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Using only a name and date of birth, Anne-Sophie Casper’s
Numerology teaches how to use the art of numerology for
self-understanding. Using an original approach that takes the two
sides of the brain into consideration, Numerology incorporates
methods of both logic and intuition, and then mixes theory and
practice through calculations and tests. What are hereditary,
expression, and spiritual numbers? How can one find their simple
and master numbers and then use them to determine their key
elemental energies? This introductory guide breaks down basic
information and background on numerology, but then shares the tools
necessary to understand different personalities, worlds, and people
in greater detail. Â
Why do professionals keep attending face-to-face industry
gatherings when digitization offers cheap, fast and time-saving
technological solutions for professional interactions? This book
sets out to explain such a phenomenon by analysing the reasons why
professionals go to professional events, the role of events on
individual careers and the way events can be instrumental in
structuring emerging professions and (re)affirming stable, shared
professional identities. Showcasing original research on the role
of events in the structuration of careers and professions, this
book focuses on professional events as a lens to analyse the
transformations of professional worlds. It highlights the
explanatory effect of career stage on event participation and use
and the way events craft sociability to strengthen professions and
careers. Different economic sectors are explored including new
business lines, such as transmedia, Fab Labs and TV show and
globalizing sectors, such as, business representation, fine dining
and international trade exhibitions. Mature economic sectors such
as craft fairs, film festivals and the events sector itself are
also analysed. Providing an empirical and multidisciplinary
approach to professional events and a diversity of case studies,
this book will be an ideal read for sociologists interested in
business, human resources and organization.
A practical guide to synchronicity and being in tune with the
universe. Philosophy and self-help blend seamlessly in Listen to
the Universe to give the reader a well-rounded understanding of the
concept of synchronicity alongside suggestions for how to
incorporate the lessons into everyday life and make listening to
the universe as natural as breathing. Arranged over the course of
24 hours, life coach Anne-Sophie Casper shares what she has learned
by letting go of the illusion of control she felt she had over her
life - an illusion that was ultimately making her miserable.
Instead, she turned her energies to trusting in the power of
"synchronicities" as supplied by the universe. Written in an
engaging tone, the book introduces the concept of synchronicity,
exploring the meaning of the word and its genesis, and providing
examples of what a synchronicity may be. It then goes on to explore
ways that listening to and noticing the messages from the universe
- the synchronicities we experience everyday - can ultimately lead
us to greater contentment and connection. Guiding the reader
through the course of a day, Listen to the Universe unpacks the
moments where our senses are most in tune with the wider world, and
shows the reader how to embrace and encourage this connection - as
well as how to incorporate the lessons this heightened awareness
can teach us. Throughout the book are moments for the reader to
pause and engage with questionnaires and quizzes to help unpack the
lessons and concepts outlined. Rooted firmly in the personal
experience of the universe, it is the ultimate practical toolkit
and guide for personal self-development and how to live a better
life.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
Discover the fascinating world of water! From a tiny drop to an
enormous ocean, one of Earth's most important natural resources
flows over land and underground, forms icebergs, and is even found
in the air. This interactive book provides a comprehensive
overview, exploring where water comes from and how it provides for
all living things, and more! Readers can find out about the water
cycle, dive into the ocean with marine animals, trace how water
gets from a lake to our homes and explore ways in which water
energy is used in our daily lives. * Supersized spreads feature
detailed illustrations that just beg to be pored over again and
again * More than 60 interactive flaps, tabs, pop-ups and more for
hands-on learning * Educational content reviewed by an expert Fans
of The Ultimate Book of Water will also enjoy other books in the
Ultimate Book(TM) series, including Airplanes and Airports,
Animals, Cities, Horses, Planet Earth, Space, Vehicles, and the
Construction Site Book . * Great family and classroom read-aloud
book * Nonfiction books for kids * Educational books for
kindergarten and early elementary school students
As more and more strategic alliances are forged between
competitors, a dedicated word has been coined to described this
strategy: coopetition. Coopetition strategy research began in the
early 1990s and has been steadily increasing; yet, a global
overview of the field has been lacking. This reference volume is
the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of
coopetition research. Organized thematically and written by the
world's most-cited researchers in the field, it views the topic
through the lens of a variety of disciplines including innovation,
strategic management, operations management, and marketing. This
reference book is the definitive resource for researchers looking
to understand the field of coopetition throughout business and
management.
Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of
grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing
metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and
material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a
biological understanding of identity. This development within
metaphysics is in significant tension with the growing tendency
amongst philosophers of biology to regard biological identity as a
deep puzzle in its own right, especially following recent advances
in our understanding of symbiosis, the evolution of multi-cellular
organisms and the inherently dynamical character of living systems.
Moreover, and building on these biological insights, the broadly
substance ontological framework of metaphysical theories of
biological identity appears problematic to a growing number of
philosophers of biology who invoke process ontology instead. This
volume addresses this tension, exploring to what extent it can be
dissolved. For this purpose, the volume presents the first
selection of essays exclusively focused on biological identity and
written by experts in metaphysics, the philosophy of biology and
biology. The resulting cross-disciplinary dialogue paves the way
for a convincing account of biological identity that is both
metaphysically constructive and scientifically informed, and will
be of interest to metaphysicians, philosophers of biology and
theoretical biologists.
Do we always have to share? What is money for? What are there wars?
Curious kids have lots of questiosn about life. What AboutTM The
Universe is a Q&A book that offers easy-to-understand answers
to a wide range of compelling questions that real kids asked. The
informative and thought-provoking content has been thoroughly
reviewed by philosophy experts and paired with quirky cartoons to
encourage children to find out more. This answer book is a welcome
compendium for those who have ever asked "What about . . . ?"
This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained
investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience
relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its
ultimate explanatory target-our brains and hence the organ driving
our behaviors-catapults the investigation of these research tools
into a philosophical spotlight. The chapters in this volume
integrate the currently scattered work on tool development in
neuroscience into the broader philosophy of science community. They
also present an accessible compendium for neuroscientists
interested in the broader theoretical dimensions of their
experimental practices. The chapters are divided into five thematic
sections. Section 1 discusses the development of revolutionary
research tools across neuroscience's history and argues to various
conclusions concerning the relationship between new research tools
and theory progress in neuroscience. Section 2 shows how a focus on
research tools and their development in neuroscience transforms
some traditional epistemological issues and questions about
knowledge production in philosophy of science. Section 3 speaks to
the most general questions about the way we characterize the nature
of the portion of the world that this science addresses. Section 4
discusses hybrid research tools that integrate laboratory and
computational methods in exciting new ways. Finally, Section 5
extends research on tool development to the related science of
genetics. The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment will be of interest
to philosophers and philosophically minded scientists working at
the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience.
Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of
grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing
metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and
material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a
biological understanding of identity. This development within
metaphysics is in significant tension with the growing tendency
amongst philosophers of biology to regard biological identity as a
deep puzzle in its own right, especially following recent advances
in our understanding of symbiosis, the evolution of multi-cellular
organisms and the inherently dynamical character of living systems.
Moreover, and building on these biological insights, the broadly
substance ontological framework of metaphysical theories of
biological identity appears problematic to a growing number of
philosophers of biology who invoke process ontology instead. This
volume addresses this tension, exploring to what extent it can be
dissolved. For this purpose, the volume presents the first
selection of essays exclusively focused on biological identity and
written by experts in metaphysics, the philosophy of biology and
biology. The resulting cross-disciplinary dialogue paves the way
for a convincing account of biological identity that is both
metaphysically constructive and scientifically informed, and will
be of interest to metaphysicians, philosophers of biology and
theoretical biologists.
The internationally successful Ultimate Book series expands its
scope to embrace--very appropriately--the whole world! The Ultimate
Book of Planet Earth offers lots of opportunity for hands-on
interaction using flaps, tabs, pop-ups, and more! Pull a tab to see
how magma erupts from a volcano, turn a page for a giant pop-up of
a mountain range, or rotate a wheel to move the blades of a wind
turbine! This book explores not only the geology of the
Earth--oceans, continents, and the formation of mountains and
volcanoes--but also its geography, atmosphere, and weather. A
valuable reference book for any child!
