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Wildsam Field Guides: Vermont (Paperback)
Samantha Alviani; Edited by Taylor Bruce, Bill McKibben; Illustrated by Sarah Letteney
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This is a memorial for Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a pioneering
political scientist, international relations specialist and peace
scholar of the 20th century. Born in Prague, he was a professor at
MIT, Yale and Harvard and spent a decade at the Social Science
Center Berlin (WZB). He was a global leader in the theory and
scientific analysis of international relations and comparative
politics who published on nationalism, social communication,
European integration, war and peace, arms control, social
cybernetics, general systems analysis, and global modelling. He
pioneered the development and analysis of large-scale political and
social data across nations and over time and proposed a widespread
access to these data and their scientific evaluation. This book
offers biographical data on Karl W. Deutsch, reproduces chapters
from his PhD thesis and his book Nerves of Government. Colleagues
from the USA (A.S. Markovits, H. Alker, R.L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.,P. J.
Katzenstein, T.R. Cusack, C.L. Taylor), Germany (D. Senghaas, R.
Wildenmann, R. Mackensen, K. v. Beyme) and the Czech Republic (M.
Hroch) offer Collegial Critiques and Memorials. It provides a
comprehensive bibliography of his publications and memorials for a
great scholar, a superb academic teacher and world citizen. * Karl
Wolfgang Deutsch was a major global pioneer in Political Science,
internationalrelations and peace research in the 20th century. *
His most creative contributions were the concept of social
mobilization, the use of cyberneticsto study human relationships,
the introduction of politics in world modeling, and the role of
communication in governance.* He was president of the American
Political Science Association (1969-70) and of theInternational
Political Science Association (1976-79) and was a Director of the
SocialScience Research Center Berlin (1977-87). * Academics,
including graduate students, exploring nationalism, political
integration,social communications, cybernetics, and global modeling
will find this volume instructive.
The treatment of mythological material in the poetry, prose, drama,
art and music of the Hispanic Baroque. Thirteen essays engage with
one of the most obsessive aspects of the Baroque aesthetic, a
dedicated commitment in distinct artistic contexts to the treatment
of mythological material. Within the various 'Baroques' uncovered,
thereis a single unity of purpose. Meaning is always negotiable,
but the process of interpretation is dependent upon intertextual
forms of understanding, and presupposes the active participation of
the receiver. The volume explores how the paradigmatic mythical
symbols of a Renaissance epistemological world view can be
considered a barometer of rupture and a gauge of the contradictory
impulses of the time. Essays explore the differing functions of
mythology in poetry [Quevedo, Espinosa, Gongora], prose
[Cervantes], drama [Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Calderon], art
[Velazquez], and music [Latin American opera]. Collectively they
trace the dialectic of continuity and rupture that underpins the
appropriation of classical mythology in the period; demonstrating
that the mythological legacy was not as uniform, as allegorically
dominated, nor as depleted of potential as we are sometimes led to
believe. ISABEL TORRES is Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at
Queen's University, Belfast. Contributors: JEAN ANDREWS , STEPHEN
BOYD, D. W. CRUICKSHANK, TREVOR. J. DADSON, B.W. IFE, ANTHONY
LAPPIN, OLIVER NOBLE WOOD, JEREMY ROBBINS, BRUCE SWANSEY, BARRY
TAYLOR, ISABEL TORRES, D. GARETH WALTERS
Avian influenza or bird flu refers to "influenza caused by viruses
adapted to birds". Of the greatest concern is the highly pathogenic
avian influenza (HPAI). Most human contractions of the avian flu
are a result of either handling dead infected birds or from contact
with infected fluids. In this book, the authors discuss the
molecular evolution, outbreaks and prevention/control of avian
influenza. Topics include the risk assessment of highly pathogenic
avian influenza virus infections through water; biosecurity
measures against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in
free-range flocks and commercial poultry in developing countries;
outbreak control and viral evolution of the highly pathogenic H5N1
avian influenza in Thailand; and the changes in perceptions and
attitudes that were identified in a follow-up survey conducted when
bird flu was not the focus on widespread media coverage in
Australia.
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