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What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great?
After five years of writing The Profile, Polina Marinova Pompliano
has studied thousands of the most successful and interesting people
in the world and examined how they reason their way through
problems, unleash their creativity, and perform under extreme
pressure. The highest performers don’t use tricks or hacks to
achieve greatness. They use mental frameworks that fundamentally
change the way they see the world. They’ve learned how to unlock
their hidden genius in order to reach their full potential. This
book will help you do the same. After learning from the world’s
most successful people featured inside, you will have a mental
toolkit to help you tackle thorny problems, navigate relationships,
and use creativity and resilience in times of uncertainty.
In 1968, Newsweek reported an imminent threat of twenty thousand
hippies descending on Portland, Oregon. Although the numbers were
exaggerated, Portland did boast a vibrant 1960s culture of
disenchanted and disenfranchised individuals seeking social and
political revolution. Barefoot and bell-bottomed, they hung out in
Portland's bohemian underground and devised a better world. What
began in coffee shop conversations found its voice in the
Willamette Bridge newspaper, KBOO radio station and the Portland
State University student strike, resulting in social, artistic and
political change in the Rose City. Through these stories from the
counterculture, author Polina Olsen brings to life the
beat-snapping Caffe Espresso, the incense and black light posters
of the Psychedelic Supermarket and the spontaneous concerts and
communal soups in Lair Park.
What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great?
After five years of writing The Profile, Polina Marinova Pompliano
has studied thousands of the most successful and interesting people
in the world and examined how they reason their way through
problems, unleash their creativity, and perform under extreme
pressure. The highest performers don't use tricks or hacks to
achieve greatness. They use mental frameworks that fundamentally
change the way they see the world. They've learned how to unlock
their hidden genius in order to reach their full potential. This
book will help you do the same. After learning from the world's
most successful people featured inside, you will have a mental
toolkit to help you tackle thorny problems, navigate relationships,
and use creativity and resilience in times of uncertainty.
This is the first book-length study to read women of the Beat
Generation as feminist writers. The book focuses on one author from
each of the three generations that comprise the groups of female
writers associated with the Beats – Diane di Prima, ruth weiss
and Anne Waldman – as well as on experimental and multimedia
artists, such as Laurie Anderson and Kathy Acker, who have not been
read through the prism of Beat feminism before. This book argues
that these writers’ feminism evolved over time but persistently
focussed on intertextuality, transformation, revisionism, gender,
interventionist poetics and activism. It demonstrates how these
Beat feminisms counteract the ways in which women have been
undermined, possessed or silenced.
This book explores encounters and interactions between
international students and local civil society organizations (CSOs)
in Japan. Based on the results of a cross-case analysis, this study
reveals the possibilities for international students in Japan of
creating social capital in the short term in culturally and
socially diverse groups. While a conventional approach sees
universities as the main support providers, this research shows the
role of local CSOs as alternative actors offering international
student support. Unlike the long-standing paradigm viewing Japanese
civil society as top-down and closely following the government,
this book uncovers many decentralized and bottom-up organizational
types. Furthermore, it highlights an active part taken by foreign
staff and volunteers in Japanese CSOs, which challenges the
guest–host dichotomy of the previous literature. Presenting a
reconsidered insight into the role of international students and
their interaction with CSOs in community building, this book will
appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies and migration
studies as well as organizers of CSOs and faculty of international
higher education institutions.
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The Voices of Babyn Yar (Paperback)
Marianna Kiyanovska; Introduction by Polina Barskova; Translated by Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky
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The national element in music has been the subject of important
studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost
exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings
together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory
and modern Greek studies), who investi- gate the links that connect
music, language and national identity, focusing on the Greek
paradigm. Through the study of the Greek case, the book paves the
way for innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the formation of
the 'national' in different cultures, shedding new light on
ideologies and mechanisms of cultural policies.
Biological and Pharmaceutical Applications of Nanomaterials
presents the findings of cutting-edge research activities in the
field of nanomaterials, with a particular emphasis on biological
and pharmaceutical applications. Divided into four
sections-nanomaterials for drug delivery, antimicrobial
nanomaterials, nanomaterials in biosensors, and safety of
nanomaterials-this book: Covers topics such as stimuli-responsive
nanostructured silica matrixes, gold nanoparticles, and liposomes
for targeting drug delivery and dental applications Describes the
use of nanocarriers and nanoparticles as cancer and peptide
therapeutics, the influence of surface characteristics on microbial
adhesion, and the latest developments in antimicrobial
nanostructured polymers for medical applications Discusses recent
advances in nanodiagnostic techniques for infectious agents,
chromogenic biosensors for pathogen detection, electrochemical
biosensors for detecting DNA damage and genotoxicity, and molecular
imaging with quantum dots including surface modifications by
polymers for biosensing applications Featuring contributions from
field experts and researchers in industry and academia, Biological
and Pharmaceutical Applications of Nanomaterials provides
state-of-the-art information on nanomaterials and their use in drug
delivery, infection control, and biomedicine.
