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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Nothing is Lost (Paperback)
cloe Mehdi; Translated by Howard Curtis
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In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes
wrong. The victim, Said, was fifteen years old. And now he is dead.
Mattia is just eleven years old, and witnesses the hatred and
sadness felt by those around him. While he didn't know Said, his
face can be seen all over the neighbourhood, graffitied on walls in
red paint, demanding "Justice". Mattia decides to pull together the
pieces of the puzzle, to try to understand what happened. Because
even the dead don't stay buried forever, and nothing is lost, ever.
The rise and expansion of organized scientific research has led
individuals to become accustomed to an unceasing delivery of new
scientific results and technical improvements that resolve even
seemingly unsolvable problems. This timely book examines how
science-based research and innovation is designed, implemented and
applied in developing countries in support of development and
poverty alleviation. The expert contributors trace and compare the
emergence of National Innovation Systems (NIS) in four developing
countries - Bolivia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Vietnam. Dedicated
chapters on each country identify the main structural and
organizational problems for improving the relevance and quality of
research output for the productive sector, and conclude by offering
suggestions on how the process of applying research outputs and
innovations in support of development goals can be improved.
Scholars and students of development, innovation and related
subjects will find this book to be useful with its focus on
national innovation systems. It will also be of interest to policy
advisors, decision-makers and other practitioners involved in
development issues.
Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of
reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study
of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes
to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the
epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that
will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on
life and that reason derives its material and general orientation
from the interaction between them.
The imaginative master-minds--novelists, poets, composers,
painters, and others--powerfully affect the sensibility and
direction of society. Sometimes a distorting, self-serving
willfulness at the base of their visions draws civilization,
including reason, into dangerous illusion. More penetrating and
balanced vision and rationality spring from a different quality of
will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay between will, imagination,
and reason that is conducive to a deepened sense of reality and to
intellectual understanding. He argues that human life and
self-knowledge are inescapably historical. In developing his
dialectical view of intellect, he draws from Irving Babbitt,
Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers to refute positivistic,
formalistic, and ahistorical theories of knowledge and to develop
his alternative.
Advancing a systematic epistemological argument, Ryn throws
much new light on the nature of reason but also on central issues
of ethics and aesthetics. This trenchant and original work is
indispensable to philosophers, social, political and cultural
theorists, literary scholars, and historians.
Psychiatry at a Glance is an up-to-date, accessible introductory
and study text for all students of psychiatry. It presents
need-to-know information on the basic science, treatment, and
management of the major disorders, and helps you develop your
skills in history taking and performing the Mental State
Examination (MSE). This new edition features: Thoroughly updated
content to reflect new research, the DSM 5 classification and NICE
guidelines All the information required, including practice
questions, for the written Psychiatry exams Extensive
self-assessment material, including Extending Matching Questions,
Single Best Answer questions, and sample OSCE stations, to
reinforce knowledge learnt A companion website at
ataglanceseries.com/psychiatry featuring interactive case studies
and downloadable illustrations Psychiatry at a Glance will appeal
to medical students, junior doctors and psychiatry trainees, as
well as nursing students and other health professionals and is the
ideal companion for anyone about to start a psychiatric attachment
or module.
The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and
of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the
first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and
consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws together a
new generation of leading historians from North America, Japan,
Europe, Russia and Central Asia, working with Russian archival
sources, oral narratives, poetry and song in Kazakh and Kyrgyz.
These illuminate in unprecedented detail the origins and causes of
the revolt, and the immense human suffering which it entailed. They
also situate the revolt in a global perspective as part of a chain
of rebellions and disturbances that shook the world's empires, as
they crumbled under the pressures of total war. -- .
Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre
of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam,
presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following
century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural
consequence of a dynamic and progressive city, such as Amsterdam,
taking advantage of expanding commercial opportunities at the
expense of a more conservative rival hampered by outmoded medieval
practices. Yet, whilst this theory is widely accepted, is it
accurate? In this groundbreaking study, Cle Lesger argues that the
shift of commercial power from Antwerp to Amsterdam was by no means
inevitable, and that the highly specialized economy of the Low
Countries was more than capable of adapting to the changing needs
of international trade. It was only when the Dutch Revolt and
military campaigns literally divided the Low Countries into
separate states that the existing stable spatial economy and port
system fell apart, and a restructuring was needed. Within this
process of restructuring the port of Amsterdam acquired a function
radically different to the one it had prior to the division of the
Netherlands. Before the Revolt it had served as the northern
outport in a gateway system centred on Antwerp, but with access of
that port now denied to the new republic, Amsterdam developed as
the main centre for Dutch shipping, trade and - crucially - the
exchange of information. Drawing on a wide variety of neglected
archival collections (including those of the Bank of Amsterdam),
this study not only addresses specific historical questions
concerning the commercial life of the Low Countries, but through
the case study of Amsterdam, also explores wider issues of early
modern European commercial trade and economic development.
