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Resilience

Resilience

Boris Cyrulnik

Penguin Books Ltd
2009
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Many of us experience pain in our childhoods, and young people face trauma all over the world. How is it possible to recover? Do those abused always go on to hurt others? This incredible bestseller has overturned the way we view trauma, by showing how the extraordinary power of resilience can heal damaged lives. Renowned psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik has dealt with many young victims of distress and he relates stories of children who have been abused, orphaned, fought in wars and escaped genocide, yet who have not only survived, but grown in the face of adversity. By the way we deal with our memories and emotions, he shows, we can reshape our lives and transform pain into something stronger - just as a grain of sand in an oyster becomes a pearl. Resilience is not just about resisting; it is about learning to live. This life-changing book points the way towards hope and happiness.
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Living with Diabetes

Living with Diabetes

Boris Draznin

Oxford University Press Inc
2008
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Being overweight dramatically increases the risk of diabetes. Research shows that only a permanent lifestyle change can take weight off and keep it off, and thus prevent diabetes in those who might otherwise suffer from this debilitating and dreaded disease. Living with Diabetes: Dr. Draznin's Plan for Better Health offers a truly practical, and proven, approach to lifestyle change that will stay with you long term: a simple way to lose weight and keep it off, and to prevent or manage diabetes. Filled with amusing anecdotes and down-to-earth advice that make the book both fun to read and easy to follow, Living with Diabetes offers a dramatically different method of weight loss and management based on the refreshingly simple concepts of the Draznin Mile and the Draznin Calorie, two unique strategies that can help you lose weight quickly and safely. For this fully revised and updated edition, Dr. Draznin has incorporated many recent research findings in nutrition and weight managementadvances in our understanding of weight regulation, energy expenditure, and how Americans can learn to change the way they eat. An evaluation of fad diets such as South Beach, Atkins, and the Zone has been added, while statistics on obesity and health have been fully updated. Dr. Draznin also weighs the risks and benefits of surgical approaches such as gastric bypass, and discusses the newest methods of treating diabetes and pre-diabetes. Drawing on his successful treatment of thousands of overweight and diabetic patients over 30 years of medical practice, Dr. Boris Draznin offers a practical and easy-to-follow plan that will appeal to those who have or are at risk for diabetes, as well as anyone interested in losing weight in a healthy and sustainable manner.
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National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics

National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics

Boris Heersink

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2023
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A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. Scholars have long debated the role and importance of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American politics. In National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics, Boris Heersink identifies a core DNC and RNC role that has thus far been missed: creating national party brands. Drawing on extensive historical case studies and quantitative analysis, Heersink argues that the DNC and RNC have consistently prioritized their role of using publicity to inform voters about their parties' policies and priorities from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. Both committees invested heavily in political communication tools with the goal of shaping voters' perceptions of their parties. As Heersink shows, the DNC and RNC often have considerable freedom in determining what type of brands to promote, placing them in the center of major intra-party debates in the twentieth century--including Prohibition, civil rights, foreign affairs, and economic policy. Analytically rigorous and marshaling a vast body of research on US elections between 1912 and 2016, this book highlights how important national party organizations are in setting the agenda in American politics.
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Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Materials Science

Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Materials Science

Boris S. Bokstein; Mikhail I. Mendelev; David J. Srolovitz

Oxford University Press
2005
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This text presents a concise and thorough introduction to the main concepts and practical applications of thermodynamics and kinetics in materials science. It is designed with two types of uses in mind: firstly for a one or two semester university course for mid- to upper-level undergraduate or first year graduate students in a materials-science-oriented discipline and secondly for individuals who want to study the material on their own. The following major topics are discussed: basic laws of classical and irreversible thermodynamics, phase equilibria, theory of solutions, chemical reaction thermodynamics and kinetics, surface phenomena, stressed systems, diffusion and statistical thermodynamics. A large number of example problems with detailed solutions are included as well as accompanying computer-based self-tests, consisting of over 400 questions and 2000 answers with hints for students. Computer-based laboratories are provided, in which a laboratory problem is posed and the experiment described. The student can "perform" the experiments and change the laboratory conditions to obtain the data required for meeting the laboratory objective. Each "laboratory" is augmented with background material to aid analysis of the experimental results.
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Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire

Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire

Boris Chrubasik

Oxford University Press
2016
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Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, the largest of the successor states of Alexander the Great. Exploring the question of how a man becomes a king, it specifically examines the role of usurpers in this particular kingdom - those who attempted to become king, and who were labelled as rebels by ancient authors after their demise - by placing these individuals in their appropriate historical contexts through careful analysis of the literary, numismatic, and epigraphic material. By writing about kings and rebels, literary accounts make a clear statement about who had the right to rule and who did not, and the Seleukid kings actively fostered their own images of this right throughout the third and second centuries BCE. However, what emerges from the documentary evidence is a revelatory picture of a political landscape in which kings and those who would be kings were in constant competition to persuade whole cities and armies that they were the only plausible monarch, and of a right to rule that, advanced and refuted on so many sides, simply did not exist. Through careful analysis, this volume advances a new political history of the Seleukid empire that is predicated on social power, redefining the role of the king as only one of several players within the social world and offering new approaches to the interpretation of the relationship between these individuals themselves and with the empire they sought to rule. In doing so, it both questions the current consensus on the Seleukid state, arguing instead that despite its many strong rulers the empire was structurally weak, and offers a new approach to writing political history of the ancient world.
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Modality and Explanatory Reasoning

Modality and Explanatory Reasoning

Boris Kment

Oxford University Press
2017
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Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which concerns the questions of what is possible and what is necessary. However, there is considerable controversy over the source and nature of necessity. In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment takes a novel approach to the study of modality that places special emphasis on understanding the origin of modal notions in everyday thought. Kment argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment--counterfactual reasoning--that allows us to investigate explanatory connections. This procedure is closely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science. Necessity is defined in terms of causation and other forms of explanation such as grounding, the relation that connects metaphysically fundamental facts to non-fundamental ones. Therefore, contrary to a widespread view, explanation is more fundamental than modality. The study of modal facts is important for philosophy, not because these facts are of much metaphysical interest in their own right, but because they provide evidence about explanatory relationships. In the course of developing this position, the book offers new accounts of possible worlds, counterfactual conditionals, essential truths and their role in grounding, and a novel theory of how counterfactuals relate to causation and explanation.
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Modality and Explanatory Reasoning

Modality and Explanatory Reasoning

Boris Kment

Oxford University Press
2014
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Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which concern the question what is possible and what is necessary. However, there is considerable controversy over the source and nature of necessity. In Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Boris Kment takes a novel approach to the study of modality that places special emphasis on understanding the origin of modal notions in everyday thought. Kment argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment--counterfactual reasoning--that allows us to investigate explanatory connections. This procedure is closely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science. Necessity is defined in terms of causation and other forms of explanation such as grounding, a relation that connects metaphysically fundamental facts to non-fundamental ones. Therefore, contrary to a widespread view, explanation is more fundamental than modality. The study of modal facts is important for philosophy, not because these facts are of much metaphysical interest in their own right, but because they provide evidence about explanatory relationships. In the course of developing this position, the book offers new accounts of possible and impossible worlds , counterfactual conditionals, essential truths and their role in grounding, and a novel theory of how counterfactuals relate to causation and explanation.
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Stalin's Agent

Stalin's Agent

Boris Volodarsky

Oxford University Press
2014
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This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, Orlov was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious 'Cambridge Five'. Escaping Stalin's purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after Stalin's death, in his 1953 best-seller The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, after which he became perhaps the best known of all Soviet defectors, much written about, highly praised, and commemorated by the US Congress on his death in 1973. But there is a twist in the Orlov story beyond the dreams of even the most ingenious spy novelist: 'General Alexander Orlov' never actually existed. The man known as 'Orlov' was in fact born Leiba Feldbin. And while he was a loyal servant of Stalin and the controller of Philby, he was never a General in the KGB, never truly defected to the West after his 'flight' from the USSR, and remained a loyal Soviet agent until his death. The 'Orlov' story as it has been accepted until now was largely the invention of the KGB - and one perpetuated long after the end of the Cold War. In this meticulous new biography, Boris Volodarsky, himself a former Soviet intelligence officer, now tells the true story behind 'Orlov' for the first time. An intriguing tale of Russian espionage and deception, stretching from the time of Lenin to the Putin era, it is a story that many people in the world's intelligence agencies would almost definitely prefer you not to know about.
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Under Suspicion

Under Suspicion

Boris Groys

Columbia University Press
2012
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The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on politics, culture, society, and conceptions of the self. He relies on different philosophical writings thematizing the gaze of the other, from the theories of Heidegger, Sartre, Mauss, and Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media "states of exception" and their creation of effects of sincerity-a strategy that feeds the media's predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational, further fueling the public's suspicions. Emphasizing the media's production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of "facts," Groys launches a timely study boldly challenging the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview.
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Beyond Pure Reason