The national element in music has been the subject of important
studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost
exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings
together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory
and modern Greek studies), who investi- gate the links that connect
music, language and national identity, focusing on the Greek
paradigm. Through the study of the Greek case, the book paves the
way for innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the formation of
the 'national' in different cultures, shedding new light on
ideologies and mechanisms of cultural policies.
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American
Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's
workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of
subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the
persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies
that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century. The book
interrogates three common narratives: The rise of Fordism as a
"masculine" mode of production and the transition to an era of
"feminized" work; women's liberation through the sexual
revolutions; and the rise of a new form of literary authorship.
Conversely, it suggests that women's labor was integral to the
operations of the Fordist business sphere, where, unlike at the
factory, the white-collar office proletarian work was casualized
and feminized. This book argues that this workplace was an
important site of subject formation, affirming dominant ideologies
through economic practices. Analyzing work by Sinclair Lewis, Nella
Larsen, Anita Loos, and Sylvia Plath, the book presents an
alternative history of American modernism, one that is more attuned
to gendered discourses of labor and class. By looking at the
micropolitics of power within cultural institutions, this study
moves beyond the dichotomies of exclusion/inclusion to interrogate
the terms on which women and minorities worked as producers, and
the ideas and experiences that consequently entered the field of
intelligibility.
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Living Pictures (Paperback)
Polina Barskova; Translated by Catherine Ciepiela; Introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky
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This engaging volume on English as an Additional Language (EAL),
argues persuasively for the importance of critical participatory
pedagogies that embrace multilingualism and multimodality in the
field of TESOL. It highlights the role of the TESOL profession in
teaching for social justice and advocacy and explores how critical
participatory pedagogies translate into English language teaching
and teacher education around the world. Bringing together diverse
scholars in the field and practicing English language teachers,
editors Polina Vinogradova and Joan Kang Shin present 10
thematically organized units that demonstrate that language
teaching pedagogy must be embedded in the larger sociocultural
contexts of teaching and learning to be successful. Each unit
covers one pedagogical approach and includes three case studies to
illustrate how English language teachers across the world implement
these approaches in their classrooms. The chapters are supplemented
by discussion questions and a range of practical sources for
further exploration. Addressing established and emerging areas of
TESOL, topics covered include: Critical and postmethod pedagogies
Translingualism Digital literacy and multiliteracies Culturally
responsive pedagogy Advocacy Featuring educators implementing
innovative approaches in primary, secondary, and tertiary contexts
across borders, Contemporary Foundations for Teaching English as an
Additional Language is an ideal text for methods and foundational
courses in TESOL and will appeal to in-service and preservice
English language teachers as well as students and teacher educators
in TESOL and applied linguistics.
Biological and Pharmaceutical Applications of Nanomaterials
presents the findings of cutting-edge research activities in the
field of nanomaterials, with a particular emphasis on biological
and pharmaceutical applications. Divided into four
sections-nanomaterials for drug delivery, antimicrobial
nanomaterials, nanomaterials in biosensors, and safety of
nanomaterials-this book: Covers topics such as stimuli-responsive
nanostructured silica matrixes, gold nanoparticles, and liposomes
for targeting drug delivery and dental applications Describes the
use of nanocarriers and nanoparticles as cancer and peptide
therapeutics, the influence of surface characteristics on microbial
adhesion, and the latest developments in antimicrobial
nanostructured polymers for medical applications Discusses recent
advances in nanodiagnostic techniques for infectious agents,
chromogenic biosensors for pathogen detection, electrochemical
biosensors for detecting DNA damage and genotoxicity, and molecular
imaging with quantum dots including surface modifications by
polymers for biosensing applications Featuring contributions from
field experts and researchers in industry and academia, Biological
and Pharmaceutical Applications of Nanomaterials provides
state-of-the-art information on nanomaterials and their use in drug
delivery, infection control, and biomedicine.
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American
Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's
workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of
subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the
persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies
that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century. The book
interrogates three common narratives: The rise of Fordism as a
"masculine" mode of production and the transition to an era of
"feminized" work; women's liberation through the sexual
revolutions; and the rise of a new form of literary authorship.
Conversely, it suggests that women's labor was integral to the
operations of the Fordist business sphere, where, unlike at the
factory, the white-collar office proletarian work was casualized
and feminized. This book argues that this workplace was an
important site of subject formation, affirming dominant ideologies
through economic practices. Analyzing work by Sinclair Lewis, Nella
Larsen, Anita Loos, and Sylvia Plath, the book presents an
alternative history of American modernism, one that is more attuned
to gendered discourses of labor and class. By looking at the
micropolitics of power within cultural institutions, this study
moves beyond the dichotomies of exclusion/inclusion to interrogate
the terms on which women and minorities worked as producers, and
the ideas and experiences that consequently entered the field of
intelligibility.
