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The Mirror Neuron System A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

The Mirror Neuron System A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

Mirror neurons are premotor neurons originally discovered in the macaque brain that discharge both during execution of goal-directed actions and during the observation of similar actions executed by another individual. They therefore ‘mirror’ others’ actions on the observer's motor repertoire. In the last decade an impressive amount of work has been devoted to the study of their properties and to investigate if they are present also in our species. Neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques have shown that a mirror-neuron system does exist in the human brain as well. Among ‘mirror’ human areas Broca’s area (the frontal area for speech production) is almost constantly activated by action observation. This suggests a possible evolutionary link between action understanding and verbal communication. In the most recent years mirror-like phenomena have been demonstrated also for domains others than the pure motor one. Examples of that are the somatosensory and the emotional systems possibly providing a neurophysiological basis to phenomena such as embodiment and empathy. This special issue collects some of the most representative works on the mirror-neuron system to give a panoramic view on current research and to stimulate new experiments in this exciting field. | The Mirror Neuron System A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

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Marriage and the Family Mirror of a Diverse Global Society

Marriage and the Family Mirror of a Diverse Global Society

Marriage and the Family: Mirror of a Diverse Global Society is a comprehensive text about marriage and the family in sociology family science and diversity studies. The book is divided into four parts: studying marriage patterns and understanding family diversity; developing and maintaining intimate relationships; tackling family issues and managing household crises; and appreciating contemporary living arrangements in a diverse American society and across the global community. Marriage and the Family is unique in its focus on diversity as well as its global perspective. Diversity Overview boxes feature vignettes of family diversity in America. Global Overview boxes invite students to experience family life in different areas of the world. Indeed families become a mirror that helps students see a diversifying American society and a globalizing world. | Marriage and the Family Mirror of a Diverse Global Society

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Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives Mirror Mirror for Us All

Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives Mirror Mirror for Us All

Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memory and identity studies. For over 65 years Disney’s theme parks have been important locations for the formation and negotiation of the collective memory of the American narrative. Disney’s success as one of America’s most prolific storytellers its rise as a symbol of America itself and its creation of theme parks that immerse visitors in three-dimensional versions of certain American values and historic myths have both echoed and shaped the way the American people see themselves. Like all versions of the American narrative Disney’s vision serves to reassure us affirm our shared values and unite a diverse group of people under a distinctly American identity—or at least it did. The book shows how the status Disney obtained led the public to use them both as touchstones of identity and as spaces to influence the American identity writ large. This volume also examines the following: • how Disney’s original cartoons and live-action entertainment offerings drew from American folk history and ideals • how their work during World War II cemented them as an American symbol at home and abroad • how the materialization of the American themes already espoused by the brand at their theme parks created a place where collective memory lives • how legitimization by presidents and other national figures gave the theme parks standing no other entertainment space has • how Disney has changed alongside the American people and continues to do so today. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of history media cultural studies American studies and tourism. | Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives Mirror Mirror for Us All

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Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

While the world has undoubtedly been shrinking at the same time it has grown more complex. The likelihood of culture clashes leading to outright conflict is high perhaps higher than ever. As Andrea L. Smith convincingly argues in her new introduction to this classic work certain questions are as valid today as in 1949 when Mirror for Man was first published. Can anthropology break down prejudices that exist between peoples and nations? Can knowledge of past human behavior help solve the world’s modern problems? What effect will American attitudes likely have on the future of the world? In Mirror for Man Clyde Kluckhohn scrutinizes anthropology showing how the discipline can contribute to the reconciliation of conflicting cultures. He questions age-old race theories shows how people came to be as they are and examines limitations in how human beings can be molded. Taking up one of the most vital questions in the post-World War II world whether international order can be achieved by domination Kluckhohn demonstrates that cultural clashes drive much of the world’s conflict and shows how we can help resolve it if only we are willing to work for joint understanding. By interpreting human behavior Kluckhohn reveals that anthropology can make a practical contribution through its predictive power in the realm of politics social attitudes and group psychology. Andrea L. Smith’s new introduction provides convincing evidence for the continuing importance of one of the earliest “public intellectuals. ” | Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

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Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain explores a fundamental cornerstone of human consciousness; how recognizing ourselves leads to a better understanding of the brain and higher-order thinking. Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary range of researchers each chapter provides a unique insight into one aspect of self-face recognition. The book begins by introducing readers to the concept of self-face recognition covering issues like the mirror-test and whether animals can recognize themselves before addressing the role of neural correlates and attempts at localizing consciousness. It then discusses various disorders and the impact they can have on self-face recognition before considering how neuroscience can heighten our understanding of the field. It will be an essential read for all researchers of self-face recognition from psychology philosophy and neuroscience backgrounds. | Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

