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Books > Social sciences
Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the
field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each
chapter is written by an international board of authors.
At the dawn of the 1990s, as the United States celebrated its
victory in the Cold War and sole superpower status by waging war on
Iraq and proclaiming democratic capitalism as the best possible
society, the 1990s underground punk renaissance transformed the
punk scene into a site of radical opposition to American empire.
Nazi skinheads were ejected from the punk scene; apathetic
attitudes were challenged; women, Latino, and LGBTQ participants
asserted their identities and perspectives within punk; the scene
debated the virtues of maintaining DIY purity versus venturing into
the musical mainstream; and punks participated in protest movements
from animal rights to stopping the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal to
shutting down the 1999 WTO meeting. Punk lyrics offered strident
critiques of American empire, from its exploitation of the Third
World to its warped social relations. Numerous subgenres of punk
proliferated to deliver this critique, such as the blazing hardcore
punk of bands like Los Crudos, propagandistic crust-punk/dis-core,
grindcore and power violence with tempos over 800 beats per minute,
and So-Cal punk with its combination of melody and hardcore.
Musical analysis of each of these styles and the expressive
efficacy of numerous bands reveals that punk is not merely
simplistic three-chord rock music, but a genre that is constantly
revolutionizing itself in which nuances of guitar riffs, vocal
timbres, drum beats, and song structures are deeply meaningful to
its audience, as corroborated by the robust discourse in punk
zines.
Teachers Discovering Computers introduces future educators to the
benefits and possibilities of technology and digital media in
teaching. Students will learn about the latest trends in technology
and how to integrate these concepts into the South African
classroom using a variety of practical applications. This title
provides tomorrow's teachers with extensive ideas and resources for
teaching today's digital learners through integrating technology
into their curriculum.
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Bipolar
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C. Raymond Lake
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It is estimated that as many as fifty percent of patients initially
diagnosed with major Unipolar depression (UP, MDD) will
subsequently incur a manic episode or discover a past subtle
episode and will have had Bipolar depression rather than MDD. The
average Bipolar individual suffers with episodic symptoms for ten
years before receiving an accurate diagnosis. As many as 16 million
individuals in the United States will have a Bipolar episode in
their lives, diagnosed or not. With the recognition of these
growing numbers of patients with a Bipolar Disorder, it is
imperative that patients are diagnosed and treated earlier,
accurately and efficiently. Untreated Bipolar usually gets worse.
Bipolar aims to improve recognition, acceptance, and compliance.
Dr. C. Raymond Lake applies two different approaches ,
comprehensive research and case studies, to the understanding of
Bipolar Disorders, presenting basic, selected Bipolar data
including history, diagnostic criteria, definitions of terms, and
classifications, as well as management and treatment strategies to
help the reader fully comprehend the disorder. In addition, case
studies provide the reader with real-life examples to help increase
recognition of various Bipolar presentations beyond the stark
black-and-white diagnostic criteria of the DSM and ICD.
Each pack includes access to a FREE online edition of the REVISE
AQA GCSE (9-1) Mathematics Foundation Revision Guide and contains:
100 Revision Cards and three organising dividers (with a handy 'how
to use' guide) Multiple choice questions and answers Worked
examples Topic summaries and key facts to remember
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis,
every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every
thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most of the world,
critical medications that treat these deadly diseases are scarce,
costly, and growing obsolete, as access to first-line drugs remains
out of reach and resistance rates rise. Rather than focusing
research and development on creating affordable medicines for these
deadly global diseases, pharmaceutical companies instead invest in
commercially lucrative products for more affluent customers. Nicole
Hassoun argues that everyone has a human right to health and to
access to essential medicines, and she proposes the Global Health
Impact (global-health-impact.org/new) system as a means to
guarantee those rights. Her proposal directly addresses the
pharmaceutical industry's role: it rates pharmaceutical companies
based on their medicines' impact on improving global health,
rewarding highly-rated medicines with a Global Health Impact label.
Global Health Impact has three parts. The first makes the case for
a human right to health and specifically access to essential
medicines. Hassoun defends the argument against recent criticism of
these proposed rights. The second section develops the Global
Health Impact proposal in detail. The final section explores the
proposal's potential applications and effects, considering the
empirical evidence that supports it and comparing it to similar
ethical labels. Through a thoughtful and interdisciplinary approach
to creating new labeling, investment, and licensing strategies,
Global Health Impact demands an unwavering commitment to global
justice and corporate responsibility.
Steven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and bestselling
author of Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The
Language Instinct, reveals the power and perils of thinking alike
As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker’s
fascination is how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.
It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the
time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public
or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous
impact on our social, political, and economic lives.
Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of life’s
enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of
nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of
social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness
of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to avoid common
knowledge—to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can’t
know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like
benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and
pretending not to see the elephant in the room.
In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone Knows that
Everyone Knows… invites us to understand the ways we try to get into
each other’s heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that
result.
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