From the royal palaces and fortified walls of medieval Constantinople to the distant banks of the Northern Danube beyond the Balkans, and 2,000 miles northwest to the landscapes of East Norfolk, England, this story follows the intertwined lives of two families. One belongs to the royal lineage of ancient Constantinople, while the other, in mid-twentieth-century England, lives in the dazzling era of the machine age. In the latter, Alex and his brother Henry experience the world as wealthy y...

The Enlightenment of Jason Albrecht is a fictional story that speaks to the intrinsic need for spiritual orientation in the human experience. The central character, Jason Albrecht, spends a lifetime of struggle to reconcile religious codification and conventional thinking with the purity of intrinsic desires and realizations. The story follows the life of a carpenter who is intensely interested in philosophy and religion. During the course of Jasons life, he discovers and then teaches a me...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE'A literary masterpiece for all ages . . . a tale of growing up, of love and laughter, of tragedy and loss and grief - a tale that is so compelling that it turns the page for you: The Yearling leaves you tearful, breathless, exhilarated' MICHAEL MORPURGO'An unsentimental, stone-cold classic that should be spoken of in the same breath - and read as religiously - as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbi...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.This comprehensive handbook provides a...

Bed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy Rawlings’s Time for Bed traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can feel lurid, unsettling, or disturbingly funny. A college student struggles with her mother leaving her father for a “cafeteria lady” at her high school. A woman loses her only daughter in a mass school shooting and go...

Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The ‘Uberisation’ of work is not, in reality, a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practices of ‘on-demand’ engagement of labour, common prior to the development of continuing employment. What is new, however, is the capacity of digital technology to engage labour in ways that avoid characterisation as employment according to the legal tests developed in the 20th century.This book tackles the challenge of ensuring that ...

Cette nouvelle bibliographie donne la liste de tous les exemplaires de toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Rabelais parues avant 1626 et que l'on a pu repérer. Sont étudiés aussi les ouvrages édités par Rabelais et les ouvrages proto-rabelaisien ou apocryphes. Chacune de ces 148 éditions (identifiées et décrites selon les normes de la bibliographie dite "anglo-saxonne") est étudiée en détail. L'importance de chaque édition pour la transmission, le développement et la corruption des textes r...

Mit seiner Theorie der Gerechtigkeit löste John Rawls (1921–2002) eine Renaissance der normativen politischen Theorie aus, da sie Fragen nach der gerechten Verteilung von Gütern und Chancen wieder als eine zentrale philosophische Aufgabe ernst nahm. Es gilt als eines der einflussreichsten Werke der politischen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts und kann nach wie vor als konstruktiver Beitrag zu aktuellen Diskussionen um Verteilungsgerechtigkeit gesehen werden. Mit seinem zweiten Hau...

"Marcello Ciotola nos introduz com esta tese doutoral [...] no âmago da controvérsia dominante no pensamento contemporâneo. A oposição entre uma visão universalista e uma relativista particularista quanto à justiça e aos demais valores, tema sempre presente na história da filosofia e que assumiu novas dimensões em nossos dias. [...] Onde talvez uma maior discussão se imponha está na sua aceitação de uma universalidade excluindo os absolutos morais. Seria uma universalidade formal prevista ...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Theologie - Systematische Theologie, Note: 1,3, Universität Regensburg (Theologische Anthropologie und Wertevermittlung), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mittlerweile sind es die Bundesbürger gewöhnt, mit Schlagzeilen wie „Sozialausgaben klettern auf Rekordhöhe“ umzugehen. Doch was ist passiert, dass das wohlfahrtsstaatliche Prinzip, das Hand in Hand mit der europäischen Moderne ging, allmählich nicht mehr funktioniert...