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The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the
Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German
explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region,
including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter
Karl Bodmer. While Maximilian's intention had been to describe the
flora and fauna of the interior of American, he instead
concentrated on describing the culture, language, customs, and
appearance of the indigenous people he encountered along the way.
Maximilian's work become well known for his thorough study of the
Mandans and Hidatsas tribes, as well as for his less complete
analysis of the Arikaras tribe. Of particular interest is his
description of the one of the most important ceremonies of the
Mandans, the O-kee-pa. While his writings helped to reinforce the
Romantic ideal of the "noble savage," Wied's Travels also records
the impact contact with fur-traders and settlers began have on
Native American tribes and the land around them. vol. 1 of 4
The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the
Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German
explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region,
including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter
Karl Bodmer. While Maximilian's intention had been to describe the
flora and fauna of the interior of American, he instead
concentrated on describing the culture, language, customs, and
appearance of the indigenous people he encountered along the way.
Maximilian's work become well known for his thorough study of the
Mandans and Hidatsas tribes, as well as for his less complete
analysis of the Arikaras tribe. Of particular interest is his
description of the one of the most important ceremonies of the
Mandans, the O-kee-pa. While his writings helped to reinforce the
Romantic ideal of the "noble savage," Wied's Travels also records
the impact contact with fur-traders and settlers began have on
Native American tribes and the land around them. vol. 2 of 4
In the 25 years since the 'Bodmer Report' kick-started the public
understanding of science movement, there has been something of a
revolution in science communication. However, despite the
ever-growing demands of the public, policy-makers and the media,
many scientists still find it difficult to successfully explain and
publicise their activities or to understand and respond to people's
hopes and concerns about their work. Bringing together experienced
and successful science communicators from across the academic,
commercial and media worlds, this practical guide fills this gap to
provide a one-stop resource covering science communication in its
many different forms. The chapters provide vital background
knowledge and inspiring ideas for how to deal with different
situations and interest groups. Entertaining personal accounts of
projects ranging from podcasts, to science festivals, to
student-run societies give working examples of how scientists can
engage with their audiences and demonstrate the key ingredients in
successful science communication.
The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the
Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German
explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region,
including his journey up the Missouri River, with Swiss painter
Karl Bodmer. While Maximilian's intention had been to describe the
flora and fauna of the interior of American, he instead
concentrated on describing the culture, language, customs, and
appearance of the indigenous people he encountered along the way.
Maximilian's work become well known for his thorough study of the
Mandans and Hidatsas tribes, as well as for his less complete
analysis of the Arikaras tribe. Of particular interest is his
description of the one of the most important ceremonies of the
Mandans, the O-kee-pa. While his writings helped to reinforce the
Romantic ideal of the "noble savage," Wied's Travels also records
the impact contact with fur-traders and settlers began have on
Native American tribes and the land around them. vol.3 of 4
A clear and comprehensive guide to financial modeling and valuation
with extensive case studies and practice exercises Corporate and
Project Finance Modeling takes a clear, coherent approach to a
complex and technical topic. Written by a globally-recognized
financial and economic consultant, this book provides a thorough
explanation of financial modeling and analysis while describing the
practical application of newly-developed techniques. Theoretical
discussion, case studies and step-by-step guides allow readers to
master many difficult modeling problems and also explain how to
build highly structured models from the ground up. The companion
website includes downloadable examples, templates, and hundreds of
exercises that allow readers to immediately apply the complex ideas
discussed. Financial valuation is an in-depth process, involving
both objective and subjective parameters. Precise modeling is
critical, and thorough, accurate analysis is what bridges the gap
from model to value. This book allows readers to gain a true
mastery of the principles underlying financial modeling and
valuation by helping them to: * Develop flexible and accurate
valuation analysis incorporating cash flow waterfalls, depreciation
and retirements, updates for new historic periods, and dynamic
presentation of scenario and sensitivity analysis; * Build
customized spreadsheet functions that solve circular logic arising
in project and corporate valuation without cumbersome copy and
paste macros; * Derive accurate measures of normalized cash flow
and implied valuation multiples that account for asset life,
changing growth, taxes, varying returns and cost of capital; *
Incorporate stochastic analysis with alternative time series
equations and Monte Carlo simulation without add-ins; * Understand
valuation effects of debt sizing, sculpting, project funding,
re-financing, holding periods and credit enhancements. Corporate
and Project Finance Modeling provides comprehensive guidance and
extensive explanation, making it essential reading for anyone in
the field.
"When Love Dies" is a refreshing, honest look at one woman's
journey to the edge of divorce, her commitment to stay even though
she didn't feel like it, and eventual rediscovery of the love that
she thought died.
