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Paperback. Condition: New. With La nostalgia ferita [Wounded Nostalgia], Eugenio Borgna develops another term in his personal lexicon of emotion. Here he describes wounded nostalgia, with its constellation of keywords: memory, time, homesickness, childhood. But there is also nostalgia for death, for a face that, as Rilke wrote, haunts us, sometimes impossible to find, as well as nostalgia for life when we are afflicted by illness. Nostalgia that is open to hope is different from nostalgia that remains frozen in the past. These are some of the words thematized in this book. There is nostalgia wounded by pain, and nostalgia spared from it. Naturally, Borgna refers to Leopardi and Proust, but also to Emily Dickinson and Guido Gozzano. Ultimately, nostalgia can be understood as a salvaging of the past, as its gift of meaning; and as an antithesis, too, to the dragon of indifference that leads to an emotional wasteland. With a preface by Michele Dantini.

Paperback. Condition: New. Phenomenology allows us to consider psychiatry not only as a natural science, but also a human one, where treating the wounded self takes places along a path of knowledge built on kindness and sensitivity, ethics and humanity, exploring areas that seem beyond the realm of psychiatry but actually share a common emotional ground. Wounded emotions are a part of all kinds of psychic suffering, not only depression. But whether we like it or not, emotions follow us in every circumstance of our lives, in good times and bad, not only when we are unwell, even if we are not always aware of them. In La follia che è anche in noi [The Madness That is Also in Us], Eugenio Borgna brings together his reflections on the past, present, and future of psychiatry with moments from his own life that are "rhapsodic and winding, where experiences near and far in time have flowed together." With a preface by Stefano Redaelli.

Paperback. Condition: New. Hope allows us to look at reality with eyes not clouded or obscured by appearance or habit, convention or repetition; it allows us to open ourselves to the future, freeing us from the rigid cage of the past and present. In Speranza e disperazione [Hope and Despair], Eugenio Borgna follows the concept of hope through moments in literature, on the one hand, and his work in psychiatry on the other. Hope may be fragile, but it is the only way to pull human beings out of loneliness and the darkest depths of the soul. Consistently listening to patients, and in close conversation with the poetry of Cesare Pavese, among others, he paints a portrait of the slender figure of one of life's most revolutionary forces. With a preface by Ilaria de Seta.

Paperback. Condition: New. A Course in Applied Linguistics for Arab EFL/ESL Students has been developed keeping in view the academic needs of native-Arabic speakers learning English as a second/foreign language. The book in the process of understanding how students acquire second language, sheds some light on how children acquire their first language. It reviews the observations of theorists on Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and Interlanguage as main factors that influence learners' performance. Some examples from real performance of Arab EFL/ESL learners are discussed and analyzed. The book reviews the observations of linguists and psychologists on the role of extrinsic and intrinsic non-linguistic factors that affect SLA. The book also gives good consideration of the views of experts on the efficacy of strategy training.At the end of each chapter, there are study questions to provide an opportunity for the readers to test their proficiency. Similarly, projects are also added for the students to practice. A list of references is added at the end of each chapter for further reading. The book has a rich Glossary to provide students with definitions of the most important terms.

Paperback. Condition: New. This case study sketches the trans-professional and transnational careers of two upwardly mobile and cosmopolitan actors in the incoming "Century of the Genoese." These examples of biography in history are analytically framed within the stream of research on social mobility in medieval and early modern Italy, and then compared with the organizational and institutional behavior of some Atlantic entrepreneurs of the sixteenth century. Thisframework also takes into account the dualism and transactional focus of the Genoese polity with the aim of reassessing the historical reasoning on entrepreneurship proposed by business historians who responded to the "Schumpeter's plea" in this regard.

Paperback. Condition: New. The coursebook presents Plato and Aristotle as the two most significant and groundbreaking thinkers of European thought from the era of classical Greek philosophy. The author provides prefatory orientation in the labyrinth of their complex thought and sketches their metaphysics, problems of knowledge and ethics. He departs from the fact that both thinkers are similar in striving to overcome problems of their period by localizing the human being into a hierarchical order of beings, which obliges in questions of the possibility of knowledge as well as of the right conduct.

