Inventions of the Skin
Inventions of the Skin

Author: Andrea Stevens

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-06-30

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0748670513

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Recovering a crucial grammar of theatrical representation, this book argues that the onstage embodiment of characters-not just the words written for them to speak-forms an important and overlooked aspect of stage representation.

Inventions of the Skin
Inventions of the Skin

Author: Andrea Ria Stevens

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780748693757

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This book challenges the narrative of Shakespeare's 'bare' stage by looking at the 'ground zero' of early modern theatrical representation: the painted body of the actor. It questions the boundaries of the period categories 'mediaeval' and 'early modern' by demonstrating important continuities in theatrical labour and theatrical materials from mediaeval cycle drama through to the popular and courtly drama of the 1630s.

Inventing Beauty
Inventing Beauty

Author: Teresa Riordan

Publisher: Broadway

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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Examines some of the early inventions and innovations used by women in their quest for beauty including bustles and brassieres, makeup to enhance the eyes and lips, treatments for the body and hair, and ways to flatter the hips and derriere.

Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting
Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine Patenting

Author: Shubha Ghosh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 113956059X

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What are the normative implications of patenting in the area of personalized medicine? As patents on genes and medical diagnoses have increased over the past decade, this question lies at the intersection of intellectual property theory, identity politics, biomedical ethics and constitutional law. These patents are part of the personalized medicine industry, which develops medical treatments tailored to individuals based on race and other characteristics. This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and suggests policies to best regulate such patents.

Hedy's Folly
Hedy's Folly

Author: Richard Rhodes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0307742954

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.