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Humanities & Social Sciences2018Philosophy of Freedom
by Myroslav Popovych
The book "Philosophy of Freedom" by Myroslav Popovych is part of the "Great Scientific Project" series, which collects the works of various authors. Myroslav Volodymyrovych was a great Ukrainian philosopher and thinker, an outstanding personality, and for many years he headed the Institute of Philosophy named after G. Skovoroda. In different years, he wrote articles and essays that were published in various journals in Ukraine and abroad. "Philosophy of Freedom" is a collection of essays and thoughts, which he himself systematised during the last months of his life. The author witnessed many historical events, and remembering them, he sought to understand why everything happened this way and not the other, whether anything could have been changed, whether the past of the Ukrainian people had an influence on them. Popovych searched for the truth, because it was the most important goal for him, and now posterity can find out what conclusions he reached. The topics of his interest vary, but mostly he researched theories and objects, and analysed historical events.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNaguib Mahfouz Annuals: About Youth and Freedom
by Naguib Mahfouz
Religion is taught in schools as if a branch of science consisting of some Koranic verses, prophetic tradition (Hadith), creed, worships, and biography! Pupils usually study such items by heart, then they go to exam and forget all. Religion is neither a branch of science nor a branch of material knowledge. Religion is a spiritual education that had to be applied in society. It is felt in the way people behave or conduct. Sometimes we meet a clever pupil but he has bad manners! Another, may get high marks in religion but dismissed out of the school for his ill behaviors and bad manners. I believe that religion must be taught as a spiritual education surrounded by a sphere of sympathy and affection. It is something felt by heart, not studied by heart. Teachers have to adress minds to make pupils convinced. They have to teach them biography of the prophet and also of the orthodox Caliphs. They have to select Koran verses according to “the age and the need”. For example Koranic verses dealing with” prayers”, must be studied in an early stage. Then Koranic verses dealing with “fasting”. After that comes verses dealing with moral conducts. In an advanced stage or secondary school, students can study views, ideas, conceptions, visions and philosophy of Islamic eminent characters, as well as eminent characters of other religions. There is a sort of a deflagrated competition between different religions, though they are similar in concepts and attitudes. Also, rivalary between Islam and Western civilization, and communism, is considered. Western civilization has its own entity. It is an integral doctrine having its theories and applications. Western civilization admits human rights and free economy. It could achieve marvellous progress in different fields of life. At the other hand communism also has its own integral doctrine with a private philosophy, economy and ruling systems. It aspires equality between all people, regardless to their colour or race. As a matter of fact it could achieve marevellous progress in different fields of life. Islam stands in between those two different civilizations, trying to get up and rise after a long sleep in the darkness of stagnancy and retardation. Lately, Islam did not achieve adequate progress in fields like modern science, technology, and material power. But it didn’t surrender, because it is till standing as a civilization having its own historical dignity and tradition. But now it is working hard to compensate what it did lose and indemnify what has gone, without contradicting its message and entity.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2023The illusion of the Burgundian state
by Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Christopher Fletcher
On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown, he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his desire to become a king. Three years later, Charles was killed at the battle of Nancy, an event that plunged the Great Principality of Burgundy into chaos. This book, innovative and essential, not only explores Burgundian history and historiography but offers a complete synthesis about the nature of politics in this region, considered both from the north and the south. Focusing on political ideologies, a number of important issues are raised relating to the medieval state, the signification of the nation under the 'Ancien Regime', the role of warfare in the creation of political power and the impact of political loyalties in the exercise of government. In doing so, the book challenges a number of existing ideas about the Burgundian state.
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2022Formulation Plausibility Check
In accordance with § 7 German Ordinanceon the Operation of a Pharmacy
by Dr. Andreas S. Ziegler
The Ordinance on the Operation of a Pharmacy states that a plausibility check must be undertaken for each new formulation. The tabular compilations of this book help pharmacists to complete this task quickly and reliably. All the information required for the check is clearly laid out and easy to find. New in the 6th edition: Many new active substance – ointment base combinations with demonstrated compatibility | more than 50 new ointment bases | 30 new active substances Bonus: The information about standard doses for paediatric dermatology enables pharmacists to also prepare paediatric formulations. | References to the Ziegler Rezepturbibliothek® (Ziegler Formulation Library), where completely formulated manufacturing instructions for the named active substance – ointment base – combinations can be found. This makes it even easier to supply patients with tested standard preparations. The set includes 50-sheet pads of the complementary form Plausibility Check. The form makes documentation easier and enables rapid and reliable navigation through the tables. This allows both the prescriber’s treatment concept and also possible incompatibilities to be checked in less than no time.
