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Reactivating Elements

Author : Dimitris Papadopoulos
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021675
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Reactivating Elements written by Dimitris Papadopoulos and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies—the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and more-than-human worlds, today’s damaged ecosystems and other ecologies to come. Contributors. Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy, Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers

Homologous Recombination and Gene Silencing in Plants

Author : J. Paszkowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401110948
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Homologous Recombination and Gene Silencing in Plants written by J. Paszkowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher eukaryotes are characterized by the allocation of distinct functions to numerous types of differentiated cells. Whereas in animals the well-defined, protected cells of the germ line separate early, germ cells in plants differentiate from somatic cells only after many cycles of mitotic division. Therefore somatic mutations in plants can be transmitted via the germ cells to the progeny. There is thus a clear need for somatic tissues to maintain their genetic integrity in the face of environmental challenges, and two types of interactions have been shown to play important roles in the conservation as well as flexibility of plant genomes: homologous recombination of repeated sequences and silencing of multiplied genes. Sensitive methods have been developed that allow greater insights into the dynamics of the genome. This book summarizes current knowledge and working hypotheses about the frequencies and mechanisms of mitochondrial, plastid, nuclear and viral recombination and the inactivation of repeated genes in plants. Despite rapid developments in the field, it is often not possible to provide final answers. Thus, it is an additional task of this book to define the open questions and future challenges. The book is addressed to scientists working on plant biology and recombination, to newcomers in the field and to advanced biology students.

Tutorial Essays in Psychology

Author : N. S. Sutherland
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131776952X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Tutorial Essays in Psychology written by N. S. Sutherland and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979. The aim of this series of Tutorial Essays, of which the present book is the second volume, is to enable the specialist in one area to discover in as painless a way as possible what his colleagues in other parts of the field are up to: New discoveries, methods and theories in one speciality often have important implications for work in others. The essays are also intended to be intelligible and useful to graduate students and advanced undergraduates seeking an introduction to a topic. In this volume Bow Lett describes modern work on an old topic, delay learning in animals, and discusses its implications for theories of learning. Mark Georgeson expounds an important new approach to vision, the application of Fourier analysis: His chapter contains an exceptionally clear exposition of the ideas underlying this technique written for the reader with little mathematical knowledge. Dennis Holding provides a synthesis of the many different approaches to the problem of echoic memory, and Gregory Jones presents some new ideas on associative memory which make many previously puzzling results fall into place.

Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations

Author : Monika Banaś
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040008836
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations written by Monika Banaś and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opinion of the general public, universities and NGOs would be natural partners for effective collaboration in many fields. They are indeed, but mainly in theory. This book examines the reasons why this is the case and what possible models of cooperation and facilitated dialogue between institutions of higher education system and NGOs could transform this theoretically optimal union into practice. The authors start with Poland and analyse legal, cultural and socio-economic factors, which impact upon the current state of affairs. Subsequently they move on to consider cases from four other European countries: Portugal, Austria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Then they propose possible solutions, areas for further research and formulate recommendations for strengthening future cooperation between the two main types of actors which shape education and increase awareness in civil societies. Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in higher education and research, public discourse and civil society.

Applied Process Thought

Author : Mark Dibben
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110328402
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Applied Process Thought written by Mark Dibben and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.

On the Origin of Stories

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674057112
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book On the Origin of Stories written by Brian Boyd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses? The need to hold an audience’s attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Enduring artists arrive at solutions that appeal to cognitive universals: an insight out of step with contemporary criticism, which obscures both the individual and universal. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd’s study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism.

Reactivating Elements

Author : Dimitris Papadopoulos
Publisher : Elements
ISBN 13 : 9781478013440
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Reactivating Elements written by Dimitris Papadopoulos and published by Elements. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Reactiving Elements explore how studying elements--as the foundations of the physical and social world--provide a way to imagine alternatives to worldwide environmental destruction.

Traumatization and Its Aftermath

Author : Antonieta Contreras
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000926311
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Traumatization and Its Aftermath written by Antonieta Contreras and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traumatization and Its Aftermath delves deep into the complexities of traumatization and is a practical, comprehensive guide to understanding and overcoming the impacts of adverse circumstances. In these pages, readers will gain valuable insights into trauma’s diverse forms and the importance of understanding traumatization on an individual level. This book answers questions including "Why don’t some people heal as easily as others?" "Why do some people experience trauma after ‘seemingly insignificant’ incidents?" and "Why does overdiagnosis fail so many people?" Readers can also find criteria for evaluating their own trauma, information on how to heal from a trauma disorder, and better ways for treating complex trauma. Traumatization and Its Aftermath guides readers through each element of the personalized struggle for survival and offers compassionate and patient explanations on how to shorten this struggle—and even prevent it. Packed with detailed resources and accessible storytelling, this book is a must read for clinicians and anyone looking to better understand the mind, body, and natural ability to heal.

Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-ability

Author : Vivienne Bozalek
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031349962
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-ability written by Vivienne Bozalek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and the climate crisis. The book will appeal to scholars in the field of higher education as well as to those in several other fields, such as ecology, gender studies, sociology, philosophy, and political science.

Solarities

Author : Cymene Howe
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685711146
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Solarities written by Cymene Howe and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adaptive Rhetoric

Author : Alex C. Parrish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918010
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Rhetoric written by Alex C. Parrish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior – how our bodies and brains help shape and constrain rhetorical acts. Not only is the cultural model incomplete, but it tacitly endorses the fallacy of human exceptionalism. By introducing evolutionary biology into the study of rhetoric, this book serves as a model of a biocultural paradigm. Being mindful of biological and cultural influences allows for a deeper view of rhetoric, one that is aware of the ubiquity of persuasive behavior in nature. Human and nonhuman animals, and even some plants, persuade to survive - to live, love, and cooperate. That this broad spectrum of rhetorical behavior exists in the animal world demonstrates how much we can learn from evolutionary biology. By incorporating scholarship on animal signaling into the study of rhetoric, the author explores how communication has evolved, and how numerous different species of animals employ similar persuasive tactics in order to overcome similar problems. This cross-species study of rhetoric allows us to trace the origins of our own persuasive behaviors, providing us with a deeper history of rhetoric that transcends the written and the televised, and reveals the artifacts of our communicative past.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEWS ON POPULAR CULTURE: Proceedings of the 5th International SELICUP Conference

Author : Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo
Publisher : Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
ISBN 13 : 8461704002
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book MULTIDISCIPLINARY VIEWS ON POPULAR CULTURE: Proceedings of the 5th International SELICUP Conference written by Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo and published by Universidad de Castilla La Mancha. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Energy Flash

Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593764774
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Energy Flash written by Simon Reynolds and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (“ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s. England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and when ecstasy was added to the mix in British clubs, a new music subculture was born. A longtime writer on the music beat, Reynolds started watching—and partaking in—the rave scene early on, observing firsthand ecstasy’s sense-heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his own analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. He delves deep into the panoply of rave-worthy drugs and proper rave attitude and etiquette, exposing a nuanced musical phenomenon. Read on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called “hippy crack.”

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures

Author : A. Cheshmehzangi
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643684132
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures written by A. Cheshmehzangi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil architecture and structural engineering may be subjects to which most of us never give a second thought, but both these disciplines are crucial to the built environment in which we live, and without the skills of those who work in them, our buildings and infrastructure would lack the safety and reliability that we all take for granted. This book presents the proceedings of ICCASE 2023, the 7th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering, held in Guangzhou, China, from 14 - 16 April 2023 as a virtual event, and attended by around 250 international participants. The aim of the conference was to discuss recent advances and new perspectives in civil architecture and structural engineering, and to gain insight into the current state of the field and future scenarios. A total of 190 submissions were received for the conference, of which 78 were accepted for presentation after peer review. These are divided into 4 sections: civil construction and underground structure analysis; underground space and special structure engineering; construction material quality and performance research; and structural seismic design and reinforcement engineering. Topics covered included high-rise buildings and large-span structures; the monitoring and control of structures, tunnels and underground structures; calculation principles of the seismic design of structures; and seismic isolation technology of structures, among others. The book offers a comprehensive overview of civil architecture and structural engineering today, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Ecological Reparation

Author : Dimitris Papadopoulos
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529239575
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Reparation written by Dimitris Papadopoulos and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and empowerment of human and nonhuman ecologies. This ground-breaking collection establishes ecological reparation as an urgent and essential topic of public and scholarly debate.

The Invisible Satirist

Author : James Uden
Publisher : OUP Us
ISBN 13 : 0199387273
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Satirist written by James Uden and published by OUP Us. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new interpretation of the complete Satires of Juvenal

Rethinking the Meaning of Place

Author : Lineu Castello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317063848
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Meaning of Place written by Lineu Castello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of newly 'invented' places, such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, necessitates a redefinition of the concept of 'place' from an architectural perspective. In this interdisciplinary work, these invented places are categorized according to the different phenomenological experiences they are able to provide. The book explores how such 'cloning spaces' use placemaking and placemarketing in attempt to replicate the characteristics found in urban spaces traditionally viewed as successful, and how these places can affect society's environmental perception. A range of international empirical studies illustrates how such invented places can be perceived as legitimate urban spaces, and contribute towards the quality of life in today's cities.