Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space & Identity by Henning Eichberg By John Bale, Chris Philo
1998 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 0415172322 | PDF | 2 MB
Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's seven provocative essays into ''body culture''. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from sociologists, historians and geographers. This collection has been extensively edited to highlight Eichberg's most important arguments and themes. The editors focus particularly on Eichberg's provocative claims about the notion of space: from the micro-scale of how human bodies ''express'' themselves or are formally ''disciplined'' through their movements in space, to the macro-scale of how bodies and cultures are invented and contested in connection with the self- identities they come to possess in given locations. Introductory essays provide clear explanations and interpretations as well as a biography of Eichberg.
Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 9th International Conference, Living Machines 2020, Freiburg, Germany, July 28-30, 2020, Proceedings by Vasiliki Vouloutsi
English | PDF | 2020 | 443 Pages | ISBN : 3030643123 | 85.3 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the )th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2020, held in Freiburg, Germany, in July 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 32 full and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They deal with research on novel life-like technologies inspired by the scientific investigation of biological systems, biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems.
Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility by Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis
English | ISBN: 1978814798, 197881478X | 242 pages | EPUB | December 18, 2020 | 7.59 Mb
Bio-Imperialism focuses on an understudied dimension of the war on terror-the fight against bioterrorism. This component of the war enlisted the biosciences and public health fields to build up the U.S. biodefense industry and U.S. global disease control. The book argues that U.S. imperial ambitions drove these shifts in focus, aided by gendered and raced discourses on terrorism, disease, and science. It demonstrates that the U.S. government and mass media amplified Orientalist tropes of Arabs, Muslims, and other racially marginalized communities as terrorists and disease carriers, and also circulated metaphors of white feminine fragility to stoke a sense of national fragility against bioterrorism and other germ threats. These narratives helped rationalize American research expansion into dangerous germs and bioweapons in the name of biodefense, and further, bolstered the U.S. rationale for increased interference in the disease control decisions of global south nations. Bio-Imperialism is a sobering look at how the war on terror impacted the world in ways that we are only just starting to grapple with.
Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living: Socialist Register 2021 edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo
English | December 29, 2020 | ISBN: 1583678832 | EPUB | 320 pages | 2.2 MB
Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change
Pamela D. Palmater, "Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1895830605 | PDF | pages: 281 | 2.1 mb
The current Status criteria of theIndian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on First Nations, the author examines contemporary court rulings dealing with Indigenous identity, Aboriginal rights, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Palmater also examines band membership codes to determine if their reliance on status criteria perpetuates discrimination. She offers changes for determining Indigenous identity and citizenship and argues that First Nations must determine citizenship themselves.
Bender on Privacy and Data Protection by David Bender
2020 | ASIN: B00JBJYNOA | English | 2940 pages | EPUB | 27 MB
As you grapple with difficult privacy and data protection issues, you wont want to be without Bender on Privacy and Data Protection. This timely resource provides a framework to help you make sense of important questions in this rapidly-evolving area of law.
Bedazzle: The Art and Science of Eternal Confidence by Shamoly Khera
English | ISBN: 9390358604 | 254 pages | EPUB | December 18, 2020 | 0.79 Mb
What makes a person confident? What affects a person's confidence adversely and why is that even important?
Mohammad Javed Ali, "Atlas of Lacrimal Drainage Disorders"
English | 2017 | pages: 684 | ISBN: 9811056153 | PDF | 162,2 mb
Written by an expert in the field, this book is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the evaluation and management of lacrimal drainage disorders. Lacrimal disorders are one of the most common conditions encountered not only by oculoplastic surgeons and general ophthalmologists, but also by otorhinolaryngologists in their daily practice. Consisting of 77 chapters, it addresses the basic anatomy and underlying pathology, patient evaluation, and the surgical procedures currently performed in managing various lacrimal disorders. Surgical modalities including the endoscopic approaches are thoroughly and succinctly captured in pictures with detailed legends to aid understanding and offer a visual treat. Since familiarity with a surgical technique is incomplete without the knowledge of risk factors and red flags, the book discusses in detail how to deal with surgical complications and failure.
Robert Bailey, "Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds"
English | ISBN: 0822361493 | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics in and outside the collective between 1969 and 1977, Bailey positions Art & Language at the center of a historical shift from Euro-American modernism to a global contemporary art. He documents the collective's growth and reach, from transatlantic discussions on the nature of conceptual art and the establishment of distinct working groups in New York and England to the collective's later work in Australia, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Bailey also details its publications, associations with political organizations, and the internal power struggles that precipitated its breakdown. Analyzing a wide range of artworks, texts, music, and films, he reveals how Art & Language navigated between art worlds to shape the international profile of conceptual art. Above all, Bailey underscores how the group's rigorous and interdisciplinary work provides a gateway to understanding how conceptual art operates as a mode of thinking that exceeds the visual to shape the philosophical, historical, and political.
Anesthesia for Genetic, Metabolic, and Dysmorphic Syndromes of Childhood 3rd Edition
by Victor C. Baum
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1451192797 | 513 Pages | EPUB | 18 MB