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October 2024Renunciation and Freedom
Survivial in the future
by Jean-Pierre Wils
The situation in our society is precarious. The ecological shocks are omnipresent. The mere continuation of our lifestyles fixated on expansion and self-development has long since reached its limits. As if intoxicated by ourselves, we consume our world voraciously and without restraint. We need moderation and frugality that lead us out of the ecological and social dead ends and hold both the individual and Politics to account. We are by no means powerless and are perfectly capable of leading a life that offers prospects for a humane future. However, our idea of freedom needs urgent correction. For this endeavour to succeed, we need the courage to face reality and the willingness, in a spirit of solidarity, to say goodbye to a false life and join the alliance of renunciation and freedom. Then we will be free – differently and better.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Arctic state identity
Geography, history, and geopolitical relations
by Ingrid A. Medby
This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal - understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures - and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a 'peopled' view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of 'state identity'.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2023Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
Imperial encounters in Sri Lanka
by Ajay Parasram
Presenting a case study of British colonial rule and its aftermath in Sri Lanka, this book explores the collision of competing ontologies in the making of the modern state system. It develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by the idea of a 'pluriverse' to reveal the empirical and imperial avenues through which the idea of the modern/colonial state became normalised in Ceylon. The book contributes to three areas of scholarly discussion: the politics of ontology as related to sovereignty, postcolonial and decolonial international relations, and globalisation through the colonial encounter. It argues that in order to understand contemporary postcolonial crises rooted in territorial conflicts, we must first understand the historical and conceptual processes that depoliticised and universalised the norm of 'total territorial rule' rather than treating the modern state as a territorial and developmental inevitability.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2021Cossack State as an Idea in the System of Socio-political Thinking of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. Book 2
by Valeriy Shevchuk
The publication describes the entire era of Ukrainian statehood, namely, the foundation principles, formation and the fall of the Cossack state. The author describes in detail the foundation milestones, the complexities and challenges of the state-building process, attempts to preserve the Ukrainian statehood, the struggle of the last hetmans (presidents) Pylyp Orlyk, Ivan Skoropadskyi, and Pavlo Polubotko to protect of the Cossack state from ruin. The author builds his reflections on the analysis of Cossack laws, hetman documents and literary sources - exquisite examples of poetry and art of writing. The work is supplemented with rare illustrative materials.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2021Cossack State as an Idea in the System of Socio-political Thinking of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. In two books
by Valeriy Shevchuk
The publication describes the entire era of Ukrainian statehood, namely, the foundation principles, formation and the fall of the Cossack state. The author describes in detail the foundation milestones, the complexities and challenges of the state-building process, attempts to preserve the Ukrainian statehood, the struggle of the last hetmans (presidents) Pylyp Orlyk, Ivan Skoropadskyi, and Pavlo Polubotko to protect of the Cossack state from ruin. The author builds his reflections on the analysis of Cossack laws, hetman documents and literary sources - exquisite examples of poetry and art of writing. The work is supplemented with rare illustrative materials.
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BiotechnologyMarch 1999Inducible Gene Expression in Plants
by Edited by Paul H S Reynolds
The use of inducible gene expression systems is a rapidly developing area of plant molecular biological research. There is considerable interest in the use of these systems as research tools, not only because they allow expression of genes which may be, for example, developmentally lethal, but also because they allow for controlled experiments to be performed in a true isogenic background. They also have the potential to provide a means by which desired characters are expressed in field-based systems in the future.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2022Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber, Alastair Bellany, Peter Lake
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech. It integrates religion into the history of free speech and rethinks what is sometimes regarded as a coherent tradition of more or less absolutist justifications for free expression. Contributors examine the aims and effectiveness of government policies, the sometimes contingent ways in which freedom of speech became a reality and a wide range of canonical and non-canonical texts in which contemporaries outlined their ideas and ideals. Overall, the book argues that while the period from 1500 to 1850 witnessed considerable change in terms of both ideas and practices, these were more or less distinct from those that characterise modern debates.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2023
Critical theory and human rights
From compassion to coercion
by David McGrogan
This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom. It describes human rights' evolution into a grand but nebulous project, rooted in compassion, with the overarching aim of improving universal welfare by defining the conditions of human well-being and imposing obligations on the state and other actors to realise them. This gives rise to a form of managerialism, preoccupied with measuring and improving the 'human rights performance' of the state, businesses and so on. The ultimate result is the 'governmentalisation' of a pastoral form of global human rights governance, in which power is exercised for the general good, moulded by a complex regulatory sphere which shapes the field of action for the individual at every turn. This, unsurprisingly, does not appeal to rights-holders themselves.
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Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·red
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the first volume.
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Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Blue
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the second volume.
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Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Green
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the third volume.
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January 2020Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Orange
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the forth volume.
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January 2020Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Purple
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the fifth volume.
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January 2020Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Cyan
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the sixth volume.
