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Neurodegeneration theory, disorders and treatments /

Table of Contents: “…Oxidative stress-mediated neurodegeneration : a tale of two models / Paul K.Y. …”
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Public modalities rhetoric, culture, media, and the shape of public life /

Table of Contents: “…Depoe -- The ownership society, or bourgeois publicity revisited / Robert Asen -- (In)hospitable publics : theorizing modalities of access to U.S. publics / Sara McKinnon -- Eyeing new publics : veiling and the performance of civic visibility / Radha S. Hegde -- Mediating modalities : practicing popular politics / Helene A. …”
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Renaissance cultural crossroads translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640 /

Table of Contents: “…: sixteenth-century english translations of the -- Classics / Fred Schurink -- Cato in England : translating Latin sayings for moral and linguistic instruction / Demmy Verbeke -- John Hester's translations of Leonardo Fioravanti : the literary career of a London distiller / Isabelle Pantin -- 'For the common good and for the national interest' : paratexts in English translations of navigational works / Susanna De Schepper -- Henry Hexham (c.1585-1650), English soldier, author, translator, lexicographer, and cultural mediator in the Low Countries / Paul Hoftijzer -- 'Newes lately come' : European news books in English translation / S.K. …”
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Neurodegeneration theory, disorders and treatments /

Table of Contents: “…Oxidative stress-mediated neurodegeneration : a tale of two models / Paul K.Y. …”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) : From 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' / by Grosoli, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Natural beauty; 4.3. Immediate mediation; 4.4. Movement and narrative; 4.5. Mechanism as the background for freedom; 5. …”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) : From 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' / by Grosoli, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Natural beauty; 4.3. Immediate mediation; 4.4. Movement and narrative; 4.5. Mechanism as the background for freedom; 5. …”
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Metabolic syndrome and neurological disorders /

Table of Contents: “…Ramirez -- Contribution of phospholipid, sphingolipids, and cholesterol-derived lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome and neurological disorders / Akhlaq A. …”
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Metabolic syndrome and neurological disorders /

Table of Contents: “…Ramirez -- Contribution of phospholipid, sphingolipids, and cholesterol-derived lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome and neurological disorders / Akhlaq A. …”
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Transforming learning in schools and communities the remaking of education for a cosmopolitan society /

Table of Contents: “…Education for a globalized world: policy and pedagogic possibilities / Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson -- Deparochializing education: re-envisioning education in ASEAN / Aaron Koh -- Deferring dystopia: the sustainable city, urban policy and education markets / Kalervo Gulson -- Place, space and knowledge: children in the village and the city / Pia Christensen -- Public space, participation and expressive arts / Morwenna Griffiths and Hamish Ross -- Education and its cosmopolitan possibilities / Fazal Rizvi -- Relationships of virtue: justice as practice / Jon Nixon -- Capability formation and education / Melanie Walker -- Remaking civic formation: transforming politics and the cosmopolitan school / Terri Seddon -- A school for citizens: civic learning and democratic action in the learning democracy / Gert Biesta -- Re-constituting education governance for cosmopolitan society -- Pedagogic mediations / Stewart Ranson -- Pedagogies of indifference: research, policy and practice / Bob Lingard -- Dialogue, inquiry and the construction of learning communities / Gordon Wells -- The production of space for learning / Nick Boreham -- The social, cultural and linguistic significance of complementary schools / Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge -- Participation, policy and the changing conditions of childhood / Alan Prout -- Schools and urban regeneration: challenges and possibilities / Pat Thomson.…”
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Oral wound healing cell biology and clinical management /

Table of Contents: “…Overview / Hannu Larjava -- Hemostasis, coagulation, and complications / Carol Oakley and Hannu Larjava -- Inflammation and wound healing / Anna Turabelidze and Luisa Ann DiPietro -- Specialized pro-resolving lipid derived fatty acid mediators : wiring the circuitry of effector immune homeostasis / Gabrielle B. …”
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Transforming learning in schools and communities the remaking of education for a cosmopolitan society /

Table of Contents: “…Education for a globalized world: policy and pedagogic possibilities / Bob Lingard, Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson -- Deparochializing education: re-envisioning education in ASEAN / Aaron Koh -- Deferring dystopia: the sustainable city, urban policy and education markets / Kalervo Gulson -- Place, space and knowledge: children in the village and the city / Pia Christensen -- Public space, participation and expressive arts / Morwenna Griffiths and Hamish Ross -- Education and its cosmopolitan possibilities / Fazal Rizvi -- Relationships of virtue: justice as practice / Jon Nixon -- Capability formation and education / Melanie Walker -- Remaking civic formation: transforming politics and the cosmopolitan school / Terri Seddon -- A school for citizens: civic learning and democratic action in the learning democracy / Gert Biesta -- Re-constituting education governance for cosmopolitan society -- Pedagogic mediations / Stewart Ranson -- Pedagogies of indifference: research, policy and practice / Bob Lingard -- Dialogue, inquiry and the construction of learning communities / Gordon Wells -- The production of space for learning / Nick Boreham -- The social, cultural and linguistic significance of complementary schools / Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge -- Participation, policy and the changing conditions of childhood / Alan Prout -- Schools and urban regeneration: challenges and possibilities / Pat Thomson.…”
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Oral wound healing cell biology and clinical management /

Table of Contents: “…Overview / Hannu Larjava -- Hemostasis, coagulation, and complications / Carol Oakley and Hannu Larjava -- Inflammation and wound healing / Anna Turabelidze and Luisa Ann DiPietro -- Specialized pro-resolving lipid derived fatty acid mediators : wiring the circuitry of effector immune homeostasis / Gabrielle B. …”
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…An analysis of the changes currently taking place: the digital and the global dimension and local cultures -- Interdisciplinary collaborations in the creation of digital dance and performance: A critical examination -- Sound archives accessibility -- Technology and public access to cultural heritage: the Italian experience on IT for public historical archives -- Intellectual Property Rights and Photography: an Eternal Golden Braid -- Part II: Mediated and unmediated heritage -- A case study of an inclusive museum. …”
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Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…An analysis of the changes currently taking place: the digital and the global dimension and local cultures -- Interdisciplinary collaborations in the creation of digital dance and performance: A critical examination -- Sound archives accessibility -- Technology and public access to cultural heritage: the Italian experience on IT for public historical archives -- Intellectual Property Rights and Photography: an Eternal Golden Braid -- Part II: Mediated and unmediated heritage -- A case study of an inclusive museum. …”
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Pluralist Universalism : An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms / by Jin, Wen, 1977-

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The Problem Body : Projecting Disability in Film /

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Pluralist Universalism : An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms / by Jin, Wen, 1977-

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The Problem Body : Projecting Disability in Film /

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