Women in the western democratic world have gained many freedoms in recent years. But in some respects, are as trapped by our cultural paradigm as ever. Reenlisted in epic and endless repeat versions of “happily ever after”, women have not been well served by the all-pervasive narratives they have been raised with. Part map, part workbook, part friend, Ariadne's Thread and The Myth of Happily Ever After provides an overarching narrative across everything women face when staying true to an inner thread of calling.

Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with original contributions by nine other Italian philosophers influenced by and working within the authors’ framework. Dissatisfied with the responses to nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy offered by Marxism, deconstruction, and poststructuralism, Vattimo found in the nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche an important context within which to take up the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The idea of weak thought sketched by Vattimo and Rovatti emphasizes a way of understanding the role of philosophy based on language, interpretation, and limits rather than on metaphysical and epistemological certainties—without falling into relativism. To the first English-language edition of this volume, translator Peter Carravetta adds an extensive critical introduction, providing an overview of weak thought and taking stock of its philosophical trajectory over more than a quarter century.

Collection of essays which indicate the "complex constellation of greatly differing interpretive formations concerning the term postmodernism."

The complement system is a multi-tasking gatekeeper of innate immunity thatintricately interacts with other key defense systems, such as the endothelial barrier,contact activation and coagulation systems, in maintaining tissue immunosurveillanceand homeostasis. Its rapid and forceful activation in the bloodstream not onlyensures the effective containment of microbial infections through potent cytolyticmechanisms, but also alerts the adaptive immune compartment to ensure the mountingof a proper humoral immune response against foreign antigens. However, there isa lurking ‘dark side’ that can lead complement astray, fueling a self-perpetuatingvicious cycle of inflammation, exuberant immune activation and irreversible tissueinjury that collectively exacerbate both acute and chronic pathologies. Indeed,complement dysregulation or excessive activation have been widely recognized askey pathogenic drivers in a wide spectrum of inflammatory or immune-mediateddiseases. Targeted modulation of the complement system at various points ofthe cascade has revealed promising therapeutic targets for ameliorating diseasescores in a number of conditions ranging from ocular, neurodegenerative andthromboinflammatory disorders, to cancer, periodontal diseases, chronic hemolyticanemias, ischemia-reperfusion organ injury, antibody-mediated transplant rejectionand hemodialysis-triggered inflammation. Elegant pre-clinical studies employing a diversified toolbox of highly specificcomplement inhibitors in rodent or primate models of disease have opened newavenues of therapeutic exploration by providing proof of concept for the therapeuticefficacy of complement modulation. At the same time, the clinical experience gainedduring this last decade with the sole complement-specific drug currently in the clinic,eculizumab, has rekindled the interest of biopharmaceutical companies in developingnew and potent complement therapeutics for complement-driven diseases. In this respect, the complement field is witnessing a new surge of clinical trialsthat are evaluating the safety, PK/PD profile and clinical efficacy of promising drugcandidates in a number of clinical conditions driven by complement imbalance orover-activation.

I wrote a book for you.It's full of poetry you inspired and daydreams you awoke.I see your infinite nature;I see potential with no limits: the real you.ã__Part II, The Poetry Section is illustrated by Rachele Levante's artwork, debuted in Rome, Italy, in December of 2009, at the historic gallery "Il Canovaccio Studio del Canova." The multi-media resin originals were esteemed by both public and art critics as fresh and immediate, transcendentally communicating directly with the viewer's psyche through archetypal symbols; contemplating Levante's art is an existential voyage into the mystery of Truth being at once deeply personal and yet universal.As you explore Schaefer's multi-level poetry accompanied by these illustrations, you will be rewarded, if even for an instant, by the wondrous discovery that the palpating heart of the Universe is within your own soul.

This volume adds to previous historical and political studies about 'Gladiator' with essays about the movie’s relation to pop culture and contemporary discourses. It not only relates 'Gladiator' to traditional cinema aspects such as heroism, music, acting, studio culture, and visual effects, but it also connects the film to sports, religion, and the environment, expanding the ways in which the film can be evaluated by modern audiences. The volume can be read by individuals or in classroom settings, especially as a recommended text for students studying the ancient world in film.

Within the context of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and his influence on Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig and Gabriel Marquez, Paul Kong brings a variety of theoretical perspectives to bear as he analyzes the concepts of the archive and the manuscript. Setting the stage with an exploration of the intricate and intriguing relationship between the archive and the manuscript, Kong questions the apparently natural association between the two. In the light of Kong's historically contextualized and patient exegesis, the ideological nature of the archive, evident in its charge to serve as a totalizing habitat, stands in contrast with the manuscript that resists attempts to contain it. The playful responses of Borges, Puig and Marquez as they mine the "archive" of Cervantes' works support the anti-colonial dimension of Latin American literature and further problematize the relationship between archive and manuscript. The book concludes with a discussion of the future of archival discourse, especially in the setting of the virtual reality of the Internet and of globalization. Carefully grounded by Kong's close readings and supported by a wealth of astute references and allusions to writers as diverse as Virgil, Wordsworth, and Dickens, The Raiders and Writers of Cervantes' Archive is sure to provoke and intrigue Latin American scholars, narrative theorists, archivists, and those interested in issues related to cultural domination, ideology, and cyberspace.

Use the internet like a real spy. Untangling the Web is the National Security Agency's once-classified guide to finding information on the internet. From the basic to the advanced, this 650-page book offers a fascinating look at tricks the "real spies" use to uncover hidden (and not-so-hidden) information online. Chapters include: Google hacks Metasearch sites Custom search engines Maps & mapping Uncovering the invisible internet Beyond search engines: Specialized research tools Email lookups Finding people Researching companies A plain english guide to interworking Internet toolkits Finding ISPs Cybergeography Internet privacy and security ....and over a hundred more chapters. This quote from the authors hints at the investigative power of the techniques this book teaches: Nothing I am going to describe to you is illegal, nor does it in any way involve accessing unauthorized data, [...but] involves using publicly available search engines to access publicly available information that almost certainly was not intended for public distribution. From search strings that will reveal secret documents from South Africa ( filetype: xls site: za confidential ) to tracking down tables of Russian passwords ( filetype: xls site: ru login ), this is both an instructive and voyeuristic look at how the most powerful spy agency in the world uses Google.

The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers along the same historical trajectory as literary modernism. Plastic's growth as a product in the culture industry, its formation through multiple application and chemical syntheses, and its circulation via oceanic movements, Ghosh argues, correspond with, and offers novel insights into, developments in modernist literature and critical theory. Through innovative readings of canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of plastic's devastating environmental impact, The Plastic Turn proposes plastic's unique properties and destructive ubiquity as a "theory machine" to explain literature and life in the Anthropocene. Introducing several new concepts (like plastic literature, plastic literary, etc.) into critical-humanist discourse, Ghosh enmeshes literature and theory, materiality and philosophy, history and ecology, to explore why plastic as a substance and as an idea intrigues, disturbs, and haunts us.