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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Psychology Consciousness and ASCs -- Chapter 3. Transpersonal psychology – William James and moving beyond a Materialist paradigm -- Chapter 4. Consciousness and ASCs in the non-West – pioneering studies.-Chapter 5. Transpersonal Anthropology -- Chapter 6. Everyday Streams of Consciousness - introduction to Fieldwork -- Chapter 7. Hinduism in a UK temple and Altered State Experience -- Chapter 8. The Sacred Lifeworld of a Lubavitch group -- Chapter 9. Sport and Altered states: Secular or Spiritual? -- Chapter 10. Tranquil States in a Natural Environment -- Chapter 11. A Musical instrument-making group and their Altered States -- Chapter 12. Television, Altered States and Fantasy Worlds -- Chapter 13. Altered State Experience in Fieldwork – a Summary -- Chapter 14. Fantasy Worlds within Altered States of Consciousness -- Chapter 15. Altered States and a Sacred Reality -- Chapter 16. The Therapeutic Power of Altered States of Consciousness -- Chapter 17. Some reflections and a blessing.

"This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach its full potential, and the ability of society to prevent disease and cure illness, are demonstrated to be shaped by a broader array of political economic processes. The material conditions in which societies produce, distribute, exchange, consume, and reproduce - and the operation of power relations therein - influence all elements of human health: from food consumption and workplace safety, to inequality, healthcare and housing, and even the biophysical conditions in which humans live. The volume explores these concerns across five sections. First, it introduces and critically engages with a variety of established and cutting-edge theoretical perspectives in political economy to conceptualise health and healthcare - from neoclassical and behavioural economics, to Marxist and feminist approaches. The next two sections extend these insights to evaluate the neoliberalisation of health and healthcare over the past forty years, highlighting their individualisation and commodification by the capitalist state and powerful corporations. The fourth section examines the diverse manifestation of these dynamics across a range of geographical contexts. The volume concludes with a section devoted to outlining more progressive health and healthcare arrangements, which transcend the limitations of both neoliberalism and capitalism. This volume will be an indispensable reference work for students and scholars of political economy, health policy and politics, health economics, health geography, the sociology of health, and other health-related disciplines"--

"Highlighting the close relationship between foreign relations law and international law, this impressive book places parliament and domestic courts' engagement with treaties at the heart of its inquiry. It presents a timely assessment of the impact that different rules of constitutional law have on parliamentary and judicial approaches to treaties in four different states (Germany, India, South Africa and the US), thereby incorporating valuable comparative dimensions. With intellectual rigour, Felix Lange demonstrates how diverse conceptions of foreign relations law affect whether parliaments act as promoters, shapers or translators of human rights treaties, the Rome Statute to the International Criminal Court, and climate change treaties. Lange not only analyses the ways in which domestic courts rely on treaties through consistent interpretation and direct application, but also how they may dismiss treaty provisions as non-self-executing or employ the concept of non-justiciability in matters of foreign affairs. Ultimately, Lange embraces the view that parliaments and courts are being increasingly heard and suggests that their voices should become even louder. This book will prove indispensable to academics and students interested in law and politics, public international law and constitutional law. Legal practitioners with a keen interest in these areas will similarly benefit from the connections drawn between international law and constitutional law"--

1-Microplastics degradation: Macro to Nano scale -- 2-The adsorptive profile of MPs with pharmaceutical compounds -- 3-The adsorptive profile of MPs with textile dyes -- 4-Interaction and adsorption of heavy metal pollutants with microplastics: Causes and consequences in aquatic systems -- 5-Marine MPs and their interactions with living systems: Causes and consequences -- 6-Microalgal interactions with MPs: Merits and demerits -- 7-Qualitative characterization of microplastic and nanoplastics interactions with inorganic and organic pollutants using FTIR, FESEM, Raman and TGA techniques -- 8-The quantitative analysis of monomers and additives in polymers using Pyrolysis GC-ToF-MS technique -- 9-Biotechnological methods for the abatement of microplastics from soil and water systems -- 10-A Sustainable Approach to Reduce Environmental Threats of Microplastics and future research needs.

1. Application of Mutagenesis in food production and sustainable development -- 2. Recent Perspectives of Mutation Breeding for Crop Improvement -- 3. Mutagenesis Breeding for Drought-Tolerance and Improvement of Oil and Seed Quality in Oilseed Crops: Case of Rapeseed and Sesame -- 4. Intellectual property over mutant and gene edited plants -- 5. Genome editing based CRISPR system in crop improvement -- 6. Haploids system in mutation breeding -- 7. Use of chemical mutagens in field crop breeding -- 8. Application of somaclonal variations in crop improvements -- 9. Improvement in fruit crop plants through mutation breeding -- 10. Application of In Vitro Mutagenesis in Plant Tissue Culture for Genetic Improvement of Crop Plants -- 11. Use of Gamma Irradiation in Crop Mutation Breeding -- 12. Genetic Improvement of Rural Landraces through Mutation Research -- 13. Development of Rural Landraces through Mutation Breeding Approaches -- 14. Application of Mutagenesis and Genome editing in crop Plants -- 15. Mutagenesis- A Tool for Improving Rice Landraces -- 16. The development of improved landraces in agriculture for rural development.