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    Sinan Logie
    Belgian celebrated artist Sinan Logie finalized his studies in 1998, from Brussels Free University, Victor Horta Faculty of Architecture. After having experimented different scales such as design, architecture, urban planning and writing in Belgium, he moved to Istanbul in 2011, to pursue his artistic and academic research. Since then his life and production are shifting between Istanbul and Brussels. Logie's paintings, sculptures, installations, and wall objects reflect his architectural background. He has developed a unique manufacturing method which consists of adding thick layers of oil, acryl, gypsum, sand, paraffin and inks to canvases and wooden surfaces which are at times flat, at others protruding from the wall. The added materials sometimes become unchecked (which gives rise to thick and very materialistic paintings), while at others it is contained. The constructive structure is strict. The layers are applied in a constant precipitation, which is composed as a choreography. Its colors, its depth and its compositions are ever-variable parameters, akin to the degree of hybridization. Logie describes the result of this process as "struggle suspended." In this way, the discourse that he develops about his serial work is not analytical but tell us about the story and method of their creation and explains the painterly effects he uses (metallic/ matt/shinny/glossy, the interplay with three-dimensional and sculptural scales) and his never-ending romance with materials.
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    Liberalizing Service Trade (eBook, PDF)
    A major success of the early post-war period was the negotiated reduction of barriers to international trade in commodities and manufactured goods, under the auspices of the GATT. The current challenge is to achieve a similar liberalization for trade in services - the sector which has overtaken manufacturing as the largest provider of jobs and growth in the advanced economies. The difficulties are legion. Data are scarce and definitions are contentious. There is no clear equivalent in services of the zero-tariff objective that can be defined in the trade of goods. Domestic service markets are often imperfect and each country has its own regulatory structure to protect consumers. Many developing countries are sceptical about the effects of freer service trade on their economies. This paper develops an analytical framework to clarify negotiating objectives. It assesses the European Community's approach to liberalization and warns of the dangers of seeking 'equivalent reciprocity'. It suggests that a different approach and set of objectives are appropriate to the GATT, which lacks well-defined procedures for policy review and settlement of disputes, and whose members are more diverse. Finally, it evaluates the prospects for multilateral service liberalization in the Uruguay Round and in the EC by 1992, and suggests that such efforts can be complemented by unilateral and bilateral liberalization in certain service sectors.
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    Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen (eBook, ePUB)
    In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But Patsy's story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. As Patsy grows up, she buries the memories of her unspeakable childhood trauma and is determined to have a normal life. Music becomes her ticket out and a vehicle for the one thing she covets most-a chance to be crowned Miss America. In Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen, Julie Hines Mabus provides a peek into that world-a world struggling through the civil rights movement, reeling from the death of JFK, and cutting loose with the musical innovations from Memphis and Detroit. Patsy develops a close friendship with a guitarist at Stax Recording Studio, giving her firsthand exposure to the early Memphis Soul Sound created by such greats as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and Sam & Dave. Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen opens and closes with the end of Patsy's time at Mississippi State College for Women on that fateful spring morning in 1968 when she entered the Columbus courthouse. Patsy's story, marked with tragedy and triumph, mirrors that of a growing and evolving South, where change never comes easy.
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    Non-things
    We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things - a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives.Byung-Chul Han's critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation with information and communication. Today we search for more information without gaining any real knowledge. We communicate constantly without participating in a community. We save masses of data without keeping track of our memories. We accumulate friends and followers without encountering other people. This is how information develops a form of life that has no stability or duration. And as we become increasingly absorbed in the infosphere, we lose touch with the magic of things which provide a stable environment for dwelling and give continuity to human life. The infosphere may seem to grant us new freedoms but it creates new forms of control too and it cuts us off from the kind of freedom that is tied to acting in the world.This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
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    Science in Action
    Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted. From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general. This stimulating book, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers, and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge.
