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Vincent Cassel stars in this Australian thriller directed and
co-written by Ariel Kleiman. Told from the perspective of
11-year-old Alexander (Jeremy Chabriel), the story follows the
lives of a group of young children who have been raised in a closed
community led by self-elected patriarch Gregori (Cassel). As he
trains the children to become assassins, Gregori finds himself
increasingly power-hungry sending the children out to kill people
on his list. As Alexander's training progresses, he begins to doubt
Gregori's rule and decides to challenge his authority the only way
he knows how...
This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate
inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with
the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult
development. As such, it contains a compilation of papers presented
at an annual conference held at the Pennsylvania State University.
These essays by sociologists and epidemiologists deal with the
impact of disease and health outcomes with advancing age and are
critiqued by members of related disciplines. In addition, there are
overviews as well as specific discussions about the impact of
cancer, depression, and cardiovascular diseases upon psychosocial
functions.
This second edition of the pioneering work on this hot topic
captures the major trends and latest achievements in the art of
asymmetric catalysis on an industrial scale. A number of completely
new real-life case studies written by the world leaders in their
respective areas provide a compact and qualified insight into this
developing field. The resulting ready reference and handbook
collates first-hand and valuable information within a context where
it can be easily found.
The high-quality contributions illustrate the relevant environments
and situations, such as time pressure, how the catalytic step fits
into the overall synthesis, or competition with other synthetic
approaches, as well as the typical problems encountered in the
various phases, including finding/developing the catalyst and
optimization of the process or choice of equipment. Both successful
and unsuccessful approaches to solve these problems are
described.
This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate
inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with
the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult
development. As such, it contains a compilation of papers presented
at an annual conference held at the Pennsylvania State University.
These essays by sociologists and epidemiologists deal with the
impact of disease and health outcomes with advancing age and are
critiqued by members of related disciplines. In addition, there are
overviews as well as specific discussions about the impact of
cancer, depression, and cardiovascular diseases upon psychosocial
functions.
Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental
illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental
health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical
disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in
contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just
like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of
depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our
basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly? To find answers, Dr.
Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental
upheavals, and other external, group factors that have undergone
significant change. In so doing, the author revives the tenets of
social psychiatry, the process of looking at social trends,
environmental factors, and correlations among groups in efforts to
understand psychiatric disorders.
Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental
illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental
health professionals of all trades. Major depression is a medical
disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in
contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just
like any other disease. The Age of Melancholy asks why the
incidence of depression has been on such an increase in the last 50
years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly. To find
answers, Dr. Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and
environmental upheavals, and other external, group factors that
have undergone significant change. In so doing, the author revives
the tenets of social psychiatry, the process of looking at social
trends, environmental factors, and correlations among groups in
efforts to understand psychiatric disorders. The biomedical model
of psychiatry that has dominated the field for the past
half-century has faced minimal scrutiny, due in part to the
apparent advances made in the treatment of mental health issues
during that time. But, Dr. to complement and complete the model,
and he points to two concurrent trends for support: during the same
50-year period that saw the death of social psychiatry, the rate of
occurrence and increasing medicalization of depression as a
secluded individual's issue have brought us to the Prozac era. In
making the case for the connection of these two trends (both the
products themselves of larger social and cultural movements), the
author proposes a return of a new, more mature social psychiatry,
to complete - not replace - the biomedical and clinical research
models in place today. This book is eminently readable, and should
appeal to a broader audience than the psychiatrists, clinicians,
and researchers who will make up the primary audience. While
replete with the standard mental health references, sound research,
and authored by a recognized and respected professional, the ease
of language and range of examples make this text accessible to a
lay reader. This book should have cross-over appeal in sociology as
well as social work and psychology.
This book highlights the importance of the choroid plexus, which
forms the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier and is the site of the
major production of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The authors show
that this barrier is crucial for maintaining important
compositional differences between the blood plasma and the CSF. The
choroid plexus epithelial cells also prevent the spread of
infectious agents and other blood-borne entities to the brain
tissue. Chapter topics range from the production of CSF by
electrolyte regulation in the choroid plexus, to details on the
selectively transporting nature of this barrier. Further, the
authors elaborate on the important roles of CSF in sustaining brain
health by providing hydration, solutes, and nutrients to the brain
tissue. Readers will also learn how CSF circulates signaling
molecules within the compartments of the brain and removes waste
products from the brain tissue. Elucidating the regulation of these
processes in the choroid plexus is not only important for the
readers' understanding of normal brain development and function,
but is also crucial for resolving a variety of cerebral challenges
that lead to brain edema, as well as developing treatments for
diseases. The book discusses disease models like hydrocephalus,
sleep disorders, and age-related dementia. Its comprehensive
coverage makes this volume a valuable resource for researchers in
cell and neurophysiology, as well as graduate students of the
neurosciences.