These two volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary theory and research in psychological science. Based on the keynote and state-of-the-art lectures from the 27th International Congress of Psychology, the volumes feature a collection of chapters written by international leaders in psychological scholarship. The chapters reflect the diversity of current research topics in psychology, where old boundaries have become obsolete and subdivisions from the past merge to form new objects of study. Volume 1 addresses cognitive, biological, and health perspectives. It includes sections on the neural mechanisms underlying psychological processes; the core areas in experimental psychology, perception, attention, learning, and memory; the multiple aspects of psychological health; the interaction between cognitive and emotional processes; and higher cognitive processes with special focus on decision-making and language. Volume 2 deals with social, developmental, and clinical perspectives. The sections highlight human development across the life span; basic and applied issues in personality, emotion, and clinical psychology; social psychology, ranging from experimental work through social constructivism; and gender.
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Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design
Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and
proposes various adaptation strategies for climate emergencies
(heat waves, wildfires, floods, and storms). Divided into three
themes, the book offers an organized vision of a complex and
multi-factor challenge. It covers climatic resilience and building
refurbishment, implications for service life prediction and
maintainability, and climate adaptation in the maintenance and
management of buildings. Sections cover infrastructure materials,
climate emergency adaptation and building adaptation to heat waves,
wildfires, floods and storms. The book will be an essential
reference resource for civil and structural engineers, architects,
planners, designers and other professionals who have an interest in
the adaptation of the built environment against climate change.
This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars
seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to
modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that
education and society have in shaping the views of the world's
future citizens. The book also explores how different aspects of
citizenship, such as attitudes towards diverse population groups
and concerns for social issues, relate to classical definitions of
norm-based citizenship from the political sciences. Authors from
Asia, Europe, and Latin America provide a series of in-depth
investigations into how concepts of "good citizenship" are shaped
in different regions of the globe, using the rich comparative data
from the IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS)
2016. In twelve chapters, the authors review the concept of "good
citizenship"; how citizenship norms adherence is configured into
profiles across countries; and what country, school, and background
factors are related to how students adhere to citizenship norms.
Recognizing contingent social and political situations in specific
regions of the world, the present books offer six chapters where
authors apply their expertise to offer locally relevant and
pertinent observations on how young people from diverse cultures
understand and relate to different dimensions of citizenship in
countries of Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The present book is
of relevance for different audiences interested in civic education
and political socialization, including social sciences and
education, integrating topics from political science, sociology,
political psychology, and law.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020, is one of the most
recognizable acronyms in international politics. The organization
has undergone decades of changing importance, from political
irrelevance to the spotlight of world attention and back; and from
economic boom for its members to deep political and financial
crisis. This handbook, with chapters provided by scholars and
analysts from different backgrounds and specializations, discusses
and analyzes the history and development of OPEC, its global
importance, and the role it has played, and still plays, in the
global energy market. Part I focuses on the relationship between
OPEC and its member states. Part II examines the relationship
between OPEC and its customers, the consuming countries and their
governments, while Part III addresses the relationship between OPEC
and its competitors and potential partners, the non-OPEC producers,
and the international oil companies. The final section, Part IV,
looks at OPEC and the governance of international energy.
This book investigates news use patterns among five different
generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice
media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model
(Engagement-Participation-Information-Generation) to study how
different generational cohorts' exposure to political information
is related to their political engagement and participation. The
authors build on a multi-method framework to determine direct and
indirect media effects across generations. The unique dataset
allows for comparison of effects between legacy and social media
use and helps to disentangle the influence on citizens' political
involvement in nonelection as well as during political campaign
times. Bringing the newly of-age Generation Z into the picture, the
book presents an in-depth understanding of how a changing media
environment presents different challenges and opportunities for
political involvement of this, as well as older generations.
Bringing the conversation around political engagement and the media
up to date for the new generation, this book will be of key
importance to scholars and students in the areas of media studies,
communication studies, technology, political science and political
communication.
Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to
shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted.
