Questo testo rappresenta un lavoro sulla formazione della teoria psicologica di Jung, sulla sua importanza nella creazione della moderna psicologia, sull'influenza che il suo pensiero ha avuto nello sviluppo delle scienze umane e nella storia intellettuale e sociale del XX secolo.

The aquarium reference bible for marine enthusiasts on all levels.

Nel 1971, diciannove cittadini di Excelsior, piccola comunità rurale del Libero Stato del Sud Africa dominato dai bianchi, furono accusati di aver violato l'Immorality Act dell'apartheid, che vietava i rapporti sessuali tra bianchi e neri. In attesa di giudizio le donne, tutte nere, furono arrestate mentre gli uomini bianchi con cui erano state sorprese vennero rilasciati dietro pagamento di cauzione. Prendendo spunto da questo caso di cronaca, l'autore narra la storia di una delle famiglie al centro dello scandalo mettendo a nudo quella di un paese nel quale l'apartheid occultava rapporti interrazziali di ogni genere.

This book provides a comprehensive, unified tutorial covering the most recent advances in the emerging technology of free-space laser communications (FSLC), where interest and attention continue to grow along with the number of technical challenges. This book is intended as an all-inclusive source to serve the needs of those who require information about the basics of FSLC, as well as up-to-date advanced knowledge of the state-of-the-art in the technologies available today. Topics covered include a combination of atmospheric effects for laser propagation and FSCL systems performance and design, and are intended as a valuable resource for engineers, scientists and students interested in better understanding laser communication systems designed for the atmospheric optical channel.

In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today.

In simple and eloquent language, Ramdas writes directly and from the heart and his message of certain deliverance through the unswerving remembrance of God is meant for all serious seekers of all religions.

'Ogni musulmano deve dare prova di essere 'buono'. Tutti i musulmani sembrano ormai soggetti all'obbligo di provare le loro credenziali, arruolandosi nella guerra contro i musulmani 'cattivi', i terroristi. Ma non esistono 'buoni' musulmani separati dai 'cattivi', cosa che renderebbe possibile accogliere i primi ed escludere i secondi, proprio come non esistono 'buoni' cristiani o ebrei, separati da quelli 'cattivi'. Supporre che esistano tali categorie maschera un rifiuto di confrontarci con un'analisi politica dei nostri tempi.' 'Questa inchiesta, provocatoria e allarmante, solleva serie e difficili domande. È un prezioso contributo alla comprensione di uno dei più importanti sviluppi dell'era contemporanea.' (Noam Chomsky)

Nella prima metà dell'Ottocento, quando il Sudafrica era una colonia inglese, una profetessa nera annunciò che gli antenati degli africani sarebbero tornati dal mare per punire gli inglesi. La profezia per avverarsi comportava un sacrificio di terre e di bestiame da parte dei neri. La popolazione si divise tra Credenti, coloro i quali accettarono la condizione per poi morire di fame, e Non Credenti che accettarono il dominio inglese. Quasi duecento anni dopo un giovane nero urbanizzato e colto arriva in un villaggio a sud del paese e ritrova l'antica faida tra Credenti e non, questa volta incentrata sul costruire o meno un casinò. Il protagonista si lascerà coinvolgere nello scontro e cambierà la propria stessa visione del mondo.

The Alliance of Independent Publishers, a literary organization "dedicated to a different kind of globalization" and the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation have invited Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House (China), Arab Cultural Center (Morocco and Lebanon), Double Storey Books (South Africa), Sage India (India), Editions La Decouverte (France), and Other Press (United States) to participate in the creation of an unprecedented intercultural project.

Entitled Keywords, this original and international experiment is divided into four concise volumes. Each one refers specifically to a word that is key to the understanding of the human condition. Truth, Identity, Gender, and Experience are concepts that we presume universal; therefore we would be hard-pressed to think that they refer to different systems of thought in cultures distinct from our own. Keywords explores the cultural specificity of these terms, and links them to issues that are most relevant for the region under consideration.

Each volume of the series offers six different points of view on a given keyword. The authors, who have been carefully selected by their respective publishers for their mastery in their fields and for the clarity of their writing, have been given free rein to share their distinctive visions of the concept at hand and to emphasize particular examples that would best illustrate their unique perspectives.

In the volume entitled Gender for example, we find a highly contemporary American analysis of the tension between feminist studies and the concept of the "queer," while the Arab reading of the same word turns to the history of the Arab world to champion the cause of women and homosexuals.

For the African author, identity is bound up with questions of ethnicity, race, and colonial laws. The Chinese author shows how in his country identity has been informed in the 20th century by Western references, such as Marxism and the market economy, because at its roots Chinese thought does not directly include these notions. The American author selects Tiger Woods' debate with the media to reveal how in the United States the question of "identity politics" defeats the ideals of multiculturalism.

Experience in China may be understood classically as an actual event but also as revealing what cannot be spoken. The French reading emphasizes the contrast between the scientific experience, its psychoanalytic version, and the definition of the "judgment of experience" as formulated by Kant.

Truth, from the American perspective, appears to have shifted from a mathematical and universal model to a contemporary notion of truth so elusive and plural that it has almost disappeared as a concept. The Indian approach is deeply historical, as it surveys the meaning of truth from the Vedas to the Gandhian ideal. The African author in this instance has chosen to ignore the history of the concept in order to concentrate on a crucial contemporary question: How well has the South African Commission for Truth and Reconciliation worked and what are its realistic limitations?

