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The Beautiful People and Other Aggravations
by Rose Madeline Mula&“Laugh your cares away with Rose Madeline Mula, one of the Saturday Evening Post&’s favorite humor writers.&” —Ted Kreiter, editor, Saturday Evening Post &“Read this book sitting on the beach, relaxing in a bubble bath, commuting to work on the train, or vegging out on a Sunday afternoon.&” —Mary McHugh, author, How Not to Become a Crotchety Old Man &“If laughter is the best medicine, you can throw away your prescriptions! This book will replace them all.&” —Joan Fontaine, actress, Jane Eyre (1944) &“[Rose&’s] bubbling wit and humor will tickle your nose and your funny bone like the best vintage wine.&” —Russ Gorman, WOON talk show host In her signature self-deprecating and hilarious style, humor essayist Rose Madeline Mula gripes about growing old. Her inability to stick with New Year&’s resolutions, the mystery of her clothes shrinking to a smaller size with each passing season, and her susceptibility to infomercials are just a few of the problems pestering Mula. In this collection of comical compositions, readers can skip around from one laugh-out-loud essay to the next while enjoying the author&’s endless wit and charm. The animated author recalls the days before cars came equipped with electric windows, when pin boys frequented bowling alleys, and songs were composed with lovely lyrics that the listener could understand. While written with a mature audience in mind, women of all ages will enjoy this relatable book.
Kindred
by Octavia E. ButlerSelected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur &“Genius&” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. &“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.&”Dana&’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner&’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead&’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates&’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction&’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. &“Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise&” (New York Times).&“Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it&’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.&” —N. K. Jemisin This book has been published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the cover available.
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
by Vanessa Van EdwardsDo you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder what your date really thinks of you? Do you wish you could decode people? You need to learn the science of people. As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces that drive us. And she&’s cracked the code. In Captivate, she shares shortcuts, systems, and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren&’t the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on how to captivate anyone—and a completely new approach to building connections. Just like knowing the formulas to use in a chemistry lab, or the right programming language to build an app, Captivate provides simple ways to solve people problems. You&’ll learn, for example… · How to work a room: Every party, networking event, and social situation has a predictable map. Discover the sweet spot for making the most connections. · How to read faces: It&’s easier than you think to speed-read facial expressions and use them to predict people&’s emotions. · How to talk to anyone: Every conversation can be memorable—once you learn how certain words generate the pleasure hormone dopamine in listeners. When you understand the laws of human behavior, your influence, impact, and income will increase significantly. What&’s more, you will improve your interpersonal intelligence, make a killer first impression, and build rapport quickly and authentically in any situation—negotiations, interviews, parties, and pitches. You&’ll never interact the same way again.
The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack KeatsThe magic and wonder of winter&’s first snowfall is perfectly captured in Ezra Jack Keat&’s Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. This celebrated classic has been shared by generations of readers and listeners, a must-have for every child&’s bookshelf and a perfect gift for the holiday season. New York Public Library's #1 book on the list of &“Top Check Outs of All Time&”In 1962, a little boy named Peter put on his snowsuit and stepped out of his house and into the hearts of millions of readers. Universal in its appeal, this story beautifully depicts a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. The quiet fun and sweetness of Peter&’s small adventures in the deep, deep snow is perfect for reading together on a cozy winter day. Ezra Jack Keats was also the creator of such classics as Goggles, A Letter to Amy, Pet Show!, Peter&’s Chair, and A Whistle for Willie. (This book is also available in Spanish, as Un dia de nieve.) Praise for The Snowy Day:&“Keats made Peter&’s world so inviting that it beckons us. Perhaps the busyness of daily life in the 21st century makes us appreciate Peter even more—a kid who has the luxury of a whole day to just be outside, surrounded by snow that&’s begging to be enjoyed.&” —The Atlantic"Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow."—Publisher's Weekly
Take Me Home
by Melanie SweeneyAN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERRoad Trip Rules: No bad music. No detours. No falling in love.Hazel Elliot never looks back. If a door closes, she burns the whole house down. But when she&’s invited to her father's Christmas Eve wedding, she&’s forced to return to Lockett Prairie, Texas, for the first time since she fled for college.Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel since she dated his best friend in high school. Now, Ash and Hazel&’s relationship is limited to playful feuding over the best chair in their favorite coffee shop, but his attraction to the prickly girl from home has only grown stronger.When Ash&’s car breaks down just as family obligations and the holidays pull him home, only one person can get him there on time. But Hazel has a condition: Everything between them must stay the same. And if it doesn&’t? She gets the coffee shop. So the frenemies endure bad music, inclement weather, and B&Bs with only one bed—and that&’s just the drive across Texas. When they finally arrive, Hazel must face that, in a small town, there&’s nowhere to run . . . and maybe, for the first time, she's found a reason to stay.
Islandborn
by Junot DíazFrom New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination.A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: &“Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.&” Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves.
The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode (Elements in the Gothic)
by Mary GoingThe Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure that reimagine and revise him, adding Gothic layers to a popular Christian myth that refuses to die. Drawing on the work of Carol Margaret Davison, Lisa Lampert-Weissig and Galit Hasan-Roken and Alan Dundes, whose studies trace the myth's development across history, folklore and literature, this Element studies the figure as an antisemitic, palimpsestic Derridean spectre and establishes early Gothic writing as a significant development in his continued spectral existence. By reading the production of the Wandering Jew in conversation with his historical and theological contexts, and employing theoretical traditions of spectralisation according to Jacques Derrida and Steven F. Kruger, this Element provides a dedicated account of Gothic iterations of this figure and examines its alchemical, Faustian and theological figurations.
Spontaneous Preterm Labour and Birth (Elements in High Risk Pregnancy: Management Options)
by Natasha L. Hezelgrave Andrew ShennanSpontaneous preterm birth remains the leading cause of neonatal death, and the second leading cause of mortality worldwide in children below 5 years of age. The causes of preterm birth are multifactorial, likely contributing to why significant progress in reducing the incidence has been slow. This Element contains the most up to date evidence regarding the aetiology, epidemiology and management of pregnancies at risk of, or complicated by spontaneous preterm birth and preterm prelabour rupture of membranes, concentrating largely on those aspects potentially amendable to preventative intervention, i.e. cervical dysfunction and premature uterine contractility, as well as strategies to improve outcomes for infants born prematurely.
Unprinted: Publication Beyond the Press (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)
by Daria Kohler Daniel Wakelin Natascha Domeisen Daniel Haywood Edward Jones Micah Mackay Rosie Maxton Brian M. Moore Katie Noble Felix M. Simon Daniel WojahnThis Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity. This decentres print as the means for understanding publication; instead, publication is seen as an heuristic term which identifies activities these traditions share, but which also differ in ways not reducible to comparisons with printing. The Element engages with texts written on papyrus, chiselled in stone, and created digitally; sung, proclaimed, and put on stage; banned, hidden and rediscovered. The authors move between Greek inscriptions and Tibetan edicts, early modern manuscripts and AI-assisted composition, monasteries and courts, constantly questioning the term 'publication' and considering the agency of people publishing and the publics they address. The picture that transpires is that of a colourful variety of contexts of production and dissemination, underlining the value of studying 'unprinted' publication in its own right.
Comedy and Controversy: Scripting Public Speech (Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts)
by Sarah Balkin Marc MierowskyThis is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters – or is pushed – into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and media rhetoric rather than the traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These controversies raise a larger set of questions about the comedian's public role. They draw attention to the intention of jokes and their effects in the world. And they force us to consider how the limits of comic performance – what can be said, by whom, and why – respond to, and can reshape, public discourse across changing media contexts.
Diabetes in Pregnancy (Elements in High Risk Pregnancy: Management Options)
by Lee Wai Ryan Lim Weiying Ann Margaret Wright Lay-Kok TanDiabetes mellitus is one of the most common and important medical complications affecting pregnancy and resolves once the pregnancy has ended. However, about 3 per cent of women with a diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) actually have type 2 diabetes diagnosed for the first time in pregnancy and therefore it persists after the pregnancy is over. The coexistence of diabetes of any type and pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes for both the woman and the baby. Women with pre-existing diabetes should be counselled before pregnancy about the implications of pregnancy, and given particular support to optimise blood glucose control and the management of related medical complications when trying to conceive. Women with either pre-existing diabetes or GDM require multidisciplinary care during the pregnancy. All women with GDM should be offered annual screening for diabetes to identify the development of type 2 diabetes after pregnancy.
