With retailers fighting for customers in the sluggish economic recovery, the generic white, hairless, skinny mannequin is being pushed aside by provocative alternatives that entice shoppers with muscles, unusual poses, famous faces and lifelike bodies.
The result of this mixture is a unique form of cynicism and nihilism which plays with philosophical and other categories, debunks standard philosophical theorizing and offers provocative alternatives.
It's impossible to prove a negative, and, like Donnelly's "Atlantis" (which went through 50-odd editions and is still in print), "The Farfarers" is worth reading, if for no other reason than to experience a provocative, alternative version of history, written by a master storyteller.
A provocative alternative for their successful and long asexual evolutionary history is that these organisms may have cryptic sex, allowing them to recombine alleles and compensate for deleterious mutations.
In addition to six research articles, two short essays offer provocative and alternative views on individual aspects of benefits and challenges that characterize resilience and vulnerability research and application.
The Birmingham Evening Mail reviewed the show, writing, "Criss Angel is currently making a name for himself as a more provocative, darker alternative to [other illusionists].
The guinea fowl (GF) is a provocative poultry alternative due to its superior nutritional value and economic potential [ 1].
To describe provocative testing and alternative imaging strategies used to localize an androgen-producing tumor in a 58-year-old woman with severe hirsutism.
As a director she's been honing her craft with shorts like Skateboard, Skateboard, a coming-of-age story told virtually without dialogue, and now she's made her feature debut as an actress in Love Is Strange, Ira Sachs' lyrically beautiful meditation on relationships wrapped in the provocative package of alternative lifestyles.
The provocation proved provocative.
While just war theory occupies an especially large and influential space within the discourse, its realist and pacifist alternatives endure as provocative challenges to the philosophical mainstream which it represents.
