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Introducing Existentialism

A Graphic Guide

By: Oscar Zarate,Richard Appignanesi

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Introducing Existentialism

A Graphic Guide

By: Oscar Zarate,Richard Appignanesi

Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus' question of suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism 'the least scandalous, most technically austere' of all teachings? This brilliant Graphic Guide explores Existentialism in a unique comic book-style.

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Icon Books Ltd

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1848319835

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9781848319837

Introducing Mind and Brain

A Graphic Guide

By: Angus Gellatly,Oscar Zarate

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Introducing Mind and Brain

A Graphic Guide

By: Angus Gellatly,Oscar Zarate

How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious? How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise to all of the thoughts in your head – enable you to think, to feel, to be conscious and aware – to have 'a mind'? Introducing Mind and Brain explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. It traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging. Clearly explained by Professor of Psychology Angus Gellatly and award-winning artist Oscar Zarate, they invite you to take a fresh look at the nature of mind, consciousness and personal identity.

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Icon Books

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1785783149

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9781785783142

Introducing Quantum Theory

A Graphic Guide

By: J.P. McEvoy,Oscar Zarate

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Introducing Quantum Theory

A Graphic Guide

By: J.P. McEvoy,Oscar Zarate

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle", there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the theory is amazingly accurate and widely applied, explaining all of chemistry and most of physics. Introducing Quantum Theory takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger. Each contributed at least one crucial concept to the theory. The puzzle of the wave-particle duality is here, along with descriptions of the two questions raised against Bohr's "Copenhagen Interpretation" - the famous "dead and alive cat" and the EPR paradox. Both remain unresolved.

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Icon Books Ltd

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1848317573

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9781848317574

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology

A Graphic Guide

By: Dylan Evans,Oscar Zarate

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Introducing Evolutionary Psychology

A Graphic Guide

By: Dylan Evans,Oscar Zarate

How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative? Can the differences between male and female psychology be explained in evolutionary terms? These questions are at the centre of a rapidly growing research programme called evolutionary psychology.

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Icon Books Ltd

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1848319770

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9781848319776

Inflation Targeting and Policy Rules

The Case of Mexico, 2001–2012

By: Oscar R. Medina,Elias A. Laguna

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Inflation Targeting and Policy Rules

The Case of Mexico, 2001–2012

By: Oscar R. Medina,Elias A. Laguna

Inflation Targeting and Policy Rules is an essential book for understanding how Mexico's monetary policy has been evolving and functioning, from the beginning of the century to recent, highlighting the doctrine of policy rules and focusing on inflation targeting, both fundamental elements necessary to comprehend the operation of the main central ba

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CRC Press

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177188472X

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9781771884723

The Argentine Folklore Movement

Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955

By: Oscar Chamosa

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The Argentine Folklore Movement

Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955

By: Oscar Chamosa

Oscar Chamosa brings forth the compelling story of an important but often overlooked component of the formation of popular nationalism in Latin America: the development of the Argentine folklore movement in the first part of the twentieth century. This movement involved academicians studying the culture of small farmers and herders of mixed indigenous and Spanish descent in the distant valleys of the Argentine northwest, as well as artists and musicians who took on the role of reinterpreting these local cultures for urban audiences of mostly European descent. Oscar Chamosa combines intellectual history with ethnographic and sociocultural analysis to reconstruct the process by which mestizo culture—in Argentina called criollo culture—came to occupy the center of national folklore in a country that portrayed itself as the only white nation in South America. The author finds that the conservative plantation owners—the “sugar elites”—who exploited the criollo peasants sponsored the folklore movement that romanticized them as the archetypes of nationhood. Ironically, many of the composers and folk singers who participated in the landowner-sponsored movement adhered to revolutionary and reformist ideologies and denounced the exploitation to which those criollo peasants were subjected. Chamosa argues that, rather than debilitating the movement, these opposing and contradictory ideologies permitted its triumph and explain, in part, the enduring romanticizing of rural life and criollo culture, essential components of Argentine nationalism. The book not only reveals the political motivations of culture in Argentina and Latin America but also has implications for understanding the articulation of local culture with national politics and entertainment markets that characterizes contemporary cultural processes worldwide today.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816549311

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9780816549313

Clinical Decision Making in Glaucoma

By: Shibal Bhartiya,Colin Clement,Syril Dorairaj,George Yu Xiang Kong,Oscar Albis-Donado

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Clinical Decision Making in Glaucoma

By: Shibal Bhartiya,Colin Clement,Syril Dorairaj,George Yu Xiang Kong,Oscar Albis-Donado

Glaucoma is a condition of the eye in which the optic nerve is damaged due to increased fluid pressure in the eye. Left untreated, the condition may lead to permanent blindness. This book is a guide to the diagnosis and management of glaucoma. Beginning with an overview of the condition and its symptoms, the following chapters cover diagnostic and treatment methods for different causes and types of glaucoma. The text concludes with discussion on surgical management of glaucoma, through both filtration and lasers, and minimally invasive procedures. A complete chapter is dedicated to childhood glaucoma. Edited by internationally recognised specialists from around the world, the book is highly illustrated with clinical images, diagrams and tables. Key concepts are explained with the help of clinical cases. Key points Comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of glaucoma Includes discussion on surgical management techniques Clinical cases help explain key concepts Internationally recognised editor and author team

