Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity By Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland
1998 | 183 Pages | ISBN: 0415182794 | PDF | 2 MB
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalization and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilize performances to affirm their own identities while also speaking to outsiders. The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.

Radical Regeneration: Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction by Carolyn Baker, Andrew Harvey
English | November 3rd, 2020 | ISBN: 1663211957 | 204 pages | True EPUB | 1.85 MB
What is being made crystal clear is that humanity stands at a monumentally fragile threshold with two stark choices placed before it in a situation of complete uncertainty: Those choices are: 1) To continue to worship a vision of power, totally distanced from sacred reality 2) Or to choose the path of submitting bravely to the alchemy of being transfigured by a global dark night event that shatters all illusions but reveals the greatest imaginable possibility being born out of the greatest imaginable disaster. If humanity chooses the second path, which is what is being celebrated in this book, then it will have trained itself in the new radical unity necessary to weather the even worse crises that most certainly will quickly follow.

Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine, Second Edition by Max H. Lombardi
English | October 20, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0849381681 | 256 pages | PDF | 4,9 Mb
Recent advances in the field of nuclear medicine (NM) are expanding the role and responsibilities of the nuclear medicine technologist (NMT) to include more complex and detailed tasks. New technologies are making the diagnosis, management, and treatment of illnesses more sensitive, more specific, more accurate, and ultimately safer for both the patient and the technologist.

RANDOMNICITY: Rules and Randomness in the Realm of the Infinite By Anastasios A. Tsonis
2008 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1848162057 | PDF | 18 MB
This unique book explores the definition, sources and role of randomness. A joyful discussion with many non-mathematical and mathematical examples leads to the identification of three sources of randomness: randomness due to irreversibility which inhibits us from extracting whatever rules may underlie a process, randomness due to our inability to have infinite power (chaos), and randomness due to many interacting systems. Here, all sources are found to have something in common: infinity. The discussion then moves to the physical system (our universe).Through the quantum mechanical character of small scales, the second law of thermodynamics and chaos, randomness is shown to be an intrinsic property of nature - this is consistent with the three sources of randomness identified above. Finally, an explanation is given as to why rules and randomness cannot exist by themselves, but instead have to coexist. Many examples are presented, ranging from pure mathematical to natural and social processes, that clearly demonstrate how the combination of rules and randomness produces the world we live in. Contents: The Three Parts of Everything; Sources of Randomness; Randomness in the Universe; The Emergence of Real World; The Role of Randomness.

Purpose, Pattern, and Process by Lennis Polnac
English | ISBN: 0757552021 | 2008 | PDF | 458 pages | 6,9 MB
This book explores the processes writers engage in when they write. In particular this explanation focuses on how the purpose of the writing and the patterns of organization used to develop the content affect how those writing processes work.

Pueblos, Plains, and Province: New Mexico in the Seventeenth Century by Joseph P. Sánchez
English | ISBN: 1646420837 | 334 pages | EPUB | January 4, 2021 | 0.73 Mb
In Pueblos, Plains, and Province Joseph P. Sánchez offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers', missionaries', and Indigenous peoples' struggle for economic and cultural control of the region. Sánchez explores the rich archival documentation that provides cultural, linguistic, and legal views of the values of the period.

Public Interest Rules of International Law by Teruo Komori
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0754678237 | PDF | 498 pages | 4,2 MB
This book seeks to clarify factors that play an important role in securing the effectiveness of legal regimes that aim at protecting public interests of the international community. In Part 1, the authors focus on theoretical problems arising in the implementation process of those legal regimes from both a constitutional and functional perspective.

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, And The New Biology Of Mind by Eric R. Kandel
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1585621994 | 414 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB
Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought.

Proper Group Actions and the Baum-Connes Conjecture (Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona) by Guido Mislin and Alain Valette
English | ISBN: 3764304081 | 2003 | DJVU | 131 pages | 14,3 mb
This book contains a concise introduction to the techniques used to prove the Baum-Connes conjecture. The Baum-Connes conjecture predicts that the K-homology of the reduced C^*-algebra of a group can be computed as the equivariant K-homology of the classifying space for proper actions.