Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Biology --- Human evolution --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Metaphor --- Philosophy --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Vitalism --- Philosophy.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on humans' perception of their place in nature, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological ladder to embodying just one tiny twig on the tree of life. He begins with the ancient but still misguided use of ladders to show biological order, moving then to the use of trees to represent seasonal life cycles and genealogies by the Romans. The early Christian Church then appropriated trees to represent biblical genealogies. The late eighteenth century saw the tree reclaimed to visualize relationships in the natural world, sometimes with a creationist view, but in other instances suggesting evolution. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) exorcised the exclusively creationist view of the "tree of life," and his ideas sparked an explosion of trees, mostly by younger acolytes in Europe. Although Darwin's influence waned in the early twentieth century, by midcentury his ideas held sway once again in time for another and even greater explosion of tree building, generated by the development of new theories on how to assemble trees, the birth of powerful computing, and the emergence of molecular technology. Throughout Archibald's far-reaching study, and with the use of many figures, the evolution of "tree of life" iconography becomes entwined with our changing perception of the world and ourselves.

Biology --- Human evolution --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Vitalism --- Philosophy.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Illegalized immigration is a highly iconic topic. The public perception of the current regime for mobility is profoundly shaped by visual and verbal images. As the issue of illegalized immigration is gaining increasing political momentum, the authors feel it is a well-warranted undertaking to analyze the role of images in the creation of illegalization. Their aim is to trace the visual processes that produce these very categories. The authors aim to map out an iconography of illegalized immigration in relation to political, ethical, and aesthetic discourses. They discuss the need to project new images as well as the dangers of giving persons without legal papers an individual face. Illegalization is produced by law, but naturalized through the everyday use of images. The production of law, on the other hand, is also driven by both mental and materialized images. A critical iconology may help us to see these mechanisms. Reviewed in: ProgrammZeitung, 1 (2011) Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (zfm), 5 (2011), Nanna Heidenreich Telebasel, Telebar, 10.01.2011, Mirjam Jauslin Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-2 (2012), Saffia Elisa Shaukat Baslerstab, 09.12.2010, Aline Wanner

Emigration and immigration --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Noncitizens --- Illegal immigration --- Social aspects

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Imagination is a complex and ambiguous culture-making power that is a rather marginal concept in contemporary political theory. This book addresses how imagination can be both a source of freedom and domination in liberal-democratic politics, and argues for a benign public employment of images and narratives in a global world of diverse cultures.

Imagination --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Liberty. --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Visualization --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Political aspects.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of ""meaning"" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population. Clinicians are focusing on the development of non-pharmacologic interventions that can address issues such as hopelessness, loss of meaning, and spiritual well-being in patients with advanced cancer at the end of life. This effort led to an exploration and analysis of the work of V

Mental healing. --- Cancer. --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Absent treatment --- Health thoughts --- Mind-cure --- Psychic healing --- Alternative medicine --- Healing --- Parapsychology --- Mind and body --- Therapeutics, Suggestive