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* Offers a practical overview of 28 crucial concepts in Marxist
theory as developed and integrated by Jacques Lacan. * Opens up new
possibilities of discourse within the academic field for
considering Marxist economic, philosophical, epistemological,
political and sociological concepts within the context of Lacan's
readings. * Demonstrates the importance of Marxist concepts to
Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. * Brings together a broad range
of international contributors on the cutting edge of researching
Marxist / Lacanian encounters. * Will appeal to psychoanalysts as
well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.
* Offers a practical overview of 28 crucial concepts in Marxist
theory as developed and integrated by Jacques Lacan. * Opens up new
possibilities of discourse within the academic field for
considering Marxist economic, philosophical, epistemological,
political and sociological concepts within the context of Lacan's
readings. * Demonstrates the importance of Marxist concepts to
Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. * Brings together a broad range
of international contributors on the cutting edge of researching
Marxist / Lacanian encounters. * Will appeal to psychoanalysts as
well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.
Breakout comics star Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, enters an exciting
new era of storytelling - co-written by the actress that plays her,
Iman Vellani! Ms. Marvel burst onto the comic book scene in 2014's Ms.
Marvel #1 by writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona, and
quickly become Marvel Comics' brightest new star! With multiple hit
solo comic runs (including her NY Times best-selling and Award Winning
first volume), notable stints on the Avengers and Champions, pivotal
roles in crossover events, and memorable team-ups with her favorite
heroes, Ms. Marvel has become a full-fledged pop culture icon, a fact
proven by the multitude of Ms. Marvel cosplays seen on Comic Con floors
worldwide! During a Women's History Month celebration at the White
House in 2016, editor and co-creator Sana Amanat even presented a copy
of Ms. Marvel's first volume to President Obama! And just in time for
her character's arrival on the big screen in the upcoming film The
Marvels, Kamala Khan will be undergoing an exciting evolution in the
comics universe in a new limited series, MS. MARVEL: THE NEW MUTANT!
Kamala was introduced as a high school student living in Jersey City
with her family, including her strict parents. During 2013's Infinity
event, Kamala is engulfed in Terrigen Mist and unlocking her latent
superhuman abilities and learns of her secret Inhuman heritage. In that
moment, she decided to follow in the footsteps of her idol Captain
Marvel and took on the mantle of Ms. Marvel to become Jersey City's
prime protector! Recently, Kamala made a heroic sacrifice in the pages
of Amazing Spider-Man, but was later reborn anew thanks to
mutant-exclusive resurrection technology! That's right, Kamala Khan is
a mutant! This game-changing revelation will thrust the character into
the exciting world of the X-Men as she joins the team just as they
enter the new era of FALL OF X! In this thrilling age of hate and fear,
Kamala has a secret mission to pull off for the X-Men, all the while
struggling to acclimate to this new part of her identity! The series
will be an action-packed and heartfelt journey of self-discovery as
Kamala explores this long-hidden truth about herself and realizes how
it overlaps and interacts with other aspects of her identity. This
extraordinary era for the character will be co-written by the Marvel
Cinematic Universe's own Kamala Khan, actress Iman Vellani, and Sabir
Pirzada, writer of the recent Dark Web: Ms. Marvel limited series and
Ms. Marvel's Disney+ series! Collecting: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant
(2023) 1-4
Economists advise that the law should seek efficiency. More
recently, it has been suggested that common law systems are more
conducive of economic growth than code-based civil law systems.
This book argues that there is no theory to support such statements
and provides evidence that rejects a 'one-size-fits-all' approach.
Both common law and civil law systems are reviewed to debunk the
relationship between the efficiency of the common law hypothesis
and the alleged inferiority of codified law systems. Legal Origins
and the Efficiency Dilemma has six aims: explaining the efficiency
hypothesis of the common law since Posner's 1973 book; summarizing
the legal origins theory in the context of economic growth;
debunking their relationship; discussing the meaning of 'common
law' and the problems with the efficiency hypothesis by comparing
laws across English speaking jurisdictions; illustrating the
shortcomings of the legal origins theory with a comparative law and
economics analysis; and concluding there is no theory and evidence
to support the economic superiority of common law systems. Based on
previous pieces by the authors, this book expands their work by
including new areas of analysis (such as trusts), detailing
previous analysis (such as French law versus common law in the
areas of contract, property and torts), and updating for recent
developments in the academic discourse. This volume is of interest
to academics and students who study microeconomics, comparative law
and foundations of law, as well as legal policy analysts.
Economists advise that the law should seek efficiency. More
recently, it has been suggested that common law systems are more
conducive of economic growth than code-based civil law systems.
This book argues that there is no theory to support such statements
and provides evidence that rejects a 'one-size-fits-all' approach.
