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I Roberth Johanssons berättelse är i varje fall orden och tonerna längs livsvägen i förgrunden.
Roberth förknippas ju med såväl humor i helgade hyddor som läsarsångsböcker, hymnologiskt intresse och egna sånger. Ingredienser…
We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more?
Technology has delivered a world that we expect to revolve around us, our needs and preferences, and our unique personalities. Each of us willingly yields…
The latest volume in the Artefacts series, Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology delves into globalization’s various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original…
Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas are not seen as…
Mobile technology has become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of today’s students and faculty. The maturing of this technology has led to our becoming more and more comfortable in a world where digital information flows seamlessly from screen to screen as we move about our daily lives. This evolution presents both…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd Självkänsla, självförtroende och motivation
We are a technological society, no doubt about it. Our devices keep us informed while isolating us from each other and from ourselves, our true selves. There is, however, another technology, an inner technology that brings us back to our true selves and gives us the ability to create lives of joy, abundance and wisdom.…
First published in 1968, the year of international-student confrontation and revolution, this classic challenges readers to choose which of two roads humankind ought to take: the one, leading to a completely mechanised society with the individual a helpless cog in a machine bent on mass destruction; or the second,…
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Since the dawn of the Age of Science, humankind has been engaged in a methodical quest to understand the cosmos. With the development of quantum mechanics, the notion that everything is solid matter, is being replaced with the idea that information or “thought” may be the true source of physical reality.
Such…
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
In 1945, a mysterious Nazi secret weapons project code-named ’The Bell’ left its underground bunker in lower Silesia, along with its project documentation, and the 4-star SS general Hans Kammler. Taken aboard a massive six engine Junkers 390 ultra-long range aircraft, The Bell, Kammler, and all project…
This textbook explains Technology Roadmapping, in both its development and practice, and illustrates the underlying theory of, and empirical evidence for, technologic evolution over time afforded by this strategy. The book contains a rich set of examples and practical exercises from a wide array of domains in applied…
Everybody has some character trait they would like to change, and there are many techniques available to facilitate these changes. Unfortunately, many of them are either impractical or expensive – or both! Most people are somewhat familiar with hypnosis and subliminal technology but are reluctant to use them as…
Kategorier: Elektronik Elektronik och kommunikationsteknik Reglerteknik Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
”Industrial Robotics Technology” serves as an invaluable resource for students pursuing degrees in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, and industrial automation, as well as professionals attending workshops and training programs focused on robotics in manufacturing. This book covers the fundamentals of industrial…
Information Technology Law takes a unique socio-legal approach to examining the interaction between the law and other elements of the information society. Murray discusses relevant issues such as governance, free expression, and crime with enthusiasm, and looks forward to future challenges presented by developing…
· Fully illustrated thoughout with photos and diagrams
· Examines ancient sites in South America and reveals evidence that
they were made by a far older culture than originally thought
· Reveals evidence that the technology used could only have been
’power’ tools
In his new book, packed with…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
People around the world claim to be victims of mind control technology. Medical professionals are quick to marginalise these targeted individuals and diagnose them with mental illness. Unfortunately, most people are oblivious to the historical precedent for the practice of mind control and the patented technology that…
By the middle of the nineteenth century, industrialisation and military-technological innovation were beginning to alter drastically, the character and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the midst of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly be labelled both…
Kategorier: Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
The US government can hack into any computer or smartphone on the planet. What sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory was exposed as truth with the 2013 NSA leaks from Edward Snowden. Since then, the deluge of CIA and NSA hacking programmes filling the sky like rain hasn’t stopped. This is an exposé of the…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Övernaturliga fenomen / det paranormala UFOn och utomjordingar
Nazi technology extended far further than has generally been acknowledged, in fact to almost unfathomable levels. Yet conventional historians have absolutely failed to provide an adequate picture of the technology, and weaponry of the Third Reich. Was it government intervention, peer scepticism or just plain…
Mahogny i sträng stil handlar om möbler utförda vid mitten av 1760-talet för nyckelpersoner i den franska kulturelit där nyklassicismen debuterade. I drastisk kontrast till rokokon förenas stram formgivning med konsthantverk på högsta nivå och tankar om skilda ideal för livet i staden och på landet. Resultatet var så…
’It does everything you’d expect of a masterpiece – and it is one’ Sunday Express’Hums and crackles with delicious unease’ Independent’Captivating’ The Sunday Times
’An absorbing thriller’ Mail on Sunday
NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED FROM THE INSTITUTE.
