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Our Genes, Our Choices
Our Genes, Our Choices: How Genotype and Gene Interactions Affect Behavior, Second Edition explains how the complexity of human behavior, including concepts of free will, derives from a relatively small number of genes, which direct neurodevelopmental sequences. Are people free to make choices, or do genes determine behavior? Paradoxically, the answer to both questions is "yes," because of neurogenetic individuality, a new theory with profound implications. Here, author David Goldman uses judicial, political, medical, and ethical examples to illustrate that this lifelong process is guided by individual genotype, molecular and physiologic principles, as well as by randomness and environmental...
Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions
Films are integral to national imagination. Promotional publicity markets “domestic films” not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. Reviewers assess new films with reference to other films and cultural products as well as social and political issues. Through such interpretive framings by contemporaries and later generations, popular cinema is embedded both in national imagination and endless intertextual and intermedial frameworks. Moreover, films themselves become signs to be cited and recycled as illustrations of cultural, social, and political history as well as national mentality. In the age of television, “old films” cont...
Scandinavica
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Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Finland
This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finlands Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the countrys foreign relations, the link between culture and politics, small states autonomy during the Cold War, and the porosity of the East-West divide. The book offers a historical survey of the development of Finlands cultural diplomacy as part of the Finnish states foreign activities. In its empirical parts, it focuses on archives drawn from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education in order to explain Finlands cultural diplomacy as the result of the countrys foreign policy orientations, interactions between domes...
Suomen kemistilehti
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Fundamentalisms of the New Order
Depending on your point of view, fundamentalism can be strongly positive or negative. This publication, a "textbook with images" documenting a Copenhagen exhibition, reflects on the diversity of fundamentalisms-religious, political, cultural, economic. Why such a seeming resurgence recently? Is fundamentalism even relevant in an era of rapid change-or is it essential? These are questions posed by artists in the show and considered in essays and panel discussions.
Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf
Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf is the story of an accomplished nation and her extraordinary people. By pursuing a 'Lone Wolf' policy, Finland raised itself from a struggling, war-battered state to one of the most developed countries in the world over the course of only fifty years. The exponential rise of Nokia from tires and timbers to leading the world_s telecommunication industry is indicative of the Finns and their business style. These remarkable people speak a language unique in its origins and have kept their cultural identity intact despite the influences of powerful neighbors, Sweden and Russia. Uniquely qualified to write about Finland, best-selling author Richard Lewis traces the fascinating Finnish origins, as well as her history, geography, values and culture. His extensive experience with Finnish business provides him with keen insight on leadership style, negotiation strategies and the uniquely Finnish suomi-kuva, or Finland image. Lewis shines when describing Finnish humor, complete with laugh-out-loud jokes and stories. Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf shows both nation and writer at their best.
Sitkeä Jussi
Suomalaisen elokuvan tarina Jussi-palkinnon silmin. Sota-aikana syntynyt palkinto on ollut useasti uhattuna, mutta aina se on noussut takaisin juhlistamaan suomalaista elokuvaa ja sen tähtiä Regina Linnanheimosta Krista Kososeen ja Matti Kassilasta Aki Kaurismäkeen. Jussi-palkinto syntyi halusta juhlia, kun maailma ympärillä paloi. Vuoden 1944 prameiden juhlallisuuksien jälkeen Jussi-gaala on peilannut suomalaista elokuvaa. Palkintoja on jaettu juhlasaleissa ja teattereissa mutta myös työväenopistossa ja auditoriossa. Suomalaisen elokuvan historiaan mahtuu huippuvuosia ja totaalista alakuloa, pidäkkeetöntä iloa ja repiviä riitoja. Jusseja on pokattu smokeissa ja farkuissa. Gaala...
