Category: Culture

By R. Levi-Montalcini, K. R. Seshan (auth.), Gordon Sato (eds.)

ISBN-10: 1468429043

ISBN-13: 9781468429046

ISBN-10: 146842906X

ISBN-13: 9781468429060

The impetus for compiling this booklet used to be the new improvement of tradition traces of neuroblastoma and glial cells and the speedy and enthusiastic approach they've been taken up as version platforms. After the 1st unexpected rush of job, it kind of feels applicable to pause, to evaluate development, and to think about the longer term contributions which may be attainable utilizing those tradition thoughts. lengthy ahead of the appearance of demonstrated lines, cultures of anxious tissue had already contributed to neurobiology. Ross Harrison, in 1906, in one experimental sequence, tested tissue tradition as a promising new process in cellphone biology and settled the Golgi-Cajal controversy to whether axonic techniques originated as outgrowths from the cellphone physique or have been shaped first within the intercellular areas and have been later attached to the mobile physique. Harrison saw method progress from nerve cells in cultures, therefore settling the problem in want of Cajal. of serious value to neurobiology is the invention by means of Rita Levi-Montalcini of nerve development issue. Cultures of spinal ganglia performed an immense position within the discovery, isolation, and characterization of the issue (Levi-Montalcini et ai. , 1954). in my view, this discovery, even though rather well identified, has now not but been correctly well-known for its germinal impression on neurobiology and embryology. development because the introduction of clonal cultures has been extra modest. i need to quote items of labor which emphasize the technical advert­ vantages of those cultures.

By Cervantes Jorge

ISBN-10: 2845940181

ISBN-13: 9782845940185

544pages. 24x17x3cm. Broché.

By Vicky Katsoni, Amitabh Upadhya, Anastasia Stratigea

ISBN-10: 3319477315

ISBN-13: 9783319477312

ISBN-10: 3319477323

ISBN-13: 9783319477329

This publication explores the ways that info and verbal exchange applied sciences (ICTs) provide a robust instrument for the advance of clever tourism. a number of examples are awarded from around the complete spectrum of cultural and background tourism, together with artwork, recommendations in museum interpretation and collections administration, cross-cultural visions, gastronomy, movie tourism, darkish tourism, activities tourism, and wine tourism. Emphasis is put on the significance of the shrewdpermanent locations thought and an information financial system pushed by means of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. New modes of tourism administration are defined, and tourism items, prone, and methods for the stimulation of financial innovation and promoting of data move are defined. the possibility of varied rising ICTs during this context is obviously defined, protecting location-based prone, web of items, shrewdpermanent towns, cellular companies, gamification, electronic collections and the digital customer, social media, social networking, and augmented truth. The e-book is edited in collaboration with the overseas organization of Cultural and electronic Tourism (IACuDiT) and contains the court cases of the 3rd overseas convention on Cultural and electronic Tourism.

By Jeffrey Braithwaite, Paula Hyde, Catherine Pope

ISBN-10: 0230584659

ISBN-13: 9780230584655

This ebook showcases overseas study on wellbeing and fitness care organisations. It provides diversified and multidisciplinary methods to learning differing overall healthiness care settings, in foreign context. those ways variety from extensive statement to questionnaire established measures, investigating a spectrum of overall healthiness care pros.

By Ian Utlley

ISBN-10: 1857336046

ISBN-13: 9781857336047

Tradition shrewdpermanent! presents crucial info on attitudes, ideals and behaviour in several nations, making sure that you simply arrive at your vacation spot conscious of simple manners, universal courtesies, and delicate concerns. those concise publications let you know what to anticipate, the right way to behave, and the way to set up a rapport along with your hosts. This inside of wisdom will enable you stay away from embarrassing gaffes and errors, believe convinced in unexpected occasions, and boost belief, friendships, and winning enterprise relationships.

