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On the Corposphere
The book presents and analyzes some of the most important issues related to the body seen as a rich and complex anthropological and semiotic object, capable of playing a decisive role in the meaning making processes of cultural and social life. The analysis presented in this book opens a whole set of new venues for the study of body performances and representations, and shows how the embodiment of social and cultural life shape our world. In all of its relationships and in itself, our body works in a sort of corposphere, which is, in turn, part of the semiosphere, defined by Lotman as a continuum occupied by different types of semiotic formations. It is from/in/by the body that all semiosis begins and ends; it is in its presence and absence, in its being and in its presentation amidst the lived situational life where we might discover and shape the senses of the world. Many different academic fields will find in this book deep insights about how the body is at the center of cultural and social processes.
Exhibir el lujo. De la intimidad al espectáculo
El libro, resultado del trabajo del Grupo de Investigación Artífice de la Universidad de Zaragoza y de otros especialistas, desarrolla el tema de la exhibición del lujo en diversos ámbitos de la creación artística, musical y literaria, y en un arco cronológico extendido desde la Antigüedad hasta el final de la Edad Moderna. Esta perspectiva amplia y multidisciplinar se orienta además hacia un enfoque historiográfico renovador: el que se pregunta sobre los usos, las funciones y los significados de las creaciones artísticas, musicales y literarias; desde las que satisfacían las necesidades más personales a las que magnificaban los grandiosos espectáculos públicos, en la sociedad de cada momento.
The Path to Sustained Growth
Charts Britain's transformation from the European periphery to a global economic power from the reign of Elizabeth I to Victoria.
Leptin and Reproduction
The isolation of leptin in 1994 and its characterization as a factor influencing appetite, energy balance, and adiposity, immediately thrust the polypeptide into the rapidly growing body of literature centered on the physiology of obesity. The growing clinical awareness of obesity as a major health risk in developed societies dovetailed perfectly with any of a number of roles that leptin might play in this abenant physiological condition. Almost unnoticed amidst the excitement generated by early leptin publications was the suggestion that the "fat hormone" might also regulate a wide range of systems and events important to reproduction, including pubertal development, gonadal endocrinology, ...
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian power-sharing. Using the tools of game theory, Svolik explains why some dictators establish personal autocracy and stay in power for decades; why elsewhere leadership changes are regular and institutionalized, as in contemporary China; why some dictatorships are ruled by soldiers, as Uganda was under Idi Amin; why many authoritarian regimes, such as PRI-era Mexico, maintain regime-sanctioned political parties; and why a country's authoritarian past casts a long shadow over its prospects for democracy, as the unfolding events of the Arab Spring reveal. Svolik complements these and other historical case studies with the statistical analysis on institutions, leaders and ruling coalitions across dictatorships from 1946 to 2008.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
This book on gestational diabetes does not claim to cover all aspects of this complex and ever-evolving medical condition. It is an attempt by the group of authors to provide an overview, highlight important features, and bring to light certain recent advances in the diagnosis, screening, and understanding of gestational diabetes mellitus. As the book provides an overview of the condition, we are sure that reading it would provide medical undergraduates and postgraduates a quick revision for their exams. The current concepts section of the book may inspire more exploration into this area.It has been a pleasure to work with experts, both senior and junior, for this endeavor but we are particularly grateful to the publisher IntechOpen who have shown commitment and perseverance in completing this work. This new book deserves to be a success and we are sure it will be.
Las ciudades ibéricas en tiempos de la primera vuelta al mundo a través de casos. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Geográfica. Tomo CLVII (Número extraordinario 2022)
La Real Sociedad Geográfica (RSG) es una corporación científica con autonomía interna, entre cuyos fines sociales se encuentra promover el adelanto y difusión de los conocimientos geográficos en todas sus ramas y en todas sus aplicaciones a la vida social, política y económica, así como dedicar con preferencia sus estudios a los territorios de España y de los pueblos a ella ligados por el idioma y otros motivos. El número extraordinario del Boletín de la Real Sociedad Geográfica Tomo CLVII correspondiente a la anualidad 2021, se centra en la conmemoración de la primera circunnavegación iniciada por Fernando de Magallanes y continuada y concluida por Juan Sebastián Elcano, con...
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.
The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation
A study of the poor's movements in response to the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics.
