Peter Adler

Foundations of Stem Cell Culture: Provide a comprehensive overview of stem cell culture techniques, including the isolation, propagation, and characterization of stem cells, with a focus on three-dimensional (3D) culture systems. Three-Dimensional Culture Techniques: Explore various three-dimensional culture techniques used in stem cell research, including scaffold-based cultures, organoid cultures, spheroid cultures, and microfluidic platforms, with discussions on their advantages, limitations, and applications. Engineering Microenvironments: Discuss the engineering of microenvironments for stem cell culture, including biomaterials design, surface modifications, biochemical cues, mechanical forces, and bioreactor systems, with insights into how these factors influence stem cell behavior and fate decisions. Challenges and Future Directions: Address the challenges and future directions of three-dimensional stem cell culture, including scalability, reproducibility, standardization, ethical considerations, and regulatory issues, with discussions on emerging technologies and innovative strategies for overcoming these challenges.

För nästan tvåtusen år sedan mötte den stoiske filosofen, dramatikern och statsmannen Seneca döden i sin praktfulla villa utanför Rom. Sedan dess har många av historiens stora gestalter sökt vägledning i hans tankevärld och idag är stoicismen en global megatrend. Senecas tidlösa råd visar hur vi kan bygga upp mental immunitet mot rastlöshet, rädsla för yttre hot och bävan inför skuggorna i vårt inre. Peter Adlers bok ger en beskrivning av Senecas dramatiska liv och den tid han levde i. Den sammanfattar stoicismens grundtankar och ger tankeställare om livet i vårt moderna samhälle. Författaren summerar också en rad personliga erfarenheter från många års vardaglig tillämpning av Senecas strategier för sinnesro. Texten gör täta nedslag i Senecas skrifter, vilka presenteras med referenser till vår nutida vardag och med engagerande inslag av personligt berättande. Adlers kunskap om klassisk retorik tillför intressanta perspektiv. Hans bok kompletterar den litteratur om Seneca som hittills har publicerats på svenska och som primärt vänt sig till läsare med en fördjupad kunskap om antikens filosofi. Peter Adler är statsvetare, journalist och författare till ett antal böcker och artiklar om politisk retorik och idéhistoria. Han har många års erfarenhet som rådgivare inom strategisk kommunikation och som föreläsare i näringslivet och den akademiska världen. På Carlssons har han tidigare publicerat Churchill i talarstolen (retorisk biografi) samt Ordets makt (essäsamling om retorik).

Packed with the most recent and relevant articles in the field, CONSTRUCTIONS OF DEVIANCE: SOCIAL POWER, CONTEXT, AND INTERACTION, Eighth Edition, shows readers how to apply the concepts and theories of deviance to the world around them. The book's current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. Seasoned authors and award-winning professors, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler cover a wide variety of deviant acts-challenging readers to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society. They present deviance as a component of society, examine the construction of deviance, and explore the processes in society that create deviance. Intriguing selected studies focus on the experiences of deviants, the deviant-making process, and the ways in which people labeled as deviant in society react to that label. The balanced selection of readings is timely and engaging, while in-depth introductions, explanations of theory, and discussion questions guide readers through the fascinating material.

Ordets makt är både en praktisk handbok i övertygandets konst och en exempelsamling som visar hur retoriken fungerar i politiska, sociala och historiska sammanhang. Författaren Peter Adler hämtar en hel del material från sin långa verksamhet som copywriter, författare, talskrivare och retorisk coach. Praktiska råd kompletteras med berättande avsnitt som fördjupar olika aspekter av retorik. Boken presenterar också ett antal stora talare och beskriver de retoriska tekniker som gett deras tankar stark genomslagskraft. Ett avsnitt ägnas åt språkbehandling och fungerar som en konkret och lättfattlig minneslista för den som vill finslipa sin förmåga att uttrycka sig väl utan att kompromissa med språkets tydlighet. Läsaren får en grundlig genomgång av de psykologiska mekanismer som samspelar när vi människor gör oss en bild av verkligheten, den bild som skickliga talare i alla tider har påverkat framgångsrikt. Boken lämpar sig både som lärobok och som inspirationsläsning för alla som intresserar sig för fenomenet retorik.

