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Everyday Memory and Aging is a comprehensive handbook which touches virtually every aspect of current everyday memory research and methodology as they relate to aging. This book demonstrates that the results of divergent approaches to the study of everyday memory and aging frequently dovetail, and it widens significantly the scope of investigation and know- ledge in the field.

''Propositions about Life: Reengaging Literature and Science'' takes a fresh look at the difficulties that arise in any attempt to integrate the disciplines of natural sciences and literature. The study develops a historically inflected discussion of the sometimes cooperative, sometimes contested relationship between literature and science in Great Britain and the United States of America. A critical analysis of the most important methodologies and conflicts that have emerged in the field of ''Literature and Science'' demonstrates how both disciplines rely on diverging assumptions about the material world that are not as incongruent as they might appear to be. Reading the novels of the contemporary American writer Richard Powers as junctions between literary and scientific investigations, ''Propositions about Life'' furthermore suggests that the question of textual referentiality in literary studies can profit from an interdisciplinary perspective without yielding to a naive concept of mimesis.

The Human Central Nervous System di Nieuwenhuys è ormai un "classico" nel campo della neurologia. Le eccezionali illustrazioni che arricchiscono il testo rappresentano ancora oggi la sua principale caratteristica: 390 tra figure e disegni costituiscono un atlante completo e pratico per l’interpretazione degli studi di neuroimaging. La seconda edizione italiana è basata sulla quarta edizione in lingua inglese, che è stata estensivamente aggiornata e implementata: quindici nuovi capitoli illustrano l’anatomia macroscopica, l’apporto ematico e la microstruttura del sistema nervoso centrale, e descrivono lo sviluppo, la topografia e l’anatomia funzionale del midollo spinale, del tronco dell’encefalo, del cervelletto, del diencefalo e del telencefalo.

Long description: Welchen Platz und welche Gestalt hat die für das Privatrecht elementare Vertragsfreiheit im Gefüge des Unionsrechts? Jan D. Lüttringhaus untersucht die Verbürgung und die Materialisierung der unionalen Vertragsfreiheit im Zusammenspiel von EU-Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht, BGB und ZPO.

English summary: Discrimination often occurs in cross-border contracts. It is in this setting that different cultures and concepts as to (e.g. gender and racial) equality collide. Thus, transnational protection against discrimination raises numerous questions - in particular with regard to international labor and insurance contracts. Jan D. Luttringhaus endeavors to provide answers on the basis of European private international law. He examines the area of international contract law as well as transnational protection against discrimination in corporate bodies. Given that some EU Member States impose further sanctions under criminal and administrative law, the author outlines the conflicts between public and private cross-border enforcement of non-discrimination laws. German description: Diskriminierungen treten besonders haufig auf, wenn Vertrage uber Staatsgrenzen hinweg geschlossen werden. Gleichbehandlungsvorstellungen europaischer Pragung mussen hier grundsatzlich umso starker zuruckstehen, je intensiver ein fremder Kulturkreis betroffen und das Rechtsverhaltnis dort verwurzelt ist. Doch wie ist das raumlich-territorial anwendbare Antidiskriminierungsrecht im Einzelnen zu bestimmen? Jan D. Luttringhaus beantwortet diese Frage anhand der zunehmend vergemeinschafteten Kollisionsnormen des IPR. Er untersucht dabei neben dem internationalen Schuld- und insbesondere Arbeits- und Versicherungsvertragsrecht auch das internationale Verbands- und Gesellschaftsrecht. Da einige EG-Mitgliedstaaten Benachteiligungen zusatzlich mithilfe des Straf- bzw. Verwaltungsrechts sanktionieren, geht der Autor auch auf die Konflikte ein, welche sich aus der Kombination hoheitlicher und privatrechtlicher Diskriminierungsschutzkonzepte in Sachverhalten mit Auslandsbezug ergeben.

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A presentation on the process of conveying information, whether technical or not. The guide seeks to cover every aspect of communicating effectively.

Ce livre est devenu une reference dans son domaine. Il est caracterise par la qualite exceptionnelle de ses illustrations: les 375 dessins en couleur et au trait forment un atlas complet et une reference pour la neuroimagerie. Le contenu de cette quatrieme edition a ete completement revu et encore augmente. Quinze nouveaux chapitres presentent des illustrations d anatomie macroscopique et vasculaire et de l histologie du systeme nerveux central. Ils traitent du developpement, de la topographie et de l anatomie fonctionnelle de la moelle spinale, du tronc cerebral et du cervelet, du diencephale et du telencephale. Cette nouvelle edition represente un guide clair et fiable pour comprendre l organisation structurelle et fonctionnelle du systeme nerveux central humain, ainsi que les bases generales des neurosciences experimentales et descriptives. Concu initialement pour les etudiants en medecine et en psychologie de tous les niveaux, ce livre est egalement une source d information pour les neurobiologistes.