Both common law and civil law systems are reviewed to debunk the
relationship between the efficiency of the common law hypothesis
and the alleged inferiority of codified law systems. Legal Origins
and the Efficiency Dilemma has six aims: explaining the efficiency
hypothesis of the common law since Posner's 1973 book; summarizing
the legal origins theory in the context of economic growth;
debunking their relationship; discussing the meaning of 'common
law' and the problems with the efficiency hypothesis by comparing
laws across English speaking jurisdictions; illustrating the
shortcomings of the legal origins theory with a comparative law and
economics analysis; and concluding there is no theory and evidence
to support the economic superiority of common law systems. Based on
previous pieces by the authors, this book expands their work by
including new areas of analysis (such as trusts), detailing
previous analysis (such as French law versus common law in the
areas of contract, property and torts), and updating for recent
developments in the academic discourse. This volume is of interest
to academics and students who study microeconomics, comparative law
and foundations of law, as well as legal policy analysts.
This book provides a general overview of several concepts of
synchronization and brings together related approaches to secure
communication in chaotic systems. This is achieved using a
combination of analytic, algebraic, geometrical and asymptotical
methods to tackle the dynamical feedback stabilization problem. In
particular, differential-geometric and algebraic differential
concepts reveal important structural properties of chaotic systems
and serve as guide for the construction of design procedures for a
wide variety of chaotic systems. The basic differential algebraic
and geometric concepts are presented in the first few chapters in a
novel way as design tools, together with selected experimental
studies demonstrating their importance. The subsequent chapters
treat recent applications. Written for graduate students in applied
physical sciences, systems engineers, and applied mathematicians
interested in synchronization of chaotic systems and in secure
communications, this self-contained text requires only basic
knowledge of integer ordinary and fractional ordinary differential
equations. Design applications are illustrated with the help of
several physical models of practical interest.
The dynamic field of flavin and flavoprotein biochemistry has seen
rapid advancement in recent years. This comprehensive two volume
set provides an overview of all aspects of contemporary research in
this important class of enzymes. Topics treated include
flavoproteins involved in energy generation, signal transduction
and electron transfer (including respiration); oxygen activation by
flavoproteins; the biology and biochemistry of complex
flavoproteins; flavin and flavoprotein photochemistry/photophysics
as well as biotechnological applications of flavoproteins. Recent
developments in this field include new structures (including those
of large membrane-integral electron transfer complexes containing
FMN or FAD), elucidation of the role of flavoproteins in cell
signalling pathways (including both phototaxis and the circadian
cycle) and important new insights into the reaction mechanisms of
flavin-containing enzymes. This volume focusing on complex
flavoproteins and physical methods is an essential reference for
all researchers in biochemistry, chemistry, photochemistry and
photophysics working on flavoenzymes.
The papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Heart
Valves and published in this volume discuss clinical experience
with heart valve replacement in pediatric patients, in adults (age
65 and younger), and in the elderly (age 66 and older). Special
considerations in heart valve replacement, such as valve selection,
reoperation, results of double valve implantation, quality of life,
and the use of valved conduits are also included. Finally, long
term clinical follow-up with the ST. JUDE MEDICAL (R) heart valve,
giving 7- and 8-year data is discussed. HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT IN
PEDIATRIC PATIENTS Anticoagulation Anticoagulation in children is a
difficult and interesting problem. Three princi pal considerations
in the use of anticoagulants are patient education, timing, and
anticoagulating substance. Additional considerations are patient
tolerance and compliance. Generally, the findings indicate, if
pediatric patients receive anticoagulation following mechanical
valve replacement, it is well accepted and results in few
complications. If children are not anticoagulated, complications
arise. Conflicting results regarding the efficacy of PERSANTINE (R)
and the use of aspirin vs. COUMADIN (R) were reported. Doctor
Sade's data address some of these questions. * After a 5-year study
in * See J Thorac Cardiovasc Surgery 1988; 95:533-561.
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ROGUE & GAMBIT: POWER PLAY
Stephanie Phillips; Illustrated by Carlos Gomez
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"To say I loved this book would be such an understatement. It's a
great, intensely fun, quick read that satisfied my Dresden Files
itch in a year during which I'm not sure we'll get a new novel in
the series." - Kirkus A war is raging between the vampire forces of
the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are
losing. So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the
experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of
Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago's only
wizard-for-hire and a guy who's long been looked upon with
suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he's one of them,
and his first big mission as a Warden is a doozy: take a small team
of greenhorns to a frigid town in the middle of nowhere to rescue a
handful of mortals who've been targeted by the Red Court. The
question is, why exactly are these particular mortals so crucial to
the outcome of the war? The answer will come only if Harry can keep
them, and his team, alive for one very long night. This graphic
novel collects the critically acclaimed, five-issue series in one
volume, and features a bonus section with Jim Butcher's original
story outline, sketchbook artwork from Carlos Gomez, cover gallery
with roughs from Stjepan Sejic, and more! Creator Commentary from
Jim Butcher: "The greatest frustration about writing the Dresden
Files is all the stories I come up with that are too small or too
straightforward to write into a novel. One of the great pleasures
I've had as a writer is getting the opportunity to tell some of
those stories in a short-story format, and in graphic novels like
this one! War Cry is one of the stories I always wanted to tell but
never got the chance to in the context of the novels, and I'm
extremely pleased with how well it's coming out."
