Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas, Whitehead Neil L.

Автор: Laevi-Strauss Claude, L?vi-Strauss Claude
Название: We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays
ISBN: 0231170688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231170680
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Levi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.

Автор: Egel
Название: Origins of Life: The Primal Self-Organization
ISBN: 3642216242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642216244
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: If theoretical physicists can seriously entertain canonical “standard models” even for the big-bang generation of the entire universe, why cannot life scientists reach a consensus on how life has emerged and settled on this planet?  Scientists are hindered by conceptual gaps between bottom-up inferences (from early Earth geological conditions) and top-down extrapolations (from modern life forms to common ancestral states). This book challenges several widely held assumptions and argues for alternative approaches instead. Primal syntheses (literally or figuratively speaking) are called for in at least five major areas. (1) The first RNA-like molecules may have been selected by solar light as being exceptionally photostable. (2) Photosynthetically active minerals and reduced phosphorus compounds could have efficiently coupled the persistent natural energy flows to the primordial metabolism. (3) Stochastic, uncoded peptides may have kick-started an ever-tightening co-evolution of proteins and nucleic acids.  (4) The living fossils from the primeval RNA World thrive within modern cells.  (5) From the inherently complex protocellular associations preceding the consolidation of integral genomes, eukaryotic cell organization may have evolved more naturally than simple prokaryote-like life forms. – If this book can motivate dedicated researchers to further explore the alternative mechanisms presented, it will have served its purpose well.

Автор: Sugg Richard
Название: Mummies, cannibals, and vampires
ISBN: 1138934003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138934009
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria.

Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Picking our way through the bloodstained shadows of this remarkable secret history, we encounter medicine cut from bodies living and dead, sacks of human fat harvested after a gun battle, gloves made of human skin, and the first mummy to appear on the London stage. Lit by the uncanny glow of a lamp filled with human blood, this second edition includes new material on exo-cannibalism, skull medicine, the blood-drinking of Scandinavian executions, Victorian corpse-stroking, and the magical powers of candles made from human fat. In our quest to understand the strange paradox of routine Christian cannibalism we move from the Catholic vampirism of the Eucharist, through the routine filth and discomfort of early modern bodies, and in to the potent, numinous source of corpse medicine s ultimate power: the human soul itself.

Now accompanied by a companion website with supplementary articles, interviews with the author, related images, summaries of key topics, and a glossary, the second edition of "Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires "is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of medicine, early modern history, and the darker, hidden past of European Christendom."

Автор: Lumholtz
Название: Among Cannibals
ISBN: 1108006337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108006330
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Lumholtz`s entertaining and informative account of his 1880 expedition to Australia describes Aboriginal society and traditions observed at close quarters.

Автор: Walens Stanley
Название: Feasting with Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
ISBN: 069161461X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691614618
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Professor Walens shows that the Kwakiutl visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten. His analyses of the social rituals of meals, native ideas of the ethology of predation, a key Kwakiutl myth, and the Hamatsa dance, the most dramatic of their ceremonials, demonstrate the ways in which oral, assimilative metaphors en

Автор: Goleman Daniel, Boyatzis Richard, McKee Annie
Название: Primal Leadership, with a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
ISBN: 1422168034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781422168035
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
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Описание: This is the book that established "emotional intelligence" in the business lexicon and made it a necessary skill for leaders. Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business and medical schools, and professional training programs, and by a growing legion of professional coaches.

This refreshed edition, with a new preface by the authors, vividly illustrates the power and the necessity of leadership that is self-aware, empathic, motivating, and collaborative in a world that is ever more economically volatile and technologically complex. It is even timelier now than when it was originally published. From bestselling authors Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, this groundbreaking book remains a must-read for anyone who leads or aspires to lead.

Also available in ebook format wherever ebooks are sold.

Автор: Song Y. Yan
Название: Primality Testing and Integer Factorization in Public-Key Cryptography
ISBN: 1441945865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441945860
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 153720.00 T
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Описание: Intended for advanced level students in computer science and mathematics, this key text, now in a brand new edition, provides a survey of recent progress in primality testing and integer factorization, with implications for factoring based public key cryptography.

Автор: Segerdahl
Название: Kanzi`s Primal Language
ISBN: 1403996040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403996046
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh`s work on the language capabilities of the bonobo Kanzi has intrigued the world because of its far-reaching implications for understanding the evolution of the human language.