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The Mirror Crack'd When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for the Humanistic Practitioner

The Mirror Crack'd When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for the Humanistic Practitioner

Revised edition. This title is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and counsellors are on the increase and to sharpen assessment skills accordingly. It is also designed to help professionals to think about the therapeutic frame | The Mirror Crack'd When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for the Humanistic Practitioner

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Religious Education in the Mirror of a Life Trajectory

Religious Education in the Mirror of a Life Trajectory

The study of religious education is of great interest in analyzing how schools and educational authorities address the demands of multicultural and multi-religious societies and states. As diversity increases through migration globalization and conflicts schools are faced with equally diverse challenges one of which is the religious and cultural diversity that characterizes schools and communities. While many studies have focused on this change and its impact in politics school and classroom relatively few have focused on how teachers and educators have fared. Sitting between the new policies and school demographics teachers and educators have shaped the policy in their engagements. The study of life trajectories shows that the lines between religion and religious education are blurred in personal life histories and that positions can shift due to personal and contextual developments. They point to the innovative and unexpected turns that individuals trace in their personal life journeys. This book reminds us that we need to pay more attention to the teachers principals managers and public intellectuals who shape and are shaped by the changing context of religion and religious education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion & Education. | Religious Education in the Mirror of a Life Trajectory

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Casting a Movement The Welcome Table Initiative

Casting a Movement The Welcome Table Initiative

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors directors educators playwrights and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting. Drawing on the notion of a welcome table—a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatre—the book’s contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts including Middle Eastern American theatre Disability culture multilingual performance Native American theatre color- and culturally-conscious casting and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor’s embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance skin color gender sexuality and ability casting choices are never neutral. By bringing together a variety of artistic perspectives to discuss common goals and particular concerns related to casting this volume features the insights and experiences of a broad range of practitioners and experts across the field. As a resource-driven text suitable for both practitioners and academics Casting a Movement seeks to frame and mobilize a social movement focused on casting access and representation. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Casting a Movement The Welcome Table Initiative

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The Gut Microbiome Bench to Table

The Gut Microbiome Bench to Table

The influence of the gut microbiome on human health and disease has been established in recent years through advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing. The Gut Microbiome: Bench to Table presents a scientific introduction to this topic analyzes research on how the microbiome is affected by nutrients and how dietary modifications can alter the microbiome. Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts it is divided into three sections. The first section details the current state of laboratory-scale analysis of gut microbiome samples and how we can identify the communities and their functional repertoire. Section II explains the next phase of translational research models such as preclinical animal studies proof of concept safety and efficacy human trials. The third section demonstrates the effectiveness of therapeutic treatments in larger populations. It addresses how diet influences the gut microbiome and presents an array of approaches that have been reported including a discussion of issues of the safety of probiotics and selected supplements and micronutrients. This book is essential for clinicians dietitians and food and nutrition professionals who wish to have the most up-to-date knowledge on food sciences. | The Gut Microbiome Bench to Table

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Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

Knowing the basic nutrition requirements and combining them with proper training are the two most important factors for athletes to achieve peak performance levels. Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance: The Training Table addresses these needs on a comprehensive basis from a training table perspective. Offering practical guidelines for practitioners and athletes the book focuses on the key macronutrients that fuel daily metabolism and exercise training and explores differing needs for various athletes and their individual goals. Topics discussed include:General principles and physiology of caloric intake for all major macronutrients and how this pertains to both active and sedentary individualsEnergy demands and nutritional requirements for strength-power athletes and elite competitors in endurance sports Protein carbohydrate fat vitamin and mineral needs of athletesThe importance of optimal fluid and hydration during exerciseHow to determine body weight for a desired body fat percentage recommended calorie consumption dietary suggestions and useful meal planning tools for a wide variety of caloric needsThe difference between energy intake and energy expenditure and how athletes can eat to build muscle lose fat and optimize performanceScientific strategies on how to time exercise and food intake to more effectively replenish glycogen increase protein synthesis and blunt protein degradationHow the physiological changes that accompany aging change nutrient needs and guidelines for older athletes on maximizing performance and maintaining healthStructuring a diet containing appropriate amounts of macronutrients (protein carbohydrates and fat) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) can be a daunting task. This text adequately addresses how athletes can do so in an effe | Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

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Mathematics of The Big Four Casino Table Games Blackjack Baccarat Craps & Roulette

Mathematics of The Big Four Casino Table Games Blackjack Baccarat Craps & Roulette

