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Shaping Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1119088127 | 744 Pages | EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This book is a contemporary overview of selected topics in fiber optics. It focuses on the latest research results on light wave manipulation using nonlinear optical fibers, with the aim of capturing some of the most innovative developments on this topic. The book’s scope covers both fundamentals and applications from both theoretical and experimental perspectives, with topics including linear and nonlinear effects, pulse propagation phenomena and pulse shaping, solitons and rogue waves, novel optical fibers, supercontinuum generation, polarization management, optical signal processing, fiber lasers, optical wave turbulence, light propagation in disordered fiber media, and slow and fast light. With contributions from leading-edge scientists in the field of nonlinear photonics and fiber optics, they offer an overview of the latest advances in their own research area. The listing of recent research papers at the end of each chapter is useful for researchers using the book as a reference. As the book addresses fundamental and practical photonics problems, it will also be of interest to, and benefit, broader academic communities, including areas such as nonlinear science, applied mathematics and physics, and optical engineering. It offers the reader a wide and critical overview of the state-of-the-art within this practical – as well as fundamentally important and interesting – area of modern science, providing a useful reference which will encourage further research and advances in the field.

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Shaping Knitting A Designers Guide to Understanding Stitches


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English | April 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 0719841356 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 32.72 MB
Shaping Knitting delves into stitch structure and how different stitches work together to alter not just the thickness of the knitting but also its shaping, and how this can be harnessed when making both fabric and garments. Written for knitters and designers, it encourages exploration and experimentation with the aim of gaining a greater understanding of knitted textures, patterns and shaping.

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Franz Boas Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice


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English | ISBN: 1496216911 | 2022 | 648 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt’s two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual.

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Emotional Labor The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power


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English | ISBN: 1250777356 | 2023 | EPUB | 272 pages | 4 MB
For readers of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day.

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Emotional Labor The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0B1KMCBRZ | 2023 | 8 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Rose Hackman
Narrator: Rose Hackman

A scathing, deeply researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day. We’re tired. A stranger insists you "smile more," even as you navigate a high-stress environment or grating commute. A mother is expected to oversee every last detail of domestic life. A nurse works on the front line, worried about her own health, but has to put on a brave face for her patients. A young professional is denied promotion for being deemed abrasive instead of placating her boss. Nearly every day, we find ourselves forced to edit our emotions to accommodate and elevate the emotions of others.

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South Africa and India Shaping the Global South


Free Download South Africa and India: Shaping the Global South By Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Phil Bonner, Pradip Kumar Datta, Pamila Gupta, Patrick Heller, Isabel Hofmeyr, Jonathan Hyslop, Crain Soudien, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Goolam Vahed, Michelle Williams, Eric Worby
2011 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 1868145387 | PDF | 3 MB
South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. As India emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political community between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the range of historical connection between the two countries. The second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore. The book’s main contribution lies in the approaches and methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking about this set of circumstances.

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