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  Obadiah - The World English...

  Various Authors

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  Obadiah is a biblical prophet. The authorship of the Book of Obadiah is traditionally attributed to the prophet Obadiah.

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  Dispersals - On Plants Borders...

  Jessica J. Lee

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  A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future 
   
   
   
  A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? 
   
   
   
  In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.

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  Speaking in Tongues

  J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos

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  Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues—taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimópulos—examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the twenty-first century. 
   
   
   
  The authors inquire if one can truly love an acquired language, and they question why certain languages, like Spanish, have gender differences built into them. They examine the threat of monolingualism and ask how we can counter, if at all, the global spread of the English language, which seems to maraud like a colonial power. They question whether it should be the duty of the translator to remove morally objectionable language. And in the conclusion, Coetzee even speculates whether it's only mathematics that can tell the truth about everything. 
   
   
   
  Drawing from decades of experience in the craft of language, both Dimópulos and Coetzee face the reality that when it comes to self-expression, some things will always get lost in translation. Speaking in Tongues finally emerges as an engaging and accessible work of philosophy, shining a light on some of the most important linguistic and philological issues of our time.

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  Transdisciplinary Impulses...

  Helge Kminek, Anna Geyer, Markus...

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  Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung soll die Menschen zu zukunftsfähigem Denken und Handeln befähigen – angesichts von Herausforderungen wie Klimawandel, Umweltzerstörung, Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt, Armut und Ungleichheit. Wie können unterschiedliche Disziplinen diese Aufgabe wahrnehmen? In diesem Band werden wissenschaftlich interdisziplinäre Beiträge aus der Philosophie, den Sozial- und Erziehungswissenschaften um transdisziplinäre Beiträge aus Praxisfeldern (z. B Museumspädagogik, Journalismus) ergänzt. Die aktuellen Beiträge geben Reflexionsanstöße und eröffnen Denkräume, um der Komplexität der Aufgabe der sozial-ökologischen Transformation gerecht zu werden.

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  Schizophrenia - A Guide to...

  Amanda Allan

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  SCHIZOPHRENIA 
  46.4% of the United States adult population experience mental illness at some point in their lives. Nearly half of American adults will deal with a mental or emotional disorder to some degree, yet far from all will be aware of this happening, let alone seek help in managing it. 
  Of the different mental and emotional disorders, Schizophrenia is frequently presented as the scariest, rarest, most mysterious, and most dangerous one of them all. 
  This book aims to dispel this stigma by explaining what it actually means to have Schizophrenia, what the symptoms are, and how it can be successfully treated, managed, and ultimately put into remission. 
  Whether you are personally dealing with Schizophrenia, a loved one is suffering with it, or you simply want to educate yourself about what Schizophrenia actually is, this book is here to help. Inside, we discuss the history of Schizophrenia, the diagnostic process, the signs and symptoms, medical interventions, therapeutic treatment options, alternative treatment options, how to help a loved one with their Schizophrenia, and much more!

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  France and England’s Most Famous...

  Editors Charles River

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  When people think of the British Royal family, and more specifically where they live, the first image that often pops into mind is that of stately Buckingham Palace, with its changing of the guard and the occasional royal coach leaving or entering. Others may think of the royal country estate of Windsor Castle, a favorite of both Britain’s longest-reigning and second longest-reigning monarchs. And there was a time when both royal residences played second fiddle to a much better known home, the elegant Kensington Palace. Buckingham Palace is not different, for though it was originally built as a home of a private citizen, once a king bought it, its future was sealed.  
  	For the French, and those who study their history, Versailles is a symbol of, as Charles Dickens once put it, “the best of times…the worst of times.” It was here that the Sun King, Louis XIV, built a palace worthy of a great nation during a time when peace was, at best, short-lived. It was at Versailles that Russian Tsar Peter the Great studied the palace’s architecture and gardens so that he could recreate them in his home country. Indeed, the greatest minds and artistic geniuses of the later stages of the Renaissance came to Versailles to build and paint, and it was here that Madame de Pompadour and her successor, Madame du Barry, used their wit and beauty to charm a king into doing their bidding. However, as history constantly demonstrates, nothing good lasts forever, and so it was with Versailles.  
  	France, like all European countries, has had its fair share of palaces over time, but none suffered the rise and fall of fortune like the Tuileries. Built by a widow with a flair for architecture, it grew for more than a decade, along with the royal family that it housed. Then, during the French Revolution, it fell from grace with that family and even became a sight of execution, its famous gardens providing the background for the infamous guillotine. 

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