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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

By: Alexander Dolgin

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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

By: Alexander Dolgin

Alexander Dolgin’s Economics of Symbolic Exchange is in reality not one but three books, and although these semantic layers are interlinked, the reader will need to choose between the different vectors and modalities. One clearly evident dimension is research. Certain authors introduce quite new intellectual approaches into scienti?c debate. This requires a special frame of mind and a searching curiosity about social reality. Carl Gustav Jung identi?ed a p- nomenon which he called systematic blindness: when a science reaches a stage of maturity and equilibrium, it categorically refuses, from a sense of self-preservation, to note certain facts and phenomena which it ?nds inconvenient. In Alexander D- gin’s book whole complexes of such “non-canonical” material are to be found. Here are just a few examples: ?le exchange networks, through which digital works of art are spread through the Internet; bargain sales of fashionable clothing; the paradox of equal pricing of cultural goods of varying quality; and a discussion of whether - tronage or business has the more productive in?uence on creativity. Obviously, not all the issues Volginraises are totally new, but brought togetherand examinedwithin an elegant logical framework of informational economics, they pose a challenge to scienti?c thinking. Such challenges are by no means immediately or, in some cases, ever acclaimed bythescienti?cestablishment. J. K. Galbraith,forexample,agreatAmericaneco- mist, whose works are read throughout the world, who introduced a whole range of crucially important concepts, the director of John F.

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3540798838

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Manifesto of the New Economy

Institutions and Business Models of the Digital Society

By: Alexander Dolgin

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Manifesto of the New Economy

Institutions and Business Models of the Digital Society

By: Alexander Dolgin

The book describes the main directions for the development of the digital society. The author angles its book to those who are interested to know what would replace search engines, and how social networks would evolve; what profit can be made of different forms of informational collaboration (crowdsourcing, collaborative filtering). And, the main thing, how it will influence the structure of the society and human pursuit for happiness. The author does not confine himself to a theory, he sets and solves practical questions: How talent, success and “stardom” are interconnected, how to make money in social networks, what is the business model for the development of entertainment and media, how to measure cultural values, and what is the subjective time of the individual and how to make it qualitative? There have been no answers to these questions before. Internet and social networks have provided tools and data that Alexander Dolgin was the first to use in economics.

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3642212778

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Value Creation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The Critical Path to Innovation

By: Alexander Schuhmacher,Markus Hinder,Oliver Gassmann

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Value Creation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The Critical Path to Innovation

By: Alexander Schuhmacher,Markus Hinder,Oliver Gassmann

This practical guide for advanced students and decision-makers in the pharma and biotech industry presents key success factors in R&D along with value creators in pharmaceutical innovation. A team of editors and authors with extensive experience in academia and industry and at some of the most prestigious business schools in Europe discusses in detail the innovation process in pharma as well as common and new research and innovation strategies. In doing so, they cover collaboration and partnerships, open innovation, biopharmaceuticals, translational medicine, good manufacturing practice, regulatory affairs, and portfolio management. Each chapter covers controversial aspects of recent developments in the pharmaceutical industry, with the aim of stimulating productive debates on the most effective and efficient innovation processes. A must-have for young professionals and MBA students preparing to enter R&D in pharma or biotech as well as for students on a combined BA/biomedical and natural sciences program.

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3527693432

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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

By: Alexander Dolgin

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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

By: Alexander Dolgin

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Variational and Optimal Control Problems on Unbounded Domains

By: Gershon Wolansky,Alexander J. Zaslavski

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Variational and Optimal Control Problems on Unbounded Domains

By: Gershon Wolansky,Alexander J. Zaslavski

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop on Variational and Optimal Control Problems on Unbounded Domains, held in memory of Arie Leizarowitz, from January 9-12, 2012, in Haifa, Israel. The workshop brought together a select group of worldwide experts in optimal control theory and the calculus of variations, working on problems on unbounded domains. The papers in this volume cover many different areas of optimal control and its applications. Topics include needle variations in infinite-horizon optimal control, Lyapunov stability with some extensions, small noise large time asymptotics for the normalized Feynman-Kac semigroup, linear-quadratic optimal control problems with state delays, time-optimal control of wafer stage positioning, second order optimality conditions in optimal control, state and time transformations of infinite horizon problems, turnpike properties of dynamic zero-sum games, and an infinite-horizon variational problem on an infinite strip. This book is co-published with Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

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American Mathematical Soc.