Culture shrewdpermanent! bargains illuminating insights into the tradition and society of a selected state. it's going to assist you to show your visit-whether on enterprise or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching event. Contents include

customs, values, and traditions
historical, spiritual, and political background
life at home
leisure, social, and cultural life
eating and drinking
dos, don'ts, and taboos
business practices
communication, spoken and unspoken

"Culture shrewdpermanent has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday occasions Travel

"... the appropriate advent to the unusual, significant and downright abnormal quirks and customs of assorted countries." worldwide Travel

"...full of fascinating-as good as common-sense-tips that will help you steer clear of embarrassing pretend pas." Observer

"...as worthwhile as they're entertaining." Easyjet Magazine

"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a far off world." big apple instances

By Watson W.

ISBN-10: 1861896786

ISBN-13: 9781861896780

With essays via John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn.

Renaissance our bodies is a distinct choice of perspectives at the ways that the human snapshot has been represented within the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. the topics mentioned variety from excessive artwork to pop culture - from images of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking spiritual fanaticism - and comprise miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, paintings historians and literary critics, replicate diversified severe viewpoints, and the seventy eight illustrations current a desirable exhibition of the usually unusual and haunting photos of the interval.

By Thomas Hylland Eriksen

The flip of the millennium is characterised via exponential development in every thing with regards to verbal exchange – from the web and e mail to air site visitors. Tyranny of the instant offers with essentially the most complicated paradoxes of this new details age. Who could have anticipated that it sounds as if time-saving expertise ends up in time being scarcer than ever? And has this doubtless unlimited entry to info resulted in confusion instead of enlightenment? Eriksen argues that sluggish time – deepest classes the place we can imagine and correspond with no interruption – is now probably the most worthy assets now we have. seeing that we're theoretically 'online' 24 hours an afternoon, we needs to struggle for definitely the right to be unavailable – the correct to stay and imagine extra slowly. it's not in basic terms that operating hours became longer – Eriksen additionally indicates how the common sense of this new info expertise has permeated each region of our lives. Exploring phenomena corresponding to the web, wap phones, multi- channel tv and electronic mail, Eriksen examines this non-linear and fragmented means of speaking to bare the way it impacts operating stipulations within the economic system, alterations in kinfolk lifestyles and, finally, own identification. Eriksen argues tradition missing a feeling of its previous, and as a result of its destiny, is successfully static. even supposing suggestions are recommended, he demonstrates that there's no effortless approach out.

By Arthur Asa Berger

ISBN-10: 0742527247

ISBN-13: 9780742527249

Now in its fourth version, advertisements, Fads, and customer tradition offers with the effect of ads upon American personality and tradition. It bargains a definition of ads, explains the best way ads firms paintings, discusses the capabilities of ads, and gives a psycho-cultural standpoint on advertisements. one of the issues it bargains with are the position of manufacturers in promoting items and the matter of self-alienation and its relation to intake. It additionally analyzes customer cultures, areas advertisements within the communique method, and considers using sexuality in advertisements, political advertisements, and advertising and marketing idea. the promoting dialogue offers with the Values and way of life Typology (VALS) and the Claritas typology. The chapters interpreting print ads and tv ads are special beneficial properties of the ebook. For print advertisements, it offers an inventory of issues to contemplate in interpreting print advertisements after which presents a close research of a desirable Fidji fragrance commercial that exhibits a Polynesian lady with a snake round her neck. It presents a semiotic, psychoanalytic, sociological, Marxist, mythic, and Feminist research of this commercial. For tv ads, it analyzes the recognized Macintosh '1984' advertisements in a few alternative ways besides. within the final bankruptcy it speculates in regards to the function of advertisements in promoting medicines to humans, youngsters and ads, and the issues ads businesses have in getting people's realization. It additionally bargains a word list to phrases utilized in the e-book and an annotated bibliography.

By Clifford Geertz

ISBN-10: 0465041620

ISBN-13: 9780465041626

In essays protecting every little thing from paintings and customary experience to air of secrecy and structures of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist deepens our knowing of human societies throughout the intimacies of "local knowledge."