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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 17 von 20, Vrije University Brussel, 38 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Islamic movements have become a crucial political issue in Uzbekistan. Despite having taken some transitional...

Do the news media have any role in the transformation of war and warfare? Focusing on television, this book argues that the news media alters the cognitive and strategic environment of the actors of war and politics and therefore changes the way these interact with one another.

This book postulates that the trigger of the psychotic condition is located in the basic processes which structure the first emotional relations. It presents some of the reasons why patients succumb to the attraction of a course doomed to result in the permanent derangement of their minds.

Motivated by a variational model concerning the depth of the objects in a picture and the problem of hidden and illusory contours, this book investigates one of the central problems of computer vision: the topological and algorithmic reconstruction of a smooth three dimensional scene starting from...

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts, tools and forms of art, along with his close involvement with...

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil...

Il mondo non è ancora in pace. Guerre, terrorismo, violenza diffusa compongono un inquietante scenario. Come i discepoli sulla barca travolta dalla tempesta dell’episodio evangelico (Mc 4,38), l’umanità è spaventata, smarrita: che cosa può fare per non cedere alla paura e alla rassegnazione,...

Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act? This book explores the mental state that compels certain individuals to perform murderous, suicidal acts and emphasizes that, whereas a suicidal...

Con Principessa Casamassima James risponde alle critiche di indifferenza ai problemi sociali e scarsa coscienza politica che gli furono rivolte. Protagonista del romanzo, pubblicato nel 1886, è Hyacinth Robinson, figlio bastardo di un lord inglese e di una prostituta parigina. Entrato a far parte...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of Australian impact structures and related mineralization, including a discussion of the significance of many of these structures for crustal evolution. The book  focuses in particular on Archaean impact ejecta/fallout units in the Pilbara Craton of Western...

L'obiezione di Max Stirner sul carattere trascendente di ogni costruzione utopica, anche quando si presenta come «scientifica» e del tutto immanente come il marxismo o lo storicismo crociano o l'attualismo gentiliano, è ancora oggi di grande attualità. In ogni atto o progetto rivoluzionario, per...

I diari sono frammenti di vita passata. Ma in essi lo scrivere è rivivere. Nel frammento si coglie la misteriosa vibrazione della totalità. Sono anche memoria dell’antefatto che aiuta a comprendere il presente e a progettare, eventualmente, l’avvenire. Per i giovani di oggi, così schiacciati...

30 secondi rappresentano un arco temporale estremamente limitato, corrispondono al tempo di uno spot pubblicitario, ma possono bastare per cambiare il corso della nostra vita. In 30 secondi ci può crollare il mondo addosso per una delusione, ma si può anche scoprire la felicità, ci si può...

The book interrogates the experience of being young and becoming adult in rural Bangladesh, in a context of profound processes of socio economic change. Throughout South Asia, new educational opportunities and an increase in the age at which girls and boys get married are opening new spaces for young...