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Anti-aging products are undergoing exceptional growth in the
cosmetics industry far beyond that of general cosmetics. This book
is the only available text that assembles the key pieces developers
need to produce new breakthroughs for a growing market that demands
quicker and more effective results. It also focuses much needed
attention on the biochemical and clinical differences between
Caucasian and other skin types.
Beginning with detailed descriptions of the forces driving the
anti-aging market, this unique book provides readers with all the
tools necessary to further research, develop, market, and sell
novel products. Recent discoveries on the molecular level and novel
methods of skin aging assessment are detailed as well as the state
of the rapidly changing global regulatory environment. The
formulation approaches of major cosmetics companies are presented
as are their techniques for measuring skin aging in vitro and in
vivo, both on the molecular and clinical levels.
Provides philosophical perspective on the growth of the anti-aging
market
Covers skin types beyond Caucasian
Provides key pieces for developing and selling new breakthrough
products
Includes technology from major cosmetic companies such as Chanel,
Avon, Estee lauder and others"
Aos amantes da leitura que adoram viajar em um Mundo fantastico que
e o mundo de um livro. Ao meu primeiro amor pois sem ele nao
haveria Poesias e aos sentimentos contidos no coracao de um Poeta.
E a minha esperanca de acreditar que tudo e possivel E que sonhos
se tornam realidade, esse era o meu sonho e Qual sera o teu?
100 years after the Dada soirees rocked the art world, the author
investigates the role that music played in the movement. Dada is
generally thought of as noisy and unmusical, but The Music of Dada
shows that music was at the core of Dada theory and practice. Music
(by Schoenberg, Satie and many others) performed on the piano
played a central role in the soirees, from the beginnings in
Zurich, in 1916, to the end in Paris and Holland, seven years
later. The Music of Dada provides a historical analysis of music at
Dada events, and asks why accounts of Dada have so consistently
ignored music's vital presence. The answer to that question turns
out to explain how music has related to the other arts ever since
the days of Dada. The music of Dada is the key to understanding
intermediality in our time.
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National Treasure 1 and 2 (DVD)
Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, …
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Double bill of action/adventure. In 'National Treasure' (2004),
Nicolas Cage stars as Benjamin Franklin Gates, an archaeologist
from the seventh generation of a family of treasure-seekers who
have all shared the same quest: to discover the whereabouts of an
old war chest full of gold hidden by the founding fathers in the
last days of the Revolutionary War. Ben must work against the clock
to unravel the clues embedded in the original drafts of two key
historical documents - the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence - before his criminal ex-partner Ian Howe (Sean Bean),
or the FBI - led by Agent Sadusky (Harvey Keitel) - get their mitts
on the loot. Helping him in his quest is beautiful archivist
Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger). In 'National Treasure 2 - Book of
Secrets' (2008), Nicolas Cage reprises his role as artefact hunter
and archaeologist, Ben Franklin Gates. When a missing page from the
diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, surfaces,
one of Ben's ancestors is implicated as a conspirator in the
murder. In an attempt to clear their family's name, Ben and his
father, Mitch (Jon Voight), travel the globe in search of the other
missing pages from Booth's diary. The journey leads Ben and his
crew not only to surprising revelations, but to the trail of the
world's most treasured secrets.
With impending and burgeoning societal issues affecting both
developed and emerging nations, the global engineering community
has a responsibility and an opportunity to truly make a difference
and contribute. The papers in this collection address what
materials and resources are integral to meeting basic societal
sustainability needs in critical areas of energy, transportation,
housing, and recycling. Contributions focus on the engineering
answers for cost-effective, sustainable pathways; the strategies
for effective use of engineering solutions; and the role of the
global engineering community. Authors share perspectives on the
major engineering challenges that face our world today; identify,
discuss, and prioritize engineering solution needs; and establish
how these fit into developing global-demand pressures for materials
and human resources.
Double carbon targets have been one of the most motivations and
targets for China's social and economic development. Building is
one of the most important sectors to achieve energy savings and
emission reductions. This book focuses on China's building energy
usage and CO2 emissions, discusses the status quo of China's
building energy of four categories, their characteristics and
technologies to improve energy efficiency and achieve zero-carbon
emissions. Specifically, this book in 2021 discussed the pathways
to achieve carbon neutrality targets for China's building sector.
This book also analyzed the energy mix, energy intensity, and
technology perspectives to implement energy and carbon targets in
urban residential building areas. This book consists of large-scale
survey data, monitoring data and case studies. The discussion on
technologies and policies is supported by a variety of evidence and
continuous research for more than ten years. The information, data
and policy suggestions will interest readers all around the world
who work in energy, climate change, engineering and building
science areas.
