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Starting in 2014 smarticular.net publishes daily content online to inspire and support simple and sustainable living. Instead of only pointing out problems, users find solutions, recipes and diy tutorials that allow everyone to improve day to day live and make it a little bit more sustainable. The best ideas and recipes find their way into the growing print program of the publisher.
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April 2023Hedy Lamarr
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Maggie Cole, Svenja Becker
Mit fünf Jahren nahm die kleine Hedwig eine Spieluhr auseinander, um herauszufinden, wie sie funktionierte. Das neugierige Wiener Kind wurde Filmschauspielerin und eroberte als Hedy Lamarr Hollywood. Weil die »schönste Frau der Welt« im Zweiten Weltkrieg nicht nur dasitzen und zuschauen wollte, entwickelte sie als Nazi-Gegnerin eine störungssichere Funkfernsteuerung für Torpedos. Ohne das von ihr erfundene Frequenzsprungverfahren wären WLAN, Bluetooth und Smartphones nicht denkbar. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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September 2013Erfindet euch neu!
Eine Liebeserklärung an die vernetzte Generation
by Michel Serres
Die Welt hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten rasend schnell verändert: Die Weltbevölkerung und die Lebenserwartung steigen; traditionelle Großkollektive wie Nationen, Konfessionen und Parteien verlieren an Bindekraft; Wissen, das früher in Bibliotheken gespeichert war und mühsam erworben werden musste, steht uns heute überall zur Verfügung. Der Wandel hat längst ein solches Ausmaß erreicht, dass wir laut Michel Serres mit Fug und Recht davon sprechen können, dass die Angehörigen der jungen Generationen einer anderen Spezies angehören: jener der »kleinen Däumlinge«, die mit flinken Fingern ihre Smartphones steuern, sich vernetzen und kommunizieren. Den »kleinen Däumlingen« widmet der große Philosoph Michel Serres diese Liebeserklärung. Fern von jeder technikfeindlichen Kulturkritik fordert er sie auf, ihre Chance zu nutzen und alles neu zu erfinden: die Gesellschaft, das Bildungssystem – und sich selbst.
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October 2014Bunte Steine
Ein Lapidarium des Wissens
by Benjamin Bühler, Stefan Rieger
Wie unterhaltsam und aufschlussreich es sein kann, sich Menschenbildern sowie wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Konstellationen über den Umweg von Wissensfiguren aus der Tier- und Pflanzenwelt zu nähern, haben Benjamin Bühler und Stefan Rieger in »Vom Übertier« und »Das Wuchern der Pflanzen« bewiesen. Sie zeichneten nach, wie unschuldige kleine Erbsen ins Kreuzfeuer von Darwinisten, Katholiken und stalinistischen Forschungspolitikern geraten konnten und wie es der virtuellen Mickey Mouse gelang, sich Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts unter die Tiere aus Fleisch und Blut zu mischen. Mit dem »Machinarium« und dem »Lapidarium« vervollständigen sie nun ihre Wissensgeschichte der epistemischen Dinge. In üppig illustrierten Vignetten über Hamsterräder und Automobile, über Ohrsteine und Flüssigkristalle schlagen sie den Bogen von den Experimenten, die der Psychoanalytiker Josef Breuer zum Gleichgewichtsorgan durchführte, zu den Lagesensoren, die in moderne Smartphones verbaut sind; vom Hamsterrad gelangen sie zu den Tretmühlen, die zur Therapierung Tobsüchtiger ersonnen wurden, und zu den ruhelosen unternehmerischen Selbsten der Gegenwart.
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October 2014Kultur
Ein Machinarium des Wissens
by Benjamin Bühler, Stefan Rieger
Wie unterhaltsam und aufschlussreich es sein kann, sich Menschenbildern sowie wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Konstellationen über den Umweg von Wissensfiguren aus Tier- und Pflanzenwelt zu nähern, haben Benjamin Bühler und Stefan Rieger in »Vom Übertier« und »Das Wuchern der Pflanzen« bewiesen. Sie zeichneten nach, wie unschuldige kleine Erbsen ins Kreuzfeuer von Darwinisten, Katholiken und stalinistischen Forschungspolitikern geraten konnten und wie es der virtuellen Mickey Mouse gelang, sich Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts unter die Tiere aus Fleisch und Blut zu mischen. Mit dem »Machinarium« und dem »Lapidarium« vervollständigen sie nun ihre Wissensgeschichte der epistemischen Dinge. In üppig illustrierten Vignetten über Hamsterräder und Automobile, über Ohrsteine und Flüssigkristalle schlagen sie den Bogen von den Experimenten, die der Psychoanalytiker Josef Breuer zum Gleichgewichtsorgan durchführte, zu den Lagesensoren, die in moderne Smartphones verbaut sind; vom Hamsterrad gelangen sie zu den Tretmühlen, die zur Therapierung Tobsüchtiger ersonnen wurden, und zu den ruhelosen unternehmerischen Selbsten der Gegenwart.
