Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction. beyond recognition : the problem of antebellum embodiment -- 1. Douglass's animals : racial science and the problem of human equality -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The anthropocene, the posthuman, and the animal --4. Science, family and the monstrous progeny -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The self-appraisal of man -- The theory of human nature in the American constitution and the method of counterpoise -- The desires of the self-conscious animal -- Approbativeness as the universal, distinctive, and dominant passion of man -- The "love of praise" as the indispensable substitute for "reason and virtue" in Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories of human nature -- Approbativeness and "pride" in political and economic thought -- The indictment of pride -- Some ethical reflections…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Ever since Frankenstein -- Medicine: conquest of the catastrophic -- Medicine: revenge of the chronic -- Environmental disasters: natural and human-made -- Promoting pests -- Acclimatizing pests: animal -- Acclimatizing pests: vegetable -- The computerized office: the revenge of the body -- The computerized office: productivity puzzles -- Sport: the risks of intensification -- Sport: the paradoxes of improvement -- Another look back, and a look ahead…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Animism and magic / E. B. Tylor and J. G. Frazer -- Religion and personality / Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred / Émile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation / Karl Marx -- A source of social action / Max Weber -- The reality of the sacred / Mircea Eliade -- Society's "construct of the heart" / E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basics -- 2. Interactions -- 3. Animation Using Arrays and Parallel Structures -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Education; 4. Sex Aids; 5. Animals; 6. Doctors and Other Scientists; 7. Culture, Religions and Philosophers; 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Digital Image Processing with Python and OpenCV. - Chapter 6. Animations With Python And Pygame -- Chapter 7 -- Homemade Spectrometer -- Chapter 8 -- Object Classification Using Edge Impulse on Raspberry Pi…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basics -- 2. Interactions -- 3. Animation Using Arrays and Parallel Structures -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Famine relief -- Environmental ethics -- Privacy and its limits -- Affirmative action -- Do animals have rights? -- Is genetic engineering good or bad? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ethics as a guide into metaphysics -- Virtue and practice -- Self-implicating knowledge: the practice of intellectual virtue -- Dependent animal rationality: epistemology as anthropology -- Metaphysics and/as practice -- Metaphysics, theology, and the practice of naming God -- The presence of a hidden God: idolatry, metaphysics, and forms of life -- Portraits of the artist: eros, metaphysics, and beauty -- Metaphysics of contingency, divine artistry of hope…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: speculative realism, object oriented ontology and queer theory / Michael O'Rourke -- Science and philosophy : a conversation with Sean Carroll / Fabio Gironi -- After life by Eugene Thacker / Anthony Paul Smith -- Insect media : an archeology of animals and technology by Jussi Parikka / Beatrice Marovich -- Towards speculative realism by Graham Harman / Fintan Neylan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Hawaii Is One of the Best Places in the World to Study Biological Evolution -- Biological Evolution Explains the Characteristics of Hawaii's Plants and Animals -- Science Produces Explanations That Can Be Tested Using Empirical Evidence -- Scientific Research Has Revealed How the Hawaiian Islands Originated -- The Evolution of Life on Earth Set the Stage for Evolution in Hawaii -- Panel 1: Plate Tectonics and the Ages of the Hawaiian Islands -- An Adaptive Radiation Has Led to a Dramatic Diversification of the Drosophilids in Hawaii -- Panel 2: Evolutionary Relationships Among the Picture-Winged Drosophilids -- Many Other Species Have Undergone Adaptive Radiations in Hawaii -- Panel 3: The Evolutionary History of the Silversword Alliance -- Alien Species Pose a Severe Threat to Hawaii's Native Plants and Animals -- Many Critical Problems Cannot Be Addressed Without Understanding Biological Evolution -- Selected Bibliography -- Teaching Exercise: Tracing the Evolutionary Origins of Picture-Winged Drosophila Species -- Teacher's Manual -- Data Tables -- Student Reading -- Student Worksheet -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part III Eco-politics Environment, Image, Ideology 8 Dirty Pictures ; 9 Utopia in the Mud ; 10 Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature ; 11 Buried Land ; Part IV Eco-praxis Film as Environmental Practice ; 12 Strange Seeing ; 13 The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration ; 14 An Inconvenient Truth ; 15 Planet in Focus ; Notes on Contributors ; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- The Fabric of the Human Body (1543) / Andreas Vesalius -- Andreas Vesalius' First Public Anatomy at Bologna, 1540: An Eyewitness Report / Baldasar Heseler -- Journal (1554) / Felix Platter -- An Anatomical Study on the Motion of the Heart and the Blood in Animals (1628) / William Harvey -- The Generation of Animals / Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) -- Malleus Maleficarum (ca. 1486) / Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger -- Remarks on Masturbation (1835) / "W." -- Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for Girls (1874) / Edward Hammond Clarke -- Do Women Require Mental and Bodily Rest during Menstruation? