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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
In ‘Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct’, an article in Scientific American published in November 2021, veteran Nature editor Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo sapiens is on a rapid one-way ride to extinction. The article provoked media coverage and comment around the world. In The Decline and Fall of the Human…
This collection of materials on international humanitarian law (IHL) and closely related fields tries to bring together some key relevant documents. The book is meant to serve as an aid to the study of international humanitarian law.
Known as international humanitarian law, the law of armed conflict, or jus in bello,…
Kategorier: Ämnesområden inom filosofi Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Ekonomisk teori och filosofi Etik och moralfilosofi Filosofi Filosofi och religion Nationalekonomi
Den skotske tenkeren Adam Smith (1723–1790) er for mange mest kjent som grunnleggeren av faget samfunnsøkonomi. Han blir gjerne koblet til tanken om at mennesker er mest opptatt av seg selv og at denne egeninteressen gjennom markedets usynlige hånd fører til økt velstand for oss alle. Dette er tema som tas opp i denne…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Biografiska samlingar Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Sanna berättelser Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Kindness comes in many forms and affects all of us. As Mark Twain said, ’Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’ And while a kind gesture can often simply make someone feel better about their day, sometimes as the twenty-five true stories collected here show it can save a…
Expanded multicultural coverage including new sociocultural landscape boxes Expanded coverage of key disorders and topics such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Conduct Disorder, ADHD, Pervasive Developmental Disorders like Asperger s Disorder Expanded coverage of prevention and of the promotion of mental health…
Conny Akterhall visar i boken 76 humana skyddstekniker, att konkret och balanserat kunna bemöta fysisk aggressivitet när det uppstår.
Bokens innehåll, baserat på ca 40 år av undervisning,
passar personal inom alla omsorgsverksamheter
inklusive socialtjänst, vård och skola.
Dessutom kan många av teknikerna också vara…
"Kristina Sigunsdotter skriver oefterhärmligt fram en apokalyptisk vision av efter tid och rum, en värld av skal och rester, där ett barn som kunde flyga nu släpar sina söndriga vingar efter sig på vägen hem. I sin tydlighet och kraft bär texten på en sällsam skönhet, som också inger – kanske paradoxalt men…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: byggnader och byggnadsteknik Barn och ungdom: naturvetenskap och teknik Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: familjen Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: familjen Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: rysare och spökhistorier
In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door—only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!
Home is…
Kategorier: Databrott, cyberbrott Datasäkerhet Informationsteknik IT-rätt och kommunikationsrätt Juridik Människa – datorinteraktion Särskilda rättsområden Systemvetenskap
Inom cybersäkerhetsområdet har teknikexperterna länge haft tolkningsföreträde. Denna bok syftar till att vidga perspektivet och se till samspelet människa-teknik-organisation och processer.
Målgruppen är alla som har intresse för säkerhet och säkerhetsledning oavsett roll och verksamhetsfält. Bokens ambition är att…
The narrative of Civil Rights often begins with the prophetic figure of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. City squares became a church, the body politic a congregation, and sermons a jeremiad of social change – or so the story goes. In A Pursued Justice, Kenyatta Gilbert instead traces the roots of…
An internationally respected scholar offers a biblical, historical, and theological assessment of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, focusing on the ecumenical and contextual experiences of the Spirit. This comprehensive review of pneumatology in global perspective examines various theological and denominational…
This volume, originally published in 1990, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it. Through the examination of the continuities and discontinuities between Descartes’ account of the understanding and that of high scholasticism, a…
This record in pictures and words of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress is proffered as a souvenir of the great event held in Dublin in June 2012. Giving a flavour of the proceedings in images, it also seeks to record the popular esteem in which the event was received and held by all those who attended it. …
As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war – the invasion of Korea in the 1590s by…
What does an individual contribute to his or her own salvation? Does God wait on the doorsteps of our hearts, quietly hoping to be let in when we decide to open the door? Or does he call us and pursue us in a way we can’t resist? The debate between the irresistible call of God and a human being’s free will…
Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth’s creatures—our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or our rationality. Inner Animalities turns this assumption on its head. Arguing that much theological anthropology contains…
Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance articulates the religious ideas and vision of Wole Soyinka in his non-fiction writings. It also analyzes Soyinka’s response to religious violence, terror, and the fear of religious imperialism. The book suggests the theoretical notions of radical humanism and generous…
A record of the 2015 Building Bridges Seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, this collection of essays explores the nature of divine and human agency through themes of creation’s goal, humankind’s dignity and task, and notions of sovereignty. Part I sets the context for the book with…
What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Is the thousand-year-old problem, the hard problem of consciousness, solved, in this book, by a newly proposed hypothesis about kinetic energy as the main developer of our conscious brains?
