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  • Religion and Civil Human Rights in Empirical Perspective

    Edited by Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Carl Sterkens ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights. It explores the legitimization of these human rights by individual people, both because of their religion and because of their vision of what constitutes human dignity. The book addresses such issues as the foundation of human rights, the necessity of a broader conversation about human rights, aspects of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Political and Judicial Rights through the Prism of Religious Belief

    Edited by Carl Sterkens, Hans-Georg Ziebertz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other. At a time when the so-called ‘checks and balances’ that guarantee the vulnerable equilibrium between legislative, executive and judicial branches of governance are increasingly under pressure, this book offers valuable insights. It presents empirical work that has ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language

    Edited by Justin Khoo, Rachel Katharine Sterken ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors. Its 24 chapters were written exclusively for this volume by an international team of leading researchers, and together they provide a broad expert introduction to the major issues currently under discussion in this area.The volume is divided into four parts:Part I: ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Astronomical Photometry

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by Eugene F. Milone, C. Sterken ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book will bring together experts in the field of astronomical photometry to discuss how their subfields provide the precision and accuracy in astronomical energy flux measurements that are needed to permit tests of astrophysical theories. Differential photometers and photometry, improvements in infrared precision, the improvements in precision and accuracy of CCD photometry, the absolute ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Teaching Barefoot in Burma: Insights and Stories from a Fulbright Year in Myanmar

    by Robert Sterken ...
    Teaching Barefoot in Burma is tale of a less trodden path through an ancient and long isolated land. This a story is about living and teaching in a land like no other. Senior Fulbright Scholar, Robert Sterken, spent a year conducting research on Buddhism and politics, teaching, and learning about suffering and the dance of life among the most generous people on earth. His travel memoir paints an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas

    A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War

    by Christiaan Sterken, Amy Abercrombie King ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Kings of Buddhism

    Power, Religion, and Fury in Myanmar

    by Robert Edward Sterken Jr. ...
    The Kings of Buddhism explores the consequences of state regulation and protection of a country’s majority religion. Sterken argues that religious liberty or the lack thereof results from rational interest-based calculations of both religious and state actors. Using insights dating back to Adam Smith, John Locke, and Thomas Jefferson, Sterken argues that centuries of state support for Theravada ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Bill Ratliff

    A Profile of Courage and Leadership in American Politics

    by Robert Edward Sterken Jr. ...
    Lt. Governor Bill Ratliff is an engineer, a widely respected senator, and according to Caroline Kennedy he is “an inspiration to all who serve in government, and to all Americans.” Senator Ratliff, nicknamed “Obi Wan Kenobi” by his colleagues, was a revered and much loved leader in Texas for more than a decade. He singularly wrote the Texas Robin-Hood school finance law, a major Ethics reform law, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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    Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'?In this new edition of her popular and ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Reason

    Why Rationality Matters for Democracy

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, ... Read more

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  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the 'best overview in the field' by the journal Teaching Philosophy and predicted to 'become the standard textbook in philosophy of education' by Educational Theory. This classic text, originally designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD