A comprehensive guide to essential laboratory techniques for water and wastewater analysis.This professional resource equips water and wastewater laboratory analysts with the vital skills and techniques needed for accurate and reliable results. It provides background information to effectively operate in a laboratory setting and confidently use Standard Methods and other key resources. Ideal for analysts seeking to enhance their expertise and ensure regula...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men.In Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, editors Maja ...

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and technology studies, this collection aims to extend the mangle’s reach by exploring its application across a wide range of fields including history, philosophy, sociology, geography, environmen...