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Hidden rituals and public performances
Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious traditions, myths, and songs in public and private performances. Their work is based on long term fieldwork undertaken during the 1990s and 2000s in three different places, the Northern Ob region in North West Siberia and in the Komi and Udmurt Republics. It sheds light on how different traditions are favoured and transformed in multicultural Russia today. Siikala and Ulyashev examine rituals, songs, an...
The True Creator of Everything
A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist who places the human brain at the center of humanity's universe Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. He undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety of human history, culture, and civilization based on a series of recently uncovered key principles of brain function. This new cosmology is centered around three fundamental properties of the human brain: its insurmountable malleability to adapt and learn; its exquisite ability to allow multiple individuals to synchronize their minds around a task, goal, or belief; and its incomparable capacity for abstraction. Combining insights from such diverse fields as neuroscience, mathematics, evolution, computer science, physics, history, art, and philosophy, Nicolelis presents a neurobiologically based manifesto for the uniqueness of the human mind and a cautionary tale of the threats that technology poses to present and future generations.
My Father's Letters
A profoundly moving and historical record—letters sent by sixteen fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children during the 1930s–1950s. “They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man’s eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be.” —Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father’s Letters tells the stories of sixteen men—mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects—who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and children. Her...
Singled Out
Recommendations -- To the Russian government -- To the United Nations -- To the Council of Europe -- To the European Union and the United States government. -- Methodology. -- Russia's international obligations -- Arbitrary or unlawful detentions -- Arbitrary or unlawful expulsions. -- Background -- Relations between Russia and Georgia -- Racism and xenophobia in Russia -- Migration and migration policy in Russia. -- The campaign against Georgians -- Official statements -- Media campaign -- Official orders to target Georgians --Targeting Georgian businesses and Georgian workers -- Arbitrary and iIlegal detention and expulsion of Georgians -- Coerced "confessions"--Violation of the rights to counsel and to inform a person of the fact of detention -- Violation of the right to a fair hearing -- Violation of the right to appeal -- Deaths of Georgians in custody -- Inhuman and degrading treatment -- Conditions of detention -- Conditions of expulsion -- Expulsion of Georgian refugees from Abkhazia. -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgements. -- Appendix A. -- Appendix B. -- Appendix C. -- Appendix D. -- Appendix E. -- Appendix F.
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Management and Public Health Response (volume I.C)
Volume I.C An outbreak of a respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and the causative agent was discovered in January 2020 to be a novel betacoronovirus of the same subgenus as SARS-CoV and named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly disseminated worldwide, with clinical manifestations ranging from mild respiratory symptoms to severe pneumonia and a fatality rate estimated around 2%. Person to person transmission is occurring both in the community and healthcare settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared the COVID-19 epidemic a public health emergency of international ...
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century: E to K
V. 1. A to D.--v. 2. E to K.--v. 3. L to Q.--v. 4. R to Z.--v. 5. Supplement and index.