Beyond Pure Reason

Boris Gasparov

Columbia University Press
2012
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The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic interrelationships, and developed a theory of the anagram so profound it gave rise to poststructural literary criticism. The roots of these disparate, even contradictory achievements lie in the thought of Early German Romanticism, which Saussure consulted for its insight into the nature of meaning and discourse. Conducting the first comprehensive analysis of Saussure's intellectual heritage, Boris Gasparov links Sassurean notions of cognition, language, and history to early Romantic theories of cognition and the transmission of cultural memory. In particular, several fundamental categories of Saussure's philosophy of language, such as the differential nature of language, the mutability and immutability of semiotic values, and the duality of the signifier and the signified, are rooted in early Romantic theories of "progressive" cognition and child cognitive development. Consulting a wealth of sources only recently made available, Gasparov casts the seeming contradictions and paradoxes of Saussure's work as a genuine tension between the desire to bring linguistics and semiotics in line with modernist epistemology on the one hand, and Jena Romantics' awareness of language's dynamism and its transcendence of the boundaries of categorical reasoning on the other. Advancing a radical new understanding of Saussure, Gasparov reveals aspects of the intellectual's work previously overlooked by both his followers and his postmodern critics.
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Homeward from Heaven

Homeward from Heaven

Boris Poplavsky

Columbia University Press
2023
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Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the interwar Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates.The novel’s protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love for two women leads him along a journey of spiritual transfiguration. He follows Tania to a seaside resort, but after a passionate dalliance she jilts him. In the cafés of Montparnasse, Oleg meets Katia, with whom he finds physical intimacy and emotional candor, yet is unable to banish a lingering sense of existential disquiet and destitution. When he encounters Tania again in Paris, his quest to comprehend the laws of spiritual and physical love begins anew, with results that are both profound and tragic.Taken by Poplavsky’s contemporaries to be semiautobiographical, Homeward from Heaven stands out for its uncompromising depictions of sexuality and deprivation. Richly allusive and symbolic, the novel mixes psychological confession, philosophical reflection, and social critique in prose that is by turns poetic, mystical, and erotic. It is at once a work of daring literary modernism and an immersive meditation on the émigré condition.
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Homeward from Heaven

Homeward from Heaven

Boris Poplavsky

Columbia University Press
2023
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Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel by the literary enfant terrible of the interwar Russian diaspora in France recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates.The novel’s protagonist and sometime narrator is Oleg, whose intense love for two women leads him along a journey of spiritual transfiguration. He follows Tania to a seaside resort, but after a passionate dalliance she jilts him. In the cafés of Montparnasse, Oleg meets Katia, with whom he finds physical intimacy and emotional candor, yet is unable to banish a lingering sense of existential disquiet and destitution. When he encounters Tania again in Paris, his quest to comprehend the laws of spiritual and physical love begins anew, with results that are both profound and tragic.Taken by Poplavsky’s contemporaries to be semiautobiographical, Homeward from Heaven stands out for its uncompromising depictions of sexuality and deprivation. Richly allusive and symbolic, the novel mixes psychological confession, philosophical reflection, and social critique in prose that is by turns poetic, mystical, and erotic. It is at once a work of daring literary modernism and an immersive meditation on the émigré condition.
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[05] Kinder Musik

[05] Kinder Musik

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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Nei primi anni Settanta, la riflessione sui problemi della musica porta Porena a trovarsi in una situazione autocontraddittoria. Da una parte, un musicista 'compiuto' e affermato; dall'altra alle strette, disilluso riguardo alle possibilit della musica contemporanea e irrigidito dalla crisi dei linguaggi, che vive in prima persona. Come uscire dall'impasse? La risposta Kinder Musik (1973). La sua scrittura sarebbe impossibile senza un grande livello di competenza; in esso c' tuttavia l'enorme, rivoluzionario sforzo di 'abbassamento' di tale competenza in un progetto di esplorazione, di ricerca sperimentale e pacifica su quei concetti sacri, intimorenti, che sono la Musica e la Cultura.
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[09] Del comporre

[09] Del comporre

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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In una certa misura, 09] Del Comporre (scritto da Porena in due fasi, nel 1998 e 2006) pu essere considerato una continuazione del progetto di 07] Per la Composizione, che manifestava gi la necessit di un'antologia di esempi tratti dalla storia della musica occidentale. Del Comporre stato scritto con l'intenzione di chiudere l'indagine sulla musica, di 'completare temporaneamente' tale percorso trattando argomenti gi trattati da molti, senza particolare pretesa di originalit . Il libro destinato nelle intenzioni all'amatore di musica e il linguaggio adottato di conseguenza semplice; un esercizio di relativizzazione e contestualizzazione che si colloca al confine tra due universi culturali, quello amatoriale e quello specialistico, chiudendo un percorso avviato gi da 01] Musica-societ .
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[17] Metaparole

