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Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build
motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no
longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to
an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects –
houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers and so on – now exceeds
the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to
decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of
man-made objects is growing faster than ever. We’re on a
treadmill to disaster. To get off this treadmill, argues Harald
Welzer, we need to learn how to stop: as individuals and as
societies, we need to stop doing what we’re doing and say
‘enough’. We find it hard to do this because our culture has
trained us to regard endless escalation as desirable, and we’re
reluctant to surrender the material benefits of growth. But as long
as the expansive cultural model continues to prevail, there will be
no change of course in favour of sustainable and climate-friendly
practices and lifestyles. We need a cultural model in which the
beauty of stopping is given the recognition needed for the project
of civilization to continue. Optimizing processes that are heading
in the wrong direction only makes matters worse. Stopping is
imperative: it is a human cultural technique that we must re-learn.
Only then can we achieve a new beginning.
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ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection - 35th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2020, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21-23, 2020, Proceedings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Marko Hoelbl, Kai Rannenberg, Tatjana Welzer
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th IFIP TC
11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy
Protection, SEC 2020, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in September 2020.
The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The
29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from
149 submissions. The papers present novel research on theoretical
and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT
systems. They are organized in topical sections on channel attacks;
connection security; human aspects of security and privacy;
detecting malware and software weaknesses; system security; network
security and privacy; access control and authentication; crypto
currencies; privacy and security management; and machine learning
and security.
Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our
personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an
individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how
the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and
an autobiographical memory are all intertwined, highlighting the
parallel development of the brain, memory and personality.
Focusing strongly on developmental aspects of memory and
integrating evolutionary and anthropological perspectives, areas of
discussion include:
- why non-human animals lack autobiographical memory
- development of the speech areas in the brain
- prenatal and transnatal development of memory
- autobiographical memory in young children.
This book offers a unique approach through combining both
neuroscientfic and social scientific viewpoints, and as such will
be of great interest to all those wanting to broaden their
knowledge of the development and acquisition of memory and the
conscious self.
Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli master luthier (violin maker), began a
project more than years ago that may be one of the most creative,
effective, and magnificent approaches to education on the topic of
the Holocaust. Trained by three of the most revered Cremona,
Italian luthiers of the twentieth century, Weinstein's vision was
to restore violins that survived the concentration camps and the
ghettos, even when their owners often did not. To date, more than
seventy violins have been restored to their highest playable
condition. Following restoration, these hauntingly beautiful
instruments have been used in performances by symphonies in Berlin,
Cleveland, Istanbul, London, Quebec, Paris, San Francisco, and many
other cities across the world. Purposefully, Weinstein makes
certain that young musicians as well as members of some of the
world's most famed orchestras perform on them to packed concert
halls. In doing so, it's as if the past owners of the instruments
return to fill the listener-observer's mind and body. In Violins
and Hope, Daniel Levin has made the most compelling and beautiful
series of photographs documenting Weinstein's collection of
violins, his workshop in Tel Aviv, and his processes for
restoration. This book is not a document of place, as much as it is
a document of the ethereal. For what Weinstein has done with these
lost violins has been to transform tragic loss into triumph in the
most inciteful and powerful way imaginable. The care that Levin has
taken to hone in on the idiosyncrasies of Amnon's workshop, and his
uncanny ability to celebrate the beauty of light, is nothing short
of remarkable. The book's foreword is written by arguably the most
well-suited individual anywhere. Born in Austria, Franz
Welser-Moest is one of the most acclaimed conductors of the
twenty-first century. He has been Music Director of the Cleveland
Orchestra since 2002, and, under his direction, The Cleveland, as
it has been fondly named by The New York Times, has had twenty
international tours, with shimmering reviews. All too aware of his
ancestry, Welser-Moest takes on our mutual history as no one else
could. And the book concludes with Levin's interview with Assi
Weinstein, Amnon's wife, who talks about the Violins of Hope
project and its enduring legacy.
Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our
personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an
individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how
the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and
an autobiographical memory are all intertwined, highlighting the
parallel development of the brain, memory and personality. Focusing
strongly on developmental aspects of memory and integrating
evolutionary and anthropological perspectives, areas of discussion
include: why non-human animals lack autobiographical memory
development of the speech areas in the brain prenatal and
transnatal development of memory autobiographical memory in young
children. This book offers a unique approach through combining both
neuroscientfic and social scientific viewpoints, and as such will
be of great interest to all those wanting to broaden their
knowledge of the development and acquisition of memory and the
conscious self.
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ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection - 35th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2020, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21-23, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Marko Hoelbl, Kai Rannenberg, Tatjana Welzer
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R3,373
Discovery Miles 33 730
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th IFIP TC
11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy
Protection, SEC 2020, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in September 2020.
The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The
29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from
149 submissions. The papers present novel research on theoretical
and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT
systems. They are organized in topical sections on channel attacks;
connection security; human aspects of security and privacy;
detecting malware and software weaknesses; system security; network
security and privacy; access control and authentication; crypto
currencies; privacy and security management; and machine learning
and security.
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Learning Technology for Education in Cloud - 4th International Workshop, LTEC 2015, Maribor, Slovenia, August 24-28, 2015, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Lorna Uden, Dario Liberona, Tatjana Welzer
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R1,504
Discovery Miles 15 040
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth
International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in
Cloud, LTEC 2015, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in August 2015. The 24
revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 46 submissions. The papers cover various aspects of
technologies for learning, such as MOOC challenges; cooperative
learning; learning engineering; learning tools and environments;
STEM.
The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly
recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which
approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain,
another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the Mediterranean
theatre of the war (North Africa, Malta, Italy) and the remainder
comes from the bugging of prisoners of war in the USA. These
transcriptions are thus unmediated, uncensored, and
unselfconsciously candid and that is what gives this book its
historical significance and extraordinary impact. What emerges from
these transcriptions and within these pages is a shocking and
profoundly illuminating portrait of the typical German soldier of
the time: their thoughts, their feelings and their ideologies.
SOLDATEN is a book that explodes many of the myths that we hold on
to about Germany and its people during the War.
Media law as a means of organization in the real world and the
virtual world continues to gain in economic and cultural
importance. The global market and the networking of information and
communication processes require an improved legal framework for
media law in the 21st century. It is not merely production
conditions that have been impacted by the digital revolution, but
the manner of marketing media products and the use of such are
increasingly being conducted in the Internet. In addition to the
classical fields of media law, such as press, broadcasting and
film, these five volumes also take into account issues pertaining
to sports, theater and electronic media. The presentation includes
media law-related aspects of the law of competition, telemedia law
and copyright law as well as the laws regarding broadcasting,
press, personality rights, telecommunications, data protection,
samples/design, and domain rights; licensing contract law, the law
of publication, media criminal law, photography law as well as
media cartel law are also discussed. This complete presentation of
media law particularly addresses the European legal framework.
Attorneys, legal scholars and media experts comprehensively and
systematically address the processes in society relevant to media
law in their contributions to the five volumes of this handbook.
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems - Third East European Conference, ADBIS'99, Maribor, Slovenia, September 13-16, 1999, Proceedings (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
Johann Eder, Ivan Rozman, Tatjana Welzer
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R1,664
Discovery Miles 16 640
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The 3rd Eastern European Conference on Advances in Databases and
Information Systems (ADBIS 99) took place on 13-16- September 1999,
in Maribor, Slovenia. It was organized in cooperation with ACM
SIGMOD, the Moscow chapter of ACM SIGMOD, Slovenian Society
Informatika, and the Slovenian Ministry of Technology. The aim of
the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the
exchange of scientific achievements and experiences using
innovative methods and approaches between the research communities
of Central and Eastern Europe and the rest of the world in the area
of databases and information systems. The 1999 conference continues
the series of ADBIS events held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and
Poznan. The ADBIS steering committee has the ambition to make the
ADBIS conference the premiere database and information systems
conference in Central and Eastern Europe, to increase interaction
and collaboration between researchers from East and West, and to
provide an internationally recognized forum for the presentation of
research and experiences in all aspects of modern database
technology and information systems. To achieve these goals an
international program committee selected 26 full research papers in
a rigorous reviewing process from a total of 94 submissions from 33
different countries. This high number of submissions from so many
different areas shows the truly worldwide recognition of and
interest in the ADBIS series."