Hardback. Condition: New. This study explores intertextual and intergeneric relations with a specific focus on their interactions with contemporary literary theory. The volume engages with the works of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Jean Rhys, and Djanet Sears. It examines crosscultural and Indigenous adaptations, postcolonial and feminist appropriations, and screen adaptations as central strands within current debates in adaptation studies.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book presents the Open Educational Model for Complex Thinking (OEM4C), an innovative tool that fosters critical competencies such as systemic, critical, scientific and innovative thinking. Designed for students, teachers and researchers, the model addresses global challenges through open methodologies and emerging technologies, promoting inclusive and sustainable education aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through practical scenarios, case studies and digital tools, OEM4C inspires educational transformation that responds to the needs of a changing world.

Paperback. Condition: New. In the third decade of the 21st century, Europe is facing several serious challenges to its prosperity and freedom. Those include economic, financial and productive decline compared to the rest of the world, demographic stagnation, the effects of climate change, energy dependence from other continents and exclusion from technological innovations.This book proposes the creation of a federal European state that would replace and succeed the EU, its member states and other willing European countries. This is the only way for Europe to successfully address all those challenges and stay at centre stage in world affairs, in the century of globalization, climate change and the fourth industrial revolution. But addressing Europe's existential challenges is not the only reason to move in that direction. A federal Europe would also become a major, self-sufficient geopolitical power, as strong as orstronger than the USA, Russia or China. It would be a model for other regional federations around the planet.The book is not restricted to the analysis of why we need a federal European state but further suggests substantial policies for many different sectors: economy, banking, foreign affairs, defence, education, health, social security, immigration, human rights, agriculture, fourth industrial revolution, circular economy and climate - to name some of them. At the end, it presents a rough budget estimation to show that such a federation would not only be desirable but also be feasible.

Paperback. Condition: New. The author argues that religious history is underestimated in its importance for World- and Global history. The history of religions is quite often an established sub-discipline within convincing research traditions. In order to reconstruct the past adequately, historians need academically controlled data about the beliefs of the people they are dealing with. This book offers ten examples from a wide range of religious beliefs which show that developments in religion have far reaching consequences for general history - in the change from Empire to the system of European nations, in establishing social disciplines as part of capitalist societies, in attempts of semi-peripheral states struggling for a place in the European World-System, in defence of Muslim societies on the peripheries and in postcolonial Africa.

Paperback. Condition: New. This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several specific aspects which essentially characterize human beings (such as rationality, formation of culture, freedom, personality and interpersonality). The text is primarily intended for bachelor students of philosophy.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Islamic prophet Muhammadinitiated a theological programin theocratic form. The Qur'anchallenges Christians and Jewsin many ways and invites themto take a stance. This is why anexplicitly theological response islegitimate and necessary. Thisbook draws on current scholarlyresearch on Islam and discussesthe sources of the Qur'an, thefundamental features of itsrelationship with Judaism, andits perception of Jesus. Thisleads to a realistic assessment ofIslam and stimulates a renewedChristian self-understanding.The fourth chapter presentsthe largely unknown insights ofthe German-Jewish philosopherFranz Rosenzweig and the theologianJoseph Ratzinger/PopeBenedict XVI on Islam. They providean important perspective -beyond submission.

Paperback. Condition: New. While there is a multiplicity of identity markers that affect the dynamics ofintercultural communication, the intersectionality of gender and religiondeserves more scholarly attention. The book takes the dissimilar culturalconcepts and identity performance as a starting point, exploring thesignificant role that the religious indoctrinations play in the constructionand performance of gender. It features contributions by the scholarsin the field of communication, gender and cultural studies, includingtheoretical reflections on the socio-cultural formation of identity, dogmaticimpositions on gender roles, and the performance of gender identity inintercultural settings.

Paperback. Condition: New. Digital technologies are important channels where information is produced and delivered to the recipient with the change in eating habits. In this channel, people access information about nutrition in a quick and often effortless way. Likewise, for experts in the field of nutrition, technologies make it easier and faster to reach the relevant people/masses. This book discusses the use of new media in nutritional science based on digital technologies. In addition to the related literature review, the authors conducted a study on the dieticians in Turkey. This research includes dietitians' use of new media for their profession and their views on "online diet counseling" via media.

