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One Great Tribe (Hardcover)
Shelley Muniz; Illustrated by Bear Dyken; Cover design or artwork by Melody W Young
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From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's
misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his
daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas. This
book helps students learn about family life in Shakespeare's
England and in his plays. The book begins with an overview of the
roots of Renaissance family life in the classical era and Middle
Ages. This is followed by an extended consideration of family life
in Elizabethan England. The book then explores how Shakespeare
treats family life in his plays. Later chapters then examine how
productions of his plays have treated scenes related to family
life, and how scholars and critics have responded to family life in
his works. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and
electronic resources.
The volume begins with a look at the classical and medieval
background of family life in the Early Modern era. This is followed
by a sustained discussion of family life in Shakespeare's world.
The book then examines issues related to family life across a broad
range of Shakespeare's works. Later chapters then examine how
productions of the plays have treated scenes concerning family
life, and how scholars and critics have commented on family life in
Shakespeare's writings. The volume closes with a bibliography of
print and electronic resources for student research. Students of
literature will value this book for its illumination of critical
scenes in Shakespeare's works, while students in social studies and
history courses will appreciate its use of Shakespeare to explore
daily life in the Elizabethan age.
These two exceptional volumes, both part of the second edition of a
we ll established textbook, explore the biological, biochemical and
chemi cal aspects of malting and brewing science. Focusing on the
scientific principles behind the selection of raw materials and
their processing, these two insightful text include brief
descriptions of the equipmen t used.
These two exceptional volumes, both part of the second edition of a
we ll established textbook, explore the biological, biochemical and
chemi cal aspects of malting and brewing science. Focusing on the
scientific principles behind the selection of raw materials and
their processing, these two insightful text include brief
descriptions of the equipmen t used.
This book focuses upon the development of economics at Oxford after
the establishment of PPE and the contributions of Oxford economists
during the 'years of high theory' and afterwards. Students'
recollections of tutorials and lectures, and their tutors and
lecturers, along with examination questions and results, amongst
other aspects of teaching at Oxford, are presented here for he
first time. In addition, the many contributions of Oxford
economists such as Harrod, Allen, Andrews, Hicks, Meade, Richardson
and Steindl, including the staff of the Oxford Institute of
Statistics, along with the story of the Institute itself, are dealt
with. Unpublished correspondence, memoranda and papers are
collected at various archives are cited to show that Oxford's
contribution to the development of economics was equal to that of
Cambridge.
This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of
data sets about the most frequently used models and computer
programs for MDS, as well as techniques for collecting data and
assessing MDS results. It covers the design, execution, and
analysis of multidimensional scaling experiments and includes
detailed descriptions and examples of six major MDS computer
programs: MINISSA, POLYCON, KYST, INDSCAL/SINDSCAL, ALSCAL and
MULTISCALE. These six approaches are sufficiently fundamental that
continuing developments in the field will build on the principles
presented in this volume.
This book deals with the recent advances in DNA-Encoded Library
(DEL) technology that has emerged as an alternative to high
throughput screening (HTS) over the last decade and has been
heralded as a "disruptive" technology for drug discovery. The book
aims to provide a comprehensive overview of all of the major
components of the DEL process from conception to bench execution
and clinical investigations. The contributions from experts in the
field combine different perspectives from academia and industry.
The book will be of interest to researchers in the drug discovery
field as well as to graduate students and scholars who are
interested in this rapidly improving technology.
Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and
television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and
dazzling intellects who-inside an hour, notwithstanding
commercials-piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and
autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes-the iconic fictional
detective, and the invention of forensic doctor Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle-is held up as a paragon of forensic and scientific
inspiration-does not "reason forward" as most people do, but
"reasons backwards." Put more plainly, rather than learning the
train of events and seeing whether the resultant clues match those
events, Holmes determines what happened in the past by looking at
the clues. Impressive and infallible as this technique appears to
be-it must be recognized that infallibility lies only in works of
fiction. Reasoning backward does not work in real life: reality is
far less tidy. In courtrooms everywhere, innocent people pay the
price of life imitating art, of science following detective
fiction. In particular, this book looks at the long and disastrous
shadow cast by that icon of deductive reasoning, Sherlock Holmes.