This book explores how Russia’s War on Ukraine has changed the
global nuclear order. The Russian aggression against Ukraine
questioned the values of the liberal regimes and systems upon which
the global nuclear order is built. At the heart of this nuclear
order lies the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons (NPT), which remains until today the cornerstone of the
global nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation regime. In this
context, the book examines new challenges and threats to the global
nuclear order. It discusses the deterioration of nuclear norms, as
well as the increasing number of the states further challenging the
NPT regime by attempts to develop nuclear weapons. The book further
sheds light on a growing number of states trying to resolve their
territorial claims using the nuclear coercion and the umbrella
function of their nuclear arsenals. The authors present the
loopholes in the existing arms control system and the arms trade,
which became obvious in the course of the war, and analyze the
further split between the supporters of the NPT and the Treaty on
the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Srutinizing the
deepening polarization of the supporters and the opponents of
nuclear weapons, the book includes a new debate about the competing
narratives on nuclear deterrence and disarmament. Finally, the
volume discusses the development and the increase of new missiles
and disruptive technologies such as hypersonic missiles, drones,
and artificial intelligence. This book will appeal to students and
scholars of international relations and political science in
general, and security studies, military and defense studies, peace
and conflict studies, and foreign policy in particular, as well as
policy-makers interested in a better understanding of nuclear
deterrence, the global nuclear order, and the impact of Russia's
war on Ukraine.
This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability,
caused by the collapse of the international security architecture.
Against the background of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,
international experts discuss topics and critical issues such as
the revanchist strategy of Russia and the readiness of the United
States (US) and Europe to give an adequate response; the influence
of new technologies in the future of nuclear deterrence; and the
crumbling of the arms control and nonproliferation system under the
new challenges. The book explains how the combination of these
factors lead to a crucial change of strategic stability and the
international security landscape, the first such change since the
end of the Cold War. Divided into three parts, the book presents
timely analyses on (1) US, Russia: New Challenges and Strategic
Stability in Europe; (2) Extended Deterrence and Arms Control in
Europe; and (3) Regional Dimensions of Strategic Stability in
Europe. It further offers perspectives from and case studies on
different countries, such as Ukraine, France, Germany, the United
Kingdom, the USA, Turkey, Poland, and Romania. This book is a
must-read for scholars for international relations, as well as
policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the changing
international security architecture, Russia's strategy, arms
control, nonproliferation, and the future of nuclear
deterrence. Â
This book brings together selected revised papers representing a
multidisciplinary approach to language and literature. The
collection presents studies performed using the methods of
computational linguistics in accordance with the traditions of
Russian linguistic and literary studies, primarily in line with the
Leningrad (Petersburg) philological school. The book comprises the
papers allocated into 2 sections discussing the study of corpora in
language, translation, and literary studies and the use of
computing in language teaching and translation and in emotional
text processing. A unique feature of the presented collection is
that the papers, compiled in one volume, allow readers to get an
understanding of a wide range of research conducted in Saint
Petersburg State University and other Russian leading scientific
institutions. Both the classical tradition of Saint Petersburg
philology and the results obtained with the help of new computer
technologies as a sample of the symbiosis of technologies and
traditions, which bring research to a qualitatively new level,
arouse interest.
Examining a peculiarity in the legacy of the Beat Generation,
this book considers the fact that a body of literature centered
around the work of authors with misogynist tendencies such as
William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac has been a
profound influence on later generations of female writers and
artists who work through the prism of feminism. The study aims to
show that the idea that the Beat Generation was a "boy gang" is a
misconception forged by Ginsberg and others in the group, who not
only marginalized female authors in their midst but also construed
women as symbols of stagnation and domesticity. As early as the
1960s, female Beat writers attempted to express themselves not
through the narratives of Beat sexual and social rebellions, but
through feminist discourses which sought to free the woman from the
patriarchal ideal of either mother or waiting maiden. MacKay argues
that Beat women of later generations expand writing techniques they
self-consciously inherit from male Beat writers, such as long
breath lines in poetry and the cut-up technique. While Ginsberg and
Burroughs utilize these to show the potentiality of the free mind,
which has no social, sexual, or geographical limits, female authors
apply them to interrogate gender as a fixed category. This study
demonstrates that female authors who pay homage to male Beat
writers often rearticulate and critique masculinist discourse while
maintaining the spirit of defiance and resistance.