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9352705246

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9789352705245

Story of a Death Foretold

The Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

By: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

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Story of a Death Foretold

The Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

By: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America's first democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d'état. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende's office were cut, army officers loyal to the republic were arrested and shortly afterwards bombs from four British-made Hawker Hunter jets began slamming into the presidential palace. Allende refused to leave his post, making broadcasts to encourage the Chilean people until the last pro-government radio station was silenced. Later that morning he was found dead, with an AK-47 that had been a gift from Fidel Castro by his side.The coup had been planned for months, even years before it actually happened. In fact, from the moment Allende's electoral victory in 1970 became a possibility, business leaders in Chile, extreme right-wing groups, high-ranking officers in the Chilean military and the US administration and the CIA worked together to secure a prompt and dramatic end to his progressive social programme.Why Allende seemed such a threat in the political and economic context of the time and how the coup was engineered is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells, drawing on a wide range of sources, including phone transcripts and documents released as recently as 2008. It is a radical retelling of a moment in history that even at the height of Cold War paranoia - a time when Henry Kissinger described Chile as 'a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica' -shocked the world and which continues to resonate today. As the uprisings of the Arab Spring and the global protests at austerity measures introduced since the crash of 2008 show, the world is struggling to deal with the economic and political dilemmas Allende faced at the time.

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A&C Black

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1408830086

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9781408830086

Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11-22

Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status

By: Oscar Jiménez

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Metaphors in the Narrative of Ephesians 2:11-22

Motion towards Maximal Proximity and Higher Status

By: Oscar Jiménez

This linguistically informed study of Ephesians 2:11-22 in its original language and historical context will aid readers’ understanding of Ephesians. This book develops a fully articulated methodology to approach metaphors and narrative patterns in the New Testament epistles.

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BRILL

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9004505733

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9789004505735

The Beast

Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

By: Oscar Martinez

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The Beast

Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

By: Oscar Martinez

An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year” “Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times) One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped. Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.

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Verso Books

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1781682976

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9781781682975

Journey's Within

By: Oscar Webb

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Journey's Within

By: Oscar Webb

THIS A MY RESEARCHED WORK ON WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT SECRET SOCIETIES AND THIS NEW WORLD ORDER THAT KEPT POPING UP DURING THE DOCUMENTS I FOUND AND THE VIDEO’S. I POINT OUT THAT THIS NOW IS BEHIDE THE EVENTS OF 9/11 AND MANY OTHER EVENTS SUCH AS THE FIRST ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BACK IN 1993 AND WACO AND COLUMBINE SCHOOL SHOOTING AND OKLAHOMA ALFRED P. MURRAH BUILDING BOMB ATTACK. IT LOOKS LIKE THESE SECRET SOCIEITES HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME AND CALLING ALL THE ATTACKS AROUND THE WORLD, NOT JUST THE ONE’S IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY HAVE ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD SINCE THEY CONTROL THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS AND FUND WARS. THE SEEK POWER AND CONTROL OF THE POPULATIONS OF THE WORLD. AND THERE’S MORE DESTRUCTIVE EVENTS THAT THEY HAVE PLANNED FOR THIS 2012 (FEAR-BASED) TRAUMA ATTACK ON AMERICA AGAIN FOR THEY SAY THEY DID’NT KILL ENOUGH PEOPLE ON SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001 READ THE INFORMATION IT’S OUT HERE JUST SEARCH IT OUT ONLINE AND OFFLINE.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146911030X

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9781469110301

Inventing the Art Collection

Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain

By: Oscar E. Vázquez

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Inventing the Art Collection

Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain

By: Oscar E. Vázquez

The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts&—paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans&—increased sharply in nineteenth-century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting as well as valorizing &"art&" were soon formed. Oscar V&ázquez maps this cultural landscape, tracing the connections between the growth of art markets and changing patterns of collecting. Unlike many earlier students of collecting, he focuses not upon questions of taste but rather upon the discursive and institutional frameworks that came to regulate art's economic and symbolic worth at all levels of Spanish society. Drawing upon sources that range from newspaper reviews to notarial documents, V&ázquez shows how collecting acquired the power to mediate debates over individual, regional, and national identity. His book also looks at the emergence of a new state apparatus for arts administration and situates these social and political changes in the broader European context. Inventing the Art Collection will be of interest to historians and sociologists of Spain and Europe, as well as art historians and cultural theorists.

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Penn State Press

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0271043954

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9780271043951

Introducing Melanie Klein

By: R. D. Hinshelwood,Susan Robinson,Oscar Zarate

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Introducing Melanie Klein

By: R. D. Hinshelwood,Susan Robinson,Oscar Zarate

This book briliantly explains Klein's work, describing the startling discoveries that raised such opposition at the time. Now Klein's ideas are being recognized for their explanatory power, and her concepts of the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions are in common usage.

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Icon Books UK

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1840460695

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9781840460698

History of the Theatre

By: Oscar Gross Brockett

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History of the Theatre

By: Oscar Gross Brockett

Revised and updated edition (fifth, 1987) of a standard textbook describes and traces the major developments in the theatre from its beginnings until early 1990. The primary emphasis is on the European tradition, with a secondary emphasis on the Oriental tradition. Thoroughly illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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