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Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines
the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and
cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection
of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European
politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and
cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that
the root of these consorts' power lay in their dynastic networks
and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied
in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig,
Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among
other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The
various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation,
among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries,
theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and
architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of
scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women
to consider 'queens consort' as a category, making it valuable
reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and
political history.
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines
the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and
cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection
of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European
politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and
cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that
the root of these consorts' power lay in their dynastic networks
and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied
in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig,
Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among
other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The
various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation,
among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries,
theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and
architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of
scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women
to consider 'queens consort' as a category, making it valuable
reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and
political history.
Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are
struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it
presents. This book provides an overview of grief as a painful but
normal process, offering insights from bereavement experts as well
as practical suggestions for coping with loss, including accounts
from teens. This book closes a gap in the available literature on
grief and bereavement that has tended to focus on adults and
younger children. It provides a warm, accessible resource that will
reassure teen readers about the normality of grief, encourages
their understanding of what happens during the grief process, and
provides an indispensable resource guide.
The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing
acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts
sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely
shared among the world's great cultural traditions. Most
contemporary scientists and philosophers believe that reality is at
bottom purely physical, and that human beings are nothing more than
extremely complicated biological machines. On such views our
everyday experiences of conscious decision-making, free will, and
the self are illusory by-products of the grinding of our neural
machinery. It follows that mind and personality are necessarily
extinguished at death, and that there exists no deeper
transpersonal or spiritual reality of any sort. Beyond Physicalism
is the product of an unusual fellowship of scientists and
humanities scholars who dispute these views. In their previous
publication, Irreducible Mind, they argued that physicalism cannot
accommodate various well-evidenced empirical phenomena including
paranormal or psi phenomena, postmortem survival, and mystical
experiences. In this new theory-oriented companion volume they go
further by attempting to understand how the world must be
constituted in order that these "rogue" phenomena can occur.
Drawing upon empirical science, metaphysical philosophy, and the
mystical traditions, the authors work toward an improved "big
picture" of the general character of reality, one which strongly
overlaps territory traditionally occupied by the world's
institutional religions, and which attempts to reconcile science
and spirituality by finding a middle path between the polarized
fundamentalisms, religious and scientific, that have dominated
recent public discourse. Contributions by: Harald Atmanspacher,
Loriliai Biernacki, Bernard Carr, Wolfgang Fach, Michael Grosso,
Michael Murphy, David E. Presti, Gregory Shaw, Henry P. Stapp, Eric
M. Weiss, and Ian Whicher
When Will I Stop Hurting?: Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help
guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the
emotional difficulties it presents. This book provides an overview
of grief as a painful but normal process, and it offers insights
from bereavement experts as well as practical suggestions for
coping with loss, including accounts from teens. This book closes a
gap in the available literature on grief and bereavement that has
tended to focus on adults and younger children. It provides a warm,
accessible resource that will reassure teen readers about the
normality of grief, encourage their understanding of what happens
during the grief process, and provides resources to help teens cope
with their experiences of loss. The author accomplishes these goals
by explaining the psychology of grief, by providing psychologists'
comments and advice on dealing with bereavement, and by offering
teens' insights into their own experiences. Teens who are coping
with loss and grief, as well as parents and other relatives,
teachers, psychologists, and other adults who are concerned with
teens' well being will find this book to be a valuable resource.
Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the
young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a
fixture of modern political life. In The Public Intellectual:
Between Philosophy and Politics, Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry
Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman bring together a wide variety of
noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of
public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this
work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas
and events, reason and history.
Describes the causes of stress, how to recognize and deal with them, and how to alleviate the stress itself by using such methods as breathing exercises, meditation, and creative visualization.
Today's teens are dealing with adult issues and problems that
previous generations did not encounter. With little power to
control or to affect outcomes, many teens feel overwhelmed, making
stress and stress-related problems widespread among today's young
people. Stress Relief: The Ultimate Teen Guide makes eliminating
stress an art form. Written in a style that appeals to a teen
audience, this accessible volume is not about managing stress, but
rather about preventing and avoiding it--and eliminating the
feelings it causes.
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge
Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In recent
decades the video games industry has grown astronomically, quickly
becoming a substantial part of our everyday lives. Alongside the
rise of this technology, the media, academia and, in some cases,
governments, have drawn correlations between video games and
serious instances of violence, focusing most notably on mass
shootings. This narrow debate has distracted from our understanding
of many of the harms which video games can, in some cases, cause,
perpetuate or hide. Drawing upon the emerging deviant leisure
perspective, this book seeks to re-orientate the debate on video
games and their associated potential harms. Through the examination
of culturally embedded harms such as gambling, sexual violence and
addiction, together with the rise in swatting and other activities,
the authors explore the notion that video games are inexplicably
intertwined with aspects of deviancy.
