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The only Japan travel guide you'll need for getting around Kyoto!
Everything you need is in this one convenient package--including
extensive area maps! Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day
center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's
most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1,300 years ago
and undamaged by the war, Kyoto today is the home of over 1,600
Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, countless national treasures
and 17 World Heritage sites, including the famed Golden Pavilion,
Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple. To experience the essence of
Kyoto, you must walk its avenues and streets, its alleys and
byways. Only in this way can you appreciate the true spirit of the
place--its quiet lanes and bustling main thoroughfares, and the
juxtaposition of traditional and modern houses and shops, serene
gardens and holy temples and shrines. This Kyoto travel guide
presents 29 easy-to-follow walking tours through Kyoto's history,
its many unique districts and scenic areas full of charm and
character. You'll discover not only the most renowned sites, such
as the Silver Pavilion, the rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple and the
garden of the Heian Shrine, but also little-known areas off the
beaten track. Much more than a guidebook, this volume tells the
historical and cultural story of Kyoto's great monuments. The
colorful tales, fascinating facts, larger-than-life characters and
grand events that shaped the city and Japan at large will enthrall
every reader. This updated and greatly expanded guide features over
100 color photos, full-color maps that trace each route and
detailed diagrams of many individual sites.
This is the fascinating, first-hand story of the groundbreaking
invention by Nobel prizewinner Karl Ziegler and the patent fights
between his research team at the Max Planck Institute of Carbon
Research in Germany and the "giants" of the petrochemicals
industry, such as Du Pont and Esso. The author joined Ziegler's
group throughout the entire period, providing an entertaining case
study of an innovative chemical discovery, presenting interesting
historical as well as scientific information.
An impressive example of the fights between academia and
industry concerning patent rights and the economic utilization of
academic research innovations.
This book is designed for use in courses in law schools and
university departments of philosophy. It can serve as a text for
basic and advanced courses and seminars. Readings include excerpts
of classic works of Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Hobbes, Kant,
Bentham, and Austin. Provided also are excerpts from standard works
of twentieth century philosophers. The book explores current legal
discourse with readings on topics such as sociobiology, Islamic
law, the legal process school, legal feminism, critical legal
studies, intersectionality and gender identity theories, law and
economics, and new private law theories. It reprints leading cases
on natural rights/human rights and readings from online blogs,
op-ed essays, news stories and internet publications, as well as
drawing on literary treatment of topics relevant to legal
philosophy.
During the last decades, our society is witnessing an authentic
revolution that, in a dizzying manner has deeply influenced,
modified, and transformed the way of life of human beings. This
constant and unstoppable revolution is transmuting all areas of our
life: social, cultural, personal, labor, economic, training, etc.
This new society is characterized by a high generation of knowledge
and the constant and fluid processing of information. In this
macro-context, the MOOC phenomenon emerged. MOOC (Massive Open
Online Courses) courses are based on the principles of massive,
free access to all materials and resources offered online. This new
didactic path can be constituted in an innovative techno-social
tendency, especially oriented in the panorama of Higher Education
to stimulate university improvement, open opportunities at the same
time for education and training or, simply, derive towards a new
business model for the universities. In addition to being an entry
point for the popularization of science and knowledge, the future
possibilities are enormous and are being studied in all their
various dimensions. Many initiatives as a result have been
developed to implement this new form of education. MOOC Courses and
the Future of Higher Education presents the latest research
theories and current examples of MOOC courses practices in Higher
Education. The chapters represent an extensive assortment of
interpretations and practices examples of MOOC courses, across
areas as varied as teaching methodologies, instructional
innovations, educational technology, etc. This work is structured
in three sections, the first one covers the university institution
in the knowledge society, the second analyzes the MOOC training
proposals, and the third discusses the future role of MOOCs.