When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its
founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople
who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can
endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they
can endorse the Lord, too," reasoned Fellowship of Christian
Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and
sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it
gave athletes the opportunity to think about the embodied
experiences of sport as a way to experience intimate connection
with the divine. As sports ministry developed, it focused on
individual religious experiences and downplayed celebrity sales
power, opening the door for female Christian athletes to join and
eventually dominate sports ministry. Today, women are the majority
of participants in sports ministry in the United States. In Playing
for God, Annie Blazer offers an exploration of the history and
religious lives of Christian athletes, showing that evangelical
engagement with popular culture can carry unintended consequences.
When sport became an avenue for embodied worship, it forced a
reckoning with evangelical teachings about the body. Female
Christian athletes increasingly turned to their own bodies to
understand their religious identity, and in so doing, came to
question evangelical mainstays on gender and sexuality. What was
once a male-dominated masculinist project of sports engagement
became a female-dominated movement that challenged evangelical
ideas on femininity, marriage hierarchy, and the sinfulness of
homosexuality. Though evangelicalism has not changed sporting
culture, for those involved in sports ministry, sport has changed
evangelicalism.
This book highlights the importance of the choroid plexus, which
forms the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier and is the site of the
major production of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The authors show
that this barrier is crucial for maintaining important
compositional differences between the blood plasma and the CSF. The
choroid plexus epithelial cells also prevent the spread of
infectious agents and other blood-borne entities to the brain
tissue. Chapter topics range from the production of CSF by
electrolyte regulation in the choroid plexus, to details on the
selectively transporting nature of this barrier. Further, the
authors elaborate on the important roles of CSF in sustaining brain
health by providing hydration, solutes, and nutrients to the brain
tissue. Readers will also learn how CSF circulates signaling
molecules within the compartments of the brain and removes waste
products from the brain tissue. Elucidating the regulation of these
processes in the choroid plexus is not only important for the
readers' understanding of normal brain development and function,
but is also crucial for resolving a variety of cerebral challenges
that lead to brain edema, as well as developing treatments for
diseases. The book discusses disease models like hydrocephalus,
sleep disorders, and age-related dementia. Its comprehensive
coverage makes this volume a valuable resource for researchers in
cell and neurophysiology, as well as graduate students of the
neurosciences.
Animation is a limitless medium for telling stories. Artists can
create worlds, defy gravity, flip from factual to fantasy, and
transport audiences to places they never imagined. The challenge is
having the discipline to reel it in and be intentional about your
storytelling choices. This book shows you how. In Animated
Storytelling, learn how to create memorable stories using animation
and motion graphics by following 10 simple guidelines that take you
through the stages of concept development, pre-production,
storyboarding, and design. Explore traditional linear storytelling
and learn different processes for creating successful nonlinear
animated stories, and also discover the wonders of experimental
filmmaking. Award-winning filmmaker, educator, and motivator Liz
Blazer uses clear examples and easy-to-follow exercises to provide
you with the instruction, encouragement, and tools you need to get
your designs moving. Whether your goal is to create exciting shorts
for film festivals, effective messaging for broadcast or online, or
simply to gain a deeper understanding of the medium, Animated
Storytelling simplifies the process of creating clear and engaging
stories for animation and motion graphics so you can get started
easily. Animated Storytelling teaches you how to: * Write a
creative brief for your project * Find and communicate your story's
Big Idea * Create tight stories with linear and nonlinear
structures * Explore experimental filmmaking techniques * Use
storyboards to communicate your visual story * Use color to clarify
and enrich your story * Define the rules for your animated world *
Ease into the challenging task of animation * Make the work you
want to be hired to do * Share your work with the world! "Equal
parts inspiring and practical, Animated Storytelling is a
step-by-step guide that takes aspiring storytellers from raw idea
to final render to distribution. -Justin Cone, Co-founder,
Motionographer "This book is the instruction manual for navigating
the complex world of animated storytelling. It's informative,
inspirational, and extremely entertaining to read. Anyone working
(or hoping to work) in the field of animation needs to read this.
