An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas.Issue #7: July 2019Featuring Ideas by:Gaia Vince, Michael Regnier, Jenny Diski, Geoff Watts, Lucy Maddox, Emma Young, Jo Marchant, Peter Aldhous, Mary O’Hara, Shayla Love, and Will Storr

One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within an Indian province known as Mabila. Although the Indians were defeated, the battle was a decisive blow to Spanish plans for the conquest and settlement of what is now the southeastern United State...

This volume covers the latest advances in technologies that look at familial cardiomyopathies in greater detail, and provides new computational and experimental models that model, study, and detect disease at earlier stages. Together, this allows interdisciplinary research experiments to provide new insights for the development of novel interventions that slow, stop, or even reverse the disease process. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, c...

Discover the latest models and methods for robotic microassembly from around the worldThis book presents and analyzes new and emerging models and methods developed around the world for robotic microassembly, a new and innovative way to produce better microsystems. By exploring everything from the physics of micromanipulation to microassembly to microhandling, it provides the first complete overview and review of this rapidly growing field. Robotic Microassembly is ...

Van Dusen ist nach Neapel vorausgefahren, und als Hatch ihm wenig später folgt, muss er feststellen, dass sein Freund spurlos verschwunden ist. Jetzt bleibt ihm nichts anderes übrig, als sich auf die Suche zu machen und zur Abwechslung mal selber Detektiv zu spielen. Nach mancherlei Abenteuern in der Ruinenstadt Pompej und nachdem er mehrmals über Leichen stolpert, wird ihm klar, was gespielt wird. In höchst angenehmer weiblicher Begleitung bricht er zu einer Motorboot-Tour übers Mittelmee...