This volume presents the ceramic oeuvre of Isamu Noguchi and includes other major ceramic artists from postwar Japan, analyzing the conflict between modernity and tradition and the search for cultural identity.
Explores the pioneering & influential avant-garde artist's prolific 40-year career & accompanies the first major museum retrospective of her work that will travel internationally.
Research shows that between birth and early adulthood the brain requires sensory stimulation to develop physically. The nature of the stimulation shapes the connections among neurons that create the neuronal networks necessary for thought and behavior. By changing the cultural environment, each generation shapes the brains of the next. By early adulthood, the neuroplasticity of the brain is greatly reduced, and this leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between the individual and the environment: during the first part of life, the brain and mind shape themselves to the major recurring features of their environment; by early adulthood, the individual attempts to make the environment conform to the established internal structures of the brain and mind. In Brain and Culture, Bruce Wexler explores the social implications of the close and changing neurobiological relationship between the individual and the environment, with particular attention to the difficulties individuals face in adulthood when the environment changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between existing internal structure and external reality. These difficulties are evident in bereavement, the meeting of different cultures, the experience of immigrants (in which children of immigrant families are more successful than their parents at the necessary internal transformations), and the phenomenon of interethnic violence. Integrating recent neurobiological research with major experimental findings in cognitive and developmental psychology—with illuminating references to psychoanalysis, literature, anthropology, history, and politics—Wexler presents a wealth of detail to support his arguments. The groundbreaking connections he makes allow for reconceptualization of the effect of cultural change on the brain and provide a new biological base from which to consider such social issues as "culture wars" and ethnic violence.
Hormonal carcinogenesis is an important and controversial area of current research. In addition to accelerating existing cancers, can hormones play the role of primary carcinogens? How do genetic factors influence hormone-related cancer risk? Hormones, Genes, and Cancer addresses these questions. Over the past few decades, cancer research has focused on external environmental causes(e.g., tobacco smoke, viruses, asbestos). With the advent of new genetic sequencing techniques, we are just now beginning to understand how the body's internal environment(i.e., the hormones and growth factors that determine normal development) influences cancer etiology and prevention. From molecular insights to clinical analyses, this volume provides state-of-the-art information on the complex interactions between hormones and genes and cancer. The epidemiology and molecular endocrinology of prostate, breast, uterine, ovarian and testicular cancer are detailed in this timely treatise.
By painstakingly following the long international paper trails that connect such apparently unrelated manifestations and occurrences as crop circles, alien abductions, extraterrestrial activity, and many other modern mysteries, Bruce Rux uncovers a conspiracy of misinformation, denial, and silence among government officials. 30 photos. 50 illustrations.
The angel "Lucifer" was the bringer of light. However, this is not the light of love and harmony. Lucifer brings light to western humanity by inviting us to taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Lucifer's Labyrinth is the secular odyssey of what happened to humanity after we left the Garden, peppered by blind allies, thunder and lightning. Lucifer's Labyrinth treks from the Middle Ages through the Gilded Age.Unique features of this book include: -Interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of western history, macro-sociology, social history, politics, political economy, philosophy of science, comparative religion and psychology. Like the god Hermes, this book crosses the worlds.-Macro-micro link: Many books on Western history treat psychology as if it was insulated from historical processes and subject to laws of its own. Lucifer's Labyrinth argues that changes in technology, economics and politics determine what the direction of psychology is most likely to take.-Its unique Vygotskyan approach to Western history. In the United States Vygotsky is known as a child psychologist. Few realize that his colleague Alexander Luria applied Vygotsky's work to historical changes in peasant life after the Russian revolution. Lucifer's Labyrinth is one of the only books to apply Vygotsky's work to another historical period.-It poses provocative questions. What does the invention of coined money do to humanity's reasoning processes? Why did the printing press change the sense ratios? What is the difference between being civilized and being disciplined? Why did statistical reasoning only develop in the 17th century? What institutions need to emerge before Piaget's formal operations can function? Why do very few of Erikson's psycho-social stages of development apply to childhood, adolescence and adulthood before the 18th century?-There is an abundance of comparative tables which summarize sub-sections of chapters, guiding the reader from beginning to end. These tables give the reader a "snapshot" of a historical period or they depict a "movie" of howl spiritual or psychological process has evolved.-The book is scholarly without being academic. The book is dense but juicy. An educated lay reader can understand the general argument without any previous background. Bruce Lerro is a socio-historical psychologist in the traditional of Lev Vygotsky. He has been a college instructor for 27 years. Lucifer's Labyrinth is the sequel to his book Forging Promethean Psychology
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