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Makers of modern human geography

Reg Golledge was a pioneer of behavioural geography, an approach he championed for his entire career. In nearly 50 years of publications, he developed a consistent and coherent theoretical framework to support his view that the best way to understand the geographical world was to understand how people cognized the world around them and made choices and decisions on the basis of such knowledge. ...

Makers of Modern Strategy : Military

This remarkable collection of essays by twenty authors provided a history of military strategy from Machiavelli to the present age. Published in the middle of World War II, the volume analyzed and described the ideas of the major military thinkers and strategists, ranging from engineers such as Vauban to soldiers such as Frederick the Great; from the statesmen Alexander Hamilton, Lloyd George, ...

Constitutionalist Satirists: the Makers of the Modern Iranian History

At some historical points, all classes and professions of a society, despite all the differences and disagreements, flow into one single stream to reach a higher goal. Iranians have had this historical experience many times throughout history: during the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), and also in the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In the Constitutional Revolution, all classes and professio...

Astrocytes, Makers of New Neurons

Manipulating neurotransmitter release from astrocytes neighboring the developing new neurons in the course of adult hippocampal neurogenesis, Sultan et al. (2015) reveal that glial influence on neurogenesis ranges from controlling basic precursor cell function well into the establishment of functional circuitry. This extends the concept of the "neurogenic niche" and its key role into advanced s...

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