This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue operation between March 1944 and February 1945. It is estimated that Lutz and his team of rescue...

Easy, inexpensive, do-it-yourself solar energy projectsFeaturing step-by-step instructions and useful photos and illustrations, this hands-on guide is filled with solar energy solutions you can put to use right away. Solar Power for Your Home shows you how to set up a variety of simple, money-saving solar projects quickly and easily, such as a solar water heater, a solar pool pump, solar lighting, a solar oven--and even a solar-powered lawn mower!Learn all about ...

Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational thought. Thematically, the collection focuses on Heidegger's critique of modernity and contributors investigate the central significance for education of Heidegger's ontology and his invest...

When your past continually haunts you, sometimes you need to look within.John can’t sleep. Nightmares plague the hours of darkness, traumatic flashbacks fill his days.It’s affecting his health, and it’s affecting his relationship with the woman he loves.An unusual but charismatic man he meets in a Sri Lankan hotel claims to have all the answers.He says he can help John heal his troubled mind so, on a whim, John journeys to his picturesque as...

Un contadino ci salverà!La piccola agricoltura è l’unica garanziadi cibo per tutti. Questo libro spiega perchéQuesto libro traccia il solco per difendere l’agricoltura contadina e i piccoli agricoltori: quelli che coltivano la terra -da sempre, in tutto il mondo- per vivere dei suoi frutti e non per farne commercio.Un libro che dissoda numerosi luoghi comuni: ci ricorda quali danni abbia prodotto l’agricoltura “moderna”, dalla Rivoluzione Verde ai semi ibridi e...

John has unfinished business and it’s eating away at himA chance email alerting him to the reappearance of an old enemy, Atman, triggers doubt, guilt, frustration, and anger.How is Atman still roaming free, as if nothing happened? Why won’t the authorities do anything about it?To make matters worse, Atman is in a country where John could face arrest the minute he steps on its soil.India.Should John risk his freedom and possibly his l...

Easy, inexpensive, do-it-yourself solar energy projectsFeaturing step-by-step instructions and useful photos and illustrations, this hands-on guide is filled with solar energy solutions you can put to use right away. Solar Power for Your Home shows you how to set up a variety of simple, money-saving solar projects quickly and easily, such as a solar water heater, a solar pool pump, solar lighting, a solar oven--and even a solar-powered lawn mower!Learn all about ...

This could be the last self-help book you ever read!What would it take for you to be the person you are meant to be? Is it possible for you to have the life you really want? What if someone told you that you already have what you need?In our on-demand society, people seem to be waiting for a magic wand or quick fix to create better circumstances. It's likely that you also have a long list of things you would like to change about your life-and about yourself...

Az egész világ ismeri az arcát. Most elmondja, mi történt a színfalak mögött.Cassandra „Cassie” Leigh tinédzserként vált ünnepelt sztárrá Hollywoodban. A kamerák imádták, a közönség rajongott érte. Kívülről minden tökéletesnek tűnt. A siker garantált volt.A reflektorok fénye azonban nem mutatja meg, mi zajlik legbelül.A csillogás mögött magány, csalódás, árulás és lelki sebek húzódnak.Eltűnt, mert túl akarta élni.Most visszatért és mindenről beszámol.

Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as w...

Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami.Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’ which interprets the divine as having physical...

Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To guide future efforts and to best bring about human flourishment and a just world, Engineering and Philosophy: Reimagining Technology and Progress brings together practitioners and scholars to inspire deeper conversat...