Nils Andersson

Våra stadsdjur är en rimmad bilderbok som galopperar, ilar och älgar fram över boksidorna. En tungvrickare som är perfekt för högläsning! "Snigeln glider, hästen rider Seglar gör en havstulpan Och en taxi med en tax i åker också in till stan" I vår stad myllrar det av djur som gör de knäppaste, knasigaste saker och allt pågår samtidigt! Uvar som tjuvar, ålar som skålar och en anka som ska tanka samsas med en grispolis och flodhästgäst i den här fartfyllda och humoristiska bilderboken av den uppmärksammade duon Nils Andersson och Erik Svetoft som belönades med Hellsing-stipendiet 2021. En fartfylld och rolig bok i samma anda som kritikerrosade och prisade Mina husdjur som kom samma år.

Våra stadsdjur

An entertaining and personal introduction to Einstein's universe. Starting with a walk through Bern in 1905 and ending with the recent discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, this book exposes the theory of Relativity in a readable style. Supported by insightful and zany illustrations, this is a great science story for everyone and anyone. As a young boy, Jack is sent to deliver a set of pictures to a house on Princeton's Mercer Street. The house is quite ordinary, but the man who lives there is not. Far from it. It is Albert Einstein, perhaps the smartest man in the world. The man that bent space and warped time. The first chance meeting leads to an unexpected friendship. Jack becomes a regular visitor to the famous professor's home. Together they set out on a journey that explores the professor's ideas about space, time and gravity. The journey takes them to the edge of reality, where clocks grind to a halt and stars collapse onto themselves to form holes that aren't quite holes. This is a blend of fact and fiction. The science is very much real. So are most of the characters; including Einstein himself, his assistant Helen Dukas, Robert Oppenheimer and John Wheeler. The story builds on things that actually happened, although perhaps not in this particular order or involving precisely these individuals. Jack is entirely fictional. He had to be. "Great fun. Great science. A compelling story for everyone." Professor Ray d'Inverno, author of "Introducing Einstein's relativity"

A Gentle Wizard

Daniel Lagot

La Charte des Nations Unies affirme le principe de non-ingérence dans les affaires intérieures d'un État, y compris de la part de l'ONU elle-même. Plusieurs de ses résolutions dans l'histoire récente, en particulier dans les années 2000, ont cependant mis en avant l'idée qu'une intervention, le cas échéant armée, peut s'imposer en cas de crise humanitaire ou de graves violations des droits humains dans un pays. De nombreuses questions, apparues à nouveau au grand jour avec la guerre en Libye, restent cependant posées au niveau du droit, de la manière dont il est appliqué, et sur le fond. Ce livre, issu d'une conférence de l'ADIF, Association pour le droit international humanitaire, présente les analyses de juristes, représentants d'organisations humanitaires et spécialistes des relations internationales. S'il y a consensus pour condamner les violations des droits humains, une majorité exprime une grande méfiance envers les guerres "humanitaires", des points de vue différents étant cependant présentés par les représentants d'Amnesty International et Human Rights Watch. Les auteurs espèrent ainsi contribuer à la réflexion collective sur ces problèmes.

le cas de la Libye

Responsabilité de protéger et guerres "humanitaires"

Daniel Iagolnitzer

Diana G. Collier

This book reflects a primary response by international civil society to US disregard for international law. It is a damning indictment of the Hiroshimas of our time. It provides a cogent elaboration of the international legal values to be defended, for humanity to triumph over the new wave of global barbarism brought about by the efforts of the United States to consolidate and extend the dimensions of its empire. Once the champion of the United Nations, the United States now skirts the Geneva Conventions, uses international humanitarian law as a pretext for intervention, engages in bombardments causing grave civilian losses, seeks to expand its options in relation to torture while continuing to render prisoners to countries known for its practice. Having failed in its effort to block the establishment of the International Criminal Court, the United States still refuses to ratify its Statute--even though the ICC Statute modified the rules of the 1977 Geneva Protocol and The Hague in an effort to satisfy the trajectory pursued by U.S. foreign policy. The United States' pursuit of a unilateral imperial policy based on military force destroys the credibility of the nascent international legal framework. Rather, the US is leading the world by example toward a future without rules or values, where humanity is subject to the whims of the more powerful. Former government officials, scholars, advocates and directors of international organizations operating at the highest level in the areas of international humanitarian law address the relevant international law, the threats thereto by US policy, its ramifications for the world system, and possible avenues of legal recourse.

The Case of the United States

International Justice and Impunity

This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, physics and cosmology that comes into play when trying to understand the gravitational-wave sky. Starting with Einstein's theory of gravity, chapters develop the key ideas step by step, leading up to the technology that finally caught these faint whispers from the distant universe. The second part of the book makes a direct connection with current research, introducing the relevant language and making the involved concepts less "mysterious". The book is intended to work as a platform, low enough that anyone with an elementary understanding of gravitational waves can scramble onto it, but at the same time high enough to connect readers with active research - and the many exciting discoveries that are happening right now. The first part of the book introduces the key ideas, following a general overview chapter and including a brief reminder of Einstein's theory. This part can be taught as a self-contained one semester course. The second part of the book is written to work as a collection of "set pieces" with core material that can be adapted to specific lectures and additional material that provide context and depth. A range of readers may find this book useful, including graduate students, astronomers looking for basic understanding of the gravitational-wave window to the universe, researchers analysing data from gravitational-wave detectors, and nuclear and particle physicists.

Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe

Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

This book is an introduction to gravitational waves and related astrophysics. It provides a bridge across the range of astronomy, physics and cosmology that comes into play when trying to understand the gravitational-wave sky. Starting with Einstein's theory of gravity, chapters develop the key ideas step by step, leading up to the technology that finally caught these faint whispers from the distant universe. The second part of the book makes a direct connection with current research, introducing the relevant language and making the involved concepts less mysterious. The book is intended to work as a platform, low enough that anyone with an elementary understanding of gravitational waves can scramble onto it, but at the same time high enough to connect readers with active research - and the many exciting discoveries that are happening right now. The first part of the book introduces the key ideas, following a general overview chapter and including a brief reminder of Einstein's theory. This part can be taught as a self-contained one semester course. The second part of the book is written to work as a collection of "set pieces" with core material that can be adapted to specific lectures and additional material that provide context and depth. A range of readers may find this book useful, including graduate students, astronomers looking for basic understanding of the gravitational-wave window to the universe, researchers analysing data from gravitational-wave detectors, and nuclear and particle physicists.

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