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  Modern Special Relativity (eBook, PDF)

  This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors. The search for clarity in the fundamental questions about Relativity, the discussion of historical developments before and after 1905, the strong connection to current research topics, many solved examples and problems, and illustrations of the material in colloquial discussions are the most significant and original assets of this book. Importantly for first-time students, Special Relativity is presented such that nothing needs to be called paradoxical or apparent; everything is explained. The content of this volume develops and builds on the book Relativity Matters (Springer, 2017). However, this presentation of Special Relativity does not require 4-vector tools. The relevant material has been extended and reformulated, with additional examples and clarifications. This introduction of Special Relativity offers conceptual insights reaching well beyond the usual method of teaching relativity. It considers relevant developments after the discovery of General Relativity (which itself is not presented), and advances the reader into contemporary research fields. This presentation of Special Relativity is connected to present day research topics in particle, nuclear, and high intensity pulsed laser physics and is complemented by the current cosmological perspective. The conceptual reach of Special Relativity today extends significantly further compared even to a few decades ago. As the book progresses, the qualitative and historical introduction turns into a textbook-style presentation with many detailed results derived in an explicit manner. The reader reaching the end of this text needs knowledge of classical mechanics, a good command of elementary algebra, basic knowledge of calculus, and introductory know-how of electromagnetism.

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  Who Am I Now?

  Who Am I Now? offers spiritual perspectives for seasons of change. Loss and change are inevitable. Transitions can be exciting or disheartening, expected or sudden, gentle or piercing. Regardless of the specifics, major changes usually bring some degree of confusion and distress. Might you frame your responses to your unsettling days differently if you bring intentionality, focus, and prayer with you into the storm? Who Am I Now? considers the uncomfortable loss of identity that accompanies any season of change. Through personal and scriptural stories, each chapter offers a paradoxical possibility, not instead of but in addition to the surface reality. Far too often, we are taught to push past the difficult emotions that mark seasons of change. This book doesn't do that. Dr. Watson honors the complex feelings these seasons bring. Dr. Watson brings her unique background in Spiritual Formation, Theological Education, and Medicine to bear on this rich but challenging topic. Each chapter offers a slightly different lens through which you may consider, or reconsider, your own seasons of change. The invitations in this book are meant to speak to you privately and personally as you seek to answer the question, over and over again: Who am I Now? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maureen Watson is a Physician in Indianapolis, Indiana. She also has a Master's Degree in Theological Studies and is a Certified Spiritual Director. This unusual background allows Dr. Watson to bring intentional focus to each area of the spiritual journey: body, mind, heart, and soul. Dr. Watson has previously been published in Weavings and Spiritual Life. Her own favorite Spiritual Formation authors also teach through stories: Teresa of Avila, Evelyn Underhill, Henri Nouwen, and Philip Yancey.

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  On the Evolution of Intimacy: A Brief Exploration of the Past, Present, and Future of Gender and Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 308min

  An essential book by one of today's most innovative social thinkers From the book's back cover - "In no aspect of life today do we confront more rapid and easily confusing change than in the worlds of gender and intimacy. Men and women equally are left without clear guideposts for their choices. In this short book, one of our time's most innovative social scientists and futurists offers big-picture perspective for making sense of why we see what we do and what lies ahead. He describes an essential new chapter in identity and love, one that takes us beyond the battle of the sexes and brings new depth and maturity to both how we understand ourselves and our capacity for closeness with another." In On the Evolution of Intimacy, psychiatrist and futurist Charles Johnston addresses how our times are making possible a critical "growing up" in how we think about intimacy and gender. With intimacy, the changes he describes are as significant as those which brought us Romeo and Juliet-style romantic love. With gender, they take us beyond both the polarizing assumptions of traditional gender roles and the simplistic conclusions of a postmodern unisex ideal. On both fronts, the greater maturity he describes offers that we might understand with a new kind of completeness and sophistication. The book's last paragraph summarizes where On the Evolution of Intimacy takes us: "The rewards for even just making a start with this needed new chapter in how we understand are immense. We discover the possibility of deeper and more solid identities as men and as women. We also discover the paradoxical fact that engaging identity and love in needed new ways, while more demanding than what we have known, is also in important ways simpler. We can think of it as part of a needed "new common sense." From the author - "This book had its origins in rich conversations sparked by the #MeToo movement and the like. In my role as a psychiatr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199054/bk_acx0_199054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Emotional Eating: How to Achieve a New and Safe Relationship with Food and Ultimately Your Body , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 198min