Mathematics is the basis of casino games which are the bedrock of a $100 billion/year industry. Mathematics of the Big Four Casino Table Games: Blackjack Baccarat Craps & Roulette takes an in-depth look at the four biggest table games in casinos: blackjack baccarat craps and roulette. It guides readers through the mathematical principles that underpin these games and their different variations providing insights that will be of huge interest to gamblers casino managers researchers and students of mathematics. Features A valuable teaching resource replete with exercises for any course on gambling mathematics Suitable for a wide audience of professionals researchers and students Many practical applications for the gambling industry Mark Bollman is Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Albion College in Albion Michigan and has taught 116 different courses in his career. Among these courses is Mathematics of the Gaming Industry where mathematics majors carefully study the math behind games of chance and travel to Las Vegas Nevada in order to compare theory and practice. He has also taken those ideas into Albion’s Honors Program in Great Issues in Humanities: Perspectives on Gambling which considers gambling from literary philosophical and historical points of view as well as mathematically. Mark has also authored Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon Mathematics of Keno and Lotteries and Mathematics of Casino Carnival Games. | Mathematics of The Big Four Casino Table Games Blackjack Baccarat Craps & Roulette

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Nanotechnology Applications in Agricultural and Bioprocess Engineering Farm to Table

Nanotechnology Applications in Agricultural and Bioprocess Engineering Farm to Table

This new volume looks at new research and advances in the use of nanotechnology applications in agricultural and bioprocess engineering. The first section deals with the impact of nanotechnology in agricultural engineering looking at the role of nanomaterials in plant growth and nutrition. It goes on to discuss specific methods and processes in the development of food products nutraceuticals and therapeutics. This includes nanotechnological methods for iron fortification of dairy food for processing and preservation of meat and meat products for selective targeting of cancer and more. The book then discusses the role of nanotechnology in bioprocessing such as for biofuel production for wastewater treatment and as enzymatic nanoparticles for fabrication processes. | Nanotechnology Applications in Agricultural and Bioprocess Engineering Farm to Table

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Food Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

Food Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It has long been recognized that Mediterranean cultures attach great importance to communal meals and food cooked with great refinement. However whilst medieval feasting in England France and Italy has been thoroughly studied Spain and Portugal have both been somewhat neglected in this area of study. This volume analyses how medieval men of the Iberian Peninsula questioned themselves about different aspects deemed important in social feasting. It investigates the acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills the interaction between medicine and eating and the presence of food in literature and religion. The book also shows how this shared society and culture as well as their attitude towards food connected them to a Western European tradition. The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in food and feasting from the perspectives of literature history language art religion and medicine and to those interested in a social cultural and literary overview of life in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Middle Ages. | Food Feasting and Table Manners in the Late Middle Ages Volume I: The Iberian Peninsula in the European Context

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Managing As Mission Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

Managing As Mission Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing as a reflection of the organizational mission – the cornerstone of any nonprofit – can bring about the change nonprofits were created to achieve: a better world for all. This book contains real-world examples interview excerpts from nonprofit managers and directors and a series of self-reflection and organization-wide tools to develop managers and managing as a mirror of the mission. Themes within this book include: a discussion of the history of nonprofit missions; management tasks and approaches; aligning values; building working relationship and trust; and creating organizational structures and interactions that mirror the organizational mission. It is written in an informal first-person style utilizing humor that will hopefully allow the reader to see themselves in the examples and stories. | Managing As Mission Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

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A Concordance to Conrad's Romance

A Concordance to Conrad's Romance

Originally published in 1985 this volume follows others in the series. An alphabetical frequency table lists all the words indexed with the frequency of their appearance in the field of reference. There is also a table arranged by descending frequency. The verbal index lists the location of the context of each word in the field of reference. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes concordances and related data for all of Conrad’s works. | A Concordance to Conrad's Romance

