This book presents an inquiry into the sort of creatures we are. If we dont know what we are, we can have no idea how to behave or thrive either as individuals or as a society. This book, in a series of short essays, addresses the most fundamental question facing each of us: We are not here long: how then should we live as individuals and as members of society? Philosophers and lawyers have long asked the question, but their answers are often garbled, and they have not learned a language in which to talk to one another. The Academy, which should lead the debate, is often too riddled with presumption and systemic dysfunction to be either useful or interesting. Foster surveys the academic and legal landscape critically, and suggests how some of the ills can be remedied. Autorid: Charles Foster
What is one of the best ways to predict the future? Winston Churchill believed that the further back you can look, the further forward you are likely to be able to see. This intriguing book looks back two thousand years to the Roman Empire to help us to see into our own future. Pugnare tells the story of a people who focussed on growth and profit as the most important outcomes. They neglected however the stability of the system as a whole and overlooked the bad decision making of those in charge. It tells the story of their success, a prosperity that the world had never seen before. And it tells the story of their failure, the one thousand five hundred year long Great Stagnation that followed the self-induced collapse of their world. Autorid: GEORGE MAHER
The Rice is on the Hob is a collaboration between Tami Aftab and her father. Tony Aftab lives with short term memory loss, that occurred as a result of an accident in operation almost 30 years ago for his brain condition hydrocephalus. Despite his memory loss impacting his day-to-day life, hes never forgotten the dishes of his childhood in Pakistan. Food and cooking are now for Tony a coping mechanism for living with a chronic disability. The father and daughter pair have long dreamed of co-authoring a photobook-meets-cookbook, in which Tamis photographs would sit alongside Tonys recipes. Growing up, Tami found that one of the greatest connections she had to her Pakistani heritage was through food. Landing in Pakistan with Tony in February this year to shoot their latest series was at first disorientating and even overwhelming at times, to be in a space that is so unknown and yet so familiar. But then I taste the food, she says with a smile, and that feels like home to me. Throughout the book there are 16 of Tonys recipes, and a multitude of his handwritten memories. Alongside a foreward by Jyoti Patel, and a 4-page interview between the father and daughter Autorid: Tami Aftab, Tony Aftab
Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide. Seeking to understand the wild diversity and complexity that exists between people and ice, Jackson lived for a year on the south-eastern coast of Iceland, chronicling in The Secret Lives of Glaciers the cultural and societal impacts of glacier change on local communities. Jackson interviewed hundreds of Icelanders living in close proximity to ice, seeking to understand just what was at stake as the islands ice disappeared. Painstakingly detailed, Jackson recounts stories of glaciers told by people throughout the region, stories exploring the often conflicting and controversial plasticity of glaciers, the power glaciers enact in society, the possible sentience of glaciers, and the range of intertwined positive and negative consequences glacier change produces throughout Iceland. The Secret Lives of Glaciers reaches beyond Iceland and touches on changing glaciers everywhere, revealing oft-overlooked interactions between people and ice throughout human history.The Secret Lives of Glaciers delivers a critical message: understanding glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society worldwide experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earths systems. Instead of creating another catalogue of all the ice the world is losing, The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores what we may yet find with glaciers: hope for humanity, and the possibility of saving this worlds glaciers. Our planet has over 400,000 glaciers and ice caps scattered across its surface, some 5.8 million square miles of ice. Fascinatingly, where there are glaciers, there are people, and the two have been interacting for the entirety of human history. But we know so little about that interaction, those human stories of glaciers. The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores glacier diversity in Iceland, highlighting the rich social and cultural context and variability amongst glaciers and people. Investigating glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earths systems. Autorid: M Jackson
This novel is a fairytale, a political allegory, and a philosophical interrogation of the human heart. Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. The earth is now mostly desert, except the last green haven behind the border where the carers of the earth preserve the natural order. Carers manage the earth's last resources and keep the wasters out. But in the vast dry outside, hunger is the pernicious plague, and people feed on sand and locusts. So they walk the dry to cross the border. But once, terrible fires crossed it too and devastated the green haven. Since then, carers have been ever-more vigilant and afraid. One night, a village is bombed for seeking to walk to the border. Only two survive: nine-year old Amedea and a locust buried in her brow. This is the story of the Locust Girl. This is her lovesong -- for those walking to the border for dear life, and those guarding the border for dear life.
Many Postgres books discuss some advanced topics targeted towards the experienced users. Not the new or should we say novice user that may have just stumbled across Postgres while doing some development work or led by internal work projects directing them to seek out the open source. If this is you, this reference book will guide you on the journey and help you understand the overall concepts that will prepare you for the great advanced books on Postgres. The reference guide is divided into key sections to allow each to be used individually when you may need to quickly refresh your knowledge base and fill the gaps to guide you from implementation to deployment providing an understanding of what's possible with PostgreSQL.
Kanna awoke with no memory, but her body knows how to move. How to kill. She buries herself in the violent monotony of the blood-soaked Theatre, until her reputation becomes too great to contain. When the city's Governor arranges a gala with Kanna as the unwitting star of her own execution, she unleashes a force not seen in ages-not since the cataclysm that devastated Lifrasir and caused the death of its gods.Hunted by an empire and haunted by old scars, Kanna finds herself on the run with a guileless Theatre fighter, a rebellious daughter of a politician, a secretive medic, and a trio of traitorous soldiers who once knew her. Though Kanna is torn between who she is and what she is supposed to be, the survival of her misfit team, and of Lifrasir itself, hinges on a secret buried in her misplaced memories. Kanna knows this: To protect those who saved her, she will have to confront the dark inside of her-the feathered thing with teeth that will not be ignored.
Fall into this award-winning seek-and-find book with its richly timeless style and get swept up in a treasure hunt through Grandad's wild house! The children want to go to the park with Grandad, but they can't leave until they find his lost socks…and his shoes…and even his teeth! Will they ever get out of Grandad's busy house? With a trove of wonders to discover on every page, this seek and find book will enchant young and old alike as they search for Grandad's lost objects. Oversized dimensions, a textured paper-over-board die-cut cover, eye-popping color, and elaborately complex spreads on every page make this book a collector's item and a must-have.
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms-essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents-Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
How can therapists help clients reflect more deeply on their own--and other people"s--thoughts and emotions? How can the therapeutic relationship be leveraged effectively to create change? This concise book guides therapists of any orientation to incorporate innovative mentalization-based strategies into assessment and intervention. Complex ideas are clearly explained and illustrated with extensive session transcripts and vignettes. Ways to help clients struggling with dysregulated emotions and behavior are highlighted. Compelling topics include the role of mentalization difficulties in personality disorders, special concerns in working with adolescents, and how clinicians can improve their own mentalizing capacities.
12,000 years ago, the first settled communities in southeastern Türkiye built the world's oldest monumental structures and created extraordinary works of art. The exhibition on the "Berliner Museumsinsel" presents sculptures, everyday objects, and jewellery from this pivotal period, offering insights into how people lived together during a time of profound transformation in human history. Archaeological finds and architectural reconstructions are complemented by contemporary photographic interpretations by Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz, inviting visitors on an immersive journey into life at the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to settled communities.
