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In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of intense discussion, this book examines the roots of collective violence - and the measures taken to avoid it - in Burma (Myanmar), China, Germany, Pakistan, ...

A revised version covers new topics and reflects recent changes in perspective and language.

Acute heart failure has relatively recently been recognized as a distinct entity within the continuum of heart failure. Patients with acute heart failure present to the emergency department when they are unable to breathe, and their pathophysiology differs from that of patients sitting in a doctor's office. Medical literature is just beginning to catch up with this distinct and challenging problem. This issue of Heart Failure Clinics should ma...

Obra dirigida a todo aquel lector interesado por la antropología, sin importar su nivel o competencia, LA LENTE ANTROPOLÓGICA constituye una magnífica síntesis no sólo del significado de la antropología, sino de los nervios esenciales que la subyacen. Si bien existen tantas lentes, o perspectivas, como antropólogos, y aunque algunas de ellas sean difícilmente conciliables, todas comparten una serie de temas esenciales que componen un enfoque a...

In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders. As one result of their year of intense discussion, this book examines the roots of collective violence - and the measures taken to avoid it - in Burma (Myanmar), China, Germany, Pakistan, ...

A revised version covers new topics and reflects recent changes in perspective and language.

What happens when a traditional region goes global? This work looks at the South of both the present and the past to develop the idea of 'grounded globalism', in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways.