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The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before
modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge
swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across
borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to
recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different
backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its
devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese
samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned
refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk
involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the
context of the war so that readers can understand the background
against which the writers' lives were lived, allows the individual
voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come
through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and
conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border
information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in
society, and many others aspects of each writer's world.
This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and
social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary
scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic
disciplines. The volume underlines the enduring and contemporary
relevance of Pareto's ideas on a bewildering variety of topics;
while illuminating his attempt to unite different disciplines, such
as history and sociology, in his quest for a 'holistic'
understanding of society. Bringing together the world's leading
experts on Pareto, this collection will be of interest to scholars
working in the fields of sociology and social psychology, monetary
theory and risk analysis, philosophy and intellectual history, and
political science and rhetoric.
Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and
sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two
disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy
and politics. This is the first book to rethink Pareto's
contribution to classical sociology by focusing upon its
psychological underpinning. The author locates the origins of
Pareto's psychologistic approach both within the history of Italian
thought and within Pareto's own experiences of business and
politics. He evaluates Pareto's sociology through the lens of
contemporary social science, examining whether its explanatory
power is growing rather than diminishing as levels of social and
epistemological complexity rise. The volume also explores Pareto's
assumptions about personality through the lens of contemporary
psychology. It concludes with a psychometric study of Westminster
MPs which clarifies and attests to Pareto's contemporary relevance,
and indicates that even practitioners of politics may gain much
from reading Pareto.
This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and
social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary
scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic
disciplines. The volume underlines the enduring and contemporary
relevance of Pareto's ideas on a bewildering variety of topics;
while illuminating his attempt to unite different disciplines, such
as history and sociology, in his quest for a 'holistic'
understanding of society. Bringing together the world's leading
experts on Pareto, this collection will be of interest to scholars
working in the fields of sociology and social psychology, monetary
theory and risk analysis, philosophy and intellectual history, and
political science and rhetoric.
Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and
sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two
disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy
and politics. This is the first book to rethink Pareto's
contribution to classical sociology by focusing upon its
psychological underpinning. The author locates the origins of
Pareto's psychologistic approach both within the history of Italian
thought and within Pareto's own experiences of business and
politics. He evaluates Pareto's sociology through the lens of
contemporary social science, examining whether its explanatory
power is growing rather than diminishing as levels of social and
epistemological complexity rise. The volume also explores Pareto's
assumptions about personality through the lens of contemporary
psychology. It concludes with a psychometric study of Westminster
MPs which clarifies and attests to Pareto's contemporary relevance,
and indicates that even practitioners of politics may gain much
from reading Pareto.
Responding to security scholars' puzzling dearth of attention to
children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the
ways in which they not only are already present in security
discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the
political projects they make possible. From zones of conflict to
everyday life contexts in the (post)industrial Global North,
dominant ideas about childhood work to regulate the constitution of
political subjects whilst variously enabling and foreclosing a wide
range of political possibilities. Whether on the battlefields of
Syria, in the halls of the UN, or the conceptual musings of
disciplinary Security Studies, claims about or ostensibly on behalf
of children are ubiquitous. Recognizing children as engaged
political subjects, however, challenges us to bring a sustained
critical gaze to the discursive and semiotic deployments of
children and childhood in projects not of their making as well as
to the ways in which power circulates through and around them. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Critical
Studies on Security.
School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the
field of history of education. concentrating on the educational
aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with
contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text
attempts to account for the growth of increased interest by
sociologists and others in school subjects since the 1960s.
Goodson's analysis of his own work in the UK and North America
examines the range of insights afforded of the nature of schooling
and teaching through the study of school subjects.
Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan brings together researchers,
clinicians, and bereaved siblings to explore sibling loss. Unique
in both form and content, the book focuses on loss within five key
age ranges-childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood,
and late adulthood-and losses within a special topics section that
addresses areas of interest across multiple age groups. In addition
to chapters from researchers and clinicians, the book includes
personal stories from bereaved siblings who describe the lived
experience of this loss.
