The concept of a prodrome, or the very earliest signs of the onset of a mental disorder, is well known in clinical psychiatry, and refers to disturbances of ordinary behaviour that may precede the behaviour and experiences that constitute recognised psychiatric symptoms and signs. In the literature, however, prodromes are described simply by means of lists of behaviours, such as avoidance of me...

In this chapter, I compare organizational rituals of risk and error in two U.S. government agencies: The Federal Aviation Administration's National Air Traffic System (NATS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). I take the position that all organizations, even those categorized as High Reliability Organizations, are subject to routine nonconformity: they regularly produc...

Thorough and perfect study of the history material spiritual culture Uzbek people has become one most urgent problems our time. Because attitude to history, life changed, national values have been revived, many customs ceremonies, which developed over centuries preserved their traditional forms manifestations, own place in again found a place. Therefore, information collected as result ethnogra...

The first of these two lines of evidence stems from archaeological and comparative data indicating that (a) late Middle and Upper Palaeolithic modern humans had more extended social networks (which included inter-group trade alliances) compared to Neanderthals, and (b) creating and maintaining this unprecedented level of social sophistication would have required an expanded repertoire of social...