  Stop emotional eating!Do you feel like you are on the losing end of the battle with your emotions? Does it feel like your thoughts and feelings regulate your life? Do you know the difference between emotional eating and physical hunger? Do you wish you could control and regulate your emotions? Do you use food to numb your emotions? Are you tired of feeling powerless and out of control? If yes, then this is the perfect book for you! If you have experienced any of these thoughts, then you are not alone. The good news is, all this can be handled easily! Yes, you read it right, and this book will help you along the way!Controlling your emotions, and being controlled by your emotions, results in creating a paradoxical life experience. This paradox essentially describes a confusing relationship between our emotions and self-regulation. The only person that can effectively prevent you from excelling in life is your own mind. You are your worst enemy, and unless you learn to deal with your emotions and practice self-regulation, you cannot stop emotional eating. If you don't want to be on the losing side of the battle with your emotions and dieting, or want to overcome an eating disorder, you'll need to learn to understand your feelings.You cannot sweep your emotions under the rug, and you certainly cannot ignore them. When you do this, these emotions tend to bubble up and overflow in ways that aren't always pleasant. In an attempt to rein in these emotions, people often turn to food. After a while, the food that offers comfort turns into your enemy.Something that starts as an innocent act of eating chocolate when you feel low turns into an uncontrollable urge to eat chocolates at the slightest inconvenience. When left unregulated, these things soon spin out of control and result in emotional eating. With a little effort, consistency, patience, self-introspection, and self-love, you can easily overcome emotional eating. This book will help you ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John-Michael Jalonen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217966/bk_acx0_217966_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Corporatization and the Right to Water in Colombia (eBook, ePUB)

  This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellín (EPM), one of the most successful publicly owned utility companies in the global South. Why are water inequalities dramatically increasing in Medellín, a city that is located in an area of bountiful water resources and owns a successful, established utility company? This book explains this paradoxical situation by weaving together two central threads. The first is a critical historical analysis of the political, economic and ecological conditions that enabled the city's utility company to grow and expand internationally, and the second is a rich account of the everyday practices and struggles of residents in low-income areas to secure access to water and demand citizenship rights. The EPM is a case of global significance as the company continues to expand its commercial operations in the Latin American services market by taking over the utilities in Panama, El Salvador and Guatemala, Mexico and Chile. Although its successful international expansion has been a source of pride and admiration for many Colombians, the implementation of market-oriented operating principles in all activities of the utility company raises important and complex questions about its public character and responsibility in the provision of basic services, which has much wider implications given how it is poised to be a model for other for-profit municipal service operations in other Latin American countries. This book advances the empirical knowledge of corporatized utilities, with a globally significant case, as well as providing new theoretical insights with which to understand the limits, challenges and opportunities faced by public utility companies to provide affordable and equal access to water in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, corporatization, privatisation and commodification of natural resources, urban studies, citizenship and human rights, environmental sociology and Latin American studies.

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  Corporatization and the Right to Water in Colombia (eBook, PDF)

  This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellín (EPM), one of the most successful publicly owned utility companies in the global South. Why are water inequalities dramatically increasing in Medellín, a city that is located in an area of bountiful water resources and owns a successful, established utility company? This book explains this paradoxical situation by weaving together two central threads. The first is a critical historical analysis of the political, economic and ecological conditions that enabled the city's utility company to grow and expand internationally, and the second is a rich account of the everyday practices and struggles of residents in low-income areas to secure access to water and demand citizenship rights. The EPM is a case of global significance as the company continues to expand its commercial operations in the Latin American services market by taking over the utilities in Panama, El Salvador and Guatemala, Mexico and Chile. Although its successful international expansion has been a source of pride and admiration for many Colombians, the implementation of market-oriented operating principles in all activities of the utility company raises important and complex questions about its public character and responsibility in the provision of basic services, which has much wider implications given how it is poised to be a model for other for-profit municipal service operations in other Latin American countries. This book advances the empirical knowledge of corporatized utilities, with a globally significant case, as well as providing new theoretical insights with which to understand the limits, challenges and opportunities faced by public utility companies to provide affordable and equal access to water in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, corporatization, privatisation and commodification of natural resources, urban studies, citizenship and human rights, environmental sociology and Latin American studies.