In The Sherlock Effect, author Dr. Thomas W. Young shows why this
Sherlock-Holmes-style reasoning does not work and, furthermore, how
it can-and has led-to wrongful convictions. Dr. Alan Moritz, one of
the early pioneers of forensic pathology in the United States,
warned his colleagues in the 1950's about making the Sherlock
Holmes error. Little did Moritz realize how widespread the problem
would eventually become, involving physicians in all other
specialties of medicine and not just forensic pathologists. Dr.
Young traces back how this situation evolved, looking back over the
history of forensic medicine, revealing the chilling degree to
which forensic experts fail us every day. While Dr. Young did not
want to be the one to write this book, he has felt compelled in the
interest of science and truth. This book is measured,
well-reasoned, accessible, insightful, and-above all-compelling. As
such, it is a must-read treatise for forensic doctors, forensic
practitioners and students, judges, lawyers adjudicating cases in
court, and anyone with an interest in forensic science.
Negative Affective States and Cognitive Impairments in Nicotine
Dependence is the only book of its kind that addresses nicotine use
and abuse in the context of negative reinforcement mechanisms.
Written and edited by leading investigators in addiction,
affective, genetic, and cognitive research, it provides researchers
and advanced students with an overview of the clinical bases of
these effects, allowing them to fully understand the various
underlying dysfunctions that drive nicotine use in different
individuals. In addition, this book examines animal models that
researchers have utilized to investigate the biological bases of
these dysfunctions. The combination of clinical and preclinical
approaches to understanding nicotine dependence makes this book an
invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to
develop targeted treatments aimed at ameliorating symptoms of
nicotine dependence, as well as identifying premorbid differences
in affective or cognitive function.
Cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of
specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal
cognitive processing. The conclusions drawn from the study of
abnormal processes are in turn used in the development and testing
of theories of normal cognition. First published in 1988, this
seminal book represented an attempt to synthesize and systematize
progress in the study of cognitive neuropsychology and therefore
provides an important snapshot of the field at the time. In
addition to reviewing different forms of impairment and discussing
their implications for theories of normal function, this book also
examines the empirical and theoretical foundations of the subject
including the use of single-case studies and the assumptions that
must be made about the mind and brain. This classic edition marks
25 years in print, and includes a brand new introduction written by
the authors, Ellis and Young. The Augmented Edition of Human
Cognitive Neuropsychology published in 1997 is also still
available. This classic edition will be important reading for
students of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and
neuropsychology.
Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the founding fathers of modern
social anthropology and the innovator of the technique of prolonged
and intensive fieldwork. His writings about the Trobriand Islands
of Papua were in their time the most formative influence on the
work of British social anthropologists and are of perennial
interest and importance. They produced a revolution in the aims and
field techniques of social anthropologists, and the method he
created is that now normally used by anthropologists in the field.
Malinowski's field material remains compulsory reading for
students. First published in 1979, this book draws from the major
monographs of Malinowski to compile a selection of his writings on
the Trobriand Islanders. In presenting a concise Trobriand
ethnography in one volume, the author gives balanced coverage of
economic life, kinship, marriage and land tenure, and to the system
of ceremonial exchange known as the Kula. He also provides, in an
introductory essay, a critical assessment of Malinowski the
ethnographer, and gives a brief account of the Trobriands in a
modern perspective.
While the revelation of God's name is a central theological topic,
its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a
world filled with violence committed 'in the name of God', how
might invoking God's name enable peace, community, and hope? The
Politics of Praise argues that the redemptive potential of naming
God lies in how this event transforms friendship. It breaks new
ground by tracing the connections between naming God and friendship
in the work of Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Derrida. Advancing an
innovative reading of Aquinas on the divine names, the book
explores how Dionysius' mysticism shapes Aquinas' appropriation of
Aristotle's ethics, then retraces how Derrida's reading of religion
renders possible an alternative conception of friendship. These
explorations lead to a surprising convergence between Aquinas and
Derrida on the conditions of friendship.
This outstanding presentation of the fundamentals of
multidimensional scaling illustrates the applicability of MDS to a
wide variety of disciplines. The first two sections provide ground
work in the history and theory of MDS. The final section applies
MDS techniques to such diverse fields as physics, marketing, and
political science.
This reference guide throws light on almost every aspect of postwar
international history from the rise of Mao's China to the Bosnian
Civil War. It provides a huge wealth of information on East-West
relations setting events, crises and conflicts in their full
international context.
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