Written to bridge the gap between biochemistry and endocrinology, this book outlines the interaction of hormones and their role in regulating metabolism both in normal and abnormal metabolic states. This second edition has been expanded and updated. Advances that have been made since the publication of the first edition have been included in existing chapters, and new chapters have been included on neonatal energy and alcohol metabolism and steroid, thyroid and pituitary hormones.

Hormones And Metabolic Control 2E

Science & Math

White, David A.

Baxter, Michael

Biological Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

Handbook of Intelligent Control provides a hands-on approach to integrating new intelligent control techniques with existing control techniques for the nonlinear control of complex multivariate systems.

Handbook of Intelligent Control: Neural, Fuzzy, and Adaptive Approaches (Vnr Computer Library)

Sofge, Donald A.

Computers & Technology

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman

Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. In this book David White interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes of the dialogue with two subsequent dialogues The Philebus and The Laws. The central interpretive focus of the book is the extended myth, sometimes called the 'myth of the reversed cosmos'. As a result of this interpretative approach, White argues that The Statesman can be recognized (a) as both internally coherent and also profound in implication-the myth is crucial in both regards - and (b) as integrally related to the concerns of Plato's later dialogues.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

The Phaedrus is well-known for the splendid mythical panorama Socrates develops in his second speech, and for its graphic descriptions of erotic behavior. This book shows how the details of the myth and the accounts of interaction between lovers are based on a carefully articulated metaphysical structure. It follows the dialogue as narrated, showing how passages that may not appear relevant to metaphysics have been deployed to heighten the vision of reality that Socrates develops in his second speech and concludes with an Epilogue in which the metaphysical principles adumbrated in the dialogue are ordered and briefly developed. This Epilogue helps illustrate the continuity between the Phaedrus and subsequent dialogues, such as the Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, and Philebus, in which methodological and metaphysical concerns are dominant for Plato. As a result, new connections emerge between the metaphysical domain in Plato's thought and the more visible and vibrant areas of the psychology of eros and practical rhetoric.

Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's "Phaedrus" (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State Univ of New York Pr

The Phaedrus is well-known for the splendid mythical panorama Socrates develops in his second speech, and for its graphic descriptions of erotic behavior. This book shows how the details of the myth and the accounts of interaction between lovers are based on a carefully articulated metaphysical structure. It follows the dialogue as narrated, showing how passages that may not appear relevant to metaphysics have been deployed to heighten the vision of reality that Socrates develops in his second speech and concludes with an Epilogue in which the metaphysical principles adumbrated in the dialogue are ordered and briefly developed. This Epilogue helps illustrate the continuity between the Phaedrus and subsequent dialogues, such as the Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, and Philebus, in which methodological and metaphysical concerns are dominant for Plato. As a result, new connections emerge between the metaphysical domain in Plato’s thought and the more visible and vibrant areas of the psychology of eros and practical rhetoric.

Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's Phaedrus (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Heidegger and the Language of Poetry

Literature & Fiction

University Of Nebraska Press

The Grand Continuum: Reflections on Joyce and Metaphysics (Critical Essays in Modern Literature)

University of Pittsburgh Press

The assumptions that literary criticism and philosophy are closely linked--and that both disciplines can learn much from each other--lead David White to examine key passages in James JoyceÆs novels both as a philosopher and as literary critic. In so doing, he develops a thesis that JoyceÆs attempt to capture the mysterious process whereby perception and consciousness are translated into language entails a fundamental challenge to everyday notions of reality. JoyceÆs stylistic brilliance and virtuosity, his destruction of normal syntax and meaning, "shock one into a new reality." In the bookÆs final section, White examines the subtle relation between literary language and human consciousness and traces parallels between JoyceÆs stylistic experimentation and WittgensteinÆs and HusserlÆs ideas about language.

The Grand Continuum: Reflections on Joyce and Metaphysics

British & Irish

Turning Wheel: A Study of Contracts and Oaths in Wagner's Ring

Arts & Photography

Music

Susquehanna Univ Pr

This study intends principally to isolate and describe the function of myth in the Phaedo in order to show its effect on the complex metaphysics developed throughout the dialogue. It further illustrates how these metaphysical concepts structure the dialogue's concluding eschatological myth.

Myth & Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo

Susquehanna University Press

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