In diesem Band sind die nachgelassenen Schriften Moritz Schlicks
zur Logik und Philosophie der Mathematik gesammelt, ediert und
kommentiert. Keine der zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Schriften
Schlicks war ausschließlich diesen Themen gewidmet. Man sollte
daraus jedoch nicht den Schluss zu ziehen, diese Themen hatten an
der Peripherie von Schlicks Interesse gelegen. Ãœberlegungen zur
Logik und Mathematik ziehen sich durch Schlicks gesamtes Werk, von
der Habilitation, über sein Opus Magnum, die Allgemeine
Erkenntnislehre, bis zu seinen letzten stark von Ludwig
Wittgenstein geprägten Aufsätzen in den 1930er Jahren. Es ist
vielmehr so, dass Schlick Fragen der Logik und
Mathematikphilosophie stets im Zusammenhang mit anderen Problemen
sah und sie deshalb nie einzeln für sich behandelte. Ausnahmen
machte er vor allem für Lehrveranstaltungen und so wundert es
nicht, dass fast alle Texte dieses Bandes im Umkreis von solchen
entstanden sind.
This volume responds to the current interest in computational and
statistical methods to describe and analyse metre, style, and
poeticity, particularly insofar as they can open up new research
perspectives in literature, linguistics, and literary history. The
contributions are representative of the diversity of approaches,
methods, and goals of a thriving research community. Although most
papers focus on written poetry, including computer-generated
poetry, the volume also features analyses of spoken poetry,
narrative prose, and drama. The contributions employ a variety of
methods and techniques ranging from motif analysis, network
analysis, machine learning, and Natural Language Processing. The
volume pays particular attention to annotation, one of the most
basic practices in computational stylistics. This contribution to
the growing, dynamic field of digital literary studies will be
useful to both students and scholars looking for an overview of
current trends, relevant methods, and possible results, at a
crucial moment in the development of novel approaches, when one
needs to keep in mind the qualitative, hermeneutical benefit made
possible by such quantitative efforts.
Where does the Express bus take you? How many swans are in the lake
at the park? What replaces the shoe repair store? The Ultimate Book
of Cities reveals the answers to these questions and much, much
more in an oversized fact- and action-packed look at life in the
big city! Featuring 59 flaps, pop-ups, pull tabs and movable parts,
this all-you-need-to-know guide provides detailed information about
what makes a city tick: from the different ways of getting around
and what goes on in all the big buildings, to what traffic signs
mean and who are all the people who keep the city in tip-top shape!
It is a must-have volume to add to a young reader's library of The
Ultimate Book series.
This project combines existing knowledge with new in-depth pilot
studies on women engineering career progression linked to
qualitative research work on the experiences of both women and men
working in engineering and technology research, using
cross-comparison as a research strategy and a longitudinal
perspective. The results inform scientific and technological
societies, and other stakeholders towards greater gender awareness
and fairness in recognizing scientific excellence in engineering
and technology.
Neuroscientific research shows that the great majority of purchase
decisions are irrational and driven by subconscious mechanisms in
our brains. This is hugely disruptive to the rational, logical
arguments of traditional communication and marketing practices and
we are just starting to understand how organizations must adapt
their strategies. This book explains the subconscious behavior of
the "neuro-consumer" and shows how major international companies
are using these findings to cast light on their own consumers'
behavior. Written in plain English for business and management
readers with no scientific background, it focuses on: how to adapt
marketing and communication to the subconscious and irrational
behaviors of consumers; the direct influence of the primary senses
(sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) on purchasing decisions and
the perception of communications by customers' brains; implications
for innovation, packaging, price, retail environments and
advertising; the use of "nudges" and artifices to increase
marketing and communication efficiency by making them
neuro-compatible with the brain's subconscious expectations; the
influence of social media and communities on consumers' decisions -
when collective conscience is gradually replacing individual
conscience and recommendation becomes more important than
communication; and the ethical limits and considerations that
organizations must heed when following these principles. Authored
by two globally recognized leaders in business and neuroscience,
this book is an essential companion to marketers and brand
strategists interested in neuroscience and vital reading for any
advanced student or researcher in this area.
