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We make or listen to music for the powerful effect it has on our
emotions, and we can't imagine our lives without music. Yet we tend
to know nothing about the intricate networks that neurons create
throughout our brains to make music possible. The Musical Brain
explores fascinating discoveries about the brain and music, often
told through the stories of musicians whose lives have been
impacted by the extraordinary ability of our brains to learn and
adapt. Neuroscientists have been studying musicians and the process
of making music since the early 1990s and have discovered a
staggering amount of information about how the brain processes
music. There have been many books discussing neuroscience and
music, but this is the first to relate the research in a practical
way to those individuals who make or teach music. Research in
mirror neurons, neuroplasticity, imagery, learning and memory, the
musical abilities of babies, and the cognitive advantage of
studying music can offer valuable insights into how and when we
should begin the study of music, how we can practice and teach more
effectively, how we can perform with greater confidence, and can
help us understand why experiencing music together is so important
in our lives. An accompanying website provides links to interviews,
performance clips, demonstrations, photos, and essays involving the
concepts or musicians discussed in the book.
This book identifies key factors necessary for a well-functioning
information infrastructure and explores how information culture
impacts the management of public information, stressing the need
for a proactive and holistic information management approach amidst
e-Government development. In an effort to deal with an
organization's scattered information resources, Enterprise Content
Management, Records Management and Information Culture Amidst
E-Government Development investigates the key differences between
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Records Management (RM),
the impact of e-Government development on information management
and the role of information in enhancing accountability and
transparency of government institutions. The book hence identifies
factors that contribute to a well-functioning information
infrastructure and further explores how information culture impacts
the management of public information. It highlights the Records
Continuum Model (RCM) thinking as a more progressive way of
managing digital information in an era of pluralization of
government information. It also emphasizes the need for
information/records management skills amidst e-Government
development. Ideas about records, information, and content
management have fundamentally changed and developed because of
increasing digitalization. Though not fully harmonized, these new
ideas commonly stress and underpin the need for a proactive and
holistic information management approach. The proactive approach
entails planning for the management of the entire information
continuum before the information is created. For private
enterprises and government institutions endeavoring to meet new
information demands from customers, citizens and the society at
large, such an approach is a prerequisite for accomplishing their
missions. It could be argued that information is and has always
been essential to all human activities and we are witnessing a
transformation of the information landscape.
This volume explores how the interpretation of material from the
ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse
methodological and theoretical approaches to studying gender. The
contributors to this collection include both established and
up-and-coming scholars whose work brings gender studies
theories-from Butler's theory of gender as a performance to more
recent theories that consider gender as a spectrum-to bear on
varied materials and contexts. Their essays increase the visibility
of women in ancient history, untangle constructions of masculinity
and femininity in diverse contexts, and grapple with big-picture
questions, such as the suitability of applying third-wave or
postfeminist theories to the ancient Near East. Studying Gender in
the Ancient Near East points to a need for-and provides a model
of-a more productive agenda for gender studies in furthering our
understanding of ancient Near Eastern societies. In addition to the
editors, the contributors are Julia M. Asher-Greve, Stephanie Lynn
Budin, Megan Cifarelli, M. Erica Couto-Ferreira, Amy Rebecca
Gansell, Katrien De Graef, Amelie Kuhrt, Stephanie M.
Langin-Hooper, Brigitte Lion, Natalie N. May, Beth Alpert Nakhai,
Martti Nissinen, Omar N'Shea, Maria Rosa Oliver, Frances Pinnock,
Eleonora Ravenna, Allison Karmel Thomason, Luciana Urbano, Niek
Veldhuis, and Ilona Zsolnay.
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging
translations of works that were composed or edited by female
scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts
provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements
of women during the earliest periods of recorded human history
(c.2300-540 BCE). In three introductory chapters and a concluding
chapter, Charles Halton and Saana Svard provide an overview of the
civilization of ancient Mesopotamia and examine gender by analyzing
these different kinds of texts. The translations cover a range of
genres, including hymns, poems, prayers, letters, inscriptions, and
oracles. Each text is accompanied by a short introduction that
situates the composition within its ancient environment and
explores what it reveals about the lives of women within the
ancient world. This anthology will serve as an essential reference
book for scholars and students of ancient history, gender studies,
and world literature.
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