Responding to security scholars' puzzling dearth of attention to
children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the
ways in which they not only are already present in security
discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the
political projects they make possible. From zones of conflict to
everyday life contexts in the (post)industrial Global North,
dominant ideas about childhood work to regulate the constitution of
political subjects whilst variously enabling and foreclosing a wide
range of political possibilities. Whether on the battlefields of
Syria, in the halls of the UN, or the conceptual musings of
disciplinary Security Studies, claims about or ostensibly on behalf
of children are ubiquitous. Recognizing children as engaged
political subjects, however, challenges us to bring a sustained
critical gaze to the discursive and semiotic deployments of
children and childhood in projects not of their making as well as
to the ways in which power circulates through and around them. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Critical
Studies on Security.
This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of
children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time
and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies,
pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the
complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights
into the ways children's lives figure as terrains of engagement,
contestation, ambivalence, resistance, and reproduction of
militarisms. The first three chapters challenge dominant ontologies
that prefigure childhood in particular ways. These include who
counts as a child worthy of protection, questions of voice and
participation, and the diminution of agency. The chapters in the
second section bring to view everyday pedagogies whereby myriad
knowledges, performances, practices, and competencies may function
to militarize children's lives, including in but not limited to
advanced (post)industrial societies of the global North. The third
and final section includes investigations that foreground questions
of responsibility to children. Here, contributors assess, among
other things, resilience-building, the exigencies of protection,
and the ethics of military recruitment practices targeting
children.
This book examines how and why, in the context of International
Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated
to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically
associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations:
as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all
typically with the accent on the Global South. Challenging us to
think critically about childhood as a technology of global
governance, the authors explore alternative ways of finding
children and their agency in a more central position in IR, in
terms of various forms of children's activism, children and climate
change, children and security, children and resilience, and in
their inevitable role in governing the future. Focusing on the
problems, pitfalls, promises, and prospects of addressing children
and childhoods in International Relations, this book places
children more squarely in the purview of political subjecthood and
hence more centrally in IR.
Clinical Chemistry considers what happens to the body's chemistry
when affected by disease. It provides introductory coverage of the
scientific basis for biochemistry tests routinely used in medicine
- including tests for the assessment of organ function, diagnosis
and monitoring disease activity and therapy efficacy. Each topic
area begins with a concise description of the underlying
physiological and biochemical principles and then applies them to
patient investigation and management. The regular use of case
histories helps further emphasise clinical relevance and chapter
key points, as well as provide a useful starting point for
examination revision. The clear and engaging writing style
appreciated by generations of readers has been retained in this
latest (ninth) edition, while the content has been thoroughly
updated throughout. The approach and scope of this trusted text
makes it ideal for integrated medical curricula, for medical
training and for students and practitioners of clinical and
biomedical science. The complementary eBook version (with the
printed book), including additional cases and self-assessment
material, completes this superb learning package. Updated to
incorporate the latest changes in practice - including new tests
and the most recent evidence-based guidance 'Light bulb' sections
give practical advice and clarify difficult concepts or potential
pitfalls New 'Red flag' boxes highlight the results which should
cause immediate concern to clinicians Updated references to core
guidelines reflect latest best practice (Print) includes complete,
downloadable eBook on Student Consult Also BONUS materials -
interactive clinical cases and MCQs - to reinforce interpretive
skills, check understanding and aid exam preparation Updated to
incorporate the latest changes in practice - including new tests
and the most recent evidence-based guidance - plus a new chapter on
clinical chemistry in pediatrics. Figures, tables, boxes, and case
studies aid understanding and learning. 'Light bulb' sections give
practical advice and clarify difficult concepts or potential
pitfalls. New 'Red flag' boxes highlight the results which should
cause immediate concern to clinicians. Updated references to core
guidelines reflect latest best practice. BONUS materials on Student
Consult include interactive clinical cases and MCQs - to reinforce
interpretive skills, check understanding and aid exam preparation.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook
allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from
the book on a variety of devices.
The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before
modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge
swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across
borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to
recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different
backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its
devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese
samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned
refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk
involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the
context of the war so that readers can understand the background
against which the writers' lives were lived, allows the individual
voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come
through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and
conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border
information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in
society, and many others aspects of each writer's world.
Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan brings together researchers,
clinicians, and bereaved siblings to explore sibling loss. Unique
in both form and content, the book focuses on loss within five key
age ranges-childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood,
and late adulthood-and losses within a special topics section that
addresses areas of interest across multiple age groups. In addition
to chapters from researchers and clinicians, the book includes
personal stories from bereaved siblings who describe the lived
experience of this loss.