Neuromarketing in Action provides an in-depth review of how the
brain functions and the ways in which it unconsciously influences
consumer behaviour. It shows both the scientific frameworks and the
practical applications of this increasingly popular marketing tool.
Referencing many global brands such as Aston Martin, Hermes,
Virgin, Facebook, Ralph Lauren and Fuji, the authors, whose
background covers both neuroscience and marketing, showcase the
latest thinking on brain function and intelligence, and on the
subconscious influences on consumer behaviour. Neuromarketing in
Action then examines the ways in which marketing efficiency can be
improved through the satisfaction of the customer's senses,
emotions, memory and conscience and looks at the impact on current
marketing activities such as selling methods, sensory marketing and
product modification, and on future strategies like value
innovation, sensory brands, increased interaction with social
networks and permission marketing.
Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected
aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental
European hinterland. Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect
of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European
hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that
were not directly involved in the traffic inAfricans but linked in
various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation
economies that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The
volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and
Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the
historical study of the relationship between business and morality.
Contributors from the US, Britain and continental Europe examine
the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and
economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland,
Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as
suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade
and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement
in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments
in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first,
short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading
operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers
in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth
century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience,
or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise.
Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of
slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in
post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects. FELIX BRAHM is
Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. EVE
ROSENHAFT is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of
Liverpool. CONTRIBUTORS: Felix Brahm, Peter Haenger, Catherine
Hall, Daniel P. Hopkins, Craig Koslofsky, Sarah Lentz, Rebekka von
Mallinckrodt, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Alexandra Robinson, Eve
Rosenhaft, Anka Steffen, Klaus Weber, Roberto Zaugg
Rolling, floating, flying, digging, harvesting-vehicles on the go!
Oversized and filled with exquisite details from cars to space
ships, dump trucks to tug boats. Flaps, pop-ups, pull-tabs and
rotating wheels bring nearly one hundred vehicles to life. Features
more than 60 movable parts!
Globalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial
ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these
regions as important contributors to Atlantic trade networks. The
early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and
unfree labourers, of colonial produce and of manufactures from
Europe and Asia, with mercantile networks and rent-seeking capital,
has to date been described almost entirely as the preserve of the
Western sea powers. More recent scholarship has rediscovered the
dense entanglements with Central and Eastern Europe. Globalized
Peripheries goes further by looking beyond slavery and American
plantations. Contributions look at the trading practices and
networks of merchants established in Central and Eastern Europe,
investigate commodity flows between these regions and the Atlantic
world, and explore the production of export commodities, two-way
migration as well as financial ties. The volume uncovers new
economic and financial connections between Prussia, the Habsburg
Empire, Russia, as well as northern and western Germany with the
Atlantic world. Its period coverage connects the end of the early
modern world with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Flaps, pull tabs, and many other movable parts show young children
just what firefighters do all day! From putting out fires to taking
care of the fire trucks and rescuing people, firefighters in the
city are kept very busy. Chock-full of age appropriate information,
this book is an exciting introduction to the world of firefighters.
Creatures of land, sea, and air - including elephants, spiders,
snakes, falcons, and whales - fill the pages of this interactive
book, providing a fascinating overview of how animals grow, see,
hear, move, and more! With detailed information thoroughly
researched and vetted by an industry professional, the book
includes more than 50 flaps, pop-ups, pull-tabs, and rotating
wheels. Pull a tab to spot prey through the eyes of an eagle, turn
the page for a 3-D look inside a wolf's mouth, or rotate a wheel to
see the life cycle of a butterfly. An immersive and satisfying
hands-on learning experience, The Ultimate Book of Animals is an
essential reference and a valuable addition to the Ultimate Books
collection.
This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to
three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation
using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art.
Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each
of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion,
and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the
discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new
experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the
geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south
axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa
and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock
art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue
dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a
number of the chapters are the first published results of new
collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording,
interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide
audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as
anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.
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