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UNINA9910792589603321 |
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Porpora Douglas V |
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How holocausts happen [[electronic resource] ] : the United States in Central America / / Douglas V. Porpora |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 1990 |
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1-282-93885-1 |
9786612938856 |
1-4399-0453-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
Atrocities - Central America - History - 20th century |
Apathy |
Central America Politics and government 1979- |
Central America Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Central America |
United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 Moral and ethical aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Banality of Evil; 3. Moral Indifference, the Rise of Hitler, and the Exterminiation of the Jews; 4. The Two Faces of Genocide in Central America; 5. Has the United States Become a Party to Genocide? To a Holocaust-like Event?; 6. How We Allowed Ourselves to Become a Party to Genocide; 7. In the Footsteps of the Righteous; Notes; Index |
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""History repeats itself, but it never repeats itself exactly,"" observes Douglas Porpora in this powerful indictment of U.S. intervention in Central America. Comparing the general public's reaction to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany with American public opinion of U.S. participation in the genocidal policies of Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary forces, and the governments of Guatemala and El Salvador among others, Porpora demonstrates that moral indifference to the suffering of others was the common response. With reference to |
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Hannah Arendt's thesis of the banality of evil, he develops t |
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UNINA9910346756403321 |
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Autore |
Christian González-Billault |
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Titolo |
From Ecology to Brain Development: Bridging Separate Evolutionary Paradigms |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (133 p.) |
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Frontiers Research Topics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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The nervous system is the product of biological evolution and is shaped by the interplay between extrinsic factors determining the ecology of animals, and by intrinsic processes that dictate the developmental rules that give rise to adult functional structures. This special topic is oriented to develop an integrative view from behavior and ecology to neurodevelopmental processes. We address questions such as how do sensory systems evolve according to ecological conditions? How do neural networks organize to generate adaptive behavior? How does cognition and brain connectivity evolve? What are the developmental mechanisms that give rise to functional adaptation? Accordingly, the book is divided in three sections, (i) Evolution of sensorimotor systems; (ii) Cognitive computations and neural circuits, and (iii) Development and brain evolution. We hope that this initiative will support an interdisciplinary program that addresses the nervous system as a unified organ, subject to both functional and developmental constraints, where the final outcome results of a compromise between different parameters rather than being the result of several single variables acting independently of each other. |
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