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'Intriguing' – Sunday Times 'A rousing read' – Irish Times 'A
bright light of Francophone feminism' – New York Times Renowned
journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model:
an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits
society imposes on women. Taking three archetypes from historic
witch hunts – independent women, women who avoid having children
and women who embrace ageing – Chollet examines how women today
have the same charges levelled against them. She calls for justice
in healthcare, challenging the gender imbalance in science and
questioning why female bodies must still controlled by men. Rich
with popular culture, literary references and media insights, In
Defence of Witches is a vital addition to the cultural conversation
around women, witches and the misogyny that has shaped the world
they live in. With a foreword by Carmen Maria Machado and
translated from French by Sophie R. Lewis.
The label 'Suicide Cults' has been applied to a wide variety of
different alternative religions, from Jonestown to the Solar Temple
to Heaven's Gate. Additionally, observers have asked if such group
suicides are in any way comparable to Islamist suicide terrorism,
or to historical incidents of mass suicide, such as the mass
suicide of the ancient community of Masada. Organizationally and
ideologically diverse, it turns out that the primary shared trait
of these various groups is a common stereotype of religion as an
irrational force that pushes fanatics to undertake acts of suicidal
violence. Offering a valuable perspective on New Religious
Movements and on religion and violence, Sacred Suicide brings
together contributions from a diverse range of international
scholars of sociology, religious studies and criminology.
In October 1994, fifty-three members of the Order of the Solar
Temple in Switzerland and Quebec were murdered or committed
suicide. This incident and two later group suicides in subsequent
years played a pivotal role in inflaming the cult controversy in
Europe, influencing the public to support harsher actions against
non-traditional religions. Despite the importance of the Order of
the Solar Temple, there are relatively few studies published in
English. This book brings together the best scholarship on the
Solar Temple including newly commissioned pieces from leading
scholars, a selection of Solar Temple documents, and important
previously published articles newly edited for inclusion within
this book. This is the first book-length study of the Order of the
Solar Temple to be published in English.
The label 'Suicide Cults' has been applied to a wide variety of
different alternative religions, from Jonestown to the Solar Temple
to Heaven's Gate. Additionally, observers have asked if such group
suicides are in any way comparable to Islamist suicide terrorism,
or to historical incidents of mass suicide, such as the mass
suicide of the ancient community of Masada. Organizationally and
ideologically diverse, it turns out that the primary shared trait
of these various groups is a common stereotype of religion as an
irrational force that pushes fanatics to undertake acts of suicidal
violence. Offering a valuable perspective on New Religious
Movements and on religion and violence, Sacred Suicide brings
together contributions from a diverse range of international
scholars of sociology, religious studies and criminology.
Although speech is the most natural form of communication between
humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines
anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer
interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical
Speech User Interface Design provides a comprehensive yet concise
survey of practical speech user interface (SUI) design. It offers
practice-based and research-based guidance on how to design
effective, efficient, and pleasant speech applications that people
can really use. Focusing on the design of speech user interfaces
for IVR applications, the book covers speech technologies including
speech recognition and production, ten key concepts in human
language and communication, and a survey of self-service
technologies. The author, a leading human factors engineer with
extensive experience in research, innovation and design of products
with speech interfaces that are used worldwide, covers both high-
and low-level decisions and includes Voice XML code examples. To
help articulate the rationale behind various SUI design guidelines,
he includes a number of detailed discussions of the applicable
research. The techniques for designing usable SUIs are not obvious,
and to be effective, must be informed by a combination of
critically interpreted scientific research and leading design
practices. The blend of scholarship and practical experience found
in this book establishes research-based leading practices for the
design of usable speech user interfaces for interactive voice
response applications.
Volume 14, Number 1, 2002. Contents: J.R. Lewis, Introduction.
ARTICLES: D.J. Gillan, R.G. Bias, Usability Science 1: Foundation.
H.R. Hartson, T.S. Andre, R.C. Williges, Criteria for Evaluating
Usability Evaluation Methods. R.E. Cordes, Task Selection Bias: A
Case for User-Defined Tasks. M. Hertzum, N.E. Jacobsen, The
Evaluator Effect: A Chilling Fact About Usability Evaluation
Methods. J.R. Lewis, Evaluation of Procedures for Adjusting
Problem-Discovery Rates Estimated From Small Samples. M.
