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Blue Ice (Hardcover)
A Bernasconi
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Blue Ice is the new book from photographer Alex Bernasconi whose
unique approach to wildlife photography has been honoured with
multiple prestigious awards. Bernasconi's breathtaking panoramas
reveal the spectacular beauty of the Antarctic landscape shaped by
its extreme climate, while his wildlife portraits depict the
surprising diversity of Species, highly adapted to the challenging
conditions in which they live. A foreword by the British
glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott
Polar Research Institute, explains the dynamics of the geography
and ice masses, and the effects of climate change, while Dr Peter
Clarkson draws on his personal experiences as a member of the
British Antarctic Survey in his introduction, which also recounts
the challenges of working and living in one of the harshest
environments on Earth. Blue Ice provides a remarkable Visual record
of an eco-system at risk, revealing the extraordinary, unexpected
beauty of the Antarctic, the most remote and endangered place on
Earth.
High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial
activity in some ways representing very typical examples of
entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different
challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology
makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models,
and also means that the management skills used in this area must be
more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than
in conventional business opportunities.
While entrepreneurial courses do reflect the importance of
high-tech businesses, they often lack the resources needed to teach
this in a way that goes beyond standard how to start up a business
courses whilst not focusing solely on theoretical models. This book
specifically focuses on the mix of theory and practice needed to
accurately inform students. Key topics covered include:
* uncertainty and innovation
* entrepreneurial finance
* marketing technological innovations
* high-tech incubation management.
Including case studies to give practical insights into genuine
business examples, this comprehensive book has a distinctly
real-world focus throughout. Edited by a multi-national team, it
draws together leading writers and researchers from across Europe,
and is therefore a must-read for all those involved in advanced
entrepreneurship with specific interests in high-tech start-ups.
Swiss photographer Werner Bischof (1916–54) is best known for his
impressive black-and-white images, most of which were taken on
expeditions as a reporter in postwar Europe and during the
Indochina War (1946–54), and on his travels in the Far East and
South America. Far too little known are Bischof’s early colour
photographs, comprising studio work in fashion and advertising
photography as well as reportage from war-damaged European cities.
For these, Bischof used various types of camera, including a Devin
Tricolour. This elaborate colour-separation device exposed three
monochrome plates in a single exposure, each of them equipped with
a colour filter so that a true colour print was subsequently made
by addition of the three monochrome negatives. Some 200 of
Bischof’s Devin Tricolour negatives have been restored and a
selection of them is published for the first time ever in this
book. The beautifully illustrated volume is fascinating not only
from a photo-historical perspective. Even these early colour images
reveal Bischof's outstanding, sensitive aesthetic that
characterises his entire oeuvre. Some 100 colour plates are
supplemented with texts by Clara Bouveresse, the French photography
historian, Peter Pfrunder, the director of the Fotostiftung Schweiz
in Winterthur, and Luc Debraine, the director of the Swiss Camera
Museum in Vevey.
Drawing occupies a prominent place in the work of Paul Klee
(1879-1940). Klee attached great importance to drawing and in
particular to the line as the principle from which the realisation
and visual generation of an idea emanates. This aspect is also a
core interest of collectors Sylvie and Jorge Helft, who over almost
five decades have assembled some 70 of Klee's pencil, pen and
pastel drawings, as well as watercolours, etchings, and
lithographs, which the artist has created between 1914 and 1940.
The Helff's Klee collection forms an extraordinarily coherent
whole. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at
the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano from 4
September 2022 to 8 January 2023, features for the first time this
unique selection from Klee's oeuvre. A conversation with Sylvie and
Jorge Helft by MASIS's director Tobia Bezzola and essays by
philosopher Francisco Jarauta, art and literary critic Juan Manuel
Bonet, and art dealer and curator Achim Moeller supplement the full
colour plates.
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation here argues
for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an
ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have
moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes
insights from Kantian and feminist care ethics to establish that
our mutual and inevitable interdependence gives rise to a duty to
care for the needs of others. Further, she argues that we are
obligated not only to meet others? needs, but also to do so in a
manner that expresses "dignifying care," a concept that captures
how human interactions can grant or deny equal moral standing and
inclusion in a moral community. Specifically, she illuminates these
theoretical developments by examining two cases where urgent needs
require a caring and dignifying response: the needs of the elderly
and the needs of global strangers. Those working in the areas of
feminist theory, women's studies, aging studies, bioethics and
global studies should find this volume of interest.
