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Forges fresh perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our understandings of music's transformative power.

Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express an understanding of what it means to be Russian, answering key questions of national identity for modern Russians in dealing with their history: What really happened to us?

A study of the millions of migrants in China, their experiences, and their impacts on the city and the countryside.

This book introduces the geometry of 3-D vision, that is, the reconstruction of 3-D models of objects from a collection of 2-D images. It details the classic theory of two view geometry and shows that a more proper tool for studying the geometry of multiple views is the so-called rank consideration of the multiple view matrix.

Representing a break away from the assumptions of debates, this book challenges philosophical arguments and attitudes. It is written for anyone intrigued by the questions about goodness and human life. This book offers a beginning for moral philosophy. Her discussion includes topics such as practical rationality and Nietzsche's immoralism.

Presents a history of the Northwest Caucasus. This book examines interethnic relations and demographic changes that have occurred, shedding light on how the policies of the Ottoman Empire, Crimean Khanate, and Russia have affected the peoples living in the region and their socio-political situation.

The work of Harvey S. But inasmuch as he de voted more effort to envisioning what could lie ahead than in recalling the past, his work was markedly optimistic.

Standard therapy for high grade glioma is a topic that is evolving, timely, and relevant. In this book, some of the articles include: Use of language mapping to aid resection of eloquent gliomas; Clinical trials with immunotherapy; Clinical trials for small molecule inhibitors; and Nanotechnology potential applications for GBM therapy.

Neural Tube Defects are a group of related but individual pathologies that are the most common congenital anomalies of the Central Nervous System. This book encompasses etiology, molecular biology, clinical anatomy, symptoms, rationale for surgical procedures, natural history and transition into adulthood.

Features experts who highlight the updates on various forms of management of high grade glioma. In this title, the articles focus on: Extent of Resection for Glioblastoma; Role of adjuvant radiation therapy; Survival benefit of the Temozolomide protocol; Alternative chemotherapeutic agents; The role of avastin; Radiology; and Pathology.

This work explores various forms of oppression that plague contemporary society. Through the analyses and reflections of theorists and social activists it brings together, under a common project of human liberation, critical voices from around the globe.