Cunning of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and mak...
Time
"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearn...
Insatiable Curiosity
Insatiable Curiosity
Sex, Love, and Gender
Sex, Love, and Gender is the first volume to present a comprehensive philosophical theory that brings together all of Kant's practical philosophy - found across his works on ethics, justice, anthropology, history, and religion - and provide a crit...
Icelandic-English/English-Icelandic Practical Dictionary
The most up-to-date two-way Icelandic dictionary available, from the author of popular textbook Beginner's Icelandic! Icelandic is a North-Germanic language related to Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. The language can be traced back to Old Norse bro...
Jungfru Skär
Ett liv kantat av fattigdom och alkoholmissbruk. Hon är tio år när vi först möter henne. Vi får följa hennes arbete som lillpiga i en Stockholmsfamilj. I bakgrunden återfinns Kristina, hennes mor. Det är en berättelse om två kvinnoöden under tidigt 1900-tal och kampen för ett värdigt liv i ett grymt fattig-Sverige. Helga Bergvall (f. 1907) debuterade vid 68 års ålder. Hennes böcker skildrar fattigdom, våld inom familjen och missbruk. Trilogin Jungfru Skär, Jungfru vart tog du vägen? och Livslögnen utgiven på 1970-talet bidrog till att bryta tystnaden om kvinnors historia. Hon emottog ett flertal utmärkelser, däribland från Samfundet De Nio. -
Livslögnen
Livslögnen handlar om Kristina och skildrar tiden innan hon blev mamman i den uppmärksammade debutboken Jungfru Skär. Vi får följa henne som ung piga och sedermera Viktor Julius hustru. Äktenskapet som skulle bli hennes räddning men som kom att bli en desperat kamp för överlevnad. Mitt tumultet finns ett barn, Kerstin, vars mod ställs på prov redan i tidig ålder. Kan ett barns okuvliga livsglädje motstå fattigdomens plågor? Helga Bergvall (f. 1907) debuterade vid 68 års ålder. Hennes böcker skildrar fattigdom, våld inom familjen och missbruk. Trilogin Jungfru Skär, Jungfru vart tog du vägen? och Livslögnen utgiven på 1970-talet bidrog till att bryta tystnaden om kvinnors historia. Hon emottog ett flertal utmärkelser, däribland från Samfundet De Nio. -
Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being
Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to t...
Economist Guide to Decision-Making
We make decisions, and these decisions make us and our organisations. And in theory, decision-making should be easy: a problem is identified, the decision-makers generate solutions, and choose the optimal one - and powerful mathematical tools are ...
Kom älva kom skälva kom häxa
Helga Henschen, 1917¿2002, bildkonstnär, skulptör och författare, tog som sitt uppdrag att med sin konst motarbeta kärlekslöshet, översitteri, fyrkantighet inom politik, våld och förtryck av olika slag. Hon ville se på världen med barnets oförstör...
Gefangen in Mauthausen
Gefangen in Mauthausen handelt vom Alltag und Tod der Haftlinge, auch von ihren Versuchen, geringe Uberlebenschancen zu nutzen. 21 Beitrage einer 'neuen KZ-Geschichte' zeigen, wie vielfaltig die 'Haftlingsgesellschaft' wirklich war, wenn man darauf den 'mikroskopischen' Blick der Oral History wirft.'Gefangen in Mauthausen' ist Band 3 eines 'europaischen Grossprojekts zur Geschichte der Uberlebenden' (Carlo Moos in der NZZ). Uber das KZ-Mauthausen gab es bislang noch keine Gesamtdarstellung. In 21 Beitragen legen nun ausgewiesene Geschichts-, Sozial- und KulturwissenschafterInnen eine 'neue KZ-Geschichte' vor, basierend auf uber 800 Erinnerungsinterviews mit den letzten Uberlebenden. Sie zeigen, wie es der SS gelang, die 'interne Ordnung' des KZs und dessen Funktionieren als rustungswirtschaftliche Produktionsstatte, Internierungs- und Mordeinrichtung aufrecht zu halten. Grundprinzip war es, die Inhaftierten einer rigiden nationalen, politischen und sozialrassistischen Kategorisierung
Twice in a Lifetime
'I simply couldn't put this down. I laughed out loud several times before I'd even finished the first chapter.' Jules Wake, author of The Spark and The Saturday Morning Park Run Amelia might have met The One. But is she twenty years too late? Afte...
