Naota Dante lives in one of the countless poverty stricken towns in a highly advanced world. When tensions rise between the major world powers, he gets conscripted into the army, together with his best friend Amelia. As he tries to cope, the state of cold war erupts into an all-out open conflict. While the world is ripping itself apart, Naota slowly loses grip on his own mind.

ON GREEN LIBERTY calls us to the inconvenient truth of applying consistently the liberal outlook. Van den Berg extends John Stuart Mill’s no-harm principle to include non-human animals and future generations. ON GREEN LIBERTY notes that, just as there is consensus among all contemporary political parties that slavery is unacceptable, so also should the exploitation of non-human animals and the harm done to future generations by degrading planet Earth be unacceptable. Green liberalism is l...

Who are we? Who are we together? And who am I?

We are on this world together. Yet there is every single one of us making choices, making friends, making memories. Life is full of experiences, full of lessons. This book is a personal essay in which Helen Nurdina de Graaff (1999) shows the beauty of vulnerability. She explores life lessons of living in 2019’s London and during 2020’s corona pandemic. She explores imaginations for the future. She explores the ways humans come together or dri...

Water is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, the magic is in the combination water. Likewise combining different creative talents is an exciting challenge. Voyage to Laputa reviews the traps, opportunities and magic in steering the creative process, leadership and different intelligences in practice.

The journey explores different models of organization, design and scenarios with AI. It is about our relationship to the new, our sense of wonder. And, about transparancy for the ethical conseq...

Do we survive as a species of 10 billion people on Earth? Then we must build our society better and quicker than so far using our collective brain. Freedom, inclusion, and respect for all? This study shows that our dogmas are a tragedy for the development of our civilization on earth. We are a fast growing population on a planet with limits. Increasing inequality is a threat. Too many are living in the past with dogmatic religion, nationalism, racism, and many are living in fear for the futur...

Piano improvisation is playing with music – playing in the true sense of the word. It is a game: set yourself some rules and be as creative as possible within that framework of restrictions. This book is a guide on how to improvise. It contains some exercises to get started and appendices with the most important information about keys, scales, chords, harmony, melody, and rhythm to help you. The main part of the book consists of 21 examples: a short description, a recipe for an improvisati...

Barbara Bahtiar has travelled extensively through Europe and Indonesia. Rose Petals and Jasmine Flowers, a Journey through Authentic Indonesia, is her first book about her beloved country Indonesia, its customs, religion, culture, nature and kindhearted people.

She has visited her family in Indonesia several times, but taking part in a traditional wedding ceremony rich with religious and culture significance, inspired her to write Rose Petals and Jasmine Flowers, a Journey through Authentic ...

A quote that is widely attributed to Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654 – 1734) reads: "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong." This quote leads people straightaway towards a wholesome way of working in establishing which information is relevant and needed, and which basic forms this information has. But because the practice of everyday life is virtually full of infringements of Thomas Fuller's statement above, it was inevitable t...

According to Maxwell’s equations Electromagnetic Waves can only propagate along straight lines and it is impossible that Light (Electromagnetic Waves) could confine with the surface of a sphere or an ellipse. For that reason, these material waves in Schrödinger’s wave equation could only be of a different origin than Electromagnetic Waves. Niels Bohr introduced the concept of “Probability Waves” as the origin of the material waves in Schrödinger’s wave equation. And defined the Ne...

You are the main character in your life. You are not the supporting role! You are the leading lady! This is your life. You are the star. This challenge will train you to love yourself more and to notice the little, beautiful things that are already in your life.