[17] Metaparole

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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17] Metaparole (2009) interpreta l'intento comunicativo del Volume V in modo del tutto peculiare, modulante la forma tradizionale del 'glossario' con una tecnica organizzativa trasferita dall'informatica all'editoria cartacea. Le voci sono disposte in ordine alfabetico e connesse in una fitta rete di collegamenti (pi di 6.400 termini-link, che di per s costituiscono pi del 6% del testo complessivo), che permette una inesauribile variet di percorsi di lettura, sempre diversi l'uno dall'altro. Il lettore vedr quanto la densit di questo ipertesto superi di gran lunga gli esempi contemporanei di cui siano a conoscenza. Essa vuole essere il riflesso analogico delle connessioni che definiscono tanto il mondo esterno all'uomo (fisico e virtuale: natura e internet) quanto il suo mondo interno (cervello e psiche).
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[21] L'operatore metaculturale

[21] L'operatore metaculturale

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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Chi l'operatore metaculturale? un quesito ontologico irrisolvibile, ma che ha una facile, pragmatica risposta sul piano del pensiero debole: una figura in divenire, specializzata nella non specializzazione, quotidianamente impegnata nell'attivit di base. La sua esistenza non quindi in dubbio, ma sorge il problema di formarlo efficientemente, di stimolarlo ad operare su territorio e societ con maggiore pervasivit . Come formare il depositario e applicatore di una metodologia per la relativizzazione, in fin dei conti di una transdisciplina? cosa trasmettergli? 21] L'Operatore Metaculturale (2008) intende rispondere a queste domande essenziali.
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[06] Musica Prima

[06] Musica Prima

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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06] Musica Prima (1978) forse il testo didattico di Porena di maggiore diffusione e notoriet . Esso animato dall'intuizione che il lavoro con i bambini e, pi specificamente, lo studio del pensiero infantile siano il miglior modo di accedere agli strati fondativi, di base, della 'cultura', che l'autore intende studiare criticamente. Il libro ha due obiettivi: occuparsi di musica e farlo a un livello di base, osservare la musica cos com' concepita e realizzata da un pensiero elementare, non condizionato. Questa ricerca aperta a tutti, anche all'incompetente: anzi, sostiene Porena (supportato dai fatti), del pensiero di base siamo tutti competenti. La grande attenzione alla veste grafica, ulteriormente rinforzata in questa nuova edizione, indica che la codifica e la notazione sono esse stesse oggetto di riflessione e ricerca.
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[16] Dialoghi fittizi

[16] Dialoghi fittizi

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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Il Volume V ci regala una nuova raccolta di materiali narrativi, questa volta dei 'dialoghi' tra personaggi immaginari. Dialoghi quindi 'fittizi' ma certamente non 'fantastici', n tantomeno 'falsi': il titolo dell'opera rivela soltanto che sono composti ad arte. Anche 'dialoghi' una parola potente, in quanto parla anzitutto di socialit e nel contempo presuppone qualcosa di pi di uno scambio di convenevoli. Questi Dialoghi Fittizi (2006) sono espressione di un'euristica di base, di un processo sistematico per generare e verificare ipotesi. Ma perch attribuirli a protagonisti giovani, come avviene nel libro, e non a degli adulti? Per la grande fascinazione di Porena per il pensiero infantile, in tutte le sue sfaccettature, ma nel caso specifico perch l'infanzia l'et pi tipicamente euristica, tutta intenta a esplorare e comprendere il mondo che la circonda; e il dialogo da sempre un imprescindibile strumento di conoscenza.
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[18] Parabole

[18] Parabole

Boris Porena

Lulu.com
2017
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18] Parabole (2009), qui pubblicato per la prima volta, d nuovo slancio alla spinta comunicativa caratteristica delle opere del Volume V e in particolare de Il Lago delle Storie Riflesse, e si rivolge a un pubblico differente. Attingendo alla prolungata esperienza di pensiero e pratica, composizione e analisi maturata dall'ipotesi metaculturale, l'autore si propone di scuotere bonariamente le fondamenta della culturalit , partendo dal piccolo e dalle convenzioni che ruotano attorno alla forma 'parabola', di evangelica memoria. Le Parabole, contrapponendo il loro carattere 'leggero' alla 'gravit ' dei passi evangelici a cui scherzosamente alludono, tracciano percorsi senza meta - il loro messaggio non nel contenuto. Esse esortano a pensare riflessivamente, metaculturalmente, in contraddizione con la forma narrativa adottata (tradizionalmente veicolo di 'verit rivelate').
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