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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0801441188ISBN 13: 9780801441189
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be unlocked? Over the past two decades, scientists studying the workings of genes and cells have uncovered some of the clues necessary to solve these mysteries. In this fascinating and accessible book, two neurobiologists share the often-surprising findings from that research, including the possibility that aging and natural death may not be forever a certainty for most living beings. André Klarsfeld and Frédéric Revah discuss in detail the latest scientific findings and views on death and longevity. They challenge many popular assumptions, such as the idea that the death of individual organisms serves to rejuvenate species or that death and sexual reproduction are necessarily linked. Finally, they describe current experimental approaches to postpone natural death in lower organisms as well as in mammals. Are all organisms that survive until late in life condemned to a "natural" death, as a consequence of aging, even if they live in a well-protected, supportive environment? The variability of the adult life span-from a few hours for some insects to more than a millennium for the sequoia and thirteen times that for certain wild berry bushes-challenges the notion that death is unavoidable. Evolutionary theory helps explain why and how some species have achieved biological mechanisms that seemingly allow them to resist time. Death cannot be understood without looking into cells-the essential building blocks of life. Intriguingly, at the level of cells, death is not always an accident; it is often programmed as an indispensable aspect of life, which benefits the organism as a whole.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0801491274ISBN 13: 9780801491276
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. English, Japanese (translation).
Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1972
ISBN 10: 0801406919ISBN 13: 9780801406911
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Book by Roskies, Ethel.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0801493064ISBN 13: 9780801493065
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1982
ISBN 10: 0801414938ISBN 13: 9780801414930
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Slightly Used Copy.
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0801438098ISBN 13: 9780801438097
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Product Description Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history. Humanitarians, according to Brantlinger, saw the problem in the same terms of inevitability (or doom) as did scientists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as propagandists for empire such as Charles Wentworth Dilke and James Anthony Froude. Brantlinger analyzes the Irish Famine in the context of ideas and theories about primitive races in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He shows that by the end of the nineteenth century, especially through the influence of the eugenics movement, extinction discourse was ironically applied to "the great white race" in various apocalyptic formulations. With the rise of fascism and Nazism, and with the gradual renewal of aboriginal populations in some parts of the world, by the 1930s the stereotypic idea of "fatal impact" began to unravel, as did also various more general forms of race-based thinking and of social Darwinism. From the Inside Flap "In Dark Vanishings, Patrick Brantlinger richly documents his thesis that the discourse of inevitable extermination played a key role, and almost alwayscertain appearances to the contrary notwithstandinga pernicious one, in the unholy nineteenth-century nexus of racialism and imperialism that fostered aggression against many defenseless peoples. An important, passionate, and compelling work of scholarship."Christopher Herbert, author of Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery "By tracing a single strand in the complex web of British and American writings about race, Patrick Brantlingers Dark Vanishings reveals a surprisingly consistent, widespread, and long-lived consensus that savage races were fated to become extinct. Brantlinger reveals the persistence of this claim, often made in regretful and elegiac modes, across centuries, continents, and political persuasions. Dark Vanishings also challenges us to face the history of our desire to enlighten and restructure what we consider outmoded cultures."Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley "The strength of Dark Vanishings lies in Patrick Brantlingers ability to place wide-ranging and impressive scholarly readings in the frame of ideological critique. The topic of the vanishing of dark races builds on the substantial body of texts dealing with British nineteenth-century imperialism and is therefore of immediate interest to scholars in such disciplines as Victorian studies and postcolonialism."Deirdre David, Temple University "Patrick Brantlinger shows brilliantly and comprehensively how extinction discourse underwrote genocidal practices, supported eugenics, promoted social Darwinism, and founded modern anthropology as a science of mourning. One of the most impressive aspects of his book is its ability to trace the uniformity of extinction discourse across a number of ideological and political contexts."John Kucich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor About the Author Patrick Brantlinger is Rudy Professor of English and Victorian Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of many books, including Fictions of State, Rule of Darkness, and Bread and Circuses, also from Cornell.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0801407516ISBN 13: 9780801407512
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Slightly Used Copy.
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Publicado por Brand: Comstock Pub. Assoc/Cornell University Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 080143954XISBN 13: 9780801439544
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A fascinating tour of extinct birds uses more than three hundred illustrations in full color and black and white to introduce readers to more than eighty species of birds that have disappeared since 1600, including the passenger pigeon and dodo.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 080149396XISBN 13: 9780801493966
Librería: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0801493420ISBN 13: 9780801493423
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 080143629XISBN 13: 9780801436291
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1975
ISBN 10: 0801408792ISBN 13: 9780801408793
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Contents: Foreword by Samuel Ettinger ; Introduction; Abbreviations;The German intellectuals and the dynamics of Jewish integration and identity. The intellectuals in the Second Reich -- Changing attitudes of the intellectuals -- Conflicting opinions regarding Jewish integration and identity -- Conclusion; The Kulturkampf and the status of the Jews in Germany. Kulturkampf : idea and reality -- Catholic attitudes toward Judaism and the Jews -- Changing attitudes of the Jews -- The Kulturkampf and the legal status of the Jewish communities -- Conclusion; The Christian state and the Jewish citizen. The Christian state -- Watchword of conservatism -- Internal politics and conservative Protestants -- Conservative and modernism -- Conclusion; Protestantism and Judaism in liberal perspective. Liberals among the Protestants and Jews -- Negation of the "Christian state" -- The common denominator -- Conflict within unity -- Conclusion; Christian and Anti-Christian anti-Semitism. Clarification of terms -- Christian anti-Semitism -- Anti-Christian anti-Semitism -- Conclusion; Appendix: facsimiles of documents; Bibliography essay; Index.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 1551199742ISBN 13: 9781551199740
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1984
ISBN 10: 0801498910ISBN 13: 9780801498916
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1982
ISBN 10: 0801492017ISBN 13: 9780801492013
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0801433908ISBN 13: 9780801433900
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1973
ISBN 10: 0801407915ISBN 13: 9780801407918
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0801427738ISBN 13: 9780801427732
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0801435005ISBN 13: 9780801435003
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0801430739ISBN 13: 9780801430732
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0801429048ISBN 13: 9780801429040
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0801410231ISBN 13: 9780801410239
Librería: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good.
Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1985
ISBN 10: 0801417910ISBN 13: 9780801417917
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1980
ISBN 10: 0801413516ISBN 13: 9780801413513
Librería: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1983
ISBN 10: 080141508XISBN 13: 9780801415081
Librería: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: very good.
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Nuevo desde EUR 168,60
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0801481309ISBN 13: 9780801481307
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1980
ISBN 10: 0801413176ISBN 13: 9780801413179
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1974
ISBN 10: 0801408199ISBN 13: 9780801408199
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1976
ISBN 10: 080140939XISBN 13: 9780801409394
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: Cornell University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0801480787ISBN 13: 9780801480782
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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