Luke Ellis,…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Kristaller och färgterapi Parapsykologi och psykiska fenomen
· Explores the use of crystals throughout history, including their role in Atlantis and in alien technology
· Offers step-by-step instructions to successfully use crystals in scrying, meditation and Enochian magic
· Includes never-before-published scientific findings on the author’s crystal skull as well as other…
Analysing and designing Programmed Technological Solutions (PTS) has been introduced as a part of technology education in an effort to bring elements of programming into the curriculum for compulsory school, in order to develop pupils’ understanding of how PTS work and are controlled by programming. However, what an…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Essäer Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year’Enticing’ Sunday Times | ’Engaging’ Financial Times | ’Essential’ Reid Hoffman___As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up – and our companies, workplaces and democracies get left behind. This is the…
The next generation of the astonishing X-Men grow into true super heroes against their deadliest enemies, in this wide-ranging Marvel anthology?.
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
The Swedish and French cultures have had a long and passionate love story in Paris. For 50 years, the 16th-century palace Hôtel de Marle has been an important meeting place for both cultures. In 1971, the Swedish state opened the Swedish Institute in Paris here Sweden s only house of culture abroad.
This book tells…
Delve into electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) as you read and listen to ghosts in Massachusetts. Real voices from 15 real investigations, recorded throughout Massachusetts, from men, women, and even children, communicate like never before. Most are recorded in stunning clarity! Hear a ghostly voice at Cordage Park, in…
The Herman Miller Furniture Company was devoted to manufacturing period reproduction furniture until pioneer industrial designer Gilbert Rohde walked into their Grand Rapids showroom in 1930. A devout modernist, Rohde convinced D.J. De Pree to focus on modern furniture throughout the 1930s, and to produce exclusively…
While less-known than popular destinations such as Cape Cod and the Berkshires, the Valley region of western and central Massachusetts is home to a wealth of natural areas, picturesque countryside, abundant wildlife, and historic sites connected by the watersheds of some of New England’s most scenic rivers. Among the…
The historic North Shore of Massachusetts is known for many things: famous authors, sailing ships, important events, and the paranormal. Travel across the North Shore to discover a treasure trove of the supernatural. Discover a witch who once helped colonists and now roams the cave where she was buried. Learn about…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
This book presents the most comprehensive collection of antique and collectible office technology that has appeared to date. 645 beautiful color photos capture the marvelous mechanical inventions that paved the way for the electronic age of computers. See an incredible array of typewriters, adding machines,…
A must-have book for the lighthouse enthusiast, maritime buff, and anyone who is interested in Massachusetts history, Massachusetts Lighthouses Past and Present describes the more than sixty lighthouse stations that have been found along the coast from Fall River in the south to Salisbury in the north, near the New…
Massachusett’s Harvard Square is one of the busiest and most exciting spots in New England. The heart of it is Harvard University with all its history, tradition, and ivy-covered, red brick walls. \nOver 250 vintage postcards display the growth of Harvard Square — from a sleepy village, where General George Washington…
Here is an indispensable addition to the lighthouse enthusiast’s library, required reading for those interested in New England maritime history, and a delight for anyone who enjoys coastal Massachusetts. More than 800 images, many never before published, include historic plans that describe the details of these aids to…
Worcester, Massachusetts, a birthplace of the American Revolution, is a city of many industrial firsts, including Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, Elias Howe’s sewing machine, Dr. Russell L. Hawes’ machine for folding plain paper into envelopes, and Ester Howland’s mass-produced Valentines. Other…
