Anden anvendt videnskab og teknologi

I en tid hvor modeindustrien globaliseres, og masseproducerede forbrugsvarer sælges verden over, er modens distinkte, nationale identitet blevet relevant som et unikt særkende. Som aldrig før tales der om dansk mode i modeindustrien, i medierne, på Christiansborg, på landets designuddannelser og blandt modeforskere.Denne bog handler om, hvordan fænomenet dansk mode er opstået, og hvordan dets forskellige betydninger er blevet til. Det er en bog om tøj, modedesign, identitet og historie i og omkring den danske modebranche i perioden fra midten af det 20. århundrede til begyndelsen af det 21. århundrede.Marie Riegels Melchior tager afsæt i en historisk analyse af dansk modes historie fra 1950’erne og frem og fortsætter helt ind i lokalerne hos den københavnske modevirksomhed Mads Nørgaard-Copenhagen, hvor dansk mode i dag opstår og markedsføres. Desuden undersøger bogen den politiske opmærksomhed omkring dansk mode, som den tager sig ud i den forrige regerings globaliseringspolitik. Endelig indeholder bogen en diskussion, som med udgangspunkt i et større interviewmateriale med danske modedesignere omhandler de potentialer og begrænsninger, der kan være ved at formulere dansk mode og gøre den til genstand for nationalstatens imageopbygning. Indeholder mere end 100 illustrationer, bl.a. fra danske designeres scrapbøger. Marie Riegels Melchior (f. 1974) er cand.mag. i europæisk etnologi og ph.d. i design og fashion history fra Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole. Hun er medredaktør af antologien Snit. Industrialismens tøj i Danmark, som udkom i 2011.

Hvad er rummet? Hvor stort er det? Hvor kommer det fra? Og hvad ved vi om det? Den folkekære Sigurd Barrett, hvis bogsalg har rundet 1 million eksemplarer, tager i sin seneste udgivelse børn og voksne med ud i rummet.I samarbejde med DTU Space og andre førende rumforskere har Sigurd Barrett skrevet denne fascinerende bog om rummet og rumfart. Få historien om planeterne i vores solsystem, om Solen og Månen, om stjernerne, om galakserne og om hele det utrolige univers, vi er en del af.Hvad er en komet? Hvad er en asteroide? Og hvordan gik det til, da man første gang landede på Månen?I 16 kapitler fortæller Sigurd på sin vanlige finurlige måde om det store uendelige rum, og hvordan vi mennesker gennem tiderne har udforsket det. Kom med på en eventyrlig rejse ud i det eventyrlige univers, og syng med på de 16 nye sange, som Sigurd Barrett og Eskild Dohn har skrevet til kapitlerne.I bogen findes QR koder til sangene og også til 16 helt nye film, hvor Sigurd og ”Einstein” fortæller børn og voksne om rummet og viser nogle af de fantastiske billeder og film, der gennem tiderne er optaget i rummet. Bogen er rigt illustreret af Jørgen Eivind Hansen og henvender sig til alle nysgerrige læsere mellem 5 og 100 år

'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads_____________Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted.In Material World, Ed Conway travels the globe - from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe, to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie green pools where lithium originates - to uncover a secret world we rarely see. Revealing the true marvel of these substances, he follows the mind-boggling journeys, miraculous processes and little-known companies that turn the raw materials we all need into products of astonishing complexity.As we wrestle with climate change, energy crises and the threat of new global conflict, Conway shows why these substances matter more than ever before, and how the hidden battle to control them will shape our geopolitical future. This is the story of civilisation - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - from a new perspective: literally from the ground up.