Technical topics discussed in the book include: - The
Virtualization of Teaching in Higher Education - Training and
Professional Development at the e-University - Taxonomy of MOOCs -
MOOC: Strengths and Weaknesses - MOOCs and the Scientific
Community: Challenges and Innovation - MOOC Platforms - Directory
of MOOC Resources - MOOC: Reflections of the Future
This title was first published in 1992: This book compares
stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new
Asian democracy Japan and the much older Western democracy Britain.
While the democratic polity emerged incrementally and indigenously
in Britain, it was essentially a modern and in many ways foreign
implant in Japan. By analysing long-term trends and recent changes
in political attitudes, support for government institutions,
participation, voting behaviour, and policy-making in the two
polities, the authors seek to bring us a unique perspective on
these two dynamic island political cultures on opposite ends of the
Eurasian land mass. This study will be useful as a supplemental
text in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in
comparative political systems or political cultures, particularly
those focusing on industrial democracies. It can also be used in
courses on either British or Japanese politics.
This ground-breaking collection of writings explores how
progressive third parties in the U.S. can become more electorally
successful and politically influential. It is the only recently
published book that focuses exclusively on how such parties may
advance. Their rise may be essential to countering the powerful,
growing sway of wealth within the two major American parties, and
to creating a more just, democratic United States. Contributors
include key participants in and observers of the U.S. left third
party movement. Nearly all have previously authored books or
articles on progressive politics. Many have led effective left
third party efforts, and some have held elected office on behalf of
a progressive third party. Together the writers reflect on a wide
range of relevant parties-including the Green Party, the Vermont
Progressive Party, the Labor Party, the Working Families Party,
Socialist Alternative, and potential new parties on the American
left. The authors highlight a variety of strategies and conditions
that may facilitate electoral breakthroughs by such parties and
their candidates. Overall, the collection suggests that U.S.
progressive third parties may make more headway if they
thoughtfully combine their idealism and sense of urgency with a
flexible, pragmatic approach to gaining power.
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa
and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation
of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of
archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This
involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice
as well as substantive changes in the power relations between
archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions concerning the
development of ethical archaeological practices are at the heart of
this process.
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa
and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation
of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of
archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This
involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice
as well as substantive changes in the power relations between
archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions concerning the
development of ethical archaeological practices are at the heart of
this process.
This title was first published in 1992: This book compares
stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new
Asian democracy Japan and the much older Western democracy Britain.
While the democratic polity emerged incrementally and indigenously
in Britain, it was essentially a modern and in many ways foreign
implant in Japan. By analysing long-term trends and recent changes
in political attitudes, support for government institutions,
participation, voting behaviour, and policy-making in the two
polities, the authors seek to bring us a unique perspective on
these two dynamic island political cultures on opposite ends of the
Eurasian land mass. This study will be useful as a supplemental
text in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in
comparative political systems or political cultures, particularly
those focusing on industrial democracies. It can also be used in
courses on either British or Japanese politics.
This book illustrates correct techniques and demonstrates how to
achieve optimal results in Bowling. It focuses on skills and drills
or program design, and addresses a broad range of strategies
specifically designed to improve performance now and in the future.
This book is part of the Teach, Coach, Play series, emphasizing a
systematic learning approach to sports and activities. Both visual
and verbal information are presented so that readers can easily
understand the material and improve performance. Built-in learning
aids help readers master each skill in a step-by-step manner. Using
the cues, summaries, skills, drills, and illustrations will help
build a solid foundation for safe and effective participation now
and in the future. The basic approach in all of the Teach, Coach,
Play activity titles is to help readers improve their skills and
performance by building mastery from simple to increasingly complex
levels. The books strive to illustrate correct techniques and
demonstrate how to achieve optimal results. The basic organization
in each book is as follows: Section 1 overviews history,
organizations and publications, conditioning activities, safety,
warm up suggestions, and equipment. Section 2 covers exercise or
skills, participants, action involved, rules, facility or field,
scoring, and etiquette. Section 3 focuses on skills and drills or
program design. Section 4 addresses a broad range of strategies
specifically designed to improve performance now and in the future.