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Introduction to Logic

Introduction to Logic

For more than six decades and for thousands of students Introduction to Logic has been the gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this fifteenth edition Carl Cohen and Victor Rodych update Irving M. Copi’s classic text improving on its many strengths and introducing new and helpful material that will greatly assist both students and instructors. In particular chapters 1 8 and 9 have been greatly enhanced without disturbing the book’s clear and gradual pedagogical approach. Specifically: Chapter 1 now uses a simpler and better definition of deductive validity which enhances the rest of the book (especially chapters 1 and 8-10 and their new components). Chapter 8 now has: Simpler definitions of simple statement and compound statement More and more detailed examples of the Complete Truth-Table Method. Chapter 9 now has: A detailed step-by-step account of the Shorter Truth-Table Method (with detailed step-by-step examples for conclusions of different types) A more complete and detailed account of Indirect Proof A detailed justification for Indirect Proof treating each of the three distinct ways in which an argument can be valid A new section on Conditional Proof which complements the 19 Rules of Inference and Indirect Proof Explications of proofs of tautologies using both Indirect Proof and Conditional Proof A new section at the end of the chapter explaining the important difference between sound and demonstrative arguments. The Appendices now include: A new appendix on making the Shorter Truth-Table Technique (STTT) more efficient by selecting the most efficient sequence of STTT steps A new appendix on Step 1 calculations for multiple-line shorter truth tables A new appendix on unforced truth-value assignments invalid arguments and Maxims III-V. In addition a Companion Website will offer: for Students: A Proof Checker Complete Truth Table Exercises Shorter Truth-Table Exercises A Truth-Table Video Venn Diagram Testing of Syllogisms Hundreds of True/False and Multiple Choice Questions for Instructors: An Instructor’s Manual A Solutions Manual www. routledge. com/cw/9781138500860

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Distributed Systems An Algorithmic Approach Second Edition

Distributed Systems An Algorithmic Approach Second Edition

Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach Second Edition provides a balanced and straightforward treatment of the underlying theory and practical applications of distributed computing. As in the previous version the language is kept as unobscured as possible—clarity is given priority over mathematical formalism. This easily digestible text:Features significant updates that mirror the phenomenal growth of distributed systemsExplores new topics related to peer-to-peer and social networksIncludes fresh exercises examples and case studiesSupplying a solid understanding of the key principles of distributed computing and their relationship to real-world applications Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach Second Edition makes both an ideal textbook and a handy professional reference. | Distributed Systems An Algorithmic Approach Second Edition

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Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture

Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture

This accessible and insightful book merges Lacanian theory psychoanalytic case studies and the author’s personal experiences to illuminate the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in mapping contemporary subjectivity. Using examples from cinema artificial intelligence and clinical and cultural references the book covers major topics within the field including dreams the mirror phase psychosis hysteria the position of the analyst the drive supervision and the symptom. Each is set within the context of our technologically oriented market-based society and complemented with empirical vignettes. The book’s final section examines contemporary society and radicalization. Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture is important reading for students and academics in Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as professionals concerned with complex social problems.

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Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence from delight surprise and love to anger distress and fear. Taking a chronological approach each chapter focuses on a specific emotion and covers the theories and research relating to its development from infants’ emotional capabilities to the changes in self-understanding and self-conscious emotions of adolescence. Hay integrates the approaches of classic developmental differentiation and differential emotions theory to create a comprehensive textbook with a unique approach to the subject matter showcasing a range of research linking emotions to biological underpinnings and early experiences. This wide-ranging book also includes coverage of differences in temperament developmental psychopathology emotion regulation and development of emotional understanding and attachment. It is core reading for students of developmental psychology health psychology child welfare and social work as well as anyone taking a course on social and emotional development courses. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in educational and clinical psychology and child psychiatry. | Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

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The Handbook of Integration

The Handbook of Integration

This book is a compilation of the most important and widely applicable methods for evaluating and approximating integrals. It is an indispensable time saver for engineers and scientists needing to evaluate integrals in their work. From the table of contents: - Applications of Integration - Concepts and Definitions - Exact Analytical Methods - Approximate Analytical Methods - Numerical Methods: Concepts - Numerical Methods: Techniques | The Handbook of Integration

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Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies political sociology and European studies. | Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

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ISO 9001 2015 - A Complete Guide to Quality Management Systems

ISO 9001 2015 - A Complete Guide to Quality Management Systems

What is risk based thinking? Do you know how to address risks and opportunities? Did you ever analyzed risks? Are you sure it is that what the ISO 9001 expects? What do you really know about knowledge management? Can you identify the types of knowledge in your organization? How do you maintain knowledge? What is awareness in the eyes of the ISO 9001 Standard? Can you tell the relation between awareness and the effectiveness of the QMS? This book explains in details all the new issues and topics required by the ISO 9001:2015 Standard and gives you the tools and tricks to answer the new requirements. Just read and do. The table of contents in the book are identical to the table of contents of the standard so you can orient yourself quite easily and find the specific advice you are looking for. | ISO 9001 2015 - A Complete Guide to Quality Management Systems

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Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia 2nd Edition Volume 1

Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia 2nd Edition Volume 1

Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia 2nd Edition is the updated expanded version of what has been described as a monumental classic work. This new edition contains more than 2 400 pages; 1 692 illustrations 96 of which are full-color photographs; 2 800 entries (topics); and 462 tables including a table of 2 500 food compositions. A comprehensive index enables you to find information quickly and easily. | Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia 2nd Edition Volume 1

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