In Until One Sunday We Didn’t words and images are connected on black and white pages illustrating my personal experiences of growing up with a father who becomes a different person from one day to the next.You see my father is bipolar. And this book is as much about him as it is about me dealing with his condition.When I thought about working on a book, I quickly gravitated towards my father (and his bipolar disorder) as the subject. Something I never used to speak so open...

The past shapes our choices, but it does not teach us how to live with them.Raised by the soldier who killed his parents, Cinder has learned to expect little from the world beyond survival. When a chance encounter leads him to the Arcanum, an academy where the rare art of transmutation is studied, he seizes the opportunity to leave his past behind.A quiet, growing sense that he is not only uncovering the academy’s secrets, but that he may also have a role t...

A soccer player is more than the sum of his parts: endurance, speed, shooting technique, passing technique, and many more. All of these factors need to be turned into one system to create good players. Traditional training theory doesn't achieve that because each skill is trained individually. This is why the concept of Tactical Periodization has become the preferred training theory for many of the current most successful soccer coaches: Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho, Diego Simeone, André V...

A chillingly topical classic of political history.This book examines Russia from a geographical neighbour’s perspective. In The Russian Idea, Finland’s ex-President sets out to understand Russian thinking through the lens of historical events and to anticipate its influence on Russia’s future choices. Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the book is today more topical than ever.While outlining the key episodes in Russian history, Koivisto explores...

The world was and is in many areas in a turmoil: pandemic, war, energy scarcity, wheat price explosion, and many others. And everything is either impacted or has an impact on global economy. And on the top of it: Christians are in the midst of it. Therefore it matters how Christians think about the economy and act in the economy. It informs their choices as consumers and voters as well as entrepreneurs.The many crises also laid bare the injustices of our economic system and demonstrated th...

A sweeping, five-hundred-year-history of Latin America that highlights the contributions of ordinary people in the struggle for free, democratic societies.Latin America threw off European colonialism in a continent-spanning series of revolutions and was a global pioneer of constitutional government. And yet today the region’s history is almost exclusively associated with the legacies of colonialism rather than those of liberation, and with its periods of dictatorsh...

A sweeping, five-hundred-year-history of Latin America that highlights the contributions of ordinary people in the struggle for free, democratic societies.Latin America threw off European colonialism in a continent-spanning series of revolutions and was a global pioneer of constitutional government. And yet today the region’s history is almost exclusively associated with the legacies of colonialism rather than those of liberation, and with its periods of dictatorsh...

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution ushers into a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality, how should we respond to the societal and ethical dilemmas associated with this new age of transformative scientific power? This research highlights the need for an ethical and globally shared view on how technology affects the economic, social, cultural and spiritual aspects of daily life. With thanks to the international team of experts this book is outlining consequences of the...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-, Sabancı University, course: The European Union: Politics, Policies and Governance, language: English, abstract: A common European policy in fields of Foreign and Security Affairs has always been one of the crucial points of ongoing European Integration. It seems suitable that one can find here a point where the controversial debate about a supranational or a more intergovernmental character of the ...

A practical, step-by-step guide to neurointerventional treatment of central nervous system pathologyCase-Based Interventional Neuroradiology, Second Edition, edited by global experts Timo Krings, Adam A. Dmytriw, Sasikhan Geibprasert, and Karel ter Brugge encompasses the entire spectrum of pathological conditions that can be treated by interventional neuroradiologists. The updated second edition of this widely acclaimed resource combines scientifi...

Though there are hundreds of websites offering information about meditation, the aim of this e-book is to simplify meditation techniques for beginners. Also there is no fear that it's a form of religious belief or something that is hard to achieve. All you need to practice meditation is the will to take time out and be optimistic towards life. Remember anything is achievable, provided you set your mind to it. The experiences you've undergone have made you what you're today. So be happy and...

A thrilling intellectual voyage into the core questions concerning the human mind and artificial intelligence.Can a machine think? How is it possible that humans and AI can now communicate fluently? The book compares the human mind with the generative AI solutions that have stunned the world, and gets to the heart of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of the mind and thinking. This book has been translated by AI. The audio book is read by an AI voice.How does t...