The variety of the authors' backgrounds (anthropology, philosophy, sociology, epistemology) and their commitment to making Keywords relevant in the explosive "here and now" offer new parameters for envisioning the implications of the process of globalization. This project is required reading for anyone who aspires to become an informed citizen of the world.

Keywords will be published in its entirety in 2004 by Other Press. The series will be brought out simultaneously by the other five participating publishers in the languages native to their territories. Each essay was written originally for this series and has never before been published.

In their professional dreams, chemistry teachers imagine eager and self-sufficient students whose curiosity motivates their scientific explorations. Joan Gallagher-Bolos and Dennis Smithenry have realized this vision in their chemistry classrooms, and in Teaching Inquiry-Based Chemistry , they demonstrate how you can make student-led inquiry happen in yours.

In questo libro, Sonu Shamdasani affronta e analizza l'accusa rivolta a Jung di aver rivisitato in veste moderna gli antichi sistemi filosofici e religiosi e di aver inaugurato - con la fondazione del Club Psicologico - il proprio culto avviando così il processo di autodeificazione. Alla base delle accuse vi è un documento inedito del 1916, falsamente attribuito a Jung e indicato come il suo discorso inaugurale alla fondazione del Club Psicologico, istituzione che avrebbe quindi dovuto dedicarsi alla promozione del suo culto. Sonu Shamdasani, ripercorrendo le finalità e le ambizioni di Jung rispetto al proprio operato e le riformulazioni del suo pensiero a opera dei suoi allievi, dimostra l'infondatezza delle accuse.

Dal 3 all'8 ottobre 1932 l'indologo Wilhelm Hauer tenne al Club psicologico di Zurigo un ciclo di sei conferenze dal titolo Lo yoga, e in particolare il significato dei cakra. Nelle settimane successive Jung dedicò quattro conferenze all'interpretazione psicologica dello yoga Kundalini. Per Jung l'incontro fra la psicologia occidentale e il pensiero orientale è la base della possibilità di fondare una psicologia degna di questo nome. Il volume, che si affianca a Analisi dei sogni uscito nel 2003, si inserisce nell'immenso filone dell'interesse per il pensiero orientale, e in una linea ben precisa di testi junghiani presenti nel nostro catalogo (per citarne solo uno, vedi la recente riedizione del Segreto del fiore d'oro). La proposta al pubblico italiano di questo seminario ha anche il senso di spendere l'autorità di Jung per sottolineare l'incrocio fra teorie e pratiche psicologiche e pensiero orientale, che appare uno dei fatti centrali negli sviluppi odierni della riflessione sull'uomo e sul malessere dell'esistenza: vedi la recente apertura della psicologia e psicoterapia cognitiva al concetto di mindfulness (un particolare tipo di consapevolezza raggiungibile attraverso pratiche di meditazione buddhista), documentata dal volume di Segal Williams e Teasdale di prossima pubblicazione. Completa il volume un glossario (a cura di Giuliano Caposio) dei termini sanscriti presenti nel testo.

After decades of myth making, C.G. Jung remains one of the most misunderstood figures in Western intellectual history. This comprehensive study of the origins of his psychology provides a new perspective on the rise of modern psychology and psychotherapy. It reconstructs the reception of Jung's work in the human sciences, and its impact on the social and intellectual history of the twentieth century. The book creates a basis for any future discussion of Jung by opening new vistas in psychology.

Contains papers presented at a workshop on plant nutrition held at the University of Helsinki, Finland in December 2000. The volume's 43 contributions present worldwide research in the field on a wide array of topics, particularly revolving around efficient fertilizer use. Contributions focus on individual crops or groups of crops grown for food and renewable raw materials, with information presented on crop biology, plant and soil analysis data, nutrient uptake and removable figures, recommendations for fertilizer use, and current fertilizing practices in different tropical, subtropical, and temperate countries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.' So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement is the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including even judges, human rights activists, and doctors, nurses, priests, friends, and spouses of the victims. Indeed, it is its very popularity that makes the Rwandan genocide so unthinkable. This book makes it thinkable.

Rejecting easy explanations of the genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, one of Africa's best-known intellectuals situates the tragedy in its proper context. He coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. He finds answers in the nature of political identities generated during colonialism, in the failures of the nationalist revolution to transcend these identities, and in regional demographic and political currents that reach well beyond Rwanda. In so doing, Mahmood Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa.

There have been few attempts to explain the Rwandan horror, and none has succeeded so well as this one. Mamdani's analysis provides a solid foundation for future studies of the massacre. Even more important, his answers point a way out of crisis: a direction for reforming political identity in central Africa and preventing future tragedies.

Articles on the life and work of a painter from India.

A complete Dzogchen meditation manual from the oldest Tibetan tradition.

Mazumdar draws on his experiences as an author, lecturer, educator, and head of a service-oriented company providing various products to the composite materials industry, in writing this textbook on composites manufacturing. The book takes the reader step-by-step from raw material selection to final part fabrication and recycling. Specific chapter topics include raw materials for part fabrication, material selection guidelines, product development, design for manufacturing, manufacturing techniques, process models, production planning and manufacturing instructions, joining of composite materials, machining and cutting of composites, cost estimation, and recycling of composites. The text is suitable for students, engineers, and researchers working in the composite materials field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)