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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Comfort Crisis asks: Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can’t we ever get enough?“Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’s fixations, so you can stop seeking and start living.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, author of OutliveMichael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world’s leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn’t you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill our ancient desire for more, our hardwired “scarcity brain” is now backfiring. And new technology and institutions—from dating and entertainment apps to our food and economic systems—are exploiting our scarcitybrain. They’re bombarding us with subversive “scarcitycues,” subtle triggers that lead us into low-reward cravings that hurt us in the long run. Scarcity cues can be direct and all-encompassing, like a sagging economy. Or they can be subtle and slight, like our neighbor buying a shiny new car.Easter traveled the world to consult with remarkable innovators and leading scientists who are finding surprising solutions for our scarcity brain. He discovered simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, cement healthy habits, and allow us to live our lives to the fullest and appreciate what we have, including how to:• Detect hidden scarcity cues to stop cravings before they start, from a brilliant slot machine designer in a Las Vegas casino laboratory• Turn alone time into the ultimate happiness hack, from artisanal coffee-making Benedictine monks• Reignite your exploration gene for a more exciting and fulfilling life, from an astronaut onboard the International Space Station• Reframe how we think about and fix addiction and bad habits, from Iraq’s chief psychiatrist• Recognize when you have enough, from a woman who left a million-dollar career path to adventure the worldOur world is overloaded with everything we’re built to crave. The fix for scarcity brain isn’t to blindly aim for less. It’s to understand why we crave more in the first place, shake our worst habits, and use what we already have better. Then we can experience life in a new way—a more satisfying way.

Unternehmen sind Haftungsrisiken im IT-Bereich ausgesetzt. Darunter fallen z.B. Cyberangriffe, Datenschutzverstoe oder Industriespionage. Hier setzt Governance, Risk & Compliance Management (GRC) an. GRC erkennt unternehmerische Risiken, analysiert und kontrolliert die Ablufe im Unternehmen und stellt die Einhaltung der gesetzlichen und normativen Voraussetzungen sicher. Der Fortbestand des Unternehmens wird somit durch die Etablierung von GRC gewhrleistet. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen einen Einblick in die IT-Sicherheit und dem Datenschutz (DSGVO, BDSG) unter der Thematik GRC-Management. Neben der Frderung einer hheren Akzeptanz im Unternehmen kanndas Buch als Grundlage zur Einrichtung von GRC im IT-Bereich Verwendung finden.

An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity's powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems-the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett-identical twins who write that their book "e;represents the thought of one mind and two bodies"e;-harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science, Victorian poetry and nature essays, as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities, they trace a multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity-the busybody, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity-centric and inclusive education that embraces everyone's curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting readers to participate-to be curious with the book and not simply about it.

"Konkurrenz" ist ein Schlüsselwort (post)moderner Gesellschaften. Doch waren Agonalität und Wettbewerb auch in der Frühen Neuzeit allgegenwärtig, in Form von Rangkonflikten, Ehrenhändeln, der Konkurrenz zwischen den Konfessionen, dem Ringen um Ressourcen oder der Rivalität von Kolonialmächten. Trotzdem war agonale Konkurrenz bis zum 18. Jahrhundert moralisch anrüchig. Zwischen der Dynamik von Konkurrenzbeziehungen und ihrer gerade den Aspekt des Wettkampfs oft ausblendenden Wahrnehmung auf Seiten der Akteure bestand ein Spannungsbogen. Ihm widmen sich die in diesem Band dokumentierten Beiträge der 13. Arbeitstagung der AG Frühe Neuzeit im Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, die im September 2019 in Rostock stattfand. Sie befassen sich damit, wie in vormodernen Gesellschaften Konstellationen der Rivalität und des Wettbewerbs bewertet wurden, wie Konkurrenz mehr oder weniger erfolgreich eingehegt wurde, welche Dynamiken sie in Gang setzte und auf welchen Feldern sie sich teils verdeckt, teils offen entfalten konnte. In dieser Perspektive stellt die Beschäftigung mit Konkurrenz einen Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Normen- und Werteordnung der Frühen Neuzeit dar.

Die hier als Edition vorgelegten Briefe Ella Wengers offenbaren praktisch alle Facetten, die das Leben jüdischer Bürger:innen in Wien unter den Bedingungen des Nationalsozialismus in den Jahren zwischen Anschluss (1938) und dem Beginn der 'Endlösung' 1942 ausgemacht haben: Ausgrenzung und Drangsalierung, Diskriminierung und Entrechtung, den Verlust von Arbeit, Eigentum und Wohnung, das Zusammendrängen auf immer weniger Wohnraum, Verzweiflung und Suizid, schließlich die Deportationen; aber auch die Bemühungen um Selbstbehauptung und Flucht.Die Nachrichten der rund 70-jährigen Frau an ihre emigrierte Familie zeigen, wie das Leben der jüdischen Bevölkerung Wiens zunehmend abgeschnürt wurde; sie zeigen aber auch den Mut und die Lebensbejahung, mit der sich die Schreiberin gegen die immer hoffnungslosere Lage stemmt. Ihre Funktion als Drehscheibe von Auskünften, als Maklerin zwischen Emigrierten, denen, die auf dem Sprung waren, und jenen, die zurückblieben, war mehr als familiäre Fürsorge - es war der Versuch, Reste der materiellen Lebensgrundlage zu retten, Informationen zu vermitteln, Beziehungen zu aktivieren und soziale Kontakte zu erhalten. Die Welt, die sie beschreibt, geht weit über die Beziehung von Mutter und Tochter hinaus: Weil die Nationalsozialisten den Alltag politisierten, wurde das Alltägliche politisch. Familiäre Fürsorge und politisches Tun verschmolzen, mitunter bis zur Ununterscheidbarkeit.