Churchill i Talarstolen är en detaljrik och initierad skildring av de krafter som formade en av världshistoriens största talare. Läsaren får stifta bekantskap med de miljöer, människor och tankeströmningar som påverkade Churchills retoriska stil. Boken beskriver dessutom Churchills arbetsteknik när han förberedde sina tal. Den är samtidigt en skildring av en unik människas roll under några av världshistoriens mest dramatiska ögonblick. Så här beskriver författaren själv varför han skrev boken: Churchills personlighet, levnadsöde och retoriska förmåga har fascinerat mig under hela mitt vuxna liv. Vad kom hans retoriska kraft ifrån? Var hans förmåga till stor del medfödd? Vilka ideal, människor och personliga erfarenheter formade talaren Churchill? Från början hade jag tänkt att dessa frågor skulle bilda stommen i en artikel som en tidning hade beställt, men jag fann snart att ämnet krävde vidare ramar. Det blev således en bok. Jag hoppas att den skall göra Churchill rättvisa och bjuda alla som är intresserade av ämnet på stimulerande läsning. Författaren Peter Adler är i grunden statsvetare, men har i drygt 30 år i egenskap av journalist, copywriter, talskrivare och retorisk coach haft tillämpad retorik som yrke. Han är eftersökt som föreläsare och har under ett antal år anlitats som gästföreläsare på Lunds Universitet. Intresset för Churchill som retoriskt fenomen har han fördjupat genom studier vid Oxford University och kontakt med de globala nätverk och akademiska institutioner som är inriktade på Churchills liv och verk. Han har också skrivit ett antal artiklar om retorik i landets största dagstidningar.

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Illuminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Illuminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.

Resorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts. These resorts employ a workforce that is diverse in gender, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Hawaiian resort workers, like those in nearly all resorts, consist of four groups. New immigrants hold difficult and dirty low-status jobs for little pay. Locals provide an authentic Polynesian flavor for guests, a ready pool of youthful high-turnover employees, and a population trapped in a place that offers few occupational alternatives. Managers tend to be middle-class, college-educated young and middle-aged men from the mainland whose lifestyles are occupationally transient. Seekers, mostly young, white, and from the mainland as well, escape to paradise seeking adventure, warmth, extreme sports, or some alternate life experiences. The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of these four groups that labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year. Paradise Laborers adds to the growing interest in the global flow of labor, as these immigrant workers display different trends in gendered opportunities and mobility than those exhibited by other groups. The authors propose a political economy of tourist labor in which they compare the different expectations and rewards of organizations, employees, and local labor markets.

Resorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts. These resorts employ a workforce that is diverse in gender, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Hawaiian resort workers, like those in nearly all resorts, consist of four groups. New immigrants hold difficult and dirty low-status jobs for little pay. Locals provide an authentic Polynesian flavor for guests, a ready pool of youthful high-turnover employees, and a population trapped in a place that offers few occupational alternatives. Managers tend to be middle-class, college-educated young and middle-aged men from the mainland whose lifestyles are occupationally transient. Seekers, mostly young, white, and from the mainland as well, escape to paradise seeking adventure, warmth, extreme sports, or some alternate life experiences. The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of these four groups that labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year. Paradise Laborers adds to the growing interest in the global flow of labor, as these immigrant workers display different trends in gendered opportunities and mobility than those exhibited by other groups. The authors propose a political economy of tourist labor in which they compare the different expectations and rewards of organizations, employees, and local labor markets.

Peer Power seeks to explode existing myths about children's friendships, power and popularity, and the gender chasm between elementary school boys and girls. Based on eight years of intensive insider participant observation in their own children's community, Peter and Patti Adler discuss the vital components of the lives of preadolescents, popularity, friendships, cliques, social status, social isolation, loyalty, bullying, boy-girl relationships, and afterschool activities. They describe how friendships shift and change, how people are drawn into groups and excluded from them, how clique leaders maintain their power and popularity, and how individuals' social experiences and feelings about themselves differ from the top of the pecking order to the bottom. In so doing, the Adlers focus their attention on the peer culture of the children themselves and the way this culture extracts and modifies elements from adult culture. Children's peer culture, as it is nourished in those spaces where grown ups cannot penetrate, stands between individual children and the larger adult society. As such, it is a mediator and shaper, influencing the way children collectively interpret their surroundings and deal with the common problems they face. The Adlers explore some of the patterns that develop in this social space, noting both the differences in boys' and girls' gendered cultures and the overlap in many social dynamics, afterschool activities, role behaviour, romantic inclinations and social stratification. For example, children's participation in adult-organized afterschool activities - a now-prominent feature of many American children's social experience - has profound implications for their socialization and development, moving them away from the negotiated, spontaneous character of play into the formal systems of adult norms and values at ever-younger ages. When they retreat from adults, however, they still display distinctive peer group dynamics, forging strong ingroup/outgroup differentiation, loyalty and identification. Peer culture thus contains informal social mechanisms through which children create their social order, determine their place and identity, and develop positive and negative feelings about themselves. Studying children's peer culture is thus valuable as it reveals not only how this subculture parallels the adult world but also how it differs from it.