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In Jerusalemites, Dr. Nusseibeh tells of growing up in British
Mandate Palestine and recalls the pain inflicted on the
Palestinians by the creation of Israel. He describes how he
dedicated his professional life to the service of the Palestinian
people and the goal of restoring their basic human rights. Dr.
Nusseibeh also provides unique inside accounts of some of the major
events in contemporary Arab and international history. Throughout
Hazem Nusseibeh 's long and illustrious career as a senior
politician and diplomat, the lure of Jerusalem, the city of his
birth, remained strong.See a video preview of the book:
Regulating Safety of Traditional and Ethnic Foods, a compilation
from a team of experts in food safety, nutrition, and regulatory
affairs, examines a variety of traditional foods from around the
world, their risks and benefits, and how regulatory steps may
assist in establishing safe parameters for these foods without
reducing their cultural or nutritive value. Many traditional foods
provide excellent nutrition from sustainable resources, with some
containing nutraceutical properties that make them not only a
source of cultural and traditional value, but also valuable options
for addressing the growing need for food resources. This book
discusses these ideas and concepts in a comprehensive and
scientific manner.
Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned
people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees
experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does
the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean
for society as a whole? This ambitious book surveys the systems of
detention camps set up in Asia from the beginning of the 20th
century in The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, Myanmar
(Burma), Vietnam, Timor, Korea and China.
Cultural tourism, domestic and international, is comprised of
travel that takes people out of their usual environments and
focuses on activities that are related to the cultural aspects of
an area. Rapid progress in technology, especially the advancement
of mobile applications, has changed various aspects of travel,
especially in areas such as transportation. Cultural Tourism in the
Wake of Web Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
essential scholarly book that examines revolutionary changes taking
place in the field of cultural tourism that are a result of the
applications of web-based and other information technologies
including Web 2.0 innovations, locational technologies, and digital
imaging. It features a wide range of topics such as economic
development, mobile applications, and green development, and is
intended for use by hotel management, travel agents, event
organizers and planners, airline managers, academicians,
researchers, students, and professionals in the tourism and
hospitality industry.
The Florida Research Ensemble (Ulmer, Revelle, Freeman and Tilson)
is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group
developing choragraphy, a method of inquiry which applies modernist
arts practices and poststructural theory to the design and testing
of image as category. The authors argue that image categories
functions for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word
categories functioned for literate concepts. "Chora" was retrieved
for contemporary philosophy by Jacques Derrida, in the context of
his deconstruction of Western metaphysics. Grounded in grammatology
(the history and theory of writing), Derrida's critique of Being
and Becoming as primary concepts of reality is that the category or
classification system invented within literacy is not adequate for
the apparatus of electracy that has developed since the industrial
revolution. The FRE project in Miami designed and tested a
prototype for a choral category, capable of coordinating real
places, cultural collective information, digital technologies, and
personal experience. Miami Virtue tested choragraphy as a method
for adopting a particular region (the Miami River), including
primary discourses organizing its lifeworld, and articulating it as
a category of thought. The designed and recorded virtual site
functions for electracy the way concepts function for literacy: as
a navigable set supporting holistic intelligence and public
discourse.
The Florida Research Ensemble (Ulmer, Revelle, Freeman and Tilson)
is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group
developing choragraphy, a method of inquiry which applies modernist
arts practices and poststructural theory to the design and testing
of image as category. The authors argue that image categories
functions for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word
categories functioned for literate concepts. "Chora" was retrieved
for contemporary philosophy by Jacques Derrida, in the context of
his deconstruction of Western metaphysics. Grounded in grammatology
(the history and theory of writing), Derrida's critique of Being
and Becoming as primary concepts of reality is that the category or
classification system invented within literacy is not adequate for
the apparatus of electracy that has developed since the industrial
revolution. The FRE project in Miami designed and tested a
prototype for a choral category, capable of coordinating real
places, cultural collective information, digital technologies, and
personal experience. Miami Virtue tested choragraphy as a method
for adopting a particular region (the Miami River), including
primary discourses organizing its lifeworld, and articulating it as
a category of thought. The designed and recorded virtual site
functions for electracy the way concepts function for literacy: as
a navigable set supporting holistic intelligence and public
discourse.
Integrated Principles of Zoology is considered the standard by
which other texts are measured. With its comprehensive coverage of
biological and zoological principles, mechanisms of evolution,
diversity, physiology, and ecology, organized into five parts for
easy access, this text is suitable for one- or two-semester
introductory courses.
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