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For more than twenty-five years, the antimelodic "noise" of Sonic Youth has assaulted us, exhilarated us, inspired us. Why?

Katherine Dunn says it's because they operate in the foggy world between the real and the surreal. Mary Gaitskill says that Sonic Youth caught her, years ago, when she was falling. J. Robert Lennon says it's because Sonic Youth rip it apart. Emily Maguire was hooked because once she was in love with chaos.

Their sound is caustic, elemental, nihilistic--and quite unlike any other cult band ever to achieve rock godhood. In Noise, twenty-one great...

The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual storytelling of filmmakers. In this spirited, personal, beautifully written book, Peter Wild explores the lives and works of sixteen writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opal desert.

Wild begins with Cabeza de Vaca, whose Relacion of his desert wanderings sent treasure-hungry Spaniards searching for cities of gold. He goes on to discuss the works of both widely read and...

Der Lebensweg von Hans-Peter Wild ist untrennbar mit der Geschichte von Capri-Sonne verbunden. Als Kind erlebte er mit, wie sein Vater das Familienunternehmen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg weiter ausbaute. Ein Fruchtsaftgetränk ganz ohne Chemie, nur aus natürlichen Rohstoffen, verpackt nicht in einer Glasflasche, sondern in einem flexiblen Beutel - das war die Vision von Rudolf Wild. Und es gelang ihm, diese Realität werden zu lassen. Als Hans-Peter Wild das Getränkeunternehmen 1973 übernahm, hatte er seine eigenen ehrgeizigen Pläne: mit Capri-Sonne den Sprung in den amerikanischen...

This completely revised and expanded new edition covers the full range of techniques now available for the investigation of materials structure and accurate quantitative determination of microstructural features within materials. It continues to provide the best introductory resource for understanding the interrelationship between microstructure and physical, mechanical, and chemical properties, as well as selection and application of techniques for both basic and applied studies. In particular, changes have been made to reflect developments in analysis of nanoscale and biological...