The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing
acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts
sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely
shared among the world's great cultural traditions. Most
contemporary scientists and philosophers believe that reality is at
bottom purely physical, and that human beings are nothing more than
extremely complicated biological machines. On such views our
everyday experiences of conscious decision-making, free will, and
the self are illusory by-products of the grinding of our neural
machinery. It follows that mind and personality are necessarily
extinguished at death, and that there exists no deeper
transpersonal or spiritual reality of any sort. Beyond Physicalism
is the product of an unusual fellowship of scientists and
humanities scholars who dispute these views. In their previous
publication, Irreducible Mind, they argued that physicalism cannot
accommodate various well-evidenced empirical phenomena including
paranormal or psi phenomena, postmortem survival, and mystical
experiences. In this new theory-oriented companion volume they go
further by attempting to understand how the world must be
constituted in order that these "rogue" phenomena can occur.
Drawing upon empirical science, metaphysical philosophy, and the
mystical traditions, the authors work toward an improved "big
picture" of the general character of reality, one which strongly
overlaps territory traditionally occupied by the world's
institutional religions, and which attempts to reconcile science
and spirituality by finding a middle path between the polarized
fundamentalisms, religious and scientific, that have dominated
recent public discourse. Contributions by: Harald Atmanspacher,
Loriliai Biernacki, Bernard Carr, Wolfgang Fach, Michael Grosso,
Michael Murphy, David E. Presti, Gregory Shaw, Henry P. Stapp, Eric
M. Weiss, and Ian Whicher
Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and
philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and
consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in
brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly
publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically
that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false.
The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of
psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some
cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional
physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme
psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and
secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena,
genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness
both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show that
these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an
alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain
relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten
genius, F. W. H. Myers, and developed further by his friend and
colleague William James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the
commonsense conception of human beings as causally effective
conscious agents, and is fully compatible with leading-edge physics
and neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all
open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of
the mind.
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Stake Land (DVD)
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Horror set in a post-apocalyptic America that has been taken over
by an ever-increasing army of vampires. Connor Paolo stars as
Martin, a teenager who joins forces with vampire hunter Mister
(Nick Damici) after his parents are killed by the marauding vampire
forces. Together, the two set out to find a town where they have
heard they will be safe - but does such a place really exist?
Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law /
Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, grade: A, The University of
Western Australia, language: English, abstract: The Modern Malaysia
is one of the pluralistic societies that comprise of communities of
different ethnic, cultural and religious perspectives. The
prevailing state of affairs is as a result of the British colonial
social experiments. They happened between the 18th and 20th century
during which a large number of the Chinese and Indian laborers were
imported to the British Malaya. This is to enable the contribution
of the labor force in the various plantations and mines. Prior to
the British colonization in Malaysia, the population constituted of
majorly the Malays, non-Malay natives and the Orang Asli as the
aboriginal people. This is with Malays being the population
constituting of the majority. However, as a result of the British
colonists importation of foreigners as laborers in massive numbers
Malaya, the population was fundamentally altered. Following the
importation of the foreign laborers in larger numbers to Malaysia
during the colonization, the population of the Malaysian community
underwent an alteration that saw the Chinese formation of one-third
the population and the Indians forming one tenth of the total
population. Malaysia is known presently as one of the multi-ethnic
and multi-religious societies with an underlying objective dictated
through the provisions of the article 153 of the constitution.
Malaysia is one of the global most recognized countries with a
multi-religious and multi-ethnic perspective with provisions
supporting racism written in the constitution. The Malaysian
population constitutes of the Malays as the majority making up to
50.4% of the total population, Indian 7.1%, the Chinese with 23.7%,
and the indigenous population up to 11%.
"I'm Lucy Rose and here's the thing about me: I am eight and
according to my grandfather I have the kind of life that is called
eventful, which means NOT boring. According to my mom and my
grandmother, I'm what they call a handful. And according to my dad,
I am one smart cookie."
"I say I am one girl who is feeling not-so-sure about things on
account of my parents got a separation. Plus my mom and I just
moved to Washington, D.C. Plus I haven't met any friends yet, but I
do know someone who is not one and that is Adam Melon, who I call
Melonhead."
"Here's another thing about me: Most of the time, I am plain
hilarious."
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