The Peopling of the Caucasus: Early Human Settlement at the Crossroads of Continents
by Aram Yardumian Theodore G. SchurrLocated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Caucasus region has played a critical role in the dissemination of languages, ideas, and cultures since prehistoric times. In this study, Aram Yardumian and Theodore Schurr explore the dispersal of human groups in the Caucasus beginning in the Palaeolithic period. Using evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and anthropological genetics, they trace changes in settlement patterns, cultural practices, and genetic variation. Highlighting the region's ecological diversity, natural resources, and agricultural productivity, Yardumian and Schurr reconstruct the timings and likely migration routes for human settlement following the Last Glacial Maximum, as well as the possible connections to regional economies for these expansions. Based on analysis of archaeological site reports, linguistic relationships, and genetic data previously published separately and in different languages, their synthesis of the most up to date evidence opens new vistas into the chronology and human dynamics of the Caucasus' prehistory.
The Global Legend of Prester John (Elements in the Global Middle Ages)
by Christopher E. TaylorThe Global Legend of Prester John delves into the enduring fascination with Prester John, an unreachable, collectively-imagined Christian priest-king who figured prominently in Europe's entrance into an interconnected global world. This Element draws on “The International Prester John Project,” an archive of Prester John narratives, from papal epistles to missionary diaries to Marvel comics, all of which respond to the Christian heterotopia promised in the twelfth-century Letter of Prester John. During the medieval and early modern periods, the desire to legitimize the letter's contents influenced military tactics and papal policy while serving as a cultural touchstone for medieval maps, travel narratives, and romance tales. By providing an overview of distinct narrative paths the legend took along with an analysis of the themes of malleability and elasticity within and across these paths, this Element addresses how belief in Prester John persisted for six centuries despite a lack of evidence.
Refugee Policies in East Asia (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia)
by Petrice R. FlowersEast Asia stands apart from the rest of Asia in the prevalence of the institutionalization of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Despite this widespread adoption of the Convention in East Asia, the record on implementation into domestic law and policy is uneven. This Element offers a comparative analysis of the gap between the institutionalization of the Refugee Convention and the implementation of refugee policy in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia. Specific attention is given to two key policy issues: refugee status determination—deciding who is granted government recognition as a refugee—and complementary forms of protection—protection based on statutes other than the Refugee Convention. This Element demonstrates that implementation of the Refugee Convention in East Asia depends on a vibrant civil society with the space and opportunity to engage with local UNHCR offices, local branches of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and other stake holders.
Caesarean Section Delivery (Elements in High Risk Pregnancy: Management Options)
by Joshua D. Dahlke Suneet P. ChauhanCaesarean section delivery (CD) is the most common surgical operation performed in the world. Since first described 400 years ago, surgical rates continue to rise globally. Caesarean rates are now reported from South American countries to rates of over 50% and rates of over 32% are currently being reported from the United States, China, England and Scotland. Surgical complications can occur at the time of operation and there are major implications for future pregnancies, including increased rates of placenta previa/accreta, stillbirth and preterm labour. This Element discusses many aspects of CD, including the Robson 10 group classification system, which classifies populations by characteristics such as parity, presentation of the fetus and the history of previous births, an evidence-based approach to surgical techniques, recommendations of the major guidelines and recommendations concerning trial of labour after previous caesarean.
Crime Fiction and Ecology: From the Local to the Global (Elements in Crime Narratives)
by Nathan AshmanThis Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics within its typical stylistic and thematic bounds. Using a comparative methodological approach that draws connections and commonalities between literary crime texts from across a range of geographical locales – including works from Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Oceana – it therefore seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole. This necessitates a movement away from considering crime fictions in the context of their distinct and separate national literary traditions, instead emphasising the global and transnational connections between works.