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September 2019Lotta und Klicks
by Benjamin Wockenfuß, Stefanie Messing, Schlecky Silberstein
In "Lotta und Klicks" von Benjamin Wockenfuß dreht sich alles um die kleinen und großen Abenteuer im digitalen Zeitalter. Lotta und ihr Bruder Lukas, ausgestattet mit Papas Smartphone, sind so in die digitale Welt vertieft, dass selbst ihr Hund Klicks kaum Aufmerksamkeit bekommt. Doch als Klicks plötzlich verloren geht, steht die Familie vor einer echten Herausforderung: Wie findet man einen verlorenen Hund in der realen Welt mit digitalen Hilfsmitteln? Diese charmante Geschichte vermittelt spielerisch den Wert von Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber der realen Welt und wie wichtig es ist, auch mal das Handy zur Seite zu legen. Es ist eine perfekte Lektüre für junge Leser und ihre Eltern, die eine Balance zwischen digitaler und realer Welt suchen. Mit einem Vorwort von Buchautor, Schauspieler, Blogger und Grimme-Preisträger Schlecky Silberstein. Eindrucksvolle Handlung: Erzählt von der jungen Lotta, die lernt, digitale Medien sinnvoll zu nutzen und dabei die Bedeutung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen erkennt.´ Bewusstsein für Medien: Bietet kindgerechte Einblicke in den Umgang mit Smartphones und deren Einfluss auf das Familienleben. Emotionale Resonanz: Unterstützt Kinder dabei, emotionale Bindungen außerhalb der digitalen Welt zu stärken, illustriert am Beispiel des verlorenen Familienhunds. Erzieherische Werte: Ideal für Eltern und Erzieher, um mit Kindern über die Balance zwischen Technologie und Alltag zu sprechen. Kreativ illustriert: Beinhaltet ansprechende Illustrationen, die Kinder visuell fesseln und zum Lesen animieren. Zusätzliche Lernelemente: Fördert durch die Geschichte das Verständnis von Ursache und Wirkung und die Notwendigkeit, gelegentlich offline zu gehen.
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June 2019It’s A Nerd’s World
Die Brains hinter YouTube, Smartphone, Computer und Co.
by Schrödel, Tobias
Smartphone? Coole Sache. Internet? Wie kann man ohne überleben!? Zeit, die Menschen zu feiern, die das möglich gemacht haben. Tobias Schrödel, IT-Experte und Deutschlands erster Comedy-Hacker, erzählt die Geschichten rund um die Brains, deren Hardware, Software und Internet-Anwendungen das Leben von uns allen für immer verändert haben - und die teilweise niemand kennt. Das muss sich ändern! Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt! Aber Vorsicht: Es wird absurd, lustig, tragisch und vielleicht sogar ein kleines bisschen lehrreich.
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The ArtsSeptember 2019Queer Objects
by Chris Brickell, Judith Collard
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. Fabulous, captivating, transgressive.
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April 2016Ästhetischer Kapitalismus
by Gernot Böhme
Wenn ein neues Smartphone auf den Markt kommt, bilden sich frühmorgens Schlangen vor den palastartigen Shops. Das zeigt, dass es heute nicht nur um den Gebrauchswert einer Ware geht (dass man mit einem solchen Gerät telefonieren oder im Internet surfen kann), sondern auch um das, was Gernot Böhme als ihren »Inszenierungswert« bezeichnet. Die Inszenierung von Produkten und Lebensstilen ist ein zentrales Merkmal des ästhetischen Kapitalismus, dessen Erscheinungsformen Böhme nachspürt. Indem er sich mit der Ideologie des Wachstums, der Soundlandschaft in Shoppingcentern und dem Zusammenhang von Leistungsideologie und Konsum befasst, leistet er einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer Rekonstruktion und Erweiterung der Theorie der Kulturindustrie auf den Bereich des Wirtschaftslebens.
