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Lectures on Poisson Geometry

By: Marius Crainic,Rui Loja Fernandes,Ioan Mărcuţ

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Lectures on Poisson Geometry

By: Marius Crainic,Rui Loja Fernandes,Ioan Mărcuţ

This excellent book will be very useful for students and researchers wishing to learn the basics of Poisson geometry, as well as for those who know something about the subject but wish to update and deepen their knowledge. The authors' philosophy that Poisson geometry is an amalgam of foliation theory, symplectic geometry, and Lie theory enables them to organize the book in a very coherent way. —Alan Weinstein, University of California at Berkeley This well-written book is an excellent starting point for students and researchers who want to learn about the basics of Poisson geometry. The topics covered are fundamental to the theory and avoid any drift into specialized questions; they are illustrated through a large collection of instructive and interesting exercises. The book is ideal as a graduate textbook on the subject, but also for self-study. —Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto

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American Mathematical Soc.

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ISBN 10

1470464306

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9781470464301

History of Modern Cremation in Romania

By: Marius Rotar

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History of Modern Cremation in Romania

By: Marius Rotar

Cremation, as a means of managing the post-mortem body, was reintroduced to Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, but would not become common practice until the second half of the nineteenth century. This was a major development, with multifaceted implications which generated heated debate. Initially, armed with a variety of arguments (hygienic, economic, aesthetic, and philosophical arguments citing freedom of conscience and will) the advocates of modern cremation – who tended to come from the social and cultural elite – sought to impose their new model. This brought them into conflict with the traditional structures and patterns of burial, and thus with the Church, which had of course originally ended the practice of cremation. The present study is a history of cremation in Romania, beginning with the emergence of cremationist ideas in 1867 and taking the reader up to the present day. It analyses the following key periods: the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the Interwar period (Romania then being the first Orthodox country in the world to possess a crematorium, which provoked a vehement reaction against cremation on part of the Orthodox Church), the Communist period (when no new crematoria were built even though the Communist regime proclaimed itself to be atheist), and the post-Communist period.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443845426

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9781443845427

Historicizing Race

By: Marius Turda,Maria Sophia Quine

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Historicizing Race

By: Marius Turda,Maria Sophia Quine

The idea of race may be outdated, as many commentators and scholars, working in a broad range of different fields in the sciences and humanities, have argued over many years. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most persistent forms of human classification. Theories of race primitivism (the idea that there is a 'natural' racial hierarchy and ranking order of 'inferior' and 'superior' races), race biologism (the belief that people can be classified by genetic features which are shared by members of racial groups), and race essentialism (the notion that races can be defined by scientifically identifiable and verifiable cultural and physical characteristics) are deeply embedded in modern history, culture and politics. Historicizing Race offers a new understanding of this reality by exploring the interconnectedness of scientific, cultural and political strands of racial thought in Europe and elsewhere. It re-conceptualises the idea of race by unearthing various historical traditions that continue to inform not only current debates about individual and collective identities, but also national and international politics. In a concise format, accessible to students and scholars alike, the authors draw out some of the reasons why race-centred thinking has, in recent years, re-emerged in such shocking and explicit form in current populist, xenophobic, and anti-immigration movements.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441158243

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9781441158246

Lectures on Poisson Geometry

By: Marius Crainic,Rui Loja Fernandes,Ioan Mărcuţ

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By: Marius Crainic,Rui Loja Fernandes,Ioan Mărcuţ

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Lectures on Poisson Geometry

Lectures on Poisson Geometry

History of Modern Cremation in Romania

History of Modern Cremation in Romania

Historicizing Race

Historicizing Race

Lectures on Poisson Geometry

Lectures on Poisson Geometry

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