The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro: A New Translation with Commentary
by Nicholas R. JonesFive hundred years ago, working from hints in classical Greek and Latin poets, the young author Jacopo Sannazaro crafted the book called Arcadia, a narrative in richly descriptive Italian prose interwoven with elegant and passionate poems. A young man—transparently a stand-in for the author—leaves his home in Naples to join a community of shepherds in the remote Greek region of Arcadia. Yet he finds that this seemingly idyllic land is as fraught as the homeland he fled. Like the author’s humanist community in Naples, ravaged in the fifteenth century by invasion and regime change, the eloquent shepherd-poets of Arcadia are driven to distraction and depression by the frustrations of desire and the social unrest that threatens their pastoral lives. Amidst all that, they tell each other their personal histories and share their sorrows in song. Sannazaro’s Arcadia is widely recognized as a foundational text of pastoral poetry, humanism, and Italian literature. But the book itself has been largely inaccessible to English-language students and readers. This new translation uses contemporary American English to convey Arcadia’s youthful vigor, narrative energy, and poetic inventiveness. The extensive introduction and commentaries place Arcadia in the context of late fifteenth-century humanist thought and writing, as well as the complicated crisis of Naples in the years just before 1500. This translation is designed to facilitate the re-entry of Arcadia into scholarly discourse and general readership while outlining its lasting cultural influence on poetry, drama, art and music.
Analysis: Grundlagen, Differentiation, Integrationstheorie, Differentialgleichungen, Variationsmethoden, Funktionenräume, Darstellungssätze
by Friedrich SauvignyDieses Lehrbuch behandelt Lehrinhalte der Analysis für die ersten drei Semester des Bachelor-Studiums der Mathematik, Physik und Informatik. Es bietet eine moderne Darstellung der Differential- und Integralrechnung für Funktionen in einer und mehreren reellen sowie einer komplexen Variablen. Elementare Funktionen werden über komplexe Potenzreihen definiert und die Logarithmusfunktion auf ihrer Riemannschen Fläche betrachtet. Nachdem die eindimensionale Integration mittels reeller und komplexer Stammfunktionen durchgeführt ist, wird über uneigentliche n-dimensionale Riemannsche Integrale die Integration auf Mannigfaltigkeiten mit Differentialformen vorgestellt. Mit dem Lebesgueschen Integral und dessen Maßtheorie wird der Banachraum der p-fach integrablen Funktionen eingeführt. Für gewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen werden Existenz-, Eindeutigkeits- und Stabilitätsfragen beantwortet. In einem Kapitel zur Variationsrechnung wird über Geodätische der n-dimensionale Riemannsche Raum präsentiert. Ferner wird das Stieltjes-Integral mit BV-Belegungsfunktionen behandelt und die Differentiation absolut stetiger Funktionen durchgeführt. Schließlich wird der stetige Dualraum zum Lebesgueraum der p-fach integrablen Funktionen über den Rieszschen Darstellungssatz bestimmt.
Intelligent Computing and Big Data Analytics: First International Conference, ICICBDA 2024, Navi Mumbai, India, June 15–16, 2024, Proceedings, Part-II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2235)
by Vishwesh Vyawahare Mukesh Patil Gajanan BirajdarThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Big Data Analytics, ICICBDA 2024, held in Navi Mumbai, India, during June 15–16, 2024. The 48 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 275 submissions. The accepted submissions report original and novel results in various fields like Intelligent Security systems, Big Data Analytics, AI and ML applications, intelligent systems, Deep Learning, Blockchain, and many more.
Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas: Trauma • Foot and Ankle
by S. Robert Rozbruch Reggie C. Hamdy Austin T. Fragomen Mitchell BernsteinConsisting of case studies contributed by both domestic and international leaders in the field, this second edition of Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction: A Case-Based Atlas remains an invaluable resource for all orthopedic surgeons and researchers and practitioners of limb lengthening, deformity correction and the Ilizarov method. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is sensibly divided into dedicated sections on pediatrics, foot and ankle, trauma and post-traumatic reconstruction, adult deformity, tumor and upper extremity interventions. Each of the more than 450 unique cases includes color photographs and radiographs from before, during and after surgery, and follow a consistent chapter structure that outlines a brief clinical history of the case, preoperative problem list, treatment strategy, basic principles, technical pearls and how to avoid and manage complications and subsequent problems. Suggested readings round out each case. A comprehensive presentation of techniques is featured, including external fixation, internal fixation, combination approaches, fully implantable limb lengthening nails, various techniques of bone transport for skeletal defects, and osseointegration limb replacement surgery. This case-based approach is a time-tested, efficient and thorough way to learn this exciting new frontier in orthopedic surgery.
Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: Prevalence, research insights and the future directions
by Xingshun Qi Nahum Méndez-SánchezThis book provides crucial insights into the most recent advancements in understanding pathophysiology of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD), and presents innovative treatment approaches. The emerging areas of study and potential avenues for further investigation are discussed in chapters. Additionally, the latest information on diagnostic tools, lifestyle interventions, and pharmacological treatments is also presented. With the worldwide prevalence of MASLD on the rise, it helps to equip medical professionals (hepatologists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists, nephrologists, internists, and surgeons), researchers, and patients with up-to-date knowledge to effectively combat this multifaceted condition.
Introduction to Green Science and Technology for Green Economy: Principles and Applications
by Pen-Chi Chiang Hwong-wen Ma Lihchyi Wen Chun-hsu LinThis book focused specifically on the newly emerging issues related to the development of green science/technology, and green economy toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It covers three parts, namely (1) socioeconomic science, (2) environmental science, and (3) development of green technology and economy, each consisting of five to six chapters. The topics covered are meant not only to introduce the basic concepts of green science and technology related to the development of green economy, but also address the challenges, policy instruments, international initiatives and prospective and perspective. More importantly, it presents several innovative idea, indicators and methodologies regarding the measurement of industrial transformation, resource efficiency, green competitiveness, and green trade. To facilitate research innovation/integration and meet the needs for comprehensive education on sustainable development, the book covers a wide range of sectors of major concern in the development of green technology and economy, including green energy, green transportation, green building, green agriculture, and green tourism. The book also features innovation technology and integrated management pervasively adopted worldwide and several unanimous case studies. This book serves a wide range of readers from students, researchers, engineers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with the emerging challenges, new concepts, innovative methodologies, and integrated strategies it provides. The insights shared from the case studies are also illustrative and inspiring.
Human-Centred Technology Management for a Sustainable Future: Volume 1: Human-Centred Technology Approaches, Proceedings of the 33rd IAMOT Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2024 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Gustavo Dalmarco Ricardo Zimmermann José Coelho Rodrigues Ana SimoesThis proceedings volume contains selected papers from the 33rd International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) Conference, held from July 8-11, 2024, in Porto, Portugal. It is the second volume of a three-volume set of conference proceedings focused on technologies for a sustainable future. The book explores the challenges and opportunities in today's social and business landscapes, delving into innovative and disruptive concepts. With a special emphasis on the role of technologies, it sheds light on how they enable novel approaches to address current issues. The volume demonstrates that, following the principles of Industry 5.0, technologies can go far beyond productivity and economic gains, contributing to the benefit and comfort of human workers. It also elucidates the necessity of adopting a human-centered approach in utilizing technology to adapt production processes to workers' needs, while ensuring that the implementation of new technologies does not infringe upon the fundamental rights of workers.
Threatened Medicinal Plants in the Indian Himalayan Region: Sustainability Challenges and Conservation Strategies (World Sustainability Series)
by Amit Kumar Gajendra Singh Naveen Chandra Chaitanya Baliram Pande Arun Pratap MishraThe book provides an in-depth analysis of the major issues related to the conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan region. The book is a comprehensive resource and sustainability of challenges and conservation strategies that highlights the critical role of medicinal plants in traditional healthcare systems and identifies the significant threats that these plants face due to various anthropogenic and natural factors. The book covers ten major themes that are critical to understanding the sustainability conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan region. It provides an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the sustainability conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Himalayan area. The book provides an overview of the major issues related to medicinal plant sustainability conservation and suggests strategies for the sustainable management of these plants. The authors have provideda comprehensive and insightful analysis of the sustainability conservation status of medicinal plants in the region, highlighting the urgent need for concerted efforts to conserve these valuable resources.
Consciousness, Social Theory and International Relations: On Primitive Entities
by Derick BeckerThis book engages contemporary research in the neurobiology of consciousness, specifically how Integrated Information Theory (IIT) understands and models consciousness as an emergent phenomenon. In a thorough yet accessible discussion of IIT, the book explores the implications of IIT for social science and International Relations theory, particularly concerning the emergent nature of social and political systems. It is intended to be accessible to non-specialists and professional social scientists alike. The idea is to put forward a bold set of ideas that engage longstanding and contemporary debates in a format that is useful to scholars while remaining clear and cogent enough for the novice. The author’s intention is to balance the scholarly in an accessible way primarily by making a few focused scholarly points elaborated with minimal esoteric language and relying on endnotes.