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UNINA9910451570203321 |
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The Oprah phenomenon / / edited by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson ; contributors, Audrey M. Dentith [and sixteen others] |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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0-8131-3709-8 |
0-8131-5994-6 |
1-282-97626-5 |
9786612976261 |
0-8131-7213-6 |
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Edizione |
[Updated edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Oprah Winfrey as subject and spectacle / Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson. Pt. I. Oprah Winfrey and race. The specter of Oprah Winfrey: critical black female spectatorship / Tarshia L. Stanley -- My mom and Oprah Winfrey: her appeal to white women / Linda Kay -- The "Oprahization" of America: The man show and the redefinition of black femininity / Valerie Palmer-Mehta. Pt. II. Oprah Winfrey on the stage. Oprah Winfrey and women's autobiography: a televisual performance of the therapeutic self / Eva Illouz and Nik John -- From fasting to self-acceptance: Oprah Winfrey and weight loss in American culture / Ella Howard -- Spiritual talk: The Oprah Winfrey show and the popularization of the New Age / Maria McGrath -- Oprah Winfrey and spirituality / Denise Martin -- Phenomenon on trial: reading rhetoric at Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey / Jennifer Richardson. Pt. III. Oprah Winfrey on the page. Oprah's Book Club and the American dream / Malin Pereira -- Some lessons before dying: gender, morality, and the missing critical discourse in Oprah's Book Club / Roberta F. Hammett and Audrey Dentith -- Making corrections to Oprah's Book Club: reclaiming literary power for gendered literacy management / Sarah |
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Robbins -- Knowing for sure: epistemologies of the autonomous self in O, the Oprah magazine / Marjorie Jolles -- Oprah Winfrey's branding of personal empowerment / Damiana Gibbons. |
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With a Foreword by Robert J. Thompson Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, ""Oprah"" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey merits critical evaluation. The contributors to The Oprah Phenomenon examine the origins of her public image and its substantial influence on politics, entertainment, and popular opinion. Contributors address praise from her many supporters and weigh criticisms |
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UNINA9910784658503321 |
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Primitive fishes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David J. McKenzie, Anthony P. Farrell, Colin J. Brauner |
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Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Academic Press, c2007 |
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1-281-02880-0 |
9786611028800 |
0-08-054952-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (576 p.) |
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Collana |
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Fish physiology ; ; v. 26 |
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McKenzieDavid J <1962-> (David John) |
FarrellAnthony Peter <1952-> |
BraunerColin J |
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Fishes - Physiology |
Fishes - Evolution |
Living fossils |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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"The primitive fishes that this book focuses on inlcude the jawless agnathans (hagfishes and lampreys), the lobe-finned sarcopterygians (coelacanth and lungfishes), and the primitive ray-finned |
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actinopterygian fishes (the sturgeons, the bichirs and the ropefish, the gars, and the bowfin)"--Pref. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Primitive Fishes; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Living Primitive Fishes and Fishes From Deep Time; 1. Introduction; 2. Primitive Characters, Primitive Taxa, and Ancient Taxa; 3. Living Fossils; 4. Living Primitive Fishes in Vertebrate Phylogeny; 4.1. The Hagfish-Lamprey-Gnathostome Node; 4.2. The Gar-Bowfin-Teleosts Node; 4.3. The Coelacanth-Lungfish-Tetrapod Node; 4.4. Other Problematic Nodes; 5. Living Primitive Fishes and Their Fossil Relatives: Naming and Dating Taxa; 5.1. Hagfishes and Lampreys; 5.2. Chondrichthyans; 5.3. Actinopterygians |
5.4. Sarcopterygians6. Extinct Major Fish Taxa and Their Position in Vertebrate Phylogeny; 6.1. Yunnanozoans and Myllokunmingiids; 6.2. ""Ostracoderms""; 6.3. Placoderms; 6.4. Acanthodians; 6.5. ""Paleoniscoids"" and Basal Neopterygians; 6.6. Extinct Sarcopterygian Taxa; 7. How Stable is Vertebrate Phylogeny?; 8. Fossils and Physiology; 9. The Environment of Early Fishes: Marine Versus Freshwater Vertebrates; 10. Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: Cardiovascular Systems in Primitive Fishes; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Scope of the Chapter; 1.2. Measurement Systems: Their Benefits and Limitations |
2. An Overview of Evolutionary Progressions2.1. Anatomical Patterns; 2.2. Physiological Patterns; 3. Details of the Cyclostome Circulatory Systems; 3.1. Hagfishes; 3.2. Lampreys; 4. Details of the Sarcopterygii (Lobe-Finned Fishes) Circulatory Systems; 4.1. Coelacanth; 4.2. Dipnoi (Lungfishes); 5. Details of the Circulatory Systems in Polypterids, Gars, and Bowfins; 5.1. Polypterids (Bichirs and Reedfish); 5.2. Garfishes; 5.3. Amia (Bowfins); 6. Details of the Sturgeon Circulatory Systems; 6.1. Cardiac Anatomy; 6.2. Circulatory Patterns; 6.3. Cardiac Dynamics; 6.4. Circulatory Control |
7. ConclusionsAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 3: Nervous and Sensory Systems; 1. Introduction; 2. Development of the CNS; 3. The Brains of Primitive Fishes; 3.1. Agnathans (Hagfishes and Lampreys); 3.2. Sarcopterygians (Lobe-Finned Fishes); 3.3. Actinopterygians (Early Ray-Finned Fishes); 4. Functional Classification of Cranial Nerves in Fishes; 5. The Visual System; 5.1. The Optical Apparatus; 5.2. Retina and Visual Function; 5.3. Spectral Filters; 5.4. Visual Sensitivity; 5.5. Visual Resolution; 5.6. Visual Input to the CNS; 5.7. Nonvisual Photoreception; 6. Chemoreceptive Systems |
6.1. Olfaction6.2. Gustation; 6.3. Solitary Chemoreceptor Systems; 7. Octavolateralis System; 7.1. Audition; 7.2. Vestibular Control; 7.3. Lateral Line; 8. Electroreception; 8.1. Structure, Function, and Evolution of Ampullary Receptors; 8.2. Role in Passive Electrolocation; 9. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: Ventilatory Systems; 1. Introduction; 2. Respiratory Strategies; 3. Respiratory Organs; 3.1. Water Breathing; 3.2. Air Breathing; 4. Ventilatory Mechanisms; 4.1. Cutaneous Gas Exchange; 4.2. Ventilation of External Gills; 4.3. Ventilation of Internal Gills |
4.4. Ventilation of ABOs |
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Primitive fishes are a relatively untapped resource in the scientific search for insights into the evolution of physiological systems in fishes and higher vertebrates. Volume 26 in the Fish Physiology series presents what is known about the physiology of these fish in comparison with the two fish groups that dominate today, the modern elasmobranchs and the teleosts. Chapters include reviews on what is known about cardiovascular, nervous and ventilatory systems, gas exchange, ion and nitrogenous waste regulation, muscles and |
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locomotion, endocrine systems, and reproduction. Editors prov |
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