"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. [This book] explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, created the response plans, and been responsible for those decisions should they need to have been made"--

"A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries. For centuries, people have speculated about the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars, but only since the 1990s has technology allowed astronomers to detect them. At this point, more than five thousand such exoplanets have been identified, with the pace of discovery accelerating after the launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey and the Webb Space Telescope. In The Little Book of Exoplanets, Princeton astrophysicist Joshua Winn offers a brief and engaging introduction to the search for exoplanets and the cutting-edge science behind recent findings. In doing so, he chronicles the dawn of a new age of discovery-one that has rapidly transformed astronomy and our broader understanding of the universe. Scientists now know that many Sun-like stars host their own systems of planets, some of which may resemble our solar system and include planets similar to the Earth. But, Winn tells us, the most remarkable discoveries so far have been of planets with unexpected and decidedly un-Earth-like properties, which have upended what we thought we knew about the origins of planetary systems. Winn provides an inside view of the sophisticated detective work astronomers perform as they find and study exoplanets and describes the surprising-sometimes downright bizarre-planets and systems they have found. He explains how these discoveries are revolutionizing astronomy, and he explores the current status and possible future of the search for another Earth. Finally, drawing on his own and other scientists' work, he considers how the discovery of exoplanets and their faraway solar systems changes our perspectives on the universe and our place in it"--

How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are.Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on--we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes--and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word--or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in.

Nicolaj Møller Christiansen, der blev køkkenchef ved Treetop Restauranten på Munkebjerg Hotel i en alder af kun 23, viser i denne kogebog vejen til et univers af mad i verdensklasse, hvor eksklusive råvarer og unikke sanseindtryk er i højsædet.'Nicolaj Møller – Mit køkken' er den unge køkkenchefs første kogebog, hvor han deler sine mest indtagende kreationer, der til stadighed vækker begejstring blandt kritikere og i kokkefagets rækker.Bogen byder på mere end 30 smukt fotograferede luksusretter med forslag til anretning og er tilegnet både den erfarne kok og den kulinariske lystlæser, der nyder at få indblik i den moderne gastronomis hemmeligheder.

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Denne bog handler om, hvordan frisør Esha Khamo udøver hverdagsmagi på kundernes hår i sin salon. Det er en rejse rundt i spændende viden om hår, kultur og skønhed. Bogen kombinerer kunst og kulturelle facts om hår med anvendelige tips fra en af Danmarks allerbedste frisører. Bogen henvender sig til alle, som har interesse for indre og ydre skønhed, og som ønsker finurlige input om hår, stil og mennesker samt tips til en god hårdag. I bogen får læseren inspiration og en guide til at finde sin helt egen hårstil. Bogen er et bidrag til en fælles forståelse for forskellige typer af mennesker og hår. Læseren får indsigt i frisørens univers, og hår sættes i kulturelt, historisk og populært perspektiv, mens Esha deler ud af sin enorme viden. Bogen illustrerer Eshas hårmagi gennem smukke, kunstneriske og tidløse portrætfotos taget af Thomas Cato. Om forfatterenEsha Khamo er født i Bagdad, kom til Danmark som flygtning og er i dag bosat i København, hvor han har sin egen frisørsalon. Efter fire års frisøruddannelse modtog Esha sølvmedalje både fra Frisørskolen og Haandværkerforeningen i Kjøbenhavn for sine faglige kompetencer. Esha har de seneste år gjort sig bemærket på den danske frisør- og skønhedsscene med en nomineret SPA-serie og sine egne hårprodukter. Denne bog er Eshas første, men han er allerede en succesfuld forfatter og content creator på sociale medier med over 3.000 medlemmer i sit onlineunivers Let’s Shine Together. Se mere på www.eshakhamo.dk.E-bogen er lavet i fixed format