Hassenzahl, The Effect of Perceived Hedonic Quality on Product
Appealingness.
Now in its third edition, The American Culture of War presents a
sweeping critical examination of every major American war since
1941: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First and Second Persian
Gulf Wars, U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the war
against ISIS. As he carefully considers the cultural forces that
surrounded each military engagement, Adrian Lewis offers an
original and provocative look at the motives, people and
governments used to wage war, the discord among military personnel,
the flawed political policies that guided military strategy, and
the civilian perceptions that characterized each conflict. This
third edition features: A new structure focused more exclusively on
the character and conduct of the wars themselves Updates to account
for the latest, evolving scholarship on these conflicts An updated
account of American military involvement in the Middle East,
including the abrupt rise of ISIS The new edition of The American
Culture of War remains a comprehensive and essential resource for
any student of American wartime conduct.
Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the
United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal
controversial religions and movements that have attracted major
media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of
minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo
practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues
central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined -
apocalypticism, deprogramming, social isolation, cults and the
media, the use and threat of violence, child custody, libel, tax
evasion, solicitation, and the techniques of persuasion and
conviction - as are the many charismatic cult leaders. Cults
presents a comprehensive and authoritative reference, offering a
balanced view of the controversy surrounding these new religious
movements, assessing the movements themselves as well as the legal
and governmental responses to them, including attempts to quantify
membership.
Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the
United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal
controversial religions and movements that have attracted major
media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of
minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo
practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues
central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined -
apocalypticism, deprogramming, social isolation, cults and the
media, the use and threat of violence, child custody, libel, tax
evasion, solicitation, and the techniques of persuasion and
conviction - as are the many charismatic cult leaders. Cults
presents a comprehensive and authoritative reference, offering a
balanced view of the controversy surrounding these new religious
movements, assessing the movements themselves as well as the legal
and governmental responses to them, including attempts to quantify
membership.
This work covers principles of Raman theory, analysis,
instrumentation, and measurement, specifying up-to-the-minute
benefits of Raman spectroscopy in a variety of industrial and
academic fields, and how to cultivate growth in new disciplines. It
contains case studies that illustrate current techniques in data
extraction and analysis, as well as over 500 drawings and
photographs that clarify and reinforce critical text material. The
authors discuss Raman spectra of gases; Raman spectroscopy applied
to crystals, applications to gemology, in vivo Raman spectroscopy,
applications in forensic science, and collectivity of vibrational
modes, among many other topics.
"This informative book has been put together with the support and
input of many clinical renal experts, who have been willing to
share their knowledge and years of experience and I'm sure it will
be an excellent resource for those caring for kidney patients for
the first time -- as well as for those with some years of
experience " - From the Foreword by Rosemary Macri, Chief Executive
of the British Kidney Patient Association Kidney Disease
Management: A Practical Approach for Non-Specialists has been
written to help optimise the care of people with chronic kidney
disease (CKD) across the healthcare spectrum. It is aimed at a
range of professionals, including nurses, junior doctors, general
practitioners, pharmacists and dieticians. Specialists in training
may also find it useful. It highlights the practical considerations
necessary to care for people with kidney problems in situations
where a specialist practitioner is not always required or
immediately available. This book explores: Policy context and CKD;
overview of CKD and management; managing CKD in primary care;
treatment modalities in CKD; psychosocial aspects of living with
CKD, Acute kidney Injury in hospitalised patients; surgery and
kidney injury; medication management in CKD; nutrition and CKD;
support and palliative care for people with CKD. Key features: -
Based on best practice and written in an accessible format aimed at
busy practitioners - Emphasises the centrality of the patient and
family and the need to share information and expertise across
traditional boundaries - Written by professionals renowned in their
field, both generalists and specialists, who have extensive
experience of the practicalities of managing complex patients.
