Humans are biologically programmed to seek out pleasurable experiences. These experiences are processed in the mesolimbic system, also referred to as the "reward center" of the brain, where a number of chemical messengers work in concert to provide a net release of dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens. In some genetically predisposed individuals, addiction occurs when the mechanisms of the mesolimbic system are disrupted by the use of various drugs of abuse. Since Alcoholics Anonymous was fou...

John Giordano and his brother Joseph were incremental in the story of the Gambino crime family in the 1980s. John was a dapper dresser and a right hand man for Gambino boss John Gotti. In 1989 Joseph Giordano was indicted in the murder of convicted drug dealer Robert Wyler. Wyler's body was discovered in the back of a car parked only blocks from a Staten Island auto shop. John Giordano was charged with multiple violations of the Organized Crime Control Act. A frequenter of the Ravenite Soc...

How neuroethics can be increasingly relevant and informative for inclusive social policy and political discourse about brain science and technologies.Neuroethics, a field just over two decades old, addresses both ethical issues generated in and by brain sciences and the neuroscientific studies of moral and ethical thought and action. These foci are reciprocally interactive and prompt questions of how science and ethics can and should harmonize. In Bioethics and...

Diese Sammlung beinhaltet die bedeutendsten Klassiker der Philosophie – jene bahnbrechenden Werke, die unsere Denkweisen und Weltanschauungen nachhaltig verändert haben. Sie sind fester Bestandteil des Lehrplans renommierter Universitäten weltweit und erweisen sich somit als unverzichtbare Werkzeuge zur Prägung der Denkprozesse und Geistesbildung zukünftiger Generationen: erzeichnis Bhagavadgita (Anonym) Analekten (Konfuzius) Tao Te King (Laotse) Gespräche von Sokrates (Platon und Xenophon...

The reasons for the shooting of Jack Giordano have never been fully explained. However, its thought that he withheld money owed for loan sharking or either pressed a usury associate too hard to pay money extorted from businessmen. Whatever the reason Giordano was grievously wounded. He ended up completely paralyzed from the neck down. My e-book looks at the Gambino extortion ring which flourished in the 1980s on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

E-artnow präsentiert Ihnen diese Anthologie der philosophischen Klassiker. Diese Ausgabe umfasst die größten Werke der Philosophie, von der Weisheit des alten Ostens und des antiken Griechenlands bis hin zu den komplexen philosophischen Theorien des 21. Jahrhunderts. Diese Sammlung enthält: Bhagavadgita Analekten (Konfuzius) Gespräche von Sokrates (Platon und Xenophon) Das Gastmahl (Platon) Der Staat (Platon) Nikomachische Ethik (Aristoteles) Tao Te King (Laotse) Von den Pflichten (Marcus ...

Dieser Sammelband beinhaltet die bedeutendsten Klassiker der Philosophie, Werke, die zu den Pflichtlektüren an den renommiertesten Universitäten weltweit gehören. Diese Bücher der Weisheit sollte jeder Mensch in seiner E-Bibliothek haben: Bhagavadgita Analekten (Konfuzius) Gespräche von Sokrates (Platon und Xenophon) Das Gastmahl (Platon) Der Staat (Platon) Nikomachische Ethik (Aristoteles) Tao Te King (Laotse) Von den Pflichten (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Selbstbetrachtungen (Marcus Aurelius)...

This massive anthology of philosophy contains over 75 works by a dozen of the most known philosophers of all time. An active table of contents makes it easy to quickly to the work you want.Authors and books include:Aeschylus:AgamemnonBound and Seven Against ThebesThe House of AtreusMaidens and Other PlaysAristotle:The Athenian ConstitutionThe CategoriesEthicsThe Poetics of AristotleFrancis Bacon:The Advancement of LearningThe Essays of Francis BaconThe New AtlantisValerius TerminusGeorge Berk...

Contemporary brain research is challenging Western societal norms by questioning basic cornerstones such as individuality, freedom, rationality, solidarity, and the concept of the human being in general. It is giving way to profound changes in Western concepts of culture and civilization. This volume provides a broad overview of the cultural changes incurred by neuroscience and neurotechnology, and explores the evolving fields of neuroeconomics, neuroreligion, neuropolitics, and neuroethic...

All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep - John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged, lying cheat of a husband.Not only is John's sudden reappearance putting a kink in Poldi's dreamy love ...

Uscito per la prima volta nel 2006, Io odio John Updike è stato l'esordio di Giordano Tedoldi. Libro di culto, oscuro, inquietante, popolato di personaggi misteriosi, immerso in atmosfere noir, allucinate e quasi fantascientifiche, ha rivelato un autore unico: per qualcuno l'Italia letteraria aveva trovato il suo Francis Bacon, o il suo David Lynch. In una Roma illuminata solo da luci artificiali, due sconosciuti si sfidano ogni notte a bordo di una Ferrari e una Aston Martin. Uno scapolo ...

Giallo - racconto lungo (33 pagine) - La teoria dell'autrice dell'Odissea di Samuel Butler, qui proposta in forma di conversazione e racconto di viaggio."Ci ammutolimmo tutti e tre per qualche attimo mentre il cameriere si prodigava al riassetto del tavolo, come se servisse celare la singolarità di quell’argomento al giovanotto, tanto solerte nel servizio quanto, posso di certo pronosticare, parimenti assolutamente disinteressato a dispute su Chorizontes e compagni...