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    Non-things
    We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things - a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives.Byung-Chul Han's critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation with information and communication. Today we search for more information without gaining any real knowledge. We communicate constantly without participating in a community. We save masses of data without keeping track of our memories. We accumulate friends and followers without encountering other people. This is how information develops a form of life that has no stability or duration. And as we become increasingly absorbed in the infosphere, we lose touch with the magic of things which provide a stable environment for dwelling and give continuity to human life. The infosphere may seem to grant us new freedoms but it creates new forms of control too and it cuts us off from the kind of freedom that is tied to acting in the world.This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
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    Dogmatik
    Dogmatik als gedankliche Rechenschaft des christlichen Glaubens ist eine soteriologische Interpretation der Wirklichkeit. Sie analysiert ihre Erlösungsbedürftigkeit unter der Voraussetzung der biblisch bezeugten Erlösungswirklichkeit. Das ist der Grundgedanke des renommierten Wiener Systematikers Ulrich H: J. Körtner in seinem hier vorgelegten umfassenden Lehrbuch und seiner fünf Hauptteile.Anhand der Leitbegriffe Gott, Welt und Mensch bietet es eine kompakte Darstellung aller Hauptthemen christlicher Dogmatik, ihrer problemgeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge und der gegenwärtigen Diskussion. Leitsätze bündeln den Gedankengang. Das dem lutherischen und dem reformierten Erbe reformatorischer Theologie verpflichtete Lehrbuch berücksichtigt in besonderer Weise die Leuenberger Konkordie (1973) und die Lehrgespräche der Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa (GEKE).[Dogmatics]Dogmatics is an intellectual account of Christian faith and therefore constitutes a soteriological interpretation of reality. It analyses its need for salvation in the framework of a reality of salvation as witnessed by Scripture. This is the basic idea which the Vienna systematic theologian Ulrich H. J. Körtner develops in his present comprehensive textbook.By means of the key concepts God, world, human being, it offers a compact presentation of all the main themes of Christian dogmatics, its historical developments, and the current discussion. Headnotes summarize the reasoning. The textbook is committed to the legacy of Lutheran and Reformed theology. Particular consideration is given to the Leuenberg Agreement (1973) and the theological conversations of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE).
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    Im Lande Wir
    Die Kirchen in Deutschland stehen vor großen Herausforderungen. Alte Verbindlichkeiten verlieren ihre Gültigkeit, eine neue Haltung ist gefragt. Der Theologe und Buchautor Ralf Kötter ("Das Land ist hell und weit") zeichnet das Profil einer Kirche im Gemeinwesen, die sich resolut an der biblischen Botschaft von der Menschwerdung Gottes orientiert. Aus einem Muster-Haus voller Standards und Pflichten wandelt sie sich zu einem lebendigen Organ des Hausens. Gemeinsam mit unerwarteten Komplizen kreiert sie im Sozialraum tragfähige Lösungen für die Zukunft - eine heilsame Verschwörung zum Leben, die sich vom Konkurrenz- und Leistungsdruck der Moderne verabschiedet, ihre Kraft aus der Gnade Gottes gewinnt und im leidenschaftlichen Aufbruch die Fülle einst verlorener Heimat wiederentdeckt: das Land Wir.[The Land We. Storys of Incarnation for a community-oriented Church]Churches in Germany face enormous challenges. Old liabilities lose their validity, a new attitude is required. The theologian and author Ralf Kötter develops the profile of a community-oriented church, resolutely inspired by the biblical message of God s incarnation. This church changes from a standard-house of duties to a vitally organ of life and creates in community with unexpected accomplices resilient solutions for the future - a wholesome conspiracy for life, overcoming modern competitive and performance pressure, gaining its strength from God s grace and returning in the middle of passionate departure to the once lost origin: the land We.
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    Loneliness in Older Adults: Effects, Prevention, and Treatment
    Loneliness in Older Adults: Effects, Prevention, and Treatment analyzes loneliness as a complex phenomenon, taking into account the most recent contributions from neuroscience, psychology, medicine and sociology. This volume describes this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, with special emphasis on older people from a plural and heterogeneous perspective: older people in general, older immigrants, older women, older LGTBI, etc. Faced with the impact of this emerging issue, this book provides a comprehensive knowledge of loneliness, contributing scientific knowledge to the practice of evidence. Tools are also provided for professionals, providing intervention protocols with debates and proposals, and effective digital resources to combat it. Tables, images, and tools guide students, academics, and professionals step-by-step in solving the cases raised, through an integrated practice. There is no work that develops this theme from such a plural and pragmatic perspective, covering all the dimensions of loneliness in each of the thematic axes: psychological, neurological, social, and health. Readers are provided feedback for all the knowledge for a comprehensive scientific knowledge based on evidence and given the necessary instrumental skills related to being social and the functioning of our brain. This book is aimed at a very plural audience of researchers, academics and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences including psychologists, sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, and also professionals in the health sciences, among others.
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    The Premonition
    Fortunately, we are still a nation of sceptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl's science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm's-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu...everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.
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