Edited by Lancelot Hogben
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languagesTeutonic, Romance, Greekhelpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life. But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know. "Makes language study more hopeful and exciting than anything I have read before." Lewis Gannett "Rewarding and delightful . . . for everyone who has the slightest curiosity or ambition in self expression, this is a book that contains months or years of pleasurable profit." Christopher Morley
"Of all the books inspired by the Columbian quincentenary, this is
easily one of the most challenging. Bodmer uses early Spanish
chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration. . . . A
richly detailed analytical history of the gradual awakening of a
critical consciousness concerning accepted versions of the
discovery and conquest of America."--Canadian Journal of History
"A quite splendid book."--Journal of Latin American Studies
The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here
imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from
complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing
on certain key firsthand narratives of the Spanish conquest, the
author views various journals, letters, and other documents not
merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary
expressions of the dynamics of the writers' experience: recording
the transformation of their perceptions of New World realities and
showing the gradual development of a critical consciousness that
questions their sense of identity and the validity of European
cultural models. The author illuminates the conceptual and
aesthetic developments that mark the beginnings of a new literature
in the making. Gradually, the aesthetic requirements and canons of
Europe are left behind as this new literature begins to convey the
new realities of colonial Spanish America that shape the complex
poetics of Alonso de Ercilla's great epic poem La Araucana. The
book begins with analyses of texts by Christopher Columbus and
Hernan Cortes, showing how the discourse of mythification
fictionalizes both the New World itself and the nature and meaning
of the conquest. Then, as the conquistadors' expeditions
increasingly fail disillusionment engenders ideological crisis,
questioning, and demythification, as exemplified in Nunez Cabeza de
Vaca's Naufragios. The book concludes by synthesizing the various
historical and aesthetic elements that led to the awakening in the
conquistadors of a new, divided, and contradicting consciousness,
whose first literary flowering was La Araucana.
Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide bridges
the gap between the traditional medical model of problem-focused
assessment and treatment and the newer, increasingly popular
strength-based treatment approach. The author's objective is to
provide another therapeutic dimension, thus enhancing
problem-focused treatment and supporting competency in this
strength-based modality. Psychiatrists, pediatricians, family
practitioners, nurses, and other mental health providers will
appreciate the how-to focus of the text, its compelling, case-based
approach to learning, and its informal, conversational writing
style.
The book's structure and features are designed to facilitate
learning:
- The book begins with an overview of the core tenets of
solution-focused therapy, starting with solution-focused case
review and examining both solution-focused core assumptions and
core questions. This helps the reader understand the foundation of
this modality and put it into context.- A primary objective is
building the skills necessary to effective solution-based therapy,
and the book includes instruction on conducting a solution-focused
interview, establishing a framework of strengths and resources,
developing a yes-set, negotiating goals, amplifying ambivalence,
and dealing with crisis. - Solution-focused techniques are
integrated within supervision and consultation, an approach that
clinicians who work with students and residents, and supervisors
who work within agencies will find immensely useful.-
Solution-focused psychopharmacotherapy and addiction therapy merit
complete chapters, providing information that clinicians will find
invaluable when applying solution-focused techniques in these
situations.- The case illustrations vividly render the dialogue of
patient and therapist, and are accompanied by detailed explanations
and commentary in italics to help the reader learn how to practice
this model of treatment. - Companion videos (available online)
present commonly used techniques that illustrate key features of
solution-focused therapy in a compelling and enlightening way.
Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide provides
learning exercises and case illustrations that will help the reader
implement practical strategies immediately with patients, students,
supervisees and trainees. Practical, engaging, and evidence-based,
this book will enhance the clinician's ability to connect with and
help the patient in a positive way.
In 1993, Rolf Bodmer described a gene he named tinman that was
required for the formation of the dorsal aorta of the fly. Flies
without a functional tinman gene had no heart. Quickly, mammalian
counterparts of the tinman gene were identified and found to be
expressed by early cardiomyogenic precursors and by cardiomyocytes
throughout heart development. Since then, significant progress has
been made in the understanding of molecular and genetic
determinants of heart formation. An ever growing number of genes
have been identified that are required for cardiogenesis, as
evidenced by severe abnormalities in cardiac development produced
by inactivation in the mouse or inhibition of gene function in
other model organisms.
"Cardiovascular Development" covers some of the latest research in
the study of heart formation. Volume Editor Rolf Bodmer has
assembled a world-class list of contributors whose research uses a
variety of animal models and whose findings are certain to enhance
our understanding of this exciting field.
* Ties together the development of heart morphology and conduction
system
* The latest developments in vertebrate and invertebrate genetic
model systems
* Technological advancements in cardiovascular science
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