Resultados para "Kanada" en Profesionales y académicos

Jan Heemskerk heeft de afgelopen jaren alles gedaan wat binnen zijn macht ligt om sterker en gezonder te worden dan hij ooit is geweest, zowel geestelijk als fysiek. Ondanks de schok van de diagnose besloot Jan het beste van de situatie te maken. Met zijn kenmerkende humor schreef hij een praktisch en inspirerend boek, boordevol inzichten over parkinson, van herkenning tot aanpak.

Humanity is on an astronomical trajectory and according to aerospace professional and popular science communicator Kellie Gerardi, that future doesn’t rest solely on the shoulders of rocket scientists. Gerardi’s non-traditional path in the space industry shows us that humanity’s next giant leap will require the contributions of artists, engineers, and everyone in between. Gerardi takes us on a tour of this unique window in history and offers encouragement and advice for anyone who has ever dreamed of the stars and galaxies far, far away.

I 1977 begyndte 18 kvinder på Politiskolen. De blev Danmarks første kvindelige politibetjente, og de var med til at bryde en af samfundets allersidste rent mandsdominerede bastioner ned. I "Selvfølgelig kan vi det" fortæller 14 tidligere og nuværende kvindelige betjente om modtagelsen hos politiet, om jobbet og om udviklingen i forholdet mellem mænd og kvinder - både i samfundet, på arbejdsmarkedet, i hjemmene og på uddannelsesinstitutionerne. Preben Lund (f. 1955) er forfatter, journalist og tidligere fængselsbetjent.

William Randolph Hearst, known to his staff as the "Chief", was a brilliant business strategist and a man of prodigious appetites. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including 28 newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and 13 magazines. He quickly learned how to use this media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power. In The Chief, David Nasaw presents an intimate portrait of the man famously characterized in the classic film Citizen Kane.

In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.

तंत्रज्ञानाचा वापर मूठभर सुखवस्तू लोकांसाठी नाही तर सर्वसामान्य लोकांकरता झाला तर त्यातून सर्वांचंच आयुष्य सुखकर होणार आहे. हीच गोष्ट लक्षात घेऊन आदित्य इंगळहळीकर यांनी पाठीच्या दुखण्यापासून आराम देणारी उपकरणं, तंत्रज्ञान विकसित केलं, लोकांकरता ते उपलब्ध करून दिलं. त्याचीच गोष्ट आता आपण ऐकणार आहोत.

उच्च शिक्षण, तंत्रज्ञानात नवनवीन प्रयोग करून पाहण्याची उर्मी, सतत नव्या उत्पादनांचा ध्यास आणि मायभूमीशी घट्ट जुळलेली नाळ या चारही गोष्टींचा संगम म्हणजे डॉ. रविंद्र कुलकर्णी या उद्योजगाचं व्यक्तिमत्व आहे.

Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs’s death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs’s vision and keep the company moving forward. Steve Jobs's...

November 13, 2021 will be forever burned into my memory. That day, my sister passed away via medical assistance in dying after an 18-month battle with metastatic breast cancer. Medical assistance in dying became legal in Canada in 2016. Since then, thousands of terminally ill patients have taken advantage of their right to die. I never dreamed that my own sister would be one of them. Jennifer's Choice is the poignant story of the final year and a half of Jennifer's life, and chronicles not only her experiences, but also those of her family as we supported her.

Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world's most prevalent health risk. And yet, while most everyone has heard about "going green"; few are aware of the more dire and sinister brown pollution - places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root and spread. Brown sites poison millions of people every year, causing needless suffering and death. After witnessing several brown sites firsthand and meeting families trapped by poverty in these toxic hot spots, environmentalist Richard Fuller founded the Blacksmith Institute, now renamed Pure Earth, a global nonprofit that initiates large-scale cleanups of some of the most polluted places on earth.