Look at the world, and look at yourself. Technology is everywhere. Social media and short messages can occupy an enormous part of daily life. Concerns about mental strain, loneliness and exhaustion are everywhere too.AI is changing the world as profoundly as the internet did. It frees up time and removes work. The question is what we do with that power. Care is what people do all day, for themselves, for each other and for the world around them. It is part of why we exist.T...

Wake Up With the Controlled Exit Strategy is a self-help guide and workbook for people overwhelmed with the stresses of the corporate world. It equates the “rat race” to deep sleep and waking up to freedom. It provides insights into the process of waking up from the expert angle of someone who’s done it. The book also provides a clear process to either carry out a similar exit (using the workbooks to guide the process) or through conscious living coaching.The text ...

Transform your WordPress website into a fully-featured e-commerce store with the power of WooCommerceKey FeaturesOffers do-it-yourself e-commerce solution using WordPress and WooCommerceDiscover the new Onboarding wizard that makes complex processes user-friendlyManage your online store and expand its functions using pluginsBook DescriptionBuilding an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the...

This book is written in a friendly, beginner's guide style with plenty of step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and using Magento to run your own e-commerce site. We will set up an example store in the book with enough information to adapt the instructions according to your needs.This book is for anyone who wants to create an online store using Magento. If you are a non-technical person and are discouraged by the complexity of this powerful e-commerce application, this boo...

Change your strategy, and you will change your outcome. Are you tired of the constant hamster wheel that is your life? Do you wonder if theres a way to exit the rat race and still have a meaningful and fulfilling life? Have you tried to exit but never fully achieved it?If that sounds like you, then Robbert-Jan Nuis has the answer. In this straightforward guide and workbook, he outlines whats holding you back and the strategies you need to untether yourself from the rat race successfully. I...

A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Use...

Presents integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and biophysical sciences.In the current era of increasing planetary interconnectedness, ecological theories and practices are called to become more inclusive, complex, and comprehensive. The diverse contributions to this book offer a range of integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities and sciences and help us understand and respond t...

Large infrastructure projects generally involve multiple stakeholders such as government parties, local communities, and private organizations. New projects can create tensions between different stakeholder groups because different groups naturally have different interests and opinions. This book offers a view of how stakeholders are able to influence the project management’s decision‐making process as the project proceeds from the investment preparation phase, to the project execution pha...

What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. agency, reform vs. resistance, care vs. control.Across prisons, homes, gardens, seas, and cities, this volume explores how material, affective, and institutional confinement is shaped and reshaped through recursive processes of structure and agency. It argues that confinement ...

This state-of-the-art handbook provides authoritative, up to date coverage of health psychology topics, offering an excellent, in-depth view of the field. Leading experts provide essential insights into the discipline of health psychology, its roots, future directions, and the networks and organisations involved.Structured into eight parts, the book starts with defining health psychology including an important historical overview. Subsequent sections examine theories and methodolog...

This book is intended for ukulele players who have some experience with their instruments, but would like to increase their musical ability, as well as for guitarists who like to improve their accompaniment skills on the treble strings of the guitar. There exist many excellent introductory ukulele methods, as well as extensive chord dictionaries. Instead, this book is intended for those players who wish to be able to sight read from a fake book, figure out the chords to a song without a ch...

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the psychological principles on which they are based, and the key development and evaluation issues relevant to their successful intervention.Integrating how eHealth applications can be used for both mental and physical health issues, it presents a complete guide to what eHealth means in theory, as well as how it can be used in practice. In...