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Graphic art is a powerful weapon of protest and propaganda, shock and subversion From the revolutionary Sixties to the present, Graphic Agitation explores the many ways in which graphic art and design have addressed social and political issues around the globe. Covering a broad range of subject areas including war, peace, ecology, health and sexual politics, the book features the work of some of the design world's best-known personalities as well as the graphics of anonymous protest. In addition to its striking visual impact, this unique collection of images presents a memorable reflection of the social concerns and political struggles of our age..
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Graphic Agitation 2 explores graphic protest in the digital age, in particular over the years since the Gulf War. The book deals with a range of protest imagery from hi-tech and low-tech to no-tech and is comprehensively illustrated with images ranging from lollipop wrappers to websites..
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Volume: Independent bimonthly for architecture to go beyond itself Volume 10 features interviews with Peter Cook, Rene Daalder, Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Cesar Millan, Philippe Parreno, and François Roche; book discussion with Kenneth Frampton; essays by Arakawa + Gins, Jane Harrison and David Turnbull, Reinhold Martin, Mark Wigley, Neil Denari, Sean Dockray, Richard Massey, Ben Nicholson, Paul Preissner, Tony Chakar, Kai Vöckler, Andrew Herscher, and more. Includes a special first issue of ALIBI, a new magazine for architecture and travel. Volume is a project by Archis + AMO + C-Lab + ....
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This insightful volume continues to provide readers with the basis for understanding the instrumental and symbolic acts underlying agitation and control. Scientific and humanistic methods of analysis have been combined to present the authors' original themes and to analyze case studies. Readers will assimilate a frame of reference that will sharpen their analytic skills and help them to specify the rhetorical ingredients used by agitators and establishments in their recipes for social change and social control..
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Richard Sorabji presents a ground-breaking study of ancient Greek views of the emotions and their influence on subsequent theories and attitudes, Pagan and Christian While the central focus of the book is the Stoics, Sorabji draws on a vast range of texts to give a rich historical survey of how Western thinking about this central aspect of human nature developed..
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1854 edition by Guillaumin et Cie, Paris..
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In this innovatice challenge to liberal assumptions, Benjamin Arditi tackles four key areas in contemporary politics that work at "the edges of liberalism:" difference, populism, revolution, and agitation Each chapter discusses the intellectual background and position of these phenomena in relation to liberalism. Difference is explored in the context of the culture wars and its celebration of particularism over universalism. Populism is portrayed as a specter that both accompanies and haunts liberal democracy, and agitation is considered in tandem with emancipatory politics and in relation to revolutionary politics. The final chapter vindicates the use of revolution for contemporary thought, challenging the existing liberal-democratic consensus. Arditi's engagement with major thinkers helps him develop a novel interpretation of contemporary politics.

Key Features

•Provides a novel theory of populism••Presents a new concept of revolution••Considers a different way of thinking about emancipation••Clarity of argument ensures accessibility to a broad readership•

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program..
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Among the most frustrating challenges for any health care professional are treating and alleviating the distress of an agitated patient with dementia—especially compelling in the midst of today’s unprecedented population explosion among adults over age 65. For the first time ever, people age 85 and older represent the fastest-growing segment of our population.

As we find ways to meet this challenge, we are also transforming how we think about aging. Instead of the pejorative term "senility," which implies that simply to be old is to be infirm, we refer to the ABCs of geriatric psychiatry: disturbances in (A)ffect, (B)ehavior, and (C)ognition, which are not normal at any age.

This compact volume addresses (B)ehavior. This remarkable monograph offers practical direction on assessing and managing agitation in patients with dementia. It identifies and diagnoses the multiple types of agitation in dementia patients. It also explains how to look for and treat the underlying medical etiologies, and recommends treatment and management techniques—everything from epidemiology and neurochemistry to behavior assessment scales, medications, psychotherapy, and bright light therapy. Furthermore, this encouraging work shows that successful outcomes—with response rates as high as 70%—can be achieved with a systemic approach, involving both patient and caregiver, that includes cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, and reminiscence therapies.

This book will appeal to a wide audience of geriatric psychiatrists, primary care physicians and internists, general practitioners, nurses, social workers, psychologists, pharmacists, and mental health care workers and practitioners..
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From small questions of taste to large questions concerning the nature of existence, intellectual debate takes up much of our time. In this work literary critic Arthur Krystal examines what most commentators ignore: the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative essays about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about his own gradual disaffection with the literary scene, Krystal demonstrates that opposing points of view are based more on innate predilections than on disinterested thought or analysis. Not beholden to any fashionable theory or political agenda, Krystal interrogates the usual suspects in the cultural wars from an independent, though not impartial, vantage point. Clearly personal and unabashedly belletrist, his essays ask important questions. What makes culture one thing and not another? What inspires aesthetic values? What drives us to make comparisons? And how does a bias for one kind of evidence as opposed to another contribute to the form and content of intellectual argument?.
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