The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary »affective economies« (Sara Ahmed). The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.

Die neue Reihe Ideen&Argumente ist dem Ideal einer pluralistischen und offenen Argumentationskultur verpflichtet und prasentiert in solider Ausstattung Themen und Fragestellungen, die inhaltlich oder methodisch wichtige Beitrage zur zeitgenossischen Philosophie leisten. Die Publikationen sollen die Vorzuge angelsachsischer und kontinentaler Philosophietraditionen in ein produktives Zusammenspiel bringen. Herausragende, systematisch ausgerichtete Originalausgaben und deutsche Erstausgaben aus allen Teilgebieten der Theoretischen und Praktischen Philosophie finden in Ideen&Argumente ihren Platz. Willkommen sind programmatische Monographien jeglicher philosophischer Provenienz. Es gilt, die zeitgenossische Philosophie in ihrer thematischen und methodischen Vielfalt neu zur Geltung zu bringen.

For more than 40 years, hardcore and punk have promised to offer an alternative to what is perceived as the norm and the mainstream. Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics provides a comprehensive insight into some of the most active, outspoken, and widely received scholarly positions in the academic discourses on hardcore and punk and combines them with a variety of new and emerging voices. The book brings together scholars with personal ties to past and present hardcore and punk scenes, who present both insightful and critical examinations of the rich and varied histories of this subcultural phenomenon and its current reverberations at the intersection of cultural practice and academic research.

The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.

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What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today - in a multidisciplinary, transformative, and constructive way. This is a blueprint for how societal change can be inclusive and equitable for the good of humans and non-humans alike.

In this open access book, Carlos Montemayor illuminates the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by examining our drive to live a dignified life.He uses the notions of agency and attention to consider our pursuit of what is important. His method shows how the best way to guarantee value alignment between humans and potentially intelligent machines is through attention routines that satisfy similar needs. Setting out a theoretical framework for AI Montemayor acknowledges its legal, moral, and political implications and takes into account how epistemic agency differs from moral agency.Through his insightful comparisons between human and animal intelligence, Montemayor makes it clear why adopting a need-based attention approach justifies a humanitarian framework. This is an urgent, timely argument for developing AI technologies based on international human rights agreements.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Carlos Montemayor and San Francisco State University.

"A long-term ethnographic study of interdisciplinary biotechnology labs that reveals how cutting edge scientific work actually gets done"--

Computational media govern our experiences by externalizing our knowledge and memories, mining data from our behaviour to influence our decision-making, and creating emotionally rewarding and sensory pleasures. But does that mean human perception is becoming a product of human-machine symbiosis in this new media ecology? This ground-breaking collection explores the ways in which digital information technologies form and influence human perception and experience. Examining the relationship between technological reductionism and the body, it takes on board discursive perspectives from the humanities and brings digital media, affect, and body studies into conversation with one another. Written by pioneering authors in the field, this book expands our understanding of human perception, animation, technology, and the body.

Rewire your brain to heal from trauma. Many people will experience a potentially traumatic event at some point in their lives, and some will develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this workbook, a highly sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert Jennifer Sweeton provides forty brain-changing techniques for overcoming PTSD that readers can begin using right away to boost self-confidence, build resilience, and develop self-efficacy.

In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us.Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable? The Man Who Tasted Words shows that what we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning-the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance-is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control.In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner explores how our nervous systems define our worlds and how we can, in fact, be victims of falsehoods perpetrated by our own brains. In his moving and lyrical chronicles of lives turned upside down by a disruption in one or more of their five senses, he introduces readers to extraordinary individuals, like one man who actually "tasted" words, and shows us how sensory disruptions like that have played havoc, not only with their view of the world, but with their relationships as well. The cases Leschziner shares in The Man Who Tasted Words are extreme, but they are also human, and teach us how our lives and what we perceive as reality are both ultimately defined by the complexities of our nervous systems.

Can you be sure that the world around you exists the way you think it does?How reliable is your memory, really? Is old age getting the better of you or are you just experiencing false memories called confabulations? Perhaps your own mind is telling you lies. Then again, perhaps you are experiencing what many describe as the Mandela Effect. Do you remember Pikachu with a black tip on his tail or without? Is the colour chartreuse a shade of pink or a shade of green? Depending on how you answer these questions could point to the possibility that you may have been caught up in the Mandela Effect and don't even know it. Or perhaps something more sinister is going on in the world. Perhaps there are conspiracies taking place right under the surface. Then again, maybe it is just someone else's confabulation.

This book explains how the brain works in relation to reading skills, and offers revelations of engrams, or specific input imprints, and the consolidation of information during phases of sleep.Ida Pearce, M.D.'s original findings in "Memory Traces: Recursive Engrams" include an in-depth look at literacy and skills which require cognitive access to multiple archived engrams.