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147041077X

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The Arctic Basin

Results from the Russian Drifting Stations

By: Ivan E. Frolov,Zalman M. Gudkovich,Vladimir F. Radionov,Alexander V. Shirochkov,Leonid A. Timokhov

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The Arctic Basin

Results from the Russian Drifting Stations

By: Ivan E. Frolov,Zalman M. Gudkovich,Vladimir F. Radionov,Alexander V. Shirochkov,Leonid A. Timokhov

A group of authors from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersburg, Russia, have all achieved individual doctoral theses on various aspects of Arctic and Antarctic research. This book is written by experienced group of researchers and authors.

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Self-determination

National, Regional, And Global Dimensions

By: Yonah Alexander,Robert A Friedlander

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Self-determination

National, Regional, And Global Dimensions

By: Yonah Alexander,Robert A Friedlander

As part of a national and international revolutionary strategy, terrorism has introduced into the struggle for power within and among nations a new mode of violence in terms of technology, victimization, threat, and response. It has also affected our present concepts and perceptions of self-determination. One of the principal questions addressed in

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Routledge

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1000311201

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Performance and Power

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Performance and Power

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society. Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual and strategy, he lays out the elements of social performance - from scripts to mise-en-scène, from critical mediation to audience reception - and systematically describes their tense interrelation. This is followed by a series of empirically oriented studies that demonstrate how cultural pragmatics transforms our approach to power. Alexander brings his new theory of social performance to bear on case studies that range from political to cultural power: Barack Obama's electoral campaign, American failure in the Iraqi war, the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement, terrorist violence on September 11th, public intellectuals, material icons, and social science itself. This path-breaking work by one of the world's leading social theorists will command a wide interdisciplinary readership.

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0745655661

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Sounding Jewish in Berlin

Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City

By: Phil Alexander

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Sounding Jewish in Berlin

Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City

By: Phil Alexander

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In Sounding Jewish in Berlin, author Phil Alexander explores the dialogue between the city's contemporary klezmer scene and the street-level creativity that has become a hallmark of Berlin's decidedly modern urbanity and cosmopolitanism. By tracing how klezmer music engages with the spaces and symbolic meanings of the city, Alexander sheds light on how this Eastern European Jewish folk music has become not just a product but also a producer of Berlin. This engaging study of Berlin's dynamic Yiddish music scene brings together ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and urban geography to evoke the sounds, atmospheres, and performance spaces through which klezmer musicians have built a lively set of musical networks in the city. Transcending a restrictive framework that considers this music solely in the context of troubled German-Jewish history and notions of guilt and absence, Alexander shows how Berlin's current klezmer communitya diverse group of Jewish and non-Jewish performersimaginatively blend the genre's traditional musical language with characteristically local tones to forge an adaptable and distinctively twenty-first-century version of klezmer. Ultimately, the music's vital presence in Berlin is powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible amid the noise of the urban, it must become a meaningful part of that noise.

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Oxford University Press

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0190064447

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Cancer

How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment

By: Hymie Anisman,Alexander W. Kusnecov

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Cancer

How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment

By: Hymie Anisman,Alexander W. Kusnecov

Cancer: How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment explores different processes that influence the efficacy of treatments and what lifestyle and behavioral modification options are available to patients to improve therapy responses, with a focus on addressing their strengths and weaknesses. The book discusses mechanisms by which particular lifestyles may affect cancer processes, including various aspects of immune functioning, inflammatory and energy-related processes, reactive oxygen species, hormonal and neurotransmitter mechanisms, the role of neurotrophins, and microbial effects. Considerable attention is devoted to the impact of psychosocial processes that indirectly affect disease occurrence, and to behavioral change methods. - Focuses on the link between lifestyle factors (eating/diet, exercise, sleep, circadian rhythms, and stressors) in the development and progression of various types of cancer - Addresses the contributions of lifestyle behavior to the efficacy and moderation of cancer treatments and their side effects - Delineates mechanisms by which particular lifestyles may come to affect the cancer process

