Sempre più persone iniziano a interessarsi allo shivaismo tantrico del Kashmir, ma si lasciano scoraggiare dalle sole pubblicazioni erudite attualmente disponibili. D'Orval propone di associare quest'affascinante corrente dell'induismo al presente più intimo della nostra vita offrendoci un saggio illuminante, alla portata di tutti, che spiega quali sono le tematiche dello shivaismo non duale del Kashmir, l'approccio delle sue varie correnti e ci dona la traduzione e il commento dei fondamentali poemi Mahârtha Mañjarî, 'Il bouquet di fiori nel senso più profondo' e Vijñâna Bhairava, 'Il discernimento della suprema Realtà'.

L'introduzione dell'intelligenza artificiale nel mondo del lavoro è una delle sfide della contemporaneità, da una parte affascinata dai processi di automazione che permettono di aumentare precisione e velocità, dall'altra preoccupata per le potenziali conseguenze in termini di disoccupazione. L'esperienza di Prometea, intelligenza artificiale creata da IALAB e testata presso alcune istituzioni pubbliche in Argentina e nel mondo, rappresenta un valido spunto per affrontare il complesso dibattito su un'innovazione in grado di cambiare profondamente il nostro modo di vivere.

«Intervistai Carlos Castaneda a Los Angeles e fu un'esperienza molto interessante. Ci raccontò le sue vicende con franchezza e semplicità, narrando da un punto di vista inedito episodi centrali della sua vita e fornendo nuove chiavi di lettura per chiarire alcuni passaggi oscuri dei suoi libri.» Questo il commento di Graciela Corvalàn, studiosa argentina di misticismo contemporaneo, che nella presente intervista, una delle poche concesse da Castaneda, affronta questioni e momenti fondamentali del pensiero e della ricerca spirituale del grande antropologo: dall'incontro con lo «stregone» messicano don Juan Matus avvenuto in Arizona nel 1960 - un fatto che segnerà per sempre la sua vita - alle avventure dei protagonisti dei suoi libri (la Gorda, don Genaro, le sorelline...), fino ai concetti-chiave della sua opera (le sfere del «nagual» e del «tonai», l'esperienza del sogno, l'arte dell'agguato). Quella che Castaneda indica è la Via del Guerriero, un percorso iniziatico che ci permette di rompere le catene destandoci dalla nostra trance quotidiana, di liberarci dalla servitù e comprendere la differenza tra «una vita davvero libera e una senza scopo in una società malata, alla deriva in una tempesta cosmica».

This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures, while also considering the social, political, religious, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning illness. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have reflected on the personal and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are represented. Essays pay particular attention to the ways in which these interdisciplinary dialogues chart new directions in the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, and emerging disciplines such as the medical humanities. Addressing a wide range of themes and subjects including bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, medical technologies, Darwinian evolution, indigenous herbal medicine, the rising genre of the pathography, and the ‘illness as metaphor’ trope, the collection engages with the discourses of cultural studies, gender studies, disability studies, comparative literature, and the medical humanities. This book enriches and stimulates scholarship in these areas by showing how much we still have to gain from interdisciplinary studies working at the intersections between the humanities and the sciences.

Inspired by theories of radical democracy, this book examines political conflict to offer new perspectives on democratic governance.

Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPS) is a comprehensive text covering the well-known, cited, and used system for problem solving and creativity known as Creative Problem Solving (CPS). CPS is a flexible system used to help individuals and groups solve problems, manage change, and deliver innovation. It provides a framework, language, guidelines, and set of easy-to-use tools for understanding challenges, generating ideas and transforming promising ideas into action.

Features and Benefits:

• Specific objectives in each chapter for the reader - This provides a clear focus for instruction or independent learning.
• Practical case study introduced in the beginning of each chapter and then completed as a “rest of the story” toward the end of the chapter - This feature provides an application anchor for the reader.
• Upgraded mix of graphics - These updated and refreshed graphics include tables, figures, and illustrative images that are designed to provide “pictures” to go along with the word. The aim has been to aid attention, retention, and practical application.
• Enhanced emphasis on flexible, dynamic process- Enables users to select and apply CPS tools, components, and stages in a meaningful way that meets their actual needs.
• A framework for problem solving that has been tested and applied across ages, settings, and cultures- Readers can apply a common approach to process across many traditional “boundaries” that have limited effectives.

Creative Approaches to Problem Solving has been (and continues to be) used as a core text for faculty who are teaching courses in Creative Problem Solving or Creativity and Innovation as part of an MBA program, or in Education, a course on Creativity (often as a component of certification or endorsement requirements in gifted education). It is also used as a core text for those enrolled in professional development, continuing education, or executive education programs.

The twenty-first century has brought a renewed interest in democratic theory and practices, creating a complicated relationship between time-honoured democratic traditions and new forms of political participation. Reflecting on this interplay between tradition and innovation, Aletta J. Norval offers fresh insights into the global complexities of the formation of democratic subjectivity, the difficult emergence and articulation of political claims, the constitution of democratic relations between citizens and the deepening of our democratic imagination. Aversive Democracy draws inspiration from a critical engagement with deliberative and post-structuralist models of democracy, whilst offering a distinctive reading inspired by contemporary work on the later Wittgenstein. This is a creative and insightful work which reorients democratic theory, elucidating the character of the commitments we engage in when we participate in democratic life together.

Graciela Corbalán, studiosa di misticismo contemporaneo, affronta in questa intervista all'antropologo Castaneda questioni e passaggi fondamentali del suo pensiero e della sua ricerca spirituale.

Linux è il sistema operativo che ha rivoluzionato il mondo dell'informatica, l'unico vero concorrente - libero e gratuito - dello strapotere di Bill Gates. Linus Torvalds lo inventò quando era ancora studente all'Università di Helsinki. Il resto è storia. E in questo libro Torvalds la racconta in prima persona, dall'infanzia tra i ghiacci della Finlandia alle conferenze davanti ai guru della Silicon Valley.

Cohort Analysis, Second Edition covers the basics of the cohort approach to studying aging, social, and cultural change. This volume also critiques several commonly used (but flawed) methods of cohort analysis, and illustrates appropriate methods with analyses of personal happiness and attitudes toward premarital and extramarital sexual relations. Finally, the book describes the major sources of suitable data for cohort studies and gives the criteria for appropriate data.