“…"We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. …”
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“…Slavoj Žižek claims that the current age in which we live is plagued by fantasms in the form of digitized imagery and the increasingly abstract nature of daily life. …”
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“…Since lumbo-pelvic pain related to pregnancy is an avoidable musculoskeletal pathology, pregnant women should not accept to live with this pain. The therapeutic exercise is defined as the systematic and planned execution of bodily movements, postures and physical activities in order to correct or prevent disturbances and to optimize the general state of health and the feeling of well-being. …”

“…Nature aside, the world in which we live should be designed for us, from everyday products like scissors and chairs to complex systems in avionics, medicine and nuclear power applications. …”

“…How does a pregnant woman live with two people under her skin? What is the expectant partner's experience? …”

“…How do our feelings influence the kinds of people we are, and the sorts of communities and societies in which we live? In this wonderful short book, acclaimed author Stephen Frosh interrogates the terrain of feelings and asks how this 'hidden' dimension of the self helps shape our worlds. …”
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“…Why do they go to the doctor? How do they live with chronic disease? This introduction to the social psychology of health and illness addresses these and other questions about how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others…”

“…While there is a lot of talk about how we now live in a knowledge society, the reality has been less impressive: We have yet to truly transition to a knowledge society - in part, this book argues, because discussion mostly focuses on a knowledge economy and information society rather than on ways to mobilise to create an actual knowledge society. …”

“…Emerging Memory shows that between memory and forgetting there is a haunted zone from which pasts that do not fit the stories nations live by keep on emerging and submerging while retaining their disturbing presence…”

“…Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also an extraordinarily creative time period in which material culture reflected indigenous peoples’ varied responses and adaptations to the changing circumstances. …”

“…The first section of the book shows how Kafka's rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature. In the central part of the book, Corngold reflects on the place of Kafka within the modern tradition, discussing such influential precursors of Cervantes, Flaubert, and Nietzsche, whose works display a comparable narrative disruption. …”

“…This is an attempt to exceed the limits set by and for ourselves in relation to how we connect to our own bodies, to the bodies of our lovers and to the bodies of the theories we live with, sleep with and dream about -- in short, to all that we get attached to. …”

“…Designed to promote access to culture, culture cards and cheques allow an often specifically-targeted demographic (schoolchildren, young people, etc) to access cultural goods or services (e.g. live entertainment, museums, books, recorded music, cinema, etc.) at a discount or even free of charge. …”

“…Les œuvres que Luigi Nono composa à partir de la fin des années 1970 marquent chez lui un tournant : l'exploration d'un nouveau monde sonore, lié à son travail avec les moyens de la live-electronics alors en pleine émergence, et une intériorisation des problématiques existentielles, politiques et sociales qu'il avait développées à travers ses œuvres précédentes et qui lui avaient valu le qualificatif de « musicien engagé ». …”

“…Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Role of Education and Educational Elites -- Provider Strategies and the Greening of Consumption Practices: Exploring the Role of Companies in Sustainable Consumption -- From Small Objects to Cars: Consumption Expansion in East Asia -- New Middle Classes in China, Brazil, Ecuador and Israel -- Rising Capitalism, Emerging Middle-Classes and Environmental Perspectives in China: A Weberian Approach -- Globalization of Lifestyle: Golfing in China -- Who are the Knowledge Workers of Campinas, SP, Brazil and how do they Live? Local Impacts of Global Trends -- Sustainability of a Life Más Cómodo? …”

“…The book includes a detailed description of each approach and the step-by-step demonstration of live-example analyses designed to explain the utilization and usefulness of statistical methods. …”

“…This vignette describes a man who experiences autogynephilia: a paraphilic disorder in which men who are attracted to women are also erotically aroused by the idea of being women and sometimes want to undergo sex reassignment and live as women. Men Trapped in Men's Bodies explores the phenomenon of autogynephilia, arguing cogently that it accounts for many cases of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism in Western countries. …”

“…Each one can begin a transition, a unique opportunity to realign your life, nourish the person you are, and live the life you imagine. This book helps readers understand transition and presents a unique step-by-step roadmap every woman can use to make transition positive, optimistic and approachable throughout her life. …”