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This book is among the first comprehensive efforts to collectively and academically investigate the legacy of the Euromaidan in conflict-torn Ukraine within the domain of civil society broadly understood. The contributions to this book identify, describe, conceptualize, and explain various developments in Ukrainian civil society and its role in Ukraine’s democratization, state-building, and conflict resolution by looking at specific understudied sectors and by tracing the situation before, during, and after the Euromaidan. In doing so, this trailblazing collection highlights a number of new themes, challenges, and opportunities related to Ukrainian civil society. They include volunteerism, grassroots community-based activism, social activism of churches, civic efforts of building peace and reconciliation, civic activism of journalists and mediators, digital activism, activism of think tanks and expert coalitions, the LGBT movement, challenges of civil society relations with the state, and the closing of civic space.

The Secret of Love is a compilation of amazing stories from couples whose relationships improved or completely turned around just by being pointed within, toward their true nature. These couples began to see how they were contributing to their problems from insights gained as they were learning. They saw how they could work with the force of nature, rather than against it. The inspiration for the book came from «Thought and Marriage» by the late Sydney Banks, the person who uncovered the Three Principles that create everyone's experience of life, including the invisible power and the common denominator behind all relationships.

Psychologische Methoden der Kriegsführung sind auf dem Vormarsch. Weil es heutzutage als unanständig gilt, Aggressionen offen einzusetzen, haben wir es häufig mit Angriffen auf uns selbst, auf unsere Position und unsere Integrität zu tun, die gar nicht ohne weiteres als Angriffe kenntlich sind. Von Verboten und Sanktionen eingeschränkt äußert sich unsere Aggressionsneigung meist auf Umwegen, versteckt, subtiler, in einer Vielzahl raffinierter Manöver. Dabei sind es gerade die privaten Beziehungen – Partnerschaft und Familie – die das destruktive Potential in sich tragen. Hier sind wir offen und verletzlich, hier sind wir abhängig in dem Maße, in dem wir auf die Tragfähigkeit gerade dieser Beziehungen bauen, hier liegt die Hauptquelle unseres individuellen Selbstverständnisses und unseres Selbstwertgefühls. Hier kann man uns wirklich treffen.

Culture as Embodiment utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices. Applies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilization in global exchange Presents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails Presents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite Contains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief

While improvement science has experienced a surge of interest over the past 30 years, applications of it are rare in the evaluation literature. This issue promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas, techniques, and tools between evaluation and improvement science. There are at least four areas where this cross-fertilization is particularly relevant: learning from error, examining variation, appreciating context, and focusing on systems change. This volume considers: the conceptual similarities and distinctions between improvement science and evaluation; the intellectual foundations, methods, and tools that collectively comprise improvement science; and case chapters that offer an inspiring review of state-of-the-art improvement science applications. Cutting across all of these applications is a shared grounding in systems thinking, a determination to capture and better understand variation and contextual complexity, as well as a sustained commitment to generative learning about projects and programs—all issues of great concern to evaluators. The issue offers producers and users of evaluations the potential benefits of a closer engagement with improvement science. This is the 153rd issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication ofthe American Evaluation Association.