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New Trends in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS 2019 Short Papers, Workshops BBIGAP, QAUCA, SemBDM, SIMPDA, M2P, MADEISD, and Doctoral Consortium, Bled, Slovenia, September 8-11, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Tatjana Welzer, Johann Eder, Vili Podgorelec, Robert Wrembel, Mirjana Ivanovic, …
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R1,593
Discovery Miles 15 930
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers,
workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 23rd European
Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS
2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2019. The 19 short
research papers and the 5 doctoral consortium papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 103 submissions, and the 31 workshop
papers were selected out of 67 submitted papers. The papers are
organized in the following sections: Short Papers; Workshops
Papers; Doctoral Consortium Papers; and cover a wide spectrum of
topics related to database and information systems technologies for
advanced applications.
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems - 23rd European Conference, ADBIS 2019, Bled, Slovenia, September 8-11, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Tatjana Welzer, Johann Eder, Vili Podgorelec, Aida Kamisalic Latific
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R2,090
Discovery Miles 20 900
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd European
Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS
2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2019. The 27 full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103
submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics from different
areas of research in database and information systems technologies
and their advanced applications from theoretical foundations to
optimizing index structures. They focus on data mining and machine
learning, data warehouses and big data technologies, semantic data
processing, and data modeling. They are organized in the following
topical sections: data mining; machine learning; document and text
databases; big data; novel applications; ontologies and knowledge
management; process mining and stream processing; data quality;
optimization; theoretical foundation and new requirements; and data
warehouses.
Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence,
ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries,
endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces
shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on
ideological rivalries between great powers but rather on issues of
class, religion and resources. The genocides of the last century
have taught us how quickly social problems can spill over into
radical and deadly solutions. Rich countries are already developing
strategies to garner resources and keep 'climate refugees' at bay.
In this major book Harald Welzer shows how climate change and
violence go hand in hand. Climate change has far-reaching
consequences for the living conditions of peoples around the world:
inhabitable spaces shrink, scarce resources become scarcer,
injustices grow deeper, not only between North and South but also
between generations, storing up material for new social tensions
and giving rise to violent conflicts, civil wars and massive
refugee flows. Climate change poses major new challenges in terms
of security, responsibility and justice, but as Welzer makes
disturbingly clear, very little is being done to confront them. The
paperback edition includes a new Preface that brings the book up to
date and addresses the most recent developments and trends.
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst leads the Cleveland Orchestra in a
performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, recorded at the
Stiftsbasilika, St. Florian, Austria in 2012.
Conductor Franz Welser-Most leads the Cleveland Orchestra in a
performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E Major at the
Severance Hall, Cleveland in 2008.
Die Autorin analysiert auf der Basis interaktionsgeschichtlicher
Erzahlungen, woran sich professionelle Fachfrauen in der
padagogischen Praxis der Madchenarbeit orientieren und verdichtet
dieses rekonstruierte Erfahrungswissen zu vier Typen von
Orientierungsfiguren. Diese verweisen auf die Vielfalt der
Handlungspraxen, die von einer dialogorientierten Pragmatik bis hin
zu einer veranderungsorientierten Utopieverwirklichung reichen
koennen. Gleichzeitig zeigen sich in dieser Vielfalt wiederholende
Grundfragen und Paradoxien, die aus unterschiedlichen
Theorieperspektiven diskutiert werden. Die Studie liefert nicht nur
einen Beitrag zur empirischen Aufklarung und theoretischen
Weiterentwicklung von Madchenarbeit, sondern durfte auch fur andere
Handlungsfelder, in denen politische Anspruche mit padagogischen
Verhaltnissen verknupft sind, professionstheoretisch bedeutsame
Denkangebote enthalten.
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