Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic life so arduous. Teachers can help their pupils overcome obstacles by identifying bottlenecks to...

Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential and psychological orientation is explored through a structural analysis of Tristes Tropiques, his most personal book, and his writin...

From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-authors Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, comes an audio-first techno-thriller addition to the universe of Stephen (Legion) Leeds.Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It’s his hallucinations who are all quite mad.A one-man team of experts, Stephen Leeds is a genius of unparalleled mental capabilities who can learn new skills or master entire scholarly disciplines in merehours. How...

Brandon Sanderson, autor superventas número 1 del New York Times y ganador del premio Hugo, se une a Max Epstein, David Pace y Michael Harkins para traernos un tecno-thriller en formato audio que se suma al universo de Stephen Leeds, alias Legión.Stephen Leeds está perfectamente cuerdo. Son sus alucinaciones las que están completamente locas. Un equipo de un solo hombre, Stephen Leeds, es un genio con capacidades mentales incomparables que puede a...

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) began primarily as a discipline-based movement, committed to exploring the signature pedagogical and learning styles of each discipline within higher education, with little exchange across disciplines. As the field has developed, new questions have arisen concerning cross-disciplinary comparison and learning in multidisciplinary settings This volume by a stellar group of experts provides a state-of-the-field review of recent SoTL scholarship ...

Stephen Leeds ist vollkommen gesund. Es sind seine Halluzinationen, die alle ziemlich verrückt sind – Exklusiv als Audio-OriginalStephen Leeds ist ein Ein-Mann-Expertenteam und ein Genie mit beispiellosen geistigen Fähigkeiten, das in nur wenigen Stunden ganze wissenschaftliche Disziplinen erlernen kann. Diese Fähigkeiten haben jedoch ihren Preis. Stephen muss sein Gehirn aufteilen, wobei jede seiner neuen Fähigkeiten mit einem »Aspekt« verbunden ist – einer Halluzi...

David Grossman, da sempre convinto sostenitore di una coesistenza tra Israele e Palestina, non si è mai sottratto dal commentare e analizzare la complessa relazione tra i due popoli. Questo libro raccoglie alcuni degli interventi più urgenti e militanti, in cui Grossman analizza la parabola politica di Israele, guardando con occhio critico alle azioni del governo e della classe dirigente del suo Paese: un Paese che gli appare oggi più vulnerabile che mai, per colpa delle correnti estremist...

Cosa può fare uno scrittore per aiutare il proprio paese a ritrovare la pace? Semplicemente il proprio mestiere: scrivere. Creare storie in grado di far entrare i lettori nella pelle altrui, di far loro guardare il mondo con gli occhi di un altro. Anche se l'altro è un nemico.Nei quattro brevi saggi che formano questo libro David Grossman ci offre una testimonianza di lancinante bellezza sul valore della letteratura e, insieme, un'amara e acuta riflessione sulla cupa realtà odierna ...

Perché abbiamo un rapporto così difficile con il cibo? Come mai non riusciamo a gestire con equilibrio e consapevolezza la nostra alimentazione? La nostra relazione con la nutrizione dipende da diversi fattori, come la sovrainformazione contraddittoria o la continua ricerca di risposte solo nelle diete. L'alimentazione e il cibo che scegliamo sono il risultato di quello che facciamo, di quello che pensiamo e anche dell'ambiente in cui viviamo, quindi di tutte le nostre abitudini. Spesso an...

This book is an inspirational invitation to use climate change as a unique opportunity to reinvent money and remake investments. It is for young people and young professionals wanting to thrive in a climate-changing world.The author spares no punches in pointing out the failures of the climate orthodoxy. The economics it operates under is fundamentally wrong. The future for young people and young professionals lies in leapfrogging over conventional wisdom, and this book details how...

Dank der Übersetzung Ingrid von Heiselers gibt es jetzt endlich eine deutsche Ausgabe der pazifistischen Pionierschrift "Krieg ist mit der Religion Jesu Christi unvereinbar" (USA 1812). Edwin D. Mead schreibt über den Verfasser: "Dem New Yorker David Low Dodge (1774-1852) ist es als hohe Ehre anzurechnen, dass er in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika die frühesten Flugschriften veröffentlichte, die ausdrücklich gegen das Kriegssystem der Nationen gerichtet sind. Außerdem gründete er die i...

This book examines how founders navigate the tension between speed and sustainability when launching a venture within a strict 90 day window, asking how rapid validation can be achieved without sacrificing mental wellbeing. It investigates the hidden trade offs of compressed timelines, where the pressure to move quickly risks burnout while excessive caution erodes momentum. By treating the launch as a bounded experiment, the work reveals how founders can structure their efforts to test ass...