-Joey Korenman, CEO & Founder, School of Motion
A clarion call to save humanity's most essential fellow creatures -
and our health Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable, ancient
universe - an internal ecosystem that is critical to our health. Dr
Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human 'microbiome',
unfurling its inner workings and evolution. For thousands of years,
bacteria and human cells have co-existed in a relationship that has
ensured the health and equilibrium of our body. But now, much like
the natural world outside of us, our internal environment is being
irrevocably destroyed. The culprit: some of our most revered
medical advances - antibiotics - which appear to be linked to the
epidemics of asthma, eczema, obesity, certain forms of cancer, and
other diseases plaguing modern society. In a book that stands as
the Silent Spring of its day, Blaser sounds a provocative alarm
that we ignore at our peril.
Johannes G. de Vries: Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions.- Gregory T.
Whiteker and Christopher J. Cobley: Applications of
Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroformylation in the Pharmaceutical,
Agrochemical and Fragrance Industries.- Philippe Dupau:
Ruthenium-catalyzed Selective Hydrogenation for Flavor and
Fragrance Applications.- Hans-Ulrich Blaser, Benoit Pugin and Felix
Spindler: Asymmetric Hydrogenation.- Ioannis Houpis: Case Study:
Sequential Pd-catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions; Challenges on
Scale-up.- Adriano F. Indolese: Pilot Plant Scale Synthesis of an
Aryl-Indole - Scale up of a Suzuki Coupling.- Per Ryberg:
Development of a Mild and Robust Method for Palladium Catalysed
Cyanation on Large Scale.- Cheng-yi Chen: Application of Ring
Closing Metathesis Strategy to the Synthesis of Vaniprevir
(MK-7009), a 20-Membered Macrocyclic HCV Protease Inhibitor.
Johannes G. de Vries: Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions.- Gregory T.
Whiteker and Christopher J. Cobley: Applications of
Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroformylation in the Pharmaceutical,
Agrochemical and Fragrance Industries.- Philippe Dupau:
Ruthenium-catalyzed Selective Hydrogenation for Flavor and
Fragrance Applications.- Hans-Ulrich Blaser, Benoit Pugin and Felix
Spindler: Asymmetric Hydrogenation.- Ioannis Houpis: Case Study:
Sequential Pd-catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions; Challenges on
Scale-up.- Adriano F. Indolese: Pilot Plant Scale Synthesis of an
Aryl-Indole - Scale up of a Suzuki Coupling.- Per Ryberg:
Development of a Mild and Robust Method for Palladium Catalysed
Cyanation on Large Scale.- Cheng-yi Chen: Application of Ring
Closing Metathesis Strategy to the Synthesis of Vaniprevir
(MK-7009), a 20-Membered Macrocyclic HCV Protease Inhibitor.
This volume contains 14 survey articles by reputed database
researchers. They give an account of the state of the art, present
research highlights and offer an outlook into the '90s regarding
the most likely evolution of database technology-research, ad-tech,
products and applications. The volume is structured into the
following parts: - The evolution of database technology and its
impact on enterprise information systems (keynote paper); - Demands
on database systems in the '90s (office, engineering, science,
multimedia, standardization); - User aspects (application
programmers, ad hoc query users); - Database system and
architecture concepts for novel applications (data models, object
orientation, deductive DBMS, extensibility, data replication); -
System and implementation aspects (performance and reliability,
distributed and cooperative DBMS, hardware impact). The volume may
serve as an orientation for all those who are interested in
database systems and their impact on computer applications.