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MedicineMay 2018Veterinary Clinical Skills Manual
by Nichola Coombes, Ayona Silva-Fletcher
Down-to-earth and intensely practical, this book and video package provides step-by-step guidance on the essential clinical skills required by veterinary students before they face clinical situations encountered in the real world of the busy veterinary professional. - Contains step by step illustrations and photographs, complemented by videos of clinical procedures which can be viewed on your desktop, smartphone or tablet. - Covers the essential key skills that veterinary students need to know. - Details a whole range of techniques, from surgical, anaesthesia and laboratory through to everyday essential and diagnostic skills, in both farm and companion animals. - Describes in-depth the use of simulators in learning key skills. - Provides advice on preparing for OSCEs and practical exams. This book is the go-to manual for an essential grounding in key veterinary clinical skills for all students and educators of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry.
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Geography & the EnvironmentJune 2018Time for mapping
Cartographic temporalities
by Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott, Daniel Evans
Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial tool, but in practice is deployed in ways that draw attention to memories, rhythm, synchronicity, sequence and duration. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on how these temporal aspects of mapping might be understood, at a time when mapping technologies have been profoundly changed by digital developments. It contrasts different aspects of this temporality, bringing together experts from critical cartography, media studies and science and technology studies. Together the chapters offer a unique interdisciplinary focus revealing the complex and social ways in which time in wrapped up with digital technologies and revealed in everyday mapping tasks: from navigating across cities, to serving as scientific groundings for news stories; from managing smart cities, to visual art practice. It brings time back into the map!
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Children's & YAThe Barefoot Crew and the Stolen Granny
by Jörg Steinleitner/ Daniela Kohl
Something smells of adventure: summer holidays in the country can be like a whodunnit – where else can you find a missing Granny together with a real treasure and eight bare feet? Jörg Steinleitner brings his readers a true sense of well-being, in a world full of adventure. With varied and powerful illustrations by bestselling illustrator Daniela Kohl. Whoever thinks that summer holidays in the village are boring is mistaken: on the very first day of the holidays, Tanne’s Granny Schnitzel disappears without trace. It’s a good job that Corvin (9), Kiki (10), Ben (10) and Tanne (11) were just about to form a gang: the Barefoot Crew. And soon they have more than just bare feet and a kidnapped Granny to contend with – there’s also a real treasure! A hugely exciting criminal case with a breathtaking natural backdrop, together with varied feel-good factors that prompt readers to dream, discover and share in the story’s thrills. Best-suited for boys and girls aged 8+.
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February 2019Tourism Information Technology
by Pierre J Benckendorff, Zheng Xiang, Pauline J Sheldon
This third edition of 'Tourism Information Technology' provides a contemporary update on the complexities of using information technology in the tourism industry. It examines IT applications in all sectors including airlines, travel intermediaries, accommodation, foodservice, destinations, attractions, events and entertainment. Fully updated throughout and organised around the stages of the visitor journey, the book reviews how tourists are using technologies to support decision making before their trip, during their travels and at the destination. It: · Provides comprehensive and up to date coverage of all key topics in tourism information technologies · Covers new areas such as (among others) augmented and virtual reality, robotics, smart destinations, disruptive innovation and the collaborative economy, crowdsourcing for sustainability, online reputation management and big data · Incorporates a wealth of pedagogic features to aid student learning, including key models and concepts, research and industry insights, case studies, key terms, discussion questions, and links to useful websites. Accompanied online by instructor PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions and further case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and learning-focused text for students of tourism and related subjects.
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2024Brave new city
Smart Cities - a survaillance-nightmare?
by Peter Schaar
The dream of the ideal city is as old as the city itself. Since real cities often develop chaotically, the idea of perfecting them, even tearing them down if necessary, and rebuilding them according to the prevailing patterns of thought is an obvious one. The latest manifestation of this utopia is the smart city - the intelligent city, packed with the latest technology and extensively digitised. But will air taxis and hyperloops, ubiquitous sensors, access control systems and data-driven management really make the city of the future a better place to live? Are they the answer to the enormous challenges facing today's fast-growing metropolises? Or will the supposed administrative paradise ultimately mutate into a digital juggernaut?
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MedicineDecember 2020
Improving Animal Welfare
A Practical Approach
by Temple Grandin
Completely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies, precision agriculture and the future of animal welfare, the third edition of this highly successful textbook: · Is edited by an outstanding world expert on animal welfare. · Emphasizes throughout the importance of measuring conditions that compromise welfare, such as lameness, heat stress, body condition, and bruises during transport. · Combines scientific information with practical recommendations for use on commercial operations. · Reviews practical information on livestock handling, euthanasia, slaughter, pain relief, and assessments of abnormal behavior. Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach remains essential reading for students and practitioners of ethology, animal and veterinary science, veterinary medicine, as well as those working directly with farm animals and committed to improving their welfare.
