Author: Dougal McNeill
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Whatever happened to realism? What form is adequate to representing our moment, situated as we are after the end of the end of History? In the face of youth revolts and workers insurgencies from Cairo to London, it seems a good time to test the possibilities of alternative Marxist defences of contemporary realist fiction. Can realisms techniques adequately represent the complexity of contemporary political organisation? This book reads key realist texts from recent decades in order to test their potential to produce the knowledge of history, industrial politics and the metropolis traditionally central to literary realisms concerns. Positioning himself within and against the inspiration and models of Fredric Jamesons literary theory, and drawing on innovative realist texts, the author seeks to draw the classic realism controversies of an earlier period in historical materialism into productive conversation with the debates framing the era of austerity.**
Author: Sheldon Reiser
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There are a number of reasons why interest in the metabolic effects of dietary fructose has heightened in the past several years. With the introduction of high-fructose corn sweet- eners in 1970, the amount of free fructose in the food supply of the U.S. has increased at least sixfold and fructose is rapidly becoming a major dietary ingredient. Several properties of fructose appear to be beneficial to segments of the population with metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Fructose is sweeter than sucrose and thus has potential as a weight loss diet sweetener. Fructose given alone does not appear to promote significant insulin secretion nor is its entry into tissues insulin dependent. However, there are other metabolic effects observed after feeding fructose to experimental animals and humans that appear to be undesirable. It will be the major purpose of the material to be presented here to focus on the effects observed after the feeding of fructose to experimental animals and humans, especially as this impacts on metabolites that are considered risk factors for diseases. Material pertaining to the interaction between dietary fructose and metabolic pathways not usually associated with carbohydrate metabolism such as those involving nucleotides, copper, amino acids, and ethanol will also be included. The influences of genetic predisposition and of interactions between fructose and other environmental factors on the magnitude of observed effects will be stressed and discussed as a possible source of apparently contradictory findings from studies using the same general experimental protocol. Mechanisms proposed to explain the metabolic effects of fructose will also be presented.
Author: Laura Gilliam
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Children of the Welfare State uses the case of Denmarkemployed as emblematic of the European stateto consider the ways in which children are civilized within child-focused institutions, such as schools, daycare, and the family unit, under the auspices of the welfare state. Through deep ethnographic studies, the authors build a clear account of childrens experiences at a variety of ages, different genders, and from differing ethnic and social backgrounds. Ultimately they show that even though Danish welfare institutions are marked by a strong egalitarian ideal, they nonetheless tend to reproduce dominant norms of social class and distinctions of ethnicity and religion. **
Author: Anna Magdalena Elsner
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This study explores Prousts answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the particular historical and social challenges faced by mourners at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book enables the reader to acknowledge loss and forgetting as an essential part of memory, and it proposes that this literary topos has seminal implications for an understanding of the ethics, aesthetics, and erotic in Prousts A la recherche du temps perdu. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, Anna Magdalena Elsner develops an original theory of how mourning and creativity are linked by emphasizing that ethical dilemmas are central to an understanding of the novels final aesthetic apotheosis. This sheds new light on the enigmatic and versatile nature of mourning but also pays tribute to those fertile tensions and paradoxes that have made Prousts novel captivating for readers since its publication.
Author: Vinay Lal
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Hinduism is arguably the worlds oldest religion. Yet the word Hindu is of foreign 18th-century origin. Although defined as polytheistic, Gandhi famously declared that one can be a Hindu without believing in any god. Introducing Hinduism examines the key philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of this diverse faith. It explores links with and differences from other religions, and describes the resurgence of Hindu extremism, the phenomenon of Bollywood and the Hindu diaspora.
Author: Alice Bailey
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Five volumes have been written under the overall title of A Treatise on the Seven Rays, based on the fact, the nature, the quality and the interrelationship of the seven streams of energy pervading our solar system, our planet and all that lives and moves within its orbit. These two volumes go extensively into the psychological make-up of a human being as the life, quality and appearance of an incarnating, evolving spiritual entity. They also relate the circumstance of a human psychology to world conditions and to future possibilities. Five volumes have been written under the overall title of A Treatise on the Seven Rays. This sequence of books is based on the fact, the nature and the quality of the seven basic streams of energy pervading our solar system, our planet and all that lives and moves within its orbit.Of the specialised subjects presented in these books, two volumes are concerned with esoteric psychology--the first in relation to basic energy patterns and structures the second particularly applied to the soul and the personality of man and to the working out of the Plan for humanity.Psychology is defined in Websters Dictionary as the science of mind, at one time considered a branch of metaphysics. Today we are more inclined to include all the conditioning subjective factors as psychological in nature--mental and emotional impulses and soul contact, to whatever degree it exists. These subjective influences constitute the whole psychological background to a mans attitudes and behaviour, and create the faculty of spiritual response.The psyche is, after all, the human soul, the centre of consciousness. Esoteric psychology begins with a consideration of the human being as a soul, manifesting in the form of a personality, consisting of mental, emotional and ethericphysical substance, and more or less in contact and control, depending on the stage of evolution in the personality consciousness.From the point of view of esoteric psychology, evolution is the evolution of consciousness, by which the imbedded fragment of the soul within the personality progressively identifies its spiritual source and becomes at-one with it.The seven differentiated streams of ray energy play a significant role in this evolutionary process. A blend of five energies in a human being determine his goals, his problems, his available qualities and energy resources, and the correct method by which--according to his dominant ray influence--he may unfold his consciousness and make spiritual progress.In this volume of Esoteric Psychology many of these distinctive ray qualities and methods are given as quotations, or interpretations, of The Old Commentary put into poetic and symbolic words. The seven rays are shown as the Seven Creative Builders, each one imbued with purpose and power, functioning together as a synthesis in occult obedience to the purposes of our Solar Logos.Such a detailed and comprehensive study of the ray energies influencing our planetary life and all kingdoms in nature is of inestimable value to the aspirant consciously preparing himself to become of planetary service as he learns to serve and to unite with his fellowmen.
Author: Mark Ludwig
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An exploration of freedom by some of the worlds most celebrated poets, published for the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi campsThe year 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the conclusion of the Second World War. But around the world, oppressed and imprisoned people are still longing for freedom and asking, What does it mean to be free? This collection of poems explores that question. In honor of this anniversary, some of the worlds top contemporary voicesincluding Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Jay Parini, Yusef Komunyakaa, Agi Mishol, Tsering Woeser, Han Dong, Ernesto Santana, and Richard Blancohave written poems on the theme of liberation as it inspires them personally and creatively. Nearly all of their poems are published for the first time in this volume. The result is an artistic representation of the universal yearning for freedom from twenty-five countriesand countless stories of oppression, imprisonment, and liberation. Here are Afghan women writing in secret, Tibetan and Cuban dissidents, memories and hopes inspired by topics from Fergusson to the Middle East, from illness to spirituality to joy in nature. This collection demonstrates the power of art to heal and to bring attention to freedom as a universal human right. Lyrical, uplifting, contemplative, sometimes angry, sometimes hopeful, always masterful, these are enduring poems to enrich and inspire. From the Trade Paperback edition.**