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There is no doubt that we live in exciting times: Ours is the age of many ‘silent revolutions’ triggered by startups and research labs of big IT companies; revolutions that quietly and profoundly alter the world we live in. Another ten or five years, and self-tracking will be as normal and inevitable as having a Facebook account or a mobile phone. Our bodies, hooked to wearable devices sitt…
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- Fibreculture Books
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- 144.2116 SIM d
Religious experience in the Hindu tradition
This Special Issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here, we present studies of the Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. Our intention is to show that the religious experien…
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- 9783039210503
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- 181.4 REL r
Culture and identity
This book is a wonderful celebration of culture and identity, especially from the cultural lens of the various authors' nation of origin. Culture is viewed as a collective programming of the mind and is at times compared to an onion?the more you peel off the layers, the more you get to learn about the values, beliefs, and norms of the respective societies. As complex as the onion diagram is, an…
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- 9781838813154
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- 122 p.; 23 cm.
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- 144.2116 CUL c
Crisis management - theory and practice
Crisis management is an interdisciplinary subject field represented by theoretical problems, practical activity, people management and the art of crisis situation solving. Overall, the studies that this publication contains are to provide an overview of the state of the art mainly focused on crisis management cycle represented by certain phases and steps. Topics include also lessons learned fro…
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- 9781789232349
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- 268 p.; 22 cm.
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- 144.2116 CRI c
The Hegemony of psychopathy
Any social and political arrangement depends on acceptance. If a substantial part of a people does not accept the authority of its rulers, then those can only remain in power by means of force, and even that use of force needs to be accepted to be effective. Gramsci called this acceptance of the socio-political status quo “hegemony.” Every stable state relies primarily on hegemony as a sour…
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- 9781947447165
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- 120 p.; 22 cm.
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- 157 BRO h
Empathy - an evidence-based interdisciplinary perspective
Empathy, a basic ability for understanding persons holistically, building supportive relationships, and listening attentively, includes being with suffering persons, healing, and inducing catharsis in them. Therefore, it is necessary within occupations supporting humans: education, clinical psychology, nursing, early childhood care, welfare, and medicine. Conversely, there are individual differ…
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- 9789535134534
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- 180 p.; 22 cm.
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- 155.4 EMP e
Time Distortions in mind
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the student, the scientist, and the stepping-stone for further research.
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- 9789004230644
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- 406 p.; 22 cm.
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- 153.753 TIM t
Scientific integrity : the rules of academic research
The growing attention for scientific integrity is part of a wider culture of professionalization and accountability − which appears to signal that integrity is no longer self-evident as a core value of professional conduct. Examples abound. But what is scientific integrity? Why does it matter? What are the issues, and what is at stake? What do we know about the nature and scope of violations …
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- 9789400602182
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- 182p. : ill.
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- 174.95072 SCH s
Consciousness and moral status
In this book Joshua Shepherd presents a systematic account of the value present within conscious experience. This account emphasizes not only the nature of consciousness, but also the importance of items within experience such as affect, valence, and the complex overall shape of particular valuable experiences. Shepherd also relates this account to difficult cases involving non-humans and h…
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- 9781138221611
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- 122 p.; 23 cm.
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- Routledge Focus on Philosophy
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- 155 SHE c
Fluency and reading comprehension in typical readers and dyslexics readers
Reading involves decoding and comprehension components and, to become efficient, it requires a large number of cognitive and linguistic processes. Among those, the phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, the decoding, the fluency, the lexical development and the text comprehension development. The reading comprehension is strongly related with the development of vocabulary, oral langu…
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- 9782889454150
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- 175 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 155 CAP f
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