Incursiones ontol?gicas VII

The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet. This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force. This book will be essential reading for those interested in sexuality studies, contemporary history, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, media studies and studies of the Internet. It will also be of interest to doctors and therapists currently working in this and related fields.

Die Herausgeberinnen dieses Buches, die Gleichstellungsbeauftragten der Stadt Bad Oldesloe, der Stadt Bargteheide, dem Amt und der Gemeinde Trittau und dem Kreis Stormarn, haben fast 40 Interviews mit aktiven oder ehemals aktiven Stormarner Kommunalpolitikerinnen gef?hrt, um einen Teil der politischen Frauengeschichte festzuhalten. In den Interviews werden Fragen nach Erfolgen und Misserfolgen, nach Vereinbarkeit von Familie, Beruf und politischem Ehrenamt genauso beantwortet, wie nach Gestaltungsm?glichkeiten und Zukunftsw?nschen. Zu jedem Interview geh?rt zudem ein Fotoportrait der jeweiligen Politikerin. Durch die Interviews und eine historische Einbettung der Frauengeschichte im Kreis Stormarn seit 1919, sollen Frauen in der Kommunalpolitik der letzten 100 Jahre gew?rdigt werden. Zudem soll dieses Buch Interessierten einen Einblick in die Kommunalpolitik erm?glichen.

Seit der Antike wei? man um das Problem der Verwitterung von Gestein und der damit einhergehenden Verschlechterung des Zustands von Geb?uden, Mauerwerk, Denkm?lern, Skulpturen etc. Alle vier Jahre treffen sich auf einer internationalen Tagung Experten, die sich mit den entsprechenden Sachfragen besch?ftigen. Der „14th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone“ findet im September 2020 in G?ttingen statt. Er ist die wichtigste Veranstaltung zur Verbreitung des Wissens von Praktikern und Forschern, die im Bereich der Steinkonservierung zur Erhaltung des baulichen Kulturerbes arbeiten: Geowissenschaftler, Architekten, Bauspezialisten, Ingenieure, Restauratoren, Denkmalpfleger und Bauherren. Der Tagungsband mit ?ber 150 wissenschaftlichen Beitr?gen repr?sentiert und erfasst den neuesten Stand der Technik auf diesem Gebiet. Themen sind: – Charakterisierung von Schadensph?nomenen von Steinen und verwandten Baumaterialien (Stuck, Putz, M?rtel usw.) – Methoden zur Untersuchung des Steinverfalls in situ und zerst?rungsfreie Pr?fung – Langzeit?berwachung von Steindenkm?lern und Geb?uden – Simulation und Modellierung des Zerfalls – Technologien und Entwicklung verbesserter Bearbeitung und Verwendung von Stein in Neubauten – Bewertung der Langzeitwirkung von Bearbeitungstechniken – Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Steinverwitterung des Kulturerbes – Berichte zur Steinkonservierung: Fallstudien und Projekte – Digitalisierung und Dokumentation von Steinkonservierung – The 14th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, entitled MONUMENT FUTURE: DECAY AND CONSERVATION OF STONE is a quadrennial event that brings together a world-wide community of geoscientists, architects, building specialists, engineers, conservators, restorators, monument curators and building owners who are concerned about the conservation of cultural stone structures and objects. Since antiquity, the weathering and deterioration of historical buildings, masonry, monuments, sculptures etc. using natural stones has been a very well-known problem. This conference is the main gathering for the dissemination of knowledge in the field of stone deterioration issues. It represents and captures the state-of-the-art in the field of stone conservation and cultural heritage conservation with regards to the following topics: – Characterisation of damage phenomena of stone and related building materials (plaster, rendering, mortar etc.) – Methods for the investigation of stone decay; in-situ and non-destructive testing – Long-term monitoring of stone monuments and buildings – Simulation and modelling of decay – Technology and development of improved treatments and use of stone in new buildings – Assessment of long-term effects of treatments – Impact of climate change on stone decay of Cultural Heritage – Reports about stone conservation: case studies and projects – Digitalization and documentation in stone conservation

The #1 NYT BESTSELLERA personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state.“There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred reviewA Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, ‘is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.’The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions of innocent people dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should they arise in our era. In Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright, draws on her own experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to question that very assumption.Fascism, as Albright shows, is not only endured through the course of the twentieth century, but now presents a more virulent threat to international peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. The United States, which has historically championed the free world, is led by a president who exacerbates popular divisions and heaps scorn on democratic institutions. In many countries, economic, technological and cultural factors are weakening the political centre and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the same tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s.Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written with wisdom by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.