Section 5 provides a convenient glossary of terms.
"Past Minds is an interesting and ambitious effort to integrate
historical thinking with evolutionary and anthropological
thinking." - Anthropology Review Database How do historians
understand the minds, motivations, intentions of historical agents?
What might evolutionary and cognitive theorizing contribute to this
work? What is the relation between natural and cultural history?
Historians have been intrigued by such questions ever since
publication in 1859 of Darwins The Origin of Species, itself the
historicization of biology. This interest reemerged in the latter
part of the twentieth century among a number of biologists,
philosophers and historians, reinforced by the new
interdisciplinary finding of cognitive scientists about the
universal capacities of and constraints upon human minds. The
studies in this volume, primarily by historians of religion,
continue this discussion by focusing on historical examples of
ancient religions as well as on the theoretical promises and
problems relevant to that study.
"Past Minds is an interesting and ambitious effort to integrate
historical thinking with evolutionary and anthropological
thinking." - Anthropology Review Database How do historians
understand the minds, motivations, intentions of historical agents?
What might evolutionary and cognitive theorizing contribute to this
work? What is the relation between natural and cultural history?
Historians have been intrigued by such questions ever since
publication in 1859 of Darwins The Origin of Species, itself the
historicization of biology. This interest reemerged in the latter
part of the twentieth century among a number of biologists,
philosophers and historians, reinforced by the new
interdisciplinary finding of cognitive scientists about the
universal capacities of and constraints upon human minds. The
studies in this volume, primarily by historians of religion,
continue this discussion by focusing on historical examples of
ancient religions as well as on the theoretical promises and
problems relevant to that study.
This comprehensive reader on indigenous archaeology shows that
collaboration has become a key part of archaeology and heritage
practice worldwide. Collaborative projects and projects directed
and conducted by indigenous peoples independently have become
standard, community concerns are routinely addressed, and oral
histories are commonly incorporated into research. This volume
begins with a substantial section on theoretical and philosophical
underpinnings, then presents key articles from around the globe in
sections on Oceania, North America, Mesoamerica and South America,
Africa, Asia, and Europe. Editorial introductions to each piece
con-textualize them in the intersection of archaeology and
indigenous studies. This major collection is an ideal text for
courses in indigenous studies, archaeology, heritage management,
and related fields.
Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and
cultural region with many protected lands. This book, Protected
Areas in Northern Tanzania, brings to the forefront research on
significant issues and developments in conservation and management
in national parks and protected lands in northern Tanzania. The
book draws attention to issues at the intersection of conservation,
tourism, and community livelihood, and several studies use
geospatial technologies-Geographic Information Systems and remote
sensing data and techniques-to study land use and land cover
conversion. With contributions from professors at the Mweka College
of African Wildlife Management located at the foot of Mount
Kilimanjaro and other Tanzanian researchers, the book provides
important perspectives of local experts and practitioners.
Protected Areas in Northern Tanzania provides a significant
contribution in research and technological advancement in the areas
of wildlife conservation and protected land management throughout
this critical region.
The cognitive science of religion does not have its own
methodology, and yet from the very beginnings of the discipline,
methodology has defined it not only in relation to the general
study of religion in the humanities but also to the sciences
interested in the mind. Scholars of the cognitive science of
religion are using a range of methodologies, borrowing mostly from
the cognitive sciences and experimental psychology, but also from
biology, archaeology, history, philosophy, linguistics, the social
and statistical sciences, neurosciences, and anthropology. In fact,
this multi-disciplinarity defines the cognitive science of
religion. Such multi-disciplinarity requires hard work and truly
interdisciplinary teams, but also continual reflections on and
debates about the methodologies being used. In fact, no study of
the cognitive science of religion worth its name can rely on only
one methodology. Triangulation is standard, but often even more
approaches are used. This book consists of selected papers from the
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion and the Journal of
Cognitive Historiography. Each chapter demonstrates a particular
method or group of methods and how those methods advance our
knowledge of the religious mind from the ancient past up to today.
The Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 48-Gottingen, a Special
Collaborative Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, was
one of the first of such programmes. It was launched in 1969 under
the general title "Evolution, composition and distinctive
characteristics of the Earth's crus t, particularly in geosynclinal
regions" ("En twickl ung, Bestand und Eigenschaften der Erdkruste,
insbesondere der Geosynklinalraume"). Its activities were promoted
for eleven and a half years and it came to its end at the
expiration of 1980. We have he re a comprehensive report of the
results it has reached, of the questions that remain open, and the
new questions that have been raised. Special Collaborative
Programmes ("Sonderforschungsbereiche") involve groups of
scientists who have join- ed together with the approval of their
university for joint research in which the university recognizes
that their research has common ground deserving support for a
longer period of time. Significant progress in science is
increasingly dependent on the close collaboration of scientists
from several disciplines. The Special Colla- borative Programmes
were created in order to provide better conditions and structures
for multi- nad interdisciplinary research. It seemed prom- ising to
mount special support, in terms of both material and personnei, for
the geologically orientated research programme proposed from
Gottin- gen, which envisaged interdisciplinary research into the
nature of two different intracontinental orogens, research
involving Geology-palaeon- tology, Sedimentology, Sedimentary
Petrography, Geochemistry, Petrology, Geochronology and Geophysics.
This comprehensive reader on indigenous archaeology shows that
collaboration has become a key part of archaeology and heritage
practice worldwide. Collaborative projects and projects directed
and conducted by indigenous peoples independently have become
standard, community concerns are routinely addressed, and oral
histories are commonly incorporated into research. This volume
begins with a substantial section on theoretical and philosophical
underpinnings, then presents key articles from around the globe in
sections on Oceania, North America, Mesoamerica and South America,
Africa, Asia, and Europe. Editorial introductions to each piece
con-textualize them in the intersection of archaeology and
indigenous studies. This major collection is an ideal text for
courses in indigenous studies, archaeology, heritage management,
and related fields.
The Fifth International Conference on Automatic Differentiation
held from August 11 to 15, 2008 in Bonn, Germany, is the most
recent one in a series that began in Breckenridge, USA, in 1991 and
continued in Santa Fe, USA, in 1996, Nice, France, in 2000 and
Chicago, USA, in 2004. The 31 papers included in these proceedings
re?ect the state of the art in automatic differentiation (AD) with
respect to theory, applications, and tool development. Overall, 53
authors from institutions in 9 countries contributed, demonstrating
the worldwide acceptance of AD technology in computational science.
Recently it was shown that the problem underlying AD is indeed
NP-hard, f- mally proving the inherently challenging nature of this
technology. So, most likely, no deterministic "silver bullet"
polynomial algorithm can be devised that delivers optimum
performance for general codes. In this context, the exploitation of
doma- speci?c structural information is a driving issue in
advancing practical AD tool and algorithm development. This trend
is prominently re?ected in many of the pub- cations in this volume,
not only in a better understanding of the interplay of AD and
certain mathematical paradigms, but in particular in the use of
hierarchical AD approaches that judiciously employ general AD
techniques in application-speci?c - gorithmic harnesses. In this
context, the understanding of structures such as sparsity of
derivatives, or generalizations of this concept like scarcity,
plays a critical role, in particular for higher derivative
computations.
The Fourth International Conference on Automatic Di?erentiation was
held
July20-23inChicago,Illinois.Theconferenceincludedaonedayshortcourse,
42 presentations, and a workshop for tool developers. This
gathering of au- matic di?erentiation researchers extended a
sequence that began in Breck- ridge, Colorado, in 1991 and
continued in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1996 and Nice, France, in
2000. We invited conference participants and the general - tomatic
di?erentiation community to submit papers to this special
collection.
The28acceptedpapersre?ectthestateoftheartinautomaticdi?erentiation.
