This little but bright book talks about really simple but quite specific, and thus not so often mentioned in textbooks, things as levers, wedges, pulleys, axles, fulcrums and so on. If most of the mentioned makes to you no sense at all, try to clear up the situation with this little manual. And maybe you'll make a couple of personal discoveries on the way too!

Un gran libro en pequeño. Con una primera parte que es un necesario resumen del contexto filosófico y una segunda parte que profundiza una técnica útil de escucha. Una técnica que va un paso más allá de la escucha activa por ejemplo, y distingue distintos niveles de escucha y trucos para ejercitarla. Me fue muy útil leerlo.

This collection makes available in English twelve essays by a distinguished French scholar, which contribute to the current scholarly and philosophical renewal of interest in the major Hellenistic schools of philosophy of the Greco-Roman world. The author focuses on specific problems in text or interpretation and then enlarges his conclusions to involve some major historical and philosophical issues. Two of these pieces are published here for the first time. The others, with one exception, have previously appeared only in French.

Książka przedstawia cztery wykłady Richarda Feynmana, w których wyjaśnia on przystępnie, ale bez uproszczeń, podstawy elektrodynamiki kwantowej - teorii, do której rozwoju przyczynił się w latach czterdziestych XX wieku, za co został uhonorowany Nagrodą Nobla w 1965 roku.

Abigail Wyeth was alone. Terribly, horribly alone. Her friends lay dead. Her new life was destroyed; nothing more than a smoldering crater in the Sahara. She herself lay on the desert sands, seriously wounded and bleeding, utterly alone. Alone with her thoughts. The thoughts of a dozen false personas. Six and half centuries of despair, her mind controlled, programmed, used, by others. Thoughts no longer hers. Thoughts that were destroying her mind, racing her toward an inevitable, agonizing death. Yet there still remained in Abigail a burning hope that fueled her. An indomitable will that refused to surrender. An absolute sense of justice that screamed its defiance to the inevitable. And a certainty of faith that reassured Abigail that she was not the sum of her thoughts but rather the totality of her soul, and would not always be alone.

Tomorrow's America is a cold and ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair and enduring winter. In a small New England city, senior government official Dr. Judith Carriol finds the man she has been seeking: a deliverer of hope in a hopeless time who can revive the dreams of a shattered people; a magnetic, compassionate idealist whom Judith can mold, manipulate and carry to undreamed-of heights; a healer who must ultimately face damnation through the destructive power of love.

In this, the final book, Abigail Wyeth has reached the very bottom of her life. There is nowhere to go but up.
And up is where she goes. As things begin to finally, happily come together - her mind as well as her life - there still remains one thing left to do that may yet destroy her: Face an entity that has survived for six centuries and will do anything - has done everything - to remain in existence and dominate Earth.

Against Essentialism presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to current debates in social theory, including society, culture, meaning, truth, and communication. Stephan Fuchs argues that many mysteries about these concepts lose their mysteriousness when dynamic variations are introduced. Fuchs proposes a theory of culture and society that merges two core traditions--American network theory and European (Luhmannian) systems theory. His book distinguishes four major types of social "observers"--encounters, groups, organizations, and networks. Society takes place in these four modes of association. Each generates levels of observation linked with each other into a "culture"--the unity of these observations. Against Essentialism presents a groundbreaking new approach to the construction of society, culture, and personhood. The book invites both social scientists and philosophers to see what happens when essentialism is abandoned.

Das Pfadabhängigkeitstheorem hat sich zu einem wichtigen Erklärungskonzept der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung entwickelt. Jürgen Beyer führt die theoretische Debatte fort, indem er auf die Vielzahl möglicher Mechanismen hinweist, die einerseits institutionelle Kontinuität sichern können, andererseits jedoch auch die Abkehr von alten auf neue Pfade erlauben. Am Beispiel des Institutionenwandels im deutschen Corporate-Governance- System und des ökonomischen Wandels postsozialistischer Länder relativiert Beyer das Theorem.

Die Entwicklung moderner Gesellschaften wird durch das Zusammenwirken von Märkten und marktkorrigierenden Institutionen, von Wirtschaft und Politik bestimmt. Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg, soziale Ordnung, politische Stabilität hängen wesentlich von deren Zusammenspiel ab. Die Steuerung gesellschaftlicher Prozesse setzt daher ein Verstehen der Dynamiken zwischen offenen Märkten und sozialen Institutionen voraus. Im Band werden die Spannungen zwischen demokratischer Selbstbestimmung und wirtschaftlicher Eigendynamik analysiert.

Drawn from a variety of sources ranging from classical literature to early ethnographies to contemporary interpretations, the Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways goddess figures have been viewed through the ages. This unique encyclopedia of over thousands of figures of feminine divinity describes the myths and attributes of goddesses and female spiritual powers from around the world.