Many tutorials and online courses transfer knowledge on interesting and important topics. Often the creators are indeed experts in their field but have no idea of how knowledge is transferred properly, and which aspects need to be considered when creating good online media. The result is often devastating. Bounce rates of up to 90% are the norm on many courses. Actual interesting content is not perceived because the form of presentation puts prospects to flight. In this book the experience...

From one of Michigan’s foremost writers comes a powerful, soulful meditation on grief, loss, the natural world, and the relationship between humans and everything around usIn Peter Markus’s new collection of poems, the loss of the father has become the river that shapes the landscape that the speaker behind these poems is looking to navigate and explore. He finds fellowship and solace in the subject that drives many of these poems: birds, fish, and the ever-present...

There is no second chance for making a first impression. Within a few seconds, it is decided whether a contact with a certain person intensifies or whether is stays superficial - and in many cases forever. Good contacts bring people in their personal, social and professional context further. Those who do not manage to win sympathy, benevolence, and respect from their fellow human beings, fight a losing battle. This book presents the most important factors of success that determine whether ...

Integrating Differences: Philosopical Aspects in Sociology and Vice Versa Commemorative Volume in honor of Gerhard Preyer

The acclaimed director shares a gorgeously photographed and "wonderfully thorough immersion in the world of bees and beekeeping" (Rowan Jacobsen, author of Fruitless Fall).The saying goes that without bees, humankind would only survive for four more years; these crucial pollinators are, indeed, worth more than honey. In his award-winning documentary More Than Honey, Markus Imhoof introduced audiences to the fascinating world of bees and the perils ...

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the words brother and fish and mud. In an essay on Markus's work, Brian Evenson writes, "If it's not clear by now, Markus's use of English is quite unique. It is instead a sort of ritual speech, an almost religious invocation in which words themselves, through repetition, acq...

The world of the child is a world where things aren't what they always seem to be. In The Fish and the Not Fish, Peter Markus brings us back inside that not-so-simple space and its slippery way of seeing and saying, a place that is primal and mythic in its re-making.

To what extent is it possible to see nature not as a risk and cost factor, but as a central form of capital for business success? Decision-makers in the 21st century should have an answer to this question. This book combines an analysis of the growing decoupling of the economy and ecosystems with practical instruments for integrating nature into strategic corporate management. It shows how a stronger focus on nature contributes to future viability and provides concrete approaches for makin...

How would you react if one day you found a genuine ghost sitting in your living room - declaring****that from now on he's your new housemate?Meet Sir Henry, the bitter, mischievous ghost of Urquhart Castle in Scotland. Cursed by his own son to haunt his castle until he saves a girl's life, he finally decides to leave his dilapidated, abandoned home and 'emigrate' to Switzerland, where he transforms himself into the genial and funny guardian spirit of his n...

Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars.The s...

The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power maps and systematically examines the revival of constituent power. In recent decades, scholars, as well as political actors, have rediscovered the category and used it in ever new ways, challenging traditional accounts of its scope and function. But while new and creative applications may have inspired political developments and led to innovation in political and constitutional theory, the proliferation of accounts of constituent power has brought w...

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.The debate about plant cognition is marked by deep disagreements. Some theorists are confident that the empirical evidence supports the ascription of cognitive capacities to plants. Others hold that such claims are overblown, and defend more traditional, non-cognitive...