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UNINA9910461726003321 |
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Zimmer Carl |
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More brain cuttings [[electronic resource] ] : further explorations of the mind / / Carl Zimmer |
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New York, : Scott & Nix, Inc., 2011 |
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1-935622-31-5 |
1-935622-29-3 |
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1 online resource (88 p.) |
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Brain - Research |
Neurosciences |
Electronic books. |
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"The essays in this edition were originally published in a slightly different form in Discover, The New York Times, and Scientific American."--T.p. verso. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Preface; A Body Fit for a Gigantic Brain; The Genius of Athletes; Switching on the Happy Rat; How the Brain Wires Itself; Past Is Prologue; Decoding the Smile; A Yardstick for the Nose; Love Songs and Cockatoo Dances; The Silly Putty Brain; Ringing in the Brain; Where Pain Lives; The Trouble with Teens; A Hundred Trillion Connections; Consciousness, Bit by Bit; Selected References |
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""The brain unfolds like a flower. The more I have explored neuroscience, the more it has rewarded me with new stories. In 2010, I published Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind. Here are fifteen more journeys. In some pieces, I look at some of the surprising ways in which the brain works. In others, I consider some of the many ways the brain goes wrong. And finally, I try to look at the brain as a whole-how the 100 billion neurons add up to a person's life of the mind, and produce consciousness."" -Carl Zimmer |
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UNINA9910463319803321 |
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Tomášková Silvia |
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Wayward Shamans : The Prehistory of an Idea / / Silvia Tomášková |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Shamans - Siberia - Russia (Federation) |
Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Electronic books. |
Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs |
Siberia (Russia) Civilization |
Siberia (Russia) Colonization |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Discoveries Of An Imaginary Place -- 2. Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic -- 3. People In A Land Before Time -- 4. The Invention Of Siberian Ethnology -- 5. Sex, Gender, And Encounters With Spirits -- 6. Changed Men And Changed Women -- 7. French Connections And The Spirits Of Prehistory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- References -- Index |
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Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male |
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sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history. |
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UNINA9910780896903321 |
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The anthropology of Christianity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fenella Cannell |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
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9786613022417 |
0-8223-3608-1 |
1-283-02241-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Christianity and culture |
Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Anthropology of religion |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index. |
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Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell -- The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby -- Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse -- Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell -- Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman -- The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren -- Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow -- The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion |
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in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford -- Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller -- Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse -- Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane. |
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Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world. |
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UNINA9910298455403321 |
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Titolo |
Nano/Micro Science and Technology in Biorheology : Principles, Methods, and Applications / / edited by Rio Kita, Toshiaki Dobashi |
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Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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1 online resource (444 p.) |
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Clinical biochemistry |
Biomedical engineering |
Biophysics |
Medical Biochemistry |
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering |
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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1. Introduction and theoretical background -- 2. Rheological Aspects of Conformational Change and Molecular Aggregation of Macromolecules -- 3. Elongational Flow Birefringence Investigation of Dynamics of DNA Molecules -- 4. Nonequilibrium Structure Formation of Complex Bilayer Membrane Lamellar Phase Under Shear -- 5. Diffusion and thermal |
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diffusion by means of dynamic light scattering and laser holography -- 6. Diffusion Measurements of Water and Polymers in Hydrogels by Pulsed Field Gradient NMR -- 7. Rheological Basis of Magnetic Resonance Elastography -- 8. Dynamics of Water, Biomaterials, and Skin Investigated by Means of Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy -- 9. Dynamics and Glass Transition of Aqueous Solutions of Molecular Liquid, Polymer, and Protein Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy -- 10. Biorheological aspect of microcapsules -- 11. Biomedical Application of Soft Nano/Micro-Particles -- 12. Control of the Multi-Scale Structure of Scaffolds and its Application in Tissue Engineering -- 13. Sensing of Biomolecules and Cells by Semiconductor Device -- 14. From Single-Molecule DNA Imaging to Development of a Gene Delivery System -- 15. Atomic Force Microscopy: Imaging and Rheology of Living Cells -- 16. Supplement. |
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Integrating basic to applied science and technology in medicine, pharmaceutics, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, biophysics, and irreversible thermodynamics, this book covers cutting-edge research of the structure and function of biomaterials at a molecular level. In addition, it examines for the first time studies performed at the nano- and microscale. With innovative technologies and methodologies aiming to clarify the molecular mechanism and macroscopic relationship, Nano/Micro Science and Technology in Biorheology thoroughly covers the basic principles of these studies, with helpful step-by-step explanations of methodologies and insight into medical applications. Written by pioneering researchers, the book is a valuable resource for academics and industry scientists, as well as graduate students, working or studying in bio-related fields. |
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