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This book attempts to establish a more holistic approach to the rehabilitation of war-injured civilians, one that adjusts to the patients' long-term needs. Kovacic not only offers an insight into the daily realities of patients during and after rehabilitation, but seeks to develop a new way to perceive, respect and involve them in health care. Based on comprehensive interviews with patients and MSF staff, as well as extended field observations, Reconstructing lives follows Syrian and Iraqi war-injured civilians in their journey to recovery. From their improvised medical treatment in their home countries, to the MSF-run hospital in Amman Jordan, to their return home, Kovacic explores how individuals attempt to pick up the pieces of their previous lives, add new elements from their treatment and travel experiences, and finally establish a new reconstructed reality. The book explores how the interaction between MSF staff and their patients contributes to the immense task of healing that awaits victims of war. The reader visits the intimate medical and domestic spaces that usually remain closed to the outside observer, spaces rich with human contact, perceptions, emotions, conflicts and reconciliations.
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Certain nutrients and physical activity can significantly alter immune function and inflammation. Targeted interventions may be an effective and inexpensive means to improve the inflammation and immune dysfunction associated with chronic diseases. This book defines the relevant underlying biological mechanisms and strengthens our understanding of how nutrients and physical activity impact inflammatory diseases. A useful reference for researchers and students of nutrition, physiology and sports science, it explores the unique aspects of inflammation induced by nutritional deficiencies or activity levels, and their interrelationship.
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Golden Pear Mark of Quality! Cannibals, Insomnia, and Mad Cows, How a Surfer Won a Nobel Prize, and The Story of 2550 Litres of Powdered Urine are just three chapter titles that promise that the author’s continuation of his highly popular first book, a huge hit with readers of all ages, will teach us something new about our environment and ourselves through fascinating anecdotes from the world of science, and provide immense entertainment in the process. Continuing the exciting journey begun in FROM GENES TO STARS, this book brings amazing new stories from the world of science, in which you will learn, among other things, how scientists photographed an environment, how they observed the birth of a new language in real time, what they did with 2550 litres of powdered urine, and also that Nobel laureates know how to surf and they sometimes solve the most difficult problems while on holiday. Enriched with illustrations by Matija Medved, the stories also reveal how the internet and blockchain work and how cholera epidemics were contained in London using a ghost map; you will meet a man who counted to infinity, mysterious creatures from the depths of the sea, a pioneer of science in Slovenia and the combination of circumstances that allowed the Archimedes Codex to be preserved to this day. Year of publication: 2019 | Format: 13 x 23.5 cm, 168 pages Golden Pear Mark of Quality
Nothing is known beforehand of these blind, halftruths distributed in “Kovacic,” nor of the apparent lack of turbulence that imprints “Founding a sex” with a kind of backdrop scenery, or of the speck of flour or talcum powder that confines “Buy cream” to a whiteness that plays on two points, from the hinting glimpse to the concluding sentence with experimentation and innocence. Quiero ser artista changes from a yearning and methodical aspiration into a tautological confession: Literature is the best possible means for such things to happen.
The three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovačič family from their home in Switzerland and their settlement in the father’s home country of Slovenia, then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It is narrated by a ten-year-old boy, a perennial outsider, a boy who never fit in in either Switzerland or Slovenia and was viewed with suspicion by adults and his peers. The work includes haunting, deeply thought-provoking descriptions of this estrangement as seen through the eyes of the child – in many ways a naïve boy, yet one who was forced to become an adult at an early age.Newcomers are Kovačič’s central work on the vortex of World War II and the post-war period, covering all the political, ideological and social conflicts of the 20th century and standing as a tragic chronicle of the recent past. A canonical, extensive and difficult autobiographical work, Newcomers is considered a literary masterpiece of the 20th century and is oftentimes compared to the oeuvres of popular modern authors such as Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgård, as well as classic authors, among them Nabokov and Tolstoy.
FROM STRANGER THINGS TO GAME OF THRONES AND FROM TERMINATOR TO MATRIX, A MANUAL TO TRANSFORM PHILOSOPHY INTO “POPSOPHY”: PHILOPSOPHY EXPLAINED THROUGH POP AND MASS CULTURE. A new philosophical approach that finds the pop side of the mustache of Marx hidden in Terminator and the frown of Nietzsche in the folds of the plot of The Lord of the Rings. Webstar Rick DuFer signs an illuminating work that draws heavily from popular culture, helping young people and also adults to understand the thought of great philoso-phers, but above all to help them develop their own opinion. Freedom, political thought, the sense of beauty and other great themes of life thus become as many chapters of pure... “popsophy”. A book that approaches readers to modern philosophical through a new culture of reference.
She's definitely his person of interest—but is he barking up the wrong tree? When aspiring writer and dog trainer Evie Malone gets a call from a man seeking help with the dog he inherited, she's eager to help—in no small way because his surly voice on the phone gives her good shivers. Meeting Luke Kovacs confirms her attraction to the no-nonsense, socially challenged cop, but she's got some unfinished business to take care of first. Business named Brad, an ex-to-be she's been trying to let down gently. Luke's not really a dog person, but he's willing to make an effort to settle in with his late aunt's mutt. Especially with the help of a woman who makes him wish he had someone waiting for him at home. When Evie goes to Brad's place to break up, she's shocked to find him dead on the floor. Worse, every time she turns around, she finds more and more evidence...and it's clearly stacked against her. Though Luke believes her innocent, they soon find themselves in a race against time to prove it—before the real killer finds a way to silence her.