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  LANIAKEA The Opportunity (eBook, ePUB)

  The LANIAKEA series chronicles the origin and blossoming of a great love story between Kate and Ethan. There comes a time when these two lovers must choose between a radical change in their lives or the end of a wonderful adventure. The outcome of a hard-fought merger between two companies results in the emergence of an agency whose mission will evolve into helping people in underdeveloped countries. After laying the agency groundwork, Ethan helps several countries, where he will unexpectedly be offered a vast territory, but one not quite suited for living. The Universe bestows upon the couple the opportunity to ride a technological wave whose growth fosters the creation of an evolved world that will ensure a promising future for the entire planet. The purification of the planet Earth is a gateway to the United Planets Council (UPC), which is comprised of representatives from all advanced civilizations living on the astral continent Laniakea, home to Earth. These Ambassadors resolve to establish the Laniakea Coalition Council (LCC), whose primary goal is to protect and safeguard the people of Earth, thereby protecting the unique technological discovery of non-temporal space travel. The couple is then immersed in a paradoxical reality where one of them must advocate for peace, while the other must prepare for war. The LCC, now an extensive intergalactic military body, will obliterate a sadistic and bloodthirsty invader from the astral continent Perseus-Pisces. Book 3 "The Opportunity" features a blissful Christmas vacation on the warm shores of the U.S. Virgin Islands and a New Year's Eve celebration of the two families. While the project analysis is well underway, Ethan and Kate are adjusting their relationship to everyday life. Despite pressures at work and the ups and downs of life, there are always plenty of moments of tenderness. The project analysis uncovers a number of major cases of fraud and the perpetrators feel the need to use hired muscle to cover up their crimes. Here's where The Guard, this newly formed group, takes action to protect the project's key stakeholders. As for the merger, Ethan quickly discovers the opportunity to use unexpected and innovative business tactics to achieve his goals More information can be found on the website: www.laniakea-continent.com

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  Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

  An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love-How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?-to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.

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  The Nineties

  An instant New York Times bestseller!From the bestselling author of But What if We re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history.It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn t know who it was. By the end, exposing someone s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn t know who it was. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we re still groping to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.Beyond epiphenomena like "Cop Killer" and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a 90 s Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of Seinfeld than the finale of Game of Thrones. But nobody thought that was important; if you missed it, you simply missed it. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it. In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, The video for Smells Like Teen Spirit was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.

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  LANIAKEA The Merger (eBook, ePUB)

  The LANIAKEA series chronicles the origin and blossoming of a great love story between Kate and Ethan. There comes a time when these two lovers must choose between a radical change in their lives or the end of a wonderful adventure. The outcome of a hard-fought merger between two companies results in the emergence of an agency whose mission will evolve into helping people in underdeveloped countries. After laying the agency groundwork, Ethan helps several countries, where he will unexpectedly be offered a vast territory, but one not quite suited for living. The Universe bestows upon the couple the opportunity to ride a technological wave whose growth fosters the creation of an evolved world that will ensure a promising future for the entire planet. The purification of the planet Earth is a gateway to the United Planets Council (UPC), which is comprised of representatives from all advanced civilizations living on the astral continent Laniakea, home to Earth. These Ambassadors resolve to establish the Laniakea Coalition Council (LCC), whose primary goal is to protect and safeguard the people of Earth, thereby protecting the unique technological discovery of non-temporal space travel. The couple is then immersed in a paradoxical reality where one of them must advocate for peace, while the other must prepare for war. The LCC, now an extensive intergalactic military body, will obliterate a sadistic and bloodthirsty invader from the astral continent Perseus-Pisces. Book 4 "The Merger" describes The Guard's tactical operations. In the meantime, Ethan receives the devastating news that his grandson suffers from a very serious illness. This is where Kate reveals the root of her extreme and uncontrollable fears. With the discovery of even more embezzlement within the ranks of the American company, one board member calls into question the entire merger. Ethan then risks losing a huge fortune. And as the pressure on Ethan continues to mount, a very loving Kate must help him overcome his impending and extreme professional burnout. To do so, she uncovers the root of the problem and poignantly offers a solution, one that now seems so very obvious. This book recounts the beginnings of an organization whose goal it is to avoid paying taxes. More information can be found on the website: www.laniakea-continent.com

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