Bøger af Michael Roth

Two young men make a journey across Europe walking in each other's shadow, one of them clearly presented in his own words, the other hidden behind observations made by women who care about him. In genre fluid points of view, a constant tension surfaces among the many lenses that humans use to understand themselves and the people whose lives they touch. This Siguiriya told in 12/8 time is a deep song that lifts the air above the rhythms of pounding hearts accompanying rapid movements of stomping feet in a perfectly synchronized beat stretching between a sun lit object and its dark double cast upon the ground. "Finally, the origin story." -Ben Thorne

"A father's death haunts the dance of the graces. What happens to the women in his life now that he is dead? Will they redefine themselves or will they follow his lead and ape his larceny and fraud? They set off for new lands, brave dangerous country full of hostile threats, and they join to take back their legacy through stronger bonds and understanding"--

Global history has long become an established field of research. At the 11th conference of the working group on the Early Modern Period (Historians¿ Association, Germany), participants aimed at applying global-history approaches not only on distant world regions, but especially on early modern Europe. ¿Europe¿ has consistently been both a subject to and a concept of negotiation processes, which hardly kept to territorial borders or clear-cut topographically or language-bounded areas. The conference proceedings open up new views on geographical and historical imaginations of Europe from within and without, on claims of identity and alterity as well as on the mutability of periphery-centre relations. Moreover, they display the wide range of ¿ internationally well-connected ¿ historical research on the early modern period in Germany.

Ethik ist "e;in"e;. Ohne Frage. Aber trotz aller Bemuhungen scheint die Frage nach dem, was Ethik ist, immer noch eine der brennensten und spannensten der aktuellen Forschung zu sein? Was macht Ethik eigentlich? Und wie hangen Ethik und Moral zusammen? Neben diesen allgemeinen Fragen zur Funktion von Ethik, stellt sich zunehmend auch die Frage nach deren Gestalt . Denn was macht die Theologische Ethik zu einer theologischen Ethik? Wie viel Theologie vertragt die Ethik in ihrem Anspruch, ihrem Grund und Gegenstand? Das Studienbuch prasentiert einen Uberblick uber den gegenwartigen Stand und Trends der Theologischen Ethik, sowie Perspektiven der anderen theologischen Facher auf das Gesamt einer Theologischen Ethik. Autoren aus verschiedenen theologischen Richtungen und Perspektiven formulieren Antworten, werfen Fragen auf und zeigen Horizonte auf, die in der Arbeit an und in der Theologischen Ethik eine aktuelle Relevanz haben. Es gibt einen Uberblick uber die aktuellen Diskussionen und Diskurse der Theologischen Ethik und mochte eine Grundlage fur Diskussionen uber das Projekt der Theologischen Ethik in Forschung und Lehre, in Kirche und Gesellschaft vermitteln.

"The Indefinite Article: Anxiety and the Essence of Artificial Intelligence focuses on the implications of technological surveillance for human being. It shows that human privacy is fragile and susceptible to coercion by both visible and invisible social forces realized by artificial intelligence that formalizes and universalizes human behavioral characteristics in order to construct personalities and which cannot be resisted with traditional notions of individual liberty and respect for human dignity. The way lies in the same anxious questioning that drives publicly oriented persons to welcome boundaries that are inscribed upon them as identities under conditions of mass surveillance. The invasion of private life by data collection mechanisms forces the socially constructed subject to imagine itself alone under a microscope. Roth carefully demonstrates how this dystopia can be inverted through a critical inquiry that glares back at the lenses of that power: understanding the problem is already to glimpse a way out"--

Set against the impossible odds of today's academia, brimming with philosophical insight and foolishness, Time Between Summers is the tale of an adjunct professor who struggles to gradually extract himself from an imposed mental order that controls his relationships with people and the world around them. A Don Quixote for the information age, his brain has been rotted by the books he has read and the articles he has written. Ultimately, the aim in his adventures is to undo the damage done by a discipline that oversees his every movement inside the prison walls it fashioned for him. "Yet another windmill." -Ben Thorne

This study aims to make a contribution to the foundations of theological apologetics. In this, it seeks to determine the boundaries and possiblities of the apologetical process by orientating it to the quadruplicity of divine working.

This easy-to-follow introductory guide is written to teach basic modeling and visualization without assuming any background in programming or physics. It includes a general introduction to tools, platforms and a coding language, followed by focused chapters dealing with examples from physical systems encountered in everyday life, as well as applications in more advanced systems.