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Perspectives on Wellbeing
The study of wellbeing is not new. Over two millennia ago, the Ancient Greeks were already debating different conceptions of the good life, and how it may be fostered, albeit a debate for the privileged in ancient Greek society. More recently, the post-WWII concern with economic scarcity gave way – as prosperity rose in the later 20th century – to values such as personal growth and social inclusion. In parallel, research has increasingly turned its focus to wellbeing, going beyond traditional measures of income, wealth and employment. Greater attention is now paid to the subjective experience of wellbeing which, it is broadly agreed, has many dimensions such as life satisfaction, optimal...
The Peregrine Profession
In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more than every second graduate went abroad. Transnational mobility was stronger from Finland and Norway than from Denmark and Sweden, partly because of slower industrialisation and deficiencies in the domestic technical education. This mobility included all parts of the world but concentrated on the leading industrial countries in German speaking Europe and North America. Significant majorities returned and became agents of technology transfer and technical change. Thereby, these mobile graduates also became important for Nordic industrialisation
The Country You Have Never Seen
In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, "Nor Custom Stale," in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. She was a central figure, along with contemporaries Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, in revolutionizing science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and her 1970 novel, The Female Man, is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential depictions of a feminist utopia in the entire genre. The Country You Have Never Seen gathers Joanna Russ's most important essays and reviews, revealing the vital part she played over the years in the never-ending conversation among writers and fans about the roles, boundaries, and potential of science fiction. Spanning her entire career, the collection shines a light on Russ's role in the development of new wave science fiction and feminist science fiction, while at the same time providing fascinating insight into her own development as a writer.
Why Bother Praying?
Written by the best selling author of Where the Hell Is God?, this accessible volume is for everyone who wonders how to pray, everyone who wonders what happens when you pray, and everyone who wonders if God hears our prayers.
John Martin Borg
Over 170 paintings are depicted and discussed.
Evil Clonation
His professors commented on Arthur being an extremely gifted person or a genius of some sort; but nobody knew what was happening with his genetically transmitted legacy of Adolf Hitler. Arthur started to change little by little; typically saluting like Hitler again to his classmates and teachers. He himself could not explain what he was doing and he even tried to unsuccessfully correct himself. P> When he was out of University, he rented movies of the Second World War and documentaries of Hitler. While seeing videos of the Holocaust and documentaries of the crimes committed in the Nazi Death camps, he commented to his mother, 'Mother, I still cannot understand why there was so much hatred towards the Hebrew race. If I had all the power that this man had I would have conquered the world in a pacific way, just by using the advanced technology that Germany possessed. However, Hitler's personality attracts me so much that I do not know what happens to me and sometimes I even feel and think like him.But I do not share his anti-humanistic views."
Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field
This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at researchers, students, academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists, the volume allows stakeholders to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations’ social wellbeing, providing perspectives and applications from various disciplines such as education, health, public policy and social welfare. Chapters continue to debate social wellbeing within their disciplines, and challenges practitioners’ and researchers’ experience, particularly interactions between individual and social aspects of wellbeing. Contributors provide practical and academic d...
The Rossiter File
Late on a Monday night in August 1947, a constable finds the battered corpse of an impoverished old man lying on the concrete steps of a lane way. Despite reports of two young vandals fleeing the scene, the death of Samuel Rossiter was ruled an accident. But Inspector Eric Stride of the Newfoundland Constabulary is not convinced. To find the answers, he follows a trail of evidence and circumstance that goes back more than three decades. And at the end of that trail, Stride finds himself caught up in a complex story of privilege and tragedy.
Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Its Applications, FPL '95, held in Oxford, UK in August/September 1995. The volume presents 46 full revised papers carefully selected by the program committee from a large number and wide range of submissions. The papers document the progress achieved since the predecessor conference (see LNCS 849). They are organized in sections on architectures, platforms, tools, arithmetic and signal processing, embedded systems and other applications, and reconfigurable design and models.
