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Conversely, much academic and public debate about the origins of the virus focuses on the supposedly \"backwards\" cultural practice of consuming wild animals and the perceived problem of authoritarianism suppressing information about the outbreak until it was too late.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of COVID-19\u003c\/i\u003e, by Li Zhang, shifts debate away from narrow cultural, political, or biomedical frameworks, emphasizing that we must understand the origins of emerging diseases with pandemic potential (such as SARS and COVID-19) in the more complex and structural entanglements of state-making, science and technology, and global capitalism. She argues that both narratives, that of China's victory and the racist depictions of its culpability, do not address—and even aggravate—these larger forces that degrade the environment and increase the human-wildlife interface through which novel pathogens spill over into humans and may rapidly expand into global pandemics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301359661429,"sku":"9781503630178","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781503630178_baeba328-5d8f-401f-bb9e-da71c374d62d.jpg?v=1786021800"},{"product_id":"9783527351770","title":"Untethered Miniature Soft Robots – Materials, Fabrications, and Applications","description":"Untethered Miniature Soft Robots Reference on achieving contactless manipulation of soft robots, detailing high level concepts and perspectives and technical skills of soft robots Untethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications introduces the emerging field of miniature soft robots and summarizes the recent rapid development in the field to date, describing different types of functional materials to build miniature soft robots,  such as silicone elastomer, carbon-based materials, hydrogels, liquid crystal polymer, flexible ferrofluid, and liquid metal, and covering the material properties, fabrication strategies, and functionalities in soft robots together with their underlying mechanisms. The book discusses magnetically, thermally, optically, and chemically actuated soft robots in depth, explores the many specific applications of miniature soft robots in biomedical, environmental, and electrical fields and summarizes the development of miniature soft robots based on soft matter, fabrication strategies, locomotion principles, sensing and actuation mechanisms. In closing, the text summarizes the opportunities and challenges faced by miniature soft robots, providing expert insight into the possible futures of this field. Written by four highly qualified academics, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots covers sample topics such as: Soft elastomer-based robots with programmable magnetization profiles and untethered soft robots based on template-aidingWorking mechanisms of carbon-based materials, covering light-induced expansion and shrinkage, and humidity-induced deformationDesigning microscale building blocks, modular assembly of building blocks based on Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) matrix, and inverse and forward design of modular morphing systemsMaterial designs of magnetic liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) systems, multiple-stimuli responsiveness of magnetic LCE systems, and adaptive locomotion of magnetic LCE-based robotsControllable deformation and motion behaviors, as well as applications of ferrofluids droplet robots (FDRs), including cargo capturing, object sorting, liquid pumping\/mixing, and liquid skin.    Providing highly detailed and up-to-date coverage of the topic, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots serves as an invaluable and highly comprehensive reference for researchers working in this promising field across a variety of disciplines, including materials scientists, mechanical and electronics engineers, polymer chemists, and biochemists.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311029105013,"sku":"9783527351770","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783527351770_de37efea-d5f7-4484-952e-123870708590.jpg?v=1786031947"},{"product_id":"9781032946467","title":"Advancing Rural Development in China","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the practice of rural development in contemporary China. It evolves the concept of 'neo-exogenous development' to explain how the power of the state links to community action via local party structures, in pursuit of both state-building and rural revitalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368444801397,"sku":"9781032946467","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032946467_39142ee6-fbd3-48c7-bccd-3821d8fde03f.jpg?v=1786017262"},{"product_id":"9781394356515","title":"Mobile Actuation Systems for Magnetic Small–scale Robots","description":"Discover mobile magnetic actuation systems for manipulating magnetic small-scale robots Exploring the latest advancements in the field, this book introduces mobile magnetic actuation systems, covering the principles, development, and their typical applications. Each chapter is complete with a discussion and conclusion, as well as experimental results when necessary.    Readers will find information on current topics such as field and force control methods for reconfigurable electromagnetic actuation systems, concluding with a summary of the design and integration strategies of magnetic actuation systems, as well as their future applications.    Other topics include: Design and real-time optimization for a magnetic actuation system with enhanced flexibility, with information on autonomous navigation of a robot under ultrasound doppler imagingMobile magnetic actuation systems for flow rate rejection control of microrobots, with guidance on construction of the control frameworkReconfigurable electromagnetic actuation systems with large workspaces, covering multi-objective optimization methods for coil configuration generationParallel-mobile-coil systems for wired magnetic microrobots, reviewing robotic hardware, structure design, and control frameworksMagnetically controlled guidewire robotic systems for vascular intervention, discussing mathematical modeling and trajectory planning Offering a blend of theoretical insights and practical applications, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, students, and professionals in robotics, computer science, control engineering, and biomedical engineering seeking state-of-the-art insights on the subject.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368739975541,"sku":"9781394356515","price":118.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781394356515_03d11ae5-ab0b-4d44-ad97-aa19bd9881ef.jpg?v=1793037903"},{"product_id":"source-of-original-technology-for-airborne-wind-energy","title":"Source of Original Technology for Airborne Wind Energy","description":"This book primarily elaborates on the importance of airborne wind energy technology, its system composition, and classification, as well as the current major technical routes and their characteristics. Since the twenty-first century, the global energy structure has been adjusting at an accelerated pace, and a new journey to address climate change has commenced. The Paris Agreement has gained extensive support and participation from the international community, with its focus centered on renewable energy sources such as wind energy, solar energy, and biofuels. Airborne wind energy technology is a brand new endeavor in the field of wind power generation, holding profound significance. As an emerging renewable energy technology, the ground-based parachute-ladder airborne wind energy technology possesses higher adaptability, broad development prospects, and enormous market potential. It represents a proactive exploration into the capture and utilization of high-altitude wind resources, capable of promoting the innovation and advancement of airborne wind energy technology, enabling the large-scale application and sustainable development of high-altitude wind energy resources, advancing the utilization of clean energy, and contributing to the global green and low-carbon transformation of energy as well as the achievement of the “dual carbon” goals.   Finally, it conducts a prospective analysis from aspects such as the industrialization prospects of the ground-based parachute-ladder airborne wind energy technology, its potential for large-scale application, business model analysis, application scenario analysis, social and economic benefit analysis, as well as opportunities and challenges. Notably, this book provides a detailed account of the early-stage demonstration and engineering application of this original technology. This pilot project is currently the only airborne wind energy project in China and also deploys the airborne wind energy equipment with the largest power rating globally, which is of great significance for the maturation and promotion of this technology.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510014550389,"sku":"9789819201792","price":149.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789819201792.jpg?v=1787130253"},{"product_id":"design-for-change","title":"Design for Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesign for Change\u003c\/i\u003e is propelled by a question central to the work of designer Li Zhang: How can visual communication design contribute to meaningful cultural and social change? Focused on the past three decades of her design practice, it showcases Zhang's award-winning posters, provides insight into their conceptual development, and reveals how she uses design to communicate, challenge assumptions, and inspire new ways of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this book is an examination of two of Zhang's guiding principles. The first is her desire to create designs that are simultaneously complex and universal. The second is her impulse to create meaningful design that honors culture while looking toward the future. The designs presented here embody both ideals, as Zhang's work dissolves boundaries between East and West, art and design, and society and humanity. A native of China, she views her posters as expressive and thoughtful bridges between worlds. Moreover, she feels a deep responsibility to share her experiences as an Asian American woman living and working in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough layered metaphors, experimental media, and evolving techniques, \u003ci\u003eDesign for Change\u003c\/i\u003e explores how creativity can assist humans in navigating the challenges of a rapidly shifting world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680242082165,"sku":"9781626714755","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-li-zhang.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}