This book brings together the most interesting and far-reaching responses to the work of Levinas in three key areas: contemporary feminism, psychotherapy and Levinas' relation to other philosophers. Levinas' own important essay Useless Suffering appears here. The volume concludes with an interview with Levinas and an English bibliography of his writings. eBook available with sample pages: 0203402049
International trade rules have significant impacts on environmental
law and policy, at the domestic, regional and global levels. At the
World Trade Organization (WTO), dispute settlement tribunals are
increasingly called to decide on environment- and health-related
questions. Can governments treat products differently based on
environmental considerations? Can they block the import of highly
carcinogenic asbestos-containing products or genetically modified
crops? Does the WTO allow governments to protect dolphins or
endangered sea turtles through the use of import restrictions on
certain products? How can civil society participate in WTO dispute
settlement? This Guide, authored by five world leaders on
international environmental and trade law at the Center for
International Environmental Law (CIEL), is an accessible,
comprehensive, one-of-a-kind compendium of environment and trade
jurisprudence under the WTO. Providing an overview for both experts
and non-experts of the major themes relevant to environment and
trade, it also analyses how WTO tribunals have approached these
themes in concrete disputes and provides selected excerpts of the
most significant cases.
There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in
part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century
continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making
ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we
might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The
book brings together some of the most interesting and far-reaching
responses to the work of Levinas, in three different areas:
contemporary feminism, psychotherapy, and Levinas's relation to
other philosophers. It includes a newly translated paper by Levinas
on suffering, and a specially commissioned interview.
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the
philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical
framework through which we can determine which needs have moral
significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes
insights from Kantian and feminist care ethics to establish that
our mutual and inevitable interdependence gives rise to a duty to
care for the needs of others. Further, she argues that we are
obligated not merely to meet others' needs but to do so in a manner
that expresses "dignifying care," a concept that captures how human
interactions can grant or deny equal moral standing and inclusion
in a moral community. She illuminates these theoretical
developments by examining two cases where urgent needs require a
caring and dignifying response: the needs of the elderly and the
needs of global strangers. Those working in the areas of feminist
theory, women's studies, aging studies, bioethics, and global
studies should find this volume of interest.
Epilepsy is a prevalent and serious neurological disorder. This
vital textbook addresses the role of neuroimaging as a unique tool
to provide in vivo biomarkers aimed at furthering our understanding
of causes and consequences of epilepsy in a day-to-day clinical
context. Unique in its approach, this translational book presents a
critical appraisal of advanced pre-clinical biomarkers that allows
capturing epileptogenesis at molecular, cellular, and neuronal
system levels. The book is divided into four sections. Part I
includes a series of chapters focused on imaging of early disease
stages. Part II discusses lesion detection and network analysis
methods. Part III focuses on imaging methods used to predict
response to antiepileptic drugs and surgery. Finally, Part IV
presents imaging techniques used to evaluate disease consequence.
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Kit Kappa (Paperback)
Luciano Bernasconi, Michele Gazzarri
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R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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Hegel is most often mentioned - and not without good reason - as
one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in
Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and
formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the
'decolonial turn', Frantz Fanon. This would be inexplicable if it
were not for the much-quoted 'lord-bondsman' dialectic - frequently
referred to as the 'master-slave dialectic' - described in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit. Fanon takes up this dialectic negatively
in contexts of violence-riven (post-)slavery and colonialism; yet
in works such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the
Earth he upholds a Hegelian-inspired vision of freedom. The essays
in this collection offer close readings of Hegel's text, and of
responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that
highlight the entangled history of the translations, transpositions
and transformations of Hegel in the work of Fanon, and more
generally in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts.
This book is a unique reference work in the area of atomic-scale
simulation of glasses. For the first time, a highly selected panel
of about 20 researchers provides, in a single book, their views,
methodologies and applications on the use of molecular dynamics as
a tool to describe glassy materials. The book covers a wide range
of systems covering "traditional" network glasses, such as
chalcogenides and oxides, as well as glasses for applications in
the area of phase change materials. The novelty of this work is the
interplay between molecular dynamics methods (both at the classical
and first-principles level) and the structure of materials for
which, quite often, direct experimental structural information is
rather scarce or absent. The book features specific examples of how
quite subtle features of the structure of glasses can be unraveled
by relying on the predictive power of molecular dynamics, used in
connection with a realistic description of forces.
This book is a unique reference work in the area of atomic-scale
simulation of glasses. For the first time, a highly selected panel
of about 20 researchers provides, in a single book, their views,
methodologies and applications on the use of molecular dynamics as
a tool to describe glassy materials. The book covers a wide range
of systems covering "traditional" network glasses, such as
chalcogenides and oxides, as well as glasses for applications in
the area of phase change materials. The novelty of this work is the
interplay between molecular dynamics methods (both at the classical
and first-principles level) and the structure of materials for
which, quite often, direct experimental structural information is
rather scarce or absent. The book features specific examples of how
quite subtle features of the structure of glasses can be unraveled
by relying on the predictive power of molecular dynamics, used in
connection with a realistic description of forces.
'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul
Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual
freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert
Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist Sartre became, in
stages, the political champion of the oppressed. Extracts are drawn
from the full range of Sartre's writings: the novel Nausea, the
drama No Exit, the political essay 'Communists and Peace', as well
as the major philosophical texts, Being and Nothingness and
Critique of Dialectical Reason. They show why of all major
twentieth-century philosophers Sartre was the one who most easily
passed beyond the confines of the academy to a general readership.