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032398522X

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Universities on Fire

Higher Education in the Climate Crisis

By: Bryan Alexander

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Universities on Fire

Higher Education in the Climate Crisis

By: Bryan Alexander

Scientists agree that we are on the precipice of a global climate crisis. How will it transform colleges and universities? In 2019, intense fires in the San Francisco Bay Area closed universities and drove afflicted people to shelter at other campuses. At the same time, extraordinary fires ravaged eastern Australia. Several universities responded by promising material and research support to damaged businesses while also hosting refugees and emergency response teams in student residence halls. This was an echo of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina on Tulane University in 2005. In Universities on Fire, futurist Bryan Alexander explores higher education during an age of unfolding climate crisis. Powered by real-world examples and the latest research, Alexander assesses practical responses and strategies by surveying contemporary programs and academic climate research from around the world. He establishes a model of how academic institutions may respond and offers practical pathways forward for higher education. How will the two main purposes of education—teaching and research—change as the world heats up? Alexander positions colleges and universities in the broader social world, from town-gown relationships to connections between how campuses and civilization as a whole respond to this epochal threat. Current studies of climate change trace the likely implications across a range of domains, from agriculture to policy, urban design, technology, culture, and human psychology. However, few books have predicted or studied the effects of the climate crisis on colleges and universities. By connecting climate research to a deep, futures-informed analysis of academia, Universities on Fire explores how climate change will fundamentally reshape higher education.

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1421446499

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Up from Harlem

A Pictorial Autobiography

By: R. Alexander Brown

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Up from Harlem

A Pictorial Autobiography

By: R. Alexander Brown

Up From Harlem is an pictorial autobiography of the life and times of Roland Alexander Brown. This book is dedicated to his family and friends who have made his life wonderful and worth living. It is a homage to the people who have influence his life over the last fifty years, and made him the person he is today. This Biography includes awards, people, education and other interesting facts pertaining to his life he wanted to share with friends, family and aquaintances.

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1438981287

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Face Value

The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions

By: Alexander Todorov

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Face Value

The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions

By: Alexander Todorov

The scientific story of first impressions—and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who simply look more competent are more likely to win elections. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. So why do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world's leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions. Drawing on psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and other fields, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes cutting-edge research and puts it in the context of the history of efforts to read personality from faces. Todorov describes how we have evolved the ability to read basic social signals and momentary emotional states from faces, using a network of brain regions dedicated to the processing of faces. Yet contrary to the nineteenth-century pseudoscience of physiognomy and even some of today's psychologists, faces don't provide us a map to the personalities of others. Rather, the impressions we draw from faces reveal a map of our own biases and stereotypes. A fascinating scientific account of first impressions, Face Value explains why we pay so much attention to faces, why they lead us astray, and what our judgments actually tell us.

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0691167494

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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

By: Graeme T. Laurie,Shawn Harmon,John Kenyon Mason,Gerard Porter,Alexander McCall Smith

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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

By: Graeme T. Laurie,Shawn Harmon,John Kenyon Mason,Gerard Porter,Alexander McCall Smith

This classic textbook has provided students of medical law and ethics with a framework for exploring this fascinating subject for over 30 years. This book provides extensive coverage and insight into recent judicial decisions and statutory developments across the United Kingdom alongside the authors' own opinion on current debates and controversies to help you to formulate your own views and arguments. The tenth edition has evolved to reflect changes in the law and shifting ethical opinions. In setting the UK context, it continues to take a comparative approach, including reference to the Scottish position where relevant. A specific chapter on the European dimension in health care and the particular importance attached to this shift in influence from transatlantic jurisdictions to those of the EU is included. Mason & McCall Smith's Law & Medical Ethics is essential reading for any serious medical law student or practitioner. Book jacket.

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0198747519

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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

By: Kenyon Mason,Graeme Laurie,Alexander McCall Smith

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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

By: Kenyon Mason,Graeme Laurie,Alexander McCall Smith

This classic textbook focuses on medical law and its relationship with medical practice and modern ethics. Offering medical as well as legal facts, it provides thorough coverage of all of the topics found on medical law courses, and in depth analysis of recent court decisions, encouraging students to think analytically about the subject

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0199659907

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Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City

By: Alexander Parmington

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Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City

By: Alexander Parmington

In this book, Alexander Parmington examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled and channelled movement of particular sets of people through various precincts in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyses specific building groups and corresponding sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the most accessible and most public, and which spaces were segregated and highly private, Dr Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilisations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood.

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