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The relatively frequent occurrence of rapid onset and very brief,
but often florid, psychotic states, with periodic recurrence,
alongside relatively low rates of PTSD and chronic psychosis, were
unexpected findings from the 2004 East Timor Mental Health Study,
conducted in the context of the country's recently won independence
and in the wake of the atrocities endured in the protracted fight
for sovereignty. Further unanticipated was the frequent association
of recurrence with the time of the new moon (fulan lotuk) and other
times or places of sacred (lulik) or associated cultural
significance. The perceived violation of culturally sacrosanct
lulik obligations often also appeared to foreshadow the initial
onset of such patterns of distress. Significant episodes of trauma
and loss appeared a hidden feature of affected individuals
histories, which we argue have become symbolically entwined with
local cultural understandings of ritual obligation, sacredness, and
taboo. This volume develops a dynamic but contextualized
multi-level formulation of psychosis and psychotic-symptoms, able
to incorporate a range of factors from the biological, through the
sociocultural, to the political. The work is truly
interdisciplinary drawing on both the quantitative and qualitative
findings of our own study but further supported through local
ethnography and broader anthropological enquiry into the outcomes
of psychosis in non-Western settings; psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytic anthropology; evidence and theory exploring links
between trauma, dissociation and psychosis; and novel
culturally-adaptable psychosocial focused interventions for
psychosis. We situate both evidence and theorising in wider
epistemological and political context, including in relation to the
movement for Global Mental Health. Culturally patterned
presentations of brief remitting-relapsing psychosis are ultimately
conceived as the trade-off between competing fragmentary and
synthetic forces: the former in part secondary to the lasting and
deleterious effects of overwhelming loss, trauma and adversity; the
latter emboldened by cultural meaning and social response in the
context of broad ecological pressures demanding survival and
resilience.
Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe,
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people
across the world. Based on new archive research and original
interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely
contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and
diplomats.
The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of
Russia’s attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been
alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and
distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off.
From the revolutionary period of the First World War onwards,
correspondents in Russia have striven to tell the story of a
country known to few outsiders. Their stories have not always been
well received by political elites, audiences, and even editors in
their own countries—but their accounts have been a huge influence
on how the West understands Russia. Not always perfect, at times
downright misleading, they have, overall, been immensely valuable.
In Assignment Moscow, former foreign correspondent James Rodgers
analyses the news coverage of Russia throughout history, from the
coverage of the siege of the Winter Palace and a plot to kill
Stalin, to the Chernobyl explosion and the Salisbury poison
scandal.
The relatively frequent occurrence of rapid onset and very brief,
but often florid, psychotic states, with periodic recurrence,
alongside relatively low rates of PTSD and chronic psychosis, were
unexpected findings from the 2004 East Timor Mental Health Study,
conducted in the context of the country's recently won independence
and in the wake of the atrocities endured in the protracted fight
for sovereignty. Further unanticipated was the frequent association
of recurrence with the time of the new moon (fulan lotuk) and other
times or places of sacred (lulik) or associated cultural
significance. The perceived violation of culturally sacrosanct
lulik obligations often also appeared to foreshadow the initial
onset of such patterns of distress. Significant episodes of trauma
and loss appeared a hidden feature of affected individuals
histories, which we argue have become symbolically entwined with
local cultural understandings of ritual obligation, sacredness, and
taboo. This volume develops a dynamic but contextualized
multi-level formulation of psychosis and psychotic-symptoms, able
to incorporate a range of factors from the biological, through the
sociocultural, to the political. The work is truly
interdisciplinary drawing on both the quantitative and qualitative
findings of our own study but further supported through local
ethnography and broader anthropological enquiry into the outcomes
of psychosis in non-Western settings; psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytic anthropology; evidence and theory exploring links
between trauma, dissociation and psychosis; and novel
culturally-adaptable psychosocial focused interventions for
psychosis. We situate both evidence and theorising in wider
epistemological and political context, including in relation to the
movement for Global Mental Health. Culturally patterned
presentations of brief remitting-relapsing psychosis are ultimately
conceived as the trade-off between competing fragmentary and
synthetic forces: the former in part secondary to the lasting and
deleterious effects of overwhelming loss, trauma and adversity; the
latter emboldened by cultural meaning and social response in the
context of broad ecological pressures demanding survival and
resilience.
Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe,
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people
across the world. Based on new archive research and original
interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely
contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and
diplomats.
Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a legitimate
science and a government service in America. Challenging the widely
held assumption that meteorologists were mere "data-gatherers" and
that U.S. scientists were inferior to their European counterparts,
James Rodger Fleming shows how the 1840s debate over the nature and
causes of storms led to a "meteorological crusade" that would
transform both theory and practice. Centrally located
administrators organized hundreds of widely dispersed volunteer and
military observers into systematic projects that covered the entire
nation. Theorists then used these systems to "observe" weather
patterns over large areas, making possible for the first time the
compilation of accurate weather charts and maps.
When in 1870 Congress created a federal storm-warning service
under the U.S. Army Signal Office, the era of amateur scientists,
volunteer observers, and adhoc organizations came to an end. But
the gains had been significant, including advances in natural
history and medical geography, and in understanding the general
circulation of the earth's atmosphere.
As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining
momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists
argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping
reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into
orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker and brighter to create
a "planetary thermostat."
These ideas might sound like science fiction, but in fact they
are part of a very old story. For more than a century, scientists,
soldiers, and charlatans have tried to manipulate weather and
climate, and like them, today's climate engineers wildly exaggerate
what is possible. Scarcely considering the political, military, and
ethical implications of managing the world's climate, these
individuals hatch schemes with potential consequences that far
outweigh anything their predecessors might have faced.
Showing what can happen when fixing the sky becomes a dangerous
experiment in pseudoscience, James Rodger Fleming traces the
tragicomic history of the rainmakers, rain fakers, weather
warriors, and climate engineers who have been both full of ideas
and full of themselves. Weaving together stories from elite
science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming
examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in
the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since
the 1940s. Killer hurricanes, ozone depletion, and global warming
fuel the fantasies of today. Based on archival and primary
research, Fleming's original story speaks to anyone who has a stake
in sustaining the planet.
As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining
momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists
argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping
reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into
orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker and brighter to create
a "planetary thermostat."
These ideas might sound like science fiction, but in fact they
are part of a very old story. For more than a century, scientists,
soldiers, and charlatans have tried to manipulate weather and
climate, and like them, today's climate engineers wildly exaggerate
what is possible. Scarcely considering the political, military, and
ethical implications of managing the world's climate, these
individuals hatch schemes with potential consequences that far
outweigh anything their predecessors might have faced.
Showing what can happen when fixing the sky becomes a dangerous
experiment in pseudoscience, James Rodger Fleming traces the
tragicomic history of the rainmakers, rain fakers, weather
warriors, and climate engineers who have been both full of ideas
and full of themselves. Weaving together stories from elite
science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming
examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in
the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since
the 1940s. Killer hurricanes, ozone depletion, and global warming
fuel the fantasies of today. Based on archival and primary
research, Fleming's original story speaks to anyone who has a stake
in sustaining the planet.
The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of
Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been
alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and
distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off.
From the revolutionary period of the First World War onwards,
correspondents in Russia have striven to tell the story of a
country known to few outsiders. Their stories have not always been
well received by political elites, audiences, and even editors in
their own countries-but their accounts have been a huge influence
on how the West understands Russia. Not always perfect, at times
downright misleading, they have, overall, been immensely valuable.
In Assignment Moscow, former foreign correspondent James Rodgers
analyses the news coverage of Russia throughout history, from the
coverage of the siege of the Winter Palace and a plot to kill
Stalin, to the Chernobyl explosion and the Salisbury poison
scandal.