What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the
minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the
study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary
resemblances--and differences--between human children and other
primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as
fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more
dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their
original adaptations.
In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive
developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at
knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the
chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the
contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and
imitation. Attempts to teach language to chimpanzees, as well as
studies of the quality of some primate vocal communication in the
wild, make a powerful case that primates have a natural capacity
for relatively sophisticated communication, and considerable power
to learn when humans teach them.
Gomez concludes that for all cognitive psychology's interest in
perception, information-processing, and reasoning, some essential
functions of mental life are based on ideas that cannot be
explicitly articulated. Nonhuman and human primates alike rely on
implicit knowledge. Studying nonhuman primates helps us to
understand this perplexing aspect of all primate minds.
Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by
Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek
and Roman cultures. Although the Punic cities and their rural
landscapes are to be found along the southern shores and on the
islands of the western Mediterranean basin, comprehensive studies
of these archaeological remains are virtually non-existent. It is
the aim of this book to investigate Punic rural settlement in the
western Mediterranean by bringing together and comparing the
currently dispersed existing evidence for rural Punic settlement.
The core of the volume is accordingly made up by a detailed
discussion of the archaeological evidence for Punic rural
settlement from Sardinia, Sicily, Ibiza, mainland Spain and North
Africa.Because agriculture and agrarian produce have always been
assumed to have played a critical role in the Carthaginian colonial
expansion, the connections between the various colonial contexts
and the local characteristics of rural organisation explored in
detail in order to enhance our understanding of these colonial
contexts. This in turn provides better insight in Carthaginian
colonialism and local Punic rural settlement and their role in the
wider Mediterranean context. By publishing this evidence and these
interpretations in English, we hope to draw attention to Punic
archaeology in general and to these rural studies in particular and
to situate them in the wider Mediterranean context of both
classical Antiquity and Mediterranean archaeology.
Sharks. Ogres. Witches. Gods. Vicious Beasts. Treasures. Swordplay.
Thieves. And a Musician. This Red Sonja Volume truly has it all.
Leaving a world of fast motorcycles and cold beer, Sonja returns to
a more familiar setting of swords and magic and mead. At a nearby
tavern she learns strange magic is afoot in this land, and a
desperate priest is offering mercenaries some serious gold for a
dangerous job. But something doesn't seem right...
The Pathfinder heroes head to the city of Magnimar, and danger
isn't far behind. As the wizard Ezren seeks an audience with the
Pathfinder Society, his adventuring allies explore the city's
ancient magic, well-hidden secrets, and deep political divides. The
dangers and opportunities of the big city could bring the
adventurers closer together — or tear them apart! Ezren ambushed,
Kyra targeted, Merisiel tempted by her past... will the group
endure? With a captivating story written by Jim Zub (Samurai Jack,
Skullkickers) and explosive artwork by Leandro Oliveira, this third
volume in the Pathfinder graphic novel series expands upon the
mythos of Paizo's award-winning fantasy world, fiction line, and
tabletop RPG. Bonus materials include over thirty-pages of
encounters and world detail for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game,
and a poster map.
Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files saga continues in this original and
in-continuity graphic novel, featuring a never-before-told story
set after the bestselling novel White Night and graphic novel Down
Town! A bizarre double murder draws the interest of Chicago's only
wizard-for-hire. But as Harry Dresden begins his investigation, the
clues lead to troubling conclusions about the possible perpetrator,
and set him on a path that will place him in the middle of a
conflict between the city's three most powerful factions -- a
conflict that could engulf all of Chicago!
Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden and his new apprentice, Molly
Carpenter, intend to end the havoc caused by a mad sorcerer — one
whose ambitions would have the Windy City streets carved out as his
own private kingdom. But when the magical upstart enters into an
alliance with the notorious mob boss "Gentleman Johnnie" Marcone,
will the fast-and-loose Dresden and his young charge survive
unscathed? This graphic novel collects the critically acclaimed,
six-issue series in one volume, and features a bonus section with
Jim Butcher's original story outline, sketchbook artwork from
Carlos Gomez, cover gallery with roughs from Stjepan Sejic, and
more!
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X-terminators (Paperback)
Leah Williams; Illustrated by Carlos Gomez
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