The number of automatic di?erentiation tools based on compiler
techn- ogy continues to expand. The papers in this volume discuss
the implem- tation and application of several compiler-based tools
for Fortran, including the venerable ADIFOR, an extended NAGWare
compiler, TAF, and TAPE- NADE. While great progress has been made
toward robust, compiler-based tools for C/C++, most notably in the
form of the ADIC and TAC++ tools, for now operator-overloading
tools such as ADOL-C remain the undisputed champions for
reverse-mode automatic di?erentiation of C++. Tools for - tomatic
di?erentiation of high level languages, including COSY and ADiMat,
continue to grow in importance as the productivity gains o? ered by
high-level programming are recognized.
In recent years sociologists of sciences have become more
interested in scien tific elites, in the way they direct and
control the development of sciences and, beyond that, in which the
organization of research facilities and resources generally affects
research strategies and goals. In this volume we focus on
scientific establishments and hierarchies as a means of bringing
aspects of these concerns together in their historical and
comparative contexts. These terms draw attention to the fact that
much scientific work has been pursued within a highly specific
organizational setting, that of universities and aca demic research
institutes. The effects of this organizational setting as well as
its power relations, and its resources in relation to governmental
and other non-scientific establishments in society at large,
deserve closer attention. One significant aspect of scientific
establishments and hierarchies and of the power relations impinging
upon scientific research, is the fact that the bulk of leading
scientists have the professional career, qualifications and status
of a professor. As heads or senior members of departments,
institutes and laboratories, professors form the ruling groups of
scientific work. They are the main defenders of scientific - or
departmental - autonomy, accept or resist innovations in their
field, play a leading part in fighting scientific controversies or
establishing consensus. Even where research units are not directly
controlled by professors, authority structures usually remain
strongly hierarchical. These hierarchies too deserve attention in
any explora tion of the social characteristics of scientific
knowledge and its production."
In recent years sociologists of sciences have become more
interested in scien tific elites, in the way they direct and
control the development of sciences and, beyond that, in which the
organization of research facilities and resources generally affects
research strategies and goals. In this volume we focus on
scientific establishments and hierarchies as a means of bringing
aspects of these concerns together in their historical and
comparative contexts. These terms draw attention to the fact that
much scientific work has been pursued within a highly specific
organizational setting, that of universities and aca demic research
institutes. The effects of this organizational setting as well as
its power relations, and its resources in relation to governmental
and other non-scientific establishments in society at large,
deserve closer attention. One significant aspect of scientific
establishments and hierarchies and of the power relations impinging
upon scientific research, is the fact that the bulk of leading
scientists have the professional career, qualifications and status
of a professor. As heads or senior members of departments,
institutes and laboratories, professors form the ruling groups of
scientific work. They are the main defenders of scientific - or
departmental - autonomy, accept or resist innovations in their
field, play a leading part in fighting scientific controversies or
establishing consensus. Even where research units are not directly
controlled by professors, authority structures usually remain
strongly hierarchical. These hierarchies too deserve attention in
any explora tion of the social characteristics of scientific
knowledge and its production."
This ground-breaking collection of writings explores how
progressive third parties in the U.S. can become more electorally
successful and politically influential. It is the only recently
published book that focuses exclusively on how such parties may
advance. Their rise may be essential to countering the powerful,
growing sway of wealth within the two major American parties, and
to creating a more just, democratic United States. Contributors
include key participants in and observers of the U.S. left third
party movement. Nearly all have previously authored books or
articles on progressive politics. Many have led effective left
third party efforts, and some have held elected office on behalf of
a progressive third party. Together the writers reflect on a wide
range of relevant parties-including the Green Party, the Vermont
Progressive Party, the Labor Party, the Working Families Party,
Socialist Alternative, and potential new parties on the American
left. The authors highlight a variety of strategies and conditions
that may facilitate electoral breakthroughs by such parties and
their candidates. Overall, the collection suggests that U.S.
progressive third parties may make more headway if they
thoughtfully combine their idealism and sense of urgency with a
flexible, pragmatic approach to gaining power.
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