Paperback. Condition: New. This concise book aims to enlighten university students and, mostly, young graduates regarding how to select the best option when coming across different choices with the common aim of being successful, safe, productive and happy at work. The detailed advantages and disadvantages of the commonly available choices are presented in order to ease making decisions for each individual. Also, this book aims to alert young graduates against some probable risks which they may encounter during their job hunting and working period.

Paperback. Condition: New. Attempts to conceal grammatical gender, dictated by the "inclusive" desire to overcome the simple distinction between masculine and feminine (gender binarism) and make room for the neutral, affect the national languagesof a variety of Western countries with increasing frequency and intensity, with the risk of weakening or compromising the functioning of the languages' supporting structures. A grammatical innovation has a very different impact from a neologism, and when that innovation, under the excuse of inclusion, ends up infiltrating a public act, or any other text issued or produced by a public entity, penetrating it in a pervasive way, the institutional endorsement should set off the alarm bells. In our case, simplicistically overlapping two levels that must instead be kept distinct - one "structural" (technical-linguistic) and the other "superstructural" (socio-cultural) - means that, in the growth economy of an entire community of speakers and writers, the structures of an idiom, above all if stratified over time, are bent to accommodate the desires of those who, against all logic and the most elementary common sense, expect immediate changes that would upset or crack the linguistic system. This ends up making even the simple decodingof information difficult.

Hardback. Condition: New. Few things illustrate the absurdity of our times better than climate change. While experts warn of catastrophe, others seek business opportunities beneath the melting ice in the Arctic. Building on a Central European perspective, this book traces the region's journey from industrialization to EU integration, offering insights into both global and local climate challenges. It critically examines the intersection of geopolitics, capitalism, and environmental policy, exposing contradictions such as the pursuit of growth despite ecological limits and the ongoing tension between public and private interests. A central, perhaps idealistic, question runs throughout: Is it possible-and at what cost-to move beyond a system based on competition, overproduction, and overconsumption toward one rooted in sustainability? Can the Central European experience help us better understand the challenges ahead and develop a framework that merges the achievements of the European welfare state with the principles of an eco-state?

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Paperback. Condition: New. In an era shaped by rapid technological change and growing global interdependence, political systems are undergoing deep transformations in how they function and engage with society. As national borders blur and algorithm-driven platforms shape political communication, core concepts like sovereignty, legitimacy, and democratic participation are being redefined. This book explores how digital technologies intersect with political institutions and public discourse through an interdisciplinary lens. Topics include digital political participation, media ownership's role in shaping opinion, and the emergence of new regional alignments. Concepts such as e-democracy, digital activism, and new nationalism are analyzed within shifting global power structures. The book addresses urgent issues like misinformation, digital authoritarianism, and the erosion of media pluralism, inviting readers to reflect on how societies can adapt - not only technologically, but also ethically and politically.

Paperback. Condition: New. New. The monograph examines scientifically based principles and optimal ways of ensuring national security in modern Ukraine, taking into account successful foreign practices. Scientific research includes the main characteristics of martial law, methodological toolkit for ensuring national security, NATO's and EU's response to modern changes in the global security environment as well as current state of martial law in Ukraine.The monograph makes a final emphasis on the fact that the multi-level system of providing national security stability is especially important for countries with a sufficiently large territory and population, which includes Ukraine. The implementation in practice of the priorities and tasks of national stability involves adjusting the day-to-day activities of state and local authorities, formation of social solidarity and unity in society, trust in the authorities, establishment of reliable two-way channels of communication between the authorities and the public, formation of an appropriate security culture in the state and society, etc.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book addresses the challenging and exciting issues of the implementation of the European Union's grand strategies, with a particular interest in the implementation of the current Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. It provides insight into the impact of this strategic process on some of the current global issues relevant to the European Union, such as the European and global energy market, food supplies, industrial components etc. Some of the challenges have such a strong short-term impact, that already accepted strategic priorities and decisions are being questioned and re-examined. This is a particularly exciting subject, both as a research topic and as a policy issue.