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating custom layouts -- Implementing a custom measure policy -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 5: Managing State of Your Composable Functions -- Technical requirements -- Understanding stateful and stateless composable functions -- Using state in a composable function -- Writing stateless composable functions -- Hoisting state and passing events -- Creating radio button groups -- Surviving configuration changes -- Using ViewModel -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 6: Building a Real-World App -- Technical requirements -- Styling a Compose app -- Defining colors, shapes, and text styles -- Using resource-based themes -- Integrating toolbars and menus -- Using Scaffold() to structure your screen -- Creating a top app bar -- Adding navigation -- Defining screens -- Using NavHostController and NavHost() -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 7: Exploring App Architecture -- Technical requirements -- Persisting and retrieving state -- Injecting objects into a ViewModel -- Using the factory -- Keeping your composables responsive -- Communicating with ViewModel instances -- Handling long-running tasks -- Understanding side effects -- Invoking suspending functions -- Cleaning up with DisposableEffect() -- Summary -- Questions -- Exercise -- Part 3: Advanced Topics -- Chapter 8: Working with Animations -- Technical requirements -- Using animation to visualize state changes -- Animating single value changes -- Animating multiple value changes -- Showing and hiding UI elements with animations -- Understanding AnimatedVisibility() -- Animating size changes -- Spicing up transitions through visual effects -- Crossfading composable functions -- Understanding animation specifications -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 9: Exploring Interoperability APIs -- Technical requirements -- Showing Views in a Compose app -- Adding custom components to a Compose app…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1: Visual Effects: Setup Your VFX Content Workstation -- Chapter 2: The Foundation of Raster for VFX: Pixels, Color and Alpha -- Chapter 3: The Foundation of Motion for VFX: Frames and Codecs -- Chapter 4: The Foundation of Audio for VFX: MIDI, Wave and Sample -- Chapter 5: The Foundation of 2D Vector for VFX: Point, Path and SVG -- Chapter 6: The Foundation of 3D Vector for VFX: Models and OpenGL -- Chapter 7: Professional VFX Software: Blackmagic Design Fusion -- Chapter 8: VFX Pipeline Composition: Using the Flow Node Editor -- Chapter 9: VFX Pipeline Animation: Using the Timeline Editor -- Chapter 10: VFX Pipeline Motion Control: Using the Spline Editor -- Chapter 11: VFX Pipeline Pixel Isolation: Using Animated Polyline Masking -- Chapter 12: VFX Pipeline Automated Masking: Matte Generators -- Chapter 13: VFX Pipeline Pixel Tracking: Using Motion Tracking -- Chapter 14: VFX Pipeline 3D Production: Compositing 3D Assets -- Chapter 15: VFX Pipeline 3D Rendering: Shader, Material and Texture -- Chapter 16: VFX Pipeline 3D Modeling: 3D Text Title Creation -- Chapter 17: VFX Pipeline 3D Animation: 3D Text Titling Modifiers -- Chapter 18: Advanced VFX Pipeline Effects: 3D Particle Systems -- Chapter 19: Advanced VFX Pipeline Physics: 3D Particle Physics -- Chapter 20: Advanced Interactive VFX: i3D Content Publishing -- …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Modifying and Transforming Objects""""Animation""; ""Tools for Developers: Visual Studio 2008""; ""Integration of Visual Studio 2008 projects with Blend""; ""Silverlight Design Model""; ""Shapes""; ""Brushes""; ""Transformations""; ""Text, Image, and Media""; ""Animations""; ""Silverlight 1.1 Development Model""; ""Hosting Silverlight in HTML""; ""The Basics of a Silverlight 1.1 Project""; ""Silverlight Objects""; ""Accessing elements and setting properties""; ""Create new element programmatically""; ""Controlling animations and MediaElements""; ""Layouts""; ""Event Model""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Animal stones and the Dark Age of bezoars / Marida do Sameiro Barroso -- ch. 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Human beings are animals -- Main challenges to establishing the first premise -- Animals are enduring agents -- Sensation is a bodily act -- In human being the agent that performs the act of sensing is identical with the agent that performs the act of understanding -- An argument from the nature of human intelligence -- On privileged access and the modal argument for substance dualism -- Human and personal identity : the psychological continuity view -- Against constitutionalism -- Conjoined twins and organic unity and distinctness -- Human beings are persons -- The difference in kind between human beings and other animals -- Conceptual thought -- Free choice, moral agency -- Survival after death -- The human soul after death -- Resurrection of the body -- Personhood and human dignity -- Hedonism and hedonistic drug-taking -- What hedonism is -- Preliminary arguments against psychological and ethical hedonism -- An argument against hedonism from qualitative differences among pleasures -- Hedonism and dualism -- Pleasures are good only as aspects of real perfections -- Hedonistic drug-taking -- Abortion -- The biological issue : human embryos or fetuses are complete (though immature) human beings -- No person arguments : the dualist version -- No person arguments : the evaluative version -- The argument that abortion is justified as nonintentional killing -- Euthanasia -- Human life and personhood near the end of life -- The human individual remains a person during his or her whole duration -- Why suicide and euthanasia are morally wrong -- Intentional killing vs. causing death as a side effect -- Human life is an intrinsic good -- The definition of death -- The criterion of death -- Human life and dignity -- Sex and the body -- Sex and marriage -- Sex and pleasure -- Sex, love, and affection -- Sodomy -- Fornication -- Objections -- Non-marital sex acts, multiple partners, incest, bestiality…”