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The Problem of Perception
In a major Contribution to the theory of perception, A.D.Smith presents a truly original defense of direct realism the view that in perception we are directly aware of things in a physical world. It offers two arguements against direct realism-one conceening illusion, and one concerning hallueination that upto now no theory of perception could adequately rebut.At the heart of Smiths theory is a new way of drawing the distinction between perception and sensation alone with an unusual treatment of the nature of object of halluecination .
Nationalism and Violence
With contributions from leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the roots of violent national conflicts within and between states. It considers some of the key mechanisms of conflict resolution, including economic interdependence and revised notions of sovereignty and the nation-state.
Rethinking Ethnicity
Globalization and migration are pressuring nations around the world to change their ethnic self-definition and to treasure diversity not homogeneity. This book explores the growing gap between modern nations and their dominant ethnic groups.
Water and Ritual
In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties to the supernatural world and their ability to intercede with deities and ancestors to ensure an adequate amount of rain, which was then stored to provide water during the four-to-five-month dry season. As long as the rains came, Maya kings supplied their subjects with water and exacted tribute in labor and goods in return. But when the rains failed at the end of the Classic period (AD 850-950), the Maya rulers lost both their claim to supernatural power and their temporal authority...
The Lost President
Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in several states, personifying the nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape. Smith's Quixotic trail began in upstate New York, wound westward to the Ohio and Wisconsin frontier, southward to the federally occupied Sea Islands of South Carolina, and finally ended aboard a northbound steamer. In Ohio, Smith became involved with a paramilitary group, the Hunters' Lodge, which elected him the "President of the Republic of Canada." In Wisconsin he achieved notoriety as the judge who dared to declare the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850...
Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial Russia
Nineteenth-century Armenia was a zone of competition between the Persian, Ottoman, and the Russian Empires. Yet over the course of the century a new generation of Armenian journalists, scholars, and writers worked to transform their geographically, socially, and linguistically fragmented communities threatened by regional isolation and dissent, into a patriotic and nationally conscious population. Lisa Khachaturian seeks to explain how this profoundly divided society managed to achieve a common cultural bond. The national project that captivated nineteenth-century Eastern Armenian intellectuals was a daunting task, especially since their efforts were directed in the Caucasus--a territory kno...
Metal Ions and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Numerous studies have established a clear connection between neuronal oxidative stress and several neurodegenerative diseases, with consequential damages to lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, etc. In addition, several modifications indicative of oxidative stress have been described in association with neurons, neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease, including advanced glycation end products and free carbonyl oxidation.Oxidative damage and antioxidant responses are now well characterized, but sources of damaging free radicals are yet to be fully understood. Evidences of alteration in metal ions metabolism have been reported in various diseases like Alzheimer's, Wilson...
Citizenship and the Nation-state in Greece and Turkey
Pt. 1. Empire and nation-state. A history and geography of Turkish nationalism / Caglar Keyder ; The formation of the state in Greece, 1830-1914 / Kostas P. Kostis ; Greek bull in the china shop of Ottoman 'grand illusion' : Greece in the making of modern Turkey / Faruk Birtek ; Nation and people : the placticity of a relationship / Padelis E. Lekas ; 'Do not think of the Greeks as agricultural labourers' : Ottoman responses to the Greek War of Independence / Hakan Erdem -- pt. 2. Nation and civil society. Civil society and citizenship in post-war Greece / Nicos Mouzelis and George Pagoulatos ; Women's challenge to citizenship in Turkey / Yesim Arat ; Between duties and rights : gender and citizenship in Greece, 1864-1952 / Efi Avdela ; Citizenship in context : rethinking women's relationship to the law in Turkey / Dicle Kogacioglu ; Greek and Turkish students' views on history, the nation and democracy / Thalia Dragonas, Busra Ersanli, and Anna Frangoudaki ; Speculative thoughts on nations and nationalism with special reference to Turkey and Greece / Ilkay Sunar.
