Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination : Paracelsus’s theories of poison

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Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies

Chapter 5 “The Vanishing Lady”, the railway, and illusions of movement

"This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world we live in. Considering different cultural practices characterised by illusionism, this book suggests a new approach to illusion via media theory. Each of the chapters analyses a specific kind of illusionistic prac…

Chapter 49 Introduction to Section 8

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific;Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental;to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection;between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence;of environmental and develo…

Chapter 48: Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing …

Massive displacements, forced labor migration, and large-scale resettlements ordered by colonial states, but also internal and transnational migration, have stimulated specific forms of homemaking in urban and rural regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter first briefly scrutinizes earlier forms of housebuilding and migration in colonial African contexts that let to various forms of s…

Chapter 4 The Oceanography and Marine Ecology of Ningaloo, A World Heritage Area

The Ningaloo coast of north-western Australia (eastern Indian Ocean) hosts one of the world’s longest and most extensive fringing coral reef systems, along with globally-significant abundances of large marine fauna such as whale sharks. These characteristics — which have contributed to its inscription on the World Heritage list — exist because of the unique climatic, geomorphologic and oc…

Approaches to a "new" World Literature; Romani Literature(s) as (re-)writing …

Sejarah sastra Romani tertulis baru berusia sekitar 100 tahun, dan dengan demikian sastra Romani masih didefinisikan dan dikonsolidasikan. Setidaknya ada dua ciri khusus yang menjadi ciri sastra muda ini: di satu sisi, sastra dunia diaspora multibahasa yang seringkali dapat dicirikan sebagai sastra yang terlibat dan mencoba mendekonstruksi berbagai stereotip kuno tentang minoritas. Di sisi lain…

Approaches in Tourism Modelling. Collected papers

Riset pariwisata memang menjadi agenda yang booming dan menarik bagi ekonom empiris berorientasi analisis data berkat teknologi modern. Ada peningkatan luar biasa selama beberapa dekade terakhir dalam alat matematika, statistik, probabilistik, dan komputasi yang tersedia untuk ekonomi makro terapan dalam penelitian pariwisata. Buku ini bukanlah upaya untuk membuat representasi yang komprehensif…

Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus as a Case Study: Using a Preca…

XMRV is a recently discovered human gammaretrovirus first described in prostate cancers that shares significant homology with murine leukemia virus (MLV) (Ursiman et al., 2006). It is known that XMRV can cause leukemias and sarcomas in several rodent, feline, and primate species but has not been shown to cause disease in humans. XMRV was detectable in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM…

So-Called Social Justice Teaching and Multicultural Teacher Education: Rhetor…

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity.