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Index Medicus
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Bronze Weapons of the Qin Terracotta Warriors
Over 40,000 lethal bronze weapons were discovered with thousands of terracotta warriors in the tomb complex of the Qin First Emperor (259-210 BC). This book carries out the first systematic and comprehensive study on these weapons to investigate the mass production and labour organisation in early imperial China. The research draws upon extensive measurements, typological analysis and related statistical treatment, as well as a study of the spatial distribution of the bronze weapons. A combination of metrical and spatial data is used to assess the degree of standardisation of the weapons' production, and to evaluate the spatial patterns in the array of the Terracotta Army. This provides further information about the labour organisation behind the production, transportation and placement of weapons as they were moved from the workshop and/or arsenal to the funeral pits. Integrating these insights with inscriptions, tool marks, and chemical analysis, this book fills a gap in the study of mass production, the behaviour of craftspeople, and related imperial logistical organisation in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), marking the most crucial early stage in Chinese political unification.
Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education
Globalization, Technological Change, and Public Education documents the dramatic changes taking place in public education through the incorporation of new information technologies. These additions to the public school environment have generally been seen as enabling tools to help students and nations compete in the global marketplace. Yet a closer look at the interplay of technological change and organizational restructuring suggests the emergence of new, less promising power relations. Through detailed ethnographic research and interviews in the Los Angeles public school system, Torin Monahan reveals how, with few exceptions, these changes to the educational process are forcing both students and workers to adapt to systems that are ever more rigid and controlling.
Networks of Outrage and Hope
Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with the creation of autonomous communication networks supported by the Internet and wireless communication. In this new edition of his timely and important book, Manuel Castells examines the social, cultural and political roots of these new social movements, s...
Isis modernista
En Isis modernista se abordan la expansión y el impacto en el mundo de habla español ade las dos corrientes esotéricas más importantes en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del XX: el espiritismo y la teosofía, a partir sobre todo del mundo literario, aunque sus efectos se vieron también en otros ámbitos, como el social, el religioso, el artístico, el educativo y el político. Para ello se hace una presentación de qué y cómo ha de entenderse el fenómeno esotérico en lengua castellana, aprovechando para esto la reflexión académica esoterológica de los últimos treinta años, y dándole un contexto histórico y cultural de modernidad y secularización que pe...