This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide,
using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse
communities and common-law-based legal system. Utilizing analytical
alongside practical perspectives, the book offers a novel
crimino-legal approach to femicide. In addition to its
interdisciplinary novelty, the book presents originality in going
beyond the more usual focus on the central victims and the common
legal tools. Here, the authors extend the analysis to secondary
victims of femicide and examine the applicability of second-tiered
relevant legal tools, mostly tort law, as a means for gaining
justice for the victims. This explorative journey culminates with
the authors' definition of femicide as a quintessential "crime of
distinct nature". In the context of current international pledges
to better understand and consequently better fight femicide, this
work allows readers to comprehend the phenomenon and the ways to
abolish it. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics,
researchers and policy makers working in the areas of criminal law,
tort law, family law, criminology and gender studies, as well as
for legal theorists and criminologists seeking integration of both
disciplines.
This book explores the ways in which the political and social power
structures between filmmaker and protagonist are manifested in the
aesthetics of documentary film. Using a synthesis of filmmaking
practice and critical theories from the fields of cultural studies
and political philosophy, the research devises methodological
approaches to the analysis of documentaries in light of the
political and material conditions of their emergence. By exploring
filmmaking practice and placing it in the context of wider theories
pertaining to issues of power structures and representation, it
sheds light on the different aspects which must be considered when
approaching the analysis of a documentary film for its ideological
and political content.
This book explores femicide, and scrutinizes the three key American
criminal doctrines usually applied in its cases: provocation; the
felony murder rule; self-defence. The book also explores the
influence of the American Model Penal Code, and proposes, connected
to the various criminal doctrines applicable to femicide, a focused
and detailed amendment to the Code containing unique features and a
formula providing a socio-legal response to issues that the author
believes have not yet been adequately addressed. Though primarily
focused on femicide in America, the issues discussed are of global
relevance due to the tragically widespread nature of femicide, and
the book also makes significant contributions to the legal
discourse of many other countries with similar legal structures.
Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate,
as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to
translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately
difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies.
Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were
worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French
literary tradition, echoed by composers such as Berlioz and
Debussy, which stretches from Sand to Derrida. Their writing shows
how it is both necessary and futile to look for music in poetry, or
for poetry in music: necessary, because each art defines itself by
reference to what it is not, and cannot be, in order to point to an
idealized totality outside itself; futile, because the musicality
of poetry, like the poetic meaning of music, must remain as elusive
as that idealized totality; its distance is the very condition of
the art. Thus is generated a subtle but unmistakable general
definition of the nature of art which has proved uniquely able to
survive all the probings of poststructuralism. That definition of
art is inseparable from a disturbingly effective scepticism towards
all forms of explication and explanation in critical discourse, so
it is doubtless not surprising that critics in general have done
their best to ignore it. But by bringing out what Sand, Baudelaire,
Mallarme, Proust, Debussy, Berlioz, Barthes, and Derrida all do in
the same way as they work on the limits of the analogy between
music and literature, this book shows how it is possible,
productive, illuminating, and fascinating to work on those limits;
though to do so, as we find repeatedly, in Chopin's dreams as in
Derrida's 'tombeaux', requires us to have the courage to face, in
music, our literal death, and the limits of our intelligence.
In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the
public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied
that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a
painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere paint,
flung in the public's face? Whistler's answer was simple: painting
is music - or it is poetry. Georges Braque, half a century later,
echoed Whistler's answer. So did Braque's friends Apollinaire and
Ponge. They presented their poetry as music too - and as painting.
But meanwhile, composers such as Satie and Stravinsky were
presenting their own art - music - as if it transposed the values
of painting or of poetry. The fundamental principle of this
intermedial aesthetic, which bound together an extraordinary
fraternity of artists in all media in Paris, from 1885 to 1945, was
this: we must always think about the value of a work of art, not
within the logic of its own medium, but as if it transposed the
value of art in another medium. Peter Dayan traces the history of
this principle: how it created our very notion of 'great art', why
it declined as a vision from the 1960s and how, in the 21st
century, it is fighting back.
The book provides a comprehensive detailed summary of current
status on skin microbiome research in health and disease as well as
key regulatory and legal aspects. In the past decade, interest and
technology have greatly advanced to unravel the nature and effect
of skin microbiome on our health. Diseases such as atopic
dermatitis and acne are at the forefront of this research, but also
other conditions such as skin cancer are under investigation. In
addition, mapping of the skin microbiome has gone from basic to
more detailed with attempts to correlate it to various ages,
ethnicities and genders. In parallel to mapping it, a great deal of
research is dedicated to understanding its functionality and
communication (and hence effect) on human cells. The Skin
Microbiome Handbook is a summary of current status of knowledge,
research tools and approaches in skin microbiome, in health and
disease. It contains the following categories: healthy skin
microbiome and oral-skin interaction; skin microbiome observational
research; skin microbiome in disequilibrium and disease; skin's
innate immunity; testing and study design; regulatory and legal
aspects for skin microbiome related products. The 18 chapters of
the book are written by carefully selected leaders in the academia
and industry exhibiting extensive experience and understanding in
the areas of interest.