The first volume of this treatment, Phonons: Theory and Experiments
I, was devoted to the basic concepts of the physics of phonons and
to a study of models for interatomic forces. The second volume,
Phonons: Theory and Experiments II, contains a study of
experimental techniques and the inter pretation of experimental
results. In the present third volume we treat a number of phenomena
which are directly related to phonons. The aim of this book is to
bridge the gap between theory and experi ment. An attempt has been
made to present the descriptive as well as the analytical aspects
of the topics. Although emphasis is placed on the role of phonons
in the different topics, most chapters also contain a general intro
duction into the specific subject. The book is addressed to
experimentalists and to theoreticians working in the vast field of
dynamical properties of solids. It will also prove useful to
graduate students starting research in this or related fields. The
choice of the topics treated was partly determined by the author's
own activity in these areas. This is particularly the case for the
chapters dealing with phonons in one-dimensional metals, disordered
systems, super ionic conductors and certain newer aspects of
ferroelectricity and melting. I am very grateful to my colleagues
J. Bernasconi, V.T. Hochli and 1."
In 1966, E.H. Lieb and D.C. r1attis published a book on
"Mathematical Physics in One Dimension" Academic Press, New York
and London] which is much more than just a collection of reprints
and which in fact marked the beginnings of the rapidly growing
interest in one-dimensional problems and materials in the 1970's.
In their Foreword, Lieb and r attis made the observation that " ...
there now exists a vast literature on this subject, albeit one
which is not indexed under the topic "one dimension" in standard
indexing journals and which is therefore hard to research ... ."
Today, the situation is even worse, and we hope that these
Proceedings will be a valuable guide to some of the main current
areas of one-dimensional physics. From a theoretical point of view,
one-dimensional problems have always been very attractive. Many
non-trivial models are soluble in one dimension, while they are
only approximately understood in three dimensions. Therefore, the
corresponding exact solutions serve as a useful test of approximate
ma thematical methods, and certain features of the one-dimensional
solution re main relevant in higher dimensions. On the other hand,
many important phe nomena are strongly enhanced, and many concepts
show up especially clearly in one-dimensional or quasi
-one-dimensional systems. Among them are the ef fects of
fluctuations, of randomness, and of nonlinearity; a number of in
teresting consequences are specific to one dimension."
Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognized alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. His work has had a profound impact on a number of fields outside philosophy--such as theology, Jewish studies, literature and cultural theory, psychotherapy, sociology, political theory, international relations theory and critical legal theory.
Generalized non convulsive epilepsy (GNCE), also called absence or
petit mal epilepsy, is a disease appearing during childhood. EEG,
clinical, pharmacological and genetic characteristics differ from
those of convulsive or focal epilepsies. No underlying structural
or biochemical abnormality has been identified for generalized
absence seizures and the etiology of this disorder is unknown. It
is unlikely that the precise pathophysiology of GNCE can be
resolved in studies that focus on humans. Therefore a number of
animal models reproducing the human disease have been developed.
The aim of this supplementum is to characterize such models in
rodents. First, recent models are extensively described. These
include the genetic model of spontaneous GNCE in Strasbourg's
Wistar rats and in tottering mice as well as bilateral spike and
wave discharges induced by GHB, PTZ or GABA mimetics. Second, this
supplementum will also provide very recent information on putative
mechanisms underlying generalized absence seizures. Third, various
experimental approaches aimed at investigating the neural substrate
of this particular kind of epilepsy are described with various
electrophysiological, pharmacological, biochemical, metabolic,
ionic and molecular data. This supplementum provides an original
multidisciplinary approach to the mechanisms involved in GNCE and
demonstrates that rodent models are a promising tool which
complements the classical feline penicillin model.
The perfect book for fall!
What happens when a town has an accidental abundance of pumpkins?
What do Jose and his well-intentioned brothers do with a mountain
of pumpkins? An EXPLOSION of pumpkins? Step into Pumpkin Town and
see!
As a teacher, Katie McKy saw many children make mistakes. She also
saw many children want to make their wrongs right.
As a gardener, Katie once planted too many pumpkin seeds. She was
that a good thing can be a bad thing when the vines start to grow
every which way.
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Race (Hardcover)
Bernasconi
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R3,200
Discovery Miles 32 000
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Although historians and literary theorists have long participated
in discussions about race, it is only recently that philosophers
have returned to the topic. The main focus of their attention has
been the question of what one means by race now that its biological
basis has been discredited, and under what conditions a
non-essentialist concept of race can be sustained.
This volume provides an introduction to the concept of race
within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important
contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding of
race - focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, and Sartre - as well as
presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions. In
addition, it moves the debate forward by including new
contributions by some of today's leading theorists.
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