Der Bausektor muss eine drastische Kehrtwende vollziehen, wenn er seinen Anteil am Klimawandel ernsthaft reduzieren will. Dafür muss die Branche dem gängigen „Business as usual“ eine klare Absage erteilen und alle Akteure – Architekten, Bauherren, Investoren und Nutzer – müssen ihren Beitrag dazu leisten.Mit einer globalen Sicht stellt „The Real Deal“ die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und ökologischen Veränderungen vor, die für eine Wende in Branche und Gesellschaft d...

Was wächst da eigentlich vor unserer Haustür? Wir machen uns auf und erkunden die Wiesen nach leckeren Zutaten für Topf und Pfanne. Brennnessel, Löwenzahn, Giersch - alles eigentlich gar nicht so exotisch, aber doch irgendwie unbekannt. Wie schmeckt die Pflanze? Wann ist der perfekte Erntezeitraum? Und was macht man damit? Wilde Wiese gibt Tipps rund um die Funde und liefert 50 vielfältige Rezepte von Suppen & Salaten über Dips und Aufstriche, Deftiges und süße Desserts, die einfach nac...

Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations in America a century later, the six chapters cover:Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898), the first to separate aesthetics and metaphysics and approach aesthetics ...

In Which Way Was North, Anne Pierson Wiese juxtaposes poems from her years living in New York City with work written after her relocation to South Dakota. By exploring local, historical, and personal sources, she invites readers to see an unmapped territory of the mind informed by these distinct regions of the United States.Suggesting that mundane physical places and daily routines can possess significance beyond the immediate, Which Way Was North offers elements ...

Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question of how human perception is possible is displaced by questions about what perception obliges us to be and do. He argues that perception requires us to be embodied, to be visible, and to ...

Cannabis - A Comprehensive GuideThe use of cannabis for medicinal purposes can be traced back to antiquity, but it is only recently that it has garnered attention as one of the most exciting medical-pharmaceutical topics. In hardly any other area of pharmacotherapy has knowledge of late developed with comparable dynamism. Experts from different fields are continuously working on new scientific evidence for the therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids in order t...

Cannabis – von A wie Anbau bis Z wie ZulassungBereits in der Antike wurde Cannabis als Arzneimittel eingesetzt – doch erst jüngst avancierte es zu einem der spannendsten medizinisch-pharmazeutischen Themen der Gegenwart. In kaum einem Bereich der Pharmakotherapie entwickelte sich der Erkenntnisstand zuletzt mit vergleichbarer Dynamik.Fachleute aus unterschiedlichen Tätigkeitsfeldern arbeiten kontinuierlich daran, neue wissenschaftliche Evidenz für den thera...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via the senses, such as seeing, hearing or tasting, he argues that luxury is achieved by possessing something – an aspect of philosophy that has been largely neglected. As such, luxury becomes a gesture of individual defiance and a refusal to conform to social expectations of restraint. An increasi...

Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and ridi...

Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and ridi...

Offering an integrative approach to writing all forms of narrative, this illustrated book contains evocative insights from the authors own professional journey. The emphasis on the integration of both a solid craft and an experiential inner discovery make