One of the fundamental concepts of toxicology is that chemicals act
at selective receptors and that such interactions result in phar
macologic responses which, depending on dose, mayor may not result
in toxicity. For us to understand how insecticides produce their
toxic effects, we must first understand their molecular
interactions with their target receptors. With this in mind, we
organized a symposium which was given in conjunction with the XVII
International Congress of Entomology in Hamburg on August 21, 1984.
The goal of this symposium was to bring together researchers with a
wide range of expertise who shared a common interest in the action
of insecticides on the insect nervous system. It was decided to
restrict the scope of the symposium so that selected topics could
be discussed in greater depth. The volume which resulted from this
symposium, -Membranes Receptors and Enzymes as Targets of
Insecticidal Action-, details a number of bio chemical modes of
action of insecticides on the insect nervous system. The volume is
divided into two sections; the first dealing with the action of
insecticides on the GABA-ch1oride channel complex. This section
evolves from a discussion of the symptoms of cyclodiene toxicity
presented by Dr. D. E. Woolley, to the structure-activity
relationships and pharmacology of the channel complex and is
concluded with the extremely interesting work of Dr. C. C. Wang on
the action(s) of avermectin at this receptor.
Bei der Entstehung von Magengeschw}ren ist in den letzten Jahren
die Bedeutung einer Ausl|sung durch Campylobacter pylori bekannt
geworden. Neue systematische Untersuchungen f}hrten zu einer
Namens{nderung: Helicobacter. Der Band gibt eine Obersicht }ber den
derzeitigen Wissensstand.
This book explores current research on young children's beliefs and
knowledge about the biological world - otherwise known as
'folkbiology'. Contributors discuss factors that shape the
development of folkbiological knowledge, as well as possible
interventions designed to counteract cognitive biases that can
interfere with the development of scientifically informed reasoning
about natural phenomena. Taken together, the papers provide
insights into the contributions of cognitive biases to the
development of biological misunderstandings and into the life
experiences and contexts that can contribute to or impede accurate
learning of biological concepts. As part of a wider literature, the
insights provided by the authors are relevant to the design of
educational experiences that will foster children's exploration and
further their understanding of life science ideas. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Early
Education and Development.
Food Safety: A Practical and Case Study Approach, the first
volume of the ISEKI-Food book series, discusses how food quality
and safety are connected and how they play a significant role in
the quality of our daily lives. Topics include methods of food
preservation, food packaging, benefits and risks of microorganisms
and process safety.
The ISEKI-Food book series is a collection where various aspects
of food safety and environmental issues are introduced and reviewed
by scientists specializing in the field. In all of the books
special emphasis is placed on including case studies applicable to
each specific topic. The books are intended for graduate students
and senior level undergraduate students as well as professionals
and researchers interested in food safety and environmental issues
applicable to food safety.
"ISEKI-Food" is an acronym for "Integrating Safety and
Environmental Knowledge Into Food Studies." Participants in the
ISEKI-Food network, coordinated by Professor Cristina Silva at The
Catholic University of Portugal, come from 29 countries in Europe
and most of the institutes and universities involved with Food
Science education at the university level in Europe are
represented. Some international companies and non teaching
institutions have also participated in the network. The main
objectives of ISEKI-Food are to improve the harmonization of
studies in food science and engineering in Europe and to develop
and adapt food science curricula emphasizing the inclusion of
safety and environmental topics.
Food Safety: A Practical and Case Study Approach, the first
volume of the ISEKI-Food book series, discusses how food quality
and safety are connected and how they play a significant role in
the quality of our daily lives. Topics include methods of food
preservation, food packaging, benefits and risks of microorganisms
and process safety.
Even relatively experienced users of Microsoft Word are often
frustrated when trying to create specialized documents such as
newsletters, brochures, grant applications and proposals. While
templates are available on the Internet, these rarely include
instructions or show how to modify and customize the template. This
book walks the reader through the creation of new business
documents and the modification of templates, building on included
samples. The reader gains a clear grasp of where to start, what to
include, why charts are helpful - and how to create them - and the
best ways to use fonts to show clear organization.
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter
brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the
region's political, economic, and social development since the
Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle
the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help
to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South.
With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph
David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New
South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an
excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations,
social history, and the American history survey.
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