How scientists used transformative new technologies to understand
the complexities of weather and the atmosphere, told through the
intertwined careers of three key figures. "The goal of meteorology
is to portray everything atmospheric, everywhere, always," declared
John Bellamy and Harry Wexler in 1960, soon after the successful
launch of TIROS 1, the first weather satellite. Throughout the
twentieth century, meteorological researchers have had global
ambitions, incorporating technological advances into their
scientific study as they worked to link theory with practice.
Wireless telegraphy, radio, aviation, nuclear tracers, rockets,
digital computers, and Earth-orbiting satellites opened up entirely
new research horizons for meteorologists. In this book, James
Fleming charts the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of
atmospheric science through the lives and careers of three key
figures: Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951), Carl-Gustaf Rossby
(1898-1957), and Harry Wexler (1911-1962). In the early twentieth
century, Bjerknes worked to put meteorology on solid observational
and theoretical foundations. His younger colleague, the innovative
and influential Rossby, built the first graduate program in
meteorology (at MIT), trained aviation cadets during World War II,
and was a pioneer in numerical weather prediction and atmospheric
chemistry. Wexler, one of Rossby's best students, became head of
research at the U.S. Weather Bureau, where he developed new
technologies from radar and rockets to computers and satellites,
conducted research on the Antarctic ice sheet, and established
carbon dioxide measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
He was also the first meteorologist to fly into a hurricane-an
experience he chose never to repeat. Fleming maps both the
ambitions of an evolving field and the constraints that checked
them-war, bureaucracy, economic downturns, and, most important, the
ultimate realization (prompted by the formulation of chaos theory
in the 1960s by Edward Lorenz) that perfectly accurate measurements
and forecasts would never be possible.
No Road Home offers a view of Gaza which few outsiders ever see.
Telling the story of the war-torn territory during the second
Palestinian intifada, or uprising against Israel, through people
who lived there, this book gives a fuller account than countless
news reports ever could. In doing so, it gives a voice to refugees,
the bereaved, the dispossessed, settlers, soldiers, schoolchildren,
and many others whose lives were shaped and scarred by the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their words combine to create a
picture of two peoples fighting for land and faith in a battle
which continues to defy diplomatic solution. James Rodgers is an
author and journalist. From 2002 to 2004 he was the BBC's
correspondent in the Gaza Strip - at that time, the only
international journalist permanently based in the territory. During
his BBC career, he also completed postings in Moscow and Brussels.
His numerous other assignments included New York and Washington
following the September 11th attacks; reporting from Iraq in 2003
and 2004 during the United States invasion; and covering the wars
in Chechnya. His previous book is Reporting Conflict (Palgrave
MacMillan, 2012). James teaches journalism at City University
London. 'James Rodgers is a brilliant and thoughtful guide to Gaza.
He saw today's Gaza being created. This book is a great
introduction for beginners, and full of insight and analysis for
veterans.' - Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor.
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IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
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occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
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have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
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appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
Clouds are the spark plugs in the heat engine of the tropical
atmosphere, and heat from the tropics drives the planet's general
circulation. Atmospheric scientists didn't know this in the 1950s,
but Joanne Simpson, the first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in
meteorology, did. Most histories of meteorology focus on polar and
temperate regions and the accomplishments of male scientists. They
marginalize or erase completely the contributions of female
researchers. Joanne's work on the tropical atmosphere did not fit
this pattern. Joanne had a lifelong passion for clouds and severe
storms. She flew into and above them, photographed them, modeled
them, attempted to modify them, and studied them from all angles.
She held two university professorships, married three times, had
two lovers (one secret), mentored a generation of meteorologists,
and blazed a trail for other women to follow. This book is about
Joanne's personal and professional life, her career prospects as a
woman in science, and her relationship to the tropical atmosphere.
These multifaceted and interacting textual streams constitute a
braided narrative and form a complex dynamic system that displays
surprising emergent properties. Is Joanne Simpson best remembered
as a pioneer woman scientist or the best tropical scientist of her
generation? She was both, with the emphasis on best scientist.
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