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatia...
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Underlying the current dynamics of technological developments, their divergence or convergence and the abundance of options, promises and risks they contain, is the quest for innovation, the contributors to this volume argue. The seemingly insatia...
In AI We Trust
One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our
Orderly Mess
This book was triggered by the recent geopolitical shifts and the turn towards an allegedly post-factual era. An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. ...
Cunning of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and mak...
A New Life in Amsterdam
Could down-sizing her life mean up-sizing her dreams? Since her daughter grew up and left home, Sandy has found herself filling her house with things - impulse purchases that she just has to have but that quickly lose their sheen. Why would she need an expensive set of copper pans when she has no one to cook for? Realising that her shopping habit is out of control, she asks herself: can she de-clutter, downsize and start a new life? She has always wanted to live on a barge, and she reasons that there is no way she would have room for random purchases on a boat. Taking the bravest decision of her life, Sandy buys and refurbishes a barge in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. Relishing her independence, she is not looking for love, but as the nights draw in and the leaves start to fall from the trees, she finds herself drawn to cafe owner and expert hot chocolate maker Abe. Is she willing to take a second chance on finding the one? A funny, relatable later-in-life romance that fans of
Dementia Activist
Dementia Activist
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För snabbare leverans (2 dagar) se den till innehållet identiska upplagan ISBN 9789197677011 Recensionsutdrag:"kunnigt och inspirerande/.../Resonemang, förklaringar och exempel varvas löpande med förslag på övningar och tips på tekniker som k...
A Companion to Bioethics
A Companion to Bioethics
Ylandet & Människan ; Howling & Humans
För en tid sedan fann jag en bok med titeln The Seasons, skriven på 1700-talet av James Thomson. Texterna i den här boken kom till genom att jag översatte, tog bort, la till, kombinerade om ord och skrev nytt, inspirerad av dikterna jag funnit. Ett pampigt, märkligt språk, fullt av komiska missförstånd, uppstod. Jag började fotografera inspirerad av dessa texter och letade efter kopplingar mellan orden och saker jag såg i min tid, i mitt liv. Jag kryssade mellan kungars och gudars fall, rytande
Toxic
Shamed schoolteacher, Mathilde, moves to a dairy farm in the Norwegian countryside for an ‘easier life’, but she’s soon up to her old tricks … upending and unsettling the lives of two reclusive farmers. Exquisitely written, razor-sharp and simmering with an unexpected tension, Toxic marks the return of one of Norway’s finest writers… 'Flatland has the gift that I most often covet in the work of other writers: the ability to make everyday events compelling … how the quietest existence can brim with urgency and drama' Ann Morgan ‘Helga Flatland writes with elegance and subtle humour' Daily Express ‘The author has been dubbed the Norwegian Anne Tyler and for good reason’ Good Housekeeping –––––––––––––– When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with eighteen-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life. Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts of a dairy farm run by Andres and Johs, whose
Att mötas - Att minnas : en liten bok om vänskap
Min väninna Sigrid i Tyskland, som jag redanträffade när vi båda var sex år gamla, ringde alldelesupprymd från Spanien. Hon hade läst en bokom vänskapen mellan en välkänd, tysk, kvinnligchefredaktör och hennes väninna.Med de raderna inledsboken At...
Ta steget: en tanke- och erfarenhetsbok i livs- och karriärplanering. Hur fungerar det, när och varför
"Vilken väg ska jag gå - frågar Alice det beror på vart du ska, svarar katten. det vet jag inte, svarar Alice. då spelar det ingen roll vilken väg du tar, säger Katten" L. Caroll, Alice i Underlandet. Det berömda citatet ur sagornas värl...
Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being
Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to t...
My Heart is in Venice
Venice was where it all began Libby and Will spent a glorious honeymoon in this magical city. They didn't have much money, but they had a whole lot of love and a bright future ahead of them. And Venice was where it all went wrong Two kids and twen...
Escalation in Decision-Making
Getting organizations going is one thing. Stopping them is another. This book examines how and why organizations become trapped in disastrous decisions. The focal point is Project Taurus, an IT venture commissioned by the London Stock Exchange and...