Cambridge, Massachusetts, is haunted by history, from the eternally fanatic Puritans and Royalists to the clever specters of Harvard and MIT. Explore many ghosts and legends of the area. Thrill to a game of Hide and Seek with a ghost dressed in red velvet. Consider a British prisoner who blows out candles in Christ…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Discover information about the first American naval battle, great escapes in the middle of the night, and many historic tidbits that don’t often appear in textbooks. These and many other curiosities occurred within Massachusetts’s North Shore. Step back in time and learn about hidden histories in the Bay…
Massachusetts, the birthplace of America, is home to some of the most fascinating haunts in the world. Colonial ghosts still watch over their ancient inns in Concord and Charlemont. A railroad tunnel under the Mohawk Trail is doomed by the spirits of those who perished while digging it. The unearthly shrieks of a…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different. Advances in artificial intelligence mean that…
Now more than ever, we find ourselves unable to express our true feelings through technology. Whether it’s a misunderstood text, an oversimplified emoji or a Skype call that leaves us feeling lonely, when most of our communication is carried out through tech, the result is a virtual world that’s lacking our…
Varnish is the leading web acceleration and content delivery software that powers more than ten million websites worldwide and that is trusted by more than 20% of the top 10,000 websites.
Varnish caches HTTP responses and accelerates anything that communicates over HTTP by doing so. The technology is used not only to…
Kategorier: Ingenjörsvetenskap Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi Sociologi och antropologi Teknik Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc. Tvärvetenskap
Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies through concepts that are also used in other areas, from design to organization studies. The book is relevant for students at bachelor and master level as well as for doctoral students and…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: historia, politik och försvar Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Politik och statsskick Politiska ideologier Politiska ledare och politiskt ledarskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialism och vänsterideologier Statsskick och politiska processer
Ingen annan politiker i svensk historia har suttit i regeringen lika länge som Gunnar Sträng trettioett år, varav tjugoett år som finansminister. I dag ses han som en ikonisk ledare inom socialdemokratin. Men vem var Gunnar Sträng? Vad drev honom och hans politiska arbete? I biografin ges en unik inblick i Gunnar…
Nu utkommer en femte reviderad upplaga av denna lagkommentar till både den svenska Lagen om skiljeförfarande och Reglerna för Stockholms Handelskammares Skiljedomsinstitut. Den nya upplagan är uppdaterad till 1 mars 2019 och kommenterar alla de senaste ändringarna i Handelskammarens skiljedomsregler. Boken vänder sig…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser Politik och statsskick Politiska ideologier Politiska ledare och politiskt ledarskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialism och vänsterideologier Statsskick och politiska processer
Tage Erlander var Sveriges statsminister åren 1946-1968, den längsta period någon statsminister innehaft ämbetet i Sverige. Sveriges längste statsminister . Han var 191 cm lång. Tage Erlander var värmlänning, läste som student naturvetenskap i Lund, där han också var kommunalt engagerad. Han kom in i riksdagen 1932,…
Holmström tränar på sin sax två timmar alla veckans dagar – i tvättstugor, garderober, i källare, på vindar och i liknande utrymmen. Folk blir störda och han måste ideligen byta replokal. När han övar på sin saxofon i fläktrummet på tandläkarhögskolan, klagar en professor, som på kvällarna skriver en bok i karieslära,…
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is…
Kategorier: Affärsetik och samhällsansvar Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management
My Gift to You
With the book you are holding in your hand, I am giving you what might be the most important innovation-related intellectual property of our time.
What if you could build a machine that solves everything from hunger to poverty to the world’s environmental problems? Or that takes the United Nations’…