage of secondary metabolites in plant tissues, drying technologies and selection for dehydration of herbage, extraction, chemical compositions and applications. The book is organized into four sections: plant cell structures and their role during dehydration, aromatic plants and their essential oil contents, composition and contribution towards perfumery, and dehydration and extraction technologies. The book does the following:

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August 17, 2023

Modified Bodies, Material Selves Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai

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Free Download Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai by Julie E. Starr
English | July 25, 2023 | ISBN: 0295751754, 0295751762 | True EPUB | 228 pages | 12 MB
Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of products and treatment options beckon city dwellers with promises of a "better life." Set against the backdrop of China’s post-reform era, Modified Bodies, Material Selves compares the radically different attitudes of middle-class Chinese and Western women living in Shanghai toward the pursuit of beauty. Through comparative ethnography, anthropologist Julie E. Starr parses how experiences of bodies and embodied identities, and the politics ascribed to them, are culturally produced for both groups of women. With a focus on the ways in which late capitalism interacts with different bodies, Starr joins an ongoing conversation about the impact of recent economic reforms on social life in China.

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August 16, 2023

Digital Humanities and Material Religion An Introduction

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English | ISBN: 3110604655 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 3 MB
Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?

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