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UNINA990001095320403321 |
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Orear, Jay |
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Fisica Generale : Secondo il metodo dell' istruzione programmata / Jay Orear |
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Bologna : Zanichelli, 1984 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910460121203321 |
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Autore |
Rose Richard <1933-> |
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Popular support for an undemocratic regime : the changing views of Russians / / Richard Rose, William Mishler and Neil Munro [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-139-06420-7 |
1-107-22213-3 |
1-283-11120-9 |
1-139-07672-8 |
9786613111203 |
0-511-80920-4 |
1-139-08354-6 |
1-139-07900-X |
1-139-08127-6 |
1-139-07100-9 |
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1 online resource (vii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Democratization - Russia (Federation) |
Democracy - Russia (Federation) |
Political participation - Russia (Federation) |
Post-communism - Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991- |
Russia (Federation) Economic conditions 1991- |
Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991- |
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Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: the need for popular support -- 1. Democratic and undemocratic models of support -- 2. Changing the supply of regimes -- 3. Putin consolidates a new regime -- 4. Increasing support for an undemocratic regime -- 5. Individual influences on regime support -- 6. Time tells: there is no alternative -- 7. Finessing the challenge of succession -- 8. The challenge of economic reversal -- 9. Maintaining a regime: democratic or otherwise -- Appendix A: New Russia barometer samples -- Appendix B: Coding of variables. |
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To survive, all forms of government require popular support, whether voluntary or involuntary. Following the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's rulers took steps toward democracy, yet under Vladimir Putin Russia has become increasingly undemocratic. This book uses a unique source of evidence, eighteen surveys of Russian public opinion from the first month of the new regime in 1992 up to 2009, to track the changing views of Russians. Clearly presented and sophisticated figures and tables show how political support has increased because of a sense of resignation that is even stronger than the unstable benefits of exporting oil and gas. Whilst comparative analyses of surveys on other continents show that Russia's elite is not alone in being able to mobilize popular support for an undemocratic regime, Russia provides an outstanding caution that popular support can grow when governors reject democracy and create an undemocratic regime. |
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UNINA9910781552603321 |
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Autore |
Neubauer Raymond L. <1942-> |
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Evolution and the emergent self [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of complexity and behavioral versatility in nature / / Raymond L. Neubauer ; illustrations by Xuan Yue |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2012 |
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1-281-74761-0 |
9786613790132 |
0-231-52168-5 |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Human evolution |
Human behavior |
Behavior evolution |
Social evolution |
Animal behavior - Evolution |
Evolution (Biology) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overview -- 1. The Immune System: A Parable -- 2. Voyages into Homeostasis -- 3. Information Content -- 4. What Is a Big Brain Good For? -- 5. A Constellation of Qualities -- 6. The Evolution of Personality -- 7. Concepts as Feature Extraction -- 8. The Brain and Belief -- 9. Energy Flows -- 10. The Origin of Life -- 11. The Prospects for Habitable Worlds -- 12. The Apex of Nature -- Notes -- Index |
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Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust. Lucidly presenting ideas about the rise of complexity in our genetic, neuronal, ecological, and ultimately cosmological settings, the author takes readers on a provocative tour of modern science's quest to understand our place in nature and in our universe. Readers fascinated with "Big History" and drawn to examine big ideas will be challenged and enthralled by Raymond L. Neubauer's ambitious |
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narrative.How did humans emerge from the cosmos and the pre-biotic Earth, and what mechanisms of biological, chemical, and physical sciences drove this increasingly complex process? Neubauer presents a view of nature that describes the rising complexity of life in terms of increasing information content, first in genes and then in brains. The evolution of the nervous system expanded the capacity of organisms to store information, making learning possible. In key chapters, the author portrays four species with high brain:body ratios-chimpanzees, elephants, ravens, and dolphins-showing how each species shares with humans the capacity for complex communication, elaborate social relationships, flexible behavior, tool use, and powers of abstraction. A large brain can have a hierarchical arrangement of circuits that facilitates higher levels of abstraction.Neubauer describes this constellation of qualities as an emergent self, arguing that self-awareness is nascent in several species besides humans and that potential human characteristics are embedded in the evolutionary process and have emerged repeatedly in a variety of lineages on our planet. He ultimately demonstrates that human culture is not a unique offshoot of a language-specialized primate, but an analogue of fundamental mechanisms that organisms have used since the beginning of life on Earth to gather and process information in order to buffer themselves from fluctuations in the environment.Neubauer also views these developments in a cosmic setting, detailing open thermodynamic systems that grow more complex as the energy flowing through them increases. Similar processes of increasing complexity can be found in the "self-organizing" structures of both living and nonliving forms. Recent evidence from astronomy indicates that planet formation may be nearly as frequent as star formation. Since life makes use of the elements commonly seeded into space by burning and expiring stars, it is reasonable to speculate that the evolution of life and intelligence that happened on our planet may be found across the universe. |
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