This view has dominated the comprehension of the interpretation of
art: it always entails the interpretation of something, and this
something must then govern our effort to understand it. If not, we
are left with mere subjective whims. This book tries to modify this
well-worn view by altering the dualist position to incorporate the
very object within the sense-making activity. Interpretation rather
becomes the creative making of something different, and this
explains why it is deemed unfinished. The notion of
"re-contextualization" covers this in between operation (between
work and interpretation), and the very object of interpretation
remains just an enabling condition of transference. Interpretation
preserves the challenge, by re-making and re-locating meaning.
This book highlights the challenges faced by renewable energy
enterprises (REEs) in emerging markets, by reflecting on the
enterprises' own stories and experiences. Research into REEs has
focused largely on successful businesses and business models, and
developed markets. With significant opportunities for renewable
energy enterprise in emerging markets, this book presents a unique
business-level perspective. It highlights the key barriers and
outlines the strategic and operational solutions for success
articulated by the entrepreneurs themselves. The research draws on
interviews with entrepreneurs in twenty-eight emerging markets,
including Barbados, Cambodia, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, India,
Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. The book concludes by summarising
the key solutions for success and illustrating how successful REEs
put them into practice. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of renewable energy, sustainable business and
the sustainability agenda in emerging markets.
This book investigates news use patterns among five different
generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice
media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model
(Engagement-Participation-Information-Generation) to study how
different generational cohorts' exposure to political information
is related to their political engagement and participation. The
authors build on a multi-method framework to determine direct and
indirect media effects across generations. The unique dataset
allows for comparison of effects between legacy and social media
use and helps to disentangle the influence on citizens' political
involvement in nonelection as well as during political campaign
times. Bringing the newly of-age Generation Z into the picture, the
book presents an in-depth understanding of how a changing media
environment presents different challenges and opportunities for
political involvement of this, as well as older generations.
Bringing the conversation around political engagement and the media
up to date for the new generation, this book will be of key
importance to scholars and students in the areas of media studies,
communication studies, technology, political science and political
communication.
The studies in this volume conceptualize populism as a type of
political communication and investigate it comparatively, focusing
on (a) politicians' and journalists' perceptions, (b) media
coverage, and (c) effects on citizens. This book presents findings
from several large-scale internationally comparative empirical
studies, funded by the European Cooperation in the field of
Scientific and Technical Research (COST), focusing on communication
and the media within the context of populism and populist political
communication in Europe. The studies are based on comparative
interview studies with journalists and politicians, a large-scale
comparative content analysis, and a comparative cross-country
experiment using nationally representative online-surveys over 15
countries. The book also includes advice for stakeholders like
politicians, the media, and citizens about how to deal with the
challenge of populist political communication. This enlightening
volume is 'populist' in the best sense and will be an essential
text for any scholar in political science, communication science,
media studies, sociology and philosophy with an interest in
populism and political communication. It does not assume specialist
knowledge and will remain accessible and engaging to students,
practitioners and policymakers. Chapter 1 and 11 of this book are
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138392724_oachapter1.pdf
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138392724_oachapter12.pdf
The figure of the imposter can stir complicated emotions, from
intrigue to suspicion and fear. But what insights can these
troublesome figures provide into the social relations and cultural
forms from which they emerge? Edited by leading scholars in the
field, this volume explores the question through a diverse range of
empirical cases, including magicians, spirit possession, fake
Instagram followers, fake art and fraudulent scientists. Proposing
'thinking with imposters' as a valuable new tool of analysis in the
social sciences and humanities, this revolutionary book shows how
the figure of the imposter can help upend social theory.
This book tells the story of how the news media can help the
inattentive members of the public become better educated and
knowledgeable 'economic citizens'. The authors argue that changes
in the economy, journalism and consumer culture have made economic
news more visible, more mainstream and more accessible. They show
how economic news not only affects economic perceptions, but also
interest in the economy, knowledge about the economy, and economic
voting. Relying on statistical analyses, the book provides a
comprehensive and systematic study of the effects of economic news.
The Politics of Oil-Producer Cooperation is a comprehensive study
of the behavior of political actors in the international oil market
since 1971. In this study, Dag Harald Claes seeks to answer the
question of what determines the cooperative behavior among
oil-producing countries, and he also shows the benefits of
approaching an empirical topic from several levels of analysis.
Claes provides a case study demonstrating the problems of
collective action in international politics, and he discusses
multi-level approaches in studies of international relations, and
international political economy.
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