Extended Working Life Policies = International Gender and Health Perspectives

This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts wi…

An Interdependent Approach to Happiness and Well-Being

This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights the diversity of potential pathways towards happiness and well-being globally, and answers calls - voiced in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - for more socially and environmentally sustaina…

Optimierung der Tragfähigkeit von Zahnwellenverbindungen

In the drive technology the transmission of dynamic and often abruptly occurring torsional moments  from a shaft to the hub or vice versa is a common issue. For this profile shaft connections are in general particularly suitable. As a result of their production-related advantages, gear shaft connections according to [DIN 5480] are currently widely used for the above-mentioned requ…

Rendering houses in Ladakh : personal relations with home structures

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Optimierung der Tragfähigkeit von Zahnwellenverbindungen

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die Tragfähigkeit evolventisch basierter Zahnwellenverbindungen auf geradezu revolutionäre Art und Weise gesteigert werden kann, wenn für ihre Realisierung nicht das System zur Bezugsprofilgenerierung der [DIN 5480], sondern das in dieser Dissertation neu entwickelte, hoch innovative System zur Profilgenerierung zugrunde gelegt wird. Mit ihm werd…

Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling

When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…

Translating happiness :a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being

How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Well-Being

An investigation of the happiness-prosperity connection and whether economists can measure well-being.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Positive computing : technology for wellbeing and human potential

"On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves people's lives. Technology, so pervasive and ubiquitous, has the capacity to increase stress and suffering; but it also has the less-heralded potential to improve the well-being of individuals, society…

The biology of kindness :six daily choices for health, well-being, and longev…

Originally published: Biologia della gentilezza: Le 6 scelte quotidiane per salute benessere e longevit?a, 2020."Explains how our life behaviors can affect our state of health by comparing science and conscience in a revolutionary approach to health, longevity and quality of life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.