The Minipig in Biomedical Research is a comprehensive resource
for research scientists on the potential and use of the minipig in
basic and applied biomedical research, and the development of drugs
and chemicals. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, and
drawing on the authors global contacts and experience with
regulatory authorities and the pharmaceutical and other industries,
this accessible manual ranges widely over the biological,
scientific, and practical uses of the minipig in the laboratory.
Its coverage extends from the minipig s origins, anatomy, genetics,
immunology, and physiology to its welfare, health, and husbandry;
practical dosing and examination procedures; surgical techniques;
and all areas of toxicity testing and the uses of the minipig as a
disease model. Regulatory aspects of its use are considered.
The reader will find an extensive amount of theoretical and
practical information in the pharmacology; ADME and toxicology
chapters which will help scientists and managers when deciding
which species to use in basic research; drug discovery and
pharmacology; and toxicology studies of chemicals, biotechnology
products and devices. The book discusses regulatory uses of
minipigs in the evaluation of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals,
medical devices, and other classes of xenobiotics. It describes
features of normal health, normal laboratory values, and common
diseases. It also carefully elucidates ethical and legal
considerations in their supply, housing, and transport. The result
is an all-inclusive and up to date manual about the experimental
uses of the minipig that describes How to and Why and What to
expect in the normal, combining enthusiasm and experience with
critical assessment of its values and potential problems."
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Scorpio Witch
Ivo Dominguez, Zoe Howe; Contributions by Alison Chicosky, Cat Heath, Dayan Skipper-Martinez, …
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Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate,
as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to
translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately
difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies.
Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were
worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French
literary tradition, echoed by composers such as Berlioz and
Debussy, which stretches from Sand to Derrida. Their writing shows
how it is both necessary and futile to look for music in poetry, or
for poetry in music: necessary, because each art defines itself by
reference to what it is not, and cannot be, in order to point to an
idealized totality outside itself; futile, because the musicality
of poetry, like the poetic meaning of music, must remain as elusive
as that idealized totality; its distance is the very condition of
the art. Thus is generated a subtle but unmistakable general
definition of the nature of art which has proved uniquely able to
survive all the probings of poststructuralism. That definition of
art is inseparable from a disturbingly effective scepticism towards
all forms of explication and explanation in critical discourse, so
it is doubtless not surprising that critics in general have done
their best to ignore it. But by bringing out what Sand, Baudelaire,
Mallarme, Proust, Debussy, Berlioz, Barthes, and Derrida all do in
the same way as they work on the limits of the analogy between
music and literature, this book shows how it is possible,
productive, illuminating, and fascinating to work on those limits;
though to do so, as we find repeatedly, in Chopin's dreams as in
Derrida's 'tombeaux', requires us to have the courage to face, in
music, our literal death, and the limits of our intelligence.
100 years after the Dada soirees rocked the art world, the author
investigates the role that music played in the movement. Dada is
generally thought of as noisy and unmusical, but The Music of Dada
shows that music was at the core of Dada theory and practice. Music
(by Schoenberg, Satie and many others) performed on the piano
played a central role in the soirees, from the beginnings in
Zurich, in 1916, to the end in Paris and Holland, seven years
later. The Music of Dada provides a historical analysis of music at
Dada events, and asks why accounts of Dada have so consistently
ignored music's vital presence. The answer to that question turns
out to explain how music has related to the other arts ever since
the days of Dada. The music of Dada is the key to understanding
intermediality in our time.
The Behavior of Broadus is the incredible sort-of-true story of
John Broadus Watson, father of behaviorism and modern advertising.
He has the power to control your brain. Indeed, we suspect he's
making you read this right now. This Mad Men-esque dark comedy puts
the origins of our pop culture consumerist society under a
satirical magnifying glass.
A distinguished list of contributors explores a variety of
perspectives on the artistic culture of France and surrounding
countries during the period 1870 to 1914. Aspects of dance, cinema,
theater, poetry, prose, painting, social and political science,
history, and medicine are covered in interdisciplinary essays that
are both useful to researchers and accessible to students.
The first part of the book, which concentrates on France,
assembles essays on the prose, poetry, and painting of Symbolism
and Decadence, in particular Mallarme and Moreau; on avant-garde
dance and performance; on women's writing; and on early cinema from
Lumiere, Villiers, and Verne.
The second part explores the relations between France and
several cultures. These cross-cultural investigations range from
studies of the Anglo-Celtic "Rhymers' Club" to the Italian
Crepusculari and include discussions of Belgian Symbolism and the
Franco-Anglo-American Axis. The essays consistently point beyond
the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth as they explore
the multiple beginnings -- as well as the false starts -- that
characterize the period.
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