What does this mean when considering human intelligence compared to artificial intelligence AI?
The Man / Machine perspective is…
* Shortlisted for Fiction – 2023 Nero Book Awards *
After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family…
’Gripping… a triumph’SUNDAY TIMES
’Heartbreaking’VOGUE
It’s 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate,…
A vital perspective is missing from the discussions we’re having about Artificial Intelligence: what does it mean for our identity?
Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it’s what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our…
When we accept oppression of some, we feed the oppression of others, and we make space for domination driven by false ideas of inferiority and lesser worth. When we discount the inherent preciousness of animals who think and feel, we erase precious parts of ourselves. When we consider living beings as “livestock,”…
Kategorier: Konst
’Human Figure Drawing’ offers a refreshing perspective on this time timeless topic, with clear and helpful explanations and around 500 illustrations in b&w and colour. This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure and regain our ability to observe a subject. Being able to capture the human…
A witty and winsome new way of looking at the complex relationship between cats and people: through the eyes of one erudite and attentive Italian gatto.
We live on a planet infested with humans. They are a pernicious species, yet undeniably clever and capable-even if the reasons behind their actions are often…
Kategorier: Andra medicinska specialiteter Klinisk psykologi Medicin och omvårdnad Psykoterapi Psykoterapi: rådgivning
A clear and enlightened analysis of the underlying conceptual and practical applications of modern psychotherapy, this book questions many of the assumptions and limitations of psychotherapy as it is practiced today. These include the overwhelming need to identify a ”problem,” the consequent rush to a…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
This textbook explains how fundamental rights are protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, EU law (including the EU Charter) and international treaty instruments. It includes discussions of both civil/political rights (eg the freedom of expression) and social/economic rights (eg the right to health, the…
Kategorier: Alternativa trossystem Ande, kropp och själ Filosofi och religion Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Psykologi Religion och tro Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Samtida icke-kristna och parakristna kulter och sekter Spritualism
Kenneth Lipton Investigates Biblical and geological evidence which suggests that humanity has lapsed into nuclear war and the misuse of technology on this planet before. From pages of the Old Testament to the ancient uranium mines in Utah, Ken puts forth an interesting perspective about the human condition and…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: människokroppen Barn och ungdom: naturvetenskap och teknik Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Bilderböcker, pysselböcker och pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år Faktaböcker barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: kropp och hälsa Pysselböcker, målarböcker och leksaksböcker Pysselböcker: leta och hitta
Grab your3× magnifying glass and go on a gross-out journey through the ins and outs of anatomy with Up Close and Incredible: Human Body.
In this scientific search-and-find adventure, you’ll join a team of tiny scientists, nurses and doctors as they explore a diverse range of bodies inside and out, from the tips of…
A completely new translation of Osamu Dazai’s great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter.
”A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan’s ultimate bad boy novelist” -Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times
No Longer Human is the story of Yozo Oba, who, from early childhood,…
Kategorier: Forskning och informationshantering Genusvetenskap Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
This book is one of the outcomes of the Horizon 2020 EU project Gender for Excellence in Research (GenderEx). This project has promoted the awareness of gender amongst researchers and the application of gender theory across a range of disciplines. The present book consists of the proceedings from the Second…
Martin Weber has shown many people how to activate their own self-healing powers. Now he shares his knowledge in this book, written for people who are interested in real healing, not just in fighting symptoms. He shows that drugs can never truly heal and that the body must be re-tuned just like a musical instrument…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: familjen
Human Body Colouring Book provides an accurate guide to the main elements of human anatomy and physiology. The book includes more than 200 scientifically accurate colour artworks and line drawings for students to learn about the body by following the tinted key when colouring in.
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Spådomskonst
Human design är en spännande och aktuell metod för självkännedom och inre utveckling. Grunden i fyra mycket gamla och etablerade traditioner – Tree of Life/Kabbala, I Ching, Chakrasystemet och Astrologi – gör human design till ett väldigt träffsäkert och konkret verktyg för att beskriva unika energityper…