Gary Pennycroft designed a board game about ownership—and then used it to design a city.He called the game Mondello.Every rule rewarded wealth. Every move punished the poor.Winning meant taking until there was nothing left to take.Then Pennycroft took the logic off the board and into the streets.Neighborhoods were renamed. Housing became "assets."Entire communities erased beneath the promise of progress.A hacker...

You are only a few remaining skeletons after the invasion of East Asia for the past few centuries and are pitiful victims. We will build the railroad if we have to {build} it over the white man's body. If you want anything, you will have to come through me. . . . and there will be many of you who will not see your homes again. Work cheerfully at my command.-Lt. Col. Y. Nagatomo, Chief, No. 3 Branch, Thailand POW Administration, Nippon Expeditionary ForceWith these words, th...

This graduate textbook provides a basic introduction to experimental philosophy (x-phi). In nine chapters, different methods and tools used in X-Phi are explained, spanning quantitative vignette studies, interactive experiments, corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experiments as well as qualitative interview studies. Each chapter introduces a specific experimental method by means of a case study in an easily accessible way and covers the whole research process from the development of a resea...

A heartwarming tale of friendship, courage, and the magic that happens when we help others along the way.When a playful gust of wind sweeps away Melody's precious chocolate chip cookie recipe, the tiny painted bunting and her best friend Stephanie embark on an unforgettable journey through the enchanted forest. What begins as a simple search becomes an adventure filled with new friends, important lessons, and unexpected joy.A Forest Full of Friends ...

In the core of a captivated wilderness, Leo, a youthful lion with a remarkable chuckling, finds that his blissful gift holds an enchanted pith equipped for giving joy to the whole wilderness. Be that as it may, when an evil magician projects a malicious spell, the wilderness is dove into a profound unhappiness, and Leo understands the genuine capability of his giggling - the ability to disperse obscurity.Not entirely settled to reestablish satisfaction to the wilderness, Leo leaves...

We are people of desire.In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known—and what's more, that this fundamental yearning manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand in hand.But both our craving to be known and our ability to create beauty have been marred by trauma and shame, collapsing our imagination for w...

Life Cycle Nutrition for Public Health Professionals is the first textbook using a public health approach and population-focused lens to explore nutrition across each life cycle phase. It provides the basic principles of normal nutrition across each developmental phase in the life course, along with the foundational knowledge of key determinants, challenges, and outcomes among communities and populations within each nutrition phase. Using the Public Health 3.0 framework as a guide...