The Pantagruel Syndrome

The Pantagruel Syndrome
Author: Francesco Bonami
Publisher:
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A catalogue of the first edition of the triennial exhibition of contemporary art in Turin, organised in collaboration with the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation.

Dystonia and Dystonic Syndromes

Dystonia and Dystonic Syndromes
Author: Petr Kanovsky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3709115167

The current concept of dystonic movement connects the abnormal function of somatosensory pathways and somatosensory analyzers with the dystonic performance of motor action, which is based on the abnormality of sensorimotor integration. This concept is reflected not only in idiopathic dystonia, but also in secondary and symptomatic dystonias. This book will give a comprehensive account of the history of the terms dystonia and dystonic, the physiology of dystonic movement and the genetics and clinical appearance of primary and secondary dystonias. Taking into consideration latest research findings, Dystonia and Dystonic Syndromes offers an in-depth discussion of current treatment options available for dystonia, including pharmacotherapy, surgery and neurorehabilitation. Therefore, it serves as a valuable reference for practitioners in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and neuroradiology as well as for neuroscientists.

Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo
Author: Mary Schneider Enriquez
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300222513

In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History

Dwell

Dwell
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005-12
Genre:
ISBN:

At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Pantagruel by François Rabelais (Book Analysis)

Pantagruel by François Rabelais (Book Analysis)
Author: Bright Summaries
Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2017-05-24
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 2806295912

Unlock the more straightforward side of Pantagruel with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Pantagruel by François Rabelais, which recounts the adventures of the titular giant as he travels across France in search of knowledge. Along the way, he accomplishes many astonishing feats, demonstrates his dazzling intelligence and skill, and befriends the lively bon vivant Panurge. The book was judged obscene by the censors at the Sorbonne, but was immensely popular with the public thanks to its biting satire and crude, extravagant humour. Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer and humanist. He is best-known for his pentalogy of novels about the adventures of two giants, Pantagruel and Gargantua, and is considered to be one of the most significant writers in Western literature. Find out everything you need to know about Pantagruel in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Ghostly Desires

Ghostly Desires
Author: Arnika Fuhrmann
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2016-05-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822374250

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. In these films the characters' eroticization in the spheres of loss and death represents an improvisation on the Buddhist disavowal of attachment and highlights under-recognized female and queer desire and persistence. Her feminist and queer readings reveal the entangled relationships between film, sexuality, Buddhist ideas, and the Thai state's regulation of heteronormative sexuality. Fuhrmann thereby provides insights into the configuration of contemporary Thailand while opening up new possibilities for thinking about queer personhood and femininity.

This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil
Author: Fay Bound Alberti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199793395

"Hamlet's "mortal coil" - which eventually and inevitably we "shuffle off" when we enter the sleep of death, as he puts it - has never been static. Indeed how the human body and its component parts have been understood, individually and collectively, has shifted across time, shaped by culture, religion, and technology. In this probing and provocative new book, Fay Bound Alberti uses the global histories of medicine, pathology, and emotions to explore these changing notions. Each chapter uses a different focus - bones, skin, sexual organs, spine, tongue, heart - revealing how each body part connects to a peculiarly Western notion of expertise, one which appropriates one element from the others and ignores their interconnection. The themes examined in This Mortal Coil - the nature of identity, the relationship between the brain and the heart, and the gendering of our physical and emotional selves - are enduring ones, but perceptions of the "perfect body" or "perfect health" evolve constantly. Moving between the surface and what lies beneath, Alberti provides a rich and fascinating accounting of each part, shedding light on the role scientific developments - from medical care to plastic surgery to cloning - plays in how we look at ourselves. Written with insight and narrative verve, Alberti's provocative book reveals how the mortal coil can be unwound, and looked at as if for the first time"--

Advances in Human Genetics

Advances in Human Genetics
Author: Harry Harris
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461307856

The latest volume in this respected series considers chromosome instability and overgrowth syndromes, lacticacidemia, the molecular basis of HLA disease association, and the genetics of growth hormone and its disorders. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.