Animal Homing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by F. Papi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480915303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1992
• ISBN: 94-011-1588-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1992.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 390 p.)
• Collana: Chapman & Hall Animal Behaviour Series
• Disciplina: 591.7
• Soggetti: Animal ecology; Ecology ; Animal Ecology; Ecology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published by Chapman & Hall in 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 General aspects -- 2 Invertebrates (excluding Arthropods) -- 3 Arthropods -- 4 Fishes -- 5 Amphibians -- 6 Reptiles -- 7 Birds -- 8 Mammals -- Animal index -- Author index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Homing phenomena must be considered an important aspect of animal behaviour on account of their frequent occurrence, their survival value, and the variety of the mechanisms involved. Many species regularly rely on their ability to home or reach other familiar sites, but how they manage to do this is often uncertain. In many cases the goal is attained in the absence of any sensory contact, by mechanisms of indirect orientation whose complexity and sophistication have for a long time challenged the skill and patience of many researchers. A series of problems of increasing difficulty have to be overcome; researchers have to discover the nature of orienting cues, the sensory windows involved, the role of inherited and acquired information, and, eventually, how the central mechanisms process information and control motory responses. Naturally, this book emphasizes targets achieved rather than areas unexplored and mysteries unsolved. Even so, the reader will quickly realize that our knowledge of phenomena and mechanisms has progressed to different degrees in different animal groups, ranging from the mere description of homing behaviour to a satisfactory insight into some underlying mechanisms. In the last few dacades there have ; been promising developments in the study of animal homing, since new approaches have been tried out, and new species and groups have been investigated. Despite this, homing phenomena have not recently been the object of exhaustive reviews and there is a tendency for them to be neglected in general treatises on animal behaviour.

Prisons in the late Ottoman Empire : microcosms of modernity / / Kent F. Schull [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255446603321
• Autore: Schull Kent F.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh University Press, 2014; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4744-0088-4; 0-7486-7769-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire : ESOE
• Disciplina: 365.956109041
• Soggetti: Prisons - Turkey - History - 20th century; Prisons - Turkey - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Western world stereotypically associates Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons with images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour. Now, Kent F. Schull argues that these prisons were actually a site of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. It was ; within these prisons' walls that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out; questions of administrative centralisation, Islamic criminal law and punishment, gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucracy, identity and social engineering. By juxtaposing them with the reality of prison life, Schull investigates how state-mandated reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates. He shows how these individuals actively conformed to, contested and manipulated new penal policies and practices for their own benefit.