Derzeit verfugbare "universelle" Datenbanksysteme sind historisch
fur betriebswirt- schaftliche Anwendungen entst&lden. In
Anwendungsgebieten wie der Unterstutzung von Burotatigkeiten oder
der rechnergestutzten Konstruktion und Fertigung (CAD/CAM - CIM)
stossen sie daher vielfach Rn die Grenzen ihrer Fahigkeiten. Diese
Tatsache spiegelt sich wider in dem angelsachsis,;hen Schlagwort
"non-standard date base applications", was sich vielleicht mit
"nicht-konventionelle Datenbank-Anwendungen" wiedergeben lasst. Fur
derartige Anwendungen werden immer haufiger neuartige DB-Systeme
gefordert. Die Datenbank-Forschung griff diese Problematik schon
vor einigen Jahren verstarkt auf. Das lasst sich belegen durch das
Fachgesprach Datenbanken der GI -Jahrestagung 1983, aber auch durch
so renommierte internationale Konferenzen wie SIGMOD '84 oder
VLDB84 , bei denen sich etwa 50 % der Beitrage mit
Datenbank-Problemen beschaftigten, die sich durch Anwendungen in
Buro, Technik und Wissenschaft stellen. Unter diesen Umstanden
hielt es der Fachausschuss 2.5 "Rechnergestutzte Informations-
systeme" der Gesellschaft fur Informatik fur angebracht, eine
Fachtagung eigens uber Datenbanksysteme fur die Unterstutzung von
Burotatigkeiten und fur technisch-wissen- schaftliche Anwendungen
auszurichten. Die erfreulich grosse Resonanz, die der Aufruf zu
Tagungsbeitragen fand, hat diese Einschatzung bestatigt. Es ist den
Veranstaltern ein Bedurfnis, an dieser Stelle den vielen Autoren zu
danken, die durch ihre einge~ reichten Beitrage die Bedeutung der
Thematik unterstrichen haben, und zwar ausdrucklich auch denen,
deren Beitrage nicht im Tagungsprogramm erscheinen. In den meisten
Fallen ist der Grund dafur nicht die mangelnde Qualitat, sondern
der Zwang zur zeitlichen und thematischen Konzentration, der die
Organisatoren vor die Qual der Wahl stellte.
After almost 50 years, Jainism is set to return to the Rietberg
Museum in an exhibition that offers a new take on the religion. The
catalogue will show works from the museum's own collection and
loans from India including lavishly illuminated manuscripts and
imposing sculptures that reveal Jain ideas and ideals that evolved
over many centuries. The catalogue also examines contemporary
practices among this small, but economically influential religious
community that is found around the world, yet is hardly known
outside India. Furthermore, the catalogue will explore the
contribution that the living tradition of Jainism with its long and
varied history can make to resolve the fundamental challenges the
world faces today: climate change, rampant consumerism, ethnic and
religious intolerance, and social inequality. Combining
masterpieces of Jain art and short films on Jain practices as well
as discussions with Jains from all spheres of life - religious
leaders and laypersons active in business, culture, and politics -
this catalogue promises insights into the particular lifestyle
fostered by Jainism. Visitors are encouraged to engage with new
ideas, reflections, and discussions about what good, healthy, and
sustainable living can look like.
A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may
emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the
study of science's philosophical production. The contributors
explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They
work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political
ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts,
methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a
cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not
need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsin
Jimenez, Deborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne
Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro
A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may
emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the
study of science's philosophical production. The contributors
explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They
work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political
ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts,
methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a
cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not
need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsin
Jimenez, Deborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne
Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro
After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark
book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th- and
18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based
structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some color
photographs and numerous line drawings. His book, highly prized in
terms of design and content, contributed significantly to
introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and
graphics. Mies van der Rohe, for example, gave it to many of his
friends. The reprint is enriched by a text on the history of the
book by Christian Blaser, Werner Blaser's son, a contribution by
Inge Andritz on Mies van der Rohe and Japanese architecture, and a
personal afterword by Tadao Ando.
Faith Development in Early Childhood is a collection of key essays
which have grown out of the experience of the December 1987 Kanuga
National Symposium on Faith Development in Early Childhood. Essays
contained herein explore many aspects of faith development in the
early, formative years of life. Throughout, they show reverence for
the integrity of each growing child, as well as for the vital task
of faith development.
For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with
the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to
maintain their world in the face of conservation and development
programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental
organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between
modernizing visions of development, the place-based "life projects"
of the Yshiro, and the agendas of scholars and activists, Blaser
argues for an understanding of the political mobilization of the
Yshiro and other indigenous peoples as part of a struggle to make
the global age hospitable to a "pluriverse" containing multiple
worlds or realities. As he explains, most knowledge about the
Yshiro produced by non-indigenous "experts" has been based on
modern Cartesian dualisms separating subject and object, mind and
body, and nature and culture. Such thinking differs profoundly from
the relational ontology enacted by the Yshiro and other indigenous
peoples. Attentive to people's unique experiences of place and
self, the Yshiro reject universal knowledge claims, unlike Western
modernity, which assumes the existence of a universal reality and
refuses the existence of other ontologies or realities. In
"Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond," Blaser
engages in storytelling as a knowledge practice grounded in a
relational ontology and attuned to the ongoing struggle for a
pluriversal globality.
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