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Culturing the Body Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Culturing the Body Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality
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English | ISBN: 1805394606 | 2024 | 326 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 6 MB
The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These practices have been variously interpreted to reflect differences such as gender, status, and ethnicity, to attract or intimidate others, and as indices of a symbolically mediated self and personal identity. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

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Cryospheric Systems Glaciers And Permafrost

Cryospheric Systems Glaciers And Permafrost
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English | 2005 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 1862391750 | PDF | 25,2 mb
The introduction of the term periglacial by Lozinski in 1909 to describe the cold-climate conditions in the zone adjacent to, but beyond, the Pleistocene glaciers encouraged the separate development of geocryological and glaciological research. Geological and geomorphological processes at the interface between glaciers and permafrost have, as a result, been given less attention than they warrant, and the influence of one on the other has in many respects been neglected. This book includes a collection of papers that emphasize glacier-permafrost interactions. Papers consider permafrost and its influence on glacitectonic processes, glacial meltwater systems and ground-ice development in proglacial and ice-marginal environments. In addition, recent research findings are reported on paraglacial processes, permafrost evolution, rock glaciers, the formation of ice-wedge casts and periglacial slope evolution.

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Crucial Influence, Third Edition Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change

Crucial Influence, Third Edition Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change
Free Download Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield
English | May 22, 2023 | ISBN: 1265051194 | 240 pages | PDF | 4.61 Mb
The New York Times bestselling guide to leading positive change in any organization―updated with critical new insights, research, and case studies

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Coordination Models and Languages 6th International Conference, COORDINATION 2004 Pisa Italy, February 24–27, 2004 Proceedings

Coordination Models and Languages 6th International Conference, COORDINATION 2004 Pisa Italy, February 24–27, 2004 Proceedings
Free Download Coordination Models and Languages: 6th International Conference, COORDINATION 2004 Pisa Italy, February 24-27, 2004 Proceedings By Gérard Boudol (auth.), Rocco De Nicola, Gian-Luigi Ferrari, Greg Meredith (eds.)
2004 | 330 Pages | ISBN: 354021044X | PDF | 7 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2004, held in Pisa, Italy in February 2004.The 20 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. Among the topics addressed are context-aware coordination, the Linda coordination model, component adaptation, aspect-oriented programming, coordination middleware, peer-to-peer systems, coordination languages, network coordination, logic based coordination, agent coordination, as well as several coordination tools.

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Conversations with Texas Writers

Conversations with Texas Writers
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English | 2005 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 0292706413 | PDF | 6,0 mb
Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of other writers-some internationally recognized, others just becoming known-who draw inspiration and often subject matter from the unique places and people that are Texas. To give everyone who is interested in Texas writing a representative sampling of the breadth and vitality of the state's current literary production, this volume features conversations with fifty of Texas's most notable established writers and emerging talents.

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Contextualizing Disaster

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English | ISBN: 1785332805 | 2016 | 214 pages | PDF | 1358 KB
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.