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Marie Curie ist eine Kämpferin: Zusammen mit ihrem Mann Pierre revolutionierte sie die Erforschung der Radioaktivität. Doch Pierres Unfalltod macht Marie zur Witwe und alleinerziehenden Mutter. Die beiden Töchter, Irène und Ève, sind ihr Ein und Alles. Marie setzt alles daran, ihnen in einer Zeit von Krieg und politischer Unruhe die bestmögliche Bildung zuteilwerden zu lassen. Die Mädchen wachsen zu interessierten und engagierten jungen Frauen heran: Irène folgt ihrer Mutter in die Wissenschaft und erforscht wie sie Radioaktivität. Ève wird sich als Autorin und Diplomatin für eine bessere Welt einsetzen. Marie Curie und ihre Töchter kämpften für ihre Bildung, ihre Freiheit und wurden dadurch zu Vorbildern für Frauen auf der ganzen Welt. Claudine Monteil porträtiert diese drei außergewöhnlichen Frauen, die mit ihrem Mut, ihrer Intelligenz und ihrem Engagement das vergangene Jahrhundert mitgestaltet haben, mit Wärme und lebendigem Blick.
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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This book examines the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in rural areas, based on collaboration between well-known corporates and an international research organization. Researchers used various scientific tools and methods to enhance rural livelihoods and improve sustainable natural resources management. Including three chapters covering the philosophy and practices of CSR, this book covers emerging policies and their implications in India. Eight case studies based on actual practices explore climate-resilient agriculture, water footprint, improving livelihoods, diversification of crop pattern, enhancing crop productivity, and sustainable development in low rainfall regions. Five further chapters cover soil health improvement, improving rural wastewater management and enhancing rural livelihoods, based on various case studies. The book offers macro and micro perspectives of CSR work and its critical benefits to both community and natural resources. This book covers: Philosophy and practices of corporate social responsibility. Impact studies on improving livelihoods and sustainable development of natural resources. Process steps across various CSR initiatives. Distinct features of each corporate agency. This book will be useful to corporates, individuals involved in CSR work as well as students and researchers focused on agricultural development and the sustainable development of natural resources.
This book proposes a rather novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. It does so by analyzing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition of Thomistic juridical realism. In order to highlight the need to reconnect with this tradition in the context of contemporary legal philosophy, the book presents various other recent jurisprudential positions regarding the overlap between law and morality. While most authors either exclude a conceptual necessity for the inclusion of moral principles in the nature of law or refer to the purely moral status of natural law at the foundations of the legal phenomenon, the book seeks to elucidate the essential properties of the juridical status of natural law. In order to establish the juridicity of natural law, the book explores the relevant arguments of Thomas Aquinas and some of his main commentators on this issue, above all Michel Villey and Javier Hervada. It establishes that Thomistic juridical realism observes the juridical phenomenon not only from the perspective of legal norms or subjective individual rights, but also from the perspective of the primary meaning of the concept of right (ius), namely, the just thing itself as the object of justice. In this perspective, natural rights already possess a fully juridical status and can be described as natural juridical goods. In addition, from the viewpoint of Thomistic juridical realism, we can identify certain natural norms or principles of justice as the juridical title of these rights or goods. The book includes an assessment of the prospective points of dialogue with the other trends in Thomistic legal philosophy as well as with various accounts of the nature of law in contemporary legal theory.
A fantastic blend of inspiration and awareness brings us close to happiness through a great voyage. With exceptional warmth, this book gives the reader the tools to reach happiness through wisdom that has built up in humanity over the course of the centuries all over the world. An open, vivid book that invites us to take a fascinating journey and gives us a thousand possibilities so that each one of us can find their own way to feel good.
Julie is in her last year of high school. She was granted a scholarship for Harvard's medical school, and that has become her main goal in life. Even though she lives in Venezuela, she remains oblivious to her country's political upheaval, as well as her need to be aware of the current situation. She is a very private person, who only has two close friends, and doesn't like to share her emotions or engage in any recreational activities. On her first day of school, she meets Sophia. From the very start, she is befuddled by Sophia's wild, volatile, and irreverent personality. Friendship begins to flourish between them, and it slowly evolves into a much stronger feeling. Sophia encourages Julie to fight for their country's freedom, until her best friend dies during a violent street demonstration. Julie gets to ride Caracas subway for the first time by the hand of Sophia, and visits one of the city's most dangerous slums, known as Petare. The story portrays the contrast between Sophia, who daily struggles to survive her own reality, and Julie, who has it all and is not even aware of how lucky she really is. They both begin a journey to learn about life and true friendship, until Julie finally accepts she has fallen in love with her best friend. She also learns that her long-life dream of saving lives has changed, and now, her main objective is to save Sophia, who has become suicidal when her life lost all meaning.
Julie is in her last year of high school. She was granted a scholarship for Harvard's medical school, and that has become her main goal in life. Even though she lives in Venezuela, she remains oblivious to her country's political upheaval, as well as her need to be aware of the current situation. She is a very private person, who only has two close friends, and doesn't like to share her emotions or engage in any recreational activities. On her first day of school, she meets Sophia. From the very start, she is befuddled by Sophia's wild, volatile, and irreverent personality. Friendship begins to flourish between them, and it slowly evolves into a much stronger feeling. Sophia encourages Julie to fight for their country's freedom, until her best friend dies during a violent street demonstration. Julie gets to ride Caracas subway for the first time by the hand of Sophia, and visits one of the city's most dangerous slums, known as Petare. The story portrays the contrast between Sophia, who daily struggles to survive her own reality, and Julie, who has it all and is not even aware of how lucky she really is. They both begin a journey to learn about life and true friendship, until Julie finally accepts she has fallen in love with her best friend. She also learns that her long-life dream of saving lives has changed, and now, her main objective is to save Sophia, who has become suicidal when her life lost all meaning. With more than 1,500,000 reads. The Whim of Love is a catchy story from the very first page, which por trays Venezuela's current reality.
A thrilling series of adventures with humour, chases and cunning… a lot of cunning. A new adventure full of humour and nods to real life. This time in New York! This Coscorrón sisters have to travel to New York, where the International Granny Detective Conference is being held, the world’s biggest conference of its kind. The Plaza Hotel is full of celebrities: the Tiatrappo sisters from Italy, the Akí Mekedos from Japan, and even Donald Trompazo himself. Amid the hubbub there is a mystery: the hotel’s toilet paper has all disappeared without explanation. The Coscorróns, Marcel and his new friend Max follow the trail of a culprit. Who will it be?
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TITO AND HIS COMRADES (TITO IN TOVARIŠI) A new light on familiar events – the most comprehensive presentation of Josip Broz Tito.Jože Pirjevec’s book presents Tito’s life story and the background to his political rise, which was closely connected with the life and political activities of his “comrades”. In revealing new dimensions of the leading creators of the second Yugoslavia, with Tito at the helm, the author draw upon documents kept in private and state archives in Ljubljana and other capitals of the former Yugoslav republics, while he also researched the available archive materials in Washington, New York, Moscow, Berlin, Cairo and New Delhi, as well as the archives of the Slovene and foreign intelligence services, such as Stasi and the KGB. Rich pictorial material.