The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics documents a
recent, fundamental change in American politics with the waning of
Christian America. Rather than conservatives emphasizing morality
and liberals emphasizing rights, both sides now wield rights
arguments as potent weapons to win political and legal battles and
build grassroots support. Lewis documents this change on the right,
focusing primarily on evangelical politics. Using extensive
historical and survey data that compares evangelical advocacy and
evangelical public opinion, Lewis explains how the prototypical
culture war issue - abortion - motivated the conservative rights
turn over the past half century, serving as a springboard for
rights learning and increased conservative advocacy in other
arenas. Challenging the way we think about the culture wars, Lewis
documents how rights claims are used to thwart liberal rights
claims, as well as to provide protection for evangelicals, whose
cultural positions are increasingly in the minority; they have also
allowed evangelical elites to justify controversial advocacy
positions to their base and to engage more easily in broad rights
claiming in new or expanded political arenas, from health care to
capital punishment.
The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics documents a
recent, fundamental change in American politics with the waning of
Christian America. Rather than conservatives emphasizing morality
and liberals emphasizing rights, both sides now wield rights
arguments as potent weapons to win political and legal battles and
build grassroots support. Lewis documents this change on the right,
focusing primarily on evangelical politics. Using extensive
historical and survey data that compares evangelical advocacy and
evangelical public opinion, Lewis explains how the prototypical
culture war issue - abortion - motivated the conservative rights
turn over the past half century, serving as a springboard for
rights learning and increased conservative advocacy in other
arenas. Challenging the way we think about the culture wars, Lewis
documents how rights claims are used to thwart liberal rights
claims, as well as to provide protection for evangelicals, whose
cultural positions are increasingly in the minority; they have also
allowed evangelical elites to justify controversial advocacy
positions to their base and to engage more easily in broad rights
claiming in new or expanded political arenas, from health care to
capital punishment.
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Trust Management XII - 12th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2018, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 10-13, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Nurit Gal-Oz, Peter R. Lewis
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG
11.11 International Conference on Trust Management, IFIPTM 2018,
held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2018. The 7 revised full
papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 22 submissions. The papers feature both theoretical
research and real-world case studies and cover the following
topical areas: trust in information technology; socio-technical,
economic, and sociological trust; trust and reputation management
systems; identity management and trust; secure, trustworthy and
privacy-aware systems; trust building in large scale systems; and
trustworthyness of adaptive systems. Also included is the 2018
William Winsborough commemorative address.
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Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents - Second International Symposium, ALIA 2016, Birmingham, UK, June 14-15, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Peter R. Lewis, Christopher J. Headleand, Steve Battle, Panagiotis D. Ritsos
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents,
ALIA 2016, held in Birmingham, UK, in June 2016. The 8 revised full
papers and three revised short papers presented together with two
demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on
modelling; robotics; bio-inspired problem solving; human-like
systems; applications and games.
Taking inspiration from self-awareness in humans, this book
introduces the new notion of computational self-awareness as a
fundamental concept for designing and operating computing systems.
The basic ability of such self-aware computing systems is to
collect information about their state and progress, learning and
maintaining models containing knowledge that enables them to reason
about their behaviour. Self-aware computing systems will have the
ability to utilise this knowledge to effectively and autonomously
adapt and explain their behaviour, in changing conditions. This
book addresses these fundamental concepts from an engineering
perspective, aiming at developing primitives for building systems
and applications. It will be of value to researchers, professionals
and graduate students in computer science and engineering.
This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with
the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and
alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how
these New Age religions and other spiritualties-produced in Western
countries within predominantly Protestant or secular
cultures-transform and adapt themselves in Israel. The volume
focuses on a variety of groups and movements, such as Theosophy and
Anthroposophy, Neopaganism, Channeling, Women's Yoga, the New Age
festival scene, and even Pentecostal churches among African labor
migrants living in Tel Aviv. Chapters also explore more
Jewish-oriented practices such as Neo-Kabballah, Neo-Hassidism, and
alternative marriage ceremonies, as well as the use of spiritual
care providers in Israeli hospitals. In addition, contributors take
a close look at the state's reaction to the recent activities and
growth of new religious movements.
Taking inspiration from self-awareness in humans, this book
introduces the new notion of computational self-awareness as a
fundamental concept for designing and operating computing systems.
The basic ability of such self-aware computing systems is to
collect information about their state and progress, learning and
maintaining models containing knowledge that enables them to reason
about their behaviour. Self-aware computing systems will have the
ability to utilise this knowledge to effectively and autonomously
adapt and explain their behaviour, in changing conditions. This
book addresses these fundamental concepts from an engineering
perspective, aiming at developing primitives for building systems
and applications. It will be of value to researchers, professionals
and graduate students in computer science and engineering.
Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks
away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new
organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious
schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups.
Because schisms emerge out of controversies, the term has negative
connotations. Though they are an important component of many
analyses, schisms in general have not been subjected to systematic
analysis. This volume provides the first book-length study of
religious schisms as a general phenomenon. Some chapters examine
specific case studies while others provide surveys of the history
of schisms within larger religious traditions, such as Islam and
Buddhism. Other chapters are more theoretically focused. Examples
are drawn from a wide variety of different traditions and
geographical areas, from early Mediterranean Christianity to modern
Japanese New Religions, and from the Jehovah's Witnesses to
Neo-Pagans.
The dictionary definition of tradition refers to beliefs and
practices that have been transmitted from generation to generation,
however, 'tradition' can rest simply on the claim that certain
cultural elements are rooted in the past. Claim and documented
historical reality need not overlap. In the domain of religion,
historically verifiable traditions coexist with recent innovations
whose origins are spuriously projected back into time. This book
examines the phenomenon of 'invented traditions' in religions
ranging in time from Zoroastrianism to Scientology, and
geographically from Tibet to North America and Europe. The various
contributions, together with an introduction that surveys the
field, use individual case studies to address questions such as the
rationale for creating historical tradition for one's doctrines and
rituals; the mechanisms by which hitherto unknown texts can enter
an existing corpus; and issues of acceptance and scepticism in the
reception of dubious texts.
Schism (from the Greek 'to split') refers to a group that breaks
away from another, usually larger organisation and forms a new
organisation. Though the term is typically confined to religious
schisms, it can be extended to other kinds of breakaway groups.
Because schisms emerge out of controversies, the term has negative
connotations. Though they are an important component of many
analyses, schisms in general have not been subjected to systematic
analysis. This volume provides the first book-length study of
religious schisms as a general phenomenon. Some chapters examine
specific case studies while others provide surveys of the history
of schisms within larger religious traditions, such as Islam and
Buddhism. Other chapters are more theoretically focused. Examples
are drawn from a wide variety of different traditions and
geographical areas, from early Mediterranean Christianity to modern
Japanese New Religions, and from the Jehovah's Witnesses to
Neo-Pagans.
neoessity for making it. Yet, clearly, the problem of development
is largely one of filling "the vacuum between determinant and
character" (DARLINGTON 1951). Nowadays the chromosome theory can be
presented in much greater detail and with utter confidence, but its
two main features remain the same. However, while the role of the
chromosomes in heredity and development has been appreciated for a
long time, the manner in which they perform their genetic and
epigenetic functions has become amenable to critical investigation
only in recent years. There is, therefore, still an unmistakable
tendency to think of chromosomes in terms of the discrete threads
of cell division and, in keeping with this conception, the
chromosome cycle is gen erally considered in relation to the
microscopically visible changes in morphology which occur during
the mechanically active phases of mitosis and meiosis. Chromosome
phenotype, however, changes not only during division but throughout
the cell cycle. The changes which occur during interphase are, of
course, scarcely revealed in morphological modifications of the
restless "resting" nucleus. Consequently they are less obvious and
correspondingly less amenable to investigation. This accounts for
the concentration on the countable karyotype, with its visible
properties of pairing and pycnosity, and the measurable movements
of separation and segregation.
In this collection, over 40 researchers across the social sciences
offer a series of engaging accounts reflecting on dilemmas and
issues that they experienced while researching and communicating
research on personal life. Their insights are food for thought for
students, researchers, professionals and anyone using, planning or
conducting research on families and relationships, encouraging
critical reflection on the readers' own processes. Researchers'
accounts are organised under and commented on by insightful
overviews. David Morgan leads with consideration of framing
research. Kay Tisdall prefaces the next set by reflections on
ethical considerations in research engagements. Angus Bancroft and
Stuart Aitken each comment on researchers' accounts from 'in the
field' focusing on the research relationship and the complexities
of time and place. The final accounts are prefaced by Lynn
Jamieson's discussion of dealing with dilemmas in interpreting and
representing families and relationships and by Sarah Morton's and
Sandra Nutley's reflections on getting research into policy and
practice.
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