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Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial
press issued in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies, disclosing
dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires.
Creating and Opposing Empire is a venture of the International
Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese
Empire (IGSCP-PE), which also invests on comparative studies and
conceptual discussions. This book analyses representations of
Empire at colonial press published in "metropolitan" spaces and in
colonies. By joining these spaces in the same analytic look, it
explores different problematizations of colonial empires. The
diversity of angles discloses why a decolonized, democratic,
understanding of the world modulated by modern colonial empires
needs to navigate the seas of dissonant narratives of community,
nation, and empire. The book deals with the ideas that in their
complexity and dynamism, until late in the twentieth century, were
moulded in the game between the cultural context of representations
and the universality of concepts. The studies range from approaches
to International Exhibitions, Metropolitan Press, Colonial Models,
Missionary Press, Literary Discourses, Colonial and Postcolonial
Press, Constructing the "Others", Anticolonial Press, Democracy,
Dictatorship, Censorship, Colonial Prison's Press, among other
themes. Its primordial focus on the Portuguese Empire, introduces
perspectives rarely included in international discussions on
colonial and imperial press histories. This book is essential for
scholars and students in Media Studies, Modern History, Cultural,
Literary Studies and Political Science.
Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? Can brain scans read
our minds? Based on Rob Newman's live stand-up show and new BBC
Radio 4 series, his thought-provoking new book explores the
scientific breakthroughs that have turned received ideas of brain
science upside down. After imagining volunteering for a
brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that
lights up when you're in love, comedian Robert Newman emerged with
more questions than answers. In Neuropolis Newman argues that the
current claim that the brain is just a complicated computer derives
from science, but from a combination of philosophical stowaways and
a version of evolutionary biology that owes little to Darwin. He
questions why brain science is devoted to such a peculiarly
reductionist world view, when really exciting advances in
neuroscience go untold, such as awe-inspiring discoveries about the
origins of memory in ancient oceans. He also shows that our brains
are inextricably and profoundly intertwined with our bodies, the
natural world and the world we have made, including hilarious
accounts of his own participation in neurological experiments.
Debunking the common, even brainless interpretations of brain
science, he celebrates the more intriguing and underreported
advances in neuroscience with zest and wit.
Ward Edwards and J. Robert Newman clearly explain Multiattribute Utility Technology (MAUT), a technique that facilitates decision making by identifying and weighting the objectives of the stakeholders in a specific decision.
Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer
care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative
Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of
patients who have lived long, full lives beyond their original
prognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty years of experience
into the first book that gives patients a systematic,
research-based plan for developing the physical and emotional
vitality they need to meet the demands of treatment and recovery.
Based on a profound understanding of how body and mind can work
together to defeat disease, this groundbreaking book offers:
- Innovative approaches to conventional treatments, such as
"chronotherapy"-chemotherapy timed to patients' unique circadian
rhythms for enhanced effectiveness and reduced toxicity
- Dietary choices that make the biochemical environment hostile to
cancer growth and recurrence, and strengthen the immune system's
ability to attack remaining cancer cells
- Precise supplement protocols to tame treatment side effects,
relieve disease-related symptoms, and modify processes like
inflammation and glycemia that can fuel cancer if left untreated
- A new paradigm for exercise and stress reduction that restores
your strength, reduces anxiety and depression, and supports the
body's own ability to heal
- A complete program for remission maintenance-a proactive plan to
make sure the cancer never returns
Also included are "quick-start" maps to help you find the
information you need right now and many case histories that will
support and inspire you. Encouraging, compassionate, and
authoritative, Life over Cancer is the guide patients everywhere
have been waiting for.
Embodying A Brief History Of World War Ii With An Unusual Approach.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ John Milton: A Lecture Read At Newton Hall, May 1886 Robert
Newman (positivist.) Reeves & Turner, 1889 Literary Criticism;
Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / English, Irish,
Scottish, Welsh
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This pathbreaking work uses the approaching conclusion of the
second millennium as a context for discussing questions concerning
temporal division and narrative continuity. It investigates
assumptions about teleology and eschatology while exploring the
ways in which temporal division affects the creation and production
of cultural texts and, reciprocally, the ways in which narrative
techniques, forms, and conventions shape, explain, and justify
history.
Through this exploration, the volume examines how temporal
thresholds tend simultaneously to reinforce and to disrupt
conceptual boundaries. The sixteen essays use the significance
typically invested in historical junctures marked by a centenary
advance to investigate perceived paradigm shifts and the consequent
reactions to these implicit and explicit transitions. By doing so,
they also seek to illuminate the relations between narrative and
history, and to enhance understanding of our present historical
moment.
Over the last decade, the reformed youth justice system has seen
increases in the numbers of children and young people in custody, a
sharp rise in indeterminate sentences and the continuing deaths of
young prisoners. The largest proportion of funding in youth justice
at national level is spent on providing places for children and
young people remanded and sentenced to custody. The publication of
the Youth Crime Action Plan during 2008 and the increasing emphasis
on early intervention provides a framework to consider again the
interface between local services and secure residential placements.
This report brings together contributions from leading experts on
young people and criminal justice to critically examine current
policy and practice. There are vital questions for both policy and
practice on whether the use of custody reduces re-offending or
whether other forms of residential placements are more effective
long-term. The report looks at current approaches to the sentencing
and custody of children and young people, prevention of
re-offending and a range of alternative regimes.
The essays in The Humanities in the Age of Information and
Post-Truth represent a defense of the social function of the
humanities in today's society. Edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo and
Christina Lux, the volume explains different ways in which the
humanities and the arts, beyond their intrinsic and nonfunctional
value, may be a valuable tool in our search for social justice,
human empathy, freedom, and peace, all the while helping us answer
many of the twenty-first century's big questions. Some essays
explore the ways in which the humanities may help us imagine a
different, more just world, and articulate politically effective
mechanisms to achieve such goals. Others address the place of the
humanities and the arts amid the ontological and epistemological
uncertainties constantly produced in a fast-changing world. While
the reader may suspect that these types of lucubration are a
desperate reaction to decreased public funding for the humanities
worldwide, a decreased enrollment of students, or anxiety over the
future of our profession, there is in this volume a coherent
argument for the continued need, perhaps more now than ever, to
invest in humanities education if we are to have informed and
socially conscious citizens rather than just willing consumers and
obedient workers. Furthermore, the essays prove that the humanities
and the arts are, after all, not a luxury but an integral part of a
complete scholarly education.
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