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Science & MathematicsAugust 2018Grapes
by G Creasy, L Creasy
Fully revised with new content and full-colour figures throughout, the second edition of this successful book contains expanded content for all sections, particularly those covering the impact of climate change, seasonal management, mechanisation and organic management options. There is a new vine balance section, as well as significant updates to rootstocks and grafting. It includes information on wine grapes in addition to grapes for fresh consumption and raisin production.Covering a broad range of topics from grapevine growth and fruit development, to vineyard establishment, mechanisation and postharvest processing, this book provides historical and current information about the grape industry and sets out the theory and science behind production practices. It is an invaluable resource for grape producers, horticulture and plant science students, as well as enthusiasts of the vine and its products.
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MedicineSeptember 2018Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Edited by Andrew Butterworth
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals
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Am I Addicted to Computer Games?
by Yang-sun Choi / So-hee Kim
Maru was a girl who used to like getting along with her best friends – Sun and Moon in the playground surrounded by nature before getting a smartphone as a birthday gift. Now she always brings her phone wherever she goes - when having lunch and dinner, being with friends, and even walking on the street! She ends up being stuck to the game world, so Sun and Moon start their adventure to save her. What do you call a phone addict? And why is smartphone so addictive? With activities at the end of the book, you can do self-check if you are addicted to your phone and think about the way to prevent.
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October 2020Unsere Kinder in der digitalen Welt
Potenzial statt Panik
by Lukas Wagner
Our children grow into a digital world that is natural for them, where they experience their adventures, develop their curiosity, talents and knowledge, play with enthusiasm and hide their secrets from us. How can we accompany them, help them develop their own critical attitude, find out the difference between truth and fake for themselves? Without constantly monitoring them and yet lovingly supporting them.To do this, we first have to understand what digitization means for children and young people in the different age groups, what possibilities smartphones and the most important apps, for example, offer. And where we should also set boundaries in open discussion to promote and protect our children.With its profound knowledge and clever analysis, this book offers the opportunity to approach this challenge calmly: Not only our children, but also we adults can benefit a lot from it.
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February 2020I'm not a dumb book
I'll help you put your smartphone down
by Ole Kretschmann, Ksenija Sundejeva
Most of us think we spend too much time on our phones. And in this colorful world of fast communication and endless access to information, unplugging truly is a challenge. Every day, we have to work out for ourselves when we’ve had enough – when a healthy amount of digital input has been achieved. Because while we’re looking at our phone, we miss what’s happening right next to us. Our attention isn’t on our environment. We lose time with our friends and family, as well as time developing our own thoughts or just dreamily looking up at the clouds. Smartphones have changed the world. And they’re changing human behavior,social activity and mutual understanding. That doesn’t have to be bad – but it’s not always good. This book features everything a modern human can expect from a smartphone: games, an app for chatting and an app for dating, several cameras and viruses. This book is an invitation to go on an analog journey of discovery … and who knows? At the end, you might see yourself and your phone with fresh eyes. Learn more about responsible phone use and discover new facets of your creativitity! Maybe you’ll even leave your phone in your pocket more often.
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Humanities & Social SciencesREAD TO BREATHE
WHY READ BOOKS IN THE DIGITAL ERA?
by MIHA KOVAČ
All book readers that have doubts about whether book reading still makes sense and anyone professionally involved with struggling readers (i.e., teachers and librarians); also young parents who need motivation to regularly read books to their children. Pick up a Book to Pick Yourself Up is a mass market book · Although based on the latest scholarly research, the author discusses the meaning of book reading in a journalistic narrative enhanced with graphics in a way that makes the book comprehensible to non-specialists. · The book’s main point is that in an abundance of digital recreational and informational content in text, audio and video format, readily available to any smartphone user, the nature and perception of book reading has changed as well. · The author shows that besides enjoying the content, book readers benefit from a set of “positive externalities” of long-form reading that are not present when using screen media. · These positive side effects represent an important counterweight to some of the negative effects of social media and as such a allow more balanced and productive use of screen content, thus making the book an important member of the quickly growing media family. The author discusses these positive effects of book reading in ten short illustrated chapters. 156 pages / 200 photos, illustrations and tables / format 14 x 20 cm
