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  • Phenomenological Psychology

    Lectures, Summer Semester, 1925

    Translated by John Scanlon ...
    by Edmund Husserl ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    THE TEXT In the summer semester of 1925 in Freiburg, Edmund Husserl delivered a lecture course on phenomenological psychology, in 1926127 a course on the possibility of an intentional psychology, and in 1928 a course entitled "Intentional Psychology. " In preparing the critical edition of Phiinomeno logische Psychologie (Husserliana IX), I Walter Biemel presented the entire 1925 course as the main ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence

    Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments

    by Christopher Scanlon, John Adlam ...
    Series series The New International Library of Group Analysis
    The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our deeply fractured world. The authors offer a unique perspective on inter-group dynamics and structural violence at local, societal, cultural and global levels, dissecting processes of toxic ‘othering’ and ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Collaboration

    Using Networks and Partnerships

    by Mark A. Abramson, Robert Agranoff, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Samuel M. DeMarie, Elaine C. Kamarck, Robert Klitgaard, John W. Scanlon, William M. Snyder, Gregory F. Treverton, William L. Waugh Jr. ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration-within agencies; among agencies; among levels of governments; and ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Money and the Good Life

    by Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky ...
    In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong?Robert and Edward Skidelsky argue that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, they show ... Read more

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  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and ... Read more

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  • Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Here, Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, ... Read more

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  • Sociology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steve Bruce ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world. In this new edition Steve Bruce discusses ... Read more

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  • Utilitarianism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen as inviolable. Would it, for example, be right to torture a suspected terrorist in order to prevent an attack that could kill and injure a large ... Read more

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  • The Social Animal

    by W. G. Runciman ...
    The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals.The Social Animal is a short, wide-ranging, witty and accessible book that sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live within them.W. G. Runciman’s superb book is a welcome corrective to the view that there are no societies, ... Read more

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  • Power of Reading

    From Socrates to Twitter

    by Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker's bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross's seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with ... Read more

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  • The Big Questions: Ethics

    by Julian Baggini ...
    Series series The Big Questions
    'The Big Questions' series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy.In 'The Big Questions: Ethics' Julian Baggini, one of Britain's best-known philosophers, condenses complex, contemporary issues of right and wrong into 20 key questions. He examines how we can start to answer them, what they might ... Read more

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  • Education

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Gary Thomas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in ... Read more

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