Paperback. Condition: New. The book aims to draw attention to the weaknesses in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods and provide insights to improve the decision-making process. By addressing these weaknesses, it seeks to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of MCDM methods in selecting the best alternatives in various fields. The book covers popular MCDM methods such as TOPSIS, ELECTRE, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE. It compares traditional methods with the proposed modified Human Development Index (HDI) data using Python code examples. The target audience for the book includes computer scientists, engineers, business, and financial management professionals, as well as anyone interested in MCDM and its applications.

Paperback. Condition: New. This is a comprehensive introduction to English text-linguistics. It deals with those areas of text-linguistics that have enjoyed widespread attention in English linguistics, notably aspects of cohesion and coherence. Further topics are corpus-based studies in lexical patterns and in text classifications, psycholinguistic and cognitive studies in text constitution and decoder-orientation. One special feature of this book is that it not only covers abstract lexical and grammatical structures but also medium-dependent written and spoken presentation.

Paperback. Condition: New. The book examines the electoral processes that took place at the regional level in the Slovak Republic between 2001 and 2022. It focuses on the elections to the Regional Assemblies and elections of Zupans, which reflect the legislative conditions for holding elections in the regions, the structure of regional self-government, and the course of regional elections. The book highlights the main electoral cleavages that emerged from the results of the most recent regional elections in 2022. These are 1. Slovak politics vs. Hungarian minority, 2. Party vs. independent deputies, and 3. Political and geographical fragmentation on the regional level.

Paperback. Condition: New. This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries and academic backgrounds and obtained their degrees at different Finnish universities from Helsinki in the south of the country up to Oulu in the north. Moreover, they studied and conducted research at different faculties. The individual processes, academic, social, and cultural experiences and challenges form the core of the individual essays.

Paperback. Condition: New. Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which a co-existence between faith and intellect, between ecclesiastical and profane culture was possible. It was a varied living space in which philosophy, mystique and practice could exist side by side. It is a world which is lost today and which we can get a hold of again only by intellectual appropriation.

Paperback. Condition: New. The book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the latest theoretical developments combining issues of reflexivity and habitus resulting in unique empirical and practical implications. Intended for the readers who are looking for a combination of scholarly insights and everyday life stories of the people living beyond the national constraints, no matter whether they are interested in contemporary social trends and their impact to individuals, ethnographic research, globalization trends or the future visions of the European Union.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and meaning in language (comprising semantics and pragmatics). Furthermore, one chapter deals with constructional approaches to English grammar. The final chapter serves as an outlook on the application of linguistic theory in various domains of language use, including historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and forensic linguistics. Every chapter contains specific exercises that help to rehearse the key concepts introduced in this book.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book highlights an important moment in the history of Romanian sociology: The idea of getting involved in the knowledge and construction of social life as well as the virtues of the sociologic monograph method that were promoted by the Bucharest Sociologic School and the Banat-Crisana Social Institute. This work now forwards an analysis of Dimitrie Gusti's original sociologic thinking system, a theoretic model underlying the monographic campaigns conducted by multidisciplinary teams. Rural studies were the central axis of the Bucharest Sociologic School. An important innovation of Dimitrie Gusti's School is examined: the launching of social work through the Superior School for Social Work and Assistance Princess Ileana, founded in Bucharest in 1929. A detailed presentation of the monographs conducted by the Bucharest School and the Banat-Crisana Social Institute with their specific characteristics is given, bearing the mark of sociologist Dimitrie Gusti and other remarkable personalities of the Romanian inter-war scientific elite.

Paperback. Condition: New. Generally speaking, the philosophy of music hitherto can be said to approach music, as it were, from above or from outside. Music, thus envisaged, can be «absolute» or «sounding forms in motion». It can be expression, have a linguistic meaning, tell a story, be a manifestation of «the world as will and conceptualization», and mirror society's inward contradictions. Music is seen as an activity, sometimes as interactivity, not least through an anthropological approach in which prominence is given to its origins. This work is an attempt to reverse the argument, by taking the phenomenon of tone as the starting point to work the way up to an understanding of the phenomenon of music, to make a philosophy of tone the foundation of a philosophy of music. Such thoughts were already present in the author's previous works, but, being available only in Swedish, will be enlarged here.