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Overview: Offers an interpretation of psycho-social processes (cognitive, motivational, emotional, representational) of populism.Pays particular attention to the case of Italy to show populism on the both the L.This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the authors outline the various psychosocial precursors of populisms that have emerged from empirical investigations. Using both mainstream and critical perspectives, the book shows how the field has driven multiple research programmes and methodologies. The authors draw

Overview: Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.978-1-349-32635-8978-1-137-34105-1Series ISSN 2947-4949 Series E-ISSN 2947-4957

Overview: Analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes.Vivid presentation of political concepts in Antigone, the Melian Dialogue, Michael Kohlhaas, the Grand Inquisitor and Ragtime.Offers an interdiscipliThis book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality. The author explores this theme in readings of the Sophocles tragedy .Antigone., the .Melian Dialogue. of Thucydides, Heinrich von Kleist’s novella .Michael Kohlhaas., Fyodor Dostoevsky‘s .The Grand Inquisitor. and E.L. Doctorow’s .Ragtime .novel, taki

Overview: Develops a multidisciplinary approach to current political utopias.Argues that the new possibilities created in post-apocalytic cultures.Integrates the research of scholars from several countries on fThis book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). However, this edited collection seeks to show that the post-apocalyptic world in which we liv

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Overview: 978-90-247-1743-9978-94-010-1351-2

Overview: This book presents cutting-edge research work on computing, cognition and ethics for artificial intelligence.Papers included in this book were presented at the Philosophy & Theory of Artificial Intell.Can we make machines that think and act like humans or other natural intelligent agents? The answer to this question depends on how we see ourselves and how we see the machines in question. Classical AI and cognitive science had claimed that cognition is computation, and can thus be reproduced on other computing machines, possibly surpassing the abilities of human intelligence. This con

Overview: Overview of manmade and natural crises situations and lack of law enforcement preparedness.Includes both conceptual and tactical concepts that help with proactive law enforcement preparedness.Focus on.This brief examines proactive steps police can take to lessen the potential for disaster, improve preparedness for disasters that do occur and enhance our ability to respond to and recover from them. Featuring several countries across the globe as case studies, it illustrates the predictability of various natural and manmade disasters and the need of the local police organizations to de

Overview: .This volume offers insight in the identification and selection procedure of marine protected areas in the German exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the North - and Baltic Seas. EU Member States are obliged to establish a coherent network of protected areas, consisting of sites identified under the EC Habitats and Birds Directives. The goal of this Natura 2000 network is the conservation of biodiversity on land and in the sea. To fill important gaps in knowledge regarding the presence, abundance, and distribution of certain species and habitats in the German North- and Baltic Seas, t

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.Since its inception, patch-clamp has continued to be widely considered the gold standard method to record ion channel activity. .Patch-Clamp Methods and Protocols, Second Edition., provides a comprehensive collection of new techniques for the development of automated, high-throughput screening systems for pharmacological evaluation, the use of various patch-clamp configurations together with novel molecular biologica

Overview: Contains basic and advance topics in hair restoration surgery.Covers surgical procedures for treating hair loss accompanied by step-wise images.Focuses hair transplantation of Asians who have coarse a.This book comprehensively discusses the practical aspects of hair transplantation in Asians. The demand for hair transplantation has increased globally in recent years and Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) is gaining popularity. As such the book examines the techniques used by different ethnic group in Asia, included shaving, non-shaving FUE and robotic hair restoration surgery. With the

Overview: Wohlbefinden durch Schulentwicklung.In diesem essential präsentiert Ulrike Lichtinger den Ansatz der Positiven Schulentwicklung. Sie zeigt, was es braucht, dass Schule gelingt, dass Lehrkräfte und Schülerschaft an ihren Stärken und Potenzialen entlang wachsen und aufblühen können. Dazu stellt sie den theoretischen Hintergrund der Positiven Schulentwicklung vor und gibt konkrete Hinweise zur praktischen Umsetzung des wachstumsorientierten Prozesses PERMA.change.. Er nimmt Schulleitung und Kollegium an die Hand und motiviert zu Innovationen in sieben Schritten, die gut tun und gleichze

Overview: Knowledge Base Systems are an integration of conventionaldatabase systems with Artificial Intelligence techniques. They provideinference capabilities to the database system by encapsulating theknowledge of the application domain within the database. .Knowledge is the most valuable of all corporate resources that must becaptured, stored, re-used and continuously improved, in much the sameway as database systems were important in the previous decade. .Flexible, extensible, and yet efficient Knowledge Base Systems areneeded to capture the increasing demand for knowledge-basedapplication

Overview: Written by an award-winning PR executive with over 20 years working in China, a recognized leader in the industry who has advised over two dozen Fortune 500 companies and a host of smaller firms.PithyIn this pithy yet compact book, David Wolf, provides business owners and PR practitioners with a roadmap to corporate credibility in China. Laced with thoughtful advice and braced with illustrative cases, Public Relations in China strips out the jargon and offers something rare: a practical handbook for building and defending a brand in China.978-1-137-48379-9978-1-137-48381-2Series ISSN

Overview: This book assesses the effectiveness of free trade agreements (FTAs) in unlocking international business opportunities in member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). It takes an institutional perspective in explaining the existence and effects of non-tariff barriers and how FTAs can address these barriers to attract foreign investors.978-1-137-47988-4

Overview: Paddock has referred to societies as "anti-violent" that Inhibit the expressIon of aggresSion. In his book Violence and Aggression, KE. Moyer nas made a brief but interesting comparison of several violent and nonviolent cultures. Whereas studies of violence have ranged from genetic, cultural to Situation effects, and have been pursued through empirical and nonempirical methods over the past several decades, nonviolence did not become a favorite area of study among social scientists. Although it is impossible to make a complete list of the various reasons for the lack of interest amon

Overview: This volume, the sixth in the series "The Prostaglandin System" assembles most of the lecture notes from the International School of Pharmacology on "Prostanoids and Drugs" that took place in Erice, Sicily, at the "Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture" on Sept 5-15, 1989. The course, which was a NATO Advanced Study Institute, comprised detailed discussion of basic metabolic pathways of arachidonic acid as well as their location in the everyday practice of clinical medicine. The current status of our knowledge on drugs affecting prostanoid metabolic pathways, and/or their fun

Overview: 978-1-4899-7300-9978-1-4899-7317-7

Overview: During the last annual meeting of the Austrian Society for Electron Microscopy it was decided to organize scientific symposia dealing with basic problems of cytology. If possible such symposia should be arranged in cooperation with other scientific societies. We intended to arrange symposia on special fields, to be presented on several aspects by excellent scientists invited. "Neural Transmission" was chosen as a central topic for this first symposium. The subject represents a most rapidly expanding field of research and is of particular interest to morphologists, physiologists, phar

Overview: Reviews emerging paradigms in pancreatic cancer management.Features over 200 high-yield illustrations, photographs, and tables.Written by experts in the fieldThis book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of pancreatic cancer. The text presents new data about risk factors and genetic predisposition for pancreatic cancer, highlights current screening strategies and preliminary results, and reviews diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer, with a focus on imaging evaluations, laparoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsies, and biomarkers. The book also spotlights e