'The 'Enfant terrible' of astrophysics . . . Loeb has a joy in conjecture and an omnivorous spirit of inquiry that are more reminiscent of 20th-century thinkers such as Freeman Dyson or Carl Sagan than most of his peers' The TimesCould we build space craft that could travel to distant stars? Could we augment human biology for spaceflight? Could the search for extraterrestrials be brought into the mainstream of scientific research?Avi Loeb tells us that in each case, the real question is not could we, but will we choose to? With an approach that is firmly grounded in cutting-edge science, he explores the potential for non-rocket space launch, deep space probes, and the technological preservation of human civilisation. He examines the evidence for UFOs and UAPs, and argues that the search for further evidence, using existing scientific technologies, is long overdue.Urgent and important, Noah's Spaceship is a mission statement and a blueprint for the future of humanity. Loeb explains why becoming interstellar is imperative for our civilization to survive - and how we can accomplish it.'One of the more imaginative and articulate scientists around' New York Times

A comprehensive, illustrated account of the new generation of advanced tanks to emerge during the last 15 years of the Cold War, showcasing major improvements in armor protection, gunsights, and fire-control systems.Focusing on the technology of the period, author Steven J. Zaloga explains how the demands of a potential Cold War battlefield spurred the development of the 20th century's most advanced tanks. He considers the final versions of the Soviet T-72, T-64, and T-80 and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. He also explores how the failure of the US-German MBT-70 project led to America's development of the M1 Abrams tank, and to Germany's all-new Leopard II. The British development of the Challenger tank is also considered, as is the lesser-known Leclerc tank developed by France, the smallest and lightest of any of the western designs. Featuring superbly detailed new illustrations and many photos, this volume pinpoints the key technology of the era, including turbine engines, APFSDS ammunition, advanced armor and high-tech fire-control systems, and describes how the rival tanks compared in the final stretch of the Cold War arms race.

Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda.

The ultimate guide to making, baking and decorating jaw-dropping cakes from Instagram and Youtube sensation Georgia's Cakes.

"Trade book looking at social and ethical issues of human space settlement"--

From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity-and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author-a favorite of Bill Gates-pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention-development-application trajectory, we may never get anything real to deploy. Or worse, even after we have succeeded by introducing an invention, its future may be marked by underperformance, disappointment, demise, or outright harm.Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised (such as the airship, nuclear fission, and supersonic flight), but also at those that turned disastrous (leaded gasoline, DDT, and chlorofluorocarbons). And finally, most importantly, he offers a "e;wish list"e; of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century.Filled with engaging examples and pragmatic approaches, this book is a sobering account of the folly that so often attends human ingenuity-and how we can, and must, better align our expectations with reality.

Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem highlights the opportunities and rewards associated with the application of AI in the creative arts.Featuring an array of voices, including interviews with Jacques Attali, Holly Herndon and Scott Cohen, this book offers interdisciplinary approaches to pressing ethical and technical questions associated with AI.Considering the perspectives of developers, students and artists, as well as the wider themes of law, ethics and philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem is an essential introduction for anyone interested in the impact of AI on music, including those studying and working in the creative arts.

Startups og humanitære organisationer eksperimenterer verden over med ny, radikal teknologi i forsøget på at forbedre livsvilkårene for fattige og fordrevne. Håbet er, at nye digitale løsninger kan hjælpe folk til en bedre fremtid; at man med droner og biometriske registre kan levere mere effektiv nødhjælp, og at man med innovation kan understøtte den demokratiske udvikling og sikre menneskerettighederne.Men dataficerede tilgange til problemløsning er ikke garanti for fair eller objektiv behandling af hverken data eller mennesker. Når teknologien udvikles tusindvis af kilometer fra der, hvor den skal hjælpe mennesker i nød, har den ofte form af lappeløsninger, ligesom der sker læk med uoverskuelige konsekvenser for de mest udsatte.Vi har brug for en mere lige og kollektiv teknologiudvikling, der vender eksisterende hierarkier på hovedet og tænker i bredere forandring. Kun sådan kan vi sikre, at interventioner båret af ny teknologi er så relevante, effektive og bæredygtige som muligt.Adam Moe Fejerskov (f. 1987) er senior­forsker ved DIIS, hvor han beskæftiger sig med globale uligheders konsekvenser rundt om i verden, og hvordan uligheder formes af forhold som ny radikal teknologi.

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