This book brings together selected revised papers representing a
multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well
as their interaction. Among the number of multidisciplinary and
comparative studies of the structure and organization of language
and music, the presented book broadens the scope with the inclusion
of gesture problems in the analyzed spectrum. A unique feature of
the presented collection is that the papers, compiled in one
volume, allow readers to see similarities and differences in
gesture as an element of non-verbal communication and gesture as
the main element of dance. In addition to enhancing the analysis,
the data on the perception and comprehension of speech, music, and
dance in regard to both their functioning in a natural situation
and their reflection in various forms of performing arts makes this
collection extremely useful for those who are interested in human
cognitive abilities and performing skills. The book begins with a
philosophical overview of recent neurophysiological studies
reflecting the complexity of higher cognitive functions, which
references the idea of the baroque style in art being neither
linear nor stable. The following papers are allocated into 5
sections. The papers of the section "Language-Music-Gesture As
Semiotic Systems" discuss the issues of symbolic and semiotic
aspects of language, music, and gesture, including from the
perspective of their notation. This is followed by the issues of
"Language-Music-Gesture Onstage" and interaction within the idea of
the "World as a Text." The papers of "Teaching Language and Music"
present new teaching methods that take into account the interaction
of all the cognitive systems examined. The papers of the last two
sections focus on issues related primarily to language: The section
"Verbalization Of Music And Gesture" considers the problem of
describing musical text and non-verbal behavior with language, and
papers in the final section "Emotions In Linguistics And
Ai-Communication Systems" analyze the ways of expressing emotions
in speech and the problems of organizing emotional communication
with computer agents.
This book of Springer Proceedings in Geoarchaeology and
Archaeological Mineralogy contains selected papers presented at the
7th Geoarchaeology Conference, which took place during October
19-23, 2020, at the South Urals Federal Research Center, Ural
Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia. The
Proceedings combine studies in archeometry, geoarchaeology, and
ancient North Eurasian technologies, including paleometallurgy,
stone tools investigation, past exploitation of geological
resources, bioarchaeology, residue analysis, pottery, and lithics
studies. This book also specializes in various non-organic
materials, rocks, minerals, ores, and metals, especially copper and
metallurgical slags. Many types of research also use modern
analytical methods of isotopic, chemical, and mineralogical
analysis to address the composition and structure of ancient
materials and the technological practices of past human populations
of modern Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia.
This book is intended for archaeologists, historians, museum
workers, and geologists, as well as students, researchers from
other disciplines, and the general public interested in the
interdisciplinary research in the field of archaeology and
archaeological materials, strategies and techniques of past
quarrying, mining, metallurgy and lithic technologies at different
chronological periods in Eurasian steppe and adjacent forest zone.
This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities
presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines
the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such
a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation
from a 'brown' to 'green' economy, the importance of effective
carbon measurement and management methodologies, the use of
behaviour economics, and the application of a growth-enabling
approach. Offering valuable insights into how various stakeholders
respond to the challenges of green growth and focusing in
particular on the support of universities, The Low Carbon Economy
covers themes of leadership, systems approach, stakeholder
management, and collaborative action. This comprehensive study
provides readers with constructive ideas for maximising the
opportunities of transitioning to a low carbon economy, and will
serve as a useful tool for practitioners and academics interested
in sustainability.
This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities
presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines
the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such
a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation
from a 'brown' to 'green' economy, the importance of effective
carbon measurement and management methodologies, the use of
behaviour economics, and the application of a growth-enabling
approach. Offering valuable insights into how various stakeholders
respond to the challenges of green growth and focusing in
particular on the support of universities, The Low Carbon Economy
covers themes of leadership, systems approach, stakeholder
management, and collaborative action. This comprehensive study
provides readers with constructive ideas for maximising the
opportunities of transitioning to a low carbon economy, and will
serve as a useful tool for practitioners and academics interested
in sustainability.
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Language, Music, and Computing - First International Workshop, LMAC 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 20-22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Polina Eismont, Natalia Konstantinova
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International
Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St.
Petersburg, Russia, in April 2015. The 13 papers presented in this
volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions.
They were organized in topical sections on music and language in
education; corpus studies of language and music; problems of
notation; and linguistic studies of music.
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Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2014 - 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Polina Golland, Nobuhiko Hata, Christian Barillot, Joachim Hornegger, Robert Howe
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The three-volume set LNCS 8673, 8674, and 8675 constitutes the
refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI
2014, held in Boston, MA, USA, in September 2014. Based on rigorous
peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 253 revised
papers from 862 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The
100 papers included in the second volume have been organized in the
following topical sections: biophysical modeling and simulation;
atlas-based transfer of boundary conditions for biomechanical
simulation; temporal and motion modeling; computer-aided diagnosis;
pediatric imaging; endoscopy; ultrasound imaging; machine learning;
cardiovascular imaging; intervention planning and guidance; and
brain.
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